A New Pocket Companion for Oxford: Or, Guide Through the University. Containing an Accurate Description of the Public Edifices, the Buildings in Each of the Colleges; the Gardens, ... To which are Added, Descriptions of ... Blenheim, Ditchley, Heythrop, Nuneham and Stow, ... A New Edition, Corrected, Much Enlarged, and Adorned with a Plan of the University and City, and Six Other PlatesJ. Cooke, 1798 - 152 pages |
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Page 18
... lands for the perpetual repair of it . THE MUSEUM . On the weft fide of the Theatre ftands the Afh- molean Museum , a handfome Edifice , built by the University at the request of Elias Afhmole , Efq . Windfor Herald to King Charles II ...
... lands for the perpetual repair of it . THE MUSEUM . On the weft fide of the Theatre ftands the Afh- molean Museum , a handfome Edifice , built by the University at the request of Elias Afhmole , Efq . Windfor Herald to King Charles II ...
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... Land a Benefaction of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough . The whole Building is 175 feet in length ; its breadth from north to fouth in the Centre , exclufive the Portico , is 57 , Feet ; and at each Wing 24 Feet . Between the Wings in ...
... Land a Benefaction of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough . The whole Building is 175 feet in length ; its breadth from north to fouth in the Centre , exclufive the Portico , is 57 , Feet ; and at each Wing 24 Feet . Between the Wings in ...
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... land by the late Duke of Ormond : but afterwards falling into the hands of William Freeman , Efq . of Hamels in Hertfordshire , he gave it to the College . To this Gentleman the College is likewife chiefly obliged for an excellent Organ ...
... land by the late Duke of Ormond : but afterwards falling into the hands of William Freeman , Efq . of Hamels in Hertfordshire , he gave it to the College . To this Gentleman the College is likewife chiefly obliged for an excellent Organ ...
Page 37
... lands . A Society being thus establish- ed , many other Benefactors improved the revenues and buildings . Of these the most confiderable are Walter Skirlaw , Bishop of Durham , who founded three Fellowships : Henry Piercy , Earl of ...
... lands . A Society being thus establish- ed , many other Benefactors improved the revenues and buildings . Of these the most confiderable are Walter Skirlaw , Bishop of Durham , who founded three Fellowships : Henry Piercy , Earl of ...
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... lands and revenues of se- veral diffolved priories to endow his college , and in his life - time erected the chapel and all the rest of the original buildings , which coft him 45451. and at his death gave to the Society the fums of 1341 ...
... lands and revenues of se- veral diffolved priories to endow his college , and in his life - time erected the chapel and all the rest of the original buildings , which coft him 45451. and at his death gave to the Society the fums of 1341 ...
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