[178]: This word is derived from the Latin Opus ("work") which in the Manorial account books was usually written j.op. (i.e., one Opus).
[180]: Chronicle of St. Neots.
[181]: The discovery of Neptune is by no means the only discovery the honour of which has been lost to Cambridge through that scientific temper of mind which is loth to publish investigations at an early stage of their verification. Months before Marconi introduced wireless telegraphy to the public it had been practised here by Professors Rutherford and Sir J. J. Thomson; the first serious messages being exchanged, over a distance of two miles, between the Cavendish Laboratory and the Observatory. At the same Laboratory the Röntgen rays were being investigated ere yet Röntgen became a household word. And long years before Bunsen and Kirchoff (in 1859) published the true explanation of Fraunhofer's dark lines in the solar spectrum, that explanation had been given to his pupils by yet another Cambridge Professor, Sir George Gabriel Stokes. Such indifference to mere fame reminds us of the old saying that an Oxford man looks as if all the world belonged to him, a Cambridge man as if he did not care whom it belonged to.
[182]: I.e. genuflecting.
[184]: Childerley was then the seat of the Cutts family.
[185]: Quoted in East Anglia and the Civil War by Mr. Kingston.
[186]: I.e. Irish. The name of the Scots lingered on in their original home for many centuries after it became more famous in North Britain, whither they began to migrate in the fifth century.
[187]: See Miss Arnold Forster's Studies in Church Dedications, chap. xxxi.