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

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    to be had no where elfe) feveral unbecoming things. Upon the defign of a new Edition of the old two volumes, by Mr. Archd. Eachard’s means, I was indeed prevailed upon to let Mr. Tonfon have the additional Lives which were bequeath’d to me, thinking [it] a proper time to get rid of thofe papers which were known to be left in my hands, and which the world expedled from me. I may without vanity lay they might have fallen into worfe and more carelefs hands, who might have given more jufl; offence. There is no anfwering for every paffage in fo great a variety: I can truly fay there was not by me one fentence, nor fo much as one hard word added; and in the few things omitted I be- lieve Mr. W. memory nor Truth will much fuffer. ’Tis pity it fhould, while the only regard therein was to good Manners and the doing Juftice to the Charaders of men other wife of un- Ipotted reputation — or that the Charity and Munificence of a Noble perfon or two to the Univerfity itfelf fhould not be allowed as a good reafon for the covering fome of their fins, fome falfe fteps in their conduct. One thing was particularly faid to be clamor’d at, viz. the inferting the word confident in fome part of Archbp. Laud's Character — but as to any paf- fages added or altered in the old Lives^ I have very little to anfwer for, thofe not coming from me, but tranfcribed by fome among yourfelves from the interleaved Book in the Mufaeum—• and, if all were like fome part that I faw, very inaccurately by one that could not read Mr, Wood’s hand. What work in printing they have made with either what came from Oxford or hence, I am not able to fay, for Mr. Tonfon would never let me fee one fheet as they have printed it, either before or fince the Publication of this new Edition—which by chance I once faw for a quarter of an hour in a Friend’s Study; for I have not yet been able to get one Copy from them for myfelf or Friends, tho’ by exprefs agreement I was to have fix—and defired Mr. T. that he would take [care] that one in large Paper might be early fent down to you at Oxford as from me—which by what has