So "Oxford fawned so shamelessly over the Stuarts ..." eh? (Leader, 15 May). Presumably this fawning didn't include the fellows of Magdalen College, who defied James II in 1687-88 in refusing to elect his nominee as president and risked penury, and worse, for doing so?
William Gibson, Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University.
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