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Rupert, Prince, attempts to recapture Abingdon, 94

begins the civilisation of England, 98

St Frideswides receives new Protestant bishopric of Oxford, 114 St John, Chapel of, in Tower, windows of, 91

Sandford, change in character of soil at, 8 Saxon Chronicle, first mention of Oxford in, 58

Seymour, obtains Chertsey, 178; obtains Radley, 178

Sheen, monastery of, late foundation of, 117

Sir Philip Hoby obtains Bisham, 176

Smith. See Cromwell

Somerford Keynes, ford at, 23

Sonning, fate of land of, 181, 182

Squires. See Oligarchy

Stephen, Civil Wars under, Tower besieged during, 90 Stonehouse obtains Radley, 178 Stow, in Lincolnshire, mother house at Eynsham, 115

Stratton, monastic lands of, sold by Oliver Williams, 172

Stuart contrasted with weakness of Tudor character, 159

Sweyn at Oxford, 59

Talbot, Member of the Commons consenting to loot of monasteries, 157

Taxes a basis for calculation of prices, 143, 144

Tenant right under monastic system, 162

Thomas Rowland, last Abbot of Abingdon, 150