OXFORD. 
silfeien rn ient ne 
having been ae in eae ae thee ns ode Oia: and 
dedicated firft to St. Nicholas and afterwards to St. Thoma 
a Becket. This building confifts only of one aifle and a 
chancel, with an embattled tower ‘at ithe we eft 
omt 
xford, ele are veinher ae nor 
{pacious in extent. Indeed, almoft the only regular fecta- 
rian chapels here are thofe belonging tothe Roman Catholics, 
the Quakers, the Methodifts, and the Bapti 
ong what have been termed the municipal aaa build- 
s lower 
cliffe library. It is a ftone building, well adapted for the 
reception of patients, and has extenfive grounds attached, 
the donation of T. Rowney, efa. above mentioned. The 
charity is f{upported by voluntary {ubfcriptions. 
The Houfe of Induftry ttands near the infirmary. It wa 
built for the reception of the poor of eleven parifhes, er 
which, for fifty-four boys, is fupported by the univerfity. 
he Town and County Gaol is a large edifice of ftone, 
with feparate lodgings, and yards of exercife for the debtors 
and felons. It occupies a part of the {cite of the old caftle, 
built by Robert de Oigli, and difplays much more light- 
nefs and architeGtural tafte than is ufual in ftru€iures of a 
fimilar oe It was defigned and erected by D. 
Harris, efq. arc 
The City Bridewell is a modern i ag fubflantial in 
r 
its efile ce. and wel anged for 
w 
whence they were led : the flake. Ina {mall room, which 
orms the entrance to the Bridewell, is ftill preferved the 
door iis is faid to ie led to the cell of thefe illuftrious 
mart 
fale of vegetables and fruits. Round the whole are ranges 
of fhops under an arcade. 
pieced Antiquities of Oxford. —This city, as has been al- 
ae ar than nineteen religious houfes 
ra ‘reformation, fome of which were converted into 
lke eitablifhments. The names of thefe monaftic in- 
utions were as follows: 1. St. Fridefwide’s priory ; 
pital; 12. St. = ie pee 13. Auftin Friars; 14. Black 
Friars ; 15. y Friars; 16. White Friars; 17. Crouched 
Friars ; 18. Friz ars s de Sy and 1g. Trinity -houfe. 
ford, about the yea 
i En his a whom he appointed the firft 
fi 
u 
St. George’s College ftood within the cattle. d 
founded and endowed in 107 y Robert de Oigli an 
= 7 Iveri, for fecular canons, who were difperfed in 
Abbey was pia eira a priory for Auttin canons, 
Ofer 
nephew to the peu of the 
he 
eines by Robert de Orgli, 
caftle, but was thor tly after conftituted an ey. 
abbey church was for a few years the athedel church of 
the fee of Oxford, at its firft eftablifhment. This religious 
houfe was fituated on one of the {mall iflets formed by the 
Ifis, at a fhort diltance from the {cite of the caftle, where its 
ruins may {till be traced. 
owley or Ruley Abbey was founded by Edmund, earl of 
Cornwall, and filled Aitiie monks of the Ciftercian order, about 
the year 1280. me fragments of the euuenee of this 
monattery {till remain in the weftern fubur 
St. Bernard’s College was founded in ae. by Henry 
Chichele, archbifhop of Canterbury, for ftudent monks of 
the C ts {cite is now occupied by St. John’s 
college, having been sais by fir Thomas White from 
the dean and canons of ha church, to whom it had been 
granted at the diffolutio 
Canterbury College, del by Simon de Iflip, ge 
of Ca anterbury, or dtudents in religion and civil law, is no 
included in Chriftchurch college, having been granted to he 
dean os canons of that cathedral, fhortly after the general 
fuppre 
Daan College ftood on the {cite now occupied by Trinity 
college It was d 290 
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young ftudents of their o 
it was granted to the dean and clngtes of that church, by 
whom it was transferred to fir Thomas Pope. 
efler Hall or College owed _ origin to fir John Gif- 
fard, lord of Brimesfield, A. After the fuppref- 
fion, it became the palace of the hows of Oxford; but 
ed by the crown, and fubfequently fell into 
White. The buildings of this 
part of Worcefter college. 
cle was  origally eee s Inn, but changed 
its defi nation about the year 1421; from which time it 
was inhabited folely by black aiake and fecular ftudents in 
the civil law, till its diffolution. 
St. Mary's College was founded in 1435, by Thomas 
Holden and ce wife, for ftudent canons of the Auguftine 
order. The {cite oF it was granted by Henry Vill. to 
William Ramefden and Richard Vafavor. 
St. Bartholomew’ s dae ftands about half a mile eaft- 
ward from the city. It 1s of great antiquity, and generally 
fuppofed to have been founded by Henry 1. Kin a 
ward IIT. gave it, A.D. 1328. to Oriel college, upon 
dition of that fociety maintaining therein a chaplain and sake 
pow brethren 
St. John’s Hofpital, which occupied the fcite of the pre- 
fent college of St. Mary Magdalene, was in exiftence as 
early as the reign of king John; but the precife date of the 
original foundation is unknown. It appears, ala to 
was foon refum 
the poffeffion of fir Thomas 
hall itute a 
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