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CAMBRIDGE-SHIRE.

CHAPTER XVIII.

CAMBRIDGE-SHIRE, lyeth bounded upon the North with Lincoln shire and North∣folk; upon the East with Northfolk and Suffolk; upon the South with Har•ford•shire and Essex; and upon the West with Bedford and Huntington-shires.

(2) This Province is not large, nor for air greatly to be liked, having the Fens so spread upon her North, that they infect the Air far into the rest: from whose furthest point unto Royston in the South, are thirty five miles, but in the broadest is not fully twenty: the whole in Circumference, traced by the compass of her many indents, one hundred twenty and eight miles.

(3) The Soil doth differ both in Air and Commodities, the Fenny surcharged with waters: the South is Champion, and yieldeth Cor• in abundance, with Meadowing Pastures upon both the sides of the River C•me, which divides that part of the Shire in the midst, upon whose East-bank the Muses have built their most sacred Seat, where with plenteous increase they have continued for these many hundred years.

(4) For from ancient Grantcester, Camboritum by Antonine, now famous Cambridge, the other brest and Nurse-mother of all pious literature, have flowed full streams of the learnt Sciences into all other parts of this Land, and else where: ancient indeed, if their story be rightly writ, that will have it built by Cantaber a Spaniard, three hundred seventy five years before the birth of our Saviour, who thither first brought and planted the Muses. This City Grantcester by the tyranny of time lost both her own beauty and her professed Athenian Students, so that in Beda’s days, seven hundred years after the word became flesh, it is described to lie a little desolate City, and as yet retaineth the name, without any memory of circuit by walls.