“The visitor to Oxford goes to see, amongst the wonders of that historic but by no means old-looking city, the college established there by {{w|Walter de Merton}} in 1274. It boast several attractions. Besides the chapel, pre-eminent for the beauty of its Decorated English architecture, there is the founder's treasure-house, with its ashlar roof, the ancient ironwork of the hall door, and the wondrous old library in the Mob Quadrangle, where Duns Scotus succeeded in that dangerous and hazardous feat of raising the devil.”