The dual origin of the town of Cambridge; with two maps Volume 1

by Arthur Gray

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. ... Sketch Map of Cambridge in 1278. The area occupied by houses is shaded.... Boundary of the northern town. Southern boundary of the parishes in the Green. i = the Market Cross, 2 = St Giles' Church, 3 = the School of Pythagoras, 4=St Sepulchre's Church, 5 = All Saints' Church, 6= Small Bridges. not recognise an original duplicate township of Cambridge? We must not suppose that in the ownership of the selion strips, at the time when the Field Books were put together, there is any hint of such an origin. In the fourteenth century the Field system was in ruins. The selion divisions were in countless instances 'three selions which were formerly five,' and such-like, are common notes in the Field Books. The owner of a strip may live at the end of the town remotest from his holding. Many men have holdings in both Fields. Some holders are not resident in Cambridge at all. But there is one element in the Books which is fairly permanent and which looks as primitive as anything that we can expect to find in documents of the fourteenth century, and that is the ownership of the tithes of the selions. It may be that, as Professor Maitland said, tithes remained in a somewhat fluid condition for some time after the Norman conquest. Yet one principle is stable and underlies all the tithe arrangements--that the selions in the Cambridge Field tithed almost exclusively to the churches at the northern end of the town, while those in the Barnwell Field tithed almost exclusively to the churches that stood in the open land which I have described as bisecting the town, and to the churches of the southern town. In both Books we find St Radegund's Nunnery represented. Otherwise the only parish names which appear in both Books are St Sepulchre's, St...

20 pages, Paperback

Published September 13, 2013

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