[417] Whichcote’s moral and philosophical style of preaching now replaced “that doctrinal style which Puritans have curiously always considered to be more identical with the simplicity of Scriptural truth.” Tulloch.
[418] The Conqueror gave him the barony of Bourne in the fen.
[419] The de Vere of Matilda’s time had been her faithful adherent; Cambridgeshire was one of the ten English counties in which the Veres held lands, and they were the benefactors of the Cambridge Dominicans.
[420] See also i. pp. 19, 44, ii. p. 110 n. and p. 296.
[421] Manfield was nephew to Castle-Bernard another Cambridge landowner.
[422] Dugdale, Monasticon p. 1600. Stoke in the deanery of Clare was within the liberty of S. Edmund. The Augustinian hermits, as we have seen, came to Cambridge about the same time.
[423] Stanton is a Cambridge place-name; other names derived from places in the district (besides of course ‘Cambridge’ and ‘Croyland’) being Walsingham, Walpole, Gaunt, Balsham, Bourne, Chatteris, Haddon, Milton, Newton, Caxton, Drayton, Brandon, Connington, Shelford; and Chancellor Haselfield (1300, 1307) probably took his name from Haslyngfield. Long Stanton was the seat of the Hattons.
[424] The name appears early in the fen country as that of an abbot of Thorney—xiv c.
[425] Cf. iv. p. 204.
[426] 2nd son of Edmund Langley. His wife was Anne Mortimer great-granddaughter of Elizabeth de Burgh, Duchess of Clarence; the son of Hastings, who figures in the earlier conspiracy, married her granddaughter.