Collectanea. Third series / edited by Montagu Burrows.

Date:
1896
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Credit: Collectanea. Third series / edited by Montagu Burrows. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    relating to or sent up from the burgesses, town, or University, of Oxford, or from different members of the University; places too that have a close connexion with the city, as Oseney, Godstow, Rewley, and the North Hundred, have been included, with a few other petitions touching on matters concerning Oxford, such as those relating to the Thames as a highway thither, &c. The history of the place which they illustrate thus gives a unity to this section of the documents, while a study of that history gives the means, more or less sure, of dating most of them. Half of the number have never been printed in any form (I believe), the other half will be found either in the printed edition of the Rolls of Parliament or in ‘Memoranda de Parliamento, 1305,’ before referred to; one only, taken from a MS. in the British Museum, and the original of which appears to be lost, is printed by Mr. Henson in Collectanea, vol. i. (Oxford Hist. Soc.). The following table shows the proportions and details of sources : From ‘Ancient Petitions’ (Public Record Office), 84*— Of which are printed in Rolls of Parliament . . . .16 (Two of these are in duplicate) Printed in Mem. de Parliamento, 1305 Now first printed — 84 From the Rolls of Parliament not found among ‘ Ancient Peti- tions ’ (but two are also in Mem. Par. 1305) .... 38 From Mem. de Parliamento, 1305, not found elsewhere . . n F'rom Roy. MS. 12 D. xi. (printed in Collectanea, vol. i. p. 12) i 134 A few others may be scattered here and there, copied into early collections like the Royal MS. 12 D. xi, and may doubtless have escaped research, but these are all I have been able to find. With a place like Oxford, which has a long and remarkable history, there was hope that some of the known incidents and events might be recognized in the mattei of some at least of the ‘Ancient Petitions,’ and thus lead to placing them in due chronological order. Of a con- siderable number the dates are indicated with some degree of ‘ Eighty-six ‘Ancient Petitions’ in all are treated here, but two, as noted, are uplicates. Two or three of them are not, strictly speaking, petitions, but, having found their way among those concerning Oxford affairs, they are here included. rive others are noted under Nos. 52, 108, 114, 120.