STOW-cum-QUY, a parish in the hundred of
STAINE, county of CAMBRIDGE, 5 miles (N. E.) from
Cambridge, containing 378 inhabitants. The living is
a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and- diocese of
Ely, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Ely. The
church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a small endowed
school. Jeremy Collier, the celebrated nonjuring
divine, was born here in 1650; he died in 1730.