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It claims to be ¡°written in a plain and easy method, for the satisfaction of doubting Christians¡± by Thomas Good, then master of Balliol College in Oxford. The book is on public display in an exhibition, Domus Scolarium de Balliolo, 1263-2013, in St?Cross Church in Oxford, until 12?October. This forms part of the celebrations marking the 750th anniversary of the college¡¯s foundation by John Balliol.

Also shown here is evidence of the central importance of sport in Victorian Oxford: a ¡°river chart¡± giving the positions of the different colleges at the end of Eights week in 1851; and an illuminated oar celebrating Balliol¡¯s victory in the Visitors¡¯ Challenge Cup at the 1899 Henley Royal Regatta.

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