Author: Montagu Burrows

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-18

Total Pages: 732

ISBN-13: 9780265475300

Excerpt from The Register of the Visitors of the University of Oxford: From A. D. 1647 to A. D. 1658 The Register of the Visitors of Oxford University appointed by the Long Parliament in 1647, and continued, under several changes, during most of the period of the Commonwealth, has, it need hardly be said, an intrinsic value far beyond that of a mere University Register. It affords us an unique opportunity of study ing the principles on which the authorities of the Commonwealth acted, of watching in its very origin and secret recesses the struggle between the conflicting forces of politics and religion at that remark able period, and of recovering the history of some distinguished persons who ought to be better known. The question might well be asked, why so important a record has never been published before. It has been lying in the Bodleian Library for more than two hundred years; it was largely used by Anthony Wood, and afterwards by Walker; various writers have expressed a wish that it might be made available for the public. The question might be answered in part by asking another. Why has not the history of the University of Oxford been undertaken since the days of Wood? Up to his time, owing chiefly to his own enormous labours, we are fairly acquainted with that history; but he died in 1695; and nothing of the sort, if we except the notes upon Wood which have been published by Gutch and Bliss in their editions of the great antiquary, has been attempted since. The Visitors' Register has only shared in the general neglect. 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.