Oxford and Its Story

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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.

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