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Bocardo Prison

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85: 30: 120: 76:, a Norman of the eleventh century, though also said to be originally a Saxon construction of c. 1000–50; the gate itself was called also Bocardo Gate. The rooms were over the gate, and there was a box in the church for charitable contributions to the prisoners. 107:, was imprisoned there in or shortly before 1318, prior to being hanged. The prison was demolished in 1771, for a road construction scheme, following an Act of Parliament in 1770, and as part of the wider city redevelopment in Oxford under 160:
There is a folk etymology for the name: because Bocardo was found to be one of the harder forms of valid syllogism for students to learn, it was said to be the name of a prison that was hard to escape from. One of the rooms in
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was held before his execution in 1556; one of the Oxford Martyrs. It is now preserved in the Saxon bell tower of
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Engraving of part of Bocardo prison by N. Calcott in 1770, over Oxford's old Northgate.
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Church, Oxford, which is adjacent to the site of the prison.
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Index

Bocardo

Oxford
Oxford martyrs
Thomas Cranmer
Hugh Latimer
Nicholas Ridley
Quakers
St Michael at the North Gate
Robert D'Oyly

Thomas Cranmer
St Michael at the North Gate
John Powderham
Edward II of England
John Gwynn

Venn diagram
Modus Bocardo
mnemonic
syllogism
scholastic logic
Newgate Prison
Anglo-Saxon
Jacob Barnet affair


"Oxford City Wall"
"The Angus Library"
Oxford

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