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127 is by no means directly opposite the church, The Golden Cross, a very ancient tavern, being much nearer to the corner. Murray, in his "Handbook of Oxfordshire," says that the site of the Crown is now occupied by the Metropolitan Bank, on the west side.

Aga's "Plan of Oxford," an original copy of which, much worn and torn, is preserved in the Bodleian Library, shows distinctly, a narrow country lane running between the grave-yard of St. Martin's Church and the site of the Bank, which seems to occupy the old site of the front of the present Crown; and this would show the present Crown to have been, in days gone by, at least "opposite the church."

But later and very careful and conscientious and intelligent inquirers have established what they consider to be undoubtedly the site as on the west side of Cornmarket Street No. 3, south of The Roebuck, and on premises now occupied by a firm of tailors, Messrs. Hookham & Gadney. The old Crown Inn, they say, was pulled down in 1773, when an unquestionably old Inn, over the way, which was in the habit of changing its name, thought this a good opportunity to call itself The Crown; and as The Crown it is still known.

Not many years ago a workman, making some