Historiae Cantebrigiensis Academiae ab urbe condita, liber primus [-secundus]

Temple of All Saints at the castle, very ancient.

Implacable fire of Cambridge.

History of Barnwell.

Temple dedicated to Saint Giles.

Deflorations of Geoffrey.

History of Barnwell.

side, visible still by its traces. At its eastern side, on the high hill, between the castle and the location of the street, more to the northern part of the street, was the temple of All Saints at the castle, the foundations of which, rising from the ground and paying an annual rent to the Bishop of Ely, are still seen. Whether that temple perished through negligence, and age, or flame, as did the other churches of the city in the year of the incarnate Word 1174, it is not yet certain. It is certain that in that year there was an implacable fire at Cambridge. As a witness to how the town burned, the other churches were all in great part burned, but the temple of the Holy Trinity was entirely consumed. Hence I believe it was cautioned for the future that its bell tower should be constructed of hard and square stone, so that it might not be prone to future fires. As I read this in the history of Barnwell, so from the same in the life of William Rufus, I learned that the temple of Saint Giles at Cambridge was built by Lord Picot, Sheriff of Cambridge, with the assent of Anselm, Abbot of Bec, and Remigius, Bishop of Lincoln, upon the river Granta at Cambridge, as he who wrote the deflorations excerpts/selections of Geoffrey reports, just as the church of Saint Ivo upon the river Ouse at Huntingdon. Beside that street, besides the temple of All Saints, there was also a monastery of pious brothers (for so the ancient tablets of Corpus Christi College, to whose possession it belongs, call it), whose barn and dovecote still survive, and retain the name of the tenement of the pious brothers. Near the castle in the parish of Saint Giles, because of the Church, there was also another monastery, or (as the Barnwell history has it) workshops. This, with the church, was placed by a vow in the year of our Lord 1092 by Hugolina, clear in birth but most clear in holiness, the wife of a certain Picot (the Barnwell history calls him Pigot), a noble man of the Norman race, and by the grace of William of Normandy, Earl of the province of Cambridge.

[The column break contains fragmented text from the Latin source, largely illegible or repetitive, referencing various local manors and tithes.]