[314] II. 106.
[315] I. 318.
[316] “A philosophical inquiry concerning Universal Grammar.” Johnson disputes his title to be an “eminent Grecian.”
[317] Fuller gives us a proverb current in Oxfordshire, “Send farthingales to Broadgates Hall in Oxford,” adding that the gowns not only of the gadding Dinahs but of most sober Sarahs of a former age were so penthoused out far beyond their bodies with bucklers of pasteboard, that their wearers could not enter at any ordinary door, except sidelong.
[318] Leonard Hutten’s Antiquities of Oxford (1625), Oxf. Hist. Society’s reprint, p. 88.
[319] Wood’s City of Oxford (edit. Clark), ii. 35.
[320] Queen Elizabeth in Oxford, 1566—
“Candida, Lata, Nova, studiis civilibus apta,
Porta patet Musis, Justiniane, tuis.”
[321] Nicolai Fierberti Oxoniensis Academiae Descriptio, Romae, 1602:—“Divitum nobiliumque plerumque filiis, qui propriis vivunt sumptibus, assignata Broadgates.” (Oxford Hist. Society’s reprint, 1887, p. 16.)