Crossword-Solution: OXENFORD 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me are thy repositories of moldering learning.

And, following older custom, a stationer set upon each book a price greater than its real value, to lead borrowers to take more care of it.[356] From a manuscript preserved in the library of Earl Fitzwilliam at Wentworth Woodhouse are taken the following curious lines indicating the character and arrangement of his books:-- “At Oxenford thys lord his bookis fele [many] Hath eu’y clerk at werk.

The Wife took for her fifth husband, “God his soule blesse,” a clerk of Oxenford-- “He was, I trowe, a twenty winter old, And I was fourty, if I shal seye sooth.” Joly Jankin, as the clerk was called, “Hadde a book that gladly, night and day, For his desport he wolde rede alway.

Whilom there was dwelling in Oxenford A riche gnof*, that *guestes held to board*, *miser *took in boarders* And of his craft he was a carpenter.

Here is part of the Cantab’s epigram: ‘To Oxenford the King has gone, With all his mighty peers, That hath in peace maintained us, These five or six long years.’ The poem maunders on for half a dozen lines, and ‘loses itself in the sands,’ like the River Rhine, without coming to any particular point or conclusion.