Oxford (England) -- History; University of Oxford -- History
[29] His pastoral staff of silver gilt, adorned with fine enamels,
survives, and is carried before the Bishop of Winchester whenever he
comes to visit the college. A good portrait of the founder hangs in
the warden's lodgings.
[30] This is the old name (cattorum vicus) of the street which has now
been made over to S. Catherine. A similar instance of the "genteel"
tendency to eschew monosyllables and not to call things by their
proper names is afforded by the attempts to call Hell Passage, S.
Helen's. This is not due to a love of Saints, but to the "refinement"
of the middle classes, who prefer white sugar to brown. In the Middle
Ages men called a spade a spade. The names of the old streets in
London or Paris would set a modern reader's hair on end. But they
described the streets. At Oxford the Quakers (1654) first settled in
New Inn Hall Street, but it was then known as the Lane of the Seven
Deadly Sins.
[31] It was after this patroness of learning that Lady Margaret's Hall
was called. It was founded at the same time as Somerville Hall (opened
1879, Woodstock Road) as a seminary for the higher education of women.
Lady Margaret's Hall and S. Hugh's Hall are in Norham Gardens. The
latter, like S. Hilda's (the other side of Magdalen Bridge), is also
for female students, who have been granted the privilege of attending
University lectures and of being examined by the University examiners.
[32] _Cf._ "Magdalen College." H. A. Wilson.
[33] Among the accounts of the Vice-Chancellor is found the following
item: "In wine & marmalade at the great disputations Xd." & again, "In
wine to the Doctors of Cambridge 11s."
[34] In 1875 stakes and ashes, however, were found also immediately
opposite the tower gateway of Balliol, and this spot was marked in the
eighteenth century as the site of the martyrdom. Another view is that
the site was, as indicated by Wood, rather on the brink of the ditch,
near the Bishop's Bastion, behind the houses south of Broad Street.
There were possibly two sites. I do not think that there is anything
to show that Latimer and Ridley were burned on exactly the same spot
as Cranmer. If Cranmer died opposite the college gateway, the site
marked, but more probably the third suggested site, near the Bishop's
Bastion, may be that where Ridley and Latimer perished.
[35] The door of the Bishops' Hole is preserved in S. Mary Magdalen
Church.
[36] Most of the pictures and works of art have been transferred
to the University Galleries, opposite the Randolph Hotel (Beaumont
Street); the natural science collections, including the great
anthropological collection of General Pitt Rivers, to the Science
Museum in the parks (1860).
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