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Excerpt from A History of the University of Oxford: From the Earliest Times to the Year 1530
The recent foundation of the Oxford Historical Society encourages the hope that in the future there will be more of independent research. Its publications will doubtless supply details concerning the internal history of most of the Colleges, especially during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. With regard, however, to the general history of the University during the middle ages, I fear that the researches of the Society are not likely to reveal the existence of many im portant documents other than those to which references will be found in the following pages. The materials for such a history often fail just at the point where fuller information would be desirable, and the formal Latin writs from which I have sought to extract all available information do not afford the lively pictures of academical life that are to be found in the English State Papers and familiar letters of a subsequent period. In the absence of authentic records, little can be said about the early life of some of the most distinguished men who have taught in the schools of Oxford.
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