(EARL OF) OXFORD, HOSTEL OF

South out of Camomile Street extending to Bishopsgate St. in the parish of St. Augustine in the Wall, now All Hallows in the Wall (S. 164).

Stow describes it as a large stone and timber messuage in the time of Henry V.

Described in 1348-9 as in Bishopsgate Street in the parish of St. Ethelburga (Ct. H.W. I. 513).

In Stow's time it was let to Powlters in small tenements and called Oxford Place (S. 164).

In O. and M. 1677 the site is occupied by numerous small courts and alleys, and the name is commemorated in Great Oxford Court and Little Oxford Court (q.v.).

Site now occupied by Bishopsgate Avenue, etc.