A

POCKET COMPANION

FOR

OXFORD:

OR,

Guide through the University.

CONTAINING

An accurate Defcription of the PUBLIC EDIFICES, the BUILDINGS in each of the COLLEGES; the GARDENS, STATUES, BUSTS, PICTURES; the HIEROGLYPHICS at MAGDALEN COLLEGE, and all other CURIOSITIES in the UNIVERSITY. With an Hiftorical Account of the Foundation of the Colleges, their Hiftory, and prefent State.

WITH

LISTS of the CHANCELLORS, HIGH-STEWARDS, VICECHANCELLORS, PROCTORS, HEADS of COLLEGES, PROFESSORS, LECTURERS, &C.

Adorned with a PLAN and other COPPER-PLATES. To which are added,

Correct Descriptions of the BUILDINGS, the TAPESTRY, PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES, TEMPLES, GARDENS, and all other Curiofities at

BLENHEIM, DITCHLEY, and STOW, The SEATS of

His Grace the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, The Right Honourable the Earl of LITCHFIELD, The Right Honourable the Earl TEMPLE, And other confiderable Houfes in the Neighbourhood.

A NEW EDITION, Corrected and much Enlarged.

OXFORD,

Printed for DANIEL PRINCE, near the Clarendon PrintingHoufe; JOHN RIVINGTON, in St. Paul's Church-Yard. and R, BALDWIN, in Pater-nofter-Row, London, 176

See! Oxford lifts her Head fublime,
Majestic in the Moss 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 foft Corinth weaves

Her dædal Coronet of Leaves;

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