Early collections of English ballads were made by Samuel Pepys ( 1633 – 1703 ) and in the Roxburghe Ballads collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 – 1724 ).

Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, brokered his release in exchange for Defoe's co-operation as an intelligence agent for the Tories.

In despair, he wrote to William Paterson the London Scot and founder of the Bank of England and part instigator of the Darien scheme, who was in the confidence of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, leading minister and spymaster in the English Government.

* 1661 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman ( d. 1724 )

* December 5 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman ( d. 1724 )

* May 21 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman ( b. 1661 )

Walpole developed an intense hatred for Robert Harley ( by then Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ) and Lord Bolingbroke, the Tories who had engineered his impeachment.

Harley was rewarded for the scheme by being created Earl of Oxford on 23 May 1711 and was promoted to Lord High Treasurer.

To do this, Harley ( newly created Earl of Oxford ) and St John first needed to bring charges of corruption against the Duke, completing the anti-Whig, anti-war picture that Jonathan Swift was already presenting to a credulous public through his pamphleteering, notably in his Conduct of the Allies ( 1711 ).

The Backstairs Dragon: The Life of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford.

He also gained the favour of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford.

With Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford ( who was then the secretary of the treasury and not a peer ), he produced the Tory Examiner, and Arbuthnot made their acquaintance and began to provide " hints " to them.

It was this house that hosted the meetings of the Scriblerus Club, which had as its members Harley ( now Earl of Oxford ), St. John ( now Viscount Bolingbroke ), Pope, Gay, Swift, and Thomas Parnell.

The party in the administration of Robert Harley ( created Earl of Oxford and Mortimer on 23 May 1711 ) and the Viscount Bolingbroke proved more flexible at the bargaining table and were characterised by the Whigs as " pro-French "; Oxford and Bolingbroke persuaded the Queen to create twelve new " Tory peers " to ensure ratification of the treaty in the House of Lords.

His relationship with Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford was damaged.

His travels to sites across England, with enthusiasts such as Edward Harley ( Earl of Oxford ), Lord Coleraine

He attached himself to Robert Harley ( afterwards Lord Oxford ), then speaker, and distinguished himself by his eloquence in debate, eclipsing his schoolfellow, Robert Walpole, and gaining an extraordinary ascendancy over the House of Commons.

Bolingbroke pictured alongside Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | the earl of Oxford, together with a portrait of Francis Atterbury.

In May, Harley obtained the earldom of Oxford and was made lord treasurer, while in July, St John was greatly disappointed at receiving only his viscountcy instead of the earldom lately extinct in his family, and at being passed over for the Order of the Garter.

* Robert Harley, author, statesman, and friend to the " tory wits ," who had been involved in Anne's ministry for some time, was created Earl of Oxford.

This condemnation parallels that issued to the chief ministers of the Tory government that had made peace with France, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, who was impeached and imprisoned in the Tower of London from 1715 to 1717 ; and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, who, after his political fall, received vague threats of capital punishment and fled to France in 1715, where he remained until 1723.

The title Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer was created in the Peerage of Great Britain for Robert Harley in 1711.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use ( as " Androides ") to Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.

In 1877, he won an open scholarship to St John's College, Oxford, where he studied classics.

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The first Dominican site in England was at Oxford, in the parishes of St. Edward and St. Adelaide.

* 1355 – The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.

In Europe, it is believed that in 1885 the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club was formed to play the first Ice Hockey Varsity Match against traditional rival Cambridge in St. Moritz, Switzerland, although this is undocumented.

Wycliffe's contest with Owtred and William Wynham ( or Wyrinham or Binham ) of Wallingford Priory and St Albans, the Benedictine professor of theology at Oxford, were formerly unknown, as were the earlier ones with William Wadeford.

On his death in the following year, his property was bequeathed to various charitable causes, including St Bartholomew's Hospital and University College, Oxford, where the Radcliffe Quad is named after him.

In June 2008, he was appointed as Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine's College, Oxford, succeeding Patrick Stewart in the post.

She studied at St Paul's Girls ' School, read history at Somerville College, Oxford, England, and became the first female president of the Oxford University Archaeological Society.

In 1962, she was appointed Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford.

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He attended King Edward VI Grammar School and following two years in the Royal Air Force read law at St Peter's College, Oxford.

He is also an honorary fellow of his alma mater, St Peter's College, Oxford.

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The couple marry on 8 October 1935, at St. Cross Church, Holywell Street, Oxford, as depicted in the opening collection of letters and diary entries in Busman's Honeymoon.

In 1991 Palin worked as producer and actor in the film American Friends based upon a real event in the life of his great grandfather, a fellow at St John's College, Oxford.

St. Mary Magdalene was the patron of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Magdalene College, Cambridge ( both colleges pronounce her name as " maudlin ").

The letters form part of Graves's bequest to St. John's College, Oxford.

St George's Tower at Oxford Castle, where Stephen almost captured the Empress Matilda

An early graduate of Oxford ( St. John's College, 1586 ), he was vicar of Wherwell, Hampshire ( 1587 – 1605 ) when ousted for Puritanical leanings under James I. Bachiler married Helena Mason, the widow of Revd.

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