Excerpt from Memorabilia Cantabrigiae, or an Account of the Different Colleges in Cambridge: Biographical Sketches of the Founders and Eminent Men, With Many Original Anecdotes, Views of the Colleges, and Portraits of the FoundersThis, however, feems to have been an in vention of thol'e, who were defirous of Op pofing the priority, in point of time, of the Cambridge foundations to thofe at Oxford; and deferves about as much credit as the Hif tory of King Brute. Others, certainly with a greater {hare of probability, afcribe its foundation to Sigebert, King of the Eafi: Angles, about the year 630.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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