2 HISTORY OF THE DAUBENY LABORATORY 



The history of the ground can be continued in Wood's 

 words : 'After their [the Jews] expulsion from this nation it [the 

 cemetery] came to St. John Baptist's Hospitall adjoyning, who 

 imployed it as a churchyard to bury their dead. But that 

 Hospitall being dissolved and turned into Magdalen College, 

 ceased from that use and was imployed as a plot of green- 

 soard or meadow ground by a tenant of that college their 

 [= there] living.' 



The land which thus came into the possession of St. John's 

 Hospital was probably only the lower portion of Parys Mede 1 

 which lay next the Cherwell and was bounded on the west 

 by 'the way leading from East Bridge to the feild behind 

 Merton College'; this way was presently to be known as 

 Trinity Lane, and is the present Rose Lane. Wood's further 

 statement that the Hospital owned and sold property nearer 

 the East Gate, he contradicts elsewhere by asserting that the 

 property was purchased from St. Frideswyde. 



During the fourteenth century the frontage of Parys Mede 

 was divided into tenements with buildings very like those 

 shown in the earliest plans of the city (Agas, 1578). On the 

 west side of the lane the Trinitarian Friars had acquired 

 a chapel and house at St. Frideswyde's Gate 2 , and from 

 them the lane took the name of Trinity Lane ; and it would 

 appear from the position of the inscription ' sometime Trinitie 

 Hall * in Agas's map, that either the prior and brethren of 

 the Order 'being minded to enlarge their territories/ or 

 their successors, the principal and scholars of Trinity Hall, 

 had a lease of tenements on the east side of Trinity Lane. 

 If any one of these buildings were attached to Trinity Hall, 

 it is likely to have been the two-story house (marked in 

 Hollar's map, 1643) which was shown standing in 1675 * n 

 Loggan's map, very near the north-western angle of the 



1 'Note that all the south side of this street [East Bridge Street] was 

 a meed anciently called " Parys." ' Marginal note to Wood. 



2 Also called Teckew Gate. The tradition of the ancient gate might 

 seem to be preserved in the name, Magdalen Gate House, which stands on 

 the site of the chapel of the Trinitarians, were it not that this name is of 

 recent origin, having been given during the tenancy of Mr. E. Chapman. 

 The site was acquired by Perrot, 1546, who pulled down the chapel and 

 house and built a ' barn, stable, and pigstie.' 



