Editing Hertford College, Oxford (section)

=== Magdalen Hall ===
[[File:Magdalen College Oxford Old Grammar Hall.jpg|thumb|The Old Grammar Hall, Magdalen College, part of the original Magdalen Hall site]]

'''Magdalen Hall''' was founded around 1490 on a site to the west of [[Magdalen College]] and next to Magdalen's [[grammar school]].<ref name="Brockliss">{{cite book |last=Brockliss |first=L. W. B. |date=2016 |title=The University of Oxford: A History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMDmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA85 |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=85 |isbn=9780199243563 }}</ref> The site is now Magdalen's St Swithun's quadrangle. It took the name of an earlier Magdalen Hall in the High Street, which was founded by [[William Waynflete]] in 1448 and then closed on the opening of Magdalen College in 1458.<ref name='magdalenarchives'>{{cite web|url=http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/libraries-and-archives/archives/magdalen-hall/|publisher=Magdalen College, Oxford|title=Magdalen Hall|access-date=22 March 2019}}</ref> The first master of the grammar school was appointed in 1480, and its original school building was erected in 1486. However, as the hall took independent students as well as those belonging to the college, it quickly became an independent institution under its own principal.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

The hall was known for its adherence to the teachings of [[John Wycliffe]]; [[William Tyndale]], translator of the English Bible and martyr, studied there. Another famous student of the hall was the political philosopher [[Thomas Hobbes]], who came up in either 1601 or 1602. At the [[English Civil War]], Magdalen Hall was known as a [[Puritan]] hall under the principalship of [[Henry Wilkinson (dean)|Henry Wilkinson]].<ref name=Hamilton />{{rp|pp. 100–115}} Famous Puritan graduates include [[Philip Nye]], key adviser to Oliver Cromwell on matters of religion and regulation of the Church. The hall rarely used a badge of arms, but, when it did, it used the same arms as the college.<ref name=Hamilton />{{rp|p. 156}}

At the time of the demise of the first Hertford College, Magdalen College had long been searching for a way of expelling Magdalen Hall in order to expand into its buildings. Before the demise of Hertford, Magdalen College conspired to make its site ready to receive a transplanted Magdalen Hall. The current Lodge of Hertford College thus still bears the arms of Magdalen Hall (and so also of Magdalen College) beside those of Hertford College (and Hart Hall) and the university.<ref name=Hamilton />{{rp|p. 156}}