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Oxford, the county town of Oxfordshire, seat of one of the great English universities and of a bishopric; is on the left bank of the Thames, 52 m. W. of London; it is a city of great beauty, its many collegiate buildings and chapels and other institutions making it the richest of English cities in architectural interest; naturally historical associations abound; here the Mad Parliament met and adopted the Provisions of Oxford in 1258; Latimer and Ridley in 1555, and Cranmer in 1556, were burned in Broad Street; Charles I. made it his head-quarters after the first year of the Civil War; it was the refuge of Parliament during the plague of 1665.

Population (1907) 46,000

From Nuttall Encylopædia, 1907

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Frontispiece: Magdalen Tower.
Front Cover, Oxford Pictured by Haslehust, described by How
Sheldonian Theatre from Title Page
View of Oxford
II.—Brasenose College Quadrangle and St. Mary’s Spire
III.—View in Radcliffe Square
Folly Bridge
Oxford Castle
IV.—Sheldonian Theatre, etc., Broad Street
Bocardo, destroyed in 1771.
Bocardo, North Side
Isis and Oxford Canal
VII.—Merton College: The Library Interior
396.—Tower of Oxford Castle
397.—Oxford Castle
The Muniment Room at Merton College
Oxford
Magdalen Tower From Christchurch
Magdalen Cloisters
High Street
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Brasenose College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Magdalen College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

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