Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . -le-Bailey, and at North Gate, still retain their titles, though St. Michaelsat South Gate was pulled down to build Wolseys College : it stoodclose to the gate, on the ground now occupied by the residence ofthe Professor of Hebrew. St. Peter guarded the East and West,St. Michael the North and South, as is expressed in the ancientdistich :— Invigilat portae Australi Boreaeque Michael,Exortum solem Petrus regit atque cadentem. The North and South Gates St. Michael doth guard,The East and West St. Peters ca
Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . -le-Bailey, and at North Gate, still retain their titles, though St. Michaelsat South Gate was pulled down to build Wolseys College : it stoodclose to the gate, on the ground now occupied by the residence ofthe Professor of Hebrew. St. Peter guarded the East and West,St. Michael the North and South, as is expressed in the ancientdistich :— Invigilat portae Australi Boreaeque Michael,Exortum solem Petrus regit atque cadentem. The North and South Gates St. Michael doth guard,The East and West St. Peters care doth ward. The Corn-Market had formerly a shed down the middle of thestreet for the protection of the dealers, with a leaden roof supportedon stone columns. The shambles were in the middle of Butcher-row (now Queen street), and that name and the Butter-bench, stilloften heard, mark the sites of open markets. But the conditionof the streets on market days in early ages, and before 1770, maybe cor^eived, when we remember that up and down the High 114 Aldens Oxford CARFAX CONDUIT. Old Nomenclature. 115 street, and the smaller streets branching out of it, were told offstations for each condition of sellers of wood and straw with theirteams; sellers of faggots and fuel in carts and waggons; timbermerchants; sellers of hops and swine, beer and ale; drapers;sellers of roots and coals; seller of gloves and whitawyers;bakers, furriers, linen and woollen drapers, tanners, sellers of butter,cheese, milk, eggs, and corn. We conclude these brief notes with some specimens of the oldnomenclature of well-known localities. Carfax was Quatrevois(see X in the Plan). Here in 1610 a picturesque structure waserected as a Conduit for the water supply. In 1787 it was takendown and removed to Nuneham Park, near Oxford, where it stillstands, as represented in our engraving. All Saints Church (65)was All Hallows; the Botanic Garden (16) \hz Jews Cemetery;Magdalen Bridge, East Bridge or Petty
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