Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . the churchof Saint John Zachary, and in or near the streetwere five University hostels, an inn called the BoarsHead, and a large number of tenements in the occu-pation of townsmen. On the river-bank was a hithecalled Salthithe. All these were sacrificed to theKings will. The church of Saint John, pietatis causa,was rebuilt on another site, but, as the parish wasdestroyed, it served no useful purpose and disappearedin a few years. Milne Street ceased to be a thorough-fare ; th
Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . the churchof Saint John Zachary, and in or near the streetwere five University hostels, an inn called the BoarsHead, and a large number of tenements in the occu-pation of townsmen. On the river-bank was a hithecalled Salthithe. All these were sacrificed to theKings will. The church of Saint John, pietatis causa,was rebuilt on another site, but, as the parish wasdestroyed, it served no useful purpose and disappearedin a few years. Milne Street ceased to be a thorough-fare ; the lanes connecting the High Street with thewaterside were enclosed ; and the process, continuedin the next century, of severing the trade of the townfrom the river-bank was begun. Henceforward thetown of Cambridge begins to be entirely subordinatedto the colleges. The pity of it was that this widespread devastationdid very little to advance the Kings aims. For nearlythree centuries afterwards sheep giazcd in the middleof the town on the empty site where men had oncedwelt and trafficked, and where the fenmens keels. OLD TOWKR OK K1N(.S COI LANCASTRIAN CAMBRIDGE 73 had discharged their wares. No portion of the domesticbuildings planned in the Kings will was even begun,and on another site, northwards of the chapel, rosethe unpretentious court, humble amongst the humblestof college structures, which for three centuries wasdestined to house the society of Kings. The OldCourt, as it came to be known after the erection ofGibbs building in 1724, represented the college ofHenrys first design—abandoned when he embarkedon the plan laid down in his will. Hastily finishedwith rough materials and without an ordered arrange-ment, it lasted until 1835, when the site was purchasedby the University for the extension of its Library,and the buildings on it were destroyed. The noblegate-tower is the sole remaining fragment of thedomestic portion of the founders college. For morethan
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