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Canterbury College Oxford was a University of Oxford college owned and run by Christ Church Priory Canterbury. The Priory first sent 4 monks to study in Oxford in 1311 in a hall it had bought there near the church of St. Peter-in-the-East but the actual college was founded in 1362 by Simon Islip archbishop of Canterbury in the parish of St. Edward. It was to consist of twelve students (initially 4 monks and 8 secular clerks – i.e.