1156.

The town would seem to have been in no flourishing condition at this period; for Pain Peverill, the sheriff of the county, on passing his accounts at the Exchequer, had £4 allowed him for the waste of the borough and the mills. The burgesses were also indebted to the King 66s. 8d. for respite of their plea.

1159.

The Sheriff of the County accounted at the Exchequer for 50 marks for the donum of the Jews of Cambridge.

1169.

La Countesse the Jewess of Cambridge and her sons, and the Jews of Lincoln, paid the King a fine of 7 marks of gold (i. e. £42) for a Jewess of Lincoln, whom a son of La Countesse had married, without the King's license.

1173.

The King conferred the Honour of Huntingdon on David, brother to the King of Scots; and for augmentation, added the county of Cambridge to that earldom.

1174.

The greater part of the town was this year consumed by a dreadful fire, which entirely destroyed Trinity church, and damaged most of the other churches (then built of wood).

The Sheriff rendered account at the Exchequer for £16, the assize or tallage of this borough, of which sum Godard, a man of the Knight's hospitallers, was discharged of 40s. by the liberty which that order possessed of having one man free from tallage in every borough in the realm.