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

Marius surrounded Cambridge with square stone.

continues from previous page: ...it was safe, in the year of our Lord 72. The Academy was flourishing not only with the glory of virtues and letters, but also with the secure fortification of its own Academic city. For that most prudent Marius, so that the scholars might not be vexed by the tumults of enemies, surrounded the city of scholars with walls built of square stone, and constructed laborious towers for the dignity and defense of the place. For we read that these three were the authors of the walls: Gratinus, Guthelinus, and Marius; whether because one prince was not sufficient for constructing such a great mass and for such great expenses, or because they were shaken and destroyed by wars and tumults in the intervening time. For between the time of Cantaber and Marius, 950 years passed.

King Lucius comes to Cambridge.

When these things had been so established, and nothing was lacking for the necessity of life nor for the tranquility of literary leisure, and everything was flourishing, Lucius, the only son of King Coillus born from Marius—a pious and moderate prince and a most clement king of the Britons—came to Cambridge. When he was persuaded by the preaching of the faithful men who professed Christ and were studying at Cambridge that what had been divulged concerning God and the Trinity was not in vain, being desirous of the Christian faith, he requested through legates from Eleutherius, the Roman Pontiff (the twelfth after the Apostles), that he be received into the faith of Christ. He did this in the year of our Lord 156, and in the 13th year of his reign, while Marcus Antonius was emperor at Rome. Although there are some who write that he was converted to the faith from the birth of Christ in the year 108, others in 176, and others in 185 and 184, as Tobias of Rochester original: "Thobias Roff." writes. Eleutherius, however, baptized the legates of Lucius, Eluanus and Meduinus, and having baptized them, promoted one to the episcopacy and the other to the degree of doctorate, and sent them back to Lucius in Britain. When they had preached Christ incarnate, they baptized the king in the year of our Lord 178. Then the word of God began to wander through the island, sow-