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adue fenfe of their juftice and lenity ! May you atone 
for your paft offence, by a conftant endeavour to make a 
right ufe of the invaluable privileges which you enjoy as 
electors! Confider thefe privileges as a facred truft re- 
pofed in you. Difcharge it with integrity. But, before 
you 1‘ife from your prefent pofture, I do, in obedience 
of the commands of this houfe, reprimand you. I am 
now'to acquaint you, that you are difcharged, paying 
your fees.” 
From the above period to the year 1796, the members 
for this city were nominated by the duke of Marlborough 
and the earl of Abingdon ; but, at the general election 
in that year, Henry Peters, efq. offered himfelf as an 
independent candidate, and was eleCted, after an expen- 
five conteft. At the general election in 1802, the 
duke of Marlborough brought in one member, and the 
corporation the other ; and procured the return of the 
fame gentlemen again in 1806. In 1807, Mr. Lock¬ 
hart, who had been an agent to Mr. Peters, fucceeded 
upon the independent inrereft, in oppofition to Mr. 
Atkyns Wright, the corporation-candidate. At the 
general ele&ion in 1812, the hon. George Eden was fup- 
ported by the duke of Marlborough, Atkyns Wright, 
efq. by the corporation, and John Ingram Lockhart, efq. 
by the independent intereft: the duke’s member was not 
returned. The prefent members, elefted Mar. 1820, are 
J. J. Lockhart and C. Wetherell, efqrs. 
Oxford, with its fuburbs, contains, according to the 
parliamentary returns of 1811, 2064 houfes and 12,931 
inhabitants, of whom 1015 perfons belong to the col¬ 
leges. The city is divided by four wards, under the im¬ 
mediate jurifdidion of the four aldermen ; and thefeagain, 
with their fuburbs and liberties, are fubdivided into four¬ 
teen parifhes, viz. 
1. St. Mary’s. 
2. All Saints. 
3. St. Martin’s, or Carfax. 
4. St. Aldate’s, or St. Old’s. 
5. St. Ebb’s. 
6. St. Peter’s in the Bailey. 
7. St. Michael’s. 
8. St. Mary Magdalen’s. 
9. St. Peter’s in the Eaft. 
10. Holiwell. 
11. St. Giles’s. 
12. St. Thomas’s. 
13. St.John’s. 
14. St. Clement’s. 
St. Mary's Church, or, as it is fometimes called, the 
Univerfity Church, is a beautiful ftruCture, in the pointed 
flyle of the reign of Henry VII. It is fituated on the 
north fide of High Street; and confifts of a fpacious chan¬ 
cel, and three aifles, with a fquare tower and fpire 180 
feet high. The fpire is fupported by two graduated but- 
trelTes at each angle, and is finely ornamented with fta- 
tues in niches, pinnacles, &c. The annexed Plate is from 
Loggan’s Oxonia Illuftrata. In this church the public 
fermons of the univerfity are preached on. Sundays and 
holidays; and it is confequently fitted-up in a manner 
proper for the reception of the feveral members of that 
diftinguilhed corporation. The pulpit Hands in the mid- 
dle aifle, and at its weftern end is the chancellor’s throne, 
which is raifed feveral Heps above the other feats. Clofe 
to the throne are the feats of the proCtors; and, next to 
them, on either fide, fit the doCtors and heads of houfes. 
All Saints is fituated in the fame ftreet with St. Mary’s, 
but is a ftru&ure of a very different kind, being of com¬ 
paratively modern ereCtion, and in the ftyle of facred ar¬ 
chitecture which fir Chriftopher Wren contributed to 
render popular. This edifice comprifes a nave, a chancel, 
and two aifles ; and its roof is fupported entirely upon 
the fide-walls, there being no pillars within the church, 
though pilafters of the Corinthian order are frequent. 
The tower is furmounted by a turret, encircled by Co¬ 
rinthian pillars, whence rifes a fpire. Between the lower 
range of windows are pilafters of the fame character, dif- 
pofed in couplets. 
St. Peter's in the Eajl is an interefting edifice, of a very 
ancient date. It is commonly faid to be the earlieft ftone 
church ereCted in this part of England. The precife 
date of its foundation, however, is uncertain, as the 
claims of St. Grymbalcl to he the founder are at Ieaft as 
doubtful as the ftory of his profefibrfhip under the patron¬ 
age of king Alfred. This church was formerly the uni- 
verfity-church, and the vice-chancellor arid heads of 
houfes ftill attend divine fervice here in the afternoon of 
the Sundays during Lent. It has a nave, chancel, and 
two fide-aifles, with a tower at the weft end. The chan¬ 
cel is a Angular and curious fpecimen of architectural de- 
fign ; particularly in the ribs beneath the ceiling, and 
in two windows.. Beneath the chancel is a crypt, fup¬ 
ported by fix circular pillars with fquare bafes and capi¬ 
tals. Some of the latter are charged with very rude but 
Angular fculpture. 
St. John's Church, which is likewife a chapel to Mer- 
ton-college, is a rich fpecimen of the architecture of the 
fifteenth century, and in higher prefervation than ufually 
happens with the buildings of that age. Its members 
are a choir, a crofs-aifle, an anti-chapel, and a fquare 
tower, which rifes from the centre of the crofs-aifle, and 
is elegantly adorned with pannelling and pinnacles. The 
windows, both of the choir and crofs-aifle, are filled 
with painted glafs : fo is likewife the great eaft window, 
the mafonry of which is exquifitely delicate. Near the 
altar of this church are the monuments of thofe diftin¬ 
guilhed benefaCtors to the univerfity, fir Thomas Bodley 
and fir Henry Savile ; and, clofe to the door, is a fmall 
mural tablet, commemorative of the celebrated Oxford 
liiftorian, Anthony Wood. 
St. Martin's Church, commonly called Carfax, from its 
fituation, as fome fuppofe, at the meeting of the four 
main ftreets of Oxford, is a building of fmall extent, yet 
of juft and even excellent proportions, and difplays fome 
fpecimens of very ancient and curious architecture. But 
alterations were rapidly effected in the pointed ftyle Ihortly 
after its eftablifliment, at the beginning of the 12th cen¬ 
tury, which were praCtifed on the then exifting ftruc- 
tures whofe importance did not require that their pro¬ 
portions alfo Ihould be adapted to the new order. This 
is exhibited in the building now before us, which con¬ 
tains that variety and mixture of ftyles found, with very 
few exceptions, in ancient buildings. In the original 
unadorned walls of this church, feveral elegant alterations 
were made by the fubftitution of fpacious windows, with 
beautiful and varied tracery, for the chafte and plain lan¬ 
cet-arches of the 12th century j a circumftance which 
proves that the fituation was occupied by an elegant edi¬ 
fice, till the corrupt tafte of the feventeenth century al¬ 
tered and injured its form, character,, and relative pro¬ 
portions. Succeeding times have ftill more defaced this 
ancient ftruCture ; and, amidft many injudicious altera¬ 
tions and unneceflary dilapidations, only a portion of its 
originally-good architecture, variety of form, and embel- 
liffunents, appears undifguifed or perfeCt. For thefe rea- 
fons we underftand that this church is about to be totally 
demolilhed, and rebuilt (fome fay) upon the plan of 
Gloucefter cathedral. (See Lamentations upon this fub- 
jeCt, in. the Gent. Mag. Aug. Sept, and Suppl. 1819.) We 
fhall therefore givea further defcription of it, with a view, 
(fee the Second Plate,) as it appeared in the laft year, 
1819. This church occupies the north-weft angle of the 
interfeClion,. or crofting, of the two ftreets; and is fo 
.fituated as to expofe to the full view of the High Street 
nearly the whole of its eaftern front; which confifts of 
three divifions, correfponding to the three aifles of the 
church: thefe are feparated into nave and chancel, (an 
arrangement fufficiently apparent in the outfide of the 
roof,) with a tower of good proportions at the weft end. 
The introduction of the liighly-beautiful architecture of 
the fourteenth century, obfervable in the principal win¬ 
dows of the eaft front, and in the whole of the fouth 
aifle, and the alterations of the north, has removed only 
a fmall portion of the original ancient edifice ; for the 
entire eaft and north walls, with the lower half of the 
tower, were doubtlefs built at the commencement of the 
twelfth century; and thofe converfant with Englifti ar- 
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