TABLE OF CONTENTS. VOLUME THE FIRST. Page PREFACE ▼ INTRODUCTION. Giving an Account of what has been done by others, and of what is attempted in the following Pages, towards a History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge......... 1 PART I. 54 CHAP. 1. History and Antiquity of Cambridge...... 39 ........ 67 tions CHAP. 4. Transactions in the University during Henry the VIIIth's, Edward the VIth's, and Mary's Reign.. CHAP. 5. Queen Elizabeth-Charter-University Statutes-Queen's Visit....... .... CHAP. 6. James I.-His Regiæ Literæ and Injunc 82 87 Page CHAP. 7. Charles I. - The Parliament-their new Ar CHAP. 8. Charles II.-New Arrangements and Ejec rangements in the University and Ejec- ... 106. ..... ........... CHAP. 9. Dissentients 111 114 CHAP. 2. Colleges - Universities-Literature of the Monks .... CHAP. 3. Age of Wickliffe, and Progress of Litera ture ... CHAP. 3 (an error, it ought to have been 4). The Revival of Literature-Erasmus-and other eminent Men, classical Scholars ........ CHAP. 4 (ought to be 5). Progress of Classical Lite rature-Bentley, and others CHAP. 6. Oriental Literature 131 138 159 165 174 CHAP. 7. Theological Literature........... others ... CHAP. 9. Mathematics-Dr. Barrow-Sir Isaac New ...... 190 206 ton, Mr. Whiston, and others.......... 201 CHAP. 10. Being Appendix first to University Literature-Mr. Ray and Dr. Harvey CHAP. 11. Reflections arising from the preceding Chapter, being Appendix second-present State of Professorships. HISTORY, &c. INTRODUCTION; GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAS BEEN DONE BY OTHERS, AND WHAT IS ATTEMPTED IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES, TOWARDS A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. THOUGH not confident enough to believe I shall answer the expectations of all readers, I am not ignorant what many readers will expect in a History of the University, and Colleges, of Cambridge. The Introduction, then, must be considered as the points of sight of a complete History, but only incidentally of mine. Readers often, and reasonably, require what they will not see performed; and authors, like improvers of rural scenery, may even see further themselves, than they can execute, either to the satisfaction of their readers, or conformably to their own designs. What inquisitive and more rigid inquirers might demand in such a history, might be, first, Information on the Charters and particular Statutes of the Institutions. These are, indeed, the very instruments which give them being and form, with all their privileges and rights; and, though through distance of time, or accidents of place, they are perceived only in a general way, or may even become obsolete, still like the bases and buttresses |