University of Cambridge

One of the realm's two schools, the nearer to the March at a little over two hundred and thirty miles, and the last place northward with a through road worth the name.

Named as a place of training for mages (a 'Cambridge-trained mage'). It keeps a guarantor belt on its outskirts for households nobody else will vouch for. Named with Oxford as an expensive university; also the place from which certification of detained articles at Dover comes, taking four to eleven weeks.

Named with it

• Doctor Hollis Prewitt
• Surgeon Ellis Mow · trained there

Ties

• certifies articles detained by the Dover customs house
• trained the physician of Harrowgate Priory's infirmary
• contrasted with the Pearl River Lyceum

At the table

The slow certification is why material piles up in the shed behind the Dover customs house. No Cambridge scholar has come to the March within the record, though the priory infirmary's physician trained there. A Cambridge-trained mage is the book's example of an expert who dismisses local observance until his apparatus fails on the night it is left out.