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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    has happened to myfelf, I fuppofe is left undone. Nor is this the only thing wherein the Bookfellers have done unhandfomely by me who dealt generoufly by them. But I afk your excufe for troubling [you] with fo much on this head. I beg my humbleft relpeds and fervice to all who are fo kind as to afk after, Dear Matter, Your mott obliged faithfull Servant, Thom. Tanner.’ From feveral circumttances in the correfpondence above quoted, it is evident that Mr. Hearne had reafon to fuppofe that Dr. Tanner had made fome alterations in the Athen^e OxoN. which that accurate and faithful Editor could not for- give. On the other hand, the more candid and lefs fcrupulous Reader may not be difpleafed that the Doctor’s pains were em- ployed in foftening fuch characters as might have been drawn in too harfh a ttyle, however agreeable it might be to truth. It is true, we have only Dr. Tanner’s bare word that his care ex- tended no further; and it is to be wifhed that his veracity in ‘this point could be fully proved by the rettoration of the ori- ginal Papers to the Bodleyan Library, to which they feem to belong by promife. You will join in this wifh the more fer- vently when you are informed that there are now in the Library fome loofe fheets of the Athene Oxon. in Mr. Wood’s hand writing, in which feveral paffages are erafed and cancelled with a pen drawn over them, and a connexion made between the upper and lower paragraphs by (as it appears from the hand) Dr. Tanner. Thefe loofe Papers were among thofe given by the late Dr, Rawlinfon. Among