july july antiquarian academic university_of_oxford educated oxford fellow college published main work history university designed prove oxford older cambridge_university described modern writer remarkable achievement young scholar main accomplishment play leading role revision university statutes chancellor university_of_oxford archbishop_of_canterbury rewarded appointment new position role obtained new royal charter oxford confirm rights privileges helped university disputes city authorities education early career born near july surrey london father translator doctor grandfather antiquarian educated oxford father college probably attending grammar school sussex father lived february taking place normally kept scholar county borough southampton vacancy county surrey system corpus admitting students taking county vacancy unusual obtained bachelor_of_arts degree july despite assistance father patron 1st earl lord high treasurer chancellor university failed elected fellowship oxford studied mathematician encountering modern developments astronomy navigation learned french italian hebrew fellow corpus ordained following year later vicar sussex stayed oxford parish duties undertaken history university published main work described keeper archives oxford controversial character kind establish reputation sound historian history university_of_oxford appear print addressed dispute oxford older oxford contention originally established greek philosophers leadership war cambridge claimed founded king spain pre christian era said contrast oxford founded alfred great 9th century historian published new edition life alfred 9th century welsh monk edition recorded stating alfred visited oxford settle disputes students university existed visit strengthened oxford claim older cambridge light publication began collecting material establish oxford senior university given permission university borrow documents purpose work running pages volumes relies archive documents held university colleges city oxford material works homer aristotle classical authors submitted work inspection university committee early approved committee members praising book style learning gibson described remarkable achievement young scholar appears records considerable doubts material edition unable find reference alfred visit oxford known manuscript work challenged said came copy sent sir oxford generally thought responsible passage false claim knew recent history university says time opinions subject oxford founded received tolerance better informed english dedicated work 1st earl died earlier published university printer required guarantees costs gibson view probably provided earl paying customary work oxford studied manuscripts library founded father gave books library died contributors volume verse commemorating wrote poems latin greek recalled comment king james ought called sir displeased work librarian complaining library authorities november missing manuscripts inaccurate records delays new acquisitions librarian poor attendance habit scattering papers james conduct president corpus appointed greek lecturer resigned fellowship apparently according 17th century oxford historian avoid having choose support dispute college president secure academic advancement hoped appointed professor ancient history death resignation professor according promised conversation patent sealed march year effect read university governing body january wrote shortly patent signed said tricked foul play intend appoint end died years house_of_commons committee criticised things excessive statutes archives university statutes time written registers chancellor chancellor register dated contents rearranged registers dated better arrangement repealed statutes remained ones current appointed strong committee statutes came work led efforts improve archives corpus producing volumes manuscript title deeds new appointed new chancellor university archbishop_of_canterbury revise statutes members librarian later replaced committee professor civil law inventory university archives assisted carried bulk work drafting new statutes reported university governing body september work complete vice chancellor asked turner final revision requested write historical account previous attempts reform statutes preface intense displeasure preface wrote shortened rewritten extensively turner reward university keeper archives appointed august new statute governing position noted losses oxford suffered keeping archives need experienced person charge advise university officers defending interests paid annually levy graduate undergraduate sought obtain royal confirmation oxford rights privileges city oxford subordinate university match position cambridge new royal charter obtained confirm revised statutes successor keeper archives moved rooms tower orders library wooden presses built time store use advised university authorities disputes city fathers relation courts licensing markets matters spurred according historian university violent wrote near university body result actions rejecting minor claims local inhabitants led worthless litigation personal life knowledge private life derived habit blank sides letters received making notes way letters father survived student wrote assuring father working hard asking money clothes books cheese complained employ carry tasks making fire father shown keen player later father raised issue marriage anxious forward reasons father suggestion came wrong time example lack income father death freed parental pressure marry surviving son led father estate remained single rest life death legacy died july having earlier day left books manuscripts college university friends assisted final illness manuscript collections amounted main volumes pages material buried chapel hard working researcher collector manuscripts highly regarded consulted legal scholar historian archbishop later described greatest oxford collections said greatest achievements monument extensively history university noted gibson proper credit given disliked intensely city authorities actions happens town medieval records lost early 17th century known copied collection
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