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	Matthew Bloxam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (12 May 1805 - 24 April 1888), a native of Rugby, Warwickshire, was the original source of the legend of William Webb Ellis inventing the game of Rugby football.
		Bloxam's father was an assistant master at Rugby School.
		A new library replaced the old one in 2000 and a life-size statue of Bloxham engaged in his archaeological work greets visitors to the Rugby museum located in the new library complex.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matthew_Bloxam (331 words)

	Coventry Web - Writers Corner - The King’s attempt to capture Coventry in 1642 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Matthew Bloxam’s rare and interesting 1877 history of Warwickshire During the Civil Wars of the Seventeenth Century, based upon a collection of some 30,000 pamphlets collected by George III, provides a fascinating summary of contemporary descriptions of Coventry around the time of the Civil War.
		Bloxam records that the city walls were started in the latter half of the 14th century though not finished until the 15th, and that “murage tax was a grievous charge on the inhabitants, with tolls on all eatables and drinkables which entered the city”, clear evidence of economic prosperity.
		As Bloxam observes, “This repulse was not forgotten, and twenty years later was avenged in the demolition, by royal mandate, of the once goodly walls of Coventry to make it no longer tenable as a defensive city”.
	www.coventryweb.co.uk /editorials/history/CaptureOfCoventry.html (1171 words)

	BBC News \| ENGLAND \| Asbestos find shuts school
		Education chiefs said that the quick action at St Matthew's Bloxam Primary School in Rugby, Warwickshire, has been taken for the safety of pupils.
		But parents at the school were angry about the short notice and the extra travelling necessary to take their children to the other school.
		St Matthew's, which closed on Wednesday, is not set to re-open until September.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/1764390.stm (269 words)

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		There were thus no formal rules for football during the time William Webb Ellis was at the school (1816-1825) and the legendary story of the boy "who with a fine disregard for the rules as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it" in 1823 is apocryphal.
		The story first appeared in 1876, some four years after the death of Webb Ellis, and is attributed to a local antiquarian and former Rugbeian Matthew Bloxam.
		Bloxam was not a comtemporary of Webb Ellis and vaguely quoted an unnamed person as informing him of the incident that had supposedly happened 53 years earlier.
	fans.toxic-neurosis.net /rugby/extra.php (246 words)

	English boys' clothing: Joseph Walton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		William Webb Ellis is credited by Matthew Bloxam as the originator of Rugby football.
		We come to the historic November day in 1823 which Matthew Bloxam, a fellow pupil, claims that William deliberately broke one of these rules and in so doing inaugurated a new ball game.
		There are those who doubt Matthew Bloxam’s account but despite it being 50 or so years after the event he believed it was what happened.
	histclo.com /country/eng/pe/1820/pee820-01we.html (2162 words)

	The Story of Rugby - Rugby - Icons of England
		Matthew Bloxam had attended Rugby between 1813 and 1820, so his recollections are being set down some 60 years after he left.
		He describes the ball game played in the Close, and specifically recalls that, among its few rules, was the stipulation that “no one was allowed to run with the ball in his grasp towards the opposite goal”.
		Note that, although Bloxam’s and Webb Ellis’s times at Rugby overlapped, the writer had left the school three years before the celebrated incident.
	www.icons.org.uk /theicons/collection/rugby/biography/rugby-biography-finished (1289 words)

	RugbyRugby : Latest News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Matthew Bloxam who did the investigation into the origins of the rugby game which resulted in the tablet quoted above referred to him as Mr Ellis.
		Bloxam originally stated that he thought that running with the ball was introduced during Arnold's tenure, that is after 1828.
		There are doubts, even in Bloxam's mind, about the validity of all this, the unlikelihood of a single act by one fellow to change the game, and a boy not renowned for his footballing prowess at all.
	www.rugbyrugby.com /LATEST_NEWS/story_32778.shtml (1967 words)

	2003 Rugby World Cup News
		The first account linking Webb Ellis with the birth of rugby was written by Matthew Bloxam, a Rugby pupil and later a journalist.
		Bloxam did not see Webb Ellis pick up the ball and run with it but was told about William's actions during the game.
		But by the time the first detailed investigations into Bloxam's account of what happened began in 1895, eye-witnesses were hard to track down.
	www.abc.net.au /sport/features/2003/s991901.htm (568 words)

	Bloxam
		Matthew Bloxam was, like me, an enthusiast that nobody but his friends had ever heard of - with the one exception that he is the sole source of the William Webb Ellis myth.
		We therefore need to know something about who he was, and how he came to know about WWE.
		By the time the Old Rugbeian Society decided to conduct an investigation in 1895, he was sadly no longer available, having died in1888.
	www.pshortell.demon.co.uk /rugby/ch1.htm (260 words)

	Rugby Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He was educated at St Matthew's and then Lawrence Sheriff School's, where his interest in geology was started through a schoolmaster taking the students fossil hunting in the strata used for cement making.
		He obtained legandry status when in 1880 Matthew Bloxam identified him as the originator of the distinctive feature of the Rugby football game.
		Whatever William did in 1823, that stayed in Matthews memory for 60 years, it was not until the early 1840's that carrying the ball was fully integrated into the official school rules.
	www.rugby-local-history.org.uk /biog.html (1611 words)

	More About That William Webb Ellis Story
		The story of William Webb Ellis "inventing" the modern game of rugby (and thus, indirectly, of American football) did not surface until four years after his death and originated with Matthew Bloxam, a local antiquarian and former pupil of Rugby School.
		In October of 1876, he wrote to The Meteor (the School magazine) that he had learned from an unnamed source that the change from a kicking to a handling game had "...originated with a town boy or foundationer of the name of Ellis, William Webb Ellis." In December 1880, he wrote again:
		This dubious tale was investigated by the Old Rugbeian Society in 1895.
	wesclark.com /rrr/more_about_ellis.html (136 words)

	William Webb Ellis
		He recalled that handling of the ball was strictly forbidden.
		The sole source of the story of Webb Ellis picking up the ball originates with one Matthew Bloxam, a local antiquarian and former pupil of Rugby.
		In December of 1880, in another letter to the Meteor, Bloxam elaborates on the story: "A boy of the name Ellis - William Webb Ellis - a town boy and a foundationer,....
	www.essexrugby.com /who_was_wwe.htm (916 words)

	The Bishop of St Albans
		He was part of a remarkable sequence of authors in the nineteenth century who set themselves the task of defining and classifying architectural styles.
		In 1829 a man called Matthew Bloxam produced a book with the gripping title Principles of Gothic Architecture.
		Another kind of biblical scholarship then emerged: 'redaction criticism' which sought to understand the rôle played by the authors of the Gospels as they edited their pre-existing material.
	www.stalbans.anglican.org /bin/dsynod12.6.2004.htm (2036 words)

	BLOXAM, Matthew Holbeche., Fragmenta Sepulchralia. A glimpse of the sepulchral and early monumental remains of Great ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The title-page is written in manuscript presumably in Bloxam's hand as are some Ms.
		Bloxam (1805-1888) was an antiquary and writer on architecture; his Principles of Gothic Architecture (1829), heralded the Gothic revival.
		The copy in the British library also has the title-page supplied in manuscript by the author.
	www.polybiblio.com /quaritch/A280.html (150 words)

	The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834
		MATTHEW WOOD, LORD MAYOR OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
		Recorder of said City; Sir Matthew Bloxam, Knt.; Christopher Magnay, Esq.; William Heygate, Esq., Aldermen of the said City; Newman Knowlys, Esq.
		JAMES WILLEY and SAMUEL HUTCHINSON, were indicted for feloniously assaulting Matthew Whittey, on the King's highway, on the 6th of June, putting him in fear, and taking from his person, and against his will, two 3s.
	www.oldbaileyonline.org /html_sessions/T18170702.html (10566 words)

	Richard Lindon rugby ball bladder pump Quadrugger - The Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rules changes, such as the legality of carrying or running with the ball, were often agreed shortly before the commencement of a game.
		Bloxam was not a comtemporary of Webb Ellis and vaguely quoted an unnamed person, possibly Bloxhams brother who was a contemporary of Webb Ellis or Bloxhams father who was a Teacher at Rugby School, as informing him of the incident that had supposedly happened 53 years earlier.
		The Old Rugbeian Society has dismissed the story as unlikely since an official investigation in 1895.
	www.richardlindon.com /5.html (327 words)

	History of Rugby
		The story goes that as the school bells began tolling the fateful hour, Webb Ellis caught the ball and, rather than stepping back for one last free kick to end the game, actually ran forward with it to cross the goal line (much to the consternation of all in attendance).
		While the event itself supposedly occurred at Warwickshire’s Rugby School in 1823, the legend began three years after Webb Ellis’s death in 1872, the product of stories related to historian Matthew Bloxam in 1875.
		That there were no records kept of any of these school matches (as they were all purely for fun) and no eyewitnesses recalled the actual event, coupled with the fact that football rules were quite regularly subject to discussion and amendment, it seems unlikely that this is anything other than something of a Tall Tale.
	www.bingbarbs.com /History_Rugby.htm (2460 words)

	Menton - : William Webb Ellis From Rugby To Menton
		A football game was played at Rugby School since the mid 18th century and the unwritten rules in force during Webb Ellis’ time required the schoolboy catching the ball on rebound to retire with it as far back as he desired.
		According to one of his contemporaries, Matthew Bloxam, William Webb Ellis instead of doing that, rushed forward with the ball, a “novelty” which although had had no immediate impact on the way the game was played at the time, became the distinctive feature of the football game at Rugby School, some 10-15 years later.
		Countless generations of schoolboys contributed to the evolution of the Rugby School football game, whose rules were drafted and written down for the first time in 1845.
	www.villedementon.com /article.php3?id_article=1231 (807 words)

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		He obtained several charters from Henry III, in 1226 for a weekly market on Tuesdays, in 1228 one to make this permanent, and in 1241 a third to hold the market on Saturdays instead of Tuesdays.
		He died in 1246, assigning rents from his new town of Moreton to celebrate his anniversary by the ringing of bells and chanting on the day following St Matthew's Day, with wine and two good pittances for the monks and bread and ale with broth and a dish of meat or fish for 100 paupers.
		He is buried in the Lady Chapel of the Abbey.
	www.moretonhistory.co.uk /Archives.htm (2809 words)

	Jowett Variations One Name Study: Orlando Jewitt
		The family settled at Duffield in 1818 where Orlando continued with illustrations for local histories and children's books.
		In 1829 Orlando Jewitt did the illustrations for Matthew Bloxam's 'Principles of Gothic Architecture' and from then on he became the principal illustrator for the many books on Gothic Architecture then being published, especially by the Oxford publisher and bookseller John Henry Parker.
		This resulted in his move to Headington, near Oxford, in 1838, where he continued to work almost exclusively for Parker.
	www.jowitt1.org.uk /orlando.htm (567 words)

	Matthew Holbeche Bloxam Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Matthew Holbeche Bloxam Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
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	www.alibris.co.uk /search/books/author/Matthew_Holbeche_Bloxam (147 words)

	History.UK.com Listings
		The building is an outstanding new home for: the Tripontium Collection of Roman artefacts, the Rugby Collection of Modern Art and a social history gallery which celebrates everyday life in the town over the past 200 years.
		The Museum steers visitors through more than 2,000 years of Rugby's history, including the work of Victorian antiquarian Matthew Bloxam, who began to unravel the mysteries of Roman Tripontium.
		Visitors can watch a video to learn more about the painstaking research that has brought the Tripontium Collection together.
	www.history.uk.com /listings/listing.php?iD=9248 (248 words)

	Museum - About the museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		How does the spark plug fit in with the heritage of Rugby?
		As you walk through the museum, you can share the enthusiasm of the Victorian antiquarian Matthew Bloxam, who began to unravel the mysteries of Roman Tripontium.
		Watch the video to find out about the painstaking research that brought the Tripontium Collection together, then discover the 2000year old pottery, jewellery and coins in the display.
	www.rugby.gov.uk /site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=171&pageNumber=1 (230 words)

	Stapleford Centre - Selected Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		These stories were a really good stimulus for discussing what the children (and other people) believed about God, and had natural extensions into PSHE and citizenship type issues.
		(Michelle Gravatt, St Matthew’s Bloxam CofE Primary School, Rugby)
		You might like to explore these for other similar titles.
	www.stapleford-centre.org /clickthrough.php?isbn=1-8599-9722-8 (155 words)

	Bloxam, Matthew Holbeche; Jewitt, O.: The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture with an Explanation of ...
		Bloxam, Matthew Holbeche; Jewitt, O.: The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture with an Explanation of Technical Terms, and a Cente
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