OXF 
incorporated in 1793, and containing an hea aa aca- 
demy, and 1405 mbabitants.—Alfo, a townthip of 
ia. in Suffex iar on the E. bank of Delaware river, 
I 15 or 20 miles N. afton, in sau Seat in 
1790, 1905 inbabitan aes —Alfo, a townfhip of Pennfylvania, 
in Philadelphia county; containing 1518 eee —Alfo,a 
townfhip in Grenville county, upper Canada, fituated in the 
rear and tothe northward of the townthips of Edwardfburg 
and Augufta, and watered by the Radeau.—Alfo, a town- 
upon the Thames, in the weftern diftri&, Upper Ca- 
nada, S. of Dundas-ftreet, where the weftern end of = 
road meets the upper forks of the river Thame sei 
town in New Ham aroha Grafton county, contai 
inhabitants. —Alfo, a called Upp 
ter county, Ponnfylvania, having 620 inhabitants .—Alfo, a 
the E. fhore of Chefapeak bay, in Tal- 
W. of maa ae ~ about 4 
: Baltimore.—Alfo, a {mall poft-town of Nor 
Carolina; 36 miles from Hilliborough, and abet 416 from 
Philadelphia. 
OXFORDSHIRE, one of the central sages of 
England, is bounded by Gloucefterfhire on th 
Buckinghamfhire on the eaft; by Berkfhire on the ioaue 
fouth-weft, and fouth-eaft ; by Nedlean oulke on the 
north; and by Warwickthire on the north-weit. In figure 
this county is extremely irregular, being only feven miles in 
breadth in the centre, while its fouthern divifion is about 
twelve miles in diameter, and its northern half varies from 
little more than a mile, to thirty-eight miles in width. This 
latter Bacar in proceeding northward from the centre, 
afflum of acone, which terminates at what is de- 
rented the T'hree-fhire ftone, i ina aca point or apex. 
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: hd table of poor rates drawn up under the infpeGtion of 
right honourable George Rofe, the number of acres is 
anes at 474,880. 
Hiforical E-vents.—When the Romans obtained poffeffion 
of Albion, vdthire, with fome portion of the county of 
uni, who, — to .Camden, derived their 
name from the wor 
. Other pile ort however, topple their appellation 
compound of the terms dod, a ftream, an en, land 5 
in aileton to iil refidence in ache vicinity of the river Ifis 
hames. obuni feem to have been of a lefs war- 
like difpofition x moft of their neighbours. Before the 
arrival of the Romans, they were held in fubje@tion by the 
Cattieuchlani, whofe domination was f fo galling, that the Do- 
and were admitted as tributary allies of the Roman people, 
The fame power 
and privileges defcended to his jae tla each of whom, in 
union with his fubjects, evinced on all occafions a firm ad- 
herence to their illuftrious oe during the whole period 
of the pe ee of the Rom itain. 
But the Dobuni yielded thus eafily to the yoke 
of Roa, ley dif{dained to bend without a valiant alte 
to the treacherous Saxons, whom their king unhappily con- 
Salles: in bee to England, to affift in repelling the inva- 
fions e northern barbarians. Thefe, on the contrary, 
they eae ofed with as mutch firmnelfs and refolution as ani- 
mated the inhabitants of any other diftri@, and were indeed 
OXF 
ee the laft of the Britons who could be brought to fub- 
to the Saxon dynafty. When this event happened, 
hoes and the heptarchy was fully eftablifhed, Oxford- 
fhire became part of the powerful kingdom of M and 
remained annexed to that monarchy to the period of 
its independence. During this era, Dorchefter was made 
the feat of a bifhop’s fee, afterwards removed E Lincoln, 
in the reign of Wiiliam the lo or. The name Dobuni 
was at the fame time loft, and that of Wiccii aera to the 
sacinee of the whole dilria which that tribe had for- 
7 ss 
ards the end of the ninth gasmih when the Danes 
penetrated into Mercia, they 
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this becafion little oppofition appears to have 
made to their inroads by the Wiccii; but in the fubfe- 
quent contefts which enfued between the Danes and the 
Burgher infurgents under the.command of Ethelwald. a 
victory, however, was dearly purchafed, and Ethelwa 
having fallen, Edward had the aaa of finding REE 
— from a dangerous compet 
the wars between the houles of York and Lancafter, 
cee perfons of eminence belonging to this pac lott 
their lives and properties; but it had the good fortune to 
efcape the deftrudtive ravages, which at se period Sted 
many other diftri€ts of the kin dom. one infta 
did the partizans on oa fide enter Oxfordthi 
This was in the year 
the oie. Yalled Danefmore, on the 
border of the eoank 
x i however, was not fo much favoured during 
the next great ¢ivil contefts, which divided the people of 
England, and deluged ee fertile fields with the blood of her 
own citizens ; for though the inhabitants do not feem to 
have embraced with ees zeal seo! the republican or the 
eel the iron rod o 
The coud armies fre. 
quently traverfed the county’ from one extremity to the 
other, levying contributions, and committing ex qually 
aaa to the great body of the people, whether the troops 
poffeffion Piaicaaia under the banners of the king, or of 
sie “patlanen 
General “Ajpel Soil, and Climate —Oxfordfhire exhibits 
confiderable variety of afpect. In its fouthern divifion, an 
alternation of hill and dale is produ@tiive of many pleafing 
difplays of piétorial fcenery. ‘The Chiltern hills, partly 
clothed with wood, and fometimes _ almoft to their 
The middle 
fences the e 
Safe rdfhire are eh d by Mr. Young, in 
ifferent claffes, of _ 
eo r a nature, as toa 
little doubt vo them. "Thele are the Redland, ” the 
Stonebrafh, 
