Oxford Author:Edward Marshall Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Introduction Continued. A.u. 1500—A.d. 1528. Wolsey and Oxford—Suppression of St. Frideswide's Monastery—Foundation of Cardinal College, and of ... more »King Henry VIII.'s College—Later Architecture. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, a period of more than four hundred years had elapsed from the time of the removal of the see of Dorchester to Lincoln ;l and for so long an interval the county of Oxford had lost from within its extent the bishop's seat. But the course of events in the English Church was now leading by various steps to the re-establishment of the former position of the county in this respect, under new conditions. The earlier proceedings in the religious movement of the reign of Henry VIII. did not affect the county of Oxford, nor the extensive see within which it was comprised, in any special manner, with the exception that Wolsey became the Dean and Bishop of Lincoln before his promotion to the archbishopric of York. From the time, however, that Colet, Erasmus, and More, had been present together at Oxford as the representatives and promoters of the new learning, there had been within the University a growth of fresh principles and new ideas, which were to be 1 Supra, pp. 23-25. developed and made permanent for the future by the great institution of which Wolsey was the founder; which was destined to occupy so prominent a place, and exercise so large an influence in the ecclesiastical affairs of the diocese. Wolsey had found an early patron in Richard Fox, the Bishop of Winchester, who proved himself the wise and prudent, no less than the generous, founder of Corpus Christi College. For, after his work had been begun, he did not refuse to listen to the advice of Hugh Oldham, the Bishop of Exeter, who, in this instance, was more far-sight...« less