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Page ix - History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford. By Anthony a Wood, MA of Merton College. In two books; containing, I. The Annals of the University; II. The History of the Colleges and Halls. Published from the original MS., with a continuation to the year 1790. By John Gutch, MA Chaplain of
Page 55 - that posterity might know that what is now seen in the playhouses at London belonging to his majesty and the duke of York, is originally due to the invention of Oxford scholars.
Page 21 - Paid to Thomas Hewister for carriage of earth and rubble from the fayre gate and the new stepull, to fill the ditches on the back side of the college, CLVI loads, at a peny the load, by computation
Page 1 - NEW COLLEGE. IT is not without reason, that the popular appellation first given to this establishment, soon after its foundation, has adhered to it ever since. It forms indeed a new era in our academical annals. Walter de Merton had a century before opened a prospect more extensive than that of the aularian system ; but the university, as at present
Page x - Bishop of Winchester, Founder of New College. By Robert Lowth, DD Oxford, 1777. 8vo. The Life of Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, Founder of All Souls
Page 16 - procured from Italy in 1629, &c. was erected at the expense of Dr. John Williams, bishop of Lincoln and afterwards archbishop of York
Page ix - Chalcographus. Oxoniae, 1675. folio. Oxonia Depicta: a G. Williams. London, 1738. folio. The ancient and present State of the University of Oxford. By John Ayliffe, LL.D.
Page 8 - a citizen of Oxford, and several times mayor, gave a tenement called ' the Christopher,' in Magdalene parish; Dagvyle's inn, in All Saints' parish; a tenement in St. Martin's parish ; and a garden in Grandpont, near Oxford, but in the county of Berks: all which, then valued at
Page 56 - translated into English by the Prince Regent, omitting only (with that exquisite taste which distinguished him) those parts which were complimentary to himself.
Page x - The Lives of William Smyth, Bishop of Lincoln, and Sir Richard Sutton, Knight, Founders of