History of the Cambridge Academy

and the governor foresees winds and storms that will be harmful: in short, it is the duty of every prudent person not only to gaze at the present, but also to look far into the future. Therefore, it seemed best to follow the state of both the previous and the present times and to comprehend both in one survey. For if we were to speak only of Cambridge (as it is now), we would seem to have derogated from the faith and knowledge of antiquity: if we were to follow the boundaries it once had, it is discordant from the contemplation of present things.
In the relation of things, therefore, I will repeat the beginning from the origin (for the beginnings were no less illustrious than the increments) and from there I will produce the history up to our own times, namely to the year of the Lord 1573, when we wrote this, as much as it is permitted to know through the monuments of antiquity and the memory of men. And I will say first what kind of Academy it was in the beginning, and what its location was, its origin and author, what its increments and status were, and finally what misfortunes and destruction this most noble city and gymnasium had. Then, how, through the efforts of princes and good men, having barely struggled out of miseries, it began to revive little by little and to resume its strength, and this indeed in the first book. In the second, I will explain in a few words how academic matters stand now and what the present condition of things is. I will start from the beginnings.

The argument of the work.

What kind of Academy it was in the beginning.

Gildas.

What founder of the Academy it had.

There is a place in the inland parts of England, positioned towards the rising sun, not far from the Isle of Ely, illustrious in the Muses, noble in virtue, and celebrated in fame. It was an ancient city, reigning during the time of Gurguntius, king of the Britons, after Brutus the 24th, as Gildas calculates, 3588 years from the founding of the world, and 375 years before the coming of Christ. Its first founder was a certain Spaniard, whose name was Cantaber, a man noble by birth, son of the King of Spain, famous for his virtue and letters, who, fleeing civil discord in his homeland with his brother Partholomus, sought new seats

in Britain
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