Complex sentence: Acta of the Bishops' Meetings, 9 April 1875: 34.5 however these families prefered to send their sons to Oxford or Cambridge and seek a dispensation for doing so.
Split into simpler sentences: Acta of the Bishops' Meetings, 9 April 1875: 34.5. In practice however these families prefered to send their sons to Oxford or Cambridge and seek a dispensation for doing so.