INDEX.

Abbeys in the neighbourhood of Oxford, [3], [50]
Abbot, George, archbp. of Canterbury, [104], [108]
Abelard, [4], [7]
Abendon, Henry de, warden of Merton, [58]
Abingdon abbey, [3];
outrage on the monks in 1327, [37]
Academical life, see Oxford University
Act of Uniformity passed in 1662, its application to College fellowships, [152]
Addison, Joseph, [179]
Aldrich, H., dean of Christchurch, [164]
Alfred the Great, alleged foundation of the University by, [1];
Asser’s biography of, [1];
foundation of University College attributed to, [4]
All Souls college, see under Oxford
Allied Sovereigns, reception of in 1814, [190]
Anne, queen, visits Oxford 26 Aug. 1702, [164]
Anselm, [4]
Aristotelian philosophy, teachers of the mendicant Orders the leading exponents of, [50]
Aristotle, his Natural Philosophy, [4];
recognised as the supreme authority on rhetoric, logic, and all three philosophies, [65]
Arran, Earl of, becomes Chancellor, [167]
Articles, Thirty-nine, subscription to, [92], [104], [173], [180];
the Three, [125];
the Six, [80]
Arundel marbles presented in 1677, [155]
Ashmolean Museum opened in 1683, [155]
Asser, his contemporary biography of King Alfred, [1]
Association formed in support of the Church, [208]
Atterbury, F., dean of Christ Church, [165]
Augustines, see Monks and Friars
Austins’, or disputations, [49]
Averroes, [4]
Avicenna, [4]
Avignon, [34]
Bacon, Roger, [8];
liberal spirit of his teaching, [52]
Bainbridge, John, [119]
Balliol college, [15], [17]
Basle, [57], [58]
Beaumont palace at Oxford, [5], [6]
Benedictines, [7], [49]
Bentham, Jeremy, [179];
his objection to signing the 39 Articles, [180]
Berkeley, bp., [183]
Bernard, [4]
Bible, authorized version of, Oxford scholars engaged in it, [103]
‘Black Congregation,’ [66]
Black Death, ravages of the, [37]
Blackstone, sir Will., his professorial lectures, [180]
Boarding schools, [3]
Boccaccio, [28]
Bodleian Library, [59-61];
see also Humphry, Duke
Bodley, sir Thomas, refounded the University Library in 1602, [95], [96]
Bologna, [7], [16];
school of law in the University of, [4]
Botanic Gardens, [116]
Boyle, Robert, [154]
Brasenose college, [74]
Brent, sir Nathaniel, warden of Merton, [119];
chairman of the Parliamentary Visitors, [140]
Buckingham, duke of, [107]
Burke, Edmund, declines an honorary D.C.L. degree, [185]
Burnet, Bp., [162];
his complaints of Oxford Toryism, [164]
Button, Ralph, of Merton coll., [142]
Cambridge, early secession of students to, [38];
the University less Jacobite than Oxford, [164]
Canterbury college, [32]
‘Cardinal College,’ see under Oxford, Ch. Ch.
Carleton, George, bp. of Chichester, selected to represent England at the Synod of Dort, [103]
Carmelites, [50]
Castle, Oxford, [2]
Catholic emancipation, petition against, in 1810, [189]
‘Chamber-dekyns,’ or unattached students, [22], [23];
their disorderly conduct in early times, [22];
abolished by the statute of 1432, [22]
Champeaux, William of, tutor of Abelard, [7]
Charles I. visits Oxford in August 1636, [116];
marches into Oxford 1642, after the battle of Edgehill, [128];
is lodged at Christ Church, [128];
summons his so-called Parliament (at Oxford), in June 1644, [133];
orders special forms of prayer to be used in college chapels for the success of his cause, [134]
Charles II., his first visit to Oxford (1665), [156];
his second visit (1681), [157]
Charlett, Dr., Master of University College, [182]
Chaucer, Geoffrey, [28]
Chesterfield, Lord, [176]
Cheynell, F., [138]
Chillingworth, William, [116]
Christ Church, [75], [78], [128]
Church, the, the foster-mother of the University, [3];
association formed in support of, [208], [209];
effect of the Oxford Movement on, [215]
Cimabue, [28]
Civil War, first events of, as affecting the University, [127];
last two years of, [132-134]
Clarendon building and Press, [186-7]
Clarendon, earl of, his evidence on the results of the Parliamentary Visitation, [150]
Classical lectureships founded, [78]
Classics, become the staple of University studies after the Restoration, [155]
Cleveland, Barbara Villiers, Lady Castlemaine, afterw. Duchess of, [156]
Coffee-houses, [150], [156]
Coke, Edward, [106]
Colet, John, [71]
College disputations, [25];
gardens, [156];
leases regulated by Acts of 13 and 18 Eliz., [89], [90];
Ordinances framed under the University Reform Act of 1854, [196], [197];
their beneficial effects, [197], [198];
plate, [128], [132]
Colleges, rise of, [15];
early Oxford Colleges not confined to one Faculty, [16];
a safe and well-regulated home to younger students, [24];
their superiority to lodging-houses or halls, [25];
Colleges and Chantries Act, [80];
leniency towards, [81-83];
regarded with favour as seminaries of classical learning, [82];
invested by Leicester with increased control of University government, [90];
see also Oxford Colleges and Halls
Collegiate system, perhaps borrowed from Paris, [16]
Commission, Royal, issued 1850, [194], [195];
of inquiry, 1872, [200];
of 1877, statutes made by, [201];
the University as regulated by it, [203]
Common-rooms at Oxford, the earliest at Merton coll. in 1661, [156]
Commons, House of, assumes authority over the University in 1629, [109];
issues an order for the University (1641), [125], [126];
abolishes subscription to ‘the Three Articles,’ [125]
Comprehension Scheme, [164]
Conant, Dr., rector of Exeter, appointed vice-chancellor of the University, [148]
Constance, Council of, [58]
‘Constitution Club,’ the, attacked by a Tory mob, [166];
the scene of a less serious political commotion in 1716, [168];
died out before the end of George I.’s reign, [169]
Convocation of the clergy in 1382, [36]
Convocation House, [116]
Copleston, Bp., his defence of university studies, [188]
Copredy Bridge, many Oxford scholars engaged at, [133]
Corbet, E., [138]
Cordova, [4]
Corpus Christi college, [72], [73]
Councils, [57]
Cranmer, archbp., [80];
tried at Oxford, [84];
his recantation and martyrdom, [84], [85]
Crimes of violence committed by scholars, [23]
Cromwell, Oliver, visits Oxford in state, May 17, 1649, [144];
becomes chancellor in Jan. 1650, [145];
his liberal treatment of the University, [145];
resigns the chancellorship on July 3, 1657, [147];
his scheme for a new university at Durham, [148]
Cromwell, Richard, elected Chancellor of the University, 1657, [148];
resigns the Chancellorship in 1660, [151]
Dante, [28]
Degrees, [65-67], et passim
‘Determination,’ [63]
Disputations, [49], [181];
superseded by a system of public examinations, which soon become ineffective, [115-117]
Dissenters’ Toleration Bill, 1779, [173]
Divinity School, [60]
Divorce question, the (16th cent.), [75]
Domesday book, silence of respecting the University, [2]
Dominicans, [49]
Dorchester Abbey, [50]
Dort, Synod of, [103]
Douay, Catholic seminary of, [94]
Duppa, Brian, [119]
Durham, University of, [148]
Durham, William of, the institution founded by, not a college, but an exhibition-fund to be administered by the University, [17]
Earle, John, bp. of Salisbury, [119]
Educational movement, the, sprung from the Reformation, popular rather than academical, [69];
Reasons of this, [69]
Edward III., King, charter granted to the University by, [47]
‘Edwardine’ code, [81];
iconoclastic in its spirit, [81];
liberal in its dealings with Colleges, [81]
Edwardine Visitors, see Visitors
Eighteenth century, decay of University education in, [174], [175];
the dark age of academical history, [174];
contemporary evidence, [175], [176]
Eldon, Lord, [176], [189]
Elizabeth, Queen, accession of, in Nov. 1558, [87];
see Visitation, Elizabethan;
literature of her reign not academical, [94];
actively patronised Oxford culture in the later part of her reign, [95];
her visits to Oxford in 1566 and 1592, [97], [98]
‘Engagement,’ the, [144]
‘English nation,’ at Paris, [8]
Episcopacy, [123]
Erasmus, his testimony to Oxford scholarship in 1497, [70], [71]
Eton School, [70]
Evelyn, John, [154], [155], [163];
visits Oxford in 1654, [149]
Examination instituted for the B.A. and M.A. degrees in 1638, [177];
of Public Schools, Joint-Board for, [199]
Examinations, Local (1857), [199];
under the Laudian Statutes, [114]
Exeter college, [31]
Eynsham, abbey of, [3], [50];
undertakes in 1219 to provide for poor scholars, [12]
Fairfax, Lord, his conciliatory proposals to the University (1646), [135];
Fairfax and Cromwell visit Oxford together in state on May 17, 1649, [144]
Fell, John, dean of Christ Church, [141]
Fell, Mrs., [142]
Fell, Samuel, [119]
Flemmyng, Richard, bp. of Lincoln, his main object in founding Lincoln College, to extirpate the Wycliffite heresy, [58]
Fourteenth century, the most progressive in the history of the Middle Ages, [27]
Fox, Richard, bp. of Winchester, [72];
regarded as the founder of the professorial system, [73]
Franciscans, [49], [51]
Friars, see Monks and Friars
Frideswide chest, the, for the relief of poor scholars, the earliest form of corporate property held by the University, [12]
Frideswide, St., see St. Frideswide
Froude, Richard Hurrell, [207]
Gentilis, Albericus, [97]
George I., his accession received at Oxford with sullen disappointment, [166];
sends a troop of horse to overawe the University, [167];
never deigned to visit Oxford, [170]
George II., fulsome address presented to him by the Oxford Convocation, [172]
George III., with his accession Jacobitism disappears or fades into Toryism of the modern type, [172];
his visits to Oxford, [172], [174];
his reply to the first loyal address from the University, [172]
Gibbon, E., [176];
his estimate of the University, [177]
Giraldus Cambrensis, [8];
publicly reads at Oxford his work on the topography of Ireland, [6]
Gladstone, William Ewart, defeated in 1865 by Mr. Gathorne Hardy, [216]
Gloucester, duke of, see Humphry, the ‘good’ duke
Gloucester Hall, [49], [50]
Goddard, Jonathan, Warden of Merton, [146], [154]
Goodwin, Thomas, President of Magdalen coll., [146]
Grafton, George Villiers, Duke of, born in Merton coll., [157]
Grammar-schools and Halls, duties paid by, [13];
rise of, [94]
Gratian, [4]
‘Great Congregation,’ [67]
‘Greeks and Trojans,’ the, [73]
Grenville, lord, elected chancellor in 1809, [189]
Grocyn, delivers the first public lectures on Greek (15th cent.), [70], [71]
Grostete, Robert, bp. of Lincoln, [8], [9];
his life and influence in the University, [51]
Hales, John, patronised by Laud, [116]
Halls, duties paid by, [13];
unendowed, mostly hired from the citizens by clerks, [13];
number of, [13];
Principals of, sometimes illiterate and not of necessity graduates until 1432, [22]
Hammond, Henry, rector of Penshurst, [119];
removed from his canonry of Ch. Ch., [142]
Hampden, John, [124]
‘Hampden controversy,’ the, [212-214]
Hampton Court conference, [104]
Hardy, Gathorne, defeats Mr. Gladstone, [216]
Hearne, Thomas, the Oxford chronicler, [175];
his evidence on the dominant Toryism of Oxford, [165]
Henrietta Maria, queen, her reception and residence at Oxford (1643), [130]
Henry I., lived much at Oxford and at Woodstock, [5];
built the palace of Beaumont, [5]
Henry II., resided in the neighbourhood of Oxford, [6]
Henry III., [9];
his charters granted to the University in 1244 and 1255, [14], [15]
Henry VIII., founds five Regius Professorships, and refounds Cardinal College, [78];
his protection of University endowments, [79]
Henry, Prince, his death in 1612, [102]
Hert Hall, [33]
Hertford, Marquis of, Chancellor of the University, [133], [151]
Hertford college, [182], [197]
High Commission, [104]
Holles, D., [124]
Humphrey, Laurence, President of Magdalen, [88], [103]
Humphry, the ‘good’ duke, Library presented by, [59];
initiates the erection of a Public Library over the Divinity School, [60], [61];
the original collection consisted of 129 volumes only, [61]
Hyde, Edw., see Clarendon, earl of
‘Inception,’ statutable qualifications for, [64];
M.A. degree chiefly sought as a passport to, [65]
Irnerius, opens a school of Law at Bologna, [4]
Jacobite partisanship shared alike by ‘dons’ and undergraduates, [164]
Jacobitism, gradual decline of in Oxford, during the reign of George II., 170
James I., his patronage of the University, [101], [102];
visits Oxford (1605), [101];
his attitude towards the University and the Church, [102];
his gradual adoption of Arminian theories, [103]
James II. (as Duke of York), not unpopular in the University, [158];
his outrages on University rights, [159];
his treatment of Magdalen Coll., [159]
Jefferies, judge, [160]
Jewell, bp., [83], [88]
Jewry, attack on the, [15]
John of Gaunt, [35]
John of Salisbury, [5]
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, [176];
his appreciation of the College system, [181]
Jones, Sir William, of Univ. Coll., [182]
Jowett, Benj., Regius Professor of Greek, [216]
Jurisprudence, Roman, cultivation of, [4]
Juxon, William, [119]
Keble, rev. John, [197], [206];
his ‘Christian Year’ appears in 1827, [207]
Keble College, foundation of, [197]
Kemp, John, [58]
King, Dr. William, Principal of St. Mary Hall, his Jacobite appeal in the Theatre, in 1754, [171]
Lanfranc, [4]
Langton, Stephen, [8]
Latimer, Bp., [84]
Laud, archbp., rise and influence of, [104-106];
his creed and policy adopted by the Court and the University, [106];
elected Chancellor in April, 1630, [109];
his chancellorship, [109-111];
his reforms of University and College discipline, [110];
his services to the University, [115], [116];
last five years of his Chancellorship, [116-119];
resigns the Chancellorship, June 26, 1641, [117];
his administration of the University attacked on his impeachment, [118]
‘Laudian’ or ‘Caroline’ Statutes, compilation of, [111-113];
superseded, in many essential particulars, by the University Reform Act of 1854, [112];
main provisions of, [113];
their oligarchical tendency, [113];
studies and examinations under, [114], [115];
question about the perpetuity of, [183]
Lectures and examinations, final organisation of, in the 15th cent., [61]
Leicester, Robert Dudley, earl of, becomes chancellor of the University in 1564, [88];
his administration, [89-93]
Library, the earliest possessed by the University, [29];
see also Bodleian Library and Humphry, duke
Linacre, Thomas, [71];
his posthumous foundation of two Readerships in Physiology at Merton college, [72]
Lincoln college, [58]
Literæ Humaniores School established in the present century, [193]
Local examinations established in 1857, [199]
Locke, John, his expulsion from the University, [159];
urges the King to reform the Universities, [162]
Lodging-houses, [25]
Lollardism, in 1411, [37]
Lombard, Peter, his ‘Sentences,’ [7]
London Committee, appointed to receive reports from the Parliamentary Visitors, [140];
dissolved in April 1652, [145]
Lowth, bp., his description of his academical life, [179]
Macclesfield, lord, lord chancellor, his plan for controlling the University through government patronage, [169]
Magdalen bridge, [188]
Magdalen College, [159-161]
Magdalen Hall, see Hertford college
Malmesbury, Lord, [176]
Manners, University life and, before Colleges were planted, [20-22]
Marsh (de Marisco), Adam, friend of Grostete, [52]
Martyr, Peter, lectures of, [81];
his wife, [86]
Mary, accession of, in 1553, ushered in a short-lived reaction, [83]
Mason, sir John, elected chancellor in 1552, [88]
Massey, John, [160]
Meadowcourt, Richard, fellow of Merton, his Whig partisanship and degradation, [168]
Mendicant Orders, [49], [50]
Merton college, see under Oxford
Methodist Revival, the, [178]
‘Moderations’ established by statute, of 1850, [193]
Monasteries, the, dissolution of, contributing to depopulate the University, [80]
Monastic Orders, [35]
Monks and Friars at Oxford, [48], seqq.;
Augustinian canons at St. Frideswide’s, [48];
Augustinian Friars, settle in Oxford in 1251 or 1252, [49];
acquire almost a monopoly of grammar-teaching, [53];
Benedictines, [7], [49];
Benedictine monks of St. Frideswide, [48];
Carmelites, the, settle in Oxford in 1254, [50];
Dominicans, the, first appear in Oxford in 1221, [49];
Franciscans, the, settle in Oxford about 1224, [49];
owe much to the aid and patronage of Robert Grostete, [51];
Friars, protected by the Pope, [54];
position of at Oxford, and University statutes against them, [52-54]
Mendicant Orders, rise of, [49], [50]
Monmouth, Duke of, [159]
More, Sir Thomas, [71]
Music, cultivated at Oxford after the Restoration, [155]
‘Negative Oath,’ [143]
New College, [32], [33]
New Inn Hall, [129]
Newdigate, sir Roger, [173]
Newman, John Henry, his early life and intellectual development, [206], [207];
his career and connection with the Oxford movement, [207-12];
is received into the Church of Rome, Oct. 8, 1845, [212]
Non-Jurors, [163]
Non-Regents, [66]
Northampton, early secessions of students to, [38]
Northern and Southern nations, encounters between them, [29], [37];
proctors of the University chosen from in 1343, [41]
Nowell, Dr. Thomas, [173]
Oath, Negative, [143]
Occham, William of, [35];
challenges the supremacy of the Pope, [34]
Orange, Prince of, his reception by the University (1734), [170]
Oriel college, [31], [205]
Ormond, duke of, his impeachment and resignation, [167]
Oseney Abbey, [6], [50], [59], [78];
riot at in 1238, [14]
Oxford City, a resort of students and a place of education before the Norman Conquest, [2];
number of its monastic establishments, [2];
early schools of, [2], [3];
Henry I. lived much at, [5];
councils held by Stephen at, [6];
young scholars of, lodge in religious houses, [6];
murder of three students by townspeople in 1209, [9], [10];
penalties imposed by the Papal Legate, [10];
the Mayor’s oath imposed in 1248, [15];
pestilence in, [29], [37], [98];
riots in 1297 and 1354, [43-5];
agreement with Univ., 1298, [43];
further riots, [120];
interdict laid upon, [46];
penance done by the citizens of, [46], [47];
the Sheriff’s oath (1581), [99];
Parliament at, [107-109];
contribution for the King’s service, and first occupation by Parliamentary troops, [126-128];
Charles I. marches into (1642), [128];
queen Henrietta Maria’s reception and residence at (1643), [130];
becomes Royal head-quarters during the Civil War, [129];
measures taken for its defence, [129];
ravaged by a great fire (1644), [133], [134];
Parliament summoned at (1644), [133];
first siege of (May, 1645), [134];
the siege hastily abandoned (June 5), [134];
second siege, and proposals of Fairfax guaranteeing University privileges (1646), [135], [136];
surrender of (1646), [136];
Charles II.’s visit to (1665), [156];
and his visit (1681), [157];
Parliament assembled and dissolved at (1681), [157];
relieved from the penance on St. Scholastica’s day in 1825, and from the ‘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 Domesday 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 constituted 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 Colleges were planted, [20-22];
progress 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., [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];
depression 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];
number of students under Laud’s chancellorship, [116];
eminent members of, in the generation preceding the Civil Wars, [119];
University life in the generation 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 Restoration and new Visitation of (1660), [151];
enjoys comparative repose under Charles II., [153];
extension of the University buildings, [153], [154];
decree of, adopting doctrine of Passive Resistance, [158];
publicly burned, [165];
conduct of, on the outbreak of Monmouth’s rebellion, [159];
its attitude towards the Revolution (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];
accords an enthusiastic reception to the Prince of Orange, 1734, [170];
address from, on the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, rejected, [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 commission issued 1850, [194], [195];
University Reform Act of 1854, [112];
its main provisions, [196], [197];
College Ordinances 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 accession, [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 instituted, [109];
‘Congregation, Black,’ [66];
‘Congregation, Great,’ [67];
Convocation, University, [67];
Bodleian Library, [59-61];
Botanic Gardens, [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 Observatory, [187];
Schools, the Old, [59];
Schools, the New, completion of, [106];
Sheldonian Theatre, erection of, [153];
Taylor Institution, [187];
University Press, [187]
Oxford Colleges and Halls—All Souls College, [58-9], [147];
Balliol College, [15], [17];
Brasenose College, statutes of, [74];
Canterbury College, [32];
‘Cardinal College.’ See Christ Church;
Christ Church, [75-8];
Charles I. lodged at (1642), [128];
Corpus Christi College, its foundation 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, refounded under the name of, [197];
Lincoln College, founded, [58];
Magdalen College, foundation of, [59];
James II.’s treatment of, [159];
Magdalen Hall. See Hertford College;
Merton College, [15], [18-20], [156], [181-2];
the model of all other collegiate foundations, [18];
New College, foundation of by William of Wykeham (1379), marks a new departure in collegiate history, [32], [33];
New Inn Hall, mint established at, [129];
Oriel College, foundation of, [31];
the centre of the ‘Oxford Movement,’ [205];
Pembroke 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 attributing its foundation to Alfred, [2];
Wadham College, foundation of, [106].
See also under Colleges
‘Oxford Movement,’ the, [204-17]
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, chancellor of the University, superseded by the Marquis of Hertford, [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 desired, [132]
Pole, Card., visitation and reforms of, [85]
Pope, the, defends the Friars, [54]
Portland, Duke of, his installation, in 1793, [184]
Prideaux, Humphrey, dean, [175]
Proctors, and Proctorial authority, [26], [40], [41], [91], [109]
Professorships, five Regius, founded and endowed by Henry VIII., [78]
Prynne, William, [124]
Pullen, or Pulleyne, Robert, [6], [8]
Puritanism, growth of, in the University during the reign of James I., [101]
Pusey, Dr. Edw. Bouverie, [206], [210], [214], [216]
Pym, John, [106], [124]
Quadrivium, the, [4], [61]
Queen’s College, [31]
Radcliffe Library, Infirmary, and Observatory, [187]
Railway, the Oxford branch opened 1844, [218]
Raynolds, Dr., Warden of Merton, [87]
Rectores Scholarum, [11]
Reformation, academical life checked by, [69], [79]
‘Regent’ Masters, [65], [66]
Renaissance (the), its origin, [70]
Residence for degrees in the higher faculties, [67]
Responsions, [63]
Restoration (the) and new Visitation of the University, [151]
Revolution of 1688-9 quietly accepted at Oxford, [162]
Rewley, the Cistercian Abbey of, [50]
Reynolds, Edward, [138], [142], [152]
Rich, Edmund, archbp. of Canterbury, [9]
Richard I., born at Beaumont palace, [5]
Richard of Armagh, loose statement 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, Gilbert, warden of All Souls, [119], [142], [152];
archbp. of Canterbury in 1663, Chancellor in 1667, [153];
founds Sheldonian theatre, [153]
Six Articles, [80]
Smith, Adam, his evidence on Oxford studies, [176]
Smith, Sydney, his attack on University studies, [188]
Smyth, Dr. Richard, [84]
Somerset, the Protector, [80]
Sorbonne, the, founded about 1250, [16]
South, Dr. Robert, public orator, [154]
Southern ‘nation,’ see Northern and Southern nations
Sports, manly, temp. Charles I., [121]
Stamford, ‘University’ at, [39], [40]
Statutes made by Commission of 1877, [201]
Stephen, King, held Councils at Oxford, [6]
Studium generale, [3], [5]
Studies, University, character of at various periods, [9], [61], [95], [114], [174-6], [191]
Subscription to the 39 Articles, [92], [173], [180]
Swift, Dean, [176]
Taylor Institution, [187]
Tests, University, [141];
abolition of in 1871, [198]
Terræ Filii, [149], [154]
Thirty-nine Articles, Subscription to, established by Leicester, [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]
Trivials and Quadrivials, [4], [64]
‘Trojans,’ and ‘Greeks,’ [73]
Tutorial system in colleges, temp. Charles I., [121]
Twelfth century, the, intellectual revival of, [3], [4]
Twyne, Brian, [119]
‘Unattached’ or ‘Non-Collegiate’ students, order of instituted, [197]
Uniformity, Act of, [152]
Universitas literaria, [3]
Universities, rise of, throughout Europe in the 14th cent., [28];
see ‘Oxford,’ ‘Bologna,’ and ‘Paris’
University college, [2], [5], [16]
University Commission, 1850, see under Oxford
University Press, [187]
University Reform Act, [112], [196-201]
University Tests, [198]
Urban, Pope, bull of in 1368, [42]
Vacarius, professor of Bologna, his lectures in civil law, [5]
Victoria, Queen, review of University history during her reign, [217-222]
Visitations of the University, [77], [80], [85], [87];
Parliamentary, [138-150], [151]
‘Visitors’ Register,’ the, [144], [149]
Volunteer corps, University, [159], [185], [188]
Wadham college, [106]
Wake, sir Isaac, his Rex Platonicus, [102]
Wake, Archbp., [170]
Walker, Obadiah, Master of University Coll., [160]
Wallis, Dr. John, Savil. Prof. of Geometry, [154]
Waltham, Harold’s college at, [15]
Ward, Will. Geo., fellow of Balliol, condemned by the University 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]

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