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Cecil Headlam. Oxford and Its Story
Oxford and Its Story
Table of Contents
PREFACE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS
OXFORD & ITS STORY. CHAPTER I. S. FRIDESWIDE AND THE CATHEDRAL
CHAPTER II. THE MOUND, THE CASTLE AND SOME CHURCHES
CHAPTER III. THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSITY
CHAPTER IV. THE COMING OF THE FRIARS
CHAPTER V. THE MEDIÆVAL STUDENT
CHAPTER VI. OXFORD AND THE REFORMATION
CHAPTER VII. THE OXFORD MARTYRS
CHAPTER VIII. ELIZABETH, BODLEY AND LAUD
CHAPTER IX. THE ROYALIST CAPITAL
CHAPTER X. JACOBITE OXFORD—AND AFTER
INDEX
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Cecil Headlam
Published by Good Press, 2021
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And what sedged brooks are Thames’s tributaries.”
Whichever way you choose you will turn now and again to look back upon the spires and towers of Oxford and Radcliffe’s dome, clustering together among rich gardens and noble trees, watered by the winding, willow-fringed Cherwell and the silver stream of Isis, “rivulets,” as Wood quaintly phrases it, “which seem to the prying spectator as so many snakes sporting themselves therein.” And so gazing you will let your fancy roam and think of her past history and her future influence on thought and the affairs of State.
