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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![(the same who had been the child in the cradle before mention'd,) by whome having a good portion, and growing richer thereupon, he was fined in October 1630 for re¬ fusing the honour of knighthood, a matter then lately brought [up] to obtaine money for his majestie's use. This money, wdiich was paid by all persons of 40li. per an. that refused to come in and be dub'd knights, was called knighthood-money. This Thom. Wood was son of Richard Wood, who, when a youth, was brought to Islingdon by Rob. Wood his uncle and godfather, as the tradition goeth in the family: who giving him good breeding, he ever after lived in good fashion. The posterity of the said Robert, who have lands and tenements to this day in Islingdon, live at Kingston upon Thames in Surry; where, and elsewhere, they have an estate, that amounts to 2000/i. per an. and have been several times offer'd the degree of baronet. It was much lamented by the relations of the father 1643. and mother of A. W. that he and his brother Christopher19 Car> 1 were left yong, when their father dyed, and that no body was left (because of the raging of the civil warr) to take care of them, only a woman. His eldest brother Thomas, whome I shall mention under the veare 1651, was then a rude and boisterous soldier. His second brother Edward, was now a yong scholar of Trinity coll, (lately of Merton) and did in this or in the next yeare beare armes for his maj. within the garrison of Oxon. and was so farr from being a governour or tutor to others, that he could scarcely govern himself; and his 3d. brother Robert was in France in the thirteenth yeare of his age. In this condition he continued, and yet went to schoole at New coll, but by the great hurry and noise that was this yeare in Oxon. and by the absence of his master, he and his brother lost much time.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29297357_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
