Note 317 — XVIII. PEMBROKE COLLEGE.
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Fuller gives us a proverb current in Oxfordshire, “Send farthingales to Broadgates Hall in Oxford,” adding that the gowns not only of the gadding Dinahs but of most sober Sarahs of a former age were so penthoused out far beyond their bodies with bucklers of pasteboard, that their wearers could not enter at any ordinary door, except sidelong.