Morris went to Exeter College, Oxford, to study theology. Here he made friends with Burne-Jones who also intended to pursue a career in the Church. Mackail recorded in his Notebooks that Burne-Jones told him that: `Before a week they were inseparable.’ He added their `expenses [were] about £40 a term or say £130 a year, incl. subscriptions to boat and cricket clubs.’ Amongst the other things Burne-Jones recalled was that they `went to St. Thomas’s (the church near the station) for early service and plain song: this they practised once a week in [the] Music-room in Holywell College Library.’