Volume 1

Letters written by eminent persons in the 17th and 18th centuries: to which are added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of eminent men / by John Aubrey, esq. The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian library and Ashmolean Museum, with biographical and literary illustrations [by J. Walker and P. Bliss].

Date:
1813
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Credit: Letters written by eminent persons in the 17th and 18th centuries: to which are added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of eminent men / by John Aubrey, esq. The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian library and Ashmolean Museum, with biographical and literary illustrations [by J. Walker and P. Bliss]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LETTER IV. ' > Dr. HICKES* to Dr. SMITII.t Dr. Hickes presented to a Doctor’s Degree at St. Andrew s. ■ Edinburgh, Octob. 9, [16]77. DEAR SIR, I have spent most of the time since I received your last in rambling from place to place in this country, or else you had received my thanks sooner, for the news you sent me, which was as acceptable to my Lord as myself. He read your letter, was very much pleased with it, and enquired particularly after you. Pray let me hear from you again, and * Dr. George Hickes was first a member of St. John’s College, in Oxford, from which he removed to Magdalen College. He was rector of St. Ebbe’s church, in Oxford. In March 1679-80, he was promoted to a prebend of Wor- cester, and presented by Archbishop Sancroft to the vicarage of All-hallows Barking, in London. In 1683 he was appointed chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, and, in 1683, dean of Worcester, of which he was de- prived for refusing to take the oaths of allegiance. He was consecrated Suffragan Bishop of Thetford, by the non-juring and deprived bishops of Norwich, Ely, and Peterborough. Being grievously tormented with the stone, he died in 1715, in his 74th year. + Dr. Thomas Smith was elected fellow of Magdalen Col- lege in 1666, and deprived of his fellowship for refusing the oaths of allegiance in 1692. He published many learned works, and died in London in 1710.