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Excerpt from A Register of the Members of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford, Vol. 1: From the Foundation of the College; Fellows, to the Year 1520
IN 1853 the first volume appeared of the Register of the Members of Saint Mmy Magdalen College, by John Rouse Bloxam, D.D., Fellow and Librarian. This volume contains the Choristers. Vols. II and III, published in 1857 and 1863, contain the Clerks, Chaplains, Organists, Schoolmasters, and Ushers, the second volume having also, by way of introduction, a very full and accurate history of the Chapel and the choral service, with an appendix of extracts from the Bursars' accounts relating to the same. In 1881 appeared the seventh volume of this series, being the fourth and last volume of the Register of Demies. A complete index of names in the seven volumes, compiled under the direction of the present writer, was published by the College two years afterwards. The book was the first of its kind; the materials were sought for in records hitherto neglected, or, at any rate, neglected since the time when Chandler wrote his careful and accurate se of W ayne?ete; and the spirit which ani mated the author's researches was that of a true Oxford antiquary, united with an 'amor loci' which could not be exceeded. And while the greater part was in progress many sources of information which have since been laid open, through Catalogues and Calendars and the publica tions of societies, were unknown or inaccessible.
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