A Hand-book for Visitors to OxfordJ.H. Parker, 1847 - 223 pages |
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Page 48 - Hall, an ancient place of residence for students deriving its name from Robert de St. Alban, a citizen of Oxford, who lived as early as the reign of King John, and who probably built the original edifice for his own residence.
Page 28 - What! my lord, shall we build houses, and provide livelihoods for a company of monks, whose end and fall we ourselves may live to see ? No, no, it is more meet a great deal, that We should have care to provide for the increase of learning, and for such as who by their learning shall do good to the church and commonwealth.
Page 92 - ... Bassano, with a permission to copy it if we could, for the hand-writing was so bad as to render this extremely problematical. With some trouble, however, we deciphered the MS., with the exception of six or eight words, of which I took fac-similes. The MS. appears to have been composed in the latter part of the seventeenth or beginning of the eighteenth century. That it was not written previous to 1670 is certain, because Volpato quotes the work of Padre Lana, which was published in that year,...
Page 217 - ... munificence of two individuals, Thomas Tesdale, esq., and Richard Wightwick, BD, who together bequeathed and gave a sufficient sum of money to found a new college ; the fellows and scholars principally to be elected from the free school at Abingdon.
Page 96 - PRESS, so called from the fact of its having derived its foundation in part from the proceeds of the sale of copies of Lord Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, the copyright of which was in the reign of Queen Anne presented to the University by his son.
Page 111 - New College ranks among the noblest buildings in the city — ' the chapel, the hall, the cloisters, the groined gateways, and even some original doors and windows remain, in their exterior at least, as they came from the hand of their master architect...
Page 205 - The new college was incorporated by charter, dated 29th July, in the year abovenamed, by the style of " the provost, fellows, and scholars of Worcester College, in the University of Oxford.
Page 72 - Brasenose,' is dated January 15, 1512. This college stands upon the site of no less than four ancient halls, viz., Little University Hall, described by some antiquaries as one of those built by Alfred, and which occupied the north-east angle near the lane; Brasenose Hall, whence the name of the College, situated where the present gateway now stands; Salisbury Hall, the site of a part of the present library; and Little St. Edmund Hall, which was still more to the southward, about where is now the...
Page 199 - CHURCH, a vicarage, in the patronage of the president and fellows of St. John's College.
Page 81 - I concluded at the last to set up my staff at the library door in Oxon, being thoroughly persuaded, that in my solitude and surcease from the commonwealth affairs, I could not busy myself to better purpose, than by reducing that place (which then in every part lay ruined and waste) to the public use of students.