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POCKET COMPANION

FOR

OXFORD:

O R,

Guide through the University.

CONTAINING

An accurate Defcription of the PUBLIC EDIFICES, the BUILDINGS in each of the COLLEGES; the GARDENS, STATUES, PICTURES, HIEROGLYPHICS, and all other CURIOSITIES in the UNIVERSITY. With an Historical Account of the Foundation of the feveral Colleges, and their prefent State.

To which are added,

Defcriptions of the BUILDINGS, TAPESTRY, PAINTINGS,
SCULPTURES, TEMPLES, GARDENS, &c. at
BLENHEIM, DITCHLEY, HEYTHROP,
NUNEHAM and STOW,
The SEATS of

His Grace, the Duke of MARLBOROUGH,

The Right Honourable the Earls of LITCHFIELD, ShrewsBURY, and HARCOURT; and the MARQUIS of BUCK

INGHAM.

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A NEW EDITION, Corrected, much Enlarged, and Adorned with a PLAN of the UNIVERSITY and CITY, and Six other PLATES.

OXFORD,

Printed for D. PRINCE, and J. Cooke, near the Clarendon Printing-Houfe. M DCC LXXXIX.

Gough Adds Orford,

8th 94

2.

See! Oxford lifts her Head fublime,
Majestic in the Mofs of Time;

Nor wants there Gracia's better Part,

'Mid the proud Piles of ancient Art ;

Nor decent Doric to dispense

New Charms 'mid old Magnificence;

And here and there soft Corinth weaves

Her dædal Coronet of Leaves;

While, as with rival Pride, her Tow'rs invade the Sky.

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Alban Hall.

All Saints Church

All Souls College

Arundel Marbles

Aftronomical Observatory

Baliol College

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Blenheim Castle, the Seat of his Grace the Duke

of Marlborough, near Woodstock

Bodleian Library

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9

22

56

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Corpus Chrifti College

Ditchley, the Seat of the Right Honourable the
Earl of Litchfield

Jefus College

Lifts of Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors, Heads of

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