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(1646), 136; Charles II.'s visit
to (1665), 156; and his visit
(1681), 157; Parliament as-
sembled and dissolved
(1681), 157; relieved from the
penance on St. Scholastica's
day in 1825, and from the

at

Mayor's Oath' in 1859, 190,
191

Oxford, Beaumont palace at, 5;
the birthplace of Richard I.,
5; Castle, the, embracing the
Collegiate Church of St.
George, 2; Jewry, the, violent
attack on, 15; St. George
within the Castle, Collegiate
Church of, 2, 6; St. Mary's
Church, 50, 60, 153; School
Street, 3, 59, 60
Oxford

University, mythical
origin of, 1, 2; its alleged
foundation by Alfred the
Great, 1; silence of Domes-
day book respecting, 2; the
Church its foster-mother, 3;
lectures of Vacarius about
1149; 5; earlier lectures of
Robert Pullen, 6; Giraldus
Cambrensis publicly reads at,
in 1186 or 1187; 6; not fully
constituted in 1214; 11;
progress during reign of
Henry III., 8, 9, 51; fully con-
stituted by the middle of
the 13th cent., 12; the early
sources of its revenue, 12, 13;
early University charters, 14;
statutes in 1292; 17; University
life and manners before Col-
leges were planted, 20-22; pro-
gress of, in the 14th cent., 27
seqq.; its intellectual vigour,
29-31; its European influence,
33, 34; conflicts between the
University and the City, 43-
46; receives a new charter of
privileges from Edward III.,

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47; position of the Friars at,
and University statutes against
them, 52; statutes restraining
encroachments of the Friars,
53, 54; decline in numbers
and studies in the 15th cent.,
55, 56; its causes, 56; revival
of academical life at end of
15th cent., 68; checked by
the Reformation, 69; its action
on the questions of the Divorce
and the Royal supremacy
(temp. Hen. VIII.), 75, 76, 77;
visitation of, in 1535; 77; first
effects of the Reformation
injurious to, 79; incorporation
of, in 1571; 89; Leicester's
administration of, 91-94; de-
pression of intellectual life in,
94; increasing refinement of
academical life, 96, 97; the
stronghold of Anglicanism,
99; patronised by James I.,
100-102; declares its adhesion
to the doctrine of Passive
Obedience in 1622; 105; num-
ber of students under Laud's
chancellorship, 116; eminent
members of, in the generation
preceding the Civil Wars, 119;
University life in the genera-
tion preceding the Civil Wars,
120-122; conduct during Civil
Wars, 122-135; conduct during
Parliamentary Visitation, 141–
9; reception of Fairfax and
Cromwell by (1649), 144;
state of, on the recovery of its
independence, 149; the Re-
storation and new Visitation
of (1660), 151; enjoys com-
parative repose under Charles
II., 153; extension of the
University buildings, 153, 154;
decree of, adopting doctrine of
Passive Resistance, 158; pub-
licly burned, 165; conduct of,

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on the outbreak of Mon-
mouth's rebellion, 159; its
attitude towards the Revolu-
tion (1688-9), 162; University
politics between the Revolution
and the accession of George
III., 162-74; becomes a hotbed
of Jacobite disaffection, 163; a
troop of horse sent to overawe
it, 167; government scheme
for reforming it, 168-9; ac-
cords an enthusiastic reception
to the Prince of Orange, 1734;
170; address from, on the
peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, re-
jected, 171; George III.'s
visits to, 172-174; petitions
(1799) against the Dissenters'
Toleration Bill, 173; decay of
University education in the
18th cent., 174-177; statutes
affecting the, 184; visited in
1814 by the Allied Sovereigns,
190; petitions against various
reforms, 189; Royal commis-
sion issued 1850; 194, 195;
University Reform Act of
1854; 112; its main provi.
sions, 196, 197; College Or-
dinances framed under, 196,
197; their beneficial effects,
197, 198; University Reform
Act of 1876, its object and
main provisions, 200, 201;
state of on queen Victoria's ac-
cession, 218-220; influence of
recent changes in, 220, 221;
its present character (1886),
222; Chancellor, office of, 11,
12-42, 47; Vice-Chancellor's
office, 26, 91-113; Proctors,
their office and authority, 26,
40-1, 91; Proctorial cycle in-
stituted, 109; 'Congregation,
Black,' 66; Congregation,
Great,'
University,

67;

67;

Convocation,

Bodleian

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Library, 59-61; Botanic Gar-
dens, 116; Clarendon building,
186; Convocation House, 116;
Divinity School, the, 60;
Library, the earliest possessed
by the University, 29. See
Humphry, Duke; Radcliffe
Library, Infirmary, and Obser-
vatory, 187; Schools, the Old,
59; Schools, the New, com-
pletion of, 106; Sheldonian
Theatre, erection of, 153 ;
Taylor Institution, 187; Uni-
versity Press, 187

Oxford Colleges and Halls-All

Souls College, 58-9, 147; Bal-
liol College, 15, 17; Brasenose
College, statutes of, 74; Can-
terbury College, 32; Cardinal
College.' See Christ Church;
Christ Church, 75-8; Charles
I. lodged at (1642), 128; Cor-
pus Christi College, its foun-
dation by bp. Fox, 72, 73;
Exeter College, foundation of,
31; Gloucester Hall, occupied
by Benedictines, 49, 50; Hert
Hall, 33; Hertford College,
statutes of, framed in 1747;
182; Magdalen Hall, re-
founded under the name of,
197; Lincoln College, founded,
58; Magdalen College, founda-
tion of, 59; James II.'s treat-
ment of, 159; Magdalen Hall.
See Hertford College; Merton
College, 15, 18-20, 156, 181-2;
the model of all other col-
legiate foundations, 18; New
College, foundation of by
William of Wykeham (1379),
marks a new departure in colle-
giate history, 32, 33; New Inn
Hall, mint established at, 129;
Oriel College, foundation of,
31; the centre of the Oxford
Movement,' 205; Pembroke

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College, foundation of, 106;
Queen's College, foundation
of, 31; St. John's College,
foundation of, 86; St. Mary's
College, 71; Trinity College,
foundation of, 86; University
College, 15, 16; myth attribut-
ing its foundation to Alfred,
2; Wadham College, founda-
tion of, 106. See also under
Colleges

'Oxford Movement,' the, 201-17
Oxford, the see of, 78

PARIS, University of, its origin
and constitution, 7,8; a model
of academical organisation for
Oxford, 8; decline of the, in
the 14th cent. ; 33; discredited
by subservience to Pope John
XXII., 33, 34; migration of
students from, 51; curriculum
and examinations of, in the
Middle Ages, 62, 63
Parker, Archbp., policy of, 87, 88
Parliament, at Oxford, 108-9;

passes an ordinance, on May 1,
1647, for the visitation of the
University and Colleges, 140
Parr, Dr., his list of Oxford
graduates in the 18th cent.,
179

Passive Resistance, 158
Peel, sir Robert, his election in

1817 and defeat in 1829; 189
Pembroke, Philip, earl of, chan-
cellor of the University, super-
seded by the Marquis of Hert-
ford, 132, 133, 139, 143
Pembroke college, 106
Peter the Lombard, 4
Petty, William, 154

Pitt, William, denounces Oxford
Jacobitism, 171

Plate, College, 128; loan of de-
sired, 132

RICH

Rich, Edmud, archbp. of Car-

terbury, 9

Richard I., born at Beaumont
palace, 5

Richard of Armagh, loose state-
ment of, as to number of
scholars, 14

Richmond, Miss Stuart, afterw.
Duchess of, 156
Ridley, Bp., burned, 84
Royal Commission of 1850, its
report, 194, 195
Royal Society, holds its first
meetings at Oxford, 154
Royal Supremacy, 75-77
Rupert, Prince, 117, 128, 136

SACHEVERELL, Dr., of Magdalen,
his popularity, 165

St. Frideswide, monastery and
schools of, 3, 48, 78

St. George within the Castle,
church of, 2, 6

St. John's college, 86

St. Mary's Church, 50, 60, 153
St. Mary's college, 71

Salerno, Univ. of, 7

Savile, Sir Henry, 95
Savilian Professorships, 107
School Street, 3, 59, 60

'Schools of Oxford,' the germ of
the University, 3, 6

Schools, the 'Old,' 59; the' New,
106

Schools of Paris, see Paris

'Sciences' (the) in the 12th
century, 4

Scott, sir William, his tutorial
lectures, 180

Selden, John, 106, 119, 142
Shakspeare, William, 95
Sheldon, Gibbert, warden of All
Souls, 119, 142, 152; archbp.
of Canterbury in 1663, Chan-
cellor in 1667; 153; found
Sheldonian theatre, 153

TAYLOR Institution, 187

Tests, University, 327; abolition
of in 1871; 198

Terra Filii, 149, 154

Thirty-nine Articles, Subscrip-
tion to, established by Leices-
ter, 92

Three Articles, the, 104
'Town and gown rows,' 120
Tractarian Movement, contrasted

with the Methodist Revival,
204-15

Tracts for the Times,' origin of,
207; publication of Tract XC.,
210-212

Tresham, Dr. Will., canon of Ch.
Ch., 87
Trinity college, 86

WADHAM College, 106

Wake, sir Isaac, his Rex Pluto-
nicus, 102

Wake, Archbp., 170

Walker, Obadiah, Master of Uni-
versity Coll., 160

Wallis, Dr. John, Savil. Prof. of
Geometry, 154

Waltham, Harold's college at, 15
Ward, Will. Geo., fellow of Bal-
liol, condemned by the Uni-
versity Convocation, Feb. 13,
1845; 214

Warham, Archbp., 111

Wesley, John, 181; his sermon
before the University in 1734;
171
Whigs, 158, 166

Whitelocke, Bulstrode, 142
Whitgift, archbp., 94

Wilkins, Dr. John, Warden of
Wadham Coll., 146, 154
William III., deputation to, 162;
visits the University, 163
William of Durham, his bequest
to the University, 16
Winchester College, 33, 70
Wolsey, Cardinal, 74, 75
Wood, Anthony, 1 et passim
Wren, Christopher, 150, 154
Wyclif, John, 28, 34-6, 55
Wykeham, William of, founds
New Coll. (1379), 32, 33