Chapter XVI: Old Oxford.--A.d. 1200 to 1300

Description of Oxford in the thirteenth century. Its customs. St.
Edmund of Canterbury. Robert Grosteste. The arrival of the Friars.
Distinguished Dominican and Franciscan scholars. Roger Bacon.
Nicholas de Lyra. St. Richard of Chichester, Chancellor of Oxford.
Opposition of the secular clergy to the mendicants. Decay of pure
Latinity. Kilwarby, and John of Peckham. St. Thomas of Hereford,
Chancellor of Oxford. Rise of Oxford Colleges, Baliol and Merton
Colleges. The monastic colleges of Gloucester and Durham. Exeter
College. 476