Athenæ Oxonienses, and exact history of writers and bishops who have had their education in the University of Oxford ... / [Anthony à Wood].
- Anthony Wood
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Athenæ Oxonienses, and exact history of writers and bishops who have had their education in the University of Oxford ... / [Anthony à Wood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![coll, in the collegiate parish of S. John Bapt. de Merton, situat and being within the nniversitie of Oxford, on munday the seventeenth day of December (S. Lazarus day) at about 4 of the clock in the morning: which stone- house, with a backside and garden adjoyning, was bought by his father of John Lant, master of arts of the univ. of Oxford, 8 December, 6 Jac. I. Dom. 1608, and is held by his family of Merton coll, before mention'd. Dec. 23. He was christned or taken into the bosome of the church. At which time he had to his godfathers, Anthony Cloptonb, bachelaur of Divinity and fellow of Corp. Christi college, and Edward Dawson, Dr. of physick of Lincolne college: and to his godmother, Mris Catherine Fisher, the wife of Will. Seymoure of Oxon. an attorney; and afterwards the first wife of Tho. Rowney, an attorney also of the same place, father, by his second wife, to the Life, and yet in some things the Life may be corrected from it, as may appear partly from what I have printed at the bottom of the pages, and partly from these notes at the end. When I first saw the Diary, I presently concluded (and so I told some particular friends) that I thought it ought not to be printed, for some reasons that I then gave, and I find, that I have no reason to alter that opinion since I have had the use of the Life, which is (for the main) both more exact, and of greater value and satisfaction. I shall say no¬ thing more, unless it be to ac¬ quaint the reader, that the earl of Oxford (when he was only lord Harley) had *the Diary from Mr. Anstis, (now Garter principal king of arms,) who gave it him in the year 1712, and that Mr. Anstis receiv’d it from Mr. Dale the he¬ rald many years since, in exchange for several original letters of Mr. Wood’s to sir Peter Pett, the king’s advocate general for the kingdome of Ireland, which he bought at the sale of his books. The letters were mostly about his method of defending himself a- gainst the prosecution in the vice- chancellour’s court, and desiring his advice, and he is very sorry, that he did not take copies of them. Hearne. [He was a native of Glouces ¬ tershire, and became a member of C.C.C. Nov. 7, 1606, set. 13.] * Coll, nostr. MSS. Vol. cxxv. p. 137.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29297357_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
