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Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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o saddleswere presented to the King, and at Oxford, where a statebanquet was provided for him in the Sheldonian Theatre;but he refused to eat anything, and the viands wereseized upon and devoured by a rabble of townsfolk.Both the city and the shire were ardently attached to theStuarts. There were numerous non-jurors, amongstwhom was Thomas Hearne, the antiquary, a profoundhater of the Hanoverians. The city was said byWesley to be paved with the skulls of Jacobites.Popular rejoicings, street riots, songs and toasts, allshowed the love of Oxford for the lost cause. The samefeeling was prevalent in the county, and northernOxfordshire was Jacobite to the core. The squires weremeditating joining the rising of 1745. Tord Comburywas the leader of the faction, and the Pretender is saidto have visited him, and to have been shaved by a barberof Charlbury. Meetings were held prior to the rebellionat Woodstock, but perhaps prudence prevented thesquires from embarking upon the perilous enterprise.
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Oxfordshire 367 This attachment to the dying cause lingered on, and nottill the last century had begun did the Fellows of St.Johns College cease from holding their wine glasses overthe finger-bowls and toasting the king over the water. The eighteenth century saw the rise of BlenheimPalace and the bestowal of the Honour and Manor ofWoodstock by a grateful nation upon the hero of manyfights, the great Duke of Marlborough. Unhappily, theDuchess destroyed the old manor-house, the home of somany kings and queens of England. There was amania in that century for destroying old houses andbuilding new ones. Fire also played havoc with many. With the dying flickers of the flame of Jacobitismthe connection of Oxfordshire with the annals of Englishhistory may be said to have ceased. We have had manychanges in University life. The Evangelical and theOxford Movements have exercised a lasting effect uponthe country, and the University Commission has wroughtchanges in the life and condition of Oxford

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