98 DR. SHIPLEY'S REMINISCENCES 



The heavy gallery which occupied the whole width 

 and some haK of the depth of the chancel of Great St. 

 Mary's remained almost imtil Newton became Professor. 

 Here the Heads of Houses and the Doctors listened to, or 

 slept through, the University sermon in great state, the 

 Vice-Chancellor sitting on a throne in the centre of the 

 front row. The University Library then sheltered on 

 the west side " the Philosophy School," on the north the 

 Divinity School, on the south " the School for Civil Law 

 and Physic," and on the east a room where the Norrisian 

 and other Professors of Divinity lectured. The Registry 

 where the Registrary then carried on his business ad- 

 joined the Divinity School. All these rooms now happily 

 form part of the Library, the heart of the University. 

 GonviUe and Caius College then presented a more modest 

 and chastened front to the world than it does now, but 

 was, about this time, considering plans for the existing 

 Hall and Combination Room, and towards the end of the 

 'sixties Waterhouse's buildings were erected, replacing 

 amongst other things the Theatre Coffee House and the 

 original business house of the publishing firm of Mac- 

 mUlan. All Saints' Church, once known as AUhallows-in- 

 the- Jewry, stood over against Trinity, with its tower pro- 

 jecting over the narrow footpath and pierced by the 

 " side-walk." The Selwyn Divinity Schools and the 

 Literary Schools did not then exist in St. John's Street, 

 but on the other side of the road to the Pensionary, which 

 stood where now they stand, was a curious congeries of 

 buildings known as the Labyrinth, a relic of the Hospital 

 founded about 1200 by a burgess of Cambridge, John 

 Frost. Here in dark and ill-arranged rooms lived a 

 number of the more evangelical students, Simeonites as 

 they were then called. These students and their dwel- 

 lings are vividly described by Samuel Butler in his novel, 

 " The Way of All Flesh." The Labyrinth occupied part 



