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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    undertakings, and such to which I am not ac- customed, and therefore if I fall short of jour expectations, I hope you will pardon the well- meant officiousness of Dear Sir, yours unfeignedly. Sept, 9, [16]87. LETTER XIX. From the same to the same, SIRj, I am to thank you for two letters, one of the 10th, and another of the 14th instant, and you had not escaped an answer to the first of them on Wednesday last, but that I was out of town at Sir William Dormer’s, If I had written then you had had an account of our Monday’s convocation. You know from Mr, Lawrence that all degrees were denied. I suppose one main reason was, because it did not appear (as I have formerly written) that it was the King's desire that they should be granted; as to what concerns Mr, Dickens, Collins, and Brookes, you have had a true account already. Mr, Sparkes and Mr, Boileau were only recommended by Munson, secretary to my Lord Sunderland^ to the Vice Chancellor, that if degrees were granted, it was the Chancellor of England’s request that his chaplains might be Doctors, My last ac« d 4