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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![i635- i r Car. I. Aug. i. 1636. 12 Car. I. Aug. 29. 6 LIFE OF WOOD. [1635 of his owne familie, which he had then [been] better able to doe, than those of the familie of his wife (Pettie.) And the reason is, because that his father dying when he was yong, those things, which he knew of his family, dyed with him, and his son could never obtaine them from any other person of his kindred, nor can he yet from any place of record, unless he take a journey into Lancashire, from whence his grandfather [came] about the beginning of the raigne of qu. Elizabeth. This yeare he had the small pox so much, that he was for a time blinded with them. A fine of SOU. was set by the warden and fellowes of Merton coll, when his father renewed his lease of the old stone-honse, wherein his son A. Wood was borne (called antiently Portionists or Postmasters hall) for 40 yeares, and for a common inn called the Elowr de Luce, sitnat and being in the parish of St. Martin ad Quadrivium in Oxon. (which inn his father had bought of Rich. Theed, gent, on the eleventh of Sept. 14 Jac. I. Dom. 1616.) and at the same time a lease of the garden, opposite to S. Al¬ bany hall, was let to his father for 27 yeares. The king, queen, prince Rupert, many of the nobility and others came from Woodstock into Oxon. a little before which time he was conveyed in a servants armes, with his father and mother, e going to the lodgings of Dr. Tho. lies, canon of Christ Church, whence being conveyed to the mount in his garden looking into Fish street, he saw the K. qu. and the rest riding downe the said street into Ch. Ch. great quadrangle. This was the first time he ever saw the said K. and queen, and the first time that he ever saw such a glorious traine as that was, which he would often talk of when he was a man. e Deest in Diario Ant. a Wood. Hearne.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29297357_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
