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

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wife, when she was freed from the mortal sickness from which she was suffering at Cambridge under William Rufus. In it, she placed six canons and dedicated the church to God and Saint Giles (to whom she had entrusted her health). She appointed Geoffrey of Huntingdon, a canon, a man most religious, to preside over the canons. To feed these, Picot gave two parts of the tithes of his lordships according to the custom of the Gauls, namely the lordship of Quy, of Stowe, of Waterbeach, of Milton, of Impington, of Histon, of Girton, of Oakington, of Rampton, of Cottenham, of Lolworth, of Trumpington, of Haslingfield, of Harleton, of Eversden, of Toft, of Caldecote, of Kingston, of Wimpole, of Gransden, of Hatley, of Pampisford, and of Alewinde. All these belonged to his Barony of Brune in the County of Cambridge, as one may know from the charter of Remigius, Bishop of Lincoln. After this was done, not many years later they departed this life, leaving the monastery still small and not yet having attained firm seats, to their son Robert. But he, fearing the punishment of treason because he had conspired in the death of the king and treason against the kingdom, withdrew himself by flight. For which reason his Barony was taken from him by the king, and the monastery was made tributary and deserted by those who would do good. Yet by the grace of Henry the First, Payne Peverel succeeding into the Barony, no less distinguished in arms and the military art than famous in virtue, out of his own piety not only helped the priors but also increased the number of canons to thirty, and restored to them those things which Picot had donated. And because the place at Saint Giles was too narrow to suffice for so many canons and was destitute of living water, Payne obtained from King Henry a certain place outside the borough, which extended from the great square as far as the river, quite comfortable both in size and pleasantness; that place was called Barnwell, that is, the fountain of the boys, because