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• N Pedro. on Sat 31 Jul 2004, 06:25pm. Flag this

  Cambridge short history with pictures.

  http://www.colc.co.uk/cambridge/cambridge/history.htm

• N vicente on Wed 4 Aug 2004, 07:26pm. Flag this

  Tours of cambridge by shanks pony and a peep at “… Magdalene’s most famous student, diarist Samuel Pepys (1608-74)[dates wrong?] actually first came up to Trinity Hall; he transferred college almost straight away. Parallel to a career in civil administration (he reached the post of Secretary to the Admiralty in 1672) he wrote a daily diary over a nine year period, a unique insight into Restoration London. Dying childless, the 3,000 volumes of his private library were bequeathed to Cambridge, housed in Magdalene in 1724. Magdalene later saw Charles…”
  http://cambridgeuk.ags.myareaguide.com/detail.html?cityguide=tours
  

• N Pedro. on Wed 4 Aug 2004, 08:29pm. Flag this

  Cambridge and Stourbridge (Stir-Bitch) Fair

  Sam does not mention this but it may be a place he might go to?

  Isaac and The Fair
  

• N Pedro. on Wed 4 Aug 2004, 09:08pm. Flag this

  Cambridge and the Fair.

  Daniel Defoe(1722) gives a great description of this Fair, about four pages, in his “Journey through the Eastern Counties” (can be obtained through Gutenberg).

  To attend this fair, and the prodigious conflux of people which
  come to it, there are sometimes no less than fifty hackney coaches
  which come from London, and ply night and morning to carry the
  people to and from Cambridge; for there the gross of the people
  lodge; nay, which is still more strange, there are wherries brought
  from London on waggons to ply upon the little river Cam, and to row
  people up and down from the town, and from the fair as occasion
  presents.

  
  It is not to be wondered at, if the town of Cambridge cannot
  receive, or entertain the numbers of people that come to this fair;
  not Cambridge only, but all the towns round are full; nay, the very
  barns and stables are turned into inns, and made as fit as they can
  to lodge the meaner sort of people:

  
  I should have mentioned that here is a court of justice always
  open, and held every day in a shed built on purpose in the fair;
  this is for keeping the peace, and deciding controversies in
  matters deriving from the business of the fair. The magistrates of
  the town of Cambridge are judges in this court, as being in their
  jurisdiction, or they holding it by special privilege: here they
  determine matters in a summary way, as is practised in those we
  call Pye Powder Courts in other places, or as a Court of
  Conscience; and they have a final authority without appeal.

  
  

• N vicente on Wed 4 Aug 2004, 09:24pm. Flag this

  maps of city and pepys country
  surrounds of Cam to Brampton and The Pepy family domain
  http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=550000.776128741&Y=270000.777792277&width=700&height=400&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=freegaz&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&zm=0&scale=200000&left.x=5&left.y=144

  down town Cam:
  http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=545000&Y=260000&width=700&height=400&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=freegaz&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&zm=1&scale=25000

References in the diary

1660

Jan: 22
Feb: 8, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25
Mar: 17
Apr: 20
May: 17
Aug: 7, 12, 14
Nov: 9

1661

Feb: 27
Mar: 18
Apr: 11, 28
May: 20
Jul: 15, 26, 30
Aug: 2, 3
Sep: 13, 18, 19
Dec: 1

1662

Jan: 25
Feb: 1
Mar: 30
Aug: 10
Oct: 10, 14, 15

1663

Jan: 27
Feb: 8
Mar: 5
Jul: 16, 24
Aug: 29
Sep: 23
Nov: 3, 4, 5
Dec: 22, 31

1664

Jan: 30
Sep: 23

1666

Oct: 12

1667

Feb: 27