Cambridge and its story With lithographs and other illus by Herbert Railton, the lithographs being tinted by Fanny Railton . arch of late Saxon or early Norman character (the familiarlong-and-short work seems to date it about the middle ofthe eleventh century), and the doorway of the nave, whichhave been rebuilt in the large new church opened in 1875. It was, however, from this old church of S. Giles by theCastle that the first religious house in Cambridge of whichwe have any record, and quite possibly the most importantfactor in the early development of the University, the wealthyAugustinian
Cambridge and its story With lithographs and other illus by Herbert Railton, the lithographs being tinted by Fanny Railton . arch of late Saxon or early Norman character (the familiarlong-and-short work seems to date it about the middle ofthe eleventh century), and the doorway of the nave, whichhave been rebuilt in the large new church opened in 1875. It was, however, from this old church of S. Giles by theCastle that the first religious house in Cambridge of whichwe have any record, and quite possibly the most importantfactor in the early development of the University, the wealthyAugustinian Priory of Barnwell, took its origin. The storyof that foundation is this/ Roger Picot, Baron of Bourne and Norman Sheriffof Cambridgeshire, of whose hard treatment the Cambridge 1 Cf. Customs of Augustinian Canons, by J. Willis Clark, p. xi. 35 CAMBRIDGE &> ITS STORY burgesses complained to the commissioners of the Domesday-Survey, had married a noble and pious woman namedHugoline. Hugoline being taken very ill at Cambridge,and on the point, as she thought, of death, vowed a vow,that if she recovered she would b
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