THE EDITOR'S PREFACE

Summary

The publication of a new edition of Fuller's History of the University of Cambridge was a favourite project of the late Rev. Marmaduke Prickett; and he had already made preparations for it, when the unsettled state of his health determined him to associate me in his undertaking. Scarcely, however, had the work been commenced when the hand of death interfered, and, while it robbed me of a respected friend, left to me the melancholy task of completing it alone.

The following volume, originally printed in folio in 1655, was appended to the Church History of Britain, and is now first reprinted in a separate form. It is clear that the author intended it as a sort of Appendix to the larger work; and it is probable that when in his Advertisement to the Reader he speaks of twelve books as contained “in this volume,” the History of Cambridge is to be reckoned as one, for there are no more than eleven books of the Church History. How far a republication of the lesser work may be necessary to a complete edition of the Church History, it is not here necessary to inquire; but there is every reason for believing that a separate edition of the History of Cambridge will not be unacceptable.