Author : Alexander Chalmers
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396838279
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)
Book Synopsis A History of the Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, Attached to the University of Oxford, Including the Lives of the Founders, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) by : Alexander Chalmers
Download or read book A History of the Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, Attached to the University of Oxford, Including the Lives of the Founders, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Alexander Chalmers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, Attached to the University of Oxford, Including the Lives of the Founders, Vol. 2 According to Wood, who availed himself of some mss. Accounts of Fox preserved in this College, written by President Greenway, the Founder was born in an ancient house, known to some by the name of Pollock's Manor. This house, he adds, was well known for many years to the Fellows of Corpus, who reverently visited it when they went to keep courts at their manors. To what was before recorded of Fox, Mr. William Pulman, a Scholar of Corpus, and an able antiquary, made many additions, with a view to publication, which he did not lise to complete. His mss. Are partly in the library of this College, and partly in the Ashmolean', Museum. Mr. Gough drew up a very accu. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.