Volume 1

The history and antiquities of the University of Oxford ... / by Anthony ä Wood. Now first published in English ... by John Gutch.

  • Anthony Wood
Date:
1792-1796
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    eminently diftinguifhed. Neither will you think it a crime to faille at thofe pompofe infcriptions and declarations which uflier in fome trifling Relic of former ages to the public view; where the penes O. P. or fumptibus Q. R. is often defigned to be the chief objedt of the Reader’s notice. Your candour will pardon the many inaccuracies you will find in the following pages, the work having proceeded at in- tervals only, and as an amufement amidft ftudies of a more ferious nature: Nor muft you give me credit for the whole of this compilation. I own myfelf much indebted for feveral of the more curious and ufeful parts of it to fome Gentlemen in this place, not only well verfed in the Works of our Author but in every branch of Literature. They are defirous that their Names fhould be concealed: in that wifli I alfo join them, and therefore fubfcribe myfelf Your Friend and Servant the Editor, Oxford, 1772. To the Life above given, [written by Mr. Hearne, and alfo to that other Life] of Mr. Anthony a Wood publifhed in 1772, * colleded partly from his own Manufcripts and partly from * Intitled, * The Life of Anthony a Wood from the year 1632 to 1672, writ- ten by himfelf, and publilhed by Mr. Thomas Hearne; now continiied to the lime of his death from authentic materials &c. Oxford, 1772,’ 8vo. Mr. Wood in his Books frequently writes himfelf Antonius a Bofco; of which word take the following account, from Mr. Blount’s Law Didionary publifhed at London 1691. ^Bofcus is an ancient word ufed in the Law of England for all manner of Wood; the Italians ufe Bofco in the fame fenfe, and the French Boys; Bofcus is divided into high Wood, or Timber (Hautbois) and Coppice or Under- wood (Sub Boys.) High Wood is properly called Saltus, and in Fleta, Macremium.* Mr. Wood’s father Thomas was descended from the antient Family of the Woods in Lancafhire, and was a Bcnefador to the Building of the Schools, according to