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66 theatres; thereby following, or endorsing, the statement of Wood.

The Second Charles and his Queen were at Christ Church in 1665, when, on November 7th, the first number of "The Oxford Gazette" appeared, printed on a half sheet, and on but one side of the paper. It was carried to London, after the issue of a few copies, to become "The London Gazette," with an unbroken record of considerably over two centuries, thus establishing for Oxford another Literary Landmark,—such as it is.

The intelligent local guide, whose boast it was that he "could do the 'alls, collidges, and principal hedifices in a nour and a naff," and whose descendants, and successors, still direct attention to the sights of the town and the University, informed the Squire of Manor Green, pointing to Christ Church, that that edifice was "built by Card'nal Hoolsy four 'undered foot long and the famous Tom Tower as tolls wun undered and wun hevery night that being the number of stoodents on the foundation." With Tom Tower and the great Cardinal the present chronicler has nothing to do. But of such students of the Foundation as have left behind them footprints in books he will try to deal; touching just here, in passing, upon the fact, that students of high degree, in the way of rank