Portal:University of Oxford/Selected quotation/47
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|quote=Neither rope-dancers nor players (who go on the stage for gain's sake), nor sword-matches, or sword players are to be permitted within the University of Oxford. All stage-players, rope-dancers and fencers transgressing are to be incarcerated.
|link=William Laud
|detail=Chancellor of the University and Archbishop of Canterbury, from his University Statutes of 1636
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Source
- {{cite book|title=The Oxford Book of Oxford|author=Morris, Jan|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780192804075|year=2009|origyear=1978|page=78}}