Frideswide's in and is said to have been an erudite man to whom Hebrew was not unknown. The recitation lasted three days; on the first he received the poor scholars, on the next the doctors of the various faculties with their more distinguished pupils, and on the third day the rest of the scholars together with townsfolk and soldiers.
A certain Stephanus studied at Oxford about ; fn. Edmund was born between the years and , and when about 12 years of age was sent to a grammar school at Oxford. Later he studied Arts and remained at Oxford for about seven years. He then went to Paris and, returning to Oxford, for nearly six years lectured in Arts. Then, perhaps after another period of study at Paris, he returned to lecture on Theology, in which he is the first recorded Oxford scholar to have proceeded to the doctorate fn.
It is during the period when Edmund was a regent in Arts that references are found to the magister or rector scolarum, an officer probably appointed by episcopal licence. The organization of the Oxford studium generale prior to can be briefly stated.
It consisted of a free society of scholars presided over by a magister scolarum. The faculty of Arts included the Seven Liberal Arts which were divided into two sections, the Trivium grammar, rhetoric, and logic and the Quadrivium arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music : later the three philosophies, Natural, Moral, and Metaphysical, were also studied for the degree of M.
It was through the faculty of Arts alone that the other faculties could be approached. Those who had proceeded to the degree of master and had received the licentia docendi then spent a certain number of years as regent masters, lecturing to and receiving fees from those seeking degrees. In two clerks were hanged by the townsmen in revenge for an alleged murder of a woman. Some went to Reading, Maidstone, and Paris; others to Cambridge and thus became the founders of that University. When the king in made his peace with the Pope, the townsmen had perforce to follow his example, and accordingly submitted themselves to papal authority.
For ten years clerks who rented houses hospitia were to have a remission of half of the rent which had been fixed by burgesses and clerks in common before the outbreak; at the end of ten years the houses were to be let at the former rent. Hospitia erected after the secession of the scholars or to be erected in the future were to be assessed by taxors, four being masters and four townsmen.
Also a penalty of fifty-two shillings a year was to be devoted to the use of poor scholars and distributed by the Abbot of Oseney and the Prior of St. Frideswide's on the advice of the Bishop of Lincoln, or the Archdeacon or his official, or of the Chancellor whom the Bishop might set over the scholars. The ordinance also commanded the townsmen to feast yearly one hundred poor scholars, and to swear that they would sell to scholars victuals and other necessaries at reasonable prices.
Furthermore, clerks arrested by the laity were to be committed to the diocesan authorities above mentioned if their surrender was demanded, and every year fifty influential townsmen were to take an oath to observe the articles of the ordinance. Lastly those who had confessed to the hanging or had been convicted of it were condemned to do penance, and those who had remained in the town and had lectured after the secession incurred suspension from lecturing for three years.
The earliest date at which a Chancellor is mentioned as actually existing is , and he was probably Grosseteste. The chief privilege gained in was that the townsmen were obliged to hand over to the ecclesiastical authority any clerk arrested by them. This was the first step towards the independence of the University from the town and the foundation of the immunity of members of the University from lay courts, an exemption which has existed in some form or other to the present day.
The obligation of money payments and the feeding of poor scholars was undertaken at the request of the town, and no doubt for value received, by the Abbot of Eynsham, a liability which continued until the Reformation when it was transferred to the Crown. There is little further information about the progress of the University until the advent of the Orders of Friars into England, an event which was to have a great influence on the constitution of the University.
The year saw the coming of the Dominicans, who proceeded at once to Oxford. Two of the party proceeded to Oxford, where they first rented a small house in St. Ebbe's parish. They at once received many recruits, and won so great popularity that within five years they had already twice moved to larger quarters.
A serious affray broke out in which demanded royal intervention, fn. The riot was so serious that the legate was compelled to take refuge in the tower of Oseney Abbey, whence he was rescued by soldiers sent by the King, who was then at Abingdon. The University was thereupon placed under an interdict by the legate. Some of the culprits were arrested and imprisoned at Oxford, Wallingford, and London: others had already made their escape and had dispersed to various towns.
By the united efforts of Grosseteste and other bishops peace was restored. The offenders were pardoned after having done penance, and the interdict on Oxford was removed. Most of the students returned, but some appear to have remained at Northampton and others at Salisbury. At that time the only fund which the University possessed consisted of the annual sum of fifty-two shillings, paid under the settlement of As no ordinance had been made for the safe keeping and distribution of the money Grosseteste drew up regulations under three heads.
These provided that the money, together with any benefactions which might be received, should be placed in a chest to be kept at St. Frideswide's and to be in the charge of a canon of that house and of two persons elected by the University. Loans under pledge were to be made to such poor scholars as did not hold a benefice worth more than 10 marks: if pledges were not redeemed within a year they might be sold and any surplus handed to the borrower, the Chancellor being sole arbitrator in any disputes.
Every year accounts were to be submitted by the custodians to specially appointed auditors. The scholars responsible were arrested and imprisoned by the bailiffs, but on the intervention of Grosseteste the king ordered them to be delivered to the Abbot of Oseney, the Prior of St. Frideswide's, and the official of the archdeacon, thus following strictly the terms of the ordinance. A portion of this money was invested in tenements and the remainder lent to scholars upon security.
At this period of its development the University had neither the experience nor the organization to deal with such benefactions. Much of the money had been lost by partly owing to loans not having been repaid and partly to the University having itself borrowed money. Certain sums had also been used for political purposes. It was then resolved that from the proceeds of the remaining property four masters, who were Masters of Arts, should receive grants to enable them to proceed to the doctorate of Divinity, and that a Hall should be provided in which they might live.
Nowhere is this better shown than in the division of students into 'nations'. At Paris there were four; fn. Mediators and arbitrators were appointed, and it was agreed that if any one was suspected of disturbing the peace he should find sureties, and that a general oath to keep the peace should be taken both by senior and junior members of the University.
The terms of peace ended with the command that no faction should be formed or named in the University which henceforth should be unum collegium et unum corpus, fn. The terms of peace drawn up in were promulgated in the Church of St.
Mary the Virgin in full Congregation in plena congregatione and that of 'de pleno consensu omnium magistrorum regencium et non regencium, dominorum et bachelariorum, maiorum et minorum Universitatis'. The former is the earliest reference to the Great Congregation, or, as it was called later, Convocation, the chief legislative body of the University.
In its first years the University had no code of statutes. Its procedure was based on custom which could only have had its origin in the University of Paris. Grosseteste insisted, for instance, on the necessity of conforming to the regulations of the regent theologists at Paris, fn. The regents were those masters and doctors, Masters of Arts being largely predominant, who were engaged in teaching.
Some of them were 'necessary regents' who were required to give lectures for two years after their degrees; but the majority were regents ad voluntatem, who as Principals of Halls made a living by teaching. The non-regents were those who were proceeding to a higher degree or had retired from active teaching. The regents formed a separate body called the Congregatio regentium. The first recorded statute is one promulgated in requiring that those who wished to take the degree of Doctor of Divinity must first have taken the Arts course and obtained the degree of Master of Arts.
The religious orders were, however, debarred by their regulations from following secular studies. The statute had its origin in a petition presented to the University requesting that a friar, Thomas of York, should be allowed to incept as a D. A commission of seven was appointed and recommended that Thomas be allowed to incept, but that henceforth no one should incept in Theology who had not previously incepted in Arts, lectured on a book of the Bible or on the Sentences, and publicly preached in the University; the right of granting dispensations being reserved to the Chancellor and masters.
The decision of the commission was given the force of a statute. The Bishops of London and Salisbury were appointed conservators of the rights, liberties, and immunities of the University. The point at issue seems to have been the right of the Chancellor to assent to statutes without reference to the bishop whose representative he was.
The only action taken by Henry of Lexington was to enter his protest through the Archdeacon of Derby. Four aldermen and eight influential burgesses were to take oath of fealty to the king and to assist the mayor and bailiffs in the keeping of the peace and of the assize.
In every parish there were to be two persons chosen to inquire every fortnight about suspicious characters frequenting the town; retailers were ordered not to buy victuals in the market before 9 a. Regulations against dishonest bakers and brewers were strengthened, and it was ordained that the assize of bread and ale should be held twice a year, and that the Chancellor or his deputies should be present.
Academic exercises took place in schools i. Mary the Virgin. The scholars, all potentially migratory and many actually so, found accommodation in hospitia belonging to townsmen and the religious houses. It appears that, even before the legatine ordinance of , the rents to be charged were controlled by taxors i.
Generally speaking these hospitia were rented by masters who provided teaching and shelter for their lodgers; they also provided a dining-room and a kitchen, but the students made their own arrangements with the manciple about their food. These principals of halls were gradually brought under University control and were held responsible for the conduct of scholars in their charge. One matter which proved a source of trouble was that of assessment.
For its better regulation a royal writ issued in May reduced the number of the taxors from eight to four, fn. When he died in the charge was undertaken by his widow, Dervorguilla, who, in , provided endowment and gave the scholars corporate status. The Society was developed as a community of young students proceeding to the degree of M. In a brief code of statutes drawn up in provision was made for twenty scholars residing 'in scolis Oxon.
By the community was definitely settled at Oxford and in a final code of statutes was promulgated. During the troubled reign of Henry III the scholars experienced some of the inconvenience arising from political activities. In the king had permitted schools to be founded at Northampton and sent a writ to the mayor and bailiff of that town bidding them receive scholars hospitably. Shortly afterwards the invitation proved opportune.
The passage of Prince Edward near Oxford in had led to a serious affray between citizens and scholars. The king's first intention was to hang them all, but on its being represented to him that many of the scholars were the sons of nobles he decided to forgo vengeance. As the Jews were the principal money-lenders many disputes with scholars about the rate of interest and contracts must have come before the Chancellor for settlement.
The Chancellor's right to exercise jurisdiction in this connexion was questioned by the Constable of the Castle. A commission appointed to inquire into the matter reported that all jurisdiction concerning disputes and contracts between scholars and Jews pertained to the Chancellor without prejudice to the royal prerogative, as the Chancellor derived no pecuniary benefit from a jurisdiction which he exercised solely in the cause of peace.
The only penalty imposed on the Jews by the king was the building of a marble cross and the provision of a processional one. In that year Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury, visited the University and made inquiry about certain errors in grammar, logic, and natural philosophy which were held by the Oxford Dominicans. These were condemned by the archbishop with the consent of the regents and non-regents.
Masters who continued to teach and maintain them were to suffer deposition, and bachelors were to be expelled from the University. He called in question the University's right to certain customs consuetudines which it alleged had been enjoyed a tempore quo non extat memoria.
The customs in dispute were that a scholar might cite a defendant, if found within the liberties of the University, before the Chancellor; that the Chancellor had the right of granting probate of wills of scholars dying in the University; that regent masters might hold inquisitions concerning crimes of masters and scholars by juries of scholars, rectors, priests, and laymen; and that no master could be cited outside the University for contracts entered into either within or without the University.
The Chancellor, proctors, and other representatives of the University asserted that the right jus visitandi et corrigendi magistros et scolares was part of what was conferred on the Chancellor at the time of his admission prefeccio and had been approved by long custom. They asked that the correction of offences should come to the bishop only if there was an appeal made to him against the action of the Chancellor.
The Archbishop of Canterbury with other bishops brought the parties to terms which allowed the Chancellor, fn. The dispute broke out again in at the next visitation of the archdeaconry, when the Archbishop of Canterbury addressed a letter to Sutton requesting him not to molest the University in the matter of the Chancellor's jurisdiction; although jus commune was on his side, yet the University could plead consuetudo. The points at issue were whether the Chancellor was elected or merely nominated by the University, and whether he was bound to come in person to the bishop or need only send deputies.
The bishop held that, as he was asked to confirm, the University could only nominate, and that it was necessary for the Chancellor to come in person as he was unwilling to give a commission, which extended to ecclesiastical government, to an official who was unknown to him. The bishop had in practice always confirmed, but only as an act of grace. In the king intervened in the dispute and a middle course was followed.
It was finally agreed that if the bishop was sufficiently near Oxford the Chancellor elect should appear before him: if not, the bishop should give his commission by proxy de gratia speciali. The Archbishop of Canterbury thereupon ordered him to confirm the election within six days or to appear before him.
The University had been drawn into a lengthy dispute with Robert de Welles, bailiff of the North Gate Hundred, concerning jurisdiction in that area. This suburb was practically the parish of St. The University's case was that it had from early times possessed the jurisdiction in causes between scholars and laics in the suburb.
Robert de Welles, however, had cited masters to appear in the king's leet in curia privata , had imprisoned a bedel, and had generally organized resistance to the Chancellor. On being excommunicated he cited the Chancellor's deputy, the proctors, and other members of the University to appear before the King's Bench in The University appealed to the King in Council, who confirmed it in its liberties and removed Robert de Welles from office. It possessed a few houses, including Canon School, which was let on lease.
Frideswide's Chest. In Ela, Countess of Warwick, gave the University marks to be deposited in a chest which should be under the charge of two masters. Grants were to be made to poor scholars on sufficient security as laid down in the regulations for St. This tenement was finally sold in and became part of St. Mary Hall. About the Cistercians founded an abbey at Rewley as a studium for the scholars of that order. This project did not materialize until , when Sir John Giffard founded in the north suburb of Oxford a small priory as a cell of St.
Peter's, Gloucester, which a few years later became the locus communis for all Benedictine monks of the southern province. In —9 this site was conveyed to the abbey of Malmesbury, but monks were admitted from other houses and were given equal rights, the priory being maintained by funds supplied by the general Benedictine Chapter.
The action taken by the University in had left their general relations undisturbed. The friars still received graces to proceed to theological degrees without having taken the Arts course. But the Dominicans were unwilling to continue to seek de gratia what they doubtless thought they should have by right. They were concerned with Bible teaching only, and the approach to Theology through Arts and Philosophy was not only unnecessary but was against the rules of their Order.
So too, in the opinion of the Franciscans, was learning itself, but the training, the opportunities it offered for enlisting recruits, and the dignity which was attached to degrees, were a sufficient inducement to persuade them to ignore the stricter demands of their founder. On the University's part there was probably a feeling of jealousy.
The friars had a firm hold over the affections of the people and considerable influence over young scholars. They also possessed buildings very suitable for scholastic exercises, and being static they gave no support to the University when, in self-defence, it threatened to betake itself elsewhere.
The dispute, however, had a wider aspect and was but a preliminary step in the general conflict between the mendicant orders and the secular clergy. The first move by the University was to release itself from obligations to the friars, and in so doing it robbed the friars of their valued privilege of providing a dignified setting for certain University ceremonies. In the University decided that the examinatory sermons of bachelors of Theology should be preached in future not at the Dominican and Franciscan convents, but at the church of St.
Mary, and a few years later the University also transferred to St. Mary's the theological Vespers, one of the most important ceremonies at Inception. It was further ordained that no one should lecture on the Bible until he had taken the degree of B. About the year the University had decreed that any statute carried by the regents of two faculties together with a majority of the non-regents should be binding, and it was alleged by the friars that two of the statutes of which they complained were carried by the faculty of Arts, a solitary regent Doctor of Medicine, and a majority of the non-regents, the principal faculties of Theology, Canon and Civil Law being thus overwhelmed by the lesser faculties of Arts and Medicine.
The friars also revived their old grievance about the statute of The case against the University was presented to the Papal Court by the friars in The University immediately took counter-action. Masters refused to perform academical exercises with friars, and tried to prevent their association with scholars and the laity. The University had also prevailed on the Archbishop of Canterbury to excommunicate them. The year is, for instance, particularly noteworthy for the number of University petitions to the Crown.
These had reference to the sale of victuals by strangers; the provision for a separate prison for women; the closing of posterns into the suburbs against men of ill fame; the limitation of regrators; the punishment of delinquent bakers and brewers; the prompt arrest of malefactors; the excessive toll exacted by millers; the granting of a general power of attorney to the University; the arrest of prostitutes frequenting the town but living outside; and the injurious effects to health due to the working of skins and parchments within the walls.
The corresponding writs to all these petitions except the last two are still extant. The archdeacon alleged that the University had usurped his jurisdiction in granting probate of wills and punishing clerks found guilty of immorality, and made an attempt to cite representatives of the University in the Papal Court. The king at various times interceded on the University's behalf with the Pope, the archdeacon, and various cardinals.
In the University drew up a basis of agreement, but it was not until that a final agreement was reached. This gave to the Chancellor archidiaconal jurisdiction over all doctors, masters, scholars; over rectors, vicars, and chaplains within the University unless they held cures in Oxford; and over the servants of masters and scholars, the bedels, the stationers, and scribes, but the testamentary instruments of the last named were to remain with the archdeacon.
When the bishop died in he bequeathed to the University the sum of marks and a collection of manuscripts. Unfortunately he died so heavily in debt that some of the manuscripts had to be pawned to pay the funeral expenses. The manuscripts were restored by force in , but a dispute between the University and Oriel College continued for over seventy years. The town and the University were busily engaged in disputes about the assize of bread, ale, weights and measures in and the following year.
On October 25 the king granted during pleasure to the Chancellor and the mayor jointly the custody of the assize of bread and ale and of the weights belonging thereto, and to the Chancellor, along with the aldermen, the survey of the assize of measures. In August a royal writ was directed to the sheriff of Lincoln to cause proclamation to be made in Stamford that none should presume to study elsewhere than in the king's universities.
An important inspeximus and confirmation of privileges, with additions, was granted by the king in a charter dated 12 April The additions included clauses by which the 'taxation' of scholars' houses in the town was extended to the suburbs; persons bringing woollen and linen cloths into the town for sale were to be allowed to sell by piece and not only by whole lengths; and further the Chancellor was to be protected against writs of oyer and terminer or of false imprisonment with respect to the imprisonment of scholars or others.
It is hardly possible that Oxford fared any better than the rest of the country, but there are, strangely enough, no definite references to the mortality at Oxford due to the plague. The nearest approach is a statement made in by Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury, who refers to the loss in all branches of learning of learned and expert men, owing to epidemics, adding that at that time there were very few left to pursue the study of letters. In the executors of John de Pontyssera, Bishop of Winchester, gave marks under conditions similar to those of the existing chests.
Only poor scholars were to be beneficiaries; a regent master might borrow up to 40s. In Philip de Turvyle, Canon of Lichfield, endowed another chest with marks with limits similar to those of the Winchester chest; there were to be three guardians of whom one was to be a southerner and another a northerner. The regulations, which were approved by the founder, provided for loans to the wardens of Merton and similar Halls up to 60s.
The keepers were to be three masters, one northern, another southern, and the third a non-regent. If the sum was not repaid at the end of a year, the book was sold and the original sum returned to the chest; the remainder, if any, belonged to the owner.
The reputation of Oxford stood high among universities of Europe in the 14th century. Academic disputation ranged over a large number of human and divine activities. This training in mental dexterity exercised on every branch of learning and on many matters of current interest had produced by the end of the 13th century a class of politically minded ecclesiastics who by degrees became a national force and on occasions were collectively powerful enough to resist the royal authority.
The victory over the friars brought increase of power and confidence, and about this time the University's privileges and statutes were first put on permanent record. The Liber Cancellarii Registrum A contains this earliest attempt at registration and codification: its date may be as early as the first quarter of the 14th century. The Chancellor, who was either a Doctor of Divinity or a Doctor of Canon Law, was elected by the regents and confirmed in his office by the Bishop of Lincoln.
He had wide judicial powers and had sole archidiaconal jurisdiction over certain classes of persons. He punished offenders by excommunication, imprisonment, expulsion, suspension, loss of privilege, and fines. In the Chancellor was holding office for two years, but in the earlier period he probably held office for a short indefinite term of years. His commission could be recalled by the Bishop of Lincoln and he himself could be removed from office by Convocation and the proctors.
He exercised jurisdiction over all members of the University, that is, over doctors, masters, scholars, and privileged persons; and had cognizance of cases in which one party was a scholar. Appeal could be made from the hebdomadarii to the Chancellor, from the Chancellor to the regents, and from the regents Congregatio to the regents and non-regents Convocatio. Elected by the regents and holding office for one year, they were peculiarly the representatives of the faculty of Arts, were entrusted with much public business, and were responsible for the good order of the University both as regards studies and conduct.
They summoned Congregation and pronounced graces there. The chief function of Convocation was to enact, repeal, and amend statutes. The lesser assembly, the Congregatio regentium Congregatio minor or simply Congregatio, which naturally was composed of the younger men, legislated on minor matters and dealt with the more formal business of the University such as elections, granting of graces, studies, and other administrative matters.
There was also a rather undefined body called the Congregatio artistarum Congregatio nigra—the Black Congregation which claimed the right of deliberating on measures to be brought before Convocation. In all these assemblies the Faculty of Arts was dominant, and the faculty claimed that its consent was necessary in all matters brought before the two assemblies.
The voting in assemblies was by faculties, the non-regents forming a separate body. The study of Arts comprised grammar, rhetoric and logic, arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy. Every student of the faculty had to be on the roll of a regent master from whom he heard ordinary lectures. After having spent about four years in attending lectures and disputations he could then become a candidate for determination i. If his supplicatio was approved he received licence from the Chancellor to lecture on any book of the faculty of Arts.
A further series of disputations was then gone through. Between determination and inception i. The candidate for the degree of M. Further disputations followed at a ceremony called Vesperiae vespers and again on the day of his inception. After inception a master had to dispute again and continue his lectures as a regent master for at least two years, after which he might remain a regent 'at will', teaching for pay. When he ceased to lecture he became a non-regent.
Many Masters of Arts after regency proceeded to one of the higher faculties. The faculty of Medicine was small but not unimportant. Six years had to be spent in the study of medicine before inception. In order to make these sermons more easily memorized the headings of the various divisions were cast in rhythmic form. The importance of preaching is often emphasized in the statutes, and is perhaps the only academical activity which has remained more or less unchanged and unimpaired to the present day.
On the feast of St. Scholastica 10 Feb. Many fled, some found safety at Merton and in other Halls. The University appealed to the Bishop of Lincoln. The town was immediately placed under interdict, and the king, taking the University under his protection, appointed a special commission to inquire into the matter. The assize of bread and ale, the assize and supervision of weights and measures were committed wholly to the Chancellor; also the cognizance of forestallers, regrators, and those who sold unwholesome victuals.
To him also was given the sole authority over the cleansing of the streets; the punishment of offenders therein; and the right of assessing the taxes to be paid by the servants of scholars, scribes, illuminators, and parchment sellers.
All goods which had been taken from scholars during the riot were to be restored, and it was ordained that when the sheriff and the under-sheriff were admitted to office they should swear to protect and defend the scholars and their privileges.
The restoration of the town's liberties was made on 26 July, with the exception of those mentioned above. Scholastica's day the town should celebrate a mass at St. Mary's for the souls of the slain at which the mayor, bailiffs, aldermen, and a certain number of burgesses should attend and each make at the high altar the offering of one penny. A dispute had arisen between Richard d'Amory and the Chancellor respecting liberties and privileges exercised in the hundred outside the North Gate.
Both parties claimed the assize and assay of bread, wine, and beer together with its fines and forfeits. The University in fact claimed privileges similar to those which it already enjoyed within the town. This perhaps was the less unreasonable since many of the houses were inhabited by members of the University.
The parties appeared before the King in Council and it was decided that the Chancellor should have cognizance of all cases where the preservation of the peace and offences against the statutes and privileges of the University were concerned, as well as cognizance of pleas, where one party was a scholar or a privileged person, except in pleas of murder, maim, and freehold: further that he should have the right to punish all vendors of food who contravened the University's regulations, and to compel persons to clear and cleanse the streets and to repair pavements.
Lastly to the Chancellor was given the assize of bread, wine, and ale with the assize and assay of weights and measures, but this did not apply to the sale of wool and false measurement therein. It was also agreed that the rents of houses of scholars in the hundred were to be revalued every five years. At the outset there was a very natural tendency on the part of the citizens to reap as much profit as possible from the food and lodging supplied to a casual population of students.
Gradually security of tenure of houses and rooms at equitable rent was established; right of obtaining food at reasonable prices and of good quality was secured; the assize of bread and ale had by various stages come wholly into the Chancellor's hands, together with the supervision of weights and measures; the Chancellor was empowered to call upon the town authorities to maintain order and to take charge of rebellious clerks in their prison; he could enforce measures of sanitation; and he had finally obtained the full right to try all causes except murder, maim, and freehold in which a scholar was a party either as prosecutor or defendant, as well as those in which a privileged person was concerned—a large class including the servants of scholars, University servants, and persons engaged in the book-trade.
But beyond all these privileges and immunities the town was brought into something like subjection by being compelled to take an annual oath in October to respect the privileges and liberties of the University and to do annual penance on St. Scholastica's day. But, as Dr. Salter has pointed out, although the University had been granted large powers, it was not to the injury of the town: 'When the assize of bread and beer was given to the University, the town was allowed to deduct from its annual fee-farm an amount equal to the profits from that assize.
If the Chancellor could inflict fines on those who failed to repair their portions of the road, he did not keep the fines; the money was paid over to the town … The control of the market by the University was to the advantage of all purchasers, whether clerks or laymen. Even the medieval power which the Chancellor had of banishing from Oxford people of vicious life, was easily defensible in the Middle Ages… and here also the privilege given to the Chancellor was to the benefit of the University and of the town itself.
The unhappy relations of the two bodies persisted until the middle of the last century. Three colleges were founded in the first half of the 14th century—Exeter, Oriel, and Queen's. Exeter College was founded in by Walter de Stapeldon, Bishop of Exeter, for the support of twelve scholars born or resident in Devon or Cornwall. The scholarships were tenable for fourteen years, a term sufficient to carry the holders to completion of regency. In addition there was a scholar-chaplain who was to study Theology or Canon Law.
The statutes allowed the scholars to elect a rector from their own number and to frame statutes which did not contravene the founder's ordinance. By the statute of seven of the fellows were to study Theology, the rest Canon or Civil Law. It consisted of a provost and twelve fellows. Candidates for election must have reached the degree of M. There are records of disputes in and in which the friars are accused of preaching heresy, attacking individuals, reviling the University as a school of heretics, and speaking slightingly of the faculty of Arts, which 'inter omnes artes et scientias est singulariter commendanda, sicut janua et apertura ad omnes scientias alias'.
The University also fulminated against those who obtained degrees through influence, such persons being mostly found among the friars. They were also accused of enticing young boys to enter their order, an abuse which the University sought to check by passing a statute forbidding youths under 18 years of age to join any mendicant order.
In the following year the objectionable statute was annulled, and all proceedings taken by the friars against the University were stayed. He took the degree of Master of Arts in , and that of D. His heretical opinions on the temporal dominion of the Pope, excommunication and absolution, and the power of the civil authority over the Church were first officially challenged early in The committee reported the conclusions to be true, but male sonare in auribus auditorum, a well-known result of academical subtlety.
Early in Wyclif replied to his accusers before the archbishop and bishop, but again the proceedings were abortive owing to his popularity both with rich and poor. The first of the conclusions was that the consecrated host seen on the altar is neither Christ nor any part of Him, but an effective sign. The fact that six of the doctors were friars shows that the cleavage between Wyclif and the mendicants was at last complete. Wyclif had now ranged against him both monks and friars, most of the faculty of Theology, and the whole faculty of Law.
In objecting to the study of canon and civil law by regulars and the religious, Wyclif could at least claim papal authority, since Alexander III in had decreed that spirituales viri, who under pretext of learning concerned themselves with secular studies and attended lectures in physics or law, should return straightway to their cloisters under pain of excommunication, fn. In the papal system only the Canon Law had place, but at Oxford both Canon and Civil Law were studied by religious and secular alike.
In a new Chancellor, Robert Rigge, showed his sympathy with Wyclif by inviting Nicholas Hereford, an avowed opponent of the friars, to preach the sermon on Ascension Day. In a provincial synod called in May , at which many mendicants were present, twenty-four conclusions were condemned, ten as heretical and fourteen as erroneous. The decree was published both in the Province of Canterbury and at Oxford, where the Chancellor, Robert Rigge, again displayed his enmity to the friars, on this occasion through the agency of Philip Repingdon.
His influence at Oxford was short-lived. It was in remote country districts among the poor and uneducated that his doctrines at length took root. But there were other reasons besides heresy to account for the distressed state of the University.
The most important of these were the difficulties graduates experienced in obtaining advancement in the Church and the dissension in the Church itself caused by the Papal Schism. Church preferment was in the Middle Ages the normal reward which graduates reasonably expected.
From about letters to the Pope asking for the provision of benefices for members of the University became increasingly common, but the statute against provisors at length made such applications illegal. In the sum of marks was bequeathed by William de Selton, Canon of Wells.
The Heads of Halls might borrow up to 60s. Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury, in founded Canterbury College for both seculars and regulars. About five years later the college was organized on purely secular lines with John Wyclif as its first warden. During the next decade the scheme was reversed and the foundation put upon a purely monastic basis notwithstanding the opposition of Wyclif and his associates. The college then passed, with the consent of the king, to Christ Church, Canterbury.
Mary of Winchester in Oxford, the most magnificent of collegiate foundations up to that time, was erected in by the munificence of William of Wykeham. The college was endowed to support a warden, seventy scholars, ten chaplains, three clerks, and sixteen choristers. The question was again that of visitation, which at various times had led the University to oppose the King, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Bishop of Lincoln alike.
The Wyclif controversy now clearly showed the distribution of parties. The supporters of freedom of thought and action were the faculty of Arts and a few secular theologians, with the general support of the northern 'nation'. Those who ranged themselves with authority and orthodoxy were the faculties of Canon and Civil Law, most of the faculty of Theology, the friars and monks, and generally the southern 'nation'.
The power of the faculty of Arts was formidable. On that faculty the University itself was founded. It was the source and origin of all the other faculties, and it rightly claimed that it was primum docta, instituta, et fundata. The degree of M. In number the faculty far exceeded the others, and was composed of the younger and more energetic men.
In theological matters it took little interest. Masters of Arts were in fact not allowed to teach Theology. If from time to time they overstepped the bounds of orthodoxy they did so merely by the accident of academical argument. As a rule the faculty was well content in matters of faith to hold the opiniones probabiles it had always held. In there was a dispute between the faculties of Theology and Arts and those of Canon and Civil Law which was settled by episcopal arbitration, but with so little permanency that the award had to be confirmed by the king in The bull, therefore, at last made the University free of all ecclesiastical visitation.
Paul's in February In March the king ordered the Chancellor and masters to renounce publicly the alleged exemption, and later declared that the visitation of the University belonged to the Archbishop of Canterbury. In the bounds of the University were enlarged, and the Chancellor's jurisdiction accordingly extended. In the University obtained a charter by which any of its members accused of treason, insurrection, felony, and maim should be brought before a steward nominated by the Chancellor.
The steward was authorized to call a mixed jury of townsmen and privileged persons and to proceed 'secundum leges et consuetudines regni Angliae ac privilegia Universitatis'. The first steward mentioned in University records is John Norys, who was nominated and confirmed in The question of heresy was again revived by the Archbishop of Canterbury in A strict censorship of disputations was ordered to be maintained, and all the works of Wyclif and his adherents were to be examined by two boards of twelve persons chosen respectively by the two universities, and ordinance which marks the beginning of the censorship of books in this country.
Richard Fleming, afterwards Bishop of Lincoln, had in maintained in a disputation a proposition which, it was said, was Wyclifite. The question was referred to a committee, whose verdict was given in Fleming's favour in so far as it refrained from actual censure. Deeming this unsatisfactory, Fleming appealed to the king, the dispute being finally settled by a joint committee of eight nominated by Fleming and his accusers.
It was again asked to proceed and to draw up a list of errors. In June a list of sixty-one errors was condemned in a University Convocation, and about the same time some of Wyclif's works were publicly burnt. Although the University as a whole had never recognized the right of visitation, it had nevertheless been forced to accede to the revocation of the bull of The Chancellor, Thomas Prestbury, published the archiepiscopal citation on 28 June, but by a proctorial veto was prevented from sending the certificate of citation.
On the resignation of Prestbury, Richard Courtenay was elected Chancellor. The University's opposition to the metropolitan visitation was based on the assumption that the Archbishop contemplated inquiring into matters other than heresy, which led them to appeal to the king against the violation of their privileges.
The visitation, which began in August, was vigorously opposed by Courtenay and Thomas Birch, one of the proctors. The difficult and dangerous situation that had then developed was ended by the intervention of the king, who promised to mediate between the parties.
The Chancellor and the proctors having made their submission the matter was finally settled by a bull 20 Nov. With the letter was enclosed a list of forty-six articles for the reformation of the Church. These were more or less orthodox, but highly critical. The articles severely condemned simony, the sale of indulgences, the immorality and rapacity of prelates, absenteeism and pluralities, and lavish expenditure on food and shelter. Protest was made against the promotion of unworthy persons by influence, the non-observance of the Sabbath and saints' days, the assumption of mitres and sandals by abbots, and the neglect of hospitals.
The University demanded the removal of all ambiguity about friars hearing confessions, the restraint of friars enticing young persons into their orders, the cessation of the practice of friars begging in churches during service, and the extirpation of all heretics and Lollards. It advocated discipline and punishment for delinquent religious, the defining of the prerogatives of Canterbury and York, and the censorship of religious books translated into English.
The fourth article of Church reform contained an appeal for the promotion of graduates to benefices, then the most pressing need of the universities. The faculties of Theology and Canon Law in both universities were at this time petitioning that members of religious orders should be allowed to incept in those faculties without having fulfilled all the requirements of the statutes.
This concession had the full support of Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, who informed the universities of his views and at the same time drew up an ordinance for the promotion of their graduates. As the universities were prepared neither to accept the petition of the two faculties nor the ordinance as it stood, they were at once met by the archbishop's refusal to go forward with his scheme of relief.
In the universities weakened in their resistance, and, having accepted the petition, received in return the archbishop's welcome ordinance. In this respect there was no appreciable decline until the middle of the century, when lack of preferment, crushing internal indebtedness, and civil war had an accumulative effect.
The year following the archbishop's visitation in was marked by a statute which was at once a measure of reform and a peace offering. Richard Courtenay, the Chancellor, was undoubtedly responsible for the ordinance, which opened with promises of masses for the king as well as for his son, Prince Henry, who had been the successful mediator between the University on the one hand and the king and Archbishop Arundel on the other.
It provided that principals of halls were in future not to admit, except under certain conditions, scholars who had been expelled from other halls; the proctors were made responsible for entering new statutes in the statutebooks; investigation was to be made concerning guardians of chests and all pledges remaining in chests; collections for doctors, masters, and bedels were to be regularly paid; and a new Chest with Five Keys was to be created for the reception of whatever goods might accure to the University.
This remarkable code of rules for the good ordering of a library provided for the election of a chaplainlibrarian whose duties, salary, hours of attendance, and holidays were clearly stated. Discontent took a more dramatic turn in , when N. Senior then in London authored a report for the new Whig government effectively recommending the disestablishment of the Anglican Church of Ireland.
Blamed by association with Senior, Whately found the atmosphere in Oxford increasingly hostile, and so did not have to think twice when the Dublin preferment came up. In the aftermath of Whately's departure, the remaining Noetics at Oxford were besieged. Hampden had assumed the Whyte professorship of moral philosophy in , and pushed the Noetic envelope further in his Observations on Religious Dissent , advocating the abolition of religious tests and allow the admission of Dissenters into Oxford University a side-effect of the Cambridge petition to Parliament..
Hampden's pamphlet served as a lightning rod to send the High Churchmen into a frenzy. Froude, Edward Pusey, and others - groomed by the old Noetics but subsequently lulled by Lloyd, revolted against their elders. They were appalled by what they perceived as the open collaboration between the Noetics and the Whig government in dismantling the institutions of the Anglican Church, and the apparent willingness of the rest of the clergy to simply go along with it. This group of youngsters - known later as the "Oxford Movement" or simply "the Tractarians" - blamed not the Whigs, nor parliament, nor the general public, but rather placed the blame squarely on the clergy themselves.
The "attack" on the Church of England was not external, but internal. In their estimation, the clergy had grown so used to being part of the State, that they had practically forgotten they were part of the Church. The clergy did not vigorously defend their institutions and traditions, partly because were ignorant of them or did not appreciate their history and importance, and partly because they had reconciled themselves to subservience to the will of the State.
The "confessional sate", the idea that parliament served effectively as the ruling synod of the Church of England, might have worked well enough in the long decades of conservative Tory rule, but parliament was now in the hands of liberal Whigs, and included non-Anglican Dissenters and Catholics as MPs. In short, secularizers and unbelievers were in charge of the church. The Anglican church needs a new, separate identity, or more precisely - the Tractarians argued - to recover its old identity as a separate institution with its own distinct history, functions and social role.
Keble, Newman, Froude, Pusey et al. Starting in , the group began to put out a series of pamphlets known as the Tracts of the Times. Most of these were innocuous historical tracts, more interested in educating about church history than in engaging in abstract theological polemics. Their research into the history of the church morphed into a zeal for the revival of traditional High Anglicanism of the Caroline divines and a Romantic-tinged fascination with Medievalism.
The Tractarians urged a revival of old rituals and liturgies, bringing back vestments, candles and incense, to add color and inspire the imagination, and re-center church service on the holy communion and its mystery. The parish church should be re-cast not only as a spiritual center of the community, but also a social institution.
The parish priest should present himself as a community leader, not a state official, and assume the role of a countervailing force, rather than a conduit, of harsh state policies of the Whig era like the Poor Laws The Tractarians dominated intellectual life at Oxford in the s and early s.
The hyper-conservative, ultra-High Church views espoused by the Tractarians not only shocked their more liberal elders - like Hampden and Baden Powell, who were still at Oxford - it was also at odds with the general sentiment outside of Oxford. While their call for preserving the centrality of the Church of England institutions in English public life found some resonance, their emphasis on its traditional features, and calls for a return to older rituals and liturgies in the Church of England faced more resistance.
Critics derided their "smells and bells" ritualism and accused them of trying to reintroduce relics of "Romanism" into a solidly Protestant church. The Tractarians did not disavow the connection, and indeed emphasized the continuity between the Medieval Catholic church in England and the post-Reformation Church of England, seeing an unbroken line of apostolic succession, and a continuation of the sacraments.
The Tractarian conflict with the Noetics entered into high phase in with the vacancy of the powerful Regius Professorship of Divinity. They hit the pamphlets, with accusations that in his Bampton lectures on the history of the Scholastics , Hampden had postulated some irreligious ideas, insinuating that morals and theology had no connection with scriptural revelations. This was a caricature of Hampden's position - Hampden merely sought to show that the Scholastic arguments were historically conditioned, influenced by contemporary events.
In many ways it was orthodox Protestantism, suggesting the Scholastics were not authoritative over scripture, but it was precisely this that irritated the Tractarians, who were trying to revive the authority of the Patristic Fathers of the church. The High Church leaders of Oxford only heard that Hampden believed things like the Nicene creed or the doctrine of the Trinity might be mistaken, and hurriedly declared him unfit for the position.
Nonetheless, the Whig government pushed by Whately and Copleston went ahead and appointed Hampden to the professorship. It was met by a storm of protest in the Oxford community. The Tractarians and High Churchmen launched a campaign to retract the appointment, composing petitions to the King, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and urged other dioceses to join in the push.
When they seemed to make no headway with the government, the Tractarians went so far as to have the Convocation of Oxford pass a statute declaring the university had no confidence in Hampden, removing him from the boards selecting preachers and reviewing sermons, and releasing students of theology from the obligation to attend his lectures.
Although the statute was later declared illegal, it infuriated the Whig PM Viscount Melbourne, who was determined to hold his ground against pretensions of the "rebels of Oxford" to seize control of appointments. Hampden appointment to Divinity was confirmed, but in an act of mollification William Sewell, a sympathizer of the Tractarians, became the new Whyte professor of moral philosophy. William F.
Lloyd's tenure in the Drummond Chair came to an end in , and the search for his successor began at the height of the Tractarian movement. Sewell persuaded the theologian and future Christian Socialist, Frederick Denison Maurice to stand for the chair, and the Tractarians stood behind him. The Noetic candidate, Herman Merivale , a Whig and former Whately student at Oriel, threw his hat into the ring, but stood little chance.
Maurice's candidacy, favored by the High Churchmen, seemed a sure thing but then Maurice made some remarks on infant baptism that instantly turned the Tractarians against him. With Maurice's candidacy lost, Herman Merivale whose political Whig views were deplored, but at least had never made any religious comments of any kind slipped into the Drummond chair by default. Merivale's tenure ended in , and Senior himself decided to submit his candidacy.
But the High Churchmen were still riding high, and the chair went to a lawyer, Travis Twiss, instead. The Tractarians finally crossed the line with their in famous "Tract No. Or more precisely, in Newman's meticulously razor-thin difference, the Articles were ant-Roman, but not anti-Catholic. It garnered a vociferous response - by Whately among others. Despite the scandal of Tract No. But times were about to change. The Tractarians lost the battle for the Professorship of Poetry, which had been vacated by Keble in Their favored candidate, Isaac Williams, was soundly defeated, partly because of Pusey's own supportive circular letter had inadvertently identified some irregular religious opinions.
Emboldened by this victory, the Hebdomadal Council decided to follow it up in by vacating the statute against Hampden. In May , Pusey was accused of delivering a sermon on the Eucharist contrary to Anglican doctrine, after a brief secretive inquiry, found guilty and barred from preaching at Oxford for two years. Ward, a disciple of the Tractarians, practically condemning the Anglican Church as faithless compared to Catholicism.
The Oxford authorities launched an inquiry into Ward's book. In February , at the Oxford Convocation, Ward's book was condemned and Ward stripped of his degrees. A third measure, that would have empowered the Vice-Chancellor to launch an inquisition into the orthodoxy of any university member at any time, was vetoed by the Proctors. But it was only a temporary stay until the end of the Proctors' term of a year. In the aftermath, the Tractarian movement began to crumble.
A stream of resignations followed in the course of , as Tractarians one by one gave up their posts and future careers. Several the Tractarians notably starting with John Henry Newman in late formally converted to Catholicism proper. The Oxford Movement did not end, but it would have to continue outside of Oxford.
The discrediting of the Tractarians also weakened the High Church hold on Oxford after After fifteen years, the old Noetic Liberals were finally back on top. In , Nassau William Senior had few difficulties being elected again to the Drummond Chair in economics. Senior would serve his second term until But greater changes were about the befall Oxford. In the s, the old battle between the Scottish school and Oxford was resumed in the Edinburgh Review, this time between the Scottish philosopher Sir William Hamilton, a professor civil history at Edinburgh, and Vaughan Thomas, an Oriel graduate.
This time, the debate was not on the content of the curriculum as much as its implementation. Hamilton derided the tutorial format and argued in favor of lectures, blaming the fragmentary organization and excessive power of Oxford colleges. He also demanded that the classics be approached "philosophically", rather than "philologically". The Scottish-educated Whig-Liberal prime minister Lord John Russell took the matter in hand with the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the state of the university.
It consisted of seven commissioners, all respectable Oxonians, but many of them also liberals and reformers, connected with the old Oriel Noetics. This included the chair, Dr. Another Arnold disciple, Arthur P. Stanley was appointed to the powerful position of secretary to the commission Conservatives protested the composition of the commission, and the Oxford University authorities refused to cooperate.
The Convocation petitioned Queen Victoria to declare the commission unconstitutional, as it interfered with the college founder's wills. Even after its legality was established, Oxford moved into passive resistance - the university and the colleges refused to supply information to the commission, or even reply to its inquiries. But the Commission had its allies - notably the Oxford professors, most of whom had long hoped for reform but had been hitherto powerless.
The professors filled in and provided the information and evidence the authorities and colleges declined to provide. And its findings were harsh - indeed quite harsher than the equivalent report on Cambridge. The Commission Report characterized Oxford University authorities as an ecclesiastical oligopoly, its colleges negligent, and its students merely clerical office-seekers.
The education it offered was irrelevant and collegial instruction ineffective. There was little or no studying going on, students were mostly idle, college life indolent, most of their time occupied with "fornication, wine and betting". The commission commended the incentives of the honours examinations, but wanted curricular reform across the board.
As it stood, the Oxford curriculum provided no preparation for professional life, not even for the clergy. Logic, Oxford's central compulsory subject, was of dubious value, and only served to help students avoid mathematics. The report set out several recommendations: 1 open up the university administration to include the professors in government bodies, 2 stop relying on colleges, strengthen the central university, build up a corps of university teachers to do the bulk of the instruction; 3 allow specialization in the curriculum, focus more attention on mathematics and the sciences, 4 remove the ordination requirement for fellows albeit keep the celibacy requirement , 5 abolish special privileges reserved to certain families, schools or local districts, remove restrictions on scholarships and fellowships and open them up to competition on merit, 6 do something about making it cheaper, so middle class students can attend, e.
Pointedly, the report did not, however, recommend lifting the religious tests - although they did point out that the matriculation oath was probably a bad idea young students should not make solemn oaths about things they do not yet understand. The Commission Report was harsh enough to change the mind of William E. At the time, Gladstone was not only Russell's chancellor of the exchequer, he was also a member of parliament for Oxford University, a confirmed High Church man and had been one of the most vocal and strident opponents of the royal commission in Now, Gladstone took it upon himself to draft the Oxford Reform Bill, incorporating the commission's recommendations, and submitted it to parliament in March Gladstone wanted to give the university a chance to reform itself.
He wanted to avoid the spectacle of debates on open Commons floor, with wild parliamentarians writing statutes dictating the inner workings of the venerable ancient university and colleges. Instead, the Act set up a small Executive Commission with statutory powers to oversee the process.. The Hebdomadal council still initiated legislation, but it went through the Congregation first, and only in the end was thrown up to the Convocation for final approval.
The veto power of the Convocation was circumscribed only in the next century, in , as a result of the Asquith Commission. In teaching, the changes in the act were also not so dramatic. Many of the older university professorships were reset on new terms, strengthened and their number expanded. But the college tutorial system remained. The federal power of the central university was increased, but the colleges were still very powerful. The curriculum did began to change - although to be fair, changes had already begun before the report.
Not only in economics under the Drummond professors, but also in the natural sciences, with geology under William Buckland and Charles Lyell leading the way. The Oxford museum of natural history had opened already in Indeed, Oxford was probably moving at a faster pace than Cambridge at this time. The main obstacle to curricular reform was not so much institutional, as personal. Many professors simply did not have the time or inclination to build it up..
The repeal of religious tests was not recommended by the Report, nor in Gladstone's original bill. They believed that the religious question should be dealt with separately, and did not want to risk sinking university reform because of it. But the lifting of religious tests had been demanded for very long by Radicals and the urban Dissenters that formed the popular base of the Whigs.
The question was virtually unavoidable, and was fiercely fought during the Commons debate. It was also influenced by the contemporary Northcote-Trevelyan report, proposing to overhaul the British Civil Service, open up competition and recruit on merit. As many of these position would require degrees, maintaining the religious tests to exclude Dissenters from universities would be needlessly narrowing the pool of talent from which the civil service could draw.
The removal of many but not all religious tests was included in the act - most notably the oath at matriculation and the oath at taking a B. Dissenters non-Anglicans were finally allowed to matriculate and get BA degrees from Oxford University. However, the religious test was not lifted from the MA degree, and as a result they were still excluded from participation in Oxford government bodies. Nor did they lift any religious restrictions that might be attached to college lectureships, fellowships or scholarships.
The struggle for full repeal continued, and bills to abolish all remaining religious restrictions was introduced in , and thereafter again yearly, G. Goschen was one of the prime promoters of the campaign at Oxford Fawcett was equally vigorous at Cambridge.. Gladstone's Liberal party put it on their platform in , but could not get it passed before the Conservatives returned to power in Gladstone lost his Oxford seat as a result.
But the fight continued. After repeated tries, the bill finally passed Commons in , but failed at Lords. The Liberals returned to power in , and kept trying. At last, in , they included it in the Queen's speech. After a year's delay, it was finally passed.
It would take some time to implement, and in an Executive Commission was appointed to sniff out and repeal of any remaining religious restrictions in the nooks and crannies of college endowments and fellowships.. In sum, the Reform made university government more democratic, reorganized and strengthened the professoriat, set curricular reform moving towards modern specializations, and got rid of special privileges and religious restrictions.
It significantly changed the character of Oxford - it broke the ecclesiastical grip on the university, cleared out the clerical office-seekers and set it on track to becoming a proper educational institution. Student enrolment climbed in the aftermath. Needless to say, the Tractarians, already in decline, were finished off by the Act. The days of high clericalism and doctrinal quarrels were over. The old vision of the Noetics, the educational philosophy of Copleston, Whately and especially Arnold, triumphed in the aftermath.
Although the colleges were still powerful, a new generation of tutors emerged - such as Benjamin Jowett at Balliol College - whose mission was not merely to teach classics and mathematics, but to mold the character and morals of Oxford students in a broader secular sense. Although the new, expanding post-reform professoriate nudged it in a scientific direction, with more specialization, it did not embrace the German model, it did not focus on research. Oxford's new educational mission was the holistic training of leaders, politicians, civil servants and teachers, for the benefit of Britain and the British empire.
It is a mistake to conclude that Oxford became more open in the aftermath of the reform. In certain ways, it became more exclusive and elitist than ever. With the clerics gone, Oxford became more firmly a finishing school for the affluent and powerful. True, it became slightly less aristocratic, but, at the same time, also less accessible to the lower classes. Post-reform Oxford became essentially the private province of the new upper middle classes, with the goal of turning the children of wealthy manufacturers, merchants and professionals, into a new gentlemanly ruling class.
In the half-century between and , Oxford was essentially closed off to the poor, and contributed to the increase, rather than decrease, of social class divisions in English society. This had not always been the case. A clerical career had always been the ticket for bright but poor children to escape their social station. The original purpose of the Oxford colleges, when they were erected back in the 14th and 15th Centuries, was precisely to provide room and board for poor students.
The children of the nobility and gentry had invaded the colleges after the 16th C. Reformation, but the lower classes were never closed off. There were ample amounts of scholarships and exhibitions available to the poor, and grammar schools erected and affiliated to the colleges provided a ladder inside. All this was now gone. The Act, in sweeping away "special privileges", also swept away Oxford's traditional however rickety affirmative action for the poor.
Clauses about needy students or local districts were erased, and open competition for places and scholarships on the basis of merit alone usually meant they were all snapped up by the upper classes. With the old public and grammar school connections severed, a series of new private boarding schools rose up in the wake of the reform - Cheltenham, Haileybury, Malvern, Rossall - to prepare the upper middle class children for the competitions. The lower classes did not stand a chance.
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