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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 
 SOCIETY. 
 
 Jvv . 3 
 
 ATHENE OXONIENSES 
 
 BY 
 
 ANTHONY A WOOD, M.A 
 
 L 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 OXFORD: 
 
 PRINTED BY T. COMBE, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
 M.DCCC.XLVIII. 
 
ATHENE OXONIENSES 
 
 AN EXACT HISTORY OF 
 
 WRITERS AND BISHOPS 
 
 WHO HAVE HAD THEIK EDUCATION IN THE 
 UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. 
 
 BY ANTHONY A WOOD, M. A. 
 
 A NEW EDITION WITH ADDITIONS 
 
 BY PHILIP BLISS, D.C.L. 
 
 
 CONTAINING THE LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 OXFORD: 
 
 ^ PRINTED BY T. COMBE, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY, 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
 1848. 
 

 

 ,'- 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Advertisement 2 
 
 Life of Wood 3 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. I. Hearne's Account of Wood 325 
 
 II. The Last Will and Testament of Anthony a Wood . . 334 
 
 III. Hearne's Memoranda relating to Anthony a Wood. . 337 
 
 IV. Dr. Rawlinson's miscellaneous Collections relative to 
 
 Anthony a Wood, from the Rawl. MSS. in the 
 Bodleian 341 
 
 V. Huddesford's character of Anthony a Wood 344 
 
 VI. Pedigree of Anthony a Wood 357 
 
 VII. Proceedings against Anthony a Wood 358 
 
THE LIFE 
 
 i 
 
 OF 
 
 ANTHONY A WOOD, 
 
 WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. 
 
 WOOD, VOL. I. 
 
ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 It was judged to be more appropriate to the design of this 
 edition to insert the Life of Anthony a Wood as written by his 
 own pen, and in his own manner, than to offer any new account 
 of his life and labours, the materials for which could have been 
 derived from no other source. 
 
 The Life of Wood, as far as the year 1672, was first published 
 by Thomas Hearne, who transcribed it from the original in the 
 hands of Dr. Tanner, and printed it in the second volume of 
 ThomcB Ca'i Vindicice Antiquitatis Academics Oxoniensis, printed 
 at Oxford in 1730, 8vo. 
 
 The additional minutes or memoirs, which commence with the 
 beginning of the year 1673, were taken from a manuscript now 
 in the Bodleian library, written by Richard Rawlinson, D.C.L. 
 of St. John's college, and intitled Historical Passages from Ant. 
 Wood's Papers. These, it is very evident, were taken from 
 Wood's pocket Almanacks, and are, in fact, the very materials 
 from which the author himself would have drawn up the continua- 
 tion of his life, had he lived to carry that design into effect. 
 They were first published, under the advice and with the assistance 
 of Thomas Warton, B.D. and fellow of Trinity college, the author 
 of the History of English Poetry, by William Huddesford, B.D. 
 also fellow of Trinity, and keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, who 
 appended them to the Lives of Leland and Hearne, Oxford, 
 1772, 8vo. 
 
 In the present edition such notes as were mere extracts from 
 the Athene are omitted, those by the former editors are pointed 
 out by their names or initials, and such as now appear for the 
 first time, are enclosed between brackets. 
 
THE LIFE. 
 
 Anthony Wood or a Wood, son of Tho. Wood or a, 1630. 
 Wood, bachelaur of arts and of the civil law, was borne in _ 
 
 3 ' Dec. 17. 
 
 an antient stone-house,, opposite to the forefront of Merton 
 
 a There is no title in the ori- of the earl of Oxford (who lent it 
 
 ginal MS. but in the first part of me) from which (in good mea- 
 
 Mr. Wood's Diary (written with sure) he extracted this imperfect 
 
 his own hand) now in the hands life, there is the following title : 
 
 THE DIARIE OF THE LIFE 
 
 of Anthony a Wood, 
 
 Historiographer and Antiquarie 
 
 of the most famous Universitie of 
 
 OXFORD. 
 
 In which are intermicc'd 
 
 severall Memorialls relating to his neare Allies, 
 
 Kindred, and others; 
 
 as also 
 
 certaine publick Actions of his time; 
 
 which may be useful hereafter 
 
 to Historians: 
 
 Cuncta aperit secreta dies, ex tempore verum 
 
 Nascitur, et veniens aetas abscondita pandit. Mantuan. 
 
 Lord make me to know mine end, and 
 the measure of my dayes, what it is ; that 
 I * might know how frail I am. Psalm xxxix. 4. 
 
 ( So teach me to number my daies, 
 that I may apply my heart unto 
 wisdome. Psalm xc. 12. 
 
 As for the Diary itself, as it is relates to affairs before the restau- 
 nothing near so full, even in what ration, so neither is it so exact as 
 
 * L, may. 
 B 2 
 
LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [i6 3 ( 
 
 Dec. 23. 
 
 coll. in the collegiate parish of S. John Bapt. de Merton, 
 situat and being within the nniversitie of Oxford, 
 on munday the seventeenth day of December (S.Lazarus 
 day) at about 4 of the clock in the morning : which stone- 
 house, with a backside and garden adjoyning, was bought 
 by his father of John Lant, master of arts of the univ. 
 of Oxford, 8 December, 6 Jac. I. Dom. 1608, and is held 
 by his family of Merton coll. before mentioned. 
 
 He was christned or taken into the bosome of the 
 church. At which time he had to his godfathers, Anthony 
 Clopton b , bachelaur of Divinity and fellow of Corp. 
 Christi college, and Edward Dawson, Dr. of physick of 
 Lincolne college : and to his godmother, M ris Catherine 
 Fisher, the wife of Will. Seymoure of Oxon. an attorney ; 
 and afterwards the first wife of Tho. Rowney, an attorney 
 also of the same place, father, by his second wife, to 
 
 the Life, and yet in some things 
 the Life may be corrected from it, 
 as may appear partly from what I 
 have printed at the bottom of the 
 pages, and partly from these notes 
 at the end. When I first saw the 
 Diary, I presently concluded (and 
 so I told some particular friends) 
 that I thought it ought not to be 
 printed, for some reasons that I 
 then gave, and I find, that I have 
 no reason to alter that opinion 
 since I have had the use of the 
 Life, which is (for the main) both 
 more exact, and of greater value 
 and satisfaction. I shall say no- 
 thing more, unless it be to ac- 
 quaint the reader, that the earl of 
 Oxford (when he was only lord 
 Harley) had *the Diary from Mr. 
 
 Anstis, (now Garter principal king 
 of arms,) who gave it him in the 
 year 17 12, and that Mr. Anstis 
 receiv'd it from Mr. Dale the he- 
 rald many years since, in exchange 
 for several original letters of Mr. 
 Wood's to sir Peter Pett, the 
 king's advocate general for the 
 kingdome of Ireland, which he 
 bought at the sale of his books. 
 The letters were mostly about his 
 method of defending himself a- 
 gainst the prosecution in the yice- 
 chancellour's court, and desiring 
 his advice, and he is very sorry, 
 that he did not take copies of 
 them. Hearne. 
 
 b [He was a native of Glouces- 
 tershire, and became a member of 
 C.C.C. Nov. 7, 1606, jet. 13.] 
 
 * Coll. nostr. MSS. Vol. cxxv. p. 137. 
 
1634.] LIFE OF WOOD. 5 
 
 Thorn. Rowney, esq;. c high- sheriff of Oxfordshire an. 
 169. . 
 
 He was altogether nursed by his mother (of whoine jo"**. 
 shal be mention made under the yeare 1666) and by none 9 Car - L 
 else. For as she nursed his 3 elder brothers, so she 
 nursed him (whom she found very quiet) and the two 
 next that followed. 
 
 At the Summer assize, held in the Guild hall of the 1634. 
 citie of Oxon. appeared with a commission from the king, IO Car - I# 
 Georg Owen and Will. Ryley, officers of armes, to visit u y " 
 and take an account of all the armes and pedegrees of the 
 gentry of Oxfordshire. And to add authority to their 
 commission, 'twas read in the open court before the judg, 
 justices and country gentrie. This memoir e I here set 
 downe, because Mr. Wood's father (of whom I shall make 
 mention under the yeare 1642) was warned among the 
 gentrie to appeare before the said officers or heralds with 
 his armes and pedegre, and to have them entred into 
 their books ; but he, forsooth, pleading the privilege of 
 the university, or that he was a privileged person, and so 
 consequently exempted, as he pretended (but false) e curia 
 Marischalli, he did not appeare in his owne behalf, tho' 
 he did in the behalf of the Petties of Tetsworth, and 
 entred, what he knew of that family, the armes, matches, 
 and issue of three or more descents, being desired so to 
 do by Maximilian Pettie, who gave him the fees, and he 
 d the heralds. It was afterwards to Mr. A. Wood, when 
 he came to understand those things, a great trouble to 
 him, that his father did not enter three or more descents 
 
 c . . . Rowney, jun. esq. occurs tonii a Wood, cujus avroypacpov 
 
 sheriff of Oxon. ann. 1691. See mihi perquam benevole mutuo de- 
 
 Qazette from Dec. 10. to Dec. 14. dit nobilissimus comes Oxonien- 
 
 of that year. W. & H. sis, Edvardus Harleius. Hearne. 
 
 d The said heralds in Diario An- 
 
ir Car. I 
 
 Aug 
 
 6 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 35 
 
 of his owne familie, which he had then [been] better able 
 to doe, than those of the familie of his wife (Pettie.) And 
 the reason is, because that his father dying when he was 
 yong, those things, which he knew of his family, dyed 
 with him, and his son could never obtaine them from any 
 other person of his kindred, nor can he yet from any place 
 of record, unless he take a journey into Lancashire, from 
 whence his grandfather [came] about the beginning of 
 the raigne of qu. Elizabeth. 
 
 1635. This yeare he had the small pox so much, that he was 
 for a time blinded with them. 
 
 A fine of SOU. was set by the warden and fellowes of 
 Merton coll. when his father renewed his lease of the old 
 stone-house, wherein his son A. Wood was borne (called 
 antiently Portionists or Postmasters hall) for 40 yeares, 
 and for a common inn called the Flowr de Luce, situat 
 and being in the parish of St. Martin ad Quadrivium in 
 Oxon. (which inn his father had bought of Rich. Theed, 
 gent, on the eleventh of Sept. 14 Jac. I. Dom. 1616.) and 
 at the same time a lease of the garden, opposite to S. Al- 
 ban's hall, was let to his father for 27 yeares. 
 
 1636. The king, queen, prince Rupert, many of the nobility 
 and others came from Woodstock into Oxon. a little 
 before which time he was conveyed in a servant's armes, 
 with his father and mother, e going" to the lodgings of 
 Dr. Tho. lies, canon of Christ Church, whence being 
 conveyed to the mount in his garden looking into Fish 
 street, he saw the K. qu. and the rest riding downe the 
 said street into Ch. Ch. great quadrangle. This was the 
 first time he ever saw the said K. and queen, and the first 
 time that he ever saw such a glorious traine as that was, 
 which he would often talk of when he was a man. 
 
 e Deest in Diario Ant. a Wood. Hearne. 
 
 Aug. 29. 
 
164O.] LIFE OF WOOD. 7 
 
 They were entertained by the universitie, and by Dr. Aug. 30. 
 Laud archb. of Canterbury, at S. John's coll. 
 
 They departed. See the whole story of this entertain- 31. 
 ment in Hist. §■ Antiq. Univ. Ooeon. lib. 1. sub an. 1636. 
 which Hist, was written by Mr. A. Wood. 
 
 He was put to school to learne the Psalter. And about 1637. 
 that time playing before the dore of his father's house, T3 
 neare Merton coll. one of the horses, called Mutton, 
 belonging to Tho. Edgerley, the university carrier, rode 
 over him (as he was going to be watered) and brinYd his 
 head very much. This caused a great heaviness for some 
 time after in his head, and perhaps a slowness in appre- 
 hending with quickness things that he read or heard; 
 of which he was very sensible, when he came to reason. 
 
 In the beginning of this yeare his eldest brother 1638. 
 Thomas Wood (who was borne at Tetsworth in Oxford- I4 
 shire) became one of the students of Christ Church, by 
 the favour of Dr. Tho. lies, he being then 14 yeares of 
 age. See more of him under the yeares 1642 and 1651. 
 
 He was in his Bible, and ready to go into his Ac- 1639. 
 cedence. 15 Car. I. 
 
 His f yonger brother John Wood died, and was buried Mar. 8. 
 the day following in Merton coll. church. 
 
 He was put to a Latine school in a little house, neare 1640. 
 to the church of S. Peter in the Baylie, and opposite to 
 the street, called the North Baylie, which leads from New 
 Inn to the = Bocherew. The name of his master he hath 
 forgot, but remembers, that he was master of arts and a 
 preacher, by a good token, that one of the beadles of the 
 universitie did come with his silver staff to conduct him 
 from the said little house (a poore thing Grod wot) to the 
 
 f yongest. Diary. Hearne. in truth I cannot tell; sure I am, 
 
 5 Bocherew. What the master's that he was master of arts. In 
 name was unless Wirley, Diario. Hearne. 
 
8 LIFE OF WOOD. [1641. 
 
 church of S. Marie, there to preach a Latin sermon he 
 thinks (for it was on a working or school day) before the 
 universitie. 
 1 64 1. He was translated to New coll. schoole, situated be- 
 
 1 ' ar * tween the west part of the chappell and E. part of the 
 cloyster, by the advice, as he usually conceived, of some 
 of the fellowes of the said coll. who usually frequented 
 his father' s house. One John Maylard, fellow of the 
 said coll. was then, or at least lately, the master (after- 
 wards rector of Stanton S. John neare Oxon.) and after 
 him succeeded Joh. Davys, one of the chaplaynes of 
 the said house, whome he well remembers to be h a 
 quiet man. 
 
 Nov. His grandmother Penelopie, the widdow of capt. Rob. 
 
 Pettie or Le Petite gent, (his mother's father) died with 
 grief at or neare Charlemount in Ireland, the seat of 
 her nephew William viscount Caulfield, occasioned by the 
 barbarous usuage of her intimate acquaintance (but a 
 bigotted Papist) S r . Philim O Neale, who acted the part 
 of an arch-traytor and rebell, when the grand rebellion 
 broke out in that kingdome 23 October 1641. This 
 Penelopie was daughter of Eichard Taverner, lord of 
 Wood-Eaton in Oxfordshire, by his second wife, Mary, 
 dau. of S r . John Harcourt, K*, of the antient and noble 
 family of the Harcourts of Stanton Harcourt in the said 
 countie. She was borne at Wood-Eaton in the beginning 
 of Sept. 1566, and when shee was about 21 yeares of age 
 (being then a most comlie and proper person, as most 
 of the Taverners were then, and in after times, some of 
 whome he does remember) shee was married to his grand- 
 father Robert Pettie before mentioned, then lord of Wy- 
 fald or Wiveold, and of other lands, neare to Henlie in 
 
 h In the Diary &c. is added after v a quiet man." Hearne. 
 
1642.] LIFE OF WOOD. 9 
 
 Oxfordshire, and a tenant to Eaton coll. of a very good 
 farme at Costford neare to Bister in the said conntie. 
 
 In the beginning of March his brother Robert, who Mar. 
 had lately been taken from the free- school at Thame, 
 left Oxon. in order to goe to France with Charles Dufore 
 of J Montillet, a kind of a merchant at Bloys. After he 
 was setled there, the said Charles was to send his son 
 Dennis to Oxon. to live with Robert's father by way of 
 exchange for Robert, but the troubles in England soon 
 after following, Charles Dufore refused to send his son. 
 Wherefore Rob. Wood continuing at Bloys, and in other 
 places in the kingdome of France, till the beginning of 
 1647 (at which time he was neare 17 yeares of age) he 
 return' d to his native place of Oxon. but had utterlie 
 forgotten his mother tongue, which was a great trouble 
 to his brethren to make him understand what they spoke 
 to him. 
 
 In the beginning of this yeare the second brother of 1642. 
 A. Wood, named Edward, became one of the portionists 
 or postmasters of Merton college, under the tuition of 
 Mr. Ralph Button. 
 
 Upon the publication of his majestie's proclamation, 
 for the suppressing of the rebellion under the conduct 
 and command of Robert earl of Essex, the members of 
 the universitie of Oxon. began to put themselves in a 
 posture of defence, and especially for another reason, 
 which was, that there was a strong report, that divers 
 companies of soldiers [were] passing thro' the country, 
 as sent from London by the parliament for the securing 
 of Banbury and Warwick. Dr. Pink of New coll. the 
 deputy-vice-chancellour, called before him to the public 
 schooles all the privileged men's armes, to have a view 
 
 1 Montillok, Diar. Hearne. 
 
10 LIFE OF WOOD. [1642. 
 
 of them : where not onlie privileged men of the universitie 
 and their servants, but also many scholars appeared, 
 bringing with them the furniture of armes of every col. 
 that then k any any. Mr. Wood's father had then armour 
 or furniture for one man, viz. a helmet, a back and breast- 
 piece, a pyke and a musquet, and other appurtenances : 
 and the eldest of his men-servants (for he had then three 
 at least) named Thomas Burnham, did appeare in those 
 armes, when the scholars and privileged men trained; 
 and when he could not train, as being taken up with 
 business, the next servant did traine : and much adoe 
 there was to keep Thomas, the eldest son, then a student 
 of Chr. Ch. and a youth of about 18 yeares of age, from 
 putting on the said armour and to traine among the 
 scholars. The said scholars and privileged men did som- 
 times traine in New coll. quadrangle, in the eye of Dr. 
 Rob. Pink, the dep. vicechancellour, then warden of the 
 said coll. And it being a novel matter, there was no 
 holding of the school-boyes in their school in the cloyster 
 from seeing and following them. And Mr. Wood remem- 
 bred well, that some of them were so besotted with the 
 training and activitie and gaytie therein of some yong 
 scholars, as being in a longing condition to be of the 
 traine, that they could never be brought to their books 
 againe. It was a great disturbance to the youth of the 
 citie, and Mr. Wood's father foresaw, that if his sons were 
 not removed from Oxon. they would be spoyl'd. 
 Oct. 23. The great fight at Edghill in Warwickshire, called 
 
 Keynton-battle, between the armies of K. Ch. I. and his 
 parliament was l began'. 
 
 Upon the first newes at Oxon. that the armies were 
 going to fight, Mr. Wood's eldest brother Thomas, before 
 
 k L. had any e Diario. Hearne. l Deest in Diario. Hearne. 
 
1642.] LIFE OF WOOD. 11 
 
 mentioned, left his gowne at the town's end, ran to 
 Edghill, did his Majestie good service, return' d on horse- 
 back well m accountred, and afterwards was made an 
 officer in the king's army. See more in Fasti Oxon. 
 written by A. Wood under the year 1642. 
 
 The king with his army of foot, prince Rupert and Oct. 29. 
 pr. Maurice, (his two nephews,) prince Charles, and James 
 duke of York, (his two sons,) entred into Oxon. 
 
 His father's house, opposite to Merton coll. was taken Nov. 
 up for the quarters of John lord Colepeper, Mr. of the 
 Rolls, and of the privie councill to his majestie. Where- 
 upon Mr. Wood's father with his familie removed to a 
 little house in his backside, which he about 2 or 3 yeares 
 before had new built. 
 
 About the same time his maj. caused his magazine to 
 be put into New college cloister and tower &c. Where- 
 upon the master of the school there, with his scholars, 
 (among whome A. Wood was one,) were removed to the 
 chorister's chamber at the East-end of the common hall 
 of the said coll. It was then a dark nasty room, and 
 very unfit for such a purpose, which made the scholars 
 often complaine, but in vaine. 
 
 His father Thorn. Wood or a Wood, before mention' d, Jan. 19. 
 died, being Thursday, about 4 of the clock in the morning, 
 to the very great grief and reluctancy of his wife and 
 children. He died in his house in the backside before 
 mention' d, in the room over the kitchin : and being a 
 fat and corpulent man, and therefore his body could not 
 keep, he was buried between 8 and 9 of the clock at 
 night, on the same day, in the north part of Merton coll. 
 outer-chappell or church, neare to the graves of Jam. 
 Wood, his yonger brother, who died in Sept. 1629, and 
 
 m Sic. Hearne. 
 
12 LIFE OF WOOD. [1642. 
 
 Jo. Wood, his soil, whome I have mentioned under the 
 yeare 1639. This Tho. Wood (father to A. W.) was 
 borne at Islingdon neare London in January 1580, was 
 bred in grammar learning in those parts, became a stu- 
 dent in Broadgate's hall (now Pemb. coll.) in the yeare 
 1600, afterwards one of the clerks, I think, of Corpus 
 Christi coll. and, as a member of that house, he was 
 admitted bach, of arts on the 15 of Mar. 1603. Before 
 which time he had taken to wife an antient and rich 
 maid, called Margaret, dau. of Hugh Wood of Kent (of 
 the family of the Woods of Waterbury in that county) 
 and sister of Hob. Wood, a haberdasher of hats, living at 
 the Plow and Harrow on Ludgate hill in London, and to 
 Henry Wood, living in Kent. They were married at 
 Wood-Eaton in Oxfordshire, where shee lived in the 
 house of Rich. Taverner, esq. (uncle to Tho. Wood his 
 second wife.) About which time the said second wife, 
 named Mary, (who was borne in the said house,) being- 
 then a child of about two yeares old, Tho. Wood would 
 often take her out of the cradle, dandle her in his armes, 
 and would several times say, that he hoped shee would 
 live to be his second wife, which accordingly came to pass, 
 and was mother to A. Wood. By and with the money 
 which Tho. Wood had with the said Margaret, and the 
 500/i. which his parents bequeathed to him, he grew rich, 
 purchased the house wherein A. Wood was borne, with 
 its appurtenances, also the great inne called the Flowr de 
 Luce, which I have before mentioned, land in Tetsworth, 
 now valued at 45 li. per ann. and lands and tenements in 
 other places. In the yeare 1618 the said Tho. Wood was 
 actually created bach, of the civil law, had some employ- 
 ment in that facultie, and after the death of his said first 
 wife, which hapned at Tetsworth 14 July 1621, he took 
 to wife Marv Pettie, alias La Petite, mother to A. Wood, 
 
1643.] klFE OF WOOD; 13 
 
 (the same who had been the child in the cradle before 
 mention' d,) by whome having a good portion, and growing 
 richer thereupon, he was fined in October 1630 for re- 
 fusing the honour of knighthood, a matter then lately 
 brought [up] to obtaine money for his majestie's use. 
 This money, which was paid by all persons of 40/i. per an. 
 that refused to come in and be duVd knights, was called 
 knighthood-money. This Thorn. Wood was son of Richard 
 Wood, who, when a youth, was brought to Islingdon by 
 Rob. Wood his uncle and godfather, as the tradition 
 goeth in the family : who giving him good breeding, he 
 ever after lived in good fashion. The posterity of the 
 said Robert, who have lands and tenements to this day 
 in Islingdon, live at Kingston upon Thames in Surry; 
 where, and elsewhere, they have an estate, that amounts 
 to 2000/i. per an. and have been several times offered the 
 degree of baronet. 
 
 It was much lamented by the relations of the father 1643. 
 and mother of A. W. that he and his brother Christopher ! 9 Car. I. 
 were left yong, wiien their father dyed, and that no body 
 was left (because of the raging of the civil warr) to take 
 care of them, only a woman. His eldest brother Thomas, 
 whome I shall mention under the yeare 1651, was then a 
 rude and boisterous soldier. His second brother Edward, 
 was now a yong scholar of Trinity coll. (lately of Merton) 
 and did in this or in the next yeare beare armes for his 
 maj. within the garrison of Oxon. and was so farr from 
 being a governour or tutor to others, that he could 
 scarcely govern himself; and his 3 d . brother Robert was 
 in France in the thirteenth yeare of his age. In this 
 condition he continued, and yet went to schoole at New 
 coll. but by the great hurry and noise that was this 
 yeare in Oxon. and by the absence of his master, he and 
 his brother lost much time. 
 
14 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [1644. 
 
 This yeare the Opiate, which had been given to A. 
 Wood by his godfathers and godmother, which was con- 
 
 n It is much to be lamented 
 that the necessities of the royal 
 party required a supply of this 
 nature. Had these valuable ser- 
 vices of plate been pledged only 
 for a time, and afterwards re- 
 deemed by their original posses- 
 sors, (which most probably would 
 have been the case,) they would 
 now have remained as so many 
 curious and instructive specimens 
 of the state and progress of va- 
 rious arts in the kingdom at 
 that period. In colleges and 
 public bodies this would have 
 happened more particularly, who, 
 from a laudable gratitude towards 
 their benefactors, are always a- 
 verse to adapt their furniture to 
 the changeable fashions of the 
 times. W. & H. 
 
 [The sacrifice of plate either 
 given by the loyal to the necessi- 
 ties of the king, or forcibly seized 
 by the rebel army for the use of 
 the parliament, was immense : Bp. 
 Tanner has preserved an account 
 of the plate sent in from the re- 
 spective colleges in 1642 — 3, to be 
 coined at the mint in New Inn 
 Hall for the king's service. 
 The cathedral church 
 
 of Christ 
 Jesus college 
 Oriel . 
 Queens . 
 Lincoln . 
 University 
 Brasennose 
 
 172 
 86 
 82 
 
 193 
 47 
 61 
 
 121 
 
 oz. dwt. 
 14 
 
 St. Mary Magdalene 296 6 15 
 
 All Souls .... 253 1 19 
 
 Balliol 41 4 o 
 
 Merton 79 11 10 
 
 Trinity 174 7 10 
 
 Exeter 246 5 t 
 
 1856 6 19 
 
 It will be remarked that the 
 omissions in this list are New 
 College, Corpus, St. John's, Wad- 
 ham and Pembroke. There is no 
 doubt but that each of these col- 
 leges contributed. Corpus sent in 
 their plate shortly after the list 
 was made, although the exact 
 quantity no where appears. In 
 New College no record of the trans- 
 action has yet been discovered, 
 but that society has no plate of 
 an age earlier than the reign of 
 Charles the Second, (some few 
 pieces hereafter enumerated ex- 
 cepted,) and in 1643, for the first 
 time, appears a charge in the 
 bursar's books for glass and 
 horn drinking vessels, and shortly 
 after for pewter spoons for the 
 use of the warden. Wadham, as is 
 proved by a document in their 
 archives, contributed ioolb. ioz. 
 I5dwt. of white, and 231b. 40Z. 
 of gilt, plate: Pembroke has 
 no plate of an earlier date ; whilst 
 the following memorandum, taken 
 from the MS. account of the Bas- 
 kervilles mentioned under the year 
 1658, very satisfactorily accounts 
 for the omission of St. John's : and 
 
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 15 
 
 siderable, was (with all other plate in Oxon.) carried by 
 his majestie's command to the mint at New Inne, and 
 there turned into money to pay his majestie's armies. 
 
 in corroboration of the statement, 
 the college register of 1642 sets 
 down 800/. as the exact sum paid 
 over to the king in the first in- 
 stance. 
 
 i ■ I am informed by my worthy 
 friend Mr. Richard Rod, that 
 when King Charles y e first had 
 his residence in Oxford, in y e time 
 of our civil wars, the king want- 
 ing cash to pay his soldiers, he 
 was necessitated to send for the 
 college plate to coyne money, and 
 accordingly had it delivered to 
 him. But St. John's colledge 
 people being loath to loose the 
 memory of their benefactors gave 
 y e king a sume of money to y e 
 value of it, and so it staid with 
 them some time, but y e king's 
 urgent occasions for money still 
 pressing him forward, he sent to 
 demand it a second time, and had 
 it ; upon which y e king ordered the 
 rebus of Richard Bayly, the then 
 president of St. John's 1644, to 
 be put on the money coyn'd with 
 y e plate. Mr. Rod did help me to 
 half a crown of this money, 
 wh ch had y e rebus of Rich. Bayly 
 on both sides; viz. under y e king 
 a horseback on one side, and under 
 this motto : — 
 
 REL . PRO . LE . ANG . LI B . PAR. 
 The Protestant religion, the laws 
 of England, and the privilege of 
 parliament." 
 
 It may be added that a few, 
 
 and but a few, reliques of the an- 
 cient collegiate plate are still to 
 be found in the University; in 
 most instances pieces either be- 
 stowed by the founders, or given 
 by special benefactors, and doubt- 
 less saved from the general wreck 
 out of a grateful respect to the 
 memory of the donors. Thus at 
 Exeter college, there is a salt-sel- 
 lar of very beautiful workman- 
 ship; at Oriel, three pieces, a grace 
 cup silver-gilt, given by king Ed- 
 ward the Second; a mazer bowl 
 and a cocoa-nut set in silver, a 
 present from Carpenter, bishop of 
 Worcester, about 1470; at Cor- 
 pus, a remarkably chaste and fine 
 chalice, two salt-sellars, silver-gilt, 
 one of exquisite beauty formerly 
 Bishop Fox's, and some spoons of 
 considerable antiquity; at Queen's, 
 the celebrated horn, given by the 
 founder according to one tradi- 
 tion, by queen Philippa as others 
 say, and the communion plate 
 (1631 and 1637). At New college 
 are several fine pieces; a salt- 
 sellar of singular design, an ape 
 holding a large crystal enclosed 
 in silver gilt, and at the bottom 
 satyrs in grotesque attitudes; this, 
 together with a bowl of figured 
 ware elegantly set in silver, was 
 given by archbishop Warham; 
 two standing cups with covers, 
 one given by Walter Hyll ; and 
 three nuts set in silver, one appa- 
 
16 LIFE OF WOOD. [1644. 
 
 1 644. On Wednesday, being the eve of the Ascension, Robert 
 
 20 Car. 1. ear 2 f Essex, generalissimo of the parliament forces, and 
 S r . Will. Waller, going with their forces from Abendon 
 over Sanford Ferry, and so thro Cowley, and over Bul- 
 lington Green (to the end they might go towards Islip,) 
 faced the city of Oxon. for several houres, whilst their 
 carriages slipt away behind them. This gave some terror 
 to the garrison of Oxon. his maj. being then therein, and 
 great talke there was, that a siege would suddenly follow. 
 Mr. A. Wood's mother therefore resolving, that he and 
 his brother Christopher should be removed out of harme's 
 way, she sent them with an horse and man into the 
 country : and because the infection was then in Oxon. 
 she ordered, that they should be conveyed to Tetsworth, 
 ten miles distant from Oxford ; where they continued for 
 a fortnight or more in the house of ° Rich. Sciense, then 
 called the Catherine Wheel, now a great new built inn of 
 brick (1683) at the lower end of the towne. There, I say, 
 they continued till it was thought that they had no in- 
 fection about them, and then they were conveyed two 
 
 rently of considerable antiquity re- ally belonging to Osney Abbey; 
 
 presenting a vine with its branches and the communion plate at St. 
 
 running up the cup, and hedged John's(i586),NewCollege(i6o2), 
 
 in with a rude paling of silver; a Brasennose (1608), as well as a 
 
 second, not so old, resting on chalice at Balliol (1614), Oriel 
 
 small sculptured angels, the third (1641), Wadham (about 1613), 
 
 given by Catharine Baylie, who are all anterior to the reign of 
 
 died in 1600. At Trinity, a cha- Charles the First, and were proba- 
 
 lice of elaborate work, and in bly concealed during the civil wars 
 
 excellent taste, which there seems from the rapacity of the saints 
 
 no reason to doubt came from the and their soldiers, who, under the 
 
 abbey at St. Alban's, and falling pretence of reform, committed 
 
 into the hands of sir Thomas barefaced robbery wherever they 
 
 Pope, was bestowed by him on obtained access to college or ca- 
 
 his newly founded college. Christ thedral.] 
 
 Church has a large salver origin- ° Ral. in Diario. Hearne. 
 
1 644 J 
 
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 17 
 
 miles on one side of Tetsworth, to a merkate towne called 
 Thame^ and there they were set downe, and conveyed into 
 the vicaridge house, neare to, and on the north side of, 
 the church, where they were very lovingly received by the 
 vicar Mr. Thorn. Henant, and his wife Elizabeth, one of 
 the daughters of Leonard Pettie, gent, kinsman to the 
 mother of A. and Ch. Wood ; in which house their three 
 elder brothers had before sojourned, while they went to 
 the free-school P in Thame. Afterwards they were entred 
 into the said school, there to be educated till they were fit 
 to be academians or apprentices. The master of that 
 school was q William. Burt, Mr. of A. sometimes fellow of 
 
 p in Thame, founded by John 
 Lord Williams of Thame. After- 
 wards Diar. Hearne. 
 
 1 He married Elizabeth daugh- 
 ter of Maximilian Pettie of Thame 
 by Eliz. his wife daughter of 
 Robert Waller of Beacons field, 
 Bucks. She died at the lodgings 
 of her son in law, in New college 
 Oxford, on the 25th of Sept. 1683. 
 or thereabouts, and was buried 
 on the 28th, at the upper end of 
 the chancel of Thame, near the 
 grave of her father. 
 
 The aforesaid William Burt, 
 D. D. and Eliz. his wife, left be- 
 hind them the following issue : 
 
 1. Maximilian Pettie, who mar- 
 ried - - - - 
 
 2. Elizabeth the wife of Henry 
 Beeston, LL. D. rector of Wallop, 
 schoolmaster of Winchester col- 
 lege, and afterwards warden of 
 New college. 
 
 3. Ann the wife of Robert 
 Hawking, D.D. a Wiltshire man. 
 
 4. Judith the wife of Henry 
 WOOD, VOL. I. 
 
 Bardshaw, D. D. prebendary of 
 Winchester, who died about 1690. 
 5. Mary the wife of ■ — Brooks, 
 a minister. 
 
 Arms. On a Chevron Gules, 
 3 Crosslets Or, between 3 
 Bugle Horns Sable, im- 
 paling quarterly Or and A- 
 zure, on a Bend Vert, 3 
 Martletts Or : Pettie. 
 See Fasti Oxon. under the 
 year 1658 : — Wood MSS. in mus. 
 Ashm. 8466. F. 4 :— Gale's Hist. 
 of the Cath. of Winton. 
 
 Near the hospital, on the south 
 side of the church at Thame, is 
 the free school founded by sir 
 John Williams viscount Thame ; 
 at the east end of which are the 
 names of the masters, with the 
 times when they began; viz. 
 
 1. Edwardus Harris, anno 1575. 
 
 2. Richard Bouchier . 1597. 
 
 3. Hugo Evans . . . 1627. 
 
 4. gVLIeLMVs BVrte peDa- 
 gogVs qVartVs (mdllxxxi.) 
 
 5. Guliel. Ailiff . . . 1647. 
 
 c 
 
18 LIFE OF WOOD. [1644. 
 
 New coll. who before had married Elizabeth, one of the 
 daughters of Maximilian Pettie of Thame and Tetsworth, 
 kinsman to their mother. Which Will. Burt was after- 
 wards schoolmaster of Wykeham/s school neare Winches- 
 ter, warden of the coll. there, and Dr. of divinity. The 
 usher of the said school was one David Thomas, bach, of 
 arts of Jesus coll. who before had married a maid of ordi- 
 nary note, but handsome. Shee had several yeares lived 
 in the parish where A. and Ch. Wood were borne, and 
 Anne Price, her sirname, I think, was Price, having been brought up 
 under [her] kinswoman or aunt called Joane Evans, who 
 kept a publick house, now knowne by the name of the 
 Magpie, in the same parish. 
 
 The said D. Thomas was afterwards the second master 
 of the free-school of Dorchester in Oxfordshire, founded 
 by Joh. Eeteplace, Esq. and at length master of a well 
 endowed school at Leycester, the chief towne in Leyces- 
 tershire, where he continued till the time of his death, in 
 Aug. 1667, having before obtained a comfortable estate 
 
 6. Hugo Willis . . . 1655. culiarly rare volume in folio, con- 
 MSS.Wood.Mus. Ashm. 8586. taining the foundation deeds and 
 
 W. & H. statutes of the school, printed at 
 
 [To these may be added : — London by Vautrollier, (although 
 
 7. Thomas Middleton 1675. without his name,) and thus en- 
 S.Henry Bruges . . 1694. titled :" 1575. Schola Thamensis 
 9. William Lamplugh, ex fvndatione Iohannis VVil- 
 
 June 10, 1727. liamsMilitis domini Williams de 
 
 10. James Fussell, July 27, 1727. Thame God saue the Queene." It 
 
 11. Rob. Wheeler, Apr. 7, 1729. contains A to K in fours j then 
 T2. John Kipling, June 13, 1729.. L M and N having two leaves 
 
 13. William Cooke . . 1773. only; and concludes with an ap- 
 
 14. William Stratford . 1786. pendix of twelve pages. A copy 
 
 15. Timothy Tripp Lee 18 14. on vellum is in the British Mu- 
 
 16. Thomas Broadley seum among the books bequeath- 
 
 Fooks .... 1841. ed by the Right Hon. Thomas 
 
 Connected with this place of Grenville.] 
 education we may mention a pe- 
 
1 644.] LIFE OF WOOD. 19 
 
 by the great paines he took in pedagogie, and by the 
 many [sojournours] that he alwaies kept in his house. 
 
 It was observed by the vicar Mr. Henant, while A. 
 Wood sojourned in his house, that the said A. Wood was 
 very sedulous, was alwaies up and readie the first in the 
 house, and alwaies ambitious of being first in the school 
 in the morning ; and if any way hindred, he would be apt 
 to cry and make a noise, to the disturbance of the family, 
 as Mr. Henant hath several times told him, when he was 
 Mr. of arts. 
 
 A. Wood did partly remember, that he was much re- 
 tired, walked mostly alone, was given much to thinking 
 and melancholy; which sometimes made his night's rest 
 so much disturbed, that he would walk in his sleep (only 
 with his shirt on) and disturb and fright people of the 
 house, when they were going to their respective beds, 
 2 or 3 houres after he had taken up his rest. This 
 also, besides his owne memorie, he hath been often told 
 by his cozen Henant the wife, who lived at Great Milton 
 neare Oxon, in the house of his cozen Joh. Cave, after 
 her husband's death. 
 
 On Sunday the r 8 of Octob. hapned a dreadfull fire in Oct. 8. 
 Oxon. such a one (for the shortness of the time, wherein 
 it burned) that all ages before could hardly paralel. It 
 began about two of the clock in the afternoon in a little 
 poore house, on the south side of Thames street (leading 
 from the north gate to high bridg) occasioned by a foot- 
 soldier's roasting a pigg, which he had stoln. The wind 
 being verie high, and in the north, blew the flames 
 southward very quick and s strangly, and burnt all houses 
 and stables (except S. Marie's coll.) standing between the 
 
 r Sic MS. Neque aliter in ipso sub hoc anno. Hearne. 
 etiam Diario. Sed 6 reponend. s Sic- Neque aliter in Diario. 
 
 Vide Hist, fy Antiq. Univ. Oxon. Hearne. 
 
 c2 
 
20 LIFE OF WOOD. [1645. 
 
 back-part of those houses, that extend from the north 
 gate to S. Martin's church on the east, and those houses 
 in the North Baylie, called New inn lane, on the west : 
 then all the old houses in the Bocherew (with the Bo- 
 cherew it self) which stood between S. Martin's church 
 and the church of S. Peter in the Baylie; among which 
 were two which belonged to A. Wood's mother, besides 
 the stables and back-houses belonging to the Flowr de 
 Luce, which were totally consumed, to her great loss, and 
 so consequently to the loss of her sons, as they afterwards 
 evidently found it. 
 1645. While A. Wood and his brother Christopher continued 
 21 Car. I. a £ fphame, you cannot imagine, twas great disturbances 
 they suffered by the soldiers of both parties, somtimes 
 by the parliament soldiers of Aylesbury, somtimes by 
 the king's from B or stall house, and somtimes from the 
 king's at Oxon. and at Wallingford. The chiefest dis- 
 turbances and afFrightments, that they and the family, 
 wherein they lived, endured, were these. 
 
 On the 27 of January, being Munday, an. 1644. colonel 
 Tho. Blagge, governour of Wallingford- castle, roving 
 about the country very early with a troop of stout hors- 
 men, consisting of 70 or 80 at most, met with a partie 
 of parliament eirs or rebells, of at least 200, at Long 
 Crendon, about a mile northward from Thame: which 
 200 belong'd to the garrison of Aylesburie, and being 
 headed by a Scot, called colonel Crafford, who, as I 
 think, was governour of the garrison there, they pre- 
 tended, that they were looking out quarters for them. 
 I say, that col. Blagge and his partie, meeting with these 
 rebells at Long Crendon, fought with, and made them 
 run, till his men following them too eager [ly] were over- 
 power' d with multitudes, that afterwards came in to their 
 1 L. what e Diario. Hearne. 
 
1 645.] LIFE OF WOOD. 21 
 
 assistance, (almost treble his number) at which time he 
 
 himself with his stout captaine Walter (they two 
 
 only) fought against a great many of the rebells for a 
 long while together ; in which encounter the brave colonel 
 behaved himself as manfully with his sword, as ever man 
 did, slashing and beating so many fresh rebells with such 
 courage and dexterity, that he would not stirr, till he had 
 brought off all his owne men, whereof the rebells kild 
 but two (not a man more) tho they took sixteen, who 
 stayed too long behind. Captain Walter had six rebells 
 upon him, and, according to his custome, fought it out so 
 gallantly, that he brought himself off with his colonel, 
 and came home safe to Wallingford with all their men, 
 except 18. Col. Blagge was cut over the face, and had 
 some other hurts, but not dangerous. 
 
 After the action was concluded at Crendon, and Blagge 
 and his men forced to fly homeward, they took part of 
 Thame in their way. And A. W. and his fellow- sojourners 
 being all then at dinner in the parlour with some strangers 
 there, of whome their master Burt and his wife were of 
 the number, they were all alarum' d with their approach : 
 and by that time they could run out of the house into the 
 backside, to look over the pale that parts it from the 
 common road, they saw a great number of horsmen post- 
 ing towards Thame over Crendon bridge, about a stone's 
 cast from their house (being the out and only house on 
 that road, before you come into Thame) and in the head 
 of them was Blagge with a bloody face, and his party 
 with capt. Walter following him. The number, as was 
 then guessed by A. W. and those of the family, was 50 
 or more, and they all rode under the said pale and close 
 by the house. They did not ride in order, but each made 
 shift to be foremost; and one of them riding upon a 
 shelving ground, opposite to the dore, his horse slip'd, fell 
 
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 upon one side, and threw the rider (a lusty man) in 
 A. Wood's sight. Colonel Crafford, who was well u hors'd 
 at a pretty distance before his men in pursuite, held a 
 pistol to him ; but the trooper crying quarter, the rebells 
 came up, rifled him, and took him and his horse away 
 with them. Crafford rode on without touching him, and 
 ever or anon he would be discharging his pistol at some 
 of the fag-end of Blagg's horse, who rode thro the west 
 end of Thame, called Priest-end, leading towards EAcot. 
 
 Whether Crafford and his men followed them beyond 
 x Thame, I think not, but went into the towne, and 
 refreshed themselves, and so went to Aylesbury. I find 
 one Laurence Crafford, the sixth son of Hugh Crafford 
 (of the same family, which is noble, of Kilbourne) to have 
 been borne in his father's castle at Jordan hill neare 
 y Gloscow in Scotland, on the cal. of Nov. 1611, and to 
 have received some education in Gloscow. Afterwards it 
 appeares, that he went beyond the seas, and served in the 
 warrs for eleven yeares under Gustavus and Christianus, 
 kings of Sweedland, in Germany, and afterwards for the 
 space of three yeares he was a z protobune of horse under 
 Charles Lewis elector Palatine. In 1641 he was sent into 
 Ireland by the parliament of England to fight against the 
 rebells, where he served in the quality of a tribune for 
 two yeares, and in 1643 he was sent for from thence by 
 Major ge- the pari, of England, and made legatus secundus under 
 
 neral. 
 
 Edw. earl of Manchester, and afterwards in the Scotch 
 expedition. At length when the Scots besieged Hereford, 
 he was kiFd with a bullet, shot from the works, on the 
 17 of Aug. 1645, aged 34 yeares : whereupon his body 
 
 u hors'd and at in Diario. think they did not, but went. 
 
 Hearne. Hearne. 
 
 x Sic MS. At in Diario : in y Sic. Hearne. 
 
 truth I cannot now tell: but I z Sic. Hearne. 
 
1 645.] LIFE OF WOOD. 23 
 
 being carried off to the city of Glocester, it was buried 
 there in the larg chappel at the east end of the choire, 
 called our ladie's chappel, within the cathedral there, and 
 soon after had a very fair monument set or fastned on 
 the north wall neare to his grave, containing the propor- 
 tion of a man to the middle (or the bust of a man) in 
 white marble, with a short staff in his right hand, which 
 monument continuing in it's luster till after the restora- 
 tion of K. Ch. 2. it was then ordered to be plucked downe 
 by the bishop, deane and prebends. This Laurence Craf- 
 ford seems to be the same person with colonel Crafford 
 before mentioned, who, I think, was governour of Ayles- 
 bury in Bucks for a time. As for colonel Blagge, who 
 was borne of an antient and gentile familie in Suffolke, he 
 suffered much between the declension of the king's cause 
 and the restoration of K. Ch. 2. by exile and several im- 
 prisonments; but after the [king was] restored, he was 
 rewarded with the governourship of Yarmouth and other 
 things in Norfolk ; yet being just setled, and in capacity 
 of spending the remainder of his dayes in ease and quiet- 
 ness, he died, to the great grief of his family and relations, 
 within the city of Westminster, on the 14 of Nov. 1660, 
 aged 47 yeares : whereupon his body was buried in the 
 great north isle, joyning to the church of S. Peter (com- 
 monly called the abbey church) within the said citie. 
 
 The next great disturbance, whereby A. W. and his 
 fellow sojournours were alarum' d at Thame, was this. In 
 the latter end of Apr. 1645, a famous Buckinghamshire 
 commander, called capt. - - - Phips the ragman, was 
 in Thame with 20 horse and dragoons, to guard their 
 committee for the excise (the chief of which committee 
 were Goodman Heywood and Goodman a [Hen] the butcher 
 
 a E Diario, e quo et alia itidem, uncis inclusa, restituimus. Hearne. 
 
24 LIFE OF WOOD. [1645. 
 
 his servant) and tarrying there two dayes or more, S r . 
 Will. Campion, governour of Borstall house, having re- 
 ceived notice of them, sent out his captaine lievetenant, 
 called capt. - - - - Bunce, with a partie of 20 horse, who 
 instantly marching thither over Crendon bridg, as it seems, 
 and so by the vicaridge house, drove them thro the towne 
 of Thame. Whereupon Phips and his committee flying 
 pretty fast, till they came to the bridg below Thame mill 
 (which is eastward and a little by north about a stone V 
 cast from the vicar's house) the[y] faced about, hoping to 
 make good the bridg with their dragoons. But this va- 
 liant captaine Bunce, after he had received a volley from 
 Phips and his partie (which touched only one common 
 soldier slightlie) charged over the bridg, and with his 
 pistols shot one of them dead, and beat them off the 
 bridg, so as they all ran away, but lost just half their 
 number ; for besides him that was killed, there were nine 
 taken, whereof two were cap. Phips himself and his liev- 
 tenant, ten only escaping, most of which had marks be- 
 stowed on them. 
 
 Capt. Bunce returned safe to Borstall with 9 prisoners, 
 10 horses, six fire-lock musquets, and 4 case of pistols. 
 This is that Bunce, who shot the pillaging Scot, called 
 major Jecamiah Abercromy (belonging, I think, to Ayles- 
 bury garrison) neare Stretton-Audley in Oxfordshire; 
 which entring deep into his side, fell from his horse on 
 the 7 of March 1 644 : so that being carried off prisoner, 
 with others, to Borstall house, died there soon after, 
 full of sorrow for his activity in the rebellion against 
 K. Ch. I. 
 
 Another great alarme to the juvenile muses in the vi- 
 caridge house, particularly to A. W. was this. Colonel 
 Rich. Greaves, a most confiding presbyterian, laying 
 couchant for a considerable time in Thame with a great 
 
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 25 
 
 partie of horse (upon what account I can not tell) in the 
 beginning of Sep. 1645, it was knowne among the chief 
 officers in Oxon. Whereupon col. Will. Legge the govern- 
 our thereof, resolving to beat up him and his partie, he 
 sent 400 horse from Oxon. commanded by col. b David 
 Walter (high-sheriff of the countie) and col. Rob. Legge 
 the governour's brother. These, with 60 musquetiers of 
 the governour^s regiment (commanded by captaine - - - 
 Burgh) marched forth from Oxon. in the afternoon of 
 Saturday Sept. 6, and before they c came to Thame, they 
 divided into two bodies, the van headed by col. Walter 
 and the reer by col. R. Legge. They found the towne 
 very strongly barricaded at every avenue : notwithstanding 
 which, major - - - Medcalf (maj. to coll. Rob. Legge) 
 charged the rebells guards, so as maj. Medcalfe with 7 
 troopers leapt from their horses, and removing the carts 
 
 b In a recess on the north side 
 of Wolvercote church com. Oxon. 
 is an elegant monument of sir 
 John Walter. His effigy is as big 
 as the life dressed in his robes, 
 laying between his two wives, with 
 his and their arms depicted on 
 the top of the tomb, his three sons 
 kneeling at his feet and his three 
 daughters at his head. For the 
 inscription see Le Neve's Monum. 
 Angl. 
 
 In the same recess on the north 
 wall is a bust, under which is this 
 inscription : 
 
 Here lieth the Bodie of David 
 Walter of Godstow Esq. the se- 
 cond Son of S r . John Walter Lord 
 Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 
 Groom of the Bedchamber to King 
 Charles the second and Lieute- 
 
 nant General of the Ordnance, 
 which Office his Majesty gave him 
 as a Reward of the great Valour 
 and Loyalty he had shewed in the 
 Service of his Father of Glorious 
 Memory, during the Civil Wars. 
 He was born at Sarsden in this 
 county, married Elizabeth the 
 Widdow of Francis Lord Dacre, 
 of Herstmonceaux in Sussex, by 
 whom he had no issue : Died at 
 London the 2 2d of April 1679, 
 and in the 68th Year of his Age. 
 
 The above monument of sir 
 John Walter is a curious piece of 
 workmanship, and was highly 
 painted and adorned, but through 
 length of time and want of repair 
 is greatly decayed. W. & H. 
 
 c came neare to Thame, Diar. 
 Hearne. 
 
26 LIFE OF WOOD. [ J 645* 
 
 opened the avenue d . This Hone, the two gallant majors 
 charged the rebells up thro the street, doing execution al 
 the way to the marketplace, where col. Greaves himself 
 stood with about 200 horse drawn up; but col. Walter 
 being ready with the other troops (viz. his owne, that of 
 col. Tooker and that of major Trist) gave the rebels such 
 a charg, as made them fly out of the towne; and after 
 pursuing the fugitive rebels, drove them above half a mile 
 from Thame. In the meane while col. Legge, who with the 
 reere guarded the towne and avenews, least other of the re- 
 bells (being in all 800) should break in and desert the whole, 
 now drew into the towne, that others might have secure 
 time to search houses and stables. Orders were given, and 
 'twas done accordingly. After which they all drew out of the 
 towne, and marched away with their horses and prisoners. 
 Before they had gone two miles, at least 200 rebels were 
 got in their reere, but then col. Legge charged them so 
 gallantly, that the rebels ran back, much faster than they 
 came on. Yet farr had they not gone, before these vexed 
 rebels came on againe, and then also col. Legge beat them 
 so farr back, that they never attempted to come on againe. 
 In this last charge that most hopeful yong gentleman 
 e capt. Hen. Gardiner (son of S r . Tho. Gardiner, his ma- 
 
 d By col. R. Legge opened from their horses, and, removing 
 
 the avenue.] By col. Rob. Legge. the carts, opened the avenue. Diar. 
 
 They found the towne very strong- Hearne. 
 
 ly barricadoed at every avenue : e S r . Thomas Gardiner of Cud- 
 
 notwithstanding which, major desden in Oxfordshire, Kt. son of 
 
 . . . Medcalfe (maj. to col. Rob. the recorder of London, and a 
 
 Legg) gallantly led up the forlorne captain of horse unto the king, 
 
 hope, charged the rebells guard, was buried in the cathedral of 
 
 & maintained his ground so hand- Chr. Church, 25 July 1645, under 
 
 somly, that major Aglionby com- Alexander Gerard's monument, 
 
 ing up to his assistance, the rebels He was knighted by his majesty, 
 
 were beat off the guards, so as whilst he sate at dinner, upon 
 
 maj. Medcalf with 7 troopers leapt delivery of the news of prince 
 
1 645.] LIFE OF WOOD. 27 
 
 jestie's sollicitor gen.) was unfortunately shot dead; a 
 youth of such high incomparable courage, mix'd with such 
 abundance of modesty and sweetness, that wee cannot 
 easily match him unless with his brave brother, yong S r . 
 Thomas Gardiner, which two are now buried both in one 
 grave in the cathedral of Christ Church in Oxon. whether 
 they were brought with much universal sorrow and af- 
 fection. 
 
 Besides this gallant gentleman, no officer was killed, 
 only 3 common soldiers, nor scarce any hurt, only e Maj. 
 Medcalfe shot in the arme. The rebels dropt plentifully 
 in the street and in the fields, and col. Greaves escaped 
 very narrowly, being run into the body, and at first thought 
 to have been slaine. f The rebells being thus beaten, his 
 
 Rupert's success against the rebels to the governour of OXON. 
 
 that had besieged Newark ( . . . . Legg) when the cavaliers 
 
 March 164I. beat up the parliament quarters at 
 
 Henry Gardiner a captain of Thame, and receiving wounds 
 
 horse 2d son of sir Thomas Gar- there, died of them, 
 
 diner killed at Thame when the He was buried in St. Peter's 
 
 cavaliers beat up the qrs. of the church in the East, 
 
 parliamentarians there : 7 Sept. Wood's MSS. in museo Ashm. 
 
 1645, an d was buried by his fa- 8466. fol. 77. W. & H. 
 
 ther. Wood's MSS. in mus. f And that 'twas currently re- 
 
 Ashm. 8466. f. 76. W. & H. ported in Oxford, that he was 
 
 e Captain Scrope Medcalf a slain, may appear from the fol- 
 Yorkshire man died in the house lowing passage I have entered in 
 of John Egerly against University vol. 88. p. 71. of my MSS. col- 
 college in the parish of St. Peter lections from a letter, in the Ash- 
 in the East, 13 Sept. 1645. He molean museum, written by Mr. 
 commanded the troop belonging W. B. [W. Browne] *to his pupil 
 
 * William Browne, B.D. was bom at Churchill in Dorsetshire, of which 
 place his father was rector, and educated at Blandford under Mr. Gardiner. 
 He was elected scholar of Trinity college in Oxford in 1635, an( ^ became 
 actual fellow thereof in 1 643 . He had the character of an ingenious man, a 
 good scholar, and as admirable a disputant as any of his time in the university. 
 Mr. Aubrey says that he had the happiness to be his pupil. He was pre- 
 sented by Dr. Morley Bp. of Winchester to the vicarage of Farnham in 
 
LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [1645. 
 
 majesties forces brought away those prisoners they had 
 taken, which, besides common troopers, were 27 officers : 
 among whome were their adjutant-general - - - - s Puide, 
 their provost-general marshall (or prov. marshal general) 
 and their chief engineer, four captaines, as capt. Hanson, 
 Joh. Thornhill, James the elder &c. seven lievtenants, 
 viz. Wilmot, Hughes, Bagnall, Lampert, Canne, Wilson, 
 Crompton, and three cornets, Bradshaw, Brooks and 
 Symons. There were also taken 13 sergeants, quarter- 
 masters and corporalls, and a great deal of money was found 
 in the rebels' pockets (having lately received advance- 
 money). Many armes also were taken, and between two 
 and three hundred good horse, besides three colours, two 
 
 the famous John Aubrey, esq. 
 on Tuesd. Sept. 9. 1645. from 
 Oxford, which Mr. B. stiles him- 
 self G. Fuscus in some letters in 
 Latin (to the said Mr. Aubrey) 
 which I have seen in the same 
 museum. " Sunday morning last 
 " our horse from Oxon. fell on the 
 " enemies quarters at Thame, 
 " where were some 300 horse re- 
 " formadoes. All the quarters 
 " thereabout made some 6 or 700 
 " horse and dragoons. Wee fell 
 " on them unexpectedly, kill['d] 
 " andtooke 100 of them (amongst 
 " the taken was a Dutch man 
 " their agitant generall, amongst 
 " the slaine col. Greaves, hee that 
 " kept Lichfield against prince 
 " Rupert) and 200 horse. They 
 
 " panies and pursued us in the 
 " reare, havinge alsoe some helpe 
 iC from Alisburie &c. but were 
 " repulsed with losse ; onely in 
 " the last charge wee lost captain 
 " Henrie Gardiner, son to Sr. 
 " Thomas Gardiner the kings sol- 
 " licitour, whose losse is generally 
 " lamented, not onely in regarde of 
 " his valour, sweet disposition and 
 " hopefull carriage, but 'cause too 
 " his brother, younge Sr. Thomas, 
 " was slaine in the same raan- 
 " ner not past a month since." 
 Hearne. 
 
 s Over against this word, in the 
 margin of the Diary is written 
 Puid. See Micro-chron. at the end 
 of Quer. Cant. an. 1645. in Sept. 
 Hearne. 
 
 " gathered up their scattered com- 
 
 Surrey, at which place he died Oct. 21. 1669; about the 51 or 52 year of his 
 age of the small pox, caught by burying a corps which died of that disease, 
 and was buried in the chancell there without any memorial. 
 
 See Aubrey's History of Surrey, vol. iii. page. 335. — Trin. coll. Register. 
 W. & H. 
 
1645.] LIFE OF WOOD. 29 
 
 whereof had mottos. The one was, Non Reos Res, and the 
 other was, R atria poscente paratus. 
 
 This alarm and onset was made by the cavaliers from 
 Oxon. about break of day on Sunday morning Sept. 7. 
 before any of the rebels were stirring. But by the alarm 
 taken from the sentinel, that stood at that end of the 
 towne leading to Oxon. many of them came out of their 
 beds into the market place without then doublets ; whereof 
 adj. gen. Puide was one, who fought in his shirt. Some 
 that were quartered near the church as in Vincent Barry's 
 house between it and the school, h and in the vicar's house 
 (where A. W. then sojourned) fled into the church (some 
 with their horses also) and going to the top of the tower, 
 would be peeping thence to see the cavaliers run into the 
 houses, where they quartered, to fetch away their goods. 
 
 There were about 6 of the parliament soldiers (troopers) 
 that quartered in the vicar's house, and one being slow 
 and careless, was ahing and warming his boots, while 
 they were fighting in the towne : and no sooner he was 
 withdrawne, into the garden I think, but some of the ca- 
 valiers, who were retiring with their spoyle towards Bors- 
 tall (for they had separated themselves from those that 
 went to Oxon.) ran into the vicar's house, and seized on 
 cloaks and goods of the rebels, while some of the said 
 rebels (who had locked themselves up in the church) were 
 beholding out of the ch. windows what they were doing. 
 
 On the day before (Saturday) some of the said rebels, 
 that lodged in the said house, had been progging for 
 venison in Thame park I think, and one or two pasties of 
 it were made, and newly put into the oven before the 
 cavaliers entred into the house. But so it was, that none 
 of the said rebels were left at eleven of the clock to eat 
 
 h And those in Diarium. Hearne. 
 
30 LIFE OF WOOD. [1645. 
 
 the said pasties, so their share fell among the school-boyes, 
 that were sojournours in the said house. 
 
 As for the beforemention'd adj. gen. Puid, he had leave 
 within 3 days after he was brought to Oxon. to depart 
 upon his parol ; yet wanted the civility, either to returne 
 himself, or to release the gentleman, (or any other) that 
 he had promised in exchange for him. Such, and no 
 better, is the faith and humanity of the rebels. 
 
 Besides these, were other alarms and skirmishes, which 
 being frequent and of little concern, yet much to the 
 school-boyes, who were interrupted thereby, I shall for- 
 beare the recital of them. They had also several times 
 troopers from Borstal, who would watch and be upon the 
 guard in the vicaridge house (the out-house northward 
 from Thame, as I have before told you) and continue there 
 a whole night together, while some of their partie were 
 upon London road neare Thame, to lay in wait for pro- 
 vision or wine that came from London towards Aylesbury, 
 or to any persons thereabouts that took part with the 
 rebells. Some of these troopers would discourse with the 
 school-boyes, that lived in the house (being of the number 
 of six, or somtimes more) while they were making their 
 exercise in the hall against the next day. Some of them 
 A. W. found to have grammar learning in them, * as'' by 
 the questions they proposed to the boys ; and others hav- 
 ing been, or lived, in Oxon. knew the relations of A. W. 
 which would make them shew kindness to him and his 
 brother. But that which A. W. observed, was, that the 
 vicar and his wife were alwaies more kind to the pari, 
 soldiers or rebells, than to the cavaliers, as his master 
 W. Burt and his wife were, having been alwaies acquainted 
 with and obliged to the families of the Ingoldesbies and 
 
 Deest in Diario. Hearne. 
 
1646.] LIFE OF WOOD. 31 
 
 Hamdens in Buckinghamshire, and other puritanical and 
 factious families in the said countie ; who, while yong, had 
 been mostly bred in the said school of Thame, and had 
 sojourned either with the vicar or master : but as for the 
 usher Dav. Thomas, a proper stout Welshman, A. W. 
 alwaies took [him] to be a good loyalist, as indeed 
 he was. 
 
 Wednesday Jun. 10, the garrison of Borstall was sur- 1646. 
 reudred for the use of the parliament. The school-boys 22 Car - *• 
 were allowed by their master a free libertie that day, and 
 many of them went thither (4 miles distant) about 8 or 9 
 of the clock in the morning, to see the forme of surrender, 
 the strength of the garrison, and the soldiers of each 
 partie. They, and particularly A. W. had instructions 
 given to them before they went, that not one of them 
 should either tast any liquor, or eat any provision in the 
 garrison; and the reason was, for feare the royal partie, 
 who were to march out thence, should mix poyson among 
 the liquor or provision that they should leave there. But 
 as A. W. remembred, he could not get into the garrison, 
 but stood, as hundreds did, without the works, where he 
 saw the governour S r . Will. Campion, a little man, who 
 upon k some occasion laid flat on the ground on his belly, 
 to write a letter, or bill, or the form of a pass, or some 
 such thing. 
 
 Wednesday and Midsomer day, the garrison of Oxon. 
 which was the chiefest hold the king had, and wherein 
 he had mostly resided while the civil warr continued, was 
 surrendred for the use of the parliament, as most of his 
 garrisons were this yeare, occasioned by the fatal battle of 
 Naseby, which hapned in the last yeare, wherein the king 
 and his partie were in a woful manner worsted. In the 
 
 k Some occasion or other laydflat Diar. Hearne. 
 
32 LIFE OF WOOD. [1646. 
 
 evening of the said day, many of the king's foot partie, 
 that belonged to the said garrison, came into Thame, and 
 layd downe their armes there, being then a wet season. 
 Some of whome continuing there the next day, A. W. 
 went into the towne to see them. He knew some of their 
 faces and they his, but he being a boy, and having no 
 money, he could not then relieve them, or make them 
 drink : yet he talked with them about Oxford and his 
 relations and acquaintance there ; for the doing of which 
 he was checked when he came home. 
 
 In the latter end of Aug. or beginning of Sept. follow- 
 ing his brother Edw. Wood bach, of arts and scholar of 
 Trinity coll. came on foot from Oxon. with Leonard Pettie 1 
 (the brother of the wife of his cozen Henant the vicar) 
 and another scholar to see him and his brother, the vicar 
 and the master and their wives. They continued at least 
 two nights in the vicar's house, and great kindness was 
 expressed by them towards A. W. and his brother Christop. 
 whom, the next day, the said Edward told, that they were 
 soon after to return to Oxon. that their mother had much 
 suffered in her estate by the late dreadful fire in Oxon. 
 and therefore was not able to maintaine them any longer 
 at school in Thame, &c. A. W. seemed very sorry at this 
 news, because he was well and warme where he was, had 
 good companie, and seem'cl to have a fix'd love for the 
 place, even so much, that he did never afterwards care to 
 hear of New coll. school to have given him scholastical 
 
 1 [We whose names are under- them. Willm. Sellar, Alexander 
 written do testify, that beinge with Fisher. Administration was grant- 
 Mr. George Petty on Monday y e ed March 3. Archiv. Univ. Oxon. 
 7 day of Feb. 1630. and askinge Maximilian Pettye get. 15, Chris- 
 him howe he would bestowe his topher Pettye set. 13, George 
 estate, his an s were was that he left Pettye set. n, were matriculated 
 it to his two brothers Mr. Leonard of Brasenose Oct. 13. 1598. Reg. 
 Petty and Mr. Maximilian Petty Matric. P.] 
 to be divided equally betweene 
 
 
1645-] LIFE 0F wood. 33 
 
 education; but applied all he had to that of Thame &c. 
 But there was no remedy, for go he must, and go he did 
 with his brother after Michaelmas following. 
 
 After his returne to the house of his nativity, he found 
 Oxford empty, as to scholars, but pretty well replenished 
 with parliamentarian soldiers. Many of the inhabitants 
 had gained great store of wealth from the court and royal- 
 lists, that had for several yeares continued among them ; 
 but as for the yong men of the city and university, he 
 found many of them to have been debauched by bearing 
 armes, and doing the duties belonging to soldiers, as 
 watching, warding, and sitting in tipling-houses for whole 
 nights together. His mother put his brother Christopher 
 to school in Oxon. and himself to the tuition of his brother 
 Edward of Trinity college, to whom he went once or twice 
 in a day to receive instruction, and alwaies spent every 
 afternoon in his chamber, which was a cockleloft over the 
 common gate of that college. 
 
 While he continued in this condition, his mother would 
 alwaies be soliciting him to be an apprentice, which he 
 could never endure to heare of : and somtimes she would 
 tell him, that she would set him out to an attorney or 
 sollicitor, and he remembred well, that she often mentioned 
 M r . Joh. Theyer, a sollicitor (of whom shall be mention 
 made under the yeare m 166. .) as a fit master for him, 
 but still he drew back and turned his eare. n Nay she 
 was so silly, that she would several times propose to 
 him some inferior mechanical trade, because she found 
 
 m See under the year 1668. kitchin-ware, lanthorns, and such 
 Hearne. like trivial things, because she 
 
 n Nay shee was so silly, that found me to have a mechanical 
 
 shee would several times forsooth head, and alwaies at leisure times 
 
 propose to me the trade of a tinner active in framing little baubles, 
 
 or tin-man, or a man that makes Diar. Hearne. 
 
 WOOD, VOL. I. D 
 
1647. 
 
 34 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 47- 
 
 him to have a mechanical head, and alwaies at leisure 
 
 times very active in framing little trivial things or 
 
 baubles. 
 
 A. "Wood was matriculated as a member of the univer- 
 
 23 Car. I. sity and a gentleman's son. This was done by his brother 
 May 26. Edward, who obtained a certificate, that he was matricu- 
 lated, from Matth. Cross the superior beadle of law, which 
 he kept by him to the time of his death. But afterwards 
 when he was master of arts, and had a full sight of the 
 matriculation books, he could not find his name regestred 
 in any of them. 
 Oct. 18. St. Luke's day and Munday he was entred into the 
 
 buttery-book of Merton college, being about that time 
 made by M r . Edw. Copley, fellow of that house, his post- 
 master, and put into the chamber under him in the great 
 quadrangle. He had not then any tutor in that coll. but 
 continued still under the instruction of his brother Edw. 
 in Trin. coll. 
 
 At that time Christmas appearing, there were fires of 
 charcole made in the common hall on Allsaints eve, All- 
 saints day and night, on the holydayes, ° their nights and 
 eves between that time and Christmas day. Then on 
 Christmas eve, Chris tm. day and holydayes and their 
 nights, and on Candlemas eve, Candlemas day and night. 
 At all these fires every night, which began to be made 
 a little after five of the clock, the senior under-graduats 
 would bring into the hall the juniors or freshmen be- 
 tween that time and six of the clock, and there make 
 them sit downe on a forme in the middle of the hall, 
 joyning to the declaiming desk : which done, every one in 
 order was to speake some pretty apothegme, or make a 
 jest or bull, or speake some eloquent nonsense, to make 
 
 And their Diar. 
 
1647.] LIFE 0F wood. 35 
 
 the company laugh : but if any of the freshmen came off 
 dull, or not cleverly, some of the forward or pragmatical 
 seniors would tuck them, that is, set the nail of their 
 thumb to their chin, just under p the lipp, and by the help 
 of their other fingers under the chin, they would give him 
 a mark, which somtimes would produce blood. On Can- 
 dlemas day, or before (according as Shrove-Tuesday fell 
 out) every freshman had warning given him to provide 
 his speech, to be spoken in the publick hall before the 
 under- graduats and servants on Shrove-Tuesday night that 
 followed, being alwaies the time for the observation of that 
 ceremony. According to the said summons A. Wood pro- 
 vided a speech as the other freshmen did. 
 
 Shrove-Tuesday Feb. 15, the fire being made in the Feb. 15. 
 common hall before 5 of the clock at night, the Fellowes 
 would go to supper before six, and making an end sooner 
 than at other times, they left the hall to the libertie of the 
 under-graduats, but with an admonition from one of the 
 fellowes (who was the principal of the under-graduats and 
 postmasters) that all things should be carried in good 
 order. While they were at supper in the hall, the cook 
 (Will. Noble) was making the lesser of the brass pots ful 
 of cawdel at the Q freshman' s charge; which, after the 
 hall was free from the fellows, was brought up and set 
 before the fire in the said hall. Afterwards every fresh- 
 man, according to seniority, was to pluck off his gowne 
 and band, and if r possibly to make himself look like a 
 scoundrell. This done, they were conducted each after 
 the other to the high table, and there made to stand on a 
 forme placed thereon; from whence they were to speak 
 their speech with an audible voice to the company : which 
 
 p The lower lip, in Diario. men's. Hearne. 
 Hearne. r Potius, possible. Hearne. 
 
 q Sic etiam in Diario. F. Fresh- 
 
36 LIFE OF WOOD. [1647. 
 
 if well done, the person that spoke it was to have a cup of 
 cawdle and no salted drinke : if indifferently, some cawdle 
 and some salted drink ; but if dull, nothing was given to 
 him but salted drink, or salt put in college beere, with 
 tucks to boot. Afterwards when they were to be ad- 
 mitted into the fraternity, the senior cook was to admin- 
 ister to them an oath over an old shoe, part of which runs 
 ?jfcnm- thus : Item tu jurabis, quod pennikgg fceitc!) non s visitabis, 
 . * ttcJ &c. the rest is forgotten, and none there are that now 
 joyningto t remembers it. After which spoken with gravity, the 
 
 St-Martin's ' _ ,.'■,, , . ■? , V -i 
 
 Church freshman kist the shoe, put on his gowne and band, and 
 
 dWeiwn to0 ^ n * s P^ ace among the seniors. 
 
 where but- Now for a diversion, and to make you laugh at the 
 
 ter women 
 
 and huck- folly and simplicity of those times, I shall entertaine you 
 to sit. with part of a speech, which A. Wood spoke, while he 
 
 stood on the forme, placed on the table, with his gowne 
 
 and band off, and uncovered. 
 
 " Most reverend seniors, 
 
 " May it please your gravities, to admit into your presence 
 a kitten of the muses, and a meer frog of Helicon, to 
 croak the cataracts of his plumbeous cerebrosity before 
 your sagacious ingenuities. Perhaps you may expect, that 
 I should thunder out demicannon words, and level my 
 sulphurious throat against my fellowes of the Tyrocinian 
 crew ; but this being the universal judgment of wee fresh 
 water academians, behold, as so many stygian furies, or 
 ghosts risen out of their winding sheets, wee present our- 
 selves before your tribunal, and therefore I will not subli- 
 mate nor tonitruate words, nor swell into gigantick streins : 
 such towring ebullitions do not exuberate in my aganippe, 
 being at the lowest ebb. I have been no chairman in the 
 
 s Frequentabis, &c. Hearne. * L. remember. Hearne. 
 
i647«] LIFE 0F wood. 37 
 
 committee of Apollo's creatures, neither was I ever ad- 
 mitted into the cabinet councils of the Pyerian dames, 
 that my braines should evaporate into high hyperboles, or 
 that I should bastinado the times with a tart satyr of a 
 magic pen. Indeed I am but a fresh water soldier under 
 the banners of Phoebus, and therefore cannot as yet set 
 quart-pots or double juggs in battalia, or make a good 
 shot in sack and claret, or give fire to the pistoletto tobacco 
 u pipes, charged with it's Indian powder; and therefore 
 having but poor skill in such service, I were about to 
 turne Heliconian dragooner, but as I were mounting of 
 my dapper nagg Pegasus, behold Shrove-Tuesday night 
 arrested me, greeting me in the name of this honorable 
 convocation, to appeare before their tribunal, and make 
 answer for my self, which, most wise seniors, shall be in 
 this wise. 
 
 " I am none of those May-pole-freshmen, that are tall 
 cedars before they come to be planted in [the] academian 
 garden, who x fed with the papp of Aristotle at twenty or 
 thirtie yeares of age, and suck at the duggs of their mother 
 the university, tho they be high ColossufsJ's and youths 
 rampant. 
 
 " These are they, who come newly from y a bagg-pudding 
 and a good brown loaf to deal with a penny-commons, as 
 an elephant with a poor fly, tumbles it and tosses it, and 
 at last gives him a z chop, that tugg as hard for a post- 
 master's place, as a dog at mutton. 
 
 " I am none of the university blood-hounds, that seek for 
 preferment, and whose noses are [as] acute as their eares, 
 
 u Pipe, in Diario. Hearne. z Chop. These are the Merto- 
 
 x Sic etiam in Diario. F.feed. nian counter 'scuffiers, that tug as 
 
 Hearne. hard for a postmaster's place as 
 
 y A country bagg-pudding. Diar. commons in Diario. Hearne. 
 
 Hearne. 
 
38 LIFE OF WOOD. \}&\1 - 
 
 that lye perdue for places, and who, good saints, do groan 
 till the visitation comes. These are they that esteem a 
 tavern as bad as purgatory, and wine more superstitious 
 than holy water : and therefore I hope this honorable con- 
 vocation will not suffer one of that tribe to tast of the 
 sack, [least they] should be troubled with a vertigo and 
 their heads turne round. 
 
 " I never came out of the country of Lapland. I am not 
 of the number of beasts. I meane those greedie dogs and 
 kitchin-haunters, who noint their chops every night with 
 greese, and rob the cook of his fees" &c. 
 
 Thus he went forward with smart reflections on the rest 
 of the freshmen and some of the servants, which might 
 have been here set downe, had not the speech been bor- 
 rowed of him by several of the seniors, who imbezeFd it. 
 After he had concluded his speech, he was taken downe by 
 Edm. Dickenson, one of the bachelaur-commoners of the 
 house, who with other bachelaurs and the senior under- 
 graduats made him drink a good dish of cawdle, put on his 
 gowne and band, placed him among the seniors, and gave 
 him sack. 
 
 This was the way and custome that had been used in 
 the college, time out of mind, to initiate the freshmen; 
 but between that time and the restoration of K. Ch. 2. it 
 was disused, and now such a thing is absolutely a forgotten. 
 1648. The visitors, appointed by parliament, having sate 
 
 24 Car. I. several times in the lodgings of S r . Nath. Brent, warden 
 of Merton coll. in the last yeare, but to little purpose, 
 they proceeded this yeare with very great rigour, to the 
 
 a The custom described above in this place, and in some a very 
 
 was not, it is probable, peculiar to near resemblance of it has been 
 
 Merton college. Perhaps it was kept up 'till within these few years, 
 
 once general, as striking traces of W. & H. 
 it may be found in many societies 
 
1648.] LIFE OF WOOD. 39 
 
 ruin of the universitie. The members of every coll. were 
 all summoned to appeare on a certaine day, and som- 
 times 2 or 3 colleges or more appeared in one day, and 
 if they did not give a positive answer, whether they would 
 submit to them and their visitation, as appointed by par- 
 liament, they were forthwith ejected. 
 
 Friday (May 12) the members of Merton college ap-Mayi2. 
 pear'd, and when A. W. was calFd in (for the members 
 were called in one by one) he was ask'd this question by 
 one of the visitors : " Will you submit to the authority of 
 parliament in this visitation V To which he gave this an- 
 swer, and wrot [it] downe b on a paper, lying on the table, 
 as he was directed : " I do not understand the business, 
 and therefore I am not able to give a direct answer." 
 
 Afterwards his mother and brother Edward, who ad- 
 vised him to submit in plaine termes, were exceeding 
 angry with him, and told him, that he had ruined himself, 
 and must therefore go a begging. At length, by the in- 
 tercession of his mother made to S r . Nathan. Brent (who 
 usually caFd her his little daughter, for he knew her, and 
 us'd to set her on his knee, when shee was a girle and a 
 sojournour in her husband's house, during the time of his 
 first wife) he was connived at and kept in his place, other- 
 wise he had infallibly gon to the pot. 
 
 His eldest brother Tho. Wood, who had served in the Aug. 
 quality of a lievtenant of horse for his majestie during the 
 warr, did, after the warr was terminated, returne to his 
 coll. of Ch. Ch. and there received the profits of his place ; 
 but about the beginning of Aug. this yeare, he very ab- 
 ruptly left the universitie, went into Ireland, and finding 
 out his school-fellow colonel Hen. Ingoldesby, became an 
 officer in his regiment, to fight against the rebells there. 
 
 b In Diarium. Hearne. 
 
40 LIFE OF WOOD. [1648. 
 
 The reason of his sudden departure was this : viz. that he 
 being one of the prime plotters of the remaining cavaliers 
 in Oxon. to seize on the garrison, visitors, and all the 
 armes they could find, to the end that they might joyne 
 themselves to others, that had plotted in the same manner 
 in other parliament garrisons, to relieve the distressed 
 cavaliers that were besieged in Colchester, the plot was 
 discovered by one or more of them when they were in 
 their cups 5 which made every one shift for themselves as 
 well as they could. But some being taken, one of them, 
 named Edward Adams, a barber, was upon the point of 
 being hanged, having mounted the ladder in order there- 
 unto on the signe post of the Catherine Wheel in Magda- 
 len parish (in which inn they had layd the foundation of 
 their plot). Mr. Francis Croft, whome A. W. found to be 
 one of the chaplaynes of Merton coll. at his first coming 
 thereunto, was deeply engaged in the said plot. He was 
 a high-Hone cavalier and a boon companion, and was the 
 man that gave to every person, that was concerned in the 
 plot, the oath of secrecy : which being done, they were to 
 write their names in his little paper-book, which he usually 
 carried in his pocket; but if they could not write, they 
 were to set their mark, and he to add their names to it. 
 At the first discovery of the plot, Mr. Croft fled, and some 
 of the parliament soldiers of the garrison supposing that 
 he might be in his chamber, which joyned to that chamber, 
 which was afterwards the common room belonging to 
 Merton coll. they broke open his dore, searched, but found 
 the bird flown. This being done early in the morning, his 
 dore stood open most of the day following, and A. W. 
 with some of the juniors going into it, saw it all adorn' d 
 with escocheons, which he (Mr. Croft) had got by burying 
 several persons of quality in Merton coll. church and 
 elsewhere, during the abode of the king's and queen's 
 
J 649.] LIFE OF WOOD. 41 
 
 courts in Oxon. but these, his books and bedding were 
 not then touched. 
 
 Edward Wood before mentioned, bach, of arts and scho- 
 lar of Trin. coll. (who before had submitted to the visitors) 
 was with others admitted probationer-fellow of Merton 
 coll. They were severely examined, and in due course 
 elected and admitted : which was done by the favour of 
 the warden S r . N. Brent c the arch-visitor. Some admis- 
 sions that followed were done by the sole authority of the 
 committee and visitors. Soon after E. Wood being setled 
 in the bay-tree-chamber, in the first quadrangle next to 
 the gate of Merton coll. A. Wood was put into the cock- 
 loft over him. So then, and after, his trudging to Trin. 
 coll. to receive his instruction was savM. 
 
 A. Wood's mother (Mary Wood) being much out of 1649. 
 purse in reedyfying the stables and outhouses of the Flowr J Car - IL 
 de Luce, and in repairing the inn it self, she gave off 
 house-keeping, and taking her son Christopher and a maid 
 with her, went to Cassington neare Woodstok, and so- 
 journed in [a] fair stone house, then inhabited by one 
 
 Tipping, lately sequestred from the vicaridg of Shab- 
 bington in Bucks, neare to Thame, who had married an 
 Oxford gentlewoman, the dau. of one Will. Dewey, who 
 had been acquainted with M ns . Wood from her childhood. 
 In the same house did then sojourn Mr. Joh. Lucas d , 
 lately senior fellow of New college, and Mr. Rich. Sher- 
 lock, lately chaplain of the said college, but now (1649) 
 curat of Cassington. A. Wood did often retire thither to 
 
 c Yet all that were then admit- of St. Giles, gent, who died in 
 
 ted, submitted to the visitors. Some 1681, and bequeaths to the warden 
 
 admissions of fellows that followed and fellows of New coll. " 10/. to 
 
 Diar. Hearne. be layde out in plate for the mas- 
 
 d [In the archives we have the ter ' s table."] 
 will of John Lucas of the parish 
 
42 LIFE OF WOOD. l 1 ^^ 
 
 see his mother, and somtimes lodge there for a night or 
 two. Mr. Sherlock was civil to him, and would give him 
 good instruction, and talk fatherly to him. Mr. Joh. 
 Goad was then vicar of Yarnton, a mile distant from Cas- 
 sington; (to whom Christop. Wood went dayly to school) 
 and being a suffering cavalier, did go often to the said Mr. 
 Tipping' s house, to visit his brother- sufferers. 
 
 This person A. W. did often see there, and received 
 instruction from him in many particulars, and found him 
 an exceeding loving and tender man. A. W. did not then 
 in the least think to write the lives of the said Rich. 
 Sherlock and the said J. Goad, as afterwards he did, or to 
 live to see them well promoted, and become eminent au- 
 thors. But so it was, that length of time and sufferings 
 made them forget such a little thing as A. W. was, and 
 much adoe he had to make Dr. Sherlock know and under- 
 stand him, when, 20 yeares after this time, he sent to him 
 letters to Winwick in Lancashire (one of the fattest par- 
 sonages in England) to let him have an account of himself, 
 * Lib. 2. to be put in Hist, fy Antiq. Universit. Oxon *. At which 
 also inATH. time finding him shie in answering his letters, he was 
 der the year ^ orce ^ a * l en gkh> when he saw where the fault lay, to tell 
 1689. him., that he was the son of that little woman (M ris . Wood) 
 that somtimes sojourned with him in the same house at 
 Cassington, wherein he also had sojourned; and then he 
 was free with A. W. and answered his letters. 
 
 In like manner also when A. W. was consulting, 30 
 yeares after this time, the Athene et Fasti Oxon. he 
 sent to Mr. Goad at Merchant Taylors school in London 
 for some account of himself and writings, and found him 
 very shie ; but giving him the like answer that he gave to 
 f See Ath. Dr. Sherlock, he was very free afterwards in his commu- 
 Oxon. un- nications, and received from him fulf satisfaction, ex- 
 
 der the year ' 
 
 1689. pressing himself, as Sherlock before did, verie joy full, and 
 
1 649.] LIFE OF WOOD. 43 
 
 congratulated themselves, that they should live to see such 
 a little junior, that they had knowne him to be, to become 
 an author and a publisher of several folios, for the good 
 and benefit of the commonwealth of learning. 
 
 Mr. Anthony Hodges, rector of Wytham in Berks, (a See in the 
 mile distant from Cassington,) would often come among 0N> un d er 
 these royallists at Mr. Tipping' s house, and there make 1638. 
 them merry. He was a very good scholar, and fit, in 
 many respects, to oblige posterity by his pen; but de- 
 lighting himself in mirth, and in that which was after- 
 wards called buffooning and bantering, could never be 
 brought to set pen to paper for that purpose. He was 
 the mirth of the company, and they esteemed him their 
 Terra films. 
 
 John Blanks, a hansome yong man, and contem-Dec. 
 porarie with A. W. in Mert. coll. being sent for home to 
 keep his Christmas, A. W. went with him to the house 
 of his father James Blanks, gent, impropriator of Bledlow 
 in Bucks, neare to Thame in Oxfordshire, where he con- 
 tinued more than a weeke. The church there stands upon 
 a rising ground, and at the end of the chancel is a larg 
 deep place, having on it's sides bushes and brambles grow- 
 ing. At the bottome of this deep place issues out one or 
 more springs, and gives the original to a little river. Be- 
 tween the end of the chancel and the brink or edg of this 
 deep place, is contained e as much ground as the space of 
 six paces of a man. A. W. then heard several of the in- 
 habitants repeat two old verses, that had gon from man to 
 man these many yeares, which run thus : 
 
 i^c t|)at lito & £ttl abide, 
 
 mill $tz tfy cfjancd fal in ti)e &s&e- 
 
 This deep place is with them caFd the Lyde, and the 
 
 e As much ground that I can go over with about six of my paces. I 
 then heard. Diar. Hearne. 
 
44 LIFE OF AVOOD. [ l6 49. 
 
 ground between the brink of it and the end of the chancel 
 doth sensibly weare away f , so that if some care in time be 
 not taken, the proverbial verses may prove true. 
 
 In the church here were some armes in the windowes, 
 and an inscription or two on grave stones, of which A. W. 
 toke notice according to his then capacity, but afterwards 
 obtained a better method of taking them. These things 
 are here set downe, because they were the first matters of 
 that nature that A. W. took notice of. 
 
 Jan. In the latter end of January he sent a generous requital 
 
 to Mr. Ja. Blanks, for the great civilities he shewed unto 
 him, during his being in his house last Christmas. 
 
 Feb. 1 6. His brother Edward, who was his tutor, thinking it fit, 
 
 that he should chang him for another, he was put under 
 the tuition of Clinton Maund", an Irish man, borne of 
 English parents, as being descended from the Maunds of 
 Chesterton, near Bister in Oxfordshire. He was a bach, 
 fellow, well growne in yeares, but a grand Presbyterian, 
 alwaies praying in his chamber, and when master of arts 
 preaching abroad. A. Wood's brother was pevish, and 
 would be ever and anon angry, if he could not take or 
 understand Logical notions as well as he. He would be 
 somtimes so angry, that he would beat him and turne 
 
 f Weare away and fall into the leeue all y* Mr. Powell doth tell 
 
 Lyde, so that if care. Diar. you for he will not ly. Be di- 
 
 Hearne. rected by him and he will not 
 
 s [Maund died in Dec. 1660. open my truncke but giue you y e 
 
 He made a will in the form of a key first. For my estate I make 
 
 letter, which was proved before you my sole executrix and you 
 
 the vice-chancellor by his mother may diuide among y or chilldren. I 
 
 AnneBlenerhassett: — "Dearemo- am yet y or louing son Clinton 
 
 ther I haue giuen Mr. Powell 5H. Maund. 
 
 for a legacie and also to Mr. In the presence of John Powell. 
 
 Bowell 5H. in case Mr. Powell see Margaret Hill her mark." — In 
 
 y t he hath stated all accounts Archiv. Univ. Oxon.~] 
 right between him and me. Be- 
 
1650.] LIFE OF WOOD. 45 
 
 him out of his chamber ; of which complaining to his mo- 
 ther, she was therefore willing, that Anthony should take 
 another tutor. 
 
 In the beginning of this yeare A. W. was made one of 1650. 
 [the] Bible clerks, by the favour of S r . Nath. Brent, the 2 Car> IL 
 warden, for these reasons : (1) Because the visitors cal'd in 
 question the right of the fellows of the said coll. their 
 bestowing of the postmasters places. (2) Because a clerk's 
 place was better than that of a postmaster, tho since not, 
 because that benefactions have been after this time be- 
 stowed to make the postmaster's places better. There was 
 then no duty in the chappel for the clerks, because the 
 Common Prayer and Sacraments in the chap, were put 
 downe, and but very little attendance there was for them 
 in the hall. 
 
 He answered Generals in the public schools, and James Ap. 5. 
 Bricknell h , his chamberfellow and clerk of Merton coll. 
 opposed him. 
 
 He left the cockleloft over his brother's chamber in the Ap. 22. 
 first quadrangle, and removed to the chamber in the little 
 or old quadrangle, opposite to the exchequer chamber, 
 which was appointed for the clerks. 
 
 In the latter end of Aug. several juniors of Mert. coll. Aug. 
 as Jo. Blanks, Brian Ambler, A. Wood, &c. got horses and 
 rode to Wallingford in Berks, purposely to see the castle 
 there, being then about to be demolished. They were in 
 number about eight, and when they came to desire the 
 guards to let them come into the castle, they refused to 
 doe it, for no other reason, as the scholars supposed, but 
 
 h [Son of Sam. Br. a surgeon took the degrees in arts and be- 
 in the pari, army among the forces came a minister in Kent. Wood's 
 raised by Will, earle of Bedford. MS. in Bp. Tanner's collec- 
 He afterwards succeeded Will. tions.~] 
 Hill in the clerkship of the coll. 
 
46 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 50. 
 
 that their number was too great, * may have some designe 
 upon them. Col. Arth. Evelin was then, as it seems, 
 governour, but was not at home, otherwise, as 'tis believed, 
 they might have had entrance. So going back to the 
 towne of k Wallingford, they dined there, and returned to 
 Oxon. 
 
 Dec. 14. One Anne Green, a servant maid, was hang'd in the 
 castle of Oxon. for murdering her bastard-child, begotten 
 by Jeffry Reade, grand-son to sir Tho. Read of Duns- 
 Tew in Oxfordshire. After she had suffered the law, she 
 was cut downe, and carried away in order to be anatomized 
 by some yong physitians; but they finding life in her, 
 would not venter upon her, only so farr, as to recover 
 her to life. Which being looked upon as a great wonder, 
 there was a relation of her recovery printed, and at 
 the end several copies of verses, made by the yong poets 
 of the universitie, were added. See more in the next 
 yeare. 
 
 Jan. 16. Twelve postmasters of Merton coll. were expel' d by the 
 
 visitors, viz. Joh. Blanks, John Wright, Brian Ambler, 
 Rich. Philipps, &c. some of which, who were godly youths, 
 as Georg Pricket, Steph. Richmond, Will. Stanie, &c. 
 they afterwards restored to, and confirmed them in, their 
 places. So that had A. W. continued postmaster a little 
 longer, he had, without doubt, received his quietus. As 
 for Joh. Blanks, he afterwards retired to his father's 
 house, and became an attorney 1 ; Joh. Wright, after 
 [the] king's restoration, became master of the king's 
 school at Worcester ; Brian Ambler a minister in Shrop- 
 
 1 F. might. Hearne. journey a which I kept till I grew 
 
 k Wallingford, wee dined there too bigg for them. One Ann Green. 
 
 % and returned to Oxon. I had then In Diario. Hearne. 
 
 by all accounterments [sic] for a l [At Aylesbury.] 
 
1650.] LIFE OF WOOD. 47 
 
 shire n ; and Rich. Philipps, upon a second answer given in 
 to the visitors, was kept in, and after he had taken a de- 
 gree in arts, he became a mortified and pious minister in 
 Shropshire , &c. 
 
 Edward Wood, fellow of Merton coll. was, for divers Jan. 22. 
 pretended miscarriages and misdeameanors, suspended by 
 the visitors from his commons and all profits from his 
 place, as also from being tutor in that coll. untill farther 
 order. The miscarriages were, first, for entertaining stran- 
 gers at his chamber with more wine, than 'twas thought 
 convenient. (2) for drinking the king's health at Medley 
 neare Oxon. two yeares before, with some of his contem- 
 poraries of Trinity coll. &c. Which suspension was occa- 
 sioned by the uncharitable information made to the visitors 
 by Tho. Franke, a junior fellow of Mert. coll. who now did 
 lay in wait as 'twere to bring the said coll. into distraction 
 and trouble. 
 
 This Thorn. Franke, after all his obsequious flatteries, 
 fals tales, cringing to the presbyterians and independents, 
 and his being actually in armes P in the troop, raised by 
 the university of Oxon. against K. Ch. 2. at Worcester 
 
 n [At Ledbury, where he died he did, and continued in college 
 
 in consequence of a fall from his about two yeares after, where he 
 
 horse. He had a son John who was observed to be given much to 
 
 was in 1689 admitted as a clerk trickinge and drawing pictures 
 
 of All Souls college, a?t. 17.] with his pen, and something to 
 
 [Rich. Philipps, the son of An- musick. An ingenious man, went 
 
 drew Ph. of Tone Atton in Shrop- afterwards into the country where 
 
 shire, cler. was matr. as a servitor he had some small cure. Created 
 
 of Balliol Mar. 6, 1646-7. a?t. 18. M. A. at the king's restoration, 
 
 Wood in a MS. note says that he and about three or four years after 
 
 was taken away from Balliol by died in his owne country." Wood's 
 
 Mr. Howson of Merton and made MS. in Bp. Tanner's collection.'] 
 his postmaster. He took his B.A. P In the university troop a- 
 
 degree April 22, 165 1. "At first he gainst K. Ch. 2. at Worcester. 
 
 did not submit to the visitors, but Diarium. Hearne. 
 afterwards, upon second thoughts, 
 
48 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [1650. 
 
 an. 1651, had the impudence, after the restoration of the 
 said king, to turn about, and for his money to get the 
 rectory of Cranfield in Derbyshire, whilst others, that had 
 been great sufferers for his majestie's cause, and had no 
 money, were forced to shark and live as opportunity served. 
 He was a most vile person, and not fit to live in a society: 
 yet, if I am not mistaken, he did, when he used to retire 
 to the college, after he had been setled at Cranfield, ex- 
 press some repentance of what he had done to the injury 
 of several of the society, before Mr. Pet. Nicolls and Joh. 
 Powell senior, fellowes of the said coll. 
 
 This yeare Jacob a Jew opened a coffey house at the 
 Angel in the parish of S. Peter in the east, Oxon. and 
 there it was by some, who delighted in noveltie, drank <L 
 
 <i [The fashion of drinking cof- 
 fee in public, prevailed in Oxford 
 immediately upon its introduction 
 into England, and continued to a 
 late period. I am told by a ve- 
 nerable friend, now (Feb. 1848.) 
 in his 93rd year, that he well re- 
 members the time when every 
 academic of any fashion resorted 
 to the coffee house during the 
 afternoon : Tom's, nearly opposite 
 the present market, being fre- 
 quented by the most gay and ex- 
 pensive ; Horseman's, also in the 
 High Street, nearly opposite the 
 house of the principal of Brasenose, 
 received the members of Merton, 
 All Souls, Corpus, and Oriel; 
 Harper's, the corner house of the 
 lane leading to Edmund hall, 
 those of Queens and Magdalen ; 
 Baggs's, the stone house (built, by 
 the way, out of the surplus mate- 
 rials from Blenheim by sir John 
 
 Vanburgh, who built also a simi- 
 lar house in New Inn Hall Lane, 
 now occupied by Mr. Walsh, and 
 another in St. Aldates, near Folly 
 bridge, pulled down some twenty 
 years since) at the corner of Holy- 
 well, facing the King's Arms, 
 used by New college, Hertford, 
 and Wadham; and Malbon's, a 
 diminutive tenement some feet be- 
 low the present street at the north 
 east corner of the Turl, was filled 
 from Trinity, and by the members 
 of the neighbouring colleges. 
 
 It does not appear that the press 
 took much or early notice of the 
 new fashion. William Rumsey 
 in 1657 printed his Org anon Sa- 
 lutis, in which his "Experiments 
 of cophie and tobacco" are much 
 lauded by sir Henry Blount the tra- 
 veller, and Howell the letter writer : 
 and there are two other treatises : 
 
 1. The Natural History of Cof- 
 
1 651.] LIFE OF WOOD. 49 
 
 When he left Oxon. he sold it in Old Southampton build- 
 ings in Holborne neare London, and was living there 
 1671. See in 1654. 
 
 A line of thirtie pound was set by the warden and fel- 1 65 1 . 
 lowes of Merton coll. for M ris . Wood (mother to A. W.) 3 Car - IL 
 
 to pay, by way of renewing, for the housing and gardens See in an. 
 
 1635. 
 
 fee, Thee, Chocolate, and Tobacco 
 in four several sections ; with a tract 
 of elder and juniper-berries shew- 
 ing how useful they may be in our 
 Coffee-houses ; and also the way 
 of making Mum. Lond. for Chris- 
 topher Wilkinson. 1682. 4 . 
 
 2. The manner of making of 
 Coffee, Tea and Chocolate, as it is 
 used in most parts of Europe, 
 Asia, Africa and America; with 
 their vertues. Lond. for William 
 Crook. 1685. 8«. 
 
 Whilst upon this subject it may 
 be worth recording, that from a 
 printed catalogue of one of the East 
 India company's sales in 17 19, the 
 average price of tea at that time ap- 
 pears to have been seventeen shil- 
 lings and sixpence per pound; 
 and that the company were also 
 importers of china ware, cups and 
 saucers, which realized, in large 
 lots, about fourteen shillings the 
 dozen. 
 
 The wits, however, very soon 
 took advantage of the novelty, as 
 the following list of facetiae, which 
 may perhaps be much enlarged, 
 will shew : 
 
 1. The Maiden's Complaint a- 
 gainst Coffee : or the Coffee-house 
 discovered, besieged, stormed, 
 taken, untyled, and laid open to 
 
 WOOD, VOL. I. 
 
 publick view, in a merry confer- 
 ence, &c. Lond. for J. Jones. 
 1663. 4 . 
 
 2. The Coffee-man's Granado 
 discharged upon the Maiden's 
 Complaint against Coffee, in a dia- 
 logue—wherein is discovered seve- 
 ral strange, wonderful and mira- 
 culous cures performed by Coffee. 
 Lond. for J. Johnson. 1663. 4 . 
 
 3. The Character of a Coffee- 
 house, wherein is contained a De- 
 scription of the Persons usually 
 frequenting it, with their Dis- 
 course and Humors, as also the 
 admirable Vertues of Coffee. 
 Printed in the year 1665. 4 . 
 (In verse.) 
 
 4. The Character of a Coffee- 
 house, with the Symptomes of a 
 Town-wit. Lond. for Jonathan 
 Edwin. 1673. fol. 
 
 5. Coffee-houses vindicated in 
 answer to the late published Cha- 
 racter of a Coffee-house. Lond. 
 by J. Lock. 1674. fol. 
 
 6. The Women's Petition a- 
 gainst Coffee. Lond. 1674. 4 . 
 
 7. The Man's Answer to the 
 Woman's Petition. Lond. 1674. 4 . 
 
 8. The School of Politicks : or 
 the Humours of a Coffee-house. 
 Lond. for Rich. Baldwin. 1690. 
 4°.] 
 
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50 LIFE OF WOOD. [1651. 
 
 against Merton coll. and for the Flour de Luce and it's 
 appurtenances in S. Martin's parish. 
 
 About the same time the second impression of the pam- 
 phlet, concerning Ann Green, with the verses at the end, 
 was published with it's old title, viz. Neives from the Dead: 
 or a true and exact Narration of the Miraculous Deliver- 
 ance of Ann Green, &c. r At the end of this impression are 
 several copies of verses added, which were not in the first 
 impression, among which is one printed under the name 
 of s A. Wood, beginning thus : 
 
 ' Pie stretch my muse, but that a verse 
 Fie hang upon thy living hearse. 
 Chime in yee wits, and rhyme a knell ; 
 For Death her self is lately fell &e.' 
 
 Thorn. Wood, eldest brother to A. W. died of the flux 
 at Drogheda, commonly called Tredagh, in the month of 
 Decemb. He was borne at Tetsworth neare to Thame 
 in Oxfordshire, where his father then had * a farme, edu- 
 cated mostly in the free school at Thame under his kins- 
 
 r [This tract is erroneously as- s Memorandum, that whereas 
 
 cribed by Dr. Derham in his Phi- one copy of English verses, in the 
 
 sico Theology to Ralph Bathurst. verses made and printed upon 
 
 The author was Richard Watkins Anne Green, is ascribed to Ant. 
 
 of Christ Church, of whom see "Wood, a bit of paper is pasted 
 
 the Fasti under the year 1647. over the name in the copy I have 
 
 There was a very rare tract on the seen in the Ashmolean museum, 
 
 same subject, entit. A Declaration and E. W. is written upon it, as 
 
 from Oxford of Anne Green, a if Anthony's elder brother Mr. 
 
 young woman that was lately and Edw. Wood were the true author, 
 
 unjustly hanged in the Castle-yard, which I believe to be right, it being 
 
 but since recovered, her neck set certain, that Anthony was no poet. 
 
 strait, and her eyes fixed orderly Coll. nostr. MSS. Vol. lxviii. p. 88. 
 
 and firmly in her head again. Hearne. [The copy was formerly 
 
 Lond. Printed by J. Clowes. 1651. John Aubrey's, now in Ashmole's 
 
 4 . with a woodcut representing Study, N°. 1672.] 
 
 the execution, and the sufferer re- t A farme, on the 24 May 1624, 
 
 covering in bed.] educated. Diar. Hearne. 
 
165 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. 51 
 
 man Mr. W. Burt, was made student of Ch. Church in 
 1638, as I have before told you, and afterwards was the 
 first, or one of the first yong scholars in Oxon. that threw 
 off his gowne, and ran to Edghill battle. See more under See in the 
 
 Fasti Ox- 
 
 the yeare 1642. At his returne thence he was actually 0N< un( j er 
 created bach, of arts among soldiers that had done service th £ yeare 
 at the said battle: and then his father seeing that he 
 could not persuade him from being a u scholar, he bought 
 a horse, armes, cloaths, &c. set him up for a troper, and 
 got him a place to ride in the troop of captaine Tho. Gar- 
 diner of Cudesdon neare Oxon. Afterwards he became a 
 stout and desperat soldier, was in several battles, and 
 besieged in divers garrisons, particularly, if I am not 
 mistaken, at Basing in Hampshire, and was made a liev- See more 
 tenant of horse. When the warr was terminated, and the*^®^ 61 " 
 king's cause utterlie vanquished, he returned to his college, l6 47- 
 was actually created Mr. of arts, an. 1647, but in the next 
 yeare being deeply engaged in the cavaliering plot, as I 
 have told you under that yeare, (1648) he, to avoid being 
 taken and hanged for it, fled into Ireland, where finding 
 out his quondam school-fellow at Thame, called col. Hen. 
 Ingoldesbie, he became a lievtenant in his regiment, after- 
 wards a captaine, and, as I have heard, had a commission 
 a little before his death, to be a major. About a yeare 
 before that time, viz. in 1650, he returned for a time to 
 Oxon. to take up his arrears at Ch. Church, and to settle 
 his other affaires ; at which time being often with his mo- 
 ther and brethren, he would tell them of the most terrible 
 assaulting and storming of Tredagh, wherein he himself 
 had been engaged. He told them, that 3000 at least, 
 
 u Sic MS. At Soldier in Diario; proinde forsitan legi maluit, per- 
 ita tamen ut lineam (in Diario) swade Mm to be a Scholar. 
 per oldier duxerit ipse auctor, & Hearne. 
 cholar superne scripserit: qui 
 
 E 2 
 
52 LIFE OF WOOD. [ 1 65 1 . 
 
 besides some women and children, were, after the assali- 
 ants had taken part, and afterwards all the towne, put to 
 the sword on the 11 and 12 of Sept. 1649; at which time 
 S r . Arth. Aston the governour had his braines beat out, 
 and his body x hacked to pieces. He told them, that when 
 they were to make J the way up to the lofts and galleries 
 in the church, and up to the z tower where the enemy had 
 fled, each of the assaliants would take up a child and use 
 as a buckler of defence, when they ascended the steps, to 
 keep themselves from being shot or brain' d. 
 
 After they had ki?d all in the a church, they went into 
 the vaults underneath, where all the flower and choicest of 
 the women and ladies had hid themselves. One of these, 
 a most hansome virgin, arrai'd in costly and gorgeous 
 apparel, kneeFd downe to Tho. Wood with teares and 
 prayers to save her life : and being strucken with b a 
 profound pitie, took her under his arme, went with her 
 out of the church, with intentions to put her over the 
 works to shift for her self; but a soldier perceiving his 
 intentions, he ran his sword up her belly or fundament. 
 Whereupon Mr. Wood seeing her gasping, took away 
 her money, Jewells, &c. and flung her downe over the 
 works, &c. 
 
 In the latter end of 1680, when the parliament sate at 
 Oxon. A. Wood was walking with S r . Hen. S t . Georg, 
 Clarentius king of armes, in the school-quadrangle. S r . 
 Hen. then meeting with col. Hen. Ingoldesbie before men- 
 tioned, and telling him who A. W. was, A. W. thereupon 
 did discourse with him concerning his brother Thomas : 
 and, among several c things that the colonel told him, was, 
 
 x Hack'd and chop'd to pieces. a Churches. In Diario. Hearne. 
 
 Diar. Hearne. b £ d ee p remorse. Diar. 
 
 y Their way. Diar. Hearne. Hearne. 
 
 z In churches, and up to the c Things, he told me, that he 
 
 towers. In Diario Hearne. was a good. Diar. Hearne. 
 
3652.] LIFE OF WOOD. 53 
 
 that Thomas was a good soldier, stout and ventrous, and 
 having an art of merriment, called buffooning, his com- 
 pany was desired and loved by the officers of his regiment. 
 He told him then, he was buried in a church at Tredagh 
 answerable to his quality, but could not tell him when he 
 died. This Tho. Wood was a tall, proper and robust man, 
 like his father, but black and swarthy, unlike in that to 
 any of his brethren, or father. 
 
 This yeare A. W. began to exercise his natural and 
 insatiable genie he had to musick. He exercised his hand 
 on the violin, and having a good eare to take any tune at 
 first hearing, he could quickly draw it out from the violin, 
 but not with the same tuning of strings that others used. 
 He wanted understanding, friends and money, to pick him 
 out a good master, otherwise he might have equaled in 
 that instrument, and in singing, any person then in the 
 universitie. He had some companions that were musical, 
 but they wanted instruction as well as he. 
 
 Friday Jul. 2. A. Wood was examined for the degree of 1652. 
 bac. of arts in the natural philosophy school, by Will. 4 ar ' ' 
 Browne, M. A. of Magd. coll. a native of Oxon. He had 
 before answered twice under a bachelaur among the crowd 
 in the divinity school, and once, if not both the times, 
 under Matth. Bee, a determining bachelaur of Universitie 
 coll. in the Lent-time 165^ : which M. Bee was afterwards 
 minister of Windlebury neare Bister in Oxfordshire : and 
 on the 6 of the same month he was adm. bach, of arts. 
 
 Munday, and Shabbington Wake as it seems, he rode in 
 the company of a mimick and buffoon, called Tho. Wil- 
 liams ; and the horse of A. W. being bad, or else that he 
 was no good rider, he had a fall, and put out his . . . arme. 
 When he came to Shabbington, he put off his doublet, 
 and found his arme sweFd and exceeding tender. Th. 
 Williams, who had been bred an apothecary, would needs 
 
54 LIFE OF WOOD. [ J 652. 
 
 perswade him, that his arme was not out of joynt, only 
 bruised, and so applyed a cloath and oyle to it; yet, not- 
 withstanding this, he could not use it, which caused all his 
 mirth to be turned into melancholy. In this condition he 
 continued about a week there, rode to Thame, eat and 
 drank, but with little comfort or rest, and at length came 
 home in a most afflicted condition. 
 
 After he had been at home some dayes, he was advised 
 to go to . . . Adams a lock-smith, living in Catstreet, who 
 was an expert bone-setter, to the end that he might look 
 upon it, and see what was to be done. He spoke mildly 
 to A. W. when he looked on his arme, gave him sweet 
 words, and told him all was well. At length casting his 
 head aside, Adams fastned one of his hands above and 
 another below the elbow, pluck' d the arme straight and 
 set it. But the paine being great and unexpected (be- 
 cause that the arteries had been shrunk) he fell into a 
 great sown, and could see nothing but green before his 
 eyes. Adams then laid him upon the bed, gave him cor- 
 dials, and put him to sleep. Afterwards he found himself 
 at ease, and better every day, but never before that time 
 or since, knew what sowning d was or is. 
 
 Thomas Williams before mentioned had an estate in 
 land, houses and money left to him by his father, but 
 never would follow his trade, onlie live a loos live, and took 
 all advantages to do it gratis. Afterwards when A. W. 
 came to understand the world better, he found him a de- 
 baucher of youth, e and not fit to live in an universitie 
 among gentlemen. His usual way was, that after he had 
 let out money to any man, he would hang upon him, eat 
 and drink in his house : and if he could meet with any of 
 his acquaintance, whose nature was easie, he would take 
 
 d After was or is is added in the bad as death. Hearne. 
 Diary, which without doubt is as e And scarse jit. Diar. Hearne. 
 
1652.] LIFE OF WOOD. 55 
 
 him with him to eat, drink and lodg on the debter. And 
 to this farmer f of Shabington did he go to hang upon him, 
 and » take A. W. with him, as he afterwards understood. 
 
 In the latter end of Aug. or beginning of Septemb. Aug. 
 A. W. went to angle with Will. Staine of Mert. coll. to Se P L 
 Wheately bridge, and nutted in Shotover by the way. The 
 day was hot, and A. W. sitting and standing some houres 
 in fishing, he got an ague, came home faint and dry, with 
 the loss of an appetite of eating. It proved a quartan 
 ague, and an houre or two before it came on him, he would 
 be exceeding prone to vomit, and what in the well-days 
 his stomach had contracted he would on the sick-day 
 vomit it out with great wretching and payne. This brought 
 his body low, but made him grow much taller : and much 
 physick and slops being taken in the winter following, yet 
 he could find no remedy. At length he was advised to 
 retire into the country to take better ayre than in Oxon. 
 follow the plow, and use what exercise he could there to 
 shake the ague off. 
 
 Tuesday (Feb. 15.) A. W. went to Cassington before Feb. 15. 
 mentioned, and because Mr. Tipping and his wife had 
 quitted their quarters in that towne, he took up his quar- 
 ters at the next dore, in the house of an honest and suffi- 
 cient farmer, called Francis Bolter; whose house tho 
 thatched, yet he had a very fair chamber therein with a 
 chimney, and a place to lay his books in. 
 
 A. W. had a very sad dreame in his sleep. He was in Feb. 21. 
 a melancholy place, had no companion, &c. 
 
 His body was much out of order, and on those nights, 
 wherein he had his hot fit (for his cold fit would come 
 with extreame vomiting about 5 or 6 at night) he would 
 
 1 At Shabington, to whome he Hearne. 
 had lent money, did he goe. Diar. s Toke. Diar. Hearne. 
 
56 LIFE OF WOOD. [1652. 
 
 have disconsolate dreames, which would make him melan- 
 choly on the dayes following. 
 
 While he continued in the country, he followed the 
 plow on his well-dayes, and somtimes plowed. He learnt 
 there to ring on the six bells, then newly put up : and 
 having had from his most tender yeares an extraordinary 
 ravishing delight in musick, he practiced privately there, 
 without the help of an instructer, to play on the violin. 
 It was then that he set and tuned in strings in fourths, 
 and not in fifths according to the manner : and having a 
 good eare, h and ready to sing any tune upon hearing it 
 once or twice, he would play them all in short time with 
 the said way of tuning, which was never knowne before. 
 Mar. 4. His landlord did once perswade him to drink his ague 
 
 away : and thereupon going to the alehouse an houre or 
 two before it was come, they set hand to fist, and drunk 
 very desperatly. But then vomiting all up before it made 
 any continuance in his stomach, or before it got up in his 
 head, he was forced, after he had spent three shillings, to 
 lead his landlord home, notwithstanding he had put in 
 Mr. Wood's cup tobacco. This country man (a merry 
 fellow, and one that pretended to wit) thought, that the 
 ague was a little spirit or devil, that had got within him ; 
 and therefore when hot weather came, he would have him 
 go into the water and drowne it, or go to Oxon. in a boat, 
 and so shift it from him into the water, and row hastily 
 from it, and leave it to shark for it self. A. W. told him 
 this was a Pythagorsean opinion of his : at which hard word 
 being startled, he thought it was none of his, but the little 
 devil within him that sent it out of his mouth, &c. In 
 this condition he continued till the weather was altered 
 and grew hotter, and then his ague and fits grew less, yet 
 
 h And being ready. Diar. Hearne. 
 
1653] LIFE OF WOOD. 57 
 
 when cold weather came againe it would be apt to return, 
 and would have fastned on him againe, had he not pre- 
 vented it by physick. 
 
 Saturday (Mar. 12) his brother Edw. and Robert Wood, Mar. 12. 
 with Mr. Tho. Cole steward of Merton coll. were with him 
 to comfort him in his disconsolate condition. They dined 
 with him, and then departed. 
 
 After he had spent the summer at Cassington in a 1653. 
 lonish and retired condition, he returned to Oxon. and„ ' 
 
 ' £ Oliv. 
 
 being advised by some persons, he entertained a master of Protect, 
 musick to teach him the usual way of playing on the violin, 
 that is, by having every string tuned 5 notes lower than 
 the other going before. The master was Charles Griffith, 
 one of the musitians belonging to the city of Oxon. whom 
 he thought then to be a most excellent artist, but when 
 A. W. improved himself in that instrument, he found him 
 not so. He gave him 2s. 6d. entrance, and 10s. quarterly. Sept. 8. 
 This person after he had extreamly wondred how he could 
 play so many tunes as he did by fourths, without a director 
 or guide, he then tuned his violin by fifths, and gave him 
 instructions how to proceed, leaving then a lesson with him 
 to practice against his next coming. 
 
 The last yeare, after he was entred into the publick 
 library (which he took to be the happiness of his life, and 
 into which he never entred without great veneration) he 
 could do but little in it, because he was entred but a little 
 while before his ague took him. But this yeare being a 
 constant student therein, he became acquainted with the 
 places in the arts library, (for no farther could bachelaurs 
 of arts then goe) where the books of English historie and 
 antiquities stand. He lighted upon The Description of 
 Ley cester shire, written by Will. Burton: and being ex- 
 ceedingly delighted with the performance, he did this or 
 in the yeare following, take notes thence, and make collec- 
 
58 LIFE OF WOOD. [ I0 53- 
 
 tions from it, which he had lying by him in his last dayes. 
 He took great delight in reading The Display of Heraldry, 
 written by John Guillim, and in other books of that 
 faculty, written by Joh. Bossewell, John Feme, &c. and 
 endeavoured to draw out and trick armes with his pen. 
 And afterwards when he came to full yeares, he perceived 
 it was his natural genie, and could not avoid J them. He- 
 raldry, musick and painting did so much crowd upon him, 
 that he could not avoid them ; and could never give a rea- 
 son why he should delight in those studies, more than in 
 others, so prevalent was nature, mix'd with a generosity 
 of mind, and a hatred to all that was servile, sneaking 
 or advantagious for lucre sake. His brother Edw. Wood 
 was much against these studies, and advised him to enter 
 on those that were beneficial, as his mother did. He had 
 then a gentile companion of the same coll. (J. W.) who de- 
 lighted in vertuous studies as he did, and would walk several 
 times with him in shady recesses and retired walkes, to 
 each others content; but the same J. W. being a gent, of 
 a good descent, and an heir to an estate of 7001. per an. at 
 least, he went afterwards to London, mixed himself with 
 idle company that flattered and admired him, and at length 
 debach'd him ; which did not a little trouble A. W. 
 Nov. His kinsman Charnel Pettie esq ; an old puritan, and 
 
 an honest and quiet man, became high-sherriff of Oxford- 
 shire. His estate was at Tetsworth and elsewhere, but 
 lived now at Stoke-Lyne neare to Bister, the inheritance 
 of his daughter's son, named Ralph Holt, who being a 
 minor, the said Charnel Pettie was his guardian. 
 
 1654. .... Hussey & Peck, two gentlemen that 
 
 6 Car. II. were lately officers in the king's army, were hang'd in the 
 J 0hv * castle-yard in Oxon. to the great reluct ancy of the gene- 
 July 25. 
 
 1 It. Diar. Hearne. 
 
1 654.] LIFE OF WOOD. 59 
 
 rous royallists then living in Oxon. They were ont of 
 commission and employ, had no money to maintain them, 
 which made them rob on the high-way. After a tedious 
 imprisonment in the jayle at Oxon. they were condemned 
 to dye by that inveterate enemy to the royal partie j John 
 Glynn, sergeant at law, who this yeare went Oxford circuit. 
 
 Hussey was the eldest, had received some marks of 
 k honour in his face, and no doubt in his body also, and 
 died penitent. Peck, who was yonger, was proper, robust, 
 and seemed a stout man. He died resolute, and not so 
 penitent as Hussey. As soon as they were cut downe, 
 they were carried away by some royallists, and Hussey was 
 on the same day at night buried by them in the church of 
 S. Peter in the Baylie. This was the first or 2 d execution 
 that A. W. ever saw, and therefore it struck a great terror 
 into him, to the disturbance of his studies and thoughts. 
 They were exceedingly pittied by all men. 
 
 A. W. was examined for the degree of * master of arts Aug. 10. 
 by m W. Bull of Trinity, afterwards fellow of Allsouls, 
 coll. The other examiners were Georg Weldon of Magd. 
 coll. and Joh. Whitehead of Exeter coll. who examined 
 the rest of the class. He had certificats by him for the 
 performance of other "lectures, but they are imbezeld 
 and lost. 
 
 J Did not the learned Glynne m Will. Bull, master of arts and 
 
 and Maynard bach, of physick, was also fellow 
 
 To make good subjects traytors of Allsouls, died 15 July i66t, 
 
 strain hard ? and was buried in the outward 
 
 Hudibras. W. & H. chapel of that college. He was 
 
 k Over this word in the Diary of Peglinch, near Wells in com. 
 
 is written valour, by Mr. Wood's Somers. and bore to his arms, as 
 
 own hand, but in a paler ink. I remember, Or: 3 Bulls heads 
 
 Hearne. Cabosed Or : obiit anno setatis 28. 
 
 1 Master in the Natural Phi- Wood's MSS. in Mus. Ashm. 
 
 losophy School by Will. Bull. 8466. W. & H. 
 
 Hearne. n Exercise, in Diario. Hearne. 
 
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 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
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 f W. Bull. 
 E.G. 
 J. T. 
 G. M. 
 
 "Cirques Jobson, a Jew and Jacobite, borne neare 
 Mount-Libanus, sold coffey in Oxon. in an house between 
 Edmund hall and Queen's coll. corner. See in the yeare 
 1650 and 1655. 
 
 By his sedulous and close studying in the publick library, 
 and by conversing with books not used by the vulgar stu- 
 dents, especially MSS. he was taken notice of by Mr. 
 Tho. Barlow, the head-keeper of the said library, who 
 began thereupon to express some kindness towards him, 
 with the offering his assisting hand. 
 
 A. W. having by this time obtained proficiency in mu- 
 sick, he and his companions f were not without silly 
 frolicks, not now to be p maintained q. 
 
 ° This §. is thus read in the 
 Diary, viz. Coffey, which had been 
 drank by some persons in Oxon. 
 1 650, was this yeare publickly sold 
 at or neare the Angel within the 
 east gate of Oxon. as also Choco- 
 late by an outlander or a Jew. 
 Hearne. 
 
 p F. mention'd. Hearne. 
 
 1 What those silly frolicks were, 
 the reader will easily understand 
 from what occurs in the Diary, 
 where instead of this paragraph 
 we have what follows : 
 
 Having by this time got some 
 musical acquaintance, afrolick by 
 all meanes must be taken by us j 
 and what should it be, but to dis- 
 guise our selves in poor habits, and 
 like contry jidlers scrape for our 
 livings? Farring don fair this yeare 
 was the place designed to go to : 
 and all of us (five in number) lodg- 
 ing in a house in the middle rew 
 in Magd. parish, belonging to one 
 Gregory a chandler, wee sate out 
 
 very early the next morning, and 
 calling first on Mr. Th. Latton's 
 house at Kingston Bakepuze, wee 
 bid him good morrow by 2 or 3 
 tunes. — He came in the hall among 
 us, listned to our music, gave us 
 money, and ordered drink to be 
 carried to us. After wee had done 
 with him, wee retired to the in 
 standing on the road going to Far- 
 ringdon, dined there, and after din- 
 ner wee were entertain' d by some 
 of the neighbours, who danced (as 
 I remember) in the green, gave us 
 some money and victuals, and I 
 think wee returned very late that 
 evening to Oxon. The names of 
 those in this exploit were, myself 
 and Will. Bull before mentiond, 
 who played on the violins, Edm. 
 Gregorie B. A. and gent. com. of 
 Mert. coll. who playd on the bass 
 viol, J oh. Nap of Trinity on the 
 citerne, and George Mason of the 
 said coll: on another wyer instru- 
 ment, but could do nothing. — Soon 
 
1655.] LIFE OF WOOD. 61 
 
 Edw. Wood, eldest brother to A. W. and fellow of Mer- 1655. 
 ton coll. was installed junior proctor for the Univ. of 7 Car. II. 
 Oxon. Whereupon he soon after appointed A. W. his p rot ^t 
 collector in Austins ; which office he kept till he was ad- Ap. 25. 
 mitted Mr. of arts. 
 
 A. W. made his first declamation in the Natural Philo- May 3. 
 sophy school for the degree of Mr. of Arts. The subject 
 was, Bonum quoddam quilibet efficiat, Optimi autem solum 
 perseverant. 
 
 A. W. made his 2 d declamation in the said schoole. 16. 
 And his subject was, Utrum prastantius esset Ciceroni[s] 
 libros comburere, quam mortem r subiri ? 
 
 Edw. Wood died, to the great reluctancy of his friends 22. 
 and relations, in his mother's house against Merton coll. 
 being the fourth week of his proctorship. He was ad- 
 ministred to in his last days by Ralp[h] Button, his 
 quondam tutor, now canon of Ch. Church. He died of 
 vomiting blood and consumption with it, and made a most 
 religious end. 
 
 His body was carried into the common hall of Merton 24. 
 coll. where the society, and such masters of arts that were 
 pleased to come to pay their last respects to him, had 
 gloves, wine and bisket in abundance, as also had the 
 doctors, heades of houses, and his brother proctor Samuel 
 Bruen s , to which last E. Wood had bequeathed money to 
 
 afterweetookanothervoyage north- Most of my companions would 
 
 ward, called at Hampton Poyle, afterwards glory in this, but I was 
 
 played at Mr. West's house, had ashamd, and could never endure to 
 
 some money, but more drink. — Af- hear of it. Hearne. 
 
 terwards wee went (I think) to Kid- r ^ subire. Hearne. 
 
 lington, got something there, re- s [Samuel Brewen, probably the 
 
 turnd in the evening, and certain same, " preacher of God's word 
 
 soldiers overtaking us, they by force in the rectory of Cudsden," brings 
 
 made us play in the openfeild and an action in 1657 against John 
 
 then left us without giving a penny. Pekins gent, of Denton, for slan- 
 
62 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 55- 
 
 buy him a mourning gowne. Afterwards his body being 
 carried to Merton coll. church, there was a sermon preached 
 for that occasion by his aforesaid quondam tutor ; which 
 being not extant, I cannot refer you to it. His hearse was 
 adorned with escocheons and verses; among which last 
 was a copie made by his acquaintance D r . Barton Holyday, 
 archdeacon of Oxford, an antient poet, running thus : 
 
 Upon the death of his vertuous and prudent friend Mr. 
 Edw. Wood, in the beginning of his proctorship of the 
 universitie of Oxon. 
 
 Chosen he was a censor of the times : 
 He chose to dye, rather than view the crimes. 
 The Cynique's lanterne he far wiser thought, 
 That for an honest man at high-noon sought, 
 Then bring a midnight sinner to the light, 
 Whose darker actions do outshade the night. 
 Friend, l thou was wise, with honour thus to dye. 
 Fame is thy epitaph, thy tombe the skye. 
 
 Oct. 12. A handsome maid living in Catstreet, being deeply in 
 
 love with Joseph Godwin, a junior fellow of New co]l. 
 poisoned herself with rats-bane. This is mentioned, be- 
 cause it made a great wonder, that a maid should be in 
 love with such a person as he, who had a curFd shag-pate, 
 was squint-ey'd and purblind, and much deformed with the 
 smal pox. He was the son of a father of both his names, 
 who was a bookseller at the upper end of Catstreet u , and 
 before he had been translated to Winchester school, had 
 been in the same forme with A. Wood at New coll. school. 
 
 derous words, " namely that being in 1669, was proved by his son 
 drunk, he had fallen into the fire here mentioned, who was his fa- 
 and burnt himself." The damages ther's executor, and, with the ex- 
 were laid at 200I. but what the ception of some trifling legacies, 
 result I have not found.] sole heir. Godwin, the son, was 
 * thou wast wise. Hearne. admitted fellow of New coll. 1652, 
 u [Joseph Godwin the book- and vacated in 1658, being then 
 seller died in 1673 : his will, dated M.A.] 
 
1 655.] LIFE OF WOOD. 63 
 
 On the vigil of S. Luke, part or half of the roof of the 
 south part of Merton coll. outer-chappel, joyning to the 
 tower, fell within the church about 9 of the clock at night, 
 and broke all the stones laying on the floor, of which some 
 were monumental stones. Afterwards when the ruins were 
 taken away A. W. retrieved the brass plates that were 
 fixed on them, and transcribed and sav ; d the inscriptions 
 on them, which he afterwards printed in his Hist, et Antiq. 
 Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. (pag. 91.) 
 
 He was admitted master of arts, being then his birth- Dec. 17. 
 day, and at the same time he was admitted ad regendum. 
 It was his intention to be admitted 2 or 3 dayes after he 
 had last declaimed; but being troubled with the aking 
 of a tooth, he drew it, which caused a swelling in his 
 cheek, and that a tumour, and that a lancing, which made 
 him unfit to appeare in public. 
 
 In the beginning of March he published five sermons of Mar. 
 
 his brother Edw. Wood lately deceased, which he had ^ ee Ath * 
 
 J 7 Oxon. un- 
 
 preached before the universitie. He dedicated them to der the year 
 x D r . Jonathan Goddard, warden of Merton coll. and sent 
 to him a very fair copie of them bound in blew Turkey- 
 leather, with their leaves gilt, yl sent the book by the 
 carrier to London, and Jam. Bricknell, M. A. his quondam 
 chamberfellow, presented it in his (A. Wood's) name to 
 the said warden living in Gresham coll. 
 
 In this yeare Arth. Tillyard, z apothecary and great roy- 
 allist, sold coffey publickly in his house against All-soules 
 coll. a He was encouraged so to do by som royallists, now 
 
 x See Ward's Lives of the Gre- 21 Dec. 1677, adding thereto a co- 
 
 sham Professors, p. 270. W. & H. dicil dated 6 Oct. 1683. He leaves 
 
 y Sic. his wife Jane his executrix, but she 
 
 z An apothecary and royallist, dying before him, his will was 
 
 Diar. Hearne. proved by his son Arthur in 1693 : 
 
 a [Arthur Tillyard the elder, here which Arthur, also an apothecary 
 
 mentioned, executed his last will in Oxford, died in 1696, in which 
 
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 living in Oxon. and by others, who esteemed themselves 
 either virtuosi or wits; of which the chiefest number 
 were of Alls. coll. as Peter Pett, Thorn. Millington, Tim. 
 Baldwin, b Christop. Wren, Georg Castle, Will. Bull, &c. 
 
 year he makes a will leaving his 
 dear and loving brother Mr. Rich- 
 ard Bentley stationer of London 
 his executor. It appears that 
 Bentley and Anne Tillyard his 
 widow renouncing, administration 
 was granted to his daughter Mar- 
 garet Tillyard. There was a third 
 Arthur Tillyard, son and grandson 
 of the two former, who became a 
 clerk of All Souls coll. in 1689, 
 B. A. June 30, 1693, M. A. as a 
 member of Alban Hall, April 30, 
 1697. 
 
 I find in 1598 administration 
 granted to Elizabeth the wife of 
 Peter Porie, of the effects of Chris- 
 topher Tillyard, a native of Oxford, 
 matr. Feb. 11. 1591. of Christ 
 Church, set. 17. 
 
 The following inventory of his 
 effects will afford a striking illus- 
 tration of the habits and require- 
 ments of a young scholar in the 
 days of Elizabeth. It is printed 
 verbatim from the original. 
 
 " A trewe inventorye of all y e 
 goods of Christophar Tilyard of 
 y e vniversitie of Oxon. bachelor 
 of artes, late deceased. 
 
 Imprimis Natalis comitis 2s. 6d. 
 
 Item Tullis orations 2s. 6d. 
 
 Donet vpon y e Ethickes iod, 
 
 Juels Apologie . . rod. 
 
 Vallerius Maximus 8d. 
 
 Parkins vpon y e 
 
 Lordes prayer . . 8d. 
 
 Saunderson's lodgike 6d. 
 
 A testament in lattin 6d. 
 
 Tullie de oratore . . 4d. 
 
 Oved's metamorphoses 4d. 
 
 Osorius agaynst Haddon 6d. 
 
 Aristotle's Ethicks iod. 
 
 2 Pallengenius . . 6d. 
 
 Aristotle's lodgicke iod. 
 
 Cammerarious vpon 
 
 tusculus qs'ti . . 8d. 
 
 An answere of y e bi- 
 shop of Winchester 4d. 
 
 Silva sinonimoru . . 4d. 
 
 Apthonius and Clares 
 
 gramer . . . . 6d. 
 
 Hiperivs' phisickes and 
 
 gouldin chayne . . 8d. 
 
 Horrace uinutiosu epistols 6d. 
 
 Other ould bookes val- 
 lued at 2s. 6d. 
 
 11 mappes and paper is. 8d. 
 
 5 singinge bookes . . I2d. 
 
 An ould cheste . . i6d. 
 
 2 dobletes 2 payre of 
 
 hose & frise Jerkin 10s. od. 
 An ould cloth gowne and 
 
 a rugge gowne . . 10s. od. 
 
 3 shirtes and a hatte 6s. 8d. 
 
 4 bandes i6d. 
 
 Showes&stockingesould2s. 6d. 
 A bachelor's hoode and 
 
 cappe 5s. od. 
 
 In monye . . vij 11 5s od. 
 
 Somme 
 
 xi 11 2s. 4d. 
 
 Archiv. Univ. Oxon.~] 
 
 b Christopher Wren, afterwards 
 sir Christopher. W. & H. 
 
1656.] LIFE OF WOOD. 65 
 
 There were others also, as Joh. Lamphire a physician, 
 lately ejected from New coll. who was somtimes the natural 
 droll of the company, the two Wrens, sojournours in Oxon. 
 Mathew and Thomas, sons of D r . Wren bishop of Ely, &c. 
 This coffey house continued till his majestie's returne and 
 after, and then they became more frequent, and had an 
 excise set upon coffey. 
 
 By this time A. W. had genuine skill in musick, and 1656. 
 frequented the weekly meetings of musitians in the house 8 Car - IL 
 of Will. Ellis, late organist of S. John's coll. situat andprot. 
 being in a house, opposite to that place whereon the theater 
 was built. The usual company that met and performed 
 their parts were (1) Joh. Cock, M. A. fellow of New coll. 
 by the authority of the visitors. He afterwards became 
 rector of H ey ford- War eyne neare Bister, and marrying 
 with one of the Woodwards of Woodstock, lived an un- 
 comfortable life with her. (2) Joh. Jones, M. A. fellow of 
 the said coll. by the same authority. (3) Georg Croke, 
 M. A. d of the said coll. also by the same authority. He 
 was afterwards drown' d, with Brome, son of Brome Whor- 
 wood of Halton neare Oxon. in their passage from Hamp- 
 shire to the Isle of Wight, 5 Sept. 1657. (4) Joh. Friend, 
 M. A. fellow also of the said house and by the same au- 
 thority. He died in the country an. 1658. (5) Georg 
 Stradling, M. A. fellow of Alls. coll. an admirable lutinist, 
 and much respected by Wilson the professor. (6) Ralph 
 Sheldon, gent, a Bom. Catholick of Steple-Barton in 
 Oxfordshire, at this time living in Halywell neare Oxon. 
 admired for his smooth and admirable way in playing on 
 
 the viol. He died in the city of Westminster 
 
 165 , and was buried in the chancel of the church of S. 
 Martin in the fields. (7) Thorn. Wren, a yonger son of 
 
 c Had some genuine. Diar. d Fellow adjiciend. ut videtur. 
 
 Hearne. Hearne. 
 
 WOOD, VOL. I. F 
 
66 LIFE OF WOOD. [1656. 
 
 Matthew Wren bishop of Ely, a sojoumour now in the 
 house of Franc. Bowman, bookseller, living in S. Marie's 
 parish in Oxon. (8) Tho. e James, M. A. of Magd. coll. 
 would be among them, but seldome played. He had a 
 weekly meeting in his chamber at the coll. practiced much 
 on the Theorbo lute, and Gervace Westcote being often 
 with him as an instructor, A. W. would somtimes go to 
 their meeting and play with them. 
 
 The musick masters, who were now in Oxon. and fre- 
 quented the said meeting, were (1) f Will. Ellis, bach, of 
 musick, owner of the house wherein the meeting was. He 
 alwaies play'd his part either on the organ or virginal. 
 (2) Dr. Joh. Wilson, the public professor, the best at the 
 lute in all England. He somtimes played on the lute, 
 but mostly presided the consort. (3) - - - Curteys, a 
 lutinist, lately ejected from some choire or cath. church. 
 After his majestie's restoration he became gent, or singing- 
 man of Ch. Church in Oxon. (4) Tho. Jackson, a bass- 
 violist; afterwards one of the choire of S. John's coll. in 
 Oxon. (5) gEdw. Low, organist lately of Ch. Church. 
 
 e Reponendum vel Janes (quo being discountenanced by the 
 
 modo legitur infra, sub an. 1663.) presbyterians and independents, 
 
 vel Jeanes. Hearne. because it favoured much the ca- 
 
 f After cathedrals and organs thedrals and episcopacy, it was the 
 
 were put down in the grand re- more used. But when king Charles 
 
 bellion, he kept up a weekly meet- was restored and episcopacy and 
 
 ing in his house opposite to that cathedrals with it, then did the 
 
 place where the theatre was after- meetings decay, especially for this 
 
 wards built, which kept him and reason, because the masters of mu- 
 
 his wife in a comfortable condition. sick were called away to cathedrals 
 
 The meetingwas much frequented, and collegiate choirs. — Wood's 
 
 and many masters of musick were MSS. mus. Ashm. 8568, 106. 
 
 there, and such that had belonged W. & H. 
 
 to choirs, being out of all employ, s Edward Lowe of Salisbury, 
 
 and therefore the meeting, as all master of the choristers, and or- 
 
 other musick meetings, did flou- ganist of Ch. Ch. died xi July 
 
 rish; and musick, especially vocal, 1682. buried by Alice his wife in 
 
1656.] LIFE OF WOOD. 67 
 
 He played only on the organ ; so when he performed his 
 part, Mr. Ellis would take up a counter-tenor viol, and 
 play, if any person were wanting to performe that part. 
 (6) Gervace Littleton alias Westcot, or Westcot alias Lit- 
 tleton, a violist. He was afterwards a singing man of S. 
 John's coll. (7) Will. h Glexney, who had belonged to a 
 choire before the warr. He was afterwards a gent, or 
 singing-man of Ch. Ch. He playd well upon the bass-viol, 
 and somtimes sung his part. He died 6 Nov. 1692, aged 
 79 or thereabouts. (8) - - - - Proctor, a yong man and 
 a new commer. He died soon after, as I shall tell you 
 anon. John Parker, one of the universitie musitians, would 
 be somtimes among them; but M r . Low, a proud man, 
 could not endure any common musitian to come to the 
 meeting, much less to play among them. Among these I 
 must put Joh. Haselwood an apothecary, a starched formal 
 clisterpipe, who usually played on the bass-viol, and somtimes 
 on the counter tenor. He was very conceited of his skil (tho 
 he had but little of it) and therefore would be ever and 
 anon ready to take up a viol before his betters : which being 
 observed by all, they usually calFd him, Handlewood. As 
 for other musitians, who were about this time beginners, 
 you shall have the names of them under the yeare 1658. 
 
 - - - Proctor 1 died in Halywell, and was buried in the July 22. 
 middle of the church there. He had been bred up by 
 J Mr. Joh. Jenkyns, the mirrour and wonder of his age for 
 
 the upper end of the Divinity Maidstone in Kent, and being na- 
 
 chapel, on the north side of the turally inclined to musick took it 
 
 choire of Ch. Church cathedral. — in his childhood, and in his manly 
 
 Wood's MSS. mus. Ashm. 8466. years patronized by Deerham 
 
 W. & H. of Norf. esquire; and though a 
 
 h Queereif not Flexney. W.&H. little man yet he had a great 
 
 1 [Burials. Anno Dom. 1656. soul. 
 Joseph Procter, gent. July 22. He was also much patronized 
 
 Regist. of Holywell.~] by Edward Benlowes, esq ; who 
 
 J John Jenkyns was born at having written a most divine poem 
 
 f2 
 
68 LIFE OF WOOD. [1656. 
 
 music, was excellent for the lyra-viol and division-viol, 
 good at the treble-viol and treble-violin, and all compre- 
 hended in a man of three or four and twentie yeares of 
 age. He was much admired at the meetings, and exceed- 
 ingly pittied by all the faculty for his loss. 
 
 This summer came to Oxon. The Antiquities of War- 
 wickshire &c. written by Will. Dugdale, and adorned with 
 many cuts. This being accounted the best book of it's 
 kind that hitherto was made extant, my pen cannot enough 
 describe, how A. Wood's tender affections, and insatiable 
 desire of knowledg, were ravished and melted downe by 
 the reading of that book. What by musick and rare books 
 that he found in the public library, his life, at this time 
 and after, was a perfect Elysium. 
 
 Oct. 29. In the latter end of Octob. he began to survey and 
 
 transcribe the monumental inscriptions and armes in the 
 several parochial churches and college chappels, within the 
 city and universitie of Oxon. 
 
 Jan. 10. A. W. his mother, and his two brothers, Rob. and Chris- 
 
 topher Wood, gave 5 li to Merton coll. towards the casting 
 of their five bells into eight. These five were antient bells, 
 and had been put up k into the tower at the first building 
 thereof, in the time of D r . Hen. Abendon, warden of Mer- 
 ton coll. who began to be warden in 1421. The tenor or 
 great bell (on which the name of the said Abendon was put) 
 
 entit. Theophila or Love's Sacri- John Wilson, above mentioned, 
 
 fice printed at London 1651, se- used to say that, for the honour 
 
 veral parts thereof had airs set to of his country, Alphonso Fara- 
 
 them by this incomparable Jen- bosco born of Italian parents at 
 
 kyns, who lived ten yeares or Greenwich, and John Jenkyns at 
 
 more after the restoration of Maidstone, were admired not only 
 
 K. C. 2. in England but beyond the seas 
 
 He was esteemed the prime com- for their excellent compositions. — 
 
 poser living in the latter end of Wood's MSS. mus. Ashm. 8568. 
 
 the reign of K. C. 1. in the reign 106. W. & H. 
 of Oliver C. and K. C. 2. Dr. k In the tower. Diar. Hearne. 
 
1656.] LIFE OF WOOD. 69 
 
 was supposed to be the best bell in England, being, as 
 'twas said, of fine mettal silver found. 1 The generality of 
 people were much against the altering of that bell, and 
 were for a treble to be put to the five, and so make them 
 six : and old sarjeant Charles Hollo way, who was a very 
 covetous man, would have given money to save it, and to 
 make the five, six, bells, that is to put a treble to them. 
 But by the knavery of Thorn. Jones, the sub -warden (the 
 warden being then absent) and - - - - Derby, the bell- 
 founder, they were made eight. Dr. Joh. Wilson, Dr. of 
 musick, had a fee from the college to take order about 
 their tuning. 
 
 Whereas A. W. had before learned to play on the violin 
 by the instructions of Charles Griffith, and afterwards of 
 Jo. Parker, one of the universitie musitians, he was now 
 advised to entertaine one Will. James, a dancing master, Jan. 
 by some accounted excellent for that instrument, and the 
 rather, because it was said, that he had obtained his know- 
 ledg in dancing and musick in France. He spent in all 
 half a yeare with him, and gained some improvement from 
 him j yet at length he found him not a compleat master 
 of his facultie, as Griffith and Parker were not : and to say 
 the truth, there was yet no compleat master in Oxon. for 
 that instrument, because it had not been hitherto used in 
 consort among gentlemen, only by common musitians, who 
 played but two parts. The gentlemen in privat meetings, 
 which A. W. frequented, played three, four and five parts 
 with viols, as treble-viol, tenor, counter-tenor and bass, 
 with an organ, virginal or harpsicon joyn'd with them : 
 and they esteemed a violin to be an instrument only be- 
 longing to a common fidler, and could not indure that it 
 
 1 Sic MSS. Neque aliter in Diario. Et tamen sound edidi in Neu- 
 brigensi, p. 797. Hearne. 
 
70 LIFE OF WOOD. [ I( ^57 • 
 
 should come among them, for feare of making their meet- 
 ings to be vaine and fidling. But before the restoration 
 of K. Ch. 2. and especially after, viols began to be out of 
 fashion, and only violins used, as treble-violin, tenor and 
 bass-violin ; and the king, according to the French mode, 
 would have 24 violins playing before him, while he was at 
 meales, as being more airie and brisk than viols. 
 1657. At the funeral of m Jane Wickham, the widdow and 
 
 ? J! r * ' somtimes the second wife of Will. Wickham of Garsingdon, 
 $ Ohv. D 
 
 Prot. neare Oxon. gent. Shee was buried in the chancel of the 
 
 Mar. 27. church there by the remaines of the said W. Wickham. 
 This woman was sister to Hen. Brome, of Clifton neare 
 Banbury in Oxfordshire (of the same familie with the 
 Bromes of Halton) and died in Oxon. 25 March. A. W. 
 did not then survey the monuments in Garsingdon church, 
 because of the company there, but rode immediately home 
 to Oxon. 
 
 Apr. 30. He began his perambulation of Oxfordshire : and the 
 
 monuments in Wolvercot church were the first that he 
 surveyed and transcribed. n 
 
 May 14. All the eight bells of Merton coll. did begin to ring : 
 
 and he heard them ring very well at his approach to Oxon. 
 in the evening, after he had taken his rambles all that day 
 about the country to collect monuments. The bells did 
 not at all please the curious and critical hearer. However 
 
 m Jane Wickham widow, some- and sister to Henry Brome who 
 
 times the 2 d . wife of William Wick- died 1667. 
 
 ham of Garsington in comitatu The said William Wickham was 
 
 Oxon. died in the house of Wil- the son of John Wickham of 
 
 liam Webb a bookseller, living in Rotherfeild in Sussex, but de- 
 
 the parish of St. Peter's in the scended from the Wickhams of 
 
 East, 25 Mar. an. 1657. and was Swaclyve. Wood's MSS. mus. 
 
 buried in the chancell of Garsing- Ashm. No. 8505. 8586. W. & H. 
 
 ton by her husband. n See Catalogue of Wood's 
 
 She was the daughter of - - - - MSS. in mus. Ashm. No. 8505, 
 
 Brome, of Clifton near Banbury, 8586. W. & H. 
 
1657.] LIFE OF WOOD. 71 
 
 he plucked at them often with some of his fellow-colleagues 
 for recreation sake. They were all afterwards re-cast, and 
 the belfry, wherein the ringers stood (which was a little 
 below the arches of the tower, for while the five hanged 
 the ringers stood on the ground) being built of bad timber, 
 was plucked downe also, and after the bells were put up 
 againe, this belfry, that now is, above the arches, was new 
 made, and a window broke thro the tower next to Corp. 
 Ch. coll. was made to give light. 
 
 He began to peruse and run over all the manuscript Aug. 4. 
 collections of the great antiquary John Leland, that are 
 reposed in the archives of Bodlie's library. He was ex- 
 ceedingly delighted in them, was never weary of them, but 
 collected much from them. 
 
 In his rambles about the country, he went to Dor- Aug. 14. 
 Chester, seven miles distant from Oxon. to see his old 
 master David Thomas, who, from being usher of Thame 
 school, was now the head-master of the free-school at 
 Dorchester, founded by Joh. Feteplace, esq. an old ba- 
 chelaur. He had succeeded in that office Joh. Drope, 
 lately fellow of Magd. coll. who was the first master ap- 
 pointed by the founder. A. W. could not but here ac- 
 knowledge his owne weakness, you may call it folly if you 
 please, as being startled at his first sight of this most 
 antient city, famous for it's being a station of the Romanes, 
 for it's entertaining S. Birinus, and afterwards for giving 
 him burial, &c. The church is larg and antique, and hath 
 contained many monuments of antiquity, which are since 
 spoyled and defaced. Those that °remaine he took an 
 account of, as also of the armes in the windowes, and 
 tricked out with his pen the ichnography of the church, 
 cloyster and buildings adjoyning. P And at his departure 
 
 Remaind. Diar. Hearne. MSS. in mus. Ashm. N°. 8564. 
 
 p See Catalogue of Wood's W. & H. 
 
72 LIFE OF WOOD. [1657. 
 
 Mr. Dav. Thomas gave him some Roman coynes, found 
 within the libertie of Dorchester. 
 Sept. 5. Brome Whorwood, lately gent. com. of S. Marie's hall, 
 
 only son and heir of Brome Whorwood of Halton neare 
 Oxon. was drowned in his passage from Hampshire to the 
 Isle of Wight. He had been at the election of scholars at 
 Winchester, and being minded to see the Isle of Wight, 
 did with George Croke q of New coll. hire a vessel that was 
 leaky, which sunk by that time they were half way in their 
 journey. I set this memoire downe, because A. W. had 
 acquaintance with both of them. The mother of the said 
 Brome Whorwood, who was drown' d, was Jane, daughter 
 and one of the two coheires of - - - - Ryther of King- 
 ston upon Thames in Surrey, somtimes surveyor of the 
 stables of K. Jam. I. and dau. in law to James Maxwell, 
 esq. one of the gromes of the bed-chamber to K. Ch. I. as 
 having married her mother after Byther's death. A. W. 
 remembred her well, as having often seen her in Oxon. 
 She was red-hair' d, as her sone Brome was, and was the 
 most loyal person to K. Ch. I. in his miseries, r as any 
 woman in England, as it appeares by several exploits, that 
 she performed in order to his preservation ; among which 
 I shall set downe these two. 
 
 After his majestie had been taken away from Holdenby, 
 he was conveyed by easie removals to Hampton court Au- 
 gust 1647, at which time the citizens of London were very 
 unruly, had alienated their affections from the parliament, 
 were very averse to the army, and wholly enclin'd to his 
 majestie, as having a designe to get him among them, 
 settle him in the parliam. house, and so conclude a peace. 
 His maj. knew all this, and knew the insolencies and 
 
 1 So it should be read, tho' it otherwise than Crake in the Diary, 
 be Crake in the MS. Neither is it Hearne. r F. of. Hearne. 
 
1657.] LIFE OF WOOD. 73 
 
 threatning of the parliam. soldiers which they gave out to 
 destroy him, being animated so to do by the cabal of par- 
 liam. officers sitting at Putney, which therefore made him 
 think of an escape from Hampton court, if he could well 
 know to what place he could goe. Jane Whorwood know- 
 ing this, shee went to Will. Lillie the astronomer, living 
 in the Strand within the libertie of Westminster, to receive 
 his judgment about it, that is to say, in what quarter of 
 the nation he might be most safe, and not be discovered 
 till himself pleased. When shee came to his dore, Lilly 
 told her, he would not let her come in, for he had buried 
 a maid-servant of the plague very lately. " I fear e not the 
 plague but the pox," saith shee. So he let her in, and went 
 up staires. After Lillie had erected his figure, he told her, 
 that about 20 miles from London and in Essex, he was 
 certaine the king might continue undiscovered. Shee liked 
 his judgment very well, and being herself of a sharp judg- 
 ment, remembred a place in Essex about that distance, 
 where was an excellent house, and all conveniencies for his 
 reception, &c. Away shee went early next morning to 
 Hampton court, to acquaint his majestie; but see the 
 misfortune, he either guided by his owne approaching hard 
 fate, or misguided by - - - - - Ashburnham, went to 
 Tichfield in Hampshire, and surrendred himself to col. 
 Rob. Hammond, governour of the Isle of Wight. A. W. 
 
 has heard from W. Lilly, that alderm. - Adams 
 
 of London, sent to his maj. at Hampton court a thousand 
 pound in gold : five hundred pound of which was put into 
 Jane Whorwood's hands, who gave Lilly for this and other 
 judgments 20 u . of the same money, as the said Lilly 
 usually reported. 
 
 Another loyal exploit was this. His majestie being in 
 Caresbrok castle in the said Isle of Wight, the Kentish 
 men were then in armes for him, and joined with the 
 
74 LIFE OF WOOD. [1657. 
 
 lord - - - - Goring. A considerable number of the best 
 ships also revolted from the parliament, and the citizens 
 of London were forward to rise against the parliament : 
 whereupon his majestie designed an escape thence, if he 
 could tell how. A smal ship was provided and anchored 
 not far from the castle to bring him into Sussex, and horses 
 were provided ready to carry him thro Sussex into Kent, 
 and from thence to march immediately to London, where 
 thousands would have armed for him &c. These things 
 being knowne among the king's friends, and particularly 
 to Jane Whorwood, she repaires againe to Lillie, and ac- 
 quaints him with the matter : whereupon he got GL Farmer, 
 a most ingenious locksmith dwelling in Bow lane in Lon- 
 don, to make a saw to cut iron barrs asunder, I meane to 
 saw them, and aquafortis besides. These things being 
 quickly obtained, his maj. in a smal time did his worke. 
 The barrs gave libertie to him to go out, and he was out 
 with his body till he came to his breasts, but then his 
 heart failing, he proceeded no farther; so afterwards he 
 was kept closer. These things A. W. had from Will. Lilly; 
 who told him, (and so he afterwards found it among some 
 of his notes) that the said Jane Whorwood came to him 
 againe (upon the direction, as he thought, of Will, lord 
 Say) to know from the perusal of his figure, whether his 
 majestie should signe the propositions sent to him by the 
 parliament, so soon as they were read: to which Will. 
 Lillie consenting, and that it was his only way so to doe, 
 which by her, or her letters, were communicated to his 
 majestie, yet the said lord Say ( s then one of the commis- 
 sioners from the parliament for a peace) did, after his ma- 
 jestie had communicated his intentions to him what to 
 doe, perswade him from signing the said propositions, 
 
 s Sic cum punctis (ab ipso auc- esse, ni fallor, indicantibus. 
 tore) parenthesi inclusa, delenda Hearne. 
 
x657-] life OF WOOD. 75 
 
 telling him, they were not fit for him to signe, that he 
 (Say) had many friends in the H. of lords, and some in 
 the house of commons, and he would procure more, and 
 then they would frame more easie propositions, &c. This 
 perswasion of that unfortunate lord occasioned his maj. to 
 wave the advice of Lilly and others, &c. This Jane Whor- 
 wood is the same lady mentioned in the Ath. et Fasti 
 Oxon. where youT find that K. Ch. I. had put into her 
 hands a cabinet of pretious Jewells, to be by her kept till 
 such time that he should send for them ; which he did a 
 little before his death : and what passed thereupon, you 
 may see there. * But all these things being spoken by the 
 by, let's proceed. 
 
 A. W. went to Einsham, to see an old kinsman, called Sept. 16. 
 Thorn. Barncote. He was there wonderfully strucken with 
 a veneration of the stately, yet much lamented, ruins of 
 the abbey there, built before the Norman conquest. He 
 saw then there two high towers at the west end of the 
 church, and some of the north walls of the church standing. 
 He spent some time with a melancholy delight in taking 
 a prospect of the ruins of that place. u All which, toge- 
 ther with the entrance or lodg, were soon after puPd 
 downe, and the stones sold to build houses in that towne 
 and neare it. The place hath yet some ruins to shew, 
 and to instruct the pensive beholder with an exemplary 
 frailty. 
 
 At about eleven or twelve at noon (Merton college bells Dec. 24. 
 being then ringing) Will. Bull, fellow of Allsouls coll. and 
 Hen. Hawley, fellow of Oriel, were with A. W. at his 
 
 * It was not to M rs . Jane Whor- Memoirs, p. 122. 150. W. & H. 
 
 wood that the jewels were in- u This prospect is now in the 
 
 trusted, but to the lady of S r . W. Ashmolean museum. It was lately 
 
 Wheeler, the king's laundress. engraved, but without any notice 
 
 See Athene Oxon. under the of Mr. Wood. (Wood's MSS. in 
 
 year 1681. Sir Thomas Herbert's mus. Ashm. 8505.) W. & H. 
 
76 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 57- 
 
 lodging neare Merton coll. and smiling upon him and upon 
 each other, they told him, he must walk with them to S. 
 Barthelmew's hospital, neare Oxon. and dine there with 
 them and others of his acquaintance, but would not tell 
 him, who they were, or upon what account. He went 
 forthwith with them, and comming there about one of the 
 clock, who should he see there, newly up from his bed and 
 ready, but Edmund Gregory, bach, of arts, lately gentle- 
 man com. of Merton coll.? who, in the evening before, 
 had conveyed thither a yong gentlewoman of 15 yeares of 
 
 age, named Pottinger, of Choulesley neare Wal- 
 
 lingford in Berks, whome he had stole from her parents. 
 They were married early that morning in the chappel of 
 S. Barthelmew's hospital, which being done, he bedded 
 her for feare of a pursuit. The company sat downe be- 
 tween one and two of the clock in the afternoon, after the 
 bridegroom had presented his bride smiling to them. They 
 tarried till 'twas dark, and then went to Cuxham neare 
 Watlington, where, or neare it, his father lived. 
 
 Afterwards this Edm. Gregory, who had a faire estate 
 left him by his father, and had a good estate with his yong 
 wife, lived very high, farr beyond his income, was high- 
 sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1680; at which time being deeply 
 in debt and beyond recovery, his aforesaid wife died of 
 grief at Cuxham in June 1683. About which time Mr. 
 Gregorie's estate being all either sold or mortgaged, he 
 kept some small matter for himself, retired to or neare 
 Bagshot neare Windsor, under a Strang name, and died, 
 and was buried there. 
 Jan. 14. He (A. W.) went with the societie of Merton coll. to 
 
 See in the Haseley, about 7 miles distant from Oxon. being all invited 
 Fasti to the funeral of Dr. Edw. Corbet, rector of that towne, 
 who was then and there (in the chancel) buried. He had 
 taken a view of the monuments there before. 
 
1657-] life OF WOOD. 77 
 
 Edm. Greg, and his new wife in Oxon. A. W. attended Mar. 12. 
 them, shewed them the public libr. Anatomy school, &c. 
 
 Or thereabouts his cozen Joh. Taverner, son and heir of 17- 
 Joh. Tav. of Soundess neare Nettlebed in Oxfordsh. esq ;, 
 died at Greys-inn, and was buried in S. Andrew's-ch. in 
 Holborne neare London. His sister Mary, the wife of 
 Joh. Harris of Silkstede neare to Winchester, was his 
 heire. 
 
 He walked to Osney, where seeing a poore man digging 23. 
 in the ruins, he shewed A. W. a leaden impression or the 
 seal of pope John 23, which he bought of him. 
 
 Will. Byrd of Hallywell in the suburbs of Oxon. stone- 
 cutter, did in the latter end of this yeare find out the 
 paynting or stayning of marble : a specimen of which he 
 presented to the king after his restoration, as also the 
 queen, and in 1669 to Cosmo prince of Tuscany when in 
 Oxon. 
 
 In the latter end of this yeare x Davis Mell, y the most 
 eminent violinist of London, being in Oxon. Peter Pett, 
 Will. Bull, Ken. Digby, and others of Allsoules, as also 
 A. W. did give a very handsome entertainment in the 
 taverne, caFd The Salutation, in S. Marie's parish Oxon. 
 
 own'd by Tho. Wood, son of Wood of Oxon. som- 
 
 times servant to the father of A. W. The company did 
 look upon Mr. Mell to have a prodigious hand on the 
 violin, and they thought that no person, as all in London 
 
 x David or Davys Mell, the emi- The chief or master of the hand 
 
 nent Violinist of London and clock- of K. Charles I. 
 maker, being in Oxon. Diar. He had an excellent facultie in 
 
 Hearne. making catches. 
 
 y Mell Davis, the best violinist He hath compositions in court- 
 
 of his time, and though Thomas ly masquing ayres : containing 
 
 Baltzar went beyond him in quick- almanes, ayres, corants, published 
 
 ness of stopping, yet Mell play'd by John Playford. Wood's MSS. 
 
 sweeter. in mus. Ashm. 8568. W. & H. 
 
78 LIFE OF WOOD. [1658. 
 
 did, could goe beyond him. But when Tho. Baltser, an 
 outlander, came to Oxon. in the next yeare, they had other 
 thoughts of Mr. Mell, who tho he played farr sweeter than 
 Baltsar, yet Baltsar's hand was more quick, and could run 
 it insensibly to the end of the finger-board. 
 l6 5 8 - Will. George, bach, of arts and student of Ch. Church, 
 
 10 Car. II. . 
 
 5 Oliv. was buried in the chancel of Garsingdon church neare 
 
 1 Rich. Oxon. This person had been tutor to the children of Joh. 
 
 Apr. 5. Wickham of that towne gent, and when resident in the 
 universitie, was accounted a noted sophister, and remarkable 
 courser in the time of Lent in the publick schooles. He 
 was poore, and therefore ready to make the exercise of 
 dul or lazy scholars. He could not, for want of money, 
 take the degree of master ; yet the generality of scholars 
 thought, that if he had money, he would not, because 
 otherwise he should not be accounted the best scholar of a 
 bach, of arts in Oxon. as he was. He looked elderly, and 
 was cynical and hersute in his behaviour. 
 
 Apr 13. Easter Tuesday Chr. Wood (brother to A. W.) was mar- 
 
 ried to Elizabeth Seymour. 
 
 Apr. 13. j^j. o uxnam ^ w ith other of his acquaintance, in the 
 
 house of Mr. Gregory ; where continuing 3 dayes, he went 
 to several townes, to collect monumental inscriptions and 
 armes, as at Watlington, Bright well, &c. z 
 
 a Alderm. Joh. Nixon's school, in the yard belonging to 
 
 z See Wood's MSS. in mus. the sonns of poore freemen with 
 
 Ashm. 8586. W. & H. the said city. (Note that tho' he 
 
 a John Nixon, alderman of Ox- had got all his estate by the uni- 
 on, and sometimes mayor of the versitie yet no caution was taken 
 same, son of John Nixon of for poore priviledged men's sons.) 
 Blechington in com. Oxon. hus- Till such purchase were made, 
 bandman. He granted by a deed, the mayor, bayliffs and cominalty 
 dated 13 Jan. 1658, 600I. to pur- of the city (in whose hand the 
 chase 30I. per an. for the salary 600I. was paid) and their succes- 
 of a schoolmaster to teach 40 boys, sors were to pay 30I. per an. 
 
i6 5 8.] 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 79 
 
 the Guildhall of Oxon. being finishd, the first boyes made 
 their entry ; some of which were afterwards, by the help 
 of another school, academians. 
 
 A maid was hanged at Greenditch neare Oxon. for mur- May 4. 
 dering her infant-bastard. After shee was cut downe and 
 taken away to be anatomized, - - - - Coniers, a physitian 
 of S. John's coll. b and other yong physitians, did in short 
 time bring life into her. But the bayllives of the towne 
 hearing of it, they went between 12 and one of the clock 
 at night to the house where she laid, and putting her into 
 a coffin, carried her into the Broken hayes, and by a halter 
 about her neck drew her out of it, and hung her on a tree 
 
 Which time was also declared, 
 that a convenient school-house by 
 them erected within the court or 
 yard belonging to the Guildhall 
 of the city shall be for ever con- 
 tinued to that according to the 
 rules left by the founder. 
 
 The first 40 boyes were admitted 
 19 Apr. 1659, Munday. 
 
 The allies of Joh. and Joan 
 Nixon, and Matthew Martin, toun- 
 clerke, are to be preferred among 
 those 40 boyes. He died the 14 
 Apr. 1662, and was buried in St. 
 Marie's church near the larg south 
 dore. Wood's MSS. in mus. 
 Ashm. 8518. W. & H. 
 
 b [William Conyers, the son 
 of Will. Conyers of Waltham- 
 stow in Essex, gent, was a na- 
 tive of Northamptonshire, edu- 
 cated at Merchant Taylor's school, 
 whence being elected a scholar of 
 St. John's coll. he was matricu- 
 lated July 12, 1639, aged 16; 
 B. A. Apr. 20, 1643; M. A. Dec. 
 8, 1646. And in 1648 was ousted 
 
 from his fellowship by the parlia- 
 mentarian visitors. It would seem 
 that he afterwards became less ob- 
 noxious to the ruling power; for 
 on the 25th of June, 1653, the de- 
 legates of the university order, 
 " That Mr. Will. Conyers fellow 
 " of St. John's coll. and M. A. of 
 " above 7 yeares standinge be dis- 
 " pensed with for taking the de- 
 " gree of Dr. in physicke by ac- 
 " cumulation : provided he give 
 " in sufficient caution for per- 
 " forming all exercise required 
 " thereto." Reg. Convoc. He was 
 admitted D. med. July 6, 1653. 
 His name appears on the college 
 registers as fellow till Sept. 1661, 
 after which we lose all trace of 
 him. There was another William 
 Conyers the son of Tristram Con- 
 yers of Walthamstow, who died a 
 scholar of Wadham, set. 20. 1676. 
 See an account of this family in 
 Lysons's Environs of London, 
 vol. iv. pp. 214, 225.] 
 
80 LIFE OF WOOD. [1658. 
 
 there. She then was so sensible of what they were about 
 to do, that she said, Lord have mercy upon mee, &c. The 
 women were exceedingly enraged at it, cut downe the 
 tree whereon she was hanged, and gave very ill language 
 to Henry Mallory, one of the baillives, when they saw him 
 passing the streets, because he was the chief man that 
 hang'd her. And because that he afterwards broke, or 
 gave up his trade thro povertie (being a cutler) they did 
 not stick to say, that God's judgments followed him for 
 the cruelty he shewed to the poore maid. 
 See Dr. Plot Nat. Hist, of Ox. p. 199. 
 
 July 14. A. W. entertained two eminent musitians of London, 
 
 nam'd Joh. Gamble and Tho. Pratt, after they had enter- 
 tained him with most excellent musick at the meeting 
 house of Will. Ellis. Gamble had obtain' d a great name 
 
 See Ath. among the musitians of Oxon. for his book before pub- 
 
 Oxon STI nsn, d, entit. Ayres and Diologes to be sung to the Theorbo- 
 Lute or Bass- Viol. The other for several compositions, 
 which they played in their consorts. 
 
 July 24. Tho. Balsar or Baltzar, a Lubecker borne, and the most 
 famous artist for the violin that the world had yet pro- 
 duced, was now in Oxon. and this day A. W. was with 
 him and Mr. Edw. Low, lately organist of Ch. Church, at 
 the meeting-house of Will. Ellis. A. W. did then and 
 there, to his very great astonishment, heare him play on 
 the violin. He then saw him run up his fingers to the 
 end of the finger-board of the violin, and run them back 
 insensibly, and all c in alacrity and in very good tune, 
 which he d any in England saw the like before. A. W. 
 entertained him and Mr. Low with what the house could 
 then afford, and afterwards he invited them to the tavern ; 
 but they being engaged to goe to other company, he could 
 
 c With alacrity. Diar. Hearne. d L. nor cum Diario. Hearne. 
 
1658.] LIFE OF WOOD. 81 
 
 no more heare him play or see him play at that time. 
 Afterwards he came to one of the weekly meetings at Mr. 
 Ellis's house, and he played to the wonder of all the audi- 
 tory : and exercising his fingers and instrument several 
 wayes to the utmost of his power, Wilson thereupon, the 
 public professor, (the greatest judg of musick that ever was,) 
 did, after his humoursome way, stoop downe to Baltzar's 
 feet, to see whether he had a huff on, that is to say, to see, 
 whether he was a devil, or not, because he acted beyond 
 the parts of man. 
 
 About that time it was, that e Dr. Joh. Wilkins, warden 
 of Wadham coll. the greatest curioso of his time, invited 
 him and some of the musitians to his lodgings in that coll. 
 purposely to have a consort, and to see and heare him 
 play. The instruments and books were carried thither, 
 but none could be perswaded there to play against him in 
 consort on the violin. At length the company perceiving 
 A. W. standing behind in a corner neare the dore, they 
 
 e Extract of a letter from Jo. Society ; 200I. to Wadham col- 
 Brooke to Dr. Martin Lister, dated lege ; and, 'tis said, not above 8 
 Dec. 14, 1672, in the collection or 900I. to his lady; Dr. Tillotson, 
 presented to the museum at Ox- his executor : he seemed not to 
 ford by Dr. John Fothergill of be much surprized at the news of 
 London. death, but said he was prepared 
 
 — Since my last, the death of for the great experiment. On 
 that excellent prelate (the bishop Thursday last he was interred, and 
 of Chester) has been not a little Dr. Lloyd preached the funeral 
 lamented, whose distemper was sermon. Tho' it proved a very 
 mistaken ; who died of a stoppage wet day yet his corps were very 
 of urin, but not caused by the honourably attended; I believe 
 stone (as was imagined.) Mr. there were above 40 coaches, with 
 Wray guessed the nearest ; but six horses ; besides a great muri- 
 ne forbore all diuretical things, ber of others, 
 which (as they apprehend since) See also Biographia Brit. Ar- 
 had been the most effectual (in tide Wilkins. pag. 4273. Note T. 
 all humane reason) for his re- W. & H. 
 covery. He left 400I. to the Royal 
 
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82 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 5^- 
 
 haled him in among them, and play, forsooth, he must 
 against him. Whereupon he being not able to avoid it, 
 he took up a violin, and behaved himself as poor Troylus 
 did against Achilles. He was abashed at it, yet honour he 
 got by playing with and against such a grand master as 
 Baltzar was. Mr. f Davis Mell was accounted hitherto the 
 best for the violin in England, as I have before told you ; 
 but after Baltzar came into England, and shewed his most 
 wonderful parts on that instrument, Mell was not so ad- 
 mired, yet he playd sweeter, was a well bred gentleman, 
 and not given to excessive drinking as Baltzar was. 
 Aug. 30. Munday, a terrible raging wind hapned, which did much 
 
 SpP .A. TFT 
 
 & Fasti hurt. Dennis Bond, a great Olivarian and antimonarchist, 
 Oxon. ^g^ on ^^ ^ a ^ an( j th en the Devil took Bond for Oliver's 
 
 appearance. 
 Sept. 3. Oliver Cromwell the protector died. This I set downe, 
 
 because some writers tell us, that he was hurried away 
 by the Devill in the s wind before mentioned. 
 6. Richard Cromwell his son was proclaimed protector at 
 
 Oxon. at the usual places where kings have been pro- 
 claimed. While he was proclaiming before S. Marie's 
 church dore, the mayor, recorder, townclerk, &c. accom- 
 panied by col. Unton Croke h and his troopers, were pelted 
 
 f Dav. Mell. Diar. Hearne. Job. Penruddock, Hugh Grove, 
 
 £ Which they make to have &c. and other cavaliers when they 
 
 happened upon Sept. 3. upon rose at Salisbury in March 1654 — 
 
 which day likewise the earl of Cla- died at Marston near Oxon. 28 
 
 rendon (by mistake) fixes the wind, Jan. 1670, aged 77, and was bu- 
 
 and not on Aug. 30th. Hearne. ried in the church there. He mar- 
 
 h Unton Croke, counsellour at ried Anne Hore dau. and heir of 
 
 law, (father to Richard Croke, Kt.) Rich. Hore of Merston by Mary 
 
 made serjeant at law by Oliver his wife. — Wood's MSS. in mus. 
 
 Cromwell, 21 June 1654, for the Ashm. 8466. W. & H. — [He 
 
 good service his son major (after- was the fourth son of sir John 
 
 wards colonel) Unton Croke did Croke, judge of the king's bench; 
 
 for Oliver in the West against col. born about 1594, and named Un- 
 
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 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 with carret and turnip-tops, by yong scholars, and others, 
 who stood at a distance. 
 
 He went to Stoke-Lyne, to give a visit to his kinsman Oct. 18. 
 Charnel Pettie and his wife, and other of his relations 
 there. He continued there till the 22 of the said month : 
 in which time he rode about the country adjoyning, and 
 collected several monuments and armes. He was at Cots- 
 
 ton after his grandmother; a stu- 
 dent of the Inner Temple 1609; 
 called to the bar 1616; and the 
 next year married Anne, daughter 
 and heiress of Richard Hore, esq. 
 of Marston. He was member of 
 pari, for Wallingford in the par- 
 liaments of 1625 and 1640, and 
 in 1654 was called to the degree 
 of serj. at law. His wife died in 
 1670, leaving him with ten chil- 
 dren; he died 28 Jan. T671, set. 
 77, both being buried at Marston. 
 D r . Owen, the parliamentarian dean 
 of Ch. Ch. had been very urgent 
 with Cromwell to make Unton 
 Croke a judge, but from some 
 cause or other was unsuccessful. 
 
 Unton Croke, the son of the 
 serj., accompanied Whitelock to 
 Sweden. In the account of this 
 embassy, he is styled " Captain 
 Unton Croke, of the army, kins- 
 man to Whitelock, son of serjeant 
 Croke, of an ancient family in 
 Oxfordshire, and of good parts 
 and condition." He was confi- 
 dentially employed by Cromwell, 
 as appears from several of his let- 
 ters printed in Thurloe's State Pa- 
 pers, and he served with great 
 bravery in the field ; but he was a 
 bitter enemy to the university, and 
 
 was one of those who, desirous of 
 obtaining the revenues of the se- 
 veral colleges, contended that 
 three would be quite sufficient for 
 the nation, and for the " breeding 
 of men up to learning, so far as it 
 was either necessary or useful." 
 South's Sermons, vol. i. p. 67. 
 edit. Oxford, 1842. He lived 
 long enough, however, to abjure 
 his republican principles, and 
 early in 1660, together with the 
 regiment he then commanded, 
 gave in their adhesion to the re- 
 storation of Charles II. The exact 
 date of his death is not known, 
 but in 1693 he devised a house at 
 Grandpont in Oxford, viz. "all 
 that mansion house and garden 
 in St. Aldate's, the street east, 
 part of the river Thames west 
 and north, and a garden south" 
 to his three daughters, Gracious, 
 Charity, and Eleanor. Charity 
 and Eleanor conveyed their shares 
 to Gracious, and she by will in 
 1725, gave the premises to Elea- 
 nor, then Mrs. Glyn, who in 1730 
 conveyed it to Bridgett Trigg, 
 widow, another sister, who sold it 
 in i733toWill.Haynes,inn-holder. 
 It was purchased by D r . Foulkes, 
 the physician, in 1755.] 
 g2 
 
84 LIFE OF WOOD. [1658. 
 
 ford, in hopes to find a monument there for his grand- 
 father by his mother' s side, named Rob. Pettie, alias Le 
 Petite, gent, but finding none, he searched in the register, 
 and found, that he was buried on the 10 May 1612. 
 
 Feb. 11. Nath. Crew, M. A. and fellow of Line. coll. brought to 
 
 A. W. a petition, to present to the parliament against 
 standing visitors in the university : to which, upon his 
 desire, he set his hand, &c. The independents, who called 
 themselves now the godly party, drew up another petition 
 contrary to the former, and said, 'twas for the cause of 
 Christ, &c. No person was more ready than Crew, a 
 Presbyterian, to have the said visitors put downe, notwith- 
 standing he had before submitted to them, and had paid 
 to them reverence and obedience. 
 
 Feb. 12. Egg-Saturday, Edward Bagshaw, M. A. and student of 
 
 Ch. Ch. presented his bachelaurs ad determinandum, with- 
 out having on him any formalities, whereas every deane 
 besides had formalities on. D r . John Conant was then 
 vicechancellour, but took no notice of Bagshaw. 
 
 In this Lent, but the day when I cannot tell, A. W. 
 went as a stranger with Thorn. Smith, Mr. of arts, (ejected 
 his clerkship of Magd. coll. by the visitors 1648) living 
 now obscurely in Oxon. I say he went with the said Mr. 
 Smith on a certaine morning, to a private and lone house 
 in or neare to Bagley wood, between Oxon. and Abendon, 
 i inhabited by the lord of Sunningwell called Hannibal 
 Baskervyle, esq;. k The house, called Bay worth, is an old 
 
 1 Inhabited by the lord of Bay- of account, and first a remembrance 
 
 worth, called Hannibal Baskervyle, of some monuments and reliques in 
 
 esq. It is an old house, situated. the Church of St. Denniss and 
 
 Diar. Hearne. thereabouts in Ff ranee by Hannibal 
 
 k [A Transcript of some writeings Baskervyle who went into y t . coun- 
 
 of Hanniball Baskervile, esq. as try w tli . an English ambassador in 
 
 they were found scattered here and the reigne of king James. This 
 
 there in his manuscripts and books MS. which is in D r . Rawlinson's 
 
6 5 8.] 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 85 
 
 house, situated in a romancy place, and a man that is 
 given to devotion and learning, cannot find out a better 
 
 collection in the Bodleian, con- 
 tains several curious particulars 
 relating to Oxford and the persons 
 educated there, and the following 
 brief particulars of Mr. Basker- 
 vile himself. 
 
 " April y e . 5, 1597. I was born 
 at a town in Piccardy, called St. 
 Vallery where was a deadly plague 
 among y e . Ffrench, but it did not 
 infect any of the English soldiers. 
 I was christened by one Mr. Man 
 y e . preacher, and I had all the 
 captains, about 32, to be my god- 
 fathers, it being the custome so 
 of the wars, when the generall 
 hath a son (they say;) but two 
 only stood at the ffont or great 
 bason, one was sir Arthur Savage, 
 the other I can not remember his 
 name. S r . Arthur Chichester was 
 there, and other great men that 
 have been since. My father S r .Tho- 
 mas Baskervile died of a burning 
 feavour at a town called Picqueny. 
 I was then 9 weeks old." To this 
 I may add, that he was instructed 
 under the care of Peacham author 
 of the Compleat Gentleman, &c. 
 See his Minerva Brit anna, p. 
 106. 
 
 The following curious letter from 
 sir Thomas Baskervile is printed 
 from the original, among Mr. St. 
 Amand's papers, in the Bodleian. 
 It is the more proper for inser- 
 tion, as the original is nearly worn 
 out by damp and former neg- 
 lect. 
 
 To the Honorable Sr. Jhon 
 Norreys, Knight, generall of the 
 army thatt goe for Portugall. 
 
 Honorable, 
 I humbly desire your H. to 
 thinke that the ocasion of my stay 
 hear is nott for any dislike of the 
 viage or of the generall, butt that 
 itt is rather for wantt of means, 
 for I assure you if I had gonn, 
 noe man would have gonn with 
 greater discreditt, for thatt for the 
 most parte thatt I have apareled 
 my solldiars itt hath bin vpon my 
 creditt to the marchant for the 
 which I have geven my perticuler 
 bill, and nott vpon the provant 
 masters, further my liftenant is 
 in prison who wer vtterly lost if I 
 wer wtdrawen, besides the disho- 
 nor that would light one me for 
 leving him ther, going into a new 
 warr, besides I assure yow all 
 thatt I have is in paun, which 
 would be lost if I wentt. These 
 thinges hatth causid me to seke 
 the stay of my companye of my 
 lo. generall, and nott any perti- 
 culer dislike I have of your lo. or 
 of the viag, the w ch . I humbly en- 
 treatt your ho. to beleve, for in 
 denieng to folow yow, I shuld 
 shew my self wonderfull vndis- 
 creet considering ther is so many 
 my betters w ch . doe ytt, beside for 
 the most part I have folowd yow 
 since I knew the warrs, and if I 
 hav lern'd any thinge I acknow- 
 
86 LIFE OF WOOD. [1658. 
 
 place. In this house A. W. found a pretty oratory or 
 chappel up one pair of staires, well furnish' d with velvet 
 cusheons and carpets. There had been painted windowes 
 in it, but defaced by Abendon soldiers (rebells) in the 
 grand rebellion. He also found there an excellent organ 
 in the said oratory : on which Mr. Smith performed the 
 part of a good musitian, and sung to it. Mr. Baskervyle 
 was well acquainted with him, and tooke delight to heare 
 him play and sing. He was civil to them, but A. W. 
 found him to be a melancholy and retired man ; and, upon 
 enquirie farther of the person, he was told, that he gave 
 the third or fourth part of his estate to the poor. He was 
 so great a cherisher of wandring beggars, that he built for 
 them a larg place like a barne to receive them, and hung 
 up a little bell at his back-dore for them to ring when 
 they wanted any thing. He had been several times in- 
 dicted at Abendon sessions for harbouring beggars. In 
 his yonger days, while he was a student of Brasnose coll. 
 he would frequent the house of his kinswoman the lady 
 Scudamore, opposite to Merton coll. church: at which 
 time the mother of A. W. being a girle, and a sojournour 
 in his father's house neare to it, he became acquainted 
 with her : and when he knew that A. W. was her son, he 
 was civil to him, and afterwards * frequented the house, 
 especially in the time of his son Tho. Baskervyle, m to re- 
 
 ledg itt from yow. Thus fearing l F. A. W. frequented. Hearne. 
 
 to be over tedius I humbly desire m [The following extract is given 
 
 yow to rest my honorable good from Hearne's MS. Memoranda, 
 
 friend, and to excuse my cominge vol. xi. p. 38. " Thursday Feb. 
 
 w ch . I desire you to imputt rather 9, 1720. This morning died young 
 
 to thes letts than any wantt of de- esq r . Baskervile of Bayworth near 
 
 sire to folow yow. Hagge this 20 Sunningwell in Berkshire, son of 
 
 of January. Your honor's most the late esq r . Baskervile of that 
 
 asurid to do yow servis. place, who was commonly stil'd 
 
 Tho. Baskeruile.] the king of Jerusalem. Which 
 
:6. 5 8.] 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 87 
 
 fresh his mind with a melancholy walke, and with the re- 
 tiredness of the place, as also with the shady box-arbours 
 in the garden. 
 
 In the latter end of this yeare (in Mar.) scurvy grass- 
 drink began to be frequently drunk in the mornings as 
 physick-drinke. 
 
 All the time that A. W. could spare from his beloved 
 
 young Baskervile, being the only 
 child left by his father, was a 
 beautifull handsome person, but 
 most miserably debauch'd, and 
 so great a spendthrift that he soon 
 wasted a brave estate, being turnd 
 by him into an annuity of four- 
 score libs per an. to sir John 
 Stonehouse of Radley near Ab- 
 bington. The father was so whim- 
 sical a man as to call himself by 
 the said title of king of Jerusalem, 
 and would ramble about all the 
 country and pick up all strange 
 odd things, good and bad, which 
 he had written fair in two large 
 folios, which he design'd to have 
 printed, and for that end had his 
 picture engrav'd, w ch . was to 
 have been prefix'd as a frontis- 
 piece, and he had agreed with 
 Lichfield about the whole impres- 
 sion, but dyed before it mov'd far- 
 ther than the agreement. The son 
 had the books, but was shy of 
 shewing them. This young Bas- 
 kervile died in the 33 rd . year of 
 his age. He was buried in Sun- 
 ningwell church, Saturday night, 
 Feb. 11 th ." One of these volumes 
 has found its way into the Harleian 
 collection, N°. 4716, where the 
 other remains, if not destroyed, is 
 
 uncertain. The portrait of Basker- 
 vile is supposed by Noble to have 
 been engraved by Vertue, but by 
 the execution this is hardly pro- 
 bable. He is represented in an 
 oval, with a slouch-hat, over a 
 large flowing wig, a neck-kerchief 
 hanging long and loosely, and 
 having his hands clasped together; 
 a singular and miserable looking 
 personage. Above is his cyper, 
 and, 
 
 " Once I was alive, and had flesh 
 
 did thrive, 
 But now I am a skellitan at 70/ 
 
 And under the print sixteen lines, 
 in which he tells us that he was 
 born in Aug. 1629, and was con- 
 sequently sixty-nine in 1699, the 
 year probably in which the en- 
 graving was made. He concludes 
 by saying that on the 11 th . of 
 January, 1666, he received his 
 title from some supernatural an- 
 nouncement : 
 
 " A ray of light I saw that day 
 Enter my heart with heat and joy, 
 Saying these words unto me then 
 King of Jerusalem.'''' 
 
 The rarity of this print is the 
 only excuse for so much said on 
 such a subject.] 
 
88 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 5^- 
 
 studies of English history, antiquities, heraldry and gene- 
 alogies, he spent in the most delightful facultie of musick, 
 either instrumental or vocal: and if he had missed the 
 weekly meetings in the house of Will. Ellis, he could not 
 well enjoy himself all the week after. All or most of the 
 company, when he frequented that meeting, the names of 
 them are set downe under the yeare 1656. As for those 
 See Ath. that came in after, and were now performers, and with 
 Oxon STI wnome A. W. frequently playd, were these : (1) n Charles 
 
 n Charles Perrot was the 2d would not communicate the titles 
 
 son of Edward Perrot, esq; of of them to A. Wood. He died 
 
 North Leigh near Oxford, by Eliz. on the 23 d . of April 1677, aged 45 
 
 daughter of sir William Stone- or thereabouts, and was buried 
 
 house of Radley, Berks, at which neare to his grandfather Robert 
 
 place he was born. Having spent Perrot, gent, and his mother, in 
 
 some time in his travels to learn the chancell of North Leigh 
 
 the modern languages, he return- church. See Fasti Oxon. and 
 
 ed an accomplished gentleman, Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. 
 
 and was author of two or more 8466. W. & H. 
 political pamphlets in defence of In a MS. in the possession of 
 
 the prerogative, to which he did the reverend Mr. John Price*, 
 
 not set his name, and therefore sir Thomas Bodley's librarian, 
 
 * [John Price, son of the rev. Robert Price of Llandeglu, Denbighshire, was 
 born at Tuer, near Llangollen, 1 734-5 ■ matriculated of Jesus college 27 March 
 1 754, aged 19 j soon after elected to a scholarship at Jesus, where he took the 
 degree of B. A. Oct. 10, 1757; M. A. June 4, 1760; B. D. Jan. 15, 1768. 
 In this latter year he obtained the librarianship of the Bodleian, after a 
 severe contest with Mr. Cleaver of Brasennose, afterwards head of that col- 
 lege and bishop of St. Asaph, who used to say that he was indebted to Mr. 
 Price for his mitre, for had he obtained the Bodleian, he should have there 
 continued, instead of becoming tutor in a noble family, and so placed in the 
 road to advancement. In this election the votes were equal, and Mr. Price, 
 being senior, was nominated by the vice-chancellor. Mr. Price held, at 
 various times, excellent preferments, chiefly by the interest of his friend and 
 patron the duke of Beaufort, in the rectory of Woolaston and that of Alving- 
 ton in Gloucestershire, and subsequently the rich benefice of Llangattock in 
 Brecon, South Wales, and the small living of Wilcot in Oxfordshire, where 
 he occasionally resided. He died at his house adjoining the back gate of 
 Trinity college in 18 13, and was buried at Wilcot.] 
 
i6 5 8.] 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 89 
 
 Perot, M. A. fellow of Oriel coll. a well bred gent, and a 
 person of a sweet nature. (2) Christop. Harrison, M. A. 
 
 which contains many particulars 
 relative to the parish and church 
 of North Leigh, and to the 
 Perrot family, are the following 
 articles : 
 
 i. Extract of the Will of the 
 above mentioned Charles Perrot. 
 " Also (I give and bequeath) to the 
 poor of the parish of North Leigh 
 &c. the sum of fifty pounds to be 
 laid out in the purchase of lands 
 or otherwise setled so it may be 
 and remain for ever to and for the 
 use of the said poor imploying the 
 yearly profits thereof in binding 
 forth apprentices into other pa- 
 rishes children of the poorest peo- 
 ple of the same parish of North 
 Leigh &c." 
 
 2. An Oration spoken in the 
 Hall of Oriel college Oxon. the 
 xxvth of April, A. D. 1677. by 
 Mr. Hazlewood then Dean of the 
 same College at the Funeral of Mr. 
 Charles Perrot one of the Fellows 
 of that College before all that So- 
 ciety and others present, his Corps 
 being then placed before them. 
 
 In detached parts of which ora- 
 tion his character is thus drawn. 
 
 Ista generis claritas qua alios 
 pra?stabat ei tantum persuasit ani- 
 mumque dedit ad egregia facinora 
 suscipienda. — Apud omnes, qui- 
 bus notus erat, fidem adeo invio- 
 latam servavit, quasi non sibi sed 
 amicis se natum putarat. Gra- 
 
 vitatem suam tam innocua fes- 
 tivitate temperavit, ut neminem 
 unquam, ante mortem suam, tris- 
 tem effecit : etenim, dum in vivis 
 ille fuit, non minus difficile erat vul- 
 tum moestitia contractum, quam 
 jam, cum mortuus sit, hilaritate 
 
 exporrectum intueri. Eadem 
 
 pietate ille vixit qua alii sancti 
 moriuntur, pietate adeo incredi- 
 bili, sua tamen, ut illam non mi- 
 nus segre credent posteri quam 
 nos possumus imitari. Cum ei 
 mortuo tantum similes esse pos- 
 simus, minime mirandum censeo, 
 si nos ad illius exemplar jam con- 
 formemus, si cum ilium mors & 
 dolor nos mutos reddat. 
 
 3. Extract of the Will of * Mr. 
 Edward Perrot a Portugal Mer- 
 chant, in which he leaves the sum 
 of Forty Pounds to the Parish of 
 North Leigh j to which Will Mr. 
 Robert Perrot and Mr. Charles 
 Perrot are nominated Executors. 
 
 4. The Accompt of Mr. Robert 
 Perrot of the said Legacy and in- 
 crease thereof made to the Church- 
 wardens Sfc. 1678. 
 
 Among the articles here set 
 downe are the following : 
 
 t He paid towards the placing 
 Martha Jones one of the daugh- 
 ters of Humphry Jones clerk, 
 deceased, late vicar of this church, 
 apprentice to Richard Harris of 
 Wootten 4 : 3 : 10 
 
 * He died at Porto the 16th. of Octob. according to our stile, a" 1667, 
 f 1684. May 20. 
 
90 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [1658. 
 
 fellow of Queen's coll. a maggot-headed person °and 
 humourous. He was afterwards parson of Burgh under 
 Staynsmore in Cumberland, where he died in the winter 
 time an. 1694. (3) Kenelm Digby, fellow of Alls. coll. 
 He was afterwards LL. D r . and dying in the said coll. on 
 Munday night Nov. 5. an. 1688, was buried in the chap- 
 pell there. He was a violinist, and the two former violists. 
 
 (4) "Will. Bull, Mr. of arts, bach, of phys. and fellow of 
 Alls. coll. for the violin and viol. He died 15 Jul. 1661. 
 aged 28 yeares, and was buried in the chappell there. 
 
 (5) Joh. Vincent, M. A. fellow of the said coll. a violist. He 
 went afterwards to the inns of court, and was a barrester. 
 
 (6) Sylvanus Taylor, somtimes com. of Wadh. coll. after- 
 wards fellow of Allsoules, and violist and songster. He 
 went afterwards to Ireland, and died at Dublin in the be- 
 
 * Paid part of the vul. toward 
 the placing of Nicholas Jones son 
 of the said Humphrey Jones ap- 
 prentice to Mr. Charles Dawson, 
 dancing master, who married the 
 mother of the said Nicholas and 
 for the indentre and bonds 
 o : 10 : o 
 
 In another MS. containing re- 
 gisters of the estates and other 
 particulars relating to the family 
 of Perrott, there is an entry of the 
 birth of Charles Perrott, which 
 seems to contradict the account 
 given of him above : viz. 
 
 " Charles Parrott borne at A- 
 bington in the county of Berks 
 on Monday the tenthe of De- 
 cember 1627 about seven of clocke 
 at night and was christned the 
 iojthe of the same monthe beinge 
 
 Wensday at St. Elen's churche 
 his godfathers were Charles Wise- 
 man of Steventon esqr. and Cor- 
 nelius Fairmedoe of London esqr. 
 his godmother M rs . Elizabethe 
 Stonhouse. 3 Caroli regis." 
 
 From a marginal note also in 
 the MS. quoted above it appears 
 that Charles Perrott died in the 
 50 th year of his age. W. & H. 
 [See many curious particulars 
 about the Perrot family in Hearne's 
 MS. Collections, vol. xxxvii. and 
 cvi. The MS. mentioned above 
 came with several other papers 
 of Mr. Price's into the hands of 
 his friend and successor in the 
 library Dr. Bandinel.] 
 
 Puncta ab ipso auctore. 
 Hearne. 
 
 168^. July 28. 
 
1658.] LIFE OF WOOD. 91 
 
 ginning of Nov. 1672. His elder brother, capt. Silas See in the 
 Taylor, was a composer of musick, playd and sung hisj^^e 
 parts : and when his occasions brought him to Oxon. he q uoted - 
 would be at the musical meetings, and play and sing his 
 part there. (7) Hen. Langley, M. A. and gent. com. of 
 Wadh. coll. a violist and songster. He was afterwards a 
 worthy knight, lived at Abbey-Foriat neare Shrewsbury, 
 where he died in 1680. (8) Samuel Woodford, a commoner 
 and M. A. of the said coll. a violist. He was afterwards a 
 celebrated poet, beneficed in Hampshire, and prebendary 
 of Winchester. (9) Franc. Parry, M. A. fellow of Corp. 
 Ch. coll. a violist and songster. He was afterwards a tra- 
 veller, and belonged to the excise office. (10) Christop. a violist and 
 Coward, M. A. fellow of C. C. coll. He was afterwards vi iist. " 
 rector of Dicheat in his native county of Somersetshire, 
 
 P Charles 
 
 proceeded D. of D. at Oxon. in 1694. (11) Henr. Bridge- 
 man, M. A. of Queen's coll. and of kin to S 1 . Orlando 
 Bridgeman. He was afterwards archdeacon of Richmond. 
 He died 26 Nov. 1678, and was buried in the chap, be- 
 longing to that coll. (12) Nathan Crew, M. A. fellow of 
 Line. coll. a violinist and violist, but alwaies played out of 
 tune, as having no good eare. He was afterwards, thro 
 several preferments, bishop of Durham. (13) Matthew 
 Hutton, M. A. fellow of Brasnose coll. an excellent vi- 
 olist. Afterwards rector of Aynoe in Northamptonshire. 
 (14) Thorn. Ken q of New coll. a junior. He would be som- 
 times among them, and sing his part. (15) Christop. 
 Jeffryes, a junior student of Ch. Church, excellent at the 
 organ and virginals or harpsichord, having been trained up 
 to those instruments by his father Georg. Jeffryes, stew- 
 ard to the Lord Hatton of Kirbie in Northamptonshire 
 
 p Sic ipse auctor. Recte Charles. <i Afterwards bishop of Bath 
 
 Hearne. and Wells. W. & H. 
 
92 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 5 8 - 
 
 See Ath. and organist to K. Ch. I. at Oxon. (16) Rich. Rhodes, 
 another junior student of Ch. Church, a confident West- 
 monasterian, a violinist to hold between his knees. 
 
 These did frequent the weekly meetings, and by the 
 help of publick masters of musick, who were mixed with 
 them, they were much improved. Narcissus Marsh, M. A. 
 and fellow of Exeter coll. would come somtimes among 
 them, but seldome play'd, because he had a weekly meet- 
 ing in his chamber in the said coll. where masters of 
 musick would come, and some of the company before 
 mentioned. When he became principal of S. Alban's-hall, 
 he translated the meeting thither, and there it continued 
 when that meeting in Mr. Ellis's house was given over, 
 and so it continued till he went into Ireland, and became 
 Mr. of Trin. coll. at Dublin. He was afterwards archb. 
 of Tuam in Ireland. 
 
 After his majestie's restoration, when then the masters 
 of musick were restored to their several places that they 
 before had lost, or else if they had lost none, they had 
 gotten then preferment, the weekly meetings at Mr. Ellis's 
 house began to decay, because they were held up only by 
 scholars, who wanted directors and instructors, &c. so that 
 in few yeares after, the meeting in that house being totally 
 layd aside, the chief meeting was at Mr. (then D r .) 
 Marshe's chamber, at Exeter coll. and afterwards at S. 
 Alban's-hall, as before I have told you. 
 
 Besides the weekly meetings at Mr. Ellis's house, which 
 were first on Thursday, then on Tuesday, there were meet- 
 ings of the scholastical musitians every Friday night, in 
 the winter time, in some colleges; as in the chamber of 
 Hen. Langley, or of Samuel Woodford, in Wadham coll. 
 in the chamber of Christop. Harrison in Queen's coll. in 
 that of Charles Perot in Oriel, in another at New coll. &c. 
 to all which some masters of musick would commonlv 
 
1659.] LIFE OF WOOD. 93 
 
 retire, as Will. Flexney, Tho. Jackson, Gervas Westcote, 
 
 &c. but these meetings were not continued above 2 or 3 
 
 yeares, and I think they did not go beyond the yeare 1662. 
 
 Saturday he went to Stoke-Lyne neare Bister with his I ^59- 
 
 mother, a servant-mayd and a man, to give a visit to his f J -j^' h 
 
 cozen Charnel Petty, esq. and other of his relations there. Protect.] 
 
 Ap. 2. 
 He went to Middleton-Cheyney in Northamptonshire A 
 
 with his mother and other of his relations at Stoke-Lyne, 
 to visit his cozen Joh. Cave and those of his family. He 
 continued there two or three nights, in which time he took 
 his rambles to Banbury, visited the church and antiquities 
 there much broken and defaced : and thence to the an- 
 tient and noble seat of Werkworth, then lately belonging 
 to the Chetwoods ; of whom it had then, some yeares be- 
 fore, ben bought by Philip Holman of London scrivener, 
 who dying in 1669, aged 76, was buried in the church 
 there. One Joh. Lewes his kinsman conducted him thi- 
 ther, where wee found the eldest son and heir of the said 
 Philip Holman named ----- who was lately returned 
 from his travells, had changed his religion for that of 
 Borne, and seemed then to be a melancholy and begotted 
 convert. He was civil to us, and caused the church dore 
 to be opened, where wee found several antient monuments ; 
 the chiefest of which are of the Chetwoods, which A. W. 
 then transcribed with the armes on them. The mannour 
 house is a stately house, the antient habitation of the 
 Chetwoods of Chetwood in Bucks : part of which, viz. the 
 former part, was built by the Chetwoods, the rest by Philip 
 Holman before mentioned. In the gallery of the said 
 house are the armes, quarterings, crests and motto's of 
 several of the nobility in England. r At Banbury is a very 
 fair church, but of 60 coates of armes that were in the 
 windowes there before the warrs began, he could then see 
 r See Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8518. 2. W. & H. 
 
94 LIFE OF WOOD. \_ l ^S9' 
 
 but 12 or 13. The monuments there were also wofully 
 defaced in the late civil warr, yet what remained he trans- 
 cribed, and returned to Middleton againe. s 
 
 Ap. 6. He returned to Stoke-Lyne with a great deale of com- 
 
 pany (two coaches full) that went thence with him to 
 Middleton. 
 7- A fire hapned in Halywell in the suburb of Oxon. in 
 
 t Mr. Ben. the house next on the east side to that which Mr. f Alex. 
 
 Cooper 
 
 now lives Fisher had lately built. Mr. Joh. Lamphire, t the then 
 owner of it, was visiting his patients in the country, and 
 lost his books, many of his goods, and some money. 
 9- A. W. returned to Oxon. and brought with him a ter- 
 
 tian-ague, which held him ten dayes, and in that time 
 pluck' d downe his body much. 
 
 May 20. At Dorchester, and thence to Warborow to the house 
 
 of Adam Hobbes a farmer, to desire leave to see a book in 
 his hands, containing matters relating to the church of 
 Dorchester. He denied him the sight of it ; but Hobbes 
 being acquainted with Tho. Rowney, an attorney of Oxon. 
 A. W. perswaded him to leave it in his hands for u my use, 
 which he did the next mercate day that he came to Oxon. 
 'Twas a book in 4°, written in parchment, in the raigne, I 
 think, of qu. Elizabeth, and in it he saw the larg will of 
 Rich. Beauforest, dat. 13 July, 1554, and proved the 8 of 
 June, 1555, whereby he gives the abbey church of Dor- 
 chester, which he had bought of the king, to the towne of 
 Dorchester. 
 
 Jun. 2. A great meeting of the anabaptists at Abendon, in order 
 
 to make a disturbance in the nation. 
 
 July 20. His mother's house against Merton coll. was searched 
 
 for armes by a couple of soldiers. Some other houses 
 
 s See Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8548. W. & H. 
 
 t [See account of Lamphire, Fasti 1660.] u Sic. Hearne 
 
1659-] LIFE OF WOOD. 95 
 
 were searched, and the stables of colleges for horses. This 
 was done to prevent a rising of the cavaliers here, and so 
 the easier to suppress the rising of S r . George Booth and 
 his partie in Cheshire, and elsewhere, on the first of 
 August, which was the time when they were to appeare. 
 
 Sunday, a terrible wind hapned in the afternoon, while Jul. 31 
 all people were at divine service. Two or three stones, 
 and some rough-cast stuff were blown from off the tower 
 of S. Martin alias Carfax : which falling on the leads of 
 the church, a great alarm and out-cry was among the 
 people in the church. Some cried murder, and at that 
 time a trumpet or trumpets sounding neare the Cross-inne 
 dore, to call the soldiers together, because of the present 
 plott, they in the church cried out, that the day of judg- 
 ment was at hand. Some said, the anabaptists and quakers 
 were come to cut their throats, while the preacher, Mr. 
 Georg Philips, perceiving their errour, was ready to burst 
 with laughter in the pulpit, to see such a mistaken con- 
 fusion, and several of the people that were in the galleries 
 hanging at the bottom of them, falling on the heads of 
 people, crowding on the floor to get out of the dores. 
 This was on the very day before S r . Georg Booth and his 
 party were to appeare in Cheshire. Col. Edw. Massey at 
 that time was to appeare in Glocestershire, but being 
 taken, he was put behind a trooper, to carry him away to 
 prison. And as they were going downe a hill in the even- 
 ing of this stormy day, the horse fell, and gave the colonel 
 an opportunity to shove the trooper forward, and to make 
 an escape into an adjoyning wood. 
 
 In the beginning of Sept. the library of the learned Sept. 
 Selden was brought into that of Bodley x . A. W. laboured 
 
 x [As for the library of Mr. Sel- queath it to Bodley's library, but 
 den, it was once (as I have been being denied the borrowing of 
 informed) his intentions to be- certain MSS. from thence, be- 
 
96 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [ l6 59< 
 
 several weeks with Mr. Tho. Barlow and others in sorting 
 them, carrying them up stairs and placing them. In 
 
 cause it was downright against 
 the statutes and will of their re- 
 spective donors, did upon distaste 
 taken thereupon (as also the shar- 
 ing of the founder's gold at Mag- 
 dalen college as I have been told) 
 bequeath it, (the Oriental books 
 excepted, which he designed for 
 this library) to the students of the 
 Inner Temple, conditionally, that 
 they, with the students of the 
 Middle would build a library to 
 receive them : if not, then to any 
 public place according to the dis- 
 cretion of his executors. But the 
 said Templars not accepting it 
 upon that condition, certain per- 
 sons of this university, especially 
 Mr. Thomas Barlow the head 
 keeper, conferring with the exe- 
 cutors about it, it was obtained of 
 them on certain conditions. So 
 that soon after, viz. an. 1659, the 
 said library being sent from Lon- 
 don by water, were set up in the 
 remaining stowage of this new 
 addition. * The shelves in the 
 
 Bibliothecam JOHANNIS SELDENI 
 
 nitore ingenii, candore morum pr^ecellentia doctrine 
 
 imparilis viri 
 
 heic repositam: 
 
 Johannes Vaughan, Matth^eus Hale, 
 
 ROLANDUS JUCKS ArMIGERI (QUIBUS TESTAMENT! SUI FIDEM 
 
 MANDAVIT) IN DURATURAM TANTI VIRI MEMORIAM ET REI 
 
 LITERARIvE BONUM AMPLISSIMjE HUIC ACADEMIC SACRATAM 
 
 VOLUERE. 
 
 This 
 
 * The western end of the Bodleian library, the buildiug of which com- 
 menced in 1634 and was finished in 1638. Mr. Selden's books remain there 
 to this day (1 848) and it is generally known by the name of " The Selden End." 
 
 lower part were filled with folios 
 and large quartos, and divided into 
 the faculties of divinity, law, physic 
 and arts, and the rest of smaller 
 size were put up in upper shelves 
 above the stairs, and all since put 
 into the common catalogue and 
 printed ; but so it is, that by the 
 imprudence of the then library 
 keeper (Lockey) by disposing se- 
 veral of the quartos, which he 
 (very unequally in several re- 
 spects) bound together and mixed 
 with the folios below (whereas 
 they should have been put above 
 stairs) have suffered loss and great 
 damage. But, for the favour thus 
 shewed to the university by the 
 executors, the members thereof 
 caused this inscription following 
 to be written in golden letters on 
 a table, and that table to be hung 
 in the middle of the window of 
 this addition looking toward the 
 west, performed (such as 'tis) by 
 the then library keeper : 
 
1659.] 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 97 
 
 opening some of the books they found several pair of 
 spectacles, which Mr. Selden had put in, and forgotten to 
 
 This account is transcribed from 
 our author's account of Bodley's 
 library in his Hist, and Antiq. of 
 the Univ. of Oxford by Gutch, 
 Oxon. 1796, ii. 942.] 
 
 The following were the conditions 
 upon which the executors complied 
 with the request of the university; 
 the publication of which, it is ima- 
 gined, will not be unacceptable to 
 the reader, as they evidently shew 
 the good sense and judgment of 
 the compilers, and may also serve 
 for a model, in future legacies of 
 this sort. They are printed from 
 the original MS. now in the pos- 
 session of the reverend Mr. Price, 
 sir Thomas Bodley's librarian. 
 PROPOSALLS by the Executors 
 of John Selden Esq. touch- 
 ing the settling of the Bookes of 
 the said John Selden heereafter 
 mentioned for publique use in 
 the University of Oxon. and the 
 Honour and Memory of the said 
 John Selden in answeare to a 
 Letter formerly sent to them by 
 the sayd University. 
 1. That as well the Manuscripts 
 in Greeke and Hebrue, and other 
 Orientall tongues, and the Tal- 
 mudicall and Rabbinicall bookes, 
 as alsoe such other bookes of 
 the said John Selden as shall 
 bee sent to the said University by 
 the Executors of the said John 
 Selden bee for ever heerafter kepte 
 togeather in one distincte pile and 
 body under the name of Mr. Sel- 
 den's library. 
 
 WOOD, VOL. I. 
 
 2. That they bee placed and 
 for ever heerafter contynued to- 
 geather in the new built west end 
 of the publique Library, or some 
 such convenient parte thereof and 
 in such manner and with such 
 distinction from the other parte of 
 the Library and with such inscrip- 
 tion upon the place where they 
 shall bee soe settled as the said 
 Executors or the Survivor of them 
 shall directe or approve for pub- 
 lique use in the said University 
 and the perpetuall Memory and 
 honour of the said John Selden. 
 
 3. That the sayd Bookes be 
 perpetually preserved togeather 
 under the charge of the publique 
 Library Keeper for the publique 
 use in the said University without 
 any dissipation, sale, imbezelling, 
 or removeall of them or any of 
 them and without any delivery or 
 lone of them or any of them out 
 of the said Repository to any per- 
 son or upon any pretence whatso- 
 ever. 
 
 4. That the property of the said 
 Bookes (subject neverthelesse to 
 the use afforesaid) bee lodged and 
 setled in such persons and in 
 such manner and under such con- 
 ditions and provisions in order to 
 the perpetuateing of them to the 
 end and uses above expressed as 
 by the said Executors or the 
 Survivors of them shall bee ad- 
 judged most meete safe and con- 
 venient. 
 
 5. That the said Bookes may 
 H 
 
98 
 
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 I>59< 
 
 take out, and Mr. Tho. Barlow gave A. W. a pair, which 
 he kept in memorie of Selden to his last day. 
 
 Sept. 1 6. One Kinaston, a merchant of London, with a 
 
 long beard and haire over-grown, was at the Miter-Inn, 
 and faigning himself a Patriarch, and that he came to 
 Oxford for a modell of the last reformation, divers royal- 
 lists repaired to him, and were blest by him, viz. Joh. 
 Ball, Gilb. Ironside, and Hen. Langleyy of Wadham coll. 
 
 bee within the space of Twelve 
 moneths next ensueing placed and 
 chayned and a just Catalogue 
 thereof made at the publique 
 charges of the University and one 
 parte of the said Catalogue de- 
 livered by the publique Act of 
 Convocation to the said Execu- 
 tors or the survivors of them. 
 
 6. That the said Executors or 
 such others as they shall nominate 
 if they shall thinke fitt to nominate 
 any or in default of such Ap- 
 poyntement the Visitors appoynted 
 for the publique Library shall 
 once every yeare have the search 
 inspection and examination of the 
 said Bookes to the end that any 
 distraction, displaceing, losse or 
 injury of the said Bookes may bee 
 prevented discovered and reform- 
 ed and that discovery- bee made 
 thereof to the said Executors or 
 the Survivor of them or their as- 
 signes, and that if any of the said 
 bookes bee lost or made useless 
 the same bee supplyed againe in 
 the same place and roome at the 
 charge of the said University, un- 
 der the same use, title and security 
 as if they had been originally sent 
 by the said Executors. 
 
 7. That the publique Library 
 Keeper or some other persons of 
 fidelity to the good likeing of the 
 said Executors bee nominated by 
 the said University within two 
 Moneths to take the present care, 
 charge, and custody of the said 
 Bookes and of the transportation 
 of them to the said University at 
 the publique charge of the Univer- 
 sity and that they may bee placed 
 in the said West end of the Li- 
 brary in safe custody till they shall 
 bee digested and settled in the place 
 soe appoynted as is above directed. 
 
 8. That if in the Pile of Bookes 
 nowe to bee sent, there shall ap- 
 peare to bee Duplicats of Bookes 
 of the same kinde and edition, that 
 then one of every such duplicats be 
 delivered backe to the said Execu- 
 tors for their o wne use an d disposall. 
 
 9. That before any delivery of 
 any of the said Bookes the Uni- 
 versity doe by publique Acte of 
 the Convocation and under their 
 Comon Seale declare their As- 
 sent to the proposalls above ex- 
 
 Matthew Hales. John Vaughan. 
 Row. Jewkes. W. & H. 
 
 y All of. Diar. Hearne. 
 
1659-] life OF WOOD. 99 
 
 Bernard Rawlins a glasier was also there, and crav'd his 
 blessing on his knees, which he obtained. Joh. Harmar z 
 also the Greek professor of the university appeared very 
 formally, and made a Greek harangue before him. Where- 
 upon some of the company, who knew the design to be 
 waggish, fell a laughing, and betray' d the matter. It was 
 a piece of waggery to impose upon the royallists, and such 
 that had a mind to be blest by a patriarch instead of an 
 archbishop or bishop, and it made great sport for a time, 
 and those that were blest were ashamed of it, they being 
 more than I have set downe. Mr. Will. LLoyd, then 
 living in Wadham coll. in the quality of a tutor to Will. 
 Buckhouse of Swallowfield in Berks, was the author of 
 this piece of waggery, as he himself used to make his 
 braggs. And because the deane of Ch. Church D r . Owen, 
 and some of the canons of that house and other Presby- 
 terian doctors, resorted to him, or he to them, for to draw 
 up and give him a modell, they were so much incensed, 
 when they found the matter a cheat, that LLoyd was 
 forced to abscond for the present, or, as he used to say, 
 run away. This Mr. LLoyd was afterwards successively 
 bishop of S. Asaph, Lichfield and Coventry. 
 
 Georg Wharton the astronomer did take notice of this 
 matter in his almanac an. 1661, and calls the patriarch 
 Jeremias, but puts the memoire under the XI of Sept. 
 which is false. a 
 
 Michaelm. day the eldest brother then living of A. W. Sept. 29. 
 named Robert Wood, was married to Mary Drope, dau. of 
 b Tho. Drope, bach, of div. * It must be now knowne, 
 
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 correctly given in Biograph. Brit. f or dsh. Sf vicar of Comnore neare 
 
 vol. ii. pag. 1 081. W. & H. to Abendon in Berks. It must be 
 
 a In the margin of the Diary is & ere n oUd, that. Diar. Hearne. 
 
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 that when his father died, he did by his will leave all his 
 estate, except that at Tetsworth, to the longest liver of his 
 children, and therefore Rob. Wood being not in a capacity 
 to settle a joyntare on his wife, having but the third part 
 of the said estate which laid in Oxon. (because 3 of his 
 sons were now living) A. W. did therefore, upon Robert's 
 request, resigne the interest he had in the said estate, as 
 surviver or longest liver if it should so happen ; and this 
 he did without any consideration given to him, which no 
 body else would have done. Afterwards he did the like 
 to his brother Christopher, upon his request : which in 
 after times did in a manner prove A. Wood's ruin ; for he 
 could hardly get his own share from the children of his 
 brethren. 
 
 A. W. began to peruse the registers or leiger books of Oct. 24. 
 S. Frideswide's priory, Osney and Einsham abbeys, which 
 are kept in Ch. Church treasury. They were taken out 
 thence by Mr. Ralph Button, canon of the said house, and 
 reposed in his lodgings in the cloyster there. To which 
 lodgings A. W. did recurr dayly, till he had satisfied him- 
 self with them. It was an exceeding pleasure to him, 
 and he took very great delight to be poring on such books, 
 and collecting matters from them. c 
 
 In this month Jam. Quin, M. A. and one of the senior Oct. 
 students of Ch. Church, a Middlesex man borne, but son 
 of Walt. Quin of Dublin, died in a crazed condition in his 
 bedmaker's house in Penyfarthing- street, and was buried 
 in the cathedral of Ch.Ch. A. W. had some acquaintance 
 with him, and hath several times heard him sing with 
 great admiration. His voice was a bass, and he had a 
 great command of it. Twas very strong and exceeding 
 trouling, but he wanted skill, and could scarce sing in 
 
 c See Wood's MSS. in mus. 8516. 8517. 8526. 8563. f. 6. f. 125. 
 Ashm. No. 8472. 8491. 8513. f. 135. f. 155. 8589. W. &H. 
 
102 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 59- 
 
 consort. He had been turned out of his student's place 
 by the visitors; but being well acquainted with some 
 great men of those times, that loved musick, they intro- 
 duced him into the company of Oliver Cromwel the pro- 
 tector, who loved a good voice, and instrumentall musick 
 well. He heard him sing with very great delight, liquor'd 
 him with sack, and in conclusion said : " Mr. Quin, you 
 have done very well, what shall I doe for you ?" To which 
 Quin made answer with great complements, of which he had 
 command with a great grace, that " your Highness would 
 be pleased to restore him to his student's place;" which 
 he did accordingly, and so kept it to his dying day. 
 Nov. 26. His acquaintance d Hen. Stubbe of Ch. Church sitting 
 
 in the upper chamber of his friend Will. Sprigg, (fellow 
 of Line, coll.) opposite the back-gate of the Miter-inn, a 
 soldier standing there and discharging his gun, the bullet 
 came thro' Stubbe' s haire, and miss'd him narrowly. 
 Dec. In the latter end of this month, being Christmas-time, 
 
 A. W. was at Cuxham in the house of Edm. Gregory. 
 Mr. Bull, Hawley, &c. were there also. 
 Feb. In the beginning of Febr. Hen. Stubbe before men- 
 
 et Fasti ti° n 'd was publickly complayn'd of in the parliam. house, 
 Oxon. f or palliating in print the wickedness and roguery of S r . 
 
 Hen. Vane. 
 Feb. 13. Munday at night was great rejoycing in Oxon. for the 
 
 news, that then was brought, that there should suddenly 
 be a free-parliament. The bells rang, and bonfires were 
 made, and some rumps and tayles of sheep were flung into 
 a bonfier at Qu. coll. gate. D r . Joh. Palmer, a great 
 rumper, warden of Allsouls coll. in the place of D r . 
 
 d For an account of the various Note D. 
 and active life of this heteroclite He escaped the bullet, and af- 
 
 genius see Athene Oxon. Bio- terwards the halter. At last— he 
 
 graph. Brit. vol. 7. suppl. p. 165. was drowned. W. & H. 
 
1 659.] LIFE OF WOOD. 103 
 
 Sheldon, being then very ill and weak, had a rump 
 throwne up from the street at his windowes. He had been 
 one of the rump parliament, and a great favourite of 
 Oliver. 
 
 At this time A. W. being resolved to set himself to the 
 study of antiquities, and do somthing in them in the 
 house where he was borne, he set up a chimney in the 
 upper roome looking eastward ; and in the next room 
 joyning he put out a window next to the street, and made 
 it a study, in which he composed for the most part those 
 things, which he afterwards published. 
 
 His thoughts were strangly distracted, and his mind 
 overwhelmed with melancholy, by reading a book entit. 
 A true and faithfull Narration of what passed for many 
 yeares between Dr. Joh. Dee and some Spirits, &c. which 
 was published in fol. by Dr. Meric Casaubon about the 
 beginning of this yeare. 
 
 The pictures of prophets, apostles, saints, &c. that had 
 been painted on the back-side of the stalls in Merton coll. 
 choire, in various and antique shapes, about the beginning 
 of the raigne of K. Hen. 7. were daubed over with paint, 
 by the command of the usurpers, about 1651, to the sor- 
 row of curious men that were admirers of antient painting. 
 But that daubing wearing away in two or three yeares, 
 they were all painted over in oyl-colours this yeare (1659) 
 and the antient pictures e quite obliterated. While the 
 workmen were performing this work, several of the brass- 
 plates, with inscriptions, on grave- stones were most sacri- 
 legiously tome up, and taken away, either by some of the 
 paynters, or other workmen then working in the chappel. 
 A. W. complayn'd of these things to the fellowes, and de- 
 sired them to look after the offenders; but, with shame 
 
 e Quite lost. While. Diar. Hearne. 
 
104 LIFE OF WOOD. [1660. 
 
 be it spoken, not one of them did resent the matter, or 
 enquire after the sacrilegists, such were their degenerated 
 and poore spirits. However A. W. had before this time 
 transcribed them, which were afterwards printed. See 
 Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. Kb. 2. p. 91. 
 1660. Fulk Grevill, being at or neare Banbury, of the antient 
 
 12 ar * " and gentile familie of the Grevills of Warwickshire, was 
 
 Mar. 30. b 
 
 condemned at Oxford assize, for robbing on the high way, 
 and killing, as 'twas said, a man. 
 
 Apr. 1. A. W. his two brothers and mother sealed a lease of 
 
 21 yeares to Joh. Willgoose, taylor, of a tenement in S. 
 Martin's parish, in the Bocherew. It is an appertenent 
 of the Flower de Luce. 
 
 Apr. 10. He was with D r . Conant, rector of Exeter coll. and 
 vice-chancellour of the universitie, to obtaine his leave to 
 see the universitie registers and writings, in order to the 
 drawing up a discourse of the antiquitie of the universitie. 
 He looked upon him as a yong man, and not able to doe 
 such a matter : and A. W. took him to be a man, that did 
 not understand the nature of such a question, being either 
 surpriz'd with the suddainess or novelty of it, or that he 
 did not understand that studie, as really he did not. So 
 nothing being done, they parted. 
 
 May 10. May 10 (Thursday) gave to D r . Hen. Savage, the master 
 
 of Balliol coll. the collection which he made of the lives of 
 all the worthies of that coll. from Jo. Leland, Bale and 
 Pits. Also the opinions of several authors concerning 
 the founder and foundation of that coll. and certaine ob- 
 servations of the name of Balliol, which he had collected 
 from several histories and chronicles. These things D r . 
 Hen. Savage made use of, when he was compiling his 
 book called, Balliofergus : or a Commentarie upon the 
 Foundation, Founders and Affaires of Balliol Coll. Oxon. 
 1668. qu. 
 
l66o.] LIFE OF WOOD. 105 
 
 He perused the MSS. in the archives of Corp. Chr. May 14. 
 coll. and found several matters there material for his use. &c " 
 
 There was a most excellent musick-lecture of the prac- May 24. 
 tick part in the public school of that facultie, where A. W. 
 performed a part on the violin. There were also voices, 
 and by the direction of Edw. Low, organist of Ch. Church, 
 who was then the deputy professor for D r . Wilson, all 
 things were carried very well, and gave great content to the 
 most numerous auditory. This meeting was to congratulate 
 his majesties safe arrival to his kingdomes. The school 
 was exceeding full, and the gallery at the end of the school 
 was full of the female sex. After all was concluded, Mr. 
 Low and some of the performers, besides others that did 
 not performe, retired to the Crowne taverne, where they 
 dranke a health to the king, the two dukes, Monke, &c. 
 Of the number of performers, that were there present, 
 were Sylv. Taylour of Alls. coll. Chr. Harrison of -Queen's 
 coll. Franc. Parry of C. C. coll. A. Wood, &c. besides 
 some masters of musick. There were also with them Will. 
 Levinz of S. John's coll. Thorn. Gourney and Jack Glen- 
 dall of Brasnose, (the last of which Mr. Low took with 
 him to make the company sport, he being a witty and 
 boon companion,) Joh. Hill, fellow of Alls. coll. Esay 
 Ward of Ch. Ch. Hen. Flower of Wadham coll. &c. 
 These were not performers, only the last. There were 
 others, but their names I have forgot. 
 
 The day of restoration of K. Ch. 2. observed in all or 29. 
 most places in England, particularly at Oxon. which did 
 exceed any place of it's bigness. Many from all parts 
 nocked to London to see his entrie, but A. W. was not 
 there, but at Oxon. where the jollity of the day continued 
 till next morning. The world of England was perfectly 
 mad. They were freed from the chaines of darkness and 
 confusion, which the presbytcrians and phanatics had 
 
106 LIFE OF WOOD. [1660. 
 
 brought upon them ; yet some of them seeing then what 
 mischief they had done, tack'd about to participate of the 
 universal joy, and at length closed with the royal partie. 
 
 Jun. 8. A w began to peruse the MSS. in Ball. coll. libr. and 
 
 afterwards at leisure times he perused the MSS. in other 
 college libraries. f 
 l8 « The uncle by the mother's side of A. W. named Har- 
 
 court Pettie, Mr. of A. and sometimes of (xloc. hall, s died 
 at Bister in Oxfordshire, after he had spent a fair estate 
 left to him by his father Bob. Pettie, gent, which estate 
 was the mannour of Wiveold or Wyfald between Henley 
 and Beading, and a larg farme at Cotsford neare Bister 
 before mentioned. He was buried in Bister church. 
 
 June. i n the latter end of June the antique marbles, which 
 
 the great Selden had left to the university, were set up in 
 the wall, h which parts the area lying before the convoca- 
 tion-house dore and canditch. But when the wall was 
 puFd downe, to make room for the theater, the marbles 
 were laid aside for the present. Afterwards when the 
 theater was built, they were set up on the wall that en- 
 compasses it. Each of them hath the letter S, engraven 
 or painted, to distinguish them from Howard's, which 
 have an H. on them. 
 
 Jul. 18. ]X Edw. Beynolds, late deane of Ch. Ch. was elected 
 
 warden of Merton coll. by vertue of the king's letters sent 
 thereunto, dat. Jul. 7. 
 19- At Meysey-Hampton in Glocestershire to visit his kins- 
 
 man Hen. Jackson, bach, of div. and rector of that towne. 
 
 f See Wood's MSS. in mus. clensing and polishing y e white 
 
 Ashm. 8490. W. & H. Greeke Marble Antiquities given 
 
 £ [He was matriculated of Cor- by Mr. Selden : and for setting 
 
 pus Oct. 30. 1607, set. 16, with them up in y e wall over against 
 
 his brother Francis Pettie set. 14. y e Divinity schoole goeing towards 
 
 Reg. Matric. P.] the convocation house, 09. 06. 06. 
 
 h [Item to Mr. Jackson for Univ. Accounts, 1660, 1.] 
 
i66o.] LIFE OF WOOD. 107 
 
 He heard from him many stories of his contemporaries in 
 Corp. Ch. coll. 
 
 At Fairford neare Meysey-Hampton, where Mr. Will. ? °- 
 Oldsworth, the impropriator, did with great curtesie shew 
 him the beautiful church there, and the most curious 
 paynted windows, set up in the raigne of K. Hen. 7. The 
 said church S r . Edmund Thame, Kt. (who died 1534 ^ did 
 finish, having been begun by his father Joh. Thame, esq;, 
 who died an. 1500. It may compare with any country 
 church in England for it's admirable structure. It is built 
 cathedral wise, and hath a stately tower standing in the 
 midst of it, adorned with pinacles, and sculptures of men's 
 faces and armes. The church is also adorned with pinacles, 
 and hath a fair roof: and in it is an organ loft, where 
 hath been a tunable set of organs. The windows consist 
 of several scripture stories, verie well painted considering 
 the time when done: and the excellency of them is described 
 in a copie of verses in a book, called University Poems. J 
 
 D r . Joh. Wallis, the keeper of the universitie registers, 5 o. 
 muniments, writings, k of the said universitie, did put into 
 the hands of A. Wood the keys of the school-tower, and 
 the key of the room where the said registers &c. are 
 reposed, to the end that he might advance his esurient 
 genie in antiquities, especially in those of the said univer- 
 sitie. This was done at the request of D r . Ralph Bathurst, 
 and on purpose to promote his generous designe. Here 
 he layd the foundation of that book, which was 14 yeares 
 after published, viz. Hist. etAntiq. Univ. Oxon. He was so 
 exceedingly delighted with the place and the choice records 
 therein, and did take so much paynes for carrying on the 
 work, least the keys should be taken away from him, that 
 
 1 See the lid. vol. of Leland's by Abraham Wright, pr. Lond. 
 Itin. p. 18. Hearne. 1656. 8°. pp. 81, 84.] 
 
 3 [Parnassus Biceps, collected k Sic. Hearne. 
 
108 LIFE OF WOOD. [1660. 
 
 a great alteration was made in him. About 2 months 
 after his entrance into the said tower, his acquaintance 
 took notice of the falling away of his cheeks, the chang of 
 the redness in them to white, &c. Yet he was very cheer- 
 ful], 1 contended and healthfull, and nothing troubled him 
 more than the intermission of his labours by eating, drink- 
 ing, sleeping, and somtimes by company which he could 
 not avoid. Afterwards Dr. Wallis seeing his diligence, he 
 told him, that he might carry home with him such books 
 and writings that he wanted, which he did. 
 
 Oct. 4. He was with D r . Savage of Balliol coll. and he told him, 
 
 that he should peruse his collection which he had made of 
 the said coll. within a quarter of an yeare after, when then 
 he should have finished m them. 
 8. Joh. Glendall, Mr. of arts and fellow of Brasn. coll. 
 
 died, and was buried at the upper end of S. Marie's chan- 
 cell in Oxon. He was a minister's son of Cheshire, had 
 been the witty Terrmfilms of the universitie in 1655, at 
 which time the acts were kept in S. Marie's church. His 
 company was often desired by ingenious men, and there- 
 fore thrown out at a reckoning. He was a great mimick, 
 and acted well in several playes, which the scholars before 
 acted by stealth, either in the stone house behind and 
 southward from Pembroke coll. or in Kettle hall, or at 
 Halywell mill, or in the refectory at Glocester hall. A.W. 
 was well acquainted with him, and delighted in his company. 
 
 Feb. 1 1. Charnell Pettie, esq ;. somtimes high sheriff of Oxfordsh. 
 
 and kinsman to A, W. died at Stoke-Lyne near Bister in 
 the house of his grandson Ralph Holt, esq;. He was 
 buried in the church there. 
 14. D r . E. Reynolds n resigned his wardenship of Merton 
 
 coll. having been lately promoted to the see of Norwich. 
 
 ^.contented. Hearne. n See the Biograph. Brit. Art. 
 
 m Sic. Hearne. South, p. 3764. D. W. & H. 
 
i66o.] LIFE OF WOOD. 109 
 
 The fellowes of Merton coll. proceeded to the election Mar. 5. 
 of a new warden, according to a citation that had before 
 been stuck up ; but they supposing, not without good 
 ground, that D r . Tho. Jones, one of their society, would 
 act foul play in the election, (having been encouraged so 
 to doe by D r . Tho. Barlow, provost of Queen's coll. viz. 
 that he should name D r . Thorn. Clayton a stranger, and 
 so make a devolution) the fellowes proposed to Mr. Alex. 
 Fisher the subwarden, that they might exclude him from 
 voting for that time, and assigne another fellow in his 
 place, according as the statutes of the college enabled him 
 in that point. But Mr. Fisher being of a timorous spirit, 
 and looking upon it as an innovation, denied their request, 
 so that D r . Jones remaining one of the 7 electors, Mr. 
 Joseph Harvey and Mr. Nath. Sterry, two of the said 
 seaven, did desert them out of discontent, and the two 
 next fellowes were called up into their places. So that 
 the said 7 fellowes going to election in the public hall, all 
 the said 7 seniors, except Jones, did unanimously name 
 three persons according to statute, viz. S r . Rich. Browne, 
 somtimes fellow, now one of the clerks of the king's privie 
 councill, Mr. A. Fisher, and D r . Rich. Lydall a physitian, 
 somtimes fellow; but Jones named ° S r . Rich. Browne, 
 D r . Tho. Clayton, the king's professor of physick in the 
 university, somtimes fellow of Pembr. coll. and D r . Priaulx, 
 somtimes fellow of Merton. This being done, and the 
 election devolved to Dr. Juxon, archbishop of Canterbury, 
 who is the visitor or patron of the coll. Clayton and Jones 
 immediately went to London, to act in their business, and 
 by their friend's endeavours to get the said archb. to con- 
 tinue Clayton. D r . Barlow by these his underhand and 
 false doings gained the ill will of the society of Merton 
 
 See Aubrey's Antiq. of Surrey, vol. 4. p. 117. 137. W. & H. 
 
13 Car. II 
 Mar. 26. 
 
 110 LIFE OF WOOD. [l6~6l. 
 
 coll. who stuck not [to] say, and that with concernment, 
 that he was a most false, bnsie and pragmatical person. 
 Mar. 18. j)r. Wallis sent for A. W. to com to him, then in the 
 muniment-room in the school tower. He desir'd him, to 
 give his assisting hand to the drawing up of some things 
 that he was then about, against his going to London, to 
 prosecute the business then in being against the citizens 
 of Oxon. A. W. was there five dayes in assisting D r . 
 Wallis, and wrot about 7 or 8 sheets concerning the 
 brewers, inholders, bakers, alehouses, taverns, maultsters, 
 &c. viz. of the incorporating them, and of other matters 
 concerning them. The universitie gave content to M r . 
 Wood for his labour. 
 1 66 1. D r . Clayton obtained his instruments in parchment 
 from archb. Juxon, to be warden of Merton coll. This 
 was done by the perpetual solicitations of S r . Ch. Cotterell, 
 which was troublesome to the archbishop, even so much, 
 that he was in a manner forest to it for quietness sake. 
 The next day S r . Charles procured his brother in law D r . 
 Clayton to have the honour of knighthood confer'd upon 
 him. 
 3°- S r . Tho. Clayton coming to Oxon. in a stage-coach, 
 
 some of his neighbours of S. Aldate's parish went on hors- 
 back to meet him, as - - - Kirby clerk of the parish, 
 Tho. Haselwood his barber, -------his shoemaker, 
 
 Turner the cook of Pembroke coll. Will. Collier the butler 
 of the same coll. - - - Wilcocks a barber living in S. 
 Michael's parish, Anth. Haselwood a book-seller of S. 
 Marie's parish, and other rabble, besides 4 or 5 scholars 
 of his kindred. These I say meeting him about Shotover, 
 S r . Thomas, either ashamed of their company, or for some 
 other reason best knowne to himself, desired them to 
 disperse, and not to accompany him by his coach-side, 
 which they did accordingly, and afterwards came scatter- 
 
1 66 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. Ill 
 
 edly into Oxon. a quarter of an hour before the coach 
 came in. 
 
 Sunday, there was a sacrament and ordination of minis- 31. 
 ters made in the cath. ch. of Ch. Ch. by D r . Rob. Skinner, 
 bishop of Oxon. Savil Bradley, M. A. fellow of New coll. Savil Brad- 
 (and afterwards fellow of that of Magd.) was one of 
 the persons, that was to have holy orders confer' d on him; 
 but he having been used to eat breakfasts, and drink 
 morning draughts, being not able to hold out with fasting, 
 was troubled so much with wind in his stomach, that 
 he fell in a sowne, and disturbed for a time the ceremony. 
 At length some cordial being procured, it set him up 
 againe ; yet he could hardly keep himself from a second 
 sowning. 
 
 Further also, D r . Barton Holyday, archdeacon of Oxon. 
 being there as an assistant to the bishop and to give the 
 sacrament, it so hapned just before he was to give it, the 
 canopy over the communion table (which had been put up 
 there, when the choire was wainscoted about 1633) fell 
 downe upon the vessells, and spilt the wine, and tumbled 
 the bread about. This was a great disturbance to the 
 ceremony, and many wondred at it. Afterwards when all 
 things were put in order, D r . Holyday took the bole of 
 wine in his hand, and going downe the steps to administer, 
 it fell downe, and hurt his face. So D r . Thorn. Lamplugh 
 of Qvl. coll. who was there, was faine to omciat in his 
 place. All these accidents hapning together, did cause much 
 discourse in the universitie and city ; and the phanaticks 
 being ready to catch at any thing, that seemed evill, made 
 a foule story of it, as if it had been a judgment that had 
 befallen the loyal clergy. 
 
 Munday in the morn. S r . Tho. Clayton sent his man to Apr. 1. 
 the bible-clerks of Merton coll. to tell them, that P their 
 p Sic, cum punctis. Hearne. 
 
112 LIFE OF WOOD. [1661. 
 
 master would speak with them : whereupon the clerks 
 immediately went to Mr. Fisher the sub -warden, and asked 
 him, what they had best to doe, whether to go to him, or 
 not ? He told them, he would not bid them goe, or [not] 
 goe. So they went to S r . Thomas, who told them, that 
 they were to returne to their coll. and warne all the fel- 
 lowes thereof, to meet him in the public hall of Merton 
 coll. between 9 and 10 of the clock that morning. Ac- 
 cordingly they returned and did their errand : whereupon 
 when it drew towards nine of the clock, the fellowes, com- 
 manded the butler, to go out of the buttery, and to deliver 
 up the key to them. Which being done, the juniors who 
 were at breakfast in [the] hall were put out, and the dores 
 thereof were barred up within side. Afterwards they went 
 into the buttery, bolted the dore thereof within, and then 
 they conveyed themselves thro the cellar dore next to the 
 treasury- vault, locked it, and one of them put the key into 
 his pocket. The fellowes by this time expecting the com- 
 ming of S r . Tho. Clayton, they retired to the chamber of 
 Mr. Rob. Cripps, which is over the common gate, to the 
 end that they might see towards Corpus Christi coll. when 
 S r . Thomas came. The bachelaur fellows also retired to 
 the chamber of Georg Roberts, one of their number, over 
 that of Mr. Cripps, for the same purpose. 
 
 About 10 of the clock in the morning came S r . Tho. 
 Clayton, with the vice-chancellour and his beadles, D r . 
 R. Skinner, bishop of Oxon. D r . Mich. Woodward warden 
 of New college, D r . Tho. Yates principal of Brasnose coll. 
 D'. Walt. Blanford warden of Wadham coll. D<\ Jo. Fell 
 deane of Ch. Church, D r . Rich. Allestrie and D r . Jo. Dol- 
 ben canons, Mr. Joh. Houghton sen. fellow of Brasn. coll. 
 and many others. All which (some of whome were of the 
 number of visitors or commissioners, appointed by the 
 king to visit the universitie an. 1660.) met the said D r . 
 
1 66 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. 113 
 
 Clayton in the lodgings of D r . Yate at Brasnose, and came 
 thence by Oriel coll. to Merton. 
 
 At their appearance neare Corp. Chr. coll. gate, the 
 fellowes and bachelaurs came downe from the aforesaid 
 chambers, and ranked themselves in the gatehouse next 
 to the street. The fellowes names were these, viz. Bog. 
 Brent, Edm. Dickenson, Joseph Harvey, Pet. Nicolls, 
 Bob. Cripps, Nath. Sterry, Hen. Hurst and Bob. White- 
 hall. The bachelaur fellowes were these, viz. Georg. Bo- 
 berts, Edw. Jones, Bich. Franklin, Jam. Workman, Bob. 
 Huntingdon, Edw. Turnerand, Joh. Powell. All these 
 had not long stood in the gatehouse, but S r . Tho. Clayton 
 and his company came in at the wicket (for the common 
 gates were not set open) and going straight forward to- 
 wards the hall (he putting off his hat to the fellowes as he 
 passed by) D r . Edm. Dickenson, one of the fellowes, went 
 after him, pluckt him by the sleeve, and said, ' S r . Thomas, 
 the gatehouse is the usual place of reception/ When he 
 heard this, he beckned to the vicechancellour and the 
 bishop, and told them ' they were to be received at the 
 gate/ Upon this they returned back, and all stood in 
 the gatehouse, and when they were all placed, S r . Thomas 
 asked, where Mr. Fisher the subwarden was ? Mr. Brent, 
 the senior fellow, answered : ' S r . Mr. subwarden keeps * * He made 
 
 ,.,, -...,. , p-i-t i choice of 
 
 his chamber, and is in his usual course oi physick, so that this time 
 he hath appointed me at this time his deputy/ Then S r . ^^ ly 
 Thomas replyed, that c he came for admission and posses- this en - 
 
 r J ' r counter, 
 
 sion of the wardenship of Merton coll/ Mr. Brent there- because his 
 upon asked him, ( where was his instrument or authority spirit could 
 for it?' Then S r . Thomas calling his man, produced two not under - 
 black boxes, and in them two instruments, both with the 
 archbishop's seale to them, and putting them into the 
 hands of Mr. John Holloway, a covetuous civilian and pub- 
 lic notary, (father to Bich. Holloway, a counsellour, and 
 
 WOOD, VOL. I. I 
 
114 LIFE OF WOOD. [l66l. 
 
 afterwards in the time of K. Jam. 2. a judge) lie read them 
 both uncover' d with a loud voice before the company, and 
 many others, from other colleges, that by this time were 
 gathered together, to see the effect of the matter, being 
 all exceeding wrath against the unreasonable proceedings 
 q against Clayton, by snatching the bread out of other 
 folkes mouthes. 
 
 After the instruments were read, Mr. Brent desired 
 them, before they went any farther, to read a paper, 
 which he had in his hand, containing a protestation in the 
 name of all the fellowes, under a public notarie's hand, 
 against the admission of S r . Tho. Clayton to the warden- 
 ship of Merton coll. 
 
 After Mr. Brent had read the paper, Mr. Holloway 
 asked him, ' where was their inhibition ?' (meaning an in- 
 hibition from some court, to stop S r . Thomas's proceed- 
 ings) at which Mr. Brent made a stop, and looking wistly 
 upon the fellowes, they all replyed, ' they need no inhibi- 
 tion, till they found grievance, and that the public nota- 
 ries hand was sufficient for that time/ Then replyed 
 Holloway, ' your protestation is invalid and worth nothing, 
 and therefore they would proceed/ Then Holloway, ac- 
 cording to the forme, required of them admission primo, 
 secundo, tertio : which the fellowes did all coragiously 
 denie, and so immediately withdrew themselves, and went 
 to their chambers. 
 
 After this S r . Thomas asked, ' where the clerks were ?* 
 The clerks thereupon appeared. He bad them call D r . 
 Tho. Jones. D r . Jones was thereupon called, and came 
 forthwith to him in the gatehouse. After some whisper- 
 ing passed between them, they drew down to the warden's 
 lodgings, and finding the dores fast shut, Holloway read 
 
 1 F. of. Hearne. 
 
l66l.] LIFE OF WOOD. 115 
 
 the instruments againe bareheaded at the dore or gate 
 leading into the said lodgings. "Which being done, S r . 
 Thomas asked D r . Jones, ' where the keys of the lodgings 
 were?' he said, 'the subwarden had them/ Then S r . 
 Thomas desired Samuel Clerk, the superior beadle of law, 
 to go to the sub war den, and demand of him the keys. 
 Mr. Clerk thereupon asked him, ( whether he should goe 
 in the vicechancellour's name, or in his name?' S r . Tho. 
 replyed, 'in the archbishop's and king's commissioners 
 names.' Clerk thereupon went, and soon after brought 
 this answer, that ' there were two keyes of the warden's 
 lodgings, one that belonged to the warden, which he (the 
 subwarden) had, the other to the senior deane, which D r . 
 Jones had lately, but when he went up to London they 
 took it from him, which is now layd up in the exchequer. 
 As for the key which he hath, he saith, he will not deliver 
 it up but to the warden when he is admitted.' 
 
 After S r . Thomas had received this answer, he sent for 
 Mr. Brent the deputy sub-warden, and then Holloway 
 asked him againe primo, secundo, tertio, for possession, 
 but Mr. Brent denied it. Then Holloway bid S r . Thomas 
 lay his hand upon the latch of the dore, leading into the 
 warden's lodgings, which he did. Afterwards D r . Jones 
 whisper'd S r . Thomas in the eare, and then they went to 
 the coll. chappel. In the way D r . Dickenson, who had 
 more than once protested against what had been done at 
 the warden's dore, drew up to S r . Thomas, and told him, 
 that ' what he and other fellowes had done at that time, 
 was not in contempt of him or his person, but to save 
 their oaths and not break the statutes, &c.' but his words 
 were heard with scorne by S r . Thomas, and so Dickenson 
 left him. 
 
 S r . Thomas being entred with all his company (except 
 Fell, Dolbin and Allestrie, who ran home to prayers as 
 
 i2 
 
116 LIFE OF WOOD. [ I 66 I . 
 
 soon as the instruments were read at the gate) into the 
 chappell thro the south dore, the said instruments were 
 read againe neare the warden's seat. Which being done, 
 Jones took S r . Thomas by the hand, and lifted him up 
 into the warden's seat, and said, that he as one of the 
 senior fellows, did install him, or give him possession as 
 or words to warden. Afterwards rising from his seat, Jones took him 
 ' by the hand, and repeated the induction or admission, as 
 Holloway read it verbatim to him. After this was done, 
 they all went out of the chappell the same way as they 
 came in, and so retired to their respective homes. 
 
 The key of the chappell they got thus. Robert Han- 
 ham, under-butler and grome of Merton coll. having been 
 employed by the society, to carry letters to London to 
 hinder S r . Thomas from comming in warden of Merton 
 college, did, that night on which S r . Thomas came from 
 London, go to his house in S. Aldate's parish, opposite to 
 the Bull inn, and humbly desired of him forgiveness for 
 what he had done ; which S r . Thomas easily granted : 
 Hanham laid downe before him the key of the college 
 stable : whereupon D r . Jones, who was then there con- 
 sulting with S r . Thomas what was to be done on Munday 
 morn, following, when he was to crave admission, took it 
 up, and told S r . Thomas privately, that ' that key would 
 open the chappel dore, in case he should be denied en- 
 trance therein/ Whereupon D r . Jones kept it, and made 
 use of it when the warden S r . Thomas went to take pos- 
 session of his place, as before 'tis told you. 
 
 Afterwards the fellows used all the endeavours they 
 could to hinder his admission and comming in among 
 them, but all, it seems, was in vaine. The next Munday 
 following, S r . Thomas sent word to the college, that he 
 would come in by force. Whereupon the fellows meet- 
 ing together, caused all the college gates to be shut both 
 
l66l.] LIFE OF WOOD. 117 
 
 forward and backward, and so they kept them a fortnight 
 or 3 weeks, and caused some of the bachelaurs to ' keep 
 possession of the warden's lodgings. At len[g]th the 
 appeale of the fellowes being stopt, and r that no justice 
 could be done for them, nor have right nor law for their 
 money, they concluded, by the continual intercessions of 
 timorous Fisher, to admit him. 
 
 Friday, S r . Thomas, with the vicechancellour, some of May 3. 
 the king's commissioners, and certaine heads of colleges, 
 came a little before 10 of the clock in the morning, and the 
 college gates being set wide open, and the fellowes in the 
 gate-house, Mr. Fisher the subwarden did there formally, 
 according to the manner and statutes, admit him : which 
 being done they all went to the warden's lodgings, and 
 gave him possession : which being done also, they went 
 up into the dining rome, and there had a short banquet at 
 the college charg. Which being all done by 3 quarters 
 past ten, the fellowes went to the let any. 
 
 After S r . Thomas was admitted at the publick gate, he 
 spake a speech according to the custome : the effect of 
 which is registred. But whatsoever was acted in this 
 matter, which is at larg here set downe, is not, nor would 
 he suffer any thing of it to be, registred ; which is the 
 reason that it is here committed to memory by A. W. who 
 was present s throut all the transactions of the said affaire, 
 and wrot all the particulars downe, immediatly after they 
 were acted. 
 
 While these things were in doing, all the university and 
 city were much concerned at them, as several people els- 
 where were. All seniors, that had known what Tho. 
 Clayton had been, did look upon him, as the most impu- 
 dent fellow in nature, to adventure upon such a place, 
 r Sic. Hearne. s Sic. Hearne. 
 
118 LIFE OF WOOD. [l66 
 
 I. 
 
 (the wardenship of Merton coll.) that had been held by 
 eminent persons. They knew him well to have been a most 
 impndent and rnde fellow. They knew him to have been 
 the very lol-poop of the university, the common subject 
 of every lampoon that was made in the said university, 
 and a fellow of little or no religion, only for forme-sake. 
 They knew also, that he had been a most lascivious per- 
 son, a great haunter of women's company and a common 
 fornicator. Also, that he had sided with the times after 
 the grand rebellion broke out in 1642, by taking the cove- 
 nant, submitting to the visitors in 1648, by taking the 
 engagement, and afterwards the oaths to be true and 
 faithful to prince Oliver and prince Richard, otherwise he 
 could never have kept his professorship of physick in the 
 universitie, as he did, from 1647 to his majestie's (K. 
 Ch. 2) restoration and after. In fine, all people were 
 strangly surprised and amased, to behold such unworthy 
 things done after his majestie's restoration, when then 
 they thought that nothing but justice should have taken 
 place, and royallists prefer'd. But as I have told you 
 before, D r . Juxon, arcb. of Canterbury, being overpres'd 
 by S r . Ch. Cotterel, and weary of his solicitations in be- 
 half of Clayton, he sealed his instruments, without any 
 more adoe, for quietness sake, he himself being a very 
 quiet man, tho he knew well what Clayton had been. The 
 fellows of Merton coll. did usually say, in the hearing of 
 A. W. that as the college was dissolved in the time of the 
 grand rebellion, so 'twas no matter to them, if it was dis- 
 solved againe, rather than Tom Clayton should be warden 
 thereof. 
 
 Now let's proceed. All these things being done, I think 
 it fit at this time, that wee should take into consideration 
 the author of all this mischief, (Tho. Jones) and then what 
 
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 mischief befell the college, in having a stranger so unrea- 
 sonably thrust upon them. 
 
 D r . Tho. Jones therefore being thought the fittest in- 
 strument for Clayton to compass his designes, and espe- 
 cially for this reason, that he was ambitious, discontented, 
 covetous and destitute of preferment, told him, that if he 
 would dissent from the fellows, and name him with the 
 rest to be warden, he would endeavour by all meanes ima- 
 ginable to requite him for it, either by gratuity, prefer- 
 ment or other wayes. This was seconded by Th. Barlow 
 of Queen's, who had first began to be tampering with him 
 and draw him on in this piece of roguery. He (Clayton 1 ) 
 told Jones, that he could easily prefer him thro the endea- 
 vours of his brother in law S r . Charles Cotterel, Mr. of 
 the ceremonies : and if that took no effect, he would after 
 some yeares resigne his wardenship, and by friends get 
 him to succeed him. 
 
 With these pitiful promises, invitations to his house, 
 dinners, treats, fair words, flatteries, and I know not what, 
 Jones promised to be faithfull to him in his knavery, and 
 so he was, as 'tis before told you. But when Clayton 
 was setled in his place, and Jones fully saw, that he neg- 
 lected him, and made him only a shoinghorne (for the 
 truth is Clayton was false, mealie mouth' d and poore 
 spirited) and that also the fellows and others of the junior 
 party did despise him, and look'd upon him as an errant 
 knave, he in great discontent retir'd, kept his chamber, 
 and never came into the company of any person in the 
 
 ' Sir Thomas Clayton was the again under the year 1687, as 
 
 son of Dr. Thomas Clayton, re- well as the Fasti under the 
 
 gius professor of physic, in which years 161 1 and 1639 ; and Ward's 
 
 place he succeeded him. See Lives of the Gresham Professors, 
 
 Athene in the account of Dr. p. 208. W. & H. 
 Case under the year 1599, and 
 
120 LIFE OF WOOD. [l66 
 
 I. 
 
 coll. or out of the coll. so that soon after being possest 
 with a deep melancholy, which his strength and reason 
 could not weare away, without charg to himself; he fell, as 
 'twere, downe right mad, not raving, but idle and frantick, 
 as it appeares by these passages. (1) By his walking on 
 the mount in the college garden, very betimes in a morn- 
 ing, at which time he fancied birds to nutter about his 
 head, and therefore he would be waving his armes and hat 
 to keep them off. (2) By going oftentimes very unsea- 
 sonably to the warden's lodgings, and there court and 
 embrace one M ris . - - - Wood, asking her at the same 
 time, whether the lord chancellour (Hyde) was not then 
 behind the hangings ? (3) By going once, if not twice, 
 betimes in the morning to the chamber of Mr. Pet. 
 Nicolls, one of the fellows, to get him to go with him 
 to take possession of the warden's lodgings, fan[c]ying 
 himself to be warden. (4) By walking often in the war- 
 den's gallery, supposing himself to be warden, &c. with 
 many other ridiculous matters not now to be named; 
 which shew, that the man wanted sleep, and that he was 
 blinded with ambition and covetuousness. 
 
 At length, upon some perswasion, he went to London 
 an. 1662-3. or thereabouts, and by the favour of some 
 people (of whom Arnold a civilian and college tenant was 
 one) he got a chamber in Doctors Commons, endeavour- 
 ing to get practice there among the civilians. But at length 
 being found to be craz'd, had little or no employment. 
 Afterwards taking a lodging in great Woodstreet in that 
 city, remained there in great discontent till the great 
 plague raged, and then by the just hand of God being 
 overtaken by that disease, he was cut off from the living 
 in the latter end of Sept. or beginning of Octob. an. 1665, 
 being a just reward for a knave and a rogue. 
 
 Now for the mischief that befel Mert. coll. by having 
 
l66l.] LIFE OF WOOD. 121 
 
 a married stranger thrust upon them, will appeare by that 
 which followes. But before I proceed to the particulars, 
 I must tell you, that Clayton being fully possest at his 
 first comming in warden, that the fellows were all his ene- 
 mies, and that they endeavored to conceale the college- 
 treasure from him, and not let him know the worth of his 
 place, as it was often buz'd into his head by his flatterers 
 (among whome D r . Th. Barlow must not be forgotten, 
 D r . Jones also, and another of inferior note named John 
 Haselwood, a proud, starched, formal and sycophantizing 
 clisterpipe, who was the apothecary to Clayton when he 
 practiced physick) he took all occasions imaginable to lay 
 out money, spend and imbezile, and this forsooth was 
 done upon the information of those persons, that whatso- 
 ever the warden disburses for his owne use, the college 
 must defray. 
 
 First therefore, he and his family, most of them women- 
 kind (which before were looked upon, if resident in the 
 college, a scandall and an abomination thereunto) beeing 
 no sooner setled, but a great dislike was taken by the lady 
 Clayton to the warden's standing goods, namely chaires, 
 stooles, tables, chimney-furniture, the furniture belonging 
 to the kitchin, scullery, &c. all which was well liked by 
 D r . Goddard, Brent, Savile, &c. These, I say, being dis- 
 liked by that proud woman, because, forsooth, the said 
 goods were out of fashion, must be all changed and altered 
 to the great expence of the college. 
 
 Secondly, the warden's garden must be alter' d, new 
 trees planted, arbours made, rootes of choice flowers Rootes of 
 bought, &c. All which tho unnecessary, yet the poore which cost 
 coll. must pay for them, and all this to please a woman. s S ^ L a 
 Not content with these matters, there must be a new 
 summer-house built at the south-end of the warden's 
 garden, wherein her ladyship and her gossips may take 
 
122 LIFE OF WOOD. [l66l. 
 
 their pleasure, and any eves-dropper of the family may 
 harken what any of the fellows should accidentally talk of 
 in the passage to their owne garden. And tho the warden 
 (Clayton) told the society, that it would not cost the col- 
 lege above 20 11 . yet when it was finished there was an 
 100 11 . paid for it by the bursar, wanting some few shil- 
 lings. This work was thought unnecessary by many per- 
 sons, because it joyned almost to the long gallery, the larg 
 bay-window whereof at it's south-end affords a better pro- 
 spect, than that of the summer-house. 
 
 Thirdly, by enlarging the expences in the stable much 
 more than any of his predecessors. For tho S r . Nath 
 Brent did keep four coach-horses, yet he was often absent. 
 But sir Thomas tho he be often absent, yet two of his 
 coach-horses (besides saddle-nags) were alwaies in the sta- 
 ble. Farther also, whereas the former wardens would take 
 but ten or twelve load of hay out of Halywell meads (which 
 belong to the coll. and are in the tenure of a tenant) yet 
 this doughty knight did take up 34 load at least. And tho 
 he used it not half, yet at the yeare's end he did, like a 
 curr-mudgin, sell it, and put the money in his purse. 
 
 Fourthly, by burdning his accompts with frivolous ex- 
 pences, to pleasure his proud lady, as (1) For a key to the 
 lock of the ladies seat in St. Marie's church, to which she 
 would commonly resort. (2) For shoes and other things 
 for the foot-boy. 
 
 Fiftly, by burning in one yeare threescore pounds 
 worth of the choicest billet that could be had, not only in 
 all his roomes, but in the kitchin among his servants; 
 without any regard had to cole, which usually (to save 
 charges) is burnt in kitchins, and somtimes also in parlours. 
 
 Sixthly, by encroaching upon, and taking away the 
 rooms belonging to the fellows. One instance take for 
 all. Mr. Fisher quitted his lodgings (viz. an upper cham- 
 
l66l.] LIFE OF WOOD. 123 
 
 ber with 3 studies, and a lower chamber with as many, in 
 the great quadrangle) in July an. 1665, upon notice that 
 the king and queen would shortly come to Oxon. there to 
 take up their winter-quarters till towards the spring. 
 When the K. and Qu. came which was about Michaelmas 
 following, M ris . Franc. Stuart, one of the maids of honour 
 (afterwards duchess of Richmond) took possession of those 
 lodgings, and there continued till Febr. following ; at 
 which time the queen, who lodged in the warden's lodg- 
 ings, went to Westminster, and M ris . Stuart with her, 
 and then Mr. Fisher's lodgings laid empty for some time. 
 At length the warden finding, that the lower chambers of 
 the said lodgings were convenient for him, because they 
 joyned on the south side to his parlour, and therefore they 
 would make a dainty retiring room, or at least an inner 
 parlour, he did, by egregious flattery with some of the fel- 
 lowes, particularly with Mr. Sterry, by inviting him and 
 them often to his lodgings, get their consents so farr, as 
 when it was proposed at a meeting of the society, to have the 
 said rooms granted for his use, it was done conditionally, 
 that the lower chamber, joyning to the bay-tree, in the 
 first quadrangle, which did belong to the warden, may 
 henceforth be allowed to that fellow, which should here- 
 after come into that chamber over those lower rooms that 
 were allowed for the warden's use. This being granted, 
 the warden broke a dore thro the wall that parts his par- 
 lour from the said lower romes and makes them fit for 
 use, at his owne, and not at the college, charge ; and they 
 vet remaine for the warden's use : whereby the best lodsr- 
 
 a. * O 
 
 ings in the college, which usually belonged [to] the senior 
 fellow, were severed and spoyl'd ; and all this to please a 
 proud and silly woman. But afterwards when Mr. Sterry 
 saw, that he was made a shoing-horne to serve the war- 
 den's turne, (for afterwards he disus'd his company, and 
 
124 LIFE OF WOOD. [l66l. 
 
 never invited him to his lodgings as formerly, only at 
 Christmas, when the whole society used to dine there) he 
 became his enemy, repented of what he had done before 
 the society, and blamed his owne weakness much to be so 
 much imposed upon, as he had been, by the most false 
 and perfidious warden. 
 
 Sevently, by his going to law with the citie of Oxon. 
 concerning certaine liberties in Halywell neare the said 
 citie, (the mannour of which belongeth to Merton coll.) 
 an. 1666. For the doing of which tho, with much adoe, he 
 got the consent of the fellowes, yet going inconsideratly 
 on, and not taking the counsell of old Charles Holloway, 
 serjeant at law, the college was cast and much endamaged. 
 And A. W. doth well remember, that the citizens insulted 
 so much, when they overcame the coll. in their sute, 
 which was tried in Westminster hall, that in their returne 
 from London, the mayor, or chief officers of the city, did 
 ride into Oxon. triumphantly thro Halywell, to take, as it 
 were, possession of the liberties, that they had obtained 
 therein. And one - - - - Chilmead, as he remembers, 
 who had been one of the b el-men of the city, but then 
 living as an under tenant in Halywell, did in their pas- 
 sage present them with wine and ale, while the parish 
 bells rang for joy, occasioned, as 'twas supposed, by the 
 said Chilmead. 
 
 In all these unreasonable proceedings, Joseph Harvey, 
 one of the fellowes, did constantly oppose the warden, and 
 had there been more Harvey s (for he was a man of a high 
 and undaunted spirit) they would have curVd his pro- 
 ceedings so much, that they would have made him weary 
 of the place : but most of them (the fellowes) being sneak- 
 ing and obnoxious, they did run rather with the temper of 
 the warden, than stand against him, meerly to keep them- 
 selves in, and enjoy their comfortable importances. 
 
l66l.] LIFE OF WOOD. 125 
 
 And now by this time the college was ran exceedingly 
 into debt, and how to pay it the society knew not. At 
 length, upon consultation, the society addressed them- 
 selves to their patron, the archbishop of Canterbury 
 (Sheldon) an. 1671, before whom they made it plainly to 
 appear e, that, by the warden's meanes, the coll. was run 
 into debt, and that, by comparing his accompts with the 
 accompts of those of S r . Nath. Brent, he had spent a 
 thousand pound more than the said S r . Nathaniel, for the 
 yeares behind, since he had been warden, &c. The war- 
 den S r . Thomas is therefore chid and reprehended by the 
 archbishop ; which was all the remedy that they could get, 
 and an order was then made that the college should pay 
 the debt, and not the warden ; which was then look'd upon 
 as a most unreasonable thing. But there was falsness 
 in the matter ; for he that had for 7 yeares spoken against 
 the u wardin and his proceedings, and was an enemy to E. D, 
 him, the warden did, by his usual flatteries, gain him for 
 a time, collogued together, and worked their ends so 
 much, that they found means that the college should pay 
 the debt ; which being done, slighted him. x 
 
 In 1667 'twas expected there should be an election of 
 fellowes, but, upon pretence that the college was in debt, 
 
 u Sic. Hearne. he has pointed him out here. 
 
 x The reader may see an ac- It is possible that the Dr. when 
 
 count of Dr. Dikenson in the he found all opposition to be in 
 
 Biographia Brit, in the course of vain, might shew such personal 
 
 which this censure on his charac- civility to the warden, as, to a 
 
 ter is considered. But it is not man of Mr. a Wood's rigid per- 
 
 quite clear that the prejudices severance, appeared inconsistent 
 
 against the Dr. took their rise with his former professions and 
 
 from the increase of the fine paid behaviour. See Biograph. Brit. 
 
 by Mr. a Wood's family to Mer- vol. hi. p. 1696. [or vol. v. p. 
 
 ton coll. since he might have 175 of the edition by Kippis.] 
 
 treated the Dr. as freely under W. & H. 
 that article, in the yeare 1664, as 
 
126 LIFE OF WOOD. [l66l. 
 
 there was no election made till 1672. So the publick 
 suffered, and all people then said, that Merton coll. made 
 bnt an inconsiderable figure in the universities &c. 
 
 Notwithstanding all these things, yet the warden, by 
 the motion of his lady, did put the college to unnecessary 
 charges, and very frivolous expences, among which were a 
 very larg looking-glass, for her to see her ugly face, and 
 body to the middle, and perhaps lower, which was bought 
 in Hilary terme 1674, and cost, as the bursar told me, 
 about 10 1 '. A bedsteed and bedding worth 40 u . must also 
 be bought, because the former bedstede and bedding was 
 too short for him (he being a tall man) so perhaps when a 
 short warden comes, a short bed must be bought. As his 
 bed was too short, so the wicket of the common gate 
 entring into the coll. was too low, therefore that was made 
 higher in 1676, in the month of August. The said bursar 
 G. Roberts hath several times told me, that either he the 
 warden, or his lady do invent, and sit thinking how to put 
 the college to charge, to please themselves, and no end 
 there is to their unlimited desire. He told me also, that 
 there was no terrier taken of the goods he had, which 
 were bought at the college charg ; and therefore they did 
 carry many of them, especially the looking glass, to their 
 country seat, called The Vach, in Chalfont parish neare 
 Wycomb in Bucks, which S r . Tho. Clayton had bought of 
 the duke of York, who had received the said mannour 
 from the king, fallen unto him by the attainder of Georg 
 Fleetwood, esq;, one that sate in judgment on K. Ch. I. 
 Jun. 29. A. W. was at Sandfordy neare Oxon. in the house of 
 
 y Minchery and Sandford ; of A prospect of the Minchery is 
 
 these two religious houses see in the last mentioned work, p. 285. 
 
 Tanner's Notitia Monast. p. 424 The antique table there delineat- 
 
 &c. Leland' s Itinerary, vol. ii. and ed was, some years ago, removed 
 
 the preface to Hearne's History to the Manor house at Sandford; 
 
 of Glastonbury, p. xvi. where upon a late enquiry, no 
 
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 127 
 
 Joh. Powell, gent. 2 which was a house and preceptoiy 
 somtimes belonging to the Knights Templars. He took a 
 note of some armes in a bay-window in a low room there. 
 Thence he went to Littlemore, and neare it he found an 
 antient house, called Mincherie, or Minchionrea, that is, 
 the place of nunns, founded there of old time. But 
 nothing of the chappel or church is there standing. 
 
 remains of it were extant. W. 
 &H. 
 
 z [The Powells were a very an- 
 cient family long settled at, and 
 possessing the manor of, Sand- 
 ford; and the name will be re- 
 garded with the greater interest 
 from the certainty that it is the 
 same family with which Milton 
 afterwards became connected by 
 marriage; although the poet's 
 father in law lived, it is said, at 
 Forest hill. I suspect there were 
 two families, nearly connected, 
 but residing, the one at Sandford 
 the other at Forest hill. I find 
 in the Matriculation Register, 
 marked PP. the following entries; 
 the two latter brothers in law of 
 Milton :— 
 
 " 1628 Maij 23°. Aul. Alb. Gul. 
 Powell Oxon. fil. Edmundi Powell 
 de Sanford in com. p'd. gen. an. 
 nat. 12, 
 
 " 1636. Mar. 10. iEdes Christi. 
 Thomas Powell, Oxon. fil. i us . 
 Rich'i Powell de Fforest hill in 
 com. p'd. arm. an. nat. 14. 
 
 " 1640. Maiii8. Jacob. Powell, 
 Oxon. fil. Rich'i Powell de Fforest 
 hill in com. Oxon. arm. an. nat- 
 
 14." 
 
 There are in the Archives some 
 very curious inventories of plate 
 
 pledged to the university for ad- 
 vances of money, and among these 
 the following : — 
 
 " P'cells of Plate layed to gage 
 by Edmunde Powell of Sandforde 
 in the countie of Oxon. esquyer 
 17 Junii 1557. 
 
 " Ffyrste three guylte bolls and 
 one couer waying threescore and 
 four vnces, eu'ry vnce syxe shil- 
 lings. 
 
 " Itm a bason and a ewer syluer 
 and guylte a salte seller and a 
 couer guylte waying fourscore 
 two vnces, syxe shillings eu'ry 
 vnce. 
 
 "Itm halfe a dosen of spones 
 with thapostles at thendes, par- 
 cell guylte waying twelue vnces, 
 eu'ry vnce fyve shillings. 
 
 " Sum. totalis xlvj 11 . xvj s . 
 the wiche Som I the said Edmud 
 Powell haue rec'ud the yere and 
 daye aboue wrytten 
 
 "h me Edmud Powell." 
 
 This plate does not appear to 
 have been redeemed : for in a 
 computus made in 1576 of the 
 contents of the university chest, 
 we find 
 
 W. Chaberlaines plate xl 11 . 
 Edm. Powell's plate . . xlvj 11 . xvj s . 
 W. Stadish plate .... xviij 11 . 
 Rob. Lougher's plate . lvij 11 .] 
 
128 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [l66l. 
 
 Aug. 20. 
 
 Oct. 2. 
 See Oxford 
 ObitaL 
 
 He was at Thame, continued there one or more nights, 
 transcribed all the monumentall inscriptions in the church, 
 armes in the windowes, and the armes in the windowes of 
 the free-schoole a . 
 
 With D r . Jo. Fell, deane of Ch. Church, to have a 
 sight of the leiger books of S. Frideswide's priory, and 
 Einsham abbey. His answer was, that he would acquaint 
 the treasurer D r . Joh. Dolbin, which he did. Afterwards 
 A. W. went to D r . Dolbin, who told him, he would pro- 
 pose the matter at the next chapter. But the matter 
 being defer' d from time to time, nothing was done in it 
 this yeare b . 
 
 His fatherly acquaintance D r . Barton Holyday c , arch- 
 
 a See Wood, MSS. in mus. 
 Ashm. 8518 2. W. & H. 
 
 b The lives and characters of 
 Dr. Fell and Dr. Dolben are so 
 well known that little need be 
 said of either in this place. They 
 were both educated in Westmin- 
 ster school, and elected from 
 thence to Christ Church college. 
 They both took up arms for the 
 royal cause, during the civil com- 
 motions, and suffered for their 
 loyalty by being deprived of their 
 studentships. After the restora- 
 tion, they both met with the due 
 reward of their merit, the former 
 being advanced to the deanery of 
 Ch. Ch. and the bishoprick of 
 Oxford, the latter rising thro' 
 various preferments to the arch- 
 bishoprick of York. Both were 
 men of extensive literature, and of 
 noble and enlarged minds. The 
 former will be always remembered 
 in the university of Oxon. his 
 
 sphere of action, as an example of 
 industry and polite learning, of 
 true zeal for the church of Eng- 
 land, and as an encourager and 
 patron of the sciences and learned 
 men. For more minute particu- 
 lars, see the Ath. Oxon. under 
 the year 1686. W. & H. 
 
 c Barten Holiday, D.D. and 
 archdeacon of Oxford, died at 
 Eifley near Oxon. 2 Oct. between 
 7 and 8 in the morn, and was 
 buried the 5th of the said month, 
 in the cathedrall of Ch. Church. 
 He had by his first wife, Eliz. 
 dau. of Will. Wickham of Gar- 
 sington, William, who was mar- 
 ried, but died without issue, at 
 Abendon, and buried in Garsing- 
 ton church 28 January 1663, 
 Thomas, sine prole, and George, 
 and also a daughter or two. Af- 
 terwards he married Margaret 
 dau. of Sheppard of Barn- 
 staple in Devon, but the widdow 
 
l66l.] LIFE OF WOOD. 129 
 
 deacon of Oxon. died at Eifley, of an ague, or of the new 
 epidemical disease, which now raged. 
 
 Saturday, buried in the cath. of Ch. Ch. Jan. 5. 
 
 A. W. had an issue made in his left legg under his 10. 
 knee, by the advice of Rich. Lower d , a physitian of Ch. 
 Ch. This he kept open several yeares after. And tho 
 it did his stomach good, yet by his continual standing at 
 his study, and much walking withall, too much of the 
 humour issued out, which alwaies after made his left legg 
 and thigh cold, especially in the winter-time. And he 
 now thinks, that when age comes upon him, it will turne 
 to the dead palsie and be his death. 
 
 His kinswoman Ellen Pettie, the widdow of CharnelMar. 10. 
 Pettie, esq;, died at Stoke-Lyne, aged 85 or more, and 
 was buried by her husband in the church there. 
 
 He received his first letters from Will. Somner the an- «• 
 tiquary of Canterbury, with a copie of the foundation- 
 charter of Canterbury college in Oxon. 
 
 of Franc. Dewy, Mr. of Arts, and Astrop, and for his experiments 
 minister of Chipnam in Wilts, by relating to the transfusion of 
 whom he had issue Barten Holy- blood from one subject to an- 
 day and a daughter. The said other, recorded in the Philosophi- 
 Margaret, widdow of Dr. Holy- cal Transactions ; of which never- 
 day, died at Eifley 16 Dec. 1661, theless he was not the original in- 
 and was buried in the chancel ventor. After many years sue- 
 there. Wood's MSS. in mus. cessful practice in London, he 
 Ashm. 8466. W. & H. died there, on the 17 th of Janu- 
 
 d Dr. Lower was an eminent ary 1690, and was buried at St. 
 
 physician in the reign of King Tudy near Bodmin in Cornwall. 
 Charles II. He was educated at His name has been impudently 
 
 Christ Church college under the affixed to many nostrums sold in 
 
 famous Dr. Willis, of whom he the shops. The print of him is 
 
 learned to be an excellent ana- suspected to be a counterfeit, 
 tomist, and is said, in return, to See the Ath. Oxon. under the 
 
 have communicated many curious year 1690. Philos. Transact. N°. 
 
 discoveries to that great man. Dr. 30.37. Granger's Biograph. His- 
 
 Lower is remarkable for first find- tory of England, vol. 2. part 2. 
 
 ing out the medicinal spring at pag. 314. W. & H. 
 
 WOOD, VOL. I. K 
 
130 LIFE OF WOOD. [1662. 
 
 1662. Charles, duke e of Richmond, took to wife Margaret, tlie 
 13 Car. II. window f Will. Lewes, of Glamorganshire, and of Blech- 
 indon in Oxf or [d] shire, esq;, and soon after, with her 
 consent, sold her estate at Blechindon, which her hnsband 
 had bought, as it seemes, of S r . Tho. Coghill, to Arthur 
 earl of Anglesie. This duke was a most rude and de- 
 bauched person, kept sordid company, and having em- 
 ployed a little crooked back taylor of Oxon, named - - - - 
 Heme, he would often drink with him, quarrel, and the 
 taylor being too hard for him, would get him downe and 
 bite his eare. 
 Jun. 4. Hen. Jackson, f his kinsman, rector of Hampton Mey- 
 
 sey, died, and next day A. W. went thither, and gave his 
 See Ath. assisting hand to lay him in his grave. He was one of 
 the first learned acquaintance that A. W. had ; and being 
 delighted in his company, he did for the 3 last yeares of 
 his life constantly visit every summer, continue with him 
 4 or 5 dayes, and heare his stories with delight, that he 
 would tell him, concerning divers learned men of the uni- 
 versitie and his college (Corp. Chr.) that lived and flou- 
 rished when he was a yong man. 
 6. J. W. esq;, an intimate acquaintance with A. W. when 
 
 a junior, died in the flower of his youth, and two dayes 
 
 e Stuart. Hearne. ral of whose tracts he published. 
 
 f Hen. Jackson, the son of Hen. His house being plundered in the 
 
 Jackson, mercer, was born in St. time of the rebellion, his papers 
 
 Mary's parish, Oxford, was at were scattered and rendered so 
 
 first clerk, then scholar, and after- imperfect as not to be recovered, 
 
 wards fellow of C. C. college, by Amidst these were the works of 
 
 which society he was presented to Pet. Abaelard, which he had col- 
 
 the rectory of Meysey Hampton, lected from the MSS. and made 
 
 Gloucestershire, which was all the ready for the press, 
 
 preferment he ever enjoyed. He See Athene Oxon. under the 
 
 was a great admirer of Richard year 1662. Wood's MSS. in mus. 
 
 Hooker and Joh. Rainolds, seve- Ashm. 8563. W. & H. 
 
1 662.] LIFE OF WOOD./* 131 
 
 after was buried in the church of Highworth in Wilts. 
 He was the eldest son and heir of Edm. W. g 
 
 Quid species, quid lingua mihi, quid profuit Eetas ? 
 Da lachrymas Tumulo, qui legis ista, meo. 
 
 A. W. having* then and before often considered, what Jul y- 
 want there was of a register for the parish wherein he was 
 borne, and wherein he lived, called the collegiate parish of 
 S. Joh. Baptist h Merton; he was resolved to begin one. 
 Wherefore getting the notes of all such marriages, births, 
 christnings and burialls, which Mr. Joh. Wilton, an an- 
 tient chaplayn of Merton coll. had made before he went 
 to be vicar of Great Wolford in Warwickshire, and also 
 taking an account of all the fathers and mothers of the 
 same parish then living, what children they had borne 
 
 £ [I am indebted to the Rev. of Highworth, for the following- 
 Edward Rowden, M. A. late fellow extract, and epitaph, which iden- 
 of New college and now rector tify Anthony's friend : — 
 
 Inter Nomina Sepultorum 1662. 
 John Warnford Esq. buried June 7 th . 
 Inscription over the grave of the same, in a chapel belonging 
 to the Warneford family, in Highworth church. 
 Here lyeth the body of John Warneford Esq. 
 Son of Edmund Warneford of Seavenhampton in the County of 
 Wilts Esq. who departed this life, 
 June 6. 1662. 
 Reader, 'tis too late now, to bee good or wise, 
 Wrapt up in night, their great example lies. 
 Whose knowledge did enlarge not swell his mind, 
 His sweetness naturall, and undesign'd. 
 His thoughts calm as his brow, an equall aire 
 Torn by no angry tempest, but still faire. 
 Wouldst thou know more ? then let the country come, 
 Their tongues his epitaph, their heart his tomb. 
 
 Sevenhampton is a hamlet in the Warnefords, and are now pos- 
 parish of Highworth, the lands of sessed by Lady Wetherell Warne- 
 which are above two thousand ford, the relict of sir Charles 
 acres, and they have been many Wetherell.] 
 centuries the property of the h F. Baptist de Merton. 
 
 k2 
 
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 therein, christned or buried, he bought a parchment regis- 
 ter, which cost him 7s. at least, and remitted them all 
 therein, as also the names of such that had been taken, in 
 the time of Oliver and Eichard, by one' - - - - Jelly- 
 man, that had been appointed by the usurped powers to 
 write downe in a register the names of such that had been 
 christned and buried in several parishes in Oxon. of which 
 S. Joh. Baptist's parish was one, &c. This register which 
 A. "W. began, he doth continue to this day, and will do 
 the like till the time of his death. k 
 
 1 Matthew Jellyman, registrary 
 for 5 parishes, viz. S 1 . Mary's, 
 Allsaints, S*. Peters' in the East, 
 S t . Michaels, and &. John's 1653. 
 Sic in notula quadam, meam in 
 gratiam exscripta a Ven. Rev. Jo- 
 hanne Pointero, A.M. 8f coll. Mert. 
 capellano. Hearne. 
 k A Register of Births, Christnings 
 Burials and Marriages that 
 have bin in the parish belon- 
 ging to the Collegiate Chu- 
 rch of St. John Bap- 
 tist, Merton : 
 in Oxon. 
 
 Note that in the yeare 1662 I 
 made a motion to Mr. Peter Nicolls 
 subwarden of Merton college of 
 having a Regr for S. John Bapt. 
 parish, having never been any be- 
 fore that time ; wherfore with the 
 consent of some of the fellowes, 
 I bought divers scheeds of parch- 
 ment and had them bound up, 
 which cost the college seaven shil- 
 lings. Afterwards the register 
 being put into my hands, I entred 
 all my collections which I had 
 made before that time, and have 
 
 continued them under my hand 
 to this year. 
 
 Ita testor Antonius a Wood, 
 coll. Merton art. mag. 
 
 The 10 of Octob. an 1653. 
 Matthew Jellyman was elected and 
 sworne register before us, jus- 
 tices of peace for the city of Ox- 
 ford, whose names are here under 
 written, for five parishes viz. Ma- 
 ries, Allsaints, Peters in the East, 
 Michaell and S. Johns, being 
 united into one, at the generall 
 sessions of the peace held for the 
 said city at the Gild hall within 
 the said city, on Thursday next 
 after the feast of Saint Michael 
 the Archangel, an. 1653 aforesaid, 
 by vertue of an act of parliament 
 intituled "An act touching mar- 
 riages and the registring of them, 
 as also touching births and bu- 
 rialls." 
 
 In testimony whereof, wee have 
 
 here set our hands 
 
 Tho. Williams. 
 Thomas Berry. 
 
 Note that by vertue of the said 
 act, was a register in vellome made 
 
1662, 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 At Abendon in Berks with J. C. purposely to see the Sept. 10. 
 manner of the visitation, then held by the diocesan, D r . 
 Hnmp. Henchman, bp. of Salisbury. He then saw the 
 ruins J of the most antient and stately abbey, that once 
 
 for the said 5 parishes, and con- 
 tinued by the said Jellyman till 
 1660, but so imperfectly, that in 
 those 7 yeares viz. from 1653 to 
 1660 were hardly 10 names in that 
 part of it, belonging to S. John 
 Bapt. par. At that time when 
 'twas taken to peices, and S. John 
 Bapt. part surrendered into my 
 hands, I transmitted all the names 
 
 therin into this Register Ita 
 
 testor Antonius a Wood. 
 
 See the Register itself ex auto- 
 graph. Ant. a Wood, in Bib. Bodl. 
 W. & H. 
 
 1 I have in my study a printed 
 poem, (being only a single sheet) 
 in 4 t0 . intituled, In honour of 
 Abingdon or on the Seaventh day 
 of September's solemnization 1641. 
 By John Richardson Serjeant of 
 Abingdon in the County of Berks. 
 Printed in the year e 1641. I do 
 not remember to have seen an- 
 other copy of this little thing, 
 which I have several times read 
 with great pleasure, there being 
 several particulars of great remark 
 in it, as will appear from the fol- 
 lowing abstract thereof, which I 
 have entered in my MSS. collec- 
 tions, (viz. vol. 115. p. 114.) " It 
 is dedicated to the worshipfull the 
 major, bayliffs, and burgesses of 
 Abingdon. The king and par- 
 liament had published and de- 
 creed, that, on the said 7 th of Sept. 
 
 1641. every parish should keep a 
 festival (religiously to be per- 
 form'd) in honour of the great 
 peacemaker, upon account of the 
 accommodation with the Scots. 
 
 " Calena is here made to be 
 Oxford. K. Cissa is made to 
 be founder of the abbey. The 
 ruin'd battlements of the abbey 
 then (1641) to be seen. The 
 crosse then standing, which is 
 here call'd ' unparallel'd and 
 harmless,' but threatn'd to be 
 destroy'd. S 1 . Helen's bells (what 
 I never heard before) are call'd 
 ' Aaron's bells.' Christ's hospi- 
 tall near the churchyard wall. 
 Where were also Royse's fruitful 
 ' Nurseries,' out of which the E. 
 of Pembrook's gardens were sup- 
 plied. There is now no nursery, 
 nor any tradition of one. The 
 said 7 th day was a Tuesday. The 
 festival was proclaim'd, because 
 a joyfull peace was concluded be- 
 twixt the Scots and us. S*. Ni- 
 cholas's bells call'd ' honest Nick's 
 Lowbells.' The hundred and 
 sixth psalm sung by two thou- 
 sand ' quoristers ' at the crosse. 
 The figure of K. David upon the 
 crosse, tho' afterwards destroy'd 
 by ' hair-brain'd Separatists,' an 
 epithet made use of for that crew 
 by the author. Mention of the 
 skilfull serjeant Corderoy. Men- 
 tion of the well known Antelop 
 
134 LIFE OF WOOD. [1662. 
 
 stood there ; but those ruins are since gone [to] ruin. A 
 great scandal it is, that that most noble structure should 
 now have little or no memory of it left. 
 
 Oct. 11. With D r . Mich. Woodward, warden of New coll. to see 
 
 the registers and some records of that house. He put me 
 off from the present with some notes of his owne concern- 
 ing the wardens thereof, benefactors, bishops, &c. 
 
 Nov. 10. His kinsman Joh. Taverner, of Soundess in the parish 
 of Nettlebed, was made choice of by his majestie to be 
 high-sherriff of Oxfordshire, &c. 
 
 Feb. 11. He was with his cozen Taverner at the Swan-inn in 
 
 Oxon. where he was a witness, that Mr. Abr. Davis should 
 let his house in Grandpool in S. Aldate's parish, during 
 the time of assize then approaching, and in the time of 
 assize in the summer following, for 6 U . a time ; but if Mr. 
 Taverner should die before summer assize, then should he 
 have only 6' 1 '. for the Lent assize. He was also then a 
 witness to other things, agreed upon between them &c. 
 
 Mar. 6. Joh. Taverner made his first entry into Oxon. to con- 
 
 duct thereunto justice Rob. Hyde. 
 9. Given to his cozen Taverner the high sheriff and M ris . 
 Mary Harris his daughter, upon their departure from 
 Oxon. each of them a book fairly bound, containing the 
 works of his brother Edw. Wood, deceased. 
 1663. He began a course of chimistry under the noted chimist 
 
 * 4 ar * ' and rosicrucian, Peter Sthael of Strasburgh in Royal 
 Prussia, and concluded in the latter end of May following. 
 The club consisted of 10 at least, whereof Franc. Turner 
 of New coll. was one, (since bishop of Ely) Benjam. 
 Woodroff of Ch. Ch. another, (since canon of Ch. Ch.) 
 and Joh. Lock of the same house, afterwards a noted 
 
 in Abbington. No feast to be pa- teene or foureteene pounds) eol- 
 rallel'd with this of Abbingdon. lected that day for the poor. The 
 A great deal of money (viz. thir- author a Cavalier." Hearne. 
 
1663.] LIFE OF WOOD. 135 
 
 writer. This Jo. Lock was a man of a turbulent spirit, 
 clamorous and never contented. The club wrot and took 
 notes from the mouth of their master, who sate at the 
 upper end of a table, but the said J. Lock scorned to do 
 it ; so that while every man besides, of the club, were 
 writing, he would be prating and troblesome. This P. 
 Sthael, who was a Lutheran and a great hater of women, 
 was a very useful man, had his lodging in University coll. 
 in a chamber at the west end of the old chappel. He was 
 brought to Oxon. by the honorable Mr. Rob. Boyle, an. 
 1659, and began to take to him scholars in the house of 
 Joh. Cross next, on the W. side, to University coll. where 
 he began but with three scholars ; of which number Jo- 
 seph Williamson of Queen's coll. was one, afterwards a 
 knight and one of the secretaries of state under K. Ch. 2. 
 After he had taken in another class of six there, he trans- 
 lated himself to the house of Arth. Tylliard an apothecary, 
 the next dore to that of Joh. Cross, saving one, which is a 
 taverne : where he continued teaching till the latter end 
 of 1662. The chiefest of his scholars were D r . Joh. Wallis, 
 Mr. Christopher Wren, afterwards a knight and an emi- 
 nent virtuoso, Mr. Thorn. Millington of Alls. coll. after- 
 wards an eminent physitian and a knight, Nath. Crew 
 of Line. coll. afterwards bishop of Durham, Tho. Branker 
 of Exeter coll. a noted mathematician, D r . Ralph Bathurst 
 of Trin. coll. a physitian, afterwards president of his col- 
 lege and deane of Wells, D r . Hen. Yerbury and D r . Tho. 
 m Janes, both of Magd. coll. Rich. Lower a physitian of 
 Ch. Ch. Rich. Griffith, M. A. fellow of University coll. 
 afterwards D r . of phys. and fellow of the coll. of physitians, 
 and several others. 
 
 About the beginning of the yeare 1663 Mr. Sthael re- 
 
 m Sic. Hearne. 
 
136 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l66 3« 
 
 moved his school or elaboratory to a draper's house, called 
 Joh. Bowell, afterwards mayor of the citie of Oxon. situat 
 and being in the parish of Allsaints, commonly called All- 
 hallowes. He bnilt his elaboratory in an old hall or re- 
 fectory in the backside, (for the house it self had been an 
 antient hostle) wherein A. W. and his fellowes were in- 
 structed. In the yeare following Mr. Sthael was called 
 away to London, and became operator to the Royal So- 
 ciety, and continuing there till 1670, he returned to Oxon. 
 in Nov. and had several classes successively; but the 
 names of them I know not ; and afterwards going to Lon- 
 don againe, died there about 1675, and was buried in the 
 church of S. Clement's Dane, within the libertie of West- 
 minster. 
 
 May 30. The chimical club concluded, and A. W. paid Mr. Sthael 
 
 30 shill. having, in the beginning of the class, given 30 
 shillings beforehand. A. W. got some knowledge and 
 experience; but his mind still hung after antiquities and 
 musick. 
 
 June. S r . Charles Sedley, B c , somtimes of Wadham coll. 
 
 Charles lord Buckhurst (afterwards earl of Middlesex) S r . 
 Thorn. Ogle, &c. were at a cook's house, at the signe of the 
 cock in Bow-street neare Covent-garden, within the liber- 
 tie of Westminster ; and being all innam'd with strong 
 liquors, they went into the balcony, joyning to their cham- 
 ber-window, and putting downe their breeches, they ex- 
 crementized in the street. Which being done, Sedley 
 stripped himself naked, and with eloquence preached blas- 
 phemy to the people. Whereupon a riot being raised, the 
 people became very clamorous, and would have forced the 
 dore, next to the street, open; but being hindred, the 
 preacher and his company were pelted into their rome 
 or chamber, and the windows belonging thereunto were 
 broken. 
 
1663.] LIFE OF WOOD. 137 
 
 This frollick being soon spread abroad, especially by the 
 fanatical party, who aggravated it to the utmost, by making 
 it the most scandalous thing in nature, and nothing more 
 reproachful to religion than that, the said company were 
 summoned to the court of justice in Westminster hall, 
 where being indicted of a riot before S r . Rob. Hyde, lord 
 ch. justice of the Common Pleas, were all fined, and S r . 
 Char. Sedley being fined 500^. he made answer, that he 
 thought he was the first man that paid for shiting. S r . 
 Rob. Hyde asked him, whether he ever read the book, 
 called, The Compleat Gentleman, &c. ? to which S r . Charles 
 made answer, that, " set aside his lordship, he had read 
 more books than himself," &c. The day of payment being 
 appointed, S r . Charles desired Mr. Hen. Killigrew and 
 another gent, to apply themselves to his majestie, to get 
 it off, but instead of that, they beg'd the said sum of his 
 majestie, and would not abate S r . Charles two pence of the 
 money. Afterwards S r . Charles taking up, and growing 
 very serious, he was chosen a recruiter for that long par- 
 liament, which began 8 May 1661. and was dissolved in 
 the latter end of 1678. This memoir is here set downe, 
 because A. W. had some acquaintance with sir Ch. Sedley, 
 and afterwards some acquaintance with Charles L d . Buck- 
 hurst, when he was earl of Middlesex, at which time he 
 would come with Fleetwood Shepheard to Great Rowlright 
 in Oxfordshire, and thence 3 miles beyond to Weston, in 
 the parish of Long-Compton, to visit Mr. Sheldon, where 
 he found A. W. and discoursed very seriously with him." 
 
 n Hen. Killigrew, Hen. Savile, the suppers of Charles the II. in 
 Hen. Guy, Baptist May, Charles the private apartments of his fa- 
 lord Buckhurst, John Wilmot, vourite ladies. This last, the son 
 earl of Rochester, John earl of of William Sheppard of Great 
 Mulgrave, and Fleetwood Shep- Rowlright in Oxfordshire, was 
 pard, were members of those first entered a commoner of Mag- 
 facetious parties which enlivened dalen hall, and soon after made 
 
138 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l66 3- 
 
 June. About the 15 of June Arthur Crew, of Magot mill neare 
 
 Highworth in Wiltsh. gent. died. A. W. had been ac- 
 quainted with this gentleman about 6 yeares before (he 
 living then in Halywell, neare Oxon.) because of his great 
 skill and knowledge in heraldry and matters relating to 
 English families. This Mr. Crew was very deaf, and there- 
 fore living a retired and studious life, did collect and write 
 much. After he had left Halywell, he retired to Mag- 
 got-mill, where having but little comfort of his wife, he 
 soon after died, leaving behind him a yong heire, who 
 valuing not his father's labours, because of his igno- 
 rance, put most of his papers, as I have heard, to ° in- 
 fimous uses. 
 
 July 27. Thorn. Baltzar, one of the violins in the king's service, 
 
 mentioned before under the yeare 1658, was buried in the 
 cloyster belonging to S. Peter's church in Westminster. 
 See before, under the said yeare. This person being much 
 admired by all lovers of musick, his company was there- 
 fore desired : and company, especially musical company, 
 delighting in drinking, made him drink more than ordi- 
 nary, which brought him to his grave. 
 
 Mar. 1. A controversie having been on foot for some time, be- 
 
 tween Dr. Tho. Barlow and Dr. Tho. Lamplugh, concern- 
 ing the archdeaconry of Oxford, after the death of Dr. 
 Holyday, it was decided on the first day of March by the 
 
 student of Ch. Ch. After the the reign of James II. he was not 
 
 restoration, he went to London much esteemed by the court, 
 
 and commenced an acquaintance But when King William came to 
 
 with the wits and Belle Esprits the crown, he was made one of 
 
 above mentioned. He was made the gentlemen ushers and daily 
 
 steward to Eleanor Gwynne, waiters to that monarch, and 
 
 and afterwards to her son the afterwards usher of the black rod. 
 
 duke of St. Alban's, which em- He was the friend and patron of 
 
 ployment introduced him to the Prior. W. & H. 
 
 notice and favour of the king. In ° Sic. Hearne. 
 
1664.] LIFE OF WOOD. 139 
 
 judges of assize, sitting in Oxon. for Dr. Barlow, the ac- 
 quaintance of A. W. 
 
 A meeting of the warden and fellowes of Merton coll. 1664. 
 where the renewing of the leases belonging to the family, * 5 ar * ' 
 concerning the housing (Portionists hall and it's appur- 
 tenances) against Merton coll. as also of the Flour de 
 Luce with it's appurtenances, was by them proposed. They 
 set a fine of 70 li . and the lease was but 13 yeares expired. 
 
 The said sum of money was paid into the hand of Dr. 21. 
 
 SeG beforG 
 
 Dickenson the bursar, and the leases were sealed, the fees j n t he yeare 
 of which came to 7 11 . 9s. Rog. Brent and Edw. Tur-t 16 * 1 -) 
 ner, one a poore, and the other a busy and sneaking fel- 
 low, shew'd themselves back-friends in this matter to Mary 
 Wood widdow, Robert, Anthony and Christop. Wood her 
 sons. 
 
 Will. Ayliff, LL. Bac. somtimes fellow of New coll. 28. 
 and a founder's kinsman there, now vicar of Amersden 
 neare to Bister in Oxfordshire, and lately schoolmaster of 
 Thame school p (but began to teach there after A. W. had 
 left that school) leaped naked out of his window, belong- 
 ing to the vicaridge of Amersden, and broke several parts of 
 his body, and died soon after. He had married a yong rich 
 widdow, lived high, and had severall children by her ; but 
 shee dying in the prime of her yeares, and leving him and 
 the children little or nothing of her estate, and her joyn- 
 ture going away with her life, he grew exceedingly discon- 
 tented thereupon, and made away with himself. 
 
 From Ap. 29. to May 27. A. W. assisted Dr. Jo. Wallis in Apr. 29. 
 digesting and ordering the evidences, writings and books 
 belonging to the university, which are reposed in the mu- 
 niment room in the school-tower. 
 
 Dr. Tho. Barlow installed archdeacon of Oxon. in theJun. 13. 
 cathedral of Ch. church. 
 
 p See pag. 17. 
 
140 LIFE OF WOOD. [1664. 
 
 Sept. 6. At North-More, with Mr. Pet. Nicolls, where we were 
 
 entertained by Mr. - - - Twyford. Thence wee went to 
 Bampton, where wee lodged one night in the house of Mr. 
 Tho. Cook, one of the vicars. The next morning very 
 early I went to the castle, neare the church there, and 
 took the ruins q thereof, and so returned to Oxon. 
 
 Sept. 14. Upon the taking up of a thick marble stone, lying in 
 the middle of the choir e of Beverley in Yorkshire, neare 
 the entrance into the choire, was found under it a vault 
 of squared free-stone, five foot in length, two foot in 
 breadth at the head, and one foot and a half at the foot. 
 In this vault was discovered a sheet of lead, four foot in 
 length, containing the dust of St. John of Beverley, as 
 also six beades, three of which were cornelian, the other 
 crumbled to dust. There were also in it 3 great brass pins, 
 and 4 iron nayles. Upon this sheet of lead was fixed a 
 plate of lead, whereon was this following inscription, a 
 copie of which was sent to A. W. 
 u88. Anno ab incarnatione Domini MCLXXXVIII. combusta 
 
 fuit h(BC ecclesia, in mense Sept. in sequenti node post 
 1197. Festum Sancti Matthcei Apostoli, et in anno MCXCVII. VI 
 Id. Martii, facta fuit Inquisitio Reliquiarum Beati Johannis 
 in hoc loco, et inventa sunt hac ossa in orientali parte Se- 
 pulchri, et hie recondita, et pulvis cemento mixtus ibidem 
 inventus §■ reconditus. 
 
 A box of lead, about 7 inches in length, six inches 
 broad, and five in height, did lay athwart the plate of lead. 
 In this box were divers pieces of bones mixt with dust, 
 yielding a sweet smell. 
 
 Dec. 16. A blazing starr seen by several people in Oxon. and 
 
 A. W. saw it in few nights after on Botley causey, about 
 
 1 This draught is now in the Ashm. mus. (inter Cod. MSS. Ant. a 
 Wood 8505.) 
 
1664.] LIFE OF WOOD. 141 
 
 6 at night, in his returne from Cumnore. In the next 
 yeare followed a great plagne in England, prodigious births, 
 great inundations and frosts, warr with the Dutch, sudden 
 deaths, particularly in Oxon. &c. 
 
 A. W. and his mother, and his eldest brother and his 3'- 
 wife, went to the lodgings of D r . Ralph Bathurst, presi- 
 dent of Trinity college, to welcome him to Oxon. who had 
 then very lately brought to Oxon. his new married wife, 
 Mary, the widdow of D r . Jo. Palmer, r late warden of Alls, 
 coll. which Mary was of kin to the mother of A. W. 
 They had before sent in sack, claret, cake and sugar, to 
 welcome the said married couple. D 1 *. Bathurst was then 
 about 46 yeares of age, so there was need of a wife. 
 
 Thorn. Henant, M. A. vicar of Thame, in whose house Jan. 2. 
 A. W. sojourned when he went to school there, died. He 
 was buried in the chancel there, and was descended from 
 the Henants of Henant in the Arbour in Herefordshire. 
 
 M ris . Kath. Fisher, the wife of Thorn. Rowney of Oxon. 30. 
 an attorney, and godmother to A. W. died in her hus- 
 band's house in S. Giles parish. Buried in the chancell 
 
 r John Palmer, alias Vaulx, Dr. Dr. Palmer had issue by his said 
 
 of physic, warden of Allsoules, wife Mary, John Palmer, a mer- 
 
 one of the recruiters of the long chant in London, Mary, who was 
 
 parliament, died 4 March i6f§> married to Richard Chaundler of 
 
 and was buried in Allsoules cha- Edmundstonby Salisbury, gent, in 
 
 pell towards the upper end. He Trinitie coll. chappell Oxon. 23 
 
 was an apothecarie's son of Taun- Feb. (Shrove-Tuesday) 1669, and 
 
 ton in com. Som. And had took Elizabeth, who was married to 
 
 to wife Mary, (which Mary was George Baynard, master of arts, 
 
 afterward married to Dr. Ralph of Wadham coll. son of Tho. Bay- 
 
 Bathurst, president of Trinitie nard of Clift in com. Dors. gent. 
 coll. in Oxon.) the sole daughter The said Mary died in child-bed 
 
 and heire of John Tristram of at Edmunston in the latter end of 
 
 Bampton in com. Devon, coun- April 1680. 
 
 cellour at law (by Mary his wife Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. 
 one of the daughters of James 8466. Warton's Life of Dr. Bath- 
 earl of Marlborough.) The said urst, p. 215. W. & H. 
 
142 LIFE OF WOOD. [1664. 
 
 of S. Thomas parish church Oxon. at which time A. W. 
 was one that held up the pall. 
 
 Feb. 13. A. W. having now spent some years, in perusing the 
 
 registers and muniments in the school tower, by the leave 
 only of D r . Wallis, it was now the desire of the said doctor, 
 for his owne security, that s I should gaine the leave of 
 the vicechancellour, D f . Rob. Say of Oriel coll. Whereupon 
 A. W. did repaire to him on the 13 of Febr. and desired 
 his leave, which was afterwards granted. l 
 
 Mar. 18. D r . Wallis and A. W. repaired to the vicechancellour, 
 
 and there A. W. did take an oath before them, in the 
 presence of Mr. Thorn. Hyde a public notary, to be true 
 and faithfull in the trust put on A. W. and not to imbezile 
 or purloyne any of the said registers or muniments. 
 1665. Another comet in N. E. was seen at Oxon. with the 
 
 M^J 1 ' tayle towards S.E. 
 
 May ult. He began to peruse the evidences of Oriel coll. in their 
 
 treasury, where the society left him to himself, and lent 
 him the key. He continued there till the 5 of June. And 
 at that time perused some of the registers of that coll. 
 
 Jan. 11. He began to peruse the evidences of Line. coll. The 
 
 rector and fellows put the keys of the tower in his hands, 
 and perused them in the chamber of Mr. Hen. Foulis, 
 joyning to the said tower ----- Clerke a fellow, con- 
 ceited and impertinent, pretending to direct him and in- 
 struct him. So whispering Foulis in the u yeare, wee got 
 him to be removed. A. W. continued there at least 4 
 
 s Sic. Hearne. different times, for the signature 
 
 t [The original permission, under of the dean of Christ Church, 
 
 the hands of the vice-chancellor neither of them appears to have 
 
 and Dr. Wallis, is among Tanner's been executed, although Wood, it 
 
 MSS. in the Bodleian, N°. 338. is clear, obtained access to the 
 
 There are also similar documents evidences of that house.] 
 from various other colleges, but u Sic. Hearne. 
 
 although two were prepared, at 
 
1665.] LIFE OF WOOD. 143 
 
 dayes, and the rector and fellows had so good opinion of 
 him, that they intrusted him with a long bag of money in 
 the said treasurie or tower, which A. W. saw there laying. 
 
 He began to peruse the evidences of Universitie coll. 22. 
 Mr. Will. Shippen, one of the fellowes and lately proctor 
 of the universitie, did attend him. They took the evi- 
 dences and rolls out of the tower into an upper chamber 
 adjoyning, and there continued till the 29 day. 
 
 In the month of July he perused the evidences, belong- July, 
 ing to divers churches in Oxon. as S.Michael on the 5. 
 and 6. S. Peter in the east on the 7. and 8. S f . Martin 
 on the 21 and 22. S fc . Aldate 28, 29, &c. x 
 
 He began to peruse the evidences of Exeter coll. These Aug. 24. 
 are well ordered, and methodically digested, and are re- 
 posed in a lower rome, neare to the gatehouse looking 
 northwards. They were taken out of the said roome, and 
 carried to the lodgings of the rector of that college, called 
 D r . Joseph Maynard, and in his dining roome A. W. 
 perused them in 4 or 5 dayes; in which time the said 
 doctor was exceeding civil to him. This D r . was an old 
 standard, had much of a true English temper in him, was 
 void of dissimulation and sneaking politicks, and at leisure 
 times he would entertaine A. W. with old stories relating 
 to the universitie and the learned men of his time. He 
 also then perused some of the registers. 
 
 He began to peruse the cat. of fellowes of Exeter coll. Aug. 29. 
 which is reposed in the library there, and soon after tran- 
 scribed it all for his own use. 
 
 He began to peruse the evidences of Ball. coll. They Sept. 21, 
 were taken out of the treasury there, which is a kind of 
 vestry, joyning on the S. side to the E. end of the chappel. 
 The evidences were taken thence by D r . Savage, the mas- 
 
 x See Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8513. p. 35—67. W. & H. 
 
144 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l ^5- 
 
 ter of that college, and conveyed to his lodgings, where 
 A. W. perused them in the space of 3 or 4 days. The old 
 accompts of that coll. wherein their fellowes are either 
 weekly or quarterly mentioned, are lost. So A. W. was 
 much put to a push, to find when learned men had been 
 of that coll. 
 
 25. The king came from Salisburie to Oxon. to avoid the 
 plague raging throughout the nation, and took up his 
 quarters in Ch. Ch. 
 
 26. The queen came for the same purpose, and took up her 
 quarters in Merton coll. 
 
 Jan. 27. The K. left Oxon. in order to goe to Westminster. 
 
 Feb. 3. A. W. was with D r . Say the vicechancellour, to have 
 
 his leave to go up into the galleries in BodhVs library, 
 where the MSS. are reposed, to the end that he might 
 have a full perusal of them, without troubling the second 
 keeper, or porter of the said library, to fetch every book 
 that he wants, which was granted. A little before this 
 grant, A. W. told Mr. Tho. Hyde, the chief keeper of the 
 said library, what he intended to doe, and that he should 
 goe with him to be a witness of the vicechancellour' s 
 leave. Whereupon the time being appointed to goe, which 
 was in the afternoon of the same day, he (Mr. Hyde) did 
 goe in the morning before to the vicechancellour, and 
 desired him not to grant Mr. Wood leave, unless he would 
 promise him to give him his helping hand to the making 
 of a catalogue of the MSS. in Bodlie's library. So tho 
 there was underhand-dealing in this matter, yet Mr. Wood 
 did then partly promise to do it; yet Mr. Hyde seeing 
 afterwards how he (Mr. Wood) was involved in a public 
 work, he never urged him to it a second time. 
 
 Feb. 16. The queen left Oxon. and went after the king to West- 
 
 minster. 
 
 About that time A. W. began to peruse the MSS. in 
 
l666.] LIFE OF WOOD. 145 
 
 the public library, and took great paynes in plucking 
 downe every book. 
 
 He began to peruse the evidences of Alls. coll. which I „°- T 
 
 ° r . 17 Car. II. 
 
 were brought from the tower over the gate into the lodg- Ap. n. 
 ings of D 1 '. Th. James, warden of the said coll. They were 
 put in good method, as Exeter college evidences were, 
 and therefore it saved him much trouble. He also perused 
 certaine registers of that house, which he was permitted 
 to carry home with him for a time. D r . Tho. Millington 
 was not then at home, otherwise (as he had told A. W. 
 afterwards) he should never have seen them. A. W. asked 
 him the reason why? He answered, that as the publica- 
 tion of the Monasticons had bred a great deal of trouble, 
 and had caused suits in Westminster hall, so would the 
 publication of Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. which A. W. 
 was about to publish ; but it hath not as yet. 
 
 It was allowed by the society of Merton coll. that A. W. May 4. &c. 
 might peruse the evidences in their treasury, in the pre- 
 sence of Mr. Pet. Nicolls, one of their number. 
 
 Certaine registers belonging to Magd. coll. were by May 31. 
 A. W. perus'd. &c - 
 
 He began to peruse some of the evidences belonging to June 2. 
 the said coll. They were taken out of the treasury for 
 his use, and put into the exchequer, where he perused 
 them, and kept the key in his pocket till he had finish'' d 
 them. They were evidences that mostly belonged to St. 
 John Baptist's hospitall, which was annexed by the founder 
 to his coll. 
 
 Perused the evidences of Queen's coll. and afterwards a 2 5- 
 leiger or transcript of all the evidences by the favour of 
 D r . Barlow. All done in the dining roome belonging to 
 his lodgings. 
 
 Dr. Hen. Deane of New coll. and A. W. waited on the June 30. 
 warden of that house, with a desire to see the evidences 
 
 wood, vol. 1. l 
 
146 LIFE OF WOOD. [l666. 
 
 of that house. His answer was, that he would aske the 
 consent of the fellowes. All their evidences are transcribed 
 into several folios of parchment or velum. x 
 
 July 30. The warden, with the consent of the fellowes, lent A. W. 
 
 the first leiger-book, containing evidences relating to the 
 scite of the coll. their tenements in the city of Oxon. and 
 lands in Oxfordshire. The leave was granted 28. Jul. and 
 A. W. perused it in his owne study. 
 
 Aug. A. W. y repaired to Dr. Rich. Baylie, president of that 
 
 coll. to do him the favour to let him peruse the evidences 
 of his coll. as other societies had done. He refer' d him to 
 Mr. Joseph Taylour, a lame fellow of that house, who had 
 drawne up a short and trite account of the founder, foun- 
 dation, presidents and benefactors thereof, which he lent 
 to him, and he transcribed it. z But this contenting him 
 not, D r . Pet. Mews, who shortly after succeeded D r . Baylie 
 in [the] presidentship, did freely give him leave to peruse 
 the evidences. 
 
 About the same time he perused the evidences of Bras- 
 nose and other colleges. 
 
 Dec. In the beginning of Dec. he was taken with an ague : 
 
 whereupon taking physick and blooding, his body was 
 plucked downe, and much time was lost before he could 
 recover himself, and be in a posture to study. 
 
 Feb. 28. Marie "Wood widdow, the mother of A. Wood, died in 
 
 her house against Merton coll. aged 65 or more. 
 
 Mar. 1. Buried by the remaines of her husband in Merton col- 
 
 lege church. 
 18. Paid to the collectors of the pole-money, of the parish 
 
 x [The transcript was made by for that sum, in 1657.] 
 
 Will. Ball, one of the yeoman be- y F. repaired to St. John's coll. 
 
 dels, who demanded 800I. for his to Dr. Hearne. 
 
 pains. The college resisted, and z See Wood's MSS. in mus. 
 
 Ball sued in the chancellor's court Ashm. N°. 8490. f. 204. W. & H. 
 
1667.] LIFE OF WOOD. 147 
 
 of S. Joh. Bapt. wherein he lived, l u . as a gentleman, and 
 I s . for his head, towards the carrying on the warr between 
 the English and the Dutch at sea. This is set downe here, 
 because it was the first tax that A. W. ever paid. He paid 
 others afterwards, especially in the raigne of K. Will. 3. 
 
 The bones of Tho. Wood, father to A. W. were taken 1667. 
 up, and laid close to those of his wife. Apr. 2. 
 
 Perused the evidences of S. Marie Magd. church, in the May 2, 3. 
 North suburb of Oxon. reposed in a vestrie, joyning to 
 the church there. a 
 
 He rec d . letters of commendation from D r . Thomas Bar- J une l 3- 
 low, prov. of Queen's coll. to Will. Dugdale, esq. Norroy 
 K. of armes, to introduce him into the acquaintance of 
 the said person, and consequently into the library of S r . 
 Joh. Cotton at Westminster. 
 
 He went to London in the stage-coach. His compa- I 4- 
 nions were all scholars, amonge whom was Obadiah 
 Walker, the senior fellow of University coll. They all lodged 
 that night at Beaconsfield, and then A. W. became ac- 
 quainted with the said Mr. Walker, and so continued his 
 acquaintance til death parted them. 
 
 Early in the morn, being Sunday, A. W. went to the l6 - 
 Middle Temple, and found out Mr. Dugdale in the apart- 
 ment belonging to Elias Ashmole. He gave him D r . Bar- 
 low's letters, and after he had read them, which were to 
 introduce him into the Cottonian library, he expressed 
 great civility to him. He then appointed him to call on 
 him the next morning, and he should have letters from 
 him to S r . Jo. Cotton. 
 
 Accordingly he went, and found him in the said apart- 17- 
 ment (where he lodged) and discoursed with him concern- 
 ing various matters of antiquity. He then gave him his 
 letter to S r . Joh. Cotton, wherein was inclosed that of 
 a See Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8513. p. 298. W. & H. 
 
 l2 
 
148 LIFE OF WOOD. [1667. 
 
 D r . Tho. Barlow. So posting forthwith to Westminster, 
 he found S r . Joh. Cotton in his house, joyning almost to 
 Westminster hall. He was then practicing on his lute 
 with his instructor, and when he had done, he came out 
 to him in the hall, and received him kindly, invited him 
 to dinner, and directed him to Mr. Rich. Pearson, who 
 kept the key of the library. Here was another trouble. 
 For the said Mr. Pearson being a lodger in the house of 
 E/ob. Scot, a bookseller living in Little Britaine, he was 
 forced to walke thither, and much adoe there was to find 
 him, but find him at last he did, and by his appointment 
 he met him the next day at S r . John Cotton's house, 
 where he lent him two MSS. which being run over and 
 perused in half a day, yet before he could get two more 
 (for no more were to be at a time lent out) it would be a 
 whole day (perhaps two) before A. W. could find out the 
 said Mr. Pearson, b to let him have more. This was very 
 troblesome, and how to help it he could not tell. At 
 length an antient gentleman, named Mr. Withrington, 
 who was an old servant, and housekeeper when S r . John 
 and his family went into the country, seeing to what 
 trouble A. W. was put, advised him for the future to 
 take his opportunities to come in the long vacation to 
 study; for then S r . John being absent for 3 or more 
 
 b Richard Pearson was born at James's. Oct. 8, 1667, he was 
 
 Creak in Norfolk, and educated chosen law-professor at Gresham 
 
 at Eton school, from whence being college, and in 1669 went out Dr. 
 
 elected to King's college Cam- of civil law at Cambridge, where 
 
 bridge, he became fellow of that he died Aug. 5, 1670. He was a 
 
 house. In 1659, he was candidate most excellent scholar, a most ad- 
 
 with Mr. Croune for the Rhetoric mired Grecian, and died, as was 
 
 professorship in Gresham college, reported, a Roman- Catholic, 
 
 which was carried by the latter. See Biograph. Brit. vol. 5. pag. 
 
 In 1662, he was appointed under 33 12 - Ward's Lives of the Gre- 
 
 keeper of the royal library at St. sham Professors. W. & H. 
 
1667.] LIFE OF WOOD. 149 
 
 months together, he did usually leave the key of his library 
 in his hands. Afterwards he took his advice, and went to 
 London in the long vacations, and then Mr. Withrington 
 being constantly in the house, he would conduct A. W. 
 into the very next roome joyning to the library, where he 
 would bring to him what books he pleased, which he 
 pointed at in the catalogue. So that spending there 9 
 houres in a day constantly for a fortnight or more toge- 
 ther, he at length did effect his business. 
 
 This Mr. Pearson (who- was a learned man, and yonger Jun. 21. 
 
 brother to c Dr. Pearson, bp. of Chester) being J^ath'et 
 
 seldome to be found, A. W. went with letters of commend- Fasti 0x_ 
 
 on. under 
 
 ation from D r . Rob. Say, provost of Oriel coll. (which he the year 
 brought with him from Oxon.) to the lodgings of Mr. * 
 Will. Prynne in Lincoln's inne, chief keeper of the records 
 in the tower of London, to the end that he would intro- 
 duce him among the records there, for the carrying on of 
 a publick work, Mr. Prynne received him with old fashion 
 compliments, such as were used in the raigne of K. Jam. I. 
 and told him, he should see what he desir'd, and seemed 
 to be glad, that such a yong man as he (A. W.) was (for 
 so he caFd him) should have inclinations towards venerable 
 antiquity, &c. He told him then, that if he would call 
 upon him the next morning at 8 of the clock, he would 
 conduct him to the tower, for he had business then to do 
 there, being about to print another book. 
 
 A. W. went precisely at the time appointed, and found Jun. 22. 
 Mr. Prynne in his black taffaty-cloak, edg'd with black 
 lace at the bottom. They went to the tower directly thro 
 the city, then lying in ruins, (occasioned by the grand 
 conflagration that hapned in 1666) but by his meeting 
 with several citizens, and prating with them, it was about 
 
 c L. Dr. John Pearson. Hearne. 
 
150 LIFE OF WOOD. [1667. 
 
 10 of the clock before they could come to the same place. 
 He there shewed A. W. a place where he should sit and 
 write, shewed him the Repertorium, and spoke to Jen- 
 nings, the reacher of the records, that he should let him 
 have any record, that he should point at in the said Re- 
 pertorium. After that, he conducted A. W. into the white 
 tower, where he was strangely surprized, to see d such vast 
 number of charters and rolls, that were there reposed &c. 
 He found Mr. Dugdale in the office where he was to sit, 
 who was running over a course of rolls, in order to the 
 drawing up and finishing either his 3 d . vol. of Monasticon 
 Anglicanum or his Baronage : and so long as A. W. stayd 
 in London, which were but a few dayes, he spent them 
 there in his company, and at 12 of the clock every day 
 they dined together at a cook's house within the Tower, 
 and somtimes had Jennings (a boon blade) among them. 
 
 The same day at night, A. W. sent letters by the post 
 to D r . Tho. Barlow, to let him know, what he had done at 
 London, and to give him thanks for the fatherly favours 
 he did unto him. 
 29. He returned to Oxon. It was the first time that A. W. 
 
 was at London ; and the truth is, his time being short, he 
 only took measures, what to doe at his next going to that 
 place. 
 July 18. He began to peruse the evidences, rent-rolls, &c. in 
 
 Ch. Ch. treasury, over the cloyster there, and continued 
 so doing all the remaining part of July, all August, and 
 part of Sept. For there was work enough for a curious 
 and critical antiquary, that would hold him tugg for a 
 whole yeare. There are a great many evidences which 
 belonged to St. Frideswyde's priory, but no rent-rolls of 
 their lands and tenements. There are many evidences 
 and rent-rolls that belonged to Osney abbey, and innu- 
 d Sic. F. such a vast. Hearne. 
 
1667.] LIFE OF WOOD. 151 
 
 merable broken writings and rolls, which belonged to the 
 priories and nunneries that were dissolved by the meanes 
 of card. Wolsey, towards the erection of his college in 
 Oxon. Bnt this the reader must know, that the said col- 
 lege being not setled by law when the cardinal fell, all the 
 lands, which were appointed for the said coll. came into 
 the king's hands. So that between the cardinal's fall, and 
 the settlement of the college by the king, which was 3 
 years at least, most of the lands of the said dissolved prio- 
 ries and nunneries, being sold to, or beg'd of the king by, 
 hungry courtiers, who had only the king's grant for them, 
 without the antient evidences belonging to them, those 
 evidences remained still in Cardinal, now Ch. Ch. coll. 
 And because the members thereof have not the lands, 
 which those evidences concern, they take no care of the 
 evidences, but lay them in a by place exposed to weather, 
 and thereby are much perish' d, and become not legible. 
 From these evidences did A. W. furnish S r . Will. Dugdale 
 with many things, which he inserted in his third vol. of 
 Monasticon Anglicanum, viz. with those four evidences in 
 p. 11. concerning Wallingford : with eleven others in p. 
 13, 14, 15. concerning Littlemore nunnery, within the 
 precincts of Sandford in Oxfordshire, which by a mistake 
 Sr. William hath added to Sandford in Berks : with 4 
 copies in p. 30, 31. concerning Horkesley, a cell to the 
 abbey of Tefford: with a copie in p. 77. b. concerning 
 Otteham priory : with the charter concerning the hospital 
 or Ginges in Essex, otherwise called Gynge-Montegney, 
 and with many others, which he thought not fit to be 
 published. 
 
 John Willis, yonger brother to Dr. Thorn. Willis the 
 famous physitian, was then chapter-clerk of Ch. Church ; 
 and he then designing to make a repertorie of records be- 
 longing to the said church, made choice of that time to do 
 
152 LIFE OF WOOD. [1667. 
 
 it, to the end that he might have the assistance of A. W. 
 which he freely imparted, and demonstrated to him from 
 several evidences, what encroachments that church had suf- 
 fered in many places in Oxon. on their lands and tenements, 
 which formerly belonged to S f . Frideswyde and Osney. 
 Au £- 31- John Aubrey, of Easton-Piers in the parish of Kington 
 
 S. Michael in Wiltsh. was in Oxon. with Edw. Forest a 
 bookseller, living against Alls. coll. to buy books. He 
 then saw lying on the stall Notitia Academics. Oxoniensis ; 
 and asking, who the author of that book was ? he answered, 
 the report was, that one Mr. Anth. Wood, of Merton coll. 
 was the author, but was not. Whereupon Mr. Aubrey, a 
 pretender to antiquities, having been contemporary to A. 
 Wood's elder brother in Trin. coll. and well acquainted 
 with him, he thought, that he might be as well acquainted 
 with A. W. himself. Whereupon repairing to his lodgings, 
 and telling him who he was, he got into his acquaintance, 
 talked to him about his studies, and offered him what as- 
 sistance he could make, in order to the completion of the 
 work that he was in hand with. Mr. Aubrey was then in 
 a sparkish garb, came to towne with his man and two 
 horses, spent high, and flung out A. W. at all recknings. 
 But his estate of 7001i. per. an. being afterwards sold, and 
 he reserving nothing of it to himself, hVd afterwards in a 
 very sorry condition, and at length made shift to rub out 
 by hanging on Edm. Wyld, esq; living in Blomesbury 
 neare London, on James earle of Abendon, whose first 
 wife was related to him, and on S r . Joh. Aubrey, his kins- 
 man, living somtimes in Glamorganshire, and somtimes 
 at Borstall neare Brill in Bucks. He was a shiftless person, 
 roving and magotieheaded, and somtimes little better than 
 erased. And being exceedingly credulous, would stuff his 
 many letters sent to A. W. with e folliries, and misinform- 
 e Sic. Hearne. 
 
1667.] life of wood. 153 
 
 ations, which somtimes would guid him into the paths of 
 err our. f 
 
 f From a passage in the life of obliged to each other for their mu- 
 
 John Aubrey, esq ; prefixed to the tual literary communications, their 
 
 Natural History and Antiquities friendship was neither firm nor 
 
 of Surrey, the reader might ima- lasting. A particular account of 
 
 gine that the acquaintance between Mr. Aubrey is given in the life 
 
 him and Mr. A. W. commenced above mentioned, and in the Bio- 
 
 at an early period, but the account graphia Brit, to which it is only 
 
 given here evidently contradicts necessary to add a more accurate 
 
 that supposition. It is certain also, detail of the MSS. which he de- 
 
 that, although they were greatly posited in the museum at Oxford. 
 
 i. The Natural History of Wiltshire : 1685. 2 vol. 
 
 2. Architectonica Sacra .• a curious MS. but unfinished. 
 
 3. A Perambulation of Surrey : much of this is used in the printed 
 work. 
 
 4. An Apparatus for the Lives of our English Mathematical and 
 other Writers. 
 
 5. An Interpretation of Villare Anglicanum. 
 
 6. The life of Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbury .- made use of by Dr. 
 Blackburne, in Vita Th. Hobbes Auctarium. 
 
 7. An Idea of Education of Young Gentlemen. 
 
 8. Designatio de Easton- Piers in com. Wilts 
 
 Per me 
 {heu) infortunatum Johannem Awbrey 
 R. S. Socium. 
 Hoc erat in Votis modus Agri non ita magnus 
 Hortus ubi, et Tecto vicinus jugis Aqucefons, 
 Et paulum Silvce super hisforet. 
 Anno Dni. 1669. 
 N. B. It consists of several views of the house, gardens, and environs of 
 Easton Piers, drawn in a coarse manner and colouring, but pleasing 
 and expressive. 
 
 9. A Volume of Letters and other Papers of E. Ashmole's relating 
 chiefly to Dr. Dee and Sir Edw. Kelley. 
 
 10. Two Volumes of Letters from eminent Persons to John Aubrey, 
 esq j W. &H. 
 
 [11. Lives of eminent literary and political Characters, addressed to 
 Anthony a Wood, and collected for his use. In three volumes. Most 
 of these have been printed in an appendix to Letters transcribed from 
 the originals in the Bodleian library, 2 vols. Oxford, 18 13. 8°.] 
 
 [In 1845 Mr. John Britton, dertakings, (to whom be it ever 
 F. A. S. a veteran in literary un- remembered we owe the introduc- 
 
154 LIFE OF WOOD. [1667. 
 
 Sept. Perus'd the evidences of S. Joh. Baptist coll. by the 
 
 favour of D r . Mews the president, who treated A. W. with 
 more freeness and libertie, than any other head of a house. 
 The keys of the tower over the gate were freely pnt into 
 his hand, and he perused the evidences partly in the tower, 
 and partly in a chamber on the south side of it, which 
 then belonged to Edw. Bernard, one of the proctors of the 
 university : for thro his chamber was the passage up to the 
 tower. There are many evidences belonging to Walton man- 
 nor, and the mannour of S. Giles, both in the north suburb 
 of Oxon. which evidences had belonged to Osney, Godstow, 
 &c. as having been formerly lords of those mannours. 
 
 Whereas in the month of May 1667 A. W. had leave 
 given to him by the parishioners of S. Marie Magdalen 
 parish, to peruse their evidences, reposed in their church, 
 he did then find among them a register of paper, contain- 
 ing (1) marriages from 1574 to 1591. (2) christnings 
 from 1577 to 1591. (3) burialls from 1574 to 1591 ; which 
 register being worn, torn, and hardly legible, A. W. did 
 transcribe on Dutch paper, and caused it to be bound 
 with a past-board cover and velum over it. Which register, 
 
 Mar. 24. with the old, he delivered to the parishioners, the old to 
 be laid up in the chest, the transcript to be kept in the 
 clark's hands, &c. s 
 T ^ 68 -_ Matthew Hutton, h M. A. fellow of Brasn. college, and 
 
 ^ tion of a better taste and execution ever is of interest respecting Au- 
 in the embellishment of architec- brey and his collections, since he 
 tural and antiquarian publications,) justly claims, and will undoubted- 
 printed for the Wiltshire Society, ly obtain, a fuller notice in any 
 a life of Aubrey, derived chiefly continuation to these Athene.] 
 from his own papers; and in 1847 g See Catalogue of Wood's 
 the same editor published in 4 . MSS. in mus. Ashm. N°. 8524. 
 Aubrey's Natural History of 'Wilts, W. & H. 
 
 with notes and wood-cuts. It is h [" 1711. June 27 died Dr. 
 
 unnecessary to do more than refer Matthew Hutton, rector of Ayn- 
 
 to Mr. Britton's books, for what- hoe in Northamptonshire, and 
 
l668.] LIFE OF WOOD. 155 
 
 A. W. went to Borstall neare Brill in Bucks, the habita- 
 tion of the lady Penelope Dinham, being quite altered 
 since A. W. was there in 1646. For whereas then it was 
 a garrison, with high bulwarks about it, deep trenches 
 and pallisadoes, now it had pleasant gardens about it, and 
 several sets of trees well growne. The errand of A. W. 
 there was to see the leiger of the family, first for the satis- 
 fying of himself, as to matters to be extracted thence for 
 his book, about to be published, and secondly to extract 
 thence what he could find for the 3d. vol. of Monast. An- 
 glicanum; which were the copies of some charters that are 
 printed in the said 3 d . vol. p. 18, containing the hermitage 
 of Muswell in the parish of Piddington neare Borstall. 
 This leiger-book, written in parchment, containes the evi- 
 dences and other matters concerning the lands, pertaining 
 to the lords of Borstall, lying at Borstall, and in Bucks, 
 and Oxfordshire, and was made and written by the care 
 of Edm. Rede, esq;, lord of the mannor of Borstall, temp, 
 
 formerly fellow of Bras. He was land, &c. &c. to which he had 
 a learned antiquary, but never made an index, MS. Harl. 7521. 
 published anything, tho' his col- Wanley, whose estimate of their 
 lections, which are large and cu- value differs widely from Hearne's, 
 rious, have been made use of by says, "my lord bought his (Hut- 
 divers of our English antiquaries, ton's) papers at a very dear rate," 
 and are often quoted. They are but Humfrey perhaps wanted to 
 written in a great many small enhance his own merit with his 
 volumes, but how disposed of I master, in the restoration of some 
 do not yet hear." Hearne's MS. papers lent him by Dr. Hutton, 
 Collections, vol. xxix. p. 17. He which he gave up to lord Oxford, 
 afterwards writes : " The earl of after the death of the original 
 Oxford bought his collections for owner. See Harl. Catalogue, 3. 
 an inconsiderable sum." Hutton's 534. It may be reasonably sup- 
 manuscripts are now in the British posed that Hutton's love for anti- 
 museum, comprising between for- quities was much strengthened by 
 ty and fifty volumes of extracts his acquaintance with Wood and 
 from episcopal and other regis- these agreeable rambles to places 
 ters, documents from the Tower, of historical celebrity in the neigh- 
 epitaphs in various parts of Eng- bourhood.] 
 
156 LIFE OF WOOD. [1668. 
 
 H. 6. In the beginning of this book is represented in 
 colours the mannour house of B or stall, with a moat round 
 it, and the lord of the mannour (Johannes filius Nigelli) 
 issuing out of his house to meet a certain king and his 
 retinew. And at some distance from the house, the lord 
 kneels downe to the king, and presents him with a boare's 
 head on the top of a sword or spear e. This, as the tradi- 
 tion of the family goeth, is an allusion to the custome of 
 the mannour (Boristall) to present the king with a boare's 
 head, because the said mannour was in antient time, when 
 'twas wooddy, a stall or den for wild boares. 
 
 Between 9 and 10 of the clock at night, being an hour 
 or two after supper, there was seen by them M. H. and 
 A. W. and those of the family of Borstall, a Draco volans 
 fall from the sky. It made the place so light for a time, 
 that a man might see to read. It seemed to A. W. to be 
 as long as Allsaints steeple in Oxon. being long and nar- 
 row : and when it came to the lower region, it vanished 
 into sparkles, and, as some say, gave a report. Great 
 raines and inundations followed &c. 
 
 M. Hutton and A. W. walked from Borstall to see some 
 churches, and what of matter of antiquity wee could find 
 in them, and about 12 of the clock they arrived at Notley, 
 in the parish of Long-Crendon in Bucks, to see the ruins 
 of the abbey there, originally built for Black Canons. Mr. 
 N orris Lenton, the owner of it (from the family of the 
 lord Norris) was an antient bachelaur, and had formerly 
 been a great traveller, and being a person of good breeding 
 and a scholar, he received them with great curtesie. They 
 met there capt. - - - - Sanders of Hadnam, and after 
 dinner they viewed the ruins, which shewed that it had 
 been a stately place, and therefore the spectacle was more 
 sad &c. In one of the windows of a lower roome were 
 the armes of Stafford, duke of Bucks. When A. W. went 
 
668.] 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 157 
 
 to school at Thame, he usually retired to this place to 
 gather nuts, having been then great plenty, and more in 
 antient time, which caused it to be called Nutley, that is, 
 the place of nuts. 
 
 Rec d . from D r . Savage, master of Balliol coll. his book May 21. 
 
 Sgg before 
 
 lately printed, entit. Balliofergus &c. in requitall for what un d e r the 
 A. W. had done in order to it's composition. In the said yeare l66 °* 
 book, p. 28. he calls A. W. "his friend." 
 
 He went to the house of S r . George Croke', lord of 3°- 
 Water-stoke neare to Thame in Oxfordshire, where he 
 
 1 [Sir Geo. Croke was the son 
 of Henry Croke, D. D. rector of 
 Waterstock, who died in 1642, 
 and was buried in the chancel of 
 his own church. His uncle sir 
 Geo. the judge, left him 100Z. to- 
 wards his maintenance and edu- 
 cation. His wife was Jane, one 
 of fourteen children of sir Richard 
 Onslow ; she died in 1676, leaving 
 two daughters only, so that on the 
 death of sir George in 1680 or 
 1 68 1, the trustees sold the Water- 
 stock estate, as Wood here re- 
 counts, to the Ashhursts. Con- 
 cerning this family I find the fol- 
 lowing particulars in Delafield's 
 History of Great Milton, among 
 Gough's MSS. in the Bodleian : 
 
 " The original of the family in 
 Oxfordshire was Henry Ashurst, 
 esq. a woollen draper by trade, 
 and a citizen and alderman of 
 London. He was born at Ash- 
 urst in Lancashire, being the son 
 of a gentleman there seated, by 
 Cassandra, daughter of John 
 
 Bradshaw, of Bradshaw in that 
 county. He had it seems an elder 
 brother, - - Ashurst, esq. who 
 was grandfather to Thomas Henry 
 Ashurst, esq. successor to sir 
 Henry Ashurst the younger at 
 Waterstock. Henry Ashurst, the 
 alderman, married Judith the dau. 
 of one Mr. Risby, and had with 
 her about 1500Z. fortune, a very 
 considerable portion as money 
 then went. By her he had four 
 sons *. The first a member of the 
 long pari, went a commissioner 
 into Scotland, had the clerke of 
 the peace's place for Lancashire 
 bestowed on him, and 1000Z. in 
 money, given him by the leaders 
 of that party. The second son 
 was a colonel, but on which of 
 the contending sides, I find not. 
 The third was sir Henry, the 
 senior, of Waterstoke, and the 
 fourth sir Will. Ashurst, who in 
 1 69 1 was sheriff of London and 
 Middlesex, and in 1693 lord 
 mayor, and at length colonel of 
 
 * [He died in 1680. Richard Baxter preached his funeral sermon, which he 
 printed under the title of Faithful Souls shall be with Christ. Lond. 1681. 40.] 
 
158 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [1668. 
 
 found a great diversion, in perusing and taking the armes 
 and monuments in the church, and in the mannour house 
 belonging to the said S r . Georg. A. W. lodged, by the ap- 
 pointment of the said S r . George, k in an antient rome 
 called "the king's rome/' because K. H. 6. had lodged 
 therein, and 'twas, as he remembers, at the end of the 
 dining-rome. The mannour of Water-stoke S r . George 
 Croke a judg had purchased of the Caves \ and having an 
 
 the white regiment of the city- 
 trained bands,, and chief commis- 
 sioner in the excise. He dyed in 
 1720, having been one of the re- 
 presentatives of the city in the 
 parliament dissolved 17 10. * * * 
 Alderman Henry Ashurst pur- 
 chased Emington of the family of 
 Hamden, which had before be- 
 longed to the Scope's, and dying 
 left it to his son Henry, who was 
 first knighted, and afterwards 
 raised to the degree of baronet.* 
 He procured the manour of Wa- 
 terstoke by sale of the Croke's, 
 and married Diana the 5 daugh- 
 ter of William lord Paget, by his 
 lady Frances, one of the daugh- 
 ters of Henry Rich, earl of Hol- 
 land, beheaded soon after the 
 murder of king Charles I. by the 
 same violent hands that cut off 
 his royal master. By this lady 
 sir Henry had two children, viz. 
 a daughter Frances, so named 
 from her noble grandmother, mar- 
 ried to sir Richard Allen, bart. 
 seated at Somerby house in Suf- 
 folk, to whom she bore several 
 
 sons and a daughter married to 
 Thomas Henry Ashurst, esq. of 
 Lancashire, whom we shall find 
 heir of Waterstock. The third 
 son was sir Henry Ashurst, junior, 
 who married Elizabeth, daughter 
 of sir Tho. Draper of Sunninghill 
 near Windsor. * * There was no 
 surviving issue by this marriage, 
 so that the estates at Emington, 
 Waterstoke, &c. upon the death 
 of sir Henry came by entail to 
 Tho. Henry Ashurst, esq. who 
 had married the niece of sir Henry 
 and daughter of sir Richard 
 Allen as aforesaid."] 
 
 k See Wood's MSS. in mus. 
 Ashm. N°. 8548. W. & H. 
 
 1 [Before the year 1615 sir Geo. 
 Croke purchased of sir William 
 Cave the estate at Waterstock. 
 It had come into the Cave family 
 by the marriage of sir Tho. Cave, 
 brother to sir George Croke's 
 grandmother, Prudence Cave, 
 with Elizabeth Danvers, daughter 
 and heiress of sir John Danvers 
 of Waterstock. Sir Alex. Croke's 
 Hist, of the Croke Family, p. 568.] 
 
 * [Sir H. Ashhurst was the tried friend of Baxter : he was executor to him 
 as well as to Boyle, no inconsiderable mark of confidence in two persons of 
 undoubted celebrity.] 
 
l668.] LIFE OF WOOD. 159 
 
 only son, who was a sot or fool, or both, would not leave 
 Water- stoke to him, m but to the son of his brother (a 
 clergy man) named sir Georg Croke, before mentioned, 
 som times fellow of Alls. coll. and afterwards high sherriff 
 of Oxfordshire ; but after the death of his wife (who was 
 an Onslow of Surry) he ran into debt, retired to London, 
 followed women, and ruin'd himself. Some yeares after 
 his death (which, hapned in n 1681) the heir and executor, 
 or those that were intrusted with the estate, sold Water- 
 stock to - - - Ashhurst a trader of London, who pulling 
 downe all the old house, built this that stands of brick, 
 an. 1695.° 
 
 Tho. Gore of Alderton in Wilts, esq ;. having published, July, 
 about the beginning of this yeare, A Catalogue of Authors 
 that had written of Heraldry, he sent A. W. a printed copie 
 of it, with a desire that he would add more authors to 
 them. Whereupon interleaving the book, he added to it 
 as much as came to half that book that was printed this 
 yeare ; which being done, he sent them away in the be- 
 ginning of July this yeare, and afterwards more as they 
 came to his hands. See more in Octob. 1674. 
 
 Rec d . a letter from Cornwall, that the body of a giant Aug. 
 of 10 foot long was there lately found in digging or plow- 
 ing. Dr. Rich. Trevour had also a letter thence, or else 
 from Devonshire, that attested the like matter. 
 
 A. W. went to Cooper's hill, in the parish of Brock- Sept. i, 
 
 m [Certain it is that Waterstock no proof that he enjoyed any part 
 
 was bequeathed to his son Thomas of his property. Croke's History 
 
 and to his heirs by any other wife of the Croke Family, p. 605.] 
 
 than Anne, so that we may sup- n In Ath. Oxon. 1680. 
 
 pose he had made an improvident ° [Taken down by Sir W. H. 
 
 marriage. It is however probable Ashhurst one of H. M. justices of 
 
 that the father survived the son, the King's Bench, who erected the 
 
 or that the son outlived his father present large and excellent house 
 
 for a very short space, for there is of stone about the year 1787.] 
 
160 LIFE OF WOOD. [1668. 
 
 worth, 4 miles distant (towards Oxon.) from the city of 
 Glocester, in the company of his acquaintance Tim. 
 Nourse, M. A. and fellow of University coll. This Cooper's 
 hill is a lone-house, own'd by their acquaintance ° Joh. 
 Theyer, gent, who had then a very fair library of MSS. re- 
 posed in a roome, which he had built to retaine them. The 
 next day Mr. Nourse went forward to see some of his rela- 
 tions, and A. W. set himself to peruse the MSS. which the 
 said Mr. Theyer had been neare 40 yeares in gathering, 
 and did catalogue many of them. 
 4. Mr. Nourse returning to us the day before, wee went 
 
 this day to Glocester, where we saw the cathedral and 
 monuments therein, and several parts of the city; after- 
 wards wee went to the taverne with one or two of the 
 choire, drank a glass of wine and had a song, and so when 
 'twas neare dark, we returned to Cooper's hill. 
 7. Returned to Oxon. brought a MS. or two with him, 
 
 and others were sent after him by a carrier to peruse ; 
 which afterwards he returned. 
 12, 13. Took physic and blooded to prevent the comming of an 
 ague. 
 Dec 10. His acquaintance Rob. Dormer, of Rousham in Oxford- 
 
 shire, esq. did take to wife Mrs. Anne Cotterel, one of 
 the daughters of S r . Charles Cotterel, Mr. of the ceremo- 
 nies. This Rob. Dormer, when he was a yong man, lived 
 very high in London, in the time of Oliver, and he and S r . 
 Will. Sedley, elder brother to S r . Charles, did strive who 
 should out-vie each other in gallantry, and in splendid 
 coaches, but afterwards marrying Catherine, the daughter 
 of Mountague earl of Lindsey, which was his hrst wife, he 
 took up, and grew rich. 
 
 Went with Franc. Dryer (an outlander, borne at Breme) 
 now a sojournour in Oxon. for the sake of the library, to 
 See [p. 33] above, under the year 1646. Hearne. 
 
1669.] LIFE OF WOOD. 161 
 
 S r . Georg Croke's liouse at Water-stoke, to keep part of 
 the Christmas, and continued there till 2 of Jan. 
 
 S r . Edw. Bysshe, Clarenceux king of armes, was at theMar.18,19. 
 Crowne inn near Carfax in Oxon. in order to visit part of 
 the county of Oxon. being part of the province belonging 
 to Clarenceux. A. W. was with him several times, eate 
 and drank with him, and had several discourses with him 
 concerning armes and armory, which he understood well, 
 but he found him nice and supercilious. Few gentlemen 
 appeared, because at that time there was a horse-race at 
 Brackley. Such that came to him, he entred if they 
 pleased. If they did not enter, he was indifferent, so the 
 visitation was a trite thing. Many looked on this matter, 
 as a trick to get money. A little before his departure he 
 gave A. W. a dash of his office, viz. he entred 3 or more 
 descents of his family, a copie of which he hath lying by 
 him. Afterwards S r . Edward having a coach and four 
 horses with him, he went to Banbury. There were only 
 with him old - - - Wither a herald painter of London 
 and his clerk (Gregorie) the former of which tricfd the 
 coates, the other entred them in the book of visitation. 
 He the said S r . Edw. Bysshe was in Oxon. againe in 
 1675, to make an end of his visitation, but A. W. was 
 then absent. 
 
 By virtue of a ticket, some dayes before put into the 1669. 
 hands of A. W. he went to the Guildhall of Oxon. to par- ^ p C ^; IL 
 ticipate of a feast, there kept for the natives of Oxon. 
 
 They all met at 9 of the clock in the morn, in the said 
 hall, and marched thence very orderly (in number about 
 440) downe the High street, with a minister before them, 
 had a sermon in the church of S. Pet. in the East, preached 
 by Rob. Field, M. A. of Trin. coll. borne in Grope lane in 
 S l . Marie's parish, and retiring to the hall againe, had a 
 noble entertainment ; which done, there was a collection 
 
 wood, vol. 1. M 
 
162 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [1669. 
 
 This was 
 done in imi- 
 tation of 
 Berkshire 
 men, who 
 kept their 
 feast on 
 Candlemas 
 day going 
 before., Joh. 
 Lamb being 
 then mayor. 
 26. 
 
 made to bind out two or more boyes apprentices. This 
 was the first time that the natives of Oxon. had a feast, 
 being begun and put forward by - - - - Paynton the 
 townclerk, a native of Oxon. 
 
 Munday was the first day that the flying-coach went 
 from Oxon. to London in one day. A. W. went in the 
 same coach, having then a boot on each side. Among 
 the six men that went, M r . Rich. Holloway, a counsellour 
 of Oxon. (afterwards a judge) was one. They then (ac- 
 cording to the vice-chancellour's order, P stuck up in all 
 
 P [From the Oxford Almanack 
 for the year 1692. Printed at 
 Oxford in that year, small 8°. 
 An order for preventing abuses and 
 irregularities in carriage. 
 
 1 . For the carriage of one hun- 
 dred weight of goods, from the 
 feast of All Saints, to the feast of 
 the Annunciation, or Lady- day, 
 four shillings. And for the rest 
 of the year 3s. 6d. 
 
 2. For the carriage of any per- 
 son by waggon, four shillings. 
 
 3. For the carriage of the 
 greatest parcel, (all being to be 
 esteemed parcels und. one quarter 
 of an hundred weight,) one shil- 
 ling, and so less in proportion for 
 those that are less : except that for 
 a single hat and case, nine pence. 
 
 4. For the carriage of any bur- 
 den, not exceeding one hundred 
 weight nor less than one quarter of 
 an hundred weight, from the shop 
 or warehouse, where the goods 
 were unladen, unto the owner's 
 habitation or shop, threepence, 
 and for a parcel one penny. 
 
 5. All letters directed to scho- 
 
 lars shall be left at the butteries 
 of their respective colleges or 
 halls : and for the delivery of 
 every such letter, shall be given 
 only one halfpenny loaf, as was 
 accustomed, but if any carriage 
 comes with a letter, nothing shall 
 be given for the delivery of that 
 letter. 
 
 That all stage-coaches travel- 
 ling between the said university 
 and the city of London in two days 
 shall respectively set forth from 
 Oxford at, or before, the hour of 
 nine by S^ Mary's clock; and 
 shall in like manner set forth from 
 London, so as to pass by S*. 
 Giles's church in the suburbs, at 
 or before the same hour, by the 
 clock of the said church : and in 
 all other points the carriers are to 
 take care, that passengers be con- 
 veyed to their respective stages, 
 safe and in a reasonable time. 
 
 Carriage by water is to be esti- 
 mated after the rate of one shil- 
 ling for every hundred weight. 
 
 From our Lady-day unto Mi- 
 chaelmas the coaches go every 
 
1669.] LIFE OF WOOD. 163 
 
 public places) entred into the coach at the tavern dore 
 against Alls. coll. precisely at 6 of the clock in the morn- 
 ing, and at 7 at night they were all set downe in their inn 
 at London. The occasion of A. Wood's going to London 
 was to carry on his studies in the Cottonian library and 
 elsewhere. 
 
 Cosmo de Medicis, prince of Tuscany, entertaind by the May 3. 
 members of the universitie of Oxon. 
 
 A. W. returned from London, and soon after collected 7- 
 from his friends the particulars of the prince's entertain- 
 ment. 
 
 D r . Rich. Pearson of Cambridge, and Mr. Tho. Hyde 21. 
 the chief library -keeper, gave a visit to A. W. A. W. en- 
 tertained them at the taverne against Alls. coll. See 
 before, in the yeare 1667. 
 
 A. W. was dismist from his usual and constant diet, June 26. 
 which for many yeares he had taken in the house where he 
 was borne, and then lived, by the rudeness and barbarity 
 of a brutish woman, of which she afterwards repented, 
 when too late. A. W. was put to his shifts, a great deale 
 of trouble, and knew not what to doe, because his dismiss 
 was suddaine, whereas there should have been a month's 
 warning at least. He was ashamed to go to a publick house, 
 because he was a senior master, and because his relations 
 lived in Oxon. and to go to Merton coll. (which he had 
 left, as to his diet, for several yeares before) he was much 
 resolved in himself against it. He had a name in the 
 buttery-book there, and took bread and beere when he 
 could go no where else for meat. By his much fasting, 
 
 day in the week between Oxford coaches go out every Monday, 
 and London, and carry passengers Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, 
 in one day, every passenger pay- and carry passengers in two days, 
 ing ten shillings. But after Mi- each passenger paying ten shil- 
 chaelmas unto our Lady- day the lings.] 
 
 m2 
 
164 LIFE OF WOOD. [1669. 
 
 and drinking more than usually, the whole course of his 
 body was changed. Weaknesses came into several of his 
 joynts, especially in the leggs, and great noises in his eares: 
 and in the next yeare he found a deafness, first in his 
 right, and afterwards in his left, eare, which continued 
 more or less till death. This disaster, A. W. look'd upon 
 as the first and greatest misery of his life. It made him 
 exceeding melancholy and more retired ; was also at great 
 charg in taking physick and slops, to drive the noises out 
 of his eares, and D r . Joh. Lamphire took a great deal of 
 paines about them, but in vaine. You will heare more 
 hereafter, what trouble and charge A. W. was put to, to 
 obtaine his hearing. 
 
 Jul. 6. Elias Ashmole esq. came to Oxon. to spend some time 
 
 there, and to see the solemnity of the great Act approach- 
 ing. He lodged in the Grey-hound inn without the East- 
 gate of Oxon. and then he very kindly sent <i of A. W. to 
 come to him, purposely to deliver commendations to him, 
 from his father in law Will. Dugdale, Norroy K. of armes. 
 He continued in Oxon. 7 or 8 dayes and A. W. attended 
 him every day in seeing many curiosities, as the painting 
 in Alls. coll. chappel, the paynting in Magd. coll. chap- 
 pell, and the paynting in the theater. They were often 
 in the physick garden with Jacob Bobart the keeper, (an 
 old acquaintance of Mr. Ashmole) who shewd them many 
 choice plants, herbs, grafts, and other curiosities, to Mr. 
 Ashmole' s great content. 
 9. The dedication of the Theater for a learned use. After 
 
 which followed a very great and splendid Act. 
 
 Aug. 24. A. W. went to London in the flying-coach, having be- 
 fore been nominated by the proctors one of the 12 masters 
 of arts, to attend the solemnity of the installation of James 
 
 1 L./or. Hearne. 
 
1669.] LIFE OF WOOD. 165 
 
 duke of Ormonde to the chancellorship of the universitie 
 of Oxon. 
 
 A. W. went abont 8 of the clock in the morning by 25. 
 Whitehall towards S r . John Cotton's house neare West- 
 minster-hall, to borrow some MSS. from his library, to 
 carry on the grand work of the Hist, and Antiq. of the 
 Univ. of Oxon. He met neare Whitehall gate with D r . 
 Joh. Fell, D r . Rich. Allestrie, D r . Tho. Yate, &c. comming 
 from prayers, as it seems, at Whitehall, who told him, 
 that at 12 of the clock of the said day, he was to meet 
 the Oxford scholars then in London, to dine with his 
 grace the archb. of Canterbury (Sheldon) at Lambeth. 
 They told him then, that if he met by chance with any 
 Oxford doctors or masters, between that time and 12 of 
 the clock, he should tell them of it, which he did. After- 
 wards he borrowed certaine MSS. and at 12 of the clock 
 he passed over the water to Lambeth with D r . Yate, proc- 
 tor Alsop and others. When they came there, the archb. 
 was at the councill table at Whitehall with the king, and 
 did not returne till one of the clock. In the meane time 
 the doctors and masters entertained themselves with pic- 
 tures and other rarities in the gallery and had divers dis- 
 courses. At length the archb. came among them with D r . 
 Fell, and at their first entrie into the gallery, A. W. being 
 next to the dore, D r . Fell said to the archbishop : " If it 
 please your grace, there is a master of arts " (pointing to 
 A. W.) " that you must take notice of. He hath done the 
 universitie a great deal of honour by a book that he hath 
 written." Whereupon the archb. comming towards him, 
 A. W. kneeled downe, and he blessed him, and laying his 
 hand upon his shoulder when he was risen, spoke very 
 kindly to him, and told him, that " he was glad that there 
 was such a person in the universitie, that had a generous 
 mind to such a work." He bid him to proceed in his 
 
166 LIFE OF WOOD. [1669. 
 
 studies, that " he should be encouraged, and want nothing 
 that was equal to his deserts." 
 
 Afterwards they all went downe into the common hall, 
 where were divers bishops and persons of qualitie, and 
 others that thrust in, besides the Oxford scholars that 
 dined there. There was a high table went cross the 
 upper end of the hall, and tables on each side, as in 
 college halls. S r . Leolin Jenkins being then there, he 
 laid his hands on A. W. and made him sit at the high 
 table (whereas he should have r sit at one of the side 
 tables with his contemporaries) between him and Joh. 
 Cook, an under secretarie to the L d . Arlington, one of the 
 chief secretaries of state. He was then exceedingly ca- 
 ressed by all learned and good men, &c. 
 
 Aug. 26. James duke of Ormonde was installed chancellour of 
 the universitie at Worcester house in the Strand neare 
 London. After which followed a most noble banquet. 
 A. W. was there, and complemented by many, &c. 
 29. With Mr. Hugh Cressey at Somerset house. He dis- 
 
 coursed with him, but found not his expectation satisfied. 
 He was then one of the chaplaines to qu. Catherine. 
 
 Thence he was conducted by Will. Rogers of Line. Inn 
 to M r . Davenport, commonly called Sancta Clara, who 
 also had an apartment in the same house. He was then, 
 or had been lately, confessor to qu. Catherine. He found 
 him a complaisant man, very free and discoursive. Which 
 made him, when he went afterwards to London, to visit 
 him often. 
 
 Sept. 6. With Mr. Cressey againe, and discoursed of divers 
 
 matters relating to antiquities, &c. 
 
 Oct. 17. Joh. Curteyne, M. A. somtimes fellow of Line. coll. 
 was buried in the church at Borough in Lincolnshire. 
 
 r Sic. Hbarne. 
 
T669.] LIFE OF WOOD. 167 
 
 He had been physitian to A. W. after Rich. Lower went 
 to London to practice physick, which was in 1666* 
 
 The delegacy for printing of books met between 8 and Oct. 22. 
 9 in the morn, in - - - - Hall's honse behind and north- 
 ward of the schooles, at which were present D r . Pet. Mews 
 the vice-chancellour, D r . Joh. Fell, D r . Tho. Yate, D r . 
 Th. Barlow, Obad. Walker, Nat. Alsop proctor, &c. They 
 sent for A. W. to come unto them, and told him, that 
 whereas he had taken a great deal of paines in writing the 
 Hist, and Antiq. of the Universitie of Oxon. they would for 
 his paines give him an lOOli. for his copie, conditionally, 
 that he would suffer the book to be translated into 
 Latine, for the honour of the university in forreigne coun- 
 tries, and that he would take more paines in recovering 
 transcripts of original charters which he cites in his book, 
 as also verba ipsa, the words themselves, of old MS. au- 
 thors &c. to be put in Italic character, and thereby add to 
 the authority of the book. These proposalls, tho' they 
 were suddain to the author, yet he granted them their 
 desires. They, it seems, had before been informed of the 
 worth of the book by Mr. Obad. Walker, and Mr. Will. 
 Stone the principal of New Inn, who some time before 
 had been at the lodging of A. W. to see and peruse the 
 book. 
 
 A. W. took a compleat catalogue of all the MS S. in D r .Nov. 
 Tho. Barlow's library in Queen's coll. They were then in 
 number at least 76. besides bundells of writings concern- 
 ing differences between the universitie and citie of Oxon. 
 concerning Hedington in Oxfordshire, found among the 
 papers of Mr. Joh. Hearne a lawyer, besides divers papers 
 and bundells that had belonged to D r . Usher primate of 
 Ireland, and the copie of divers modern sermons preached 
 by eminent divines of the ch. of England. 
 
 His acquaintance and deare friend Henry Foulis, bac. Dec. 24, 
 
168 LIFE OF WOOD. [1669. 
 
 See Ath. of div. and sub-rector of Lincolne coll. died between 4 and 
 
 "FT* "R^AST'T 
 
 Oxon. 5 of the clock in the afternoone. He left behind him a 
 under the j ar p. s tudie of books : which being afterwards to be sold, 
 
 year 1669. D ." ' ' 
 
 A. W. did, for the most part, make a catalogue of them, 
 at the desire of Tho. Law and Joh. a Court, masters of 
 arts and fellows of the said coll. 
 Jan. Upon the desire of D r . Bathurst, president of Trinity 
 
 college, A. W. did communicate to him part of the Hist, 
 and Antiquities of the Universitie of Oocon. but he being a 
 most false person, did shew several parts of it to other 
 persons, particularly to Anth. Etterick, somtimes a com- 
 moner of Trin. coll. who accidentally came to give him a 
 visit, who finding a passage therein, which reflected, as he 
 thought, on the credit of Dr. Joh. Bidgood, a physitian of 
 the city of Exeter, he did forthwith acquaint him by let- 
 ters. Et hinc lachrymte, &c. Sever all complaining letters 
 he sent to D r . Bathurst, to have that passage expurg'd, 
 wherein the author was very slightly mentiond, &c. See 
 Fasti Oxon. under the year 1660. He the said D r . 
 Bathurst did also shew to D r . Joh. Wallis the memoire of 
 his election to the custodie of the archives under the yeare 
 1657, as Dr. Wallis did afterwards intimate to the author; 
 but when the Hist, or Annalls of the said University were 
 printed, that memoire was omitted, because the Annalls 
 reached no farther than the latter end of 1648. When the 
 author also communicated to the said D r . Bathurst his se- 
 cond book of the said historie, he dashed out many things 
 relating to Trin. coll. and somthing of the epitaph of D r . 
 Rob. Harris s there : which epitaph D r . Bathurst had 
 made, but afterwards was ashamed of it. 
 
 s Dr. Robert Harris was born, 1578, and became a member of 
 
 as his biographer says, "in a dark Magdalen hall in 1595. His tutor 
 
 time and place," viz. at Broad- leaving the hall, he put himself 
 
 Camden in Gloucestershire, an. under the care of Mr. Goffe of 
 
66 9 .] 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 169 
 
 Now was A. W. put to a great deal of trouble to un- 
 ravel his Historie, and make it fit for a Latin translation. 
 
 (1) He was to take several journeys to London, and else- 
 where, to recover the copies of charters, bulls and other 
 matters, from the Tower and S r . Joh. Cotton's library. 
 
 (2) He was to runn over all his English copie, to direct 
 
 Magdalen college, by whose in- 
 struction he profited so much in 
 godly exercises, as to be greatly 
 esteemed and preferred by the 
 puritanical party. In 1646, he 
 was one of the six ministers 
 appointed to preach the scholars 
 into obedience to the parliament, 
 and in the year following was 
 made one of the visitors of the 
 university, doctor in divinity and 
 president of Trinity college in 
 the room of Dr. Hannibal Potter 
 ejected from his headship. In 
 1654, he was a commissioner for 
 ejecting scandalous ministers, &c. 
 He died at Trinity college, Dec. 
 11, 1658, and was buried in the 
 chapell there. Over his grave 
 was a fair monument set up in 
 the wall, where he was said to 
 have been " per decennium hujus 
 collegii prases seternum celebran- 
 dus," &c. which expression Dr. 
 Bathurst is here said to have 
 struck out from Mr. a Wood's 
 copy of the epitaph in page 301 
 of the Historia et Antiquitates 
 Univ. Oxon. 
 
 In the register of the visitation 
 of the university we have the 
 following minutes entered in his 
 own hand : 
 
 "May 19, 1648. I received 
 three several orders touching Tri- 
 
 nity colledge, for the outinge of 
 Dr. Potter, and the admittinge of 
 myselfe. Robert Harris." A pro- 
 hibition against proceeding to 
 election at Trinity college dat. 
 May 26, 1648 (pag. 108.) 
 
 These pious reformers seemed to 
 have been, in one respect, endued 
 with a prophetical spirit, and to 
 have foretold the restoration of 
 the right owners of their usurped 
 stations. Accordingly they made 
 good use of their time, and taking 
 exorbitant fines for renewals of 
 college estates, almost sold out 
 the whole interest of the college 
 in such estates : in consequence 
 of which, after the restoration, 
 the tenant, on appeal, gained a 
 decree in chancery against the 
 college. 
 
 Trinity college has reason to 
 lament a transaction of this sort, 
 which happened during the go- 
 vernment of Dr. Harris. 
 
 Other memoirs of his life and 
 administration may be seen in 
 Athene and Fasti Oxon. 
 
 The Life of Dr. Harris by 
 William Durham, duod. War- 
 ton's Life of Dr. Bathurst, p. 146. 
 Original register of the university 
 visitors, in the Bodleyan library. 
 W. & H. 
 
170 LIFE OF WOOD. [1669. 
 
 the translator where, and what space to leave for the said 
 charters, &c. and whatsoever was to be represented in 
 Italick character ; which done, he was to enter them into 
 the translation, with his owne hand. (3) He was also to 
 pnt all the quotations and marginal notes with his owne 
 hand. (4) He was to correct every sheet as it came from 
 the press, and if the translator did omit any, he was to 
 supply it. 
 
 He was also, according to the desire of the delegacy, to 
 write, while the translation was in doing, the lives of all 
 the writers that he could obtaine, to be put in the respec- 
 tive colleges and halls, wherein they had been bred ; which 
 accordingly he did, before the Historie and Airmails were 
 worked off. But this was not all ; for, for the completion 
 of this work, he was forced to send very many letters 
 abroad, to his great charge, for a Notitia of some of them. 
 He also did, before the Annals (beginning with the con- 
 querour) went to the press, write the history of the Black, 
 Grey, Austin, White, Trinitarian, Crouched and Peniten- 
 tiarian, fryers, amounting to about 10 sheets when printed, 
 which were not in the English copie when it was sold to 
 the universitie. And this he did, because he knew full 
 well, that the enumeration and characters of those many 
 learned fryers, mentioned in the history of those orders, 
 would make very much for the honour of the university 
 of Oxon. in forreign parts. His life, day and night, was 
 in a continual agitation. 
 
 S r . Pet. Leycester, of Cheshire, having written a book 
 containing the antiquities of some part of Cheshire, he 
 sent the copie by his son of Brasn. col. to be put into the 
 hands of M r . James Hamer, fellow of that house. Mr. 
 Feb. 13.' Hamer being acquainted with A. W. he sent him a note, 
 to tell him, that he had such a book, signifying that it 
 was the desire of the author, that some of Oxford, who 
 
1670.] LIFE OF WOOD. 171 
 
 were knowing in antiquities, might peruse it, and correct 
 or add to it as they thought fit. And A. W. being willing 
 to see it, it was sent to him ; so that he taking some pains 
 about it, he soon after returned the book to M r . Hamer, 
 with a loose paper containing some corrections and ad- 
 ditions. 
 
 Eec d of D r . Mew the vicech. an 100 H . for the copie of J 670. 
 
 21 Car. II. 
 
 Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. which he afterwards put into May 29. 
 the hand of his brother Christopher. 
 
 A. W. went to London, to carry on the work relating to Apr. 27. 
 the Lat. edit, of Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. 
 
 Dined with M r . Ashmole at his house in Sheer-lane, May 1. 
 neare Temple barr, and John Davis of Kidwelly was there. 
 After dinner he conducted A. W. to his lodgings in the 
 Middle temple, where he shewed him all his rarities, viz. 
 antient coines, medalls, pictures, old MSS. &c. which took 
 them up neare two hours time. 
 
 Dhi'd with Franc, a S. Clara in his apartment in So- 6. 
 merset house. It was Friday, and they had a good fish- 
 dinner, and white-wine. Will. Rogers was with him. 
 There was hearty welcome, and good discourse and free- 
 dome ; and when A. W. went away, S. Clara gave him his 
 works in two folios, printed at Doway in Latine. 
 
 Returned to Oxon. and soon after he received from the XI. 
 carrier the said two volumes. See in Octob. 
 
 At the feast at the Guildhall for the natives of Oxon. 26. 
 Mr. Ben. Woodroff of Ch. Ch. preached at St. Peter's 
 church in the east, as having been borne in a house oppo- 
 site to the Theater in Canditch. 
 
 Nich. LLoyd, M.A. fellow of Wadham, a deare and Jul. 
 intimate acquaintance of A. W. published his Geographical 
 Dictionary : and because A. W. had communicated his 
 Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. in MS. for his approbation, 
 he therefore being exceedingly taken with the perform- 
 
172 LIFE OF WOOD. [1670. 
 
 ance, did give this character of it and it's author in the 
 said Dictionary, in verbo Oxon. p. 593. col. 2. running 
 thus : " Propediem vero, favente Deo, visurus est librum 
 vere aureolum, plurimo labore nee minor e judicio consig- 
 natum in quo Oxonia, sive eeleberrimee Universitatis Ox- 
 oniensis Historia ex intima antiquitate luculenter illustra- 
 tur. Autore Antonio Wood, collegii Mertonensis in eadem 
 universitate artium magistro, cujus laudes, integerrimam 
 erga me amicitiam, et singularem in hisce studiis indus- 
 triam et scientiam, deprsedicabo. 
 
 " Dum thymo pascenter fc apes, dum rore cicada?." 
 
 Note, that this Geographical Dictionary was published 
 4 yeares before Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. became ex- 
 tant. 
 Aug. XI. Dr. Fell having provided a bach, of arts of his college 
 (Ch. Ch.) Rich. Peers, u to translate the Hist, and Antiq. 
 of the Univ. of Oxon. into Latine, he sent to the author for 
 some of the English copie. The author brought it, and 
 D r . Fell putting it into Peers's hands, he did then begin to 
 translate. But so it was, that he being to seek for a ver- 
 sion, that would please the doctor, it was a long time be- 
 fore he could hit it, and the doctor took much paines to 
 
 1 Oves MS. Hearne. year 1669, article Clarke, where 
 u Mr. a Wood, in this passage, it is said that he was elected beadle 
 mentions Mr. Peers only as em- against the inclination and in- 
 ployed by Dean Fell in translat- terest of Dr. Fell, who would not 
 ing the Historia et Antiquitates suffer him to execute the place of 
 Oxon. Dr. Rawlinson (English architypographer " as being unfit 
 Topographer, pag. 181.) adds the for it, because he was not a per- 
 name of Mr. Wase, as does also son of sobriety." By what appears 
 the author of the A necdoteso/Topo- under the years 1690. and 1693. 
 graph]/, pag. 408. It seems this lat- articles Peers and Reeve, Rich- 
 ter was very unlikely to be pitched ard Reeve was the other person 
 upon, from his character given whose service Dr. Fell made use 
 in the Athene Oxon. under the of on this occasion. W. & H. 
 
1670.] LIFE OF WOOD. 173 
 
 instruct him, and would correct what he had done so 
 much, that the translator would be forced to write his 
 copie over twice, before it could go to the press. At 
 length having obtained the knack of a right version, w to 
 please the doctor, he went forward with the work, yet all 
 the proofs that came from the press went thro the doc- 
 tor's hands, which he would correct, alter, or dash out or 
 put in what he pleased, which created a great trouble to 
 the composer and author; but there was no help. He 
 was a great man, and carried all things at his pleasure so 
 much, that many looked upon the copie as spoyPd and 
 vitiated by him. Peers was a sullen, dogged, clownish 
 and perverse fellow, and when he saw the author concerned 
 at the altering of his copie, he would alter it the more, 
 and studie to put things in that might vex him, and yet 
 please his deane D r . Fell, &c. 
 
 With D r . Barlow in his lodgings in Queen's coll. where Sept. 20. 
 complaining to him of wearing out his eyes with reading 
 old MSS. written in a smal hand, he did therefore give to 
 him (A. W.) a larg magnifying glass, which cost, as he 
 told him, 40 shillings. He found it very serviceable to 
 him afterwards, and it helped him out at many a dead lift, 
 in perusing obliterated MSS. &c. 
 
 John Wood a Scot, philosophic professor of the univer- Sept. 24. 
 
 w That Dr. Fell, whose abilities communicates to his friend a 
 
 as a scholar are unquestionable, copy of Latin verses, and desires 
 
 had a peculiar taste in his Latin that Dr. Fell may not have the 
 
 compositions, and an affected fingering and altering of them, 
 
 attachment to the use of some For I think, he adds, "that 
 
 particular words and phrases, for bating the want of siquidems and 
 
 which he was remarkable among quinetiams, they are as good as 
 
 his cotemporaries, is evident from his worship can make." 
 
 a letter written by Dr. South to Warton's Life of Dr. Bathurst, 
 
 Dr. Bathurst, in which the former pag. 177. W. & H. 
 
174 LIFE OF WOOD. [1670. 
 
 sitie of Edenburgh, and Mich. Geddes, M. A. one of the 
 first Scotchmen that did participate of the exhibition of 
 D r . Joh. Warner, bp. of Rochester [were with A.W.] 
 Afterwards A. W. had them to the taveroe against Alls. 
 coll. and there liberally treated them with wine. At the 
 same time Mr. Joh. Wood gave to A. W. a book by him 
 lately published entit. x 
 
 In the beginning of Octob. A. W. received from Franc, 
 a S. Clara his scholastical and historical works: which 
 tho printed at Doway an. 1665. yet he found a place 
 therein to put a supplement into the remaining part of 
 the copies, that were left behind. The supplement is thus 
 entit. Supplementum Historic Provincite Anglice &c. 
 printed at Doway 1671. fol. Towards the making of 
 which supplement A. W. lent to him a MS. then in his 
 hands, entit. De primo Adventu Fratrum Minorum in An- 
 glia, et eorum gestis, written by Thorn. Eccleston, a Mi- 
 norite or Franciscan fryer, living in the raigne of 
 
 At a meeting of the delegates for printing in the house 
 behind and northward of the schooles, it was agreed upon 
 by them, that subscribers be admitted to come in, at what 
 proportion they think fit, to the printing of the Hist, and 
 Antiq. of the University, written by Mr. A. Wood, and ac- 
 cordingly receive the proportion of the books, or advan- 
 tage to be received by them. There were then present 
 D r . Mews the vicechancellour, D r . Yate, D r . Edw. Pocock, 
 
 x [Progymnasmata qusedam, ad magisterialem Lauream aspi- 
 quibus in Philosophici Tyrocinii rantes, in aede sacra Hyesterensi 
 jam praeterlapsi specimen decer- ad diem Julii 18. Sub praesidio 
 tabunt A. P. D. O. M. Adolescen- Joannis Sylvii. Edinb. exc. An- 
 tes aliquot ex Lyceo Edinburgeno dreas Anderson, 1670. 4 . *] 
 
 * [Wood's Study, No. 113. Wood has written on it, Donum autoris viz. 
 Joan. Wood philosophise professoris in acad. Edinburg. Oct. 3. 1670.] 
 
1670.] LIFE OF WOOD. 175 
 
 D r . Jo. Fell and Mr. Ob. Walker. But this project comming 
 to nothing, or else that it was disliked, D r . Fell undertook 
 to print it at his own charge. 
 
 Received from Tho. Blount, of the Inner Temple, esq. a No. 12. 
 
 slpp At'tt 
 
 book of his writing and publishing, entit. A Law Diction- ET f ast J 
 ary , interpreting such difficult and obscure words, as # r %nderthe 
 found either in our Common or Statute, antient or modern, year 1644- 
 Laws &c. printed in folio. This book he gave A. W. be- 
 cause he had, in his great reading, collected some old 
 words for his use, which were remitted therein. After- 
 wards sending to him more, they were remitted into the 
 second edition of that book. 
 
 William Henry Nassau, prince of Aurang and Nassau, Dec. 19. 
 was entertained by the university of Oxon. A. W. hath a 2C 
 larg account of this entertainment elsewhere. y 
 
 - - - - Goodson, tenant to A. W. at the Flowr de Luce, Jan. 5. 
 died. His son 
 
 D r . Herb. Pelham, senior fellow of Magd. coll. and the 19. 
 acquaintance of A. W. died in Magd. coll. He had been 
 for several years a constant companion with him at a cer- 
 taine club ; and from him had received several informa- 
 tions concerning the learned men of his time, especially 
 those of his coll. He was at least 74 yeares of age when 
 he died. 
 
 A conference or delegacy held in the lodgings of D r . Jo. Feb. 21 
 Lamphire, principal of Hart hall, where were present D r . 
 Joh. Fell, D r . Jo. Lamphire, and S r . Samp. White, justices 
 of the peace; Georg Napier, gent, chief tenant to Merton 
 coll. in Halywell, Bob. Whitehall, sub-warden of Mert. 
 coll. and Anth. Wood of the said coll. masters of arts. 
 This conference was in order for a course to be taken, 
 that the towne ditch, on the east side of New coll. wall, be 
 
 y See Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashra. 8566. W. & H. 
 
176 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 7 r - 
 
 drayn'd, that buildings may be erected on it, and that the 
 owners of the said buildings repaire the way lying before 
 their dores, viz. that way between the said ditch and Magd. 
 coll. wall, that incloses the grove. z 
 1 67 1. Whereas the parishioners of S. Peter in the East had, 
 
 22 c^fii* Tli 
 
 ' for some yeares, intruded, in their time of procession on 
 Holy Thursdayes, on the limits of St. John Baptist parish 
 de Merton, by taking in the east part of S. Alban's hall, 
 A. W. complained of it to some of the senior fellowes of 
 
 Jim. 1. Merton coll. Whereupon they desired him the said A. W. 
 to go with the sub-warden, M r . R. Whitehall, on Holy- 
 Thursday this yeare, to prohibit them in comming into 
 S. Alban's hall; which they accordingly did, while they 
 were making their cross on the kitchen dore; but were 
 run downe by clamours. Yet afterwards, by the per- 
 swasion of A. W. the sub-warden and fellowes of Mert. 
 coll. took order, that, on the following Holy-Thursdayes, 
 S. Alban hall gates should be kept locked till the proces- 
 sion was over. 
 
 July 7, 8. M r . Jo. Huddleston a Benedictin monke, a preserver of 
 
 z [Feb. 21, 1670. Wheras there be obliged to preserve y e s d ditch 
 
 lyes on y e east side of New coll. clear from filth and y e present 
 
 wall a quantity of wast ground nuisance, as also to keep the whole 
 
 now in y e occupation of Tho. high way before their houses in 
 
 Mynnes, Rich. Shern and Will. repair; provided y t y e said ditch 
 
 Squyre containing by estimation be removed to the opposite ditch 
 
 from N. to S. 520 feet, before w ch toward Magd. coll. wall, and thence 
 
 plat of wast ground towards y e carried downe to the river, and 
 
 east runs the towne ditch, w ch walld on both sides, and covered 
 
 now is ouerrun with mud and and set in sufficient repaire, with- 
 
 filth and is an occasion of stench out the charg and expence of the 
 
 and noysomness to y e place : it is possessors of the said wast ground 
 
 proposed y* y e said wast ground above mentioned, or inhabitants 
 
 be built upon with houses 4 sto- of the houses to be built. MS. 
 
 ries in height of stone work, and Tanner cii. f. 105.] 
 y* y e inhabitants of y e s d houses 
 
1 67 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. 177 
 
 his maj. K. Ch. 2. in his flight from Worcester fight an. 
 1651, and Thorn. Vincent, alias Vincent Sadler, another 
 Benedictin monk, were in Oxon. to see, as it seems, the 
 solemnity of the Act. Their lodging was in Allsaints 
 parish, in the back-side housing called Amsterdam. M r . 
 Tim. Nourse of Univ. coll. being acquainted with them, 
 he conducted A. W. to their company : where he heard 
 M r . Huddleston (who in 1651 had been chaplayn to a Rom. You may 
 
 S6G XQciHV 
 
 Cath. gent, called M r . Tho. Whitgrave, living at Mo seley things of 
 in Staffordshire) tell all the particulars, that passed be- huddleston 
 tween his majestie and him during his stay there, with inaDOok > 
 
 entit. Bos- 
 
 very great delight. A. W. desired him then, for posterity cobel. 
 sake, that he would committ to writing, what he knew of 
 that affaire ; which he promised me he would. This is the 
 same M r . Huddleston, who gave the extreame unction to 
 K. Ch. 2, when he lay on his death bed. 
 
 Ralph Sheldon, of Beoly in Worcestershire and of Wes- Jul. 21. 
 ton neare Long-Compton in Warwicksh. esq. being lately 
 at London in the company of Mr. Serenus alias Hugh 
 Cressey, an acquaintance of A. W. it fell out, that, among 
 other discourses between them, the said S. Cressey, talk- 
 ing of A. W. and his worke in the press, commended M r . 
 Sheldon to his acquaintance ; and that he might have ac- 
 cess to him, he sent by him to A. W. a book, entit. Tabula 
 Votiva &c. written by fath. Jo. Reed, a Benedictine, to be 
 delivered to him by the said Mr. Sheldon. Soon after 
 Mr. Sheldon came to Oxon. (Jul. 20.) and the next in the J ul - 21. 
 morn, he went to the chamber of Bog. Sheldon in Ch. 
 Church, and desired him to go with him to find out A. W. 
 They therefore came to his lodging about 10 in the morn, 
 of that day, and enquired for him ; but being not at home 
 (for he was at the publ. library) they went to Merton coll. 
 and enquired there, but non est inventus. About a quarter 
 of an hour after they came againe, and left worde, that 
 
 wood, vol. 1. N 
 
178 LIFE OF WOOD. L 10 ^ 1 - 
 
 when A. W. came home, they (the servants) should tell 
 him, that one Mr. Sheldon was to enquire after him, that 
 he had a mind to be acquainted with him, and that he 
 should find him at the Miter inn, &c. About XI of the 
 clock A. W. returned home, and receiving the errand from 
 the servants, he put himself in order, and went to him at 
 the Miter, where he found with him S r . Littleton Osbal- 
 deston and S r . Tho. Penyston. Upon notice given, that 
 A. W. was there, he came out of his chamber, talked kindly 
 with him at the stair-head, told him he had been lately at 
 London with Mr. Cressey, who remembred his service to 
 him, and had sent to him a book, but it being put up into 
 his cloak-bagg, he could not let him have it at that time 
 till he came home, and then he would send it by the 
 carrier, which he did. Mr. Sheldon then told A. W. that 
 he had a great love for the study of antiquity, and that if 
 he had any occasion for a cut, or cuts, to put into his 
 book, he would freely give him one or more. 
 
 This was the beginning of the acquaintance between 
 Mr. Sheldon and A. W. And seeing that he sought after 
 him, and desired his acquaintance, he could not in civilitie 
 denie him, &c. Now Mr. Sheldon being a zealous Papist, 
 and A. W. afterwards being often in his company, must 
 be esteemed a Papist also, as he was by many sniveling 
 saints, who make it a most horrible thing to be seen in 
 the company of any one of them. 
 
 Sent many additions to Tho. Gore, esq. to be put in 
 the next edition of his Cat. of Heraldry Books. See in 
 Oct. 1674. 
 Aug. 17. Thorn. Allam, M. A. fellow of Ball. coll. and an ac- 
 
 quaintance of A. W. died, buried in the chancell of S. 
 Cross of Halywell, neare the graves of the Napiers related 
 to his mother. 
 22. At Oxford feast at the Guildhall. Will. Browne, bac. 
 
1671.] LIFE OF WOOD. 179 
 
 of div. and fellow of Magd. coll. preached at S. Marie's. 
 Three poore boyes were bound apprentices with moneys 
 then collected. 
 
 Alex. Fisher, senior fellow of Mert. coll. and a fatherly Oct. 23. 
 acquaintance of A. W. died suddenly in his new house in 
 Halywell. About half an yeare before he was taken suddenly 
 with an appoplectical fit, but recovering, he set workmen 
 to pave Mert. coll. chap, with black and white marble at 
 his owne charge. a 
 
 Received from Mr. Ralph Sheldon a book entit. 7%eNov. 3. 
 Rule of Faith, (translated by his uncle Mr. Edw. Sheldon) 
 with several others, to put into the hands of Oxford book- 
 sellers. 
 
 A book entit. Animadversions upon Sr. Rich. Baker's 27. 
 Chronicle and Continuation, was first of all published at 
 Oxon. in 8vo. having been printed there. The book was 
 written by Tho. Blount, of the Inner Temple, esq;, and 
 'twas sent to A. W. to have it printed there, and to be by 
 him corrected. In the b ninth page of it are these words : 
 " Note likewise, that the foundations of the colleges of the 
 universities, especially of Oxford, are for the most part 
 mistaken, either in point of time or names of the founders, 
 
 a [Alexander Fisher, the son of from his father Walter Fisher, 
 
 a gentleman, and a native of Kent, and his uncle Mr. John Woodier, 
 
 was matriculated of Magdalen lying and being in the parishes of 
 
 hall June 21, 16 16, set. 19. His Maidstone and Boxley in Kent, 
 
 will is dated Jan. 25, 1670, proved the rents, &c. to be appropriated 
 
 Nov. 20, 1671. He leaves 1000Z. to the apprenticing boys born in 
 
 to the college for the purpose of the town of Maidstone, and for 
 
 adorning the chapel, desiring that the relief of poor widows dwelling 
 
 the new paving and repairs may in the same town for ever. See 
 
 be executed within three years the inscription on his monument 
 
 from his decease. He also be- at Merton, in Wood's Colleges 
 
 queaths to the mayor and jurats and Halls, by Gutch, p. 21.] 
 of Maidstone all his lands, &c. b L. 101st. Hearne. 
 
 which came and descended to him 
 
 N 2 
 
180 LIFE OF WOOD. [^71. 
 
 which I attempted not alwaies to rectify, both in that it 
 exceeded my skill, and chiefly because the Historie of 
 that Universitie, as I am informed, is now in the press, 
 which will cleare those mistakes, with much certainty and 
 satisfaction, being performed by the hand of that faithfull 
 and most industrious searcher of antiquities, M r . Anthony 
 Wood of Merton coll. &c." There was more that followed 
 of A. W. but A. W. scored it out. 
 
 Jan. The said Animadversions, were called in and silenced in 
 
 the beginning of Jan. by D r . Mews, the vicechancellour, 
 because therein, p. 30. 'tis said, that the word conventicle 
 was first taken up in the time of WicklifF. 
 
 Feb. 9. A. W. went to London, and the next day he was kindly 
 
 received by S r . Leolin Jenkyns, in his apartment in Exeter 
 house in the Strand, within the city of Westm. For his 
 lodgings in Doctors Commons, which had been burnt in 
 Sept. 1666, were not then rebuilt. 
 *'• Sunday S r . Leol. Jenkyns took with him in the morn, 
 
 over the water to Lambeth A. Wood, and after prayers 
 he conducted him up to the dining rome, where archb. 
 Sheldon received him, and gave him his blessing. There 
 then dined among the company, Joh. Echard, the author 
 of The Contempt of the Clergy, who sate at the lower end 
 of the table between the archbishop's two chaplayns Sam. 
 Parker and Tho. Thomkins, being the first time that the 
 said Echard was introduced into the said archbishop's 
 company. After dinner the archbishop went into his with- 
 drawing roome, and Echard with the chaplaynes and 
 Ralph Snow to their lodgings to drink and smoak. S r . L. 
 Jenkyns took then A. W. by the hand, and conducted him 
 into the withdrawing roome to the archbishop ; at which 
 time desiring him to produce the 12 printed sheets of his 
 book, (which he had carried with him from Oxon. by the 
 advice of D r . Fell,) he thereupon put them into the hands 
 
1672.] LIFE OF WOOD. 181 
 
 of S r . Leolin, and S r . Leolin into the hands of the arch- 
 bishop, who spending some time upon them, liked well 
 the character and paper, and gave A. W. great encourage- 
 ment to proceed in his studies. After the returne of A. W. 
 to Exeter house, S r . Leolin, who came after, told him, that 
 he would warrant him an ample reward, if he would pre- 
 sent a fair copie bound to the archb. when the book was 
 finished, &c. but this came to nothing, because D r . Fell 
 (who printed the book at his owne charge) took so much 
 libertie of putting in and out what he pleased, that the 
 author was so far from dedicating or presenting the book 
 to any one, that he would scarce owne it. 
 
 Returned to Oxon. This journey was taken to Lond. Feb. 16. 
 by A. W. purposely to peruse the Will-Office then in or 
 neare Exeter-house, in order to write the lives and charac- 
 ters of certaine eminent writers, to be put into his book of 
 Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. S r . L. Jenkyns was judge of 
 the Prerog. and had the chief authority over the said 
 office. 
 
 Will. Cox, M. A. somtimes fellow of Brasnose coll. now 1672. 
 vicar of Emildon in com. Northumbr. and kinsman to 23 Car * IL 
 
 May 16. 
 
 A. W. died there at Emildon. c 
 
 With Dr. J. Fell in his lodgings in Ch. Ch. Wee werejun. 
 then looking over and correcting the story of Joh. Wyc- 
 leve, in Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. before it was to be 
 wrought off from the press. He then told me, that " Jo. 
 
 c [Will. Cox, (son of Will. Cox incorporated M. A. was made soon 
 sometimes fellow of Merton coll. after by the visitors fellow of Bras- 
 after wards vicar of Emildon,) M.A. nose coll. Afterwards (i65i)beinge 
 of St. Andrew's univ. in Scotland, expelled by Dr. Greenwood for 
 was a commoner of Merton coll. misdemeanor, succeeded his father 
 in expectation of preferment from in the vicarage of Emildon, Oct. 
 the visitors, to whom he submitted 29, 1 65 7 , by the presentation of the 
 in the yeare following (1648) and college. Wood's MS. in Bp. Tan- 
 in the same yeare, in April, being ner's collection.] 
 
182 LIFE OF WOOD. [1673. 
 
 Wycleve was a grand dissembler, a man of little con- 
 science, and what he did as to religion, was more out of 
 vaine glory, and to obtaine unto him a name, than out of 
 honestie," &c. or to that effect. 
 July 6. Received from Elias Ashmole, esq. his book entit. The 
 
 Institutions, Lawes and Ceremonies of the noble Order of 
 the Garter. For which he sent him a letter of thanks for 
 the present, and afterwards his Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. 
 when finisht. 
 
 With D r . Barlow in his lodgings at Queen's coll. and, 
 among several discourses, A. W. told him, what a certaine 
 person of this universitie (not naming the man) had lately 
 said of Joh. Wycleve. Whereupon he presently made 
 answer, that it was D r . Fell. 
 
 1673. Richards, chaplain of All Souls, preached at St. Marie's, 
 
 24 Car. 11. « q 0( j g0 loved the world that he gave himself up, &c." 
 
 Jan. 
 
 D r . Barlow vice-chancellour d called him in question for 
 it, because he insisted much on the Arminian points. 
 Ftb. 2. Harris a painter in St. Ebbs died this month, setat. 106 
 
 or 107, in the register of St. Peter's in the Bailey. — The 
 register was not so high. 
 3. My company feared at Trinity college ; note that every 
 
 Monday night I commonly goe there, but Dr. Allestree, 
 Millington, Ironside &c. being minded to be private, M rs . 
 Bathurst sent her boy and desired me to refrain that 
 night. 
 10. D r . Bathurst told me that he was told that I was used 
 
 to listen at the common chamber, and elsewhere, and that 
 I never spoke well of any man. This, I suppose, came 
 from Dr. South' s chamber, for he was there that day at 
 dinner, or after, and D r . Bathurst told me this at night. 
 d Quaere if not pro-vice-cJiancellour. Sed sic MS, W. & H. 
 
1673J LIFE OF WOOD. 183 
 
 D r . Fell dean of Ch. Ch. sent for me; I could not Mar. 17. 
 come, but wrote a note to this effect : 
 
 " Sir, I desire, if you please to meet me at D r . Yates at 
 any time this day, or if you please I shall come with D r . 
 Yates to your lodging; I foresee stormes a coming, and 
 it is fit I should prevent them &c." 
 
 After this he sent for me to dine with him, I told the 
 man that I was to go to Magd. coll. to the president, but 
 I would meet him at D r . Yates lodging at one of the 
 clock. At one I came, and there he was; he sett upon 
 me after a very foule rate, all which I scarce remember, 
 but the most part was this ; how came it that he sent for 
 me so many times, and I did not come. I told him I was 
 busy at Magd. coll. He told me that I was a very uncivil 
 fellow, and then plucked out of his pocket the aforesaid 
 note, that I should meet him forsooth, and not come to 
 his lodgings ; I told him I did not care, and would not 
 come, or run the chapter through, as uncivil people; I 
 meant Green in Peckwater's inne, which he understood 
 well enough ; that I was also uncivil, and did not come 
 when he sent for me ; he said nothing. I told him if the 
 vicechancellour sent for me I would come, or if the head 
 of any college sent for me I would come, but was not 
 bound to come at his command, my chief desire was at 
 that time, that I might have security given that I writ a 
 preface, wherein I might apologize and excuse myself, for 
 what the translator hath farther, e also that I wrote the 
 book, that it might be a way to facilitate preferment for 
 me, but now foreseeing that it might be a ruin, I might 
 have liberty to write a preface. 
 
 And this he desired, and said I should, but then the 
 translator should another, so that if I write truth, that 
 rogue must contradict me. 
 
 e F. put in. 
 
184 LIFE OF AVOOD. [ i6 73- 
 
 He commanded my copy to be delivered, and I denied 
 it, unless they would satisfy me for what I had done; 
 then he told me he would have it of me, or else turn me 
 out of town ; I told them they should not, I was a native 
 and born there to an estate and would not &c. 
 
 That I kept drunken company and they had infused 
 matters into my head against them ; I scorned his words 
 and told him 'twas false ; he meant Greenwood. 
 
 Apr. 6. Low Sunday. Sam. Palmer of Merton coll. repeated. 
 
 9. Mr. George Verman the sen r . proctor of Exeter coll. 
 
 laid down the fasces of his authority, in whose speech 
 then spoke in convocation he insisted near a quarter of an 
 hour in praise of me and my work then in the press, I was 
 not then there, and therefore cannot give the particulars, 
 all that I heard of them was, that there was nothing f no 
 antique, nothing so undervalued among the generality of 
 people, but I made use of it, for the honour of my mother 
 the university of Oxford. I desired by a friend to have a 
 copy of as much as concerned me, but was denied. 
 
 s Proctors took their places, great rudeness at Trinity 
 college, the undergraduates and freshmen came into the 
 hall, scrambled for biscuits, took away bottles, glasses &c. 
 at Wadham the like. Tempora mutantur. 
 
 May 27, 28, Mr. Peers made Mr. Gallot stand still. 
 
 June 24. Midsummer day, dined at my brother Kits, cold meat, 
 
 cold entertainment, cold reception, cold clownish woman, 
 talking of players and praising them, she asked me to go 
 with her and give her a play ; if I had money I would ; I 
 must be forced to borrow of my brother I told her. Then 
 she began to extoll M r . Fettiplace and dean Huntington 
 for cloying with curtesies, and doing any thing she desired, 
 
 f Sic. s Viz. Campion e coll. Trin. "J '■ . " 
 
 Salter e coll. Wadh. jadm. >x Apr. .673. 
 
1673O LIFE of wood. 185 
 
 I told her if I had it, or were in my power I would do it, 
 she told me she had 3001. per annum and scorned to go. 
 I told her I came to be merry and not scolded at, she 
 angry at the word scolding told me, if I did not like the 
 diet, I should leave it. 
 
 M r . Shirley the Terra filius of Trinity college appeared July u- 
 and spoke a speech full of obsenity and prophaness, among 
 the rest he reflected upon, was me and my book, that I 
 made it my business to peer upon old walls, altars, tombs 
 &c. that I threatned to geld the translator for gelding my 
 book ; that I should say, that he had altered my book so 
 much, that I did not know whether it was French or 
 Latin ; that I perused all privy houses to furnish me with 
 matter to write my book, i. e. meaning from the shitten 
 papers; and when all was done, my book was but fit to 
 return there again, (but so obscure and dull it was, that 
 very few could understand who he meant or what, and 
 therefore had no applause : all looked upon D r . Wallis, but 
 none upon me, and this was my comfort, that what he had 
 uttered to my great disgrace, the vicechancellor in his 
 concluding speech recruited all again, for upon speaking 
 of the eminent men that have sprung from the university, 
 he said that he would leave it, being too long to recite, to 
 a book that would lately come forth.) 
 
 The society of Merton would not let me live in the col- 
 lege for fear I should pluck it down to search after anti- 
 quities, that I was so great a lover of antiquities that I 
 loved to live in an old cockleloft rather h in a spacious 
 chamber, that I was Vir caducus, that intended to put the 
 pictures of » mother Louse and mother George two old 
 
 h Supple than. former was the mistress of a little 
 
 1 The best accounts we can pro- ale-house situated at the further 
 
 cure of these two matrons, at this end of a row of tenements at the 
 
 distance of time, are as follow. The bottom of Headington hill near the 
 
186 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [i 6 73- 
 
 wives into my book, that I would not let it be printed, 
 because I would not have it new and common. k 
 
 
 lane leading to Marston, now, not 
 unaptly, called Harpsichord row. 
 The ingenious author of the Bio- 
 graphical History ofEngland,m de- 
 scribing a print [by Loggan] of this 
 noted female, informs us that she 
 was, probably, the last woman in 
 England that wore a ruff. She gave 
 a name to her habitation, which it 
 retained for many years, and was 
 called Louse Hall. None of our 
 modern antiquarians, not even the 
 inquisitive author of The Compa- 
 nion to the Guide, have attempted 
 to investigate the Founders of 
 our antient academical hostels. In 
 the Biographical History above- 
 mentioned we are told that Cab- 
 bage hall (situated directly oppo- 
 site the London road on Heading- 
 ton hill) was founded by a taylor. 
 Caterpillar hall, the name of the 
 house higher up the hill, was no 
 doubt a complimentary appella- 
 tion, intimating to posterity that, 
 on account of it's better commons, 
 it had drawn away a great number 
 of students from its inferior so- 
 ciety, or, in other words, that the 
 caterpillar had eat up the cabbage. 
 Mother George was a very an- 
 tient dame, living in Blackboy- 
 lane, which leads from the north 
 end of St. Giles's, to Rats and 
 Mice hill : the perfect use of all 
 her faculties, at the age of one 
 hundred and twenty years, occa- 
 sioned a great resort of company 
 to her house. It was her custom 
 to thread a very fine needle, with- 
 
 out the help of spectacles and to 
 present it to her guests, who, in 
 return, gave her some gratuity 
 towards her support. In the la- 
 ter end of her life, she removed 
 into the parish of St. Peter's in 
 the Bailey, and died there, by an 
 accidental fall which injured her 
 back. 
 
 A portrait, supposed to repre- 
 sent this celebrated lady, is now 
 in the possession of a gentleman 
 of New college, Oxford. W. & H. 
 
 [Alice daughter of Hugh Guies 
 and Bridget Watkins his wife, 
 was born at Droitwich in Wor- 
 cestershire upon All Saints day, 
 being then Thursday. She was 
 t6 years old and an half at Til- 
 bury camp 1588. At thirty she 
 married Thomas George at Mag- 
 dalen parish church, Oxford. By 
 him she had ten sons and five 
 daughters, among the rest John 
 George, living in October 1680, 
 aged 76, at which time she reck- 
 oned 39 great grandchildren. 
 Fulman's MS. Collections at Cor- 
 pus. My old college friend and 
 brother in law, the Rev. Joseph 
 Carter, fellow of St. John's coll. 
 and then vicar of St. Giles's, wrote 
 the following note as an addition 
 to that by Warton and Huddes- 
 ford. Mr. Carter was afterwards 
 rector of Bainton in Yorkshire, 
 died whilst on a visit to Oxford 
 Jan. 11, 1840, and lies buried in 
 the church-yard of St. Giles. 
 
 " In Lord King's Life of Locke 
 
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 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 187 
 
 Monday, the election of Oxford mayor, Anthony Hall Sept. 15. 
 vintner chosen, at which some young scholars and servi- 
 
 there is a memorandum of that 
 celebrated philosopher (page 131) 
 which mentions his seeing on 
 March 1, 1681, Alice George, a 
 woman, as she said, of 108 years 
 old at Allhallow tide past; she 
 lived in St. Giles's parish, Oxford. 
 Locke states her to have possessed 
 all her faculties still perfect, and 
 to have had as comely a face as 
 ever he saw any old woman have. 
 On referring to the register of my 
 parish of St. Giles, I find this old 
 woman to have died on July 12, 
 1 69 1, which will bring her, if her 
 ownaccountbecorrect,toher 1 19th 
 year when she died. Joseph Carter, 
 vicar of St. Giles's, Oxford." 
 
 There is an excellent picture of 
 mother George by Wm. Son- 
 mans, painted about 1690, in 
 Wadham coll. common room. A 
 print, from another painting by 
 M. Powell, was engraved by B. 
 Lens in mezzotinto. The old lady 
 is stated in both portraits to have 
 been 120.] 
 
 k We cannot reasonably expect 
 to find much panegyric in the 
 character of Mr. Shirley in the 
 Athene Oxon. in return for 
 the passages above, relating to the 
 author of that work : see it under 
 the year 1679. 
 
 That A. W. paid him the com- 
 pliment of due attention, during 
 the delivery of his speech, is evi- 
 dent from the passage itself, which 
 is here subjoined from the original 
 in the Bodleian library. 
 
 Ulterius in luna itineranti 
 
 occurrebat mihi (nescio quo fato) 
 vir quidam hujus senescentis mun- 
 di, quern ex obsoleta facie et tritis 
 vestibus putavi fuisse antiqua- 
 rium. At quid negotii antiquario 
 in novilunio ? Certe nihil potuit 
 illic observare, nisi quod luna 
 (sicut ille studet) aliquando retro 
 movetur; sed cum librum editurus 
 sit die 27 Septembris, stylo veteri, 
 de omnibus antiquitatibus, credo 
 ilium' in ccelum conscendisse pro 
 antiquis lunis. Hie priscus vir 
 habitat in prisco cubiculo grand- 
 a?vi collegii Mertonensis qui adeo 
 gaudet murorum fragmentis et 
 ruinis, ut vereatur collegium ne 
 totum diruat sedificium, ut ille 
 inter ruinas versetur et monu- 
 menta : sed cum adeo senectutem 
 adoret, et venerandam canitiem, 
 miror ergo quid ille sicarios ho- 
 mines tam seepe aggreditur, et 
 corporum fabricas demoliri stu- 
 det ? nam dicam vobis, cum doc- 
 tissimus ejus libri* translator 
 superfluas frivolasque quasdam 
 partes exsecuit, et librum fecerit 
 eunuchum, profecto ille statim 
 stricto cultro frivolas illius partes 
 amputaret, et ipsum castraret cas- 
 tratorem, imo parum abfuit, quin 
 ilium jugulaverit; quum viderit 
 librum suum, (ut vocat) ex Ang- 
 lico sermone in alienam linguam 
 traductum, ille juravit typogra- 
 phos Gallos non tantum librum 
 impressisse, sed etiamf Gallica 
 Lingua donasse; et sane cum 
 
 * Mr. Pearce ex Mde Ch. f Plurimi ex Typog. in Theatro sunt Galli, 
 
188 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 73- 
 
 tors being present, heard his speech of thanks out of the 
 balcony, viz. that he thanked them for their choice of him, 
 that he could neither speak French nor Spanish, but if 
 they would walk to the Bear they should find that he 
 could speak English, meaning, give them English ale and 
 beer. Thereupon the scholars hissed, but the townsmen 
 brooking it not, turned them out ; then the scholars made 
 some resistance by flipping them on the cheek ; after that, 
 in the evening they fought, and so they did on Tuesday 
 and Wednesday in St. Peter's in the Bailey ; a scholar of 
 Brase Nose his arm broke, another his head; began by 
 servitors, and carried on by them, and commoners and 
 townsmen of the meaner sort. This continued above a 
 week, and would have lasted longer, had not the vice- 
 chancellor and proctors bestirred themselves for the ap- 
 peasing of it. 
 
 Sept. 23. Oxford feast, Mr. Tho. Fulk; I was not there nor gave 
 1 no money, because of the present discomposures between 
 the scholars and townsmen. 
 
 Oct. 3. D r# Bathurst took his place of vice-chancellor, a man of 
 
 good parts, and able to do good things, but he has a wife 
 that scorns that he should be in print ; a scornful woman, 
 
 dicunt prse Adamitee ilium fuisse buit, sic spero et exitum, utpote 
 
 optime doctum plusquam quatuor solummodo dignus qui ad ab- 
 
 mille abhinc annis, non mirum stergendum podicem damnetur. 
 
 est ilium Latinitatis oblivisci, et Hunc antiquarium maxime abo- 
 
 modernas linguas nescire ; sed minantur vetulse, quia timent, ne 
 
 potissima causa rixandi cum ty- illarum picturas libro preefigat; 
 
 pographis fuit libri impressio, nam sed quidni suam propriam ima- 
 
 dixit se nolle, ut excudetur, quia ginem ? nam cum sit adeo ruinosa, 
 
 typographia est moderna inventio. et exsesa ut fere naso careat, et 
 
 Audivi hunc virum merdarum auriculis, certe antiquitatem satis 
 
 sentinas frequentare, et chartas redolet et prae se fert. Postquam 
 
 ibidem sparsas consulere, sed nes- deserui caducum hunc virum. — 
 
 cio ob quem finem, nisi ut exinde W. & H. 
 materiam libri colligeret, et pro- l Sic. 
 
 fecto ut jam putidum ortum ha- 
 
1673.; 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 189 
 
 6. 
 
 scorns that he was dean of Wells ; no need of marrying 
 such a woman, who is so conceited that she thinks her- 
 self fit to govern a college or university. 
 
 Christ-Church began. 
 
 D r . Levinz elected president of St. John's, Magistratus Oct. 10, 
 indicat Virum, which note; he beats the students there 
 and fights. m 
 
 D r . South preaching at Christ Church about sacrilege 12. 
 
 m [The following letter from 
 Mr. W. Sherwin to D r . Turner 
 president of Corpus Christi col- 
 lege, shews that Wood's character 
 was not unfounded. It is taken 
 from the original in the Bodleian 
 library. 
 
 Reverend sir, 
 
 I thought it would not be un- 
 acceptable to you, to have an ac- 
 count of what has happened here 
 since you left this place ; we are 
 told that the business of All Souls 
 has had two hearings before my 
 lord of Canterbury, where Mr. 
 Proast persists in denying the 
 warden having any right to that 
 place : there is nothing yet de- 
 termined. On Wednesday night 
 Magd. coll. chapel was robbed of 
 a great part of their communion 
 plate, by some that must needs 
 know the college well : 'tis sup- 
 posed they lodged themselves in 
 the chappel at nine o'clock 
 prayers, and came out at the great 
 doors which are only bolted on 
 the inside; they did not meddle 
 with the great plate that stood on 
 the altar table, but took what was 
 in a chest in the vestry to the value 
 of about thirty pounds. There is 
 
 no discovery yet made. The same 
 night some maliciously destroyed 
 all the young plantation in St. 
 John's grove, notice of which be- 
 ing given to Mr. president yester- 
 day morning, he called the fellows 
 together to consider of ways to find 
 out the offenders, when he raised 
 himself in some heat in passionately 
 talking, and suddenly fell back in 
 his chair stone dead. One of the 
 fellows had a lancet, and endea- 
 voured, but could not, make him 
 bleed; messengers were immedi- 
 ately sent to D r . Delaune and 
 Mr. Lowth. Mr. Torriano is upon 
 the place, and 'tis thought, if the. 
 two former do not accommodate 
 the matter between themselves, 
 the latter will bid fair for the 
 place, he having a great interest 
 among the junior fellows. Mr. 
 Hudson is gone to London to 
 appear for the lecture. Mr. Creech 
 it is thought will do so too. I do 
 not hear of any other yet. You 
 may expect further trouble if any 
 thing happens worth your notice. 
 From, Sir, Your most obedient 
 servant Will. Sherwin. March 
 4th, 1697-8.] 
 
190 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l ^73» 
 
 did come so near home, as to mention by the by (not 
 expressly) cardinal Wolsey, and those that were assisting 
 to him died evil deaths. a Two days after my papers of 
 Ch. Church came to be examined by the dean, Peers and 
 Bennet (those two rogues) and they finding that I had 
 handled upon that point, Peers altered it, and put in 
 matter of their own, which notes, see D r . Fell's putting 
 in under his own hand in a paper before the printed Hist, 
 and Antiq. Oxon. 
 23. D r . Fell put in Piers, Smith, Godwin, into Ch. Church 
 
 among the bishops, I was much against it, he said he 
 would beat me out in it, as he hath done all along. 
 
 Nov. 1. M r . Reeves began to transcribe my book at 1426. 
 
 14. S r . Christopher Wren, L.L.D. knighted. 
 
 Dec. 14. Service was translated from the common hall in Merton 
 
 college, to the chappel new wainscoated and paved with 
 marble. 
 
 Nov. and A controversy between the vice-chancellor and D r . Fell 
 
 Dec. 
 
 concerning preaching at Ch. Church, D r . Fell would have 
 his canons preach, quatenus doctors, and members of the 
 university at Ch. Church, the vice-chancellor denied it, 
 and would not go after the doctors to Ch. Ch. At length, 
 after a reference to the king and council, it was ordered 
 from thenceforth that every canon of Ch. Ch. should 
 quatenus as a member of the university, preach at St. 
 Mary's, and quatenus canon at Christ Church. 
 I have a paper of this from Mr. Allix.° 
 Dec. 19. Tho. Collins of Glou r . hall entered school master of 
 
 Magd. coll. that night. Mr. Alexander Pudsey mad, by 
 reason of pride, caused a poor boy of the college to make 
 a bon-fire over against the school door. 
 
 n See a Sermon preached at the ° See Wood's MSS. in mus. 
 
 Consecration of a Chapel 1667, by Ashm. 8489. 37. W. & H. 
 Rob. South. W. & H. 
 
1673.] LIFE OF WOOD. 191 
 
 St. Thomas's day. Mr. Bic. Reeve schoolmaster of Dec 
 Magd. who had been a long time suspected a Papist, did, 
 npon the president's warning, leave his place. It arose 
 from a letter sent 6 weeks before from D r . Lloyd of 
 Reading to D r . Fell ; the sense of which was that he had 
 defended in a letter sent to Mr. Harris his brother, chap- 
 lain to S r . - - - - Rich, of Sunning, St. Austin the monk, 
 by his not consenting or knowing of the death of the 
 monks of Bangor mentioned in Bede's History, but that 
 St. Austin was dead before that time; this was also in 
 vindication of Mr. Cressy in his History, who saith the 
 like ; the report afterwards ran about that he had a pen- 
 sion allowed him to gain proselytes, that he had converted 
 all his acquaintance 60 in number : he had rec d . the sa- 
 crament according to the Romish way at Mr. Napier's 
 1667. 
 
 Citation stuck up this morning, (on the eve I think) to 
 call Mr. Nurse home, and if he doth not come at the 
 time appointed, he is to be declared non socius of Uni- 
 versity college ; all this arisen from the tyrannical act of 
 parliament lately made, viz. that any one that hath an 
 office of trust, military or civil, should subscribe and take 
 the sacrament, which they refused. My acquaintance 
 with Mr. Reeve came by his being employed in translat- 
 ing my book, by Mr. Fell. 
 
 Upon Mr. Reeve's tui'ning out, which was on 19, Mr. 22 
 Browne of New college this morning came and told me 
 from others, that Mr. Reeve not only perverted Mr. Wal- 
 ter Harris, but had a stipend from the Catholicks yearly 
 to pervert or reconcile others. Within two hours after, 
 about 1 in the afternoon, my brother Kit came and told 
 me the report, that I was generally taken for a Papist, 
 but told me nobody that would repeat it. At 4 in the 
 afternoon Mr. Nurse came on purpose to tell me the 
 
192 LIFE OF WOOD, [ l ^73- 
 
 report which he heard, Mr. Charles Perrot of Oriel told 
 him at Mr. Fryers on his death bed ; Mr. Nurse a vain 
 glorious man, conceited of his worth, ambitious of D r . 
 South' s acquaintance, had it thereupon acted in his 
 speech, and action in the pulpit, taken notice of all, 
 and South himself, a false fellow, reported him his sor- 
 did imitator. 
 
 Mr. Tim. Nurse, A. B. elected fellow of University coll. 
 19 Jan. 1658, his fellowship pronounced void 5 Jan. 1673. 
 Nath. Boys succeeded. 
 
 Poor folks study hard, and with much ado obtain their 
 degrees in arts and fellowships, but now noblemen's sons 
 are created A. M. for nothing, get fellowships and canon- 
 ries for nothing, and deprive others more deserving of 
 their bread. 
 
 p " Mr. A. Wood was this year laboriously employed in 
 taking about one hundred and twenty two MSS of the 
 lord Fairfax's, which had been deposited in the Bodleian 
 library, and were in danger of being spoiled by a moist 
 season, from thence into the muniment room in the tower 
 of the schools, to dry them upon the adjoining leads. 
 For this he obtained leave of the vice-chancellor, and tho' 
 the work cost a month's labour, yet his respect to the 
 memory of Mr. Dodsworth, to whom these MSS formerly 
 belonged, and his care to preserve whatever might advan- 
 tage the commonwealth of learning made him undergo it 
 with pleasure. 
 1674. "The first produce of his labours and studies was pub- 
 
 25 Car. II. jjgj^ a £ Oxford, viz. the Historia et Antiquitates Universi- 
 tatis Oxoniensis. Upon this work the author had spent 
 
 P The reader is desired to note nacks for these years are not to 
 
 that the passages included in these be found, or else are deficient in 
 
 marks " — " are supplied from many particulars, 
 other papers, as the pocket alma- 
 
1675.] LIFE OF WOOD. 193 
 
 ten years of his life, which, after it finished, was, by the 
 
 curators of the press, viz. S 1 '. Leolyn Jenkins, S r . Jos. 
 
 Williamson, Joh. Fell, D. D. Tho. Yate, D. D. dedicated 
 
 to his majesty, to whom it was presented at Windsor in 
 
 July 1674. by D r . Richard Allestry then provost of Eaton 
 
 college. The king was pleased to accept it graciously, to 
 
 turn over several leaves of it, and hold a long conference 
 
 about it. Soon after the governours of the university 
 
 agreed that as many copies as were worth 80/. should 
 
 be presented to the great personages of the court, the 
 
 clergy and the law. 
 
 " The most illustrious prince John William prince of 1675. 
 
 Newburg (son of the duke of Xewburar) count palatine 26 Car - IX « 
 
 . ... J urL - 2 - 
 
 of the Rhine, duke of Bavaria, Giuliers, Cleve and of 
 
 Mons, count or earl of Yalentia, Spinhrm la Mark, Ra- 
 vensburg and Moers, lord of Ravenstein &c. coming to 
 the university, was created D 1 '. of the civil law. He was 
 conducted bare headed in his doctor's robes from the 
 apodyterium into the convocation house, with the beadles 
 marching before, and the king's professor of law with 
 him, the vice-chancellor then, with the doctors and mas- 
 ters, standing bare. And being come to the middle of the 
 area, the said professor presented him with a short speech, 
 which being done, the vice-chancellor created him with 
 another. Afterward he was conducted to his seat of state 
 on the right hand of the vice-chancellor, and then the 
 dep. orator, who stood on the other side near to the 
 registraiVs desk, complimented with another speech in 
 the name of the university. He was then conducted to 
 the theatre and entertained with vocal and instrumental 
 music by the professor of that science. This prince was 
 then about 18 years of age, and had taken a journey into 
 England purposely to pay his respects to the lady Mary, 
 the eldest daughter of James duke of York. And after 
 wood ; vol. 1. o 
 
194 LIFE OF WOOD. \_ 1 &11 ■ 
 
 he had seen most of the rarities in the public library, 
 several colleges, physic garden &c. the vice-chancellor 
 D r . Bathurst, D r . Fell and other doctors made a present 
 to him at his departure, of the Historia et Antiq. Oocon. 
 with cuts, in two volumes fairly bound, together with the 
 Bodleyan Catalogue and Loggan's Oxonia UlustrataA 
 
 " This year also the same books were, by a decree of con- 
 vocation, presented to the most illustrious prince Cosmo 
 de Medicis, grand duke of Tuscany, which present was 
 accompanied with a Latin letter written by the publick 
 orator D r . South, wherein a character of these books was 
 given." 
 1677. Mr. Lane tells me, he was turned out 1643, and be- 
 
 2 " ' yond sea taught Hebrew and Arabick : restored to his 
 fellowship in Caius college, did not look after preferment, 
 never went to church, died suddenly in his chamber in 
 winter time 1677, taken with an apoplectical fit, fell upon 
 his hearth, where the coals laid lighted that had been 
 raked out of the chimney ; his back and side was burnt. 
 
 Not one scholar matric. in 1675, 1676, 1677, 1678, not 
 one scholar in Glocester hall, only the principal and his 
 family, and two or three more families that live there in 
 some part to keep it from ruin, the paths are grown over 
 with grass, the way into the hall and chapel made up with 
 boards; I have been credibly informed, that before the 
 war, in Degory Wheare's time, there were 100 students, 
 and some being persons of quality, ten or twelve met in 
 their doublets of cloth of silver and gold, but, since the 
 king's restauration to this year, I never knew above four- 
 teen in number. 
 
 In 1634, Degory Wheare being then principal, there 
 were 92 students in Glou. hall. 
 
 1 See Fasti Oxon. under the year 1675. Warton's Remains of 
 Dr. Bathurst, pag. 55. W. & H. 
 
1677.] LIFE OF WOOD. 195 
 
 About one in the morning the lord chancellor Finch Feb. 7. 
 his mace was stole out of his house in Queen street. The 
 seal laid under his pillow, so the thief missed it. The 
 famous thief that did it was Thomas Sadler soon after 
 taken and hanged for it at Tyburn 16 March 1677. 
 
 - - - - Cradock r of Mag. coll. repetitioner. 
 
 In the beginning of April William Rogers barrister of Apr. 22. 
 Lincoln's inne spoke in my behalf to the lady Powis for a 
 herald's place, she therefore inviting to dinner Howard 
 earl of Norwich, and lord marshal!, spoke to him, who 
 answered her that the practice was, that every one of the 
 society of heralds doth rise gradually upon a vacancy, and 
 that when any herald dies, the eldest pursuivant succeeds. 
 See his letter to me. 
 
 I took a vomit which worked so much that it almost 26. 
 killed me; only crocus metallorum. 
 
 Charles Maurice Tellier arch-bishop and duke of 
 Rheims, primate of France, came with Crequi to treat 
 about a marriage with the lady Mary, daughter of the 
 duke of York with the dauphin, 7 at night came to Ox- 
 ford with some attendance, a tall proper man in a plush 
 coat, sword by his side, and peruque ; set. 40, or there- 
 abouts. Gastrell Ch. Ch. told D r . Fell the bishop of it, 
 he took no notice of it, because he came incognito, at 
 length, upon several messages to him, he went to the 
 Angel inn the next day in the morning, and thence had 
 him to the schools, Ch. Ch. S t . John's, &c. but nothing 
 pleased him, and, as French commonly do, slighted all 
 things, and spoke uncivilly things to the bishop. He 
 departed at 11. May 8. at which time IX Fell gave him 
 the History of Oxford with cuts, Marmora Oxon. et Cat. 
 Lib. in Bibl. Bodl. 
 
 r [Thomas Cradock, elected probationer 1671.] 
 o2 
 
196 LIFE OF WOOD. [1677. 
 
 In the beginning of this month did these verses go 
 about in writing. 
 
 The l blazing comet, and the ^monstrous whale 
 The 3 breaking of the shins of Lauderdale 
 The ^parliament at the eclipse being called 
 And 5 Osborne's George fell off before installed 
 The 6 bishop who from France came newly ore 
 Did go to Betty Beauties for a whore. 
 
 1. Blazing comet appeared in April to many, but I 
 could never see it. The queen fell sick then, and it was 
 thought she would have died. 
 
 2. Monstrous whale at Yarmouth Feb. 1676-7. 
 
 3. The duke of Lauderdale stumbled, and broke his 
 shins. 
 
 4. The king put out his proclamation, 7th May, for the 
 calling the parliament on the 21st, on which day was the 
 Eclipse. 
 
 5. Lord treasurer Osborn his George fell off his rib- 
 bon, because the hook was not well sodered, he was in- 
 stalled 23 Apr. 1677. 
 
 6. Tellier archbishop of Rheims came into England in 
 the beginning of May, and other French nobility to see 
 London : Betty Beaulies an old bawd in Durham yard. 
 
 About midsummer a sturgeon of eight foot long was 
 taken up at Clifton ferry in com. Oxon. by some of the 
 family of - - - - Dunch of Wittenham, D r . Lamphire eat 
 some of it, and Hen. Price of the Blue Boar dressed it. 
 July 13. Election at Merton college for the Rhetorick lecture 
 
 for the year ensuing, M r . Workman the warden's fa- 
 vourite, and Mr. Wight the sen r . proctor stood, I gave 
 my vote for the latter as most deserving by/far, the war- 
 den therefore was pleased to say, that " I was a disturber 
 of the peace of the college." 
 
1677.] LIFE OF WOOD. 197 
 
 George Barber of Oriel coll. and proproctor met in his Aug. 4. 
 walk, abont 11 o'clock at night, one Phil. Dodwell a 
 chandler about the Chequer, asked him, what he did 
 there, bid him go home; he gave him insolent language, 
 and would not obey him, he put him into the vice-chan- 
 cellor's, 8 the city upheld Dodwell. They go to law about 
 it with the cause about the night watch which the city 
 denies ; this fellow with his assistants had beaten Lewis 
 the proctor the last year, for which he was brought upon 
 his knees and submitted. Note the proproctor met him 
 on the other side of the gutter, and * questing him, where- 
 upon he whips on the other side on his own ground be- 
 fore his door near the Chequer, and asked the proctor, 
 what he had to do with him, he was not of his body and 
 would not obey him; the proctor commanded him to 
 come to his chamber the next day to pay 40s. he denies 
 it, and then is put in the court. 
 
 Friday at night M r . John Haslem caught with Price's Aug. 10. 
 wife at an ale house in Blew Boar lane by proctor Wyght, 
 turned out of his butler's place, had three children by her. 
 
 Oxford feast, Tho. Jenkinson of Magd. coll. a sadler's 3°- 
 son in St. Peter's parish, preached. 
 
 At city sessions where certain townsmen indicted or Oct. 4. 
 put up the mayor and bayliflfs, for not keeping up the 
 night watch, the universitie justices there present say, 
 the night watch is theirs, the town denie it, and so they 
 desire a trial ; vide June following. They said had there 
 been a night watch, New college plate would not have 
 been stolen; the night watch from Ascension to Mi- 
 chaelmas. 
 
 D r . Nicholas warden of New coll. took his place, very 8. 
 active in walking and hunting taverns, Magistratus indicat 
 Virum. 
 
 s Supple, Court. W. & H. c Sic. W. & H. 
 
198 LIFE OF WOOD. [*°77- 
 
 About the beginning of this month, Mr. INourse of 
 Univers. coll. who formerly turned Catholick, fell sick at 
 London, and having something lie heavy on his con- 
 science, sent for D r . Simon Patrick minister of St. Paul's 
 Covent garden, and told him, that having been in an 
 errour, he desired to receive the sacrament according to 
 the Protestant way ; the D r . told him, that if his disease 
 was not desperate, that he would do well to consider of 
 what he would do, and he would come to him the next 
 day, the D r . accordingly came, and M r . Nourse continu- 
 ing in the same mind, received the sacrament from his 
 hands, but then recovering of his sickness, and repenting 
 of what he had done, returned to his former opinions. 
 So Dr. Patrick in a letter to M r . Thomas of Ch. Ch. 
 This is to be putt into his life. 
 Nov. 2. The duke of Bucks, steward of the city of Oxford, was 
 
 entertained with a dinner by the citizens at Soladell 
 Harding's in All Saints parish. There were with him 
 several country gentlemen, who eat up their victuals, 
 and in requital spoke liberally at dinner against the uni- 
 versity. Murrell u vintner was mayor, but being sick of 
 the gout, sir Sampson White did the office for him for 
 that time; there is a ballad of this entertainment, which 
 came to 2001. 
 io. Saturday a convocation, D r . South' s resignation of the 
 
 orator's place being read, to which place the new vice- 
 chancellor set up one Manningham of his college, but 
 perceiving the university to incline to M r . Bayly of Magd. 
 coll. a statute was started, requiring the candidate to be 
 present, for he was out of town, whereupon v Robert 
 Cradock of Magd. coll. professed himself at that time a 
 candidate, and carried it by 7. Vide mens. Dec. 
 
 u W m . Morrell. W. & H. v Thomas ex reg. Convocat. W. & H. 
 
1 677.] LIFE OF WOOD. 199 
 
 Wednesday H. F. left me, and I exceeding melancholy 14. 
 all that day, and some days after; God bless H. F. 
 
 Thursday another convocation, wherein was declared, *5- 
 that Tho. Frankland sometime of Braze Nose had forged 
 the university seal, and had set it to a writing whereby 
 it tested that the said Tho. Frankland had taken his 
 degree of D r of physick in this university, but upon 
 search into the register, it was found, that he never took 
 that degree, as it was also commonly known. He did 
 take his degree of B.D. and renouncing his orders prac- 
 tised physick, and being an ambitious man and supposing 
 the university would not grant that degree, he forged a 
 writing, and thereupon was admitted into the college of 
 physicians, became censor, and I know not what. You 
 must note that all that was done at the convocation, 
 was a letter from the members of the college of physi- 
 cians of London to the uniyersity, desiring them to set 
 the common seal to writing witnessing that Tho. Frank- 
 land was not M.D. the . convocation agreed to have the 
 seal set to it. He hath forged a will also. 
 
 Edm. Plowden of Shiplake died and was buried there, Nov. 23. 
 great grandson to Edm. Plowden the famous lawyer. 
 
 Charles lord Herbert, eldest son of Henry marquis of 26 
 Worcester, was matriculated as a member of Ch. Ch. set. 
 16. natus Lond. I set this down here, because the father 
 and ancestors were all Catholicks, but because the mother 
 is a Presbyterian, a Capel, she (against the father's will 
 as 'tis said) will have him bred up a Protestant, so that 
 by this change the Catholicks will lose the considerablest 
 family in England, and the richest subject that the king 
 hath. 
 
 Divers would be asking the king, who should be arch- 
 bishop, who to put off and stop their mouths, he would 
 tell them, Tom Bailies ; he is a drunken, lecherous justice 
 of peace for Westminster. 
 
200 LIFE OF WOOD. [1677- 
 
 Dec. 13. - - - - James of Ch. Ch. made his logick speech at the 
 
 schools, and reflected on D r . Bathurst late vice-chancellor 
 for his former carriage in this office. D r . Bathurst is no 
 great friend to the masters, and hath said it often that 
 many of them deserve to be put out of the house. x 
 20. Sunday such a great mist, especially in the morning 
 
 before 11, that I could not see, or know a man 40 of my 
 paces distant. Oxford low and subject to vapours. 
 29. Conge des Lire went to Canterbury to elect D r . San- 
 
 croft archbishop of Canterbury, set up by the duke of 
 York against London, and York put on by the Papists. 
 York doth not care for London, because he shewed him- 
 self an enemy to the Papists at the council board. 
 
 This year, in Winter, Rich. Hollo way councellor was 
 made sergeant at law, so that now we have 3 sergeants 
 living at Oxford, viz. the said Rich. 2. Rich. Croke re- 
 corder who proceeded an. 1676, and Charles Holloway the 
 old man who proceeded about 1665, seldom or never came 
 to St. Mary's when he was counsellor, but when sergeant, 
 he came to take place above the doctors, yRob. Holloway 
 sergeant in 1677 took opportunities to come Oxford cir- 
 cuit as justice itinerant. 2 This I set down because all 
 
 x Vid. Warton's Remains of ford, An. 15 - - or thereabouts* 
 
 Dr. Bathurst, pag. 83. W. & H. The following account may, per- 
 
 y Sic. W. & H. haps, reconcile some mistakes, 
 
 z Among Mr. Wood's MSS.in which Mr. Wood seems to have 
 
 the museum is a small book, con- made with respect to the family 
 
 taining several copies of verses of Holloway. 
 
 which is entitled Mr. Bulkley's Verses made on the five Hollo- 
 
 Libell on divers Persons in Ox- ways living in Oxford ; 1667. 
 
 1 Sarjeant, 2 Barrester, 3 Necessitie, 4 Notarie, 5 Mercer 
 
 1 Gravely dull, 2 ill spoken, 3 Lawless 4 cum pergere, 5 broken 
 
 1. Sarjeant] i. e. Old Charles 2. Barrester] i.e. Richard Hol- 
 
 Holloway sarjeant at law living at loway living against Blew-bore in 
 All Souls coll. St. Aldate's parish; son of Richard 
 
 * [See Athene col. 609.] 
 
1678.] LIFE OF WOOD. 201 
 
 people took notice of it, how he was blinded by ambition. 
 The king's revenue in customs, excise, and chimney men 
 comes to about 160000/. per annum, besides first fruits. 
 
 Why doth solid and serious learning decline, and few 
 or none follow it now in the university ? Answer, because 
 of coffea-houses, where they spend all their time ; and in 
 entertainments at their chambers, where their studies and 
 coffea-houses are become places for victuallers, also great 
 drinking at taverns and alehouses, spending their time in 
 common chambers, whole afternoons, and thence to the 
 coffea-house. 
 
 Beginning of this month colds became very frequent, 1678. 
 many sick and keep up, colds without coughing or run-ja n . a " 
 ning at the nose, only a languidness, and faintness. Cer- 
 tainly Oxford's no good air. 
 
 W m . Sancroft a clounish, odd fellow. 
 
 A hearing then to be concerning the proproctor Barber Feb. 7. 
 and young Dodwell, and there was a prohibition expected 
 to proceed at the common pleas, but deferred till next term. 
 
 Phil. Dodwell discommoned as they say. 
 
 The university hath received a prohibition to proceed 
 against Dodwell. 
 
 Hollo way, officiall to the archdea- 1. Gravely dull] i. e. the ser- 
 
 con of Berks and public notarie. jeant, grave and almost doting. 
 
 3. Necessitie] i.e. Yong Charles 2. Ill spoken] i.e. Barrester, 
 Holloway, son of the sarjeant, so because as they say he speaks 
 call'd because Necessitas non habet well of no man, censorious. I 
 legem, being a barrester, but no believe false. 
 
 lawyer. 3. Lawless] i. e. Necessitie Hol- 
 
 4. Notarie] i. e. old Richard loway as before. 
 
 Holloway before mentioned. 4. Pergere] i. e. Notarie Hollo- 
 
 5. Mercer] i. e. Franc. Hollo- way, but why I know not.* 
 way, a mercer, brother to Serjeant 5. Broken] i. e. Mercer Hollo- 
 and old Richard Holloway. way, a broken mercer. W. & H. 
 
 * [Doubtless the allusion was anything but complimentary : may he not 
 have been known as " Perjury Holloway ? "] 
 
202 LIFE OF WOOD. [1678. 
 
 They received it at their own court on Friday, which is 
 a curtesie. 
 Mar. 16. Mr. Peter Nicholls died, left 200 /. to the coll. (Merton) 
 and 1001. to St. Giles's parish, that with the revenues 
 thereof a sermon yearly be preached on St. Peter's day 
 by the parson of St. Giles, who is to have 40 s. and the 
 rest to the poor of the parish. a 
 
 23. Saturday the junior proctor made his speech; 180 
 
 bachelors this last Lent, and all things carried on well, 
 
 but no coursing, which is very bad. Quaere the reason? 
 
 Apr. 7. Mr. Durston of New college repeated. 
 
 24- A fast at Oxford and elsewhere for a prosperous pro- 
 
 ceeding in war against the French. D r . Marshall preached. 
 
 29- I returned from Weston to which I went 16 Feb. and 
 
 kept a Lent. In the beginning of this term on St. Mark's 
 day, was a hearing at Westminster concerning the univer- 
 sity business, between them and Dodwell upheld by the 
 citizens, mentioned in August before, and another demur 
 made for the 40s. Dodwell was mulcted with, noctivaga- 
 tion was only according to the university statute, and not 
 by the king's charter. The citizens grew insolent there- 
 upon, and procured a letter to be sent to the commis- 
 sioners of the poll money in Oxford, to let them know 
 that the servants of colleges must pay poll for their wages 
 and places. This letter was brought to the commissioners 
 at the apodyterium by one of the town sergeants, ult. 
 April, being Tuesday. The townsmen acknowledge 6s. 8 d. 
 to be paid for noctivagation, and noctivagation they ac- 
 knowledge, but not fourty shillings. 
 
 This month was a Fry day's market, and four fairs 
 granted by the king to the earl of Litchfield to be held 
 
 a [He also left a legacy of forty N. of Shrewsbury. He was ma- 
 shillings to our author. Peter triculated of St. Alban Hall Nov. 
 Nicholls was the son of William 4. 1631, a?t. 19.] 
 
1678.] LIFE OF WOOD. 203 
 
 in his mannor of Charlbury near Woodstock. Here had 
 been an ancient market. See my Discourse of the Markets 
 
 - - - Ballow of St. John's, a physician at Camden in May 2. 
 Gloucestershire, died in the house of John Folkes, an 
 apothecary in St. Mary's parish, buried at "Weston near 
 Camden. 
 
 Memorandum, that D r . Lamphire told me that there 12. 
 were 370 and odd alehouses in Oxford. — Qu. the excise- 
 man, and have it under his hand. Means to create idle- 
 ness, and debauch scholars. 
 
 All this month and part of April have many red coats 
 been quartered in Oxford, and part of this month a great 
 many dragoons (in number about 700) in order to be sent 
 far away beyond the seas. They were most if not all dra- 
 goons. 
 
 Voted in convocation that no act should be celebrated June 10. 
 this year, under pretence that there was no D. D. pro- 
 ceeded, but the true reason was, that the town and uni- 
 
 b [ — Within few yeares after tions did for his great conve- 
 
 y e first grant of a market to y e nience grant divers portions of a 
 
 towne of Abendon, another was void plott of ground without his 
 
 by K. Steph. granted to y e monks parcke to severall men to build 
 
 of Einsham * within lesse then 4 theron y* soe his retinue might 
 
 miles of Oxon to be there kept on there lodge and not be troubled 
 
 every Lord's day though contrary to retire in y e country adjoyning, 
 
 to K. Cnutes lawsf and last of and therupon a market was by 
 
 all another at Wodstock by K. him granted to those to be kept 
 
 H. 2. as appeares by an inquisi- on every Tuesday throughout y e 
 
 tion § 7. Ed. I. for he as I find yeare, and his baillive to receive 
 
 being much delighted in that y e toll. Soe farre may be said 
 
 place for y e sake of his beloved concerning y e erection of those 
 
 Rosamond and residing there markets within 6 miles of Oxoh — ] 
 more then at his other habita- 
 
 * [Reg. Einsham cart, xxx.] 
 
 f [A market and fair at Cherlbury com Oxon. V. Collect, ex lib. Einsham, 
 p. 14.] 
 
 § [Ex quada inquisit. in Tur. London, cui titulus : Dominicu alii regis de 
 Wodstock. IP. 43.] 
 
204 LIFE OF WOOD. [1678. 
 
 versity being at variance, the university would not contri- 
 bute to their enrichment, to pluck out the university's 
 eyes. I heard this at the Bath 20th June ; another reason 
 was that the red coat dragoons watched and warded every 
 night, and kept guard at their officer's doors, and the uni- 
 versity knew not but that they might abuse the strangers 
 that came to the Act. 
 
 Jun. 27. Red coats left Oxford, came again. 
 
 29. St. Peter's day I returned to Oxford from the Bath, 
 
 where I had been from the 30th of May, but received no 
 benefit, it cost me about 8/. 
 
 July 1. Old Jone began to make my bed. 
 
 23. Our great bell rung out for D r . Hinton, rector of Islip, 
 
 sometime fellow of Mert. coll. who died 22 at Islip, and 
 was buried there. 
 
 Sept. 6. Oxford feast, this month Tho. Jenkinson the sadler's 
 
 son preached. Occasions given to all men to talk what 
 they please, especially the banterers of Oxford (a set of 
 scholars so called, some M. A.) who make it their em- 
 ployment to talk at a venture, lye, and prate what non- 
 sense they please, if they see a man talk seriously they 
 talk floridly nonsense, and care not what he says, this is 
 like throwing a cushion at a man's head, that pretends to 
 be grave and wise. 
 
 Oct. 8. King Henry the VIII's chair, that stands in the privy 
 
 gallery at Whitehall, was bewrayed by one, if not two 
 persons, in a most filthy and plentiful manner. 
 16. I dined with Mr. Hen. Parker at his house in Honing- 
 
 ton in com. Warwick, and after dinner was shewed to me 
 a cabinet of rarities, mostly collected at Constantinople, 
 and other Eastern parts of the world, such curiosities that 
 my eyes never beheld the like, all sorts of shells, divers 
 sorts of natural stones, medals gold and silver, coins gold 
 and silver, Turkish pictures, and others of England in 
 
1678.] LIFE OF WOOD. 205 
 
 miniature, all sorts of looking glasses, a piece of Dido's 
 tomb, and many other things ; they were valued at 500/. 
 besides the cabinet, but at last sold for little more than 
 one hundred. 
 
 I was told from sir Tho. Spencer's c house that the king 26. 
 had given D r . Fell, bishop of Oxford, a patent for an 
 Earll (which comes to about 1000/.) towards the finishing 
 of the great gate of Ch. Ch. next to Pembroke coll. he 
 intends to bestow it on Mr. Lutterell a gent. comm r . of 
 Ch. Ch. of Somersetshire, having 4000/. per annum at 
 present. 
 
 Many of the divines in Oxford of poor spirits prick up 
 their ears and crests upon the discovery of the plot, talk 
 very boldly and undaunted. 'Tis a grand piaculum not 
 to believe the worst of reports, great want of charity ; but 
 these are poor spirited men. 
 
 A hearing at Westminster between the two bodies, who 3°- 
 were ordered to compromise the business amongst them- 
 selves, and so there was an end of Dodwell's business. 
 
 Sergeant Newdigate, a judge in Oliver's time, died the 
 latter end of this month. 
 
 D r . Hall of Pembroke (presbyt.) preached sharply and Nov. 5= 
 bitterly against the Papists at St. Mary's. Qu. whether 
 originally appointed to preach ? 
 
 One of the dragoons clapt up in prison, the castle, as 
 suspected to be either a priest, or a monk ; it seems, being 
 a little in drink, he spoke some scraps of Latin, as the 
 mode was, salve Domine. Mr. Harding of Trinity accuses 
 him. I heard that he hath been a traveller, and by order, 
 a Dominican. 
 
 A general fast throughout the nation, Mr. Tho. Man- 13. 
 
 c At Yarnton near Oxford ; teen years ago. See also Wood's 
 great part of this antient family MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8505. 
 seat was pulled down about six- W. & H. 
 
206 LIFE OF WOOD. [1678. 
 
 ningham of New coll. the same who stood for orator, 
 and one accounted a wit preached at St. Mary's, and had 
 several girds against the Papists, not railing, but ingenious, 
 if not witty. 
 22. Mr. Tho. Marriot, high sheriff of Warwickshire, and 
 
 Ridley his undersheriff, came to Mr. Sheldon's house (at 
 Weston) with a warrant to imprison him either in War- 
 wick gaol, or at London, wherefore he went to War- 
 wick. 
 27. At one in the morning a fire broke out at Burroughs 
 
 an ironmonger in Allhallows parish, and burning part of 
 the next house (Souche a milliner) burnt his wife : it 
 broke out in a back lower room of Souche' s house, and he 
 and his wife laying over that room were waked and choaked 
 with the smoke ; he ran down to quench the fire, and she 
 fell into a swoon, and there laid, and the fire burnt her, it 
 took hold of Burrough's house, and the dragoons being 
 very vigilant to quench it, had 5 pounds given them as a 
 reward by the university. It was vainly reported that the 
 Papists had a hand in it. 
 
 28, 29. D r . Wallis took away all writings and registers, that I 
 
 have had in my keeping eighteen years, for fear that 
 they should be seized on, he supposing that I might be in 
 the plot, because Mr. Sheldon was lately clapt up in pri- 
 son; the man that is studious and reserved is Popishly 
 affected. 
 
 Dec. 1. Sunday about one of the clock in the afternoon, D r . 
 
 Nicholas vicechancellor with a beadle and his 2 men 
 taking my lodging in their way to St. Mary's church, he 
 the said D . Nicholas came up into my chamber, and 
 there told me in my eare, that he had lately rec d . com- 
 mand from above to enquire after all such under his go- 
 vernment that are suspected to be Popishly addicted, and 
 to secure their chambers, and studies, for any papers or 
 
1678.] 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 207 
 
 writings relating to the plot. e Hereupon I told him very 
 freely that I should submit to his will ; that being done, 
 he told me, that I was the person that kept correspond- 
 ence between Mr. Sheldon's family, and the Mitre inne in 
 Oxford. I told him that that could not be for I only fre- 
 quented that inne when my horse came for, or with me, to 
 it ; after which, saying no more, he desired me that I would 
 walk into my study, and so I did, and he after me, and 
 looked upon what papers he pleased, but found nothing : 
 afterwards he desired to know where my letters lay, where- 
 fore I had him into another study, and shewed him divers 
 letters from Mr. Ralph Sheldon (with others) the last of 
 which was dated the last of July 1678. — All which he 
 perused, but could find nothing, but great expressions of 
 love and kindness in Mr. Sheldon's letters. Afterwards 
 he told me that I must receive the oath of allegiance. 
 I answered him, I would if he would appoint a time, 
 
 e [From the original in the univ. 
 archives : " Whereas by his ma ties 
 commission directed to us bearing 
 date y e 29 th of Jan. in the 30 th 
 yeare of his ma ties reigne, wee are 
 required to offer to and receiue 
 from all Popish recusants or soe 
 reputed, within y e precincts of y e 
 vniversity of Oxford y e oathes of 
 allegiance and supremacy, these 
 are to desire y* you would certify, 
 under your hand, y e names of 
 such persons w th in or belonging 
 to y e society as are concerned as 
 afforesaid uppon Tuesday y e 18 th 
 of this present February to the 
 hands of M r . Vice Chancellor. 
 Given this 13 th of Ffebruary anno 
 167L 
 
 In Merton coll. there is only 
 M r . Anthony Wood who hath 
 been suspected to be Popishly 
 affected. Tho. Clayton cust. coll. 
 Mert." 
 
 So that Wood owed little to the 
 kindness of the warden : but he 
 paid the debt in full, in his ac- 
 count of himself and his wife, as 
 we have already seen. 
 
 It is not a little amusing to see 
 Obadiah Walker's testimonial to 
 the anti- papistical character of his 
 own college: "Feb. 17, i67§. 
 These are to testify, y* I know 
 not of any one in University col- 
 lege in Oxon. to be either Papists, 
 or popishly inclined. Witness my 
 hand, Obad. Walker, MV] 
 
208 LIFE OF WOOD. [1678. 
 
 wherefore he told me, that next morning, at ten of the 
 clock, he should be at leisure. Note, that the reason he 
 should say, why I kept correspondence, arose, I suppose, 
 at my coming into Oxford f Thursday, the 14th of Nov. 
 at which time, as I rode by St. John's coll. between 12 
 and 1 . several of that college walking before the gate saw 
 me, and the next day, when I went out at that time, they 
 saw me again, and one of them, as it is probable, made the 
 report. He studies to be active, and shew himself zealous 
 in his office, and sorry he seemed to be, because he could 
 find nothing; that he could please the parliament, he 
 would have hanged me. 
 
 2 . Monday at 10 of the clock, I waited on Mr. vice-chan- 
 
 cellor D r . Nicholas, where after some discourse he offered 
 me the oaths of supremacy and allegiance, both which 
 oaths I took, he and I being only together, after which he 
 told me that I should have a certificate of it. & 
 
 6. A programma stuck up in every college hall, under the 
 
 vice-chancellor's hand, that no scholars abuse the soldiers 
 (dragoons under sir John Talbot's command) in the night 
 watches that they keep at the guild hall, peniless bench, 
 and at most inne doors where the officers lie ; it was dated 
 3. Decemb. 
 
 11. Wednesday - - - Barnesby a Jesuit sent for up from 
 
 Worcester to London to be examined, came through Ox- 
 ford in his journey, attended by a guard and a tipstaff, 
 railied at by the boys. 
 
 23. Dined with D r . Lamphire. D r . J. there asked me, whe- 
 
 f Sic. W. & H. and in the yeare above written, 
 
 s The second of Decemb. an. take the oaths of allegiance and 
 
 1678. — These are to testifie to all supremacy before, and in the pre- 
 
 to whom this writing may come, sence of me Jo. Nicholas vie. 
 
 that the bearer hereof Anthony a can. Oxon. — Ex Orig.inBib. Bod. 
 
 Wood master of arts of the uni- W. & H. 
 
 versity of Oxford did, on the day 
 
1678.] LIFE OF WOOD. 2G9 
 
 ther I was not yet summoned before the king's council ? 
 I asked why he thought so, and other foolery, but no 
 more than I expected from him. D r . Hall master of 
 Pembroke there, took no notice of me, when he came in, 
 or at the table, or when he went away, only if I was 
 talking with any body he would be still saying, " what is 
 that he saith," being intent to pick a quarrel with me 
 about religion : a malepert presbyterian since this plot, 
 nothing of malepertness before. 
 
 Note that one whom they call father Lovel a Jesuit 
 hath lived in Oxford many years to supply service for the 
 Catholicks, in and near Oxford, but upon the late procla- 
 mation for the taking, and securing all Jesuits and Roman 
 priests, viz. Mr. Hunt's at the Castle mill, both since the 
 proclamation published being searched as they say twice 
 for him, and Monday Dec. 16 (he being seen in Oxford 
 early in the morning) that house again was searched that 
 day, between 11 and 12 in the morning; his being seen 
 is but a report, and the searching of that house was 
 but in course, when they did all the Papists' houses in 
 town. They say once he took water behind Mr. Eulke's 
 house. 
 
 Thomas Latton, sometime of Kingston Bakepuze in 
 Berks, left his religion since the king's restauration, and 
 sheltered himself, as 'tis said, among the Jesuits, came to 
 Oxford in this month, and lodged himself at Francis Al- 
 der's against the Fleur de Lis. The mayor having notice 
 of it, went and tendered to him the oaths of allegiance 
 and supremacy, whereupon he gave security for his ap- 
 pearance next sessions after the twelfth day : his eldest 
 son is with him, and he, they say, has taken it, and will 
 leave the Roman religion. 1679- 
 
 40007. per annum collected for the poor of St. Giles in 3 ° w ' 
 the field's, London, but in a year's time after the plot was 
 
 wood, vol. 1. p 
 
210 LIFE OF WOOD. [1679. 
 
 discovered, and the Papists banished, it fell to 700/. this 
 year. 
 
 The contribution throughout England and Wales for 
 the poor arises to 500000/. per annum, but before the al- 
 teration of religion there was no such contribution, nor 
 repairing of bridges, nor high-ways : this is able to main- 
 tain an army. 
 
 300/. per annum collected in Oxford for the poor. 
 
 Is it not a shame that it should be accounted unusual 
 for scholars to go to Augustin's disputations, and that the 
 masters of the schools speak English to them ? 
 
 After the breaking out of the Popish plot, several of 
 our scholars were tried, and at length were (1680) dis- 
 covered to be Whigs. 
 Jan. 6. Twelfth day, a dragoon being in the back yard of the 
 
 Ship inn, in Jesus lane, and aiming his musquet at a 
 privy house door behind those houses opposite to Baliol 
 college, killed a taylor's wife named Dalby, who kept a 
 shop against Baliol college. He appeared at the sessions 
 two or three days after for the fact. 
 14. I sent my observations and corrections of sir William 
 
 Dugdale's Baronage to the author, towards a second edi- 
 tion; there are 17 several papers on the first volume, and 
 64 on the second, all containing about 7 or 8 sheets of 
 paper, they are to be returned to me, when the author 
 hath done with them, with another sheet in 4 to , that I sent 
 him in 1675. 
 24. We heard that the mayor and common council had 
 
 made an order, that the high steward should be prayed for 
 by the lecturers in their prayers before sermons at St. 
 Martin's ; the bishop denies it. k 
 
 k [In the form of prayer now is this clause inserted — for the 
 (1848) used by the lecturers of nobility, gentry and commonalty 
 St. Martin's before their sermons of this land : and here in Oxford 
 
1679.] LIFE OF WOOD. 211 
 
 I gave my book of the Hist, et Ant. Oxon. to the He- Feb. 10. 
 raid's office in quires at the request of sir W m .Dugdale, 
 Garter. 
 
 Tuesday Br. Whorwood, esq. and W m . Wright alderman n. 
 of the city chose burgesses for the city to serve in parlia- 
 ment, which is to begin 6. March. Geo. Pudsey of Ells- 
 feild, esq. then stood, and rec d . the canvass, which cost 
 him, they say, about 300/. 
 
 Convocation, wherein letters were read from the chan- 19- 
 cellor in behalf of Mr. Heneage Finch, solicitor general, 
 to be one of our burgesses to sit in parliament, purposely 
 to set aside D r . Eddisbury 1 of Brazen-nose, who auda- 
 ciously, and with too much conceit of his own worth, stood 
 against the said Mr. Finch, D r . Lamphire, and D r . Yerbury : 
 but a week before D r . Yerbury put off his votes to Finch 
 for fear Eddisbury should carry it. Note, that D r . Eddis- 
 bury stood in 1675 against him and sir Christopher Wren, 
 but being soundly geered and laughed at for an impudent 
 fellow, desisted. 
 
 Election for knights of the shire, those that stood were 26. 
 sir John Doyly, sir John Cope, sir Edward Norris, and 
 John Clarke, esq. counsellor at law, it lasted till 28. day 
 about 12. or 1. in the afternoon, and Cope and Norreys 
 carried it. 3000 votes, they say, were given. 
 
 A convocation celebrated at 8 in the morning : stood to 27. 
 be elected Heneage Finch, solicitor general, in the place 
 of sir Francis Winnington, a younger son of the lord 
 chancellor, he was not here himself, but had his agents ; 
 Dr. John Lamphire, M. D. history professor, D r . John 
 
 pray we for the right worshipful councillors of the corporation of 
 the mayor, George Duke of this ancient and loyal city.] 
 Marlborough high-steward, the l Fasti Oxon. under the year 
 
 recorder, aldermen, sheriff and 1672. W. & H. 
 
 r 2 
 
212 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 79- 
 
 Eddisbury of Brazen-Nose, D r . Hen. Yerbury of Mag. 
 coll. did stand also, but in compliment to the attorney m 
 general was taken off by the vice-chancellor and others, 
 about a fortnight before the election. The solicitor-general 
 had 201 n votes, D<\ Lamphire had 209, D'. Eddisbury 245, 
 but the vice-chancellor and the heads having a mind that 
 the solicitor general should be chosen for the good of the 
 university, would not pronounce the election after the 
 scrutiny was finished, which by statute he might have 
 done, but delayed till such time those that had given but 
 one vote (who again were called in to give for another 
 person) so that by this means Finch having more than 
 Lamphire, the vice-chancellor proposed to the convocation, 
 whether the indentures of election should be sealed, but 
 the non party being most, D r . Fell was sent for, who 
 though he pleaded hard for his own man, (Finch sometime 
 of his house) yet the jun s . prevail still, and D r . Lamphire 
 again protested against the unlawfulness of it : so, about 
 one of the clock, the convocation was dissolved. 
 
 Eddisbury carried it by the jun rs . and potmen, he being 
 one himself; but after all was done, it was found, that 
 the calculators had mistaken the votes, and numbered 
 Mr. Finch's to be less by 4 than D r . Lamphire's, where- 
 upon the vice-chancellor avouching it then to D l *. Lam- 
 phire, he rests quiet. 
 
 Note that Eddisbury and his party went the night 
 
 before the election, and got all Mag. coll. and Ch. Ch. 
 
 votes; for D r . Lamphire had 18 at Magd. and more at 
 
 Ch. Ch. The vice-chancellor shewed himself false to 
 
 Dr. Lamphire at that time, though a pretended friend to 
 
 him. We were polled by two writers, without swearing, 
 
 in the divinity school. 
 
 m Sic. W. & H. n 243. Dr. Bouchier 7. See Reg. Convoc. 
 
 W.&H. 
 
 
1679-] LIFE OF WOOD. 213 
 
 This Lent the collectors ceased from entertaining the 
 bachelors by advice and command of the proctors. Vander 
 Hwyden of Oriel was then a collector ; so that now they 
 got by their collector ships, whereas before they spent 
 about 100/. besides their gains, on cloaths, or needless 
 entertainments. This month ° - - - Wharton, M. A. of 
 Queen's college and vicar of St. Clements buried in that 
 college chapel. 
 
 Tho. Cradock, M. A. university orator, died. P Mar. 22. 
 
 Election for orator ; Mr. Penton, principal of Edmund Mar. 26. 
 hall, a good orator, stood, q - - - Waple, M. A. of St. 
 John's, who had 95 votes, and W m . Wyat, M. A. student 
 of Ch. Ch. sometime deputy orator for D r . South 112 
 votes, the last carried it, because Ch. Ch. and Mag. col- 
 lege joyned together, as they did in the election of bur- 
 gesses of the university in February. 
 
 A fast, or day appointed for all his majestie's subjects Apr. n. 
 to seek by fasting and prayer a reconciliation with Al- 
 mighty God, and with humble and penitent hearts to 
 implore him by his power and goodness to infatuate and 
 defeat the wicked councills and imaginations of our ene- 
 mies, and to continue his mercies, and the light of the 
 gospel to us, and our posterity, and to bestow his abun- 
 dant blessings upon his sacred majesty and this present 
 parliament, that their councils and endeavours may pro- 
 duce honourable safety. 
 
 This is canting, for they do not care for the king, and 
 their fast is, that the preachers may rail, and make the 
 commonalty out of love with his majesty's loyal subjects. 
 Damned Presbytery ! they pretend to love the king, and 
 rejoice much in his recovery from a dangerous sickness 
 
 Gilbert. W. & H. p Fasti Oxon. under the year 1673. 
 
 W.&H. q Edward. W. & H. 
 
2,14s LIFE OF WOOD. [1679. 
 
 at Windsor in August this year, yet they will not give him 
 money in any of their parliaments. 
 
 Mr. John Mills of Queen's coll. M. A. and fellow 
 preached at St. Mary's not much better. 
 
 In Reg. Convocat. p. 131. r 'tis said that Mr. Tho. Man- 
 
 ningham of New coll. had 2 votes, Waple of St. John's 92, 
 
 Penton 99, W. Wyatt 112. 
 
 Wm. Rawlyns ■ 
 
 Apr. „, Low Sunday, Matthew p anting of Pem. coll. repeated 
 
 at St. Mary's very well. 
 ult. Mr. Walker told me, that more than a fortnight since 
 
 sir Harbottle Grimston made a speech in the parliament 
 house, and therein took occasion to mention the printing 
 of Popish books at the theatre in Oxford, amongst which 
 were the Life of Alfred, s and the Historia fyc. Oocon. 
 wherein are many unseemly things of the reformation 
 said (informed so by Gilb. Burnet), also a Bible printed 
 there, wherein are many faults. 
 May 1. At 10 at night a fire in a backside near the Three 
 
 Goates at one Mathews in Northgate street. 
 
 Saturday D r . Michael Roberts, D.D. t sometime prin- 
 cipal of Jesus college died with a girdle loyned u with 
 broad gold about him (100/. they say) at Tom Apleby's 
 house against Logick lane, buried in St. Peter's church 
 yard. 
 14. The common talk that Mr. George Barber, fellow of 
 
 Oriel coll. and bursar, was run away with 500/. of the 
 college money. 
 
 In this month was the high way in St. Giles from 
 against Tom. Rowney's house to the east end of St. Giles 
 
 r Pag. 231. Reg. Convocat. t Fasti Oxon. under the year 
 
 W.&H. 1649. W.&H. 
 
 s Athene Oxon. under the u Sic. W. & H. 
 year 1643. W.&H. 
 
1679.] LIFE 0F wood. 215 
 
 church repaired, viz. not pitched as that against St. John's, 
 but stones laid with gravel over them. 
 
 Monday I gave a scio for S r . Prince, Slatter, Colby, and June 23. 
 Wroughton, fellows of Merton coll. when I had done, and 
 was gone, one George Browning of Ch. Ch. said that I 
 had no vote, neither was I Mr. of arts, and made a hubbub 
 at the lower end of the congregation house. Q. whether 
 set on by Peers ? 
 
 In this month of June passed a dispensation for the 
 musick and musick lecturer to be translated from the 
 music school to the theatre, and the 12 July following it 
 was solemnly and well donn at 7 and 8 in the morning. 
 
 I sent certain animadversions on part of Gilbert Bur- July 4. 
 net's History of the Reformation of the Church of England, 
 dat. July 5 to sir W m . Dugdale, who is to give them to 
 the said Mr. Burnet; angry at the conclusion in what I 
 say of the ground of our Reformation. x 
 
 x [A Letter written to me by may see your mistakes, arid ac- 
 
 Anthony "Wood, in justification cordingly rectifie them, (if you 
 
 of his History of the University think fit) in the next part that is 
 
 of Oxford, with reflections on it; yet to publish. P. 86. But after 
 
 referred to alphabetically. lie hath set downe the instrument, 
 
 From Burnett's History of the he gives some reasons, Sfc. 
 
 Reformation of the Church of Eng- The two first reasons, (if they 
 
 land, part the third. Appendix, may be so called) *were put in by 
 
 page 389. another hand j and the other were 
 
 Sir, taken from these three books fol- 
 
 Your book of The Reformation lowing, b viz. From D r . Nicholas 
 of the Church of England, I have Harpesfeild's Treatise concerning 
 latelie perused, and finding my marriage, fyc. which is a fair ma- 
 self mentioned therin, not with- nuscript in folio; written either 
 out some discredit, I thought fit in the time of Queen Marie, or in 
 to vindicate my self so far in these the beginning of Queen Elizabeth .- 
 animadversions following, that you and 'tis by me quoted in my book, 
 
 a I could not know this : He publishes them, and is justly to be charged 
 with them. 
 
 b From such authorities what else was to be expected ? 
 
216 
 
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 [1679. 
 
 Aug. 15. Oxford city, their election of burgesses, Broome Whor- 
 wood and alderman W m . Wright chosen. Pudsey lost it 
 but by twenty votes. 
 
 in the place excepted against. 
 From Will Forest's life of queen 
 Catherine, written in the raign of 
 Queen Marie, and dedicated to 
 her. 'Tis a manuscript also and 
 written verie fairlie on parchment. 
 c From an Apologiefor the govern- 
 ment of the Universitie against 
 king Henry the 8th .- Written by a 
 Master of Arts Septimo Elizabe- 
 ths. 'Tis a Manuscript also, and 
 hath all the King's Letters therin, 
 written to the Universitie about 
 the question of Marriage and Di- 
 vorce, with several passages re- 
 lating to convocations concerning 
 the said questions. 
 
 So that by this you see I do not 
 frame those reasons out of mine 
 owne head (as partiall men might) 
 but what other authours dictate 
 to me. 
 
 Ibid. Upon what designe I can- 
 not easily imagine. 
 
 No designe at all God-wot, but 
 meerlie for Truth's sake, which 
 
 verie few in these dayes will de- 
 liver. 
 
 Ibid. And as if it had been an 
 ill Thing, he takes paines to purge 
 the Universities of it, Sfc. 
 
 It was an ill thing I think, (I 
 am sure it was taken so to be) for 
 a Prince by his letters to frighten d 
 People out of their Conscience, 
 and by menaces force them to say 
 what must please him. But see- 
 ing the Masters would not be 
 frightened, and therefore they 
 were laid aside, (the matter being 
 discussed by a few old timerous 
 Doctors and Batchellors of Divi- 
 nity, who would say any thing to 
 please the king, least danger 
 should follow) they ought to be 
 commended, or at least justified 
 for keeping their consciences safe. 
 
 Ibid. And without any proof 
 gives credit to a Lying story set 
 downe by Sands, of an assemblie 
 called by night. 
 
 Sands is not my authour, for 
 
 c This, as D r . Lloyd informs me, is Parsons' book ; an author of no better 
 credit than the former : For he was a, Master of Arts of Baliol College, in 
 Queen Elizabeth's time. See Wood in Bal. col. 
 
 d I do not find there was any frightning threatnings ; none appear in the 
 King's letters. If he had this from any good authors, he had done well to 
 have quoted them. It is not honourable for the University, as it is not pro- 
 bable to represent all the Doctors and Batchelors of Divinity, as men apt to 
 be frightened out of their consciences : and that only the Masters of Arts 
 were impregnable. It is rather to be supposed that the one sort were car- 
 ried away by faction; and that the others were guided by learning and 
 conscience. 
 
679.] 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 217 
 
 University election; sir Leolin Jenkins, Dr. Charles 19- 
 Perrott of St. John's, D r . Oldysh of New college, and 
 
 he says no such thing in his book 
 De Schismate, of an assembly e 
 called by night : my author for 
 this is the Apologie before men- 
 tioned, which adds, that when a 
 Regent of Baliol College, (whom 
 they called king Henry) heard that 
 the Commissarie, and his company 
 were going to dispatch this night 
 work, denied the Seals with his 
 breeches about his shoulders, for 
 want of a Hood. See in Hist. 8f 
 Antiq. Oxon. Lib. 1. P. 256. A. f 
 The truth is, the meeting was un- 
 seasonable, and their actions clan- 
 cular; as being protested against 
 by, and done without the consent 
 of, the regents. And as for Sands, 
 though I cannot well defend him, 
 yet many things in his book De 
 Schismate, especially those relat- 
 ing to the universitie of Oxford, I 
 find from other places to be true, s 
 Ibid. But it appears that he had 
 never seen, or considered the other 
 
 instrument, to which the Universitie 
 set their seale. 
 
 The grand collection, or Far- 
 rago, which Mr. Thomas Masters 
 made, (by the Lord Herbert's ap- 
 pointment) in order to the writing 
 of King Henry the 8ths Life, I 
 have seen and perused ; but could 
 not with all my diligence find that 
 instrument (as you call it, yet we, 
 an Act, or Decree) of Convoca- 
 tion ; neither in the three great 
 folio's written by another hand, 
 containing materials at large for 
 the said life ; neither in any of the 
 Registers, Records, or Papers, be- 
 longing to the Universitie. So that 
 for these reasons, and that be- 
 cause the Lord Herbert says, it 
 was blurred, and not intended for 
 the King j and also not under seal, 
 (you say 'twas) neither passed in 
 the house by the majority of votes; 
 therefore did I omit it as not au- 
 thentick. h I truly believe, or at 
 
 e He says it was called clam ; that could hardly be, but in the night : So 
 this is no material difference. In the rest you agree with Sanders. 
 
 f I see no reason for this. The Instrument set forth by the Lord Herbert 
 shews, that the persons deputed had good authority to set the University 
 seal to their determination : and they were not tied to forms, but might have 
 done it at any time. 
 
 & Yes, such authors as you quote : you say you cannot well defend Sanders. 
 It seems you would if you could. These are soft words concerning the scan- 
 dalous Writer. 
 
 h All that you say here is only negative Authority ; but since the Lord 
 Herbert says he saw the original, though it is not in any of these collections, 
 you must either believe it, or make him a liar : and if it was an original it 
 must either have been subscribed by the hands of the persons deputed ; or 
 must have had the seal put to it. The beginning of it shews it was not sub- 
 scribed ; for it is in the name of John Cottis/ord, their commissary : So it 
 
218 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [1679. 
 
 Mr. Lane, sometime of Ch. Ch. son of sir George Lane, 
 were competitors, but the black potmen carried it for 
 
 least have good grounds to think, 
 that it was only drawn up, and 
 not proposed; for if it had, it 
 would have been registred : There 
 being nothing proposed, either in 
 Convocation or Congregation, but 
 is registred, whether denied, or 
 not. And the register of that 
 time is most exactly kept ; and 
 nothing thence, as I can perceive, 
 is torn out. 
 
 Ibid. There seems to be also 
 another mistake, in the relation he 
 gives .- For he says, those of Paris 
 had determined in this matter. 
 
 I say 1 so from Warham, Arch- 
 bishop of Canterbury, then Chan- 
 cellor of the University : Who in 
 his letters thereunto, desires the 
 Members, to make what Expedi- 
 tion they could, to give in their 
 Answer to the King's question; 
 forasmuch as Paris and Cambridge 
 had done it already. —For this I 
 quote the Book of Epistles, in 
 
 Archiv. Lib. Bod. MS. Epist. 197. 
 Yet, I believe, the Archbishop said 
 this, to hasten the University of 
 Oxon the more ; tho' probably it 
 was not so. However, I am not 
 to take notice of that but to follow 
 record as I find it. And that I 
 do follow record throughout all 
 my Book, there is not one, I (pre- 
 sume) of the senate of antiquaries 
 can deny it; and therefore, how 
 there can be many things in my 
 book (of my framing) that are 
 enemies to the reformation of the 
 Church of England, as was sug- 
 gested by you to sir Harbottle 
 Grimston, (who thereupon made 
 a complaint in open parliament 
 last April, against the said book) 
 I cannot see. k Truth ought to 
 take place ; and must not be con- 
 cealed, especially when 'tis at a 
 distance. And if our Religion l 
 hath had its Original, or Base, on 
 Lust, Blood, Ruin, and Desolation, 
 
 must have been either in the form of a Notary's Instrument, or must have 
 had the seal put to it, for he calls it an original. Perhaps the blurring of it 
 might either be casual, or when it was brought to Court, the King might 
 have made some alterations in it, that it might be renewed according to these 
 Corrections. * It might be causual ; Lord Herbert says not that it was rased 
 out, $c. 
 
 i In this you had a warrant for what you wrote, but I had a better to cor- 
 rect it by. 
 
 k I do profess I do not remember that I ever mentioned your book to him : 
 and sir Harbottle himself, when I asked him the question, said he never heard 
 me speak of it. 
 
 * This is writ very indecently : neither like a divine nor a Christian. 
 
 These words in Jtalick are in the Bishop of Worcester's Hand- 
 
1679.] LIFE 0F WOOD. 219 
 
 Perrot, a thorough paced soaker, sir Leolin Jenkins 204, 
 D'. Perrot 224, D r . Olclysh New coll. 104. V 
 
 Tom Wood chose probationer fellow of New coll. 24. 
 
 There came out in Aug. as I conceive, a most pestilent 
 pamphlet against the bishops in one sheet, printed 1679, 
 intit. Omnia comesta a Belo, or an Answer out of the West 
 to a Question out of the North. It shews what revenues 
 the bishops, deans of churches, and arch-deacons have, 
 what servants, officers, and others belong to them, what 
 mony they yearly get and lay up to the hindrance of trade, 
 and yet will not write against Popery or Presbytery. 
 Mr. Massey told me this. Not one Bp. answered it, not 
 one in the universities, I am sure not in Oxford, nor by 
 any, only Roger L'Estrange, in his book intit. The free 
 born Subject, or the English Man's Birth Right. 
 
 The D. of York went from London to Windsor, in the Sept. 
 company of the earl of Peterborough, Mr. Churchill, and 
 some of his servants ; this Mr. Churchill, afterwards lord 
 Churchill, ungrateful to him, not only in running away, 
 but endeavouring to betray him to the enemy. 
 
 Rob. Pauling, draper, chose mayor for the ensuing 
 year; whereas all mayors in memory of man used to be 
 mealy mouthed and fearful of executing their office for 
 fear of losing trade, this person is not, but walks in the 
 night to take townsmen in tiplmg houses, prohibits coffea 
 to be sold on Sundays, which D r . Nicholas vice-chan- 
 cellor prohibited till after evening prayer, viz. till five 
 o' clock; but this R. Pauling hath been bred up a Puri- 
 tan, he is no friend to the university, and a dissuader 
 
 (as all Religions, or Alterations in This is all from him that studies 
 
 Governments, have had from one Truth. Anthony a Wood, July 
 
 or more of them) why should it the 5th 1679.] 
 
 be hidden, seeing it is so obvious >' Lane obtinuit 45. Reg. Conv. 
 
 to all curious searchers into record. W. & H. 
 
220 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 79- 
 
 of such gentlemen, that he knows, from sending their 
 children to the university, because that he saith, 'tis a 
 debauched place, a rude place of no discipline; he will 
 not take notice of quaker's meetings, when he is informed 
 that there is such, but for a Papist, he hates as a devil — 
 his Wallisian instructor. 
 
 Oct. 19. I heard at Weston that the vice-chancellor of Oxford, 
 
 Dr. Fell, has denied Oates his incorporating D.D. You 
 must note that lord Lovelace brought Oates to the horse 
 race at Woodstock on Holy Rood day, and because he 
 would have company come there to the enriching of the 
 town, caused him to preach on Sunday and Tuesday. 
 This was partly to spite the lord treasurer and the king 
 for taking away his place of ranger. After the horse 
 races were done, Oates sent word to the vice-chancellor, 
 that he would come, and wait on him, not surprize him, 
 for his degree, but they denied him, that is, if he was 
 D. D. — at Salamanca they would incorporate him. 
 24- In the evening, when the duke of York returned from 
 his entertainment in the city, Oates and Bedlow were got 
 into the balcony of one Cockerill a blinkeyed bookseller 
 in Cheapside, and a great rabble about them, as the duke 
 passed by, they cried out " a Pope, a Pope," upon which 
 one of the duke's guard cocked his pistol, and rid back, 
 saying, what such factious rogues are these ? Upon which 
 they cried out, " no Pope, no Pope, God bless his high- 
 ness." So the king's worthy evidence (Oates and Bedlow) 
 sneaked away. 
 
 Dec. 16. John Dryden the poet, being at Will's coffee house in 
 
 Covent garden, was about 8 at night soundly cudgelled by 
 3 men, the reason, as 'tis supposed, because he had re- 
 flected on certain persons in Absalom and Achitophel. 
 
 21.22. 23. Extreme cold weather, a poor 2 died with hunger and 
 
 z Supple, Man, W. & H. 
 
1 68 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. 221 
 
 cold. He began to die in St. Clement's parish, but the 
 parishioners discovering it, hurried, or rather carried him 
 to the tower in the parish of St. Peter in the East to die 
 there, and so save the parish 2 or 3 shillings to bury him. 
 
 A flood came down the river Charwell, by much rain, 29 & 30. 
 that fell towards Banbury 2 or 3 days before ; little here : 
 the meads all drowned, so that this now is the 2d. flood 
 we have here. 
 
 About dinner time rung out the great bell of St. Marty's 30 
 for W m . Bull, yeoman beadle, who died at his house in 
 Magd. parish, a very good servant. Stands for his place 
 
 Anthony Carslegh, B. A. sometime of Bal. coll. a 
 
 Crostley, stationer, b Sherwin, barber, c 
 
 King, butler of man to the vice-chancellor, Cap. 
 
 Terwick, an old cavalier set up by Ch. Ch. d 
 
 Litchfield, the printer, e Tayler, apothecary. 
 
 Ant. Carslegh and Sherwin had even votes, about 50 a 
 piece, and Carslegh being B. A. carried it by virtue of a 
 statute in that point. He was chosen Jan. l. f 
 
 " Deest Diarium Anni 1680." 
 
 Soladin Harding, cook, had three daughters buried all 1681. 
 together at Holywell, who died of this malignant disease, j 2 ar ' 
 they died on Thursday night and Friday morning, this 
 may be noted, as well as that Marsh the taylor in Cat- 
 street had 3 children born at one time an. 1670, or there- 
 abouts. 
 
 Three of the probationer fellows of Mert. coll. were 12. 
 admitted fellows, the fourth, S r . Southley, was put aside 
 
 a John. W. & H. f Litchfield had 10 votes, King 
 
 b William. W. & H. 14, Crosley 33, Capitaneus Ter- 
 
 c John. W. & H. wick 43, Taylor 45, Sherwin 56, 
 
 d Leonard. W. & H. Carsley 56. Ex Beg. Convocat. 
 
 « William. W. &. H. W. & H. 
 
222 LIFE OF WOOD. [l68l. 
 
 for being a green ribband man, and saying that the old 
 king Charles I st . died justly, and speaking against the 
 bishops and other things, (see Notes from Congregation) 
 and grace denied. 
 13. News that alderman W. Wright a burgess for the city, 
 
 had lately made a motion to a committee to have the for- 
 mality of St. Scholastica's day laid aside. Townsmen 
 
 / 
 
 about into London, grow insolent as in 1641. 
 l8 - Mr. Allam told me, that the citizens have taxed or 
 
 cessed the priviledged men of Oxford, towards the militia 
 which served when the prince elector was here; D r . Hyde 
 principal of Magd. hall, who lives in the town, denies it, 
 and they seize on his goods. Lord Norreys lieutenant of 
 the county hath been hitherto a friend to the university 
 about these matters, and hath refused to give his hand to 
 it, yet the deputy lieutenants, as Pudsey &c. have set 
 their hands. 
 
 The city would also have the night watch of their own, 
 but this and the former, the mayor (Bowell) pretends that 
 he will have nothing to do with it. 
 Feb. 2. Mert. coll. 8 bells, newly cast by Christopher Hudson 
 
 of London, rang to the content of the society; for his 
 work and his metal, he is to have above 300/. they were 
 before cast from 5 to 8 by one Michael Derby, anno 
 1656, who spoiled them. 
 
 2 Election of S r . Leolin Jenkins, nobody stood against 
 him or D r . Perrot, yet Mr. Ames Crymes of Exeter, a hot 
 head, called for a poll and capitation, whereupon the vice- 
 chancellor being amazed at it, bid the company, those 
 that were for S r . Leolin Jenkins, go on one side, and 
 those for another on the other, whereupon all went on 
 one, and left Crymes, Adams, Thomas Newe, and others 
 of Exeter on the other, but they, being ashamed, went 
 there too. 
 
68 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. 223 
 
 The duke of Bucks came into Oxford over Magd. 3. 
 bridge at 7 at night, conducted by the citizens by torch 
 light from St. Clements to his lodging to help forward 
 the election of Whorwood and Wright, and lay at 
 Wright's. 
 
 Friday, election of burgesses for the city, Brome Whor- 4- 
 wood, William Wright, and Geo. Pudsey stood, the last 
 lost it by almost 100 votes, this is the third time he hath 
 been canvassing within these two years, and lost it by 
 means of Bucks and Lovelace, who were appointed by the 
 cabalists to promote this election here, that is rebellion 
 and discord, which the last parliament hath done among 
 the commons and vulgar; some of the citizens, though 
 bred amongst scholars, cried " no universities, no scholars, 
 no clergy, no bishops." 
 
 St. Scholastica; the mayor (J. Barells) and about 20 IO - 
 citizens or more came to St. Mary's according to custom ; 
 heard prayers, and would have offered 65 pence, but the 
 vice-chancellor refused, unless all were there. The rest 
 out of contempt would not come as in 1641, meerly en- 
 couraged for what they do, by the late high demeanour of 
 the parliament. 11 
 
 g y. W m . Bayly or John Bowel. fell upon the students, and in 
 
 W. & H. spite of the mandates of the chan- 
 
 h The origin of this ceremony cellor and even the king himself, 
 was a furious contest between the who was then at Woodstock, con- 
 citizens of Oxford and the stu- tinued their outrages for several 
 dents. Some of the latter being days, not only killing or wound- 
 at a tavern, on the 10 of Feb. ing the scholars, but in contempt 
 1354, broke the landlord's head of the sacerdotal order, destroy- 
 with a vessel in which he had ing all the religious crosses in the 
 served them with bad wine. The town. For which offences the 
 man immediately got together a king deprived the city of many 
 number of his neighbours and valuable priviledges, and bestowed 
 fellow citizens, who having long them on the university, and the 
 waited for such an opportunity, bishop of Lincoln forbid the ad- 
 
224 
 
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 [l68l. 
 
 One hundred and ninety two bachelors to determine 
 this Lent, but 23 or thereabouts were not presented on 
 
 ministration of the sacraments to 
 the citizens. In the following 
 year, they petitioned for a miti- 
 gation of this sentence, but with- 
 out success ; but in 1357, a total 
 abrogation of it was granted upon 
 condition that the city should an- 
 nually celebrate on St. Scholasti- 
 ca's day, Feb. 10, a number of 
 masses for the souls of the scho- 
 lars killed in the conflict; the 
 mayor and bailiffs with sixty of 
 the chief burgesses being bound 
 also to swear, at St. Mary's church, 
 observance of the customary rights 
 of the university, under the penalty 
 of 100 marks, in case of omis- 
 sion of this ceremony. And it 
 was further ordered, that the said 
 citizens should, after mass, offer 
 up singly at the high altar one 
 penny, of which fourty pence 
 were to be distributed to poor 
 scholars, and the remaining to 
 the curate of St. Mary's. This 
 offering being omitted, upon pre- 
 tence that masses were abolished, 
 the university, in queen Eliza- 
 beth's reign, sued them for the 
 sum of 1500 marks due for such 
 neglect during 15 years; when it 
 was decreed that instead of mass 
 there should be a sermon and 
 communion at St. Mary's, which 
 at length came only to publick 
 prayers,* and that the said offer- 
 ing should be made; in which 
 form the ceremony is now ob- 
 
 served. The traditional story that 
 the mayor was obliged to attend 
 with an halter round his neck, 
 which was afterwards, to lessen 
 the disgrace, changed into a silken 
 string, has no real foundation. 
 
 See Wood's, Hist, et Antiq. 
 Oxon. p. 173. Ayliffe's Ancient 
 and present State of the Univer- 
 sity of Oxford, vol. 1. p. 126. 
 W. &H. 
 
 [In the year 1800, another at- 
 tempt to evade this customary ce- 
 remony was made by the then 
 mayor, Richard Cox, esq. who 
 neglected to attend at St. Mary's 
 church. For this contempt the 
 university demanded and reco- 
 vered the fine of 100 marks of 
 Mr.' Cox. But at the close of 
 1824 the mayor and council ap- 
 plied to the university for a total 
 abolition of the custom, declaring 
 that their house would, " with one 
 voice, consider the acquiescence 
 of that body in the discontinu- 
 ance of the ceremony as an es- 
 pecial mark of attention and re- 
 gard to the wishes and feelings 
 of the corporation, and as an act 
 to be held in grateful remem- 
 brance by the citizens of Ox- 
 ford." In consequence of this 
 representation, on the I st of Feb. 
 1825, the university seal was af- 
 fixed in convocation to an instru- 
 ment releasing the mayor and 
 citizens of Oxford from the per- 
 
 * [ Afterwards reduced to the reading: of the Litany only.] 
 
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 225 
 
 Egg Saturday, their time for determining short, that is 
 to say, every bachelor was to determine twice between 
 the 17 Feb. to 7 March, because the king was to come 
 soon after, and the parliament to sit on 21st March. 
 
 Note, that the Divinity school hath been seldom used, 
 since altered and changed (but before 'twas a pig market) 
 but now this Lent, because the Geometry, Astronomy and 
 Greek schools were fitting for the house of lords, 4 twice 
 
 formance of the acts heretofore 
 required of them on Dies Scho- 
 lastica, which was thus acknow- 
 ledged : — 
 
 " City of Oxford in the County 
 of Oxford. The fourth council of 
 William Slatter, esq. mayor of the 
 said city, holden in the council 
 chamber of the said city^Monday, 
 that is to say the 7 th day of Fe- 
 bruary, 1825. 
 
 " The mayor having laid before 
 the house a Deed dated the i st in- 
 stant, whereby the university have 
 released and discharged this cor- 
 poration from their obligation of 
 the 15 May, 31 Edw. III. and 
 from all payments under it, and 
 from all services and offerings on 
 the day of Saint Scholastica in 
 lieu thereof, and have cancelled 
 and annulled the said obligation 
 for ever; 
 
 " Resolved unanimously, That 
 the warmest acknowledgments of 
 this House are due to the Uni- 
 versity for this act of grace and 
 favour; important in itself, and 
 rendered doubly acceptable by the 
 manner in which it has been con- 
 ferred. 
 
 " The mayor having also laid be- 
 fore the House a note from the re- 
 verend the Vice- Chancellor, where- 
 in after noticing the pleasure with 
 which he transmitted the above 
 instrument to the Mayor, he re- 
 peats his cordial -wish that the 
 most perfect harmony may ever 
 subsist between the University and 
 City :— 
 
 "Resolved further; That highly 
 sensible of the kind and concilia- 
 tory disposition shewn by the Vice- 
 Chancellor personally, and by the 
 whole University collectively, to- 
 wards the City upon this occasion, 
 this House, whilst it testifies its 
 hearty concurrence in the wish 
 expressed by the Vice- Chancellor, 
 records with sincere satisfaction 
 its firm conviction that the pre- 
 vailing good understanding be- 
 tween the two bodies cannot but 
 be permanently strengthened by 
 the issue of the late communica- 
 tions, calculated as it is to con- 
 firm and perpetuate in the citizens 
 of Oxford the sentiments of re- 
 spect and attachment to the Uni- 
 versity."] 
 
 WOOD, VOL. 
 
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226 LIFE OF WOOD. [l68l. 
 
 every day, or three at least, were appointed to determine 
 there. 
 
 Jan. 25. At a convocation in the Theatre for the reception of 
 
 the D. of Brunswick 1 amongst other things it was granted, 
 that such undergraduates that had not time to proceed 
 bachelors till next term might proceed this, but with this 
 condition, that their time for master should commence 
 not from this, but the next, term. It was also granted 
 to the bachelors, that they might proceed this, that had 
 not time till the next term, because they might not be 
 here the next. 
 
 The same day Mr. k Cooper of Pern. coll. preached 
 
 before the judges, sir Robert Atkins, and sir Creswell 
 Levinz, judges of the assize, and made a very seasonable 
 sermon to them. 
 
 Feb. 22. Or thereabout, the Convocation house being to be fitted 
 
 up for the commons by raising a scaffold at the north 
 end. All congregations till end of this term were cele- 
 brated in St. Mary's chancel, and the candidates stood for 
 their graces under Mallina Boys 1 his ra monument, and the 
 Scios taken in Adam Broome's chapel. 
 
 * Fasti Oxon. under the year are 7 sons and 5 daughters, all 
 1680. W. & H. kneeling with this epitaph under 
 
 k Robert. W. & H. Suavissimae matri Mallinae 
 
 1 On the east wall of St. Mary's Boys, Antonius Boys filius, gra- 
 church is a plate of brass fixed to titudinis et amoris ergo, una cum 
 a marble, and thereon is engraven fratribus et sororibus superstiti- 
 a woman kneeling before a table bus moerens posuit. 
 with a book on it, and behind her 
 
 Malle Mallina tuum gens omnis postera laudet 
 
 Malle mori bene, quam vivere Malle male. 
 Vita tibi in Christo, & Christo bene mortua vivis, 
 Non moritur, quisquis vixerat ante Deo. 
 
 Mortua est in Domino, Oxonii mense Augusti die XXV. 
 anno aetatis suae LXX Anno autem Arms are, a Griffin ramp, parted 
 
 ultimi temporis MDLXXXIII per fesse, within a bordure charged 
 
1 68 J.] LIFE OF WOOD. 227 
 
 March 1 and 2 was the election for the knights of the 
 shire. Sir John Cope, sir Edward Norrys, sir Philip 
 Harcourt, and Tho. Hord, esq. stood, and 2 d March, in 
 the morning, sir Phil. Harcourt and Tho. Hord carried 
 it, the former a gentleman, but a Presbyterian, the other 
 a most ill-natured man, and of no religion, he may be 
 compared to Brome Whorwood; they agreed together, 
 that they would give no entertainment, and none was 
 given. 
 
 The way leading down to the water at Magd. bridge, Mar. 
 viz. from the gate leading into Magd. coll. kitchen yard 
 down to the watering place was new pitched, and walled 
 on the south side by the means of D r . Lamphire 
 that collected monies from the colleges for that pur- 
 pose. 
 
 The king came into Oxford. i 4 . 
 
 Or thereabouts, White Kenneths book came to Oxford, 15. 
 entit. A Letter from a Student of Oxford &c. see what I 
 have said in White Kennet. It came to Oxford against 
 the parliament was to sit. It gave great offence to the 
 factious party of the house of commons, who would have 
 endeavoured to find out the author to have him punished, 
 had they not been dissolved. The pamphlet by some pas- 
 sages therein shews him not to be a scholar of Oxford, 
 yet John French n and formerly of New college did pub- 
 lickly say, that by several passages therein, it did appear 
 to be written by a scholar of Oxford. Some of the house 
 desired the vice-chancellor to make enquiry after the au- 
 thor, and he would, but the parliament was suddenly dis- 
 solved. 
 
 alternately with Crosses Patee m Sic. W. & H. 
 
 and Acorns : impaling a Chev. n Sic. W. & H. 
 
 charged with 3 Lyons ramp, with- ° Athene Oxon. article 
 
 out colours. W. & H. White Kennet. 
 
 q2 
 
228 LIFE OF WOOD. [168*. 
 
 The prices of all vendibles for the body of man and 
 horse were stuck up in publick places. p 
 
 P UNIVERS. OXON. 
 
 The Prices of Provision, appointed by the reverend Timothy Halton, 
 doctor of divinity, provost of Queen's colledge, and vice-chancellor 
 to the most illustrious James duke of Ormond and chancellor of this 
 University, His Majestie's clerk of this Market. Which prices all 
 Sellers are required not to exceed. 
 
 Imprimis a pound of butter, sweet and new, the best in the s. d. 
 
 market o 6 
 
 Item a pound of second butter, sweet and new o 5 
 
 Item a pound of the best cheese o 2 ob 
 
 Item a pound of second cheese o 2 
 
 Item eggs, six for o 2 
 
 Item a couple of capons, the best in the market 4 6 
 
 Item a couple of second capons in the market 3 6 
 
 Item a couple of chickens, the best in the market 
 Item a couple of second chickens in the market 
 
 Item a couple of fat pullets 2 o 
 
 Item a dozen of pigeons, the best in the market 
 Item a couple of fat green geese, the best in the market 
 Item a couple of rabbets, the best in the market 
 Item a couple of second rabbets 
 
 Item a fat pigg, the best in the market 2 6 
 
 Item a second pigg in the market 2 o 
 
 Item a stone of the best beef at the butcher's, weighing 
 
 eight pound avoyrdupois 2 o 
 
 Item a stone of the second beef at the butcher's 1 8 
 
 Item a quarter of the best weather mutton at the butcher's, 
 
 by the pound o 3 obq 
 
 Item a quarter of the second weather mutton at the 
 
 butcher's, by the pound o 3 q 
 
 Item a quarter of the best lamb at the butcher's, by the pound 
 
 Item a quarter of the best veal at the butcher's, by the pound o 3 
 
 Item a quarter of the second veal at the butcher's, by the 
 
 pound o 2 ob 
 
 Item a whole flitch of bacon, by the pound o 4 ob 
 
 Item rib-bacon, by the pound o 6 
 
 Item a pound of tallow candles made of wick o 4 ob 
 
 Item a pound of cotton or watching candles o 5 
 
 Item hay and litter day and night for one horse within 
 
 every inn and livery stable o 8 
 
l68l.] LIFE OF WOOD. 229 
 
 About 5 in the morning died D r , James Hyde, regins^May 7. 
 professor of physick, and principal of Magd. hall, and 
 was buried in an ile of St. Peter's in the East on the 9 th . 
 at night; after his death, the fellows of Mag. coll. ques- 
 tioning the chancellor's right of putting in principals into 
 the halls, did in the absence of the president chuse to be 
 
 s. d. 
 
 Item a bushel of the best oats within every inn 2 8 
 
 Item a bushel of the best beans within every inn 4 o 
 
 Stuck up in all public places, 13 March 1680. (A. W.) 
 Inter libros A. Wood, in mus. Ashm. 276. B. 
 
 As a supplement to this programma the reader will be pleased to 
 see the prices of different wines some years before. 
 Oct. 21. 1667. 
 
 Prizes of wines set and appointed by the vice-chancellor of the uni- 
 versity of Oxford, according to which they are to be sold rateably 
 in all measures. 
 
 1. Canary wines, Allegant, and Muscadels, one shilling eight pence 
 
 the quart, and no more. 
 
 2. Sack and Mallagoes, one shilling sixpence the quart, and no more. 
 
 3. French wines, nine pence the quart, and no more. 
 
 4. Rhenish wines, one shilling two pence the quart, and no more. 
 
 John Fell, vice-chan. 
 
 Prizes of wines set and appointed by the vice-chancellor of the uni- 
 versity of Oxford, according to which they are to be sold rateably in 
 all measures, from and after the twenty seventh day of this instant 
 February 1673. 
 
 1. Canary wines, Alecant, and Muscadels, two shillings the quart, 
 
 and no more — (before for several years at 2s. 2d. to the great 
 resentment of all : who to make even money would either spend 
 more or give the drawer the rest. This price was raised upon 
 pretence of carriage.) 
 
 2. Sack and Malagas one shilling ten pence the quart, and no more. 
 
 3. French wines one shilling the quart, and no more. (Before for 
 
 severall years is. id.) 
 
 4. Rhenish wines, one shilling sixpence the quart, and no more. 
 
 Ra. Bathurst, vice-chancel. 
 Feb. 19. 1673. W. & H. 
 
 1 Fasti Oxox. under the year 1646. W. & H. 
 
230 LIFE OF WOOD. [l68l. 
 
 principal Francis Smith, M. B. a fellow, 21 May 1681, 
 and intending to seal up the hall gates with the college 
 seal, to keep ont the vice-chancellor, was denied by the 
 president newly returned, and admonished to the contrary 
 by the bishop of Winchester, so that the vice-chancellor 
 finding no opposition, did forthwith admit W>». Levett, 
 D. D. originally of this hall, afterwards of C. C. C. and 
 student of Ch. Ch. 1 June 1681. having been before nomi- 
 nated by the chancellor. 1 " 
 June 6. The outrage committed on the old lady Lovelace at 
 
 Hunt's door against the Crown tavern between 8 and 9 
 at night by Mr. Leopold Finch, son of the earl of Win- 
 chelsea, lord Buckeley, and 2 gentlemen commoners, 
 Luttrell one, and 4 scholars all of Ch. Ch. they plucked 
 her out of her coach, and called her old protesting bitch, 
 broke windows that night, and did many misdeameanours ; 
 one of the students named Altham, nephew to Mr. Al- 
 tham, sen r . student is expelled, the townsmen and other 
 envious people report, that they should say, they called 
 her Protestant bitch. The Bp. extremely troubled at it. 
 They had been drinking at the Crown tavern. 
 22. "Wednesday, early in the morning, St. Mary's bell rung 
 
 out for Christopher Minshull, esq. beadle of divinity, 
 who died with a fall from a horse between Abingdon 
 and Lockyng, on the next day going before in the after- 
 noon, buried in Lockyng church 24 th . day. s He was 
 going there to see esq. Wiseman. Candidates for his 
 place, tVilett, formerly of St. John's, 98 votes. Henry 
 Robinson, M. A. of Ch. Ch. 45. u James Bayly, jun r . A.M. 
 
 r Fasti Oxon. under the year to his brother Francis Minshull of 
 
 1680. W. & H. London, 28 June, 1681.] 
 
 s [He died, as I believe, intes- * Nicholas. W. & H. 
 
 tate. Administration was granted u 46. ex reg. conv. W. & H. 
 
1 68 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. 231 
 
 of Magd. 92. David *Wicklow, A. M. of New coll. 29.— 
 23 d . a convocation, Vilett carried it by six votes. 
 
 Mr. y- - - - of Pemb. coll. minister of Chipping Nor- July 5. 
 ton, having a letter wherein he desired to be dispensed 
 with for 7 terms absence, it was read in convocation, and 
 he carried it by 10 votes, he stood for his grace, both his 
 dispensations for terms and absence from lectures were 
 denied but by one vote, he was denied on the 6 and 7th. 
 Mr. [Thomas] Lyndesey, fellow of Wad. coll. and regent 
 ad placitum carried in reasons against him to Mr. vice- 
 chancellor, which were, that he canvassed some votes, 
 that the same letter as to substance, form, date, and sub- 
 scribers, was proposed on the 5th, which was denied in 
 the convocation unanimously on the first ; but the vice- 
 chancellor and the proctors rejected the reasons, and 
 Lyndesey still insisting on them, Mr. vice-chancellor 
 threatned to expell him both houses, and read the sta- 
 tute for that end ; when his dispensation for non visiting 
 and non circuiting z it was denied, and a scrutiny de- 
 manded of Mr. vice-chancellor, which he at first denied, 
 but some other masters standing up and demanding the 
 same, the proctors took the votes, and it was carried but 
 by one, Lyndesey excepting against Pinthurst of Pern, 
 coll. having no vote. Mr. vice-chan. threatned to send 
 him to the castle, if he dared to speak one word more in 
 that business ; before the proctors went to scrutinize for 
 his dispensation for not visiting, Lyndesey desired that 
 Mr. vice-chan. would command all such masters who 
 were there in congregation, and had no votes, either to 
 go out of the house, or separate themselves from the rest, 
 which they did. 
 
 x Wickham, ex reg. conv. W. & H. 
 y Supple, Edward Reddrop. W. & H. 
 z F. was read. W. & H. 
 
%32 LIFE OF WOOD. [l68l. 
 
 July 9. z. . _ . Sawyer, an inceptor of Mag. coll. spoke the 
 
 musick speecli in the Musick school, whereas for 2 years 
 before it was in the Theatre. The reason, as was pre- 
 tended, why he did not speak it in the Theatre was, 
 because, as the Bp. said, people broke down many things 
 there to the charge of the university; but we all imagined 
 the true reason to be, because he was not a Ch. Ch. man, 
 and therefore would not allow him the Theatre to grace 
 him. Grand partiality ! 
 
 - - - - More, a TerrcB films of Merton came up on the 
 Saturday, very dull, and because he reflected on S r . Tho. 
 Spencer's doings with Souch his wife, his son, who was 
 there, cudgelled him afterwards in the Row-Buck yard, 
 dogged him to the place with another. 
 
 10. Sunday, D r . [John] Younger an inceptor of Magd. 
 preached in the morning, and D r . b Fowler of C. C. C. in 
 the afternoon. 
 
 1 1. Monday, [Matthias] Henvill of New-Inn hall (a married 
 man) and the other Terra filius made up what was want- 
 ing on Saturday, full of waggery and roguery, but little wit. 
 
 2 y. - - - - Paynton the town clerk died, and was buried in 
 
 Carfax church on the 29th. c (Quaere.) 
 
 z Thomas. W. & H. to Eliz. Reeve in the chap, of St. 
 
 8 [I believe John Mower to be Barthelmew's hospitall, 24 Aug. 
 
 the person here meant. He was a 1628. by whome he had issue 
 
 native of Gloucestershire, matr. John, who putting this coat of 
 
 1675, B.A. 1678, M.A. 1681.] *armes on a monument over his 
 
 b Edward. Fasti Oxon. un- children in St. Martin's church, 
 
 der the year 1 68 1. W. Dugdale K. of armes com- 
 
 c John Paynton, sometimes manded him, at my request, to 
 
 mace-bearer to the mayor of pull it downe or take new, be- 
 
 Oxon. died 17. Feb. 1678. setat. cause this coat belonged to the 
 
 86, and more, and was buried in worshipfull family of the Peytons 
 
 St. Martin's church. Son of in Kent, wherefore the said John 
 
 Paynton, sometimes embroiderer Paynton, in July 1679, did pur- 
 
 to K.James. He was married chase another coat. 
 
 * S. on a Cross ingr. o. a Lozeng. g. a mullet in ye first quarter (ar) or. 
 
1 68 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. 233 
 
 Prince was chosen town clerk. Aug. i. 
 
 Mr. King of St. Mary hall was chosen by the univer- 8. 
 sity vicar of Seiceston in Leicestershire, ag f . Thompson of 
 Line, and Vaughan of Edmund hall. 
 
 At 8 at night the high sheriff brought into Oxford, in »5- 
 his coach Stephen Colledge, the Protestant joyner from 
 Henley, guarded by his men with naked swords, and so 
 put him into the castle. A guard of 2 halberdiers set at 
 St. Clements that night. 
 
 Died Hen. Denton, d M. A. rector de Blechington, and 17. 
 buried in the church 18. 
 
 D r . Marshall of Line. coll. preached before the judges 
 at St. Mary's, judge [Francis] North, sir Creswell Levinz, 
 [Thomas] Raymond, and S r . Tho. Jones ; thence they 
 went to the Guild hall yard, where they sat from 9 to 12, 
 and adjourned till two ; between 2 and 3 they met, and 
 did not conclude till 3 in the morning, at which time the 
 jury pronounced him guilty, upon which there was a very 
 great shout, and one of Bristol (who came purposely to 
 the trial) being louder than the rest was sent prisoner to 
 the castle after a time ; at 10 the said morning the judges 
 met again, and pronounced sentence. 
 
 Wednesday at 11. Stephen College, born at Watford in 31. 
 Hertfordshire, nephew to Edmund College of St. Peter's 
 
 John Paynton, town-clerk of left issue by Anne his wife .... 
 
 the citie of Oxford, son of John Creast is a demy Lyon ram- 
 
 Paynton sometimes macebearer to pant crown'd or. holding between 
 
 the mayor, died at his house in it's two pawes a Lozenge g 
 
 St. Aldate's parish, 28 July 1681, granted with the coat by Will 
 
 aged 53, and was buried in St. Dugdale, Garter, and Hen. St 
 
 Martin's church by his father, George, Clar. Knt. in July 1679 
 
 and also by the grave of his wife, Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm 
 
 Anne, daug. of Thomas Shreive of 8466. W. & H. 
 
 Wytham in Berkshire neare Oxon. d Fasti Oxon. under the year 
 
 which Anne died 5 Feb. i68f, 1659. W. & H. 
 a ged 35- The said John Paynton 
 
234 
 
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 [l68l. 
 
 in the Bayly, suffered death by hanging in the castle yard 
 Oxon, and when he had hanged about half an hour was 
 cut down by Catch or Ketch, and quartered, under the 
 gallows, his entrails were burnt in a fire made by the gal- 
 lows. He spoke and prayed more than half an hour, his 
 body was, after quartering, put into a coffin, and the same 
 day was conveyed to London, and buried privately the 
 Thursday following at night in St. Gregory's church near 
 St. Paul's.e 
 
 e [To his loving and most dear 
 children Stephen and Edith Col- 
 ledge with my blessing to you 
 
 My dear children 
 Stephen ^ 
 
 and > Colledge 
 Edith J 
 
 The Lord God Almighty bless 
 keep and preserve you both in 
 your Souls and Bodies : and grant 
 you his grace that ye may above 
 all thing seek his honour and 
 glory, to your own eternal com- 
 fort both here and hereafter. 
 Keep his laws; read his holy 
 word, which is able with his grace 
 to make you wise to salvation. Be 
 sure to keep his holy Sabbaths to 
 the end of your lives. Be con- 
 stant in prayer as for your lives, 
 and let not one day or night pass 
 over your heads without that duty. 
 Frequent sermons, where you 
 find them best preached in all 
 truth and sincerity. Take the sa- 
 crament of the Lord Jesus Christ 
 his last supper: and be sure to 
 keep faithfully what is there given 
 you in charge : and lead your 
 lives accordingly. Live honestty, 
 soberly, quietly and justly, and if 
 possibly peaceably, with all men. 
 
 Abstain yourselves from all man- 
 ner of evil. Quell all evil thoughts 
 that shall attempt you, in the 
 bud. Resist the Devill in his 
 very first attempts, and he will 
 fly from you. Be duty full to my 
 dear mother. Be truly loving (for 
 my sake) to each other and all 
 your relations. I desire that 
 Edith, Betty and yourself may 
 live together untill such time your 
 sister is grown up, and God shal 
 otherwise dispose of you. Pray 
 follow your private calling quietly. 
 Have a care of what company you 
 keep, and whom you ever trust : 
 and leave the righting of my 
 wrongs to God Almighty. And 
 be sure you take my death pa- 
 tiently; as, I thank my God, I 
 doe. My best duty to my mo- 
 ther ; my love to my sister Ruth 
 and her husband, and to every 
 particular person you know my 
 friends, as if I named them: with 
 my dearest love, hearty affections, 
 and blessings to you both, my 
 most dearly beloved children, 
 whos faces I must never more 
 behold in earth; therefore heaven 
 be the place where through the 
 merits of Christ I hope to meet 
 
1 68 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. 235 
 
 In this month of August died at or neare Hungerford f 
 - - - - Bennet of Ch. Ch. who was beneficed there, he 
 corrected the press at the Theatre from 1669 to 1677, 
 and then was curate to D r . [Anthony] Saunders at Ac- 
 ton, thence he removed towards Hungerford : he wrote 
 Notes on Oxford Grammar. 
 
 [John] Troughton, a blind man, sometime fellow of St. 
 John's, died 20 Aug. at Mr. Sheer's house in Allhallows 
 parish, and buried at Bicister church 22 Aug. a moderate 
 non- conformist, the best scholar of them all, well studied 
 in the schoolmen, born in Coventry; ob. setat. 46, or 
 thereabouts. 
 
 In convocation commissioners appointed by the chan- Oct. 7. 
 cellor to govern the university, or to order matters in the 
 chancellor's absence, viz. the vice-chancellor, D r . Fell, D r . 
 Clarke, D r . Bathurst, D r . James, D r . Marshall, D r . Jane; 
 D r . Marshall in the place of D r . Yates deceased, and D r . 
 Jane in the place of D r . Allestree. 
 
 Sunday, between 10 and 11 in the morning, Mr. »Car- 23. 
 
 you all. My tears stop my pen : This letter of Stephen College 
 
 farewell, my dear dear dear chil- to his children, after his condem- 
 
 dren. I am nation and before his execution, 
 
 Your dying Father was coppyed out of the original.] 
 
 Stephen Colledge. f Thomas. Vide Fasti Oxox. 
 
 Oxon August 30 th . 1 68 1. under the year 1669. W. & H. 
 
 I have sent each of you a Book s [William Cardonel or de Car- 
 pray make a good use of them donel, the son of Peter Cardonel 
 while life lasts. Stephen pray do of London, gentleman, was edu- 
 not endeavour after that folly of cated at Westminster, matricu- 
 Riming, for on my word it will latedof Magdalen college, Apr, 14, 
 do you hurt therefore let me de- 1671, and proceeded to the degree 
 sire you to leave it. of B. A. as a member of that 
 
 house, Oct. 29, 1674, M. A. Jan. 
 
 The above is taken from a copy 29, 1677. He was afterwards 
 
 in the handwriting of Dr. Wallis, elected to a fellowship at Merton. 
 
 who has added at the end of it, He had a younger brother, Peter 
 
236 LIFE OF WOOD. [l68l. 
 
 donnel hanged himself in his bed chamber on his door, 
 discovered by his maid after 12 of the clock : he had only 
 his shirt and night cap on, and there he hnng till between 
 7 and 8 at night, and then by the coroner and jnry com- 
 ing and seeing him, there pronounced that he was not 
 compos mentis, about 11 at night he was buried stark 
 naked in the vestry yard on the south side of the chan- 
 cel ; he was troubled in conscience, for cheating the col- 
 lege of 3/. or 41. when he was bursar the year before, and 
 troubled for the warden's misusing him for another matter, 
 as he thought. When he was bursar last Spring or de- 
 puty bursar, sent the gardener to him for money due to 
 the gardener for doing work in the warden's garden, Mr. 
 Cardonnel not being in a right humour, bid the warden 
 be hanged, he should have no money, the gardener told 
 the warden these words, the warden took affidavit of it, 
 drew up a recantation, which being shewn the fellows, 
 Cardonnel at a meeting read it, but this stuck so close 
 to him, that bringing a melancholy fit on him, he could 
 never shake it off. In June or Aug. before, he threw 
 himself into the water in Mag. walks to drown himself, 
 but could not effect it. 
 
 Much rain yet mild, so that in my walk between Hed- 
 dington hill and Heddington on the 16 of Dec r . I gathered 
 ears of rye, and the corn there was so high and forward, 
 that before that time they were forced to graze it, and 
 mow it. In the said months of Dec. and Jan. were garden 
 peas in blossom. 
 Nov. 2. Wednesday, Ben. Wood chose child of Winchester school- 
 
 3. Oxford feast, W m . Howell of New Inn hall, preached 
 
 de Cardonel, elected to Christ before Apr. 20, 1699, when ad- 
 Church from Westminster in ministration was granted to his 
 1678; B.A. Nov. 10, 1682. M.A. sister Mary Lovell alias Cardonel 
 June 13, 1685. He died intestate of Cripplegate London.] 
 
1 68 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. 237 
 
 at St. Peter's, the son of Howell the taylor, since an 
 author. h 
 
 Westminster school boys burnt Jack Presbyter instead 
 of the pope. 
 
 Mr. Ralph Sheldon of Weston was in town, and he told 
 me that the earl of Dorset, S r . Cyril Wych, Mr. Vaughan 
 the earl of Carbury's son, and Fleetwood Shepheard went 
 last Michaelmas to Paris to visit Henry Savill the English 
 embassador there, where at this time they were enjoying 
 themselves, talking blasphemy and atheism, drinking and 
 perhaps what is worse. 
 
 Mr. Edw. Slater of our coll. accounted an inconsider- 
 able scholar, preached a most eloquent sermon at St. 
 Mary's in the afternoon, to the astonishment of the 
 audience. 
 
 Musick Lecturers. 
 1661 [Richard] Torless of St. John's. 
 
 [John] Fitz-Williams of Magd. coll. [probationer.] 
 1664 Mr. [Thomas] Jeamson of Wadh. 
 
 1672 — 
 
 1673 [Anthony] Wolveridge All Souls. 
 
 1674 Charles Holt of Magd. coll. 
 
 1675 [Francis] Slatter of C. C. C. 
 1676 Jesus coll. 
 
 1677 [Richard] Strickland of Magd. coll. [fellow.] 
 
 1678 John Grubb of Ch. Ch. 
 
 1679 James Allestree of Ch. Ch. in the Theatre. 
 
 1680 s Northon of Ch. Ch. in the Theatre. 
 
 1681 [Thomas] Sawyer [demy] of Magd. coll. in the 
 
 Musick school. 
 
 Terrse filii. 
 1657 Danvers of Trinity. 
 1660 No act. 
 
 h See Athene Oxon. W. & H. 
 
238 LIFE OF WOOD. [1682. 
 
 1661 
 
 Field, i Die Lun. Terr. fil. of Trin. 
 
 1662 No act. 
 
 1663 John Edwards of Trin. Saturni. 
 Jos. Brooks of Ch. Ch. die L/ance. 
 
 1664 Ric. Wood Joan. Saturni. 
 W m . Cave Magd. coll. die Luna. 
 
 1665, 1666, 1667, 1668, no acts, the Theatre in building. 
 
 1669 Hen. Gerard Wadh. Batumi. 
 
 Tho. Hayes ^En. Nasi, die Lun. M. D. in 1669. 
 
 1670 No act. 
 
 1671 — 
 
 Nich. Hall coll. Wad. die Lance. 
 1675 Venables Keeling sed. Christi. 
 
 1682. 1675 from Mich, term that year to Mich, term 1676 
 
 33 Car. II. no DO dy matriculated at Glouc. hall, not one in 1678. 
 Jan. 20. A messenger, at ten at night, came from the king to 
 
 D r . Halton the vice-chancellor, that he cause the professor 
 of Arabick and others to make a true translation of the 
 emperor of Morocco's letter, sent lately by his embas- 
 sador, which k were differently interpreted in many mate- 
 rial points by a jew and secretary to the embassy; the 
 jew false, the secretary true. 
 Feb. 3. Ric. Souch, B. A. of Pern. coll. fil. Ric. S. de Oxon. pleb. 
 
 (lately chorister, squint-eyed, of C. C. C. setat. 16) son of 
 Rich. Souch milliner was found hanged in his chamber 
 at Pern. coll. early in the morning; it is said he hung 
 himself on Wednesday night, buried in St. Aldate's church 
 near his grandmother, touched in her head — . 
 10. Friday, the burgers or citizens of Oxford appeared in 
 
 their full number on St. Scholastica's day at St. Mary's. 
 Alderman Wright their oracle told them that if they did 
 i Sic in MS. k Sic. 
 
1682.] LIFE OF WOOD. 239 
 
 not appear, there might be some hole picked in their 
 charter, as there was now endeavouring to be done in 
 that of the city of London; he told them moreover, 
 that though it was a popish matter, yet policy ought to 
 take place in this juncture of time. 
 
 Monday, the first stone of New college new quadrangle 13- 
 was laid by the warden, near the gate of the quadrangle 
 leading to the garden, where now the new common chamber 
 is on the south side. 
 
 Thursday, the king in his own person laid the first l6 - 
 stone for an hospital for maimed soldiers at Chelsea, 
 where the college founded by D r . Math. Suckliffe was 
 sometime standing. 
 
 The university at this time, and this last Winter is 
 very thin, and the townsmen complain for want of their 
 company, reason is, (1st) because ever and anon are re- 
 ports that the king will hold a parliament here, which 
 deters them from coming for fear of being forced to quit 
 their quarters. 
 
 (2) All those that we call Whigs and side with the 
 parliament against the duke of York, will not send their 
 sons for fear of their being Tories. 
 
 (3) That since the bishops have taken grant of the king, 
 for not disinheriting the duke of York, the said bishops 
 and consequently the universities are taken to be popish. 
 
 Note that not 20 persons have been matriculated from 
 Christmas to Egg Saturday, whereas 120 have been ma- 
 triculated in the years past, but a great many came in 
 before Lent term was done. 
 
 Lord Sherard^s son a nobleman of Exeter coll. died of 19- 
 a violent fever. l 
 
 1 [Nov. 28. 1681. Coll. Exon. fil. nat. Stapleford in Leicestrise 
 Christoph. Sherraid 15 D. Bene- com. Register of Matriculations, 
 dicti de Trim, in Hib. Baronis A. g. 378.] 
 
240 LIFE OF WOOD. [1682. 
 
 25. Egg Saturday : betimes in the morning, was a male 
 
 child found by the porter of Mag. coll. without the col- 
 lege gate, about 4. days or a week old, christned Matthias 
 at m East. 
 *6. Another flood by a great deal of rain, that fell about a 
 
 week before. 
 Mar. 2. Given to Mr. A. 5s. to be given to Wh. Kennet for 
 
 pains he hath taken for me in Kent. 
 
 9- At night came into Oxford judge Levinz, and judge 
 
 Atkins, viz. sir Creswell Levinz and sir Edward Atkins, 
 and on the 10 th . in the morning D r . Hammond of Ch. Ch. 
 preached before them an excellent sermon, Mr. Mayott 
 being high sheriff. 
 
 13- Thomas Sutton lately of our hall, but then of Bal. coll. 
 
 was elected scholar of C. C. C. in a Hampshire place. 
 
 At the latter end of March, and the beginning of this 
 month, was a collection in every college and hall, as also 
 in every parish in Oxford, for succour and relief of poor 
 Protestants that were lately come into England upon a 
 persecution in France ; people gave liberally. 
 
 l6 - Convocation about D r . Busby's lecture. 
 
 20. Convocation in the afternoon, wherein the foundation 
 
 of D r . Rich. Busby's divinity lecture was proposed, the 
 masters generally denied it. The vice-chanc r . asked whe- 
 ther they denied the founding of the lecture itself, or the 
 conditions ? They replied the conditions. Then the vice- 
 chancellor proposed, that there might be delegates pro- 
 posed to consider of a way to settle to the minds of all 
 parties, cum relatione ad domum. The conditions are so 
 that it will be five to one, that a Ch. Ch. man must be 
 reader, that also all that take their degrees, must be 
 approved by him, and he must be one that must give 
 testimony. 
 
 m F. St. Peter's in the. W. & H. 
 
1 682.] LIFE OF WOOD. 241 
 
 Between half an hour after 8 and 10 in the morning Apr. 7. 
 Edmund hall chapel was consecrated by D r . John Fell, 
 bishop of Oxford, very privately ; none but the vice-chan- 
 cellor, chancellor of the diocese, D r . Hammond of Ch. Ch. 
 D r . Mill of Queen's, 5 or 6 of the fellows of Queen's, being 
 present, with 3 of the sen 1 ", fellows of New coll. and those 
 of Edmund hall; it was dedicated to S. Edmund arch- 
 bishop of Canterbury. 
 
 Charles Harris, one of the B. n or the mayor's associates, 
 (son of John Harris, taylor, lately mayor) proposed the 
 beginning of this month to the mayor and common coun- 
 cil, that being minded to found an hospital in the city of 
 Oxford, desired them to part with a piece of ground be- 
 longing to them, upon considerable terms ; they deny it, 
 shew themselves clowns in the matter; he resigns his 
 place thereupon, and leaves them ; beloved afterwards by 
 the scholars. 
 
 Monday; Convocation about D r . Busby's catechetical May 8. 
 lecture, the pros and cons from 2 till a quarter after 4 in 
 the afternoon. 
 
 Congregation, wherein two bachelors of physic and one 16. 
 bachelor of law were to be presented. The professor of 
 law would present his first, the professor of physic denied 
 it, because B rs . °was M. A. the controversy hot, and 
 neither of them was presented at that time, but after- 
 wards proceeded in several congregations, viz. the bachelor 
 of law of St. John's in a congregation the 23 d , and Ery 
 of Trin. and Gould of Wadham, bachelors of physic the 
 next day. 
 
 It seems in a congregation, May 2, one P - - Conny of 
 Mag. coll. M. A. was to be presented bach, of physick, 
 
 n Bailiffs. p Robert. Fasti Oxon. under 
 
 Sic. W. & H. the year 1685. W. & H. 
 
 WOOD, VOL. I. R 
 
242 LIFE OF WOOD. [1682. 
 
 and because Bullard q of New college was then to be pre- 
 sented L. L. B. the vice-chancellor did cause the said 
 L. L. B. to be presented before the other, wherefore the 
 bach, of physick denied, and protested against it. 
 29. But one bonfire to be seen in the four great streets by 
 
 any tradesmen, whereas there have been seen 20. - - - 
 Southby, B. A. r was denied his degree for speaking trea- 
 sonable words on the first of June. 
 
 In this month came to Oxford a book newly published, 
 entit. the Life of Julian the Apostate &c. said to be written 
 by one Sam. Johnson, s minister in Essex or Sussex, after- 
 wards chaplain to W m . Lord Russell — this book was 
 much rec d . into the hands of scholars, talked of, and 
 preached also against from our pulpits, particularly by one 
 John Mills in his sermon on Act Sunday this year; in 
 the afternoon George Royse M. A. and fellow of Oriel, 
 who took his principles to task, and exposed them very 
 smartly, but without naming the author, or Julian the 
 Apostate; there is an answer to it in a thin folio, sup- 
 posed to be written by Mr. Meredith of Ch. Ch. D r . Hen. 
 Aldrich preached against it in a sermon at Ch. Ch. Oct. 
 29. on 3 James 17, 1 st part, he took two of the author's 
 most specious arguments to pieces, and refelled them very 
 
 1 [Wood means John Ballard, had his grace for M. A. denied on 
 
 son of John B. of New Sarum, the ground that he had "made it 
 
 Wilts, matr. of Edmund hall Mar. his businesse in all company s to 
 
 1 8, 1 674, became fellow of New col- speake scandalously of the go- 
 
 lege, proceeded B.A. Mayi5, 1679, vernement, and particularly justi- 
 
 B. C. L. May 2, 1682, then M.A. fyed the murder of the old king, 
 
 July 4, 1682, B. Med. July 3, 1685, saying, It was a glorious action, 
 
 and D. Med. Dec. 7, 1688.] and done in the face of the na- 
 
 r [This was Strange Southby, tion." Reg. Congreg. Univ. Owon. 
 
 the son of Richard S. of Carswell, Be. f. 19.] 
 
 Berks, gentl., matr. of Magdalen s Athene Oxon. article 
 
 hall Apr. 3, 167-2., aet. 17. Hepro- George Hickes. W. & H. 
 ceeded B.A. Oct. 23, 1677, and 
 
1682.] 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 clearly, and orator Wyatt, about 5 or 6 weeks after, on 
 the same text, this last had only one or two smart things 
 at Julian. 
 
 Saturday, Convocation, wherein Busby's lecture 1 was June 17. 
 
 1 Many reflections equally un- 
 generous and unjust have been 
 cast upon the universities for re- 
 fusing to accept of Dr. Busby's 
 intended donation, by which re- 
 fusal the * church is said to have 
 suffered, a circumstance which a 
 late writer has not omitted to set 
 in the fullest point of view, f It 
 appears, from what Mr. A. W. 
 has here observed, that the insti- 
 tution "was rejected solely on ac- 
 count of the terms and conditions 
 annexed to it, which rendered it, 
 at least, less agreeable to the uni- 
 versities, if not impossible to be 
 accepted by them, consistently 
 with their statutes. W. & H. 
 [Die Saturni viz : 1 7 die Mensis 
 Junii An°. Dni. 1682. Causa 
 Convocationis erat, ut Litera? 
 ab illustrissimo Cancellario, nee 
 non a veneli viro Doctore Busby 
 ad senatum datae legerentur. 
 To the Reverend D r . Timothy 
 Halton Provost of Queen's 
 College and Vice-chancellor 
 of the University of Oxford 
 humbly pt. these. 
 
 Reverend Sir, 
 
 Several years have past since I 
 
 made a tender to my ever honor'd 
 
 Mother, the University of Oxford, 
 
 of a Catechetic Lecture to be en- 
 
 dowed by me with a Salary, lately 
 advanced to fourscore pounds per 
 annum by a rentcharge upon a 
 greater Estate, which might se- 
 cure the payment from any defal- 
 cation or encombrance. In this 
 time I have frequently repeated 
 the overture, and waited for the 
 acceptance of it. Also when ever 
 I understood that an objection 
 was made against the terms pro- 
 posed by me, I accordingly altered 
 them. 
 
 And whereas not long since the 
 affair was proposed in Convoca- 
 tion with a draught of such rules 
 and orders as might finally settle 
 it; and that then the University 
 was pleased by an unanimous vote 
 to approve of the intendment, but 
 withall express' d a dislike to se- 
 veral conditions affix't thereto : 
 That I may evidence my steddy 
 purpose of serving my Mother in 
 the Endowment she was pleased 
 to accept, and my earnest desire 
 to comply with her good pleasure 
 in the manner of it's disposal : 
 Since the foundation of every Lec- 
 ture of which the Candidats of 
 inferior Degrees are auditors, and 
 of such sort a Catechetic Lecture 
 must be, do's according to the 
 Statutes involve an Examination, 
 and that the quaestion has been 
 
 * See the Life of Humphrey PrideaiLV, D. D. 8vo. 1748. pag. 92. 
 f The Confessional, 3d. edit. Lond. 1770. 
 
 r2 
 
244 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [1682. 
 
 again disputed and denied, his letters were read to the 
 university, wherein he desired that two more of his nomi- 
 
 Who should be the Examiners, 
 and that Regent Masters who have 
 onely proceeded in Arts, may not 
 seem with decency to take upon 
 them to be judges of proficiency 
 in the supreme faculty of Theo- 
 logy : I therefore offer it to con- 
 sideration, Whether the Doctors 
 and Bachelors in Divinity, or 
 either of them, will be pleased to 
 be warn'd in turne to examin 
 what progresse is made by the 
 Candidats of y e Degree of Bache- 
 lor of Arts in the fundamentals 
 of Christian knowledge relating 
 to their faculty; as the Regent 
 Masters are obliged to examine 
 in those Arts which referr to 
 their's ; which if they will vouch- 
 safe to doe, I shall be well satis- 
 fyed in that behalfe. But if it be 
 thought more reasonable that he 
 who has the Salary assigned unto 
 the Lecture should also have the 
 trouble of examining the auditors 
 of it ; onely that he ought not to 
 be trusted with a negative in De- 
 grees, tho' that power is allowed 
 to every visitable Master, I readily 
 assent that there may always lye 
 an appeale from the Professor 
 either to the Vice-chancellor and 
 Proctors, or to the Congrega- 
 tion. 
 
 Secondly, as to the Choice of 
 the Professor, altho I thinke that 
 is every where used to be left to 
 the free arbitrement of the Foun- 
 der, yet I shall in condescension 
 be willing that y e University do 
 
 adde two Doctors in Divinity unto 
 those whom I have already nomi- 
 nated. 
 
 Lastly, whereas the reading a 
 Catechetic Lecture in English at 
 St. Maries which was intended 
 principally for the benefitt of y e 
 children and servants of the pri- 
 vileged persons and others that 
 had not y e ready use of the Latine 
 tongue, has been thought an En- 
 combrance upon the Latin Lec- 
 ture to be read at the Schooles 
 and designed for the advantage 
 onely of the Scholars and Stu- 
 dents, I shall proceed, out of my 
 ardent desire to serve my Mother 
 herein more, to add a separat En- 
 dowment for the said English 
 Lecture of Twenty Pounds per 
 Annum secured in the same man- 
 ner with the Latin ; and shall en- 
 tirely leave the Choice of the Pro- 
 fessor thereof to the disposal of 
 the University ; other things, mu- 
 tatis mutandis, alike. 
 
 This I request you, Reverend 
 S r . be pleasd to communicat 
 with my due respects to my ever 
 honor'd Mother the University, 
 that if she shall now please to 
 accept of this my Oblation, I may 
 hasten the settlement of it, or if 
 still it be refused, which I passion- 
 ately deprecat, I am forct to divert 
 my thoughts speedily to some 
 other more fortunat disposall, my 
 Age and Infirmities making de- 
 lays very grievous to me. 
 
 What ever determination it 
 
1682.] LIFE OF WOOD. 245 
 
 nation should be added to the five electors pitched upon 
 in the last convocation, but those two he naming not, and 
 the masters being jealous that they should be of Ch. Ch. 
 denie all. Letters then read for bishop Brideoake's son of 
 Trinity to be M. A. five terms given to him, and to go out 
 grand compounder, and granted, he went B. A. at 9 terms 
 standing, so that he will be master at four years standing. 
 
 After Busby's letters, were read the chancellor's letters 
 for regulating the rudeness and miscarriage of the masters 
 in convocation, seconded by Laud's letter for that pur- 
 pose, about rising from their seats, going up to the vice- 
 chancellor's seat, and quarrelling with one another. 
 
 Mr. u John Fairclough, vulgo Featley, a non- conforming July 10. 
 minister, was buried in the fanatical burial place, near the 
 Artillery yard London ; 500 persons accompanied him to 
 his grave, amongst whom D r . Tillotson and Stillingfleet, 
 and other conformable ministers were present. 
 
 In July and August was the high way from near the 
 end of St. Clement's church to the way leading to Marston 
 pitched with pebbles, and the paths or flankers with hard 
 white stones ; began and carried on by D r . Lamphire with 
 a collection of money. The workmen were in pitching it, 
 July, August, September, and part of October; a contri- 
 bution amongst scholars and some townsmen. 
 
 Act 1682 musick lectures by W m . Lloyd of Jes. coll. 
 in the musick school, very well, but somewhat smutty. 
 
 Terra filii, [Henry] Bowles of New coll. on Saturday, 
 
 shall please the University to Hasce Literas per Procuratorem 
 make, I shall ever retaine that seniorem publicatas Venelis Do- 
 Veneration which beseems mus Convocationis non approba- 
 Her most dutiful Son, vit. Reg. Conv. Univ. Oxon. 
 and Reverend Sir T b. 331.] 
 Your most obliged Servant, u Richard. See Athene 
 Richard Busby. Oxon. under the year 1666. 
 West'. Coll. May 25. — 82. W.& H. 
 
246 life of wood. [1682. 
 
 much against Ch. Ch. James Allestree of Ch. Ch. Monday, 
 much against New college, and the Terra films of Satur- 
 day, but replyed by the said Terra filius being proproctor, 
 for Dingley jun r . proctor, both very well, and gave great 
 content. 
 
 Preachers on Sunday, Humphrey Humphreys of Jes. 
 coll. dean of Bangor, in the morning; John Mills of 
 Queen's in the afternoon. 
 
 Stephen Penton, principal of Edmund hall, Tuesday's 
 Latin sermon. 
 
 In this month, August, Roger L'Estrange had 200 
 guineas sent him as a present from the members of the 
 university of Cambridge (of which he had been a student) 
 in doing great service for the king and church, when the 
 fanaticks laid hold of the Popish plot to carry on their 
 designs. 
 Sept. 6. A fire broke out, between 7 and 8 at night, at a baker's 
 
 house joyning on the east side to the back part of Swan 
 court in St. Mary parish, burnt that part where it began, 
 and an alehouse, on each side, pulled down to prevent 
 further mischief. These houses belong to Arthur Tillyard, 
 by virtue of a lease from Oriel college. 
 7. Oxford feast, Dalby, son of a taylor against Bal. coll. 
 
 preached. 
 n. Saturday at night died at Radley Mr. John Winchurst, 
 
 M. A. and fellow of Pern. coll. and vicar of - - -, at 
 Radley buried in the church 14, a good scholar, of a subtil 
 head, a good mathematician, born at Abendon, his father 
 was a malster and mayor. 
 
 Notwithstanding the bonfires on the queen's birth-day, 
 15 Nov. and 17 Nov. were prohibited by the king and 
 council on the desire of sir William Prichard, lord mayor, 
 to prevent tumult, yet the factious people being hindred 
 from burning the pope, they drowned him. 
 
1682.] LIFE OF WOOD. 247 
 
 Mr. Bernard told me that - - - Wilgoose, M. A. of 18. 
 Brazen nose, afterwards schoolmaster of Denton, a prac- 
 ticioner in physick there, and after schoolmaster of - - - 
 in Huntingdonshire, died at Paris 23 Oct. according to 
 our account, and 3 d . Nov. according to theirs, being then 
 in the company or companion to the earl of Manchester. 
 
 Saturday, M r *. - - - Clark, daughter to D v . Clark, pre- 
 sident of Mag. coll. was married to Mr. [Richard] Shuttle- 
 worth, gent, commoner of Trinity coll. she was commonly 
 called the Infanta, both of them made about 33 years. x 
 
 Mr. Tho. Spark of Ch. Ch. made a speech in SchoM'Sov. ii 
 linguarum inter Hor. 3 £f 4. in praise of sir Tho. Bodley, 
 founder of the publick library, by the nomination of the 
 dean of Ch. Ch. and the approbation of the vice-chan- 
 cellor. 
 
 Bonfires made in several parishes in Oxford by the 27. 
 Tory party after supper, for joy that the lord N orris was 
 made earl of Abingdon, with the ringing of bells, several 
 colleges had bonfires, All Souls especially, about 11 at 
 
 x [Dr. Henry Clerke's will was dalen college, with y e good leaue 
 dated at Gawthrop Hall, the seat of the officers, till he comes to age, 
 of sir R. Shuttleworth, 10 March, and shall haue performd y e con- 
 i68f, and proved 13 April follow- ditions aforesaid. " I giue to my 
 ing. In it 1 find the following dearest child y e Lady Shuttle- 
 items : " I giue and bequeath to worth my picture sett w th dia- 
 my dearely beloued sonne in law monds valued at but 60Z. and also 
 S r . Richard Shuttleworth knight a gilt box w th 30 gynnyes in it. 
 as an addition to my daughter's " I giue and bequeath to Clerke 
 portion already payd, to be payd Shuttleworth y e summe of fifty 
 to him when he comes to age and pounds : to my other two grand- 
 makes a right settlement of his children twenty pound apiece, 
 estate according to law, and a "I giue and bequeath unto my 
 ioynture of good land upon his college, the summe of fifty pounds 
 deare wyfe, one full summe of a to be layd out in a gilded Bole 
 thousand pound, to be placed in with a cover, and to be placed 
 a red trunke in y e upper roome of upon the altar."] 
 y e Tower of Evidences in Mag- 
 
248 LIFE OF WOOD. [1682. 
 
 night they brought out a barrel of beer out of the cellar, 
 and drank it in healths on their knees to the duke of 
 York and earl of Abingdon, out of the buckets that hung 
 up in the hall. They got about twenty of the trained 
 bands of Oxford, who discharged at the drinking of every 
 health; they had wine in great plenty from the tavern 
 over the way, guarded by a file of musqueteers ; they had 
 a drummer that beat round the college quadrangle, and 
 at the gate : D r . Clotterbuck the captain that ordered 
 these matters. 
 
 In this month was the history of St. John Baptist, over 
 our coll. gate, repaired and new oyled over in white co- 
 lours, with the picture of king Henry 3 rd . and the founder; 
 it had been defaced in Oliver's reign, a picture of an old 
 man sitting in a chair over that, with a glove in his right 
 hand, cut down in Oliver's reign, the babe in the virgin's 
 hands over this taken away. 
 Dec 13. Hec d . then ten guineas of Mr. R. S. to stop my mouth: 
 he acknowledged that he did promise to print my book, 
 but the times are since altered, and not able, yet he is 
 able enough to throw away 200/. or 300/. to alter his 
 house for the sake of the M. of H. and to give her and 
 her brothers what they pleased 
 
 y [This passage requires expla- pleasure to himself and much to 
 
 nation. It alludes to Ralph Shel- the satisfaction of his entertainer, 
 
 don of Beoly, the representative who appears throughout to have 
 
 of an ancient Roman Catholic fa- behaved with the greatest kind- 
 
 mily, himself a lover and preserver ness to him, and with much for- 
 
 of antiquities, and a gentleman of bearance in respect to the oddities 
 
 high principle and genuine hospi- of his temper and disposition, 
 
 tality. Of Wood's first acquaint- Wood however expected more 
 
 ance with Mr. Sheldon we have than was perhaps in Mr. Shel- 
 
 an account at p. 178, and it is don's power to bestow, and 
 
 certain that for some years our amongst other things flattered 
 
 author visited at Beoly, with great himself that Mr. S. would have 
 
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 249 
 
 Mr. John White of Baliol, son of S r . Sampson, preached 1683. 
 
 34 Car. II. 
 
 undertaken the charge of print- 
 ing his history of the university, 
 although there nowhere appears 
 any reasonable ground for the 
 supposition. It is not impossible 
 that some casual expressions of 
 good will and promises of assist- 
 ance, on the part of the generous 
 and open-hearted Sheldon, were 
 construed by our author into a 
 literal and absolute promise; and 
 that, on discovering his mistake, 
 his disappointment led him to 
 imagine himself injured and de- 
 ceived. Hence arose an interrup- 
 tion to their usual intercourse, 
 and although it is clear that Shel- 
 don did all in his power to re- 
 move the antiquary's prejudice, 
 and gave him every opportunity 
 of renewing their former friend- 
 ship, the effort did not succeed. 
 The 10I. that Wood, in a fit of ill 
 humour, calls a bribe, was, I sus- 
 pect, an annual present on the 
 part of Mr. Sheldon, and con- 
 tinued till his death. Subjoined 
 are some of Mr. Sheldon's letters 
 to the Oxford antiquary, from the 
 originals in the Ashmolean mu- 
 seum, which shew the character 
 of the writer to great advantage. 
 
 The M. of H. was Miss Frances 
 Sheldon, a cousin of Mr. Shel- 
 don's, maid of honour to queen 
 Catharine, who resided at Beoly. 
 Wood was on very good terms 
 with the maid of honour. " You 
 will receiue this (says Sheldon, in 
 a letter dated Mar. 13, i6fy) from 
 the hands of Delitice humani ge- 
 
 neris, as you are pleased to term 
 her, and I assure you shee takes 
 high content in thinking shee 
 liues in your esteeme." 
 
 July 23, 1677. 
 S r . This is to let you know 
 that I shall leaue this towne on 
 W'enesday in order to comming 
 home to Weston, but I shall make 
 some staves for flue or six dayes 
 at Mapledurham and Sherborne : 
 now you know my lady Aberga- 
 uenny would be glad to see you 
 at Sherborne; if therefore you 
 haue a mind to come, write to 
 mee, and I will send a man and 
 horses for you; for it is but ten 
 miles from Oxford to Sherborne. 
 Send your letter hither to my 
 house and it will come safe to 
 mee. I hope you receaued the 
 last packet I sent by the coach- 
 man. I haue no more at pre- 
 sent, but wish y u all heart's con- 
 tent. Yours cordially 
 
 Raphe Sheldon. 
 
 Warwick Gaole 
 
 Decemb. 6, 1678. 
 For M r . Anthony Wood lodging 
 ouer against the great gate of 
 Merton Colledge Oxon. 
 
 Oxford. 
 S r . I haue yours of the first in- 
 stant and thanke you heartily for 
 enquiring after my wellfare : I 
 thanke God I haue my health, 
 and my Innocency keepes mee 
 from being any whit dejected. I 
 walke in my chamber and talke 
 to myselfe when I haue no other 
 
250 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [1683. 
 
 Jan. 3. the fast sermon at St. Mary's, very satirical, and bitter 
 against the fanaticks. 
 
 company, and then (to my com- 
 fort) I solace myselfe with read- 
 ing; in so much that the time doth 
 not seeme long at all : though I 
 should bee glad to bee at home 
 again ; but of that I haue no pros- 
 pect as yet. And as for Weston 
 (though I am not there) you may 
 commaund any thing there and 
 will bee welcome thither at any 
 time, if you thinke you can liue at 
 more quiet ; there you will [have] 
 the Library cum m. et pertinen- 
 tijs at your seruice. I am glad 
 your graue Vice- Chan celour hath 
 visited your closet, though it were 
 a little disturbance to your study, 
 yet (I hope) hee and the vniuer- 
 sity are sensible of all that ridicu- 
 lous aspersion that is laid vpon 
 innocent men. But old Epipha- 
 nius sayes 
 
 " Sancti viri, quia nihil huius 
 mundi appetunt, nullis procul- 
 dubio in corde tumultibus appe- 
 tuntur — " 
 
 I wish you all heart's content, 
 and desire to bee euer 
 
 Your's cordially 
 
 R. S. 
 
 Weston Janu. 9. i6f£. 
 S*. 
 In your letter to mee of Janu. 
 3 d . you mention a debt of 3 11 that 
 S r . Willm. Dugdale is concerned 
 for; I receaued your other little 
 note which you sent mee when I 
 was from home, and I haue or- 
 der'd euery thing to bee paid; 
 
 and I pray, assure S r . Willm Dug- 
 dale (next time you write to him) 
 that no banishment nor other act 
 of parl mt shall make me run away 
 in any bodies debt or bee behold- 
 ing to any man to pay my scores. 
 I thought S r . Willm Dugdale 
 had liued long enough in the 
 world to know, that when mony 
 is paid within a fortnight (after it 
 becomes due or demanded) it is 
 better then any the king or the 
 exchequer makes . But I see euery 
 body is afraid of mee; God send 
 them honester and surer men to 
 deal withall. I haue by this bearer 
 sent you ten pounds for M r . Joyner 
 and desire you will take his ac- 
 quittance and keepe it vntill wee 
 meete. I intended to haue sent 
 you a booke of my vncle's new 
 translation, but the maid of ho- 
 nour would needes make you a 
 present of one of them, her father 
 hauing sent her two or three to 
 dispose amongst her friends. I 
 am S r . 
 
 Your's heartily 
 Ralphe Sheldon. 
 
 Miss Sheldon's letter follows : 
 Weston the 9 of Ja. 1680. 
 
 This is to wish you a hapy neu 
 year and to desier that this littell 
 boock may find a place amongst 
 your collection: it being a small 
 worke of my fathers makes me 
 ventour to present itt and att the 
 same time to aske how you do, 
 soposingyou saw M rs . Ann Shel- 
 
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 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 251 
 
 Egg Saturday, but one bachelor of Mag. hall presented Feb. 17. 
 ad determinandum, whereas since the king's return they 
 
 don when she lay att Oxford, who 
 I heare is returned fatt and fare, 
 but I desier to know your opinion 
 of the matar, and whether I may 
 not hope for the same place in 
 your estime I had when wee part- 
 ed : for my part I am sure none 
 is more realy 
 
 your saruant then 
 Frances Sheldon. 
 The book alluded to was " The 
 Counsells of Wisdom or a Collec- 
 tion of the Maxims of Solomon, 
 most necessary for a Man towards 
 the gaining of Wisdom : with Re- 
 flections upon the Maxims. Faith- 
 fully translated out of French. 
 London, Printed by J. Shadd for 
 M. Turner Bookseller in Holborn, 
 in the Year 1680." ded. to Ca- 
 tharine, Queen of Great Britain. 
 Wood has written in the blank 
 leaf: "Anthony a Wood. Given to 
 me by M ris . Francis Sheldon maid 
 of honor to Qu. Katherine i°. Jan. 
 1680. Being a translation of her 
 Father Edward Sheldon esq." 
 
 Weston Sept. 17. 1682. 
 S r . I am very sorry I was not at 
 home when you tooke the paines, 
 and put yourselfe to the charge of 
 giuing mee a visit. I should haue 
 bin as glad as you to haue dis- 
 coursed with you viua voce about 
 the maine businesse as you terme 
 it. But since it is our fortune to 
 write one to the other ; thus — 
 you say, you haue bin an expect- 
 ant — I answer, You came hither 
 
 as a ciuill guest where you were 
 alwaies (to mee) very welcom, and 
 might haue continued here so still, 
 if it had so pleased you, but you 
 went of in a surly discontented 
 manner, and (as I told you last 
 yeare) I then resolued to inuite 
 you no more : but as to your ex- 
 pectation, I do not remember I 
 euer made any bargain with you, 
 ergo no salary due. Again, you 
 say — You haue bin a Labourer; 
 I answer, indeed dignus est opera- 
 rius mercede sua; but how comes 
 it (I pray tell mee) that my kind- 
 nesse and ciuility to you (for sea- 
 uen yeares by your owne account) 
 should bee 600 11 losse to you, when 
 you were glad to receiue 50 11 of the 
 Vniuersity for a laborious worke 
 of twenty yeare's paines ? I thinke 
 there is no proportion in seauen 
 yeares and twenty yeares. To bee 
 short : S r . I was neuer vngrate- 
 full to any man, at least I am not 
 conscious to myselfe of it : I 
 would very willingly preserue your 
 good opinion still, but I find (to 
 my poore iudgment) you set too 
 great a value vpon your labour, 
 and I assure you my poore estate 
 is not able to maintain mee (with 
 those about mee) and establish 
 you a liuely hood also. You shall 
 alwaies find mee 
 
 Your faith full friend and 
 seruant 
 Raphe Sheldon. 
 What MSS. or other booke you de- 
 sire, shall bee conveyed to you. 
 
252 LIFE OF WOOD. l l6 ^3* 
 
 were never without 6 or 8 or 12. and Exeter coll. not 
 
 Weston, Septmb. 2, 1683. 
 S r . I haue yours of the 17 th 
 past and the acquittance from M r . 
 Joyner. But in answer, S r . to the 
 latter part of y r . l'r, thus : I do 
 much wonder that you, who 
 haue bin an eminent man in the 
 Vniuersity so long, and a learned 
 and knowing man of the world 
 and men; that you (I say) should 
 forgo all your younger dayes (and 
 merits also from y r alma Mater) 
 to fix a hopes of Non plus vltra 
 vpon mee. A man of such emi- 
 nence as you are should seeke to 
 make your fortune and establish- 
 ment vpon some publick minister 
 in some publick employment ; alas 
 what can fiue or ten pounds per 
 annvm (the most I am able to 
 part withall) auaile to the aduance- 
 ment of such a man as you. I 
 haue (I thank God) a competent 
 estate, and you thinke perhaps I 
 Hue aboue it : I acknowledge I 
 liue at y e height of it, and what 
 I haue to spare is spent vpon my 
 poore kindred and relations, and 
 more they should haue of mee, if 
 I had it to spare. But this doth 
 not hinder so farre, as that I can 
 afford a friend fiue or ten pounds 
 vpon occasions, which I am sure 
 hath bin a great kindnesse to many 
 a very good gentleman well borne, 
 and for which I haue had some- 
 time great thankes. If such a ci- 
 uility as this may bee, at any time, 
 seruiceable to you, I shall bee glad 
 to comply with you, for I would 
 very faine conserue your good will 
 
 and friendship. I haue really 
 opened my heart to you, and more 
 I cannot do. I wish you health 
 and rest S r . your humble ser- 
 uant 
 
 Raphe Sheldon. 
 
 For M r . Anthony a Wood lodg- 
 ing ouer against the great 
 Gate of Merton Colledge, 
 Oxon. at Oxford. 
 
 Oct. 31, 1683. 
 
 I haue receaued yours, S r . of 
 the 26 th currant and I cannot 
 really tell what to answer to y r 
 letter more then I haue formerly 
 said in other of my Irs. You must 
 giue mee leaue to value my owne 
 estate, and I assure you I cannot 
 find that abundance or superfluity 
 in it which you fancy to y r selfe. 
 
 If a priuate gentleman doth al- 
 low a schollerten pounds perann. 
 wee conceiue it a fine gratuity (at 
 least it was so accounted in former 
 times) but that I find is beneath 
 you to accept, and to do any more 
 I am not able. I know my owne 
 strength, and vltra Posse non da- 
 tur Esse. 
 
 And as to what you hint in all 
 y r letters — that you haue suffered 
 intolerable abuses in my house — 
 to that I answer, that, if you your- 
 selfe had not bin of an intollerable 
 implacable nature so farre that 
 you would not let mee do what I 
 thought good in the case, I would 
 haue made those men (whom you 
 haue taken dislike vnto) haue sub- 
 mitted themselues vnto you : and 
 
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 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 253 
 
 one, who used to have commonly 12. About 20 matri- 
 culated before Egg Saturday for Lent term. 
 
 that is as much as any gentleman 
 can expect from any body. 
 
 I thinke I neede not enlarge 
 any further on these matters. 
 
 Now, S r . as to James Brooks 
 booke or sermon, I haue (as ex- 
 actly as I can) examined the Ca- 
 talogue w ch is done in y r hand 
 writing, and also my owne larger 
 catalogue w ch I made, and I as- 
 sure you there is none such in 
 either catalogue : but if y r memory 
 can serue you to direct mee to the 
 place by any other token, you shall 
 haue it : but I do vnderstand what 
 you mean by saying it is printed 
 in a black character. 
 
 I wish you all health, & remain, 
 S r . Your humble seruant 
 
 Raphe Sheldon. 
 
 Novemb. 20 th 1683. 
 
 Sr. 
 
 I haue bin studying these eight 
 or nine dayes what to say to your 
 letter of the 1 I th instant,* and I do 
 protest I am at a very hard plunge. 
 For I find you are too old to bee 
 perswaded that any man can vn- 
 derstand or speake reason besides 
 your selfe. You will bee both 
 party and judge, which is a very 
 hard case for vs poore mortalls 
 who know nothing, because wee 
 haue not bin collegiates in Oxon. 
 I told you, S r , when I was last at 
 Oxford, that if ten pounds p r . ann. 
 would do you any curtesy you 
 
 should haue it freely; but giue 
 mee leaue to tell you that my 
 whole revenue will not, in any 
 manner, correspond with the me- 
 ritt which you set vpon your selfe 
 and your work, insomuch that I 
 must (vnfortunately) lye vnder y r 
 censure for not complying with 
 your expectation, vntill the times 
 appeare more serene. I would 
 faine have you beleeue that I am 
 honest and sincere with you; 
 other people (of what sort soeuer) 
 neuer found me a shuffler : I 
 haue much to do with my estate ; 
 I must keepe faire with eueryone I 
 deale withall. And I desire that 
 I may still continue in your good 
 opinion. I am, S r 
 
 Your friend and seruant 
 Raphe Sheldon. 
 
 I find two letters only to Mr. 
 Sheldon from Wood, one of which 
 is without date of the year, but 
 written during the period of their 
 greater intimacy ; the other is suf- 
 ficiently explained by those that 
 have gone before : 
 
 For M r . Rafe Sheldon 
 of Beolie at Weston. 
 S^ 
 
 I have rec'd y rs from the hands 
 of the incomparable M. of H. for 
 so I may terme her, there being 
 none of her societie here y 1 comes 
 neare her. But y* w ch troubles 
 me most of all is y r late indispo- 
 
 * See this letter at p. 254. 
 
254 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [1683. 
 
 120 Bachelors determine, whereas there never used to 
 be under 200. Lent disputations decay, the bachelors 
 don't dispute, or will not, unless the superiors (boyish 
 regents) are present, some sen r . masters go to hear dispu- 
 
 sition, w ch I presume arises mostly 
 from white wine w ch you drink on 
 an empty stomake everyday and so 
 consequently preys upon y e nerves. 
 But this conjecture comming not 
 from y e mouth of a phisitian, I 
 know will be laughed at, yet let 
 me tell you, if any phisitian ex- 
 cept D r . M. should be consulted 
 would run with my vouge. 
 
 Here is a great hurry at this 
 place, w ch is not agreeable to 
 scholastick humours, and divers 
 reports run as men would have 
 them. The present news, this 
 pretty mercury will informe you 
 of, and for y* w ch is to come, if 
 printed, I shall weekly (or oftner) 
 send you. In the mean time I 
 am Y r humble ser. 
 
 Mar. 22. AWood. 
 
 Sr. 
 
 Nov. 11, 83. 
 
 The book of James Brooks bp. 
 of Gloc. w ch is in 8°. & printed 
 in a black character, y° bought at 
 London at least 10 years ago, & 
 brought it with y° to Oxon. shew'd 
 it to me, & had it bound either 
 there or at Chipping- norton, & if 
 now wanting 'tis verie Strang, 
 considering the comon buyer will 
 not give above 4 d for it. I cannot 
 find it here either in libraries or 
 shops, & therefore having some 
 occasion to make a short perusal 
 
 of it, am sorrie 'tis wanting. 
 
 As for y r civil offer of io 11 per 
 ann. I expected no otherwise, 
 knowing verie well y t after much 
 sollicitation & deferrings, you 
 would think y t I should snapp at 
 any thing. You divers times have 
 told me y t you would print my 
 book at y r owne charge & y t I 
 should have the benefit of it ; w ch 
 reckoning everie copie to be but 
 worth 14 shillings (for those of 
 the Latine are i 11 . 3 s . o) would 
 have made me a gainer of at least 
 40O 11 , so y* if you think y* io 11 per 
 an. can be equivalent to yt, y r 
 judgment will be singular & my 
 labour thereby will scarce be 
 worth a i d per diem. 
 
 Therefore, I think, and there 
 is no rational man but will con- 
 curr with me, y* I really deserve 
 30 11 per an. for my life w ch if you'l 
 but grant, I shall willingly sur- 
 render it up for a copie- hold of y t 
 value, or such an one y 1 Thumper 
 holds at Brailes w n it falls. 
 
 So y t if you are willing to con- 
 ceed to this pposition 'tis my de- 
 sire before you doe it, to take the 
 paines next time you come to 
 Oxon. to step up to my Chamb. 
 & see what I have done for it ; & 
 how, by my being put of from be- 
 neficial employments to carry on 
 the work, I drudge in the beloved 
 faculty.] 
 
1683.] LIFE OF WOOD. 255 
 
 tations, particularly Mr. Huntingdon after his long ab- 
 sence, but they will not dispute, and stand silent, while 
 their abetters sneer and grin; this we got by having 
 coursing put down by D r . Fell. 
 
 Yeomen beadles went to several colleges and halls to May 23. 
 give notice to all D rs . and masters, that the Museum Ash- 
 moleanum would be open the next day. 
 
 Thursday, those doctors and masters that pleased went 24. 
 to the upper room of the museum, where they viewed 
 from 1 till 5 of the clock what they pleased ; many, that 
 are delighted with the new philosophy, are taken with 
 them, but some for the old, look upon them as baubles ; 
 Ch. Ch. men not there. 
 
 A convocation in the afternoon, wherein letters were Jun. 4. 
 read for the taking of degrees, and Th. White, chaplain to 
 the lady Anne, was diplomated D. D. 
 
 Letters also were read from Mr. Ashmole, whereby he 
 gives all his rarities to the university, notwithstanding he 
 had been courted by others to bestow them elsewhere, and 
 that others had offered great sums for them ; whereupon 
 Mr. James the deputy orator read a letter of thanks in 
 the university's name, which was consented to, and to be 
 sent to him. 
 
 Whereas James duke of Monmouth had entered his July 2 r. 
 name in C. C. C. buttery book 1665, at which time the 
 plague was in London, and he lodged in the said college, 
 which had till now continued, but the majority of the 
 society caused it to be erased and scratched out upon the 
 breaking out of this Presbyterian plott. Our academical 
 Whigs were run down. 
 
 Musick lecturer this act, 7 th July, was Eman. Langford 
 of Ch. Ch. who spoke in the theatre with a great auditory. 
 
 Tho. Brookes of Mag. hall, a fat fellow, on Saturday, 
 optime. 
 
256 LIFE OF WOOD. [1683. 
 
 Michael Smith of Oriel, Monday. 
 D r . - - - Turner at St. Mary's, on Sunday morning. 
 D r . [Henry] Maurice of Jesus in the afternoon. 
 Aug. 26. A bawdy sermon at St. Mary's in the afternoon, by 
 
 Ben. Archer of Exeter, son of Archer of Newington. 
 Sept. 6. Bannimus stuck up to expell Mr. - - - Parkinson from 
 
 the university for Whiggism, formerly expelled from 
 
 c.c.c. 
 
 9 . Sunday; Thanksgiving day, appointed, I presume, on 
 
 that day to spite the Presbyterians, or that all people 
 should observe it because harvest time, or both ; T. Hey- 
 lin of Ch. Ch. preached at St. Mary's, but not so full of 
 girds as was expected, many bonfires at night in the city 
 and university. The city at Penniless bench and z an en- 
 tertainment of wine, musick, a barrel of ale, and a fire; 
 in the pump below the Star inn was a tub sat, and pres- 
 byter therein preaching, the smart lads of the city 
 marched down the streets with cudgells in their hands, 
 crying for the king and the D. of York, and all the people 
 had York in their mouths, and his health was drank pub- 
 lickly at most halls at dinner. 
 
 15. Sir Kich d . Croke recorder of Oxford died. 
 
 16. Sir George Pudsey of Ellesfield elected recorder. 
 [John] Barton, M. A. sometime of Merton coll. and 
 
 put in chaplain thereof to give a vote for James Workman 
 to be rhetoric reader, afterwards chaplain of Winchester 
 coll. and rector of Compton near Winchester, died of the 
 small pox. 
 
 In the middle of this month the elabatory was quite 
 finished, certain scholars went a course of chymistry, viz. 
 Mr. R. Plot, Mr. John Massey of Merton coll. Steph. Hunt 
 of Trin. coll. proproctor. - - - Smith, - - - Boys, a M. A. 
 
 z Sic. W. & H. a Nathan Boyse. W. & H. 
 
1 682.] LIFE OF WOOD. 257 
 
 of University coll. Charles Harris a laick. These had 
 meetings in the large room over the elabatory every Fri- 
 day in the afternoon to talk of chymical matters, and 
 were framed into a solemn meeting October 26. 
 
 A convocation, wherein the vice-chancellor was re-ad- Oct. 5. 
 niitted, and the king's letter of thanks read for the uni- 
 versitVs burning several books containing pernicious 
 principles. 
 
 The said meeting in Sep. being noised about, others 26. 
 were added to them, and this day they formed them- 
 selves into a solemn meeting, had discourses, and the dis- 
 courses were registered down by D r . Plot; the persons 
 that met, 
 
 D r . John WaUis the chief. 
 
 D r . Ealp. Bathurst of Trim coll. 
 
 D r . Hen. Beeston, warden of New coll. 
 
 D r . Hen. Aldrich of Ch. Ch. 
 
 D r . Eobt. Plot. 
 
 Chr. Harris. 
 
 ^Gould, M. B. fellow of Wadham. 
 
 c. _ _ _ Des Maistres, Oriel, M. B. fellow, vice provost 
 and fellow. 
 
 Caswell, vice pr. Hert hall. 
 
 D r . d Pitt, M.D. of Wadham. 
 
 D r . W m . Gibbons, M. D. of St. John's. 
 
 D r . Tho. Smith of Mag. coll. 
 
 Mr. Ed. Bernard, astr. professor. 
 
 Th. Pigott, of Wadham. 
 
 e - - - Musgrave of New coll. L. L. B. 
 
 ' Ballard, M. A. and L. L. B. 
 
 Evans of Ch. Ch. These two were taken in 23 Nov. 
 
 b William. W. & H. e William. W. &. H. 
 
 c Samuel. W. & H. f John. W. & H. 
 
 d Robert. W.&H. 
 
 WOOD, VOL. I. S 
 
258 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD, 
 
 [l682. 
 
 Nov. 8. 
 
 27. 
 
 Dec. 21, 
 
 Boyse and Smith of University coll. withdrew them- 
 selves on the forming the schemed 
 
 Speech in schola linguarum by Mr. Isham of Ch. Ch. in 
 praise of S r . Tho. Bodley. 
 
 Bp. of Rochester elect entertained at New coll. and 
 next day at Trin. coll. 
 
 This day, about 3 in the morning M rs Lasenby 
 
 the hostess of the Mitre having about 3 hours before 
 been most strangely affrighted by 3 rude persons, Tho. 
 Baker, M. A. All Souls, b Aldworth, M. A. All Souls, 
 
 * Oliffe, M. A. All Souls, (Edwards of St. John's 
 
 not among them, but there by accident,) these having 
 been drinking at the Mermaid tavern newly opened, 
 after it had been shut a quarter of a year, came 
 drunk to the Mitre, were let in by a boy then up ; they 
 
 £ It appears by the minute- 
 books of this society, preserved in 
 the Ashmolean museum at Ox- 
 ford, that on March the 7. i68|, 
 a report of a consultation, held on 
 
 Alex. Pudsey. 
 Caspar March. 
 James Anderton. 
 John Cooke. 
 Anth. Farmer. 
 Tho. Hog. 
 Robert Cowcher. 
 
 the 4 th . preceding for the better 
 regulation of it, was read. The 
 several articles proposed were 
 agreed to, and the following 
 names undersigned : 
 
 John Wallis. 
 
 Ralph Bathurst. 
 
 Hen. Beeston. 
 Tho. Smith. 
 Rob. Plot. 
 W m . Gibbons. 
 Edward Bernard. 
 Jos. Pullen. 
 Joh. Caswell. 
 Tho. Pigot. 
 
 John Massey. 
 Joshua Walker. 
 Tho. Lane. 
 Will. Levett. 
 N. Crouch. 
 Hen. Pigot. 
 Ar. Charlett. 
 Steph. Hunt. 
 Mauries Wheeler. 
 
 Sam. Des Maistres. Edm. Antwisle. 
 
 Jo. Ballard. 
 W m . Musgrave. 
 A. Welsted. 
 
 h Richard. W. & H. 
 
 Thomas Creech. 
 Hugo Todd. 
 John Benbrigg. 
 J. Cunningham. 
 
 W.&H. 
 Ralph. W. & H. 
 
1 68 2.] LIFE OF WOOD. 259 
 
 came, as they pretended, to eat something, the boy said, 
 they were all in bed, they enquired where M rs Lasenby 
 lyed, the boy shewed the window (which was a lower win- 
 dow) they thereupon awaked her, and desired to have 
 some meat dressed, she said 'twas late, and would not, 
 or could not rise, whereupon they called her strange 
 names, as Popish bitch, old Popish whore, and told her, 
 she deserved to have her throat cut, whereupon being ex- 
 tremely frighted, she fell into fits, and died at 3 in the 
 morning, the coroner afterwards sate, and the masters 
 were examined by the vice-chancellor. 
 
 1680-1, at what time the workmen were providing con- Mar. 5, 
 venience for the lords to sit in parliament in the schools, 
 D r . Wallis, under pretence that his keys were used by the 
 workmen, desired mine, when he met me, either in the 
 quadrangle, or near the school gates, whereupon I went 
 home to fetch them, and gave them into his own hands, 
 and then (as also when he asked me for them) he told me 
 I should have them again. When the Presbyterian plot 
 broke out in June 1683, I then forbore for fear he should 
 domineer over me, but when the traytors were bayled con- 
 trary to all expectation (the news of which came to Oxon. 
 21 Dec. 1683) I did on Dec. 3. go to him for the keys, 
 told him, that I had leave from the vice-chancellor, and 
 that I took my oaths, and also when he took away the 
 keys, he promised me more than once, that I should have 
 them as formerly ; he told me he loved not to be expos- 
 tulated with, that I was in drink that I talked so with 
 him, so that if I had cringed and licked up his spittle, he 
 would let me have had the key. He pointed to the door, 
 and bid me be gone with his 3 corner cap : vide papers in 
 English Hist, of Oxon. 1659-58. 
 
 This year in the summer came up a vessel or a bason 
 notched at the brimms to let drinking glasses hang there 
 
 s2 
 
260 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [1684. 
 
 Apr. 28. 
 
 1684. 
 1 Jac. II. 
 
 by the foot, so that the body and drinking place might 
 hang in the water to cool them. 
 
 1683_, a gentleman told me, that prince George of Den- 
 mark, who had lately married lady Anne, should tell the 
 king, that he grew fat, since he was married, to which the 
 king made answer, that if he would walk with him, hunt 
 with his brother, and do justice on his niece, he would not 
 grow fat. 
 
 " This year Mr. A. Wood lost his generous and true 
 friend Mr. Ralph Sheldon of Beoly in Worcestershire, at 
 whose seat k he was frequently, and who was a great as- 
 sistant to, as well as encourager of his studies, as may be 
 partly seen by the various collections made by him and 
 given to his friend. 1 He was an honest and good man, 
 of remarkable integrity, charitable to the last degree, and 
 a munificent favourer of learning and learned men. m At 
 
 k Weston, in Warwickshire. 
 
 1 See Catalogue of A. Wood's 
 MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8550, 8551. 
 W. & H. 
 
 m Mr. Sheldon promised Wood 
 an hundred pounds towards print- 
 ing the Athene, which his heir 
 honourably confirmed to him. 
 Hearne. Peter Langtoft's Chro- 
 nicle, p. lvi. 
 
 [The following letter was written 
 immediately on Mr. Sheldon's 
 death, by his nephew Ralph Shel- 
 don. 
 
 "Weston June 26 1684. 
 
 M r Wood, youre kind conserne 
 for my deare cosin Sheldon will 
 euer oblige me to pay you all the 
 seruice y* I can. I must now 
 humbley beg y e fauour of youre 
 company heare to assist vs in y e 
 ordring of his fFunerall, and to 
 
 giue order for y e scutchion, which 
 I confes I doe not soe well vnder- 
 stand. I haue sent you a man 
 and horses to attend you, and 
 pray bring with you a Herald 
 Painter that you think y e flittest 
 for our purpose. Wee are told 
 there is one that dos vsually fur- 
 nish out bayes for fruneralls; we 
 shall neede a great quantity, there- 
 fore if there be shuch a one you 
 will doe vs a signall fauour if you 
 bring him, that he may under- 
 take the hole business. There is 
 movrning giuen you, therefore 
 pray take what cloth will please 
 you, and I will be acountable to 
 you for it, and let it be made and 
 sent after you. Other things I 
 will tell you when I see you. I 
 am, Youre humble seru. 
 
 Ra. Sheldon.] 
 
1684.] LIFE OF WOOD. 261 
 
 his death he committed to Mr. a Wood the charge of 
 sorting and putting in order his papers, as appears by the 
 following paragraph of his last Trill, ' Item — to my good 
 friend and fellow- antiquary Mr. Antony a Wood of Mer- 
 ton college Oxon. I give forty pounds desiring him to 
 see my old pedigrees and all my MSS. and other papers 
 (except what are written with my own handwriting) to be 
 delivered into the Herald' s office, that they be put in a 
 cupboard apart from others/ n 
 
 "Ralph Sheldon was the son of Will. Sheldon — born 
 of an antient, gentile and wealthy family at Beoly in 
 "Worcestershire, 1 Aug. 16.23. 
 
 a Educated in juvenile and grammatical learning in his 
 father's house, under - - - TToodhop the priest of the 
 house — . At 19 years of age, in the beginning of the 
 civil wars of England, he went to travel into Erance and 
 Italy, saw several cities there, but made Rome his head 
 quarters — . After he had spent 4 years, he returned, the 
 war in England being then ceased, and took to wife Hen- 
 rietta Maria Savage, daughter of the lord Savage about 
 1647, who, tko J a tall, proper and handsome woman, yet 
 she proved not a good wife to him, as being lavish and 
 improvident, to the diminishing of his estate. But having 
 no children by her, and so consequently not so much in- 
 volved in the cares of the world as those that have, he 
 followed and endeavoured to promote his genie to the 
 study of heraldrie and antiquities, and bestowed a con- 
 siderable time in collecting the monuments thereof and 
 gathering together by writing several genealogies of the 
 noble men of England. At length, his said lady dying 
 
 n In the ^ill-office at Doctor's Richard Rawliason, LL. D. in 
 Commons^ London. bib. Bod. W. & H. 
 
 See the Life of Ant. a Wood by 
 
262 LIFE OF WOOD. [1684 
 
 1663, he spared not any money to set up a standing 
 
 library in his house at Weston. In 1667, he travelled 
 
 again to Rome, where chiefly spending 2 years at least, he 
 furnished himself with many choice books, as also with 
 medals and coins, for the setting up a closet of rarities. — 
 After his return, An. 1670, John Vincent, son of Aug. 
 Vincent, sometimes Windsore herald, and both excellent 
 genealogists, (which John Mr. Sheldon had for several 
 years allowed a yearly pension to encourage his works) 
 being at that time deep in a dropsie, was advertized that 
 he should leave all his MSS. and pedigrees to the said 
 Mr. Sheldon, who would pay his debts thereupon, and 
 relieve several of his books that were then pawned for 
 ale. Whereupon, his will being made and all left to him, 
 to the number of 240 MSS. at least, besides many rolls 
 containing pedigrees, Mr. Sheldon conveyed them to 
 Weston, which made a considerable addition to his li- 
 brary. — Afterwards, buying more printed books, and 
 some MSS. when he could lay hands on them, he came 
 to be acquainted with A. a W. of Oxon. who, by Mr. 
 Sheldon's frequent invitation, coming often to Weston, 
 he the said A. W. did put his library in that order, and 
 made 2 such exact catalogues of his books that nothing 
 could be purloyned thence or taken away, but it could be 
 with little ease straight discovered. — This library he set- 
 tled in a large square - - - room over the kitchin, and 
 his medalls and rarities and pictures in a little room over 
 the entrie into the hall; which continuing there till 1682, 
 and then Mr. Sheldon causing the room at the N. end of 
 the gallery to be new wainscoted, translated them thence. 
 
 As for the library, it continued in the same place till 
 
 Mr. Sheldon's death, at which time, he bequeathing the 
 said closet of rarities to his uncle's dau. F. S. lately M. of 
 H. who conveyed them to London soon after his death 
 
68 5 .] 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 the library was translated to that room by his successor 
 Mr. B,. S. of Barton." 
 
 " St. Barnabas day, James duke of Monmouth, Ford 1685.P 
 
 2 Jac. II. 
 
 From a loose paper written 
 by Mr. Ant. a Wood, now in the 
 Bodleyan library. W. & H. 
 
 [This excellent collection of 
 books and manuscripts was dis- 
 persed by auction in 1781, at the 
 mansion house at Weston, by 
 Christie and Ansell. I have the 
 catalogue priced by John Dennis, 
 an ancient bookseller of Middle 
 Row, Holborn. One of the most 
 valuable lots, namely 422, " Large 
 collection of scarce old Plays by 
 various authors, bound in 56 vo- 
 lumes quarto," was purchased by 
 King the bookseller for 5Z. 55. it 
 was repurchased at the booksel- 
 ler's private auction after the sale 
 for 18/. 15. by Dennis, and sold 
 by him for 31 1. 10s. to Hender- 
 son, the actor, on the spot; for 
 Henderson, accompanied by Isaac 
 Reed, had walked down from 
 London to Weston, partly to at- 
 tend the sale, and partly to pay 
 their devotions at the shrine of 
 Shakspeare at Stratford, which 
 was hard by. 
 
 Among the many rare books 
 the following may be particu- 
 larized : 
 
 Matthewe's Bible, 1537, 135. 
 
 Common Prayer, 1552 (two co- 
 pies), 8s. 
 
 Shakspeare's Works, first edit. 
 1623 (with two other books), 2I. 4s. 
 
 Revelacyon of Seynt Katheryne 
 (printed on vellum), 15 19, il. is. 
 
 Legenda Aurea, in English, 
 1503, 105. 6d. 
 
 The Missals, Breviaries, Gra- 
 duates, and Pontificales were a- 
 bundant, most of the then extant 
 County Histories, and several very 
 interesting manuscripts occur, 
 and a good collection of Hearne's 
 publications shews that the li- 
 brary was kept up by Mr. Shel- 
 don's immediate successors. The 
 Sheldon books not unfrequently 
 occur in old libraries: they may 
 be known by the arms impressed 
 on the covers, viz. a fesse between 
 three sheldrakes, and generally on 
 the first leaf is written, in Ralph 
 Sheldon's fine bold hand, " In 
 Posterum." What a misfortune 
 that the owner's generous inten- 
 tions should have been frustrated 
 by the extravagance of his pos- 
 terity ! 
 
 It may be added, that many of 
 the rarest of the old plays have 
 since found their way into the 
 Bodleian. Henderson allowed 
 Malone to select such as were 
 wanting in his collection at the 
 time of the sale at Weston, conse- 
 quently the university library now 
 contains one of the most curious, 
 if not the very best, dramatic li- 
 brary in the kingdom.] 
 
 p Mr. a Wood's Diaries from 
 1683 to 1692, being lost, or, at 
 least, not transcribed by Dr. Raw- 
 linson, we have here inserted a 
 
264 LIFE OF WOOD. [1685. 
 
 lord Grey of Werk. Anth. Buys a Grerm. commander, 
 landed at Lyme in Dorsetsh. with 2 or 3 ships ful of men, 
 horse, arms, to whom many English rebells coming in, he 
 was proclaimed king of England. 
 
 16. " Tuesday, an officer with drums, who came over night 
 
 into Oxon. beat up for voluntiers to supply the places of 
 the king's foot guards at Whitehall, who were drawn out 
 of London toward the rebells in Dorsetshire ; the rusticks 
 and tallest they took, and others they put aside. — They 
 took away about 30 or 40. 
 
 " At the same time drums beat up at Abendon, which 
 being a most factious towne, they could get thence but 
 four voluntiers. 
 
 19- " The militia of the countie, viz. a regiment of foot, and 
 
 a troop of horse, met at Oxon. 
 
 21. " Sunday, the horse left Oxon. (commanded by capt. 
 Henry Bertie) and went about 4 in the afternoon towards 
 Dorchester. — Thence by Abendon towards the rebells in 
 com. Som. 
 
 22. Munday, at 10 in the morning, or thereabouts, Thomas 
 Hord of Coat in the parish of Bampton, esq. Tho. Beard, 
 esq. of Eritwell, - - - Philipps of Oxon. chandler, living 
 neare to the Cross inn, were, upon suspicion of being con- 
 senting to the rising of the rebells, committed prisoners 
 to the castle. 
 
 " Between 11 and 12 the same day Peter Birch of Ch. 
 Ch. chaplayne to the militia regiment, preached a sermon 
 to the said regiment at St. Marie's church. There was 
 
 curious account of some transac- Ashmolean museum, entitled, The 
 
 tions in the university of Oxford, Training and Bearing of Arms of 
 
 during part of that interval of the Scholars of the Universitie of 
 
 time, from the original papers of Oxon, in June and July, Anno 
 
 Mr. a Wood preserved in the 1685. W. & H. 
 
1685.] LIFE OF WOOD. 265 
 
 then a common report that the said regiment should 
 march toward the rebells. 
 
 " About 3 or 4 in the afternoon, Rob. Pawling, late of 
 Oxon. mercer, was brought under guard from his house 
 at Hedington by command from the E. of Abendon, lord 
 lieut. of the county of Oxon. and committed prisoner to 
 
 the castle. About the said time - - - Heburne, butler 
 
 of New inn, was committed to custody in the castle. 
 
 " On the said day (June 22) was a convocation of D rs 
 and M rs at one in the afternoon, wherein delegates were 
 named to consult and consider of raising a regiment of 
 scholars, and a troop of horse to serve the universitie and 
 city of Oxon. 
 
 "Tuesday, at five in the evening, the delegates met and 2 3- 
 proroged their meetings till Thursday. 
 
 " Thursday, the delegates met and appointed a troop of 25. 
 horse and a regiment of foot to be raised by the uni- 
 versity. 
 
 " Sunday, after dinner, the university troop headed by 28 - 
 D r . [Henry] Ailworth, chanc. of the diocess, went seven 
 miles from Oxon. to meet and conduct thereto 4 loads of 
 muskets, pikes &c. for the scholars to train with. There 
 appeared 60 horse divided into two bodies, they came in 
 at 7 of the clock at night. Of the said troop the E. of 
 Abendon was captaine, D r . Aylworth before mentioned 
 was lieutenant, D r . [John] Clutterbook of All Souls 
 cornet. 
 
 " But I saw no colours they had. 
 
 " At 8 at night, the same day, came in about 
 12 prisoners in a waggon from towards Northampton, 
 guarded by about 20 or 30 horsemen, and were com- 
 mitted to custody in the castle. — They were taken upoii 
 suspicion, as holding correspondence with the rebells. 
 
266 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [l68 5 
 
 ult. 
 
 " St. Peter's day, Munday, a company of scholars 
 under the command of Capt. Leopold Will. Finch q of 
 All Souls coll. exercised themselves in feats of arms pri- 
 vately in All Souls coll. quadrangle; they shewed there 
 twice a day for 4 or 5 days after, and then they marched 
 in public. 
 
 " Capt. was L. Finch before mentioned. Brian Brough- 
 ton L. L. bac. fell, of All Souls coll. lieutenant, son of S r . 
 Brian Broughton of Longdon in com. Staff, bart. 
 
 " Gardiner, LL. B. fellow of All Souls coll. engineer. 
 Geo. Gardiner, son of John Gardiner of Crowlton com. 
 Northampt. 
 
 The colours of 
 Leopold Finch. 
 
 Argent 
 
 Sable 
 
 gu 
 
 org 
 
 arg 
 
 S a 
 
 
 Or 
 
 Salle 
 
 Argenf 
 
 
 
 
 
 " Tuesday, convocation in the afternoone, wherein the 
 act was defer' d for a time with some considerations. 
 
 " While the said convocation was celebrated, the uni- 
 versity troop of horse met in Canditch before the Theatre, 
 and thence went to Broken Hayes, where they were 
 trained by the earle of Abendon, col. Jo. Peacocke, &c. 
 
 " At 3 in the afternoone all the foot scholars belonging 
 to capt. Finch met in All Souls coll. quadrangle, expect- 
 ing to be called into Ch. Ch. mead to be there trained bv 
 
 1 Leopold Finch, 5 son of He- 
 neage E. of Winchelsey, born at 
 Constantinople ..... A younger 
 
 son of the E. of Winchelsey. N. B. 
 These notes are in the margin of 
 the original. W. & H. 
 
685.] 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 267 
 
 the earle of Abendon, but he being busie about the horse, 
 it was defend. 
 
 " At the same time r Franc. Bagshaw, A. M. fellow of 
 Magd. coll. and captain of another company, trained pri- 
 vately in their quadrangle. 
 
 " Capt. Bagshaw before mentioned. Rob. Hide of 
 
 Mag. col. son of D r . James Hide, lieu. Hugh Brawne, 
 M. A. of Univer. ensigne, son of J. Brawne lately minist. 
 of Seyntbury, count. Glocester. 
 
 " quart, s. & arg. 3 Coronets or. 
 
 " Delivered to capt. Bagshaw his ensigne and men by 
 the earle of Abendon at his dore against All hallows ch. 
 Julv 3d. 
 
 " At two or three in the afternoone Robert Sewster, 
 fellow of New coll. and a captain of another company, 
 trained privately in New coll. bouling-green, and so se- 
 veral times after. 
 
 " Robert Sewster capt. fellow of New coll. 
 
 " s John Harris of Exeter coll. lieut. 
 
 July I . 
 
 r Franc. Bagshaw, son of John 
 Bagshaw of Cul worth, com. 
 Northampt. gent. 
 
 s John Harris, A.M. son of Jo. 
 Harris de Aviton-gifford, gent. 
 
268 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 " Will. Atkinson of Qu. coll. ensigne. 
 
 [1685 
 
 Argent 
 
 Or 1 y U ' 
 
 aT 9 
 
 ■^^^S ar 9 
 
 CfU 
 
 Sable 
 
 Ot^ 
 
 Arqenl 
 
 Salle 
 
 
 
 
 " quarterly sab. and arg. two coronets, or. 
 
 " The said captain with his men, mostly of New coll. 
 received their colours from the same hand, Jul. 3 d . See 
 afterwards. 
 
 " The same day, viz. Jul. 1 st . at about seven of the 
 clock at night, lord Norris, elder son to the E. of Aben- 
 don, aged 15 or thereabouts, did as captain of Ch. Ch. 
 and other men, train privately in Peckwater quadrangle 
 belonging to Ch. Ch. with them were mixed many poore 
 privileged people, and so for several times, privately. 
 
 " * Bertie lord Norris, capt. 
 
 " Hen. Mordant, a younger son of the lord Mordant, 
 lieut. 
 
 " Matthew Seys, u M. A. ensign, son of Rich. Seys of 
 Kerrigston in com. Glamorgan, gent. 
 
 n 
 
 fc Mountague Bertie, lord Nor- 
 ris, eldest son of the earle of Aben- 
 don. 
 
 u [Matthew Seys administered 
 
 to the effects of Daniel Seys, fellow 
 of All Souls, probably his brother, 
 who died intestate before 30 May, 
 1632.] 
 
1685.] LIFE OF WOOD. 269 
 
 u The said day, Jul. 1 st . at night, came news that the 
 rebells were confounded and dispersed, but false — where- 
 upon the earl of Abendon, lord lieutenant (who was in the 
 city all the while during the militia's staying there) caused 
 a bonfire to be made at Carfax, and the bell there to be 
 rung. 
 
 " Before this bonfire was made, the mayor and his 
 brethren went in their scarlet from Pennyless bench to 
 prayers in St. Martin's church, and thence to Penniless 
 bench, where during the burning of the fire was an enter- 
 tainment of wine and bisket given by them to the said 
 earl of Abendon and the officers of the militia. 
 
 " Merton coll. made a bonfire between 10 and 11 at 
 night, and I knew not yet to the contrary whether any 
 coll. except Ch. Ch. did so beside. It was began to be 
 made in the great quadrangle, but disturbing the war- 
 den's rest, it was removed into the little quadrangle, 
 whereupon all the musketiers of the said coll. (for there 
 were 40 musketiers and pikemen in the same house which 
 partly serv'd under Bagshaw, but mostly under Finch) 
 discharged, their guns, when healths were drank, having a 
 barrell of beare allowed to them. The subwarden D r . 
 Conant and most of the fellows were there. It was then 
 by a mischance that Mr. Edm. Slatter one of the fellowes 
 had a mischance by gunpowder, which burnt his hands 
 and face, while he was filling his bandeliers, from a paper 
 of powder laying on the ground at some distance from 
 the fire, there was a cole shot from the fire into the said 
 paper. At which time Mr. Lamphyre a postmaster suf- 
 fered also, but very little, for he went to London the next 
 day. 
 
 a Lord Norris with his foot company of Ch. Ch. drew July 2. 
 up by Allhallowes church before the dore where the earl 
 Abendon lay (viz. in the house of Tho. Baker townclerke) 
 
270 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [I68 5 . 
 
 which company waiting for some time the earl of Abendon 
 came out, thanked them for the honour done to his son, 
 at which they gave a shout. Then the earl gave the 
 colours before depicted to lord Norris, and the lord 
 
 Norris to - - - Seys his ensigne. So they marched 
 
 over Carfax to Ch. Ch. 
 
 " At night from 7 to about 9 Philip Bertie of Trin. coll. 
 a younger son of the E. of Lyndsey, and half nephew to 
 the E. of Abendon, did, as capt. train a foot company of 
 scholars made up of his own house, Wadham and Lincoln, 
 in Trin. coll. grove. 
 
 " They trained privately before, viz. in the last of June. 
 
 " Phil. Bertie a fellow-com. of Trin. coll. capt. 
 
 « x William Latton fellow of Wadham coll. lieut. 
 
 " Y Richard Adams, A. M. fellow of Lincoln, younger 
 brother to the rector, ensign. 
 
 Argent 
 
 C..I/„ 
 
 gu 
 
 org 
 
 org 
 
 gu 
 
 able 
 
 Sable 
 
 Arqeni 
 
 " The colours were received from the E. of Abendon the 
 same day. 
 
 " The same day St. John's coll. men received their 
 colours also. 
 
 " Trin. coll. men have two drummers that are com- 
 moners, one of Balliol, and another of Wadham coll. 
 
 x Son of - - - Latton, at King- Adams, Charwelton com. North- 
 ston Bakpus. ampton. gent. 
 
 y Richard Adams, son of Joh. 
 
i68 5 .J 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 271 
 
 " The same day St. John's coll. men, with some of Bal- 
 liol and others, received their colours also from the E. of 
 
 Abendon. They want their number, and the captain 
 
 of them all the while was sick of the small pox. 
 
 " John Buckston, LL. D. fellow of St. John's, capt. 
 
 " z Skinner of Ball. coll. M. A. lieut. 
 
 " a - - - Kent, gent. St. John's ensigne. 
 
 " The same day New coll. men received their colours — 
 who had before trained privately several times in their 
 coll. 
 
 See before. 
 
 " Tuesday, news came at night that the rebels were jui y 7 . 
 routed and dispersed in a skirmish had early on Sunday 
 morn. Whereupon a bonfire was made at Carfax by the 
 lord lieutenant E. of Abendou. And another in Ch. Ch. 
 great quadrangle — at which time great Tom rang out. 
 
 " Wednesdav, convocation in the afternoon. Wherein 8. 
 
 z Tho. Skinner of Ledbury in 
 Herefordshire. A bac. son of W". 
 Skinner. 
 
 a John Kent, gent. com. St. 
 John's, son of Rich. Kent of 
 Lond. esq. 
 
272 LIFE OF WOOD. [1685. 
 
 it was ordered that every incept or, whether doctor or 
 master, should pay money toward the universitie militia. 
 It was then publickly knowne that wee should have no Act 
 (tho^ about 26 doctors in several faculties) — each master 
 was to pay 10s. and every D r . 50s. 
 
 " On the same day, at 12. at night, capt. Finch of Alls, 
 coll. sent his drum to Mert. coll. which did beat up at the 
 gate and in the quadrangle to call to Alls. coll. all his 
 footmen of Merton for farther orders. 
 
 " Soon after, by command of the E. of Abendon, they 
 went to Islip to secure London round, and to stop all 
 suspicious persons going to London. — At the same time 
 the universitie horse rode all night, and dispersed them- 
 selves on the roads by Dorchester, Abendon, Faringdon. 
 July 9. " Great rejoycings at Oxon. by bonfires and ringing of 
 
 bells, having received certainty of the rebelTs defeat. The 
 mayor and his brethren met at Pennyless bench about 8 
 at night, went to prayers in their scarlet at Carfax church, 
 afterwards retired to Pennyless bench, where there was a 
 bonfire and entertainment for the E. of Abendon and the 
 officers of the militia. 
 
 10. "At night returned Capt. Finch and his soldiers from 
 
 Islip. 
 
 13- " Act Munday, five companies of scholars shewed alto- 
 
 gether in Ch. Ch. meadow in the afternoon. Joyned 
 altogether, and were for some time trayned by the E. of 
 Abendon. They all went afterwards over Carfax to their 
 respective houses, the prime officers, viz. captains, lieu- 
 tenants, and ensigns in scarlet coats, scarfes about their 
 waste, and white feathers in their hats. Bagshaw's fea- 
 ther was double, or so big, that nothing of the hat could 
 be seen. 
 
 " S. John's coll. men were not there, because they 
 wanted their number. 
 
1686.] LIFE OF WOOD. 273 
 
 " James E. Abendon, and lord lieut. of the county, left m- 
 Oxon. and went to Ricot, being accompanied ont of the 
 town by the ivniversitie troops. 
 
 " The country militia retired to their respective houses 
 the same day. The scholars retired, and shewed publickly 
 no more. 
 
 " The university troop dined with the E. of Ab. at 
 Ricot — and came home well fuzd. 
 
 " Sunday, and thanksgiving for the late victory, Mr. 26. 
 
 Henry Bois, fell, of Universitie coll. preached on Pray 
 
 for the Peace of Jerusalem. In which many things fa- 
 vouring of popes, he was complained of to the V. chancel- 
 lor by D r .Gilb. Ironside at the desire no doubt of the B. of 
 S.Asaph then present. His recantation beares date 1 Aug." 
 
 Being Sunday, the ceremony of the king's day could 1686. 
 not be well performed at Univ. coll. according to their I*? ; 11 ' 
 mind, in setting up the king's statue over the common 
 gate, within the quadrangle. 
 
 Munday, about 10. or eleven in the morn, was set up 7 . 
 the said statue carved from Portland stone. At which 
 time a partie of horse standing in the street (on horse- 
 back) opposite to the common gate, did, upon notice 
 given that it was up, discharge each his pistol : which 
 being done, the spectators in the quadrangle, and those in 
 the street, gave a great shout. 
 
 Afterwards, as soon as they could charge their pistols, 
 they gave two more, at which two shouts followed. 
 
 Afterwards, the quadrangle being emptied, they let in 
 all such officers and others that were invited to dinner, 
 and being conducted into the common hall, Mr. Edw. 
 Hales, a gent, commoner, spake at a desk an eloquent 
 English speech before them all by heart. b 
 
 b [This speech is in manuscript Ashm. The statue was set up 
 among Wood's papers in mus. wholly at the charge of Mr. "Wil- 
 WOOD, VOL. I. T 
 
274 LIFE OF WOOD. [1686. 
 
 Afterwards, the master of the coll. Mr. Bertie, a noble- 
 man of that house, and the officers sitting at the high 
 table, and all other guests at the other tables, was a most 
 
 noble feast, all sorts of wine ; such as Claret, Smyrna 
 
 &c. At which time the university musick plaid, being 
 their musick day by appointment. 
 
 At 7. in the evening were candles set up in all the win- 
 dows of the chambers looking into the quadrangle, and in 
 those looking into the street, as also in the chappell win- 
 dows — Three candles in every light — that is, 6 candles in 
 every window, which continued burning till 9 at night — 
 Musick in the common chamber most of the while. 
 
 1687. The reception of his maj. K. James 2 d . at Oxon. 1687. 
 
 4 Jac 11. ^ in m y a i3 Sence .) 
 
 Aug. 27. Fryday, a convocation was celebrated by the acade- 
 
 mians to order matters for the reception of his majesty — 
 wherein were appointed delegates to order things. 
 
 About the same time the mayor and his brethren with 
 the common counsill had several consults among them 
 how to receive him. 
 
 In order to it, the city and academians caused all the 
 high way from New coll. to Carfax, and so down to Ch. 
 Church gate, to be laid thick with gravell, that noe horses 
 or coaches could be heard tread or goe — but abundance 
 of raine that fell the next day (after the K. came in) 
 turned it all to dirt, and the citizens were forced to hire 
 people to shovel it up in North- Gate street. 
 
 All the railes and posts before the houses in S. Giles 
 and Magd. parish, on the west side of the street, were 
 taken away, and the ditches that divided their land laying 
 
 liam Rogers, a very honest Roman Boyn in Ireland, most courage- 
 catholic of Gloucestershire, who ously fighting for his master King 
 was one of this college (Univ.) James. Dr. Charlett has the 
 and has always had a most grate- speech printed. Hearne's MS. 
 ful respect to that society. Mr. Collect, xvii. 206.] 
 Hales was afterwards killed at the c Capt. Ochonry. 
 
1687.] LIFE OF WOOD. 275 
 
 before some of their dores were filled up, and the way 
 made smooth, thinking that the K. and his rethrew would 
 goe that way, but they did not, only on the common way 
 in the middle of the street. 
 
 They caused also the outside of North Gate (or the 
 place called Bocardo) and the inside of it to be new 
 whited, and the forefront (and inside next N. Gate street) 
 of the arches of the several gates to be trimmed up with 
 bowes and green leaves tied to a semi-hoop. 
 
 The city arms without the gate to be new painted, and 
 the king's arms within, next to North Gate, to be new 
 painted or furbish/ cl. 
 
 Saturday, at the ringing of the bell at S. Marie's, about Sept. 3. 
 3 of the clock in the afternoon, 23 doctors in scarlet, both 
 the proctors in their formalities, and 19 masters of arts, 
 all with their foot cloaths and lackyes, gowns and formali- 
 ties, repair' d to Wadham coll. the warden of which, D r . 
 Ironside, was then vice-chan. There also repair'd the 
 squire beadles with their golden chaines about their necks 
 — but Mr. Piers, the sup. bedell of arts, being fat and 
 wieldy, could not ride or walk as the others could, where- 
 upon he, with leave from the vice-ch. deputed Christopher 
 TVhite the universitie chymist to ride or walke for him, 
 which he did : these had foot cloaths, and each of them a 
 lackye or servant. 
 
 d Having received notice by a messenger, which they 
 sent on purpose to watch the king's motions from Wood- 
 stock, they all got on horseback at Wadham coll. and 
 rode in comly order by two and two, (the beadles being 
 next before the vice-chan.) by Balliol coll, and so thro' 
 Magd. and S. Giles's parish — the beadles first, vice-chan. 
 
 d When they went out the se- Leop. Finch, a nobleman, warden 
 niors went first, viz. the vice-ch. of Alls, in a proctor's gown, on 
 with the beadles before him, and his left hand. 
 
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276 LIFE OF WOOD. [1687. 
 
 with Leop. Finch, ward, of Alls, the doctors after, and at 
 length the masters. When they came as far as the horse- 
 way leading to Aristotle's well and Port Mead they made 
 a stop in expectation of his maj. Afterwards went a little 
 forward. 
 
 About the time that the university bell rung, that at 
 Carfax did, to summon all townsmen (who were engaged 
 to receive the king) to the Gildhall, where being all met, 
 and notice given that the academians were gone, they all 
 marched thence into S. Giles's fields in this order 
 
 1st. All the constables of every parish, within and with- 
 out the walls, with their staves, on foot. 2ndly. The 
 companies of glovers, cordwainers, taylors and mercers, 
 who were few also, because that many of them, being of 
 the house, rode on horseback. These companies went on 
 foot, at the end of each company was the master thereof 
 with his gowne on. Each company went apart by them- 
 selves, and had a flagge or ensigne containing the arms of 
 the company or corporation painted on them. The tay- 
 lors, who were most numerous, had two flaggs, one con- 
 taining their arms, the other - - - When they went out, 
 the junior comp. viz. mercers, went out first. e 
 
 After these march' d on horseback those of the common 
 counsil with their gownes and best cloaths. The jun rs 
 first, and all without lackyes or footclothes. 
 
 After them the two baylives and 13 of the mayor's as- 
 sociates in scarlet gowns, all by twos, each with a footman 
 and foot cloth. 
 
 Then the city Serjeants, townclerk, recorder, mace- 
 bearer, and mayor, all which went as far as New coll. 
 
 e The Mercers 1. The Glovers sel house that they should goeae- 
 2. Taylors 3. Shoemakers 4. cording to antiquity. 
 
 There was a consult in the coun- 
 
1687.] LIFE OF WOOD. 277 
 
 and there made a halt. At the same time all the doc- 
 tors and masters that did not ride, with all degrees of the 
 university, met at the schooles, and when the citizens 
 were passed out of towne they marched two and two 
 from the schooles, with the vergers and the yeomen 
 beadles before them, up thro' the street to Carfax ; the 
 doctors and masters down to Ch. Ch. gate, and under- 
 graduates towards N. gate, where the pro-proctors placed 
 them. 
 
 The doctors stood at Ch. Ch. gate, the masters so far 
 as they could reach towards Carfax on the east side of 
 the way ; the soldiers on the west side. 
 
 The undergraduates and some bach, stood in N. Gate 
 street, but disorderly. 
 
 In St. Giles's and Magd. parish, N. Gate street, and 
 Fish street, most of the doors and windows were dressed 
 up with green boughs. Several of the windows, or such 
 that had balconies, were adorned with hangings or ta- 
 pestry. 
 
 The conduit was adorned with green boughs, and had 
 a hogshead or vessel of claret in it, to make it run while 
 the K. was passing by a place over Penniless bench, 
 erected for the wind musick to play. 
 
 There was no market kept on the said Saturday, but 
 the day before. 
 
 At five of the clock in the evening, the K. approached 
 Oxon. and coming near to the academians, the vice-chan- 
 cellor, doctors, proctors and masters, who for some time 
 waited his coming, alighted from their horses; and the 
 vice-ch. and all drawing up to him kneeled downe, and 
 the vice-ch. beginning to speak, the K. bid him stand and 
 speak, when he spoke a short Latine speech f ; and then 
 
 f Before he spake the K. put off his hat, and also after he had done. 
 
278 LIFE OF WOOD. [1687. 
 
 delivered up the beadle staves which were returned, which 
 being finished, the K. and company, (viz.) lord Dartmouth 
 on the right hand, and made a pause till the vice-ch. and 
 rest got on horseback, but Ch. Wase, the sup. beadle of 
 law, being a meer scholar, and troubled with shaking 
 hands, could not get on horseback, but was helped up, 
 and when he was, he could not hold his staff upright, but 
 cross ways, because he would hold the bridle, which 
 caused laughter in some, and anger in others. 
 
 After they had rid a little way, they came to a place 
 where the mayor and citizens stood, whereupon the aca- 
 demians, especially the masters and many of the doctors, 
 drew aside on the left hand to make way for the king to 
 come to the citizens. 
 
 When the K. was come neare, the macebearer, town- 
 clerk, recorder, mayor, and aldermen drew up to him on 
 foot, and falling on their knees the recorder (S*. George 
 Pudsey) spoke a speech on his knees s (afterwards printed) 
 which tho* accounted by some too long, yet the K. gave 
 him thanks, and put off his hat. 
 
 Afterwards the macebearer put the mace into the 
 mayor's hands, and he kneeling, offered it to the K. 
 who touching it, bid him take it again, which he did, 
 and thereupon gave him a rich purse of gold (guynnies) 
 200Z. which the K. took, and afterwards gave it to the 
 lord Dartmouth standing or sitting on horseback on his 
 right hand. 
 
 These things being done, the king made another pause 
 till the lord mayor, aldermen &c. got on horseback. 
 
 Afterwards the citizens returning quite contrary to 
 the order when they went out (only the mayor and re- 
 corder being mixt among the aldermen) the masters fell 
 
 s The K. bad him stand up. 
 
1687.] LIFE 0F WOOD. 279 
 
 in their places, two by two, falling jnst after the alder- 
 men. Then the proctors, doctors, the vice-ch. and mayor 
 (with the mace on his shoulder) all bare headed — the 
 vice-ch. who had lackyes by him, being on his right 
 hand. h 
 
 Afterwards the K. with a scarlet coat on, his blew rib- 
 band and George, and a starr on his left papp, with an 
 old French coarse hat on, edged with a little seem of 
 lace (all not worth a groat' as some of the people said) 
 shouted. 
 
 Going verie sloly on, accosted by the acclamation of 
 people, and ringing of bells in every church as he passed 
 by, he came within the North gate where he found 
 severall poore women all clad in white with a flasket of 
 herbs, k mostly of camomill, who strewed the way there- 
 with just before the king's horse and retinew, which made 
 a verie great smell in all the street, continuing all the 
 night till the raine came. 
 
 All the streets as they passed, which were cleared by 
 the proctors and certain soldiers, were most infinitely 
 crowded with all sorts of people, and all windows filled 
 with faces, who made great acclamations and shouts, but 
 no Vivat Rex, as the antient manner was. 
 
 When he came to quatervois he was entertained with 
 the wind-musick or waits belonging to the city and uni- 
 versitie ; who stood over Penniless bench ; all which time, 
 and after, the conduit ran claret for the vulgar, which was 
 conveyed up there in vessells. 
 
 Thence passed thro' Fish street between the scholars 
 who had their formalities (as those in N. Gate street had) 
 and soldiers, to Ch. Ch. great gate, where the remaining 
 
 h Leop. Finch went with the k Whereof 4 had flaskets of 
 
 sen r . doctors. herbs on their heads, and the 
 
 1 Worth 35. other 4 strewed the way. 
 
280 LIFE OF WOOD. [1687. 
 
 doctors were, as also bac. of divinity, as also the dean and 
 cannons. 
 
 The K. went up in the dining roome, the deane and 
 canons followed, and the dean spake a little speech to 
 him in Latin. About that time the vice-chan. and cer- 
 taine doctors, who were alighted, going up after him, 
 they presented themselves to him, kneeled downe, kissed 
 his hand and so departed. 
 
 At Ch. Ch. great gate next to S. Aldate's stood the 
 remaining part of the doctors (some that did not ride) 
 with the dean and cannons of Ch. Ch. with their forma- 
 lities, and some that were doctors with scarlet. 
 
 After the K. had entered into the quadrangle, he 
 alighted and went to the door of the dean's lodgings, 
 but before he came thither the dean and cannons made 
 a shift to get to the door before him; Dr. South was 
 there and the K. knowing him spoke to him, whereupon 
 he kneeled and gave answer; he spoke to D r . Woodruff, 
 who kneeled thereupon, then, at his going into the door, 
 he spoke to the deane very freely and put him into the 
 door before him. 
 
 Soon after, the K. went to supper, in the dean's dining 
 roome, where the deane and cannons stood by him most 
 of the time, with whom he had several discourses, told 
 them he was senior to most of them, that he was entered 
 into Ch. Ch. buttery book after Edge-hill fight in 1642. 
 That night one of the proctors of the university (Bennett 
 by name) and fellow of Univ. coll. caused, out of his own 
 head, an illumination to be in Univ. coll. but so silly did 
 he do it, that there were scarce any lights next to the 
 street which was to be chiefly. This illumination should 
 have been the next night, after the K. had heard verses 
 there. 
 
 At the same time was a bonfire before Alls. C. gate — 
 
1687.] LIFE OF WOOD. 281 
 
 where the king ; s health was drank ; bonfires at other 
 places. 
 
 The next day, being Sunday, he went, about 9 of the 
 clock, into the catheclrall, where he touched that morn. 
 and the next, about 7 and 800 people. 
 
 Sunday morn, when the K. was in dressing, in came 
 Clark 1 of Alls. coll. in his square cap — the king asked 
 him of what coll. he was? he said of Alls. coll. Are not 
 von, said the king, bound by statute to pray for the 
 dead? Xo sir, said Clark, not that I know of. Why, saith 
 another that stood by, Chichley was your founder and 
 founded your coll. for such that were slain in the battle 
 at Agineourt. 
 
 Afterwards came in D r . Plot, and shewed to him several 
 
 pieces of gold (qn. TTh. not gold made out of certaine 
 
 ) which he caused to be put into his cabinet; 
 
 he asked him what he thought of Holy-well in Flintshire? 
 
 he said he was never there, at which he wondred. 
 
 After he had done there, he went to the chap ell lately 
 set up by the deane ''viz. the old refectory standing X. 
 and S. sometimes belonging to Canterbury coll.) in the 
 quadrangle called Canterbury quadrangle, where he heard 
 a sermon preach' d by a secular priest, called "William 
 Hall, m son of Thorn. Hall, a cook, living in Ivy lane near 
 to Paul's ch. yard in London, which was applauded and 
 admired by all in the chapell, which was very full, and 
 without that heard him. 
 
 About the same time preached at St. Marie's Mr. 
 Theoph. Tilden of Magd. hall, where were present some 
 of the nobility, as the duke of Norf. earl of Berkley, and 
 others of inferiour quality. 
 
 1 The same who was parliament Lond. as his father told me, son 
 man. of T. Hall, a cook, living in Ivy 
 
 m Borne in the Black Frvers. lane. 
 
282 LIFE OF WOOD. [1687. 
 
 In the afternoon preached there Mr. Roys of Oriel 
 
 coll. 
 
 The same day the K. dined in the deane's dining roome 
 at Ch. Ch. on his own choice. 
 
 After dinner 21 fellows of Magd. coll. went to him, ac- 
 cording to summons, about three of the clock. 
 
 D r . Pudsey being in the head of them, and making his 
 appearance in the presence chamber, the K. bid him come 
 hither, he came hither ; then said he are you D r . Pudsey ? 
 yes, if it please your majesty. Then the king fell foul 
 upon them, reprimanded them very severely — D r . Pudsey 
 offered severall times 11 but the K. prohibited him. 
 
 This was for denying his mandate to Farmer — for 
 denying the bishop of Oxon. 
 
 He bid them goe to their chapell and elect the bishop 
 of Oxon; whereupon they did goe, but could not elect 
 him. 
 
 Will. Penn, the capt. of the Quakers, who followed the 
 K. in his progress, went after them to Magd. coll. to per- 
 suade them to yield to the king's desire, but upon their 
 story to him about breaking of statutes and oaths he 
 rested satisfied. 
 
 After Magd. coll. men were dismissed he went over 
 Carfax to Univ. coll. in his coach, where, at the gate, he 
 was received by the master, fellows and students of that 
 house, as also by an English oration spoke by Mr. 
 Edward Hales, a gent. comm. of that house, son and 
 heir of S r . Edw. Hales of Kent, which being done he 
 went with many of his guard, to Mr. Walker's chapell, 
 where he heard verses. 
 
 That night there should have been an illumination in 
 the quadrangle, but by the folly of the proctor it was un- 
 seasonably done the night before. 
 
 n F. to speak. W. & H. ° It is printed, but false. 
 
1687.] LIFE OF WOOD. 283 
 
 TheyP gave in a petition to the E. of Sunderland, the 
 secretary, the next day, being Munday, who told them 
 that they would give it to the king. 
 
 At six on Sunday night the vice-ch. doctors, proctors, 
 and certaine masters, went from Adam Broom's chapell 
 in S. Marie's (adorned with their formalities) to the 
 dean's lodgings, where being admitted into his presence, 
 the orator (Wyat) spake a speech in the name of the 
 univ. on his knees,*! the doctors also being on their 
 knees, which speech being finished, they presented him 
 in the name of the university a rich Bible (a Bible 
 printed at the Theatre) and a pair of rich embroidered 
 gloves, which the K. said he would accept; then they 
 asked whether he would be pleased to accept of a colla- 
 tion at the Library the next day, and said he would; 
 then they asked him at what time, he told them about 
 nine or ten. 
 
 Afterwards the K. went to supper, where waited on 
 him D r . Woodruff (sometimes physician, then) his chap- 
 lin — where as he said they talked about D r . Pocock's 
 age; r he told him that he remember' d D r . Fell and 
 D r . Allestry to have borne arms in the time of rebellion. 
 
 Munday, 5th Sept. in the morn, about 8 of the clock 
 he went into the cathedrall and touched again for the 
 evil. Which done, he took coach and went to the 
 schooles, where entering in at the great east door, the 
 doctors in the quadrangle were ready to receive him — 
 after, numbers went up to the library, where in that of 
 Selden's at the S. end a broad table was erected, where 
 
 p Magd. coll. men. W. & H. tells me that when the speech was 
 
 1 They kneeled all the while, done he look'd on the doctors and 
 
 and the K. did not bid them rise, asked Dr. Pocock whether he was 
 
 as he used to do others. not the senior there ? he said, 
 
 r Will. Rogers, who was there, yes. 
 
284 LIFE OF WOOD. [1687. 
 
 was a most admirable collation and three hot dishes, 
 which he fed upon, for he did not care to eat cold. 
 
 After he had sate 3 quarters of an houre he arose and 
 talked with some about him for some time, in which time 
 the courtiers fell to scramble after what was remaining, 
 flung the wet sweet meats on the ladies linnen and petti- 
 coats and stained them. 
 
 D r . Hyde waited on him. 
 
 He asked the vice-chan. whether they had not such a 
 book translated by a Jesuit? he knew not; whereupon 
 he called for D r . Hyde. 
 
 In the meane time the mayor and his brethren waiting 
 for him at the school door : They had notice that he was 
 gone the other way, whereupon pursued after him, over- 
 took him at Balliol coll. and put themselves in a posture 
 before him, the mayor carrying the mace on his shoul- 
 der; they conducted him beyond S. Giles's ch. and then 
 the K. bid them return, being wet. 
 
 N. B. This progress of the K. was supposed to be taken 
 to ingratiate himself with the people : He shewed himself 
 extremely courteous and affable to all (they say to gaine 
 and beg favour, to get votes to take off the Test.) 
 
 Afterwards, went to Yarnton, Casington, and then to 
 Witney, where they presented him with a pair of blankets, 
 with 
 
 The King's Entertainment in Bodlexfs Library. 
 
 Sept. came up into the library, between 10. and 
 
 eleven, attended by the vice-ch. and doctors, besides several 
 of the lords. 
 
 Received between the globes with a Latin speech by 
 Mr. Bennett the proctor on his knees ; which being done 
 his majesty plucked off his glove and gave him his hand 
 to kiss, and turning himself to the terrestreall globe, 
 
1687.] 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 285 
 
 shewed to one of the courtier's (a lord) the passage be- 
 tween America and the back part of China, by which way 
 certaine ships had passage, which his maj. mentioned. 
 From thence he went to the lower end of the library, 
 scil. to that part called Selden's library; where he found 
 a banquet ready prepared for him at the S. end of the 
 library, with a seat of state at the S. end of the table; 
 none did eat but he, for he spake to nobody to eat. 
 
 The table. 
 
 The chaire of state. 
 
 Qu. D r . Hyde, for the bill of entertainment, at his 
 chamber ? 
 
 After his maj. was sate, he asked the vice-ch. standing 
 by him for certaine books, to which the vice-chan. an- 
 swered that D r . Hyde the library-keeper could answer him 
 more fully than he; whereupon he was called from the 
 other part of the library where his study was, and being 
 come, he kneeled downe, whereupon the K. gave him his 
 hand to kiss; which being done, his maj. said, Well D r . 
 Hyde, was the Chinese here ? to which he answered, yes, 
 if it may please your majesty, and I learned many things 
 of him. 
 
 Then said his maj. he was a little blinking fellow, was 
 he not ? to which he answered yes, and added that all the 
 Chinese, Tartars, and all that part of the world was nar- 
 row-eyed. Then the king said, that he had his picture 
 
286 LIFE OF WOOD. [1687. 
 
 to the life hanging in his roome next to the bed 
 chamber. 
 
 Then his maj. told D r . Hyde of a book of Confucius, 
 translated from China language by the Jesuits (4 in num- 
 ber) and asked whether it was in the library? to which 
 D r . Hyde answer' d that it was, and that it treated of 
 philosophy, but not so as that of European philosophy. 
 Whereupon his maj. asked whether the Chinese had any 
 divinity? to which D r . Hyde answered yes, but 'twas 
 idolatry, they being all heathens, but yet that they have 
 in their idol-temple statues representing the Trinity, and 
 other pictures which shew that antient Christianity had 
 been amongst them; to which he answered by a nod. 
 After that, his maj. left off asking any more questions, 
 only turning his eyes up toward bishop Laud's MSS. on 
 his right hand, D r . Hyde told him that those books, 
 which were all MSS. were given by archbishop Laud. 
 
 At length, his majestie having eaten enough, rose up 
 to goe away, but seeing the people begin to scramble 
 after the victuals and banquetting stuff, he stood still to 
 see the beginning of the scramble, and so went forth 
 through a lane made for him — commending to them 
 father Hall — recommended to them humility, preaching 
 by heart, and told them how well the preachers beyond 
 the sea were accepted for so doing; and that we were 
 indeed good scholars, but when we were grown up, we 
 grew lazy and lost all we had. 
 
 An Account of the Dishes wherewith the K. was treated 
 at the publick Library. 
 
 Dry sweet meats and fruits 20 large dishes piled high, 
 like so many ricks of hay. 
 
 Wet sweet meats 24 little flat plates, like trencher plates, 
 
1687.] LIFE OF WOOD. 287 
 
 not piled; placed among the greater dishes scatteringly 
 in vacant places to fill np the vacances. 
 
 28 large dishes of cold fish and cold flesh, as Westphalia 
 hams Sec. Some whole, others cut out into slices and 
 piled pretty high. 
 
 3 hot dishes, viz. shoulder of mutton, phesant, partridge 
 and quailesj of these the K. did eat, not medling with 
 any thing else, except only that he took one little piece of 
 dry sweet meat. 
 
 36 plates of sallating, piled high and copped with 
 oranges, lemmons, olives, samphire, &c. clems, plums, &c. 
 
 The K. not bidding the courtiers eat, nobody did eat, 
 but all was in a scramble carried away by the rabble, 
 which scramble the K. stood to look upon about 2 or 3 
 minutes, and then went away. 
 
 Enquire more of Mr. Hedges, and the cook of St. 
 
 John's. 
 
 ; This ambigu or banquet cost the univers. 
 
 W. Rogers. J 160/. He liked the wine well. Where- 
 upon they sent some after him. 
 
 After the K. had done his breakfast, they began to 
 scramble s (the scholars some say did begin) insomuch 
 that the K. being not able to pass away for the crowd, 
 stayed there awhile, and talked with some by him. 
 
 At length they made a lane for him, and going out of 
 Selden ; s library into the other part, he saw the famous 
 preacher Will. Hall, who had preached before him the day 
 before, and speaking to him he turned about to the vice- 
 ch. and doctors and commended him for a rare scholar 
 and to their acquaintance, whereupon they bow'd kindly 
 to him and so passed forward. 
 
 s Dr. Derham a physit. of so notorious that they flung 
 Magd. hall, was noted here for things in his face. 
 a scramble, being in his scarlet, 
 
288 LIFE OF WOOD. [1687. 
 
 Afterwards going forward, proctor Bennet delivered a 
 short Latin speech to him, wherein he hoped that his 
 maj. would be good to Ecclesia Anglicana — 'twas by the 
 globes. 
 
 Then going towards the door to goe out, he turned 
 aside to the vice-ch. and doctors and discoursed with 
 them — talked to D r . South and commended his preach- 
 ing, whereupon he answered, that he alwaies did and 
 would shew himself loyall in his preaching, or to that 
 effect — Here he said also that he heard many of them 
 used notes in their sermons — but none of his church 
 ever did. He said that D r . Dolben did read much of his 
 sermon before the K. his brother, after his restauration, 
 which the K. telling him of, he never after did, and there- 
 fore his preaching was well liked off. 
 
 Then he spoke to the vice-chan. and told him that 
 there was a great sin raigning among them called pride 
 — of all things I would have you avoid pride, and learne 
 the vertue of charitie and humilitie. There are a sort of 
 people among you that are wolves in sheep's clothings ; 
 beware of them, and let them not deceive you and corrupt 
 
 you 1 have given libertie of conscience to some of my 
 
 subjects, therefore do not take it ill, for in what I have 
 done, I think I have not done harme to you; Let not 
 therefore your eye be evil and mine be good, but love one 
 another and practice divinity, do as you would be done 
 to, for this is the law and the prophets. 
 
 Then he was conducted to the Divinity school, and 
 there he asked what place was that? which being told 
 him, he asked where the Convocation house was ? where- 
 upon being conveyed thro' the postern which leads from 
 the Divinity school to that house, he asked if that was 
 not the place where the house of commons sate about 
 7 years since, at which time they endeavoured to have 
 
1687.] LIFE OF WOOD. 289 
 
 past the bill of exclusion against him ? to which one that 
 stood by (Jones lord Rannula of Ireland) made answer, 
 yes, if it please your maj. and added that his late maj. 
 when he dissolved the parliament thereupon, said, now 
 I am K. of Eng. and was not before. 
 
 Afterwards going out of the Convocation house into 
 the Apodyterium Mr. Will. Rogers one of his retinew said, 
 sir, this Convocation house is the place wherein they 
 confer degrees. Sir, I hope you will let Mr. Hales, who 
 stood behind him (son of S r . Edw. Hales) be created M. 
 of arts. No, no, saith the K. not yet, time enough for 
 that. 
 
 Afterwards he went into the Theatre, and viewing the 
 paintings on the roof, said 'twas pittie that Varrio did not 
 paint it. 
 
 He did not like the paintings, and therefore wished 
 that Varrio, a Neopolitan borne, had done it. This 
 Varrio hath gotten several thousands of pounds for paint- 
 ing St. George's chapell at Windsor, and several places, 
 and at Westminster. 
 
 Then the K. going to the great door behind the Theatre 
 in Canditch to take coach, he turned aside to the vice-ch. 
 and doctors and said I must commend unto ye againe 
 love and charitie, that there be a right understanding 
 among you. I must tell you that in the K. my father's 
 time the church of England's men and the Catholick's 
 loved each other and were, as 'twere, all one ; but now 
 there is gotten a spirit which is quite contrary, and 
 what the reason is I cannot tell. There are some 
 among you that are the occasion of those things, but I 
 know them and shall take notice of them for the 
 future. 
 
 Note, that what the K. said here and in the library 
 about charity and love was occasioned by the base and 
 
 wood, vol. 1. u 
 
290 LIFE OF WOOD. [1688. 
 
 scurrilous language given to Mr. Walker and Massy; 
 especially the former, when they turned from their 
 religion. 
 1688. " Mem. that on Tuesday, Sept. 4. I dined with D r . 
 
 5 Jac. 11. Nathaniel Johnston, author of the following book * in his 
 house in Leicester street in Westminster, at which time 
 he gave me the said book and told me that it was mostly 
 compiled from mine intit. Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Ox on. and 
 told me further, it was published at London and in West- 
 minster about the 10 th of June the same year. 
 
 " Two days after I returned to Oxford, and on the 7. 
 of Sept. int. hor. 7. et 8. post merid. I met near C. C. 
 gate Mr. Jo. Beale and D r . Phineas Elwood : the last of 
 which told me of the said D r . Johnston's book, and asked 
 me with great concernment what need there was for me 
 to compile and publish Hist, et Antiq. Oxon. which hath 
 given advantage to the enemies of the university of Oxon. 
 to write against it &c. — Ridiculous ! " 
 1692. Citation served me on Wednesday 16 Nov. to appear in 
 
 4Gui.et fae vice-chancellor's court 18. in the cause of Henry earl 
 
 Nov. 16. of Clarendon. 
 
 18. I appeared int. hor. 1 et 2. post merid. where Ben. 
 
 Wood stipulated for me in 40/. u I desired the copy of 
 the articles against me; at 4 of the clock in the after- 
 noon or past I was with Mr. Kennet of St. Edmund hall, 
 thence I went down the street, and at the door of the 
 Eagle and Child, Mr. Davies of Sanford and Mr. Sher- 
 wyn the beadle were talking, Mr. Davies looked red and 
 jolly, as if he had been at a fish dinner at C. C. C. and 
 afterwards drinking, as he had been ; by that time I had 
 
 t See The King's Visitorial Ashm. N°. 517. W. & H. 
 Power asserted, among Mr. Anth. u [Lord Clarendon had pre- 
 
 a Wood's printed books in mus. viously stipulated for 10Z.] 
 
1692.] LIFE OF WOOD. 291 
 
 got out of the East gate, he overtook me on horse back 
 (for he took horse at the Eagle and Child door) and dis- 
 coursed me aloud, and told me he had several letters of 
 mine ; I asked him how he came by them, he answered 
 among Mr. Eulman's papers, and asked whether he had 
 best print them or not, I answered no, but that he should 
 let me have them ; he said there were many bad things 
 in them, and I had printed several bad things in my 
 book; I bid him go forwards, and we would talk more 
 of these things hereafter : I would now ask this person, 
 who spoke these things aloud, (nay which made the 
 people stare) why did not he tell me these things before, 
 when I usually met him, to which I answered, that what 
 the mind had been concealing for 3 or 4 years, (for so 
 long Mr. Eulman had been dead) it all would out, when 
 the head is hot and possessed with drink : he is also of a 
 poor spirit, and hearing how I had appeared at the vice- 
 chancellor's court, he was resolved, if that could not do 
 hurt, to blacken and daunt me the more. The book 
 binder without Eastgate heard this, told Mr. Reeks x , and 
 Mr. Reeks told me 23 Nov. in the presence of Mr. 
 Cotes. 
 
 At the coffee house, and at Swift's, Ben. Wood, and 
 Mr. Cooke of St. John's my proctor — 2s. 3d. 
 
 Monday between 11 and 12 Mr. Davies and I met at 
 C. C. C. coll. gate, and he fell upon me again, but not so 
 
 x [Probably Henry Reeks who Reeks, son of W. R. of Marl- 
 was a well-known apothecary in borough in Wiltshire, gent., matr. 
 Oxford, where he died previously of Edmund hall, Oct. 19, 1666, 
 to June 6, 1706 ; at which time his afterwards demy of Magdalen col- 
 widow, Alice Smith, and his only lege, 1667; B. A. June 6, 1670 ; 
 child, Jane, the wife of the Rev. fellow of Magdalen 167 1 ; M. A. 
 Emanuel Mugg, renounced the Apr. 10, 1673. He died a fellow 
 administration of his effects. He of Magdalen 1675.] 
 had, I think, a brother, William 
 
 u2 
 
292 LIFE OF WOOD. [1693. 
 
 hard, and said, I said Mr. Fulman y was a proud man — no 
 such thing — he talked again about my letters — he said 
 that Mr. Fulman helped me to a great many things, and 
 I did not acknowledge it, that I did not mention him &c. 
 Dec. 2. Friday, appeared about articles. 
 
 8. Thursday Tho. Wood appeared — vid. Letter. 
 
 9- Friday again — vid. Letter. 
 
 1693. D r . Bryan, preacher to a Jacobite meeting in St. Dun- 
 Ma,? ' e stan's court in Fleetstreet, taken up. 
 Jan. 1. it was proposed that D r . Lloyd Bp. of St. Asaph's book, 
 
 now of Litch. entit. God's Way of disposing of Kingdoms, 
 fyc. should be burnt, but it was carried against it in the 
 house of peers by 11 votes. 
 
 Latter end of this month things are dear in the market, 
 though money is dear, few scholars in Oxford, great taxes 
 
 and payments. All things are dead. 
 
 In this month the charter of the university of Oxford 
 confirmed by parliament. 
 20. I gave in my answer to the articles z per Tho. Wood to 
 
 the assessor : Thing disliked. 
 24- Paid poll money for St. Thomas day — 11. Is. 
 
 Lett. dat. Jan. 21. The Bp. of Landaff (Beaw) hath 
 exhibited several articles against D r . Jones, chancellor of 
 the diocese, in the court of arches, for several misde- 
 meanours. 
 30. King's fast, Phil. Thorne of Exeter coll. preached. 
 
 y For an account of Mr. Will. lean museum, N°. 8540. The lat- 
 
 Fulman see Athene Oxon. un- ter was indebted to the former and 
 
 der the year 1688. A long con- to the history abovementioned for 
 
 tinued friendship subsisted be- many valuable additions to the se- 
 
 tween Mr. Wood and him. The cond edition of Acadernice Ooconi- 
 
 former received from the latter ensis Notitia. 1675. W. & H. 
 many judicious remarks on the z [See the whole libel or accu- 
 
 Historia et Antiq. Oxon. which sation with Wood's reply &c. in 
 
 are now preserved in the Ashmo- the Supplement to this Life.] 
 
1693.] LIFE OF WOOD. 293 
 
 Died Sir W m . Turner, alderman of London, and presi- Feb. 9. 
 dent of the hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlem. 
 
 Another answer at the assessor's chamber. I0 - 
 
 Sister broke up house, and went to London. 20 - 
 
 Note, in Feb. having been taxed for 100/. there was a 
 demur made of paying it, because 'twas upon a mortgage 
 — afterwards the commissioners taxed me at 200/. and 
 accordingly the collectors came to collect it ; whereupon, 
 I going to them to swear off 100/. on the 17 th . of March, 
 they imposed on me the oaths of allegiance and supre- 
 macy, which I took, notwithstanding I then told them, 
 that I had taken them two years before. Necessity Hol- 
 loway a busy man in this — the recorder very civil. 
 
 Paid the quarterly tax of 6s. for 100/. Mar. 20. 
 
 My vindication went to London by the waggon. 28. 
 
 Vindication of the Historiographer* came to Oxon. and Apr. 20. 
 the next day Mr. Kennet sent me six ; — not exposed to 
 sale till 26 th . of April. 
 
 Mr. Walker sen r . proctor &c. quitted his office with a 26. 
 very good speech ; new proctors admitted, viz. Rog. 
 Altham of Ch. Ch. and Rich. Vesey of Magd. coll. 
 
 Poor women in Oxford market clamouring again at the May 6. 
 price of corn, pelting millers, mealmen, bakers &c. the 
 
 a [" If any one desires a far- Seth, Ld. Bp. of Sarum, written 
 
 ther account of Mr. Wood, he by Dr. Walter Pope, in a letter to 
 
 must consult the Vindication of the author, Lond. 1697, 8vo. was 
 
 him, written as 'tis said by Dr. written by Dr. Tho. Wood of New 
 
 Wood, and printed some years college, notwithstanding he does 
 
 since." Hearne, MS. Collec- not own it. He also was author 
 
 tions, vol. ii. p. 40. In the same of The Vindication of the Histo- 
 
 page he calls Dr. Wood of New riographer of ye University ofOx- 
 
 college his (Anthony a Wood's) ford and his works, &c. Lond. 
 
 nephew. I0 93, 4-to." MS. Collections, vol. 
 
 Again, " The Appendix to ye iii. p. 140.] 
 Life of ye Rt. rev. father in God, 
 
294 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 93« 
 
 mayor repaired to the Guild hall, and sent for, and quieted 
 them. 
 10. Two princes of Saxe Gotha at the Cross incognito, or 
 
 thus, as Mr. Abandara b tells me, Fredericus dux Saxonise 
 Gotha, aged about 26, and his younger brother, two 
 princes of grand extraction ; they visited all places in the 
 university, and went away incog, next day. 
 i4- Fast day, Mr. Jos. Jackson of Queen's preached at St. 
 
 Mary's. 
 24. Congregation, D r . Halton pro-vice; about 12 masters 
 
 in the congregation, some had morning gowns, and there- 
 upon he denied their votes; they put in a protestation 
 against him. 
 
 June 13. C. C. coll. day, six bachelors were elected bachelor- 
 fellows of Merton, when Peter Wood of that house stood, 
 put aside, as 'twas said then, because he was too precise 
 and religious, and therefore not fit to make a society 
 man This is the custom of most elections in the uni- 
 versity. 
 *9- There was a hearing at the king's bench bar between 
 D r . Bury and the bishop of Exeter about the rectory of 
 Exeter college, to which his L p . preferred Mr. Rich. 
 Paynter. The court seemed to favour Dr. Bury, but it 
 will not be decided till next term. 
 
 July 3- A hearing at the assessor's chamber at All Souls ; D r . 
 Bourchier there, very passionate and base, and would not 
 suffer Tho. Wood to speak. The preface with armes and 
 picture, says he, were as a mark on an ass that was turned 
 to common. He would have my book burnt. 
 
 b Read Abendana. Sed sic MS. some copies of the first edition of 
 
 W. & H. the Athene. 
 
 c [This was ahead of Wood en- Among Mr. A. Wood's papers, 
 
 graved by Michael Burghers, with in his own handwriting, now in 
 
 the arms of the author, prefixed to the Bodleian library, is a foul 
 
1 693.] LIFE OF WOOD. 295 
 
 Appeared at the king's bench at Westminster hall, a July; 
 young woman in man's apparel, or that personated a man, 
 who was found guilty of marrying a young maid, whose 
 portion he d had obtained, and was very nigh being con- 
 tracted to a second wife ; divers of her love letters were 
 read in court, which occasioned much laughter ; upon the 
 whole, she was ordered to Bridewell to be whipped and 
 kept to hard labour till further order. 
 
 Fast day, Mr. e - - - Sloper of Pemb. coll. preached at 12. 
 St. Mary's. 
 
 Thursday after act, a hearing was to be in the vice- 13- 
 chancellor's lodgings, but he being taken up with the 
 strangers, it was at the assessor's lodgings at All Souls, 
 and it being the last day before sentence, D r . Bourchier 
 alias Butcher appeared in behalf of my lord, which he 
 had not hitherto done, and when my proctor T. Wood 
 was pleading, he would not suffer him to speak for snap- 
 ping and snatching, and ill language, no better than a 
 
 copy of a letter to Mr. Tho. Ben- sides 55. for paper; in all, 3Z. 55. 
 
 net the bookseller, without any If you are minded to take off any 
 
 date, from which the following is from my hands to add to those 
 
 an extract : copies which you have lying by 
 
 " I send this letter by Mr. Joh. you, you shall have them at a 
 Aubrey to give it to you or leave reasonable price. Some gentle- 
 it at your shop, to save you the men here give me I2 d . a piece 
 charge of 2 d . and tell you that I for them to put into their copies, 
 have here printed my epistle with but if you take off from my hands 
 a bordure and picture in it, and a 50 of the said epistles with bor- 
 large initial letter under it, pur- dure and letter, you shall have 
 posely to put it in all copies that them cheaper. Pray tell me your 
 are in the publick, and in any col- price and take order with some 
 lege and hall, libraries. The bor- bookseller to pay me here." On 
 dure with the picture cost me il. the back of this Wood has writ- 
 10s. ten, " Mr. Bennet did not answer 
 
 The initial letter 155. the com- this."] 
 posing, printing, and charge of d Sic. W. & H. 
 
 the rolling-press 155. more, be- e Charles. W. & H. 
 
296 LIFE OF WOOD. L 1 ^. 
 
 f _ _ - scolding, tho' the assessor bid him hold his tongue 
 several times ; the meeting therefore was prorogued to 
 the afternoon; before the time came, my proctor sent 
 word, and excused himself from coming, because of the 
 incivility of Bourchier. 
 
 14- Friday in Apodyt. Mr. Smith of St. John's brought me 
 
 a sentence drawn up by Bourchier, but, before the judge 
 took it, Mr. Dodwell an attorney gave him an Habeas 
 Corpus, so an end for the present. News thereupon was 
 sent to the earl of Clarendon, who thereupon repaired to 
 lord chief justice Holt, and obtained of him & procedendo 
 contrary to custom (Tuesday 18) which allowes it not till 
 the beginning of the term following. Might overcomes 
 right. My lord got Heneage Finch the solicitor to go 
 with him. The assessor upon the bringing in of the 
 Habeas Corpus, prorogued the meeting till 29 July, Sat. 
 
 29- Saturday, sentence ° against Mr. Wood and his book 
 
 pronounced in the Apodyterium ; late at night were pro- 
 grammas stuck up, were seen and read on Sunday morn- 
 
 f F. Woman's. W. & H. dissenters ; but of all the zealous 
 
 s The sentence was " That he church-men he had given charac- 
 
 should be banished and deprived ters with a singular turn of es- 
 
 of all priveledges belonging to a teem and affection : nay of the 
 
 member of the university, until Jacobites, and even of the Papists 
 
 he should make a proper recan- themselves, he had always spoke 
 
 tation. That the book should be the most favourable things, and 
 
 burnt, and that he should pay the therefore it was really the greater 
 
 costs of the suit, which amounted mortification to him, to feel the 
 
 to thirty four pounds." storm coming from a quarter 
 
 This censure, says the author where he thought he least de- 
 
 of the Complete History of Eng- served and might least expect it. 
 
 land, vol. iii. pag. 669. was the For the same reason, this correc- 
 
 more grievous to the blunt au- tion was some pleasure to the 
 
 thor, because it seemed to come Presbyterians, who believed there 
 
 from a party of men whom he was a rebuke due to him, which 
 
 had the least disobliged. His they themselves were not able to 
 
 bitterness had been against the pay. W. & H. 
 
1 693.] LIFE OF WOOD. 297 
 
 ing on St. Mary's gate and schools, plucked down in the 
 afternoon. 
 
 Monday, about 10 of the clock in the morning Skinner 3,1. 
 the apparitor made a fire of two faggots in the Theatre 
 yard, and burnt the 2 d . volume of Athen. Oxon. 
 
 In the Gazette of the 3d of Aug. is an account of it, but 
 the scandalous places in the book are not pointed at. 
 
 Wednesday, Fast, Mr. Rich. Barker of New college Aug. 9. 
 preached at St. Mary's. 
 
 It is said, D r . Gower, master of St. John's, Cambridge, 24. 
 excuses his disobedience to the mandamus by pretending 
 that by the laws of the college, no man can be displaced 
 for scruples of conscience, Papists only excepted. 
 
 D r . Charles Conquest was buried in the abby church of Sept. 20. 
 Bath. 
 
 Died sir Thomas Clayton, warden of Merton college. Oct. 4. 
 
 Fast day omitted. n. 
 
 h Election appointed : D r . Coward a physician of North- 12. 
 ampton, and fellow, came to the college to give his vote, 
 the society suspended him of his vote, he appeals, the 
 election thereupon prorogued. 
 
 Nov. 1st and 2d. The fellows of Mert. coll. were elect- 31. 
 ing a warden, and at length pitched upon D r . Lydall, D r . 
 Conant, and D r . Bateman : there were other voices given. 
 Nov. 3. They went up to London to present. 
 
 Wednesday, Mr. Kinsey, fellow of Oriel coll. and vicar Nov. 1. 
 of St. Mary's church, died in an house in Catstreet ; left 
 Oriel coll. fifty pounds, buried 
 
 Gun-powder treason; D r . Hugh Todd of Univ. coll, 5. 
 preached in the morning. 
 
 Mr. Francis Hickman of Ch. Ch. spoke a speech in 8. 
 schola Linguarum, in laudem Bodlei, being accompanied 
 
 h Supple, Merton college. W. & H. 
 
298 LIFE OF WOOD. [1693. 
 
 from his college to the schools by some of his fellow 
 students. 
 
 Friday, D r . Lydall came from London without hopes 
 of the wardenship ; was here the next day in the after- 
 noon. 
 
 Saturday, the archbishop, who had in a manner denied 
 him, nominated him warden. John Franklin the drawer, 
 being then at London with the fellows, was sent with a 
 packet to the sub-warden, and another to D r . Lydall ; he 
 came by dinner on Sunday, and finding D r . Lydall in the 
 hall, he congratulated him, and delivered the packets; 
 after dinner the bells rung at Merton college, on Monday 
 D r . Lydall went to London. 
 25. In the morning the great bell of Ch. Ch. rung out for 
 
 Mr. Harrington, so I presume he died on Thursday 23 d . 
 
 At 6 at night came from London to Oxon. the new 
 nominated warden of Mert. coll. accompanied by 100 per- 
 sons on horseback, while Merton college bells rang. 
 27. Monday, D r . Lydall admitted warden. As the arch- 
 
 bishop Tillotson hath done the college justice, in letting 
 it have a senior and a man of their own body, so he hath 
 done great injustice in this, that he hath nominated a 
 warden with a wife and 7 or 8 children, but being to be 
 fed with the bread belonging to piety and learning, is 
 a great detriment to the college; what they eat and 
 drink will serve for exhibition of 7 or 8 poor scholars; 
 besides, D r . Lydall is old, and unserviceable, a man of no 
 generous spirit, ignorant of learning, and so consequently 
 no encourager thereof. He has been a packhorse in the 
 practical and old Galenical way of physick, knows nothing 
 else, buys no books, nor understands what learning is, or 
 the world, how the affairs thereof passeth, which bent for 
 sordid interest and sneaking compliance, cares for no man, 
 but for a penny or two pence. 
 
1693.] LIFE OF WOOD. 299 
 
 St. Andrew's day, int. 2. and 3. post merid. the body of 3°- 
 James Harrington, esq. was conveyed to Oxon. from Lon- 
 don, accompanied by 40 or 60 horses before his hearse, 
 and twelve coaches behind it, buried in the north transept 
 of Ch. Ch. at evening prayer. 1 
 
 Died Dr. -Marsh, k archbishop of Dublin, and was Dec. 15. 
 
 Franc. 
 
 buried with solemnity in Ch. Ch. within the said city. He 
 had a daughter on whom he doated, though neither hand- 
 some, or witty, but because she married, against his con- 
 sent, an officer (a soldier) broke his heart. 
 
 Saturday, Oxford three hackney coaches robbed at 16. 
 Wheatley bridge by 4 Oxford scholars (as 'tis said) with 
 vizard masques. A man on horseback, who rode on 
 with the coach, lost 15 guineas, Mr. LydalFs son his 
 silver hilt sword and money, Necessity Holloway and 
 others. 
 
 My name and effect of the sentence was put into the 27. 
 proctor's black book, 1 subscribed by D r . Aldrich vice- 
 chancellor, [Roger] Altham and [Richard] Vesey of 
 Magd. coll. proctors. 
 
 The first thing that D r . Lydall caused to be done, after 
 he was admitted warden, and before he settled in his 
 lodgings, was to take down the old windows in the war- 
 den's dining room, and hall under it, containing rebusses, 
 fantastick devices in almost all the panes, and set up 
 square glass, yet caused the arms to be set up again, the 
 majestick light was all lost. Had he been a single man, 
 and not had a nice wife with 6 or 7 daughters, this would 
 not have been done ; the next was to set up a coach hav- 
 
 1 See Athene Oxon. under Marsh. 
 the year 1693. 1 [See Supplement to this Life.] 
 
 £ See Athene Oxon. article 
 
300 LIFE OF WOOD. [1694. 
 
 ing had none before ; yet had he been a single man, as 
 D r . Goddard was, he would have kept none. 
 
 Copy of a letter from Arthur Charlett to A. W. 
 
 Sir, 
 Your friend the earl of Clarendon is now in town. I am 
 sorry you was so much out of humour the other day, as 
 not to dine with the author of the Gentleman's Journal. I 
 want one of your pictures which I desire you to send to 
 your loving friend 
 
 Ar. Charlett. Oct. 4. 93. past 11. 
 
 1 694. Thomas Wood told me, that the earl of Clarendon, and 
 Mar. his party, will turn my lord's fees into a medal, in token 
 
 Jan. 6. £ ^ ie yi c tory, to be put into the museum. m 
 
 I was with D r . Woodroffe, and he told, he had six in 
 commons at Gloucester hall, his 2 sons two. 
 30. King's fast, Mr. W m . Wyatt, orator, principal of St. 
 
 Mary hall, preached at St. Mary's, and it was a high flown 
 sermon, made, as 'tis said, for K. James 2 d . reign : he was 
 much against the perfidiousness of the Scots, and said they 
 were the chief authors of archbishop Laud's death, who 
 was of more worth than all Scotland. At this sermon 
 was present (Archibald) Campbell a younger son of the 
 marquiss of Argyle, yet a high flown loyalist, and noble- 
 man of University coll. who being much enraged at what 
 he said against the Scots, he did accost Mr. Wyatt when 
 he came out of the pulpit, and did in a most egregious 
 manner abuse him in the face of the people, and called 
 him red-faced sot. Mr. Wyatt complained to the vice- 
 chancellor (D r . Aldrich dean of Ch. Ch.) D r . Aldrich sent 
 
 m [See the Proceedings against Wood in the Supplement to this 
 Life.] 
 
1694.] LIFE OF WOOD. 301 
 
 for Campbell, but Campbell is gone, and will not appear : 
 the university gave this Campbell bis degree of M. A. be- 
 fore be was standing for it, and allowed him to wear a 
 nobleman' s gown. 
 
 Sund. morning the bells rung out for the death of D r . Feb. u. 
 W m . Levett, principal of Magd. hall, and dean of Bristol," 
 who died at 12 the night before. 
 
 The president and fellows of Mag. coll. chose D r . Main- 12. 
 waring Hammond to be principal of Mag. hall, presented 
 him the next day to the vice-chan. D r . Aldrich, who denied 
 to admit him, till the chancellor was satisfied. The pre- 
 sident, then bishop of Oxford, went that day to London, 
 and was not at the election. 
 
 Mr. Daillon, a French minister, who had been committed 20 
 prisoner for preaching treason in St. Mathew's church in 
 Friday-street, was found by the jury not guilty, and so ac- 
 quitted. 
 
 Saturday, D r . [Richard] Adams of All Souls was ad- Mar. 3. 
 
 n [D r . Levett had been chap- things so adjusted before four of 
 lain to the earl of Clarendon, and the clock, that the divine service 
 accompanied him into exile. He may begin regularly at the canon- 
 became rector of Husband's Bos- ical houre. He bequeaths 50Z. 
 worth, in Leicestershire, 1672, for the library at Ch. Ch., 20Z. to 
 vicar of Flower, Northampton- the use of Magdalen Hall, and 5?. 
 shire, 1676, principal of Magda- for books for Corpus library, be- 
 lenHall, 1681, and dean of Bristol, sides money to apprentice poor 
 1685. His will, which is in the boys from Flower and Husband's 
 archives, is dated Jan. 27, 1693-4, Bosworth. He mentions his ne- 
 and directs that his body shall be phew, William Levett, second son 
 decently interred, "without any of his brother, sir Richard L., 
 manner of speech, or funerall ora- knight, and then alderman of Lon- 
 tion, or either good or bad verses, don, and makes his kinsman, Mr. 
 and without any opening of it, or the Henry Levett, fellow of Exeter 
 least dissection of it whatever," in college, his sole executor. By the 
 the cathedral at Ch. Ch., and that inventory, also in the archives, it 
 the invitations may be so sent out, appears that his personals were 
 and his corpse so carried, and all valued at 2402Z. os. nd.] 
 
302 LIFE OF WOOD. [1694. 
 
 mitted principal of Mag. hall by the vice-chancellor. In 
 the morning when they came to the gates, they found them 
 locked, and when they begun to break open the door by 
 chopping it to pieces, some of Mag. coll. came to them and 
 told them that their college had let a lease of the hall to 
 D r . Mainwaring Hammond, whom they had chosen prin- 
 cipal. However, making way in, the vice-chancellor con- 
 ducted Adams to the refectory and there admitted him. 
 Afterwards D r . Adams made a little speech, and enter- 
 tained the vice-chancellor and aularians with a glass of 
 wine. The principalis lodgings were locked up by D r . 
 Hammond. 
 8. The grace of White Kennet of St. Edmund hall did pass 
 
 by a majority in congregation after it had been denied 
 thrice, because he had sent in a letter to a certain gent, 
 wherein he told him, that such a college in Oxford was a 
 debauched college, that they were all given to looseness, 
 which deterred that gent, from sending his son to that 
 house. Mr. Kennet was then at Bicister very sick, having 
 about ten days before gone to that place to see his wife 
 that was before sick, and afterwards to bury her. 
 
 Mar. 15. The archbishop's order dated for the restoration of Mr. 
 Prowse, chaplain of All Souls coll. to his chambers and 
 commons, from which, for some years before, he had been 
 unjustly deprived by the new warden. 
 
 New Coll. school nourishing extremely much under the 
 tuition of Mr. James Badger, (for there were above 100 
 commoners besides choristers) and therefore the school 
 not big enough to contain them, Mr. Badger obtained 
 leave to translate his scholars to the old congregation 
 house at St. Mary's, wherefore they were accordingly 
 translated thither Apr. 18. 
 20. Swore off 100/. before the commissioners. 
 
 Apr. 12. Thursday in Easter week, Trinity college chapell was 
 
1694*] LIFE ,lF wood. 303 
 
 consecrated for a pious use. Between 8 and 9 in the 
 mor nin g met together those heads of houses, doctors and 
 others, that were invited to the solemnity, in the presi- 
 dent's lodgings of Trinity coll. and at 9, D r . Hough, 
 bishop of Oxford, who had a commission from the 
 bishop of Winchester, visitor of that college, went thence 
 to the new chapell at the head of them; afterwards the 
 beadles, then the president and vice-chancellor, and rest 
 of the doctors. The Chapel door being opened, the bishop 
 entered, kneeled down, and said something: and then in 
 the choir kneeled down again ; so at the altar. The pre- 
 sident read the service, Mr. Fyfald the first lesson, and 
 Mr. Harding the second. "When service was done. D r . 
 Thomas Sykes one of the sen r . fellows preached; which 
 done, there was a sacrament, and an offering, the money 
 of which was given to - - - 
 
 Afterwards P went to dinner in the hall, where the com- 
 pany was nobly entertained. The president D : . Batlmrst 
 built the outside, which cost him 1700/. and the inside by 
 benefactors.^ 
 
 Mr. Altham the sen 1 ', proctor quitted his place, and in Apr. iS, 
 his speech spoke very honourably of James Harrington of 
 Ch. Ch. lately deceased, and as dishonourably of the his- 
 toriographer of Oxford, by calling him scurra and calum- 
 
 [The visitor had been applied of the first rank. In one of his 
 
 to. to officiate on this occasion. letters on this subject he says : 
 
 but was prevented by business of " I have contributed my share for 
 
 a public nature at Westminster. finishing the outward bulke, as 
 
 See his Letter to the president in walls, roofe. windowes &c. more 
 
 TVarton's Life of Dr. Bathurst, than I am well able. For the in- 
 
 1761. p. 73. ] ward and ornamentall part, as the 
 
 p Supple, they. W. «Sc H. wainscott. seats, skreen. marble, 
 
 <i i_The furniture and decora- fretworke,. &c. we must be faine 
 
 tions of the inside were defrayed to soUicite" — See Walton's Life 
 
 from large collections solicited by of Bathurst. p. 67. ~ 
 Dr. Bathurst from many persons 
 
304 LIFE OF WOOD. [1694. 
 
 niator, one that in his late book he published, spoke of 
 the vices, and omitted the virtues of men, that he had 
 Lynceus his eyes, prying and peeping as a spy. This was 
 to please his dean D r . Aldrich, then vice chancellor, who 
 sat just behind him, and who before hand had taken part 
 with the earl of Clarendon. 
 
 May. Mr. Davenant made surveyor general of the duty on 
 
 salt. 
 
 We hear from Hereford, that the bishop of that see 
 with his attendants went to Welby to deface an inscrip- 
 tion on a monument erected in that church in memory of 
 coll. Jo. Birch, the ministers and churchwardens thinking 
 some words thereon were not right for the church institu- 
 tion. The words were these " In hopes of resurrection to 
 eternal life here is deposited the body of col. John Birch, 
 descended from a worthy family in Lancashire. As the 
 dignity he arrived at in the field, and the esteem uni- 
 versally yielded him in the senate house exceeded the 
 attainments of most, so they were but the moderate and 
 just rewards of his courage and conduct, and fidelity: 
 none who knew him denied him the character of asserting 
 and vindicating the laws and liberties of his country in 
 war, promoting it's welfare and prosperity in peace. He 
 was born the 7 th . of Apr. 1616, and died a member of the 
 honourable house of commons, being a burgess for Welby, 
 May 10, 1691." — The coloneFs nephew designes to bring 
 an action against the bishop for defacing it. 
 
 Jun. 16. Saturday, at 9 at night, I received a subpoena from two 
 
 of the servants of Mag. coll. to appear in the court of 
 Common Pleas in Westminster, on the 20th of the same 
 month, being Wednesday, to swear to such things, as 
 should be there proposed. 
 
 Jun. 19. Tuesday, I went to London with D r . Thomas Bayly of 
 Mag. coll. 
 
i694«] LIFE OF WOOD. 305 
 
 Wednesday, a trial in the court of Common pleas at 20, 
 Westminster between the hours of 9 and 1, between 
 James duke of Ormond, chancellor of the university of 
 Oxford, and the president and fellows of Mag. coll. con- 
 cerning the right of nomination, of the principality of 
 Mag. hall. The duke challenged it as his by prescrip- 
 tion, because he and his predecessors, chancellors of the 
 university, have had the nomination of the principal 
 thereof, from queen Elizabeth's reign (when Robert earl 
 of Leicester was chancellor of the university) to his time. 
 The president and fellows of Mag. coll. they claimed the 
 nomination, because the hall was theirs, and that the 
 principal thereof pays rent to them, that it was originally 
 built by the founder, and confirmed and enlarged by the 
 coll. But the jury, Oxfordshire men, granted it to the 
 duke merely by prescription tempos immemoriale. I then 
 gave oath that the register of elections of Mag. coll. 
 marked A. was the register that belonged to that coll. 
 that the site of Mag. coll. containing Magd. hall was 
 situated on the east side of town ditch. 
 
 I returned from London in the company of a little 23. 
 poor thing, sir Lacy Osbaldeston. r 
 
 r [It appears that S r . L. O. had y u know y r unworthiness by im- 
 
 taken some liberties with Mr. A. posing upon a generous person, 
 
 W. and endeavoured to turn him and making him a ridicule to the 
 
 into ridicule on account (as Mr. company y u were lately in, be- 
 
 "Wood expresses it, in a letter cause of his then growing infirm- 
 
 which he soon after sent him) of ity; whereas on the contrary y u 
 
 a growing infirmity. This letter should have had a mind sutable 
 
 is preserved among Ballard's col- to y r honor and greatness, of com- 
 
 lection in the Bodleian library, forting and pittying him ; for ac- 
 
 (vol. xiv. p. 19.) and is now given. cording to y e common maxime — 
 
 " Nothing but an implacable the greater the person is, the less 
 
 enmity to immorality and foolery, harme there should be in him. 
 and a zeale of discountenancing Al persons y* pretend to pru- 
 
 vanity, hath mov'd me now to let dence will understand their com- 
 
 wood, vol. 1. X 
 
306 LIFE OF WOOD. [1694- 
 
 July 10. I went to Astrop wells, took up my lodgings at W m . 
 
 Upton's at King's Sutton near thereunto, and continued 
 there till the 15th of Aug. 12s. for my carriage backwards 
 and forwards, and 5/. for my being there : 4s. 6d. I gave 
 for my lodgings per week. 
 
 Edw. Wells, M.A. student of Ch. Ch. spoke a speech in 
 praise of D r . John Fell being his obitual day in Ch. Ch. 
 publick refectory before dinner, and at dinner time the 
 dean and cannons dined there, and the dean entertained 
 all the hall with venison. This speech was founded by 
 John Cross apothecary, one of the executors of the said 
 Dr. Fell. 
 24. Sam. Thurston chose town clerk, who had 7 votes more 
 
 than - - - Slatford, by the endeavour of James earl of 
 Abington, who got several country gent, that were of the 
 house to give votes for the said Thurston. The commons, 
 enraged at it, spoke vilely of the earl of Abington, and his 
 son, called them Jacobites. He laid in town that night, 
 went next day to the bishop's lodgings at Mag. coll. in 
 the company of one or two constables to prevent abuses. 
 
 pany before they enter into free y* seeing y u have had a just edu- 
 
 discourse, but y u , like a vain man, cation, and are arriv'd in yeares, 
 
 either out of a high conceit of y r y u play not the coxcomb any 
 
 flashy parts, or to make y r self longer, least a glove be throwne 
 
 the Merry Andrew of the company to y u , y r noddle broke, or y r 
 
 did venter upon a person freely plump podex kickt into a jelly, 
 to expose him to scorne to y e so- Farewell, be civil and sober, 
 
 cietie, and to make him a poore and henceforth think not y* all 
 
 and sensless thing. are fools or poor things y 1 are not 
 
 Y u have been bred an acade- B ts . (Baronets). 
 mian in the New Inn, and after- For S r . Lacey Osbalston Ba- 
 
 wards, as I have heard, in the ronet, 
 
 inns of court, and in short time To be left at Mr. Blagrave's 
 
 one of y r issue is like to make y u house 
 
 a grandfather, and so consequently in S. Ebbes parish, Oxon. 
 
 to number y u among the old gen- p d to Oxon. 
 tlemen ; and therefore consider, 9 July 1694.] 
 
1694-] LIFE OF WOOD. 307 
 
 About 1 or 2 in the morning Mag, hall plate was stole, Aug. 17. 
 the thieves broke open Mag. coll. gate leading into the 
 grove, and then by force wrenched open a bar out of the 
 window of the buttery. 
 
 Upon D r . Edwards's return from his attendance on the Oct. 
 queen as chaplain, about the middle of Oct. reports that 
 the queen had given order that a copy of Athsnm et 
 Fasti Oxon. be new bound and she will read it: so he 
 told D r . Charlett. 
 
 D r . Edwards served his month of Sept. and told me, 
 that the queen ordered D r . Edw. Stanley, clerk of the 
 closet, to buy for her Athen. et Fasti Oxon. which he 
 did, and saw it lay in the closet. 
 
 D r . Aldrich retook his place of vice-chancellor, which is 
 the 3 d . year : in his speech he spoke against hatts turned 
 up on one side, and after the speech, he dissolved the 
 convocation ; but D r . Jane went to him, and put him in 
 mind of nominating the vice-chancellors 3 and swearing 
 them, which was done. rnirum ! 
 
 The visitation day of the publick library; Mr. Geor.Xov. 8. 
 Smalridge spoke a speech in schola lingiiarum, in laudem 
 Bodlei. 
 
 D r . Sloan chose physician to Chrisfs hospital. 
 
 This hard winter of 1694 hath strangely indisposed my 
 body, and caused a weakness in my left leg, and some 
 inkling of a cramp in my left thigh, when I turned in 
 my bed. 
 
 Sam. Conant, B.D. rector of - - - in Dorsetshire, was 1695. 
 elected rector of Exeter college by 5 votes only, the other j an u 24 
 7 fellows would not give votes, because they had before 
 elected Mr. - - - Paynter. 
 
 Mr. Tho. Tanner entered his place of chaplain of All 2;, 
 Souls coll. 
 
 5 Quaere if not Pro Vice Chancellors. Sed sic MS. W. & H. 
 
 x.2 
 
308 LIFE OF WOOD. [^95' 
 
 l8 « Monday, 3 hackney coaches containing the vice-chan- 
 
 cellor, some heads of houses, the proctors, orator, and 
 servants went to London to present their address of 
 condolement to the king, and books of verses on the 
 death of the queen. 
 3 '• Thursday they were presented to the king at Kensing- 
 
 ton with an address of condolement for the loss of his 
 queen, which, while reading, caused tears to stand in his 
 eyes ; he gave the vice-chancellor thanks, and the doctors 
 with him, and told them, he would stand their friend, &c. 
 200 copies were given amongst the nobility at London, 
 and elsewhere, one was presented to the king in a purple 
 cover. 
 Feb. 2. St. Giles's bells rang all night and a bonfire made 
 
 against Bridewell-gate for joy, that Slatford hath carried 
 the town clerkship from Thurston. 
 4. - - - - Slatford town clerk sworn. Bonfire in town 
 
 ditch against alderman Wright's door, another against 
 the George inn in Mag. parish, St. Michael's bells rung. 
 
 Mr. Congreve rec d . a gratuity of 100/. from his majesty 
 for an accurate poem, which he wrote on the death of the 
 queen. 
 
 Egg Saturday and Candlemas day, the sermon at St. 
 Mary's, where one vice-chanc. sat, and at the same a pre- 
 sentation of determining bachelors in the convocation, 
 where D r . Halton sat ; few bachelors presented, one of 10 
 of Wadham coll. one of five of Hert. hall. The rest are 
 afterwards to come to save charges. 
 
 Shrove Monday, the university verses on the death of 
 the queen were published at Oxford. 
 
 The judges in Westminster Hall gave their opinion in 
 the case between the Bp. of Exon and D r . Bury, that they 
 could not give any farther judgement in the case, because 
 the house of lords had reversed the former judgement. 
 
1695.] LIFE OF WOOD. 309 
 
 With Mr. J. Ecc. at the house next the Half moon. Mar. 23. 
 Two swearing and laughing women, he sweared and 
 laughed with them. 
 
 At the hither end of Magd. bridge came out of the hole May 21. 
 behind it, and the new herb-house, one - - - Barksdale,* 
 and told me I had abused his grandfather, and followed 
 muttering, till I came to Magd. college corner : I was 
 feign to hold up my cudgell at him. 
 
 With the assessor D r . Gardiner, and put him in mind 28. 
 of the act of parliament, and that I am restored to my 
 gown, and liberty of suffrage in convocation ; he told me, 
 he wished me no harm. 
 
 I put the printed act of parliament into the hands of June 7. 
 the assessor D r . Gardiner in open court, and told him in 
 the presence of the registers and Mr. Smith of St. John's, 
 that I am restored to the university by virtue of the act, 
 and left it in his hands. He told me that 'twas fit my 
 kinsman Mr. Wood should have done such a thing. 
 
 Mr. Rob. Gorges told me at Port's tavern, that the July 29. 
 duke of Brandenburgh had lately sent D r . Wallis a medal 
 for decyphering certain letters. 
 
 D r .Rob. Gorges, who had been in Oxford 3 weeks before, Aug. 2. 
 read part of the 2 d . volume of Athene, and admiring at 
 the industry and curiosity of the author, then told D r . 
 Charlett, that he had rather displease half the university 
 than displease the said author. 
 
 About the beginning of Aug 1 . 4 th . or 5 th . Mr. Tanner of 
 All Souls told me, that - - - Codrington of All Souls, 
 who was captain of foot at the siege of Namur, did signal 
 service in the taking the town of Namur, for which he 
 was rewarded with a captainship of the guards, worth 
 about 500/. per annum. 
 
 fc [There was, as Dr. Bloxam informs me, a chorister of this name 
 at Magdalen college, at this time.] 
 
310 LIFE OF WOOD. i l6 95' 
 
 D r . u Gardiner of All Souls died. 
 
 In this month - - - Bouchier, son and heir of D r . Tho. 
 Bouchier, died at Witney of the small pox, being newly 
 elected a poor child. Some look npon this as a great 
 judgement for his covetousness and grinding of the 
 poor. 
 
 In this month the plastering of the high altar of New 
 coll. was pulled down, and old broken statues discovered. 
 
 After my return from Weston, Sept. 11. I met with 
 Edm. Gibson of Queen's coll. soon after, who told me he 
 had been at Norwich, and was with bishop Moor, who 
 told him that he had read over my book with great 
 delight and pleasure, and he would read it over again. 
 Sept. 20. Friday, Mr. Tho. Rowney who stood to be burgess of 
 Oxford, entertained his voters, and cost him 201. and they 
 went away civilly. Recorder Wright entertained his men 
 in his backside on Monday following, and being drunk, 
 wandered about the city, broke windows, and abused 
 many, went to Tho. Rowney's house, and hooted there. 
 He came, and hooted with them, then went to Taylor 
 the new mayor, and Wood the old mayor, and made 
 a disturbance at their doors. These are the fanatical, or 
 factious party, and shew what they will do, when they 
 are in authority. They broke the windows of Mr. Evans, 
 a gent, in Magd. parish, who hath a baylifFs place in the 
 house, and is a great stickler for the loyal partie : they 
 broke the windows of Howes, a taylor in Hallywell, upon 
 the same account. This riot being mostly provoked by 
 the town-clerk Slatford, who had formerly obtained his 
 place by the endeavours of Wright, recorder, was bound 
 over to the session. 
 22. Thanksgiving day, Mr. Zinzan of St. John's preached at 
 
 <* George. W. & H. 
 
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 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 311 
 
 St. Mary's in the morning, there was before vocal musick 
 from the organ gallery. 
 
 Wednesday, dined with D r . Charlett, Gandy, Creech, 25. 
 and one Harbin, a clergyman, and a Cambridge man by 
 education, sometime chaplain to D r . Turner, bishop of 
 Ely, but a nonjuror, and in a lay habit. He was desirous 
 to see me, so D r . Charlett sent for me, he complimented 
 me much, and told me of several matters in his book. 
 
 With Mr. Tanner, to let me know when lord Clarendon Oct. 3 
 comes to town. 
 
 Wednesday, at 8 in the morning, I was with the earl of 9. 
 Clarendon at D r . Turner's lodgings, and there I began to 
 rip up all the matter, how unworthily he had dealt with 
 me against all law ; x that no abuse could be made against 
 
 x Things done by Henry earl 
 of Clarendon to ruin the 
 author and his cause. 
 
 1. His dashing and scoring out 
 of the original copies several mat- 
 ters relating to his father without 
 any authority, which, if they had 
 stood, he could not have pretence 
 to go to law ; he disarmes the au- 
 thor, then fights with him naked 
 — he takes away his papers, and 
 then bids him plead — he cuts out 
 his tongue, and then bids him 
 speake. 
 
 2. He endeavoured to set sir 
 William Glynn on his back. 
 
 • 3. He entertained two proctors 
 contrary to the custome, purposely 
 to put Mr. Wood to charge, know- 
 ing well that by his greatness and 
 money he should overcome him — 
 he got Dr. Levet to rake and 
 scrape up witnesses to augment 
 
 the charge, because every witness 
 that is taken and sworn, money is 
 to be given to the register, appa- 
 rator, &c. 
 
 4. He returned Mr. Wood's 
 submission which he had sent to 
 him, to ruin his cause, when his 
 proctor put in a plea to make the 
 opposite partie prove that he was 
 author of Ath. et Fast. Oxon. 
 
 5. He recalled a Habeas Cor- 
 pus, in the time of vacation, con- 
 trary to all custome. 
 
 6. He very readily put his name 
 into the gazet for an infamous li- 
 beller, without naming the libells 
 what they were. 
 
 And, after all this, the author 
 is to submit to what he hath said, 
 and be made a tool to recover the 
 credit of a person that hath been 
 banished 28 years, and dead 20. 
 
 Things done by the author to 
 
312 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [1695. 
 
 his father, because he was capable of no law to vindicate 
 him, first not in Westminster Hall, because he had been 
 
 please his lordship Henry 
 earl of Clarendon. 
 
 1 . The author freely and readily 
 communicated that part of the 
 copy in the 2 d . part of Ath. et 
 Fast. Oxon. which concerned Ed- 
 ward earl of Clarendon his father 
 before it went to the press ; he 
 blotted out many things, which 
 if they had stood, there would 
 have been no pretence to go to 
 law. 
 
 2. He appeared in the vice- 
 chancellor's court, which he 
 might have refused, if he had so 
 pleased, but because he had a 
 mind to please the said earl, he 
 therefore did appeare, thinking to 
 obtain his favour, but you see 
 what the event is. 
 
 3. He sent a submission to the 
 said earl, to have it put into the 
 term catalogues, gazette, &c. but 
 he returned it to the court, to ruin 
 the plea that the author's proctor 
 put in to make the opposite party 
 prove that he was author of the 
 book. 
 
 4. He sent a letter with a print- 
 ed epistle to the said earl for an 
 accommodation, and for putting 
 an end to the controversy, but he 
 returned it to the court to ruin 
 his cause. The epistle contained 
 the character of the retired life of 
 the author, which, one would 
 think, would have mollified the 
 court. 
 
 5. He dealt freely and gene- 
 rously with the said earl and his 
 
 party for an accommodation &c. 
 but his generosity was returned 
 upon him, to ruin his cause. 
 
 6. He speaks honourably of the 
 said earl of Clarendon in his 2 d 
 vol. of Ath. et Fasti Oxon. p 
 808. and of his father, p. 388 
 (Fasti Oxon. vol. 2. col. 13 
 edit. 2. Athene Oxon. vol. 2 
 col. 530. edit. 2.) 
 
 7. He procured an Habeas Cor- 
 pus to prolong the suit, that he 
 might gain time to make his peace. 
 
 He denied the translation of the 
 matter to Westm. Hall, purposely 
 to please him. 
 
 From a loose paper, in the hand 
 writing of Mr. A. Wood in bib. 
 Bodl. MS. Tanner, 456. W.&H. 
 
 [Wood certainly did his best to 
 propitiate lord Clarendon. The 
 two following letters in his own 
 hand are in the Archives of the 
 university, and were produced by 
 lord Clarendon's proctors at the 
 trial : 
 
 Good M r Dodwell 
 
 I desire y* y u would be pleased 
 to represent to his Lordship the 
 Earl of Clarendon, y* I offer to 
 insert this following advertisement 
 in my next vol. of Ath. et Fasti 
 Oxon. for hisLdship's satisfaction. 
 
 ' ' Whereas in the second vol. of 
 " Ath. et Fasti Oxon. particu- 
 " larly in pag. 221 & p. 269 there 
 " are several reflections upon the 
 " then LordChancellour, the author 
 " upon further enquiry does find 
 " y* he has been imposed upon by 
 
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 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 313 
 
 dead several years, and not in any court elsewhere civil or 
 canon, because he had been banished ; whereupon he said, 
 
 " y e persons yt gave him those ac- 
 " counts. Wherefore he desires 
 " the reader to take notice yt he 
 " does recall those expressions, 
 " there being no just grounds for 
 " any such insinuations." 
 
 This would be accepted, but 
 D r Bouchier out of a severe and 
 rigid temper pposes y* I should 
 come publickly into the Vice chan- 
 cellour's court and pray yt this my 
 submission may be accepted and 
 registred, and y* I should there 
 pay his Lordship's charges and 
 give my oath yt I will publish 
 within a certaine time the afore- 
 said advertisement. 
 
 This additional satisfaction 
 seemes very unreasonable to me, 
 y* I cannot comply with it. (i) 
 Because it containes a double pun- 
 ishment, viz. a publick submis- 
 sion in court, registred to all pos- 
 terity (to w ch the law can only 
 force me, if upon a hearing I am 
 cast,) and a publick recantation 
 in print. (2) Because it will in- 
 vite other persons to sue me for 
 w* I have said of the phanaticks 
 their ancestors, (to w ch I was 
 obliged as a faithful historian) 
 against whome I can have little or 
 no defence, If I consent to such a 
 judicial act and confession. (3) 
 Thirdly it ties me to a limited 
 time to publish my 3 d vol. 5 w ch 
 I cannot fairly promise, because 
 the bookseller, the licenser and 
 printer, will have their owne 
 time. 
 
 Pray interceede with his L'dship 
 yt he would not leave the method 
 of my giving satisfaction to any 
 lawyer, or to D r Bouchier espe- 
 cially, for yt I have reason to ex- 
 pect from him (tho I have never 
 offended him in word or action) 
 the most cruel usage. 
 
 I am willing the Advertisement 
 should be first published in the 
 Terme Catalogue of books, (w ch 
 will come out in the latter end of 
 this next terme) under the title of 
 Athene et Fasti Oxon. vv ch 
 shall be put therein, wherein I'le 
 promise to repeate the same in 
 my third vol. provided this may 
 be look'd upon as my owne act & 
 not seem forced from me by law 
 as a convict libeller. 
 
 Upon this proposal I hope his 
 lordship will admit me to his fa- 
 vour, & not think I am unad- 
 viseable, if I am not content to 
 be registred in a University for a 
 libeller, for whose honour, repu- 
 tation & glory I have laboured 
 from my youth & spent all yt I 
 have gotten. 
 
 As for the charges of the sute, 
 I am scarce in a capacitie to pay 
 mine owne, For during the raigne 
 of this present king I have paid 
 all taxes, & am now in paying the 
 quarterly tax of i 11 . 1 s . o d : And if I 
 pay double taxes, w ch I have been 
 several times threatned to doe, I 
 must be forced to leave Oxon & 
 my public studies, & betake my- 
 self to an obscure or meane em- 
 
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 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [l695- 
 
 that though he was banished in person, yet they did not 
 banish him in honour. Company came in, and stopped 
 
 ployment in the country — so 
 wishing y u all health & happiness 
 I remaine 
 
 Yr humble servant 
 A. Wood. 
 Jan. 16, 1692. 
 
 Pray S r keep this paper private, 
 & let no body see it, but his 
 L'dship, if y u think fit. 
 
 For his worthy Friend 
 Mr. Hen. Dodwell. 
 
 May it please y r Lordship. 
 
 Had I had the happiness to 
 have knowne y t y u were in Oxon. 
 last Octob. I would have waited 
 upon, to have satisfied, y u as to 
 the matter now in hand, but 1 
 knew nothing of y r being here till 
 y u were gone. — Soon after there 
 was a sute cornenced against me 
 in y r name for one or two passages 
 mention'd in the second vol. of 
 Ath. et Fasti Oxon. concerning 
 y r father ; at w ch the generality 
 of scholars, (especially those y* 
 understand the coinon law) did 
 wonder, considering yt in the 
 said passages was no mention 
 made of Edward, or of Hyde or 
 of Clarendon. However in com- 
 plyance to y r lordship (tho I am 
 no privileged man & so conse- 
 quently not subject to the court 
 of the chanc. of Oxon.) I did ap- 
 peare & stipulate, thinking to be 
 favourablely used. But so it is 
 yt I having been coarsly treated 
 as yet, & in all probability worse 
 hereafter, I have hitherto suffered 
 
 in divers respects — (r). As to the 
 loss of my pretious time & hin- 
 drance of my public studies ; for 
 since the comenceing of the said 
 sute I have done nothing relat- 
 ing thereunto, but for the diver- 
 sion of my thoughts arising from 
 my hard usage, I have kept such 
 company yt I delight not in. (2) 
 As to y e loss of the reward w ch I 
 expected from y e universitie for 
 y e dedication of Ath. et Fasti 
 Oxon. of w ch , tho I had a pro- 
 mise, yet now they refuse it. (3) 
 By the payment of considerable 
 summs of money due, as fees to 
 legists &c. 
 
 D r Bouchier also tells my proc- 
 tor yt I must also pay such fees as 
 he thinks fit, yt will satisfy such 
 legists yt y u have employed; & 
 under yt notion he will get w 1 he 
 pleases from me, & and so conse- 
 quently ruin me. In order to the 
 payment of these moneys, I have 
 sold certaine antient manuscripts, 
 w ch I intended for the University, 
 & am now about to sell other 
 books ; and if I should pay double 
 taxes, as I have been several times 
 threatned to doe, unless I take 
 the oaths, I must be forced to sell 
 all I have. 
 
 Y r Lordship hath y e reputation 
 of a learned man, & of one who is 
 a lover of learning & scholars, & 
 therefore if y r L'dship (who is also 
 one of the chief officers of this 
 university) should deal otherwise 
 but favourablely with one who is 
 
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 315 
 
 our farther progress. I told him, he had gotten from me 
 more money than I should get again in 5 or 6 years, for 
 
 a zealous pretender to learning, & be registred, I shall never be at 
 
 hath spent all his time, even from 
 his youth, in doing honour to the 
 University of Oxon, may, under 
 favour, sound but ill in the eares 
 of posterity. 
 
 I do here send to y r honour the 
 epistle w ch was to be put before 
 the Ath. et Fasti Oxon. but by 
 the unworthy dealing of the book- 
 seller it was refused to be printed 
 — If y r Lordship please to have 
 another copie of it to be put before 
 y r book (w ch I presume y u have) 
 I shall put it into the hands of D r 
 Levet y* he might convey it to 
 y u (inclosed in a book or parcel) 
 unrumpled. There were printed 
 here last Octob. 200 & odd of y e 
 said epistles, & this is the fifth y* 
 I have yet dispersed ; & no more 
 are to be dispersed till an end of 
 this controversie be made. The 
 printer who printed them tells me 
 y* he can add at the end of the 
 said epist. 8 or 10 lines; & there- 
 fore if y r Lordship think fit, or 
 only say the word, y* y e retraction 
 w** I sent to M r Dodwell & he 
 imparted to y u at Magd. hall shall 
 be put at the end of the said 200 
 copies, it shall be forthwith done, 
 & I will, by bond given, see y* 
 ever}' book of the said Ath. et 
 Fasti Oxon. w ch are in the public 
 & college libraries, shall have a 
 copie of it put into each book. 
 This being just & equitable, there 
 need not, I presume, any recan- 
 tation be made or registred ; for 
 if any be registred, or knowne to 
 
 rest, but continually be troubled 
 by presbyterians & fanaticks for 
 every little triviall thing. So 
 leaving these things to y r lord- 
 ship's consideration I remaine 
 Y r most humble serrant 
 A. Wood. 
 From my Lodging neare Mer- 
 ton Coll. 16. Feb. 1692. 
 
 For the right honora- 
 ble Henry Earl of 
 Clarendon at 
 Swallowfield 
 neare 
 Reading 
 Paid 4 d . Berkshire. 
 
 When the trial was over, Wood 
 wrote a letter to lord Clarendon 
 (dated 11 Oct. 1693) in which he 
 recounts most of the circum- 
 stances he considered as likely to 
 operate in his favour, and adds an 
 earnest request that his lordship 
 would not insist upon the pay- 
 ment of his legal expences : " Pray 
 Sir be pleased, which shall be the 
 last thing that I shall desire of 
 you, to do me the favour to pay 
 your owne fees, which will not 
 be only acceptable to me, but also 
 to several scholars in this Univer- 
 sitie, who beare a respect to me 
 for my indefatigable labours for 
 the publick, and greater to you, 
 for your conspicuous worth. Were 
 I not sure that the paying of your 
 fees, which is about 35?. would be 
 no more to you than 35 farthings to 
 me, I would not desire it of you."] 
 
316 LIFE OF WOOD. [1695. 
 
 I earned but 2d. per diem. I told him, I am restored 
 from my banishment, by virtue of the late act of parlia- 
 ment ; he said not, but I was excepted. I told him all 
 matter of libels was excepted. He said not, but talked 
 after a rambling way. 
 Oct. 9. Wednesday, at night, the writings past and sealed be- 
 
 tween me, and Mr. Tho. Rowney, concerning the Fleur 
 de Luce annuity, 30Z. per annum, to commence from 24 
 June, yet the writings were dated 20 th . Sept. 
 
 10. Thursday, Oxford feast, Mr. Stephens of Merton coll. 
 
 preached. 
 
 12. With S r . Tanner of All Souls, at Binsey chapel, where, 
 
 in the porch, I read and told him the whole history of 
 St. Frideswide, and the antiquity of that chapel ; thence 
 to Godstow, where I told him the antiquities of that 
 place, and all matter of lady Edyve and Rosamond, so 
 eat a dish of fish, and went through part of Wolvercote 
 home. 
 
 14- Birth day of King James 2 d . meeting of the Jacobites 
 
 at M rs . Harding's house near Hollywell church; musick 
 there, and ringing of bells in the church. 
 
 24. Badger the scholemaster was married, so he hathy 
 
 ----- New college of the school, married Pointer's 
 daughter. 
 Nov. 1. Early in the morning I shifted my shirt, and after that 
 
 all my wearing apparell, but by twelve finding an altera- 
 tion in me, I was resolved to walk it out, so at one of 
 the clock I went to Bay worth, and returning exceeding 
 weary; I went to bed at 8 of the clock, but between 1 
 and 2 the next, after I had slept four hours, I fell a 
 vomiting, and was very uneasy for 3 hours, at length 
 drinking a spoonful or two of cherry brandy, it put me 
 into a sleep, and sleep I did near three or four hours; 
 
 y Sic. 
 
1695.] LIFE OF WOOD. 317 
 
 about 10 I rose and was hungry, but putting on my 
 cloaths without warming I fell to vomiting again, and so 
 continued till 2 or 3 in the afternoon, then slept 2 hours 
 and seemed well, but my urine all the while was as red as 
 blood. 
 
 I set these things down to prevent the like for the 
 future by shifting. 
 
 Monday, visitation of the library, and Mr. - - - Pelling 
 of Ch. Ch. made the speech in Schola linguarum in lau- 
 dem Tho. Bodley; this was to be done on the 8th day, 
 but because the king was to be entertained the next day, 
 'twas deferred till 11th. Note the 8th of Nov. is the 
 visitation day, but because the king was to come in the 
 next day, it was deferred till Monday 11th, and from 
 thence deferred till Thursday the 14. 
 
 Let. dated 12 Nov. D r . Wilson bishop of Limerick is 
 dead, so another letter dated Nov. 14. 
 
 " In a few days after the seizure above mentioned, 
 (Nov. 1.) occasioned, probably, by his putting on damp 
 cloaths, Mr. A. Wood's disorder, which was a suppression 
 of urine, increased to a violent degree. It was some time 
 before he could be persuaded to apprehend any danger, 
 and he retired to his chamber to avoid the remonstrances 
 of his friends on this account, obstinately persisting in 
 his fancied safety. With some difficulty his iDtimate 
 acquaintance D r . Charlett, master of University college, 
 got access to him, and, after convincing him of the 
 danger of his situation, advised him to digest his nu- 
 merous papers and to prepare for his dissolution. What 
 passed in this conference we are told in a letter from D r . 
 Charlett to archbishop Tenison, which is printed by Mr. 
 Hearne in Johannis Glastoniensis Chronica, vol. 2. p. 455. 
 
318 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 6 95. 
 
 " Univ. Coll. Dec. i, 95. 
 " Having been absent some days z from this place, I 
 crave leave now to give your grace an account of our 
 
 z [Mr. Tanner's Letter to D r 
 Charlett concerning M r Wood's 
 last illness, &c. from Ballard's 
 MSS. in the Bodleian, vol. iv. 
 N°. 13. 
 
 Hon'd Master, 
 
 Yesterday at dinner-time M r 
 Wood sent for me ; when I came, 
 I found M r Martin and M r Bisse 
 of Wadh. with him, who had (with 
 much ado) prevail'd upon him to 
 set about looking over his papers, 
 so to work we went, and continued 
 tumbling and separating some of 
 his MSS till it was dark. We 
 also work'd upon him so far as to 
 sign and declare that sheet of 
 paper, which he had drawn up 
 the day before, and calPd it his 
 will; for fear he should not live 
 till night. He had a very bad 
 night of it last night, being much 
 troubled with vomiting. This 
 morning we three were with him 
 again, and M r Martin bringing 
 a form of will, that had been 
 drawn up by judge Holloway, we 
 writt his will over again as near 
 as we could in form of law. He 
 has given to the university to be 
 reposited in the musseum Ashmol. 
 all his MSS. not only those of 
 his own collection, but also all 
 others which he has in his pos- 
 session, except some few of D r 
 Langbain's Miscellanea which he 
 is willing should go to the pub- 
 lick library. He has also given 
 all his printed books and pamph- 
 
 lets to the said musseum which 
 are not there already. This be- 
 nefaction will not perhaps be so 
 much valued by the university as 
 it ought to be, because it comes 
 from Antony Wood ; but truly it 
 is a most noble gift, his collection 
 of MSS being invaluable, and his 
 printed books most of them not 
 to be found in town. And that 
 the university may not be de- 
 frauded of his treasure by his re- 
 lations, he was willing this article 
 should be inserted. " Item, I 
 will and desire that all my books, 
 pamphlets and papers both print- 
 ed and MSS. be immediately after 
 my decease delivered by my ex- 
 ecutrixes into the custody of D r 
 Arthur Charlett, M r Bisse of 
 Wadham coll. and M r Tanner of 
 All Souls, or any two of them, to 
 be dispos'd by them according to 
 this my last will and testament." 
 So that I could wish you were in 
 town, for fear any disturbance 
 should be made by his relations 
 about them ; but M r Bisse and I 
 will endeavour to secure them as 
 well as we can. He has conjur'd 
 us to look over all his MSS. be- 
 fore they are expos'd to the public 
 view, to see that there (are) no 
 loose foolish papers in them, that 
 may injure his memory. Merton 
 college people are mighty officious, 
 sending him notes and paying him 
 visits, either in hopes to suppress 
 any thing that he has writ 
 
1695.] LIFE 0F wood. 319 
 
 laborious antiquary, Mr. Anthony a Wood. Having 
 missed him for several days, (more particularly because 
 he had left several queries with me to answer, which I 
 knew he very impatiently desired) upon enquiry, I was 
 surprized to hear, that he lay a dying of a total suppres- 
 sion of urine. Immediately I sent to see him, which was 
 the 22 d . Nov. His relations sent me word, there were no 
 hopes of his recovery, being the eleventh day, but that he 
 apprehended no danger, was very froward that they durst 
 not speak to him, that therefore they did very much be- 
 seech me to come to him, being the only person they 
 could think on, that probably he would hearken to. I 
 was very sensible of the difficulty, but having been so 
 long and familiarly acquainted, I thought myself obliged 
 to go without delay. His relations ventured to leave his 
 doors unlocked, so I got up into his room, which he never 
 let me see before. At first sight, poor man, he fell into a 
 fit of trembling, and disorder of mind, as great as pos- 
 sible. I spoke all the comfortable words to him, and 
 complained that he would not send for me. After he 
 had composed himself, I then began to be plain with him. 
 
 (as they falsly imagine) to the The meeting about M r Bing- 
 
 scandal of their college, or else to ham is tomorrow morning at nine 
 
 prevail with him to give some- of the clock. 
 
 thing to their library. He seems I am, 
 
 to be very sensible that his time Rev'd Sir, 
 
 is short, tho' truly he spends his Your most oblig'd 
 
 spirits more in setting his papers obedient servant, 
 
 in order, than in providing for Thorn. Tanner. 
 
 another world. He is very cha- All Souls coll. Oxon. 
 
 ritible, forgiving every body and Nov. 24, 1695. 
 
 desiring all to forgive him : he M r Wood in his will professes 
 
 talkt a great while this evening himself a member of the Church 
 
 with his sister, with whom (he of England, and intends to die in 
 
 had) been so long at variance. the communion of it. 
 
 M r Swall is in town : he came These for the honored 
 
 last night with M r Bas. Kennet. D r Arthur Charlett.] 
 
320 LIFE OF WOOD. [l6 Q 5- 
 
 He was very unwilling to believe any thing of it, insisting 
 that he was very well, and would come to see me at night. 
 I was forced to debate the point with him, till at last, 
 upon mentioning a parallel case of a common acquaint- 
 ance with whom I was conversant every day, he yielded 
 and said, The Lord's will must be done. What ivould you 
 have me do ? I desired him not to lose a minute in vain 
 complaints and remonstrances, but to proceed directly to 
 settle his papers, that were so numerous and confused. 
 He then asked Who he could trust ? I advised him to Mr. 
 Tanner of All Souls, for whose fidelity I could be respon- 
 sible. His answer was, He thought so too, and that he 
 would in this and in all other particulars follow my advice, 
 promising me immediately to set about his will, and pre- 
 pare for the sacrament the next day, he having otherwise 
 resolved to receive on Christmas day. I was extremely 
 glad to find him in so good a temper, and having dis- 
 coursed him about several things, I told him I never 
 expected to see him again, and therefore took my last 
 farewel, telling him that I should hear constantly by 
 Mr. Tanner. 
 
 " After I came home I repeated all that I had said in 
 a long letter to him, being somewhat jealous of him, and 
 sent it by Mr. Tanner. 
 
 "He kept his word punctually, and immediately sent 
 to a very good man, his confident, to pray with him, ap- 
 pointing his hours, received the sacrament next morning 
 very devoutly, made his will, went into his study with his 
 two friends Mr. Bisse and Mr. Tanner, to sort that vast 
 
 multitude of papers, notes, letters about two bushel's 
 
 full he ordered for the fire, to be lighted as he was expir- 
 ing, which was accordingly done, he expressing both his 
 knowledge and approbation of what was done by throw- 
 ing out his hands. He was a very strong, lusty man, 
 
1 695.] LIFE OF WOOD. 321 
 
 aged a 65 years. He was 22 hours a dying. God 
 Almighty spared him so long, that he had his senses 
 entire and full time to settle all his concerns to his 
 content, having writ the most minute particular under 
 his hand about his funeral. He has given his books and 
 papers to the university, to be placed next his friend sir 
 W. Dugdale's MSS. which are very valuable to any of his 
 own temper. His more private papers he has ordered 
 not to be opened these seven years, and has placed them 
 in the custody of Mr. Bisse and Mr. Tanner, of whose 
 care I am told he makes me overseer. The continuation 
 of his Athene Oxon. in two fol. which he had carried on 
 to the 19th of October last (D r . Merret and Dudley 
 Loftus being the two last) he gave the day before he 
 died with great ceremony to Mr. Tanner for his sole use, 
 without any restrictions. His behaviour was very well 
 during his illness, was very patient and quiet, especially 
 towards the latter end, he asked pardon of all that he had 
 injured, and desired the prayers of all the publick congre- 
 gations. The last night he was very decently buried, all 
 the particulars were prescribed by himself. He has given 
 great charge to burn any loose reflecting notes. I beg 
 your grace's pardon for this long hasty letter and crave 
 leave to remain 
 
 May it please your grace, 
 U. C. your grace's 
 
 Dec. 1,95. most obedient and most 
 
 dutiful servant, 
 
 Ar. Charlett." 
 
 a According to his monument 29, 1695. But if we follow his 
 
 in St. John Baptist's church, own account of the time of his 
 
 Oxford, he died in his 64th year, birth he died in the 63 d . or grand 
 
 Nov. 28. 1695. The preface to climacterical year of his age : for 
 
 the spurious (or second) edition he tells us in his Diary that he was 
 
 of his Athene Oxon. says Nov. born on Dec. 7. 1632. Hearne. 
 WOOD, VOL. I. Y 
 
32% LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 95- 
 
 " SUCH was the last sickness of Mr. Anthony a Wood, 
 which put an end to a life of sixty three years, of which 
 near forty-nine were spent in a continued pursuit of the 
 venerable remains of antiquity, and in preserving them 
 for the use of posterity. The large volumes he published, 
 together with the collection of curious papers in MSS. 
 which he left, by his will, to the place of his education, 
 are indisputable proofs of his abilities, industry, and care. 
 The singularity which appears in the stile of his composi- 
 tions, frequently the subject of ridicule to modern refine- 
 ment, should rather be placed to the fault of those times, 
 in which he imbibed the rudiments of learning, when un- 
 couth phraseology was the prevailing taste, and to that 
 recluse way of life which disabled him from correcting it 
 afterwards, by enjoying the benefit of improved conversa- 
 tion. Contented with a moderate, it might be said, a 
 narrow income, he was indefatigable in the pursuit of 
 truth, and fearless of danger when employed in delivering 
 it to future times. He lived in the practice of strict in- 
 tegrity and justice, and died with a pious resignation to 
 the divine will, and a sincere repentance of those errors, 
 into which the infirmity of his nature had betrayed him. 
 
 " He was attended to the grave by his most intimate 
 friends, and buried in the ante-chapel of the church of St. 
 John Baptist de Merton in Oxford. In a short time after 
 his decease, a small neat monument was erected to his 
 memory by Thomas Rowney, esq. containing this short 
 but comprehensive epitaph. 
 
 H. S. E. 
 
 ANTONIU S WOOD 
 
 ANTIQUARIUS. 
 
 Ob. 28. Nov. Anno 
 
 1695. ^tat. 64. 
 
1695-] LIFE OF WOOD. 323 
 
 " There was no occasion, indeed, for a pompous detail 
 of his merits in this memorial, since his works afford 
 sufficient testimony to his character. The university 
 must for ever remember with esteem that son who has 
 done so much for her credit, in an ample history of her 
 antiquity and magnificence ; nor will his labours ever be 
 forgotten, which have so much alleviated those of suc- 
 ceeding writers, and for which the historian, the lover of 
 antiquity, and especially the biographer have the greatest 
 reason to venerate his memory." Warton and Huddes- 
 ford. 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. 
 
 No. I. 
 Hearne's Account of Wood. 
 
 (From a manuscript in his own handwriting in the Bodleian 
 Library, among Dr. Rawlinson's collection, B. 246, entitled 
 " Historical collections relating to England, made in the years 
 1700, 1701," page 267, &c.) 
 
 Anthony a Wood was the son of Thomas Wood, alias 
 a Wood or Awood, bach, of arts and of the civil law of the 
 university of Oxon, by Maria la Petite, commonly called 
 Pettie, his wife (descended from a gentile and ancient 
 family in the county of Oxon). He was borne in the 
 yeare 1631, in the parish of St. Joh. Bapt. in an house 
 opposite to the forefront of Mert. coll. within the said 
 university of Oxon. And after he had been educated in 
 grammatical, became student of Mert. col. where he 
 took his master of arts degree. But his genius being 
 naturally addicted to the study of Eng. histories and anti- 
 quities, he closely applied himself to this kind of learning, 
 omitting philosophical studies as hardly useful to him in 
 searching into ancient writings relating to the antiquities 
 of the English nation: yet finding that divers things 
 might be inserted in old philosophical MSS, which might 
 
326 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 in a great measure serve to give the character of a person, 
 or to point out divers things pertaining to the illustration 
 of any place, he so farre dwelt upon them, as he perceived 
 might be thus serviceable to him. After he had made a 
 great progresse in these studies, he was for some time at 
 a stand, which way might be most necessary and conve- 
 nient for him to exercise his faculty for the publick good. 
 At last he found nothing would be more acceptable and 
 beneficial than the illustration of the antiquities of his 
 mother the university of Oxon. Immediately therefore 
 he set about so useful a worke, by going over all the col- 
 leges, and other public places, and with great diligence 
 collecting all inscriptions, both sepulchral and fenestral, 
 together with the founders, insigns and monuments, 
 which seemed most obnoxious to the injuries of time. 
 This being done, he had thoughts of perusing the his- 
 tories which had been written of the university in gene- 
 ral, or of any house in particular, and to have published 
 them with his illustrations and emendations. But his 
 collections encreasing daily to a large bulke, he changed 
 his mind, and was resolved to write, himself, an entire 
 history. Which, after abundance more of pains, he did, 
 in the English tongue, which being very acceptable to the 
 heads of the university, they got it with the author's leave 
 to be translated into Latin (the principal curator whereof 
 was bishop Fell) which was so published with this title — 
 Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Ooconiensis duobus 
 voll. comprehensa, Oxon, 1674: fol. What paines he 
 tooke in composing this excellent worke, you may see at 
 large in the preface to the reader. Our author designed 
 had he lived to have printed the English copy, to have 
 added thereto the antiquities of the city of Oxon also, 
 and, as in his said antiquities he above once insinuates, 
 to have compiled the history and antiquities of his own 
 
NO. I.] LIFE OF WOOD. 327 
 
 college Merton : but another worke hindred him, namely 
 Athene Oxonienses, or an exact history of all the writers 
 and bishops, ivho have had their education in the most an- 
 cient and famous univers. of Oxon. from the fifteenth year 
 of King Henry VII Dom. 1500, to the end of the year 
 1690V, &c. To which are added, The Fasti or annals of the 
 said university , for the same time: Printed at Lond. in two 
 large folios, 1691. In which worke, for the safer conduct 
 of the author, in describing and characterizing of persons 
 so different in their stations and judgments, he endea- 
 voured to secure himself against calumny, and also from 
 giving just offence, by holding a commerce of letters 
 with three sorts of men, viz. those of the church of 
 England, some of which were very communicative ; and 
 took much pains in searching and collecting from the 
 registers of their respective cathedrals and other churches, 
 for the use and satisfaction of our author : 'though he pro- 
 fesses himself sorry, a that he had too much cause to say, 
 that had he found more of such publick spirited men, his 
 work had been proportionably more perfect, especially as 
 to the authors of the church of England. The same might 
 be said of the second sort, the nonconformists, from one 
 or two of which, of learning and candour, the author was 
 much informed. But the generality of this sort of men, 
 whilst under a cloud of persecution, as they call it, were 
 very shie and jealous of imparting what was enquired con- 
 cerning their writers, not knowing what use might be 
 made of such communications to their disadvantage. If 
 therefore what is said of their writers, seem less satisfac- 
 tory, the author is not to be blamed, having been forced 
 to be silent of some of their writers, or else to use testi- 
 monies of them from those of another perswasion. The 
 
 a In his Epistle to the reader. 
 
328 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 third and last sort were the Roman Catholicks, who were 
 always very willing to communicate to the author what- 
 soever they knew of their writers in this worke : though 
 the distance, and several other circumstances might have 
 dispensed with them from any such correspondence. 
 However it be, the worke is of great use, and as perfect 
 as could be expected, our author being the first, after 
 the ancient discoveries of Boston and Leland, who made 
 any attempt towards so very desireable a worke. His 
 diligence was very singular in the carrying it on; for 
 he not onely consulted all the registers relating to the 
 university, but all other writings and records, MS and 
 printed, whether in the Bodleian, Norfolk 13 or Cottonian 
 libraries, whether in the Tower, Exchequer, Paper office, 
 or elsewhere, that could give him any notice of these 
 authors, or let him into the true knowledge of their lives, 
 preferments, and writings. The registers of the ancient 
 churches and cathedrals were diligently consulted; the 
 wills of the deceased persons were at the prerogative office 
 examined; the windows of churches, epitaphs and inscrip- 
 tions, were searched ; the genealogy of the authors at the 
 Herald's office was enquired into; and no method was 
 unattempted which could contribute to a true history of 
 these writers, or ascertaine the least date and circum- 
 stance of their lives. Which extraordinary care and un- 
 wearied industry was undertaken without any other mo- 
 tive than a love to truth, and without any other prospect, 
 than the benefit of posterity. But so it was, that the 
 author having spoken some displeasing words of Edward, 
 earl of Clarendon in it, was for that reason expelled the 
 university. In the month of August 1654, M r Roger 
 
 b [This collection, both printed served in the library of that insti- 
 and manuscript, was given to the tution.] 
 Royal Society, and is now pre- 
 
NO. I.] LIFE OF WOOD. 329 
 
 Dodsworth, the Yorkeshire antiquarie died; after whose 
 death my lord Fairfax, who had been a great encourager 
 of, and patron to, the said industrious and unwearied Mr. 
 Dodsworth in his study of antiquities, took into his pos- 
 session not onely all the old manuscripts which he had 
 obtained from several hands, but also all his proper 
 collections which he had written from MSS, leiger books, 
 evidences in the tower at Yorke, in the custody of many 
 gentlemen, not onely in Yorksh. but other northern coun- 
 ties, and also his collections of monumental and fenes- 
 tral inscriptions, &c. which being done, he communicated 
 them to D r . Nat. Johnson, a physit. of Yorksh. with 
 hopes that he would extract from them, and make a 
 compleat booke of antiquities of the West-riding of 
 Yorksh. When the said lord Fairfax died, he be- 
 queathed the said old MSS and collections (which last 
 amounted to 122 volumes at least) to the publicke 
 library in Oxon. but were not conveyed thither till 
 June 1673 ; which being then a wet season, most of 
 them took wet, and had it not been for Mr. Wood 
 (whom we are now upon) who with much ado obtained 
 leave of the then vice chan. to have them conveyed into 
 the muniment roome in the schoole tower, purposely to 
 dry them on the leads adjoyning, which cost him a 
 monetlr's time to do it, they had been utterly spoyled. 
 Anno 1673, was published by M r . (afterwards sir) Wil- 
 liam Dugdale the third vol. of the Monasticon Anglica- 
 num. Some time before the publication whereof M r 
 Dugdale desired M r Wood, that if in his searches to- 
 wards the work of Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. he could 
 meet with any materials towards the completion of the 
 said third volume of Mon. Anglic, he would by all means 
 help him to them. Whereupon for the great respect he 
 had to the author, and such a noble worke as that was^ 
 
330 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 he soon after sent him copies of many evidences ; as first 
 those fonr inserted in p. 11, concerning Wallingford. Se- 
 condly eleven others in p. 13, 14, 15, concerning Little- 
 more nnnnery within the precincts of Sandford in Oxford- 
 shire, which by a mistake sir William hath added to 
 Sandford in Berkshire. Thirdly, three copies of charters 
 in p. 18, concerning the hermitage of Musswell in the 
 parish of Piddington, Oxfordshire. Fourthly, four copies 
 in p. 30, 31, concerning Horkesley a cell to the abbey of 
 Tefford. Fifthly, the six copies mentioned in p. 55, 56, 
 57, concerning the priory of Cold Norton in Oxonsh. 
 Sixthly, the twelve copies in p. 62, 63, 64, concerning the 
 lands belonging to the Kt. Templers of Sandford, near 
 to, and in the county of Oxon, which he transcribed from 
 a leiger book containing all the evidences belonging to 
 the preceptory of Sandford; near which place was the 
 nunnery of Littlemore before mentioned situated. The 
 said leiger book, which was then M r Wood's proper book, 
 is now in bibl. Bodl. Seventhly, that copy in p. 77 b, 
 concerning Otteham priory. Eighthly, those copies of 
 charters in p. 83, 84, 85, concerning the hospital of Brack- 
 ley in Northamptonsh. Ninthly, that charter in p. 96 a, 
 concerning the hospital of Ginges in Essex, otherwise 
 called Gynge-Monteygney. Tenthly, that large charter 
 concerning the priory of Newington-Longaville in Bucks 
 [p. iii] and others. After he the said William had finished 
 and printed the three tomes of his " History of the Ba- 
 ronage of England," he sent copies of them to M r Wood, 
 with an earnest desire that he would peruse, correct and 
 add to them what he could obtain from record or other 
 authorities. Whereupon spending a whole long vacation 
 in that matter, he drew up at least sixteen sheets of cor- 
 rections, but more additions; which being sent to sir 
 William, he remitted a good part of them into the margin 
 
NO. I.] LIFE OF WOOD. 331 
 
 of a copy of large paper of the said three tomes. M r 
 Wood was a person who delighted to converse more with 
 the dead than with the livings and was, as it were, dead 
 to the world, and utterly unknown in person to the gene- 
 rality of scholars in Oxon. He was so great an admirer 
 of a solitary and private life, that he frequented no assem- 
 blies of the said university, had no companion at bed or 
 at board, in his studies, walks or journies, nor held com- 
 munication with any, unless with some, and those very 
 few, of generous and noble spirits : and truly, all things 
 considered, he was but a degree different from an Asce- 
 tick, as spending all or most of his time, whether by day 
 or night, in reading, writing or contemplation. So that 
 in truth the before mentioned Herculean work the 
 Athene had been more proper for a head or fellow of 
 a college or for a publick professor or officer of the uni- 
 versity to have undertaken and consummated, than the 
 author, who never enjoyed any place or office therein, or 
 could justly say he had eaten the bread of any founder. 
 He was equally regardless of envy or fame, out of his 
 great love to truth, and therefore 'twas no wonder he 
 tooke such a liberty of speech as most other authors, out 
 of prudence, cunning, or designe, have usually declined. 
 And indeed as to his language he used such words as 
 were suitable to his profession. It is impossible to think 
 that men who always converse with old authors, should 
 not learn the dialect of their acquaintance. An anti- 
 quary retains an old word with as much religion as an old 
 relick. And further since our author was ignorant of the 
 rules of conversation, it is no wonder he uses so many 
 severe reflections. 
 
 I have been told that it was usual with him for the 
 most part to rise about 4 clock in the morning, and to 
 eat hardly any thing till night, when after supper he 
 
LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 would go into some bye ale-house in town, or else to one 
 in some village neare, and there by himself take his pipe 
 and pot. He was by the vulgar at least taken to be a 
 Bom. Cath. and the author of these matters, who hath a 
 great respect for his memory, in his inquiries concerning 
 him, could never hear any other report. Indeed he shews 
 himself that way inclined in his Athene, and I have been 
 told he received pensions from some of them, particularly 
 from his great friend and acquaintance sir Ralph Sheldon 
 of Beoly in Worcestershire, commonly called Great Shel- 
 don. But this however I am apt to think proceeded not 
 from any averseness to the church of England, but only 
 from the encouragement he received from this party, 
 more than he did from any church of England man, in 
 carrying on his great and tiresome work of Athene, 
 for if you will believe what he himself says, and what I 
 have often heard reported in Oxon, the greatest help he 
 found from any one person in that university, was from 
 M r Andrew Allam, vice-principal of St. Edmund's hall, 
 who died, to our author's great reluctancy, an. 1685. 
 This ingenious retired and modest person helped him 
 very much in the notitia of divers modern authors, whilst 
 M r Wood himself was day and night drudging in those 
 more ancient ; and therefore M r Wood hath deservedly 
 given an high character of M r Allam. But so it is, that 
 notwithstanding our author's great merits, he was but 
 little regarded in the university, being observed to be 
 more clownish than courteous, and always to go in an old 
 antiquated dress. Indeed he was a meer scholar, and con- 
 sequently must expect from the greatest number of men 
 disrespect ; but this notwithstanding, he was always a 
 true lover of his mother the university, and did more for 
 her, than others care to do that have received so liberally 
 from her towards their maintenance, and have had greater 
 
NO. I.] LIFE OF WOOD. 333 
 
 advantages of doing good than he had. Yea, his affection 
 was not at all alienated, notwithstanding his being so 
 hardly dealt with as to be expelled, which would have 
 broke the hearts of some. But our author was of a most 
 noble spirit, and little regarded whatever afflictions he 
 lay under, whilst he was conscious to himself of doing 
 nothing but what he could answer. At length after he 
 had, by continual drudging, worne out his body, he left 
 this world contentedly by a stoppage of his urine anno 
 Dom. 1695, and was buried in the east corner of the 
 north side of St. John's church adjoyning to Merton 
 college : and in the wall is a small monument fixed with 
 these words. 
 
 Antonius a Wood Antiquarius : 1695. 
 By his last will and testament he bequeathed (a great 
 signe of his love to the university) to the Ashmolean 
 museum, adjoining to the public library there, all his 
 papers and MSS. as likewise all such printed books as 
 were there wanting; which MSS. are in number 127 voll. 
 amongst which are of M r Wood's own writing and collec- 
 tion about 63 vol. Besides which, in the year 1692, the 
 university bought of our author 25 MS voll. ; which are 
 very choice, and are now reposited in the Bodleian library; 
 to which place he gave also D r Langbain's MS collections 
 containing in number 7. 
 
 To conclude ; consider M r Wood at his first entrance 
 in the university, you shall find him an indefatigable 
 student : after he had taken his degree consider him, and 
 you will find his industry not only increased, but also 
 directed to the intire good and honour of his mother : 
 consider him after his expulsion, and you shall find him 
 still of the same temper, having the same respect for her. 
 In short, consider him in the whole course of his life, 
 none was more studious, none more humble, none more 
 virtuous. 
 
LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 No. II. 
 The Last Will and Testament of Anthony a Wood. 
 
 (Hearne, Adami de Domeram Hist, de Glaston. vol. ii. p. 731.) 
 E registro curiae prerogative Cant, extract. 
 
 In the name of God, Amen. I Anthony Wood, Master 
 of Arts of the university of Oxford, being sick in body, 
 but of sound and perfect memory, do, this twenty-fourth 
 day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand 
 six hundred ninety-five, make and ordain this my last 
 will and testament (revoking all others by me formerly 
 made) in manner and form following. 
 
 Imprimis, I commend my soul into the hands of Al- 
 mighty God, who first gave it, (professing myself to die 
 in the Communion of the Church of England) and my 
 body to be buried in Merton college church, deeper than 
 ordinary, under, and as close to the wall (just as you 
 enter in at the north on the left hand) as the place will 
 permit, and I desire that there may be some little monu- 
 ment erected over my grave. Item, as touching the dis- 
 tribution of my worldly estate, I dispose of it as followeth. 
 First, I give and bequeath to Anne and Frances Wood, 
 the daughters of my late brother, Robert Wood, all the 
 interest and share I have in the houses, gardens, and 
 tennis court, situate, lying and being in the collegiate 
 parish of St. John Baptist de Merton, to have and to hold 
 to them and their heirs for ever ; and in case they, the 
 abovementioned Anne and Frances Wood, should be will- 
 ing to sell their share and proportion in the said houses, 
 gardens, and tennis court, that then they shall be obliged 
 to allow their brothers Thomas and Robert the first tender 
 of it, provided that the said Thomas and Robert will give 
 
XO. II.] LIFE OF WOOD. 335 
 
 for the same as much as any other person. Item, I give 
 and bequeath the principle and interest of the two bonds, 
 (fifty pounds each) past betwixt me and my brother Ro- 
 bert Wood, to the abovementioned i\rme and Frances 
 Wood. Item, I give and bequeath unto the said Anne 
 and Frances Wood, another bond of one hundred pounds, 
 together with all interest from thence accruing, past be- 
 twixt me and my brother Christopher Wood (the interest 
 of which was paid to the time of his death, after his death 
 the interest was paid by his eldest son and heir Thomas 
 Wood, and after the death of the said Thomas Wood 
 'twas paid by his brother Seymour Wood of London, 
 oyleman, till he left off his trade). Item, I give and 
 bequeath unto the abovementioned Anne and Frances 
 Wood all other money, plate, Jewells, linnen and cloaths, 
 that I dye possessed of. Item, I give and bequeath unto 
 Mary, the wife of William Hacket gent, all the network, 
 that I am now possessed of, and which was formerly left 
 me by my mother Mary Wood. Item, I give and be- 
 queath unto the University of Oxford, to be deposited in 
 the Musseum Ashmoheanum, all MSS. of my own collec- 
 tion and writing, excepting such as are otherwise disposed 
 of by me to the Bodleian Library. Also I give and be- 
 queath to the Musseum before mentioned, all my other 
 MSS. whatsoever, now in my possession. Item, I give 
 to the said university all my printed books, pamphlets 
 and papers, to be deposited in the Musaeum, excepting 
 such as are already in the Musaeum. Item, I do will and 
 desire, that all my books pamphlets and papers, both 
 printed and MSS. be immediately after my decease de- 
 livered by my executrixes, hereafter mentioned, into the 
 custody of D r Arthur Charlett, and M r James Biss of 
 Wadham college, and M r Thomas Tanner of All Souls 
 college, or any two of them, to be disposed of by them, 
 
LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 according to this my last will and testament. Item, I do 
 
 hereby make, ordain, constitute and appoint my said 
 
 nieces, Anne and Frances Wood, joint executors of this 
 
 my last will and testament, to whom I give and bequeath 
 
 all the rest of my goods and chattels whatsoever, not 
 
 herein mentioned. In witness whereof I have hereunto 
 
 set my hand and seal the day and year first above 
 
 written. 
 
 Anthony Wood. 
 
 Signed, sealed and declared] __. _ ,_ ,. 
 . / „ iNich*. Martin 
 
 m the presence 01 J 
 
 The mark + of Jone Pinnack 
 
 The mark + of Jone Crawford 
 
 Probatum Londini fuit hujusmodi Testamentum vice- 
 simo tertio die mensis Januarii, anno Domini (stilo An- 
 glise) millesimo sexcentesimo nonagesimo quinto, coram 
 venerabili et egregio viro, Domino Richardi Raines, Milite, 
 Legum Doctore, Curiae Prserogativae Cantuariensis Ma- 
 gistro, Custode sive Commissario legitime constituto, 
 juramentis Annae et Franciscse Wood executricum in 
 dicto Testament o nominatarum. Quibus commissa fuit 
 administratio omnium et singulorum bonorum, jurium et 
 creditorum dicti defuncti, de bene et fideliter adminis- 
 trando eadem, ad sancta Dei Evangelia (vigore Commis- 
 sionis) juratis Ex. 
 
 Henr. Farrant, Registrar. 
 R. C. Deputat. 
 
NO. III.] LIFE OF WOOD. 337 
 
 No. III. 
 Hearne's Memoranda relating to Anthony a Wood. 
 
 (Collected from his MSS. Remarks and Collections preserved in 
 the Bodleian library.) 
 
 Anthony would not stoop to act contrary to honour, as 
 himself observes. 
 
 Anthony aimM to be a despiser of riches, to live inde- 
 pendent and not to be afraid to die. (Volume lxxxiii. 
 page 119.) 
 
 I am told by one of the fellows of Merton college, that 
 Mr. Ant. a Wood formerly us'd to frequent their com- 
 mon-room; but that a quarrel arising one night between 
 some of the fellows, one of them, who thought himself 
 very much abused, put some of the rest into the court ; 
 but when the day for deciding the matter came, there 
 wanted sufficient evidence. At last Mr. Wood having 
 been in company all the time the quarrel lasted, and put 
 down the whole in writing, gave a full relation, w ch ap- 
 peared so clear for the plaintiff, that immediate satisfac- 
 tion was commanded to be given. This was so much 
 resented that Mr. Wood was afterwards expelTd the 
 comon room, and his company avoyded as an observing 
 person, and not fit to be present where matters of moment 
 were discussed, (iii. 79.) 
 
 I have been told by Bp Tanner, that no one was more 
 ready to correct his mistakes than Mr. Anth. a Wood, 
 and that he was alway well pleased, when he was shewed 
 them. Once one told him " M r Wood, I have found two 
 or three mistakes in your book." " Have you so," said 
 M r Wood, " I thank you, but I have found three or four- 
 score to them." (cxliii. 157.) 
 
 WOOD, VOL. I. Z 
 
338 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 Any papers of Mr. Wood's now (January 13, 1734) begin 
 to be valuable, tho' a great many sligbted him when he 
 was alive, (cxliv. 14.) 
 
 M r Hobt Wood told me yesterday (June 11, 1729) that 
 his uncle Anth. Wood was a wonderful pryer, that he 
 used to go out by himself in by-places, wore his hat over 
 his eyes, seem'd to take notice of nothing and to know 
 nothing, and yet he took notice of every thing and knew 
 every thing, (cxxi. 95.) 
 
 Yesterday (June 7, 1727) M r . Benj. Cole told me, that 
 he was very well acquainted with M r . Anth. a Wood, and 
 used to be often at his lodgings. He said Anth. put a 
 great confidence in him, and would order him several 
 times to unlock his drawer, and take money out for him. 
 He said Anthony was a very passionate man, but when 
 out of his passion, he would be very pleasant and good 
 humour'd. He said Anthony in his passion would swear 
 very much. He said he bound books for Anthony (for 
 this Cole was originally a book-binder) and that Anthony 
 would once have had him work upon a Sunday, a copy of 
 his Athene being in hast to be bound for the duke of 
 Ormond, but Cole refused this upon any account. M r 
 Cole said Anthony could (when he pleased) hear very 
 well, tho' he pretended to be very deaf always, and that 
 he hath seen him several times walking under S ( . Marie's 
 spire and at some other places, when they have been 
 ringing, on purpose to hear the bells, w ch (it seems) he 
 mightily delighted in. (cxvi. 124.) 
 
 Mr. Wood when he was consulting materials for his 
 Athene Oxon. would frequently go to booksellers and 
 generously give money to them purposely to obtain titles 
 of books from them, and 'twas observed of him, that he 
 spar'd no charges to make y t work as compleat and per- 
 fect as he could, (ix. 185.) 
 
NO. III.] LIFE OF WOOD. 339 
 
 I am told Ant. a Wood's way of going to bookseller's 
 shops was always when scholars were not there, as at 
 dinner time, or some other such time, (lxiii. p. 111.) 
 
 Anthony used to take catalogues of scarce pamphletts 
 and other books writ by Englishmen especially, that he 
 found either in bookseller's shops or gentlemen's studies, 
 and afterw ds he would make indexes to those collections. 
 There are several vols of this nature in Mus. Ash. (lxxxiii, 
 106.) 
 
 Ant. a Wood, when he used to go out, as he was a tall 
 man, went stooping, and he generally carryed his stick 
 under his arm, and seldom held it in his hand, a thing 
 much taken notice of by those that knew him, who also 
 observ'd, that he went slow. (xcvi. 3.) 
 
 On Saturday last (March 7, 1723) in the afternoon I 
 call'd upon D r . Thomas Tanner, the new canon of X f 
 Church, who told me, that Ant. a Wood used spectacles 
 when he was about 25 years of age, and so continued to 
 use them till the last. (cii. 134.) 
 
 I was told yesterday (Feb. 13, 1725) by several persons, 
 that M*. Ant. a Wood tho' he was but 64 years of age, 
 had the looks of one of fourscore, (cxi. 24.) 
 
 Memorandum. That M r . Antony a Wood told M r . 
 Martin several times before his sickness, that he intended 
 to receive the sacram* at his hands in the church of 
 Witham the following Christmass. 
 
 That during his sickness he was almost constantly 
 attended by M r Martin, M r Biss &c. who can certifie y* 
 he always desired the ch. of England prayers, which he 
 had constantly read to him twice a day for y e last week 
 of his sickness ; that he desired the sacrament to be given 
 him by M 1 " Martin ; that he himself particularly ordered 
 that it should be inserted in his will w ch was made 3 or 4 
 days before his death ; that he died in the communion of 
 
 z 2 
 
340 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 the church of England as by law established : that there 
 was no papist or reputed papist that visited him during 
 his last sickness. This was transcribed at the master's c 
 desire from the original of M r Tanner, (vi. 23.) 
 
 At the end of the master's copy of Athene Oxoni- 
 enses is a testimony in MS t that M r Wood died in y e 
 communion of the church of England, and y* there was 
 no papist came to him during all the time of his sickness. 
 He rec d the sacrament from M r Martin of Hart hall for 
 whom he seeni'd to have a very good opinion, (i. 127.) 
 
 A. "Wood, when in his last illness, being a suppression 
 of urine, went down to Merton coll. church, and shew'd 
 the very place where he would be buried. 
 
 He was speechless a day or two, but made a motion 
 with his arm to have certain papers burnt, (cxix. 5.) 
 
 Being at dinner yesterday (Dec. 3, 1705) with D r Char- 
 lett, he was pleas'd to tell me y fc upon M r Ant a Wood's 
 falling ill, he went to him (having more interest, w th him 
 y u any other person in Oxon.) and told him y c 'twas the 
 opinion of physitians and others yt his disease (being a 
 stoppage of urine) was very dangerous, and therefore 
 desir'd him to prepare himself for death by prayers, and 
 putting his papers (of wh ch he had a great number) into 
 good order: This had so good effect upon him, yt he 
 presently told the doctor he would take his advice, and 
 desir'd him to let no other person read prayers or admin- 
 ister y e sacrament to him but M r . Martin, who promis'd 
 he would not. After this he ask'd the doctor whom he 
 thought the fittest person to leave certain papers with, 
 and to put the rest in order to be dispos'd of as he should 
 give order. He told him Mr. Tanner. Accordingly M r 
 Martin came constantly to M r Wood and read prayers to 
 
 c D r Charlett, master of University college. 
 
NO. IV 
 
 .] LIFE OF WOOD. 341 
 
 him, and M r Tanner sorted all y e papers, some of wh ch 
 M r Wood laid by in order to be burnt when himself 
 should give a sign to Mr. Tanner by stretching out his 
 hand. When he found himself ready to leave the world, 
 he gave this sign, and M r Tanner burnt those papers w ch 
 were put by for y fc intent. The rest M r Wood left to y e 
 Ashmolean museum, and the publick library, besides di- 
 vers to M r Tanner, upon condition he would be honest and 
 take care (as indeed M r Tanner promised and so did D r 
 Charlett too, should be faithfully perform/ d) to digest and 
 make them publick. The D r farther told me y* M r Wood 
 died with a great deal of patience and submission, much 
 like a Christian and philosopher, (vi. 38.) 
 
 No. IV. 
 
 Dr. Rawlinson's miscellaneous Collections relative to 
 Anthony a Wood, from the Rawl. MSS. in the 
 Bodleian. 
 
 M r . Rowney erected the monument in Merton colledge 
 for M r . A. Wood, for which D r . Wood made an epitaph, 
 which was short ; though his works will be his monument. 
 
 At his death his coins, which were many and curious, 
 were given to the publick library, to New college library, 
 and part sold to M r . Porter a goldsmith, to whom he had 
 lately given 112/. for a yearly annuity of 12Z. M r . Row- 
 ney gave him the choice of 300/. or 30Z. per annum for 
 his life, which last he chose and never received one pay- 
 ment. 
 
 In his youth he was troubled w th an imposthume, fatal 
 to the growing plant. 
 
842 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 Elected Post Master of Merton. 
 
 Thomas Wood vel a Wood ex aula Lateport 1618 Mar. 
 10. E. 7. 4to. 
 
 Whereas it hath been made appear before us, That M r 
 Wood fellow of Merton coll. is guilty of divers miscar- 
 riages and misdemeanours particularly laid open before 
 us. We therefore order that the said M r . Wood shall be 
 suspended from his commons and all other profitts of the 
 house for one week, and after suspended from being tutor 
 in the coll. untill farther orders. No. 270. Cone, the 
 Visitation of the Univ. of Oxon. pa. 346. 
 
 He made no water within 17 days. 
 
 During his whole sickness he professed he would dye in 
 the church of England, was unconcerned at the thoughts 
 of death. 
 
 Out of the Register belongs to S fc . John Bapt. Merton 
 Coll. 
 
 " Nov r 29 Anthony a Wood Gent, died about 4 a clock 
 in the morning, and was buried in the chappell, close to 
 the wall next to the north door, the next day following. 
 
 1642. Octob. 31. Tho. a Wood Gent, an antient inha- 
 bitant of this Parish died. Buried in the north part of 
 the outer chappell with escocheons. 
 
 1666. Mar. 1. M rs . Mary a Wood widdow of Thomas 
 a Wood gent, was buried w th escocheons in the north part 
 of the outer chappell not far from the grave of her 
 daughter in law Eliz. a Wood before mentioned. She 
 died 28 February." 
 
 Note that the Queen [Henrietta Maria] lodged w th her 
 court in Merton coll. which was from the year 1643 to 
 1646. The divers marriages, christenings and burials in 
 this church in this parish of S fc John Bapt. carefully re- 
 gistred by M r John Gurgany one of the chaplains, but 
 about the time of the surrender of Oxford (Jun 1646) the 
 
NO. IV.] LIFE OF WOOD. 343 
 
 said Register among other books was stoln from him by 
 the souldiers, who took it out of his window ia the vault- 
 chamber next to the chappell. This he hath several times 
 told me A a W. 
 
 M r . Wood was wont to say that in the times of K. 
 Charles 2 and K. James 2 when popery was thought 
 to be favour' d, that they would call him a presbyterian. 
 
 In his sickness there are some remarkable passages of 
 him ; viz. that he should say when among a company of 
 his friends, that He knew he was a dead man, and that he 
 had but a few days to live, notwithstanding which, he was 
 then able (striking his cane with vehemence on the 
 ground) to cane any man who should dare tell him that 
 he was so. 
 
 He loved an ascetick life so much, that he had no 
 partner at his meals for above 30 years together, but 
 had them privately in his own chamber. 
 
 He lived longer in the distemper which he at length 
 died of, than could be reasonably expected, and all the 17 
 days of his illness he daily took out books and papers 
 which he burned as they occurred, in imitation of a 
 Roman emperour, amongst which I have heard there 
 was a Diary of his own life, which it is said he obliged 
 M r . Tanner not to publish till seven years after his 
 death. 
 
 His indefatigable industry was so high, that through 
 earnestness he would burst out of bleeding suddenly, 
 insomuch that he had a bason frequently held under 
 him that he might not spoil his papers. 
 
 It has been falsely reported that M r . "Wood never took 
 his degree, which is utterly false, a person being now 
 living present with him then at the schools ; which is as 
 false as Calamy's calumny of his father's being a non- 
 conformist divine : he keeping a tennis-court. 
 
344 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 When any nobleman or gentleman came to visit this 
 university he was always sent for, to give them a proper 
 and clear account of things. 
 
 M r . Tho. Wood of Chr. Church his answer " I submitt 
 unto the visitours of the university of Oxford, as from the 
 parliament." 
 
 Raphe Batters c "I submit to the authoritie of parlia- 
 ment in this visitation." 
 
 M r . Sheldon died May 30, 1710 and left to Christ- 
 Church quadrangle 1000 lb he was a non-juror, and nephew 
 to archbishop Sheldon. 
 
 The whole of the above from a M.S. in D r . Rawlinson's 
 own hand. 
 
 No. V. 
 Character of Anthony a Wood. 
 
 (By the rev. William Huddesford B. D. late fellow of Trinity 
 college, and keeper of the Ashmolean museum, Oxford.) 
 
 The character which Gassendus d gives us of Peireskius 
 may with propriety be used as descriptive of M r Wood's. 
 " As to the care of his person, cleanliness was his chief 
 object, he desiring no superfluity or costliness either in 
 his habit or food. His house was furnished in the same 
 manner as his table, and as to the ornament of his private 
 apartment, he was quite indifferent. Instead of hangings, 
 his chamber was furnished with the prints of his parti- 
 cular friends, and other men of note, with vast numbers 
 of commentaries, transcripts, letters and papers of various 
 kinds. His bed was of the most ordinary sort ; his table 
 
 c Ralph Bathurst. 
 
 d Gassendus in Vita Peireskii, Hagae Com. 1655, p. 208. 
 
NO. V.] LIFE OF WOOD. 345 
 
 loaded with papers, schedules, and other things, as was 
 also every chair in the room. He was a man of strict 
 sobriety, and in no means delicate in the choice of what 
 he eat. Always restrained by temperance, he never per- 
 mitted the sweet allurements of luxury to overcome his 
 prudence." Such as is here represented was the disposi- 
 tion of M r Wood : of so retired a nature as seldom to 
 desire or admit a companion at his walks or meals; so 
 that he is said to have dined alone in his chamber for 
 thirty years together. As he was seldom inclined to 
 enjoy the company of his own sex, so he was totally 
 averse to any connexion with the other; esteeming, as 
 appears in his writings, a life of celibacy to be a state of 
 merit. Yet it must not be supposed, that he entirely ' 
 excluded himself from all social converse : among a select 
 party of friends he was courteous and obliging, his con- 
 versation being truly agreeable on account of his exten- 
 sive reading, his knowledge of those minute circumstances 
 of history which had escaped the notice of others, and the 
 various anecdotes his memory was stored with for the en- 
 tertainment of company. For these reasons he was fre- 
 quently requested to attend such strangers as were desirous 
 of an accurate knowledge of the university and its his- 
 tory ; which entreaty he often complied with, to their 
 satisfaction, altho' to the hindrance of his own studies. 
 
 His chief view, and that from an early period of his 
 life, was to do credit to the place of his education. This 
 great end he proposed to effect by two means : first, by 
 giving an exact history of it from its beginning, tracing 
 the various improvements made in it, and accounting by 
 these, for its latter dignity and reputation. A design this 
 truly laudable, and the more so in one who had been but 
 a small sharer of its emoluments, nor was possessed of 
 any office in it that might make such a testimony of zeal 
 
346 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 for its honour and effect, either of duty or gratitude. 
 That it was an undertaking attended with great difficulty 
 and trouble is indisputable, and that it was a most for- 
 tunate one for the public is equally certain ; since the 
 collecting together, and the publication of these ines- 
 timable records, must preserve them, to the latest times, 
 against those injuries they are liable to from length 
 of age, from the malice of enemies, and not unfrequently 
 from the inattention and carelessness of their possessors. 
 The other method by which M r . Wood proposed to do 
 honour to these seats of learning, was by collecting an 
 account of the lives of such of their members, as by their 
 conduct and writings had done credit to their institutions, 
 discipline and laws. For the due performance of both 
 these extensive undertakings, not only the most un- 
 wearied diligence, but also the most strict impartiality 
 was absolutely necessary. How far M r . Wood was pos- 
 sessed of these requisites, must be determined by the 
 works themselves, but as these have not always met 
 with candid judgment, and as prejudice has frequently 
 held the scale, a further inquiry into their real merits 
 may not be unpleasing. 
 
 The Historia et Antiqttitates Oxonienses is a work 
 of such extent and so full of matter, that it would have 
 been esteemed a mark of great industry, had it been the 
 joint production of many persons. Its authenticity as to 
 the facts related in it, and its accuracy as to the dates of 
 them, have, in general, been justly applauded. It received 
 ample testimonies of its use and value from the cotem- 
 poraries of the author : no bad indication of the merit of 
 both. The titles of ( c antiquarius diligentissimus, peritis- 
 simus," are to be found in every work, when any mention 
 of them is made; and tho' some few enemies of Mr. 
 Wood have reflected upon his performances, others of 
 
NO. V.] LIFE OF WOOD. 347 
 
 them have voluntarily confessed his merits, which have 
 extorted the epithets of " honest and industrious," from 
 those who were by no means candid to his failings. 
 
 What care, assiduity, and labour, such a work, as that 
 we are now considering must require, may be left to the 
 decision of those who have ever been engaged in this kind 
 of undertaking. To gain access to the records and secret 
 papers of private persons, is found to be no easy task. 
 Surprise, ignorance, and sometimes downright obstinacy, 
 throw obstacles in the way. To collect and arrange ma- 
 terials of this sort, unassisted by those to whom they 
 belong, nay, frequently hindered by them, is a work of 
 great difficulty. If this be the case in small and more 
 confined attempts, the trouble must proportionably in- 
 crease, as the object, or plan, becomes more extensive. 
 The examination and digesting of the records, even of a 
 private family or society, consisting of various donations, 
 purchases, assignments, leases, all of these, perhaps, lying 
 in confusion and disorder, require a large portion of time 
 and industry. We may, therefore, easily conceive what 
 pains and labour were necessary to complete that work, 
 which contains not only the general annals of a large col- 
 lective body, but also the particular memoirs of the many 
 small members of it; each of them differing from the 
 others in their institutions, fortunes, and emoluments. 
 
 An ingenious biographer, who is no less a good judge 
 of antiquarian literature, "laments that D r . Fell ever pro- 
 posed a translation of this work, which would have been 
 infinitely more pleasing in the plain natural dress of its 
 artless, but accurate author, there being many particu- 
 lars, unavoidably arising from the subject, which read 
 ridiculous, and are sometimes unintelligible, in Latin; 
 besides which, the circumstantial minuteness of local 
 description, with which the work abounds, so interesting 
 
348 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 and agreeable to an English reader, and to persons fami- 
 liarly acquainted with the spot, appears superfluous, in- 
 significant, and tedious to foreigners." e It was, no doubt, 
 a desire of extending the reputation of the university, 
 that suggested this scheme to D r . Fell; to promote which 
 also, greater care, than perhaps was necessary, was taken 
 in the stile and composition of the translation. The 
 author himself, was certainly of opinion that the attention 
 paid to elegance of language, had greatly injured the 
 original, by often giving an improper turn to some pas- 
 sages, and obscuring the true sense of others. Accord- 
 ingly he has testified his disapprobation of this perform- 
 ance, not only in his own memoirs of his life, but also in 
 that particular copy of the work, which is deposited in 
 the Ashmolean museum; where the quick sense of the 
 injury has tinctured his remarks, with some degree of 
 asperity/ Upon the whole, tho' we have an elegant and 
 
 e Warton's Life of Ralph Bath- as a prime ornament thereof. This 
 
 urst, D. M. president of Trinity book being by him written in 
 
 college, Oxon. p. 147. English, it pleased the prime sages 
 
 f In M r . Aubrey's MS. Life of of that universitie (not without 
 M r . Hobbes in the Ashm. mu- his consent,) to have it put into 
 seum, are the following passages : Latin : to the end that the fame 
 "An. Dom. 1670. One M r . An- of the said universitie might be 
 thony a Wood of Merton coll. in better known and understood be- 
 Oxon, had finished the Hist, and yond the seas ; but the translators 
 Antiq. of that Universitie, which being more fit for declamatory 
 he had, with incomparable indus- than historicall versions, were 
 trie, laboured in for ten years, or several errours committed, before 
 thereabouts. In this HLst. are any could perceive them. — The 
 contained the Lives of most of the deane of Ch. Ch. being zealous 
 eminent writers that have been for the forwarding of this work, 
 bred up in each coll. and hall did not onlie discharge the trans- 
 there. Among which, he wrote a lators,but most of the impression, 
 breif of the life of Mr. Hobbes, at his owne expence." Thus far 
 though then living ; and this he in M r . Wood's hand writing ; 
 did because he looked upon him what follows is in Aubrey's : 
 
NO.\ 
 
 •] 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 349 
 
 classical history of the university of Oxford, and as to the 
 facts related in it, a just and accurate one, yet it must be 
 
 "The deane of Christ Church hav- 
 ing the absolute power of the press 
 there, perused every sheet, before 
 'twas to be sent to the press, and 
 after, and maugre the author, and 
 to his great grief and sore displea- 
 sure did expunge and insert what 
 he pleased : among other authors 
 he made divers alterations in M r . 
 Wood's copie, in the account he 
 gives of M r . Tho. Hobbes of 
 Malmesbury's life, in pag. 376, 
 377, lib. 2. f Vir sane de quo 
 (inter tot prosperae et adversae 
 famae qui de eo sparguntur homi- 
 num sermone) hoc verissime pro- 
 nuntiare fas est, animum ipsi ob- 
 tigisse, uti omnis sciential capacis- 
 simum et refertum, ita divitiarum, 
 saeculi et invidiam negligentis si- 
 mum ; erga cognatos et alios pium 
 et beneficum; inter eos quibus- 
 cum visit hilarem et apertum, et 
 sermone libero : apud exteros in 
 summa semper veneratione habi- 
 tum, etc' this and much more 
 was quite dashed out of the 
 author's copy by the said dean." 
 The following is also added by 
 Mr. Wood " 1669, Cosmo, prince 
 (since great duke) of Tuscany, 
 came into England, and having 
 heard much of his fame, went 
 more than once to visit this great 
 philosopher, in whose company 
 he seemed much to delight. And 
 because he would retaine the me- 
 mory of such a noted person, and 
 express his veneration for him, 
 did carry with him (besides what 
 
 his retinue did,) most of his works 
 and picture : all which are re- 
 served at this time, as cimilia or 
 rarities, in the library and closet 
 of the said duke; than which 
 none in the Christian world 'tis 
 thought goes beyond." — This was 
 put in the Hist, of Oxon. by the 
 author in M r . Hobbes's life, but 
 dashed out by the publisher. 
 "D r . Sam. Sorbiere also, his great 
 acquaintance, mentions him with 
 venerable respect in the relation 
 of his voyage, (edit. Par. Gallice, 
 an. 1664, pag. 65. &c.) into Eng- 
 land, and tells us also, that his 
 picture (which was drawn by the 
 hand of M r . Sam. Cooper, the 
 prime of limners of this age,) 
 hangs in his majesties (Charles 2.) 
 closet at Whitehall. His picture 
 also is in great esteem in France, 
 insomuch that the virtuosi thereof, 
 have come in pilgrimage to the 
 house of the said Sorbiere to see 
 it." — This also was blotted out by 
 the publisher. — "Outlandish Gen- 
 tlemen also, when they came to 
 London, did make it one of their 
 prime businesses to visit him." — 
 This also was blotted out. —"King 
 Charles 2. loved him and his face- 
 tious company ; and after his re- 
 storation, allowed him 100I. per 
 an. out of the exchequer. To sum 
 up all, he is excellently well skilled 
 in the Latin and Greek, a great 
 critick and poet, and above all a 
 philosopher and mathematician." 
 — This also was blotted out by the 
 
350 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [append. 
 
 allowed, that it would have given much greater satisfac- 
 tion to those readers, who can derive any use from it, in 
 
 publisher. The following is in 
 M r . Aubrey's hand writing ; with 
 some corrections and insertions 
 by M r . Wood. « D*. Fell did not 
 only expunge and insert what he 
 pleased in Mr. Hobbes's life, but 
 also in the lives of other very 
 learned men to their disparage- 
 ment ; particularly of D r . John 
 Prideaux, afterwards bishop of 
 Worcester, and in the life of D r . 
 Twiss, &c. — These additions and 
 expunctions being made by the 
 sayd deane of Christ Church with- 
 out the advice, and quite con- 
 trary to the mind of, the author, 
 he told him it was fitt M r . Hobbes 
 should know what he had done, 
 because that his name being set 
 to the booke, and all people know- 
 it to be his, he should be liable to 
 an answer, and so consequently be 
 in perpetuall controversie. To this 
 the deane replied, 'yea in God's 
 name and great reason it was, that 
 he should know what he had donne, 
 and what he had donne he would 
 answer for, &c.' Hereupon in 
 the beginning of 1674, the author 
 acquaints J. A. (M r . Hobbes's 
 correspondent,) with all that had 
 passed, J. A. acquaints M r . 
 Hobbes. M r . Hobbes takeing it 
 ill, was resolved to vindicate him- 
 self in an epistle to the author. 
 Accordingly an epistle dated Apr. 
 20, 1674, was sent to the author 
 in MS. with an intention to pub- 
 lish it, when the History of Ox- 
 ford was to be published. Upon 
 
 the receipt of M r . Hobbes's epi- 
 stle by Anthony a, Wood, he forth- 
 with repaired very honestly, and 
 without any guile, to the dean of 
 Ch. Church to communicate it to 
 him, and to let him see that he 
 would do nothing underhand, 
 against him : The Deane read it 
 over carelessly, and not without 
 scorne ; and when he had donne, 
 bid M r . Wood tell M r . Hobbes, 
 ' that he was an old man, had 
 one foote in the grave; that he 
 should mind his latter end, and 
 not trouble the world any more 
 with his papers, &c.' or to that 
 effect. In the meane time M r . 
 Hobbes meetes with the king, in 
 the Pall Mall in St. James's parke, 
 tells him how he had been served 
 by the deane of Christ Church in 
 a booke then in the presse, entitled 
 the Hist, and Antiq. of the Univ. 
 of Oxford, and withal desires his 
 majestie to be pleased to give him 
 leave to vindicate himselfe. The 
 king seeming to be troubled at 
 the dealing of the deane, gave 
 M r . Hobbes leave conditionally, 
 ' that he touch nobody but him 
 who had abused him, neither 
 that he should reflect upon the 
 universitie.' M r . Hobbes under- 
 standing that this History would 
 be published at the common Act 
 at Oxon, about 11 July the said 
 yeare, 1674, prints his epistle, 
 that he had sent to M r . Wood, at 
 London, and sends downe divers 
 copies to Oxon, which being dis- 
 
NO 
 
 .v.] 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 351 
 
 its native form and simplicity. Perhaps, this satisfaction 
 may, at some future period, be given to the public ; since 
 the original is carefully preserved in the Bodleyan 
 library.s 
 
 Having examined the merit of the historian, we may 
 proceed to consider the esteem due to the biographer, 
 another character which M r . Wood has supported in his 
 Athene Oxonienses. It seems probable that having a 
 natural bias to the study of antiquities, he had early 
 meditated a work of this nature. At the age of seven- 
 teen, we find him copying inscriptions, epitaphs, and 
 arms, and other monuments of this sort, wherever his 
 business or amusement called him. The large collections 
 which he made during his excursions on such pursuits, 
 
 persed at coffee houses and sta- 
 tioners' shops, a copy forthwith 
 came to the deanes hands, who 
 upon the reading of it fretted and 
 fumed at it, as a most famous 
 libell, and soon after meeting with 
 the author of the history, chid 
 him, telling him withal, that he 
 had corresponded with his enemy 
 (Hobbes). The author replied, 
 that surely he had forgot what he 
 had donne ; for he had communi- 
 cated to him before, what M T . 
 Hobbes had sayd and written : 
 whereupon the deane recollecting 
 himselfe, told him that Hobbes 
 should suddenly heare more of 
 him, and that he would have the 
 printer called to an account for 
 printing such a notorious libell : 
 so that the last sheet of paper 
 being then in the presse, and one 
 leaf thereof being left vacant, the 
 deane supplied it with this answer : 
 
 both the epistle and answer, I 
 here exhibit, (which are to be seen 
 in some particular copies of the 
 Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon.) To 
 this angry answer the old gentle- 
 man never made any reply, but 
 slighted the doctor's passion and 
 forgave it : but it is supposed 
 it might be the cause, why M r . 
 Hobbes was not afterwards so in- 
 dulgent, or spared the lesse to 
 speake his opinion concerning 
 the universities, and how much 
 their doctrine and method had 
 contributed to the late troubles." 
 s The whole of Wood's History 
 and Antiquities of the University 
 of Oxford, has since been printed 
 in the original English, by the 
 care of the rev. John Gutch, M.A. 
 chaplain of All Souls and Corpus 
 Christi colleges, 4to. Oxford, 1786, 
 1790, 1792, 1796. 
 
352 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 may be seen in the general Catalogue of the MSS. of 
 England, fol. Oxon. 1696 : or in that more minute and 
 particular one, published by William Huddesford, B. D. 
 the late keeper of the Ashmolean museum, in 8vo. 1761 : h 
 and it may easily be conceived how useful they were to 
 him, in ascertaining the births, stations, works, and deaths 
 of those persons whose histories he proposed to write. 
 The intention and design of this elaborate work may be 
 seen in the introduction and prefaces to it. One of these, 
 written by a person of no mean reputation in the literary 
 world, asserts that " the author, through the whole course 
 of his life, declined the pursuit of any private interest or 
 advantage, and hath only according to his abilities, en- 
 deavoured to promote the honour and glory of that nation 
 wherein he had been born, and more especially, of that 
 university where he was educated." Such a testimony as 
 this, though coming from a friend, might reasonably in- 
 cline us to entertain a favourable opinion, at least, of a 
 work undertaken by so disinterested a person. 1 The author 
 
 h Reprinted by sir Thomas dedicate y r worke to the king, for 
 
 Phillipps at his private press at by his (or such other person's 
 
 Middle Hill, Worcestershire, small meanes that be y r freindes) you 
 
 folio, 1824. may happily one tyme or other, 
 
 1 Wood had been strongly haue some kindness done you, 
 urged by Fell to dedicate his His- though you must looke for no re- 
 tory of Oxford to the king, but ward in money. My father Dug- 
 was not to be persuaded. The dale had nothing given him vpon 
 following letter from Ashmole is the presentacon of either of his 
 among Wood's Miscellaneous Cor- two last Monasticons, but the last 
 respondence preserved in the mu- lord treasurer Clifford being will- 
 seum : ing to doe him a kindness, ob- 
 " My good friend, teyned of the king a privy seale 
 
 " Coming to towne yesterday I for the custome of so much Paper 
 
 met with y r Letter, in answer to as came to 400Z. towardes the 
 
 w ch I would advise you to doe work of the Nobility he hath now 
 
 as D r . Fell would haue you, and in press. Nor had I any thing 
 
NO. V.] LIFE OF WOOD. 353 
 
 indeed constantly asserted, that the facts related in the 
 Athene Oxon. were founded upon his own knowledge 
 of them, or else upon the public memorials of the times 
 referred to upon every occasion : the writings too of each 
 person being enumerated, together with the account given 
 of him, may serve as a touchstone of the truth of the 
 character affixed to his name ; nor can any injury be 
 done, where the reader's judgment must necessarily be 
 directed by this appeal, made to sentiments openly avowed 
 and published. Yet it may be alleged, and justly too, 
 that the same fact may be so represented, the same mate- 
 rials so disposed, as to make a very different appearance, 
 and to produce very different effects, according to the art 
 and management of the relater. This must be allowed, 
 and here, perhaps, it is that the enemies of Mr. Wood's 
 reputation have directed their chief force. Living in 
 times of discord and confusion, it is asserted, that the 
 prejudice of party, and a close attachment to one side, 
 have undoubtedly given a false tint to the portraits he 
 draws. That resentment at the manners of those times 
 has, in many instances, infused some degree of acrimony 
 into his stile cannot be denied : yet when we expect can- 
 dour, let us also be candid in our judgment on this foible. 
 Let it be considered, that a recluse way of life, observant 
 perhaps of all moral and religious duties, may make every 
 deviation from virtue and piety, appear much more enor- 
 mous to a mind thus sequestered, than it might to one 
 
 given me upon the presentation to doe something for me. With 
 
 of my booke to the king, till last my hearty service to you, I remaine 
 yeare, that I also found out a way " Your most affectionate 
 
 for the king to bestow a boon of " friend and servant, 
 
 400I. also vpon me, and haue been " E. Ashmole. 
 
 further remembred by him both in " x 7 June, 1674. 
 point of honor, and a recomenda- "My humble services to D r . 
 
 con to the companions of the order, Fell, D r . Yates and D r . Barlow."] 
 WOOD, VOL. I. a a 
 
354 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 more conversant with mankind; and which, by being 
 nsed to see variety of wickedness, is less disgusted at the 
 smaller degrees of it. Let it be considered also that the 
 " quorum pars fui," though no epithet be added, will 
 always have some influence on the mind, and give a poig- 
 nancy to its effusions. We must allow these to have been 
 the case and situation of our author. He had, among 
 many others, lamented the fall of monarchy and episco- 
 pacy, effected by methods unjust and cruel. He saw the 
 fury of misguided zeal pour forth its wrath on the seats 
 of learned repose. He saw, in various departments, men 
 of deep and extensive literature, forcibly thrust from the 
 chairs of science, to make room for illiterate petitioners 
 for the emoluments annexed to them. He saw the pulpit, 
 from whence sound and rational doctrines had been de- 
 livered to an attentive and judicious audience, become the 
 stage of cant, hypocrisy, and illiberal absurdity. He ob- 
 served a shoal of indigent pretenders to knowledge croud- 
 ing from other universities, in hopes to share the spoils 
 of his unjustly ejected friends. He saw arbitrary impo- 
 sitions and engagements, contrary to former oaths already 
 obligatory, forced upon the consciences of those who 
 desired only to retain their due rights and possessions by 
 the patrons (as they call themselves) of civil and religious 
 liberty. Should it not be forgiven to an eye witness of 
 these transactions, if his pencil described them in livelier 
 colours, than those which a more dispassionate painter, 
 because less intimately acquainted with them, would now 
 use, at a distant period of time? That many errors 
 should be discovered in so voluminous a work as the 
 Athene Oxon. cannot be matter of surprize. It is rather 
 difficult to conceive how the author, in his situation of 
 life, could make such ample collections. His own industry 
 was, indeed, unwearied, and his correspondence so exten- 
 
NO. V.] LIFE OF WOOD. 355 
 
 sive, that the postage of the letters he received was no 
 small burthen on his narrow income. 
 
 It was necessary for him to make application to living 
 authors for their own histories, and sometimes for those 
 of their ancestors or friends. As this was the surest me- 
 thod of being accurate in what he delivered down to pos- 
 terity, it is a great pity that he had reason even to 
 suspect that he had been unfairly and unjustly treated 
 in the answers they sent him. k But if this was the case, 
 it greatly extenuates the mistakes he has been guilty of. 
 
 But it may be further urged, that, in some particulars, 
 the gloomy disposition of M r . Wood has exhibited itself 
 to the prejudice of characters through mere personal dis- 
 gust, and from much weaker incentives than those already 
 mentioned. No instance of this nature can be produced, 
 perhaps, with more propriety than the account given of 
 D r . South, (Ath. 2. ed. vol. ii. c. 1041.) This severe, and 
 in some respects unjust character of this gentleman, is 
 said to have taken rise from a joke of the doctor's, uttered 
 probably by him without any design of giving offence. 1 
 It was the doctor's custom, if not foible, to suffer neither 
 sacredness of place, nor solemnity of subject, to restrain 
 his vein of humour. But it must be allowed, that, in the 
 present instance, the wit was illiberal and cruel : not that 
 it deserved so severe a punishment as M r . Wood intended, 
 and which, perhaps, he would afterwards have mitigated ; 
 the effect of which, after all, is greatly lessened, since D r . 
 South' s character has not suffered much in their esteem, 
 
 k See Hearne's Preface to Caii full suppression of urine ; upon 
 
 Vindicice, p. L. which South, in his jocose manner, 
 
 1 A. Wood complained to Dr. told him, that if he could not make 
 
 South of a disorder with which he water, he must make earth. An- 
 
 was much afflicted, and which ter- thony went home, and wrote 
 
 minated in his death: viz. a pain- South's Life. 
 
 a a2 
 
356 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 who are acquainted with his jest : and it would have been 
 forgiven, if the same kind hand which has not, in the 
 second edition of the Athene Oxonienses, scrupled to 
 retrench the exuberance of the author's pen, had here 
 also exerted itself in obliterating what is neither a credit 
 to the person who drew the character, nor to the object of 
 his reprehension. 
 
NO. 
 
 VI.] 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 357 
 
 
 No. VI. 
 Pedigree of Anthony a Wood. 
 
 (From an ancient Roman Breviary, in the Calendar prefixed, to which 
 Mr. Wood has entered the nativities, marriages, and obits, of his family ; 
 in mus. Ashmole. Oxon. No. 8554, 109. C. 12. With additions from his 
 Diaries and the Regist. of St. Joh. Bapt. Merton, as well as a pedi- 
 gree compiled by the historian of Durham, Robert Surtees, Esq. of Mains- 
 forth, and M. A. of Christ Church, and obligingly sent to the editor by 
 Mrs. Surtees.) 
 
 Rich. Wood of Lancashire, 
 died at Islington, Mid- 
 dlesex, 1594. 
 
 Eliz. Jackson of Lancashire, 
 sister to Hen. Jackson of 
 Oxford, draper. Died Dec. 
 1596. 
 
 I 
 Robert Wood 
 born x$>j$ a ha- 
 berdasher of hats 
 at the plow & 
 harrow on Lud- 
 gate Hill. 
 
 Marg. Wood dau.=Tho. Wood nat. 
 
 of Hugh Wood of 
 
 Kent, ob. at Tets- 
 
 worth, j 4 Jul. 
 
 l62t. 
 
 Islingdon — Jan. 
 15S0. con. 10 
 Oct. 1622, ob. 
 19 Jan. 1643. 
 
 I 
 Roderick 
 
 Wood 
 
 Mary Pettie dau. Tho. Frith, inst.= Eliz. Wood James Wood 
 
 ob. 4 Jul. ob. — Sept. 
 1627. 1629. 
 
 of Rob. Pettie of 
 
 Wivehold Oxon. 
 
 ob. 28 Feb. 1667, 
 
 ast. 6g. 
 
 can. of Windsor 
 
 7 Aug. 1610 : 
 
 ob. 1631. 
 
 Tho. Wood 
 
 Edw.Wood, 
 
 Rob. Wood, = 
 
 =MaryDrope, 
 
 Anth.Wood 
 
 Eliz. Seymour, = 
 
 nat. at Tets- 
 
 nat. 3 Sept. 
 
 nat. 13 Jun. 
 
 nat. 8 Mar. 
 
 nat. 17 Dec. 
 
 dau. of Will. 
 
 worth, 24 
 
 1627, fell, of 
 
 1630. con. 
 
 1637, sep. 8. 
 
 1632 : ob. 
 
 Seymour, of 
 
 May 1624,0b. 
 
 Mert. coll. 
 
 29 Sept. 
 
 May, t 718. 
 
 28 Nov. 
 
 Oxon. attor- 
 
 at Droghe- 
 
 1648, M. A. 
 
 16^9, ob 4 
 
 set. 80. 
 
 J 69<, 
 
 ney, sepult. 20 
 
 da in Ireland 
 
 proct. of the 
 
 16 Jul. 
 
 
 aet. 64. 
 
 Feb. 1667. 
 
 — Dec. 
 
 Univ. Ap. 25, 
 
 1686. 
 
 
 
 
 1651. 
 
 ob. 22 May, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 i655- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mary Wood, 
 
 1 
 Tho. Wood, 
 
 Rob. Wood, 
 
 1 
 John Wood, f 
 
 I 
 Anne Wood, 
 
 Edw.Wood, 
 
 
 nat. 4 Jul. 
 
 nat. 20 Sept. 
 
 bapt. 8 Jan. 
 
 nat. 1 5 Aug. 
 
 bapt. 12 
 
 nat. 17 Sept. 
 
 
 1660. 
 
 1661. prob. 
 
 1662. 
 
 1664. 
 
 Aug. 1666. 
 
 1667. 
 
 
 fell, of New 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 coll. 24 Aug. 
 
 
 | 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 1679.* 
 
 
 Anne Wood, bapt. Frances Wood. 
 
 
 
 
 j 5 Apr. 1 
 
 669. 
 
 
 I s 
 
 Christoph. 
 
 Wood, 
 nat. 2 Jul. 
 1635, con. 
 
 13 Apr. 
 
 1658, an 
 
 attorney, 
 
 ob. 24 Sep. 
 
 1684. 
 
 : Margery Hanks, 
 dau. of Tomson 
 Hanks, of Aston, 
 near Bampton, 
 Oxon. widow of 
 Geo. Coxeter, of 
 Bampton, gent. 
 
 I 6 
 
 John Wood.' 1 
 
 nat. 9 Apr. j 
 
 1638, ob. : 
 
 1639,40. ij 
 
 1 
 
 Mary Wood, Tho. Wood, 
 
 nat. 7 Jun. nat. 5 Sept. 
 
 1659, Sep. 22 1660, ob. 20, 
 Feb. 1660. 166 1. 
 
 I .. I I I . . 
 
 Anne Wood, Tho. Wood, SeymourWood, Kath. Wood, 
 
 nat. 27 Dec. an attorney, of London. 
 
 1661 : sep. ob. 10 Aug. 
 
 20 May 1664. 1686 : caelebs. 
 
 Christoph. Wood, Benj. Wood, and Eliz. Wood, Anne Wood, 
 died young. (twins.) 
 
 Peter Wood. 
 
 * Dr. Tho. Wood of New coll. married 
 lately to Mrs. Baker, 1705. Hearne, MS. 
 Coll. iv. 125. See more of him, xi. 28. xvii. 
 86. 
 
 t About a fortnight since died Mr. John 
 Wood, a distiller of Oxford, nephew of the 
 
 Charles Wood, B. A. 
 chapl. of New coll. 
 sep. 20 Aug. 1713. 
 
 late Ant. a Wood. He hath left a very in- 
 different character behind him. He was 
 buried in St. John Baptist's church-yard- 
 He was brother of Dr. Thomas Wood. 
 Hearne, MS. Collections, Dec. 23, T723, vol, 
 xcix. p. 179, 
 
358 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [append. 
 
 No. VII. 
 Proceedings against Anthony a Wood. 
 
 (These proceedings first appeared on two folio broadsides; they 
 were reprinted in one of Curll's publications, viz. "Miscellanies 
 on several curious subjects : now first publish'd from their re- 
 spective Originals. 8°. Lond. 17 14." They are here given with 
 some additional documents.) 
 
 ALLEGATIO. 
 
 r 
 
 Officium Domini promo- 
 tum per Honoratissimum 
 Dominum Henricum Comi- 
 tem de Clarendon contra 
 Antonium a Wood Univer- - 
 sitatis Oxon. A.M. ob libel- 
 lum sive libellos famosos ab 
 eo scriptos compositos et 
 publicatos. 
 
 Quo die Smith et Lloyd nomine 
 procuratorio et ut procuratores legi- 
 timi Honoratissimi Domini Domini 
 Henrici Comitis de Clarendon om- 
 nibus melioribus via modo et Juris 
 forma, etc. necnon ad omnem et 
 quemcunque Juris effectum exinde 
 quovismodo sequi valent allegant et 
 in his scriptis in jure proponunt con- 
 junctim, divisim, articulatim prout 
 sequitur, viz. 
 
 Exhibita Februarii io mo . 
 i6 9 |. 
 
 Imprimis, That M r . Anthony a Wood the Defendant in 
 the cause before and during the time of printing the 
 Athene Oxonienses and Fasti Oxonienses, volume the 
 second exhibited in this Cause and within the time in 
 the second Article of the Articles given in and admitted 
 in this cause mentioned, did shew the same or many sheets 
 or att least some one sheet thereof written with his own 
 hand to divers or att least to some one person of this 
 university and within the precincts thereof, and did own 
 
NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 359 
 
 the same to have been composed in writing by him the 
 said M r . a Wood. Et ponunt ut supra. 
 
 II. Item, That the said M r . a Wood did within the 
 precincts of this university correct all or att least some 
 of the first printed sheets or proof sheets of the said 
 Athene Oxonienses et Fasti Oxonienses, volume the 
 second, as they were first composed or sett att the presse, 
 more especially those sheets which contain columne the two 
 hundreth twenty first, and columne the two hundreth 
 sixty ninth, in order to their being printed off and pub- 
 lished as now they appear and are. Et ponunt ut 
 supra. 
 
 III. Item, That the said M r . Anthony a Wood was and 
 is the author of and did compose in writing in English a 
 certain book, (now extant in Latin and printed in folio) 
 to which the title is Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis 
 Oxoniensis duobus voluminibus comprehensae. Ooconii, e 
 Theatro Sheldoniano. mdclxxiv. one copy whereof is here- 
 unto annexed, and as author of the said book did sell 
 the same and did receive the summe of an hundred, 
 sixty, fifty, fourty pounds as a price or gratuity for the 
 same (ponunt tamen de qualibet aha summa, etc.) And 
 did cause a draught of his coat of armes to bee placed 
 in divers or att least one capital letter of the printed 
 copyes of the said book, more particularly in the capital 
 letter C before an epistle or preface of the said book (haec 
 que fuerunt et sunt notoria publica pariter et manifesta 
 et de et supra praemissis laborat publica vox et fama) 
 quern quidem librum et epistolam sive prefacionem pars 
 haec promovens hie exhibet et pro hie lecta et inserta 
 habet et haberi petit, et vult quatenus, etc; Et ponunt ut 
 supra. 
 
360 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 IV. Item, That since the said Athene Oxonienses et 
 Fasti Oxonienses volume the second were printed pub- 
 lished and disseminated in such words as now they ap- 
 pear and are, the said M r . a Wood hath given and 
 distributed to and among divers persons of and within 
 the said university copyes of the same and to such per- 
 sons and others who before had the said Athene et 
 Fasti Oxonienses hath given copyes in print of a cer- 
 tain epistle or preface composed in writing and printed 
 or caused to bee printed by him the said M r . Wood in 
 the top whereof is placed his intended picture and in 
 the capital letter whereof C, is placed his coat of arms 
 one copye whereof is hereunto annexed sic incipiens; 
 " To the reader/' et sic terminans, " he submits them and 
 himself, Ab iEd. pat. in Yic. S. J. Bapt. in antiq. et 
 nob. civ. Bellos. 5 Jun. 1691. And bearing behaving 
 and owning himself as the author of the said Athene 
 et Fasti Oxonienses did in perpetuall memory that he 
 was the author thereof desire and direct the persons to 
 whom he gave the said copyes to fasten them before 
 the two volumes of the said Athene et Fasti Oxo- 
 nienses as they now are published. And the said M r . 
 a Wood had discourse with all or some of them con- 
 cerning the painter's and the engraver's error in making 
 the said picture no more like him the said M r . a Wood. 
 Et ponunt ut supra. 
 
 V. Item, That the coat of arms described and expressed 
 in the said capital letter C in the next foregoing portion 
 mentioned is the coat of armes used and claimed as par- 
 ticularly belonging to the family of a Wood alias Wood, 
 late and now inhabiting and living within the parish of 
 St. John Baptist scituate and being within the university 
 and city of Oxford and the males of the said family or 
 
NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 361 
 
 some of them have the said coat engraven in the seals 
 wherewith they usually seal their deeds and letters, and 
 the said coat of armes is the same with that expressed 
 and described in the capital letter C before that epistle 
 or preface mentioned in the third portion of this matter 
 (prout collatione habita, etc.) Quas quidem epistolas 
 sive prefaciones per hie lect. insert, invocat. inspect, et 
 exhibit, etc. And that the said M r . Anthony a Wood is 
 a more than ordinary retired and reserved person. Et 
 ponunt ut supra. 
 
 VI. Item, That the unfrequent and lesse usual abbre- 
 viations sett down att the end of the said epistle or 
 preface, viz. Ab JEd. Pat. in vie. S. J. Bapt. in Antiq. et 
 nob. civ. Bellos. in the use and understanding of scholars 
 are thus extended and doe import and signifye as fol- 
 loweth, viz. that the said epistle or preface to which the 
 said abbreviations are subjoined was dated ab aedibus pa- 
 ternis (of the writer) in vico Sancti Johannis Baptistae in 
 antiqua et nobili civitate Bellositi : and that Bellositum is 
 in the opinion of antiquaries and other learned men, one of 
 the ancient names of this place which wee now call Oxford. 
 Et ponunt ut supra. 
 
 VII. That the said Anthony a Wood in the month of 
 June 1691. did and still doth live and inhabitte in a cer- 
 tain house scituate within the said parish of St. John Bap- 
 tist in the university and city of Oxford which said house 
 was accounted and esteemed to bee the house of the said 
 Anthony a Wood's father deceased, and wherein his said 
 father in his life time did live inhabit and abide. Et 
 ponunt ut supra. 
 
 VIII. Item, That during the space of one — two — three 
 
362 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 years last past, there hath not been any person save the 
 said M r . Anthony a Wood who hath lived in the house 
 of his ancestors within the said parish of St, John Bap- 
 tist, who hath claimed or used the said coat of arms to 
 himself and family appropriate and hath sufficient know- 
 ledge in the matters delivered in the said Athene et 
 Fasti Oxonienses and hath lived so retired a life as the 
 author of the said Athene et Fasti is described in the 
 said epistle or preface to doe. (Quam quidem epistolam 
 et praefationem, &c.) Et ponunt ut supra. 
 
 IX. Item, That within the space of five — ten — fifteen — 
 twenty years last past, (ponunt tamen de quolibet alio 
 annorum numero) the said M r . Anthony a Wood and he 
 only hath had and made a general inspection and search 
 into all the registers of matriculation and of the acts of 
 convocations and congregations of this university from 
 the year of our Lord fifteen hundred and ninety, and 
 took extracts of the same in order as he said to the 
 writing of some book. And hath since given the Regis- 
 trary of the said convocation one or more copyes of the 
 said two volumes of Athene et Fasti Oxonienses (in 
 recompence for the pains he sustained during the said 
 search) the second volume whereof agreeth in all things 
 with that annexed to the Articles in this Cause, more 
 particularly conteineth the infamous libells mentioned in 
 the third and fourth Articles of the said Articles. Et 
 ponunt ut supra. 
 
 X. Item, That the said M r . Anthony a Wood on the 
 sixth day of July in the year of our Lord sixteen hun- 
 dred fifty two, was admitted to and took the degree of 
 batchelaur of arts in this university : and on the four- 
 teenth day of December in the year of our Lord sixteen 
 
NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 363 
 
 hundred fifty five was admitted to and took the degree of 
 master of arts in this said university according to the 
 common and ordinary course and form of the statutes 
 concerning both those degrees : and took the oaths requi- 
 site to the same : and from and after his said admission 
 to the said degree of batchelaur of arts, or att least of 
 master of arts to the time of the commencement of this 
 suite hath resided and continued the course of his studyes 
 within the precincts of this said university and worne an 
 academicall habitt, and hath continued to keep his bed, 
 clothes, books and other necessary utensills within the 
 precincts of this said university, and hath not ceased to 
 have a right to frequent the public assemblies of the said 
 university, and so much the said M r . Anthony a Wood 
 hath published and declared. Hocque fuit et est noto- 
 rium, etc. Et ponunt ut supra. 
 
 XI. Item, That since the said Anthony a Wood hath 
 lived in the said house in St. John's parish aforesaid when 
 and as oft as priviledged persons of this university have been 
 taxed and assessed by the pole or otherwise, apart from 
 other persons inhabiting within the precincts thereof and 
 by persons of their own body the said Anthony hath also 
 been taxed and assessed by the assessors of the said uni- 
 versity. Et ponunt ut supra. 
 
 XII. Item, Quod premissa omnia et singula fuerunt 
 et sunt publica notoria pariter et manifesta et de et super 
 premissis laborat publica vox et fama, etc. 
 
 Unde facta fide, etc. 
 
364 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 Officium domini promotum per honoratissimum Dominum 
 Henricum Comitem de Clarendon, contra Antonium a 
 Wood universitatis Oxoniensis, ob libellum sive libellos 
 famosos ab eo scriptos, compositos et publicatos. Martii 3, 
 1694. 
 
 In Dei nomine, Amen. Nos Henricus Aldrich, S. T. P. 
 vice-cancellarius universitatis Oxon legitime constitutus, 
 tibi Antonio a Wood universitatis praedictae in artibus 
 magistro, omnia et singula subscripta et subsequentia, 
 articulos, capitula, sive interrogatoria morum et excessuum 
 tuorum reformationem, praesertim libellum sive libellos 
 famosos a te scriptos, compositos et publicatos concer- 
 nentes sive tangentes ex officio nostro ad promotionem 
 honoratissimi viri et domini Henrici Comitis de Claren- 
 don, damus, objicimus, ministramus et articulamur pla- 
 num, plenum et fidele responsum in scriptis in quantum 
 de jure teneris respondere, dari et fieri requirentes. Et 
 objicimus et articulamur conjunctim et divisim et de quo- 
 libet prout sequitur. 
 
 I. Imprimis Tibi praefato Antonio a Wood objicimus 
 et articulamur, quod omnes et singuli, qui aliquid scripto 
 composuerunt, aut quoquo modo in vulgus sparserunt aut 
 disseminaverunt, aut publicaverunt, unde viri alicujus 
 (praesertim magistrates) sive vivi, sive mortui, existi- 
 matio et fama laedi possit, sunt de jure communi debite 
 corrigendi et puniendi, et speciatim ex statuto hujus uni- 
 versitatis, Tit. De moribus conformandis, § De famosis 
 libellis cohibendis : omnes et singuli libellos famosos, sive 
 componentes, sive disseminantes et publicantes, sunt tan- 
 quam pacis perturbatores banniendi. Et objicimus et 
 articulamur ut supra, &c. 
 
NO. VII. ] LIFE OF WOOD. 365 
 
 II. Item, Tibi objicimus et articulainur, quod mensibus 
 Martii, Aprilis, Maii, Junii, Julii, Augusti, Septembris, 
 Octobris, Novembris, Decembris, Januarii, Februarii, an- 
 norum Domini 1690, 1691 ; mensibusque Martii, Aprilis, 
 Maii, Junii, Julii, Augusti, Septembris, Octobris, et No- 
 vembris, Anni instantis 1692 ; eorumve mensium et anno- 
 rum pluribus uno sive aliquo, Tu librum quendam prae- 
 tensum, cui titulus praetensus, Athene Oxonienses; 
 an exact History of all the Writers and Bishops 
 who have had their education in the most ancient 
 and famous university of oxford, from the fifteenth 
 year of King Henry VII, Anno Domini 1500, to the 
 
 END OF THE YEAR 1690, REPRESENTING THE BIRTH, FOR- 
 TUNE, PREFERMENT, AND DEATH OF ALL THOSE AUTHORS 
 AND PRELATES, THE GREAT ACCIDENTS OF THEIR LIVES, AND 
 THE FATE AND CHARACTERS OF THEIR WRITINGS I TO WHICH 
 ARE ADDED, THE FASTI OR ANNALS OF THE SAID UNIVER- 
 SITY FOR THE SAME TIME. THE SECOND VOLUME. Revera 
 
 autem libellum famosum seu potius libellos famosos, infe- 
 rms deductos, in se continentem; charitate semota, et ex 
 odii fomite, infra praecincta universitatis praedictae mali- 
 tiose scripto composuisti et scripsisti, seu saltern scribi, ac 
 deinceps typis mandari et imprimi mandasti et curasti 
 et fecisti ; aut bibliopolae aut bibliopolis quibusdam ven- 
 didisti, aut cum iisdem ut imprimerentur, contraxisti, 
 copiasque dicti praetensi libri sic impressi, ac libellos 
 sive libellum famosum in se continentem falsitates, infra 
 praecincta universitatis praedictae, et loca vicina, et late 
 circum vicina ejusdem sparsisti, disseminasti et publi- 
 casti, saltern spargi, disseminari, et publicari fecisti et 
 procurasti; quarum copiarum una praesentibus annexa 
 est, (eamque et omnes et singulas sententias et clausulas 
 ejusdem, pro hie exhibitis, insertis, lectis, et repetitis 
 pars promovens habet et haberi petit, quatenus ex parte 
 
366 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 sua, et officii in ea parte nostri faciunt, et non aliter, neque 
 alio modo.) Et objicimus et articulamur, &c. ut supra. 
 
 III. Item, Magis speciatim tibi objicimus et articula- 
 mur quod infra tempus in proximo praecedenti articulo 
 mentionatum, et inter alia in dicto libro, sic, ut praemit- 
 titur, composite, scripto, impresso et publicato, contenta, 
 charitate semota, et ex odii fomite infra universitatem 
 Oxoniensem praedictam, et loca vicina, ac circumvicina 
 ejusdem, malitiose scripto composuisti, scripsisti, seu 
 saltern scribi, ac deinceps typis mandari et imprimi man- 
 dasti, procurasti ac fecisti ; aut bibliopolae aut bibliopolis 
 quibusdam vendidisti, aut cum iisdem ut imprimerentur 
 contraxisti, impressaque infra praecincta universitatis 
 praedictae sparsisti, disseminasti seu saltern spargi, disse- 
 minari et publicari fecisti et procurasti (unde honoratis- 
 simi viri ac domini Edvardi Hyde militis, nuper Comitis 
 de Clarendon, regni Angliae Domini Cancellarii, necnon 
 Cancellarii hujus universitatis, et patris naturalis et legi- 
 timi partis hujus promoventis defuncti existimatio et fama 
 laedi possit) libellum famosum, sive verba haec Anglicana 
 sequentia, viz. After the restauration of King Charles II. it 
 was expected by all, that he (quendam Davidem Jenkins, 
 unum e judicibus regis in partibus Wallise Australibus 
 virum meritissimum innuendo) should be made one of the 
 judges in Westminster hall ; and so he (eundem Davidem 
 innuendo) might have been, would he have given money 
 to the then Lord Chancellor, (praefatum honoratissimum 
 virum ac dominum Edvardum Hyde militem, nuper Co- 
 mitem de Clarendon, regnique Angliae Dominum Can- 
 cellarium, necnon Cancellarium hujus universitatis, pa- 
 tremque naturalem ac legitimum partis hujus promoventis 
 defunctum innuendo) but our author (praefatum Davidem 
 Jenkins innuendo) scorning such an act, after all his 
 
NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 367 
 
 sufferings, he retired to his estate in Glamorganshire : 
 prout in dictae copiae hie exhibitae columnis 220, et 221, 
 continentur ; aut iis similia in effectu (quam quidem 
 copiam, et omnes et singulas sententias et clausulas ejus- 
 dem pro hie exhibitis, insertis, lectis et repetitis, pars 
 promovens habet et haberi petit, qnatenus pro parte sua, 
 et officii in ea parte nostri faciunt, et non aliter neqne alio 
 modo.) Et objicinms et articulamur, &c. ut supra. 
 
 IV. Item, Magis speciatim tibi objicimus et articula- 
 mur, quod infra tempus et loca superius in secundo arti- 
 culo mentionata in dicto praetenso libro, sic ut praemit- 
 titur, composito, scripto, impresso, et publicato; ex odii 
 fomite, . cbaritate semota, malitiose scripto composuisti, 
 scripsisti, seu saltern scribi, ac deinceps typis mandari, et 
 imprimi mandasti, procurasti et fecisti, aut bibliopolae 
 aut bibliopolis quibusdam vendidisti, aut saltern, cum 
 iisdem, ut imprimerentur, contraxisti, impressaque spar- 
 sisti, disseminasti et publicasti; seu saltern spargi, dis- 
 seminari, et publicari fecisti et procurasti (unde etiam 
 praefati honor atissimi viri ac domini Edvardi Hyde militis, 
 nuper Comitis de Clarendon, regni Angliae Domini Cancel- 
 larii, necnon hujus universitatis Cancellarii, et patris 
 naturalis, et legitimi partis hujus promoventis defuncti 
 existimatio et fama laedi possit) libellum famosum, sive 
 verba haec Anglicana sequentia, aut iis similia in effectu, 
 viz. After the restoration of K. Charles the second, he 
 (quendam Johannem Glynn hominem, ut tibi placet, ini- 
 donium innuendo) was made (innuendo regis) eldest Ser- 
 jeant at law, by the corrupt dealing of the then lord chan- 
 cellor (praefatum honoratissimum virum ac dominum 
 Edvardum Hyde militem, nuper Comitem de Clarendon, 
 regni Angliae Dominum Cancel] arium, necnon Cancella- 
 rium hujus universitatis, patremque naturalem et legiti- 
 
368 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 mum hujus partis promoventis defuncti innuendo) prout 
 in copiae praedictae exhibitae columna 269 continentur, 
 (quam quidem copiam, et omnes et.singulas sententias 
 et clausulas ejusdem pro hie lectis et insertis pars pro- 
 movens habet et haberi petit, quatenus pro parte sua et 
 officii in hac parte nostri faciunt, et non aliter neque alio 
 modo.) Et objicimus et articulamur, &c. ut supra. 
 
 V. Item, Tibi objicimus et articulamur, de quibuslibet 
 aliis verbis, sententiis, et clausulis in et per totum dictum 
 librum tuum praetensum, cujus copia hie, ut praemittitur, 
 exhibita est, sparsis et contentis, ad existimationis sive 
 famae praefati honoratissimi viri Edvardi Hyde militis, 
 nuper Comitis de Clarendon, laesionem sive diminutionem 
 quomodolibet sonantibus, (quam quidem copiam et omnes 
 et singulas sententias et clausulas ejusdem pro hie lectas 
 et insertas, pars promovens habet et haberi petit ; quate- 
 nus pro parte sua et officii in hac parte nostri faciunt, et 
 non aliter neque alio modo.) Et objicimus et articula- 
 mur, &c. ut supra. 
 
 VI. Item, Tibi objicimus et articulamur, quod tempus 
 reditus sive restaurationis Caroli secundi regis erat mense 
 Maii, anno Domini 1660, hocque fuit et est notorium, 
 publicum et manifestum. Et objicimus et articulamur, &c. 
 ut supra. 
 
 VII. Item, Tibi objicimus et articulamur, quod prae- 
 fatus David Jenkins, mense Decembris, anno Domini 1663, 
 et praefatus Johannes Glynn, mense Novembris, anno 
 Domini 1666, ex hac vita decesserunt. Haecque fuisse et 
 esse vera tu praefatus Antonius a Wood novisti et noscis, 
 intelligisti et intelligis, prout columnis 222 et 270 dicti 
 libri tui praetensi, cujus copia hie, ut praemittitur, exhi- 
 
NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 369 
 
 bita est (quam quidem copiam et omnes et singulas sen- 
 tentias et clausulas ejusdem pro hie lectis et insertis pars 
 prornovens habet et haberi petit, quatenus pro parte sua 
 et officii in hac parte nostri faciunt, et non aliter neque 
 alio modo) liquet et apparet. Et objicimus et articulamur, 
 &c. ut supra. 
 
 VIII. Item, Tibi objicimus et articulamur, quod prae- 
 fatus bonoratissimus vir Edvardus Hyde miles, et Comes 
 de Clarendon, erat Dominus Cancellarius Angliae unicus, 
 et e consiliariis regiis unus, toto ac omni tempore, a 
 tempore reditus sive restaurationis Caroli secundi Regis 
 praedicti, necnon Cancellarius hujus universitatis, a mense 
 Junii, seu saltern Novembris, anno Domini 1660 usque ad 
 annum Domini 1667. Haecque fuerunt et sunt vera, 
 notoria, publica, ac pariter manifesta. Et objicimus et 
 articulamur, &c. ut supra. 
 
 IX. Item, Tibi Antonio a "Wood objicimus et articula- 
 mur, quod es in artibus magister, et persona privilegiata 
 hujus universitatis Oxoniensis, et tarn ejus intuitu, quam 
 ratione criminum superius deductorum intra praecincta 
 dictae universitatis ut praemittitur, commissorum et per- 
 petratorum jurisdictioni hujus curiae in hac causa subditus 
 et subjectus. Et objicimus et articulamur, &c. ut supra. 
 
 X. Item, Tibi objicimus et articulamur, quod omnia et 
 singula praemissa fuerunt, et sunt vera, publica, notoria, 
 pariter et manifesta, deque omnibus et quolibet eorum 
 laboravit et laborat in praesenti publica vox et fama. Et 
 objicimus et articulamur, &c. ut supra. 
 
 Unde facta fide, &c. 
 
 WOOD, vol. i. b b 
 
370 LIFE OF WOOD. [ APPEND. 
 
 Die 3 Martii 169J-. Wood et Cook, nomine procurator™, 
 ac ut procurator es legitimi dicti Antonii a Wood, omni- 
 bus melioribus via, modo et juris forma, fyc. necnon ad 
 omnem et quemcunque juris effectum eocinde quovis 
 modo sequi valentem, dicunt allegant, et in his scriptis 
 in jure proponunt, conjunctim, divisim, articulatim 
 prout sequitur ; viz. 
 
 Imprimis. This party proponent doth alledge that in the 
 14th year of King Charles II. there was and is at present 
 now in force an act of parliament, entituled, An Act for 
 preventing the frequent abuses in printing seditious, treason- 
 able and unlicensed books and pamphlets, and for regulating 
 of printing and printing-presses. In which statute or act 
 of parliament, amongst other things, it was, and is en- 
 acted ; That no private person or persons whatsoever shall 
 at any time print, or cause to be printed, any book what- 
 soever, unless the same book, together with all things and 
 matters thereunto annexed, be first entered in the book 
 of the register of the company of Stationers of London : 
 And unless the same book or pamphlet, and all matters 
 and things thereunto annexed, and therewith to be im- 
 printed, shall be first lawfully licensed and authorised to 
 be printed by such person and persons only, as are con- 
 stituted and appointed to license the same, according to 
 the direction and meaning of the said act. Quod quidem 
 statutum pars proponens hie invocat, et pro hie led. et 
 insert, habet et haberi petit, et vult, quatenus fecit pro parte 
 sua et non aliter, &c. Et ponit ut supra. 
 
 II. Item. That the book entituled Athene Oxonienses, 
 Vol. II. exhibited by the party promovent in this cause, 
 the 17 th day of November 1692 with the preface and table, 
 
NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 371 
 
 and other matters and things thereunto annexed, was first 
 entered in the book of the register of the company of 
 Stationers of London, according to the abovesaid act of 
 parliament ; and that the abovesaid book, together with 
 all matters and things thereunto annexed, was lawfully 
 licensed and authorised to be printed, by one or both of 
 the principal secretaries of state, or by their, or one of 
 their appointments, according to the abovesaid act of par- 
 liament. Quod quidem statutum pars proponent hie invo- 
 cat, et pro hie lect. et insert, habet et haberi petit quatenus, 
 &c. Et ponit ut supra. 
 
 III. Item. More particularly, that one M r . Fraser was 
 appointed and constituted supervisor or licenser of all 
 books of profane history, by one, or both of the principal 
 secretaries of state, in the year 1690, 1691, and 1692 
 (j)onit tamen pars proponens de aliquo alio annorum numero, 
 plunbus sive uno) and was in the time aforesaid generally 
 so reputed and taken ; and that the said Fraser, so con- 
 stituted and appointed as abovesaid, supervised and 
 licensed the printing of the abovesaid book, entituled 
 Athene Oxoniexses, Volume II. exhibited by the party 
 promovent in this cause, 18th of November 1692; and 
 that if there is, or are, any passages in the abovesaid 
 book contrary to good manners, the government, or go- 
 vernours of the church and state, or reflecting upon any 
 person or persons, the aforesaid licenser, or the principal 
 secretary of state, by whose appointment the said licenser 
 did act, was, and is only answerable for them, as by the 
 meaning and intent of the abovesaid act of parliament, 
 does, and may more fully appear. Ad quod quidem statu- 
 tum pars proponens se refert, &c. Et ponit ut supra. 
 
 IV. Item. This proponent doth farther alledge, that 
 
 Bb2 
 
37& LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 the abovesaicl book, entituled Athene Oxonienses, 
 Vol. II. exhibited in this cause into the court, the 18 th of 
 November 1692, by the party promovent in this cause, 
 was, and is printed for M r . Thomas Bennet, bookseller in 
 London, and published in London, and within the univer- 
 sity of Oxford, by the said M r . Thomas Bennet, bookseller 
 in London, and was received publickly by most or some 
 of the booksellers of the university of Oxford aforesaid 
 from the said M r . Bennet only. And, by virtue of the 
 said publication only, the said book has been since the 
 said publication, and is now at present, publicly to be 
 sold, and permitted to be publicly sold in the said book- 
 sellers' shops, and from them the said booksellers, to be 
 dispersed amongst the scholars and students of the said 
 university, without the consent or order of M r . Anthony 
 Wood above-mentioned. Et ponit ut supra. 
 
 V. Item. That before the printing and publication in 
 print of the aforesaid book,entituled Athene Oxonienses, 
 Vol. II. exhibited into this court by the party promovent 
 in this cause, the aforesaid M r . Thomas Bennet of London, 
 bookseller, had the original papers of the author in writ- 
 ing in his custody, or in the custody of some others by 
 his order, by the space of two years immediately before 
 the printing of the aforesaid book, entituled Athene Ox- 
 onienses, Vol. II. and exhibited as aforesaid (ponit tamen 
 pars proponens de quolibet alio temporis spatio } ) &c. Et 
 ponit ut supra. 
 
 VI. Item. That the aforesaid M r Thomas Bennet, or 
 some others, by his order and consent, during the time in 
 the precedent article deduced, altered the abovesaid ori- 
 ginal papers of the pretended author, by blotting out 
 several passages and lines in the said original papers, by 
 
NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 873 
 
 inserting many new characters of person s, many pages 
 and lines different from the original papers, and that 
 these alterations are printed without the consent or 
 knowledge of M r Anthony Wood aforesaid. Et ponit ut 
 supra. 
 
 VII. Item. That James Harrington of the Inner Temple 
 of London, esq. inserted the Introduction to the book en- 
 tituled, Athene Oxonienses, Vol. II. exhibited as afore- 
 said, and also had the original papers of the pretended 
 author of the aforesaid book in his custody, and altered 
 the aforesaid original papers, by inserting many charac- 
 ters, pages, lines and sentences ; and that the said altera- 
 tions were and are printed in the aforesaid book, entituled 
 Athene Oxonienses, Vol. II. exhibited as aforesaid, with- 
 out the knowledge and consent of M r . Anthony Wood 
 above-mentioned. Et ponit ut supra. 
 
 VIII. Item. That M r . Fraser above-mentioned had the 
 original papers of the pretended author of the book, enti- 
 tuled, Athene Oxonienses, Vol. II. exhibited as afore- 
 said, in his custody and keeping, and altered the aforesaid 
 original papers, inserting many new characters, pages, 
 lines and sentences; and that the said alterations were 
 and are printed in the aforesaid book, entituled Athene 
 Oxonienses, Vol. II. without the knowledge and consent 
 of M r . Anthony Wood above-mention^. Et ponit ut supra. 
 
 IX. Item. That the most reverend father in God now 
 m lord archbishop of Canterbury had the original papers, 
 or some of the original papers, of the pretended author of 
 the book, entituled Athene Oxonienses, Vol. II. exhi- 
 
 m Archbishop Tillotson. 
 
374 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 bited as aforesaid, in his custody and keeping, and altered 
 the aforesaid original papers, inserting many pages, lines, 
 or sentences ; and that the said alterations were and are 
 printed in the aforesaid book, entituled Athene Oxoni- 
 enses, Vol. II. without the knowledge or consent of M r . 
 "Wood aforesaid. Et ponit ut supra. 
 
 X. Item. That the right honourable Henry earl of Cla- 
 rendon, the party promovent in this cause, had the ori- 
 ginal papers, or some of the original papers, of the 
 pretended author of the book, entituled Athene Oxoni- 
 enses, Vol. II. exhibited as aforesaid, in his custody and 
 keeping, and altered the aforesaid original papers, by 
 inserting and razing out many lines, sentences, and 
 words relating to the character or characters of Edward 
 late earl of Clarendon, without the knowledge or consent 
 of M r . Wood. Et ponit ut supra. 
 
 XI. Item. That the clauses and sentences mentioned in 
 the third and fourth articles of the articles exhibited in 
 this cause, {ad quos quidem articulos pars se refert, &c.) 
 and pretending to be reflecting and libellous upon Edward 
 late earl of Clarendon, were and are inserted by some one 
 of the persons above mentioned, or by the printer or 
 printers of the said book, without the knowledge and 
 consent of the said M r . Anthony Wood. Et ponit ut 
 supra. 
 
 XII. Item. That during the time of printing the said 
 book, entituled Athene Oxonienses, Vol. II. exhibited 
 as aforesaid, the author of the aforesaid book was absent 
 and distant several miles from the printing-press all the 
 time the said book was printing, Prout ex clausula circa 
 principium dicti libri in eoccusatione erratorum typographi- 
 
XO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 3?5 
 
 corum addacta plenius liquet et apparet. Ad quern librum 
 et ad clausulas praedictas pars proponens se refert et pro 
 hie led. et insert, habet et haberi petit quatenus, &c. Et 
 ponit ut supra. 
 
 XIII. Item. This proponent doth farther alledge, that 
 between the time of the restauration of king Charles II. 
 and the year of onr Lord 1667, (the time deduced and ob- 
 jected in the 8th article of certain articles exhibited in 
 this cause) there were other lord chancellors, besides the 
 right honourable Edward earl of Clarendon, deceased; 
 and particularly, the author or authors of the book, en- 
 tituled Athene Oxoxiexses, Vol. II. exhibited as afore- 
 said, were of that opinion, as appears by column 228 of 
 the Athene Oxoxiexses, Vol. II. and page 804 of the 
 Fasti Oxoxiexses annexed to the said book, and exhi- 
 bited as aforesaid ; Ad quam quidem columnam et paginam 
 dictorum Hbrorum pa?°s proponens se refert, et pro hie lect. 
 habet et haberi petit quatenus, &c. Et ponit ut supra. 
 
 XIV. Item. That the pretended libellous words ob- 
 jected in the 4th article of certain articles exhibited in 
 this cause, did, and do refer to Lisle, chancellor or com- 
 missioner of the great seal, and not to the lord chancellor 
 Hyde, as is falsly suggested in the aforesaid articles, 
 Prout ex verbis antecedentibus dictam clausulam in dicto 
 articulo objectam in columna libri exhibiti 269, facta colla- 
 tione cum sententiis ad dictum Lisle referentibus in columna 
 228 dicti libri, intitulati Athex^e Oxoxiexses, Vol. II. 
 plenius liquet et apparet, ad quae quidem omnia pars pro- 
 ponens se refert et pro hie lect. habet quatenus, &c. Et 
 ponit, &c. 
 
 XV. Item. That the copies in print of a certain Epistle 
 
376 
 
 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 [append. 
 
 or Preface composed in writing, and pretended to be 
 printed by M r . Wood the defendant, with his pretended 
 picture n and coat of arms, were delivered with directions 
 to be inserted before the preface only of the first volume 
 of Athene et Easti Oxonienses, Prout ex dicta epistola 
 ex parte partis promoventis in hac curia exhihita plenius 
 liquet, &c. ad quam epistolam pars se refert et pro hie led. 
 habet quatenus, &c. And this proponent doth farther 
 alledge, that the first volume of °Athenje Oxonienses 
 
 n This portrait of Anthony a 
 Wood has been mentioned before 
 at page 294. It was a head-piece 
 to the preface which was prefixed 
 to a few copies only of the first 
 edition of the Athene. D ? . 
 Tanner told Hearne that it was 
 very little, or indeed nothing at 
 all, like Wood, and that it was 
 taken from the silly print of him 
 in the Ashmolean museum, which 
 was done when Anthony was 
 young. " But, says Hearne, I 
 have heard old Burghers the en- 
 graver say, that he (Burghers) 
 took this immediately from An- 
 thony's face, and that Anthony 
 came to him on purpose about it, 
 sat down while it was doing, but 
 behav'd himself all the time like 
 one asleep. And this I have 
 heard Burghers often say/' See 
 Hearne's MS. Remarks and Col- 
 lections, vol. cii. page 134. 
 
 I was indebted for the follow- 
 ing original notice of our 
 author's work to the kind- 
 ness of the late JosephHasle- 
 wood, esq. 
 Advertisement. Proposals for 
 printing Athene Oxonienses, 
 
 and Fasti Oxonienses, both 
 written by the famous historio- 
 grapher Anthony a Wood; the 
 first contains an exact history of 
 the lives of all writers of that 
 university, &c. in all professions, 
 with an account of their works, 
 &c. The Fasti contains not only 
 the names, but the lives of all 
 those who have not been authors 
 of any considerable book, but 
 otherwise remarkable for their 
 dignity, parts, &c. The whole 
 in two volumes in English, and 
 extends to the end of 1 690. Pro- 
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 vered gratis, and subscriptions 
 taken, by the undertaker, Tho. 
 Bennet at the Half-Moon in S t . 
 Paul's Churchyard, and by most 
 booksellers in London and the 
 country. Those who take sub- 
 scriptions are desired to return 
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 16 th of March next at the far- 
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 no longer. 
 
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 19-22: 1690. (i.e. 169^.) 
 
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NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 377 
 
 was printed and published by the space of two years 
 before the second vol. of Athene Oxonienses exhibited 
 as aforesaid. Ponit tamen pars de quolibet alio temporis 
 spatio minori, &c. Et ponit ut supra. 
 
 XVI. That the said M r . Anthony Wood hath not had 
 any lodging or diet, or any right to any lodging or diet, 
 in any college or hall within the university of Oxford for 
 these twenty years last, {ponit tamen pars de quolibet alio 
 temporis spatio majori,) &c. neither has he had any name 
 in any buttery-book of any college or hall for the time 
 aforesaid (ponit tamen pars, &c.) neither hath he fre- 
 quented any publick assemblies of the said university as 
 a member thereof, or had any right to frequent the same, 
 as a member thereof, for the time aforesaid; and that 
 for the time aforesaid the said M r . Anthony Wood has 
 been reputed and taken to have forsaken all title or 
 interest as a member of the said university. Ponit tamen 
 pars de alio temporis spatio majori, &c. Et ponit ut supra. 
 
 XVII. Item quod praemissa omnia sunt vera, &c. 
 
 The Sentence. 
 
 In Dei nomine, Amen. Auditis, visis, intellectis, ac ple- 
 narie et mature discussis per nos Georgium Gardiner 
 L. L. doctorem, ac venerabilis et egregii viri Henrici 
 
 tending to 1640. is now finished, subscribers are desired to send 
 and will be ready to deliver to in their 2d. payment according to 
 subscribers on Thursday the 18 th the proposals, and take up their 
 instant : The second extending to books, to the undertaker Tho. 
 this present year 1691. will be Bennet bookseller, at the Half- 
 published in Michaelmas term Moon in S*. Paul's Church-yard, 
 next; the work being near a sixth Gazette, June 4 — 8, 1691. 
 part larger than designed; the 
 
378 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND 
 
 Aldricb, S. T. P. et almae universitatis Oxoniensis can- 
 cellarii assessorem sen deputation legitime constitutum; 
 meritis circumstantiis cujusdam negotii reformation is 
 morum quod coram nobis in jndicio inter bonoratissi- 
 mum D. D. Henricnm, comitem de Clarendon, partem 
 omcium nostrum promoventem ex una, et Antonium a 
 Wood, universitatis praedictae in artibus magistrum, 
 partem contra quam hujusmodi negotium promovetur 
 ex altera, partibus aliquandiu vertebatur et adhuc ver- 
 titur, adpendet indecisum rite et legitime procedendum, 
 partibusque praedictis eorum procuratores legitimos co- 
 ram nobis in judicio rite et legitime comparantes, par- 
 teque dicti honor atissimi viri ac domini Henrici, comitis 
 de Clarendon, pro parte sua sententiam ferri et pro- 
 mulgari, parte vero dicti Antonii a Wood justitiam fieri 
 pro parte sua instanter et respective postulandam et 
 petendam, rimatoque primitus per nos toto et integro 
 processu, ita dicto negotio facto, et diligenter recen- 
 sito, servatisque per nos de jure in bac parte servandis, 
 ad nostrae sententiae definitivae, sive nostri finalis de- 
 creti in dicto negotio, prolationem sic diximus proce- 
 dendam fore, et procedimus in bujusmodi qui sequitur 
 modum, viz. Quia post acta deducta, allegata, exhibita, 
 pariter ac probata, in bujusmodi negotio comperimus, 
 et luculenter invenimus partem ante dictam honora- 
 tissimi viri ac D. D. Henrici comitis de Clarendon de- 
 ductam bujusmodi negotio datam, exbibitam, et penes 
 registrarium hujus curiae remanentem, quorum quidem 
 articulorum tenor sequitur, et est tabs, viz. In Dei no- 
 mine, Amen. Nos Henricus Aldricb, S.T.P. vice-cancel- 
 larius universitatis Oxoniensis legitime constitutus, tibi 
 Antonio a Wood universitatis praedictae in artibus ma- 
 gistro, omnia et singula subscripta et subsequentia, 
 articulos, capitula sive interrogatoria morum et exces- 
 
NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 379 
 
 suum tuorum reformationenr, praesertim libellum sive 
 libellos famosos a te scriptos, compositos et pubbcatos, 
 concernentes sive tangentes ex officio nostro ad promo- 
 tionem bonoratissimi viri ac domini Henrici, comitis de 
 Clarendon, damus, objicimus, ministramus et articula- 
 mui'j &c. (quos quidem articulos pro bic lectis et insertis 
 babemus et baberi volumus quatenus expedit) sufficien- 
 ter et ad plenum, quoad interius pronunciato, fundasse 
 ac probasse, nibilque effectuale ex parte ant per partem 
 antedicti Antonii a Wood allegation ant probatnm fuisse 
 aut esse qnod intentionem antedicti D. D. Henrici comi- 
 tis de Clarendon ex bac parte ebderet, seu qnovis modo 
 enervaret. Idcirco nos Georgius Gardiner jndex ante- 
 dictus, Cbristi nomine primitus invocato, ac ipsnm 
 Deum solnm ocnlis nostris praeponentes, de, ac cum 
 concilio jurisperitorum, qnibnscnm in bac parte prae- 
 dicta communicavixnus, praefatum Antoninm a Wood 
 intra tempus et loca in boc negotio articnlatum Hbrum 
 qnendam praetensum, cnjns titnlus praetensus sic in- 
 eipit, Athene Oxonienses : An exact History of all the 
 Writers and Bishops who have had their education in the 
 most ancient and famous University of Oxford, from the 
 loth year of King Henry VII. Anno Domini 1500, to 
 the end of the year 1690, representing the birth, fortune, 
 &c. Et sic terminator, The second volume compleating 
 the whole work. . Et inter alia in dicto libro contenta, 
 libellos famosos in verba Angbcana sequentia, viz. Co- 
 lumn. 221. After the restauration of King Charles II. 
 'twas expected by all, that he (quendam Davidem Jen- 
 kins unum e judicibus regiis in partibus Walliae Aus- 
 trabbus virum meritissimum innuendo) should be made 
 one of the judges in Westminster hall; and so he might 
 have been, would he have given money to the then 
 lord chancellor, (honoratissimum virum ac D. D. Ed- 
 
380 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 APPEND. 
 
 vardum Hyde militem, nuperum comitem de Claren- 
 don, regnique Angliae D. cancellarium, nee non cancel- 
 larinm hujus universitatis, patremqne naturalem et 
 legitimum partis hoc negotium promoventis defuncti 
 inuendo,) et column 269. After the restaur -ation of 
 King Charles II. lie (inuendo quendam Johannem 
 Glynn) was made his (domini regis inuendo) eldest 
 serjeant at law, by the corrupt dealing of the then lord 
 chancellor (praefatum honor atissimum virum ac D. D. 
 Edvardum Hyde, militem, nuper comitem de Claren- 
 don, regni Angliae dominum cancellarium, necnon can- 
 cellarium hujus universitatis, patremque naturalem et 
 legitimum, partis hoc negotium promoventis defunctum 
 similiter innuendo) scripto composuisse et publicasse, 
 unde praefati honoratissimi viri ac D. D. Edvardi Hyde, 
 reliquis additionibus suis, ut praemittitur, colendissimi 
 existimatio et fama laedi possit pronunciamus ; ideoque 
 dictum Antonium a Wood, quo usque ob tantum mo- 
 rum suorum excessum, recantationem (per nos aut 
 alium judicem hujus curiae competentem approban- 
 dam) subscripserit cautionem item sufficientem fide- 
 jussoriam de pace conservanda quoad crimina objecta, 
 honeste in posterum se gerendo interposuerit, ex hac 
 dicta universitate Oxoniensi tanquam pacis perturba- 
 torem banniendum, et privileges ejusdem universitatis 
 excidendum fore decernimus, et etiam bannimus et 
 exuimus, praemissaque instrumento publice affigendo 
 denuncianda et publicanda declaramus (in criminis 
 insuper tarn infesti detestationem, dicti libri copiam, 
 copiam etiam, omisso nomine magistri Johannis Cook 
 procuratoris) allegationis cujusdam intemperantis fa- 
 mosa et scandalosa ex parte dicti Antonii a Wood data 
 in hoc negotio, tertio die mensis Martii, anno Domini 
 169f, nullatenus vero probata hora nona antemeridiana 
 
NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 381 
 
 diei trigesimae primae mensis instantis Julii, viz. die 
 Lunae proxime sequentis, in area Theatri Sheldoniani 
 per hujus curiae mandatariorum unum flammis com- 
 mittendam et comburendam fore decernimus., dictum- 
 que Antonium a Wood in expensis legitimis ex parte 
 dicti honorabilis viri ac D. D. Henrici comitis de Cla- 
 rendon, in hoc negotio factis condemnandnm fore pro- 
 nunciamus, decernimus et declaramus, prout condem- 
 namus, quas visa prius billa, taxamns ad summam tri- 
 ginta et quatnor librarumP per hanc nostram senten- 
 tiam definitivam, sive hoc nostrum finale decretum; 
 quam sive quod ferimus et promulgamus, ac etiam 
 (cum in hujusmodi negotio appellatio non sit admit- 
 tenda) executioni demandamus in his scriptis 
 Lecta per nos 
 29 Julii, 1693. Georgium Gardiner, Asses. 
 
 p With this fine the two statues then^i Oxonienses, and when 
 of king Charles the First and the sentence came to be pass'd, his 
 earl of Danby, standing in the book was ordered to be burnt and 
 niches on each side of the rustic- he himself to be fln'd 40 libs , w ch 
 work gate, leading into the univer- sum poor Anton, was forc'd to 
 sity Physick-garden, were erected. pay to y e vice-chancellor, who laid 
 Hearne in his MS. Remarks and out y e money upon three statues 
 Collections for the year 1705, has w ch are plac'd in the nitches of 
 the following note on this affair, y e gate of y e Physic garden. After 
 although it is clear, from the above this Mr. Wood told several per- 
 authentic copy of the sentence, sons and particularly D r Hudson, 
 that he was misinformed as to the that if he had liberty he could jus- 
 fine : tify every particular y* he had writ 
 
 " Anton, a Wood was prose- about y e earl of Clarendon from 
 
 cuted by the earl of Clarendon in authentick papers, publish'd by 
 
 y e vice-chancell rs . court, for wh* authority." MS. Collect, vol. vi. 
 
 he had said of Edw. Hyde earl of page 1 . 
 Clarendon, his father, in y e A- 
 
382 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 The following extract is given from the proctor's Black 
 Book: 
 
 Antonius a Wood hujus universitatis Oxon. A. M. eo 
 quod honor atissimi viri ac D. D. Edwardi Hyde militis 
 nuperi comitis de Clarendon regnique Angliae domini 
 cancellarij nee non cancellarij hujus universitatis Oxon. 
 defuncti famosis quibusdam libellis in libro cui titulus 
 Athene Oxonienses &c. Volume the second, publice 
 editis existimationem et famam adhuc superstitem 
 laedere tentasse legitimis probationibus convictus fuerit 
 ex decreto judicis curiae cancellariatus Oxon. quousque 
 ob tantos morum suorum excessus recantationi per 
 judicem dictae curiae adprobandae subscripserit et 
 cautionem fide jussoriam de pace conservanda et quoad 
 crimina objecta in posterum honeste se gerendo inter- 
 posuerit ex hac universitate Oxon. tanquam pacis per- 
 turb ator bannitus et privilegiis ejusdem universitatis 
 exutus erat, et instrumento publice affixo Quousque &c. 
 (ut prsemittitur) bannitus et exutus declarabatur et 
 denuntiabatur vicesimo nono die mensis Julij A. D. 
 1693 necnon in criminis tarn infesti detestationem libri 
 praedicti copia ex decreto judicis praedicti in area 
 Theatri Sheldoniani ultimo die mensis praedicti per 
 dictae curiae mandatariorum unum flammis combure- 
 batur. 
 
 B. Altham, Proc. sen 1 '. 
 
 B. Vesy, Proc.jun r . 
 
 In Tanner's copy of the Athene is the following paper 
 in the bishop's own hand-writing, which seems proper for 
 insertion under this head. Hearne in his MS. Remarks 
 
NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 383 
 
 and Collections has preserved a transcript of the original 
 rough draught of this instrument, which was among 
 Anthony a Wood's papers in the possession of M r . Ward 
 of Warwick. " This form of submission was occasioned/' 
 says Hearne, " by M r . Wood's prosecution." q 
 
 The Recantation of Mr. Wood, which he made before 
 he was recalled from his banishment* 
 
 Whereas I Anthony a Wood master of arts have from 
 my youth laboured in good letters for the honour and 
 glory of the most famous university of Oxford without 
 any prospect of reward or preferment, I am sorry and 
 much griev'd at heart, that I have fallen into the hands 
 of most barbarous and rude people of our own body, 
 who have endeavoured to ruin me and my name, by 
 making the Second volume of Athene and Fasti Oxon. 
 
 <i MS. Remarks, vol. cxxvii. linquent has been pardoned or 
 
 page 145. restored to his rank, for the proc- 
 
 r On what authority bishop tor or vice-chancello?', or such 
 Tanner says, that Wood was re- officer of the university as may 
 called from his banishment I have been the complainant, to 
 know not. He certainly con- signify that the reparation de- 
 ceived himself restored to his manded has been duly made by 
 rank and privileges in the univer- the offending party, and this is 
 sity, yet lord Clarendon (as we generally signified by placing a 
 have seen at page 316.) seems mark of acknowledgment, such 
 not altogether to have assented to as satisfecit, or some word of like 
 Wood's opinion on this point, import, on the page where the sen- 
 and some discussion would pro- tence had been recorded. But in 
 bably have arisen on the subject the case of Anthony a Wood no 
 had our author lived to have pro- such acknowledgment appears to 
 secuted his claim. have been made by either of the 
 
 It is usual when a name has two proctors who signed the in- 
 been once entered in the Black strument of degradation. 
 Book of the proctor, and the de- 
 
384 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 APPEND. 
 
 a libell (which by the sentence of the assessor of the 
 vice-chancellor's courts a civil law court, hath been burnt) 
 and afterwards to banish him from the said universitie 
 to the great abhorrence of the generality thereof, pur- 
 posely to please the magisterial s humour of a certain 
 lord, for 3 or 4 lines mentioned in the said second 
 volume p. 221 and 269 concerning a person there men- 
 tioned without any name or title, who hath been ban- 
 ished from England Scotland and Ireland for refusing 
 to answer to divers articles of treason and misdemean- 
 ors, for about 30 years and hath been dead 20. t I 
 say I am heartily sorry for these things, witness my 
 hand. 
 
 Whereas in the sentence passed against M r Wood, it is 
 said, that he shall continue banished till such time that 
 he shall subscribe such a publick recantation as the 
 judge of that court shall approve of, and which, upon 
 his enquiry, he cannot yet learne what it is ; he himself 
 hath therefore, in the meane time drawn up a forme 
 which is this. 
 
 The two passages for which the second volume was burnt 
 are these. The first is in David Jenkins, a most loyal 
 judge and the greatest sufferer for the king's cause of 
 any person of his profession in his time running thus : 
 ■ — After the restoration of K. Charles II. it was expected 
 by all that he (Jenkyns) should be made one of the judges 
 in Westminster hall, and so might he have been } would he 
 have given mony to the then lord chancellor. 
 
 s The supercilious and tyranni- ' About 28 years and dead about 
 
 cal humour, 8zc. Hearne's Trail- 18. Hearne's Transcript, 
 script from Wood's original MS. 
 
NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 The other passage is in the life and character of S r John 
 Glynne ; a prime instrument in bringing the immortall 
 Strafford to the block, and enemy to archbishop Laud, 
 an enjoyer of the places of certain royalists, ejected for 
 their loyaltie, made recorder of London and serjeant at 
 law by the long or rebellious parliament (and so conse- 
 quently, being several times appointed an itinerant 
 justice, fell many a noble and generous heart by his 
 dismal sentence,) made lord chief justice of the King's 
 bench by Oliver, and one of the other house, that is, 
 the house of lords ; made and created by that person. 
 I say that passage excepted against in the life of the 
 said S r e John Glynn runs thus : — After the restauration 
 of K. Ch. II. he (Glynne) was made his eldest serjeant at 
 law by the corrupt dealing of the then lord chancellor : — 
 Whereas he should rather have had a halter, or at least 
 have been excepted from the act of oblivion. u 
 
 It is a singular circumstance, and one I do not remem- 
 ber to have seen publickly remarked, that Wood suffered 
 for a character of lord Clarendon of which, in fact, he was 
 not the author. Hearne, of whose veracity there can 
 exist no doubt, gives a curious history of this character, 
 which it will not be impertinent to introduce : 
 
 " Anth. a Wood had the reflection that he passeth upon 
 my lord Clarendon in the life of judge Jenkins (for which 
 expression and some others Mr. Wood was expelled the 
 university) from M r . John Aubrey, who had it from judge 
 Jenkins himself. This M 1 Wood owned in company after- 
 
 u Can any man think the con- served the halter, or at least to 
 
 trary, hut that he gave money for be excepted from the oblivion, 
 
 his place, when he rather had de- Hearae's Transcript. 
 
 I. c c 
 
386 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 
 
 wards to M r Lliuyd of the Museum, who also received 
 the like information from M r . Aubrey himself. This I 
 have been told by an intimate acquaintance, (M r Richard 
 Dyer, fellow of Oriel college) who is a fellow of a college, 
 of M r . Lhuyd's, who kept it secret as long as M p . Lhuyd 
 was living. The said M r . Aubrey gave Anthony a Wood 
 abundance of other informations ; and Anthony used to 
 say of him, when he was at the same time in company ; 
 Look, yonder goes such a one, who can tell such and such 
 stories, and Fie warrant M r . Aubrey will break his neck 
 down stairs rather than miss him." MS. Remarks and 
 Collections for the year 1710, vol. xxvi. page 39. This 
 account of Hearne's is in a great measure corroborated 
 by the following short account of Jenkins now printed 
 from a manuscript in Aubrey's handwriting, preserved in 
 the Ashmolean museum. 
 
 " Judge Jenkins, prisoner .... in y e Tower of London, 
 
 Windsor, &c yeares for his loyaltie. He would have 
 
 taken it kindly to have been made one of y -' judges in 
 Westminster hall; but would give no money for it. He 
 was of great courage ; rode in ye lord Gorand's army in 
 Pembrokeshire, in the forlorne hope, w th his long rapier 
 drawne, holding it on-end. Obiit December 3. A . D ni . 
 1663. Sepult. at Cowbridge church (in the South aisle) 
 in Glamorganshire. No remembrance yet (1682) sett up 
 for him." 
 
 In another volume of Hearne's Remarks* we have a 
 further testimony as to the general belief in the accusa- 
 tion against the lord chancellor : " I have heard it said 
 by a gentleman that lived in those times, that the earl of 
 Clarendon did take bribes upon the restauration, and that 
 a great number of loyal cavaliers suffered upon his ac- 
 
 * Vol. X. p. 8. 
 
NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 387 
 
 count, and were not rewarded because not able to fee 
 him : and that M r Wood was honest and just in that part 
 of his history. This I took the more notice of, because 
 he spoke with a great deal of vehemence, and seemed to 
 be positive in the matter." 
 
 The following answer of M r . Dodwell to Wood's letter printed 
 at p. 312 has been communicated to the editor as this sheet 
 was about to be worked off, by his friend the Rev. H. O. Coxe 
 of the Bodleian, from Ballard's papers in that library. 
 
 MS. Ballard. XXXIV. fol. 4. 
 Sir, 
 
 I have shewn your letter to my L d Clarendon, and 
 left it in his hands, that he might consider it at leisure, 
 upon his promise that he would keep it to himself. What 
 he desires farther is that you would own in open court, 
 and get it registred, that you are sorry for having been 
 made an instrument by the misinformation of others for 
 aspersing his ffathers memory. His L d ships desires herein 
 are so very just and becoming him that I do not see how 
 you can as a good Christian refuse complyance. You can 
 pretend no informations in this whole matter but what 
 may very probably fayl you. And if you should engage 
 yourself by this precedent to make the like amends for all 
 like cases, without any compulsion, onely on being con- 
 victed of your mistakes, as it would be very much for the 
 advantage of your soul, so it will add not detract from 
 the credit of your other collections. Your ingenuity will 
 very much recommend your better informations. If I 
 may therefore be so bold as to advise you, I should think 
 it your best way to perform what is desired, and for other 
 things to cast yourself upon his L d ships generosity. I 
 
 cc2 
 
388 LIFE OF WOOD. 
 
 give this as my own advise, not by any suggestion from 
 
 his L d ship. His L d ship has perhaps more proof then you 
 
 are aware of. But I would rather have you do what you 
 
 think fit as a good man and as a Christian, then upon any 
 
 account of fear. I am 
 
 Your aff. fr. and humble servant, 
 
 Jan. 18 Henry Dodwell. 
 
 169f 
 
 (Endorsed,) ffor my honoured ffriend M r . 
 Anthony Wood. 
 
 (And in Wood's hand,) 
 M r DodwelPs letter to me 
 18 Jan. 1692. 
 
 END OF THE LIFE OF WOOD, 
 
INDEX. 
 
 A BEND AN A, Isaac, 294. 
 -^ Abendon, Henry, 68, 
 Abercromby, Jecamiah, 24. 
 Abergavenny, lady, 249. 
 Abingdon, earl of, see Bertie. 
 Acourt, John, 168. 
 Act, very splendid, 164. 
 Adams, alderman, 73. 
 Adams, Edward, a barber, near 
 
 hanging, 40. 
 Adams, locksmith, 54. 
 Adams, John, 270. 
 Adams, Rich., fellow of Lincoln,27o. 
 Adams, Richard, made principal of 
 
 Magdalen hall, 301, 302. 
 Adams, Samuel, 222. 
 Ailiff, William, 17. 
 Ail worth, Henry, 265. 
 Alban hall, in the parish of St. John 
 
 Baptist, 176. 
 Alban' s, St., abbey, 16. 
 Alder, Francis, 209. 
 Aldrich, Henry, preaches against 
 
 " Julian the Apostate," 242, 257, 
 
 300, 307, 364. 
 Aid worth, Richard, 258. 
 Alehouses in Oxon., 203. 
 Allam, Andrew, 222, 332. 
 Allam, Thomas, 178. 
 Allen, sir Richard, 158. 
 Allestree, James, 237, 246. 
 Allestree, Rich., 112. 115, 165, 193. 
 Allix, Peter, 190. 
 All Souls coll., evidences in good 
 
 order, 145. 
 All Souls coll. plate given to king 
 
 Charles I., 14. 
 Alsop, Nath., 165, 167. 
 Altham, Roger, 230, 293, 299. his 
 
 proctor's speech, 303. 
 Ambler, Brian, 45, 46. 
 Ambler, John, 47. 
 Anabaptists meet, 94. 
 
 Anderton, James, 258. 
 
 Anne, princess, 255, 260. 
 
 Annesley, Arthur, earl of Anglesea, 
 130. 
 
 Anstis, John, 4. 
 
 Antwistle, Edmund, 258. 
 
 Apleby, Thomas, 214. 
 
 Archer, Benjamin, 256. 
 
 Ashburnham, John, 73. 
 
 Ashmole, Elias, 153. comes to Oxon. 
 164. Wood dines with him, 171. 
 sends A. W. his Hist, of the Gar- 
 ter, 182. his letter to A. W. 352. 
 
 Ashmole's museum opened, 255. 
 the donor thanked, 255. 
 
 Ashurst or Ashhurst family, account 
 of, 157. 
 
 Ashurst, Henry, 157. created a ba- 
 ronet, 158. the friend of Baxter 
 and Boyle, 158. 
 
 Ashurst, Tho. Henry, 158. 
 
 Ashurst, Will., 157. 
 
 Ashhurst, sir Wm. Henry, builds 
 Waterstock, 159. 
 
 Athenae Oxon. burnt, 297. 
 
 Atkinson, William, 267. 
 
 Aubrey, John, account of, 152. his 
 works, 153, 295, 385, 386. 
 
 Aubrey, sir John, 152. 
 
 Austin's disputations, 200. 
 
 Ayliff, William, 139. 
 B. 
 
 Badger, James, 302, 316. 
 
 Baggs's coffee house, 48. 
 
 Bagnall, lieut., 28. 
 
 Bagshaw, Edw., 84. 
 
 Bagshaw, Francis, 267, 269, 272. 
 
 Bagshaw, John, 267. 
 
 Baker, Mrs., 357. 
 
 Baker, Thomas, All Souls, 258. 
 
 Baldwin, Timothy, 64. 
 
 Bailies, Thomas, 199. 
 
 Ball, John, 98. 
 
39° 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Ball, William, yeoman bedel, brings 
 an action against New college for 
 a transcript of their records, 146. 
 
 Ballard or Bullard, John, 242, 257, 
 258. 
 
 Balliol coll. plate given to Charles I. 
 14, 16. 
 
 Ballow, Dr., of St. John's, 203. 
 
 Baltsar, Thomas, eminent violinist, 
 78, 80, 138. 
 
 Bandinel, Bulkeley, 90. 
 
 Barber, George, of Oriel, 197, 201, 
 214. 
 
 Bardshaw, Henry, 17. 
 
 Bardshaw, Judith, 17. 
 
 Barell, John, 223. 
 
 Barker, Richard, 297. 
 
 Barksdale, a chorister, 309. 
 
 Barlow, Thomas, keeper of Bodley's 
 library, 60, 96, 98, 109, 119, 138, 
 139, 145. recommends A. W. to 
 Dugdale, 147, 150, 151. his li- 
 brary, 167. gives A. W. a glass, 
 173, 182. 
 
 Barncote, Thomas, 75. 
 
 Barnesby, Jesuit, 208. 
 
 Barry, Vincent, 29. 
 
 Barton, John, 256. 
 
 Baskervile family, 84. 
 
 Baskervile, Hannibal, 84. 
 
 Baskervile, sir Thomas, 85. 
 
 Bateman, John, 297. 
 
 Bathurst, Mrs. Mary, 141. no good 
 character of, 189. 
 
 Bathurst, Ralph, 50. obtains access 
 to the archives for A. W. 107, 
 135. marries Mary Palmer, 141. 
 no good account of him, 168. 
 speaks slightingly to Wood, 182. 
 becomes vice-chancellor, 188,235, 
 2 57> 258* contributes largely to- 
 wards building Trin. coll. chapel, 
 
 3°3> 344- 
 
 Baxter, Richard, 157. 
 
 Bayly, Richard, president of St. 
 John's, silver coined with his re- 
 bus, 15, 146. 
 
 Bayly, Tho., 198, 304. 
 
 Baynard, Eliz., 141. 
 
 Baynard, Geo., 14T. 
 
 Baynard, Tho., 141. 
 
 Bayworth, old house at, 84. 
 
 Beale, John, 290. 
 
 Beard, Tho. 264. 
 
 Beaw, Will., bp. of Llandaff, 292. 
 
 Beauforest, Richard, 94. 
 
 Beaulies, Betty, 196. 
 
 Bedlow, William, 220. 
 
 Bee, Matthew, 53. 
 
 Beeston, Elizabeth, 17. 
 
 Beeston, Henry, 17, 257, 258. 
 
 Beggar's rest at Bayworth, 86. 
 
 Bells at Merton, 68. 
 
 Benbrigg, John, 258. 
 
 Benlowes, Edward, 67. 
 
 Bennet, Tho., bookseller, 295, 372. 
 
 Bennett, Tho., 190, 235, 280, 284, 
 
 288. 
 Bentlev, Rich., stationer of London, 
 
 64.' 
 Bernard, Edw., 154, 257, 258. 
 Bertie, Catherine, dau. of the earl 
 
 of Lindsey, marries Mr. Dormer, 
 
 160. 
 Bertie, Henry, 264. 
 Bertie, James, earl of Abingdon, 
 
 222, 248, 268, 273, 306. 
 Bertie, Montague, lord Norreys, 268. 
 Bertie, Philip, 270. 
 Beverley church, Yorkshire, 140. 
 Bible, faulty, printed at Oxford, 214. 
 Bidgood, John, t68. 
 Bingham, Joseph, 319. 
 Birch, John, his monument defaced, 
 
 304. 
 
 Birch, Peter, 264. 
 
 Bishops, pamphlet against, 219. 
 
 Bisse, James, 319, 320, 321, 335. 
 
 Blagge, col. Tho., his bravery, 20. 
 wounded, 21. account of, 23. 
 
 Blanford, Walter, warden of Wad- 
 ham, 112. 
 
 Blanks, James, 43, 44. 
 
 Blanks, John, 43, 45, 46. 
 
 Blenerhassett, Anne, 44. 
 
 Blenheim built, 48. 
 
 Blomesbury, near London, 152. 
 
 Blount, sir Henry, 48. 
 
 Blount, Tho., sends A. W. his Law 
 Dictionary, 175. animadverts on 
 sir Richard Baker's Chron., 179. 
 called in, 180. 
 
 Bloxam, John Rouse, D. D. assists 
 in this edition of Wood, 100. 
 
 Bobart, Jacob, 164. 
 
 Bodleian Library, king James II. 
 entertained there, 284, 288. 
 
 Bois, Henry, recants, 273. 
 
 Bolter, Francis, 55. 
 
 Bond, Dennis, 82. 
 
 Bond, Elizabeth, 100. 
 
 Bonfires made as tokens of joy, 269. 
 
I N D E X, 
 
 39* 
 
 Books, a few rare ones in Mr. Shel- 
 don's library specified, 263. a 
 very rare one relating to Thame 
 school, 18. 
 
 Booth, sir George, 95. 
 
 Bos well, John, 58. 
 
 Bouchier, Richard, 17. 
 
 Bourchier, Dr. Tho., 295, 296. loses 
 his only son, 310, 313. 
 
 Bowell, John, 136, 223. 
 
 Bowles, Henry, terrae films 1682,245. 
 
 Bowman, Francis, 66. 
 
 Boyle, Robert, 135. 
 
 Boys, Anthony, 226. 
 
 Boys, Mallina, 226. 
 
 Boyse, Nathan,, 192, 256. 
 
 Bradley, Sari], taken ill at the ordi- 
 nation, in. 
 
 Bradshaw, Cassandra, 157. 
 
 Bradshaw, cornet, 28. 
 
 Bradshaw, John, 157. 
 
 Branker, Tho., 135. 
 
 Brasenose coll. plate given to Chas. 
 L, 14, 16. 
 
 Brawne, Hugh, 267. 
 
 Brawne, J., 267. 
 
 Brent, sir Nath., warden of Merton, 
 38, 39, 45, 122, 125. 
 
 Brent, Roger, 113. protests against 
 sir Tho. Clayton's election, 114, 
 
 "5- 
 
 Bricknell, James, 45, 63. 
 
 Bricknell, Samuel, 45. 
 
 Bridgeman, Charles, 9T. 
 
 Bridgeman, sir Orlando, 91. 
 
 Britton, John, 153. 
 
 Brome, Henry, 70. 
 
 Brooke, John, 81. 
 
 Brookes, Tho., 255. 
 
 Brooks, cornet, 28. 
 
 Brooks, James, bp. of Gloucester, 
 
 253> 2 54- 
 
 Brooks, Joseph, Ch. Ch., 238, 
 Brooks, Mary, 17. 
 Broughton, Brian, 266. 
 Browne, sir Richard, 109. 
 Browne, Will., fellow of Magd., 53, 
 
 179. 
 Browne, Will., of Trinity coll., some 
 
 account of, 27. 
 Browning, George, 215. 
 Bruen, Samuel, 61. brings an action 
 
 for slander, 62. 
 Bruges, Henry, 18. 
 Bryan, Dr., 292. 
 Buckeley. lord, 230- 
 
 Buckhouse, Will., 99. 
 Buckhurst, Chas., lord, 137, 
 Buckingham, duke of, interferes in 
 
 a city election 1681., 223. 
 Buckston, John, 271. 
 Bull, William, account of, 59, 60, 
 
 64, 75> 77> 9°- 
 Bull, William, a good bedel, 221. 
 Bullard, see Ballard. 
 Bunce, capt., his bravery, 24. 
 Burgh, capt., 25. 
 Burghers, Michael, 294. 
 Burnet, Gilbert, 214. his Hist, of the 
 
 Reformation chastised by A. W, 
 
 and correspondence thereon, 215. 
 Burnham, Thomas, 10. 
 Burt, Eliz., 17. 
 Burt, Maximil. Pettie, 17. 
 Burt, William, account of, and of 
 
 his family, 17, 18. favours the 
 
 parliament forces, 30, 51. 
 Burton, William, his description of 
 
 Leicestershire, 57. 
 Bury, Arthur, 294, 308. 
 Busby, Richard, his divinity lecture, 
 
 240, 241. letter from, 243. 
 Butler, James, duke of Ormond, 
 
 165, 166, 305, 338. 
 Button, Ralph, 9, 61. aids A. W. in 
 
 his researches, 101. 
 Buys, Anth., 264. 
 Byrd, Will., stonemason, discovers 
 
 the art of staining marble, 77. 
 Bysshe, sir Edward, 161. 
 
 C. 
 C. J., 133. 
 Campbell, hon. Archibald, abuses 
 
 the public orator for a sermon, 
 
 300. 
 Campion, Abraham, 184. 
 Campion, sir Will., 24, 31. 
 Canne, lieut., 28. 
 Cardonel, Peter, 235. 
 Cardonel, William, his death, 235, 
 
 236. 
 Carfax church, great confusion at, 
 
 95- 
 Carpenter, John, bp. of Worcester, 
 
 *5- 
 Carriage of goods, 162. 
 Carslegh, Anthony, elected bedel, 
 
 221. 
 Carter, Joseph, 186. 
 Casaubon, Meric, his Narration of 
 
 Dee and the Spirits frightens A. 
 
 W., 103. 
 
39 2 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Castle, George, 64. 
 
 Caswell, John, 257, 258. 
 
 Catherine, queen to Chas. II., 166. 
 
 Cave, John, 19, 93. 
 
 Cave, Prudence, 158. 
 
 Cave, William, Magd., 238. 
 
 Cave, sir Wm., 158. 
 
 Caulfield, William viscount, 8. 
 
 Chamberlain, Wm., pledges his plate 
 to the University, 127. 
 
 Chancellor's right to the nomination 
 of Magd. hall established by a 
 jury, 305. 
 
 Charles I. — The king in Oxford with 
 his queen, 6. entertained at St. 
 John's coll., 7. repairs thither 
 with his army (1642), n. endea- 
 vours made to procure his escape, 
 
 73> 74- 
 
 Charles II., when prince, in Oxford, 
 1 1 . accustomed to have 24 violins 
 playing at his meals, 70. takes up 
 his residence in Oxon, 144. said 
 to have received extreme unction 
 on his deathbed, 177. 
 
 Charlett, Arthur, 258, 311. with 
 Wood shortly before his death, 
 317. his letter thereon, 318, 335. 
 
 Chaundler, Rich., 141. 
 
 Chelsea hospital, first stone of, laid 
 by Charles II., 239. 
 
 Chemistry, a class for. 256. 
 
 Chetwode family, 93. 
 
 Chichester, sir Arth., 85. 
 
 Chilmead, a tenant of Mert. coll., 1 24. 
 
 Christ Church plate given to Chas. 
 I., 14. salver still there, 16. king 
 James II. visits the college, 280. 
 
 Christmas customs among the un- 
 dergraduates, 34. 
 
 Churchill, lord, 219. 
 
 Cissa, king, 133. 
 
 Clarendon, earl of, see Hyde. 
 
 Clark, see Clerlce. 
 
 Clarke, Geo., All Souls, 235, 280. 
 
 Clarke, John, 211. 
 
 Clayton, Thomas, 109. made war- 
 den of Merton, and is knighted, 
 no, in. inaugurated, 113. the 
 obstacles thrown in the way of 
 his admission, 116. his character, 
 118, 1 19. his expenditure com- 
 plained of, 125. suspects A. W. 
 of popery, 207. his death, 297. 
 
 Cleaver, William, bp. of Chester, 88. 
 
 Clerk, Samuel, 115. 
 
 Clerke, Dr. Henry, his will, 247. 
 
 Clerke, or Clark, Mrs., married to 
 sir R. Shuttleworth, 247. 
 
 Clerke, — fellow of Lincoln, 142. 
 
 Clifford, Rosamond, 203, 316. 
 
 Clopton, Anthony, 4. 
 
 Clotterbuck, John, 248, 265. 
 
 Coaches from Oxford to London, 
 162,163. robbed at Wheatley, 299. 
 
 Cock, John, 65. 
 
 Cockerill, a bookseller, 220. 
 
 Codrington, Christ., 309. 
 
 Coffee house established at Oxford, 
 48. some account of coffee and 
 coffee houses, 48, 50, 60. 
 
 Coghill, sir Thos., 130. 
 
 Cole, Benj., 338. 
 
 Cole, Thos., 57. 
 
 Colepepper, John lord, master of 
 the rolls, lives in A. Wood's fa- 
 ther's house, n. 
 
 Collectors in Lent forbidden to en- 
 tertain the bachelors, 213. 
 
 Colledge, Edith, 234. 
 
 Colledge, Edmund, 233. 
 
 Colledge, Stephen, 233. his execu- 
 tion and letters, 234. 
 
 Collier, William, no. 
 
 Collins, Thos., 190. 
 
 Comet blazing, 196. 
 
 Commissioners appointed during the 
 chancellor's absence, 235. 
 
 Common prayer and sacraments put 
 down by the saints, 45. 
 
 Conant, John, of Merton, 269, 297. 
 
 Conant, John, rector of Exeter, 307. 
 careful of giving A. W. leave to 
 peruse the archives, 104. 
 
 Conant, Samuel, elected rector of 
 Exeter, 307. 
 
 Confucius transl. by the Jesuits, 286. 
 
 Congreve, Will., has 100L from the 
 king, 308. 
 
 Conny, Robert, 241. 
 
 Conquest, Charles, 297. 
 
 Conyers, Tristram, 79. 
 
 Conyers, Will., physician, account 
 of, 79. 
 
 Cook, John, under secretary of state, 
 166. 
 
 Cook, Tho., 140, 159. 
 
 Cooke, John, a member of the Ash- 
 molean Society, 258. 
 
 Cooke, John, of St. John's, Wood's 
 proctor, 291, 380. 
 
 Cooke, William, 18. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 393 
 
 Cope, sir John, 211, 227. 
 
 Cooper, Rob., 226. 
 
 Cooper, Sara., 349. 
 
 Copley, Edward, 34. 
 
 Corbet, Edward, his funeral, 76, 
 
 Corderoy, serjeant, 133. 
 
 Corn, high price of, occasions cla- 
 mour, 293. 
 
 Corpus Christi college, beautiful 
 plate there, 15. 
 
 Cotes, John, 100. 
 
 Cotterel, Anne, 160. 
 
 Cotterell, sir Chas., no. 
 
 Cotton, sir John, 147. is kind to 
 A. W., 148. 
 
 a Court, John, 168. 
 
 Coward, Christopher, 91. 
 
 Coward, Dr. William, 297. 
 
 Cowcher, Rob., 258. 
 
 Cox, Richard, mayor of Oxford, 224. 
 
 Cox, William, of Bras., 181. 
 
 Coxe, Hen. Octavius, 387. 
 
 Coxeter, Geo., 357. 
 
 Cradock, Tho., 195. elected public 
 orator, 198. dies, 213. 
 
 Crafford, colonel Lawrence, 20,22,23. 
 
 Crafford, Hugh, 22. 
 
 Crawford, Joan, 336. 
 
 Creech, Tho., 189, 258, 311. 
 
 Cressey, Hugh, 166. sends Ra. Shel- 
 don to A. W., 178. 
 
 Crew, Arthur, 138. 
 
 Crew, Nath., afterward lord Crew, 
 petitions against the visitors, 84. 
 musical, but without good ear, 91, 
 
 135- 
 
 Cripps, Robert, 112, 113. 
 
 Croft, Francis, chapl. of Merton, 40. 
 
 Croke, Charity, 83. 
 
 Croke, Eleanor, 83. 
 
 Croke, George, 65, 72. 
 
 Croke, sir George, 157, 159. 
 
 Croke, Gracious, 83. 
 
 Croke, Dr. Henry, 157. 
 
 Croke, sir John, 82. 
 
 Croke, Rich., 200, 201. 
 
 Croke, sir Richard, dies, 256. 
 
 Croke, Unton, account of, 82. 
 
 Crompton, lieut., 28. 
 
 Cromwell, Oliver, dies, 82. fond of 
 
 music, 102. 
 Cromwell, Richard, 82. 
 Cross, John, 135. founds the Fell 
 
 speech, 306. 
 Cross, Matth., 34. 
 Crostley, John, 221. 
 
 Crouch, N., 258. 
 
 Croune, William, 148, 149. 
 
 Crymes, Ames, 222. 
 
 Cunningham, J., 258. 
 
 Curteyne, John, 166. 
 
 Curteys, a lutinist, 66. 
 D. 
 
 Dacre, Elizabeth, 25. 
 
 Dacre, Francis lord, 25. 
 
 Daillon, a French minister, 301. 
 
 Dalby, Mrs., killed, 210. 
 
 Dalby, preaches at Oxford feast, 246. 
 
 Dale, Robert, 4. 
 
 Danvers, Elizabeth, 158. 
 
 Darby or Derby, Michael, bell- 
 founder, 69, 222. 
 
 Dartmouth, lord; see Legge, Geo. 
 
 Davenant, Charles, 304. 
 
 Davenport, Christopher, 166. 
 
 Davies, John, of Kidwelly, 171. 
 
 Davies, Mr., of Sandford, 290, 291. 
 
 Davis, Abraham, 134. 
 
 Davys, John, 8. 
 
 Dawson, Charles, 90. 
 
 Dawson, Edward, 4. 
 
 Deane, Henry, of New coll., 145. 
 
 de Cardonel; see Cardonel. 
 
 Dee, John, 153. 
 
 Deerham of Norfolk, 67. 
 
 Delafield, Tho., 157. 
 
 Delaune, Will., 189. 
 
 Delegates of the press, 167, 174. 
 
 Dennis, John, an ancient bookseller, 
 263. 
 
 Denton, Henry, 233. 
 
 Derby, Mich. ; see Darby. 
 
 Derham, William, 50. 
 
 Derham, of Magd. hall, 287. 
 
 Des Maistres, Samuel, 257, 258. 
 
 Devereux, Robert, earl of Essex, the 
 parliament's general, 9. threatens 
 Oxford, 16. 
 
 Dewey, William, 41. 
 
 Dewy, Francis, 129. 
 
 Dickenson, Edmund, 38, 113, 125. 
 
 Digby, Kenelm, 77, 90. 
 
 Dingley, William, 246. 
 
 Dinham, lady Penelope, 155. 
 
 Ditch on the east side of New coll., 
 
 175,176. 
 
 Divinity school altered, 225. 
 
 Dodsworth, Roger, A. W.'s respect 
 for his memory, 192. his collec- 
 tions, 329. 
 
 Dodwell, Henry, letter from Wood 
 to, 312. Dodwell's reply, 387. 
 
394 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Dodwell, Philip, his case, 197, 201, 
 
 202. 
 Dolben, John, 112, 115, 128, 288. 
 Dorchester, leiger book of, 94. 
 Dormer, Robert, 160. 
 Dorset, earl of; see Sackville, Edw. 
 Doyly, sir John, 211. 
 Draco volans, 156. 
 Draper, Elisabeth, 158. 
 Drope family and pedigree, 100. 
 Drope, Bridget, marries Richard 
 
 Hey cock, 100. 
 Drope, Edward, 100. 
 Drope, Elizabeth, 100. 
 Drope, Francis, 100. 
 Drope, John, master of Dorchester 
 
 school, 71, TOO. 
 Drope, Mary, 99, 100, 357. 
 Drope, Sarah, marries John Cotes, 
 
 TOO. 
 
 Drope, Tho., 99, 100. 
 
 Drope, William, 100. 
 
 Dry den, John, cudgelled, 220. 
 
 Dryer, Francis, 160. 
 
 Dufore, Charles, 9. 
 
 Dufore, Dennis, 9, 
 
 Dugdale, sir Wm., 68, 147, 164. 
 commands false arms to be re- 
 moved from a monument, 232, 
 250. 
 
 Dunches of Wittenham, 196. 
 
 Durston, John, 202. 
 
 Dyer, Richard, 386. 
 
 E. 
 
 Ecc, J., 309. 
 
 Eccleston, Tho., 174. 
 
 Echard, John, 180. 
 
 Eddisbury, John, 211, 212. 
 
 Edgerley, Thomas, 7. 
 
 Edghill fight, 10. 
 
 Edmund hall chapel consecrated, 
 241. 
 
 Edwards, John, of Trinity, 238. 
 
 Edwards, Dr. John, 307. 
 
 Edwards, Thomas, 258. 
 
 Egerly, John, 27. 
 
 Election of burgesses for the univer- 
 sity, 2i 1, 217, 222. 
 
 Ellis, William, 65, 66, 67, 80. 
 
 Elwood, Phineas, 290. 
 
 Essex, Robert earl of; see Deve- 
 reux, Robert. 
 
 Etterick, Anth., 168. 
 
 Evans, Hugh, 17. 
 
 Evans, Joane, 18. 
 
 Evans of Ch. Ch., 257. 
 
 Evans, Mr., 310. 
 
 Evelin, col. Arthur, 46. 
 
 Exeter college, case about the head- 
 ship, 294, 308. plate given to 
 Chas. I., 14. evidences in good 
 order, 145. 
 
 F. 
 
 F. H., Wood's regard for, 199. 
 
 Fairclough, John, (or rather Rich- 
 ard,) 245. 
 
 Fairfax, lord, 329. 
 
 Fairford church and windows, 107. 
 
 Fairmedoe, Cornelius, 90. 
 
 Farabosco, Alphonso, 68. 
 
 Farmer, Anth., 258. 
 
 Farmer, G., the locksmith, makes a 
 saw to liberate Charles I., 74. 
 
 Farrant, Henry, 336. 
 
 Fast appointed, 213. 
 
 Featley, see Fairclough. 
 
 Fell, John, bishop of Oxford, 112, 
 115, 128, 165. commends A. W. 
 to the abp. of Cant., 167. provides 
 a translator for Wood's Hist., 
 172, 174. undertakes to print 
 Wood's Hist, at his own cost, 
 
 175. 193. i95». 2I2 > 2 35, 241. 
 
 puts down coursing in the schools, 
 
 255. his message to Hobbes, 350. 
 
 speech founded to his memory, 
 
 306. 
 Ferae, John, 58. 
 Feteplace, John, founds a school at 
 
 Dorchester, 18. 
 Fettiplace, Mr. 184. 
 Field, Robert, 161. 
 Finch, Heneage, 211. acts against 
 
 A. W., 296. 
 Finch, Leopold, 230. 
 Finch, Leopold William, 266, 275. 
 Fire of London, 149. 
 Fires in Oxon., 200, 246. 
 Fisher, Alexander, 94, 109, 112, 122. 
 
 dies when senior fellow of Mer- 
 
 ton, 179. 
 Fisher, Catherine, 4, 141. 
 Fisher, Walter, 179. 
 Fitz-williams, John, 237. 
 Flexney, William, 93. 
 Flower, Henry, 105. 
 Folkes, John, 203. 
 Fooks, Thomas Broadley, 18. 
 Forest, Edw., 152. 
 Forest, William, 216. 
 Fothergill, Dr. John, 81. 
 
INDEX, 
 
 395 
 
 Foulis, Henry, [42. his death, 168. 
 
 Foulkes, Dr., 83. 
 
 Fowler, Dr. Edward, 232. 
 
 Fox, Richard, founder of C.C.C., his 
 plate, 15. 
 
 Franke, Thomas, his disingenuous 
 conduct, 47. 
 
 Frankland, Thomas, forges the uni- 
 versity seal, 199. 
 
 Franklin, John, 298. 
 
 Franklin, Richard, 113. 
 
 Fraser, J., 371, 373. 
 
 French, John, 227. 
 
 Friars, Wood writes a history of the 
 various orders, 170. 
 
 Friend, John, 65. 
 
 Frith, Thomas, 357. 
 
 Fry, Stephen, 241. 
 
 Fulk, Thomas, 188, 209. 
 
 Fulman,Will., of C. C. C, 291, 292. 
 
 Fuscus, G. i. e.Will. Browne, 27, 28. 
 
 Fussell, James, 18. 
 
 Fyfald, or Fifield, Walter, 303. 
 G. 
 
 Gamble, John, 80. 
 
 Gandy, Henry, 311. 
 
 Gardiner, George, 266, 309. his 
 death, 310. 
 
 Gardiner, Henry, killed, 27, 28. 
 
 Gardiner, John, 266. 
 
 Gardiner, capt. Thomas, 51. 
 
 Gardiner, sir Thomas, solicitor ge- 
 neral, 26, 28. 
 
 Gastrell, Francis, 195. 
 
 Geddes, Mich., 174. 
 
 George, Alice, commonly called 
 Mother George, her great age, 186. 
 
 George, prince George of Denmark, 
 260. 
 
 George, Thomas, 186. 
 
 George, William, buried, 78. 
 
 Gerard, Henry, 238. 
 
 Gibbons, William, 257, 258. 
 
 Gibson, Edm., 310. 
 
 Glasses, for drinking, 259. 
 
 Glendall, John, commonly called 
 Jack, 105. his death and some ac- 
 count of him, 108. 
 
 Glexney, William, 67. 
 
 Gloucester hall in a neglected con- 
 dition, 194. 
 
 Glyn, Eleanor, 83. 
 
 Glynn, John, 59. 
 
 Goad, John, vicar of Cassington, 42. 
 
 Goddard, Jonathan, 63. 
 
 Godwin, Joseph, 62. 
 
 Goffe, Thomas, 168. 
 
 Goodson, Ant. Wood's tenant, dies, 
 
 175- 
 
 Gore, Thomas, his Catalogue of Au- 
 thors on Heraldry, 159, 178. 
 
 Gorges, Robert, 309. 
 
 Gould, William, 241, 257. 
 
 Gourney, Thomas, 105. 
 
 Gower, Dr., master of St. John's, 
 Cambridge, 297. 
 
 Grandpont house, 83. 
 
 Greaves, colonel Richard, 24, 27. 
 
 Greene, Anne, her hanging and re- 
 covery, 46. verses on, 50. 
 
 Greenwood, Daniel, 181, 184. 
 
 Gregory, Edmund, 60. marries, 76. 
 102. 
 
 Grevile, Fulk, condemned, 104. 
 
 Grey, Ford lord, 264. 
 
 Griffith, Charles, musician, 57, 69. 
 
 Griffith, Richard, 135. 
 
 Grimston, sir Harbottle, 214, 219. 
 
 Grove, Hugh, 82. ■ 
 
 Grubb, John, 237. 
 
 Guies, Hugh, 186. 
 
 Guillim, John, his Display of He- 
 raldry, 58. 
 
 Gurgany, John, 342. 
 
 Gutch, John, prints Wood's His- 
 tory in the original English, 351. 
 
 G wynne, Eleanor, 138. 
 H. 
 
 Hacket, Mary, 335. 
 
 Hacket, William, 335. 
 
 Hale, Matthew, 96. 
 
 Hales, Edward, 273, 282. 
 
 Hall, Anthony, mayor of Oxon., 187. 
 
 Hall, Dr. John, preaches against the 
 papists, 205. treats A. W. with 
 neglect, 209. 
 
 HaU, Nich., 238. 
 
 Hall, Thos., 281. 
 
 Hall, Wm., preaches before James 
 II., 281, 287. 
 
 Halton, Timothy, 228, 238. denies 
 certain masters their votes, 294, 
 308. 
 
 Hamden family, factious, 31. 
 
 Hamer, James, 170. 
 
 Hammond, Dr. John, 240, 241. 
 
 Hammond, Mainwaring, 302. 
 
 Hanham, Robert, 116. 
 
 Hanks, Margery, 357. 
 
 Hanks, Tomson, 357. 
 
 Hanson, capt., 28. 
 
 Harbin, George, nonjuror, 311. 
 
39 6 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Harcourt, sir John, 8. 
 Harcourt, Mary, 8. 
 Harcourt, sir Philip, 227. 
 Harding, Michael, 205. 
 Harding, Mrs., of Holywell, 316. 
 Harding, Soladell, 198, 221. 
 Harley, Edw., earl of Oxford, 3, 4, 
 
 155- 
 
 Harmar, John, Greek professor im- 
 posed upon, 99. 
 Harper's coffee house, 48. 
 Harpesfield, Mich., 215. 
 Harrington, James, 298, 299. speech 
 
 on him, 303, 373. 
 Harris, Charles, 257. 
 Harris, Edward, 17. 
 Harris, John, 77, 267. 
 Harris, Mary, 77, 134. 
 Harris, a painter, dies, 106, 182. 
 Harris, Rich., of Wootten, 89. 
 Harris, Rob., president of Trinity, 
 
 t68, 169. 
 Harris, Walter, 191. 
 Harrison, Christ., 89, 92, 105. 
 Harvey, Joseph, 109, 113, 124. 
 Haselwood, Anthony, a bookseller, 
 
 no. 
 Haselwood, John, an apothecary, 67, 
 
 121. 
 Haselwood, Tho., barber, no. 
 Haslewood, Joseph, 376. 
 Haslem, John, 197. 
 Hatton, of Kirbye, 91. 
 Hawking, Ann, 17. 
 Hawking, Robert, 17. 
 Hawley, Henry, 75, 102. 
 Hayes, Tho., of Wadham, 238. 
 Haynes, Will., 83. 
 Hazlewood, John, dean of Oriel, 89. 
 Hearne, John, 167. 
 Hearne, Thomas, first publishes 
 
 Wood's Life, 2. his account of 
 
 A. W., 325. his memoranda of 
 
 A. W., 337. 
 Heburne, butler of New Inn, 265. 
 Hedges, Mr., 287. 
 Hen, — butcher and rebel, 23. 
 Henant, Elizabeth, 17. 
 Henant, Thomas, 17, 19, 32. his 
 
 death, 141. 
 Henchman, Humph., 133. 
 Henderson, John, the player, 263. 
 Henrietta Maria, queen, lodges in 
 
 Merton coll., 342. 
 Henvill, Matthias, 232. 
 Herbert, Charles, lord, 199. 
 
 Herbert, Edward, lord Herbert of 
 Cherbury, 217. 
 
 Heme, — a crooked back tailor of 
 Oxford, 130. 
 
 Heycock, Richard, 100. 
 
 Heylin, Tho., 256. 
 
 Hey wood, — rebel, 23. 
 
 Hickes, George, 242. 
 
 Hickman, Francis, 297. 
 
 Hide, Dr. James, 267. 
 
 Hide, Rob., 267. 
 
 High way from St. Clement's to 
 Marston pitched, 245. 
 
 Hill, John, 105. 
 
 Hill, Margaret, 44. 
 
 Hill, Will., clerk of Merton, 45. 
 
 Hinton, Dr. Giles, his death, 204. 
 
 Hoare, see Hore. 
 
 Hobbes, Adam, 94. 
 
 Hobbes, Tho., 153. alterations made 
 in A. W.'s life of him, 348, 350. 
 
 Hodges, Anthony, 43. 
 
 Hog, Tho., 258. 
 
 Holloway, Charles, serj. at law, 69. 
 
 Holloway, Charles, 200, 201. 
 
 Holloway, Francis, 201. 
 
 Holloway, John, 113, 114. 
 
 Holloway, Necessity, 293. 
 
 Holloway, Richard, 162, 200. 
 
 Holloway, Rob., 200. 
 
 Holman, Philip, 93. 
 
 Holt, Charles, 237. 
 
 Holt, Ralph, 58, 108. 
 
 Holywell, fire in, 94. 
 
 Holy day, Barton, 62. a sad acci- 
 dent during the celebration of the 
 holy communion, eii, 128. 
 
 Holy day, George, 128. 
 
 Holyday, Thomas, 128. 
 
 Holyday, Will, 128. 
 
 Hooker, Richard, [30. 
 
 Hord, Thos., 227, 264. 
 
 Hore, Anne, 82. 
 
 Hore, Richard, 82, 83. 
 
 Horseman's coffee house, 48. 
 
 Hough, John, 303. 
 
 Houghton, John, 112. 
 
 Howard, lord Marshall, 195. 
 
 Howell, James, 48. 
 
 Howell, William, 236. 
 
 Howes's windows broken, 310. 
 
 Howson, Mr., of Merton, 47. 
 
 Huddesford, William, his character 
 of Wood, 346. makes a catalogue 
 of his MSS , 352. 
 
 Huddleston, John, aids Chas.II., 1 76. 
 
INDEX, 
 
 397 
 
 Hudson, Christ., bell founder, 222. 
 
 Hudson, John, 189. 
 
 Hughes, lieut., 28. 
 
 Humphreys, Humph., 246. 
 
 Hunt, Stephen, 256, 258. 
 
 Huntingdon, or rather Huntington, 
 Robert, 113, 255. 
 
 Huntington, dean, 184. 
 
 Hurst, Hen., 113. 
 
 Hussey, hanged, 58. 
 
 Hutton, Matthew, 91, 154. his col- 
 lections purchased by lord Ox- 
 ford, 155. 
 
 Hwyden, Vander, of Oriel, 213. 
 
 Hyde, Edw., earl of Clarendon, 314, 
 328. 
 
 Hyde, Henry, earl of Clarendon, has 
 an interview with Wood, 311. 
 
 Hyde, Dr. James, taxed by the city, 
 and resists, 222. regius professor 
 of medicine, dies, 229, 267. 
 
 Hyde, sir Robert, 137. 
 
 Hyde, Dr.Tho., 144, 163, 284, 285, 
 286. 
 
 Hyde, Tho., a notary, 142. 
 
 Hyll, Walter, 15. 
 
 1. J . 
 
 Jackson, Eliz., 357. 
 
 Jackson, Henry, 106. account of, 
 130. 
 
 Jackson, Hen., draper of Oxon.,357. 
 
 Jackson, Joseph, 294. 
 
 Jackson, Tho., musician, 66, 93. 
 
 Jacob, the Jew, 48. 
 
 James II., king, when duke of York 
 in Oxford, 11. his statue set up in 
 univ., 273. comes to Oxon., 274. 
 commends love and charity to the 
 seniors of the univ., 289. 
 
 James, John, 200. 
 
 James, Dr. John, 235. 
 
 James, Tho., or Janes, of Magd., 
 66, 135. 
 
 James, Tho., warden of AU-S., 145. 
 
 James, William, teacher of music 
 and dancing, 69. 
 
 James, deputy orator, 255. 
 
 Jane, Dr. Will., 235. 
 
 Jeamson, Tho., 237. 
 
 Jeffryes, Christopher, 91. 
 
 Jeffiyes, George, 91. 
 
 Jellyman, Matthew, 132. 
 
 Jenkins, Judge; Wood prosecuted 
 on account of a passage in his 
 life, 366. Aubrey's note on, 386. 
 
 Jenkinson, Tho., 197, 204. 
 
 Jenkyns, John, the wonder of his 
 
 age for music, 67, 68. 
 Jenkyns, sir Leoline, 166. very kind 
 
 to A. W., 180. elected burgess for 
 
 the univ., 217, 219. 
 Jennings, reacher of the records in 
 
 the tower, 150. a boon blade, 151. 
 Jerusalem, the king of (Mr. Basker- 
 
 vile), 86. his portrait, 87. 
 Jesus coll. plate given to Chas. I., 14. 
 Jewkes, Roland, 96, 98. 
 lies, Thomas, 6, 7. 
 Ingoldesby family, factious, 31. 
 Ingoldesby, col. Henry, 39, 51, 52. 
 Inventory of goods 1598, 64. 
 Jobson, Cirques, sells coffee in Ox- 
 ford, 60. 
 Johnson, Samuel, 242. 
 Johnston, Nathaniel, 290, 329. 
 Jones, Edw., 113. 
 Jones, Humphry, 89, 90. 
 Jones, John, 65. 
 Jones, Martha, 89. 
 Jones, Nicholas, 90. 
 Jones, Tho., 69, 109. 
 Jones, Dr. Tho., 114. 
 Jones, Tho., fellow of Merton, 118, 
 
 119. his death, 120. 
 Jones, chancellor of Llandaff, cited 
 
 by the bishop, 292. 
 Joyner, Mr., 250, 252. 
 Ironside, Gilbert, 98, 273. 
 Isham, Zaccheus, 258. 
 Jucks, Roland, 96, 98. 
 Julian the Apostate, 242. 
 Juxon, Will., abp. of Cant., 109. a 
 
 very quiet man, 118. 
 K. 
 Keeling, Venables, 238. 
 Kelley, sir Edw., 153. 
 Ken, Thomas, afterwards bishop of 
 
 Bath and Wells, 91. 
 Kennett, Basil, 319. 
 Kennett, White, his Letter from a 
 
 Student, 227, 240, 290, 293. his 
 
 grace denied, 302. 
 Kent, John, of St. John's, 271. 
 Kent, Rich., 271. 
 Killigrew, Henry, 137. 
 Kinaston, an enthusiast or impostor, 
 
 98. 
 King, John, of St. Mary hall, 233. 
 King, John, a butler, 221. 
 King's Sutton, 306. 
 Kinsey, Robert, 297. 
 Kipling, John, 18. 
 
398 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Kirby, clerk of St. Aldate's, no. 
 
 L. 
 Lamb, John, 162. 
 Lambeth, dinner at, 165. 
 Lampert, lieut., 28. 
 Lamphire, John, 65, 94, 164, 175, 
 
 an. 
 Lamphyre, a postmaster of Merton, 
 
 269. 
 Lamplugh, Tho., in, 138. 
 Lamplugh, Will., 18. 
 Lane, Mr., 194. 
 Lane, James, 218, 219. 
 Lane, Tho., 258. 
 Langbaine, Gerard, his Miscellanea, 
 
 318. 
 Langford, Emanuel, 255. 
 Langley, Henry, 91, 92, 98. 
 Lant, John, 4. 
 
 Lasenby, Mrs., of the Mitre, 258. 
 Latton, Tho., 60, 209, 270. 
 Latton, Will., 270. 
 Laud, Will., entertains king Chas. I., 
 
 7- 
 
 Lauderdale, John duke of, 196. 
 
 Law, Tho., 168. 
 
 Lee, Tim. Tripp, 18. 
 
 Legge, Geo. lord Dartmouth, 278. 
 
 Legge, col. Rob., 25, 26. 
 
 Legge, col. Will., 25. 
 
 Leland, John, his Collections, 71. 
 
 Lenton, Norris, 156. 
 
 Le Petite ; see Pettie. 
 
 L'Estrange, Roger, 219. has a sum 
 of money sent him from Cam- 
 bridge, 246. 
 
 Le Tellier, Charles Maurice, 195,196. 
 
 Levett, sir Rich., 301. 
 
 Levett, Wm., nominated to be prin- 
 cipal of Magd. hall, 230, 258. his 
 death, 301,311. 
 
 Levinz, Will., pres. of St. John's, 
 105. his sudden death, 189. 
 
 Lewes, John, 93. 
 
 Lewes, Margaret, 130. 
 
 Lewes, William, 130. 
 
 Ley, Jas., earl of Marlborough, 141. 
 
 Leycester, sir Peter, 170. 
 
 Lhuyd, Edw., 386. 
 
 Lilly, William, 73, 74. 
 
 Lincoln coll. plate given to Chas. I., 
 14. 
 
 Lister, Martin, 81. 
 
 Litchfield, Leonard, 87, 221. 
 
 Littlemore, 127. 
 
 Littleton, Gervace, 67. 
 
 Lloyd, Dr., preaches bp. Wilkins's 
 funeral sermon, 81. 
 
 Lloyd, Nich., of Wadh., a dear ac- 
 quaintance of Wood's, 171. 
 
 Lloyd, Will., 99. makes the music 
 speech, 245. 
 
 Lloyd, Wm., bp. of St. Asaph, his 
 book censured, 292. 
 
 Locke, John, 134, 135. 
 
 Loughler, Rob., pledges his plate to 
 the univ., 127. 
 
 Louse, mother, 185. 
 
 Lovelace, lady, insulted, 230. 
 
 Lovelace, lord, encourages Titus 
 Oates, 220. interferes in an elec- 
 tion, 223. 
 
 Lovell, father, 209. 
 
 Lovell, Mary, 236. 
 
 Low, Edward, account of, 66, 67, 80. 
 directs a music lecture, 105. 
 
 Lower, Richard, 129, 135. 
 
 Lowth, Will., 189. 
 
 Lucas, John, his will, 41. 
 
 Lutterell, Mr., said to have the pa- 
 tent for an earldom, 205. 
 
 Lydall, Richard, 297. admitted war- 
 den of Merton, 298. 
 
 Lyndesey, Tho., 231. 
 M. 
 
 Mace of the lord chan. stolen, 195. 
 
 Magdalen bridge, the way there new 
 pitched, &c, 227. 
 
 Magdalen college plate given to 
 Chas. I., 14. plate left to the col- 
 lege, 247. chapel plate stolen, 189. 
 a second time, 307. the college 
 petition James II., 283. 
 
 Magdalen hall, — Fellows of Magd. 
 coll. claim to nominate the prin- 
 cipal, 229. another attempt on the 
 part of the college to nominate 
 the principal, 302. case of Mag- 
 dalen hall, 305. hall plate stolen, 
 
 3°7- 
 Maid hanged, restored to life, and 
 
 hanged a second time, 79. 
 Malbon's coffee house, 48. 
 Mallory, Henry, 80. 
 Man, Mr., 85. 
 Manchester, earl of, see Montagu, 
 
 Edw. 
 Manningham, Tho., 198, 206, 214. 
 March, Caspar, 258. 
 Markets, grants of, 203. 
 Marlborough, James, earl of, see Ley, 
 
 James. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 399 
 
 Marriott, Tho., 206. 
 
 Marsh, Narcissus, abp. of Tuam, 
 92, 299. 
 
 Marsh, the tailor, 221. 
 
 Marshall, Tho., 233, 235. 
 
 Martin, Matth., town-clerk, 79. 
 
 Martin, Nicholas, 318, 336, 339, 
 340. 
 
 Martin, Rich., reads prayers with 
 A. W. when his end drew near, 
 340. 
 
 Mary, queen, orders a copy of Ath. 
 et Fast. Oxon., 307. 
 
 Mason, Geo., 60. 
 
 Massey, col. Edw., 95. 
 
 Massey, John, 219, 256, 258. 
 
 Masters of arts unruly in convoca- 
 tion, 245. 
 
 Masters, Tho., his Life of Hen.VIIL, 
 217. 
 
 Maund, Clinton, tutor to A.W., 44, 
 
 Maurice, Henry, 256. 
 
 Maurice, prince, in Oxford, 11. 
 
 Maxwell, James, 72. 
 
 May, Baptist, 137. 
 
 Maylard, John, 8. 
 
 Maynard, John, 59. 
 
 Maynard, Joseph, 143. 
 
 Mayott, high sheriff, 240. 
 
 Medcalf, Scrope, major in the royal 
 army, 25. killed, 27. 
 
 Medicis, Cosmo de, visits Oxford. 
 163. 
 
 Mell, Davis, the violinist, 77. his 
 sweet playing, 82. 
 
 Meredith, Edward, Ch. Ch., 242. 
 
 Merret, Christopher, 321. 
 
 Merton college, the roof of the outer 
 chapel falls in, 63. the chapel 
 disfigured and pillaged, 103. re- 
 pair of the chapel, 190. the bells 
 recast, 68, 222. the warden's 
 lodgings altered, 121, 299. the 
 ornaments over the gate restored, 
 248. the plate given to Charles 
 I., 14. goes to law with the city, 
 124. 
 
 Mews, Peter, president of St. John's, 
 146. kind to A. W., 154, 167, 
 174, 180. 
 Middleton, Thomas, 18. 
 Middlesex, Charles lord, see Sack- 
 
 ville, Charles. 
 Mill, or Mills, John, 214, 241, 242. 
 Millington, Thomas, 64, 135, 145. 
 Milton, John, 127. 
 
 Minshull, Christopher, killed, 230. 
 
 Minshull, Francis, 230. 
 
 Mist great in Oxford, 200. 
 
 Monk, George, 105. 
 
 Monmouth, James, duke of, his in- 
 surrection 1685, 263, 264. his 
 name erased from the books of 
 C. C. C, 255. rejoicings in Oxon 
 at his defeat, 272. 
 
 Montagu, Edward, earl of Manches- 
 ter, 22. 
 
 Moore, John, bp. of Norwich, 310. 
 
 Mordant, Henry, 268. 
 
 Mordaunt, Henry, earl of Peter- 
 borough, 219. 
 
 More, see Mower. 
 
 Morley, Geo., bp. of Winchester, 27. 
 
 Morocco, emperor of, sends a letter 
 to Charles II., which is different- 
 ly interpreted, 238. 
 
 Morrell, William, 198. 
 
 Mower, John, 232. 
 
 Mugg, Emanuel, 291. 
 
 Mulgrave, John earl of, see Sheffield, 
 John. 
 
 Musgrave, William, 257, 258. 
 
 Music meetings in Oxford, 65. lec- 
 ture, 105. speech, 232. lecturers, 
 
 237- 
 
 Muswell hermitage, 155. 
 
 Mynnes, Thomas, 176. 
 N. 
 
 Nap, John, 60. 
 
 Napier, Geo., 175. 
 
 Napier family buried at Holywell, 
 178. 
 
 Naseby fight, 31. 
 
 Nassau, William Henry, prince of 
 Orange, 175. 
 
 Neale, Phelim o', 8. 
 
 Newburg, John William prince of, 
 visits Oxford, 193. 
 
 New coll. cloister and tower, the 
 king's (Charles I.) magazine de- 
 posited there, 11. plate there, 14, 
 15. their evidences transcribed, 
 147. the new quadrangle, 239. 
 school flourishes, 302. statues 
 discovered at the altar, 310. 
 
 Newdigate, Richard, 205. 
 
 New Inn, the mint there, 15. 
 
 Newe, Tho., 222. 
 
 Nicholas, Dr. John, warden of New 
 coll., 197. inspects Wood's pa- 
 pers on suspicion, 207, 208. 
 
 Nicholls, Win,. 202. 
 
40o 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Nicolls, Peter, 48, 113, 132, 140, 145, 
 202. 
 
 Night-watch, 197. 
 
 Nixon, John, and his school, 78. 
 
 Nixon, Joan, 79. 
 
 Noble, Will., cook at Merton, 35. 
 
 Norreys, James lord, 222, 248. 
 
 Norreys, sir John, 85. 
 
 Norreys, lord Montagu, eldest son 
 of the earl of Abingdon, 268. 
 
 Norris or Norreys, sir Edw., 21 1, 227. 
 
 Northleigh parish, 89. 
 
 Northton of Ch. Ch., 237. 
 
 Notary-public, witnesses A. W.'s 
 engagement to be faithful in re- 
 spect to the univ. records, 142. 
 
 Notley or Nutley, 157. 
 
 Nourse or Nurse,Timothy, renounces 
 the Roman catholic religion, 160, 
 177, 191, 192. but relapses, 198. 
 O. 
 
 Oates, Titus, 220. 
 
 Ogle, sir Thomas, 136. 
 
 Oldisworth, William, 106. 
 
 Oldys, Wm., of New coll., 217. 
 
 Oliffe, Ralph, 258. 
 
 Onslow, Jane, 157. 
 
 Orator, public, election of, 198, 213, 
 214. 
 
 Oriel college plate given to Chas. I., 
 14. pieces still there, 15. 
 
 Ormond, James duke of, see Butler, 
 James. 
 
 Osbaldeston, sir Lacy, offends A.W., 
 
 3°5- 
 Osbaldeston, sir Littleton, 178. 
 Osborne, Tho., afterwards duke of 
 
 Leeds, lord treasurer, 196. 
 Owen, Geo., 5. 
 Owen, Dr. John, dean of Ch. Ch., 
 
 83, 99. 
 Oxford, archdeaconry of, dispute 
 
 concerning, 138. 
 Oxford, county of, visitation of, by 
 
 Clarenceux, 161. 
 Oxford, university of, 1. 
 
 1636. 
 King Charles I., the queen, and 
 
 prince Rupert there, 6. 
 1642. 
 Put into a state of defence \ the 
 
 scholars and privileged men train- 
 ed, 10, 11. 
 
 1643. 
 The Mint at New Inn ; college plate, 
 
 &c. turned into money, 15. 
 
 1646. 
 State of it after the surrender of the 
 garrison, 31, 33. 
 1648. 
 The visitation by persons appointed 
 by the parliament, 38. 
 1650. 
 Coffee introducted and much drank 
 there, 48. 
 
 1656. 
 State of music ; musicians there, 
 65, 69. 
 
 The same, 77. 
 
 1658. 
 
 The same, 80, 82, 88. petition 
 
 against standing ministers, 84. 
 
 1659. 
 
 Selden's library brought into that 
 of Bodley, 95. covenant with Sel- 
 den's executors, 97. music, 102. 
 destruction of old paintings and 
 inscriptions in chapels, 103. 
 1660. 
 
 Music lecture, 105. restoration ob- 
 served, 105. Selden marbles s6t 
 up, 106. 
 
 1661. 
 
 Epidemic rages, 129. 
 1663. 
 
 Chymical club began, 134. 
 1669. 
 
 Cosmo de Medicis entertained at 
 Oxford, 163. Elias Ashmole visits 
 the university, 164. dedication of 
 the theatre, 164. duke of Or- 
 monde installed chancellor, 166. 
 Delegates of the press agree to 
 print the Hist, et Antiq. Univ. 
 Oxon., 167. 
 
 1670. 
 
 The university pay Anthony a Wood 
 100Z. for the copy of Hist, et An- 
 tiq. Univ. Oxon., 171. resolutions 
 of a meeting of the delegates 
 about Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon., 
 172, 174. the prince of Orange 
 and Nassau entertained by the 
 university, 175. 
 
 1673. 
 
 Controversy concerning the canons 
 of Christ-church preaching, 190. 
 lord Fairfax's MSS. taken from 
 the Bodleian library, to dry them 
 upon the leads, 192. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 401 
 
 1674. 
 
 The curators of the press present 
 the Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. to 
 the king, 193. 
 
 1675. 
 
 The prince of Newburgh visits Ox- 
 ford, 193. the Hist, et Antiq. 
 Univ. Oxon. and other books pre- 
 sented to him, and to Cosmo de 
 Medicis, grand duke of Tuscany, 
 194. 
 
 1677. 
 
 Charles Maurice Tellier, archbishop 
 of Rheims, visits the university, 
 195. dispute with the city about 
 the night watch, 197. election of 
 a public orator on the resignation 
 of Dr. South, 198. convocation 
 declare that Tho. Frankland of 
 Brazen-nose coll. never took the 
 degree of D. M., 199. reasons of 
 the decline of learning in the 
 university, 201. 
 
 1678. 
 
 Proceedings in the dispute about 
 the watch, 201. convocation vote 
 that no act shall be celebrated, 
 and the reason why, 203. cours- 
 ing left off, 203. banter ers, who, 
 
 204. trial about the watch ended, 
 
 205. search in the university for 
 persons supposed to be popishly 
 affected, 206. programma relat- 
 ing to the behaviour of the scho- 
 lars towards the dragoons, 208. 
 
 1679. 
 State of St. Augustine's disputations, 
 210. election of burgesses, 211. 
 the collectors cease from enter- 
 taining the determining bachelors, 
 213. election of a public orator, 
 213. a fast proclaimed, 213. dis- 
 pensation for removing the music 
 lecture from the school to the 
 theatre, 215. election for bur- 
 gesses, 217. Titus Oates denied 
 his D. D. degree, 220. election of 
 a yeoman bedel, 221. 
 
 1681. 
 Privileged men cessed towards the 
 militia, 222. election of burgesses, 
 222. St. Scholastica; origin of the 
 ceremony on that day; attempts 
 to evade it, 223. the ceremony 
 abolished, 224. determining ba- 
 chelors, 224. divinity school used 
 
 WOOD, VOL. I. 
 
 for the Lent exercises, 225. re- 
 ception of the duke of Brunswick, 
 226. one term granted condition- 
 ally to undergraduates, 226. con- 
 vocation house fitted up for the 
 commons, 226. king Charles II. 
 comes to Oxford, 227. prices of 
 all vendibles stuck up in public 
 places, 228. prices of wines an. 
 1667, 1673, 229. election of an 
 esquire beadle, 230. dispute in 
 convocation about granting seven 
 terms for the degree of M. A., 
 231. music speech in the school 
 — why not in the theatre, 232. 
 terrae filius cudgelled, 232. terrae 
 filii full of roguery, 232. univer- 
 sity present to Seiston in Lei- 
 cestershire, 233. commissioners 
 appointed by the chancellor to 
 govern the university during his 
 absence, 235. music lecturers 
 from 1661 to 1675, 237. v terrae 
 filii from 1657 to 1675, 237. 
 1682. 
 
 Order from the king, that the pro- 
 fessor of Arabic and others trans- 
 late the emperor of Morocco's 
 letter, 238. St. Scholastica, the 
 citizens appear in full number, 
 238. the university very thin, 
 the reasons why, 239. collec- 
 tions in the university for the 
 French protestants, 240. convo- 
 cations about Dr. Busby's lec- 
 ture, refused by the masters, and 
 the reasons why, 240, 243. dis- 
 pute which should be presented 
 first, bachelors of law or physic, 
 241. chancellor's letters, for re- 
 gulating the behaviour of the 
 masters, read in convocation, 245. 
 music lecturer and terrae filii, 245. 
 1683. 
 
 Number of determining bachelors, 
 251, 254. the museum Ashmo- 
 leanum opened. Mr. Ashmole's 
 letters read in convocation; and 
 a letter of thanks returned to him, 
 255. music lecture, 255. Park- 
 inson expelled for whiggism, 256. 
 the elabatory finished; chymical 
 or philosophical society establish- 
 ed; list of the members, 256. the 
 king returns a letter of thanks 
 for the burning of several books 
 d d 
 
402 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 containing pernicious principles, 
 
 257- 
 
 1685. 
 
 Delegates named to consider about 
 the raising a regiment of scholars, 
 265. Proceedings thereupon in 
 the several colleges, 265 — 273. 
 1687. 
 
 The reception of king James II., 
 274 — 289. his entertainment in 
 the Bodleian library, &c. 284. 
 1692. 
 
 Proceedings in the vice-chancellor's 
 court against Anthony a Wood, 
 290. 
 
 1693. 
 
 Few scholars in Oxford, 292. the 
 charter of the university confirmed 
 by parliament, 292. the princes 
 of Saxe Gotha visit the university 
 incog., 294. masters in morning 
 gowns denied the exercise of their 
 votes, 294. Athenee Oxonienses 
 sentenced, and the sentence put 
 into execution, 295 — 297. 
 1694. 
 
 Trial between the chancellor and 
 Magdalen college, 305. 
 1695. 
 
 The university present verses to 
 king William III., with an ad- 
 dress of condolence on the loss 
 of the queen, 308. determining 
 bachelors 308. university verses 
 published, 308. 
 
 Oxford, city of. 
 
 1634. 
 Owen and Ryley, officers of arms, 
 visit Oxford, and take account of 
 arms and pedigrees of the gentry 
 of the county, 5. 
 1636. 
 King Chas. I., the queen Henrietta 
 Maria, and prince Rupert come 
 from Woodstock to Oxford, 6. 
 1642. 
 King Charles and his army enter 
 Oxford, 11. 
 
 1643. 
 
 The plate belonging to the citizens 
 
 of Oxon. turned into money to 
 
 pay the army, 14. 
 
 1644. 
 
 Motions of the parliament army 
 
 near Oxford, 16. a great fire 
 there, 19. 
 
 1646. 
 The garrison surrendered, 31. 
 
 1648. 
 A plot of the cavaliers ; how detect- 
 ed, 40. 
 
 1650. 
 Anne Green hanged and recovered, 
 46. a coffee-house first opened in 
 Oxford, 48. 
 
 165 1. 
 Verses upon Anne Green, 50. 
 
 1654. 
 Hussey and Peck hanged, 58. 
 
 1655. 
 Coffee sold publicly, 60. names of 
 those who frequented the coffee- 
 house, 64. 
 
 1656. 
 Music club in Oxford, 65. 
 
 1657. 
 Staining of marble discovered by 
 Will. Byrd, 77. 
 
 1658. 
 Alderman Nixon's school finished, 
 78. woman hung for murdering 
 her bastard child, recovered by 
 Corners of St. John's, and again 
 hanged by the bayliffs, 79. high 
 wind previously to the protector's 
 death, 82. Richard Cromwell pro- 
 claimed protector, 82. the pro- 
 claimed pelted, 83. 
 1659. 
 A fire in Holywell, 94. houses 
 searched for arms, 94. a high 
 wind, 95. great rejoicing for the 
 news of a free parliament, 102. 
 the usurpers deface a chapel, and 
 destroy the monuments and in- 
 scriptions, 103. 
 
 1660. 
 The restoration celebrated with great 
 rejoicings, 105. 
 
 1664. 
 A blazing star seen, 140. 
 
 1665. 
 A comet seen, 142. the king comes 
 from Salisbury to Oxford, to avoid 
 the plague, 144. 
 1668. 
 Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux, 
 holds a visitation at Oxford, 161. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 403 
 
 1669. 
 Oxford feast established, 161. fly- 
 ing-coach set up, 162. 
 1670. 
 Oxford feast, 171. the town ditch, 
 on the east- side of New College 
 wall, drained for the erection of 
 buildings, 175. 
 
 1671. 
 The parishioners of St. Peter in the 
 East, intrude on the limits of St. 
 John Baptist parish de Merton, 
 but are checked, 176. Oxford 
 feast, 178. 
 
 1673. 
 Anthony Hall, elected mayor, 187. 
 disturbance between the scholars 
 and townsmen, 188. Oxford feast, 
 
 l88 - .677- 
 
 A large sturgeon taken at Clifton 
 ferry, 196. Oxford feast, 197. the 
 mayor and bayliffs indicted for 
 not keeping up the night watch, 
 197. the duke of Buckingham 
 entertained by the city, 198. the 
 number of Serjeants at law in Ox- 
 ford, 200. coffee-houses increase 
 very much, 201. 
 
 1678. 
 
 Colds very frequent, 201. number 
 of ale-houses in Oxford, 203. 
 dragoons quartered there, 203. 
 Oxford feast, 204. fire in All- 
 hallows parish, 206. houses of all 
 suspected to be papists searched, 
 206, 209. i6l9 
 
 Collection for the poor, 210. a dra- 
 goon shoots a taylor's wife, 210, 
 an alteration made in the prayer 
 used by the city lecturers of St. 
 Martin's before their sermons, 
 210. election of burgesses, 211. 
 a fire, 214. the highway in St. 
 Giles's repaired, 214. election of 
 burgesses, 216. Robert Pauling, 
 draper, chosen mayor, 219. a poor 
 man dies with hunger and cold, 
 220. a flood in the Cherwell, 221. 
 1681. 
 
 Alderman Wright makes a motion 
 to a committee to have the cere- 
 mony of St. Scholastica's day set 
 aside, 222. the city desire a night 
 watch, 222. the duke of Buck- 
 ingham comes to Oxford, 223. 
 
 election of burgesses, 223. dispute 
 about St. Scholastica's day, 223. 
 origin of the ceremony, its dis- 
 continuance, and the great grati- 
 tude professed by the citizens to 
 *the university, 225. the way lead- 
 ing to the water at Magdalen 
 bridge new pitched and walled, 
 227. the king came to Oxford, 
 227. Paynton, the town-clerk, 
 dies, 232. Prince chosen, 233. 
 Stephen College, the protestant 
 joyner, brought prisoner to the 
 castle, 233. hanged and quarter- 
 ed, 234. extremely mild weather, 
 236. Oxford feast, 236. 
 1682. 
 Alderman "Wright, advises the citi- 
 zens to appear on St. Scholastica's 
 day, 238. a flood, 240. collection 
 for the protestants from France, 
 240. Charles Harris proposes to 
 found an hospital; the citizens 
 refuse him a piece of ground for 
 that purpose, 241. the highway 
 from St. Clement's church to the 
 way leading to Marston pitched, 
 
 245. a fire, 246. Oxford feast, 
 
 246. rejoicing that lord Norreys 
 was made earl of Abingdon, 247. 
 
 1683. 
 Thanksgiving day; how observed 
 by the citizens, 256. sir Richard 
 Croke, recorder, dies ; sir George 
 Pudsey elected, 256. 
 1685. 
 Several persons taken up, among 
 whom Robert Pawling, and com- 
 mitted to the castle, 265. rejoic- 
 ings on the defeat of the rebels, 272. 
 1687. 
 The reception of king James, 274 — 
 290. 
 
 1693. 
 High price of provisions, 292. and 
 disturbances on that account, 293. 
 Oxford hackney-coaches robbed, 
 299. 
 
 1694. 
 Thurston chosen town-clerk, 306. 
 the winter severe, 307. 
 1695. 
 Slatford obtains the town-clerkship, 
 308. riot at a canvass for bur- 
 gesses, 310. Oxford feast, 316. 
 the historian of Oxford dies, 317. 
 d d 2 
 
404 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Paget, Diana, 158. 
 
 Palmer, Elizabeth, marries Geo. 
 Baynard, 141. 
 
 Palmer, John, warden of All-Souls, 
 a great rumper, 102, 141. 
 
 Palmer, Mary, marries Ralph Bath- 
 urst, 141. 
 
 Palmer, Sam., of Merton, 184. 
 
 Panting, Matthew, 214. 
 
 Parker, Henry, his cabinet of rari- 
 ties, 204. 
 
 Parker, John, musician, 67, 69. 
 
 Parker, Sam., 180. 
 
 Parkinson, C.C.C., expelled, 256. 
 
 Parry, Francis, 91, 105. 
 
 Parsons, Robert, 216. 
 
 Patrick, Simon, 198. 
 
 Pauling, Robert, 219, 265. 
 
 Paynter, Rich., 294. 
 
 Paynton, John, townclerk, 162, 232. 
 
 Paynton, John, the younger, town- 
 clerk, 232, 233. 
 
 Peacock e, col. Jo., 266. 
 
 Pearson, John, bp. of Chester, 149. 
 
 Pearson, Richard, librarian to sir J. 
 Cotton, 148. visits A. W., 163. 
 
 Peck, hanged, 58. 
 
 Peers, Rich., translates Wood's his- 
 tory into Latin, 172, 184, 190. fat 
 and unable to ride, 275. 
 
 Peireskius, N. C. F., 344. 
 
 Pekins, John, 61. 
 
 Pelham, Dr. Herbert, dies, 175. 
 
 Pelling, John, 317. 
 
 Penn, William, 282. 
 
 Penniless bench, 36. 
 
 Penruddock, John, 82. 
 
 Penton, Stephen, stands for the 
 oratorship, 213, 214, 246. 
 
 Penyston, sir Tho., 178. 
 
 Perrot, Charles, 88, 89, 92, 192. 
 elected burgess for the university, 
 217, 219. 
 
 Perrot, Edward, 88, 89. 
 
 Perrot, Eliz., 88. 
 
 Perrot, Robert, 88, 89. 
 
 Peterborough, earl of; see John 
 Mor daunt, earl of Peterb. 
 
 Pett, Peter, 4, 64, 77. 
 
 Pettie or Petty, Charnel, 58, 93. his 
 death, 108. 
 
 Pettie, Elizabeth, 18. 
 
 Pettie, Ellen, 129. 
 
 Pettie, Harcourt, 106. 
 
 Pettie, Leonard, 17. 
 
 Pettie, Maria, 325. 
 
 Pettie, Mary, afterwards Wood, mo- 
 ther of A. W., 12, 357. 
 
 Pettie, Maximilian, 5, 18. 
 
 Pettie, Penelope, 8. 
 
 Pettie, Robert, 8, 84, 106, 357. 
 
 Philipps, Anth., 47. 
 
 Philipps, chandler of Oxford, 264. 
 
 Philipps, Richard, 46. 
 
 Philips, Geo., 95. 
 
 Phillipps, sir Thos., reprints the ca- 
 talogue of Wood's MSS., 352. 
 
 Phips, the rag-man, capt., 23. taken 
 prisoner, 24. 
 
 Pigot, Henry, 258. 
 
 Pigot, Tho., 258. 
 
 Pink, Robert, 9. when vice-chanc. 
 superintends the training of the 
 scholars, 10. 
 
 Pinnack, Joan, 336. 
 
 Pinthurst, Mr., of Pemb., 231. 
 
 Pitt, Robert, 257. 
 
 Plague, 141. in Oxford, 16. 
 
 Plate in Oxford given to Charles I., 
 14. specimens still remaining in 
 Oxford, 15, 16. 
 
 Plate pledged to the university for 
 money advanced, 127. 
 
 Playford, John, 77. 
 
 Plays, collection of old, by R. Shel- 
 don, 263. 
 
 Plott, Rob., 256, 257, 258. 
 
 Plowden, Edm., 199. 
 
 Pocock, Edw., 174, 283. 
 
 Pointer, John, 132, 316. 
 
 Pole-money, 146. 
 
 Poor-rate at St. Giles in the Fields 
 and elsewhere, 209, 210. 
 
 Pope, sir Thomas, 16. 
 
 Pope, Walter, 293. 
 
 Porie, Elizabeth, 64. 
 
 Porie, Peter, 64. 
 
 Portionists' hall, 139. 
 
 Potter, Hannibal, 169. 
 
 Pottinger, Miss, marries Edm. Gre- 
 gory, 76, 77. 
 
 Powell family, account of, 127. 
 
 Powell, Edmund, 127. 
 
 Powell, James, 127. 
 
 Powell, John, 44, 48, 113, 127. 
 
 Powell, Thomas, 127. 
 
 Powell, Will., 127. 
 
 Powis, lady, 195. 
 
 Pratt, Tho., 80. 
 
 Prayer before sermons at Carfax, 
 210. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 405 
 
 Preaching, controversy on univer- 
 sity, 190. 
 
 Presbyterians upset, but several rat- 
 ted at the Restoration, 106. 
 
 Priaulx, Dr. John, 109. 
 
 Price, Anne, 18. 
 
 Price, Henry, dresses a sturgeon, 196. 
 
 Price, John, Bodley's librarian, ac- 
 count of, 88. 
 
 Price, Robert, 88. 
 
 Prices of carriage, 162, 163. 
 
 Prices of eatables, &c. in Oxford 
 1681, 228. 
 
 Prichard, sir Will., 246. 
 
 Pricket, George, 46. 
 
 Prideaux, John, 350. 
 
 Prince, Thomas, 215. 
 
 Prince, Edward, townclerk, 233. 
 
 Prior, Matth., 138. 
 
 Proast, Jonas, 189. 
 
 Proctor, Joseph, musician, 67. 
 
 Proctor's black-book, 382. 
 
 Protestants flying from France, suc- 
 coured, 240. 
 
 Prowse, chaplain of All-Souls, 302. 
 
 Prynne, William, account of his 
 manner and dress, 149. 
 
 Pudsey, Alex., 190, 258. scolded by 
 James II., 282. 
 
 Pudsey, George, offers himself for 
 Oxford city, 211, 216, 222, 223. 
 
 Pudsey, sir Geo., elected recorder, 
 256, 278. 
 
 Puide, , adjutant-general to the 
 
 pari, army, 28, 29. his baseness, 30. 
 
 Pullen, Josiah, 258. 
 Q. 
 
 Queen's coll. plate given to Charles 
 I. 14. 
 
 Quin, James, gets his student's place 
 at Ch. Ch. from Cromwell for his 
 singing, 101. 
 
 Quin, Walter, 101. 
 R. 
 
 Raines, sir Richard, 336. 
 
 Rainolds, John, 130. 
 
 Ranelagh, Jones lord, 289. 
 
 Rawlins, Bernard, 99. 
 
 Rawlinson, Richard, 172, 261. col- 
 lects memoranda of A. W., 341. 
 
 Rawlyns, William, 214. 
 
 Raymond, justice, 233. 
 
 Read, Jeffry, 46. 
 
 Read, sir Thomas, of Dun stew, 46. 
 
 Reddrop, Edward, 231. 
 
 Rede, Edmund, 155. 
 
 Reed, John, writes Tabula Votiva, 
 177. 
 
 Reed, Isaac, 263. 
 
 Reeks, Henry, 291. 
 
 Reeve, Eliz., 232. 
 
 Reeve, Richard, one of the transla- 
 tors of Wood's Hist., 172, 190. 
 becomes a papist, 191. 
 
 Regiment to be raised among the 
 scholars, 265. 
 
 Reynolds, Edward, late dean of Ch. 
 Ch., elected warden of Merton by 
 royal favour, 106. resigns Mer- 
 ton, and is preferred to the see of 
 Norwich, 108. 
 
 Rhodes, Richard, 92. 
 
 Rich, sir , of Sunning, 191. 
 
 Rich, lady Frances, 158. 
 
 Rich, Henry, earl of Holland, 158. 
 
 Richard, William, of All Souls, 182. 
 
 Richardson, John, 133. 
 
 Richmond, Charles duke of, 130. 
 
 Richmond, Marg. duchess of, 130. 
 
 Richmond, Stephen, 46. 
 
 Ridley, undersheriff, 206. 
 
 Riot at election of mayor, 188. 
 
 Risby, Judith, 157. 
 
 Roberts, George, 112, 113. 
 
 Roberts, Michael, D.D. dies, 214. 
 
 Robinson, Henry, 230. 
 
 Rogers, William, 166, 17 [, 195, 274, 
 289. 
 
 Rosamund, fair, 203, 316. 
 
 Rowden, Edward, 131. 
 
 Rowney, Thomas, 4, 5, 94, J41, 310. 
 grants an annuity to A. W., 316. 
 
 Royal Society, first germ of, 256, 
 
 257- 
 
 Royal visit to Oxon., 274 — 289. 
 Royse, George, 242, 282. 
 Rumsey, William, 48. 
 Rupert, prince, in Oxford, 1 1 . 
 Russell, William lord, 242. 
 Ryley, William, 5. 
 Ryther, Jane, 72. 
 
 S. 
 Sackville, Charles, earl of Middlesex, 
 
 13^ 137- 
 Sackville, Edward, earl of Dorset, 
 
 237- 
 Sadler, Thomas, hanged for stealing 
 
 the lord chancellor's mace, 195. 
 Sadler, Vincent, 177. 
 St. Alban's abbey, 16. 
 St. George, sir Henry, 52. 
 St. Giles's highway repaired, 214. 
 
406 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 St. John's college redeems its plate 
 from Charles I., but afterwards 
 bestows it upon his majesty, 15. 
 
 St. John's coll. grove injured, 189. 
 
 Salter, Nath., 184. 
 
 Sancroft, William, made archbishop 
 of Canterbury, 200, 201. 
 
 San eta- Clara alias Chr. Davenport, 
 166. Wood dines with him, 171. 
 gives A. W. his works, 174. 
 
 Sanders, captain, 156. 
 
 Sandford near Oxon, 126. 
 
 Savage, sir Arthur, 85. 
 
 Savage, Henry, master of Balliol, 
 compiles Balliofergus, and has 
 help from A. W., 104, 108. 
 
 Savage, Henrietta Maria, marries 
 Ralph Sheldon, 261. 
 
 Savill, Henry, 137, 237. 
 
 Saunders, Anthony, 235. 
 
 Sawyer, Thomas, 232, 237. 
 
 Saxe Gotha, princes of, in Oxon, 294. 
 
 Say, Robert, 142. 
 
 Scholars become soldiers, 9, 266. 
 
 Scholastica, St., the ancient cere- 
 mony on this day proposed to be 
 put aside, 222. some account of 
 it, 223. abolished, 224. the city's 
 great gratitude thereat, 224, 238. 
 
 Science, Richard, 16. 
 
 Scott, Robert, bookseller, 148. 
 
 Scudamore, lady, living in Holy- 
 well, 86. 
 
 Scurvy-grass drunk as physic drink, 
 87. 
 
 Sedley, sir Charles, 136, 137, 160. 
 
 Sedley, sir William, 160. 
 
 Selden's books brought to Bodley's 
 library, 95. leaves his spectacles 
 in his books, 97. his marbles 
 placed in the school's wall, 106. 
 
 Sermons at Ch. Ch., controversy on, 
 190. 
 
 Sewster, Robert, 267. 
 
 Seymour, Elizabeth, marries Wood's 
 brother Christopher, 78. 
 
 Seymour, Eliz., 357. 
 
 Seymoure, William, 4, 357. 
 
 Seys, Matthew, 268. 
 
 Seys, Richard, 268. 
 
 Sheffield, John, earl of Mulgrave, 
 
 137- 
 
 Sheldon, Ann, 250. 
 
 Sheldon, Edward, writes the Rule of 
 Faith, 179. and Councells of Wis- 
 dom, 251. 
 
 Sheldon, Frances, 249. Wood's re- 
 gard for her, 250, 253, 262/, 
 
 Sheldon, Gilbert, archbishop of Can- 
 terbury, kind to A. W., 165. the 
 members of the university dine 
 with him, 165. 
 
 Sheldon, Ralph, of Steeple Barton, 
 65. 
 
 Sheldon, Ralph, 137. Wood's first 
 acquaintance with him, 1 78. im- 
 prisoned, 206. his letters to Wood 
 examined, 207, 237. his great 
 kindness to A. W., 248, 249. 
 their intercourse interrupted, 249. 
 correspondence, 249 — 254. his 
 death and his character, 260. ac- 
 count of him, 261. his library &c. 
 sold, 263, 332. 
 
 Sheldon, Roger, 177. 
 
 Sheldon, William, 261. 
 
 Shepheard, Fleetwood, 137, 237. 
 
 Sheppard, Margaret, 128. 
 
 Sherlock, Richard, curate of Cas- 
 sington, 41, 42. 
 
 Shern, Richard, 176. 
 
 Sherrard, hon. Christopher, dies, 
 
 239- 
 
 Sherwin, William, letter from, 189, 
 
 221, 290. 
 Shippen, William, 143. 
 Shirley, John, of Trinity, ridicules 
 
 A. W. in his speech, 185, 187. 
 Shrieve, Anne, 233. 
 Shrieve, Thomas, 233. 
 Shrove Tuesday speeches, 35. 
 Shuttleworth, Clerke, 247. 
 Shuttleworth, sir Richard, marries 
 
 Miss Clerke, 247. 
 Skinner, Robert, bishop of Oxon, 
 
 ordains at Ch. Ch., 111, 112. 
 Skinner, Thomas, 271. 
 Skinner, William, 271. 
 Slater, Ed., of Merton, 215. preaches 
 
 an eloquent sermon, 237. 
 Slatford, , 306. townclerk, 308, 
 
 310. 
 Slatter, Edm., burnt with gunpow- 
 der, 269. 
 Slatter, Francis, 237. 
 Slatter, Wm., mayor of Oxford, 
 
 225. 
 Sloane, sir Hans, chosen physician 
 
 to Christ's hospital, 307. 
 Sloper, Charles, 295. 
 Smalridge, George, 307. 
 Smith, Alice, 291. 
 
I N D E X, 
 
 407 
 
 Smith, Francis, B. Med., 230. 
 
 Smith, Michael, 256. 
 
 Smith, Tho., goes with Wood to 
 
 Bay worth, 84. 
 Smith, Tho., 257, 258. 
 Smith of St. John's, proctor, 296, 
 
 3°9- 
 
 Snow, Ralph, 180. 
 
 Somerset, Henry, marquis of Worces- 
 ter, 199. 
 
 Somner, Will., writes his first letter 
 to A.W., 129. 
 
 Sonmans, William, painter, 187. 
 
 Souch, Richard, of C.C.C., 238. 
 
 Souch, Rich., milliner, 238. his wife 
 burnt, 206. 
 
 South, Dr. Rob., 182. preaches on 
 sacrilege, 189. false, 192. resigns 
 the orator's place, 198. king James 
 II. notices him, 280. and treats 
 him familiarly, 288. his witty but 
 unfeeling remark on Wood, 355. 
 
 Southby, Strange, denied his de- 
 gree, 242. 
 
 Southley, — , B. A., of Merton, 221. 
 
 Spark, Tho., 247. 
 
 Speeches by freshmen in the hall of 
 Merton coll., 36, 38. 
 
 Spencer, Robert, earl of Sunder- 
 land, 283. 
 
 Spencer, sir Tho., 204, 232. 
 
 Sprigg, William, 102. 
 
 Squyre, Will., 176. 
 
 Stanie or Staine, Will., 46, 55. 
 
 Standish, W., pledges his plate to 
 the university, 127. 
 
 Stanley, Dr. Edw., 307. 
 
 Star, blazing, 140. 
 
 Statues on each side of the gate of 
 the physic garden purchased with 
 Wood's fine, 381. 
 
 Stephens, Henry, 316. 
 
 Sterry, Nath., 109, 113, 123. 
 
 Sthael, Peter, 134, 135. 
 
 Stillingfleet, Edward, 245. 
 
 Stone, Will., 167. 
 
 Stonehouse, Eliz., 88. 
 
 Stonehouse, sir Wm,, 88. 
 
 Stradling, George, 65. 
 
 Strafford, Tho. earl of, 385. 
 
 Strange, Richard, of Cars well, 242. 
 
 Stratford, William, 18. 
 
 Strickland, Rich., 237. 
 
 Stuart, Frances, duchess of Rich- 
 mond, 1 23. 
 
 Stubbe, Henry, his narrow escape, 
 102. 
 
 Sturgeon caught at Clifton, 196. 
 
 Surtees, Robert, 357. 
 
 Sutcliffe, Math., 239. 
 
 Sutton, Tho., 240. 
 
 Swall, Mr., 319. 
 
 Sykes, Tho., Trin. coll., 303. 
 
 Symms, cornet, 28. 
 T. 
 
 Talbot, sir John, 208. 
 
 Tanner, Tho., 307, 309, 311, 316. 
 his letter on Wood's death, 318, 
 320, 321, 335. first recommended 
 to A. W. by Charlett, 340. 
 
 Taverner family noted for comeli- 
 ness, 8. 
 
 Taverner, John, 77, 134. 
 
 Taverner, Mary, 77. 
 
 Taverner, Richard, 8, 12. 
 
 Tayler, William, 221. 
 
 Taylor, Silas, 91. 
 
 Taylor, Sylvanus, 90, 105. 
 
 Taylour, Joseph, 146. 
 
 Tellier, Charles Maurice Le, visits 
 Oxford, 195, 196. 
 
 Templars, their house at Sandford, 
 127. 
 
 TerrsefiUus, part of a speech by, 187. 
 
 Terraefilii, 237, 238. 
 
 Terwick, capt., 221. 
 
 Thame, John, builds Fairford church, 
 finished by sir Edmund Thame, 
 107. 
 
 Thame school, and list of the mas- 
 ters, 17. account of the school 
 printed by Vantrollier, very rare, 
 18. 
 
 Theed, Richard, 6. 
 
 Theophila, or Love's Sacrifice, 68. 
 
 Theyer, John, solicitor, 33. enter- 
 tains A. W., 160. 
 
 Thomas, David, 18. a good loyalist, 
 31. master of Dorchester school, 
 
 7 1 - 
 
 Thomas, Samuel, 198. 
 Thomkins, Tho., 180. 
 Thompson, Avery, 233. 
 Thorne, Philip, 292. 
 Thornhill, John, 28. 
 Thurston, Sam., town clerk, 306, 308. 
 Tilden, Theoph., 281. 
 Tillotson, John, 81, 245, 373. 
 Tillyard, Arthur, apothecary, 63, 
 
 135' 246. 
 Tillyard, Christopher, inventory of 
 
 his goods, 64. 
 Tillyard, Margaret, 64. 
 Tipping of Cassington, 41, 55. 
 
408 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Todd, Hugh, 258, 297. 
 
 Tom's coffee-house, 48. 
 
 Tooker, col., 26. 
 
 Torlesse, Rich., 237. 
 
 Torriano, Alexand., 189. 
 
 Tredagh, storming of, and cruelties 
 
 practised there, 51, 52. 
 Trevour, Rich., 159. 
 Trigg, Bridgett, 83. 
 Trinity college plate, 16. 
 Trinity coll. frequented by A. W., 
 
 182. rude conduct there at the 
 
 election of proctor, 184. 
 Trinity coll. chapel consecrated, 303. 
 Trist, major, 26. 
 Tristram, John, 141. 
 Troughton, John, 235. 
 Turnerand, Edw., 113. 
 Turner, Francis, 134, 256, 311. 
 Turner, sir Wm., 293. 
 Tuscany, Cosmo duke of, 77, 163, 
 
 349- 
 
 Twisse, Will., 350. 
 
 Twyford, Mr., 140. 
 
 Tylliard, Arthur ; see Tilly ard. 
 U. V. 
 
 University college plate given to 
 Charles I., 14. 
 
 Upton, Wm., of King's Sutton, 306. 
 
 Usher, James, abp. of Armagh, his 
 MS. papers, 167. 
 
 Vach, the, in parish of Chalfont, 
 126. 
 
 Vanburgh, sir John, 48. 
 
 Vane, sir Henry, 102. 
 
 Varrio the painter, 289. 
 
 Vaughan, John, 96. 
 
 Vaughan, the hon. Mr., son of the 
 earl of Carbury, 237. 
 
 Vaughan of Edmund hall, stands for 
 Seiston, 233. 
 
 Vaulx, John, 141. 
 
 Verman, Geo., sen. proctor, speaks 
 well of A.W., 184. 
 
 Vesey, Richard, 293, 299. 
 
 Vilett, Nicholas, 230. 
 
 Vincent, Augustine, his MS. col- 
 lections, 262. 
 
 Vincent, John (his son), sells his 
 father's papers to Mr. R. Sheldon, 
 262. 
 
 Vincent, John, fellow of All- Souls, 
 90. 
 
 Vincent, Tho., 177. 
 
 Violins introduced, 70. 
 
 Visitation of Oxford by two he- 
 ralds, 5. 
 
 Visitors from the parliament come 
 to Oxford, 38. 
 
 W. 
 
 W. J. (i. e. J. Warneford), Wood's 
 great friend, 58. 
 
 Wadham coll. plate given to Chas. 
 I., 14, 16. 
 
 Walker, Joshua, 258. 
 
 Walker, Obadiah, 147, 167, 175, 
 207. 
 
 Walker, Will., 293. 
 
 Waller, Elizabeth, 17. 
 
 Waller, Robert, 17. 
 
 Waller, sir Will., threatens Oxford, 
 16. 
 
 Wallingford castle demolished, 45. 
 
 Wallis, Dr. John, admits A. W. to 
 the archives, 107. and places 
 great confidence in him, to8, iio, 
 135, 168. takes from A. W. the 
 writings, &c. had out of the ar- 
 chives, 206, 257, 258. treats him 
 rudely, 259. 
 
 Walter, capt., 21. 
 
 Walter, col. Daniel, 25, 26. 
 
 Walter, Elizabeth, 25. 
 
 Walter, sir John, 25. 
 
 Wanley, Humphrey, 155. 
 
 Waple, Edward, stands for the ora- 
 torship, 213, 214. 
 
 Ward, Esay, 105. 
 
 Ward, Seth, 293. 
 
 Warneford, Edmund, 130. 
 
 Warneford, John, Wood's intimate 
 friend, 130. 
 
 Warneford, lady Wetherell, 131. 
 
 Warner, John, bp. of Rochester, 174. 
 
 Wase, Christ., 172, 278. 
 
 Watkins, Bridget, 186. 
 
 Watkins, Rich., 50. 
 
 Weather very mild, 236. 
 
 Webb, William, bookseller, 70. 
 
 Weldon, George, 59. 
 
 Wells, Edward, of Ch. Ch., 306. 
 
 Welsted, A., 258. 
 
 West, Mr., of Hampton Poyle, 61. 
 
 Westcote, Gervase, 66, 67, 93. 
 
 Wetherell, sir Charles, 131. 
 
 Whale, great, 196. 
 
 Wharton, George, 99. 
 
 Wharton, Gilbert, 213. 
 
 Wheare, Degory, 194. 
 
 Wheeler, Maurice, 258. 
 
 Wheeler, Robert, 18. 
 
 Wheeler, sir W., 75. 
 
 White, Christopher, 275. 
 
 White, John, 249. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 409 
 
 White, sir Sampson, 175, 198, 249. 
 White, Tho., D.D. by diploma, 255. 
 Whitehall, Rob., i[3, 175. 
 Whitehead, John, 59. 
 Whitelock, Bulstrode, 83. 
 Whitgrave, Tho., 177. 
 Whorwood, Brome, 65, 211, 216, 
 
 223. 
 Whorwood, Brome, jun., drowned, 
 
 72. 
 Whorwood, Jane, her loyalty and 
 
 sendees to king Chas. II., 72, 73, 
 
 14, 75- 
 Wickham, David, 231. 
 Wickham, Elizabeth, 128. 
 Wickham, Jane, 70. 
 Wickham, John, 70, 78. 
 Wickham, Will., 70, 128. 
 Wicklow, (forsan Wickham), David, 
 
 231. 
 Wight, Nathaniel, 196. 
 Wilgoose, John, takes a lease of the 
 
 Wood family, 104. 
 Wilgoose, of Brasenose, dies, 247. 
 AViikins, John, warden of Wadham 
 
 bp. of Chester, his death, 81. 
 Williams, John, lord, founds a 
 
 school at Thame, 17. 
 Williams, Tho., 53, 54. 
 Williamson, sir Joseph, 135. 193. 
 Willis, Hugh, 18. 
 Willis, John, 151. 
 Willis, Thos., the physician, 129, 
 
 J5 1 ' 
 
 W T ilmot, lieut., 28. 
 
 Wilson, bp. of Limerick, 317. 
 
 Wilson, lieut., 28. 
 
 Wilson, John, the best flute -player 
 
 in England, 66, 68, 69, 105. 
 Wilton, John, 131. 
 Winchelsea, earl of, see Finch. 
 Winchurst, John, 246. 
 Winds violent, 82, 95. 
 Wines, prices of, 1667, 1673, 229. 
 Winnington, sir Francis, 211. 
 Wiseman, Charles, 90. 
 Wiseman, of Lockinge, 230. 
 Wither, herald painter, 161. 
 Withrington, Mr., 148. 
 Wolveridge, Anthony, 237. 
 Woman tried for marrying a young 
 
 maid, 295. 
 Wood, Anne, 334, 357. 
 A\ ood. Anthony a, his birth, 3. 
 
 christened, 4. in a house near 
 
 Merton, 6. sees king Charles I. 
 wood, vol. 1. 
 
 6. put to school, 7. is ridden 
 over, 7. sent to a Latin school, 7. 
 thence to New college school, 
 8. account of his mother, 12. 
 his studies interrupted by the 
 civil wars, 13. sent to Tets worth, 
 16. removed to Thame and there 
 sent to school, 17. very dili- 
 gent, 19. his studies impeded 
 by the civil war, 20. disturbed 
 by the skirmishes which he re- 
 cords, 20 — 30. witnesses the sur- 
 render of Borstall, 31. obliged 
 to leave Thame, 32. his affection 
 for that school, 33. is placed 
 under his brother Edward, 33, 
 34. his mother wishes to make 
 him an apprentice, which he dis- 
 dains, 33. proposes to make him 
 a solicitor, 33. enters the univ. 
 is matr. of Merton, and made 
 postmaster, 34. speaks the fresh- 
 man's speech, 36. is called be- 
 fore the visitors, 39. warden 
 Brent saves his postmastership. 
 39. is placed under C. Maund, 
 
 44. his brother Edw. peevish 
 with him, 44. made bible-clerk, 
 
 45. verses ascribed to him, 50. 
 exercises his taste in music, 53. 
 is examined for the degree of 
 B. A., 53. has a fall from his 
 horse and is injured, 53. is seized 
 with an ague, 55. learns to plow, 
 ring bells, and applies himself to 
 music, 56. tries to conquer the 
 ague by drinking, 56. takes les- 
 sons in music, 57. obtains ad- 
 mission to the Bodleian, the hap- 
 piness of his life, 57. lights upon 
 the Hist, of Leicestershire and the 
 Display of Heraldry, in which he 
 delights, 58. tricks arms, 58. 
 forms an intimacy with J . Warne- 
 ford, 58. examined for M. A. 
 
 59. taken notice of by Dr. Bar- 
 low, 60. enjoys some frolics, 60. 
 travels the country as a musician, 
 
 60. declaims in the schools, 61. 
 appointed collector, 61. publishes 
 his brother's sermons, 63. be- 
 comes a regular practiser in mu- 
 sic, 65. delighted with Dugdale's 
 Antiq. of Warwickshire, 68. his 
 life a perfect elysium, 68. begins 
 a survey of the antiquities of 
 
 e e 
 
410 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Oxford, 68. subscribes to the 
 bells at Merton, 68. becomes a 
 bell ringer, 70. peruses Leland's 
 Collections, 71. visits Dorches- 
 ter, 71. visits Ensham, 75. gives 
 an entertainment to the musical 
 people, 77. a second entertain- 
 ing, 80. hears Baltzar, 80. plays 
 with him, 82. visits Charnel Pet- 
 tie, 83. petitions against the vi- 
 sitors, 84. his love for music con- 
 tinues, 83. goes to Banbury, 93. 
 assists in putting Selden's books 
 in order, 95. is rewarded by a 
 pair of his spectacles, 98. resigns 
 his interest in his patrimony in 
 favour of his brothers, 101. ob- 
 tains access to Ch. Ch. records, 
 101. betakes himself seriously to 
 the study of antiquities, 103. is 
 terrified by the perusal of Casau- 
 bon's book on Spirits, 103. ap- 
 plies for leave to consult the ar- 
 chives, 104. peruses the MSS. 
 at C.C.C., 105. performs at the 
 music lecture, 105. inspects the 
 MSS. at various colleges, 106. 
 goes to Meysey Hampton, 106. 
 to Fairford, 107. obtains admis- 
 sion to the archives, 107. Dr. 
 Wallis's confidence in him, 108. 
 assists Dr. W. ,110. has an issue 
 by the advice of Dr. Lower, 129. 
 assists Dr. Wallis in arranging 
 the evidences in the Tower of the 
 Schools, 139. peruses the evi- 
 dences of several colleges, 142. 
 obtains leave to go into the gal- 
 leries of Bodiey's library, 144. 
 his mother dies, 146. pays his 
 first tax, 147. goes to London in 
 the coach, 147. becomes acquaint- 
 ed with Pearson, 148. and with 
 Prynne, 149. writes to thank Dr. 
 Barlow for his fatherly kindness, 
 151. reputed to be author of No- 
 titia Acad. Oxon. 152. visits Bor- 
 stall, 155. goes to Waterstock, 
 157. Dr. Savage sends him his 
 book, 157. goes to Cooper's hill, 
 
 160. to Gloucester, 160. keeps 
 Christmas with sir Geo. Croke, 
 
 161. goes in the flying coach to 
 London, 162, 164. driven from 
 his usual meals, and his distress 
 thereon, 163. his hearing becomes 
 
 impaired, 164. dines with the abp. 
 of Canterbury, 165. much noticed, 
 166. the delegates of the press 
 give him 100Z. for his Hist, et 
 Antiq. Oxon. 167. communicates 
 his notes to Ralph Bathurst, who 
 betrays him, 168. the trouble he 
 undergoes in revising his Hist. 
 for the Latin version, 169. makes 
 notes on Leycester's Cheshire, 
 
 171. places his 100/. in the hands 
 of his brother Christ., 171. spoken 
 well of by Lloyd, 172. his Eng- 
 lish copy put into Latin by Peers, 
 
 172. has a good glass given him, 
 
 173. Dr. Fell undertakes A. W.'s 
 Hist, at his own charge, 175. is 
 present at a conference on the 
 ditch in Long wall, 175. prevents 
 an intrusion on the boundaries of 
 St. Jo. Bapt. parish, 176. becomes 
 acquainted with Huddleston, 177. 
 and with Ralph Sheldon, 177. 
 corrects Blount's Animad. on 
 Baker, 179. who lauds him, 180. 
 dines again with the abp. of Cant. 
 180. who encourages him, 181. 
 goes toTrin. Coll. frequently, 182. 
 desired to refrain, 182. Fell sends 
 for and upbraids him, 183. is 
 praised in the proctor's speech, 
 184. his brother's wife uncivil, 
 
 184. is abused by the terra? films, 
 
 185. taken for a papist, 178, 191, 
 207. arranges lord Fairfax's 
 MSS.. 192. his Hist, et Antiq. 
 Univ. published, 192. dedicated 
 to the king, 193. copies presented 
 to illustrious strangers, 194, 195. 
 recommended for a herald's place, 
 195. almost killed by medicine, 
 195. loses H.F., 199. keeps Lent 
 at Weston, 202. at Bath, 204. 
 Dr. Wallis takes from him all the 
 archive papers, 206. has a visit 
 of suspicion from the vice-chan- 
 cellor, 206. takes the oaths of 
 allegiance and supremacy, 208. 
 slighted by the master of Pem- 
 broke, 209. gives his Hist. Oxon. 
 to Herald's coll. at the request of 
 Dugdale, 211. animadverts on 
 Burnet's Hist, of the Reform., 215. 
 gives a gratuity to White Kennett 
 for aid in Kent, 240. his unrea- 
 sonable expectations from Mr. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 411 
 
 Sheldon, 249. interrupt their 
 friendship, 252. Dr. Wallis ob- 
 tains the keys from him, 259. loses 
 his friend Mr. Sheldon, 260. dines 
 in London with Dr. Nath. John- 
 ston, 290. is cited to the chan- 
 cellor's court to answer the earl 
 of Clarendon, 290. is taxed at 
 200Z., 293. portrait of by Bur- 
 ghers, 294. his case with lord 
 Clarendon terminates, 295. hard- 
 ship of the proceedings against 
 him, 296. sentence against him, 
 296. his book burnt, 297. his 
 name inserted in the black book, 
 299. the proctor speaks disre- 
 spectfully of him in his speech, 
 303. goes to London as a witness 
 in the Magd. hall case, 304. is 
 ridiculed on his return home by 
 " a little poor thing," 305. his 
 letter to sir L. Osbaldeston, 305. 
 goes to Astrop wells, 306. indis- 
 posed, 307. contends that his sen- 
 tence is taken off by act of par- 
 liament, 309. his displeasure 
 dreaded, 309. bp. More praises his 
 Athence, 310. dines with Dr. Char- 
 lett, 311. has an interview with the 
 earl of Clarendon, 311. his letters 
 toandfromMr.Dodwell,3i2,387. 
 to lord Clarendon, 314. obtains 
 an annuity, 316. goes to Binsey 
 and Godstow with bp. Tanner, 
 then a young bachelor, 316. taken 
 ill, 316. is visited by Dr. Char- 
 lett, 317. makes his will, 318. 
 dies, 321. his MSS. and books 
 bequeathed to the Ashmolean 
 museum, 318. Thos. Rowney 
 erects a monument to him, 322. 
 his will in full, 334. Hearne's 
 account of him,, 337. his accurate 
 observation obnoxious to the 
 Merton men, 337. his remark on 
 the discovery of some mistakes, 
 337. his papers looked on as 
 valuable, 338. not so deaf as he 
 represented himself to be, 338. 
 his generosity, 338. his usual 
 gait, 339. said to have used spec- 
 tacles very early, 339. dies in the 
 communion of the church of 
 England, 339. and with great 
 patience and humility, 341. his 
 coins curious, and how disposed 
 
 of, 341. catalogue of his MSS. 
 printed, 352. pedigree of A. W., 
 
 357. the proceedings against him, 
 
 358. the sentence, 377. passages 
 excepted against, 384. of which 
 after all he was not the author. 
 
 385. 
 
 Wood, Benj., 236, 290, 291. 
 
 Wood, Charles, 357. 
 
 Wood, Christopher, brother of A. 
 W., 13, 16, 20, 32, 33. marries, 
 78, 101, 171, 335, 357. 
 
 Wood, Edward, brother to A. W., 
 made postmaster of Merton, 9. a 
 scholar of Trinity, 13. bears arms^ 
 13. comes to Thame, 32. is tutor 
 to A. W., 33. put in fellow of 
 Merton, 41. suspended by the 
 visitors, 47. visits his brother A. 
 W. when ill, 57. made junior 
 proctor, 61. dies, 61. verses on, 
 62. his sermons printed by A.W., 
 
 <%> J 34, 357- 
 Wood, Eliz., 357. 
 Wood, Frances, 334, 357. 
 Wood, Henry, uncle to A.W., 12. 
 Wood, Hugh, 12, 357. 
 Wood, James, it, 357. 
 Wood, John, brother to A.W., dies, 
 
 1> 12, 357. 
 Wood, John, of Edinb., 173, 174. 
 Wood, Margaret, his father's first 
 
 wife, 12. 
 Wood, Mary, mother to A. W T ., 12. 
 
 her property injured by fire, 32, 
 
 41. goes to Cassington, 41, 42. 
 
 Merton coll. sets a fine on her 
 
 house, 49. she dies, 146, 335, 
 
 342, 357. 
 Wood, Peter, 294, 357. 
 Wood, Richard, 13, 238, 357. 
 Wood, Robert, uncle to A.W., 12. 
 Wood, Robert, brother to A. W., 
 
 goes to France, 9, 13, 57. marries 
 
 Mary Drope, 99, 100, 101, 334, 
 
 357- 
 Wood, Robert, of Islington, 13. 
 Wood, Roderic, 357. 
 Wood, Seymour, 357. 
 Wood, Thomas, father to A. W., 3. 
 
 dies, 11. account of him, 12, 325, 
 
 357- 
 Wood, Thomas, brother to A. W., 
 student of Ch. Ch., 7. his mili- 
 tary ardour, 10. goes to Edgehill, 
 11. a rough soldier, 13. goes to 
 
412 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Ireland, 39. dies there, 50. ac- 
 count of, 51, 344, 357. 
 
 Wood, Thos., 2ig. vindicates his 
 uncle A. W., 293, 300. 
 
 Wood, Tho., of Broadgate, 342. 
 
 Wood, Tho., landlord of the Saluta- 
 tion, 77. 
 
 Woodier, John, 179. 
 
 Woodford, Samuel, 91, 92. 
 
 Woodhop, a priest, 261, 
 
 Woodroff, Benjamin, 134, 171, 283, 
 300. 
 
 Woodward, Michael, 112, 134. 
 
 Worcester, Henry, marquis of, see 
 Somerset, Henry. 
 
 Workman, James, 113, 196, 256. 
 
 Wray, Mr., 81. 
 
 Wright, John, 46. 
 
 Wren, sir Christopher, 64, 135, 190, 
 
 Wren, Matthew, 65. 
 
 Wren, Matthew, bishop of Ely, 66. 
 
 Wren, Thomas, 65, 66. 
 
 Wright, Abraham, his volume of 
 
 poems, 107. 
 Wright, John, postmaster of Mer- 
 
 ton, 46. 
 Wright, William, 211, 216, 223, 
 
 238. 
 Wright, recorder of Oxford, 310. 
 Wroughton, Charles, 215. 
 Wyatt, William, stands for the ora- 
 
 torship, 213, 242. preaches a high 
 
 flown sermon, 300. 
 Wych, sir Cyril, 237. 
 Wycleve, John, Fell's opinion of 
 
 him, 182. 
 Wyght, Nath., 197. 
 Wyld, Edmund, 152. 
 
 Y. 
 Yate, Thomas, 112, 165, 167, 174, 
 
 193> 235. 
 Yarbury, Henry, 135, 211, 212. 
 Yarnton house, 204. 
 Younger, Dr. John, 232. 
 
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