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Excerpt from The Register of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials in St. Michael's Parish, Cambridge, 1538-1837
The Parish registers of Cambridge are, on the whole, nu usually early and well preserved. One only of those referring to the thirteen old parishes of the town (viz. That of St Andrew the Great, commencing about 1635) starts from as late a date as the seventeenth century; and no less than ten of them commence in 1567 or earlier.
The interest which most persons will feel in the contents of these registers doubtless arises from the very large number of entries which they contain referring to University students. All contain such entries, but those which include colleges within the parish boundaries contain them by scores. This was to be expected; for with students crowded several together within a single room, and the College buildings hemmed in by the houses of a town subject to frequent out breaks of plague and other epidemics, the death-rate must have been heavy. Moreover, where the poor lads sickened, there they were only too likely to die; for, with bad roads and tedious methods of travel they had not the opportunities of the modern student, when out of health, to leave the place and go home. Probably this facility concurs with sanitary improvements to account for the very few deaths which now take place in College.
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