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The Rev. Josias Pullen was Vice-Principal of Magdalen Hall, and died 

 1714. His tree is depicted in Ingram 's "Memorials," "St. Clement's," 

 p. 16. The footpath leading up the front of Headington Hill * was made 

 by general subscription in 1740. " It used to be said of the Rev. Jo. 

 Pullen, when he planted the elm-tree, that he had made a way [away] 

 with the public money. It was under the shelter of this same tree, ulmi 

 sub tegmine grati, that Canon Holmes, when going shooting in Stanton 

 Woods, would put off the canonicals in which he had walked out of Christ 



Jo. PULLEN'S TREE 



(From Ingram' s " Memorials of Oxford ") 



Church and up Headington Hill, and, with his shooting clothes now fully 

 revealed, take gun, hat, and dog from a servant in waiting and trudge on 

 to the forest " (Cox). 



The Elm was presented informally by Mr. Whorwood of Headington 

 House to the University. In 1856 its condition was described as mutilated. 



* The pretty winding path up the back of the hill is said to have been 

 planned by Dr. Tour nay, Warden of Wadham (1806-31), when he held 

 the office of " Curator of the Public Walks" (Cox). 



