OXONIENSIA

VOLUME XLIII 1978

PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY THE OXFORDS HIRE ARCHITECTURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY , EDITORIAL NOTICE

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Hon. Seeretary: DAVID SWITH, 62 Bath Road, . The Society'S Records Section, started in 1959, publishes an annual volume of records of Banbury or its neighbourhood (including parts of Northamptonshire and Warwickshire as well as Oxfordshire). Publications already issued or in preparation include: Index to Wills Proved in the Peculiar Court oj Banbury, 154R- 1858. M.rrwge Register of Banbury, '558-,837 (3 par",). Baptism and Burial Register oj Banbury, Part One, 1558-165g; Part Two, 16jj-1 7 Rg. ClockmaJcing in Oxfordshire, 1400-1850, by Dr. C. F. C. Beeson, in co-operation with the Antiquarian Horological Society. South Newington Churchu/(UJens' Accounts, 156o-166R, ed. E. R. C. Brinkworth, M.A. A Victorian M.P. and his Constituents: 1M Correspondence of H. W. Tancred, 18#1- 1859, ed. B. S. Trinder, B.A. SIwemaJr.er's Window, ruolkctions of Banbury before the railway age, by George Herbert, 2nd edition, ed. B. S, Trinder, B.A. Wigginton Constables' Accounts, 1691- 1836, ed. F. D. Price, M.A., F.S.A. Banbury Invmwrits and Wills, 1591- 165°, ed. E. R. C. Brinkworth and J. S. W. Gibson. Banbury Politics, 18go-1880, by B. S. Trinder, B.A. Parish Accounts for the • Town I of Bodicote I70D-18u, ed. J. H. Fearon. BanhuryCorporation Records: Tudor and Stuart, ed. J. S. W. Gibson and E. R . C. Brinkworth. The Society's magazine CaJu and CocJcJrq,u is issued to all members three times a year.

Subscriptions should be sent to: Mrs. S. GOSLING, Banbury Museum, Marlborough Road, Banbury. £3'00 Ordinary Members; £4'50 Record Memben. Back numben and records volumes still in stock are available from Banbury Museum. OXONIENSIA

A JOURNAL DEALING WITH THE ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTOR Y AND ARCHITECTURE OF OXFORD AND ITS EIGHBOURHOOD

VOLUME XLIII 1978

PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY THE OXFORDSHIRE ARCHITECTURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM, OXFORD 1979 (D The Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society, 1979. CONTENTS

Page Roman Burials around Dorchester-on·Thames. By Mary Harman, G. Lambrick, D. Miles and T. Rowley

Rescue excavation in Dorchester-on-Thames. By Richard Bradley -

The Archaeology of the Charlhury to Arncott Gas Pipeline, '972. By R. A. Chambers 40

Frewin Hall, Oxford: A Norman Mansion and a Monastic College. By John Blair 48

Excavations on the Site of Eynsham Abbey, 1971. By Margaret Gray and Nicholas Clayton - 100

J. C. Buckler, Tackley's Inn and Three Medieval Houses in Oxford. By Julian Munhy 123

Post-Restoration Bishops of Winchester as Visitors of Oxford Colleges. By Ronald K. Pugh 170

Working-class Housing in Oxfordshire. By Crispin Paine, et ai. 188

, Oxford Jackson'. By Alistair Martin - 216

Public Library Facilities in Oxford hefore 1914. By Malcolm Graham 222

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