OXFORD. 
peared in aid, the patna is now much declined. Since 
1805 it has had n 1, and at prefent there is a 
one fellow, pond by 
confift of a principal, four fenior fellows, a ju 
fellows or affiftants. The chancellor of the univerfity is 
vifitor. 
The portions of Hart-hall ftill remaining are, the re- 
feGtory, built in the reign of queen Elizabeth, the old prin- 
cipal’s lodgings, with the kitchen and chambers over them, 
and the gatehoufe and librar 
Before ‘alors bey g the Balls, it may be proper to obferve, 
that previous to the foundation of colleges all the univerfity 
ftudents lodged in tenements rented by citizens of Oxford, 
and that when a pacnatny was once fo appropriated, the pro- 
prietor could never again recover it for other purpofes, nor fell 
or demife it, without binding the purchafer to leave it open to 
When an advance of 
began, they rapidly funk into neglect, a 
n, one of which ts deftitute of fkudents 
with thofe bets to the colleges, and are fubje&t to the 
fame regulations with refpe& to difcipline, courfe of fhudies, 
tuition, ae of refidence, examinations, drefs, &c. 
RY x's Hall, the mo ancient of thofe now remain- 
Oxford, in the reign of king John. 
VI. it was united to Nunne bases which ftood weft 
its principa's were appointed by Merton college. 
- granted | iatee halls fener ie nthe name of 
a, from ~ mit waifed to different 
wie property of the warden and 
ws of Merton ge The buildings of this hall a 
a aie oeaiaie plain in its naa but commodious i 
re . to internal arrangem 
und Hall is traditionally. fo called from St. Edmund, 
archtop of Canterbury, in the reign of Henry III. At 
the diffolution it belonged to Ofeney priory, and foon after 
that event came into the poffeffion of Queen’s college, and 
was renewed as a place of ftudy under the aufpices of that 
inftitution, to which it fill continues attached. Several ex- 
tenfive additions to the old bu‘ Idings of this hall have been 
made during the two laft centuries, chiefly by the aged 
of its own members, and thofe of Queen's coll The 
library, begun in 1680, has been enriched by feveral Giwe 
colle&tions of books a MSS. This portion of the build- 
ea of 
Hen 
ther been rebuilt, or much improved within the laft cen- 
w Inn Hallis now entirely gone to decay, the only part 
of i. buildings now rem aining being ah 
ipal, who is only nominally fuch, there ie been no flu- 
many eminent degaeih in that faculty. 
it was occupied as by king Charles I., who here 
melted down the sic ae to him by the univerfity. 
St. Mary Magdalen Hall was founded as a grammar {chool 
in 1480, by William Waynflete, founder of Magdalen col- 
lege, to which it immediately adjoins. It was firft called 
Grammar hall, but received the name of Magdalen hall upon 
being enlarged, and placed upon the fame footing with 
refpe€t to academical privileges as the other halls. This 
foundation appears to have been generally in a very flourith- 
ing condition, and at one time is faid to have had nearly three 
hundred members, but itis difficult to conceive how fo many 
alee could be accommodated within its walls. Dr, Wil- 
liam Lucy, and fome other benefactors, have eftablifhed a 
number of exhibitions in this hall for the benefit and enc 
which have been fince in- 
creafed by various contribut 
Public Inftitutions -— auth the Univerfity. egies 
colleges and halls there are feveral public buildings and e 
blifhments, which athe owe their oe to the ubiverfiry, oF or 
its officers. 
phyfic garden; and St. Mar 
which laft will be noticed under the head of churches 
The firft Public Schools were ereted about the commence- 
ment of the fifteenth century, by Thomas Hokenorton, abbot 
of Ofeney, and contifled of ten apartments, allotted to dif- 
ferent branches of — To thefe were added the di- 
vinity {chool in the year 1427, the ereCtion of which was 
chiefly effected by the liber ality of Humphry, duke of 
Gloucefter, ufually ftyled the Good. This laft is ftill ftand- 
is a curious fpecimen of archite he 
however, were de 
feventeenth century, W 
gateway 1s a lofty tower, tantaftically arranged in compait- 
ve orders of claffic ar- 
The whole quadrangle is now three ftories high, two of w 
are appropriated as {chools, while the third and hight is 
cupied 
ry’s, or the Univerfity ail 
