• The parliamentary visitation of the University of Oxford was a political and religious purge taking place from 1647, for a number of years. Many Masters...
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    Thomas (c. 1540-1610/1611), parliamentary diarist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/60713...
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  • Francis Drope (category Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford)
    ejected in the Parliamentary visitation of the University of Oxford; he had probably, like his brother, borne arms for the king. He then became an assistant-master...
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    Francis Mansell (category Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford)
    Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, on three occasions: from 1620 to 1621; from 1630 to 1648, when he was ejected by the Parliamentary visitation of the University...
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  • John Betts (physician) (category Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
    during the parliamentary visitation of the University of Oxford. He applied himself to the study of medicine, and accumulated the degrees of M.B. and M...
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    raised to the peerage as Baron Cromwell of Wimbledon. Cromwell orchestrated the Dissolution of the Monasteries and visitations to the universities and colleges...
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  • Peter Turner (mathematician) (category Alumni of the University of Oxford)
    chair after the 1648 Parliamentary visitation of Oxford, and lived in poverty with his sister in Southwark. list of Gresham Professors of Geometry "Turner...
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  • William Fuller (bishop) (category Bishops of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe)
    Lord Lyttelton. In the parliamentary visitation of the University of Oxford, he lost his position at Christ Church. During the Protectorate, he supported...
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  • Church, Oxford, in 1644. He was a conspicuous opponent of the parliamentary visitation of the University of Oxford, and was expelled from the university on...
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  • Michael Roberts (college principal) (category Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford)
    1637 for failing to take his DD. In 1648, during the Parliamentary visitation of the University of Oxford, Francis Mansell was ejected from his position...
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  • Joshua Childrey (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    been expelled from his college in 1648 by the Parliamentary visitation of the University of Oxford. Until the Restoration Childrey kept a school, at Faversham...
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  • 1648. He was a parliamentary commissioner for the visitation of the University. Doyley married Mary Shirley, daughter of Sir John Shirley of Isfield Sussex...
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    continue. None of the same legislation and visitation had applied to the houses of the friars. At the beginning of the 14th century there had been around 5...
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    (visitation) was set up by Parliament "for the correction of offences, abuses, and disorders" in the University of Oxford. Nathaniel Brent was the president...
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  • William Finmore (category Archdeacons of Chester)
    Church in 1647 at the time of the parliamentary visitation of the University of Oxford. In the Register of the Visitors of Oxford for that year, he is...
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    Mary Goudie, Baroness Goudie (category Councillors in the London Borough of Brent)
    at Our Lady of the Visitation, Greenford, and Our Lady of St Anselm School, Hayes. In 1971, Goudie became the youngest woman elected to the Brent London...
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  • John Jackson (minister) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    Intruded as a fellow during the Parliamentary visitation of the University of Cambridge, he was expelled in 1650 as a result of the engagement controversy...
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    Richard Allestree (category Regius Professors of Divinity (University of Oxford))
    He was buried in the chapel of Eton College. His writings are: The Privileges of the University of Oxford in point of Visitation (1647) – a tract answered...
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    Thomas Hare (political reformer) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    Thornton. The Machinery of Representation (1857) A Treatise on Election of Representatives, Parliamentary and Municipal (1859) The Election of Representatives...
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  • told the Parliamentary Commissioners of Visitation on 28 August 1690, that he had seen the Bull at the Scots College in Paris, together with the many...
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    The warden of New College, Oxford, is the college's principal. The officeholder is responsible for the college's academic leadership, chairing its governing...
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  • Nathaniel Brent (category Wardens of Merton College, Oxford)
    president of the parliamentary commission, or visitation, ordered by Parliament "for the correction of offences, abuses, and disorders" in the University of Oxford...
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    Dictionary, 1500 to the Present. McFarland. p. 28. ISBN 9780786438099. Howard, Joseph J.; Crisp, Frederick A. (1 September 1997). Visitation of England and Wales...
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    City of London and is recorded in the Smythe pedigree taken during the Heraldic Visitation of London in 1568 and the Visitation of Kent in 1619 as the daughter...
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    The Visitation of Herefordshire, 1634, 2002, pp68-69 Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Weaver, Edmond" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of...
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  • Timothy Clarke (category Original fellows of the Royal Society)
    physician, a founding Fellow of the Royal Society. He was a member of Balliol College, Oxford at the time of the parliamentary visitation in May 1648. He refused...
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    Elias Ashmole (category Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford)
    collection, his antiquarian library and priceless manuscripts to the University of Oxford to create the Ashmolean Museum, Britain's first public museum. Ashmole...
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  • Robert Payne (natural philosopher) (category Fellows of Pembroke College, Oxford)
    Oxford, and to reduce the hostility of Gilbert Sheldon. The Parliamentary visitation of Oxford in 1648 saw Payne deprived of his college position. He ended...
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    Bertrand Evelyn Mellish Gurdon (category Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire)
    Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed & Official Classes. Kelly's Directories. 1921. p. 764. Howard, Joseph Jackson (1902). Visitation of England and Wales...
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  • John Puleston (judge) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20100. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Visitation of Shropshire 1623...
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