The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results . ther towns, was But to a wooden town—and in that part of Ancient Cambridgesliire, published in the Transactions of the CambridgeAntiquarian Society, p. 3. ^ Bseda, iv. 19. Quum sedecim annis esset sepulta, placuit eidem ab-batissae levari ossa ejus, et in locello novo posita in ecclesiam transferri ;jussitque quosdam fratribus quserere lapidem, de quo locellum in hocfacere possent; qui ascensa navi (ipsa enim regio Elge undique est aquisac paludibus circumdata, neque lapides majores ), venerunt adcivitat
The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results . ther towns, was But to a wooden town—and in that part of Ancient Cambridgesliire, published in the Transactions of the CambridgeAntiquarian Society, p. 3. ^ Bseda, iv. 19. Quum sedecim annis esset sepulta, placuit eidem ab-batissae levari ossa ejus, et in locello novo posita in ecclesiam transferri ;jussitque quosdam fratribus quserere lapidem, de quo locellum in hocfacere possent; qui ascensa navi (ipsa enim regio Elge undique est aquisac paludibus circumdata, neque lapides majores ), venerunt adcivitatulam quamdam desolatam, non procul iude sitam, quae linguaAnglorum Grantacsestir vocatur ; et mox invenerunt juxta muros civitatislocellum de mannore albo pulcerrime factum, operculo quoque similislapidis aptissime tectum. ^ The first mention of Cambridge in the Chronicles is in 921, when itis in the hands of the Danes. The first mention of the shire is in vol. i. p. 378. ^ Chrun. loio. See vol. i. p. 3S0. Frcftnans Nprmafi Coru/ur^t. Vol IV To face putfe CAMBORITUM GrantJ)ri dge, _ 1087. 1 Furlong. S? Benets th. For tJie DeJ£(/atAS at the Chirendon IWss BUILDING OF CAMBRIDGE CASTLE. 221 Eng-land towns must have been even more completely than elsewhere—a destruction of this sort was amere passing- misfortune. In Williams day Grantbridg-e Its con-was ag-ain a town of four hundred houses, divided into Williamstwelve wards, and ruled by Lawmen after the manner of *•Lincoln and Stamford.^ No details of its siege or sub-mission are given. A castle was of course built: ^ it Buildingarose on a mound, partly natural, partly artificial, which castle,still marks the site of the Norman fortress, as it doubt-less marked that of some earlier English all actual traces of either have utterly passed building of the castle immediately involved thedestruction of twenty-seven houses, and, either now or inthe wars whic
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