The History Of The County Of Cambridge From The Earliest Account To The Present Time PDF Download

Excerpt from The History of the County of Cambridge, From the Earliest Account to the Present Time: Wherein Is Given an Account of Its Inhabitants, Kings, Air, Rivers, Soil, Produce, Dimensions, Hundreds, Deaneries, Seats of the Gentry, Members of Parliament, High Sheriffs, &C., Also a Particular Account of the Ancient and Modern Cambridge In the time of the Heptarchy, when several Saxon chiefs settled in this county upon the ruins of the Roman government, Cambridgeshire became part of the East Angles (which consisted of this county, with those of Huntingdon, Norfolk, and Suffolk), and was so called on account of its easterly situation in re, spect of the other Saxon kingdoms. It was under these two masters that arts and sciences began to flourish, about the year 609, at the town of Cam. Bridge (which was then an ancient city.) And the county received its present name from the said town; and the town its name from being situated on the bank of the river Cam, or Grant, as some etymologists rather choose to derive its name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.