relations with Abbey of Abingdon, 306, 308;
with London, 308, 309;
mayor substituted for reeve, 310;
town-life, _ib._, 311;
barons swear fealty to Henry Fitz-Empress at, 227;
Richard I. born at, 259;
Friars settle in, ii. 12;
Charles I. at, vi. 3, 4;
blockade of, 19;
"bargemen" of, i. 308;
charters, 309;
church of St. Martin, 283, 306, 310;
of St. Mary, 287, 288;
Jews at, 307; ii. 127-129;
merchant-gild, i. 308;
Parliament at, ii. 60; v. 246; vi. 226, 322, 323;
Portmannimote of, i. 306, 309;
Port-meadow, 296, 306;
Provisions of, ii. 61;
University of, i. 285-287;
Gerald of Wales at, 285;
a papal legate mobbed at, 287; ii. 42;
study of Aristotle at, i. 288, 293, 294;
foreign students at, 291;
revival of theology at, ii. 14;
Roger Bacon at, 16, 17;
attitude towards English liberty in thirteenth century, 22;
Wyclif at, 276;
ordered to condemn and arrest him, 310;
condemns him, 337;
displaces his opponents, _ib._;
Wykeham's College at, 308;
Lollardry at, 339-341;
Duke Humphrey bequeaths his library to, iii. 40, 161;
decay of scholarship at, 98;
revival of Greek at, 190, 194, 202;
Cardinal College at, 202, 262, 265;
Lutheranism at, 262, 263;
forced to approve Henry VIII.'s divorce, 292;
opposes the royal supremacy, iv. 162;
religious changes in, 304;
Catholic refugees from, at Douay, 317;
protests against the Millenary Petition, v. 152;
declares for passive obedience, 170; vii. 1;
James II.'s dealings with, 25, 26;
Jacobitism in, 184;
Methodists at, 205;
supports the younger Pitt, viii. 69

Oxford, Robert de Vere, third Earl of. _See_ Vere

Oxford, Robert de Vere, ninth Earl of. _See_ Vere

Oxford, John de Vere, twelfth Earl of, iii. 142, 177

Oxford, Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of, iv. 318, 353, 358

Oxford, Aubrey de Vere, twentieth Earl of, vii. 23

Oxford, Robert Harley, Earl of (_see_ Harley), vii. 145

Packenham, General, viii. 205

Palatinate,
war in the, v. 220;
the Elector driven from, 226;
reconquered by Gustavus of Sweden, 276

Pale, the English,
in Ireland, ii. 374;
divided into counties, 376

Pampeluna, siege of, viii. 202

Pandulf, Cardinal, i. 333, 337, 344; ii. 3, 6

Papacy, the,
its relations with England under Henry II