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OXFORD
AND ITS STORY
Oxford Castle (Photogravure)
O X F O R D
AND ITS STORY
BY
CECIL HEADLAM, M.A.
AUTHOR OF “NUREMBERG,” “CHARTRES,”
ETC. ETC.
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
All rights reserved
FILIUS INDIGNUS HAUD INGRATUS
PREFACE
THE Story of Oxford touches the History of England, social andpolitical, mental and architectural, at so many points, that it isimpossible to deal with it fully even in so large a volume as thepresent.
Even as it is, I have been unavoidably compelled to save space byomitting much that I had written and practically all my references andacknowledgments. Yet, where one has gathered so much honey from othermen’s flowers not to acknowledge the debt in detail appears discourteousand ungrateful; and not to give chapter and verse jars also upon thehistorical conscience. I can only say that, very gratefully, J’ai prismon bien où je l’ai trouvé, whether in the forty odd volumes of theOxford Historical Society, the twenty volumes of the College Histories,the accurate and erudite monographs of Dr