Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . ed that as Osney is derived from Ousen-ey, Oxen-ford might properlybe Ouseu-ford : but this theory has never gained aiiy general acceptance. The City armsand seal are of the twelfth century, and the shield would hardly have been charged withan Ox or Bull in ignorance of the real origin of the citys name. Moreover the Abbey ofOeney (the derivation of this name is u a the lower part of their great seal the Oxford Bull, marking tbe distinction between Oxena-ford and Ousen-ey. Somephilologists of eminence in the present
Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . ed that as Osney is derived from Ousen-ey, Oxen-ford might properlybe Ouseu-ford : but this theory has never gained aiiy general acceptance. The City armsand seal are of the twelfth century, and the shield would hardly have been charged withan Ox or Bull in ignorance of the real origin of the citys name. Moreover the Abbey ofOeney (the derivation of this name is u a the lower part of their great seal the Oxford Bull, marking tbe distinction between Oxena-ford and Ousen-ey. Somephilologists of eminence in the present day are nevertheless more inclined to get ourname from Ouse than from Ox. 108 Aldens Oxford Guide. but we know that the place was destroyed by the Saxons in , when Vortigern thoroughly repaired it, and made it his resi-dence. And in 886 we find it the residence of King Alfred andhis three sons, Edward, Athelward, and Alfward. AVhilst we claimAlfred the Great as the one who gave life to Oxford as a placeof learning, we think it highly probable that the rebuilding and. NORTH FRONT OF BISHOP KINGS PALACE. establishment of St. Frideswides by Ethelred II., 1002, wasthe real starting-point, and that Oxford grew up and clustered, asit were, around that old foundation, which has now a still morevaluable existence in the House of Christ Church. (See Nos. 28to 31 in the Guide.) Oxford was included in the Diocese of Lincoln until the time of The Cily Walls and Castle. X09 Henry VIII., who, in compensation for the spoliation of so manymonasteries, projected the erection of several new 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
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