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COLLECTANEA

II.

Oxford

HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

COLLECTANE A

SECOND SERIES

EDITED BY

MONTAGU BURROWS, M.A.

CHICHELE PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, etc.

Oxford

PRINTED FOR THE OXFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

1890

[All rights reserved]

PREFACE.

THE LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA

It would be to fail in an obvious duty if the Editor of this volume did not take the opportunity of a Preface to return his thanks to those who have so kindly allowed themselves to be associated with him in a labour of love,'-for such it has been to one and all. To have been permitted to lay a single stone in the fabric which the Oxford Historical Society has undertaken to rear, is itself the reward, and it is enough. The Editor hopes, however, that his associates will forgive him if he points out that in the case of each of the four medieval articles, the Society has been peculiarly fortunate in securing the services of the one man to whom of all others that particular subject might most properly have been assigned.

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Mr. Ogle, an experienced Clerk of the Market,' and a veteran antiquary, fitly represents the long series of University functionaries who in the fourteenth century succeeded the King's officer. To bring so prolonged a history within reasonable limits is no small feat; and it deserves thanks all the more since the unavoidable delay in producing this volume has caused some of his work to be anticipated by Mr. Clark's excellent edition of Wood's 'Antiquities of the City of Oxford.' On the other hand it has now become possible, by Mr. Clark's permission, to insert the diagram of Oxford Market which has just appeared in that book, and so to illustrate in some measure Mr. Ogle's Topographical chapter. In the same book will also be found a very successful attempt to map out

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