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... centuries of borough life before a student appeared within its streets . The University found it a busy , prosperous borough , and reduced it to a cluster of lodging houses . It found it among the first of English municipalities , and ...
... centuries of borough life before a student appeared within its streets . The University found it a busy , prosperous borough , and reduced it to a cluster of lodging houses . It found it among the first of English municipalities , and ...
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... Century , ' Mr. Andrew Lang's Oxford , ' and Mr. Parker's Early Oxford , ' as well as to other publications of the Oxford Historical Society . Part of the City records , from 1509 to 1583 , were edited by Mr. W. H. Turner for the city ...
... Century , ' Mr. Andrew Lang's Oxford , ' and Mr. Parker's Early Oxford , ' as well as to other publications of the Oxford Historical Society . Part of the City records , from 1509 to 1583 , were edited by Mr. W. H. Turner for the city ...
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... century . The history of our early saints favours this view . Penda , the pagan king of Mercia , had welded Middle England into one kingdom . For a moment his defeat by Oswiu of Northumbria broke the Mercian power , but Wulfhere ( 657 ...
... century . The history of our early saints favours this view . Penda , the pagan king of Mercia , had welded Middle England into one kingdom . For a moment his defeat by Oswiu of Northumbria broke the Mercian power , but Wulfhere ( 657 ...
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... Centuries later , when the early students came , they had to ride through the thick forest and across the moor to the East Gate of the city . In the midst of a country still wild , Oxford was already no mean city ; but the place where ...
... Centuries later , when the early students came , they had to ride through the thick forest and across the moor to the East Gate of the city . In the midst of a country still wild , Oxford was already no mean city ; but the place where ...
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... century important national assem- blies were held at Oxford . When a meeting was designed to be specially national , when some solemn act was to be gone through which affected northern and southern England alike , Oxford was the place ...
... century important national assem- blies were held at Oxford . When a meeting was designed to be specially national , when some solemn act was to be gone through which affected northern and southern England alike , Oxford was the place ...
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