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 XX, From the same to the same. Novemb. 16, [16]57. SIR, I have received ail your letters, and give you my hearty thanks for them; and this having been a day of action here, 1 send you what I can hear in requital. About eight o’clock this morning the visitors sate at Magdalen Col- lege, and after a long speech from the Bishop, the Fellows were called, and their answer required whether they would subscribe a certain paper offered to them; the substance of which was, that they should acknowledge their fault for re- sisting the King thus long, and as a testimony of their repentance, acknowledge the Bishop of Oxford for their lawful President, and promise obedience to him ; which was refused by all to whom it was offered, that is 25 of them, and every one of them, upon that account, are de- prived. This test was not proposed to Dr. Tho- mas Smith ;* I know not for what reason. And Mr. Thompson and Mr. Charnock said, they * Dr. Tho. Smith (as I hear) had made a submission be- fore, and therefore was excused from signing this. The reason why the Fellows of Madg. Coll, were deprived and expelled from their Fellowships assigned in the sentence is, for disobedience to the King, and contempt of his authority. The Visitors went hence this afternoon.