A supplement to The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary: being a curious miscellany of sacred and profane history / Collected especially out of Lewis Morery, D. D., his 8th ed. cor. and enl. by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. By Jer. Collier. Together with a continuation from the year 1688, to this time, by another hand.
- Louis Moréri
- Date:
- 1705
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A supplement to The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary: being a curious miscellany of sacred and profane history / Collected especially out of Lewis Morery, D. D., his 8th ed. cor. and enl. by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. By Jer. Collier. Together with a continuation from the year 1688, to this time, by another hand. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![in 169^. and loon after appointed a Plenipoten¬ tiary for the Treaty of Peace at Refwiclin Con¬ junction with Thomas Earl of Pembroke, Edward Lord Vifcount Villiers, and Robert Lord Lexington: After which, having continued for fome time in Holland, he returned into England, and Departed this Lift,Ottob. 3. 1701. at the Age of 70 Years and fome few Weeks. If he has left any Memoirs be¬ hind him of his Foreign Negotiations, or any other Writings, they are yet kept from Publick View : However, this is remarkable of him. That he was the only Perfon of our Nation, in his time living, that had been Three times a Plenipotentiary : And this is all that we know of him. WOOD (or, a Wood ( Anthony ) call’d the Oxford Historiographer) was Son of Thomas Wood, Batchelor of Laws, of BroadGate-Hall (now Pembroke-College) in the Univerfity of Oxford. He was Born Amo 1631. at his Father’s Houfe op- pofite to Merton-College, and Educated at Thame- School in Oxford/hire, and from thence was entred Commoner in Merton-College; where having taken the Degree of Matter of Arts, he continued a Member of that Society till his Death. Fie applied himfelf early to the Study of Anti¬ quities with great Pains and Induftry, efpecially to that part of Antiquity which was moll negledted : For this End, he affected a Solitary and Retired Life, was averfe to Marriage, and had feldom a Companion either at Meals, or in his Study or Walks. He did not defire Preferment, but was contented with his own moderate Fortune, and with few Acquaintance ; which renders his Writings lefs liable to be fufpeCted of Partiality. He was Indefatigable in confuiting Records, Cathedral, Collegiate and Parochial Regiftries, Publick and Private Libraries, the Works of Authors in Print or in Manufcript, the Prerogative and Heralds-Office, Infcripdons, Epitaphs, &c. That which he could not .find out Ly Reading, he enquired after by Letters, and received it from thole whom he thought able to give a faithful Account: And left there fhould be any Miftakes, he ufed to fend his Queries to feveral Perfons upon the fame Subjedt, and then to compare if they agreed. If there are any Miftakes in his Relations, they are of Modern Things and Perfons, and are to be imputed to thofe Reports which he had from his Friends, and perhaps from his fecret Enemies. There feems to be an Air of Plainefs, and of a down-right Honefty, without Affedlation or Ceremony, throughout his Hiftories; for he relates the Good and Bad of all Perfons and Parties. No One will think that he favours the Roman- Catholicks, when he reads the Lives of Beckinfon, Chiadfey, Bonner, Harding, Cole, Campian, Nichols, Parfens, See. Perhaps his Love to the Royal Caufe, made him treat fome of the Puritans and Presbyte¬ rians, See. of 40. and 41. with a Harfhnefs of Lan¬ guage. He has told many bold Truths, which created him fome Trouble, and many Enemies, efpecially thole whofe Friends or Relations fuffered by his Characters. He was of a Brown Complexion, enclining to Fairnefs, and Comely ; Tall and Thin, but of large Bones, and of a llrong Conftitution ; Negligent in his Cloathes ; Thoughtful, if not Melancholy , but very Diverting when he liked a Converfation. He would give moft Men a better Account of them- felves than they knew, unlels it was by Recollection, and when he put them in mind of it; for he would relate to them leveral Palfages of their Lives, their Education, their Marriages, Kindred, and their Fortune in the World, &c. and often-times give furprizing Accounts, to very mean Perfons, upon thole Topicks. He narrowly obferved all Men, and was perlbnally known but to few. By reafon of a Deafnels, he feldom went to Church for many Years; but when his Religion was queftiond, (fome fuipecting him to be cnclined to Popery) he would receive the Holy Sacrament, upon the High Feftivals, according to the Rihgcs of the Church of England ; and declared, upon his Death-bed, that he died in that Communion. His Works are, 1. Hiftoria & Anti quit atesVniverfitatis Oxonienjis. Fol. Oxon. 1674.’ This Book was Wrote by him in Englifh, and Tranflated into Latin at the Charge of the Univer- fity; but iri the Tranfiation his Meaning was not always accurately exprefs’d, (as in the Lives of Bifhop Wilkins, and Mr. Hobbs ) which made him very Uneafie. The Univerfity hath Prefented this Book to feveral Princes, and to many Perfons of the Higheft Quality. 2- Athena Oxonienfes ; or, An Exacl Hiflory of all the Writers and B if hops who have had their Education in the famous Univerfity of Oxford, from the Tear of Our Lord, 1500, to the End of the Tear 1690. Two Volumes in Folio. Lond. 1691,^ 1692. — Two or three Paflages of thefe two Books were Examin d by lbme Writers ; which occafion’d the Publication of a Pamphlet, entituled, [ A Vindication of the Hifioriographer of Oxford, and his Works, &c. Lend. 1693.] Mr. Wood fopplied the Materials for this Pamphlet, blit it was for the moft part drawn up by another Pen. A Sheet or two of the Athena Oxonienfes, which relates to the Character of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord- Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of that Univerfity, was order’d to be Burnt, by the Judge of the Chancellor’s Court; and the Author to be Expel! d that Univerfity, ’till he fhould Recant fome Expreffions relating to that Noble Lord. Our Author could not be perfiiaded to Own any Miftake, but continued his Studies in the Univerfity, and took little notice of the Cenfure. He behaved himfelf, in the time of his Sicknefs, ( which was a Suppreffion of Urine) like a good Chriftian, and with an unufual Indifferency whether he Liv’d or Died. He Was Buried in the Outward Chapel of Merton-College, near to his Relations. Over his Grave there is a final] Monument fixed in the Watl, with this lofcription, (yU.) H.S.E. An-t tonius Wood Antiquarius, Ob. 28. Nov. Anno 1695. tAitat. 64. The Arms on the Monument are. Or, a Wolf PafTant Sable, Armed and Langued Gules, a Chief of the Second : For the Creft, on a Helmet, a Wolf’s Head Erafed.Sable, Collar’d, and iffuing out of a Crown Mural Or, Mantled Gules, Doubled Argent. He gave, by Will, his Printed Books and MSS. to the Univerfity, which are placed in a Room belonging to the Mujaum. Over the Study- Door there are thefe words, (viz.) Libri & Ma- nuferipti Clarif. V. Anton ii a Wood. WRIGHT (Abraham) the Son of Richard Wright, Citizen and Silk-Dyer of London, was Born in the Parifh of St. James Garlickhith in London December the 23d, 1611 ; Educated in Grammar- Learning partly in Mercers-Chapel-School, but moftly in Merchant-Taylors-School, under Dr. Nicholas Grey ; Elected Scholar of St. John %-College, Anno 1629, by the Endeavours of Dr. Juxton, President there who finding him to be a good Orator, efpecially in proper and due Pronunciation, ( which, in his Elderly Years, he retained in his Sermons and Pub¬ lick Offices) favour’d him then, and afterwards in his Studies. In 1632, he was eledfed Fellow ; and having then a Genius that enclined him to Poetry and Rhetorick, did, while Mailer of Arts, make his Collection of Delicix Portarum, being then efteemed alio an Exatl Mafter of the Latin Tongue, even to the niceft Criticilm. On the 30th of Augnfi, 1636. at what time Dr. Laud, Arch-Bifhop of Canterbury Entertained the King and Queen at St. Johns Col¬ lege, he fpoke an Englifh Speech before them, when they entred into the Library, to See, and be Enter¬ tained in it at Dinner: And after Dinner, he was one of the Chief Perfons that A£led his Part in the Comedy call’d Love’s Hofpital, or. The Hofpital of Lovers ; Prefented before Their Majellies, in the Publick Refectory of that Houfe. He took Orders in 1637', from Dr. Francis White, Bifhop of Ely\ and in 1639, was Ordained Prielt, by Dr. Bancroft, Bifhop of Oxford: At which time he Preached the Sermon, which was afterwards Printed with four more ; ,and the fame being then well Approved, and he thereupon accounted an Elegant Preacher, was the reafon why he frequently appeared in St. Mary s Church in Oxford, before the Ciry of London ac Sr, Panf s.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30457750_0702.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
