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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![1644. 20 Car. I. May 29. On Wednesday, being the eve of the Ascension, Robert earl of Essex, generalissimo of the parliament forces, and Sr. Will. Waller, going with their forces from Abendon over Sanford Ferry, and so thro Cowley, and over Bul- lington Green (to the end they might go towards Islip,) faced the city of Oxon. for several honres, whilst their carriages slipt away behind them. This gave some terror to the garrison of Oxon. his maj. being then therein, and great talke there was, that a siege would suddenly follow. Mr. A. Wood's mother therefore resolving, that he and his brother Christopher should be removed out of harme's way, she sent them with an horse and man into the country: and because the infection was then in Oxon. she order'd, that they should be conveyed to Tetsworth, ten miles distant from Oxford; where they continued for a fortnight or more in the house of0 Rich. Sciense, then called the Catherine Wheel, now a great new built inn of brick (1683) at the lower end of the towne. There, I say, they continued till it was thought that they had no in¬ fection about them, and then they were conveyed two rently of considerable antiquity re¬ presenting a vine with its branches running up the cup, and hedged in with a rude paling of silver; a second, not so old, resting on small sculptured angels, the third given by Catharine Baylie, who died in 1600. At Trinity, a cha¬ lice of elaborate work, and in excellent taste, which there seems no reason to doubt came from the abbey at St. Alban’s, and falling into the hands of sir Thomas Pope, was bestowed by him on his newly founded college. Christ Church has a large salver origin¬ ally belonging to Osney Abbey; and the communion plate at St. John’s (i586),New College (1602), Brasennose (1608), as well as a chalice at Balliol (1614), Oriel (1641), Wadham (about 1613), are all anterior to the reign of Charles the First, and were proba¬ bly concealed during the civil wars from the rapacity of the saints and their soldiers, who, under the pretence of reform, committed barefaced robbery wherever they obtained access to college or ca¬ thedral.] 0 Ral. in Diario. Hearne.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29297357_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
