THE

ANTIENT and PRESENT STATE

OF THE

CITY of OXFORD.

CONTAINING

An ACCOUNT of its FOUNDATION,
ANTIQUITY, SITUATION, SUBURBS, DIVISION by WARDS,
WALLS, CASTLE, FAIRS,

RELIGIOUS HOUSES, ABBEYS, ST. FRIDESWEDE's,
CHURCHES, as well those destroyed as the present, with their
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS;

MAYORS, MEMBERS of PARLIAMENT, &c.

THE WHOLE CHIEFLY COLLECTED

By Mr. ANTHONY à WOOD

WITH ADDITIONS 24

ODLET

By the Rev. Sir J. PES HALL, Bart.

Ad Te nunc habeo verbum, O Civitas!

Que grandi titulo terram inhabitas,

Qua toto feculo famofa radias,

En ad Te clamito, fi forfan audias.

TRYVYLTRAM, de Laude Oxon. MSS. in Bib. Cotton. & Bodl.

LONDON:

Printed for J. and F. RIVINGTON, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and fold by the Bookfellers of

OXFORD and CAMBRIDGE.

MDCCLXXIII.

The Worshipful EDWARD TAWNEY, Efq; Mayor.

The Hon. T. F. WENMAN, Recorder.

Sir JAMES DASHWOOD, Bart. High Steward.

Hon. Lord ROB. SPENCER,
F. R, Members.

Hon. Coll. W. HARCOURT,

T. WALKER, Efq; Town Clerk.

The following is infcribed,

By their very humble Servant,

J. PESHALL.