Note 76 — Chapter I · THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
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“I have given to God, the Blessed Virgin, blessed John Baptist, and to the House of the Scholars of Merton“: these words occur in the same deed with those in the text. Harl. Add. MSS. 5832. ff. 74, 75. The gift includes a stone house in the town: Dedi etiam et concessi prefatae domui ... domum illam lapideam in Cauntebrigg. cum gardino et curia adjacente.... Three deeds relating to the same transaction are dated mense Martii 54th of Hen. III. In Rot. Hund. 7th Edw. I. p. 366, a certain John gives a quit rent to the scholars of Merton for 18 acres of this property.