reception of Queen Elizabeth by, 291, 292; feuds at, between Roman Catholics and Calvinists, 296; letters patent granted to, by James I., 307; support of Absolutism by, 307; revision of statutes of, by Laud, 308; recovery of popularity by, under Laud, 310; support of Royalists' cause by, 313 _seq._; defence of city undertaken by, 314, 315; council of war formed by, 315; offer of, to laydown arms, 316; escape of volunteers belonging to, before the siege, 316; liberties and privileges guaranteed to, by Fairfax, 329; elections suspended at, by Parliament, 331; deplorable condition of, 331; Parliamentary Commission to, 332 _seq._; Royal Commission to, 335; gift of Arundel marbles to, 337; drunkenness and general degeneracy at, 343; resistance of, to James I.'s policy, 346; depreciation of learning at, during reign of Toryism, 351, 352; description of life at, 352, 353; revival of new order of things at, 354; development of, 354, 355; revival of spirituality at, 355; of mediævalism, 355 Papal Legate, arrival of, at Oxford, 206; flight of, 207; English shores forbidden to, 207 Paris, University at, 67; famous scholars at, 68, 69; development from schools of Notre Dame of, 70; migration from, owing to King's quarrel with Becket, 71, 72; further migration from, of scholars, 77 Parsons, Robert, dissemination of Romanist literature by, 295 Peasant Revolt, 137, 138 _Perilous Hall_, bought by Oriel, 125 Penn, William, endeavour of, to bring about a compromise between James I. and fellows of Magdalen, 346 Philargi, Peter (Alexander V.), only graduate of Oxford or Cambridge who became Pope, 144 Physic garden, first land set apart for study of plants, 53, 54; trees, etc., grown in, 54 _Pie-powder Court_, 19 Plays, first acting of, in colleges and halls, 188; performed in honour of royalty, 311 Poets Laureate, rhetoricians so styled, 254 Popery, enforcement of Edwardian Statutes against, 273, 274, 276 _Port Meadow_, 46 Printing, lack of encouragement of, at Oxford, 241, 243 Proctors, first mention of, 199; office of, 200 Protestantism (see also under Lutheranism), enforcement of, at Oxford under Edwardian Statutes, 273, 274; reaction against, 276 Pullen, Robert, lectures of, on Bible, 69 Puritanism, growth of, in Oxford, 305; suppression of, by Laud, 308; struggle of, with High Church party, 312, 313 Radcliffe, Dr John, court physician, 84 Radcliffe Quadrangle, Infirmary, Observatory, and Library, 87 Rede, William, Bishop of Chichester, gift of library to Merton by, 123 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, windows by, 224 Rich, Edmund, story of, 88-90 Richard III., visit of, to Magdalen, 231 Richard, Earl of Cornwall, foundation endowed by, 108 Ridley and Latimer, martyrdom of, 276-282 Robert of Cricklade, restoration of S. Frideswide by, 11 Robsart, Amy, death of, 294 Roger de Mortimer, 211 Roman Catholics, proceedings against, 296, 306