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Cambridge

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This article is about the English city. For the city next to Boston, Massachusetts, United States, see Cambridge, Massachusetts. For the city in Ontario, Canada, see Cambridge, Ontario. For other uses, see Cambridge (disambiguation).

Early modern

Cambridge in 1575

Following repeated outbreaks of pestilence throughout the 16th Century,^[32] sanitation and fresh water were brought to Cambridge by the construction of Hobson's Conduit in the early 1600s. Water was brought from Nine Wells, at the foot of the Gog Magog Hills, into the centre of the town.^[33]
Cambridge played a significant role in the early part of the English Civil War as it was the headquarters of the Eastern Counties Association, an organisation administering a regional East Anglian army, which became the mainstay of the Parliamentarian military effort before the formation of the New Model Army.^[34] In 1643 control of the town was given by Parliament to Oliver Cromwell, who had been educated at Sidney Sussex College. The town's castle was fortified and garrisoned with troops and some bridges were destroyed to aid its defence. Although Royalist forces came within 2 miles (3 km) of the town in 1644, the defences were never used and the garrison was stood down the following year.^[34]