Volume 1

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

  • Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695.
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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    Iflip near Oxford, where, after fome time, the Peft overtaking them (three weeks being firfl fpent in mirth and jollity) feveral of them died, and were buried, fome there, others at Ellesfield, and another at Noke. Of the num- ber of thofe that died was one Rich. Fitzjames, nephew to the Bifhop of Rochefter, who dying on the Nativity of our Lady was buried at Iflip. In O<flob. following the Peft breaking forth (i) in Merton Coll. Ibme of the Fellows and Bachelaurs retired to the Lodge in Stow Wood, others to Wotton near Cumnore in Berkfhire, and did not return till 17 Dec. fol- lowing. Thofe Halls and Inns which before were full, were now for the mofl; part empty. Of 55 Halls, but 33 were now flenderly inhabited, as may be feen in our Regifters. One Hall called Civil Law Hall or School, flourifhed about this time (though in its buildings decayed) by the care of the learned and judicious Dr. Will. Warhain Principal or Moderator there- of j which he leaving this year (having before had feveral Deputies therein) becaufe of his preferment to the fee of London, became void for fome time. The year following the faid Warham was tranflated to Canterbury, at whofe inthronization fomething occurred relating to this Univerfity; which though a little out of the road, yet I fhall adventure to remember it, and it is this. At the firfl: courfe on Sunday (2) dinner 9 Mar. being the day of the faid inthronization, was ‘ A Warner conveyed upon a rounde boorde, of viii panes, with viii Towres, imbattied and made with flowres, flandying on every towre a Bedil (3) in his habit, with his flaffe: and in the fame boorde firfl the Kyng fyttyng in the Parliament with his Lordes about hyin in their robes, and Saint Wylliam lyke an Archbifliop fyttyng on the ryght hande of the Kyng. Then the Chaunceler of Oxforde, with other Doc- tors about hym, prefented the faid Lord Wylliam, kneelyng in a Doctors habit, unto the Kyng, with his commend of vertue and cunnyng, with thefe verfes: (1) Ib. fol. 144 a. (2) In quodara MS in Archiv. Bib. Bodl. MS, nu. 42. [Arch. A 181, Rot. 6 : printed in the black Englilh letter, on one fide of a roll, and Archbifliop Nevill’s Inthronization on the other.] (3) Pro 8 Bedellis numerantur pxQovxo';, et Crucigcr, qui fcilicet Archiepifcopalem C’rucem coram Cancellario in folennibus proceflionibus geftabat, de qua Cruce agitur in refcripto Hen. HI, de Judseis ut fupra, an. 1268. Much of the folemnity of Warham’s Inthronization is in Matt. Parker’s De Anti quit ate Britannicas Ecclefiae &c. printed 1572,p. 350, 351, in Will. Warham. [edit. Drake, p. 456,] Deditus