. A history of the University of Oxford : from the earliest times to the year 1530. ©^ CHAPTER Origin of the Collegiate System—The Chantry of Alan Basset—TheBequest of William of Durham—Origin of Baliiol College—Walterde Merton—Origin of Merton College—Ordinance of 1264—En-largement of the Scheme—Purchase of Land—Statutes of 1274—Reforms of Archbishop Peckham—Origin of University College—Ordinances of 1280, 1292, and 1311—Development of the Houseof Baliiol. OR those who are acquainted with the Oxfordof the present century only, and who regardthe admission of unattached students toacademi
. A history of the University of Oxford : from the earliest times to the year 1530. ©^ CHAPTER Origin of the Collegiate System—The Chantry of Alan Basset—TheBequest of William of Durham—Origin of Baliiol College—Walterde Merton—Origin of Merton College—Ordinance of 1264—En-largement of the Scheme—Purchase of Land—Statutes of 1274—Reforms of Archbishop Peckham—Origin of University College—Ordinances of 1280, 1292, and 1311—Development of the Houseof Baliiol. OR those who are acquainted with the Oxfordof the present century only, and who regardthe admission of unattached students toacademical status as a novel experiment, itmay be difficult to realise that the Universitywas a large and flourishing body long before it contained asingle college of secular students. The collegiate system didnot take its rise until the second half of the thirteenthcentury, and at least three more centuries elapsed before itbecame predominant. Throughout the mediaeval period, thegreat majority of the secular students lived either in roomshired from the townsmen, or in halls,
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