Note 200 — Chapter II · THE COLLEGES
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It was the gift of Malcolm “the Maiden” of Scotland. The monastery was much enlarged and enriched by him circa 1160. Dugdale dates the house to the middle of Stephen’s reign or perhaps as early as 1130. In the xiii c. Constantia wife to Earl Eustace granted to the nuns all the fisheries and water belonging to the town of Cambridge, and the convent at that time shared with the canons of S. John’s and the Merton scholars the fame of being the greatest landlords in the town. See i. pp. 16, 18 and 36 n., vi. p. 311 and ii. p. 109. On a stone by the south-eastern corner of the south transept in the church there is this inscription (A.D. 1261):
Moribus ornata Facet hic bona Berta Rosata.