MEMORABILIA CANTABRIGIÆ:

OR,

AN ACCOUNT

OF THE DIFFERENT

COLLEGES IN CAMBRIDGE;

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

OF THE

Founders and Eminent Den;

WITH

MANY ORIGINAL ANECDOTES ;

VIEWS OF THE COLLEGES,

AND

Portraits of the Founders.

Si placeat, lege; fin difpliceat, relege; fi quid di&um obfcurè,
repete; fi dubiè, restitue; si erronée vel falsè, corrige et ignofce; fi
malè, condona; fi benè, fruere.

BY JOSEPH WILSON, Esq.

OF THE INNER-TEMPLE.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR EDWARD HARDING, CROWN AND MITRE,
PALL-MALL; SCOTT, STRAND; HIGHLEY, FLEET-
STREET; AND DEIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE;-
By C. Clarke, Northumberland-Court, Strand.

IT is not without the greatest diffi

dence that I fubmit this work to the public eye. Much of its imperfection must be attributed to the difficulty of ascertaining to which particular College many of the illuftrious ornaments of the University belonged; all the printed works, and the laborious collections of Mr. Baker and Mr. Cole, differing widely on the fubject. Many, who well deferved a place in this volume, are also, I fear, omitted, or their names merely noticed; as a detailed account of each would have extended it much beyond the

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