Register of the University of Oxford, vol I

Excerpt from Register of the University of Oxford, Vol. 1: 1449-63; 1505-71 The printed Catalogue of Oxford Graduates only begins with the year 1659, but the materials exist from which a continuous list of, degrees since 1505 may be made out. These materials are to be found in the Registers of Congregation; and'there is a mutilated Register of even earlier date, containing the years from 1449 to 1463. Unfortunately we cannot go back as far as the time of Pope Alexander V, who was b.d. Of Oxford and DD. Of Paris more than half a century previously'. In Some foreign universities still earlier registers are preserved. Heidelberg has just published a roll of members, which begins in 1386. We could do something more by consulting the documents preserved in the Col leges thus the list of fellows at Exeter College begins in 1318, at New College in 1386. The present volume gives all the names contained in the four earliest Registers, and a part of the fifth so far as the year 1570 - 71. Here we st0p for the present, as the Lists of Matriculations begin about this date - for some Colleges a little earlier and for some a little later3. The next volume will combine the matriculations'and degrees together, and be especially valuable for the literary history of the Elizabethan and early Stuart age. These five Registers are preserved in the Archives of the University, and may be described as follows (1 - 5) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.