UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/athenaeoxoniense01wooduoft 9r';ci ' ATHENE OXONIENSES THE THIRD EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS. VOLUME THE FIRST. £> #' T. Benslcy, Printer, Boll Couit FImi Sttccti Londoo. ^J^ ATHENE OXONIENSES. AN EXACT HISTORY OF ALL THE WRITERS AND BISHOPS WHO HAVE HAD THEIR EDUCATION IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. TO WHICH ABE ADDED • THE FASTI, OR ANNALS OF THE SAID UNIVERSITY. BV ANTHONY A WOOD, M. A. OF MERTON COLLEGE. A NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS, AND A CONTINUATION By PHILIP BLISS, FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE. VOL. L Anttquam exquirite matrem. Virgil, LONDON: PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO.; T. PAYNE; WHITE COCHRANE AND CO.; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN; CADELL AND DAVIES; J. AND A. ARCH; J. MAWMAN; black, PARRY, AND CO.; R. H. EVANS; J. BOOTH, LONDON: AND J.PARKER, OXFORD. 1813. f. \ > w^' TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM WYNDHAM, BARON GRENVILLE, CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, / THIS EDITION OF THE ATHENM OXONIENSES, CONTAINING THE LIVES OF WRITERS EDUCATED IN THAT UNIVERSITY, IS INSCRIBED, AS A TESTIMONY OF RESPECT FOR HIS LORDSHIP's DISTINGUISHED CHARACTER AS A STATESMAN AND A SCHOLAR, BY HIS MUCH OBLIGED AND VERY FAITHFUL SERVANT, PHILIP BLISS. ST. John's college, oxford, JUNE 11, 1813. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. Page. Preface to the present Edition .............. \ The Life of Anthony d, Wood, written by himself ........ ~ i Hearne's Account of JVood ----- cxxvii The last Will and Testmjient of JVood - --- cxxxi Hearne^s Memoranda relating to Wood ------------ cxxxii Huddesford's Character of Wood ------------ -- cxxxiv Pedigree of Wood ------------------ cxxxix Proceedings against Wood ---------------- cxl Recantation of Wood _.--, cxlviii Aubrey's Account of Judge Jenkins .....-- cxlix The Bookseller's Preface to the Second Edition - cliii Wood's Address to the Reader --- -- cliv Harington's Preface .__-.------------ clvii Vindication of the Historiographer ------------- clxii Harington^s Introduction ---------------- clxxii At hence Oaronienses ---------------- Col. 1 — 776 Index 778 PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION. THE merit and value of Anthony k Wood's biographical labours are so well known, and so justly appreciated, that no introduction to these volumes would appear necessary, were it not right to declare the authorities on which the additional information rests, and to point out those peculiarities which distinguish the present from the two preceding editions. The first edition, which appeared in the years 1691 and 1692, although not printed under the immediate superintendance of the author, may be considered as entirely proceeding from him. It is true that some few passages were rejected by the licenser, and a few others, as he himself somewhat pettishly informs us, were altered by his own friends; but, as there can be no doubt that this was the genuine work of the author, so must he be regarded as answerable for every statement and character it contains. It has been thought the more necessary to insist on this point, since Wood has incurred great reproach, because, at the time the proceedings against him by lord Clarendon were pending, he denied himself to be tiie author of the Second Volume of Athene Oxonienses, altogether. This charge has been frequently repeated, and, in some instances, has been made to throw a doubt on tlie veracity of all his state- ments as an author. But Wood's answer to the accusation against him, in the vice- chancellor's court, should be considered rather as the answer of his proctor, than of himself; and the exceptions, and the denial should be regarded as those framed for him by his legal advisers. These persons, well aware of the strong party spirit at that time raging in the university, conceived that the only means of defeating the prosecution, would be to compel their opponents to prove Wood the author of the obnoxious passages, which could only be accomplished by entirely disowning the publication. If this be the case, all accusations against Wood's veracity, or against his courage and consistency are refuted; for the denial in the defence will then be attributed to the right person, namely, the defendant's proctor, who, in the dis- charge of his duty, took every legal means of repelling the accusations against his client, although without success. b 10 PKEl'ACE TO THE PRESENT EDI'I'JON. To the two volumes already mentioned, it was Wood's inlention loliave added a third, containing the Lives of writers i)efore accidentally omitted, and of such others as had died after the appearance of his work. This volume, had he not been pre- vented by death, it was his intention to have printed in Holland, in order to escape the Jurisdiction of the licenser, or the interference of his acquaintance.' Jn his last hours, Wood was advised by Dr. Charlct, to entrust the carie of his papers relative to the AriiENiE, to Mr. Thomas Tanner of All Soul's college, after- wards bishop of St. Asaph. To this he consented, and his numerous MS. collec- tions were, immediately after his death, delivered to Mr. Tanner for the purpose of publication. There can be little doubt but that Wood intended all his papers should see the light without any reserve, and, indeed, he appears to have been particularly solici- tous on this point, in his last interview with Dr. Charlet. Hearne informs us,* that when Tanner was recommended to him, he cried out with much vehemence, Hath he courage? Will he be honest ? And he repeated these Avords several times with great energy, nor, until he was thoroughly satisfied on this head, would he commit his collections to the guardianship of Mr. Tanner. For what reason Tanner neglected to execute his trust, and publish the con- tents of Wood's papers, it would now be useless to inquire; but it may safely be conjectured that he found too many unfavourable characters of persons then living, or but recently dead, to render such a measure either gratifying or prudent: add to which, he soon after meditated a literary undertaking in the execution of which AVood's labours proved of essential service : this was his Bibliotheca Brkannico Hi- bertiica, a volume of which every page owes infinite obligations to the AtheNjE, and in which several hvcs are acknowledged to be derived from The third volume, then in MS. As things were thus situated, it is probable that Wood's additional papers would never have appeared before the public,had nolTonson the bookseller meditated a new edition of the whole work. For this purpose, he purchased the copy-right of Mr. Wood's executrix, and then applied, through Laurence Echard, to Dr. Tanner for ■ Ant. a Wood, as Mr. Hudson told me, consult- some men took of expunging what they pleased, ed with him, (knowing that he had great cones- that he would never suffer any hook of his to be pondence with the chief men in Holland,) how to committed to an English press again. He more- get his third vol. of Athen/E OxoN. printed there, over added, (to use his own words,) " when this Wlien he was asked the reason why he would not volume comes out, I'le make you laugh again." have it printed in England, he answered, that his Hearne, MS. Collectiotis, vol. v. 140. Other books had suflered so much b;- the liberty that * MS. Collections, vol. xcii. 192. PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION. 1 1 the materials comprising the third volume. After some debate relative to the price. Tanner consented to give up the papers, and the new lives were either incorporated ■with, or appended to, the original work, and the whole appeared in the year 1721. As a proof of the genuineness of these additional lives, it is much to be wished, that Dr. Tanner had deposited the originals in the Bodleian library, but, as this was never done, it is now impossible to judge with what fidelity he executed his trust. It is certain however, that several passages were omitted, and others softened, and Hearne, whose veracity, notwithstanding his prejudices, may always be relied upon, speaks with great asperity of the partiality shewn by Dr. Tanner, or his advisers, throughout the publication. " He hath," says ho,' " altered things so, and made him talk in such a manner, as if Mr. Wood had been a downright vil- lain, and had not known what even the most ignorant scholar knows. How comes it otherwise to pass, that more than once, gentlemen, when they are matriculated, are represented to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy? Mr. Wood could not write so, since nobody knew better that the oath of supremacy only, and not the oath of allegiance is then taken. Nor does the statute require an oath of allegiance at that lime. But this was added to bring a slur upon the university, and out of a trimming design, as it was also out of design to please the trimmers, thai the Dr. hath left out the just characters of Dr. Wallis and Dr. Bathurst, which he ought to liave kept in certainly, as well as that of Dr. South. But there is a vast multitude pf other objections. I do not doubt but Tanner was guided by his crony Dr. Arthur Charlet a great admirer of Wallis and Bathurst, and a hater of South." Again,* " Mr. Collins of Magdalen coll. told me, that Anlh a Wood, if living, would be glad if the university would burn the new edition of AniENiE Oxon. though he was much displeased that ihey burnt the first. Indeed this new edition is so very paltry and silly a book that nothing can be worse. Things are ascribed to Anthony that he neither would nor could write. I remember one thing parti- cularly ; viz. that it is said in this new edition that Mr. Richard Lloyd left several children, one of which was Will Lloyd, first bishop of St. Asaph, then of Litchfield and Coventry, and at length of Worcester. Now Anthony died A°. 1695, and Lloyd was not made bishop of Worcester till 1699, four years after Anthony's death." Many other passages might be brought forward in which the second edition is spoken of in terms equally harsh and contemptuous, but we have already sufficiently seen the estimation in vvhich it was held by one, at least, of those persons most com- » MS, Collections, vol. xii, 192. * Ibid, page 86, ^ 2 12 PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION petenl to judge of its merits or defects. How far Dr. Tanner deserved the accusa- tions of partiality to his party, and infidehty to his friend, we have not now the means of ascertaining, but it seems pretty evident that more alterations and omis- sions were allowed than can be well justified, and allhough Tanner disclaimed any part of the management of the second edition, yet it is clear from his own testi- mony, that he corrected the papers previous to their being deposited in Tonson's Imnds- In a letter to Mr. Baker of St. John's college, Cambridge, he says, " There were, I must own to you, several hard words and passages more in the original, which I thought good manners and christian Charity, and a regard to the old gen- tleman's memory obliged me to strike out." I have deemed it right to say thus much of the former editions of the Athe- ne, and of the peculiar circumstances attending the second, in order that I might shew the necessity of a careful collation of the two, and prove that had either been followed exclusively, the present would have been incomplete. It now therefore remains to point out the plan that has been pursued in this publication. The text is printed from the edition of 1721, but such omissions or alterations as were made from the first edition are inserted in the margin, so that both readings may be referred to at the same time. The additions to the second edition, are dis- tino-uished by inverted commas, and those passages which are entirely new, both in the text and notes, as well as some few additional lives, are enclosed between brackets The folios as numbered in the edition of 1721, are given on the margin, to ren- der the .present copy applicable for reference in the perusal of former writers, whose works have been published subsequent to that, and previous to this edition. Evident errors have been frequently corrected without the parade of a note, since that minuteness must be considered as useless, which retains the mistakes of an author, merely for the sake of bibliographical accuracy. In most instances where a poet's life has been recorded, a specimen from some one of his productions is added ; an insertion, which, whilst it occupies but a small space in the work, will, it is hoped, be acceptable to the admirers of our early literature. The same remark a{)plies to the list of engraved portraits, at the end of each article. In this it has been my intention to notice a few of the best specimens of the art, rather than to select the scarcest or most expensive. The insertion of the reference in the Bodleian catalogues by which most of the works noticed may be discovered, whilst it will be peculiarly useful to readers resident in Oxford, will also inform literary men in general, whether any book of par- ticular interest or rarity is to be found among the treasures in our university library. PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION. 13 It will be remarked that at the end of every addition, for wbicli I am indebted to MS. notes or friendly comimiiiications, I have inserted the name of the writer on whose authority it is offered: and it may not be impertinent to stale the different sources from which so large a portion of the new AthenjE has been derived. The notes by White Kennkt, bishop of Peterborough, are contained in the margins of an interleaved copy of the first edition. This copy was purchased for the sum of five guineas and a half, by the late Mr. Gough, from the library of James West, esq. president of the Royal Society. Mr. Gough presented this va- luable book to the Rev. Mr. Archdeacon Churton for his life, directing that, at Mr. Churlon's decease, it might be placed with the rest of his noble benefaction to the Bodleian library. But Mr. Churton, with an eagerness to promote every literary undertaking that always distinguishes him, no sooner understood that a new edition of the AxHENiE was in preparation, than he most liberally transmitted the volumes to the Bodleian, in order tliat I might have access to the information they con- tained. This consists chiefly of extracts from parish registers and from other eccle- siastical documents, collected with extraordinary diligence, during a series of many- years. I have endeavoured, in most instances, to give these notes in Dr. Keunet's own words and orthography, but it will be observed, in some few instances, that I have been tempted to translate the names of the preferments, in order to render the narrative more connected and the language uniform.' Those by the rev. Thomas Baker, of St. John's college, Cambridge, were tran- scribed by the late rev. William Cole, of King's college, for his own use, and in- serted in a large paper copy of the Athene, which was purchased by Craven Ord, esq. The active friendship of my worthy kinsman, John Nichols, esq. the historian of Leicestershire, induced the fortunate possessor of this book to dispose of it to the proprietors of the new edition, and the value and importance of the notes will be discovered in every page. Bishop Tanner's additions are taken from his own copy of the Athene now^ in the Bodleian. Dr. Rawlinson's notes on the printed volumes of the work are preserved, with his collections towards a continuation, in the Bodleian. They are neither numerous nor interesting. ■ Why Tanner should have rejected Kennel's formed of Wood's new edition be true, it will render notes 1 cannot discover. Mr. D'Israeli has obiig- it of little credit. I am told by a good hand that ingly transmitted the following extract from an an- Dr. Tanner, the editor, refused to accept of the ad- published letter in the British museum, written by ditions made by Dr. Kennet to Wood, which were Anthony Collins to Mr. Des Maiseaux, on this sub- very large, and which the Dr. offered to have pub- ject. " Jan. 5, 17'21. If that you have been in- lished in the way of notes." 14' PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION. The corrections and additions by Humfrey Wanley are contained in a copy now preserved in the library of llic Royal Institution. The same copy also has some notes by Mouant, the historian of Essex. Peck's notes were transmitted to Dr. Rawlinson, and are among his MSS. in the Bodleian. The same may be stated of two small volumes of notes written by the rev. Ro- bert Watts, fellow of St. John's college, and afterwards rector of Great Gidding, in Huntingdonshire, which were transcribed for Dr. Rawlinson's use by the rev. John Jones, of St. John's college, from the original MS. in the possession of the rev. Thomas Fcrrar. Sir Philip Sydenham's notes were transcribed by Dr. Rawlinson from the originals, and are now in the Bodleian. Bishop Humphreys's additions were first printed by Hearne, from a copy given him by Mr. Baker, in Tho. Caii Vindicice, Oxon. 1730. They are now faithfully re- printed and arranged in their respective places. Cole's notes are contained in the same volumes with those of Baker before mentioned. Coningsby's in a copy in the library of Baliol college. Bowles's in a copy in the library of Sion college; for which I am obliged to the rev. Robert Watts, the present librarian. Wh alley's in a copy now in the possession of Mr. Francis Godolphin Wal- dron, for whose prompt and friendly communication I beg to return my sincere acknowledgments. The notes by John Loved ay, esq. of Caversham, near Reading, are on the margins of a copy in the library of that family, and for these I am again obliged to the kind interference of Mr. Churton. To Dr. Routh, the president of Magdalen, and Dr. Hodson the principal of Brasen-nose college, I am indebted for the greatest kindness, whenever I have had- occasion to trouble them for information relative to the members of their respective societies. To Henry Ellis, escj. of the British Museum, I owe the most friendly atten- tions throughout the whole of this work. He has spared no trouble to assist me in transcribing from the literary stores now under his immediate care, and has devoted much time to my assistance, which his own laborious avocations might have well excused. The ready kindness with which this aid Avas promised, and the continued exercise of it, demand my warmest thanks. Mr. Gilchrist, of Stamford, has favoured me with several very important com- PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION. 15 municalions and suggestions; these arc rendered the more valuable from the liberal manner in which they were profrcrcd, and the friendly expressions which accom- panied them. To Thomas Park, esq. and his son Mr. John James Park, I am obliged for several notes, that will be found of etjual interest and curiosity. I have to thank Mr. Korrich, the intelhgent keeper of the publick library at Cambridge, for his kind attention to my letters, and particularly for the trouble he imposed upon himself in transcribing for me a long and tedious article. To my friend Mr. Conybeare, of Christ Church, I am indebted for several cor- rections and hints, by which these volumes are rendered far more valuable and complete than they could have been without such assistance. For the kind and judicious advice of my old friend and schoolfellow Edward Hawkins, esq. now of St. John's college, but recently elected a fellow of Oriel, I feel highly grateful, and at the same time that, in common with the rest of my col- lege, I shall lament his loss, I cannot but congratulate the fellows of Oriel on the acquisition of so great an ornament to their society. Mr. Browne Mostyn, of Kiddington, has my best thanks for his very polite attentions to me when I was in search of an original portrait of the celebrated Car- dinal Allan; and I cannot, in justice, refrain from noticing the liberality with which he allowed me every access to his house and his curious collection of original paintings. I am obliged to Mr. Lawrence, of George Street, Portman Square, for a curious article relative to his own family, which I could not have obtained from any other quarter. And to Waller M. Moseley, esq. of Wynterdere House, Worcestershire, for information of the same description. To the rev. John Walker, fellow of New college, I am much indebted for his very acceptable aid in several parts of the work. The kind yet laborious office of correcting the errors of the press was under- taken, in conjunction with myself, by my friend Charles Mayo, esq. fellow of St. John's, whose accuracy, judgment, and zeal, have been actively and most beneficially exerted. I know not in what terms to express my sense of the conduct of my excellent friend the rev. Bulkeley Bandinel throughout the whole progress of this work. It is to his friendship that I have been indebted for access to most of the rarest sources whence I have drawn my information: to his judgment, I owe several important amendments, and to his active and steady friendship I am obliged for favours which I cannot express in words of adequate acknowledgment, and shall never be able to 16 PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION. repiiy. His research and assiduity and attention are now engaged on a work of national importance, and the world will soon be able to judge the excellence of his comniunicaiiuns, though it can never appreciate the value and sincerity of his friendship. I believe I have now performed the grateful task of acknowledging my obliga- tions, yet, although my friends have been so numerous, and the assistance 1 have received so great, it will be discovered that I have much new text, and a great number of notes, to answer for myself I cannot but be anxious about the recep- tion that these will meet with from the literary world, yet I hope that those who discover my errors or omissions, will reflect that it is no easy task to steer clear from mistakes among so many hundreds of names, and dates, and titles: that they will remember we are not at all seasons equally disposed for the drudgery of research ; and that they will give me credit for a desire to be accurate, however I may have failed in the execution of my task. If those who discover my faults will assist me in amending them, I shall be grateful for their reproofs, and will take especial care that every omission or mis-statement that may be pointed out to me, shall be ac- knowledged and corrected in the course of the work. I shall conclude with the words of my author, in his preface to the Antiquities of Oxford, the truth of which will be readily allowed by those who have engaged in a similar undertaking, and which may somewhat soften the asperity of those who may be inclined to condemn my portion of the volumes before them. " A painfull " work it is I'll assure you, and more than difficult, wherein what toyle hath been ** taken, as no man ihinketh, so no man believelh, but he that hath made the triall." PHILIP BLISS. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY A WOOD. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. ADVERTISEMENT. It was judged to be more appropriate to the design of this edition to insert the Life of Anthony k 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, so 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 Thomce Caii Vin- dicia Antiquitatis Academia Oxoniensis, printed at Oxford in 1730, 8vo. The additional minutes or memoirs, which commence with the beginning of the year l673, were taken from a manuscript now in the Bodleian library, written by Dr. Richard Rawlinson, 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 continuation of his life, had he lived to carry that design into effect. These were first published under the care of Mr. Thomas Warton and Mr. William Huddesford, fellows of Trinity college, and printed, with the Lives of Leland and Hearne, Oxford, 1772. In the present edition such notes as were mere extracts from the Athenje are omitted, those by the former editors pointed out by their names or initials, and such as now appear for the first time, by the usual enclosure between brackets. ■THE LIFE OF ANTHONY A WOOD, 1VRITTEN BY HIMSELF. An. ( Dom. 163a. \ Reg. 8 Car. I. Anthony Wood or h. Wood, son of Tho. Wood or k Wood, bachelaur of arts and of the Dec. 17. civil law, was borne in an antient stone-house, opposite to the forefront of Merton coll. in the collegiate parish of S. John Bapt. de Merton, situat and being within the universitie 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, S. December, 6. Jac. I. Dom. I6O8, and is held by his family of Merton coll. before mention'd. He was christned or taken into the bosome of the church. At which time he had to his god- Dec.ts. fathers, Anthony Clopton, bachelaur of Divinity and fellow of Corp. Christi college, and Edward Dawson, Dr. of physick of Lincolne college : and to his godmother, M'*" Catherine • There is no title in tlie original MS. but in the first part of Mr. Wood's Diary (written with his own hand) now in the hands of the earl of Oxford (who lent it me) from which (in good measure) he extracted this imperfect life, there is the follow- ing title : THE DIARIE OF THE LIFE oj .Anthony a Wood, Historiographer and Antiyuarie of the most famous Uniuersttie of OXFORD. In which arc intermix d sevtrall Memorialls relating to his neare Alltel, Kindred, and others ; as also certaine puhlick Actions of his time ; which may he 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 trail I am. Psal. 39. 4. So teach me to number my dales. That I may apply my heart unto wis- dome. Psal. 9O. 12. As for the Diary itself, as it is nothing near so fiill, even in what relates to affairs before the restauration, so neither is it so exact as the life, and yet in some things tlie life may be corrected from it, as may appear partly from what 1 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 1 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 satisfac- tion. I shall say nothing more, unless it be to acquaint the reader, that the earl of Oxford (when he was only lord Harley) had t the Diary from Mr. Anstis (now Garter principal king of arms) who gave it him in the year 1712, and that Mr. Anstis receiv'd it from Mr. Dale the herald many years since, >" ex- change for several original letters of Mr. Wood's to sir Peter Pett, the knig'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 against the prosecution in the vice-chancellour's court, and desiring his advice, and he is very sorry, that he did not talce copies of them. Hea«nb. ' Lmay. + Coll. nostr. MSS. Vol. 12J. p.l37. b ji THE LIFE OF ANTHONY A WOOD. Fisher, the wife of Will. Seymoure of Oxon. an attorney; ami afterwards the first wife of 'J ho. Rowuey, an attorney also of the same place, father, by his second wife, to Thom. Rovvney esqj. 'high-sheriff of Oxfordshire an. I6y. . I 9 Car. I. He was altogether nursed by his mother (of whome shid be mention made under the yeare 1660) and by none else. For as she nursed his 3 elder brothers, so she nursed him (whom she found very quiet) and the two next that followed. "^"i 10 Car. I. July. At the Summer assize, held in the Guild hall of the citie of Oxon. appeared Avith a com- mission from the king, Georg Owen and Will. Ryley, officers of armes, to visit 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 memoire I here set downe, because Mr. Wood's father (of whom I shall make mention under the yeare 1642) was warn'd 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 conse- quently exempted, as he pretended (but false) ^ curia MariscliaUi, 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 ^ the heralds. It was afterwards to Mr. A. Wood, when lie came to understand those things, a great trouble to him, that his father did not enter three or more descents of his owne familie, Avhich 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 grand- father [camej about the beginning of the raigne of qu, Elizabeth. {... j^ CDom. 1635. ■ \ II Car. I. Ang- 1. This yeare he had the small pox so much, that he was for a time blinded with them. A fine of 30/i. was set by the warden and fellowes of Merton coll. when his father renewed his lease of the old stone-house, Avherein his son A. Wood was borne (called antiently Por- tionists 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. 16" 1 6.) and at the same time a lease of the garden, opposite to S. Alban's hall, Avas let to his father for 27 yeares. J i Dom. 1636\ ^"■{x^Car.l. AiiR 29 The king, queen, prince Rupert, many of the nobility and others came from Woodstock into Oxon. a little before which time he Av^as conveyed in a servant's armes, Avith his father and mother, ' going" to the lodgings of Dr. Tho. lies, canon of Christ Church, Avhence being con- veyed 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 cjuadrangle. 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 Avas a man. ' . . . Rowney, jun. Cfq ; occurs sheriff of Oxon. Ann. mihi pcrquam benevole mutuo dedit nobilissimus comes Oxoni- iO()l. SeeGuzf/47 (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. ( Do7n. 1642. ^"- I IS Car. 1. In tlie beginning of this yeare the second brother of 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, andespecially 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-chancel lour, called before him to the public schooles all the privileged men's amies, to have a view of them : where not onlie privileged men of the universitie and their servants, but also many scholars appeared, bringing with them the furni- ture of armes of every col. that then ^ any any. Mr. Wood's father had then armour or fur- niture for one man, viz. a helmet, a back and jjrcast-piece, a pyke and a musquet, and other appurtenances : And the eldest of his men-servants (for he had then three at least) named Tho- mas 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 somtimes 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 remembred well, that some of them were so be- sotted 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 'began". Upon the first newes at Oxon. that the armies were going to fight, Mr. Wood's eldest brother Thomas, before mention'd, left his gowne at the Town's end, ran to Edghill, did his Majestic good service, return'd on horse-back well * accountred, and afterwards was made au officer in the king's army. See more in Fasti Oxon. written by A. Wood under the year ]CA2. Oct. eg. The king with his aimy of foot, prince Rupert and pr. Maurice (his two nephews) prince Charles and James duke of York (his two sons) entrccl into Oxon. ' MotUillok, Diar. hearsb. * L. //arf any i Diario. Hearnb. ^ Deest in Diario. IIkarne. ♦Sic. Hsarhb. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. His father's house, opposite to Morton coll. was taken up for the quarters of John lord Cole- Nor. pepcT, Mr. of the Rolls, and of the privie councill to his majestic. Whereupon 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. Whereupon the master of the school there, with his scholars (among whome A. Wood was one) were removed to the choristers 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 Thoni. Wood or a Wood, before mention'd, died, being Thursday, about 4 of Jm 19. 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-chappcU or church, neare to the graves of Jam. Wood, his yonger brother, who died in Sept. 16"2Q. and Jo. Wood, his son, whome I have mention'd under the yeare l63y. This Tho. Wood (father to A. W.) was borne at Islingdon neare Loudon in January I58(>, was bred in grammar learning in those parts, became a student in liroadgate's hall (now Pemb. coll.) in the yeare 1600, after- wards 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 1.5 of Mar. It. 03. 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 Rob. Wood, a haberdasher of Hats, living at the Plow and Harrow on Liidgatc hill in London, and to Henry Wood, living in Kent. 1 hey were married at Wood-Eaton in Oxfordshire, where shee lived in the house of Rich. Taverncr, esq ; (uncle to 1 ho. 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. Wo(.d. Hy and with the money, which Tho. Wood had with the said Margaret, and the .'>((()/;. 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 Flour de Luce, which I have before mention'd, land in Tctsworth, now valued at 4zli. 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, hud some employment in that facultic, and after the death of his said first wife, which hapned at Tetsworth 14 July \6<2], he took to wife Mary Pcttie, alias La Petite, mother to A. Wood (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 refusing the honour of knighthood, a matter then lately brought [up] to obtaine money for his majcstie's use. This money, which was paid by all persons of 40/i. per an. that refused to come in and be dub'd knights, was called knighthood-money. ThisThom. 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//. per an. and have been several times offer'd the degree of baronet. . (Dom.}643. ^"'{19 Car. I. It was much lamented by the relations of the father and mother of A. W. that he and his bro- ther Christopher were left yong, when 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, Vi THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. whome I shall mention under the ycaie 1651, was then a rude and boisterous soldier. His second brother Edward, was now a yong scholar of Trinity coU, (lately of Merton) and did in • this, or in the next yeare beare armes for his niaj. 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'". 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 niuch time. This yeare the ' plate, which had been given to A. Wood by his godfathers and godmother, which was considerable, was (with all other plate in Oxon.) carried by his majcstie's command to the mint at New lune, and there turned into money to pay his majcstie's armies. . ( Dom. 1644. ^«- 1 20 C^r. I. May 29. On Wednesday, being the eve of the Ascension, Robert earl of Essex, generalissimo of the parliament forces, and S'. Will. Waller, going with their forces from Abendon over Sanford Ferry, amd so thro Cowley, and over Bullington Green (to the end the}' 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 JMaj. 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 order'd, that tlicy should be conveyed to Tetsworth, ten miles distant from Oxford; where thev continued for a fortnight or more in the house of * Rich. Scicnse, then called the Catherine VVheel, now a great new built inn of brick ( 1683) at the lower end of the towne. There, I say, they con- tinued till it was thought, that they had no infection about them, and then they were conveyed two miles on one side of Tetsworth, to a merkate towne called 1 hame, and there they were set downe, and conveyed into the vicaridge house, neare to, and on tlie 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 ' in Thame. Afterwards they were entrcd into the said school, there to be educated till they were fit to be academians or apprentices. The master of that school was * William Burt, Mr. of A. sometimes fellow of New coll. who before had married Elizabeth, one of the ' It is muoh to be lamented that the necessities of the royal parly lop, schoohnaster of Winchester college, and afterwards required a supply of this nature. Had these valuable services of warden of New college. plate been pledged only for a time, and afterwards redeemed by 3. Ann the wife of Robert Hawking, D. D. a Wiltshire their original possessors, (which most probably would have been man. the Case) they would now have remained as so many curious and 4. Judith the wife of Henry Bardshaw, D. D. prebendary of itistructn-e specimens of the state and progress of various arts in the Winchester, who died about 169O. kingdom, at that period. In colleges and public bodies this would 5. Mary the wife of Brooks, a minister. have happened more particularly, who, from a laudable gratitude Arms. On a Chevron Gules, 3 Crosslets Or, between 3 towards their benefactors, are always averse to adapt their furniture Bugle Horns Sable, impaling quarterly Or & Azure, on a to the changeable fashions of the times. W. & H. Bend Vert, 3 Martletts Or : Pettie. * i?a/. in Diario. Hearne. See Fasti Oxon. under the year l63t). ' In Thame, founded by John Lord Williams of Thame. After- Wood MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8461). V. 4- wards Diar. Hearne. Gale's Hist, of the Cath. of ll'inton. ♦ He married Klizabelh daughtcrof Maximilian Pettie ofThame Near the hospital, on the south side of the church at Thame is by Eliz. his wife daughter of Robert Waller o( Beaconsfeild, the free school founded by sir John Williams viscount Thame ; at Bucks. She died at trie lodjsings of her son in law, in New the East end of which are the names of the masters, with the college Oxford, on the 25th of Sept. 1683. or thereabouts, and was times when they began ; viz. buried on the 28lh, at the upper end of the chancel of Thame, 1. Edwardus Harris — — Anno 1575. near the erave of her father. 2. Richard Bonchier — — 15(j7. The aforesaid William Burt, D. D. and Eliz. his wife left be- 3. Hugo Evans — — — l627- hind them the following Issue. 4. gVLIcLMVs sVrte peDagogVs qVartVs) mdllxxxi.) 1. Maximilian Pettie, who married . - . . 5. Guliel. Ailiff — — — l647. 8. Elizabeth the wife of Henry Uee3ton,LL.D. rector of Wal- 6. Hugo Willis — — — l655. MSS. Wood. Mos, Ashm: 8586. W . & H, THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. vii daughters of Maximilian Pettie of Thame and Tetsworth, kinsman to their mother. Which Will. Burt was afterwards schoolmaster of Wykeham's school nearc Winchester, 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 ordinary note, but handsome. Shee had several yeares lived in the parish where A. and Ch. Wood were borne, and her-sirname, [ think, was Price, having been brought up under [her] kinswoman or aunt called Joane Evans, who Anne Price. 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. Feteplace, Esq;, and at length master of a well endow'd school at Leycester, the chief towne in Leycestershire, where he continued till the time of his death, in Aug. l6o7, having before obtained a comfortable estate by the great paines he took in peda- gogic, and by the many [sojournours] that he alwaies kept in his house. It was observ'd 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 severaj times told him, when he was Mr. of arts. A. Wood did partly remember, that he was much retired, walked mostly alone, was given much to thinking and melancholy; which sometimes made his night's rest so much disturb'd, 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, two or 3 hourcs after he had taken up his rest. This also, besides his owne memorie, he hath been often told by his cozen Henant the wife, Avho lived at great Milton neare Oxon. in the House of his cozen Joh. Cave, after her husband's death. On Sunday the ' 8 of Octob. hapned a dreadfuU fire in Oxon. such a one (for the shortness Oc- 8. 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) occasion'd 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 ^ strangly, and burnt all houses and stables (except S. Marie's coll.) standing between the 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 13ocherew it self) which stood between S. Martin's church and the church of S. Peter in the Baylie ; among which were two which belong'd to A. Wood's mother, besides the stables and back-houses belonging to the Flowr de Luce, which Avere totally consumed, to her great loss, and so consequently to the loss of her sons, as they after- wards evidently found it. . (Dom. 1645. "^"^ {21 Car. I. While A. Wood and his brother Christopher continued at Thame, you cannot imagine, 'was great disturbances they suffer'd by the soldiers of both parties, somtimes by the parliament soldiers of Aylesbury, somtimes by the king's from Borstall house, and somtimes from the king's at Oxon. and at Wallingford. The chiefest disturbances and aft^'rightments, that they and the family, wherein they lived, endured, where these. On the 27 of January, being Munday, an. 16'44. colonel Tho. Blagge, governour of Walling- ford castle, roving about the country very early with a troop of stout horsnien, consisting of 70 or 80 at most, met witlia partie of parliamenteirs or rebells, of at least 200, at Long Crendon, about a mile Northward from Thame: which 200 belong'd to the garrison of Aylcsburic, and ' Sic M.S. Neque aliter in ipso etlam Diario. Sed 6 reponend. » Sic. Nequc alitor in Diario. HeARNe, Vide Hist, & Anii J. Univ. Oxon, suh hoc anno. Hearnb-, ' L. wAa/ e Diario. Hearne.. y'lii THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. being headed by a Scot, called colonel Crafford, who, as I think, was governour of the garrison there, they pretended, that they were looking out quarters for them. I say, that col. Blaggc 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 overpower'd with multitudes, that afterwards came in to their 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 home- ward, they took part of Thame in their way. And A. W. and his fellow-sojourncrs being all then at dinner in the parlour with some strangers there, of whonie their master Burt and his wife were of the number, they were all alaruni'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 posting 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 Blago;e 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, & 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 upon one side, and threw the rider (a lusty man) in A. Wood's sight. Colonel Crafford, who was well ' 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 Ricot. Whether Crafford and his men followed them beyond ''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 ^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 Chris- tianus, kings of Sweedland, in Germany, and afterwards for the space of three yeares he was a *protobune of horse under Charles Lewis elector Palatine. In 16'41 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 the pari, of England, and Major ge- made Ze^'fl/M* *ecM«J«5 under Edw. earl of Manchester, and afterwards in the Scotch expedi- "*"'• tion. At length when the Scots besieged Hereford, he was kild with a bullet, shot from the works, on the 17 of Aug. 1645, aged 34 yeares: whereupon his body being carried oft' to the city of Glocester, it was buried there in the larg chappel at the East end of the choire, called our ladle'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 proportion of a man to the mid- dle (or the bust of a man) in white marble, with a short staff' in his right hand, which monu- ment continuing in it's luster till after the restoration of K. Ch. 2. it was then ordered to be ' Ilors'd and at [nDist'io. IIearnb. 'Sic. Hearne. * Sic MS. At in Diario : in truth J cannot now lell: But I * Sic. Hearke. think they did not, lui went. Hearne. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. ix plucked downe by the bishop, deanc and prebends. This Laurence CrafFord seems to be the same person with colonel Crafford before niention'd, who, I tliink, was ^overnour of Aylesbury in Bucks for a time. As for colonel IJlaggc, 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 c,\ilc and several imprisonments; 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 daycs in ease and quietness, he died, to the great grief of his family and relations, Avithin the city of Westminster, on the 14 of Nov. 1660, aged 47 yeares : whereupon his body was buried in the great North isle, joyu- ing to the church of S. Peter (commonly 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 hor.sc and dragoons, to guard their committee for the excise (the cliief of which committee Mere Goodman Heywood and Good- man '[Hen] the butcher his servant) and tarrying there two dayes or more, S'. Will. Campion, governour of Borstall house, having received 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's-cast from the vicar's house) the[y] faced about, hoping to make good the bridge with their dragoons. But this valiant captaine Bunce, after he had rccciv'd 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 bridge, 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 & his lievtenant, ten only escaping, most of which had marks bestowed on them. Capt. Bunce returned safe to Borstall with 9 jirisoners, 10 horses, six fire-lock musquets, and 4 case of pistols. This is that Bunce, wdio shot the pillaging Scot, called major Jecamiah Abercromy (belonging, I think, to Aylesbury garrison) neare Stretton-Audley in Oxfordshire; which entring deep into his side, fell from his horse on the 7 of March 1644: so that being carried oft' prisoner, with others, to Borstall house, died there soon after, full of sorrow for his activity in the rebellion against K. Ch. L Another great alarme to the juvenile muses in the vicaridge 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 partie of horse (upon what account I can not tell) in the begin- ning of Sep. 1615, it was knowne among the chief officers in Oxofi. Whereupon col. Will. Legge the governour thereof, resolving to beat up him and his partie, he sent 400 horse from Oxon. commanded by col. ''David Walter (high-sheriff of the countie) and col. Rob. Legge the governour's brother. These, with 60 musqueticrs of the governour's regiment (commanded by captaine Burgh) marched forth from Oxon. in the afternoon of Saturday Sept. 6, and ' E Diario, e quo & alia itidem, uncis inclusa, restiluimus. 5>'cr, Groom of the Bedchamber to King Charles the second and Hearne. Lieutenant General of the Ordnance, which Oliice his Majesty * In a recess on theNorthsideof Wolvercotechurchconi. Oxon. gave him as a Reward of the great Valour and Loyalty he had 15 an elegant monument of Sr. John Walter. His effigy is as big as shewed in the Service of his Father of Glorious Memory, during the the life dressed in his robes, laying between his two wives, with Civil Wars. He was born at SarsdtiMn this county, married Eli- his and their arms depicted on the top of the tomb, his three sons zabeth the Widdow of Francis Lonl Dacrc, of Herstmonceanx in kneeling at his feet and his three daughters at his head. For the Sussex, by whom he had no issue: Died at London the il2d of in»cription see Le Neve's Monum. Augl. April ]67ci,and in the (J8th Year ol liis Age. In the same recess on the North wall is a bust, under which is The above monument of sir John Walter is a curious piece of this inscription : workmanship, and was highly painted and adorned, but through Here lleth the Bodie of David Walter of Godstow Esq. the length of time and want of repair is greatly decayed. W.&H." second Son of S'. John Walter Lord Chief Baron of the Exchc- THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. before tliey ' came to Tliame, they divided into two bodies, the van headed by col. Walter and tlic reer by col. U. Leggc. 1 hey found the toune very strongly barricaded at every avenue : notwithstanding whidi, major Medculf (niaj. to coll. Rob. Leggc) charged the rebells guards, so as maj. ]Me(lcall"e with 7 troopers leaj)t from their horses, and removing the carts opened the a\enuc. This done, the two gallant majors charged the rebells up thro the street, doing execution al the way to the marketplace, where col. Greaves liimself stood with about 'JOO horse drawn up ; but col. Walter l)eing ready with the other troops (viz. his ovvne, that of col. Tookcr 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 recrc guarded the towne and avenews, least other of the rebells (being in all 800) should break in and desert the whole, now drew into the towne, that others might lia\e 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 »capt. Hen. Gardiner (son of S'. Tho. Gardiner, Ills majestie's soUicitor gen.) was unfortunately shot dead ; a youth of such high incomparable courage, mix"d with such abundance of modesty and SAveetness, that wee cannot easily match him unless with his brave brother, yong S'. 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 affection. Besides this gallant gentleman, no officer Mas killed, only 3 common soldiers, nor scarce any hurt, only ^ 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.* The rebells being thus beaten, his majestie's forces brought • Came ncare to Thame, Diar. T?v Col. R. LepRC John Iverly against University college in the parish of St Peters in 0|)ciied the avenue.] Hv Col. Rob. Legge. Tliey found the East, 13 Sept. KU.i. He commauded the troop belonging to the towne very strongly barricadoed at every avenue: notwiih- the governour of OXON ( .... Legg) wlien the cavaliers beat up standing which, major . . . Mcdcalle (maj. to col. Hob. l.ei™) the parliament quarters at Thame, and receiving wounds there, gallantly led up the forlorne hope, charged tlie rebells guard, & died of them. maintained his ground so handsoiulv, thai major .^glionby coming He was buried in St. Peter's church in the IJast, up to his assistance, the rebels were beat ofl" the guards, so as maj. Wood's MSS. in museo Ashmol. b46C. fol. 77. VV. & H. Aledcalf w'ith 7 troopers leapt from their horses, and removing ♦ And that 'twas currently reported in Oxford, that he was slain, the carts opened the avenue. Diar IIe.arne. may appear from the following |)assage I have entered in vol. 88. ^ S^ Thomas Gardiner of (.'uddesilen in 0.\fordshire, Kt. son p. 71. of my MSS. collections from a letter, in the Ashmolean of the recorder of London, and a captain of horse unto the king, nmseum, written by Mr. VV. B. [W^. Browne] *to his pupil the was buried in the cathedral of Chr. Church, 26 Jidy l()45. under famous John .Aubrey, esq;. onTuesd. Sept. Q. l645. from 0.\ford, Altxander Gerard's monument. He was ktcd by his majesty, which Mr. B. stiles hiniselfG. Fuscus in some letters in Latin (to whilst he sate at dinner, upon delivery of the news of prince Rup's the said Mr. Aubrey) which I have seen in the same museum. success against the rebells that had besieged Newark March " Sund.iy morning last our horse from Oxon. fell on the enemies l64i. " quarters at Thame, where were some 300 horse reformadoes. Henry Gardiner a captain of horse yd son of Sir Thomas Gardiner " AH the quarters tltereabout made someC or 700 horse and dra- killed al Thame when the caveliers heat up the qrs. of the parlia- " goons. Wee fell on them unexpectedly, kill['d] and tooke 100 mentarians there: 7 Sept. lC45, and was buried bv his father. " of them (amongst the taken was a Dutch man their agitant ge- Wood's MSS. in nuis. Ashni. 84()6. f. 70. W'. & II. " nerall, amongst the slaine col. Greaves, hee that kept Lichfield 3 Captain Scrope Medcalf a Yorkshire man died in the house of " against prince Rupert) and 200 horse. They gathered up their * William Browne, B. D. was born at Churchill in Dorsetshire, presented by Dr. Morley Bp. of Winchester to the vicarage of of which place his father was rector, and educated at Blandford Farnhara in Surrey, at which place lie died Oct. 2 1 . l66g; about under .Mr. Gardiner. He was elected scholar of Trinity college in the 5 1 or 52 year of his age of the small \y>x, caught by burying a Oxford in l035, and became actual fellow thereof in l643. He corps which died of that disease, and was buried in the chancell had the character of an ingenious man, a good scholar, and as there without any memorial. admirable a dispuUmt as any of his time in the university. Mr. Sec Aubrey's Hhtory of Surrey . Vol. 3. page 336. Trio. Aubrey says that he had the happiness to be his pupil. He was coll. Register. VV. & H. I THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. xi away those prisoners they had taken, which, hesides common troopers, M'crc 27 oflicers: among whonic were their adjutant-general -- ~ — -- ' Puide, their provost-general niarshall (or prov. marshal general) and their chief" engineer, four captaincs, as capt. Hanson, Joh. Thornhill, James the elder &c. seven lievtenants, viz. Wilmot, Hughes, Hagnali, Lanipert, Canne, Wilson, Crompton, and three Cornets, Bradshaw, Brooks and Syinons. There were also taken 13 ser- geants, quartermasters and corporalls, and a great deal of money was found in the rebels pockets, (having lately received advance-money.) Many amies also were taken, and between two and three hundred good horse, besides three colours, two whereof had mottos. 'i'lic one was, Non litos Res, and the other was, Patria poscentc 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 M'ithout their doublets; whereof adj. gen. Puide was one, who fought in his shirt. Some that were quarter'd near the church as in Vincent Barry's house between it and the school, *and in the vicar's house (where A. W. then sojourn'd) 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, Avhere they quarter'd, to fetch away their goods. There were about 6 of the parliament soldiers (troopers) that quarter'd in the vicar's house, and one being slow and careless, was airing and warming his boots, while they wcvc fighting in the towne : and no sooner he was withdrawne, into the garden I think, but some of the cava- liers, who were retiring with their spoyle towards Borstall (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 lock'd 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 lodg'd 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 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 littJe concern, yet much to the school-boycs, who were interrupted thereby, J. shall forbeare 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 1 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 provision 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 ques- " scalteied companies and pursued us in the reare, havinge aUoe ' Omt against this word, in the margin of the Diary is written " some heipe from Alisburie &c. but were repulsed with losse; Puid. Sre Micro-chron. at lite end of Quer. Cant. an. lliii. ia " onely in the last charge wee lost captain Henrie Gardiner, son to i>c/>t. Hearne " Sr. Thomas Gardiner the kings soUicitour, whose losse is gene- ^ And those inD'iSitium. Hearne. " rally lamented, not onely in regarde of his valour, sweet ilispo- ' Det.U in IDIario. Hearne. " sition and hopefuU carriage, but 'cause loo his brother, younge " Sr. Thomas, was slaine in the same manner not past a month since. Hearne. C 2 xii THE .LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. tions they proposed to tlie boys ; and others liaving been, or lived, in Oxon. knew the relations of A. W. wluch would make them shew kindness to him and his brother. But that which A. W. obscrv'd, was, tliat the vicar and his wife were alwaies more kind to the pari, soldiers or rebells, than to the cavaHcrs, as his master W. Burt and his wife were, having been alwaies acquainted . with and obliged to the families of tlic Ingoldcsbies and 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 M'ith, the vicar or master: But as for the usher Dav. Thomas, a proper stout Welshman, A. W. alwaies took [him] to be a good loyal- list, as indeed he was. , ( Doi)i.]6A6. ^'"- 1 22 Car. I. Jun. 10. Wednesday Jun. 10, the garrison of Borstall was surrendrcd for the use of the parliament. The school-boys 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 li- quor, 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 hun- dreds did, Avithout the works, where he saw the governour S'. Will. Campion, a little man, who upon ' 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 Midsonier day, the garrison of Oxon. which was the chiefest hold the king had, and wlierein he had mostly resided while the civil warr continued, was surrendred for the nse of the parliament, as most of his garrisons were this ycare, occasion'd by the fatal battle of Naseby, which hapned in the last yeare, wherein the king and his partie were in a woful man- ner worsted. In the 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 amies 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 check'd when he came home. In the latter end of Aug. or beginning of Sept. following his brother Edw. Wood bach, of arts and scholar of Trinity coll. came on foot from Oxon. with Leonard Pettie (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 vicars house, and great kindne-ss 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 sufFer'd 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'd 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 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 royallists, that had for several yeares continued among them ; ' Some occasion or other layd flat Dlar. Hearnb. i THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. xiii but as for the yong men of the city and university, he found many of them to have been de- bauch'd by bearing amies, and doing the duties belonging to soldiers, as watching, warding, and sitting in tipling-houses for whole nights together. His mother jnit his brother Christonher to school in Oxon. and himself to the tuition of his brother Edward of Trinity college, to wnom 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 ap- prentice, which he could never endure to hearc of: And somtimcs she woidd tell him, that she would set him out to an attorney or sollicitor, and he remembred well, that she often mention'd M'. Job. Theyer, a sollicitor (of whom shall be mention made under the yeare ' 166. .) as a fit master for him, but still he drew back and turn'd his eare. ' Nay she was so silly, that she would several times propose to him some inferior mechanical trade, because she found him to have a mechanical head, and alwaies at leisure times very active in framing little trivial things, or baubles. . (Dom.l6i7. ^"- 1 23 Car. I. A. Wood was matriculated as a member of the university and a gentleman's son. This was May. 2O. done by his brother Edward, who obtained a certificate, that he was matriculated, from Matth. Cross the superior beadle of law, which he kept by him to the time of his death. But after- wards 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. St. Luke's day and Munday he Avas entred into the buttery-book of Merton college, being Oct. i». about that time made by M'. 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 Ed\v^. in Trin. coll. At that time Christmas appearing, there were fires of charcole made in the common hall on- Allsaints eve, Allsaints day and night, on the holydayes,' their nights and eves between that time and Christmas day. Then on Christmas eve, Christm. day and holy dayes and their nights, and on Candlemas eve, Candlemas day and night. At all these fires every night, which began to be made alittle after five of the clock, the senior under-graduats would bring into the hall the Juniors or Freshmen between 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 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 * the lipp, and by the help of their other fingers under the chin, they would give him a mark, which somtimcs would produce blood. On Candlemas 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 provided a speech as the other freshmen did. Shrove-Tuesday Feb. 15, the fire being made in the common hall before ,5 of the clock at Feb. is. night, the Fcllowes \vould 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 Avith an admonition from one • See under the year 1668. Hearne. she found me to have a mechanical head, and alwaies al leisurt-. * Nay shee was so silly, that shec would several times forsooth times active in framing little hauhles. Diar. Hearne. propose to me the trade of a tinner or tin-man, or a man that ^ And their Diar. makes kitchin-ware, lanthorns, & such tike trivial things, because *The Lower Lip, in Diario. Hearne. XIV THE LIFE OK ANTHONY a WOOD. IPntnilree btnti) iiascat, jovniiig to St. i\farliirs Church apud Quadri- viu ni, where butter women and hucksurs use to sit. of the fellowes (who was the principal of the imder-gratuats and postma.ster.s) that all things should be carried in good order. While they were at supper in the liall, the cook (Will. Noble) was making the lesser of the brass pots ful of cawdel at the ' I'reshman's charge ; which, after the liall was free from the fellows, was brought up and set before the fire in the said hall. After- wards every freshman, according to seniority, was to pluck off his gowne and band, and if * 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 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 admitted into the fraternity, the senior cook was to administer to them an oath over an old shoe, part of which runs thus : Item tu jurabis, quod {ienmle0Sl bcntfl non^ visitabis, &c. the rest is forgotten, and none there arc that now * remembers it. After which spoken with gravity, the freshman kist the shoe, put on his gowne and band, and took his place among the seniors. Now for a diversion, and to make you laugh at the folly and simplicity of those times, I shall entertaine you with part of a speech, which A. Wood spoke, while he stood on the forme, placed on the table, with his gowne and band oft" 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 ccrebrosity before your sagacious in- genuities. 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, bchokl, as so many stygian furies, or ghosts risen out of their winding sheets, wee present ourselves before your tribunal, and therefore I will not sublimate nor tonitruate words, nor swell into gigantick strcins : such towringebuUitinos do not exuberate in my aganippe, being at the lowest ebb. I have been no chairman in the committee of Apollo's creatures, neither M'as lever admitted 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 ' pipes, charg'd with it's In- dian 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-fre.shmen, that are tall cedars before they come to be planted in [the] academian garden, who *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 Colossu[s]'s and youths rampant. Tnese are they, who come newly from a ' bagg-pudding and a good brown loaf to deal with a penn^'-commons, as an elephant with a poor fly, tumbles it and tosses it, and at last gives him a ° chop that tugg as hard for a postmaster's place, as a dog at mutton. ' Sic etiam in Diario. F. F'eshmcn's. Hearne. * Potiiis, /«)ss!7'/f. Hrarnk. ^ Frerobationer-fellow of Merton coll. They were severely examin'd, and in due course elected and admitted : which was done by the favour of the warden S'. N. Brent ' the arch-visitor. Some admissions 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 '=*'■ '^*- ing himself in mirth, and in that which was afterwards 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 estecm'd him their TcrrcE Jillus. John Blanks, a hansome yongman, andcontcmporarie 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, ncare to Thame in Oxfordshire, where he continued 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 growing. At the bottome of this deep place issues out one or more springs, and gives the original to a little river. Between the end of the chancel and the brink or edg of this deep place, is contain'd ' as much ground as the space of six paces of a man. A. W. then heard several of the inhabitants repeat two old verses, that had gon from man to man these many yeares, which run thus : ^t tftat Ut)C0 ^ m\ abitie, iiiaiU nt tjse c&anccl fal in tfte iLpbe. This deep place is with them cal'd the Lyde, and tlie ground between the brink of it and the end of the chancel doth sensibly weare away,'' 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. In the latter end of January he sent a generous reciiiital to Mr. Ja. Blanks, for the great civili- ties he shew'd unto him, during his being in his house last Christmas. 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 pcvish, and would be ever and anon angry, if he could not take or understand Logical notions as Avell as he. He would be somtimes • As much ground that I can go over with about six of my paces. * Weare a'Caij and fall into the I.ijde, so that if care. Diar. J then heard. DiiT. Hearne. Hea*XE. d Feb. 16. xviii THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. so angry, that he would beat him and turne him out of his chamber; of which complaining to his mother, she was therefore willing, that Anthony should take another tutor. J ( Dom. 1650. ^"i 2 Car. II. In the beginning of this yeare A. W. was made one of [the] Bible clerks, by the favour of S'. Nath. Hrent, the 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 bestowed to make the postmasters 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. Ap. 5. He answer'd Generals in the public schools, and James Bricknel!, his chamberfellow and clerk of !Merton coll. opposed him. Ap. 22. He left the cockleloft over his brother's chamber in the first quadrangle, and removed to the chamber in the little or old quadrangle, opposite to the exchequer chamber, which was ap- pointed for the clerks. Aug. In the latter end of Aug. several juniors of Mert. coll. 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 that their number was too great," may have some designe upon them. Col. Arth. Eveliu was then, as it seems, governour, but was not at home, otherwise, as 'tis be- lieved, they might have had entrance. So going back to the toMaie of 'Wallingford, they dined there, and rcturn'd to Oxon. Dec. 14. ^"^ Anne Green, a servant maid, was hang'd in the castle of Oxon. for murdering her bas- tard-child, begotten by JeflFry Reade, grand-son to sir Tho. Read of Duns-Tew in Oxfordshire. After she had suffer'd the law, she was cut downe, and carried away in order to be anatomiz'd 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 look'd 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 univer- sitie, were added. See more in the next yeare. Jan. 16. Twelve postmasters of JMerton coll. were expel'd by the visitors, viz. Joh.Blanks, John Wright, Brian Ambler, Rich. Philipps, &c. some of which, who were god/i/ youths, as Georg Pricket, Steph. Richmond, Will. Stauie, &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 Job. Blanks, he afterwards retired to his father's house, and became an attorney; Joh. Wright, after [the] king's restoration, became master of the king's school at Wor- cester; Brian Ambler a minister in Shropshire; and Rich. Philips, upon a second answer given in to tlie visitors, was kept in, and after he- had taken a degree in arts, he became a mortified and pious minister in Shropshire, &c. Edward Wood, fellow of Merton coll. was, for divers pretended miscarriages and misdeamea- nors, 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 strangers at his chamber with more wine, than 'twas thought convenient, ('i) for drinking the king's health at Medley neare Oxon. two ycarcs before, with some of his contemporaries of Trinity coll. &c. Which suspension M'as occasion'd 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. • F. might. Hearne. I?ten ly all accotmlermenls [sic] for a journey, tvhich I kepi till I * fFallingford, wee dined there and relumed to Oxon. I had grew too bigg for them. One Ann Green. In Diario. Hearne. Jan. 22. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. XIX This Thorn. Franke, after all his obsequious flatteries, faJs tales, crinj^ing to the prcshytcrians and independent [s], and his being actually in armes ' in the troop, raised by the university of Oxon. against K. Ch. 2. at Worcester an. 1651, had the impudence, after the restoration of the said king, to turn about, and for his money to get the rectory of Cranficld in Derbyshire, whilst others, that had been great sufferers for his niajestie'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, express some repentance of what he dad done to the imury of several of the society before Mr. Pet. Nicolls and Joh. Powell senior, fellowcs of the said coll. This yeare Jacob a Jew opened a coffey house at the Angel in the parish of S. Peter in fhe East, Oxon. and there it was by some, M'ho delighted in noveltie, drank. When he left Oxon. he sold it in Old Southampton buildings in Holborne neare London, and was living there 1671. See in 1654. . (Bom. 1651. A fineofthirtie pound was set by the warden and fellowes of Merton coll. for M'"'. Wood (mo- ther to A. W.) to pay, by way of renewing, for the housing and gardens 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 pamphlet, concerning Ann Green, with the verses at the end, Avas published \\nt\\ it's old title viz. Newes from the Dead: or a true and exact Narration of the Miraculous Deliverance of Ann Gixen, Sec. 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" A. Wood, beginning thus : Apr. 7. Sec in an. 1635. * rie stretch my Muse, but that a verse I'le hang upon thy living hearse. Chime in yee wits, and rhyme a knell ; For Death her self is lately fell &c.' Thorn. Wood, eldest brother to A. W. died of the flux at Drogheda, commonly calle Tredagh, in the month of Decemb. ^He was borne at Tetsworth neare to Thame in Oxfordshire, where his father then had a farme, educated mostly in the free school at Thame under his kinsman Mr. W. Burt, was made student of Ch. Church in 1638, as I have before told you, and after- wards 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 the yeare 1642. At his returne thence he was actually created bach, of arts among soldiers that had done service at the said battle : and then his father seeing, that he could not persuade him from being a * scholar, he bought ahorse, armes, cloaths. Sec. set him up for a troper, and got him a place to ride in the troop of captaine Tho. Gardiner of Cudesdon neare Oxon. Afterwards he became a stout and desperat soldier, was in seve- ral battles, and besieged in divers garrisons, particularly, if I am not mistaken, at Basing in Hampshire, and was made a licvtenant of horse. When the warr was terminated, and the king's cause utterlie vanquished, he return'd to his college, 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 thor, which I believe to be right, it being certain, tliat Anthony wasnoDoit. Coll. noslr. MSS. Jul. 6S. p. 83. W'oi " ' In the University Troop against K. Ch. SI. at Jf'orcester Diarium. Hearne. ^ Memorandum, that whereas one copy of Enghsh verses, in the verses made and printed upon Anne Green, is ascribed to Ant. Wood, a bit of paper is pasted over the name in the copy I have seen in the Ashmolean mus^m, and E. W. is written upon it, as if Anthony's elder brother Mr. Edw. Wood were tlie true au- was no poi-t. Coll. noslr. MSS. I ul. 08. p. 88. Wood's study in mus. Aslini. N°. 515. Hearne. ^ Afarmc, on thf 24 May I(JS4, educated. Diar. Hearne. ♦ Sic MS. At Soldier in Diario ; ita tamen ut lineani (in Uia- rio) per oldirr duxerit ipse auctor, & cholar supcrne. scripscrit qui pruinde forsitan legi maluit, perswade him to be a Schol. <1 2 , !ar. Hearke. See in the FastiOx- ON. under' the yeare 1648. See more there under the yeare 1647. XX THE LIFP: of ANTHONY a WOOD. unr^er that yeare, (1648.) he, to avoid being taken and liangcd for it, tied into Ireland, where fin(hng out his quondam seliool-fellow at 'i'hamc, called col. Hen. Ingoldesbie, he became a lievtenant in his regiment, afterwards 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 O.xon. to take up his arrears at Ch. Church, and to settle his other affaires; at which time being often with his mother 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, besides some women and children, were, after the assaliants had taken part, and after- wards all the towne, put to the sword on the 1 1 and 12 of Sept. I6'49; at which time S'. Arth. Aston the governour had his braines beat out, and his body ' liack'd to pieces. He told them, that when they were to make ^ the way up to the lofts and galleries in the church, and up to the ^ tower where the enemy had lied, 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 kil'd all in tlie* 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, kneel'd downe to 'J'ho. Wood with teares and prayers to save her life : And being strucken with '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. W^ood seeing her gasping, took away her money, Jewells, &c. and flung her downe over the works, &c. In the latter end of 1680, wdren the Parliament sate at Oxon. A. \Vood was walking with S'. Hen. b'. Georg, Clarentius king of amies, in the school-quadrangle. S'. Hen. then meeting with col. Hen. ingoldesbie before mention'd, and telling him who A. W. was, A. W. thereupon did discourse with him concerning his brother Thomas : and, among several * things that the colonel told him, was, that Thomas was a good soldier, stout and ventrous, and having an art of merriment, called buffooning, his company was desired and loved by the officers of his regi- ment. He told him then, he buried [him] in a churcli at Tredagh answerable to his quality, but could not tell him when he died. This 1 ho. 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 ex- ercised his hand on the violin, and having a good care 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 equal'd in that instrument, and in singing, any person then in the universitie. He had sojne companions that were musical, but they wanted instruction as well as he. J { Dom. 1652. ^^•l4CV/r.II. 7„1 2 Friday Jul. 2. A. Wood was examin'd for the degree of bac. of arts in the natural philosophy school, by Will. Ihowne, M. A. of Magd. coll. a native of Oxon. He had before answer'd twice under a bachelaur among the crowd in the divinity school, and once, if not both the tinjes, under Matth. IJee, a determining bachelaur of universitie coll. in the Lent-time 165?: which M. Uee 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 Shabington Wake as it seems, he rode in the company of a mimick and buffoon, called Tho. Williams ; and the horse of A. W. being bad, or else that he was no good rider, he ' Hack' d and chop' d to pieces. T)hT. Hearne. ♦ Churches. InDiario. Hearne. * Their ivuy. Diar Heakke. ' A deep remorse. Diar. Hearnb ^ In churches, and up lo the lowers, InDiario. Hearne; '' Things, he told me, that he was a good. T)'iar. Hearne. 1 THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. XXI had a fall, and put out his arme. When he came to Shabl)ington, he putoflThis doublet, and found his arme swcl'd and exceeding tender. Ih. Williams, who had been bred an apothecary, would needs pcrswade liim, that his arme was not out of joynt, only l)ruised, and so applyed a cloath and oylc to it ; yet, notwithstanding this, he could not use it, which caus'd all his mirth to be turn"(l 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 afflic- ted 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 theend that he might look upon it, and sec what was to be done. He spoke mildly to A. W. when he look'd 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 anotlier below the elbow, pluck'd the arme straight and set it. But thepaine being great and unexpected (because that the arteries had been shrunk) he fell into a great sown, and could sec nothing but green before his eyes. Adanis then laid him upon the bed, gave him cordials, 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 ' was or is. Thomas Williams before mention'd had an estate in land, houses and money left to him by his father, but never would follow his trade, onlic 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 debaucher of youth, "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, cat and drink in his house : and if he could meet with any of his acquaintance, whose nature was easie, he would take him with him to eat, drink and lodg on the dcbtcr. And to this farmer ^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. A. W. went to angle with Will. Stamc of Aug. Mert. coll. to \V'heately bridge, and nutted in Shotover by the way. Ihe day was hot, and A. ^^P'" 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 prov'd 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-da3's his stomach had contrac- ted 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 win- ter following, yet he could find no remedy. At length he was advised to retire into the country to take better ayre than in O.xon. follow the plow, and use what exercise he could there to shake the ague off. Tuesday (Feb. 15.) A. W. went to Cassington before mention'd, and because Mr. Tipping and Feb. is.. his wife had quitted their quarters in that towne, he took up his quarters at the next (lore, in the house of an honest and sufficient 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. liad a very sad dreame in his sleep. He was in a melanclioly place, had no com- ^^^- 2i- panion, &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 have disconsolate dreames, which would make him melancholy 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 ' After was or is is added in the Diar)', which ivithout dvull is as ' Ai Shahington, to whome he had lent Monet/, did he goe. lad as death. Hearne. Diar. Hearne. '^ And scarseJit.Uizr. Hearme. ♦ Toke,Did.l. HeaRNE. XXli THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. strings iu fourths, aud not in fifths according to tlie manner : And having a good eare,' 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. ^'^ landlord did once perswade him to drink his ague away : and thereupon going to theale- house 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, notwith- standing 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 wasa little spirit or devil, that had got within him ; aivd therefore when hot weather came, he would have him go into the water and drownc 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 Pythagorjean opinion of his : at which hard word being startlcti, he thought it was none of his, but the little devil within him that sent it out of his mouth, Sic. In this condition he continued till the weather was alter'd and grew hotter, and then his ague and fits grew less, yet Avhen cold weather came againe it would be apt to return, and would have fastned on him againe, had he not prevented it by physick. Mar. 12. Saturday (Mar. 12) his brother Edw. and Robert Wood, withMr. Tho. Cole steward of Merton coll. were with him to comfort him in his disconsolate condition. They dined with him, and then departed. {Dom. 1653. 5 Car. II. -? I Oliv. Protect. After he had spent the Summer at Cassington in a lonish and retir'd condition, he return'd to Oxon. and being advised by some persons, he entertain'd a master of 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 goiui; 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. improv'd himself Sept. 8. in that instrument, he found him not so. He gave him 2s. 6d. entrance, and JOs. quarterly. 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 instruc- tions how to proceed, leaving then a lesson with him to practice against his next coming. The last ycare, after he was eiitred into the publick library (which he took to be the happi- ness 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 thisyeare being a constant student therein, he became acquainted with the places in the arts library, (for no far- ther could bachelaurs of arts then goe) where the books of English historic and antiquities stand. He lighted upon T/ie Description of Lcycentersliire, written by Will. Burton : and being exceed- ingly delighted with the performance, he did this or in the yeare following, take notes thence, and make collections from it, which he had lying by him in his lastdayes. Fie took great delight in reading The Displaij of Heraldrxi, written by John Guillim, and in other books of that faculty, written by Joh, Bosscwell, John Feme, &c. and endeavour'd 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 "them. Heraldry, musick and painting did so much crowd upon him, that he could not avoid them ; and could never give a reason 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 mo- ther did. He had then a gentile companion of the same coll. (J. W.) who delighted in yertuous ' Ani being ready. Diar.HEARME. » It Diar. Hearne. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. xxiii studies as he did, and would walk several times with him in shady recesses and retired walkes, to each others coivtent ; 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 tlatter'd and admired him, and at length debach'd him; which did not a little trouble A. W. His kinsman Charnel Pettie esq ; an old puritan, and an honest and quiet man, became Nor. high-sherritf of Oxfordshire. His estate was at Tetsworth and elsewhere, but lived now at Stoke-Lyne neare to I3ister, the inheritance of his daughter's son, named Ralph Holt, who being a minor, the said Charnel Pettie was his guardian. (Dom. 1654. An J 6 Car. IL '^ ^ I Oliv. Prot. - - - - Hussey & Peck, two gentlemen that were lately officers in the king's army, July 25. were hang'd in the castle-yard in Oxon. to the great reluctancy ot the generous royallists then living in Oxon. They were out 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 *John Glynn, Serjeant at law, who this ycare went Oxford circuit. Hussey was the eldest, had received some marks of '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 M'ere 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'' 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 by ' W. Bull of Trinity, afterwards Aug. lO. fellow of Allsouls, coll. The other examiners were Georg Weldon of Magd. coll. and Job. Whitehead of Exeter coll. who examin'd the rest of the class. He had certificats by him for the performance of other * lectures, but they are imbezeld and lost. ' Cirques Jobson, a Jew and Jacobite, borne neare Mount-Libanus, sold coiFey in Oxon. in an house between Edmund hall and Queen coll. corner. See in the yeare l6jO and 165.5. By his sedulous and close studying in the publick library, and by conversing with books not used by the vulgar students, 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. • ^ ^v j3„ll. A. W. having by this time obtain'd proficiency in musick, he and his companions f were not E. G. without *" silly frolicks, not now to be ' maintained. ^g\i * Did not the learned Glynne and Maynard sold at or neare the Angel within the East Gate of Oxon. as also To make "ood subjects tray tors strain hard ? Chocolate hij an out lander or a Jew. Hearne. Hudilras. W. & H. * What those silly froHcks were, the reader will easily under- ' Over this word in the Diary is written valour, by Mr. Wood's stand from what occurs in the Diary, where instead of this para- own hand, but in a paler ink. Hearne. graph we have what follows : * Master in the NaturalFhilosophy School by ff^ill. Bull. HE.\nnB. Jlaviyig ly this time got some musical acquaintance, afrolick by 3 Will. Bull, master of arts and bach, of physick, was also fellow all meanes must he taken by us ; and what should it be, but to dis- of Allsouls, died 15 July iCCl, and was buried in the outward guise our selves in poore habits, & like coniryfidlers scrape for our chapel of that college. He was of Peglinch, near Wells in com. livings? Farringdon fair this yeare was the place designed logo Somers. and bore to his arms, as I remember, Or : 3 Bulls heads to : And all of us (fve in number) lodgingin a house in the Middle Cabosed Or ; obiit anno xtatis 28. Wood's MSS. in Mus. Ashm. rew in Magd. parish, belonging to one Gregory a chandler, vee 840(). VV. & H. sate out very early the ne.vt morning, (Sf calling first on Mr. Th. ♦ Kreraif, ill Diarlo. Hearne. Latton's house at Kingston Bakepuie, wee bid him good morrow 5 This §. is thus read in the Diary, viz. Coffey, which had been by 2. or 3. tunes — He came in the hall among us, lislned to our drank by some persons in Oxon. 1650, was this yeare publickly ' i^. mcntioa'd. Hearne. xxiv THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. {Dom. 1655. 7 Car. II. * ^ 01. Prot. H' ^p jj Edw. Wood, eldest brother to A. W. and fellow of Merton coll. was installed junior proctor for the Univ. of Oxon. Whereupon he soon after appointed A. W. his collector in Austins ; which office he kept till he was admitted Mr. of arts. May 3 -^- ^ • ^^^^ ^^'^ fust declamation in the Natural Philosophy school for the degree of Mr. of Arts. The subject was, Bunum quoddum quilibet efficiat, Optimi autem solum perseverant. 16. A. W. made his S* declamation in the said schoole. And his subject was, Utrum prcestantius esset Cicerioin[s] libros comburere, quam mortem ' subiri ? 23. Edw. Wood died, to the great reluctancy of his friends and relations, in his mother's house against Merton coll. being the fourth week of his proctorship. He was administred toin his last days by Ilalp[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. 24. His body was carried into the common hall of Merton coll. where the society, and such masters of arts that were pleased to come to pay their last respects to him, had gloves, M'ine and bisket in abundance, as also had the doctors, heades of Houses, and his brother proctor Samuel Bruen, to which last E. Wood had bequeathed money to byy him a mourninggownc. 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 adorn'd with escocheons and verses; among which last was a copie made by his acquain- tance D'. Barton Ilolyday, 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 Oxou. 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, ' thou was wise, with honour thus to dye, Fame is thy epitaph, thy tombe the skye. Qjj ,2 A handsome maid living in Catstreet, being deeply in love with Joseph Godwin, a junior fel- low of New coll. poison'd herself with rats-bane. This is mention'd, because it made a great wonder, that a maid should be in love with such a person as he, who had a curl'd shag-pate, was squint-ey'd and purblind, and mucli deform'd 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, and before he had been translated to Winchester school, had been in the same forme with A. W. at New coll. school. JTiisic, gave tts money, & ordered drink to le earricd lo us. eould do nothing. — Soon after wee took another voyage Northward, After wee had done with him, wee retired to the in standing on the called at Hampton Poyle, played at Mr. ffest's house, had some road going to Farringdon, dined there, (Sf after dinner wee teeie money, but more drink. Afterwards leee went (I think) to Kid- entertain d hy some q) the neighbours, who danced {as I remember) lington, got something there, rrturnd in the evening, fS" certain in the green, gave us some money iSf victualls, &" I think wee re- Soldiers overtaking us, they by force made us play in the open fetid turned very late that evening lo O.ton. The names of those in this (^ then left us without giving a penny. exploit were, myself & fVitl. Bull before mentiond, who played on Most of my companions would afterwards glory in this, but I the violins, Edm. Gregorie Ji. A. & gent. com. of Mert. coll. who tvas ashamd, & could never endure lo hear of it. |]earne. playd on the bass viol, Joh. Nap of Trinity on the cilerne, and ' F. subire. Hearne. George Mason of the taid coll. on another wycr instrument, but * thou wast wise. Hearne. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. XXV On the vigil of S. Luke, part or half of the roof of the South part of Merton coll. outcr- 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. retrieval the brass plates that were fixed on them, and trans- crib'd and sav'd the inscriptions on them, Avhich he afterwards printed in his Histor. ct Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. (pag. 9\.) He was admitted master of arts, being then his birth-day, and at the same time he was ad- Dec. it. mitted ad Regendum. It was his intention to be admitted 2 or 3 dayes after he had last doclaim'd ; 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 appcare in public. In the beginning of March he published five sermons of his brother Edw. Wood lately de- ^^^ ceased, which he had preached before the universitie. He dedicated them to 'D'. Jonathan God- Sec Am. dard, warden of Merton coll. and sent to him a very fair copie of them bound in blew Turkey- ?T f^**^* leather, with their leaves gilt. 'I 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, ' apothecary and great royallist, sold coffey publickly in his house against All-soules coll. He was encouraged so to do by som royallists, now living in Oxon. and by others, who esteem'd themselves either virtuosi or wits; of which the chiefest number were of Alls. coll. as Peter Pett, Thorn. Millington, Tim. Baldwin, *Christop. Wren, Georg Castle, Will. Bull, &c. 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, sojournoura in Oxon. Mathew and Thomas, sons of D'. Wren bishop of Ely, &c. This coftey house continued till his majestie's returne and after, and then they became more frequent, and had an excise set upon coffey. rDom. \6s6. An. J 8 Car. II. ^ ||0/ir. Prot. By this time A. W. had genuine 'skill in musick, and frequented the weekly meetings of musitians in the house of Will. Ellis, late organist of S. John's coll. situat and being in a house, opposite to that place whereon the theater was built. The usual company that met and per- formed their parts were (l) Joh. Cock, M. A. fellow of New coll. by the authority of the visi- tors. He afterwards became rector of Heyford-Wareyne neare Bister, and marrying with one of the Woodwards of Woodstock, lived an uncomfortable life with her. (i2) Joh. Jones, M. A. fellow of the said coll. by the same authority. (3) Georg Croke, M. A. *of the said coll. also by the same authority. He was afterwards drown'd, with Brome, son of Brome Whorwood of Halton neare Oxon. in their passage from Hampshire to the Isle of Wight, 5 Sept. 16.57. (4) Joh. Friend, M. A. fellow also of the said iiouse and by the same authority. He died in the country an. 16.58. (5) Georg Stradling, M. A. fellow of Alls. coll. an admirable lutinist, and much re- spected by Wilson the professor. (6) Ralph Sheldon, gent, a Rom. Catholick of Steple-Barton in Oxfordshire, at this time living in Haly well neare Oxon. admired for his smooth and admi- rable 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 Matthew Wren bishop of Ely, a sojournour now in the house of Franc. Bowman, bookseller, ' See Ward's Lives of the Gresham Professors, p. 270. W. & H. ♦ Christopher Wren, afterwards S'. Christopher. W. & II. * Sic. ' Had some genuine. Diar. Hearne. * An Apothecary and Royallist, Yyw. Hearne. * PeZ/ptc adjiciend. ut videtur. IIearne. & xxiv THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. ■ ' — ■ ■ — ^_ living in S. Marie's parish in Oxon. (8)Tho. 'James, M. A. ofMagd. coll. would be among them, but seldonie pla\'ed. 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 frequented the said meeting, were (1) *Will Ellis, bach, of musick, owner of the house M'hcrein 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 play'd 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. (•i) Tho. Jackson, a bass-violist; afterwards one of the choire of S. John's coll. in Oxon. (.'5) 'Edw. Low, organist lately of Ch. Church. He play'd only on the organ ; so when he performed liis part, Mr. Ellis would take up a counter- tenor viol, and play, if any person were wanting to pcrforme that part. (6) Gervace Littleton alicls Westcot, or Westcot aliAs Littleton, a violist. He was afterwards a singing man of S. John's coll. (7) Will*. Glexney, who had belonged to a choire before the warr. He was after- wards 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 univcrsitie musitians, would be somtimes among them ; but M'. 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 starch'd formal clisterpipe, who usually play'd 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, Handleivood. As for other musitians, who were about this time beginners, you shall have the names of them under the yeare 1658. julj 22. Proctor died in Haly well, and was buried in the middle of the church there. He had been bred up by ' Mr. Joh. Jenkyns, the mirrour and wonder of his age for music, was excellent for the lyra-viol and division-viol, good at the treble-viol and treble-violin, and all comprehended in a man of three or 4 and twentie yeares of age. He was much admired at the meetings, and exceedingly pittied by all the faculty for his loss. This summer came to Oxon. The Antiquities of JFarwickshire See. written by Will Dugdale, and adorn'd 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 " Reponendum veljanes (quo modojegitur infra, sub An. l663.) Wood's MSS. mas. Asliin. 8466. W. & H. vel Jeanes. Hearne. ♦ Quaere if not Flexneu. W. & H. = After cathedrals and organs were put down in the grand re- 5 John Jenkyns was born at Maidstone in Kent, and being na- bellion, he kept up a weekly meeting in his house opposite to that turally incHned to musick took it in his childhood, and in his place where the theatre was afterwards built, which kept him and manly years patronized by Deerham of Norf esquire ; and nis wife in a comfortable condition. The meeting was much fre- though a little man ytt he had a great soul. quenled.and many masters of musick were there, and such that had He was also much patronized by Edward Benlowes, esq; who belonged tochoirs, being out of allemploy, and therefore the meet- having written a most divine poem entit. Tkcophila or Love's Su- ing, as all other musick meetings, did flourish ; and musick, espe- crifice printed at London iGil, several parts thereof had airs set to cially vocal, being discountenanced by the presbyterians and inde- them by this incomparable .Jenkyns, who lived ten yeares or more pendents, because it favoured much the cathedrals and episcopacy, after the restoration of K. C. 2. it was the more used. But when king Charles was restored and He was esteemed the prune coin|)oser living in the latter end of episcopacy and cathedrals with it, then did the meetings decay, the reign of K.C. 1. in the reign of Oliver C. and K. C.2. Dr. i-specially for this reason, because the masters of musick were cal- John Wilson, above mentioned, used to say that, for the honour led away to cathedrals and collegiate choirs. of his country, Alphonso Farabosco born of Italian parents at Wood's MSS. mus. Ashm. a568, 106. W. & H. Greenwich, and John Jenkyns at Maidstone, were admired not ^Edward Lowe of Salisbury, master of the choristers, and or- only in England but beyond the seas for their excellent composi- ganist of Ch. Ch. died xi July l682. buried by Alice his wife in tions. the upper end of the Divinity chapel, on the north side of the choire Wood's MSS. mus. Ashm. 8508. 106. W. & H. of Ch. Church cathedral. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. xxvii musick. and rare books that he found in the public library, his life at this time and after was a perfect Elysium. In the latter end of Octob. he bes^an to survey andtranscribe the monumental inscriptions Oci. jo. and amies in the several parochial churches and college chappcls, within the city and univcr- sitie of Oxon. A. W. his mother, and his two brothers, Rob. and Christopher Wood, gave 5" to Merton Jan. lo. coll. towards the castingof their five bells into eight. These five were antient bells, and had been put up 'into the tower at the first building thereof, in the time of D'. Hen. Abcndon, warden of Merton coll. who began to be warden in 1421. The tenor or great bell (on which the name of the said Abendon was put) was supposed to be the best bell in England, being, as 'twas said, of fine mettal silver found." 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 Holloway, 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-war- den (the warden being then absent) and - - - - Derby, the bell-founder, they were made eight. Dr. Job. 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 instruction of Charles Grif- fith, and afterwards of Jo. Parker, one of the universitic musitians, he was now advis'd to enter- taine one Will. James, a dancing master, by some accounted excellent for that instrument, and jan. the rather, because it was said, that he had obtained his knowledg in dancing and musick in France. He spent in all half a yeare with him, and gained some improvement from him ; yet at length he found him not a compleat master of his facultie, as Griffin 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, play'd three, four and five parts with viols, as treble-viol, tenor, counter-tenor and bass, with an organ, virginal or harp- sicon joyn'd with them : and they esteemed a violin to be an instrument only belonging to a common fidler, and could not indure that it should come among them, for feare of making their meetings 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, m hile he was at meales, as being more airie and brisk than viols. rDom. 1 657. Jti.)9Car.ll. '- * I Oliv. Prof. At the funeral of Mane Wickham, the widdow and somtimes the second wife of Will. Wick- Mar.27. ham of Garsingdon, neare Oxon. gent. Shee was buried in the chancel of the church tliere 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 ofHalton) and died in Oxon. 25 March. A. W. did not then survey the monuments in Garsingdon church, because of the com- pany there, but rode immediatly home to Oxon. ■ In the Tower. Diar. Hearne. -She was the daughter of - - - - Brome, of Clifton near » Sic MSS. Neque aliter in Diario. Et tamen sownJ edidi in Banbury, and sister to Henry Brome who died 1667 ■ Neubrigensi, p 797. Hearne. The said Vl'illiam Wickham was the Son of John Wickham of ^ Jane Wickham widow, sometimes the S""- wife of WilHam Rotherfeild in Sussex, but descended from tlie VVickhams of Wickham of Garsington in comitatu Oxon. died in the house of Swaclyve. W'ood's WSS. mus. Ashm. Jvo. 8o05. 8580: William Webb a bookseller, living in the parish of St. peter's in \\ . & H. the East, 25 Mar. An. 1657. and was buried in the chancell of Garsington by her husband. e 2 xx'viii THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. Apr. 30. He began his perambulation of Oxfordshire : and the monuments in Wolvercot church were the first that he survey 'd and transcrib'd.' 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 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, Avas new made, and a window broke thro the tower next to Corp. Ch. coll. was made to give light. Aug, 4. He began to peruse and run over all the manuscript collections of the great antiquary John Leland, that are reposed in the archives of Bod lie's library. He was exceedingly delighted in them, was never M'cary of them, but collected much from them. Aug. 14. In his rambles about the country, he went to Dorchester, 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 J oh. Feteplace, esq. an old bachelaur. He had suc- ceeded in that office Joh. Drope, lately fellow of Magd. coll. who was the first master appointed by the founder. A. W. could not but here acknowledge 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, Avhich 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, cloy- ster and buildings adjoyning.^ And at his departure 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 Whor- wood of Halton neare Oxon. was drown'd 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* of New coll. hire a vessel that was leaky, which sunk by that time they were halfway 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 Kingston upon Thames in Surrey, somtimes surveyor of the stables of K. Jam. I. and dau. in law to James Maxwell, esq; one of thegromes of the bed-chamber to K. Ch. I. as having married her mother after Ryther's death. A. W. re- membred her well, as having often seen her in Oxon. She was red-haii'd, as her son Brome was, and was the most loyal person to K. Ch. I. in his miseries, 'as any woman in England, as it ap- peares by several exploits, that she performed in order to his preservation; among which I shall set downe these two. After his majestic had been taken away from Holdcnby, he was conveyed by easie removals to Hampton court August 1647, at which time the citizens of London were very unruly, had aliena- ted their affections from the parliament, were very averse to the army, and wholly enclin'd to his majestic, 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 threatning of the par- " Vide catalogue of Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. No. 8505, ♦ So it should be read, tbo' it be Craie in tbe MS. Neilheris it 8586. W. & H. otherwiie than Crake in the Diary. Hisarne » Remaind. Diar. Hearnb ' F. of. Hearne. 3 See Catalogue of Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. Oct". 1762. K°.fi564. W.&H. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. xxix liam. 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 thinit of an escape from Hampton court, if he could well know to what place he could goe. Jane VVhorwood knowing tiiis, shec went to Will. Lillie the astronomer, living in the Strand within tlic libcrtie 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 feare 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, lie was certaine the king might continue undiscovered. Shee liked his judgment very well, and being herself of a sharp judgment, remembred a place in Essex about that distance, where was an ex- cellent house, and all conveniencies for his reception, &c. Away shee went early next morning to Hampton court, to acquaint his majestic; 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''. of the same money, as the said Lilly usually reported. Another loyal exploit was this. His majestic being in Caresbrok castle in the said Lsle of Wight, the Kentish men were then in armes for him, and join'd with the 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 majestic design'd an escape thence, if he could tell how. A snial 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 Whor- wood, she repaires againe to Lillie, and acquaints him with the matter: whereupon he got G. Farmer, a most ingenious locksmith dwelling in Bow lane in London, to make a saw to cut iron barrs asunder, I meane to saw them, and aquafortis besides. These things being quickly ob- tain'd, 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 far- ther; 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, Avhether his majestic 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 majestic, yet the said lord Say ("then one of the commissioners from the parliament for a peace) did, after his majestic had communicated his intentions to him what to doe, perswade him from signing the said propositions, 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 occasional his maj. to wave the advice of Lilly and others, &c. This Jane Whorwood is the same lady mention'd in the second vol. of Ath et Fasti Oxon. p. 523. where you'l find that K. Ch. L had put into her hands a cabinet of pretious Jewells, to be by her kept till such time that he * Sic cum puDctis (ab ipso auctore) paienthesi inclusa, delenda esse, ni fallor, indicantibiu. Hearne. XXX THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. 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. Sept. 16. A. W. went to Einsham, to see an old kinsman, calledThom. Barncote. He was there wonder- fully 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' me- lancholy delight in taking a prospect of the ruins of that place.'' All which, together with the entrance or lodg, were soon after pul'd 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. Dec. 24. At about eleven or twelve at noon (Merton college bells being then ringing) Will. Bull, fel- low of AUsouls coll. and Hen. Hawley, fellow of Oriel, were with A. W. at his 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 ac- quaintance, but would not tell him, Avho 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 gentleman com. of Merton coll.? who, in the evening before, had conveyed thither a yong gentlewoman of 1.5 yeares of age, na- med Pottinger, of Choulesley neare Wallingford 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 tlark, 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 Oxford- shire 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 mortgag'd, 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 socictie of Merton coll. to Haseley, about 7 miles distant from Ath.et Fas- Oxon. being all invited to the funeral of Dr. Edw. Corbet, rector of that towne, who was then Ti Oxon. and there (in the chancel) buried. He had taken a view of the monuments there before. Mar. 12. Edm. Greg, and his new wife in Oxon. A. W. attended them, shew'd them the public libr. Anatomy school, &c. 17. Or thereabouts his cozen Joh. Taverner, son and heir of Joh. Tav. of Soundess neare Nettle- bed 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 ne^re to Winchester, was his heire. 23- He walked to Osney, where seeing a poore man digging in the ruins, he shew'd A. W. a leaden impression or the seal of pope John 123, which he bought of him. Will. Byrd of Hallywell in the suburbs of Oxon. stonecutter, did in the latter end of this yeare find out the paynting or stayning of marble : a specimen of which he presented to the ' It was not to M". Jane Whorwood that the jewels were in- * This prospect is now in the Ashmolean museum. It was lately trusted, but to the lady of Sr. W. Wheeler, the king's laundress. engraved, but without any notice of Mr. Wood. (Wood's MSS. • SeeATHEN-E Oxon. under the year 168 1. in nius. Ashm. 8505.) W. & H. Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs, p. 1 22. 130. W. & H. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. XXXI Protect. Apr. b. king after his restoration, as also the queen, and in I669 to Cosmo prince of Tuscany when in Oxon. In the latter end of this yearc ' Davis Mell, * the most eniinent violinist of London, being in Oxon. Peter Pett, Will Bull, Ken. Digby, and others of Allsoulcs, as also A. W did give a very handsome entertainment in the taverne, cal'd The Salutation, in S. Marie's parish Oxon. own'd by Tho. Wood, son of Wood of Oxon. somtimes 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 did, could goe beyond him. But when Tho. Baltser, an out- lander, came to Oxon. in the next yeare, they had other thoughts of Mr. Mell, who tho he play'd farr sweeter than Baltsar, yet Baltsar's hand was more quick, and could run it insensibly to the end of the finger-board. (Bom. 16.58. An.) 10 Car. IL ■^ t Rich. \ Will. George, bach, of arts and student of Ch. Church, was buried in the chancel of Garsing- don church neare Oxon. This person had been tutor to the children of Job. Wickham of that tovvne gent, and when resident in the universitie, was accounted a noted sophister, and remarka- ble courser in the time of Lent in the publick schooles. He was poorc, 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 look'd elderly, and was cynical and hersute in his behaviour. Easter Tuesday Chr. Wood (brother to A. W.) was married to Elizabeth Seymour. AtCuxham, with other of his acquaintance, in the house of Mr. Gregory ; where continu- ing 3 dayes, he went to several townes, to collect monumental inscriptions and armes, as at Watlington, Brightwell, &c.' *Alderm. Job. Nixon's school, in the yard belonging to 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 hang'd at Greenditch neare Oxon. for murdering her infant-bastard After shee was cut downe and taken away to be anatomiz'd, Coniers, a physitian of S. John's coll. and other yong physitians, did in short time bring life into her. But the bayllives of the towne hear- ing of it, they went between la and one of the clock at night to the house where she laid, and putting her into a coflfin, carried her into the Broken hayes, and by a halter about her neck drew her out of it, and hung her on a tree there. She then was so sensible of what they were about to do, that she said, Lord have mercy upon mce, &c. The women were exceedingly enraged at Apr. 13. Apr. 13. 19. May 4. ' David OT Davys Mell, the eminent Violiniit of London and clockmaker, being in Oxon. Diar. Hearnb. * Mell Davis, the best violinist of his time, and though Tho- mas Baltzar went beyond him in quickness of stopping, yet Mell plav'd sweetpr . The chief or master of the band of K. Charles I. He had an excellent facultiein making catches. He hath compositions in courtly masquing ayres : containing almanes, ayres, coranls published by John Playford. Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8563. W. & H. 3 See Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8586. W. & H. ♦John Nixon, alderman of Oxon. and sometimes mayor of the same, soil of John Nixon of Blechington in com. Oxon. husband- man. He granted by a deed, dated 13 Jan. 1 658, 600l. to purchase 301. per an. for the salary of a schoolmaster to teach 40 boys, the sonns of poore freemen with the said city. (Note that tho' he had got all his estate by the unlversiiie yet no caution was taken for poore priviledged mens sons.) Till such purchase were made, the mayor, bayliffs .ind cominalty of the city (in whose liand the 600l. was paid) and their successors were to pay 301. per an. 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 continued to that according to the rules left by the founder. The 1st 40 boves were admitted ig Apr. 1659, Munday. The allies of Joh. and Joan Nixon, and Matthew Martin, Toun- clerke, arc to be preferred amon" 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 raus. Ashm. 8518. W. &H. xxxii THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. it, cut downe the tree whereon she was hang'd, and gave very ill language to Henry Mallory, cue of the baillives, when they saw him passnig 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 shew'd to the poore maid. See Dr. Plot Nat. Hist, of Ox. p. 197. Jul u •^- ^- Pntertain'd two eminent musitians of London, nam'd .Job. Gamble and Tho. Pratt, after they had entertain'd him with most excellent musick at the meeting house of Will. Ellis. (Jam- ble'had obtain'd a great name among the musitians of Oxon. for his book before publish'd, entit. See Ath. & Ayres and Diuloges to be sung to the Theorbo-Lute or Bass-Viol. The other for several composi- ^^'■"/'''"''•tions, which they played in their consorts. "^ ■ Tho. Balsaror Baltzar, a Lubecker borne, and the most famous artist for the violin that the world had yet produced, 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 ' in alacrity and in very good tunc, which he -any in England saw the like before. A, W. entertain'd him and Mr. Low Math what the house could then attord, and afterwards he invited them to the tavern ; but they being engag'd to goe to other company, he could no more hcarc him play or see him play at that time. Afterwards he came to one of the weekly meetings at Mr. Ellis's house, and lie played to the wonder of all the auditory : and exercising his fingers and instrument several Avayes 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 whe- ther he had a huff on, that is to say, to see, whether he was a devil, or not, because he acted be- yond the parts of man. About that time it was, that ^ Dr. J oh. 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 viohn. At length the com- pany perceiving A. W. standing behind in a corner neare the dore, they 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 abash'd at it, yet honour he got by playing with and against such a grand master as Baltzar was. Mr. *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 shew'd his most wonderful parts on that instru- ment, Mell was not so admired, yet lie playd sweeter, was a well bred gentleman, and not given to excessive drinking as Baltzar was. \u' 30 Munday, a terrible raging wind hapned, which did much hurt. Dennis Bond, a great Oliva- sJ^^'ath. & rian and antimonarchist, died on that day, and then the Devil took Bond for Oliver's appearance. Fasti Oxon. ■ mih alacrifv. Diar. Hear he. He left 4001. to the Royal Society ; 2001. to Wadham college ; and, * L. nor cum 6iario. Hearne. 'tis said, not above 8 orQOOl. to his lady ; Dr. Tillotson, his execu- ' Kxtract of a letter from Jo. Brooke to Dr. Martin Lister, tor; he seemed not to be much surprized at the news of death, but dated Dec. 14. 1672, in the collection presented to the museum at said he was prepared for the great experiment. On Thursday last Oxford by Dr. John Fothergill f.f London. he was interred, and Dr. Llovd preached the funeral sermon. Tho' -Since my last, the deatli of that excellent prelate (the bishop it pro\ed a very wet day yet (lis corps were very honourably atten- ^hpsterl has hpcn not a little lamented, whose distemper was ded : I believe there were above 40 coaches, with six horses; besides of Chester) has heennota little lamented, whose distemper was ded ; I believe there wereabove40 coaches, withsix horses; besides mistaken; who died of a stoppage of urin, but not caused by a great number of others. the stone (as was imagined.) Mr. Wrav guessed the nearest ; but See also Biographia Brit. Art he forbore all diuretical things, which (as they apprehendsince) had been the most effectual (in all humane reason) for his recovery. ♦ Dav. Mell. Diar. Hearne. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. XXXUl Oliver Cromwell the protector died. This I set downc, because some writers tell us, that =»«?'• 3- he was hurried away by the Ucvill in the ' wind before mentioned. Richard Cromwell his son was proclaimed protector at Oxon. at the usual places where kings 6. have been proclaimed. While he was proclaiming before S. Marie's church dorc, the mayor, recorder, townclcrk, &c. accompanied by col. Unton Croke^ and his troopers, were pelted with carrot 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 Charnel Pcttie and his wife, and other Oct. is. of his relations there. He continued there till the 2£ of the said month : in which time he rode about the country adjoyning, and collected several monuments and amies. He was at Cotsford, in hopes to find a monument there for his grand-father by his mother's side, named Rob. Pettic, alias Lc Petite, gent, but finding none, he searched in the register, and found, that he was buried on the 10 May I6l2. Nath. Crew, M. A, and fellow of Line. coll. brought to A. W. a petition, to present to the Feb. ii. 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 downc, notwithstanding he had before submitted to them, and had paid to them reverence and obedience. Egg-Saturday, Edward Bagshaw, M. A. and student of Ch. Ch. presented his bachelaurs ad p^b. le, dettrminandum, without having on him any formalities, whereas every dcane besides had for- malities on. D". John Conant ^ was then vicechancellour, but took no notice of Bagshaw. In this Lent, but the day Avhen I cannot tell, A. W. went as a stranger with Thorn. Smith, Mr. of arts, (ejected his clerkship of Magd. coll. by the visitors l6-t8) living now obscurely in O.xon. I say he went with the said Mr. Smith on a ccrtaine morning, to a private and lone house in or neare to Baglcy wood, between Oxon. and Abendon, ^inhabited by the lord of Sunningwell cal- led Hannibal I3askervyle, esq;. ' The house, called Bay worth, is an old house, situated in a ' Which they make to have happen'd upon Sept. 3. upon which day likewise the earl of Clarendon (by mistake) fixes the wind, and not on Aug. 30lh. Hearne. * Unton Croke, counsellour at law, (father to Richard Croke, Kt.) made serjeantat law by Oliver Cromwell, 21 June l6o4, for the good service his son major (afterwards colonel) Unton Croke did for Oliver in the West against col. Joh. Penruddock, Hugh Grove,&c. and other cavaliers when they roseat Salisbury in March 1654^-died at Marston near Oxon. 28 Jan. 167O, aged 77, and was buried in the church there. He married Anne Hore dau. and heir of Rich. Hore of Merslon by Mary his wife. Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashni. 8466. W. & H. ^ An account of Dr. Conant see in Biogr. Brit. Vol. HI. pag. 1433. W.&H. ♦ Inhabited hy the lord of Bay worth, called Hannibal Busker- vyle, esq. It is an old house, situated. Diar. Hearne. ['In the Bodleian Library, among D'. Rawlinson's MSS. is A Transcript of some writeings of Hannihall Baskervile esq ; as they were found scattered here and there in his manuscripts and books of .account, andfrst a remembrance of some monuments and religues in the Church of St. Denniss and thereabouts in Ifrance by Uan- niball Baskervyle who went into y'. country !«*''. an English ambassador in the reigne of king James. This MS. contains several curious particulars relating to Oxford and the persons educated there, andthcfollowin" brief particulars of Mr. Baskerviile himself. ' April y". 5, 1597- J was born at a town in Piccardy, called S'. Vallery where was a deadly plague among y''. Ffrench, but it did not infect any of the English soldiers. I was christened by one Mr. Man y<^. preacher, and 1 had all the captains, about 32, to be my godfathers, it being the custome so of the wars, when thegenerall hath a son (they say ;) but two only stood at the (font or great bason, one was sir Arthur Savage, the other i can not remember his name. S''. Arthur Chichester was there, and other great men that have been since my father S''. Thomas Baskerviile died of a burning feavour at a town called Picqueny. I was then g weeks old.' To this I may add, that he was instructed under the care of Peacham author of the Compleat Gentleman, Sec. See his Minerva Britanna (Bodl. HH.4.Th.) p. 106. The following curious letter from sir Thomas Baskerviile ii printed from the original, among Mr. S'. Amand's papers, in the Bodleian. It is the more proper for insertion in the present place, as the original is nearly worn out by damp and former neglect. 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 hadgonn, noe man would have gonn with greater discreditt, for thatt for the most parte ihatt I have aparelcd my 3f)!ldiars itt hath bin vpon my cre- ditt to the marcliant for the which I have geven my perticuler bill, and nott vpon the provant masters, further my liftenant is in prison wlio wer vtterly lost if I wer w'drawen, besides the dishonor that would light one me for leving him ther, going into a new warr, be- sides I assure yow all thatt I have is in paun, which would be lost if I wcntt. These thinges hatth causid me to seke thestay of my coni- panyeof my lo. generall, and nott any perticuler dislike i have of your to. or of the vi:i2, the w'^''. I humbly entreatt your ho. lo belcve, for in denieng to folovv yow, I shuld shew my self wonderfull vndis- creet considering ther is so many my betters w':'' doe ytt, beside for the most pa'-t I have folowd yow since I knew the warrs, and if 1 hav lern'd any thinge I acknow.ledg itt from yow. Thus fearing to xxxiv THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. romancy place, and a man that is given to devotion and learning, cannot find out a better 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 ora- tory : on which Mr. Smitli perform'd 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 retir'd 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 re- ceive 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 indicted 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, beingagirle, andasojournour 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, to refresh his mind with a melan- choly walke, and with the retiredness of the place, as also with the shady box-arbours in the garden. In the latter end of this ycare (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 studies of English history, antiquities, heraldry and genealogies, he spent in the most delightful facultie of musick, eitherinstrumental 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 doAvne under the yeare 1656. As for those that came in See Ath. et after, and were now performers, and with whome A. W. frequently playd, were these: (1) Fasti OxoN. » Charles Perot, M. A. fellow of Oriel coll. a well bred gent, and a person of a sweet nature. be Over tedius I humbly desire yow to rest my honorable good friend, binding forth apprentices into other parishes children of the poorest and to excuse my cominge w"^''. I desire you to imputt rather to people of the same parish of North Leigh &c." thes letts than any wantt of desire to folow yow. Hagge this 20 2 An Oration spoken in the Hall of Oriel college Oxon. tht of January. Your honors most asurid to do yow servis. xxv/A of April. A. D. lC77- by Mr. Hazletvood then Dean of the Tho. Baskeruilc J same College at the Funeral of Mr. Charles Perrol one of the Fel- ' F. A. W. frequented. Hearne. lows of that College before all that Society and others present, his * Charles Peirot was the 2d son of Edward Perrot, esq ; of Corps being then placed before them. North Leigh near Oxford, by Eliz. daughter of sir William Stone- In detached parts of which oration his character is thus drawn. house of Kadley, Berks, at which place he was born. Having Ista generis claritas qua alios praistabat ei tantum persuasit ani- spent some time in his travels to learn the modern languages, he mumque dedit ad egregia facinora suscipienda. Apud omnes. returiiedan accomplished gentalman, and was authorof two or more quibus notus erat, fidem adeo inviolatam servavit, quasi non sibi sed political pamphlets in defence of the prerogative, to which he did amicis se natum putirat. Gravitalem suam tam innocua festivi- not Sethis name, and therefore would not communicate the titles of tate temperavit, ut neminem unqiiam, ante mortem suam, tristem them to A. Wood. He died on the 23''. of April 1677, a^d 45 efiecit ; Etenim, dum in vivis illc fuit, non minus difficile erat vul- or thereabouts, and was buried neare to his grandfather Robert turn raoestitia contractum, quam jam, cum mortuus sit, hilaritate Perrot, gent, and his mother, in the chanccU of North Leigh exporrectum intueri. Eadem pietate ille vixit qua alii sancti church. moriuntur, pietate adeo incredibili, sua tamen, ut illam non minus Sec Fasti Oxon. mgrc credent posterl quam nos possumus imitari. Cum ei mortuo And \^ cod's MSS. in mus Ashm. 846G. W. & H. tantum similes esse possiums, minime mirandum censeo, si nos ad In a MS. nowin the possession of the reverend Mr. John Price, illius exemplar jam conforraemus, si cum ilium mors & dolor no« [B. D. formerly scholar of Jesus, now commonerof Trinitycollcge, mutos reddat. and] sir Thomas Bodley's librarian, which contains many parti- culars 'elative to the parish and church of North Leigh, and to the 3. Extract of the JVillof*Mr. Edward Perrot a Portugal Mer- Perrot family, are the following articles. chant, in which he leaves the sum of Forty Pounds to the Parish of North Leigh ; to which Jnil Mr. Robert Perrot and Mr. Charles 1. E.xtract of the Will of the above mentioned Charles Perrol. Perrot are nominated Executors. ' Also (1 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 4. The Accompt of Mr. Robert Parol of the said Legacy and lands or otherwise sellcd so it may be and remain for ever to and increase thereof made to the Churchivardens isfc. 1678. ibr the use of the said poor imploying the yearly profits thereof in He died at Porto the iGlh. of Octob. according to our stile, a" 1667. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. XXXV See In the same book before r D', Wilson, all things M'cre carried very well, and gave great content to the most numerous audi- tory. This meeting was to congratulate his majestic's safe arrival, to his kingdomes. llie 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 per- forme, retired to the Crowne taverne, where they drankc a health to the king, the two dukes, Monkc, &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, Oourney and Jack Glendall of Brasnose, (the last of which Mr. Low took with him to make the company sport, he being a witty and boon companion,) Joli. 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 most places in England, particularly at sg. Oxon. which did exceed any place of it's bigness. Many from all parts flocked 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 prcsbyterians and phanatics had brought upon them; yet some of them seeing then what mischief they had done, tack'd about to participate of the uni- versal joy, and at length clos'd with the royal partie. A. W. began to peruse the MSS. in Ball. coll. libr. and afterwards at leisure times he perused Jou. 8. the MSS. in other college libraries.' The uncle by the mother's side of A. W. named Harcourt Pettie, Mr. of A. and sometimes of la. Gloc. hall, died at Bister in Oxfordshire, after he had spent a fair estate left to him by his father Rob. Pettie, gent, which estate was the mannour of Wiveold or Wyfald between Henley and Reading, and a larg farme at Cotsford neare Bister before mention'd. He was buried in Bister church. In the latter end of June the antique marbles, which the great Selden had left to the univer- June, sity, were set up in the wall, which parts the area lying before the convocation-house dore and canditch. But when the wall was pul'd downe, to make room for the theater, the marbles were laid aside for the present. Afterwards Mhen the theater was built, they were set up on the wall that encompasses it. Each of them hath the letter S, engraven or painted, to distinguish them from Howard's, which have an H. on them. D'. Edw. Reynolds, late deane of Ch. Ch. was elected warden of Merton coll. by vertue of Jul. is. the king's letters sent thereunto, dat. Jul. 7. At Meysey-Hampton in Glocestershire to visit his kinsman Hen. Jackson, bach, of div. and '9 rector of that towne. He heard from him many stories of his contemporaries in Corp. Ch. coll. At Fairford neare Meysey-Hampton, where JVIr. Will. Oldsworth, the impropriator, did with 20. 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\ Edmund Thame, Kt. (who died 1534') did finish, having been begun by his father Joh. Thame, esq;, who died an. 1.500. It may com- pare 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, adorn'd with pinaclcs, and sculptures of men's faces and armes. The church is also adorn'd 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 describ'd in a copie of verses in a book, called University Poems. ' See Wood's MSS. in mus. Asbm . 8490. W. & H. » See the lid. vol. of Leland's Ilin. p. 18. Hearnb xlii THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. 30. D'. Job. Wallis, the keeper of the universitie registers, munhnents, writings,' of the said uni- versitie, did put into the iiands of A. Wood the keys of the school-tower, and the key of the room where tlie said registers &c. are reposed, to the end that he might advance his esurient genie in antiquities, especially in those of the said universitie. This was done at the request of D'. Ralph Bathurst, and on purpose to promote his generous designe. Here he layd the foundation of that book, which was 14 ycares after published, viz Hist, et Avtiq. 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 a great alteration was made iu him. About £ 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 cheerfuU, '^ contended and healthfuU, and nothing troubled him more than the intermission of his labours by eating, drinking, sleeping, and som- times 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'. 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, widen then he should have finish'd ' them. 8. Job. Glendall, Mr. of arts and fellow of Brasn. coll. died, and was buried at the upper end of S. Marie's chancell in Oxon. He was a minister's son of Cheshire, had been the witty TerrcK- jillus 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 therefore thrown out at a reckoning. He Avas 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 Avith hiim, and delighted in his company. I'eb. XI. 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'. E. Reynolds * resign'd his wardenship of Merton coll. having been lately promoted to the see of Norwich. Mar. 5. The fclloMcs of Merton coll. proceeded to the election of a new warden, according to a citation that had before been stuck up; but they supposing, not without good ground, that D'. Tho. Jones, one of their society, would act foul play in the election, (having been encouraged so to doe by D'. Tho. Barlow, provost of Queen's coll. viz. that he should name D'. Thorn. Clay- ton a stranger, and so make a devolution) the fellowes proposed to Mr. Alex. Fisher the sub- warden, 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'. 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'. Rich. Browne, somtimes fellow, now one of the clerks of the king's privie council!, Mr. A. Fisher, and D'. Rich. Lydall a physitian, somtimes fellow; but Jones named ' S'. Rich Browne, D'. Tho. Clayton, the king's professor of physick in the university, somtimes fellow of Pembr. coll. and D'. Priaulx, somtimes fellow of Merton. This being done, and the election devolved • Sic. Hearts. * L. contented. Hearne. ^ Sic. Hearne. ♦ See the BiograpA. Bril. Art. South, p. 37C4. D. W. &IL ' See Aubrey's Ant'iq. of Surrey, Vlo. 4. pag.ll?. 131. W. & H. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. xliii to Dr. .Tuxon, 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 friends endeavours to get the said archb. to confirme Clayton. D'. Barlow by these liis underhand and false doings gained the ill will of the society of Merton coll. who stuck not [to] say, and that with concern- ment, that he was a most false, busie and pragmatical person. D'. Wallis sent for A. W. to com to him, then in the muniment-room in the school tower. Mar. is. He desir'd him, to give his assisting hand to tlie 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'. Wallis, and wrot about 7 or 8 sheets con- cerning the brewers, inholders, bakers, alehouses, taverns, maultsters, &c. viz. of the incorpo- rating them, and of other matters concerning them. The universitie gave content to M'. Wood ' for his labour. ,„ f Dom. 1661. ^^"■l]3Car. U. T)'. Clayton obtained his instruments in parchment from archb. Juxon, to be warden of Mcr- Mar. jg. ton coll. This was done by the perpetual solicitations of S'. Ch. Cotterell, which was trouble- some to the archbishop, even so much, that he was in a manner forc't to it for quietness sake. The next day S'. Charles procured his brother in law D'. Clayton to have the honour of knight- hood confer'd upon him. S'. Tho. Clayton coming to Oxon. in a stage-coach, some of his neighbours of S. Aldate's 30. parish went on horsback to meet him, as Kirby clerk of the pari.sh, Tho. Haselwood liis 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". 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 scatteredly into Oxon. a quarter of an hour before the coach came in. Sunday, there was a sacrament and ordination of ministers made in the Cath. ch. of Ch. Ch. 3i- by D'. Rob. Skinner, bishop of Oxon. Savil Bradley, M. A. fellow of New coll. (and afterwards SaviiBrad- fellow of that of Magd. coll.) was one of the persons, that was to have holy orders confer'd on '"T- him; but he having been used to eat breakfasts, and drink morning draughts, being ijot able to hold out with fasting, was troubled so much with wind in his stomach, that he fell in a sownc, and disturb'd for a time the ceremony. At length some cordial being procur'd, it set him up againe; yet he could hardly keep himself from a second sowning. Further also, D'. Barton Holyday, archdeacon of Oxon. being there as an assistant to the bishop and to give the sacrament, it so liapncd 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 vesselis, and spilt the wine, and tumbled the bread about. This was a great disturbance to tlie ceremony, and many wondred at it. Afterwards when all things were put in order, D'. 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'. Thom. Lamplugh of Qu. coll. who was there, was faine to officiat 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'. Tho. Clayton sent his man to the bible-clerks of Merton coll. to tell Apr. 1. them, that' their master would speak with them: Avhereupon the clerks immediatly went to ' Sic, cum punctis. IIearjje. S 2 :liv THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. 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'. Thomas, who told them, that they were to returne to their coll. and warne all tlic fellowcs thereof, to meet him in the public hall of Merton coll. between f) and 10 of the clock that morning. Accord- ingly they rcturn'd and did their errand: whereupon when it drew towards nine of the clock, the fellowes, commanded tiie butler, to go out of the buttery, and to deliver up the key to them. Which being done, tlie juniors who were at breakfast in [the] hall were put out, and the dores thereof were barred up within side. Afterwards tliey 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 liis pocket. The fellowes by this time expecting the comming of S'. Tho. Clayton, they retired to the chamber of Mr. Rob. Cripps, whicli is over the common gate, to the end that they might see towards Corpus Christi coll. when S'. 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'. Tho. Clayton, with the vicechancellour and his beadles, D'. R. Skinner bishop of Oxon. D'. Mich. Woodward warden of New college, D\ Tho. Yates principal of Brasnose coll. D'. Walt. lUanford warden of Wadham coll. D'. Jo. Fell deane of Ch. Church, D^ Rich. Allestrie and 1>. Jo. Dolben canons, Mr. Job. Houghton sen. fellow of Brasn. coll. and many others. All which (some of M'home were of the number of visitors or commissioners, appointed by the king to visit the universitie an. 1660.) met the said D^ Clay- ton in the lodgings of D^ 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 fel- lowes names were these, \'iz. Rog. Brent, Edm. Dickenson, Joseph Harvey, Pet. Nicolls, Rob. Cripps, Nath. Sterry, Hen. Hurst and Rob. Whitehall. The bachelaur fellowes were these, viz. Georg. Roberts, Edw. Jones,Rich. Franklin, Jam. Workman, Rob. Huntingdon, Edw. Turnerand, Job. Powell. All these liad not long stood in the gatehouse, but S'. Tho. Clayton and his com- pany came in at the wicket (for the comnion gates were not set open) and going straight for- ward towards the hall (he putting off his hat to the fellowes as he passed by) D'. Edm. Dicken- son, one of the fellowes, went after him, pUickt him by the sleeve, and said, ' S'. Thomas, the gatehouse is the usual place of reception.' When he heard this, he beckned to the vicechan- cellour 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'. 'Ihomas asked, where Mr. Fisher the subwarden was? Mr. Brent, the senior fellow, answer'd: * S^ Mr, sub- warden keeps * his chamber, and is in his usual course of physick, so that he hath appointed choice of ihis nie at this time his deputy.' Then S'. Thomas replyed, that ' he came for admission and pos- poseiy to" session of the wardenship of Merton coll.' Mr. Brent thereupon asked him, ' where was his -"•■'*'■■■ instrument or authority for it?' Then S^ Thomas calling his man, produced two black boxes, and in them two instruments, both with the archbishops scale to them, and putting them into the hands of Mr. John Holloway, a covetuous civilian and public notary, (father to Rich. Hol- loway, a counsellour, and afterwards in the time of K. Jam. 2 a judge) he read them both unco- ver'd with a loud voice before the company, and many others from other colleges, that by this time were gathered together, to see the eft'ect of the matter, being all exceeding wrath against the unreasonable proceedings ' against Clayton, by snatching the bread out of other folkes mouthes. After the instruments were read, Mr. Brent desir'd them, before they went any farther, to reail a paper, which he had in his hand, containing a protestation in the name of all the fel- lowes, under a public notarie's hand, against the admission of S'. Tho. Clayton to the warden- ship of Merton coll. He made avoid this encounter, because his timorous spirit could not under- gpeit. » F. of. Hearne THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. xlv After Mr. Brent had read the paper, Mr. Holloway asked him, ' wliere was their inhil)ition?* (meaning an inhibition from some court, to stop S^ Thomas's proceedings) at which Mr. Brent made a stop, and loolr//HO, secundo, tertio: which the fellowes did all coragiously denie, and so immediately withdrew themselves, and went to their chambers. After this S'. Thomas asked, ' where the clerks were?' The clerks thereupon appeared. He bad them call D'. Tho. Jones. D^ Jones was thereupon called, and came forthwith to him in the gatehouse. After some whispering passed between them, they drew down to the warden's lodgings, and finding the dores fast shut, Holloway read the instruments againe bareheaded at the dore or gate leading into the said lodgings. Which being done, S'. Thomas asked D'. Jones, ' where the keys of the lodgings were?' he said, ' the subwarden had them.' Then S'. Thomas desired Samuel Clerk, the superior beadle of law, to go to the subwarden, and demand of him the keys. Mr. Clerk thereupon asked him, ' whether he should goe in the viccchancellour's name, or in his name?' S'Tho. replyed, ' in the archbishop's and king's commissioners names.' Clerk thereupon went, and soon after brought this answer, that ' there M'eie 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'. 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'. Thomas had received this answer, he sent for M'. Brent the deputy sub-warden, and then Holloway asked him againej&rmo, secundo, tertio, for possession, but Mr. Brent denied it. Then Holloway bid S'. Thomas lay his hand upon the latch of the dore, leading into the war- den's lodgings, which he did. Afterwards D'. Jones whisper'd S'. Thomas in the eare, and then they went to the coll. chappel. In the way D'. Dickenson, who had more than once protested against what had been done at the warden's dore, drew up to S'. 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 scome by S'. Thomas, and so Dickenson left him. S'. Thomas being entred with all his company (except Fell, Dolbin and AUestric, who ran home to prayers as 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 scat. Which being done, Jones took S'. Thomas by the hand, and lifted him up into the warden's scat, and said, that he as one of the senior fellows, did install him, or give him possession as warden. Afterwards or words to rising from his seat, Jones took him by the hand, and repeated the induction or admission, as that effect. Holloway read it verbutim to him. After this was done, they all went out of the chappell the same way as they came in, and so retir'd to their respective homes. The key of the chappell they got thus. Robert Hanham, under-butler & grome of Merton- coll. having been employed by the society, to carry letters to London to hinder S'. Thomas from comming in warden of Merton college, did, that night on which S"^. 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'. Thomas easily granted, Hanham laiddowne be- fore him the key of the college stable: whereupon D'. Jones, who was then there consulting with S'. Thomas what was to be done on Munday morn, following, when he was to crave ad- mission, took it up, and told S'. Thomas privately, that ' that key would open the chappel dore, in case he should be denied entrance therein.' Whereupon D"^. Jones kept it, and made use of it when the warden S'. Thomas went to take possession of his place, as before 'tis told you. Afterwards the fellows used all the endeavours they could to hinder his admission and com- ming in among them, but all, it seems, was in vaine. The next Munday following, S', Thomas xlvi THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. sent word to the college, that he would come in by force. Whereupon the fellows meeting to- gether, caused all the college gat€s to be shut both forward and backward, and so they kept them a fortnight or 3 weeks, and caused some of the bachclaurs to keep jjosscssion of the warden's lodgings. At len[g]th the appeale of the fellowes being stopt, and ' that no justice could be done for them, nor have right nor law for their money, they concluded, by the con- tinual intercessions of tinwrotis Fishtr, to adniit him. May .3. Friday, S'. Thomas, with the vicechancellour, some of 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, M'. 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 : whicli being done also, they went up into the dining rome, and there had a short banquet at the college charg. M'hich being all done by 3 quarters past ten, the fellowes went to the letany. After S'. 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 -throut all the transac- tions 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 concern'd at them, as several people elswhere were. All seniors, that had known what Tho. Clayton had been, did look upon him, as the most impudent fellow in nature, to adventure upon such a place, (the wardenship of Alerton coll.) that had been held by eminent persons. They knew well to have been a most impudent and rude 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 person, 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 JG42, by taking the covenant, submitting to the visitors in 1 648, 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 ]647 to his majestie's (K. Ch. 2 ) restoration and after. In fine, all people were strangly surpris'd 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 prcfer'd. J3ut as I have told you before, D'. Juxon, arch, of Canterbury, being overpres'd by S'. Ch. Cotterel, and weary of his solicitations in behalf 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 Mcrton coll. did usually say, in the hearing of A. W. that as the college was dissolv'd in the time of the grand rebellion, so it 'twas no matter to them, if it was dissolv'd 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 mischief befell the college, in having a stranger so unreasonably thrust upon them. D'. Tho. Jones therefore being thought the fittest instrument for Clayton to compass his de- signes, and especially 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 Avith the rest to be warden, he would endeavour by all meanes imaginable to requite him for it, either by gratuity, preferment 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 ' Sic. Hearnb. * Sic. Hearne. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. xl Vll (Clayton") told Jones, that he could easily prefer him thro the endeavours of his brother in law S". Charles Cotterel, Mr. of the ceremonies : and if that took no cficct, 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 setlcd in his place, and Jones fully saw, that he neglected 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 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 morning, at which time he fancied birds to flutter about his head, and therefore he would be waving his amies and hat to keep them of}'. (2) By going oftentimes very unsea- sonably to the warden's lodgings, and there court and embrace one M'''. -. 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. NicoUs, one of the fellows, to get him to go with him to take possession of the warden's lodg- ings, fan[c]ying himself to be warden. (4) By walking often in the warden's gallery, sup- posing himself to be M'arden, &c. with many other ridiculous matters not now to be namea ; which shew, that the man wanted sleep, and that he mms blinded with ambition and co- vetuousness. 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, endeavouring 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. I66"5, being a just reward for a knave and a rogue. Now for the mischief that befel Mert. coll. by having a married stranger thrust upon them, will appeare by that which foUowes. 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 enemies, and that they endeavor'd 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"^. Th. Barlow must not be [forjgotten, D'. Jones also, and another of inferior note named John Hasehvood, aproud, starchd, formal andsycophantizingclisterpipe, 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 whatsoever 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 look'd 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, stoolcs, tables, chimney-furniture, the furniture belonging to the kitchin, scullery, &c. all which was well liked by D'. Goddard, Brent, Savile. &c. These, I say, being disliked by that proud woman, because, forsooth, the said goods were out of fashion, must be all chang'd and alter'd to the great expence of the college. ' Sir Thomas Clayton was the son of Dr. Thomas Clayton, years Ifill and l639; SLndWuvd's Lives of the GresbamPro/essors, regius professor of physic, in which place he succeeded him. See pag. 208. W. & H. Col. 6S7, and under the year l637, as well as the Fasti under the xlviii THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. Secondly, the warden's garden must be alter'd, new trees planted, arbours made, rootes of Rootesof choice flowers bought, &c. All vhich tho unnecessary, yet the poore coll. must pay for them, flowers. and all this to please a woman. Not content with these matters, there must bea new summcr- PshiK,roo«. house built at the south-end of the warden's garden, wherein her ladyship and her gossips may take their pleasure, and any eves-dropper of the family may harkcn w hat 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 M'ould not cost the college above 20''. yet when it was fmish'd there was an 100". paid for it hy the bursar, wanting some few shillings. This work was thought unnecessary by niany persons, because itjoyned almost to the long gallery, thelarg bay-window whereof at it's South-end affords a better prospect, than that of the summer-house. Thirdly, by enlarging the expences in the stable much more than any of his predecessors. For tho S'. 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 stable. Farther also, whereas the former wardens would take but ten or twelve load of hay out of Haly well meads (which belong to tlie coll. and arc 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 expences, 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 chamber 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"'. Fraiic. Stuart, one of the maids of honour (afterwards duchess of Richmond) took possession of those lodgings, and there continued till Fcbr. following; at which time the queen, who lodged in the warden's lotlgings, went to Westminster, and M'''. 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, ijccause 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 fellowes, 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, w hich should hereafter come into that chamber over those lower rooms that were allow'd for the Manlen's use. This being granted, the warden broke a dorc thro the wall that parts his parlour from the said lower romes and makes them fit for use, at his owne, and not at the college, charge ; and they yet remaine for the warden's use: whereby the best lodgings 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 warden's turne, (for afterwards he disus'd his company, and 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 Haly- well neare the said citie, (the mannour of which belongeth to Mertoii coll.) an. 1666. For the THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. xlix doing of which the, with much atloe, he got the consent of the fellowes, yet going inconsider- atly on, and not taking the counsell of old Charles Holloway, scrjcant 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 tlieir returnefrom London, the mayor, or chief officers of the city, did ride into Oxon. triumphantly thro Halywcll, to take, as it Averc, possession of the liberties, that they had obtained therein. And one Cliilmead, as he remembers, who had been one of the bcl-men of the city, but then living as an under tenant in Ilalywell, did in their passage present them with wine and ale, while the parish bells rang for joy, occasion'd, as 'twas supposed, by the said Chilmcad. 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 uiulaunted spirit) they would have curb'd his proceedings so much, that they would have made him weary of the place : but most of them (tlie fellowes) being sneaking and obnoxious, they did run rather with the temper of the warden, than stand against him, mecrly to keep themselves in and enjoy their comfortable importances. 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 address'd themselves to their patron, the archbishop of Canterbury (Sheldon) an. 1 67 1 , before whom they made it plainly to appeare, 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'. Nath. Brent, he had spent a thousand pound more than the said S'. Nathaniel, for the yeares behind, since he had been warden, &c. The warden S'. 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 ' wardin and his proceedings, and was an enemy to him, the warden did, by his usual flatteries, gain him for a time, collogu'd together, and work'd their ends so much, that they found means that the college should pay the debt ; which being done, slighted him." In 1667 twas expected there should be an election of fellowes, but, upon pretence that the college was in debt, there was no election made till 1672. So the publick sufier'd, and all people then said, that Merton coll. made but an inconsiderable figure in the universitie, &c. Notwithstanding all these things, yet the warden, by the motion of his lady, did put the col- lege 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 lO" A bedsteed and bedding worth 40". must also be bought, because the former bcdstede 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 ticket 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. • Sic. Hearne. • It is possible that ihe Dr. when he found all opposition to be ia » The reader may see an account of Dr. Dikenson in the Bio- vain, might shew such personal civility to the warden, as, to a graphia Brit, in the course of which this censure on his character man of Mr. 4 Woods rigid perseverance, appeared niconsistent is considered. Hut it is not quite clear that the prejudices .f.ainst with his former professions and behaviour. See Biopraph. Bnl. the Dr. took their rise from the increase of the fine paid by Mr. 4 vol. 3. page 1O96. [or Vol. a. page 175. edition Kippis.J Wood's family to Merton coll. since he might have treated the Dr. W. & H. as freely under that article, in the yeare 1664, as he has pointed hiin out here. R D. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. Jun. 2Q. Aug. 20. Sept. Avhich S'. Tlio. 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. A. W. was at Sandford' neare Oxon. in the house of Job, Powell, gent, which was a house and preceptory somtimes belonging to the Knights Templars. He took a note of some amies in a bay-window in a low room there. Thence he went to Littlemore, and neare it he found an anticnt house, called M'mcherk, or Minchiomea, that is, the place of nunns, founded thereof old time. But nothing of the chappel or church is there standing. He was at Thame, continued there one or more nights, transcrib'd all the monumentall in- scriptions in the church, armes in the windowes, and the amies in the windowes of the free- schoole.^ With D'. Jo. Fell, deane of Ch. Church, to have a sight of the leiger books of S. Frides- widc's priory, and Einsham abbey. His answer was, that he would acquaint the treasurer D'. Job. Dolbin, which he did. Afterwards A. W. went to D'. Dolbin, who told him, he would propose the matter at the next chapter. But the matter being defer'd from time to time, nothing was done in it this yeare.^ His fatherly acquaintance D'. Barton Holyday,* archdeacon 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. A. W. had an issue made in his left legg under his knee, by the advice of Rich. Lower,' 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 alwales 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 Charnel Pettie, esq j. died at Stoke-Lyne, aged 8.5 or more, and was buried by her husband in the church there. He received his first letters from Will. Somner the antiquary of Canterbury, with a copie of the foundation-charter of Canterbury college in Oxon. Oct. 2. See Oxford Ubital. S. Jan. 10. Mar. 10. £1. ' Minchery and Sandford ; of these two religious houses see Tan- ner's Nolilia Monaist. p. 424 &c. Leland's Itin. in vol. 2. An account of some Antiquities in and about Oxford, p. IIQ. preface to Hearne's History nf Glastonbury , p. xvi. A prospect of the Minchery is in the last mentioned work, pag. 285. The antique table there delineated was, some years ago, removed to the Manor house at Sandford ; where upon a late enquiry, no remains of it were extant. W. & H. - See Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8518. 2. W. & H. ' 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 Westminster school, and elected from thence to Chri.st Church college. They both took up arms for the royal cause, during the civil commotions, and sufl'ered for their loyalty by being deprived of their studentships. After the restoration, they both met with the due reward of their merit, the former being ad- vanced to the deanery of Ch. Ch. and the bishoprick of Oxford, the latter rising thro' various preferments to the archbishoptickofYork. 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 exnmple of industry and polite learning, of true zeal for the church of England, and as an encoura- ger and patron of the sciences and learned men. For more minute particulars, see the present work under the year 1 686. W. & H . * 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 cathedrallofCh. Church. He had by his first wife, Eliz. dau. of Will. Wickham of Gari- sington, William, who was married, but died without issue, at Abendon, and buried in Garsington church 28 January 1663, Thomas, sine prole, and George, and also a daughter or two. Af- terwards he married Margaret tlau. of Sheppard of Barn- staple in Devon, but the widdow of Franc. Dewy, Mr. of Arts, and minister of Chipnam in Wilts, by whom he had issue Barten Holyday and a daughter. The said Margaret, widdow of Dr. Holyday, died at Hifley l6 Dec. l66l, and was buried in the chancel' there. Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8466. W. & H. • ' Dr. Lower was an eminent physician in the reign of King Chales II. He was educated at Christ Church college under the famous Dr. Willis, of whom he learned to be an excellent anato- mist, and is said, in return, to have communicated many curious discoveries to that great man. Dr. Lower is remarkable for first finding out the medicinal spring at Astrop, and for his experiments relating to the transfusion of blood from one subject to another, recorded in the Philosopliical Transactions ; of which nevertheless he was not the original inventor. After inairy years sucessful praci tice in London, he died there, on the 17''' of .lanuary I69O, and was buried at St. Tudy near Bodmin in Cornwall. His name has been impudently atTixed to many nostrums sold in the shops. The print of him is suspected to be a counterfeit. See the present work under the year l6y0. Phi'os. Transact. N" 30. 37. Gri 'iger's Biograpli. History of England, Vol. 2. Part 2. pag. 314. W. &H. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. li . (Dom. 1662. \ 13 Car. 11. Charles, duke" of Richmond, took to wife Margaret, the widdow of Will.Lewcs, of Glamorgan- Mar. ult. shire, and of Blechindon in Oxfor[dJshire, esq ;. and soon after, with her consent, sold her estate at Blechindon, which her husband had bought, as it seemes, of S'. Tho. Coghill, to Arthur earl of Anglesic. This duke was a most rude and debauch'd person, kept sordid company, and having employed a little crook'd back taylor of Oxon, named Hernc, he would often drink with him, quarrel, and the taylor being too hard for him, would get him downe and bite his eare. Hen. Jackson, ^ his kinsman, rector of Hampton Meysey, died, and next day A. W. went Jun. 4. thither, and gave his assisting hand to lay him in his grave. He was one of the first learned SeeATH.ET acquaintance that A. W. had; and being delighted in his company, he did for tl>e 3 last yeares i'**!"!- 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 universitie and his college (Corp. Cln.) that lived and flourished when he was a yong man. J. W. esq ;. an intimate acquaintance with A. W. when a junior, died in the flower of his 6. youth, and two dayes after was buried in the church of Highworth in Wilts. He was the eldest son and heir of Edm. W. Quid species, quid lingua mihi, quid profuit eetas ? Da lachrynias Tumulo, qui legis ista, meo. A. W, having then and before often considered, what want there was of a register for the parish wherein he was borne, and Avherein he lived, called the collegiate parish of S. Joh. Baptist 'Merton; he was resolved to begin one. Wherefore getting the notes of all such marriages, births, christnings and burialls, which Mr. Joh. Wilton, an antient 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 therein, christned or buried, he bought a parchment register, 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 Richard, by one* Jellyman, that had been appointed by the usurp'd po\/ers 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.' " Sluart. Hearne. ging to the Collegiate Chu- * Hen. Jackson, the son of Hen. Jackson, mercer, was born in rch of S' Jolin Bap- St. Mary's parish, Oxford, was at first clerk, then scholar, and list, Merton : afterwards fellow of C. C. college, by which society he was pre- in Oxon. sented to the rectory of Meysey Hampton, Gloucestershire, which was all the preferment he ever enjoyed. He was a great admirer of Note that in the yeare 1663 I made a motion to Mr. Peter NicoUs Richard Hooker and Joh. Rainolds, several of whose tracts he pub- subwarden of Merton college of having a Regr forS. John Bapt. liihed. His house being plundered in the time of the rebellion, his parish, having never been any before that lime ; wherforc with the papers were scattered and rendered so imperfect as not to be recover- conset'it of some of the fellowes, I bought divers scheeds of parch- ed. Amidst these were the works of Pet. Aboelard, which he had ^^enX. and had them bound up.which cost the college seaven shillings, collected from the MSS. and made ready for the press. Afterwards the register being put into mjr hands, I entjed all rav See Athen* Oxon. under the year l662. collections which I had made before that time, and have continucil Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8563. VV. & H. ihnta under my hand to this year. 3 F. Baptist de Merton. ^ lla testor Antonius a Wood, coll. Merton art. mag. ♦ Matthew Jellyman, reeistrary for 5 parishes, viz S'. Mary's, Allsaints, S'. Peters's in theEast,S'. Michaels, and St. John's l6i3. ry^^ \Q of Octob. an 1653. Matthew Jellyman was elected and Sicin noiula quadam, meant in graliam exscripta h V. Rev. Jo- swornc register before us, justices of peace for the city of Oxford, haiiue Poinlcro, A. M. i^ coll. Merl. capellano. Hearne. whose names are hereunder written, for five parishes vi?,. Maries, Allsaints, Peters in the East, Michaell and S. Johns, being united J A Register of Births, Christnings ;„,„ ^„^^ ^^ the generall sessions of the jieace held for the said city Burials and Marriages that ^j ^1,^ ^^^j ^^\\ within the said city, on Thursday next after ihe July. have bin in the parish belun* h 2 ]ii ♦ THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. Sept. 10. At Abcndon in Berks with J. C. purposely to see the manner of the visitation, then held by the diocesan, D'. Hump. Henchman, bp. of Salisbury. He then saw the ruins ' of the most an- tient and stately abbey, that once 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 XI. With D'. 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 concerning the wardens thereof, benefactors, bishops, &c. Nov. 10. His kinsman Joh, Taverner, of Soundess in the parish of Nettlebcd, was made choice of by his majestic to be high-sherriff of Oxfordshire &c. Feb. XI. i-je was with his cozen Taverner at the Swan-inn in Oxon. where he was a witness, that Mr. Abr. Davis shouhl 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". a time; but if Mr. Taverner should die before summer assize, then should he have only 6". for the Lent assize. He was also then a witness to other things, agreed upon between them &c. Mar 6. Job. Taverner made his first eijtry into Oxon. to conduct thereunto justice Rob. Hyde. 9- Given to his cozen Taverner the high sheriff and M". 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. J ( Doin. 1663. ^"■l 14 Car. n. Apr. S3. He began a course of chimistry under the noted chimist and rosicrucian, Peter Sthael of Strasburgh in Royal Prussia, and concluded in the latter end of May following. The club con- sisted 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 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 scorn'd 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 ho- norable Mr. Rob. Boyle, an. 1659, and began to take to him scholars in the house of Joh. Cross feast of Saint Michael the Archangel, an, 1653 aforesaid, by ver- ' the major, baylifis, and burgesses of Abingdon. The king and tue of an act of parliament intituled ' An act touching marriages ' parliament had published and decreed, that, on the said 7"' of and the registring of them, as also touching births and burialls.' ' Sept. 1641. every parish should keep a festival (religiously to be In testimony whereof, wee have here set our hands ' perform'd) in honour of the great peacemaker, upon account of Tho. Williams. Thomas Berry. ' the accommodation with the Scots. ' Calena is here made to be Oxford. K. Cissa is made to be Note that by vertue of the said act, was a register in vellome ' founder of the abbey. The ruin'd battlements of the abbey then made for the said 5 parishes, and continued by the said Jellyman ' (l6H) to be seen. The crosse then standing, which is here till l660, but so imperfectly, that in those 7 yearos viz. from l663 ' cali'd ' unparallel'd and harmless,' but threatn'd m be destroy'd. to l6G0 were hardly 10 names in that part of it, belonging to S. ' S'. Helen's bells (what I never heard before) are cali'd ' Aaron's John Bapt. par. At that time when iwas taken to peices, and S. 'bells.' Christ's hospitall near the churchyard wall. Where were John Bapt. part surrendered into my hands. I transmitted all 'also Royse's fruitful ' Nurseries,' out of which the E. of Peni- the names iherin into this Register Ita testor Antonius a ' brook's gardens were siipplied. There is now no nurserv, nor .W<>ob. j6. About that time A. W. began to peruse the MSS. in the public library, and took great paynes in plucking downe every book. . (Dom.]666. '^"- [ \7 Car. 11. He began to peruse the evidences of Alls. coll. which were brought from the tower over the Ap. XI. gate into the lodgings of D'. Th. James, warden of the said coll. They were put in good me- thod, 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'. 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 answer'd, that as the publication of the Mvnasticons had bred a great deal of trouble, and had caused suits in West- minster 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 allow'd by the society of Merton coll. that A. W. might peruse the evidences in their j^,^ treasury, in the presence of Mr. Pet. NicoUs, one of their number. kc. Certaine registers belonging to Magd. coll. were by A. W. perus'd. Maysi.tcc He began to peruse some of the evidences belonging to the said coll. They were taken out Jun. s. of the treasury for his use, and put into the exchequer, where he perus'd 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 hospital!, which was annex'd by the founder to his coll. Perused the evidences of Queen's coll. and afterwards a leiger or transcript of all the evi- 25. dences by the favour of D'. Barlow. All done in the dining roome belonging to his lodgings. D'. Hen. Deane of New coll. and A. W. waited on the warden of that house, with a desire to Juneso. see the evidences of that house. His answer was, that he would aske the consent of the fellowes. All their evidences are transcrib'd into several folios of parchment or velum. The warden, with the consent of the fellowes, lent A. W. the first leiger-book, containing juiyso. 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. him A. W. ■ repaired to Dr. Rich. Baylie, president of that coll. to do * me the favour to let him Aug. 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, foundation, presidents and benefactors thereof, which he lent to him, and he tran- scrib'd it' But this contenting him not, D'. Pet. Mews, who shortly after succeeded D'. Baylie in [the] presidentship, did freely give him leave to peruse the evidences. About the same time he perused the evidences of Brasnose and other colleges. In the beginning of Dec. he was taken Avith an ague: whereupon taking physick and blood- Dfc. ing, his body was pluck'd downe, and much time was lost before he could recover himself, and be in a posture to study. Marie Wood widdow, the mother of A. Wood, died in her house against Mexton coll. aged 6.5 Feb. 28. or more. Buried by the remaines of her husband in Merton college church. Mar. 1. . Paid to the collectors of the pole-money, of the parish of S. Joh. Bapt. wherein he lived, I". n. as a gentleman, and V. for his head, towards the carrying on the warr between the English and « F. repaired lo St. John's coll. to Dr. Hearnb. 3 See Catalogue of Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. N". 8490. 1 .Sic, ax. auctoris. He-^rme. £ 204. W. & H. i Iviii THE LIFE OF ANTHONY A WOOD. the Dutch at sea. This is set downe here, hecause it was the first tax that A. W. ever paid. He paid others afterwards, especially in the raigne of K. Will. 3. '^"' { 18 Car. 11. Ap.8. The bones of The. Wood., father to A.W. were taken up, and laid close to those of his wife. May 2. 3. Perused the evidences of S. Marie Magd. church, in the North suburb of Oxon. reposed in a vestrie, joyning to the church there.' June 13. He reel, letters of commendation from D'. Thomas Barlow, prov. of Queen's coll. to Will. Dugdale, esq. Norroy K. of amies, to introduce him into the accjuaintance of the said person, and consequently into the library of S'. Joh, Cotton at Westminster. 14. He went to London in the stage-coach. His companions were all scholars, amonge whom was Obadiah Walker, the senior fellow of University coll. They all lodg'd that night at Bea- consficld, and then A. W. became acquainted with the said IMr. Walker, and so continu'd his acquaintance til death parted them. 16. Early in the morn, being Sunday, A. W. went to the Middle Temple, and found out M^ Dug- dale in the apartment belonging to Elias Ash mole. He gave him D'. Barlow'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'. Jo. Cotton. 17. Accordingly he went, and found him in the said apartment (where he lodged) and discoursed with him concerning various matters of antiquity. He then gave him his letter to S'. Joh. Cot- ton, wherein was inclosed that of D'. Tho. Barlow. So posting forthwith to Westminster, he found S'. Joh. Cotton in his house, joyning almost to Westminster hall. He was then prac- ticing on his lute with his instructor, and when he had done, he came out to him in the hall, and receiv'd 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 Rob. 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 appoint- ment he met him the nex't day at S'. 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 w ould be a whole day (perhaps two) before A. W. could fiud out the said Mr. Pearson,'' 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 ser- vant, and housekeeper when S'. John and his family went into the country, seeing to what trouble A. W. was put, advis'd him for the future to take his opportunities to come in the long vacation to study; for then S\ John being absent for 3 or more 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 together, he at length did effect his business. Jut). 21. This Mr. Pearson (who was a learned man, and yongcr brother to ^ Dr Pearson, bp. fn AtiT'^et °^ Chester) being seldome to be found, A. W. went with letters of commendation from D\ Rob. I'ASTt OxoN.Say, provost of Oriel coll. (which he brought with him from Oxon.) to the lodgings of Mr. under the year 1(>72. > See Wood's MSS. In mus. Ashm. 8513. p. 298. W.k H. 16O7, he was chosen law-professor at Gresham college, and in ^ KIchard Pearson was born .it Creak hi Norfolk, and cducited ItiOg went out Dr. of civil law at Cambridge, where he died Aug. 6. at Eton school, from whence being elected to King's coUcj^e Cam- 1()70. He was a most excellent schoLir, a most admired Grecian, bridge, he became fellow of thcit house. In 1609, he was caixli- and died, as w.is reported, a Koman-Catholic. date with Mr. Croune for the Rhetoric professorship in Gresham Hec Uiograpli. Brit. vo\. i. piig.33lS. college, which was carried by the latter. In 1662, he was ap- Ward's Lives of the Gresham Professors. W. & H. pointed under keeper of the royal library at St. James's. Oct. a. ^ I.. Dr. John Pearson. JIearke. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. lij Will. Prinn in Lincoln's innc, chief keeper of the records in the tower of London, to tlie end that he avouUI introduce 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 raignc of K. Jam. L and told him, he should see what he desir'd, and seemed to be glad, that such a vong man as he (A. W.) was (for so he cal'd him) should have inclinations towards vcncrablc'anti- quity, &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 hud business then to do there, being about to print another book. A. W. went precisely at the time appointed, and found Mr. Prynne in his black taffaty-cloak, Juu. sv. edg'd with black lace at the bottom. They went to the toM'cr directly thro the citv, then King in ruins, (occasional by the grand conflagration that hapned in 1666) but by his meeting with several citizens, and prating with them, it was about 10 of the clock before they could come to the same place. He there shew'd A. W. a place where lie should sit and write, shew'd him the Repertorium, and spoke to Jennings, the readier of the records, that he should let him have any record, that he should point at in the said Repertorium. After that, he. conducted A. W. into the white tower, where he was strangely surprized, to see '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". vol. of Jlfonasticon AngUcanum 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 1 2 of the clock every day they dined together at a cook's house within the Tower, and somtimes had Jenni[n]gs (a boon blade) among them. The same day at night, A. W. sent letters by the post to D'. 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. 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. He b^ '"' to peruse the evidences, rent-rolls, &c. in Ch. Ch. treasury, over the cloyster July. is. there, and continued so doing all the remaining part of July, all August, and part of Sept. For tliere was work enough for a curious and critical antiquary, that would hold him tugg for a whole ycare. There- are a great many evidences which belonged to S\ Frideswyde's pnory, but no rent-rolls of their lands and tenements. There are many evidences and rent-rolls that belonged to Osney abbey, and innumerable broken writings and rolls, which belonged to the priories and nunneries that were dissolv'd by the meanes of card. Wolsey, towards the erection of his college in Oxon. But this the reader must know, that the said college 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 dissolv'd priories and nunne- ries, 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 expos'd to weather, and thereby are much perish'd, and become not legible. From these evidences did A. VV. furnish S'. Will. Dugdale with many things, which he inserted in his third vol. of J/ow- asticon Avglkanum, 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 Sand- ford 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 ' Sic. F. such a vast. Heakne. is Ix THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. Aug. 31. Sept. copie in p. 77. b. concerning Ottehani piory : 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 D'. Thoni. Willis the famous physitian, was then chapter- clerk of Ch. Church ; and he tlicn designing to make a rcpertorie of records belonging to the said church, made choice of that time to do 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 sulfered in many places in Oxon. on their lands and tenements, which formerly belonged to S'. Frideswyde and Oshey. 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 Acadernioi Oxoniensis ; and asking, who the author of that book was? he answer'd, the report was, that one Mr. Anth. Wood, of Merton coll. was the author, but was not. Where- upon Mr. Aubrey, a pretender to antiquities, having been contemporary to A. W^ood'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, talk'd to him about his studies, and offer'd him what assis- tance 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 700li. per. an. being afterwards sold, and he reserving no- thing of it to himself, liv'd 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'. Job. Aubrey, his kinsman, living som- times in Glamorganshire, and somtimes at Borstall neare Brill in Bucks. He was a shiftless- person, roving andmagotichcaded, and somtimes little better than erased. And being exceed- ingly credulous, would stuff his many letters sent to A. W. with 'foUiries, and misinformations, which somtimes would guid him into the paths of errour." Perusd the evidences of S. Joh. Baptist col!, by the favour of D'. Mews the prev-^'pnt, who treated A. W. with more freeness and libertie, than any other head of a house. The ..cys of the tower over the gate were freely put into my 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, ' Sic. Hearne. * From a passaae in the life of John Aubrev, esq ; prefi.xed to the Natural Histary and /Intiquities of Suirey, tlie reader might imagine that the acquaintance between him and Mr. A.VV. commenced at an early period, but ihe account given here evidently contradicts that supposition. It is certain also, that, although they were greatly obliged to each other for their mutual literary com- munications, their friendship was neither firm nor lasting. A par- ticular account of Mr. Aubrey is given in the life above mentioned, and in the Biographia Brit, to which it is only necessary to add a more accurate detail of the MSS. which he deposited in the museum at Oxford. 1. The Natural History of Wiltshire : l685. 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 M-'r iters. 5 An Interpretation of f^illare Anglicanum. 6. The Life of Thomas Hohhes of Malmsbury : Made-use of by Dr. Blackburne, in Vitw Th. Hobhes Auctarium. 1. An Idea of Education of Voung Gentlemen. 8. Designalio de Easton-Piers in Com. Wilts Per me (,lieu) inforlunalum Johannem Awbrey li. S. Sncium. Hoc erat in Votis modus Agri non ita magnus Hortus ubi, et Tecto vicinus jugis Aqua fans,. Et paulum Silvce super hisforet Anno Dni. \Q6q. N. B. Ii consists of several views of the house, gardens, and environs of Easton Piers, drawn ina coarse manner and' colouring, but pleasing and expressive. 9. A Volume of Letters and other Papers of E. Ashmole's relat- ing chiefly to Dr. Dee and Sir Edw. Kelley. Two Volumes of Letters from eminent Persons to John Aubrev csf, W. &H. ■^ 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 Letters tran- scribed fram tlie originals in the Bodleian library, 2. vols. 8vo. Oxford 1813. Ap|)endix N" iv.] Sic. m. auctoris Hkarne. 10 [n THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. Ixi Mar. 24. one of the proctors of the university : for thro his chamber was the passage up to the tower. There are many evidences belonging to VValton mannor, and tlie mannour of S. Giles, both in the north suburb of Oxon. which evidences had belonged to Osncy, Godstow, &c. as having been formerly lords of those mannours. Whereas in tlie month of May 1()67 A. W. had leave given to him jjy the parisliioners of S. Marie Magdalen parish, to peruse their evidences, reposed in their church, he did tlien find among them a register of paper, containing (l) marriages from 1574 to 15yl. (2) christuings from 1577 to 1,591. (3) burial Is 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, with the old, he delivered to the parishioners, the old to be laid up in the chest, the transcript to be kept in the dark's hands, &c.' J ( Dom. 1668. ^"119 Car. II. Matthew Hutton, M. A. fellow of Brasn. college, and A. W. went to Borstall neare Brill in Bucks, the habitation of the lady Penelope Dinham, being quite altered since A. W. was there May i6. in 1046. For whereas then it Mas 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 satisfying of him- self, 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 jl/omst. Anglicanum. ; which were the co- pies of some charters that are printed in the said 3'. vol. p. 18, containing the hermitage of Muswell in the parish of Piddington neare Borstall. This leiger-book, written in parchment, containes the evidences 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. H. 6. In the beginning of this book is represented in colours the mannour house of Borstall, with a moat round it, and the lord of the mannour (Johannes Jilius 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 speare. This, as the tradition 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 l)y them M. H. and A. W. and those of the family of Borstall, a Draco voUins 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 narrow : and Avhen 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 anti- quity wee could find in them, and about 12 of the clock they arived at Notley, in the parish of Long-Crendon in Bucks, to see the ruins of the abbey there, originally built for Black Canons. Mr. Norris Lenton, the owner of it (from the family of the lord Norris) was an antient bache- laux, and had formerly been a great traveller, and being a person of good breeding and a scholar, he receiv'dthem with great curtesie. They met there capt Sanders of Hadnam, and after dinner they viewed the luins, which shew'd that it had been a stately place, and therefore the spectacle was more sad &c. In one of the Avindows of a lower roome were the amies of Stafford, duke of Bucks. VVlien A. W . went 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. ' See Catalogue of Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. N" 8524. W. &.H. Ixii THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. May2i. Rec^ from D'. Savage, master of'Balliol coll. liis book lately printed, entit. Balliofergus Sec. in ^,^e°.'^"e"'requitall for what A. V¥. had done in order to it's composition. In the said book. p. 28. i6(Jo. he calls A. W. ' his friend.' 30. He went to the house of S'. George Croke, lord of Waler-stoke neare to Thame in Oxford- shire, where he found a great diversion, in perusing and taking thearmesand monuments in the church, and in the mannour house belonging to the said S'. Georg. A.W. lodged, by the appoint- ment of the said S\ George,' in an antient rome called ' the kings 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.' George Croke a judg had purchased of the Caves or , and having an only son, who was a sot or fool, or both, would not leave Water- stoke to him, but to the son of his brother (a clergy man) named sir Georg Croke, before mention'd, somtimes 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 M681) 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. 169.5. July. Tho. Gore of Alderton in Wilts, esq;, having published, about the beginning of this yeare, A Catalugne 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 beginning of July this yeare, and afterwards more as they came to his hands. See more in Octob. 16'74. Aug. Rec*. a letter from Cornwall, that the body of a giant of 10 foot long was there lately found in digging or plowing. Dr. Rich. Trevour had also a letter thence, or else from Devonshire, that attested the like matter. Sept. 1. A. W. went to Cooper's hill, in the parish of Brockworth, 4 miles distant (towards Oxon.) from the city of Glocester, in the company of his ac^iuaintance Tim. Nourse, ^I. 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. repos'd in a roome, which he had built to retaine them. The next day Mr. Nourse went forward to see some of his relations, and A. VV. set himself to peruse the MSS. which the said Mr. Theyer had been neare 40 yeares in gathering, and did catalogue many of them. Mr. Nourse returning to us the day before, wee went this day to Glocester, \vhere we saw the cathedral and monuments therein, and several parts of the city ; afterwards wee went to the taverne M'ith one or two of the choire, drank a glass of wine and had a song, and so when 'twas neare dark, we return'd to Cooper's hill. 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. Took physickand blooded to prevent thecomming of an ague. Dec. 10 His acquaintance Rob. Dormer, of Rousham in Oxfordshire, esq ;. did take to wife Mrs. Anne Cotterel, one of the daughters of S'. Charles Cotterel, M'. of the ceremonies. This Rob. Dor- mer, when he was a yongman, lived very high in London, in the time of Oliver, and he and S'. Will. Sedley, elder brother to Sr. Charles, did strive who should out-vie each other in gallant- ry, and in splendid coaches, but afterwards marrying Catherine, the daughter of Mountague earl of Lindsey, which was his first wife, he took up, and grew rich. Went with Franc. Dryer (an outlandcr, borne at Breme) now a sojournour in Oxon. for the sake of the library, to S". Georg Croke's house at Water-stoke, to keep part of the Christmas and continued there till 2 of Jan. ' See Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. N" 8548. W. & H. * See above, under the year l646. Hearne. * In Ath. Oxon. 1(j30. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. Ixili S'. Edw. Bysshe, Clarenceaux king of armes, was at the Crownc inn near Carfax in Oxon. in order to visit part of the county of Oxon. being part of the province belonging to Claren- ceux. A. W. was with him several times, eate and drank with him, and had several discourses Avith him concerning armes and armory, which he understood well, but he found him nice and superciHous. 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 look'd on this matter, as a trick to get money. A little before his departure he gave A. \V. 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'. Edward havihg a coach and four horses with him, he went to Banbury. There were only with him old - Witlier a herald painter of London and his clerk (Gregoric) the former of which trick'd the coates, the other entred them in the book of visitation. He the said S'. Edw. Bys- she was in Oxon. againe in 1675, to make an endof his visitation, but A. W. was then absent. \ZOCar. \l. By virtue of a ticket, some dayes before put into the hands of A. W. he went to the Guild- hall of Oxon. to participate 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, JNI. A. of Trin. coll. borne in Grope lane in S'. Marie's parish, and retiring to the hall againe, had a noble entertainment; which done, there was a collection made to bind out two or more boycs 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'. Rich. Holloway, a counsellour of Oxon. (afterwards a judge) was one. They then (according to the vice-chancellour's order, 'stuck up in all public places) entred into the coach at the tavern dore against Alls. coll. precisely at 6' of the clock in the morning, 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 members of the universitie of Oxon. A. W. return'd from London, and soon after collected from his friends the particulars of the prince's entertainment. Mar. 18. Ap. Ij This was done in imitation of Berkihire men, who lieut their 26. feast on Candlemas day going be- fore, Joh. Lamb being then mayor. May 3. [■ From the Oiford Almanack for the year I692. Oxford in that year, small 8vo. Printed at An orderfor preventing abuses and irregularities in carriage. 1. For the carriage of one hundred 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 person by waggon, four shillings. 3. Forthe carriage of the greatest parcel, (all being to jje esteem- ed parcels vmd. one quarterofan hundred weight,) one shilling, and so less in proportion for those that arc less : except that for a single hat and case, nine pence. 4. For the carriage of any burden, not exceeding one hundred wci"ht 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 scholars shall be left at the butteries of their respective colleges or halls : and for the deliver)' of every such letter, shall be given only one half[)enny loaf, as was accus- tomed, but if any carriage comes with a letter, nothing sliali be given for the delivery of that letter. That all stage-coaches travelling between the said university and city of London in two days shall respectively set forth from Ox- ford at, or before, the hour of nine by S'. Mary's clock ; anJ 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 conveyed to their respective stages, safe and in a reasonable time. Carriage by water is to be estimated after the rate of one shilling for every hundred weight. From our Lady-day unto Michaelmas the coaches go every day in the week between Oxford and London, and carry passengers in one day .every passenger paying ten shillings. But aftcrMichaelmas unto our Lady-day the coaches go out every Monday, Tuesday, Wcdnes071 est inventus. About a quarter of an hour al'tcr they came agaiuc, and left worde, that when Ixx THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. 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. rcturn'd home, and receiving the errand from the servants, he put himself in ortler, and went to him at the Miter, where he found with him S'. Littleton Osbaldeston and S'. Tho. Penyston. Upon notice given, that A. W. was there, he came out of his chamber, talk'd kindly with him at the stair-head, told him he had been lately at London with Mr. Cressey, who remcmbred 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 esteem'd a Papist also, as he was by many sniveling saints, who make it a most hor- rible thing to be seen in the company of any one of them. Jun. sy. Sent many additions to Tho. Gore, esq;, to be put in the next edition of his Cat. of Hey^aldry Books. See in Oct. 1674. Aug. 17. Thom. AUam, M. A. fellow of Ball. coll. and an acquaintance 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. of div. and fellow of Magd. coll, preached at S. Marie's. Three poore boyes were bound apprentices with moneys then collected. Oct.23. Alex. Fisher, senior fellow of Mert. coll. and a fatherly acquaintance of AW. died suddenly in his new house in Halywell. About half an yeare before he was taken suddenly with an ap- poplectical fit, but recovering, he set workmen to pave Mert. coll. chap, with black and white marble at his owne charge. Nov. 3. Receiv'd from Mr. Ralph Sheldon a book entit. T/ic Rule of Faith, (translated by his uncle Mr. Edw. Sheldon) with several others, to put into the hands of Oxford book-sellers. 27. A book entit. Animadiersions upon Sr. Rich. Bakers Chronicle and Contifiuution, 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 ' 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, which I attempted not alwaies to rectify, both in that it exceeded my skill, and chiefly because the Historic vf that Universitie, as 1 am inform'd, 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'. An- thony Wood of iMerton coll. &c.' There was more that followed of A. W. but A.W. scor'd it out. Jan. The said Animadversions, were called in and silenc'd in the beginning of Jan. by D'. IVIews, the vicechancellour, because therein, p. 30. 'tis said, that the word conventicle was first taken up in the time of \V'icklift'. Feb. 9. A. W. went to London, and the next day he was kindly receiv'd by S'. Liolin 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. 1(566, were not then rebuilt. XI. Sunday S'. Lcol. Jenkyns took with him in the morn, over the water to Lambeth A. Wood, and after prayers he conducted him up to tlie dining romc, where archb. Sheldon receiv'd him, and gave him his blessing. There then dined among the company, Job. Echard, the author of The Contempt of the Clergy, who sate at the lower end of the table between the archbishop's two • L. lOlsl. Hearne. I THE LIFE OF ANTHONY A WOOD. Ixxi chaplayns Sam. Parker and Tho. Thomkins, being the first time that the said Ecliard was in- Iroduced into the said archbishop's company. After dinner the archbisliop went into his Avith- drawing roome, and Ecliard with tlie chaplayncs and Ralph Snow to their lodgings to drink and smoak. S'. L. Jenkyns took then A. W. by the hand, and conducted him into the with- drawing roome to the archbishop; at which time desiiing him to produce the 12 printed sheets of his book, (which he had carried with him from Oxon. by the advice of D'. Fell) he there- upon put them into the hands of S'. Leolin, and S'. Leolin into the hands of the archbishop, who spending some time upon them, liked well the character and paper, and gave A. W. great en- couragement to proceed in his studies. After the returne of A. W to Exeter house, S'. Leolin, who came after, told him, that he would warrant him an ample reward, if he would present a fair copie bound to the archb. when the book was finish'd, Si.c. but this came to nothing, be- cause D'. Fell (who printed the book at his owne charg) 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. by A. W. purposely to peruse the Will- Feb. 16. Office then in or neare Exeter-house, in order to write the lives and characters of certaine emi- nent writers, to be put into his book of Hist, et Jn/iq. Univ. Oxon. S'. L. Jenkyns was judge of the Prerog. and had the chief authority over the said office. J j Dom. 1672. ^"•{23 Car. U. Will. Cox, M. A. somtimes fellow of Brasnose coll. now vicar of Emildon in com. Nor- Maj 16. thumbr. and kinsman to A. W. died there at Emildon. With D". J. Fell in his lodgings in Ch. Ch. Wee were then looking over and correcting the Jun. story of Job. Wycleve, in Hisf. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. before it was to be wrought ofJ" from the press. He then told me, that * Jo. Wycleve was a grand dissembler, a man of little conscience, and what he did as to religion, was more out of vaine glory, and to obtaine unto him a name, than out of houcstie,' &c. or to that eft'ect. Receiv'd from Elias Ashmole, esq; his book entit. The Institutions, Lanes and Ceremonies of J"'y6. 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^ Barlow in his lodgings at Queen's coll. and, among several discourses, A. W. told him, what a certaine person of this universitic (not naming the man) had lately said of Job. Wycleve. Whereupon he presently made answer, that it was D'. Fell. J (Dom. 1673. ^"- I 24 Car. IL Richards, chaplain of All Souls, preached at St. Marie's, ' God so loved the world that lie Jan. gave himself up, &c.' D^ Barlow vice-chancellour ' called him in question for it, because he insisted much on the Arminian points. Harris a painter in St. Ebbs died this month, ietat. 106 or 107, in the register of St. Peter's Feb. 2. in the Bailey. — The register was not so high. My company feared at Trinity college; note that every Monday night I commonly goe 3. there, but Dr. Allestree, Millington, Ironside &c. being minded to be private, M". Bathurst Jsent her boy and desired me to refrain that night. D'. Bathurst told me tliat he was told that I was used to listen at the common chamber, and 10. ' QuxteU aotpro-vice-chancellour. Seel sic MS. W. Sc H. Ixxii THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a. WOOD. elsewhere, and that I never spoke well of any man. This, I suppose, came from D'. South's chamber, for he was there that day at dinner, or after, and D'. Bathurst told me this at night. Mar. 17. D'. Fell dean of Ch. Ch. sent for me ; I could not come, but wrote a note to this effect. Sir, I desire, if you please to meet me at D'. Yates at any time this day, or if you please I shall come with D'. Yates to your lodging ; I foresee stormes a coming, and it is fit I should pre- vent them &c. After this he sent for me to dine with him, I told the man that I was to go to Mao;d. coll. to the president, but I would meet him at D'. 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 un- civil 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 mc ; he said nothing. I told him if the vice- chancellour 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," also that I wrote the book, that it might be a way to facili- tate 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. 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. g Mr George Verman the sen', 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 parti- culars, all that 1 heard of them was, that there was nothing ''no antique, nothing so undervalued among the generality of people, but I made use of it, for the honour of my mother the uni- versity of ()xford. I desired by a friend to have a copy of as much as concerned me, but was denied. ' Proctors took their places, great rudeness at Trinity college, the undergraduates and fresh- men came into the hall, scrambled for biscuits, took away bottles, glasses &c. at Wadham the like. Tempora mutuntur. _ Mr. Peers made Mr. Gallot stand still. %%!i%' 30. Midsummer day, dined at my brother Kits, cold meat, cold entertainment, cold reception, JuneS4. cold clownish woman, talking of players and praising them, she asked me to go with her and give her a play; if 1 had money I would, I must be forced to borrow of my brother I told her. * F.putin. 5 Viz. Campion e coll. Trin.T ,_ . . ,o__ > Sic Salter e coll. Wadh.h'^'"- "" ^pr. l673. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. I • • ■ IxxiU Tlien she began to cxtoll M'. Fcttiplace and dean Huntington for cloying with curtesies, and doing any thing she desired, 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 ami not scolded at, she angry at the word scolding told me, if I did not like the diet, 1 should leave it. M'. Shirley the Terrcujilius of Trinity college appeared and spoke a speech full of obsenity July. i4. and prophaness, among the rest he reflected upon, was me anrl 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 knowwhether 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'. Wallis, but none upon me, and this was my comfort, that what he had uttered to iny great disgrace, the vice- chancellor 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 jNIerton would not let me live in the college for fear I should pluck it down to search after antiquities, that I was so great a lover of antiquities that I loved to live in an old cockleloft rather' in a spacious chamber, that I was Vir caducus, that intended to put the pictures of "mother Louse and mother George two old wives into my book, that I would not let it be printed, because I would not have it new and common.' Monday, the election of Oxford mayor, Anthony Hall vintner chosen, at which some young Sept. is. • Supple than. * The best accounts we can procure of these two matrons, at this distance of time, are as follow. The former was the mistress of a little ale-house situated at the further end of a row of tenements at the bottom of He.idinglon hill near the lane leading to Mar- ston, now, not luiaptly, called Harpsichord row. The ingenious author of the Biographical History of Englund, in describing a print of this noted female, informs us that sl-.e was, probably, the last woman in England that wore a rufl". 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 Companion to the Guidr, have attempted to investi- fate the Founders of our antient academical hostels. In the tiographical History above-mentioned we are told that Cabbage hall (situated directly opposite the London roadon Headington hill) was founded by a taylor. Caterpillar h.ill, the name of the house higher up the hill, ivas no doubt a complimentary appellation, inti- mating to posterity that, on account of it's belter commons, it had drawn away a great number of students from its inferior society, or, in other words, that the caterpillar had eat up the cabbage. Mother George was a very antient dame, living in Blaekboy-lane, which leads from the north end of St. Giles's, to Uats and Mice hill: The perfect use of all her faculties, at the age of one hundred and twenty years, occasioned a great resort of company to her house. It was her custom to thread a very fine needle, without the help of spectacles and to present it to her guests, who, in return, gave her some gratuity towards her support. In the later end of her life, she removed into the parish of St. Petei's in the Bailey, and died there, by an accidental fall which injured her back. A portrait, supposed to represent this celebrated lady, is now in the possession of a gentleman of New college, Oxford. W. & H. ^ \Ve cannot reasonably expect to find much panegyric in the character of Mr. Shirley in the Athen.e Oxon. in return for the passages above, relating to theauthor of that work : Sec it under the year 1679. That A. W. paid him the compliment of due attention, during the delivery of his speech, is evident from the passage itself, which is here subjoined from theoriginalin theBodleian library. Ulteriusin luna iliueranti occurrebat mihi (nescio quo fato) vir quidam hujus senesceutis miindi, quem ex obsoleli facie et tritis vestibus putavi fuisse autiquarium. At quid negotii antiquario in novilunio? Certe nihil potuit illic observare, nisi quod luna (sicut illc studet) aliquando retro niovctur ; sedcum librum editurussit die 27 Septembris, stylo vcteri, deoiunibus antiquitatibus, credo ilium in coelum conscendissc pro antiquis lunis. Ilic priscus vir habitat in prisco cubiculo grandajvi collegii Mertonensis qui adco gaudet murorum fragmeutis et ruinis, ut vereatur collegium ne totumdiruat sedificium, lit illc inter ruinas versetur et monumcnta: sedcum adeo senectutcm adorct, et venerandam canitiem, miror ergo quid ille sicarios homines tarn stepc aggreditur, et corporum fabricas de- moliri studet? nam dicara vobis, cum doctissimus ejus libri * tj-ans- * ^Jr. Penrce lator superfluas frivniasquequasdam partes exsecuit, et lil)rum fece- e.\ iEdeCh. riteunuchum, profecto ille statim sIrictocuUro frivolasilli us partes amputaret, et ipsum castraret castratorem, irno paruin abfuit, quin ilium jiigulaverit ; quum viderit librum suuin, (ut vocal) ex Ang- lico sermone in alienam linguam traductum, ille juravit typogra- phos Gallos non tantum librum inipressisse, sed etiam f Gallic4 f Plurimi c1t Lingua donasse; et sane cum dicunt pra; Adamita; ilium fuisse op- Tviios. in time doctum plusquam quatuormille abhinc annis, non niirumcst Theatro sunt ilium Latinitatis oblivisei, et inodcrnas linguas nescire; sed jx)- Galli. tissima causa rixandi cum typographis fuit libri ifflpressio, nam di.\it se nolle, utexcudetur, quia typographia est moderna inventio. Audivi hunc virum merdarum senlinas frequentare, et<;hartas ibi- dem sparsas consulere, sed nescio ob quem finem, nisi ut cxiiide materiam libri colligerct, et profecto ut jam putidum ortum habuit, sic spero et e>ytum, utpote solummodo dignus qui ad abslergeiidum podicem daninctur. iiuiic antiquarium maxiuie aboniiiiantur vetulae, quia timent, ne illarum picturaslibro pra;ligal; sed <|uidui suam propriam imaginem? nam cum sit adeo ruinosa, et cxa-'sa ut fere naso careat, et auriculis, certe antiquitalem satis redolet ct pra: se fert. Postquam dcserui caducum hunc virum— -\V. & U. 1 Ixxiv THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. scholars and servitors 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 tlie Bailey ; a scholar of Erase 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 appeasing of it. Sept. S3. Oxford feast, Mr. Tho. Fulk ; I was not there nor gave ' no money, because of the present discomposures between the scholars and townsmen. Oct. 3. Dr. 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, scorns that he was dean of Wells ; no need of marrying such a woman, who is so conceited that she thinks herself fit to govern a college or university. 6. Christ-Church began Oct. 10. D^ Levinz elected president of St. John's, Magisti^atus indicat Virum, which note ; he beats the students there and fights.^ 12. D'. South preaching at Christ Church about sacrilege 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.' 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'. Fell's putting in under his own hand in a paper before the printed Hist, and Antiq. Oxon. 23- D'. 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'. Reeves began to transcribe my book at 1426. 14. S'. Christopher Wren, L.L. D. knighted. Dec. 14 Service was translated from the common hall in Merton college, to the chappel new wains- coated and paved with marble. Nov. awl A controversy between the vice-chancellor andD'. Fell concerning preaching at Ch. Church, ^^'^- D'. 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 ' Sic. young plantation in St. John's grove, notice of which being given *[The following letter from Mr. W. Sherwin to D''. Turner pre- to Mr. president yesterday morning, he called the fellows together sident of Corpus Christ! college, shews that Wood's character was to consider of ways to find out the offenders, when he raised not unfounded. It is taken from the original in the Bodleian himself in some heat in passionately talking, and suddenly fell back library. in his chair stone dead. One of the fellows had a lancet, and en- deavoured, but could not, make him bleed ; messengers were imme- Rcverend sir, diately sent to D^Delaune and Mr.Lowth. Mr.lorriano is upon I thought it would not be unacceptable to yon, to have an ao- the place, and 'tis thought, if the two former do not accomodate the count of what has happened here since you left this place; we are matter between themselves, the latter will bid fair for the place, he told that the business of All Souls has had two bearmgs before my having a great interest among the junior fellows. Mr. Hudson is lord of Canterbury, where Mr. Proast persists in denying the war- gone to London to appear for thelecture. Mr. Creech it is thought den having any ri^ht to that place: there is nothingyetdetermined. will do so too. I do not hear of any other yet. You may On Wednesday night Magd. coll. chapel was robbed ofagreatpart expect further trouble if any thing happens worth your notice, of their communion plate, by some that must needs know the From, Sir, Your most obedient servant college well -. 'tis supposed they lodged themselves in the chappel Will. Sherwin.] at nme o'clock prayers, and came out at the great doors which March 4th, (I697-8.) 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 achest in the ' See a Sermon preached at the Consecration of a Chapel l667,bj veslry to the value of about thirty pounds. There is no discovery Hob. South. W.&H. yet made. The same night some maliciously de.?troyed all the THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. IxxV 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.' Tho. CoUins of Glou'. Hall entered school master of Magd. coll. that night. Mr. Ale.xan- Dec. 19. der Pudsey mad, by reason of pride, caused a poor boy of the college to make a bon-fire over against the school door. St. Thomas's day. Mr. Ric. Reeve schoolmaster of Magd. who had been a long time sus* Dec. pected a Papist, did, upon the president's warning, leave his place. It arose from a letter sent 6 weeks before from D'. Lloyd of Reading to D'. Fell ; the sense of which was that he had defended in a letter sent to Mr. Harris his brother, chaplain to S'. 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 pension allowed him to gain prosel3'^tes, that he had converted all his acquaintance 60 in number; he had rec". the sacrament 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 University 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 translating my book, by Mr. Fell. . Upon Mr. Reeve's turning out, which was on I9, Mr. Browne of New college this morning 22. came and told me from others, that Mr. Reeve not only perverted Mr. Walter 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 Avould repeat it. At 4 in the afternoon Mr. Nurse came on purpose to tell me the report which he heard, Mr. Charles Perrot of Oriel told him at Mr. Frye's on his death bed ; Mr. Nurse a vain glorious man, conceited of his worth, ambi- tious of D'. 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 sordid 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 canonries for nothing, and deprive others more deserving of their bread. * " 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 librar}-, " 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 advantage the commonwealth of learning made him undergo " it with pleasure. ^"- \ " 25 Car. II. • See Wood's MSS. In mus. Ashm. 8489. 37- W. & H. for these years are not to be found, or ehe are deficlem in many * The reader is desired to note tliat the passages included in these particulars, marks "— " are supplied from other papers, as the pocket almanacks 1« Ixxvi THE LIFE OF ANTIIOKY a WOOD. " The first produce of his labours and stmlies was pubUsh'd at Oxford, viz. the Histo- " ria tt /Intiquitatcs Uiiiversitatis Oxonicmis. Upon this work the author liad spent ten " years of his life, which, after it finished, was, by the curators of the press, viz. S'. " Leolyn Jenkins, S'. Jos. Williamson, Joh. Fell, D. 1). Tho. Yate, D. D. dedicated to his '^ majesty, to whom it was presented at Windsor in July l674. by D^ 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 801. should be presented to the " great personages of the court, the clergy and the law. ,, . f " Dom. 1675. ^«- 1 a 26 Qar. II. "Jun. s. " Tlie most illustrious prince John William prince of Newburg(son of the duke of N.ew- " burg) count palatine of the Rhine, duke of Bavaria, Giuliers, Cleve and of Mons, count or " earl of Valentia, Spinhim la Mark, Ravensburg and IMoers, lord of Ravenstein &c. coming " to the university, was created U'. of the civil law. He was conducted bare headed in his " doctor's robes from the apodytcrium into the convocation house, with the beadles march- •* ing before, and the king's professor of law Avith him, the vice-chancellor then, with the " doctors and masters 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 *' liim 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 registrary's " desk, complimented with another speech in the name of the university. He was then con- " ducted 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 he had seen most of the rarities in the public library, several colleges, " Physic garden &c. the vice-chancellor D^ Bathurst, D'. Fell and other doctors made a pre- " sent to him at his departure, of the Historia et Antiq. O.ron. with cuts, in two volumes fairly ** bound, together with the Bodleyan Catalogue and Loggans Oxonia illustrata. ■ " See Fasti Oxox. under the year 1675. " Warton's Remains of Dr. Bathurst, pag. 55. " This year also the same books were, by a decree of convocation, presented to the " most illustrious prince Cosmo de Medicis, grand duke of Tuscany, which present was ac- " companied with a Latin letter written by the publick orator D'. South, wherein a character of " these books was given." . (Dom. 1677- ^"- 1 28 Car. U. Mr. Lane tells me, he was turned out 1643, and beyond sea taught Hebrew and Arabick : re- stored 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 fro)n ruin, the paths are grown over Avith 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 fourteen in number. In 1634, Degory Whcare being then principal, there were 92 students iu Glou. hall. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. Ixxvii About one in the morning the lord chancellor Finch his mace was stole out of his house in Feb. 7. Queen street. 'Ihe 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 Tvburn J 6 March 1677. - Cradock of Mag. coll. repetitioner. In the beginning of April William Rogers barrister of Lincoln's inne spoke in my behalf to the Apr. 22. lady Powis for a herald's place, she therefore inviting to dinner Howard earl of Norwich, and lord marshall, spoke to him, who answered her that the j)ractice 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 killed me; only crocus metal- 26. lorum. Charles Maurice Tellier arch-bishop and duke of Rheims, primate of France, came with Crecjui to treat about a marriage with the lady Mary, daughter of the duke of York with the dauphin, 7 at night came to Oxford with some attendance, a tall proper man in a plush coat, sword by his side, and peruque ; tet. 40, or thereabouts. Gastrell Ch. Ch. told D'. Fell the bishop of it, he took no notice of it, because became 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'. 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 1 1. May 8. at which time D'. Fell gave him the Histori/ of' Oxford with cuts, Marmora Oxon, et Cat, Lib. in liibl. Bodl. In the beginning of this month did these verses go about in writing. The ' blazing comet, and the '^ monstrous whale The ^ breaking of the shins of Lauderdale The * parliament at the eclipse being called And ' Osborne s George fell off before installed The ^ bishop who from France came newly ore Did go to Betty Beauliesfor a zvhore. 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 oft' his ribbon, because the hook was not well sodered, he was installed 23 Apr. I677. 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'. Lamphire eat some of it, and Hen. Price of the Blue Boar dressed it. Election at Merton college for the Rhetoiick lecture for the year ensuing, M'. Workman July. 13. the warden's favourite, and M'. Wight the sen', proctor stood, I gave my vote for the latter as most deserving by far, the warden therefore was pleased to say, that ' I was a disturber of the peace of the college.' George Barber of Oriel coll. and proproctor met in his walk, about 1 1 o'clock at night, one Aug. 4. Phil. Dodwell a chandler about the Chequer, asked him, what he did there, bid him go home. Ixxviii THE LIFE OF ANTHONY A WOOD. he gave him insolent language, and would not obey him, he put him into the vice-chancellor's , 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, whereupon he whips on the other side on his own ground before 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. Aug. 10. Friday at night M'. John Haslem caught with Price's 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 son in St. Peter's parish preached. At city sessions where certain townsmen indicted or put up the mayor and baylift's, for Oci. 4. 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 ; v ide June following. They said had there been a night watch. New college plate would not have been stolen; the night watch from Ascension to Michaelmas, g D'. Nicholas warden of New coll. took his place, very active in walking and hunting ta- verns, Magistratus indicat Vh'itm. About tlie beginning of this month, M'. Nourse of Univers. coll. who formerly turned Catholick, fell sick at London, and having something lie heavy on his conscience, sent for D'. 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'. 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'. accordingly came, and M'. Nourse continuing 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 D'. Pa- trick in a letter to M'. Thomas of Ch. Ch. This is to be putt into his life. • Not. 2. The duke of Bucks, steward of the city of Oxford, was entertained with a dinner by the citizens at Soladell Hardings 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 university. Murrell' 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. '"• Saturday a convocation, D'. 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 uni- versity to incline to M'. Bayly of Magd. coll. a statute was started, requiring the candidate to be present, for he was out of town, whereupon *Robert Cradock of Magd. coll. professed him- self at that time a candidate, and carried it by 7- Vide mens. Dec. '4- Wednesday H. F. left me, and I exceeding melancholy all that day, and some days after: God bless H. F. '*■ Thursday another convocation, wherein was declared, 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' 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 practised physick, and being an ambiti- ous 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 nmst note that all that Avas done at the convocation, was a letter from the members of the • Supple, Court. W. & H. »Slc. W.&H. 3 W". Morrell. W.&H. * Thomtii ex reg Convocat. W. &H. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY A WOOD. Ixxix college of physicians of London to the university, desiring them to set the common seal to writing witnessing that Tho. Frankland 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, great grandson to Edm. Plowden the Nov. 83. famous lawyer. Charles lord Herbert, eldest son of Henry marquis of Worcester, was matriculated as a mem- 26. ber of Ch. Ch. a;t. 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 considerablcst family in England, and the richest subject that the king hath. Divers would be asking the king, who should be archbishop, who to put off and stop their mouths, he would tell them, Tom BaUies; he is a drunken, lecherous justice of peace for Westminster. James of Ch. Ch. made his logick speech at the schools, and reflected on D'. Bathurst Dec. 13. late vice-chancellor for his former carriage in this oftice. D'. 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.' Sunday such a great mist, especially in the morning before 11, that I could not see, or know so. a man 40 of my paces distant. Oxford low and subject to vapours. Conge des Lire went to Canterbury to elect D^ Bancroft archbishop of Canterbury, set up 29. by the duke of York against London, and York put on by the Papists. York doth not care for London, because he shewed himself an enemy to the Papists at the council board. This year, in Winter, Rich. HoUoway councellor was made sergeant at law, so that now we have 3 sergeants living at Oxford, viz. the said Rich. 2. Rich. Croke recorder who proceeded an. 1676, and Charles HoUoway the old man who proceeded about ]665, seldom or never came to St. Mary's when he was counsellor, but when sergeant, he came to take place above the doctors, '' Rob. Hollo\»»ay sergeant in 1677 took opportunities to come Oxford circuit as jus- tice itinerant.^ This 1 set down because all people took notice of it, how he was blinded by ambition. The king's revenue in customs, excise, and chimney men comes to about I60OOOI. 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 after- noons, and thence to the coffea-house. J ( DovK 1678. a 9 Car. II. ' Wd. Walton's Remains of Dr. Bathitrsl, if^g S3. W. & H. 2. Barrester, i.e. Richard Hollowny living against Blcw-borein * Sic. VV. & H St. Aldate's parish. — Son of Richarcf HoUoway, ofliciall .to the ' Among Mr. Wood's MSS. in the museum is a small book, archdeacon of Berks and public notaric. containing several copies of verses which is entitled Mr. liulktey'a 3. Necessitie, i. e. Yong Charles HoUoway, son of the sarjeant, Libell on divers Persons in O.rford, An. 15 - - or thereabouts.'^ so call'd because Necessitas non haiet legem, being a barrester, hut The following account may, perhaps, reconcile some mistakes, no lawyer. which Mr. V^'ood seems to have made with respect to the family of 4. Nolarie, i. e. old Richard HoUoway before mentioned. HoUoway. 5. Mercer, i. e. Franc. HoUoway, a niorcer, brother to Serjeant Verses made on the five Holloways living in Oxfordj 1667. and old Richard HoUoway. 1. Gravely dull, i.e. the Serjeant, grave and almost doling. 'Sarjeant, 'Barrester, 'Necessitie, ♦ Notarie, 'Mercer 2. Ill siHjken, i.e. Barrester, because as they say he speaks well ' Gravely dull, » ill spoken, ' Lawless ♦ cum pergere, ' broken of no man, censorious. I believe false. 3. Lawless, i.e. Nocessilie HoUoway as before. 1. Sarjeant, i. e. Old Charles HoUoway sarjeant at law Hvhig at 4. Pergere, i.e. Notarie HoUoway, but why 1 know not. All Souls coll. 5 Broken, i. e. Mercer HoUoway, a broken mercer. W.&rH. » [See AtheujEcoI. 609.J Ixxx THE LIFE OF ANTIIONY a WOOD. Jan. Beginning of this month colds became verj'^ frequent, many sick and keep up, colds with- out coughing or running at the nose, only a languidness, and faintncss, certainly Oxford's no good air. W". Bancroft a clounish, odd fellow'. Feb 7. A hearing then to be concerning the proproctor Barber and young Dodwell, and there was a prohibition expected to proceed at the common pleas, but deferred till next terra. Phil. Dodwell discommoned as they say. The university hath received a prohibition to proceed against Dodwell. They received it at their own court on Friday, which is a curtesie. Mar. 16. Mr. Peter Nicholls died, left 'iOOl. to the coll. (Merton) and lOOl. 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. 23. Saturday the junior proctor made his speech; 180 bachelors this last Lent, and all things car- ried on well, but no coursing which is very bad. Quaere the reason? Apr. 7. Mr. Durston of New college repeated. 84. A fast at Oxford and elsewhere for a prosperous proceeding in war against the French. Df. Marshall preached. s(). 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 VVestminstcr concerning the university business, be- tween them and Dodwell upheld by the citizens, mentioned in August before, and another demur made for the 40s. Dodwell was mulcted with, noctivagation was only according to the university statute, and not by the king's charter. The citizens grew insolent thereupon, and procured a letter to be sent to the commissioners 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. 8d. to be paid for noctivagation, and nocti- vagation they acknowledge, but not fourty shillings. This month was a Fryday's market, and four fairs granted by the king to the earl of Litch- field to be held in his manner of Charlbury near Woodstock. Here had been an ancient market. See my Discourse of the Market ^ Mays. Ballow of St. John's, a physician at Camden in Gloucestershire, died in the house of John Folkes, an apothecary in St. Mary's parish, buried at Weston near Camden. 12. Memorandum, that D'. Lamphire told me that there were 370 and odd alehouses in Ox- ford.— Qu. the exciseman, and have it under his hand. Means to create idleness, 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 fin number about 700) in order to be sent far away beyond the seas. They were most if not alJ dragoons. June 10. Voted in convocation that no act should be celebrated this year, under pretenc that there was no D. D. proceeded, but the true reason was, that the town and university being at variance, the university would not contribute to their enrichment, to pluck out the university's ' [ — Witliin few yeares after y* first grant of a market to y^ other habitations did for his great convenience grant divers portions lowne of Abcndon, another was by K. Ste|)h. granted to y* monks of a void plott of ground without his parcke to several! men to build of Einshani" within Icsse then 4 miles of Oxon to be there kept on theron y' soe his retinue might there lodge and not be troubled to every Lord's day thouiih contrary to K. Cnutes laws'' and last of all retire in y<^ country adjoyning, and therupon a market was by him another ai Wodstock by K. H. 2. as appeares by an inquisition'^ granted to those to be kept on every Tuesday throughout y'^ yeare, 7- Kd. 1 . for he as I find being much delighted in that place for y'^ and his baillive to receive y"' toll. Soe farre may be said concerning sake of his beloved Rosamond and residing there more then at his y'' erection of those markets within 6 miles of Oxon ] * \ Reg. Einsham caxi. \%x.'\ _ c Ex quada inquisit. in Tur. London, cui Utulus: DomiiUcu dni '■ 1,4 'P"^!:'- and fair at Cherlbury com Oxon. V. Collect, ex ^rcij de Wodstock. J^ . 43.] h I'll. Eiruham, p. 14.] THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. IxxXl eyes. I heard this at tlie Bath 20th June; another reason was that the red coat dragoon^ watched and warded every night, and kept guard at their officer's doors, and the university knew not but that they might abuse the strangers that came to the Act. Red coats left Oxford, came again June 27. St. Peter's day I return'd to Oxford from the Bath, where I had been from the 30th of May, 29. but received no benefit, it cost me about 81. Old Jone began to make my bed. jul_ , Our great bell rung out for D'. Hinton, rector of Islip, sometime fellow of Mert. coll. who 33 died 22 at Islip, and was buried there. Oxford feast, this month Tho. Jenkinson the sadler's son preached. Occasions given to all Sept.fi. men to talk what they please, especially the banterers of Oxford (a set of scholars so called, some M. A.) who make it their employment to talk at a venture, lye, and prate what nonsense 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. King Henry the VIII's chair, that stands in the privy gallery at Whitehall, was bewrayed by Oct. 8. one, if not two persons, in a most filthy and plentiful manner. I dined with Mr. Hen. Parker at his house in Honington in com. Warwick, and after dinner 16. 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 miniature, all sorts of looking glasses, a piece of Dido's tomb, and many other things; they were valued at 500 1. besides the cabinet, but at last sold for little more than one hundred. I was told from sir Tho. Spencer's ' house that the king had given D'. Fell, bishop of Oxford, g6 a patent for an Eakll (which comes to about 1000 1.) 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'. of Ch. Ch. of Somersetshire, having 40001. per Annum at present. Many of the divines in Oxford of poor spirits prick up their ears and crests upon the disco- very 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 VVestminster between the two bodies, who were ordered to compromise the 30. business amongst themselves, and so there was an end of Dod well's business. Sergeant Newdigate, a judge in Oliver's time, died the latter end of this month. D^ Hall of Pembroke (presbyt.) preached sharply and bitterly against the Papists at St. Nov. 5. 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. Manningham ^ of New coll. the same who 13. 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. Mr. Tho. Marriot, high sheriflf of Warwickshire, and Ridley his undersherifF, came to Mr. 22: Sheldon's house (at Weston) with a warrant to imprison him either in Warwick gaol, or at Lon- don, wherefore he went to Warwick. At one in the morning a fire broke out at Burrough's an ironmonger in Allhallows parish, *7. 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 ' At Yarnton near Oxford ; great part of this antient family seat » AxHEHiE OxON. under the year 1722. W. & H. was pulled down about sixteen years ago. See also Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8505. W. & H. m Ixxxii THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. choakcd with the smoke; he ran down to quencli 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 vigi- lant to quench it, had 5 pounds given them as a reward by the university. It was vainly re» ported that the Papists had a hand in it. »8, 29. j)t 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 prison; the man that is studious and reserved is Popishly affected. I>ec. 1. Sunday about one of the clock in the afternoon, D'. Nicholas vicechancellor with a beadW 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"*. command from above to enquire after all such under his government that are suspected to be Popishly ad- dicted, and to secure their chambers, and studies, for any papers or writings relating to the plot. 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 correspondence between Mr. Sheldon's family, and the Mitre inne in Oxford. I told him that that could not be, for I only frequented 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, wherefore 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 167.S. — 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, wherefore he told me, that next morning, at ten of the clock, be should be at leisure. Note, that the reason he should say, why I kept correspondence, arose, I suppose, at my coming into Oxford ' 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. *• Monday at 10 of the clock, I waited on Mr. vice-chancellor D\ 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.' ^- A programma stuck up in every college hall, under the vice-chancellor's hand, that no scho- lars abuse the soldiers (dragoons under sir John Talbot's command) in the night watches that they keep at Uie guild hall, peniless bench, and at most inne doors where the officers lie; it was dated 3. Decemb. n. Wednesday .Barnesby a Jesuit sent for up from Worcester to London to be examined, came through Oxford in his journey, attended by a guard and a tipstaflf", rallied at by the boys^ Dined with D'. Lamphire. D'. J. there asked me, whether I was not yet summoned before the king's council? I asked why he thought so, and other foolery, but no more than 1 expected from him. D'. 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: amalepert pres- byterian since this plot, nothing of malepertness before. Note that one whom they call father Lovcl a Jesuit hath lived in Oxford many years to • Sic. W. & H. oaths of allegiance and supremacy before, and in the presence of * The second of Decemb. An. 1678. me Jo. Nicholas vie. can. Oxon. TTiese are to tcstifie to all to whom this writing may come, that Ex Orig. in Bib. Bod. W. & H. the bearer hereof Airthony II Wood master of arts of the university ' [Athens Oxok. under the year 17O9.J of Oxford did, on the day and in the yeare above written, take the S3. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. Ixxxiii •upply service for the Catholicks, in and near Oxford, but upon the late proclamation 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 1 1 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 Papist's houses in town. They say once he took water behind Mr. Fu Ike'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 Alder's against the Fleur de Lis. The mayor having no- tice of it, went and tendered to him the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, whereupon he gave security for his appearance next sessions after the twelfth day: his eldest son is with hira, and he, they say, has taken it, and will leave the Roman religion. .fDom.1679. ^"- 1 30 Car. U. 40001. per annum collected for the poor of St. Giles in the field's, London, but in a year's time after the plot was discovered, and the Papists banished, it fell to 7001. this year. The contribution throughout England and Wales for the poor arises to 5000001. per annum, but before the alteration of religion there was no such contribution, nor repairing of bridges, nor high-ways: this is able to maintain an army. 3001. 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 dispu- tations, 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) discovered to be Whigs. Twelfth day, a dragoon being in the back yard of the Ship inn, in Jesus lane, and aiming his Jan. 6. 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. I sent my observations and corrections of sir William Dugdale's Baronage to the author, to- in- wards a second edition; there are 17 several papers on the first volume, and 6i 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", that I sent him in 167.5. 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." - I gave my book of the Hist, et Ant. O.ron. to the Herald's office in quires at the request of Feb. lo. sir W". Dugdale, Garter. Tuesday Br. Whorwood, esq. and W"". Wright alderman of the city chose burgesses for the ii. city to serve in parliament, which is to begin 6. March. Geo. Pudsey of EUsfeild, esq; then stood, and rec''. the canvass, which cost him, they say, about 3001. Convocation, wherein letters were read from the chancellor in behalf of Mr. Heneage Finch, >9- solicitor general, to be one of our burgesses to sit in parliament, purposely to set aside D'. Ed- disbury « of Brazen-nose, who audaciously, and with too much conceit of his own worth, stood against the said Mr. Finch, D\ Lamphire, and D'. Yerbury : but a week before D'. Yerbury put off his votes to Finch for fear Eddisbury should carry it. Note, that D'. Eddisbury stood in » In the form of prayer now used by the lecturers of St. Martin's steward, the worshipful the recorder, aldermen, assistants, baili0s, before their sermons is this clause inserted — for the nobility and and all other the members of this ancient and loyal corporation.) magistrates (particularly for the right worshipful the mayor, the W. & H. worshipful sir James Dashwood, bart. our very worthy high- » Fasti OxoK. uoder the year I672. W. &H. m 3 ixxxiv THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. 1675 against him and sir Christopher Wren, but being soundly gcered and laughed at for an impudent fellow, desisted. . i Feb. s6. Election for knights of the shire, those that stood were 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. 87. A convocation celebrated at 8 in the morning, stood to 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; D'. John Lamphire, M. D. history professor, D'. John Ed- disbury of Brazen-Nose, D'. Hen. Yerbury of Mag. coll. did stand also, but in compliment to the attorney ' general was taken oif by the vice-chancellor and others, about a fortnight before the election. The solicitor-general had 201 ^ votes, D'. Lamphire had 209, D'. Eddisbury 245j 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'. Fell was sent for, who though he pleaded hard for his own man, (Finch sometime of his house) yet the jun'. prevail still, and D'. Lamphire again protested against the unlawfulness of it: so, about one of the clock, the convocation was dissolved. Eddisbury carried it by the jun". 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"^. Lamphire's, whereupon the vice-chancellor avouching it then to D'. Lamphire, 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'. Lamphire had 18 at Magd. and more at Ch. Ch. The vice-chan- cellor 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. This Lent the collectors ceased from entertaining the bachelors by advice and command of the proctors. Vander Hv\ryden of Oriel was then a collector; so that now they got by their collectorships, whereas before they spent about lOOl. besides their gains, on cloaths, or need- less entertainments. This month ^ Wharton, M. A. of Queen's college and vicar of Sti Clements buried in that college Chapel. ' / Mar. 82. Tho. Cradock, M. A. university orator, died.* jviar 26 Election for orator; Mr. Penton, principal of Edmund hall, a good orator, stood. ' Waple, M. A. of St. John's, who had 95 votes, and W". Wyat, M. A. student of Ch. Ch. some- time deputy orator for D'. South 1 12 votes, the last carried it, because Ch. Ch. and Mag. col- lege joyned together, as they did in the election of burgesses of the university in February. Apr. 11. A fast, or day appointed for all his majestie's subjects to seek by fasting and prayer a recon- ciliation with Almighty 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 enemies, and to continue his mercies, and the light of the gospel to us, and our posterity, and to bestow his abundant blessings upon his sacred majesty and this present parliament, that their councils and endeavours may produce 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 Presby tery ! they pretend to love the king, and rejoice much in his recovery from a dangerous sick- • Sic. W. & H. ♦ Fasti Oxon. under the year 1673. W. & H. * S43. Dr. Bouchier 7. Ste Reg. Cvnvoc. W. &H. 'Edward. VV. & H. 3 Gilbert. W. & H. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. Ixxxv ness at Windsor in August this year, yet they will not give him money in any of their parliaments. Mr. .lohn Mills of Queen's coll. M. A. and fellow preached at St. Mary's not much better. In Reg. Convocat. p. 131. ' 'tis said that Mr. Tho. Manningham of New coll. had ^ votes, Waple of St. John's 9% Penton 99, W. Wyatt 112. Low Sunday, f— of Pern. coll. repeated at St. Mary's very well y^., „ Panting '^ ' ' Mr. Walker told me, that more than a fortnight since sir IlarbcJttle Grimston made a speech ^i,. 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 Alfi^ed^^ and the Historia Sgc. Oxon, wherein are many unseemly things of the reformation said (informed so by Gilb. Burnet), also a Bible printed there, wherein are many faults. At 10 at night a fire in a backside near the Three Goates at one Mathews in Northgate street. May i. Saturday D'. Michael Roberts, D. D.^ sometime principal of Jesus college died with a girdle 3. loyned ♦ with broad gold about him (100 1. they say) at Tom Aplcby's house against Logick lane, buried in St. Peter's church yard. The common talk that Mr. Barber, fellow of Oriel coll. and bursar, was run away u. with 500 1. 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 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'. Prince, Slatter, Colby, and Wroughton, fellows of Merton coll. june 83. when I had done, and was gone, one 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 trans- lated 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 Burnet's History of the Reformation of the July 4. Church of England, dat. July 5 to sir W". 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.' • Pag. 231 . Reg. Convocat. W. & H. The two first reasons, (if they may be so called) • were put in lij » AthenjE Oxon. under the year l643. W. & H. another hand; and the other were taken from these three books ' Fasti Oxon. under the year 1649. VV. & H. following, •> kz'z. From D'. Nicholas Harpesfeild's Treatise concern'- * Sic. W. & H. ing marriage, &f . which is a fair manuscript in folio ; written either in the time of Queen Marie, or in the beginning of Queen Eliza- ' [ALetter written to me by Anthony Wood, in justification of his leth : and 'tis by me quoted in my book, in the place excepted History of the University of Oxford, with reflections on it; re- against. From Will Foresf s life of queen Catherine, written in the ferred to Alphabetically. raien of Queen Marie, and dedicated to her. 'Tis a manuscript also and written verie fairlie on parchment. "■ From an Apologiefor the From Burnett's History of the Reformation of the Church ofEng- government of the Universitie against king Henry the Sth: Written land, part the third. Appendix, page 389. by a Master of Arts Septimo Elizabethce. 'Tis a Manuscript also, and hath all the King's Letters therin, written to the Universitie Sir, about the question of Marriage and Divorce, with several (lassages Your Book o(The Reformation of the Church of England, relating to convocations concerning the said questions. I have latelie perused, and finding my self mentioned therin, not So that by this you see I do not frame those reasons out of mine without some discredit, I thought fit to vindicate my self so far in owne head (as partiall men might) but what other authours dictate these animadversions following, that you may see your mistakes, to me. and accordingly rectifie them, (if you think fit) in the next pait Ibid. Upon what designe I cannot easily imagine. that is yet to publish. P. 86. But after he hath set downe the in- No designe at all God-wot, but meerlie for Truth's sake, which strument, he gives some reasons, &c. verie few in these dayes will deliver. ' I could not know this : He publishes them, and is justly to be no better credit than the former : For he was a Master of Arts of charged with them. Baliol College, in Queen Elizabeth's time. See Wood in Bal. *• From such authorities what else was to be expected ? col. ' This, as D' Lloyd informs me, is Parsons* book j an author of ixxxvi THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. Aug. 13. 19. t4. Oxford city, their election of burgesses, Broome Whorwood and alderman W". Wright chosen. Pudsey lost it but by twenty votes. University election; sir Leolin Jenkins, Dr. Charles Perrott of St. .John's, D'. Oldysh of new college, and Mr. Lane, sometime of Ch. Ch. son of sir George Lane, were competitors, but the black potmen carried it for Perrot, a thorough paced soaker, sir Leolin Jenkins 204, D'. Perrot 224, D^ Oldysh New coll. 104." Tom Wood chose probationer fellow of New coll. 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 IVcst to a Question out Ibid. And as if it had been an ill Thing, he takes paints to purge the Universities of it, fSfc. ' It was an iil thing I think, (I am sure it was taken so to be) for a Prince by his letters to frighten <■ People out of iheir Conscience, and by menaces force them to say what must please him. But •eeing 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 Divinity, who would say any thing to please the Kins, least danger should follow) they ought to be com- mended, or at least justiiicd 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 he says no such thing in his bonk Z)e Schismate, of an assembly <^ called by night : my author for this ii the Apologie before mentioned, whicn adds, that when a Regent ef 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. ftC Antiq. Oxon. Lib. 1. P. 256. A.' The truth is, the meeting was unseasonable, 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 re- lating to the universitie of Oxford, I find from other places to be true.? Ibid. But it appears that he had never seen, or considered the other instrument, to which the Universitie set their scale. The grand collection, or Farrago, which Mr. Thomas Masters made, (by the Lord Herbert's appomtment) in order to the writing of King Henry the 8ths Life, I nave seen and perused ; but could not with all my Diligence find that instrument (as you call it, yet we, an Act, or Decree) of Convocation; 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, belong- ing to the Universitie. So that for these reasons, and that because * I do not find there was any frightning threatnings ; none ap- pear in the King's letters. If he had this from any ^kkI authors, he had done well to have quoted then). It is not honourable for the University, as it is not probable to represent all the Doctors and Balchelors of Divinity, as men apt to be frightened out of their con- sciences: and that only the Masters of Arts were impregnable. It is rather to be supposed that the one Sort were carried away by Faction ; and that the others were guided by learning and conscience. * 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 : .•Vnd they were not tied to forms, but might have done it at any time. S Yes, such authors as you c|uote : you say you cannot well defend Sanders. It seems you would if you could. These are soft words concerning the scandalous Writer. * All tnat jou say here is otUy negative Authority ; but since the the Lord Herbert says, it was blurred, and not intended for the King; and also not under seal, (you say 'twas) neither i>assed in the house by the majority of votes; therefore did I omit it as not au- thentick.'" 1 truly believe, or at least have good grounds to think, that it was only drawn up, and not proposed; for if it had, it would have been reeistred : There being nothing projioaed, either in con- vocation or Congregation, but is registreil, 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 ' so from ^f arAom, Archbishop of Canterbury, then Chan- cellor of the University: Who in his letters thereunto, desires the Members, to make what Expedition 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, ta archiu. Lib. Bod. MS. Epist. 197. Yet, I believe, the Archbishop said this, to hasten the University of Oxon the more ; tho' pro- bably 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 rtcord throughout all my Book, there is not one, 1 (presume) of the senate of antiqua- ries 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 suggested by you to Sir Harbottk Grimston, (who thereupon made a complaint in open parliament last April, against the said book) I cannot see."* Truth ought to take place ; and must not be concealed, especially when 'tis at a dis- tance. And if our Religion' hath had its Original, or Base, on Lust, Blood, Ruin, and Desolation, (as all Religions, or Alterations in Governments, have had from one or more of them) why should it be hidden, seeing it is so obvious to all curious searchers into record. This is all from him that studies Truth. July the fith 1679- Anthony a Wood.] « Laneobtinuit45. Reg. Conv. W. & H. 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 bar: 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 subscribed; for it is jn the name of John Caltisford, their commissary: So it must have b'^en either in the form of a Notary's Inslrumeiit, 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. • Jt might be causual ; Lord Herbert says not that it was rased out, &c. ' In this vou had a warrant for what you wrote, but I had a bettei to correct it by. I" I do profess 1 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 inc s|wak of it. ' This is writ very indecently : neither like a divine nor a Christian. • These words iu Ilalick are in the Bishop of Wotctster's Hand. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. Ixxxvii 9f 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 ^Qt and lay up to the hindrance of trade, and yet will not write against Popery or Presbytery. Mr. Masscy told me this. Note one W. answered it, not one in the universities, I am sure not in Oxford, nor by any, only Roger L'Estrangc, in his book intit. The free born Suhject, or the English Mans Birth Right. The D. of York went from London to Windsor, in the company of the earl of Peterborough, Sept. Mr. Churchill, and some of his servants; this Mr. Churchill, afterwards lord Churchill, ungrate- ful to him, not only in running away, but endeavouring to betray him to the enemy. Kob. 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 tipling houses, prohibits coffea to be sold on Sundays, which D'. Nicholas vice-chancellor prohibited till after evening prayer, viz. till five o'clock ; but this R. Pauling hath been bred up a Puritan, he is no friend to the uni- versity, and a dissuader 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. I heard at W^eston that the vice-chancellor of Oxford, Dr. Fell, has denied Oates his incor- Oct. 19. porating D. I). You must note that lord Lovelace brought Oates to the horse race at Wood- stock 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 incor- porate him. In the evening, when the duke of York returned from his entertainment in the city, Oates s4. 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 highness.' So the king's worthy evidence (Oates and Bedlow) sneaked away. John Dryden the poet, being at Will's coffee house in Covent garden, was about 8 at night Dec- 16. soundly cudgelled by 3 men, the reason, as 'tis supposed^ because he had reflected on certain persons in Absalom and Achitophel. Extreme cold weather, a poor' died with hunger and cold. He began to die in St. Clement's r si. 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, that fell towards Banbury 2 or 29 & 30. 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. Mary's for W". Bull, yeoman beadle, who sa died at his house in Magd. parish, a very good servant. Stands for his place Anthony Car- slegh, B. A. sometime of Bal. coll. * — Crostley, stationer, '-- — — Sherwin, barber, • King, butler of man to the vice-chancellor. Cap. Tervvick, an old cavalier set up by Ch. Ch. • Litchfield, the printer, * Tayler, apothecary. Ant. » Supple, Man. W. & H. » John. W. & H, » William. W. & H. ♦ J«Ai>. W. & H. ' Leonard. Vl^. & H. « William. W. & H. Ixxxviii THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. 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. 1'. " Deest Diarium Anni 1680". J fDmii. 1681. ^"- 1 32 Car. Jan. 9. Soladin Harding, cook, had three daughters buried all together at Holywell, who died of this malignant disease, they died on Thursday night and Friday morning, this may be noted as M'ell as that Marsh the taylor in Catstreet had 3 children born at one time an. 1670, or thereabouts. 1°. Three of the probationer fellows of Mert. coll. were admitted fellows, the fourth, S^ Southley, Avas put aside for being a green ribband man, and saying that the old king Charles I", 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 com- mittee to have the formality of St. Scholastica's day laid aside. Townsmen go about into London, grow insolent as in 1641. 18. 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^. Hyde principal of Magd. hall, M'ho lives in the town, denies it, and they seize on his goods. Lord Norreys lieu- tenant 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 3001. they were before cast from 5 to 8 by one Michael Derby, Anno 1656, who spoiled them. 2 Election of S"'. Leolin Jenkins, nobody stood against him or D'. Perrot, yet Mr. 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'. Leolin Jenkins, go on one side, and those for another on the other, whereupon all went on one, and left Crymes, Adams, Newe, and others of Exeter on the other, but they, being ashamed, went there too. 3. The duke of Bucks came into Oxford over Magd. bridge at 7 at night, conducted by the citi- zens by torch light from St. Clements to his lodging to help forward the election of Whorwood and Wright, and lay at Wright's. 4. Friday, election of burgesses for the city, Brome Wiiorwood, William Wright, and Geo. Pudsey stood, the last lost it by almost 100 votes, this is 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 cf the citizens, though bred amongst scho- lars, cried ' no universities, no scholars, no clergy, no bishops.' >o* St. Scholastica ; the mayor (J. Barell") and about 20 citizens or more came to St. Mary's ac- ' Litchfield had 10 votes, King 14, Crosley 33, Capitaneus » F. W"". Bayly or John Bowel. W. & H. Terwick 43. Taylor 45, Sherwin 56, Carsley 56. £*i?eg. Convo- cat. W. &H. '78 THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. Ixxxix cording 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 J 641, meerly encouraged for what they do, by the late high demeanour of the parliament.' One hundred and ninety two bachelors to determine this Lent, but 23 or thereabouts were not presented on 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 every day, or three at least, were appointed to determine there. At a convocation in the Theatre for the reception of the D. of Brunswick' amongst other things jan. 25. 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. ' 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. Or thereabout, the Convocation house being to be fittted up for the commons by raising a Feb. sa. scaffold at the North end. All congregations till end of this term were celebrated in St Mary's chancel, and the candidates stood for their graces under Mallina Boys * his ' monument, and the Scios taken in Adam Broome's chapel. March 1 and Q was the election for the knights of the shire. Sir John Cope, sir Edward Norrys, sir Philip Harcourt, andTho. Hord, esq; stood, and 2'' March, in the morning, sir Phil. Harcourt and Tho. Hord carried it, the former a gentleman, but a Presbyterian, the other a • The origin of this ceremony was a furious contest between the the ceremony is now observed. The traditional story that the citizens of Oxford and the students. Some of the latter being at mayor was obliged to attend with an halter round his neck, which a tavern, on the 10 of Feb. 1354, broke the landlord's head with was afterwards, to lessen the disgrace, changed into a silken string, a vessel in which he had served them with b Fasti Oxom. under the year 168O. VV. & H. » Sic. W.&H. 3 Nicholas. W. &H. ♦ 46. ex reg. con v. W. & H. ' Wickhani, ex reg. conv. W. & H. « Supple, Edicard Beddrop. W. & H. ' ¥. was read. W. & H. » Thomas. W. & H. » Edward. Fasti Oxon. under the year 168I. n2 xcii THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. JttJyii. Monday, Henvill of New-Inn hall (a mamed man) and the other Terr^ ^/iw* made up what was wanting on Saturday, full of waggery and roguery, but little wit. 27. Pavnton the town clerk died, and was buried in Carfax church on the 29th.' (Qutere.) Aug. 1. Prince was chosen town clerk. 8. IVlr. King of St. Mary hall was chosen by the university vicar of Seiceston in Leicestershire, ag'. Thompson of Line, and Vaiighan of Edmund hall. 16. At 8 at night the high sheriff' brought into Oxford, in his coach Stephen CoUedgc, the Pro- testant 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. 17- Died Hen Denton,' M. A. rector de Blechington, and buried in the church 18. D'. Marshall of Line. coll. preached before the judges at St. Mary's, judge North, sir Creswell Levinz, J. — Raymond, and S'. 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 whicli 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. 31. Wednesday at 1 1. Stephen College, born at Watford in Hertfordshire, nephew to Edmund College of St. Peter's 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 gallows. He spoke and prayed more than, half an hour, his body was, after quartering, put into a coffin, and the same day was con- veyed to London, and buried privately the Thursday following at night in St. Gregory's church near St. Paul's. In this month of August died at or neare Hungerford' Bennet of Ch. Ch. who was beneficed there, he corrected the press at the Theatre from 1669 to I677, and then was curate to D'. Saunders at Acton, thence he removed towards Hungerford : he wrote Notes on Oxford Grammar. 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. iEtat. 46, or thereabouts. Oct. 7. In convocation commissioners appointed by the chancellor to govern the university, or to order matters in the chancellor's absence, viz. the vice-chancellor, D'. Fell, D'. Clarke, D'. Bathurst, D'. James, D'. Marshall, D'. Jane; D'. Marshall in the place of D'. Yates deceased, and D'. Jane in the place of D'. Allestree. 23. Sunday, between 10 and 1 1 in the morning, Mr. Cardonnell hanged himself in his bed cham- ber on his door, discovered by his maid after 12 of the clock : he had only his shirt and night cap on, and there he hung till between 7 and 8 at night, and then by the coroner and jury ' John Paynton, sometimes mace-bearer to the mayor of Oxon. Paynton sometimes macebearer to the mayor, died at his house in died 17- Feb. 1678. xtat. 86, and more, and was buried in St. Mar- St. Aldate's parish, 28 July 168I, aged 53, and was buried in St. tin's church. Son of Paynton, sometimes embroiderer to Martin's church by his father, and also by the grave of his wife, K.James. He was married tollliz. Reeve in the chap, of St. Anne, daug. of Thomas Shreive of Wytham iu Berkshire neare Barthelmew's hospitall, 24 Aug. l628. by whome he had issue Oxon. which Anne died b Feb. 1()8J, aged 35. The said John John, who putting this coat-of " armcs on a monument over his Paynton left issue by Anne his wife children in St. Martin's church. W. Dugdale K. of armes com- Creast is a demy Lyon rampant crown'd or holding between it's manded him, at my request, to pull it downe or take new, because two pawes a Lozenge g. granted with the coat by VVill. Dugdale, this co« belonged to the worshipful! family of the Peytons in Kent, Garter, and Hen. Sir George, Clar. Kut. in July 1C79. Wood's wherefore the said John Paynton, in July l679, did purchase ano- MSS. in mus. Ashm. 846G. \V. & H. ther coat. * p^STi Oxon. un-'er the year lO.ig. W. & H. John Paynton, town-clerk of the citie of Oxford, son of John 3 Thomas. Vide Fasti OxOxV. under the year 1669. W.& H. * S. on a Cross ingr. o. a Lozeng. g. a mullet in y' first quarter (ar) or. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. xclll coming and seeing him, tliere pronounced tliat he was not compos mentis, about 1 1 at night he was buried stark naked in the vestry yard on the South side of the chancel ; he was troubled, in conscience for cheating the college of 3l. 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 deputy bursar, sent the gardener to him for money due to the gardener for doing work in the warden's garden, Mr. Cardonnell 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 oif. 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 Heddington hill and Heddington on the 16 of Dec"^. 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. Wednesday, Ben. Wood chose child of Winchester school. Nov. 2. Oxford feast, W"". Howell of New Inn hall, preached at St. Peter's, the son of Howell the 3. taylor, since an author.' Westminster school boys burnt Jack Presbyter instead of the pope. 5. Mr. Ralph Sheldon of Weston was in town, and he told me that the earl of Dorset, S'. Cyril 19. Wych, Mr. Vaughan the earl of Carbury's son, and Fleetwood Shepheard went last Michael- mas 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 inconsiderable scholar preached a most eloquent ^'^■ siermon at St. Mary's in the afternoon, to the astonishment of the audience. Musick Lecturers. \66\ Torless of St. John's. 1664 1672 1673 1674 1675 \676 1677 1678 1679 1680 1681 Fitz-Williams of Magd. coll. Mr. Jeamson of Wadh. coll. Wolveridge All Souls. Charles Holt of Magd. Slatter of C. C. C. Jesus coll. Strickland of Magd. coll. John Grubb of Ch. Ch. James Allestree of Ch. Ch. in the Theatre. s Northon of Ch. Ch. in the Theatre. Sawyer of Magd. coll. in the Mu- sick school. Terra; filii. 1657 Dan vers of Trinity. 1660 1661 1662 1663 1664 1665, 1669 1670 1671 No act. Field, ^ Die Lun. Terr.Jil. of Trin. No act. John Edwards of Trin. Saturni. Jos. Brooks of Ch. Ch. Die Luna. . Ric. Wood Joan. Saturni. W"". Cave Magd. coll. D. Luna. 1666, 1667, 1668, no acts, the Theatre in building. Hen. Gerard Wadh. Saturni. Tho. Hayes ^n. Nasi, die Lun. M. D. ia 1669. No act. Nich. Hall coll. Wad. Die Luna. An. { 1675 Venables Keeling ted. Christi. Dom. 1682. 33 Car. II, • See Athek* Oxon. W. & H. •» Sic. in MS. xciv THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. 1675 from Mich, term that year to Mich, term 1676 no body matriculated at Glouc. hall, not one in I678. Jan.50. A messenger, at ten at night, came from the king to D'. Halton the vice-chancellor, that he cause the professor of Arai)ick and others to make a true translation of the emperor of Mo- rocco's letter, sent lately by his embassador, which ' were diflFerently interpreted in many ma- terial points by a jew and secretary to the embassy; the jew false, the secretary true. Feb. 3. Ric. Souch, B. A. of Fern. coU. Jil. Ric. H. de Oj;on. pleb. (lately chorister, squint-eyed, of C. C. C. astat. 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 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. 13. Alonday, the first stone of New college new quadrangle 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. 16. Thursday, the king in his own person laid the first stone for an hospital for maimed soldiers at Chelsea, M'here the college founded by D'. 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 reports 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, Avhereas ISO have been matriculated in the years past, but a great many came in before Lent term was done. 19. Lord Sherard's son a nobleman of Exeter coll. died of a violent fever. 25. Egg Saturday: betimes in the morning, was a male child found by the porter of Mag. coll. without the college gate, about 4. days or a week old, christned Matthias at ^ East. eople had York in their mouths, and his health was drank pub- lickly at most halls at dinner. Sir Rich''. Croke recorder of Oxford died. Sir George Pudsey of EUesfield elected recorder. 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. Eroproctor. Smith, Boys, ^ M. A. of University coll. Charles Harris a laick. These ad meetings in the large room over the elabatory every Friday 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-admitted, and the king's letter of thanks read for the university's burning several books containing pernicious principles. The said meeting in Sep. being noised about, others were added to them, and this day they formed themselves into a solemn meeting, bad discourses, and the discourses were registered down by D'. Plot; the persons that met, D'. John Wallis the chief D'. Ralp. Bathurst of Trin. coll. D'. Hen. Beeston, warden of New coll. D'. Hen. Aldrich of Ch. Ch. D'. Rob'. Plot. Chr. Harris. ' Gould, M. B. fellow of Wadham. ♦ Desmaistres, Oriel, M. B. fellow, vice provost and fellow. Caswell, vice pr. Hert hall. D'. ' - -- Pitt, M. D. of Wadham. D^ W™. Gibbons, M. D. of St. John's. D'. Tho. Smith of Mag. coll. Mr. Ed. Bernard, astr. professor. Th. Pigott, of Wadham. » Musgrave of New coll. L. L. B. ' Ballard, M. A. and L. L. B. Evans of Ch. Ch. These two were taken in SSNov. Boyse and Smith of University coll. withdrew themselves on the forming the scheme.^ Not. 8. Speech in schola linguarum by Mr. Isham of Ch. Ch. in praise of S'. Tho. Bodley. rt. B^ of Rochester elect entertained at New coll. and next day at Trin. coll. Dec. 21. This day, about 3 in the morning M" Lasenby the hostess of the Mitre having about » Sic. W & H. ' Nathan Boyse. W. & H. ' William. W. & H. ♦ Samuel. W. & H. ' Robert. W. & H. • WUliam. W. & H. 7 John. W. & H. ' It appears by the minute-books of this society, preserved in the Ashmolean museum at Oxford, that on March the 7. l68J, a re- port of a consultation, held on the 4*. preceding for the better regulation of it, was read. The several articles proposed were agreed to, and the following names undersigned, John Wallis. Alex. Pudsey. Ralph Bathurst. John Massey. Caspar March. Hen. Beeston. . Joshua Walker. James Anderton. Tho. Smith. Tho. Lane. John Cooke. Anth. Farmer. Tho. Hog. Robert Cowcher. Rob. Plot. W". Gibbons. Edward Bernard. Jos. Pullen. Joh. Caswell. Tho. Pigot. Sam. Des Maistres. Jo. Ballard. W". Musgrave. A. Welsted. Will. Levett. N. Crouch. Hen. Pigot. Ar. Charlett. Steph. Hunt. Mauries Wheeler. Edm. Antwisle. Thomas Creech. Hugo Todd. John Benbrigg. J. Cunningham. W. & H. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. XCIX 3 hours before been most strangely affrighted by 3 rude persons, Tho. Baker, M. A. All Souls, ' 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 came, as they pretended, to eat something, the boy said, they were all in bed, they en- quired where M" Lasenby lyed, the boy shewed the window (which was a lower window) 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 extremely 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-], at what time the workmen were providing convenience for the lords to sit in parlia- Mar. s. ment in the schools, D'. Wallis, under pretence that his keys were used by the workmen, de- sired 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. l683, I then forbore for fear he should domineer over me, but when the tray tors were bayled contrary 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 expostulated 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. H* pointed to the door, and bid me be gone with his 3 corner cap: vide pa- pers 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 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 Denmark, who had lately married lady Apr. 38. 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. . {Dom. 1684. " This year Mr. A. Wood lost his generous and true friend Mr. Ralph Sheldon of Beoly in " Worcestershire, at whose seat ' he was frequently, and who was a great assistant 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.* He was an honest and good man, of remarkable integrity, charitable to " the last degree, and a munificent favourer of learning and learned men.' At his death he " committed to Mr. k Wood the charge of sorting and putting in order his papers, as appears by " the following paragraph of his last will, ' Item — to my good friend and fellow-antiquary Mr. " Antony a Wood of Merton college Oxon. I give forty pounds desiring him to see my old pe- " digrees and all my MSS. and other papers (except what are written with my own hand- " writing) to be delivered into the Herald's office, that they be put in a cupboard apart from " others.' * Ralph Sheldon was the son of Will. Sheldon — born of an antient, gentile and wealtlyr family " at Beoly in Worcestershire, I Aug. 1623. ' Richard. W. & H. » Ralph. W. & H. printing the Athemje, which his heir honourably confirmed to ^ Weston, in Warwicljshire. (jjm. Hearne. Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, p. Ivi.] * SeeCatalogueof A. Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8550, 8551. ' In the will o!Hce at Doctor's Commons, London. W. & H. See the Life cf .-int. h IVood by Richard Rawlinton, LL. D. in ' [Mr. Sheldon promised Wood an hundred pounds towards bib. Bod. W. & H. 02 THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. " Educated in juvenile and grammatical learning in his fiither's house, under Woodhop " the priest of the house — . At 19 years of age, in the beginning of the civil wars of England, " he went to travel into France 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 Henrietta Maria Savage, daughter of the lord Savage about lb'47, who, tho' " a tall, proper and handsome woman, yet she j)roved not a good wife to him, a? being lavish " and improvident, to the diminishing of his estate. But having no children by her, and so " consequently not so much involved 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 considerable 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 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, /In. 1670, John Vincent, son of Aug. Vincent, sometimes Wiudsore 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 consider- " able addition to his library. — 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 liis library " in that order, and made 2 such exact catalogues of his books that nothing could be purloyncd " thence or taken away, but it could be with little ease straight discovered. — This library he " settled in a large square room over the kitchin, and his medalls and rarities and pic- " tures in a little room over the entrie into the hall; which continuing there till 1682, and then " Mr. Sheldon causing thenoom 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. 6f " A. who conveyed them to London soon after his death the library was translated to that room " by his successor Mr. R. S. of Barton.'" '^"- i 2 Jac. 11. June 11. " St. Barnabas day, James duke of Monmouth, Ford lord Grey of Werk. Anth. Buys a " Germ, 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 Avith 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 to- " ward the rcbells 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. ' From a loose paper written by Mr. Ant. a Wood, now in the during part of that interval of time, from the original papers of Mr. Bod leyan library. Vv. & H. a Wood pre«ervcd in the Ashmolean museum, entiiUd, TheTrain- * Mr. a Wood's Diaries from l683 to 1692, being lost, or, at ing and Bearing of Anns uf the Scholars of the Universilie of least, not transcribed by Dr. Rawlinson, we have here inserled a Oxon, in June and July, Anno iGSo. \V. & H curious account of some transactions in the university of Oxford, THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. CI 22. " Sunday, the horse left Oxon. (commanded by capt. Henry Bertie) and M'cnt about 4 in the June si afternoon towards Dorchester. — Thence by Abcndon towards the rebells in com. Som. " Munday, at 10 in the morninpj, or thereabouts, Thomas Hord of Coat in the parish of Bampton, esq; Tho. Beard, esq; of Fritwell, — PliiUpps of Oxon. chandler, hving neare to the Cross inn, were, upon suspicion of being consenting to the rising of the rebells, com- mitted prisoners to the castle. " Hetween 1 1 and 12 the same day Peter Birch of Ch. Ch. chaplayne to the militia regiment, preached a sermon to the saitl regiment at St. Marie's church. There was then a common report that the said regiment should march toward the rebells. " About :i or 4 in the afternoon, Rob. Pawling, late of Oxon. mercer, was brought under guard from his house at Ilcdington by command from the E. of Abendon, lord lieut. of the county of Oxon. and committed prisoner to the castle. About the said time He- burne, butler of New inn, was committed to custody in the castle. " On the said day (June 22) was a convocation of D" and M" 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 proroged their meetings till Thursday. " Thursday, the delegates met and appointed a troop of horse and a regiment of foot to be raised by the university. " Sunday, after dinner, the university troop headed by D'. 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'. Aylworth before mentioned was lieutenant, D'. Clutterbook of All Souls comet. " But I saw no colours they had. " At 8 at night, the same day, came in about 12 prisoners in a waggon from towards Nor- thampton, guarded by about 20 or 30 horsemen, and were committed to custody in the castle. — They were taken upon suspicion, as holding correspondence with the rebells. St. Peter's Day, Munday, a company of scholars under the command of Capt. Leopold Will. Finch ' of All Souls coll. exercised themselves in feats of arms privately 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 Broughton L. L. bac. fell, of All Souls coll. lieutenant, son of S'. Brian Broughton of Longdon in com. Staff, hart. " Gardiner, LL. B. fellow of All Souls coll. engineer. Geo. Gardiner, son of John Gardiner of Crowlton com. Northampt. 83. 25. 28. The colours of Leopold Finch. ' Leopold Finch, 5 son of Heneage E. of Winchelscy, born at Constantinople A jounger son of the E. of Winchelsey. N.B. These notes are in the margin of Ihe original. W.&H. cii THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. ult " Tuesday, convocation in the afternoone, wherein the act was defer'd for a time with some considerations. " While the said convocation was celebrated, the university 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. auadrangle, expecting to be called into Ch. Ch. nieatl to be there train'd by the earle of Aben- on, but he being busie about the horse, it was defer'd. " At the same time ' Franc. Bagshaw, A. M. fellow of Magd. coll. and captain of another company, train'd privately in their quadrangle. Jul/l. " Capt. — Bagshaw before mentioned. Rob. Hide of Mag. col. son of D'. James Hide, " lieu. Hugh Brawne, M. A. of Univer. ensigne. son of J. Brawne lately minist. of Seyntbury, " count. Glocester. Wor. w 1 1 ^ V 1 ar. gul. " 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. July 3^ " 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 several times after. " Robert Sewster capt. fellow of New coll. " * John Harris of Exeter coll. lieut. " Will. Atkinson of Qu. coll. ensigne. ■^^ ■"" u — ^ " quarterly sab. and arg. two coronets, or, " The said captain with his men, mostly of New coll. receiv'd their colours from the same " hand, Jul. S\ See afterwards. " The same day, viz. Jul. 1". at about seven of the clock at night, lord Norris, elder son to " the E. of Abendon, aged 15 or thereabouts, did as captain of Ch. Ch. and other men, train • Franc. Bagshaw, son of John Bagshaw of Culworth, com. Northampt. gent. » John Harris, A\ M son of Jo. Harris de Aviton-giflbrdi gent. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. Clll " privately in Peck water 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, M. A. ensign, son of Rich. Seys of Kerrigston in com. Glamorgan, gent. » " The said day, Jul. 1". at night, came news that the rebells were confounded and dispersed, " but false whereupon 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 Penny- " less beach to prayers in St. Martin's church, and thence to Penniless bench, where during " the burning of the fire was an entertainment of wine and bisket given by them to the said " earl of Abendon and the officers of the militia. " Merton coll. made a bonfier between 10 and 11 at night, and I knew not yet to the con- " trary whether any coll. except Ch. Ch. did so beside. It was began to be made in the great " quadrangle, but disturbing the warden'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 Bagshavv, but mostly under Finch) discharged their " guns, when healths were drank, having a barrell of beare allowed to them. The subwarden " D'. 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 dis- " tance from the fire, there was a cole shot from the fire into the said paper. At which time Mr. " Lamphyre a postmaster suiJered also, but very little, for he went to London the next day. " Lord Norris with his foot company of Ch. Ch. drew up by AUhallowes church before the July s. " dore where the earl Abendon lay (viz. in the house of Tho. Baker townclerke) which com- " pany 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 train'd privately before, viz. in the last of June. " Phil. Bertie a fellow-com. of Trin. coll. capt. " » William Latton fellow of Wadham coll. lieut. " ' Richard Adams, A. M. fellow of Lincoln, younger brother to the rector, ensign. ' Mountague Bertie, lord Norris, eldest son of the earle of * Richard Adams, son of Joh. Adams, Gharweltoa. com North- Abendon. ampton. gent. ' Son of — — — Latton, at Kingston Bakpus. CIV THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. ar. s. s. ar. ar. " The colours were receiv'd from the E. of Abendon the same day. " The same day St. John's coll. men receiv'd their colours also. " Trin. coll. men have two drummers that arc commoners, one of Balliol, and another of " Wadham coll. " The same day St. John's coll. men, with some of Balliol and others, receiv'd 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. « ' Skinner of Ball. coll. M. A. lieut. «' * — Kent, gent. St. John's ensigne. " The same day New coll. men receiv'd their colours — who had before trained privately scve*'' " ral times in their coll. See before. July 7. 8. " Tuesday, news came at night that the rebels were routed and dispersed in a skirmish had ^' early on Sunday morn. Whereupon a bonfire was made at Carfax by the lord lieutenant E. " of Abendon. And another in Ch. Ch. great quadrangle — at which time great Tom rang out, " Wednesday, convocation in the afternoon. Wherein it was order'd that every inceptor, " whether doctor or master, should pay money toward the universitie militia. It was then • Tho. Skinner of Ledbury in Herefordshire. A bac. son of W^.Skiuncr. John Kent, gent. com. St. John's, son of Rich. Kent of Lond. esq; THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. cv " publickly knownc that wee should have no Act (tho' about 2.6 doctors in several faculties)— " each master was to pay 10 s. and every D'. 50 s. " 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 ail night, and dispersed themselves on the roads by Dorchester, Abendon, Faringdon. " Great rejoycings at Oxon. by bonfires and ringing of bells, having receiv'd certainty of the July 9. " rebell's 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. " At night return'd Capt. Finch and his soldiers from Islip. 10. " Act Munday, five companies of scholars shewed altogether in Ch. Ch. meadow in the after- 13. " noon. 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 feather 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. " James E. Abendon, and lord lieut. of the county, left Oxon. and went to Ricot, being ac- u. " companied out of the town by the universitie 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. Henry Bois, fell, of Universitie coll. 26. " preached on Prai/ for the Peace of Jerusalem. In which many things favouring of " popes, he was complained of to the V. chancellor by D'. Gilb. Ironside at the desire no doubt " of the B. of S. Asaph then present. His recantation beares date 1 Aug." . ( Dom. 1686. ^'^ISJac. IL Being Sunday, the ceremony of the king's day could not be well perform 'd at Univ. coll. Feb. 5. according to their 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 the said statue carved from Portland 7- stone. At which time a partie of horse standing in the street (on horseback) 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, com- moner, spake at a desk an eloquent English speech before them all by heart. Afterwards the master of the coll. Mr. Bertie, a nobleman of that house, and the officers ' sit- ting at the high table, and all other guests at the other tables, was a most noble feast, all sorts of wine. Such ^ 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 windows of the chambers looking into the quadrangle, and in those looking into the street, as also in the chappell windows— Three can- ■ Capt. Ochonry. » Supple, as. W. & H. P cvi THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. dies in every light — that is, 6 candles in every window, which continued burning till 9 at night — Musick in the common chamber most ot' the while. . (Dom.\6S7. '^"- \ 4 Jac. II. The reception of his maj. K. James 2''. at Oxon. 1687. (in my absence.) Aug. 87. Fryday, a convocation was celebrated by the academians 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 con- sults 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) turn'd 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 before some of their dores were filled up, and the way made smooth, thinking that the K. and his retinew 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 seve- rftl 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'd. Sept. 3. Saturday, at the ringing of the bell at S. Marie's, about 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 formalities, repair'd to Wadham coll. the warden of which', D'. Ironside, was then vice-chan. There also repair'd the scjuire 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, whereupon he, with leave from the vice-ch. deputed Chris- topher White the universitie chymist to ride or walke for him, which he did: these had foot cloaths, and each of them a lackye or servant. ' Having receiv'd notice by a messenger, which they sent on purpose to watch the king's motions from Woodstock, 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. 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 march'd thence into S. Giles's fields in this order 1st. All the constables of every parish, with and without the walls, with their staves, on foot. Sndly. 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 themselves, and had a flagge or ensigne containing the arms of the company or corpo- ration painted on them. The taylors, who were most numerous, had two flaggs, one contain- * When they went out the seniors went first, viz. the vice-ch. den of Alls, in a proctor's gown, on his left hand, with the beadles before him, and Leop. Finch, a nobleman, war- THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. cvii ing their arms, the other When they went out, the junior comp. viz. mercers, went out first.' After these march'd on horseback those of the common counsil witli their gownes and best cloaths. The jun' first, and all without lackyes or footclothes. After them the two baylives and 13 of the mayor's associates in scarlet gowns, all by twos, each with a footman and footcloth. Then the city seijeants, townclerk, recorder, macebearer, and mayor, all which went as far as New coll. and there made a halt. At tlie same time all the doctors 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 marclied 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 undergraduates 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 win- dows were dressed up with green boughs. Several of the windows, or such that had balconies, were adorned with hangings or tapestry. 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. approach'd Oxon. and coming near to the acade- mians, the vice-chancellor, 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^; and then deliver'd up the beadle staves which were return'd, 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 M'as 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 academians, 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, townclerk, 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' (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, offer'd 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) 2001. which the K. took, and afterwards gave it to the lord Dart- mouth standing or sitting on horseback on his right hand. These things being done, the king made another pause till the loid mayor, aldermen &c. got on horseback. Afterwards the citizens returning quite contrary to the order when they went out (only the mayor and recorder being mixt among the aldermen) the masters fell in their places, two by • The Mercers 1 . The Glovers 2. Taylors 3. Shoemakers 4. * Before he spake the K. put off his hat, and also after he liad There was a consult in the counsel house that they should goe done, according to antiquity. i The K. bad him stand up. P 2 cviii THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. two, falling just after the aldermen. 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.' Afterwards the K. with a scarlet coat on, his blew ribband and George, and a starr on hi& 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 Avithin the North gate where he found severall poore women all clad in white with a flasket of herbs,' mostly of camomill, who strew'd the way therewith just before the king's horse and retinew, which made a verie great smell in all the street, con- tinuing all the night till the raine came. All the streets as they passed, which were cleared by the proctors and certain soldiers, M'cre 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 entertain'd with the wind-musick or waits belonging to the city and universitie; 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, Avhere the remaining doctors were, as also bac. of divinity, as also the dean and canoivs. The K. went up in the dining roome, the deane and cannons followed, and the dean spake a little speech to him in Latin. About that time the vice-chan. and certaine 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 formalities, 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'. 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 enter'd into Ch. Ch. buttery book after Edge-hill fight in 16"42'. That night one of the proctors of the university (Bennett by name) and fellow of L^niv. 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 nigiit, after the K. had heard verses there. At the same time was a bonfire before Alls. C. gate — 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 cathcdrall, where he touched that morn, and the next, about 7 and 8M0 people. Sunday morn when the K. was in dressing, in came Clark* of Alls. coll. in his square cap — the king asked him of what coll. he was r he said of Alls. coll. Arc not you, said the king, bound by statute to pray for the dead? No sir, said Clark, not that I know of. Why, s.iith another that stood by, Chichley was your founder and founded your coll. for such that were slain in the battle at Agincourt. ' Leap Finch went with the sen', doctors. * Worth 3s. ♦ The sante who ^vas parliament man. 3 Whereof 4 had flaskets of herbs on their heads, and the other 4 strewed the way. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. CIX Afterwards came in D'. Plot, and shew'd to him several pieces of gold (qu. Wh. not gold made out of ceitaine ) 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 chapell lately set up by the deane (viz. the old refectory standing N. 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,' son of Thom. 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 pres(^nt some of the nobility, as the duke of Norf. earl of Berkley, and others of inferiour quality. 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, according to summons, about three of tha clock. D'. 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'. Pudsey? yes, if it please your majesty. Then the king fell fjul upon them, reprimanded them very severely — D'. Pudsey ofrer'd sevendl times' 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 persuade 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, lie was received by the master, fellows and students of that house, as also by an English oration' spoke by Mr. Edward Hales, a gent, com m. of that house, son and heir of S'. 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 unseasonably done the night before. They* 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 formaUties) to the dean's lotlgings, 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 tlie university a rich Bible (a Bible printed at the Theatre) and a Kair of rich embroidered gloves, which the K. said he would accept; then they asked whether e would be pleased to accept of a collation 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'. Woodruff (sometimes physician, then) his chaplin — where as he said they talked about D'. Pocock's age;* he told him that he remember'd i) . Fell and D'. Allestry to have borne arms in the time of rebellion. 'Borne in the Black Fryers, Lond. as his lather told me, son ' They kneeled all the while, and the K. did not bid them rise, ©fT. Hall, a cook, living in Ivy lane.. as he used to do others. * f.'" ■'/""■•'''• ^^' ^ H. 6 Will. Rogers, who was there, tells me that when the speech ^ It is jjrinicd, but fahe was done he look'd on the doctors and asked Dr. Pocock whether ♦ Magd. coll. men. W. & H. he was not the senior there? he said, yes. ex THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. 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, numhers went up to the library, where in that of Selden's at the S. end a broad table was erected, where 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 petticoats and stain'd them. D'. 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'. 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, overtook him at Balliol coll. and put themselves in a posture before him, the mayor carrying the mace on his shoulder ; 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 Yarton, Casington, and then to Witney, where they presented him with a pair of blankets, with The King's Entertainment in Bodley's Library. Sept. came up into the library, between JO. and eleven, attended by the vice-ch. and doctors, besides several of the lords. Receiv'd between the globes with a Latin speech by Mr. Bennett the proctor on his knees; which being done his majesty pluck'd off' his glove and gave him his hand to kiss, and turning himself to the terrestreall globe, shew'd to one of the courtier's (a lord) the passage between America and the back part of China, by which way certaine ships had passage, which liis niaj. mentioned. From thence he went to the lower end of the library, scil. to that part called tjel- den'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'. Hyde, for the bill of entertainment, at his chamber? X THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. cxi After his maj. was sate, he asked the vice-ch. standing by him for certaine books, to which the vice-chan. answer'd that W. 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'. Hyde, was the Chinese here? to which he answer'd, yes, if it may please your majesty, and I learn'd many things of him. Then said his maj. he was a little blinking fellow, was he not? to which he answer'd yes, and added that all the Chinese, Tartars, and all that part of the world was narrow-eyed. Then the king said, that he had his picture to the life hanging in his roome next to the bed chamber. Then his maj. told D'. Hyde of a book of Confucius, translated from China language by the Jesuits (4 in number) and asked whether it was in the library? to which D'. Hyde answer'd that it was, and that it treated of philosophy, but not so as that of European philosophy. Where- upon his maj. asked whether the Chinese had any divinity? to which D'. Hyde answer'd 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 answer'd 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'. Hyde told him that those books, which were all MSS. were given by archbishop Laud. At length, his majestic 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 begmning 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, out 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, not piled ; placed among the greater dishes scatteringly in vacant places to fill up the vacances. 28 large dishes of cold fish and cold flesh, as Westphalia hams &c. Some whole, others cut out into slices and piled pretty high. 3 hot dishes, viz. shoulder of mutton, phesant, partridge and quailes; 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. dems, 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. W Roeer- / ^^'^ ^"^^'S^'^'' ''^'^*1"^^ ^"^' ^''^^ "°^^^'^^' •'^^'' He liked the wine well. Where- ° '\ upon they sent some after him. After the K. had done his breakfast, they began to scramble' (the scholars some say did begin) insomuch that the K. being not able to pass away for the crowd, stay'd there awhile, and talked with some by him. ' Dr. Derham a physit. of Magd. liall, was noted here for a scramble, being in his scarlet, so notorious that they flung things in his face. cxii THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. At length tliey made a lane for him, and goiflg out of Selden's library into the other part, he saw the famous preacher Will. Hall, who had preach'd before him the day before, and speaking - to him lie 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. Afterwards going forward, proctor Bennet deliver 'd a short Latin speech to him, wherein he hoped that his maj. would be good to Ecclesia Jnglicma — 'twas by the globes. Then going towards the door to goe out, he turned aside to the vice-ch. and doctors and dis- coursed with them talked to D' South and commended his preaching, whereupon he answer'd, that he alwaies did and M^ould shew himself loyall in his preaching, or to that eft'ect — 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'. Dolben did read much of his sermon before the K. his bro- ther, after his restauration, which the K. telling him of, he never after did, and therefore his preaching was well liked oft". 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 cliaritie 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. rjThen 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? whereupon 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 endea- voured to have 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 Apoditerium 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 (sou of S'. 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 painting 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 turn'd 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 1 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 scurrilous language given to Mr. W'alker and Massy. Especially the former, when they turned from their religion. { Dom. 1688. 5 Jac. 11. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. cxiii " Mem. that on Tuesday, Sept. 4. I dined with D'. Nathaniel Johnston, author of the follow- *' ing book' in his house in Leicester street in Westminster, at wliich time he gave me the said " book and told me that it was mostly compiled from mine intit. Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. and *' told me further, it was published at London and in Westminster about the 10"\ 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\ Phineas Elwood : The last of which told me of " the said D'. Johnston's book, and asked mc 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 ! " ^^ r2)o;«. 1692. ■ \ 4 Gul. et Mar. Citation served me on Wednesday 1(3 Nov. to appear in the vice-chancellor's court 18. in Nov. i6, the cause of Henry earl of Clarendon. I appeared int. Hor. 1 et 2. post merid. where Ben. Wood stipulated for me in 40/. I de- to. sired the copy of the articles against me; at 4 of the clock in tlie afteinoon or past I was with Mr. Kennet of St. Edmund hall, thence I went down the street, and at the door of tlie Eagle and Child, Mr. Davies of Sanford and Mr. Shcrwyn the beadle were talking, Mr. Davics 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 got out of the East gate, he overtook me on horse back (for he took horse at the Eagle and Child door) and discoursed me aloud, and told me he had several letters of mine; I asked him how he came by them, he answered among Mr. Fulmau'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 Ave would talk more of these things hereafter : I would now ask this xa 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 tlie mind had yk been concealing for 3 or 4 years, (for so long Mr. Fuhnan 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, it that could not do hurt, to blacken and daunt me the more. The book binder without Eastgate heard this, told Mr. Reeks, and Mr. Reeks told me 23 Nov. in the presence of Mr. Cotes. At the coft'ee house, and at Swift's, Ben. Wood, and Mr. Cooke of St. John's my proctor — 2*. Srf. Monday between 1 1 and 12 Mr. Davies and I met at C. C. C. coll. gate, and he fell upon me ei. ^ again, but not so hard, and said, I said Mr. Fulman^ 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. ii Friday, appeared about articles. Dec. s. Thursday Tho. Wood appeared — vid. Letter. 8. Friday again — vid. Letter. ^^^Bom.m% ^ Gul. et Mar. ' See The King's VUxCorial Power asserted, among Mr. Anlh. many judicious remarks on ihf Ilisloiia tl Anlio. Oxon. \\hi sonable price. Some gentlemen here give me l^"*. a piece for them him, to feel tlie storm coming from a quarter where he thought he to put into their copies, but if you take off from my hands 50 of the least desen-ed and might least expect it. Kor the san;e reason, this said epistles with bordure and letter, you shall have them cheaper. correction was souie pleasure to the Presbyterians, who believed Pray tell me your price and take order with some bookseller to pay there was a rebuke due to him, which they theinselres were not me here. On the back of this Wood has written, 'Mr. Bennet did able to pay. W. & H. not answer this.] ' . ' • q 2 cxvi THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. Oct. 12. ' Election appointed : D'. Coward a physician of Northampton, and fellow, came to the col- lege to give his vote, the society suspended him of his vote, he appeals, the election thereupon prorogued. 31. Nov. 1st. and 2d. The fellows of Mert. coll. were electing a warden, and at length pitched upon D'. Lydall, D'. Conant, and D'. Batenian: there were other voices given. Nov. 3. They went up to London to present. KoT.i. Wednesday, Mr. Kinsey, fellow of Oriel coll. and vicar of St. Mary's church, died in an house in Catstreet; left Oriel coll. fifty pounds, huried *• Gun-powder treason ; D'. Hugh Todd of Univ. coll. preached in the morning. 8. Mr. Francis Hickman of Ch. Ch. spoke a speech in schola Linguarum, in laudem Bodlei, being accompanied from his college to the schools by some of his fellow students. Friday, D'. Lydall came from London without hopes of the wardenship; was here the next day in the afternoon. Saturday, the archbishop, who had in a manner denied him, nominated him warden. John Franklin the drav er, being then at London with the fellows, was sent with a packet to the sub- warden, and another to D'. Lydall; he came by dinner on Sunday, and finding D'. Lydall in the hall, he congratulated him, and delivered the packets; after dinner the bells rung at Merton college, on Monday D". Lydall went to London. -*• In the morning the great bell of Ch. Ch. rung out for Mr. Harrington, so I presume he died on Thursday 23''. At 6 at night came from London to Oxon. the new nominated warden of Mert. coll. accom- ■«• panied by 100 persons on horseback, while Merton college bells rang. *7- Monday, D'. Lydall admitted warden. As the archbishop Tillotson hath done the college jus- tice, 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'. Lydall is old, and unserviceable, a man of no generous spirit, ignorant of learning, and so consequently no encou- • rager thereof. He has been a packhorse in the practical and old Galenical way of physick, know's 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. St. Andrew's day, int. 2. & 3. post merid. the body of James Harrington, esq; was conveyed to Oxon. from London, accompanied by 40 or 60 horses before his hearse, and 12 coaches be- hind it, buried in the North transept of Ch. Ch. at evening prayer.^ ^\^ ire* IS Dec. 15. Died Dr. y; Marsh,' archbishop of Dublin, and was buried with solemnity in Ch. Ch. within the said city. He had a daughter on whom he doated, though neither handsome, or witty, but because she married, against his consent, an officer (a soldier; broke his heart. Saturday, Oxford three hackney coaches robbed at 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. Lydall's son his silver hilt sword and money. Necessity Holloway and others. ^7- ;My name and effect of the sentence was put into the proctor's black book,* subscribed by D'. Aldrich vice-chancellor, Altham and Vesey of Magd. coll. proctors. The first thing that D'. 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 warden'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 • Supple, Merlon college. VV. &H. 3 Sec Athen* Oxon. article Marsh. ■* See Athbn^ Oxon. under ihe year 1693. ••■ [See Supplement to this Life.] 30. 16. THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. cxvii 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, having had none before; yet had he been a single man, as D'. Goddard was, he would have kept none. Copy of a letter from Arthur Charlet to A. W. Sir, Your friend the earl of Clarendon is now in town, I am sorry you was so much out of hu- mour the other day, as not to dine with the author of the Genf/et?iatis Journal. I want one of your pictures which I desire you to send to your loving friend Ar. Charlett. Oct. 4. 93. past 1 1. . ( Dom. I6g4. ^"- I 6 Gill, et Mar. Thomas Wood told me, that the earl of Clarendon, and his party, will turn my lord's fees Jan. 0. into a medal, in token of the victory, to be put into the museum.' I was with D'. Woodroffe, and he told me he had six in commons at Gloucester hall, his 2 sons two. Kmg's fast, Mr. W". Wyatt, orator, principal of St. Mary hall, preached at St. Mary's, and 30. it was a high flown sermon, made, as 'tis said, for K. James a"*, reign: he Mas 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 nobleman of University coll. who being much enraged at what he said against the Scots, he did accost Mr. Wyatt when Tie 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. W^yatt complained to the vice-chancellor (D'. Aldrich dean of Ch. Ch.) D'. Aldrich sent for Campbell, but Campbell is gone, and will not appear: the university gave this Campbell his degree of M. A. before he was standing for it, and allowed him to wear a nobleman's gown. Sund. morning the bells rung out for the death of D'. W"". Levett, principal of INIagd. hall, F^b. ii. and dean of Bristol, who died at 12. the night before. ■ The president and fellows of Mag. coll. chose D'. Mainwaring Hammond to be principal of 12. Mag. had, presented him the next day to the vice-chan. D'. Aldrich, who denied to admit him, till the chancellor was satisfied. The president, then bishop of Oxford, went that day to Lon- don, and was not at the election. Mr. Daillon, a French minister, who had been committed prisoner for preaching treason in 20. St. Mathew's church in Friday street, was found by the jury not guilty, and so acquitted. Saturday, D'. Adams of All Souls was admitted principal of Mag. hall by the vice- Mar. 3. chancellor. In tlie morning when they came to the gates, they found them locked, and wnen 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'. MiP.nwaring Hammond, whom they had chosen principal. However, making way in, the vice-chancelloi' conducted Adams to the refectory and there admitted him. Afterwards D'. Adams made a little speech, and enter- tainey, to have added thereto the antiquities of the city of Oxon also, and, as in his said antiquities iie above once insinuates, to have compiled the history and antiquities of his own college Merton: but another worke hindred him, namely Athen;e Oxonienses, vr an exact cxxviii IlEAllNE'S ACCOUNT OF WOOD. history of all the writers and bishops, tiho hare had their education in the most ancient and famnus univers. of O.von. from the fifteenth year of King Henry VII. Do7n. 1500, to the end of the year 1690, &c. 'Jo which arc added, The Fastf or annals 0/ the said university, for the same time: Printed at Lond. in two large folios, IC91. In which worke, for the safer conduct of the author, in describing and characterizing of persons so different in their stations and judgments, he endeavoured to secure himself against calumny, and also from giving just offence, by hold- ing 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 professes himself sorry', 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, espe- cially 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 generahty 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 concerning 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 satisfactory, the author is not to be blamed, having been forced to be silent of some of their writers, or else to use testimonies of them from those of another perswasion. The third and last sort were the Roman Catholicks, who were always very willing to communicate to the author whatsoever 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 Le- land, who made any attempt towards so very desireable a worke. His diligence was very sin- gular in the carrying it on; for he not onely consulted all the registers relating to the univer- sitj% but all other writings and records, MS and printed, whether in the Bodleian, Norfolk* 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, prefer- ments, 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 win- dows of churches, epitaphs and inscriptions, were searched; the genealogy of the authors at the Herald's office was enquired into; and no method was una'^tempted which could contribute to a true history of these writers, or asccrtaine the least da e and circumstance of their lives. Which extraordinary care and unwearied industry was undertaken without any other motive 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 M'ords of Edward, earl of Clarendon in it, was for that reason expelled the university. In the month of August 1654, M' Roger Dods- M'orth, 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 possession 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 counties, and also his collections of monumental and fenestral in- scriptions, &c. which being done, he communicated them to D'. Nat. Johnson, a physit. of Yorksh. with hopes that he would extract from them, and make a compleat booke of antiqui- ties of the West-riding of Yorksh. When the said lord Fairfax died, he bequeathed 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 ' In his Epislle to the reader. the Royal Society, and is now preserved in the library of that * [ I'his collection, both printed and manuscript, was given to institution.] MEARNE'S ACCOUNT OF WOOD. CXxix 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 roomc in the schoole tower, purposely to dry them on the leads adjoyning, whicli cost liim a moneth'3 time to do it, they had been utterly spoyled. Anno 1673, was published by M'. (afterwards sir) William Diigdale the third vol. of the Motiasticon Jng/icanum. Some time before the pub- lication whereof M' Dugdale desired M'. Wood, that if in his searches towards the work of Hist, et Aittiq. U7ih. O.voti. he could meet with any materials towards the completion of the said third volume of Alon. Anglic, he would by all means help him to them. Whereupon for the great respect he had to the author, and such a noble M'orke as that was, he soon after sent him copies of many evidences; as first those four inserted in p. 11, concerning Wallingford. Secondly eleven others in p. 13, 14, 15, concerning Littlemore nunnery within the precincts of Sandford in Oxfordshire, 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. G2, 63, 64, concerning the lands be- longing to the Kt. Templers of Sandford, near to, and in the county of Oxon, which he tran- scribed from a leiger book containing all the evidences belonging to the preccptory of Sand- ford; near which place was the nunnery of Littlemore before mentioned situated. The said leiger book, which was then M' 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 Brackley in Northamptonsh. Ninthly, that charter in p. 96 a, con- cerning 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 Baronage of England,' he sent copies of them to M' Wood, with an earnest desire that he would peruse, cor- rect 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 corrections, but more additions; which being sent to sir William, he remitted a good part of them into the margin of a copy of large paper of the said three tomes. M' Wood was a person who delighted to converse more with the dead than with the living, and was, as it were, dead to the world, r.nd utterly unknown in person to the generality of scholars in Oxon. He was so great an ad- mirer of a solitary and private life, that he frequented no assemblies of the said university, had no companion at bed or at board, in his studies, walks or journies, nor held communication 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 Ascetick, 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 university 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 Avord Avith 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 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 Rom. Cath. and the author of cxxx HEARNE'S ACCOUNT OF WOOD. these matters, who hath a great respect for his memory, in liis inquiries concerning him, could never hear any other report. Indeed he shews himself that way inclined in his Athenje, 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 G 7r at Sheldon. But this however I am apt to think proceeded not from any averseness to the church of Eng- land, 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 Athen.*:, 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' Andrew Allam, vice-prin- cipal 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' Wood himself was day and night drudging in those more ancient; and therefore M' Wood hath deservedly given an high character of M' 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 consequently must expect from the greatest number of men disrespect; but thi.s 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 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 what- ever 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. I69.5, and was buried in the East cor- ner 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 like- wise all such printed books as were there wanting; which MSS. are in number 127 volL amongst w hich are of M' Wood's own writing and collection about 63 vol. Besides which, in the year I692, the university bought of our author 25 MS voU.; which are very choice, and are now reposited in the Bodleian library; to which place he gave aslo D' Langbain's MS collec- tions containing in number 7- To conclude; consider M' 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 in- dustry not only increased, but also directed to thd intire good and honour of his mother: con- sider 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. ANTHONY A WOOD'S WILL, cxxxi 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 prsrogativae 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 Almighty 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 monument erected over my grave. Item, as touching the distribution 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 above- mentioned Anne and Frances Wood, should be willing 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 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 Robert Wood, to the abovementioned Anne 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 betwixt 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 1 homas 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 above men- tioned 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 possess'd of, and which was formerly left me by my mother Mary Wood. Item, I give and bequeath unto the University of Oxford, to be deposited in the Mu- seum Ashmolfeanum, all MSS, of my own collection and writing, excepting such as are other- wise disposed of by me to the Bodleian Library. Also I give and bequeath to the Musaeum before mentioned, all my other MSS. whatsoever, now in tny possession. Item, I give to the said university all my printed books, pamphlets and papers, to be deposited in the Musajum, excepting such as are already in the Musa;um. Item, I do will and desire, that all my books pamphlets and papers, both printed and MSS. be immediately after my decease delivered by my executrixes, hereafter mentioned, into the custody of D' Arthur Charlet, and M' James Biss of Wadham college, and M' Thomas Tanner of All Souls college, or any two of them, to be disposed of by them, 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 s2 cxxxii ANTHONY A WOOD'S WILL. goods and chattels whatsoever, not herein mention'd. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. Anthony Wood. Sisrncd, sealed and declared 1 xt- i ■ Af ..• *? ,i' f. >Nich. Marti tin in the presence of J The mark + of Jone Pinnack The mark + of Jone Crawford Probatum Londini fuit hiijusmodi Testamentum vicesimo tertio die Mensis Januarii, anno Domini (stilo Anglian) millesimo sexcentesimo nonagesimo quinto, coram venerabili et egregio viro, Domino Ricnardi Raines, Milite, Lcgum Doctore, Curias Praerogativas Cantuariensis Ma- tistro, Custode sive Comraissario legitime constitute, Juramentis AnnsE et Franciscas Wood xecutricum in dicto Testamento nominatarum. Quibus commissa fuit administratio omnium et singulorum bonorum jurium et creditorum dicti defuncti, de bene et fideliter administrando eadem, ad sancta Dei Evangelia (vigore Commissionis) juratis Ex. R. C. Henr. Farrant, Registrar. Deputat. No. III. Hearne's Memokanda relating to Anthony a Wood. Collected from his MUS Remarks and Collections preserved in the Bodleian library. Anthony would not stoop to act contrary to honour as himself observes. Anthony aim'd to be a despiser of riches, to live independent and not to be afraid to die. (Volume Ixxxiii, page 1 19-) I am told by one of the fellows of Merton college, that Mr. Ant. a Wood formerly us'd to frequent their common-room ; but that a quarrel arising one night between some of the fellows, one of them, who thought himself very much abus'd, 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 tlie whole in writ- ing, gave a full relation, w"'" appear'd so clear for the plaintiff, that immediate satisfaction was commanded to be given. This was so much resented that Mr. Wood was afterwards expell'd 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 B"" Tanner, that no one was more ready to correct his mistakes than Mr. Anth. a Wood, and that lie was alway well pleased, when he was shcw'd them. Once one told him * M'Wood, I have found two or three mistakes in your book.' ' Have you so,' said M' Wood, ' I thank you, but I have found three or fourscore to them.' (cxliii. 157.) • Any papers of Mr. Wood's now (January 13. 1734) begin to be valuable, tho' a great many slighted him when he was alive, (cxliv, 14.) M' Rob'Wood told me yesterday (June 1 1, 172.9) that his uncle Anth. Wood was a wonder- ful 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'. Benj. Cole told me, that he was very well acquainted with M'. Anth. k Wood, and used to be often at his lodgings. He said Anth. put a great confidence in HEARNE'S MEMORANDA RELATING TO WOOD. cxxxiii 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 plea- sant 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 refus'd this upon any account. M' 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'* (it seems) he mightily delighted in. (cxvi, 124.) Mr. Wood when he was consulting materials for his Athkn'^*; Oxon. would frequently go to bookseller's and generously ^ive money to them purposely to obtain titles of books from tliem, and 'twas observ'd of him, that he spar'd no charges to make y' work as com pleat and perfect as he could, (ix. 185.) 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 time. (Ixiii, p. 1 1 J.) 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*" he would make indexes to those collections. There are several vols of this nature in Mus. Ash. (Ixxxiii, J 06.) 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'. Thomas Tanner, the new canon of X' Church, who told me, that Ant. h Wood used spectacles when he was about 25 years of age, and so continued to use them till the last, (cii, 134.) 1 was told yesterday (Feb. 13. 172,6) by several persons, that M'. Ant. h Wood tho' he was but 64 years of age. had the looks of one of fourscore, (cxi, 24.) Memorandum. That M'. Antony k Wood told M^ 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' Martin, M' 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° last week of his sickness; that he desired the sacrament to be given him by M' Martin; that he himself particularly ordered that it should be inserted in his will w'"" was made 3 or 4 days before his death; that he died in the communion of 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 masters ' desire from the original of M' Tanner, (vi. 23.) At the end of the master's ' copy of Athen^e Oxonienses is a testimony in MS' that M' Wood died in y° communion of the church of England, and y' there was no Papist came to him during all the time of his sickness. He rec** the sacrament from M' Martin of Hart hall for whom he seem'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' Chariett, he was pleas'd to tell me y' upon M' Ant k Wood's falling ill, he went to him (having more interest, w* him y" any other person in Oxon.) and told him y' 'twas the opinion of physitians and others y' his disease (being a stoppage of urine) was very dangerous, and therefore desir'd him to prepare himself for death. • D' Chariett, master of University college. cxxxiv HUDDESFORD'S CHARACTER OF WOOD. by prayers, and putting his papers (of wh'^''he had a great number) into good order: This had so good effect upon him, y' he presently told the doctor he would take his advice, and desir'd him to let no other person read prayers or administer y' sacrament to him but M'. Martin, who f>romis'd he would not. After this he ask'd the doctor whom he thought the fittest person to eave 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' Martin came constantly to M' Wood and read prayers to him and M' Tanner sorted all y' papers, some of wh"'' M^ 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' Tanner burnt those papers w''' were Eut by for y" intent. The rest M' Wood left to y° Ashmolean museum, and the publick library, esides divers to M' Tanner, upon condition he would be honest and take care (as indeed M"" Tanner proinis'd and so did D' Charlett too, should be faithfully perform'd) to digest and make them publick. The. D' farther told me y' M' Wood died with a great deal of patience and submission, much like a Christian and Philosopher, (vi, 38.) No. IV. Character of Anthony a Wood. (Btf the rev. TVilliam Huddesford B. D. late fellozv of Trinity college, and keeper of the Ashmolean museum, Oxford.) The character which Gassendus ' gives us of Peireskius may with propriety be used as de- scriptive of M' 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 indif- ferent. Instead of hangings his chamber was furnished with the prints of his particular 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 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 permitted the sweet allurements of luxury to overcome his prudence.' Such as is here repre- sented was the disposition of M' 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 oblig- ing, his conversation being truly agreeable on account of his extensive reading, his knowledge of those minute circumstances of history which had escaped the notice of others, and the va- rious anecdotes his memory was stored with for the entertainment of company. For these rea- sons he was frequently requested to attend such strangers as were desirous of an accurate know- ledge of the university and its history; which entreaty he often complied with, to their satis- faction, 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 hi* * Gassendus ia Vita Peireskii, Hagx Com. 1655, p. 208. HUDDESFORD'S CHARACTER OF WOOD. cxxxv education. This great end he proposed to effect by two means : first, by giving an exact his- tory of it from its beginning, tracing the various improvements made in it, and accounting by these, forits 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 possesseil of any oflice in it that might make such a testimony of zeal 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 fortunate one for the public is equally certain ; since the collecting, together, and the publi- cation of these inestimable records, must preserve them, to the latest times, against those inju- ries 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'. 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 insti- tutions, discipline and laws. For the due performance of both these extensive undertakings, not only the most unwearied diligence, but also the most strict impartiality was absolutely necessary. How far M'. Wood was possessed of these requisites, must be determined by the works them- selves, 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 Antiquitates Oxonienses is a work of such extent and so full of mat- ter, that it would have been esteemed a mark of great industry, had it been the joint produc- tion 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 cotemporaries of the author : no bad indication of the merit of both. The titles of ' antiquarius, diligentissimus, peritissimus,' are to be found in every work, when any mention of them is made; and tiio' some few enemies of Mr. Wood have reflected upoa his performances, others of 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 col- lect and arrange materials of this sort, unassisted by those to whom they belong, nay, fre- quently hindered by them, is a work of great difficulty. If this be the case in small and more confined attempts, the trouble must proportionably increase, 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, there- fore, easily conceive what pains and labour were necessary to complete that work, which con- tains not only the general annals of a large collective 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^ Fell ever proposed 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 parti- culars, unavoidably arising from the subject, which read ridiculous, and are sometimes unintel- ligible, in Latin; besides which, the circumstantial minuteness of local description, with which the v^'ork abounds, so interesting and agreeable to an English reader, and to persons familiarly acquainted with the spot, appears superfluous, insignificant, and tedious to foreigners.' ' It was, no doubt, a desire of extending the reputation of the university, that suggested this scheme ' Wittoa's Life of Ralph Bathursl, D.M. president of Trinity College, Oson. p. 147. CXXXVl IIUDDESFORD'S CHARACTER OF WOOD. to D'. 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 passages, and obscuring the true sense of others. Accordingly he has testified his disapprobation of this performance, 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 classical history of the university of Oxford, and as * In M'. Aubrey's MS. Life of M^ HoV»bes in the Ashm. mu- seum, arc the following passages: ' An. Dom. 167O. One M'. Anthony a Wood of Merton coll. in Oxon, had finished the Hist, and Antiq. of that University, which he had, with incomparable industry, laboured in for ten years, or thereabouts. In this Hist, are contained the Lives of most of the eminent writers that have been bred up in each coll. and hall there. Among which, he wrote a brief of the life of Mr. Hobbes, though then living ; and this he did because he looked upon him as a prime ornament thereof. This book being by him written in English, it pleased the prime sages of that university, (not without his consent,) to have it put into Latin : to the end that the fame of the said university, might be better known and understood beyond the seas ; but the transla- tors being more fit for declamatory than historical versions, were several errors committed, before any could perceive them. — The dean of Christ Church being zealous for the forwarding of this work, did not only discharge the translators, but most of the impression at his own cxpence.' Thus far in M'. Wood's hand writing : ' The dean of Christ Church having the absolute power of the iiress, perused every sheet, before 'twas to be sent to the press, and after, and maugre the author, and to his great grief and displeasure did expunge and insert what he pleased : among other authors he made divers alterations in M'. Wood's copy, in the account he gives of M'. Tho. Hobbes of Malmesbury's life, in pag. 376, .377, Ub. 2. ' Vir sane de quo (inter tot pros|)erEe et ad- verse famx qui de eo sparguntur hominum serniones) hoc veris- sime pronuntiare fas est, auimi ipsi obtigisse, uli omnis scientia; capacissimum et infertum, ita divitiarum, fseculi et invldise negli- gentissimum ; erga cognatos et alios plum et beneficum ; inter cos quibuscum vixit liilarem et apertum, et scrmone libero: apud ex- teros in summa semper veneratione habitum, &c.' 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 retain the memory 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 reserved 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^ Hobbes's life, but dashed out by the publMier. D'. Sam. Sorbiere also, his great acquaintance, mentions him with venerable respect in the relation of his voyage, (edit. Par. Gallice, an. 1664, pag. 65. 8fc.) into England, and tells us also, that his picture (which was drawn by the hand of M'. Sam. Cooper, the prime of limners of this age,) hangs in his majesty's (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 gentlemen also, when they came to l..ondon, did make it one of their prime businesses to vjsit him. — Thii also was blotted out. — King Charles 2. loved him and his facetious company ; and after his restoration, allowed him jf 100 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 pubhsher. The following is in M'. Aubrey's hand writ- ing; with some corrections and insertions by M'. 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 disparagement ; particularly of D'. John Prideaux, after- wards bisnop of Worcester, and in the life of I)^ Twiss, &c. — These additions and expunctions bein" made by the said dean of Christ Church without the advice of^ and quite contrary to the mind of the author, he told him 'twas fit M^ Hobbes should knovr what he had done, because that his name being set to the book, and all people knowing it to be his, he should be liable to an answer, and so consequently be in perpetual controversy. To this the dean replied, 'yea in God's name and great reason it was, that he should know what he had done, and what he had done he would answer for, &c.' Hereupon in the beginning of l674, the author acquaints J. A. (M'. Hobbes's correspondent,) with all that had passed, J. A. acquaints M^ Hobbes. M'. Hobbes taking it ill, was resolved to vindicate himself in an epistle to the author. Accordingly an epistle dated Apr. 20, 1674, was sent to the author in MS. with an intention to publish it, when the His- tory of Oxford was to be published. Upon the receipt of M'. Hobbes's epistle by Anthony a Wood, he forthwith repaired very honesily, 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 dean read it over carelessly, and not without scorn ; and when he had done, bid M'. Wood tell M^ Hobbes, ' that he was an old man, had one foot 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 mean time M''- Hobbes meets with the king, in the Pall Mall in St. James's park, tells him how he had been served by the dean of Christ Church in a book then in the press, entitled the Hist, and Antiq. of the Univ. of Oxford, and withal desires his majesty to be pleased to give him leave to vindicate himself. The king seeming to be troubled at the dealing of the dean, gave M'. Hobbes leave conditionally, ' that he touch nobody but him who had abused him ; neither that he should reflect upon the university.' M^ Hobbes understanding that this History would be published at the common act at Oxon, about the 1 1 July the said year, 1 674, prints the epistle, that he had sent to M'. Wood at London, and sends down divers copies to Oxon ; which being dispersed at coffee houses and stationers' shops, a copy forthwith came to ihe dean's hands, who upon the reading of it fretted and fumed at it, as a most famous libel, 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 done ; for he had communicated to him before, what M'. Hobbes had said and written : whereupon the dean recollecting himself, told him that M^ Hobbes should suddenly hear more of him, and that he would have the printer called to an account for printing such a notorious libel : so that the last sheet of paper being then in the press, and one leaf thereof being left vacant, the dean supplied it with this answer : both the epistle and answer, I here exhibit, (which are to be seen in some particular copies of tlie Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon.) To this angry answer the old gentleman never made any reply, but slighted the doctor's passion and forgave him. But it is sup|x>sed it might be the cause, wily M'. Hobbes was not afterwards so indulgent, or spared the less to speak his opinion concerning the universities, and how^uch their doctrine and mt- thod had contributed to the late troubles." HUDDESFORD'S CHARACTER OF WOOD. cxxxvii to the facts related in it, a just and accurate one, yet it must be allowed, that it would have given much greater satisfaction to those readers, w ho can derive any use from it, in its native form and simplicity. Perhaps, this satisfaction may, at some future period be given to the public; since the original is cajefuUy preserved, in the Bodleyan library.' Having examined the merit of the historian, we may proceed to consider the esteem due to the biographer, another character which M'. Wood has supported in his Athex^ 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 seventeen, 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, may be seen in the general Catalogue of the MSS. of England, Fol. Oxon. I696 : or in that more minute and parti-* cular one, published by William Huddesford, B. D. the late keeper of the Ashmolean mu» /O' seum, in 8vo. 1761:'' and it may easily be conceived how useful they were to him, in ascer- w taining 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 "7 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, endeavoured 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 incline us to entertain a favourable opinion, at least, of a work undertaken by so disinterested a person. The author indeed constantly asserted, that the facts related in the AruEN^ 0x0 .V. were founded upon his own knowledge of them, or else upon the public me- morials 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 tlie 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 attach- ment to one side, have undoubtedly given a false tint to the portraits he draws. That resent- ment 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 candour, 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 enormous to a mind thus sequestered, than it might to one more conversant with man- kind ; and which, by being used 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 poignancy 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 episcopacy, 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 delivered to an attentive ' It is scarcely necessary.to state, that the whole of Wood's His- ford, 1786, 1790, 179?, 1796. tory and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, has since been ^ But a still more perfect Catalogue of Wood's MSS. will br printed in the original English, by the care of the rev. John Gutcli, found in the last volume of this present work. M.A. chaplain of All Souls and Corpus Christ! colleges, 4io. Oxr f t cxxxviii HUDDESFORD'S CHARACTER OF WOOD. and judicious audience, become the stage of cant, hypocrisy, and illiberal absurdity. He ob- served a shoal of indigent pretenders to knowledge crouding from other universities, in hopes to share the spoils of his unjustly ejected friends. He saw arbitrary impositions and engage- ments, 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 nullatenus vero probata hora nona antemeridiana diei trigesimae primae mensis instantis Julii, viz. die Lunae proxime se- quentis, in area Theatri Sheldoniani per hujus curiae mandatariorum unum flammis commit- tendam et comburendam fore decernimus, dictumque Antonium a Wood in expcnsis Icgitimis ex parte dicti honorabilis viri ac D. 1). lienrici comitis de Clarendon, in hoc negotio factis condemnandum fore pronunciamus, decernimus et declaramus, prout condemnamus, quas visa prius billa, taxamus ad summam triginta et tjuatuor librarum' per banc nostram sententiam definitivam, sive hoc nostrum finale decretum ; quam sive quod ferimus et promulgamus, ac etiam (cum in hujusmodi negotio appellatio non sit admittenda) execution! demandamus in his scriptis Lecta per nos 29 Julii, I693. Georgium Gardineu, Asses. For the following extract from the proctor's Black Book I am indebted to the reverend Hugh Pearson, M. A. of St. John's college, the senior proctor for the present year: Anton lus a Wood hujus universitatis Oxon M. A. eo quod honoratissimi viri ac D. D. Edwardi Hyde militis nupcri comitis de Clarendon regnique AngliiE domini cancellarij nee non cancel- larij hujus universitatis Oxon. dcfuncti famosis quibusdam libellis in libro cui titulus Athen.« OxoNiENSEs &c. Volume the second, publice editis existimationem et famam adhuc superstitem laedere tentasse legitimis probationibus convictus fuerit ex decreto judicis curia; cancella- riatus Oxon. quousque ob tantos morum suorum excessus recantation! per judicem dict£e curiiE ' With this fine the two statues of king Charles the First and the ' Clarendon, his father, in y"^ Athena Oxokienses, and when earl of Danby, standing in the niches on each side of tlie rustic- ' sentence came to be pass'd, his book was ordered to be burnt and work gate, le;iding into the university Physick-garden, were erected. ' he himself to fin'd 40"'*, W^'' sunt poor Anton, was forc'd to pay to Hearne in hhma. Remarks and Collections for the year 1705, has ' y*^ vice-chancellor, who laid out y'= money upon three statues the following note on this affair, although it is clear, from the above ' w<^'> are plac'd in the nitches of y'^ gate of y= Physic garden, authentic copy of the sentence, that he was misinformed as to ' After this Mr. Wood told several persons and particularly Vi' the fine : < Hudson, that if he had liberty he could justify every particular y' 'Anton, a Wood was prosecuted by the carl of Clarendon in y" ' he had writ about y' carl of Clarendon from authentick papers, ' vice-chancell". court, for wh' he had said of Edw. Hyde earl of ' publish'd by authority.' IdS. Called, vol. vi. page I. u 2 cxlviii THE RECANTATION OF WOOD. ad probandiE subscripserit ct cautionem fide jussoriam de pace conservanda et quoad ciimina objecta in posterum honeste se gercndo interposuerit ex hac universitate Oxon. tanquam pacis pcrtuibator bannitus et privilegiis ejusdem universitatis exutus erat, et instiumento Eublice affixo Quous(jue &c. (ut pragniittitur) bannitus et exutus declaiabatur et denuntia- atur vicesimo nono die mensis Julij A. D. I6"y3 necnon in criminis tarn infesti detesta- tionem libri pnedicti copia ex decreto judicis prasdicti in area Theatri Sheldoniani ultimo die mensis priedicti per dicta; curise mandatariorum unum flammis comburebatur. R. Altham, Proc. sen'. R. Vesy, Proc.jun'. In Tanner's copy of the Athenje is the following paper in the bishop's own hand-writing, which seems proper for insertion under this head. Hearne in his MS. Remarks and Collect mis has preserved a transcript of the original rough draught of this instrument, which was amongst Anthony 4 Wood's papers in the possession of M'. Ward of Warwick. * This form of submis- ' sion was occasioned,' says Hearne, ' by M'. Wood's prosecution.' ' THE RECANTATION OF MR. WOOD, WHICH HE MADB BEFORE HE WAS RECALLED FROM HIS BANISHMENT.^ Whereas I Anthony k 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 Athen^e and Fasti Oxon. a libell (which by the sentence of the assessor of the vicechancellor's court, a civil law court, hath been burnt) and afterwards to banish him from the said universitie to the great abhorrence of the generality thereof, purposely to please the magisterial ' humour of a certain lord, for 3 or 4 lines mention'd in the said second volume p. 221 and 269 concerning a person there men- tioned without any name or title, who hath been banish'd from England Scotland and Ireland for refusing to answer to divers articles of treason and misdemeanors, for about 30 years and hath been dead 20.* I say I am heartily sorry for these things, witness my hand. Whereas in the sentence passed against M' 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 Jen- kins, a most loyal judge and the greatest sufferer for the king's cause of any person of his ' MS. Remarks, vol. cxxvii, page 145. university as may have been the complainant, to signify that the » On what authority bisliop Tanner says, that Wood was re- reparation demanded has been duly made by the offending party, called from his banishment 1 know not. He certainly conceived and this is generally signified by placing a mark of acknowledg- himself restored to his rank and privileges in the university, yet lord ment, such as satisfcck, or some word of like import, on the page Clarendon (os we have seen at page cxxii) seems not altogether to where ihe sentence had been recorded. But in the case of Anthony have assented to Wood's opinion on this point, and some dis- a Wood no such acknowledgment appears to have been made by cussion would probably have arisen on the subject had our author either of the two proctors who signed the instrument of degradation, lived to have prosecuted his claim. ' The supercilious and tyrannical humour, &c. Hearne's Tran- Itis usual when a name has been once entered in the Black Book script from Wood's original MS. of the proctor, and the delinquent has been pardoned or restored to ♦ About U8 years and dead about )8. Hearne's Transcript. his rank, for the proctor or vice-chancellor, or such oiiicer of the AUimKYS ACCOUNT OF JUDGE JENKINS. cxlix profession in his time running thus: — ^fter the restoration of K. Charles II. it was expected by all that he {Jeukyn'<) should be made one of the judges in H^extminsler hall, and so might he have been, wouUl he hare given nwny to the then lord chancellor. The other passage is in the life and character of S' John Glynne; a prime instrument in bring- ing the immortali Stratford to tlie block, and enemy to archbishop Laud, an enjoycr of the places of certain royalists, ejected for tiieir loyaltie, made recorder of London and serjeant at law by the long or rebellious parliament (and so consequently, being several times appointed an itinerant justice, fell many a noble ami 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'. 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 haUer, or at least have been excepted from the act of oblivion.' It is a singular circumstance, and one I do not remember 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 charac- ter, 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'. John Aubrey, who had it from judge Jenkins himself. This M' Wood owned in coni- * pany afterwards to M' Lhuyd of the Museum, who also received the like information from * M'. Aubrey himself. This I have been told by an intimate acquaintance, (M' Richard Dyer, ' fellow of Oriel college) who is a fellow of a college, of M'. Lhuyd s, who kept it secret as long ' as M\ Lhuyd was living. The said M'. Aubrey gave Anthony a Wood abundance (,f 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 I'le warrant M'. Aubrey ' will break his neck down stairs rather than miss him.' MS. Remarks and Collections fi)r 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 hand- writing, preserved in the Ashmolean Museum. ' Judge Jknkins, prisoner .... in y" Tower of London, Windsor, &c yeares for his loyaltie. lie would have taken it kindly to have been made one of y" judges in Westminster hall; but xcould give no money J or it. He was of great courage; rode in y" lord Gorand's army in Pembrokeshire, in the forlorne hope, w"" his long rapier drawne, holding it on-end. Obiit December 3. A". D"'. 16()3. Sepult. et Cowbridge church (in the South aisle) in Glamorgan- shire. No remembrance yet (1682) sett up for him.' In another volume of Hearne's Remarks ^ we have a further testimony as to the truth of Wood's accusation 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 sufiered upon his account, and were not rewarded because not ' able to fee him : and that M' 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 seem'd to be ' positive in the matter.'] ' Can any man think the contrary, hut that he gave money for excepted from the oblivion. Hearne's Transcript. his place, when he rather had deserved the halter, or at least to be * Vol. 10. page 8. i ATHENE OXONIENSES. THE FIRST VOLUME, CONTAINING THE LIVES OF WRITERS FROM THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1500 TO THE YEAR \606. T II E I BOOKSELLERS TO THE READER [PREFIXED TO THE SECOND EDITION.] T^HE character ot" the author, that industrious and exact antiquary and biographer Mr. Anthony Wood, is so well known to the learned world, and the reputation of this work is so established, that there need be nothing said more than to acquaint the reader that we have spared no expence nor care to make a new edition as correct and compleat as possible; to which end there are no omissions or alterations of any thing which was in the former edition, but what were made by the author himself. Mr. Wood's own preface, of which there were before very few copies printed, and those only to give away among particular friends, is now prefixed at large ; and some thousands of additions and amendments are intermixed, which the author had with his own hand inserted in one of the copies of the former edition, now repo- sited in the museum Ashmoleanum at Oxford: besides, there are above five hundred new lives and accounts of Oxford writers and bishops added to this edition, being such as Mr "Wood had in the few last years of life discovered to have been Oxford men, or such as had died after l6c)0, or were alive at the time of his own death, which happened on Nov. 29. A. D. J 69.5. All which new lives were conmiunicated to us by the person to whom Mr. Wood bequeathed the original copy upon his death-bed; which is still preserved under his own hand, and may be seen at Mr. Knaplock's shop b-y any gentleman, who has the curiosity to satisfy himself how faithfully, and with what due regard to the memory of the author, and other persons therein mentioned, the same is now publish'd. TO THE READER. COURTEOUS Reader, that you may not seem to break in upon the following work, with- out the ceremony of an epistle, the author desires leave to entertain you a little while ■with one, containing a brief account both of the work and of himself. The subject of these labours, then, is that which is the honour and glory of the University of Oxford; as presenting to your view, in a three-fold variety, Av Historical Account of THE Writers, the Bishops, and the Fasti thereof, from the year of our Lord 1500, to the end of I69O. As to the first, you have not only those of the chief rank, who are just and compleat authors, but also the less considerable, and even translators. As to the second, you have not only those of the church of England and Ireland, but such as have been thus dignified in other countries and communions, whether titular or suffragan only, or diocesan and ordinary, both bishops and archbishops, and even cardinals too. All which have had most, or at least some, part of their education in the said universit3\ And as to the last, (the Fasti) the author having many things to pre-admonish the reader, he has reserv'd them for a particular preface in its proper place, for fear of making this too large. It was intended that this work should have begun with the reign of king Alfred, or rather before ; but considering that very little could be collected either from records, or from the registers of the university, (which are either lost or imperfect) than what has been already forestall'd, and taken up by that noted antiquary John Leland, and his two followers John Bale, and John Pits ; as also very few bishops but what are already mention'd by Dr. Francis Godwin, sometime bishop of Landaff (afterwards of Hereford) in his express commentary of them; it was thought more acceptable to commence this collection with the year 1500, from which time to I69O it was much more certain and easy to find matter and means to carry it on. The work was first began in the Latin tongue, and for some time continued on in the same; but upon the desire of a worthy person (now dead) who was an encourager thereof, it was thought more useful to publish, as you will now find it, in an honest plain English dress, with- out flourishes, or affectation of stile, as best becomes a history of truth and matter of fact. It is the first of its nature, I believe, that has been ever printed in our own, or any other, mother tongue: For tho' several authors, (particularly Ant. du Verdier, a Frenchman) have written Histories or descriptions of illustrious men of their respective countries in their own language, TO THE READER. clv eminent as well for the sword as pen, yet that of Verdierandall of the like subject are different from this present triple variety, written for the most part in the nature of a. Bibliotkeque ; which, I presume, no person, as yet, hath done the like, in his native language. For the safer conduct of the author, in describing and characterizing of persons so diff'erent in their stations and judgments, he hath endeavour'd to secure himself against calumny, and also from giving just offence, by holding a commerce of letters with three sorts of men. The first are those of the church of England, some of which have been very communicative, and have taken much pains in searching, and collecting from, the registers of their respective cathedrals and other churches, for the use and satisfaction of the author : tho' he is sorry, that he has too much cause to say, that had he found more of such public-spirited men, his work had been proportionably more perfect, especially as to the authors of the church of England. The same may be said of the second sort, the Non-conformists, among whom he hath found assistance from one or two, whose learning and candor he must ever acknowledge. But the generality of this sort of men, whilst under a cloud of persecution, as they call it, have been very shy and jealous of imparting what was enquired concerning 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 satisfactory, they must not blame the author, who has been forced to be silent altogether of many of, or to relate things concerning, them, from the testimonies of others of a diff'erent persuasion. The third and last are the Roman Catholicks, whom he must needs acknowledge to be very communicative and always ready to inform him, in whatever related to any of theirs in this public work ; and this, notwithstand- ing their distance and other circumstances, which might justly dispense with them from such correspondence ; tho' indeed of late years all such commerce hath been interrupted. In relation to these three sorts of men, the author desires to prevent all off"ence, and sinister interpretation of himself, in what is said in praise or dispraise of them. For seeing it is not probable, three being so dissentient from one another, that they should give or like such enco- miums, as they may here find ; the author would not therefore have them look'd upon as the results of his own judgment and afi'ection, but only as domestic testimonies of the reputation which each man had or hath among his own. As to the author himself, he is a person who delights to converse more with the dead than with the living, and has neither interest nor inclination to flatter or disgrace any man, or any community of men of whatever denomination. He is such an universal lover of all mankind, that he could wish there was such a standing measure of merit and honour agreed upon among them all, that there might be no cheat put upon readers and writers in the business of com- mendations. But since every one will have a double ballance herein, one for himself and his own party, and another for his adversary and dissenters ; all he can do is to amass and bring together what every side thinks will make best weight for themselves. Let posterity hold the scales and judge accordingly, suum cuique decus posteritas rependat. To conclude : The reader is desired to know that this Herculean labour had been more proper for a head or fellow of a college, or for a public professor or officer of the most noble university of Oxford to have undertaken and consummated, than the author, who never enjoyed any X 2 clvi TO THE READER. place or office therein, or can justly say that he hath eaten the bread of any founder." Also, that it had been a great deal more fit for one who pretends to be a vi7'tuoso, and to know all men, and all things that are transacted : Or for one who ft'equents much society in common rooms, at public fires, in coffee-houses, assignations, clubbs, &c. where the characters of men and their works are frequently discussed; but the author, alas, is so far from frequenting such company and topicks, that he is as 'twere dead to the world, and utterly unknown in person to the generality of scholars in Oxon. He is likewise so great an admirer of a solitary and retired life, that he frequents no assemblies of the said university, hath no companion in bed or at board, in his studies, walks, or journies ; nor holds communication with any, unless with some, and those very few, of generous and noble spirits, that have in some measure been promoters and encouragers of this work: And indeed, all things considered, he is but a degree different from an Ascetick, as spending all or most of his time, whether by day or night, in reading, writing, and divine contemplation. However, he presumes that the less his company and acquaintance is, the more impartial his endeavours will appear to the ingenious and learned, to whose judgments only he submits them and himself. Ab aed. pat. in Vic. S. Jo. Bapt. in an- ' tiq. & nob. civ. Bellos.5Jun.l 69 1. [i Whereas Mr. Ant. a Wood in his Epistle to the Reader be- of Merton college, say, that he, M'. Wood, was clerk there, and y^ fore y« first vol. of Ath. Oxon. says that he never eat -f bread of he had seen him often serve there. But quaere further ab' this? any founder, D'. Wynne, y« non juror, protests to me y' he has As also whether he often din'd with Bp. Fell and D'. Edwards, often heard old M'. Cooper, register of the university, and formerly as I am told he did. Hearne, MS. Collect, ix, 217-] THE PREFACE TO THE FIRST VOLUME IN THE FIRST EDITION/ BY JAMES HARRINGTON, M. A. OF CHRIST CRURCH. IT is well known, that the author of this "Work hath, through the whole course of his life, declin'd the pursuit of any private interest or advantage, and hath only, according to his abilities, endeavour'd to promote the honour and glory of that nation where he had been born; and more especially of that university wherein he was educated. His early application, or as some call it, his natural propensity to histories and antiquities, made him more fit to serve his country in that, than in any other study; and that part of antiquity, which was most useful in its self, and which yet lay most neglected, became the immediate object of his care, as that which not only deserv'd, but requir'd and wanted the greatest industry. ' [I have here given a copy of the original Proposals for the first Edition. Proposals for printing Athena OxonIenses and Fasti Oxo- NIENSES. — Both written by the famous antiquary and histo- riographer, Anthony h Wood, M. A. author of the History and Antiquities of the University of Oiford. The book entituledATHENjEOxoNiENSBS will contain an exact history of all writers that have been educated in the university of Ox- ford in all professions; and of all archbishops and bishops, whether of this or any other kingdom, that have been members of the said university. The birth, fortune, preferment, and death, of all those authors and prelates, the great accidents of their lives, and more particularly the fate of their writings, and the character of their works, are here given with great exactness and fidelity. This work moreover gives not only an account of the authors of Oxford, but of such of the writers of the other famous university of Cambridge as were entred at Oxford, or studied in it, or assisted, opposed, or answered any author of that university. So that either by these means, or by way of digression, it contains an exact history of learning and of the learned men in England ; and fully corrects, continues, and supplies Lcland, Bale, Pits, and Godwin, on that subject, and deserves particular encouragement, as being the first work of this nature that ever was printed in English. The book entitled Oxonian Fasti, or Annals, contains an ac- count of all the remarkable and eminent persons of Oxford, (i. e.) chancellors, commissaries, vice-chancellors, and proctors of the universities: the names of all dignitaries, as deans, arch-deacons, chancellors, chanters, heads of colleges and halls; abbots, priors, monks, friars, and all doctors, that have been incorporated in the university of Oxford, or have sojourned there. The whole work will consist of two volumes, the first whereof will begin in the year 1500, and will end in l640. The other will begin in l64I, and will end in the latter end of the year l6gO. The work will be disposed according to order of time, and will be made more useful by many large and full alphabetical indexes at the end of each volume. A large Introduction will be prefixed before the first volume, giving an account of the history of learning in England, before the first date of this work in 1500. And an Appendix will be added, containing an exact account of the births, preferments, and writings, of the most considerable writers now living In England. In the mean time the undertaker, Thomas Bennet, doth here exhibit a specimen of the paper and print.] clviii HARRINGTONS PREFACE. The university of Oxford had now flourish'd for many centuries, its members had been great and famous; their works wanted neither value nor number, and therefore nothing seem'd more necessary for the increase of its glory, and for the true knowledge of its strength, than a register of its heroes and an exact survey of its powers: it was requisite then, not only that the writers of this university, and the characters of their works, shou'd be perpetuated to posterity, but that a history of all cardinals, archbishops, and bishops, as well in this nation as beyond the seas, all of them formerly members of this university, should at the same time and by the same hand be attempted, and carried on; and that, lastly, the account of any remarkable per- sons, that would not fall under those heads, might be reserv'd to, and digested under, the Fasti or Annals of the university. So that upon the whole, not only the lives of the authors, and the fate of their writings, but the succession of all eminent men in Oxford, the decay and growth, the rise and progress of learning, might, at one view, in due order of time, distinctly appear. It is a wonder indeed that among all the members of that body, who have signaliz'd their learning and industry in all professions, and almost upon all subjects, the intire glory of this work should be left to this author; and that no part of literature should be left wholly uncultivated in that famous society, but the memoirs of the university itself, and the history of learning therein. Somewhat indeed in defence of the antiquity of the place had before, by Mr. Twyne and others, been successfully undertaken and performed; but it was a far more easie and less useful enquiry to look into the original of this society, than to record the acts of its members; to discover the head of this fountain, than to trace all its channels: since there- fore this work seem'd for the most part ncM, and as yet untouch'd, it was once the author's design to commence with the time of king Alfred, and from thence to have brought down the concurrent history of the university and learning together. But afterwards, when he had con- sider'd not only that the famous antiquary Jo. Leland, and his followers. Bale, Pits, and Dr. Fran. Godwin, had in a great measure anticipated the former part of his design, but that the records and registers themselves, upon which his relations are chiefly founded, were in those times either wholly lost, or at least dark and imperfect; he thought fit to begin with the l6th century, and to ascend no higher than his records would lead him. However, since a great and noble part of the history of learning, would upon so late a date of this work be wholly omitted, it was esteemed requisite that a short and full relation of all authors and works, which before that time had been publish'd in this island, should supply that loss, and render the work itself more perfect and entire. This introduction the reader may expect before the second vol." At present, nothing more remains for the subject of this preface, than to give a short account of the design of this work, of the management and language of it, and to add somewhat concerning the author. As to the design, it must be own'd that since an intire collection of all passages relating to eminent authors was intended; some circumstances have a place here which at first view may seem trivial and immaterial. It ought therefore to be consider'd, that those httle accidents, however mean in themselves, yet in respect of the persons and of the works which they attend, oftentimes become considerable. In a common repertory any redundance or superfluity of • [In the present edition it will be found immediately following the Findkalion of the Historiographer. 1 HARRINGTON'S PREFACE. clix matter, however too severely blam'd by nice palats, is such a fault as is not far reinov'd from an excellence. The work is fitted for all men and in all faculties, and therefore those of one profession should not be displeased, if somewhat be inserted, which, however useless to them, may be chosen and admir'd by others. In all commentaries and journals which afford mate- rials for history, there ought not only to be somewhat rude and naked, which may afterwards be polish'd; somewhat rough and plain, that may be beautify 'd and improv'd; but somewhat at least little, and seemingly immaterial, that may upon occasion judiciously be chosen, or sometimes perhaps with no less prudence, rejected. Such general collections are read by most men with different designs; and therefore however easie it may be for any man to discover an omission ; it is very hard for any one reader to pronounce one single passage in them wholly superfluous. 'Tis true indeed, that men who after a great search and enquiry into records, have found out somewhat that might as well have been spared, naturally chuse rather to trespass on the reader, than to pass sentence on their own discoveries ; and this, if any blemish, is .so com- mon to this author with all other famous antiquaries, from Plutarch, and Athena;us, down to Selden, and Dugdale, that his title to that name might well be disputed if he should be with- out it. 2dly. The management of such a work as this must necessarily depend upon a search into ancient records, so upon a commerce with those relations and friends of the deceased authors which had survived them. Those of the church of Rome, to which this author applied himself, have been communicative and industrious in furnishing materials for this work; and therefore if any thing more largely be said of the members of that communion than may be thought ne- cessary, it ought to be imputed to the ready concurrence of that party towards a work of this nature, rather than to any propensity of the author to that religion. The nonconformists, who bear some share in this work, have been, as usually, so little friends to the carrying on of a publick design, and to that free intercourse which ought to be maintain'd between all learned men, that very few, and those unsatisfactory, relations could be obtain'd from them; and there- fore a true, but no very large nor favourable account of their writings ought to be expected from him. And lastly, as to those of the church of England, they have generally behaved themselves so well, that they have no need to desire flattery, nor have any reason here to com- plain of calumny. It is to be hoped therefore, since this author hath endeavoured to shew himself just and indifferent to men of all professions; his love of impartiality will not be mis- taken for want of religion. All good antiquaries, men of enlarged souls, and of an even temper, however of divers professions, have always been of the same principle: they all equally sacrificed to truth and learning; and suffered not their private opinions to put a biass on their history. And whoever will compare the cento's of Bale and Pits, with the excellent works of Leland and Camden, must necessarily discern, how near an alliance there is between zeal and ignorance, and between learning and moderation. 3. As to the language, the reader may expect such words as are suitable to the character of the work, and of the person. It is impossible to think that men who always converse with old authors, should not learn the dialect of their acquaintance. An old word is retain'd by an an- tiquary with as much religion as a relick ; and few are by him receiv'd as English, but such as cix HARRINGTON'S PREFACE. have been uaturaliz'd by Spencer. Language is the dress of the thoughts, as well as cloaths of the person; and therefore the expressions of an antiquary ought to be privileg'd, as well as his garb. Words are neither good nor bad, if abstracted from things; and therefore they, as all ornaments, have no beauty in themselves, but receive it by accident, as gracefully suited and apply 'd to the subject. Originals are best express'd, as found, without alteration ; and it is not only amis-spent, but ridiculous labour, to change the old expressions of a deed; and to put a new stamp upon a medal. Thus much hath in short been said of the book, and some- what that may prevent objections may without suspicion of vanity be added concerning the author of it. When this work some years since was first undertaken, he not only consulted all the registers relating to the university, but all other writings and records, MS. and printed, whether in the Bodleian, Norfolk, 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 deceas'd persons were at the Prero- gative Office examin'd; the windows of churches, epitaphs and inscriptions, have been search'd; the genealogy of the authors at the Herald's Office hath been enquir'd into; and no method hath been unattempted which could contribute to a true history of these writers, or ascertain the least date and circumstance of their lives. This extraordinary care and unwearied in- dustry, was undertaken without any other motive than a love to truth, and without any other prospect, than the benefit of posterity. The author never enjoy 'd any preferment, nor pur- su'd any; he liv'd as a recluse from the world, so independent of it; and therefore it is not to be wonder'd if he takes such a liberty of speech as most other authors, out of prudence, cun- ning, or design, have usually declin'd^ It might be fit perhaps that some harsh expressions might be allay 'd; that a few severe reflections might be softened, and that some passages at last, which seem too hardly charg'd on men otherwise creditable, might be wholly omitted : but at the same time it is not to be denied, that faults ought no more to be conceal'd than vir- tues, and that whatever it may be in a painter, it is no excellence in an historian to throw a veil on deformities. If, lastly, there should be any defect or failure; if truth, which is often too strictly pursued, should in one single instance, or some little circumstance, be mistaken; it is at least, certainly, a just request, that in so great and tedious a work, which oftentimes, and almost every where deserves praise, any small errors may be entitled to pardon. A farther discourse of the nature of these books in general, and of the use of this in particular, is reserv'd to the second ' volume; in the mean time, all judicious men must be satisfied that the history of learning, which hath hitherto been so much wanting in England, is now at last so far advanced ; and that the materials at least of so great and so useful a work are ready, and prepar'd. In other countries, particularly in France, Italy, and the Northern nations, now above fifty years, the most famous writers have employ'd their care in the account of authors and books, • [See it at the end of the Findicalion.'] HARINGTON'S PREFACE clxi and have thought it more necessary to number and marshal than to increase the forces of the common-wealth of learning. In England, in the mean time, an account of learning was more defective even than our civil history: our authors had been as famous as our heroes; our writings were as successful as our battels; and yet the annals of both were so imperfect, that either generally we had no representation of them at all, or such an one as traduc'd the original. As to our heroes in- deed, tho' an universal history, to the discredit of this nation, be yet to be desired, and in all probability will be long expected, yet some independent relations that give account of one great action, or perhaps of one particular reign, may with honour be remembered; but as to our authors, after the ancient discoveries of Boston and Leland, there hath been nothing attempted but some rude and disproportionable draughts of mean and ignorant designers. However, now at last it must be own'd, That if this essay may not be just and compleat, yet the first lineaments are so faithfully and exactly drawn, that the finishing strokes may without difficulty be added, and perhaps without loss expected; and that so regular a design is here presented to your view, as may encourage at least the future industry of the best artist, if not supersede it. A Vindication of the Historiographer of the University of Oxford, and his Works, from the Reproaches of the Lord Bishop of Salisburi/, in his Letter to the Lord Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, concerning a Book lately published, called, A Specimen of some Errors and Defects hi the History of the Reformation of the Church of England, by Anthony Harmer. Written by E. X)/ To which i.s added the Historiographers Answer to certain Animadversions made in the lefore-men- tiorid History of' the Reformation, to that part of Historia <§• Antiquitates Universitaiis Oson, which treats of the Div»rce of Queen Katharine fro7n King Henry the Eighth. THE prefacer to the first volume of Athene Oxonienses, (now an eminent proficient in the common law,) saith, first, ' It is well known that the author of that work hath, through the ' whole course of his life, declined the pursuit of any private interest or advantage, and hath only, * according to his abilities, endeavoured to promote the honour and glory of that nation wherein * he had been born, and more especially of that university wherein he was educated. His early * application, or as some call it, his natural propensity to histories and antiquities, made him * more fit to serve his country in that, than in any other study ; and that part of antiquity which * was most useful in itself, and which yet lay most neglected, became the immediate object of * his care, as that which not only deserved, but required and wanted the greatest industry.' The first product of his labours and generous studies was, The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, which being by him wrote in English in his juvenile years, it pleased the chief heads of the said university to have it put into Latin, that the learned world might know and be acquainted with the antiquity, honour, and glory thereof: which, had it been done by a scribler, or poor writer, as his lordship of Salisbury is pleased to characterize the author in his letter, p. 9. they would not in the least have taken notice of it; nor would a certain* writer of note have stiled it, four years before it was published. Liber aureolus plurimo labore nee minori judicio consignatus, &c. It was a book of eight years labour, and all, or most part of it, was extracted from the very bowels of antiquity, as the many quotations from records and manuscripts in every page thereof do shew. It hath afforded matter for many eminent wri- ters, whether domestic, or foreign, who have made honourable mention of it, and its author, as those who are bookish men, (who have frequently stiled it, A choice treasure of Antiquities) do know very well. « See page cxiv. No e 2. * Nich. Lloydtus in Dictionario Historico, Geograph. Poet. &c. edit. Oxoo. in fol. 167O. p. 593. col. 2. in voce Oxon. A VINDICATION OF THE OXFORD HISTORIOGRAPHER. clxiii After it was finished, the curators of the Sheldonian press, namely, sir Ixjoline Jenkins, sir Joseph Williamson, Dr. John Fell, (.ifterwards bishop of Oxon,) and Dr. Thomas Yates, did dedicate it to his majesty king Charles the second, to whom being presented at Windsor in July .1674, by Dr. Richard Allestry, provost of Eaton college, his majesty was graciously pleased to accept of it, turn over sei'cral parts thereof, and hold some conference about it with tliat learned doctor, as the author of it was by his letters informed. Soon after the heads of the university of Oxon agreed, that as many copies that cost eighty pounds should be presented to the great persons of the royal court, of the clergy, and of the law. And afterwards it was pre- sented, in the name of the said university, (1.) To the most illustrious prince John William prince of Neoburg, when he was entertained by the members thereof in the beginning of Jane 1675. See in the Fasti of the second volume of Athene Oxov. p. I99. (a.) To the most illustrious prince Cosmo de Medicis, the great duke of Tuscany; to whom the said Hist. & Antiq. was sent by the decree of the venerable convocation of the doctors and masters, held on the seventh of October 1675, and with it a Latin letter penn'd by the public orator, wherein a just and laudable character was given of the said book, as it appears in the register of the acts of that convocation. The said duke had been entertained by the university of Oxon, when he came to see it, and its glories, in the beginning of May 1069. (3.) To Charles Mau- rice le Tellicr archbishop and duke of Rheimes, when he and other French nobility visited the university. It was presented by the hands of Dr. Fell bishop of Oxon the 8th of May 1677. (4.) To his royal highness James duke of York, when he was entertained by the university in the month of May 1683. See in the said Fasti, p. 223, &c. To omit others, must not be forgotten the most illustrious and excellent lord Peter Sparr Fzee, baron of Crone- berg, &c. general of the army of foot belonging to the king of Swcedland, and extraordinary embassador to the king of Great Britain, from the said king of Sweedland, who had a copy presented to him by the heads, tho' not quite finished at the press, when he was entertained in Oxon in the month of June 1674. These memoirs are purposely set down, that tlie reader might understand what value the chief members of the most famous university of Oxon had for that book, which they deemed a fit present for a prince, and other great persons, and that he might see that the author thereof was not a poor writer, or scribler, or one who had no reputation to lose, as his lordship of Salis- bury in his letter before-mention'd tells you, p. 9 — 10. The said book, wherein is maintained, by several valid arguments, the antiquity of the university of Oxon, against that of Cambridge, remains as yet unanswer'd: nor is any part of it animadverted upon, but a minute part, by doctor Gilbert Burnet in the first part of The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, printed at London, 1679» wherein, p. 85, 86. the author speaking of the divorce of queen Katharine from king Henry the eighth, makes these animadversions following on the said part in Hist. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 256. a. ' ' The collector of the antiquities of Oxford informs us of the uneasiness of this matter, (the ' divorce) and of the several messages the king sent before that instrument (meaning the act, ' or decree of the university, in order to tlie divorce,) could be procured. So that from the y 2 clxiv A VINDICATION OF THE OXFORD HISTORIOGRAPHER. * 12th of February to the 8th of April, the matter was in agitation, the masters of arts gene- ' rally opposing it, tho' the doctors and heads were (for the greatest part) for it. But after he ' has set down the instrument, he gives some reasons (upon what design I cannot easily imagine) ' to shew that this was extorted by force; and being done without the consent of the masters * of arts, was of itself void and of no force. And, as if it had been an ill thing, he takes pains * to purge the university of it, and lay it upon the fears and corruptions of some aspiring men ' of the university : and without any proof gives credit to a lying story set down by Sanders, of ' an assembly called by night, in which the seal of the university was set to the determination; ' but it appears that he had never seen, or considered, the other instrument to which the uni- ' versity set their seal, that w^as agreed on in convocation of all the doctors and masters, as well * regents as non-regents ; giving power to these doctors and bachelors of divinity to determine ' the matter, and to set the seal of the university to their conclusion. The original whereof the * lord Herbert saw, upon which the persons so deputed had full authority to set the university's ' seal to that conclusion ; perhaps that instrument was not so carefully preserved among their ' records, or was in queen Mary's days taken away, which might occasion these mistakes in ' their historian. • There seems also another mistake in the relation he gives, for he says, those of Paris had * determined in this matter before it was agreed to at Oxon. The printed decision of the ' Sorbone contradicts this, for it bears date the second of July, whereas this was done the ninth 'of April, 1530, &c.' Thus the church historian. Soon after the author, or collector of the antiquities of Oxford, examining the said animadversions on that little part of his book beforemention'd, he divided them into several pieces, and made answer to each, but were not then printed. The contents of which, and the answers follow. But after he hath set down the instrument, he gives some reasons, &c. Tlie two first reasons (if they may be so called) were put in by another hand, and the other were taken by the author from these three books following, viz. (1.) From A Treatise of Marriage, &c. written by doctor Nicholas Harpesfield, which is a folio manuscript, written either in the time of queen Mary, or in the beginning of queen Elizabeth, and 'tis by him quoted in the place excepted against. (2.) From, The Life of Queen Catherine, written by William Forest in the reign of queen Mary, and dedicated to her. 'Tis also a manuscript, and written in a fair character on parchment. (3.) From, An Apology for the Government of the University of Oxon against King Henry the Eighth, &c. written by a master of arts in the time of queen Elizabeth. 'Tis a manuscript also, and hath all the king's letters therein, written to the uni- versity about the question of marriage and divorce, with several passages relating to convoca- tions and congregations, concerning the said question. So now you may see, that he did not frame, or give those reasons from his own invention, but from authors of credit in the time they lived. A VINDICATION OF THE OXFORD HISTORIOGRAPHER. clxv (Upon what design I cannot easily imagine.) There was no design at all in the matter, but only for truth's sake, which very few in these days will deliver. , — And, as if it were an ill thing, he takes pains to purge the university of it, &c. It was a very ill thing (as he thought) for a king by his letters to frighten persons out of their consciences and opinions, and to endeavour to force them (as 'twere) to say and do what must please him : but forasmuch as the masters would not be frightncd, and therefore they were laid aside, and the matter discussed and determined by a few old doctors, and bachelors of divinity, who would act and say any thing to please the king, lest danger should follow, they ought to be commended for keeping their consciences sound, and standing up for that which they thought was equity. And without any proof gives credit to a lying story set down by Sanders, of an assembly called by night, &c. Sanders is not his author, for he says no such thing in his book DeSchismate, of an assembly called by night. His author for it is the Apology beforemention'd, which adds, That when a regent of Balliol college (whom the scholars called king Henry) heard that the commissary (or vice-chancellor) and his company were going to dispatch this night-work, denied the seal with his breeches about his shoulders for want of a hood. See in Hist. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 256. a. The truth is, the meeting was unseasonable, and all their actions clancular, as hav- ing been protested against by, and done without the consent of, the regents. And as for San- ders, tho' he cannot defend him, yet many things in his book De Schismate, especially those relating to the university of Oxon, he finds, from other places, to be true. But it appears, that he had never seen and considered the other instrument, to which the university set their seal, &c. The grand collection, or farrago, which Mr. Thomas Master, of New college, drew up by the lord Herbert's appointment, in order to write the Life of king Henry the eighth, he had seen and perused, but could not with all liis diligence find that instrument, act, or decree of convocation ; neither in the three great folios written by another hand, containing materials at large for the writing the said Life; neither in any of the registers, records, or papers, belong- ing to the university : so that for those reasons, and because that the lord Herbert says, that it was blurred, and not intended for the king, and that also it was not under seal (you say 'twas) neither passed it the majority of votes, therefore did he omit it, as not authentic. Truly he had good grounds to think, that it was only drawn up, and not proposed; for if it had been pro- posed, it would have been registred, there being nothing proposed cither in convocation, or clxvi A VINDICATION OF THE OXFORD HISTORIOGRAPHER. congregation, but is registred, M'hether denied or not: and the register of that time is most exactly kept, and nothing, as he could perceive, hath been tore out. There seems to be another mistake in the relation he gives, for he says, those of Paris had determined in this matter, &c. He says it not, for it was said by M. Warham archbishop of Canterbury, then chancellor of the university, in his letters thereunto. To make what expedition they could to give in their answer to the king's question, forasmuch as Paris and Cambridge had done it already. For this matter he quotes the book of Epistles sent from, and to the university of Oxon, which is a manuscript in the archives of Bodlcy's library, epist. 197. Yet he believes the archbishop said those things to hasten the members of the convocation of the university of Oxon the more, tho' probably it was not so. However he was not bound to take notice of that, but to follow record as he had found it: and that he doth follow record throughout his book, there is. not one (as he presumes) of the venerable senate of antiquaries, or historiographers, can deny it, &c. Thus far the answer to the animadversions of the church historian, made on a little part of Hist. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon. Now forasmuch as the said church-historian doth often quote and make use of several manuscripts and records in the Cottonian library, it would be well worth the curiosity of some persons to enquire why he did not make use of a certain volume in that library, under Faustina, C. 7. containing letters sent from, and copies of charters, privileges, &c. of the university of Oxon: in which letters are several matters relating to the reformation of the said university by certain commissioners appointed by king Henry the eighth, anno 1535. To which may be answer'd, that there being many vile things in the said letters, which tend rather to the deformation of the said university, (a nursery to supply the church) they would have spoiled the smooth current of his History of Reformation : and if so, as several curious persons have supposed, it doth, under favour, argue much partiality; and he that is partial, is not fit to be an historian. One passage, among the rest, I shall here set down, written by Richard Lay ton, or Leigh ton, one of the commissioners; his letter dated the twelfth of Sep- tember, 1535, and directed to Thomas Cromwell secretary of state, (wherein is mention made of some of the mad work they had done relating to the works of the famous Joh. Duns Scotus,) tells you thus, ' We havie set Dunce in Boccardo, (meaning a prison in Oxon so called,) and * have utterly banished him Oxford for ever, with all his blind glosses, .and is now made a ' common servant to every man, fast nailed up upon posts in all common-houses of easement, ' Id quod occulis meis vidi. And the second time we came to New-college, after we had . ' declared their injunctions, we found all the great quadrant-court full of the leaves of Dunce, ' the winds blowing them into every corner, and there we found one Mr. Greenfeld, of Bucking- * hamshire, gathering part of the said book-leaves (as he said) therewith to make him scuels, ' or blaunsheers, to keep the deer within the wood, thereby to have the better cry with his .' iiounds, &c.' Thus, Richard Lay ton: which things were mostly done by Dr. John London, another commissioner, at that time warden of New-college, who spared not to abuse. his A VINDICATION OF THE OXFORD IIISTORIOGRAPIIFR. rlxvii founder, college, university, and his conscience, to gain favour from great persons, and wealth into his purse. If so be the said commissioners had such disrespect for that most famous author J. Duns, who was so much admired by our predecessors, and so difficult to be understood, that the doc- tors of those times, namely Dr. William Roper, Dr. John Kynton, Dr. William Mowse, Sec. pro- fessed, that in twenty eight years study they could not understand him rightly, (as John Bale, an inveterate enemy to that author, and Romanists ' reports), what then had they for others of inferior note? Truly, I have very good reason to think, that the said commissioners made sad havock in the university at that time, and were not wanting, upon all occasions, to give an ill report of learning and learned men. So it was, that what the wisdom of former times did ad- vance and cry up, the peevish and base humour of these (1535) did decry and run down; such is the world's career. ' But now let's proceed: it has been a wonder, that among all the members of tlie most famous university of Oxon, who have signaliz'd their learning and industry in all professions, and almost upon all subjects, none have undertaken the history of the writers thereof, and of learning, till our historiographer wrote the Athen/E and Fasti Oxov. the first volume of which coming out in 1691, doth make the second volume which he has written. It was partly collected from records, and registers, and some of it from the works of authors who are therein mention'd. Another part from books written pro and con: and what concerns the death and burial of authors, is taken from epitaphs, parochial and other registers, or from the Will or Herald's-Office at London. And lastly, what is said of such Roman-Catholick writers, either in that, or the second volume, who to enjoy their religion in peace and safety have fled their native-country, is partly taken from the registers of those colleges, and houses of religion be- yond the seas, wherein they have settled, and spent their time, or from the epitaphs or inscrip- tions on their graves. All which hath been communicated to the author by letters from per- sons mostly unknoAvn to him. Now whereas the bishop of Salisbury saith in his letter, p. 9. That he hath been visibly made a tool by some of the church of Rome, to reproach all the greatest men of our church; is, under favour, not true, as he himself hath several times pro- tested, and with zealous imprecations declared his innocency of such a matter, so much, that he is ready to make oath in any court of judicature, that he hath not in the least, either by letter from, or discourse with, any Roman-Catholick, whether religious, or laick, been desired, persuaded, or provoked to speak any one thing of, or against, a writer, or bishop, or any person else of the Protestant persuasion. His lordship, in that character of the historiographer's being made a tool, hath seemed much to incline to the vain reports of some men, and hath received things too much upon trust: for had he enquired of several persons in Oxon of known Avorth and truth, he would have found him not to be so. But it seems those just truths which he hath given of trimmers and tem- porizers relishes not wnth many men of this age. Furthermore also, whereas his lordship doth alledge. That he hath laid together all that the » In his Mystery eciaUy of the Cornish and Welsh dialects, seems to retain some appearance of conformity with the Eastern originals. Whether this agreement of words, and at least of some letters in them, can be wholly ascrib'd to chance ; or whether in all derivative tongues there still remains some footsteps and traces of the common language ; or whether, as in some words, the sense naturally directs different na- tions to the same sound; or whether, lastly, there was an ancient correspondence between Asia and Britain; and the Phenicians, a nation born for trade, being tempted by the value of our tin and other metals, brought from the coast of Syria, not only the native commodities of that soil, but the language, customs, and religion of those countries : certain it is, that our cor- respondence, if any, was not with scholars, but seamen; and consequently that whatever alte- rations our tongue, our usages, and religion might receive from them, our learning could have no advance or improvement. In the second period of learning, when the Grecians had first made themselves masters of the arts and sciences, and afterwards of the treasure of Asia: 'tis not wholly improbable that a vain-glorious people, fruitful of colonies, and successful in navigation, should carry their trade beyond the Mediterranean, and place, even in this remote island, the monuments of their learning, and of their power. For though it would not be easy for our antiquaries to find out the altar which Ulysses erected in this island; and the search after the college of Athenian philosophers, which the learned king Bladud happily founded in this his kingdom, might as successfully be made in Utopia, as Britain ; yet it is not hard, even in that age, to descry not only some remains of their language, but some footsteps too of their philosophy. For, as it appears from Caesar that the Druids, the ancient philosophers of this island, us'd the language of the Grecians, or at least their characters; so are the notions of the Druids and Bards such, as seem to confess the same original. Whether the neighbouring colony of the Grecians at Marseils contributed to the cultivating this nation, or whether the Scythians, that with a more than ordinary shew of pro- bability have been prov'd to have peopled this island, having had formerly the advantages of a nearer correspondence with the Greeks, brought hither the small stock of their borrow'd knowledge; and not only subdu'd, but informed us. However the matter is, our author hath with prudence begun this History of Learning be- low the date of those remote and doubtful inquiries, as being topicks already exhausted by the most fanciful antiquaries, and which, as dark and barren islands, can at best yield no praise to any other than their first discoverers. i clxxiv PREFACE TO THE SECOND VOLUME, . Afterwards leaniing, like the sun, having first enUghtened the Eastern countries, and then gradually proceeded to the neighbouring nations, at last took its progress to tlie West, and so fiir dispers'd its bfeams, that even the most remote islands were made sharers in its influence. Eor when the Romans had subdu'd Greece, and brought from tlience not only the riches of the country, but their arts and learning too, as the noblest spoils and marks oftheir conquest j tlien began in Italy the third period of learning, which was so much greater than the former^ as thet;mpire, under which it flourished, was more large and extensive. tu'i i'. < Wherever their valour prevail'd, their language and their learning usually triumphed; and irts, as well as laws, were imparted to their provinces, trom a place which was equally the source of learning, and the seat of empire. But during the progress of the Roman wars in Britain, their arms left us no leisure to rival their eloquence: they fear'd and commended our courage, but liad no occasion to envy out learning. If we consider in Caesar, Tacitus, and Dio, tire length of those wars, tlie warmth of the opposition, and the variety of the success, we shall easily find that from Julius Caesar to Se\'erus, there is a continued succession of battles and truces, and that peace was nothing but i time of preparation for war. : •< ,.: •, ■ In this troublesome and active age the ambition of the Britains was carried td other objects than learning : nor was it possible, that arts should flourish in this island, when the growth of the wars not only interrupted the pursuit of studies but prevented it. Afterwards when the Northern nations invaded Europe, and the Saxons at last seated them-- selves in Britain; all arts and sciences fell in the ruin of the Roman empire, and from thence commenc'd the dark age of barbarity, superstition, and ignorance. At that time all things concurr'd not only to the gradual loss, and decay, but to the sudden and final extirpation of learning: at once inundations and fires destroy 'd her choicest libraries; and rapine, force, and envy, as it were combining with those natural causes of destruction, carried away the last remains of her treasure. Some schools are said indeed to have been erected for its support or restoration, and several writers have rather from the mistaken sound of words, than any solid foundation in antiquity, maintained that Greeklade and Lechladc were anciently founded here, as the common seminaries of the Greek and Roman learning in Britain. However probable it is that no care was taken for the education of the youth of the English nation, till schools were founded for them by OfFa at Rome, by lltutus and Dubritius in Wales, tand by the excellent prince king Alfred at Oxon. Monasteries indeed in this age there were without number, but such as were designed to be the seats of devotion, not of learning, and •whose ancient orders rather respected the severity of -discipline and regulation of manners, thaa the improvement of arts and sciences. And though afterwards in those religious societies, especially in that at Banchor, and among those of the Benedictine order, there were some that applied themselves to study; and though in the heat of those wars, that then reigned in Bri- tain, the privilege of religion exempted the inonasteries from rapine, and gave them leisure and