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                                OXFORD

                             AND ITS STORY

[Illustration: OXFORD CASTLE (_Photogravure_)]




                                OXFORD

                             AND ITS STORY

                                  BY

                          CECIL HEADLAM, M.A.

                  AUTHOR OF "NUREMBERG," "CHARTRES,"
                               ETC. ETC.

                            [Illustration]

                     WITH TWENTY-FOUR LITHOGRAPHS
                      AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS BY

                            HERBERT RAILTON

                         THE LITHOGRAPHS BEING
                               TINTED BY

                             FANNY RAILTON

                                 1912

                                LONDON

                        J. M. DENT & SONS, LTD.

                     NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.


                         _First Edition_, 1904

                  _Second and Cheaper Edition_, 1912

                         _All rights reserved_


                              ALMAE MATRI
                     FILIUS INDIGNUS HAUD INGRATUS




PREFACE


The Story of Oxford touches the History of England, social and
political, mental and architectural, at so many points, that it is
impossible to deal with it fully even in so large a volume as the
present.

Even as it is, I have been unavoidably compelled to save space by
omitting much that I had written and practically all my references and
acknowledgments. Yet, where one has gathered so much honey from other
men's flowers not to acknowledge the debt in detail appears discourteous
and ungrateful; and not to give chapter and verse jars also upon the
historical conscience. I can only say that, very gratefully, _J