Cecil Headlam PREFACE CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS OXFORD and 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 MEDIAEVAL 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 Every attempt has been made to replicate the original as printed. Some typographical errors have been corrected; a list follows the text. In certain versions of this etext, in certain browsers, clicking on this symbol will bring up a larger version of the image. The "Tinted Lithographs" appear black, white and gray in this etext. Preface Contents List of Illustrations Index (etext transcriber's note)

OXFORD
AND   ITS   STORY

Oxford Castle (Photogravure)
Oxford Castle (Photogravure)

O X F O R D

AND ITS STORY

BY

CECIL HEADLAM, M.A.
AUTHOR OF “NUREMBERG,” “CHARTRES,”
ETC. ETC.

colophon

WITH TWENTY-FOUR LITHOGRAPHS
AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS BY

HERBERT   RAILTON

THE LITHOGRAPHS BEING
TINTED BY

FANNY   RAILTON

1912
LONDON
J. M. DENT & SONS, LTD.
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.

First Edition, 1904
Second and Cheaper Edition, 1912

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