ABSTRACT
Nor was such hostility confined to Northampton. Those seats of learning, Oxford and Eton, would not permit the Great Western bill to pass without the insertion of special clauses to prohibit the formation of any branch to Oxford, or of a station at Slough ; while it was declared by the authorities of the school, that anybody acquainted with the nature of Eton boys would know that they could not be kept from the railway if it were allowed to be constructed. When the directors subsequently attempted to infringe the conditions with which they had been bound, by only stopping to take up and set down
passengers, proceedings were commenced against them in Chancery, and they were interdicted from even making a pause.
