. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . the east ofOxford, and may be traced near Headington, but has no deviationtowards Oxford. We have then the British period, all uncertain ; but we know that the place wasdestroyed by the Saxons in , when Vortigern thoroughlyrepaired it, and made it his resi-dence. And in 886 we find it theresidence of King Alfred and histhree sons, Edward, Athelward,and Alfward. Whilst we claimAlfred the Great as the one who-gave life to Oxford as a placeof learning, we think it highlyIjrobable that the rebuildin
. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . the east ofOxford, and may be traced near Headington, but has no deviationtowards Oxford. We have then the British period, all uncertain ; but we know that the place wasdestroyed by the Saxons in , when Vortigern thoroughlyrepaired it, and made it his resi-dence. And in 886 we find it theresidence of King Alfred and histhree sons, Edward, Athelward,and Alfward. Whilst we claimAlfred the Great as the one who-gave life to Oxford as a placeof learning, we think it highlyIjrobable that the rebuilding andestablishment of St. Frideswidesby yEthelred II., 1004, wasthe real starting-point, and thatOxford grew up and clustered, asit were, around that old founda-BisHOP kings palace. tiou, which has now a still more valuable existence in the House of Christ Church. (See No. 28to 31 in the Guide.) Oxford was included in the Diocese of Lincoln until the time ofHenry VIII., who, in compensation for^the spoliation of so manymonasteries, projected the erection of several new Fortifications of Old Oxford. 137 Peterborough and Oxford were taken out of Lincoln ; and RobertKing, the last Abbot of Oseney, was made the first Bishop, andthe see of Oxford was fixed at Oseney, or Osney, in the westernsuburbs of the city. An old house still remaining in St. Aldates,with quaintly carved ornaments, as represented in our illustration,is shown as the residence of this prelate. He was Bishop ofOsney from 1542 to 1546, when King Henry, by letters patent ofNovember 4th, transferred the see to his College in Oxford, whichhe re-established under the mixed form of a cathedral and academiccollege; and the Bishop of this diocese has since that year beenstyled Bishop of Oxford. (See pages 68, 70, 76.) The city was burnt by the Danes in 979, and again in the year1032. In 1036 Harold Harefoot was crowned here. In 1066the Norman Conquest took place, and William of Normandybecame King; and w
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