[33] The Carmelite Bale says: _ex omni factione sua primus tandem fuit qui theologicus doctor sit effectus_. Pits says the same in the _De illust. Angl. Script._ For Carmelite property in Cambridge see also vi. pp. 325-6.
[34] This was the treatise known in Cambridge as 'the black book,' in which Prior Cantilupe tells of Cantaber and his son Grantanus, and their foundation of Cambridge on the site of Caergrant.
[35] The prison or tolbooth had been the house of Benjamin the Jew, which became university property in the reign of Elizabeth, but after a famous trial in the next reign reverted to the citizens. Like the Jewish houses elsewhere it was amongst the most solid structures in the town.
[36] Dugdale says "before 1275." Their priory was enlarged and perhaps refounded by Alice, wife of de Vere second Earl of Oxford.
[37] Chap. ii., Sidney Sussex and Emmanuel Colleges.
[39] All branches of the Augustinians were represented at Cambridge: the Augustinian canon at Barnwell, the hospitaller at S. John's, and the hermit-friar at the Austin friary. '_The friars heremites of the order of S. Austin_' were settled in Suffolk from the middle of the xiii c., probably by Richard de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Lord of the honour of Clare. One of their chief benefactors was Elizabeth de Burgh. See Clare College chap. ii. p. 64.
[40] Confraternities and friars "of the Sack," known as Sacconi in their birthplace, Italy, and so called because of the loose gown or 'sack' common to begging friars and confraternities, and also because of the large sacks which they sometimes carried when begging for the poor, were associations due to the preaching of S. Francis and especially of S. Antony of Padua in the first quarter of the xiii c. So that the Cambridge friars, dispersed after the Council of Lyons in 1307, were one of the earliest of these communities; and it is interesting to find them addicted to scholarship.
[41] Matthew Paris, anno 1257. _Concessa est mansio fratribus Bethleemitis in Cantabrigia, silicet in vico qui ducit versus Trumpintonam._
[42] They were begging friars following the rule of S. Austin.
[43] They had held land in Cambridge for over 100 years "of the gift of the earl of Mandeville." At the Suppression they were seized of land in Haslyngfeld, co. Cambridge. Cf. ii. p. 96.