CENTRE for REFORMATION and RENAISSANCE STUDIES VICTORIA UNIVERSITY T O R O N T O LIFE AND TIMES OF ANTHONY WOOD IOIACE ttIT, rIINTE TO TItE UNII$IT I-IlS COLLECTED FROM DIARIES AND OTItER tAPERS BY ANDRE\V CLARK, M.A. FELLOW OF LINCON COLEGE AND VICAR OF $. MICHAEL$ OXFORD vo,uE I: 68.668 H/'ITH ILLUSTRA TIONS PRINTED FOR THE OXFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY AT THE CLARENDON PRESS I89 [ AI1 qghts reservcd] ,4, i ,BIF. & REBI. PREFACE. I1 issuing this first volulne of Wood's Lire and Times I have to express my obligations to all members of the Bodleian staff, for their ready help in the multitudinous enquiries which I have had to address to them. IXIy particular thanks are due to lIr. F. Madan, IXI.A., for information and counsel which have helped me out of many diffi- culties, lIy pupil, lXIr. John Darlington, Commoner of Lincoln College, associated himself with me in preparing for this work the narratives of contemporary Entertainments, Ceremonies, etc., round in Wood giS. D 19 (3): I gratefully acknowledge his assistance. As the sheets have been passing through the press I have noticed, too late for correction, several slight repetitions ; it will perhaps be considered sufficient al0ology for such slips, that these notes had to be brought together from widely scattered sources and at such irregular intervals as pressing duties allowed. The whole of the copy for this work has been sent to press, so that no other delays need take place than those caused by yearly publication. Complete indexes will, of course, be given with the last volume. But in view of the intervals between the yearly issues, a temporary index has been added to the present volume. It is designedly brief and incomplete, but embraces the chier names of /tcademical interest. The analyses here given will supply the place of a Table of Contents. ANDREW CLARK. CONTENTS. EAR x634 636 x64o x642 1643 F.VENTS, ETC. RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY AND CITY OF OXFORDo MONTH March July Aug. Aug. orders for repair of streets Somerset and ]31uemantle heralds visit Oxfordshire the University claims exemption from heralds' visitation a quack visits Oxford . Smith gate widened visit of Charles I and his court a quack visits Oxford the University takes up arms for the king Aug.--Sept. the University fortifies Oxford for the king Aug.--Sept. Oxford occupied by the king's troops Sept. the City inclines to the Parliament ,, the University offers submission to the Parliament ,, Oxford is abandoned by the king's troops ,, Oxford is occupied by Parliamentary troops PAGI 44 44 45 î7 46 377 5 , 54 55, 57 59 59 59 60 ,, the fortifications are destroyed by the Parliamentary forces . 6x ,, plate and arms are searched for by the Parliamentary forces 6b 62 ,, popish books and pictures burnt. 63 ,, plate restored on condition of being withheld from the king. 64 ,, mutiny among the Parliamentary forces • 64, 65, 67 ,, the University is disarmed 61, 65 Oct. Oxford is abandoned by the Parliamentary forces 67 ,, the City fortifies Oxford for the Parliament . 67 ,, Charles I makes Oxford his head-quarters . 68, 69 Nov. the king disbands the County train-bands 7 ° Nov.--Dec. the king fortifies Oxford 7a-î4 Dec dispute about an Assessor in the Vice-chancellor's court 76, 84, 85 • . . yearly payment to a Greek student 76 Jan. petition from the Parliament presented to the king 79, 80 ,, the Mint set up in Oxford . 80 ,, the king borrows the University money and demandsCollege plate 8, 94, xoo, o ,, the king reviews his army . 82 ,, military punishments and executions 82, 83, 9 x, 93 ,, the Courts of Lav sit in Oxford . 83 viii CONTENTS. YEAR 1643 1644 1645 1646 1647 1648 I649 MONTH PAGE Feb. Commissioners from file Parliament come to the king . 86-88 ,, Cmmissioners from Scotland come to the king . 88, 92, 98 ,, file king calls upon the University to complete the forti- fications 89, IOO March--June. the fortifications are pnshed on . - 91, 9ï, 99, 1OO March--Apr. Cmmissioners from the Parliament come to the king 92, 97 Apr. file king reviews his army - 95, 96, 97 » the king commands the University and Cty to provide a garrison for Oxford 96, I oo ,, file County train-banals are called upon to provide part of file garrison 99 June the king demands more money from file University and City Io% lOI ,, great thunder-storm 10 I ,, the University fs called upon to maintain soldiers lO2 ,, file University complains that the Cty is interfering with privileged persons of the University and xvith other privileges Io2 July the queen arrives in Oxford and resides there IO.{ Oct. an epidemic rages in Oxford lO 4 • . . the Chancellor of the University (earl of Pembroke) is removed from ofîïce 104 Smith gate xvidened 251 the University fumishes a regiment for garrison duty lO6 the earl of Essex and the Parliamentary army mareh past Oxford . :07 a great tire III» 429 Apr. May Oct. May Jan. Jllne Aug. • o o Aug. Jan• Parliament (King Charles') in session at Oxford . I 12 plague in Oxford I 19 Godstow nunnery bumt 344 O:d'ord prepares for a siege 12 5 plague in Oxford 127 Oxford surrenders to the Parliament 128 Presbyterian preachers sent to bring Oxford over to Presby- terianism 130 the Presbyterian preaehers opposed by the Independents 13 ° evil effects of the siege on the University 129 plague in Oxford 132 defects of the Matriculation register . 132 Puritan students flock to Oxford . I4o Common Prayer discontinued 313 Visitation by the Parliamentary Cmmissioners 141-144 negociations with file Cty about file privileges of the University 3 7 I a Cavalier plot frustrated  I46 leading Presbyterians and Independents in the University 147 orders to enforce the wearing of Aeademical dress 14 8 neglect of the old rules about dress : I49 CONTENTS. ix 'YEAR 649 65o x65 65 I653 x6fi4 June scarcity of Regent Masters . July a University ' Architypographus" appointed ,, money given to a Greek abbot Sept. rising of the Levellers, mutiny in the garrison at Oxford Sept.--Oct. number of oaths required by the University and College IONTH PAGE Jan. Lent disputations (' determination ') enforced I49 Feb. a new lVIatriculation register begun x 5 ° Feb.--Nov. controversy, as to the University plivileges, with the City 15o , 152 , 154 IOV. March June July Statutes ordered to be reduced 155, I57 Oct. an Assessor is appointed for the Vice-chancellor's court I57 the Colleges are called upon to find money to carry on the suit about privileges against the City attendance at the Tuesday sermons is enforced the Colleges desire to conduct their elections without inter- ference from the Parliamentary Visitors or Committee the City disputes the authority of the Proctors the Vice-chancellor is to exercise the powcrs of the Chancellor during a vacancy of that office an Assessor in the Vice-chanccllor's court oath at Matriculation replaced by a promise an execution at Oxford Select Preachers appointed for University Serinons a coffee-house opened in Oxford . Oxford Castle fortified by the Parliamentary governor Oxford infested by beggars. Parliamentary Visitors interfere at Merton College publicity ordered for degree disputations Charles II expected to attack Oxford old church pictures obliterated turbulent state of the University . Parliamentary Committee for regulating the University lS stopped Nov. • o o Rn o Feb. Aug. Jan o Apr. Oct. • o o July Aug. l'qov. 159 162 63 I63, 64 163 65 165 166 I68, 466 îo 166 67 167 7o 3o9 174 july an Act celebrated 173, 175 . . . declamations are made part of exercises for M.A., and wall- lectures stopped I î 7 the passage at Smith gate is closed with posts 25I a quack visits Oxford . 377 rive Oxford parishes united for registration purposes 183 ploposal to confiscate University and College endowments 9.94 double execution at Oxford 186 John Selden is allowed to borrow certain MSS. from the Bodleian I87 the University petitions the Parliament on behalf of the faculty of Law I87 • . . the University sends complimentary versos to the Protector, Oliver . 18 9 . . . a second coffee-house is opened in Oxford 188, 189 x CONTENTS. YEAR 65 655 1656 1658 1659 MONTH PAGE • . . the Quakers come to Oxford 9 o, 9  July a collection in the University for the Vaudois x98 ,, an Act celebrated 336 • . . Tilliard's coffee-house opened 2or, 466 Apr. the course for M.A. is increased ; definite study is required in the faculties . 2o6 superfluous oaths required by the Statures are abolished 207 an Act celebrated 207 the University tries to get John Selden's library 209 weekly music-meetings at the bouse of William Ellis 204, 273 , 275 an Act celebrated 22 I Vavasor Powell preaches in Oxford 22x, 293 numerous maltsters in Oxford 233 cider commonly drunk 233 Davis Mell, the musician, in Oxford , 24x Nixon's school is begun 245 execution in Oxford 250 Smith gate is closed with posts 25x a salaried Assessor in the Vice-chancellor's court. 256 , 273 an Act celebrated ; the Terraefllii punished 256 John Gamble and Thomas Pratt, musicians, in Oxford 256 Thomas Baltzar, the musician, in Oxford 256 , 257 the foundation is laid of Nixon's school 256 , 258 the Vice-chancellor interdicts the sale of Francis Osborne's Advice to a Soz 257 ,, a proposal to abolish T«rraefllii is rejected 258 Aug. a great wind 258 Sept• Richard Cromwell proclaimed at Oxford 259 Feb. the University petitions Parliament to recall the Parliamentary Visitors 268 ,, partial contempt of Academical dress . 268, 359 March scurvy-grass drink is fashionable . 273 , 466 Apr. a tire in Holyvell 277 JuneJuly. an Anabaptist rising feared 279, 280 July a Cavalier rising feared 280 » dissensions between Presbyterians and ]ndependents in the july Oct. • o o July Apr. May July Sept• 648-x659, 653-1659» 66o Jan. Fcb. University a great wind John Selden's library brought into Oxford a sham patriarch in Oxford Chemistry studied in Oxford proposal to disendow the University weekly music-meetings in College rooms old church paintings obliterated . characteristics of Presbyterians and Independents. attacks on the Universities and Academical learning John Belchior, Anabaptist, preaches at Oxford rejoicings at Oxford for news of' a free Parliamcnt ' 368,369 280 282 290, 294 275 309 294-296 3o3, 3o4 CONTENTS. YEAR 166o IONrH PAGE March Independents ejected from Christ Church, and replaced by Presbyterians 307 Apr. election of members of Parliament for the City 311 ,, ,, ,, for the University 312 ,, Common Prayer used in a parish church 33 Apr.--May. disputed election to the Proctorship 3 Io, 313, 34 Apr.--May. tokens of monarchy restored 313, 314 May May-pole set up . 314 ,, Charles II proclaimed at Oxford 314 ,, Richard Cromwell resigns the Chancellorship of the Uni- versity . 315 ,, Arabic books undertaken by the University press . 316 ,, celebmtion of Charles Irs Restoration: festivities at Oxford . 316, 317 ,, numerous May-poles in Oxford 317 June William Seymour, marquis of Hertford, re-instatcd in the Chancellorship of the University 318 ,, King Charles II appoints a Royal Commission to visit the University 318 ,, anti-monarchical books taken out of Bodleima and other libraries and bumt 319 ,, Common Prayer nsed in College chapels 313, 319 ,, the University congratulates the king . 319 ,, Selden's marbles set up in Oxford 320, 351 July no Act this year . 320 ,, a play publicly acted by scholars 322 ,, ejection of intruded Heads, Professors, Bedells 326 July--Oct. Visitation of the University and Colleges by the King's Commissioners 324-326, 336 &ug. the Acting Committee appointed by the Parliamentary Visitors is dissolved 328 ,, the oaths of allegiance and supremacy are enforced 328 Aug.--Dec. floods of honorary degrees 328-335, 337, 346-348, 381 Sept. the University pefitions the king in favour of the faculty of Law 332 ,, the University issues verses on the death of the dnke of Gloucester 332 ,, resistance to the King's Commissioners at Lincoha Col- lege 333, 334 ,, contest for Bodley's libmrianship 334, 335 Oct. orders enforcing Academical dress 336 ,, Edward Hyde (earl of Clarendon) elected Chancellor of the University 337, 346 Oct.Dec. controversy with the City about the Mayor's oath of fidelity to the University 336, 350, 370, 371 Nov. earl of Clarendon installed Chancellor of the University (at London) 346 ,, surplices and organs resumed in Oxford - 547 xii CONTtïNTS. YEAR 166o 66 x66 MONTH Nov.--Dec. a malignant fever at New College 47, 349 I0ec. another play publicly acted by scholars 350 • . . collection in the University on behalf of the College at New Aberdeen 51 • . , opposition in the University to the Royal Society 354 • . . Latitudinarians arise 355 • . . declamations for M.A. abolished and wall-lectures resumed . 464 • . . contrast between Puritan and Restoration Oxford. 353» 355-370 • . . venality of Restoration times 3 lo, 333, 365, 367, 465 • . . sloth and dissoluteness of Restoration Oxford 353, 355-357, 359-361, 366 • . . Tuesday serinons abolished . 356 Jan.--Apr. controversy with the City about the Mayor's oath to the University 371-376, 384, 399 Jan. a rising of Anabaptists is feared . 377, 379 ,, the University claires the night-police . 371, 380 Jan.--Feb. the surplice is abused 35S, 380 Feb. a quack visits Oxford 377, 380 March the University petitions the king for the restoration of many privileges usurped by the City 372 ,, turbulence in the University during Lent exercises 384 ,, an Ordination at Christ Church ; chapter of accidents there . 388 March--May. opposition to Sir Thomas Clayton at Merton College 385, 389-393 March--June. floods at Oxford Apr. election of members of Parliament for the University for the Cty Coronation festivities at Oxford June prince Maurice of assau visits Oxford July Aug. Sept• ,, a flood of honorary degrees Sept.--Oct. fever in Oxford . Oct. old Academical rites at a I)octor's funeral . . . sloth and dissoluteness of Restoration Oxford Feb. chimney-money imposed on the University . ,, a great wind Feb.--Apr. dispute about the Proctorial cycle June proposal to increase exercises for July Arminianism versus Calvinism ,, Friday serinons stopped Aug. tIungarian studcnts in Oxford 4oi 398 399 399 402 the duke of ¥ork's company of actors and actresses exhibits at Oxford 405, 4o6 scholars ruined by them 406 an Act celebrated 4o6, 466 Terrae.fllius punished 406, 407 state reception of the Chancellor of the Uuiversity (earl of Clarendon) at Oxford 411-415 Clarendon's hostility to the Puritans 413, 415 4t2, 438, 439 417, 418 417 423 398 , 431 • 433 431-433 433, 435,437 443, 464 445, 465 445 452 1662 I663 CONTENTS. xiii MONTH Aug. Sept• Nov. Dcc. Apr. May July PAGE 452 Assessor in Vice-chancellor's court abolished ' Black Bartholomew' in Oxford; Puritan Ileads and Fellows ejectcd . Puritan students expelled Christian, prince of Denmark, visits Oxford an affray bctween scholars and nstics . small-pox at New College declamations for M.A. restored matriculation at coming up to thc University enforced . Oxford, deserted alike by Puritans and Romanists, declines in numbers 3oi, 465 slofla, eynicism, and petulance of Restoration Oxford 465 venality of the times 465 the Colleges eontribute towards a University poor-rate 466 Chemistry is studied in Oxford 4î 2, 473 plays aeted by Oxford prentices . 467 dissensions at Magdalen Collcge 473 a great flood 474 election of High Steward of the University . 475 funeral of archbishop Juxon 476-483 an Act celebrated 483 funeral of Dr. William Creed 484 removal of archbishop Laud's remains from London to Oxford . 4,q4 a miracle-mongcr in Oxford 486 453 454 456 457 461 464 464 Aug.--Sept. Sept. Oct. Nov. I)eco the Magdalen College libel case . the cage and pillory set up in a different place Charles II, his queen, and court visit Oxford Clarendon's hostility to the Puritans opposition to Robert South's honorary degree a swindler exploits Oxford . Magdalen College case is tried before the Council triplets bore in Oxford Puritan conventicles hunted ont by lewd persons . extravagancies of the dress of the pefiod 486-489 489, 508 490-499 499, 500 50% 5oz 504 King in 507, 508 508 509 509 dispute about the boundary between S. Peter's in the East and S. John Baptist parish 5IO II. FVENTS ETC. PERSONAL TO THE I632 633 635 1636 637 AUTHOR» ANTHON¥ VooD. I)ec. A.W. born and christened . 43, 44 . . . is nursed by his mother 44 • . . has small-pox 45 Aug. sees Charles I 46 . . . learns to read 46 . . . is trodden on by a horse 46 xiv CONTENTS. 64o ONTH FAGE March his yonnger brother» John» dies 47 • . . begins Latin 48 • . . begins to collect ballads 48 64I . . . sent to New College School 49 642 . . . his schooling disturbed by the tumult of arms 53, 69 I643 Jan. his father dies 78 • . . his schooling still disturbed by the tumult of arms 93 • . . his christening plate appropriated by the king 94 I644 June is sent to Lord Williams' School, Thame lO 7 • . . is a diligent, but pettish, scholar . lO8 • . . of melancholy temperament o8 646 Sept. returns to Oxford Iz 9 • . . is coached by his brother, Edward 19. 9 • . . refuses to follow a trade or the law  9,  30 647 May is matriculated I31 Oct. is nominated postmaster of Merton  33 648 Feb. makes his freshman's speech and becomes 'a senior' I39, I4o May appears before the Parliamentary Visitors, and, at last, submits to them 44  649 . . . visits Cassington  5 I I)ec. spends Christmas at Bledloxv 6o I65o Feb. becomes pnpil of Clinton Maund, a Purltan fellow of Merton I6z Apr. is made bible-clerk of Merton ,, ' passes smalls ' i63 Aug. visits Wallingford 164 I65 Feb.--March. disputes for B.A. i75 Apr. verses published under A. W.'s name . 7o 1653 I654 1655 . . . begins to play the violin, without instruction July passes the examinations for I3.A.. ,, admitted B.A. ,, thrown from a horse and injured . Aug. bas ague Feb.--Sept. at Cassington ,, learns bell-ringing ,, practises singing and violin-playing Sept• returns to Oxford ,, is taught violin-playing • . . frequents the Bodleian ... studies heraldry and genealogies, antiquities July witnesses an execution Aug. passes the examination for M.A.. • . . goes about as a strolling fiddler . May declaims for M.A. ,, bas toothnche and a tumour his brother Edward dies l',Tov. (?) I)ec. English history transcribes certain inscriptions in Mert. Coll. chapel . admitted !I.A. I73, 78 75 I75 I75, 7 I78, 79 I78-8 I78 78 181, 212 and I86 86 z89 97 I99 z97 I99 99 CONTENTS. xv 656 1657 1658 1659 166o MONTH PAGE blarch edits some of his brother Edvard's serinons 200 • . . frequents weckly music-meetings. 204, 273 • . . is impressed by Dugdale's l/Uarwickshire 209 Oct. begins to collect inscriptions in Oxford city . zo 9 Jan.--July. is taught to play the violin 212 Apr. begins to collect inscriptions in Oxfordshire . 2  5 ,, visits Wolvercot . 216 May visits Nnneham-Conrtney, and Stanton-Harcourt 218, 219 Aug. rends John Leland's Collections . 222 ,, visits Dorchester abbey 223 Sept. visits Einsham abbey . 228 Apr. vlsits Cuxham, Watlington, etc.. 243 ,, bnys some of Dr. Gerard Langbaine's books 247 May visits South-leigh, Cogges, etc. 252 , 253 July plays the violin with T. Baltzar 257 Oct. visits Cnmnor 260 ,, visits Stokelyne, Cotsford, etc. 263 • . . freqnents the weekly music-meetings 273 , 275 Feb. visits Bayworth and is introduced to the Baskervilles 268-27o March visits Northmoor . 271 Apr. visits Stoke-lyne, Middleton-Cheyney, Warkworth, Banbury, etc. 276, 277 ,, has agne 277 May is acqnainted with Arthnr Crew . 278 , 476 Sept.--Oct. helps Bodley's librarian in arranging Selden's libmry 282 . . . in foolish generosity surrenders his reversionary rights in the family property 284 Oct. begins to read the cartnlaries of S. Frideswyde's, Osney, and Einsham 286 Nov. begins to rend Merton College registers 288 Dec. spends Christmas at Cuxham 289 Feb. fits np a room in which to carry on his antiqnarian stndies 304 • . . is distnrbed by John Dee's ghost-stories 308 • . . projects a book on Oxford i 3i O Apr. is refnsed access to the University archives 312 May communicates his notes on Balliol College to Dr. Henry Savage who is writing a history of that College 3I 4 ,, is allowed access to MSS. in C.C.C. 315 June is allowed access to MSS. in Balliol and other Colleges 318 July visits Meysey-Hampton and Fairford . 323 ,, obtains, withont official sanction, access to the archives of the University 326 snrveys Godstow abbey 338, 344 veys of ehurehes in Oxford eity and eonnty, i.e. notes on the history of Oxford with copies of monumental and fenestral inscriptions, note 2 on p. 31o is in error; the projected book was most probably in- tended to exhibit the results of his reading in MS. authorities and his sur- xvi 166 1662 1663 CONTENTS. MONTH March May June Aug. Sept. an• Apr. July PAGE cmployed by the University to draw up a conspectus of the privileges now in controversy with the town 384, 4t6 begins to write his Survey of the Antiqnities of lhe Cily of Oxford t 399 writes a narrative of the dispute about the Wardenship of Merton. visits Sandford and Litflemore visits Thame put off from pernsing the cartularies at Ch. Ch3 doctored by Richard Lower buys some of Dr. Barten IIolyday's books buys some of Dr. Adam Airay's books 393 403, 404 408 4o 428 436 , 437 444 JulymAug. draws up a parish register for S. John I3aptist parish (in which he was born) 446 ,, makes a survey of S. John Baptist parish 447 Aug. - peruses muniments at Oriel College 454 Sept• joins a new veekly music-meeting (for catches) 454 ,, visits Abingdon Abbey 455 Oct. put off from perusing New College muniments 45 ,, buys some of Ilenry Jackson's books . 459 Fcb.--March. attends on his relation, John Taverner, tIigh Sheriff of Oxfordshire 468-47 ° March arranges to board with his brother Robert 47 Apr.--May. studies Chemistry under Peter Sthael . 472, 475 • . . but continues devoted to antiquities and music 475 Aug.Sept. peruses the registel of the Vice-chancellor's court 487 Sept.--Nov. pcruses the registers of Convocation 487, 502, 5o3 Dec. plays cards with Roger Brent and is insulted 5oî ,, bnys some of Dr. William Cl'eed's books 5oî • . . notes that S. Peter's in the East pafish is trespassing on S. John Bapt. parish . 5o, 5 t DRAWINGS. I. Anthony Wood's earliest signatures loface î*. 48 II. plan of Dorchester Abbey Church ,, 225 III. plan of Einsham Abbey Chureh ,, 228 IV. tower of Osney Abbcy Church (from Agas) ,, 24i V. ' Rosamond's ]3owcr' at Woodstock (by John Aubrey) ,, 83 ¥I. plan of Godstow Nunnery. ,, 346 VII. ' The Devil's hand' exhibited at Queen's College ,, 498 plans of Merton College Church î2 6" 45 °, 451 1 see, for its progrcss, pp. 428, 467, 476, 483 ; vol. ii. p. 8.  the Puritan canons, who had al- lowed Wood access to these (p. 286), were now ejected, and A. W. had to make suit to the Royalists who had replaeed them. INTRODUCTION. The heads of this introduction are :-- I. An account of the MSS. available for thc life of Wood. II. A note on the Wood Collection of MSS. and printed books (p. 6); and in particular, notes (A) of the Allnanaes in it, (B) of the Ncwspapcrs, (C) of the Oxford pamphlets, (D) of the English history pamphlets, (E) of the Irish history pamphlets, (F) of pamphlets concerned vith diablcrie and the mar- vellous, (G) of pamphlets conecrned with crimes and criminals, (IIl of the chap-books, ballads, and poems, (J) of the book-lists, (,K) of the catalogues of plays, and (L) of the miscellaneous pamphlcts. III. A note about the naine (Wood or à Wood), p. IV. A note about the history of the Wood family, p. 23. V. Notes on the familles with whlch the Woods were connected by man'iage, p. 32. I. fSS. azmilablc for lhe lift of ll'ood. The ' Life of Wood' as hitherto printed has been drawn mainly from two sources :-- (a) 1632- 67, directly from Wood's autobiography. (b) i673- 695, indirectly from Wood's journal-notes. (a) Wood's autobiography exists in two recensions, an earlier and a later. i. The earlier draft is in the British Museum, MS. Harl. 54o9. It has the note 'Mr. Anstis gave this book to me, I7I-'2,' i.e. John Anstis 1 (afterwards, in I718, Garter King of Arms) gave it to Edward Hafley (afterwards second earl of Oxford). This volume L Thomas Hearne, editing the ' Life of Wood' in 173 o, states that ' Mr. Anstis received it from Mr. (Robert) Dale the herald (who died 172,. ) many years since, in exchange for several original letters of Mr. Wood's to Sir Peter Pett the king's advocate for the kingdome of Ireland, which he (Anstis) bought at the sale of his (Pett's) books. The letters were mostly about his method of defending himself against the prosecu- tion in the vice-chancellour's court and desiring his advice; and he (Anstis)is very sorry that he did hot take copies of them.' These letters are now, I sup- pose, lost, without record taken of them. For John Anstis see ldiqui, w learn- ianae II IO. II'OOD'S LIFE AND TIiIES. consists of 6u leaves 1, and brings the narrative down to the end of Match 6. It was written in the first person, benning 'I, Anthony Wood' ; but Wood bas gone through the book, channg ' I' to 'he,' 'my' to 'his,' etc.--changes which take much away from the clearness of the story. It has an elaborate title :-- ' The diarie of the lire of Anthony t Wood, historiographcr and antiquarie of the most famons University of Oxford : • In which are intermix'd severall memorialls rclating fo his neare allies, kindmd, and others ; as also certaine publick actions of his rime, which may be useful here- after to historians. ' Cuncta aperit secreta dies, ex tempore vërum IVascitur, et veniens aetas abseondita pandit. Iantuan. ' Lord make me to know mine end and the measnre of my dayes what it is, that I might know hmv frail I ara. l'salin 39, 4- ' So teaeh me to number my daies that I may apply my heart unto wisdome. lsalm 9 o, 12.' Lord Harley lent this MS. to Hearne, who collated it with the later draft (Tanner giS. lO2), and printed the variants in the notes to his edition of that later draff. Hearne bas donc his work very well, except for the somewhat childish pedantry with which he makes his observations, and a few slipsL I bave re-collated this IIS. While this Harleian MS. was in Hearne's hands, an excellent tran- script of it was ruade, which is now MS. Rawl. D. 97 s 2. The later draft is in the Bodleian (MS. Tanner IO. part I). This giS. is written in the third person, which gives it a heavier style; but it is fuller in its narrative in the earlier years and is brought down to June 1672. It bas therefore been ruade the text for the first forty years of Wood's life by all editors from Hearne downwards. Hearne* printed this in 173 ° at p. 438 of his edition of Thomae Caii I')Mic[ae AnEquilalt's Acadcm[ae Oxon. I have  fol. 63 is a slip, endorsed ' Martin College acqnatance, 1681."  e.g. he givcs ' John/Vap of Trin.' for ' John Trap '--a blunder which sub- sequent editors have been careful to s in Mr. Macray's Catalote ofl?azvL ID. 1][SS. this fs erroneonsly said to be a transcript of MS. Tanner IO2. lXIacray bas been misled by a false note marie by some former official of the library on the binding of the ' this is a transcript from a MS. in "ranner's collection."  Hearne's work is very carefully donc. His childish pedantry displays itself in odd freaks, as, for example, in calling attention with a great flourish of trumpets to an obvions slip of the pen in the MS. or an tmconventional spel- ling, also in misreading the MS. in order that he may snpply the right reading e conjectura sua in the notes. Hearne has ruade a few slips, which bave been carefully retained in subse- quent editions ; thus, he begins with an impossible date ' I63O, 8 Car. I,' the MS. being plainly ' 1632 , 8 Car. I,' and this is repeated even in Bliss' edition of 184-8. INTRODUCTION. 3 collated Hearne's text with the BIS., and have thus been able to supply a few omitted dates, and to correct several mis-readings, some of vhich affect the sense. Hearne says ' there is no title in the original lXlS.' This is over-stated. The Tanner IS. is hot prefaced by an elaborate title such as is found in the Harleian IIS., but in pencil 1 at the top of p. i XVood has written 'Secretum Antonii, second partS, ' on p. 2 ' Sec. Antonii,' on p. 4 ' Secretum Antonii,' on p. 5 ' Secret. Ant.,' sufficiently indicating his desire to call the lXIS. by the name of Secrelum Anlonii. We can tell also how he came to choose this name; he had in his own possession a cartulary 3 of Glastonbury Abbey, which, he says, was called ' Secrelum Ab3alis, as being always in his own custody.' (b) Wood'sjournal-noles. These are preserved in an unbroken series in interleaved almanacs (called, during last century, Wood's 'pocket almanacs') from 1657 to 695. Dr. Richard Rawlinson  made excerpts from them, now found in ]XIS. Rawl. D. 26, but his excerpts are disfigured by gross inaccuracies  and he omits altogether several years. After Rawlinson's time the originals were lost sight of. William Huddesford, re-editing  in 1772 the auto-  Wood's peneil, I assume, was hOt graphite but actual lead, probably a wooden stylus with a lead tip ending in a blunt point, such as I remember in use in country places in Scotland some twenty years ago. It bas left a faint mark, often almost illegible except for the indentation of the paper.  ' pt' here refers to the draft, I suppose ; ' Secretum Antonii, part first' would be the Harl. MS.  O. C. 8589; one ofthe MSS.bought from Wood in 1692 by the ]3odleian Library. « ' The life of Mr. Anthony à Wood' •.. publ. at Lond. 1711 , 18 pp., was by Richard Rawlinson. Rawlinson's own copy of it (" 8vo. Rawl. 594") in ]3od- ley has MS. additions by him.--MS. ]3odl. Add. A 220 contains a transcript of Heame's notes about Wood extracted from Hearne's MS. Collections. » thus in relating the family misfor- tunes of Richard Souch of Pembroke Coll., Wood says that his grandmother was ' burnt in ber bed,' he having a few pages before narrated the fatal tire; Rawlinson makes him say that she was ' touched in her head.' Similarly, by leaxdng out the first half of the note in 167, Rawlinson makes 'Mr. Lane' (and hot the Cambridge antiquary Sher- ington, about whom Lane is speaking) « die suddenly in his chamber'; and, to M1 appearances, himself narrate to Wood his tragicM end. Sec also the passage describing the scene between Dr. Fell and Wood on xî Match 167{ in this edition, and compare it with Rawlinson's text in the earlier editions. Wood was hot the only author whom Dr. Rawlinson mangled. Of an edition by Richard Rawlinson of Ashmole's Anti- quiNes of ]?erkshire in 1719, Hearne, with the more perfect sincerity that he did not know who was editor, says (lcliqtdae ffearnianae, II. 94) that Ash- mole's ' words and sense are most hor- ridly perverted.' 6 in ' The Lives of Leland, Hearne, and Wood' (1772). Huddesford bur- dened his text with pretentious notes, drawn from vhat in charity we must assume to have been an unknown book, Wood's Athenae Oxon. Dr. Bliss stmck out many of these in his editions B2 4 WOOD'S LIFE AND TIAIES. biography of Wood as printed by Hearne, supplemented it by printing from MS. Rawl. D. 26 (from 673 onwards) Rawlinson's ' Historical passages from Ant. Wood's papers.' O/ber 2IFS. au/hori/ies for Wood's hfe. In Huddesford's edition, and to a slightly larger extent, in BIiss' two editions 1, additional notes had been drawn from other papers by Wood, e.g. flom his account of contemporary ' entertainments and ceremonies,' of 'persons buried in Oxford' in lais time, and from notes written by him in his printed books. The present edition seeks to incorporate, in strict chrono- logical sequence, the whole of the additional matter which tan be derived from these sources, so far as it bears on Wood's own life or his rimes. The I'ISS. which have been drained for this purpose are as follows :-- tres«tt press-mark. Wood's Almanacs with Diary i657-i695 MS. T,'mner IO2 part Wood MS. F 4 Wood MS. F 31 MS. Bodl. 594 Wood IrIS. D 9 (3) Wood MS. E 3z Wood MS. E 1 Wood MS. B 15 MS. Ballard 68 Wo., if a,zy, in tke z 697 Car. 2ISS. Title by wkich l/VoM cites the .IS. • my Almanacks.' • Index pro annis.' O. C. 8466 ' Obital book.' part of O. C. 8463 ' loose papers in my English eopy.' O. C. 8562 ' Notes from Convocations Register.' O. C. 8566 ' Entertainments.' • book of jests.' O. C. 8505 ' Oxfordshire monuments.' O. C. 8586 O. C. 8558 The other Wood MSS. in his printed books have been matter 3. the Bodleian and notes by Wood in searched and have supplied additional of the Life of Wood; still further re- trenchments bave been ruade in the pre- sent edition.  in 813 in Vol. I of his edition of Wood's Athenae ; in 1848 as Vol. I of his projected edition of the Athenae for the Ecclesiastical History Society, a de- sign which unhappily went no further.  in the Phillipps library at Thirles- taine House, Cheltenham, is an interest- ing Wood MS. which I would gladly bave printed in full in the present vo- lume, had tbis been permissible. MS. Phillipps 7o18 (old no. 3o), is a small quarto volume entitled ' Antony à Wood's genealogy '; the first 27 leaves are vellum, the rest paper. The con- tents are : I, unpaged, ' a genealogical table' to the book ; 2, pp. 1-19, a his- tory of his family z568-1684; 3, PP- 54 sqq., notes and slips on the saine subject. Incidentally Wood here ludes to another volume of family his- tory by him, of which I have seen no other notice :--riz. that Alice Beare (or ]3olton), Wood's father's atmt, who died "a verie old woman' on 29 Apr. 634, told Wood's father ' many stories of the IN TR O D UC TIO ç 5 It is plain that, out of the material represented by the above MSS., Wood designed several distinct works :- as, e.g., i, an autobiography or memoirs; 2, an ' Itinerary,' on the model of his çavourite Leland ; 3, an 'Antiquities of Oxfordshire,' to mate the admired Dugdale's Warwickshire; 4, a contilmation from 166o of his 'Annals of the Uni- versity ' ; 5, a ' book of jests,' in emulation of Captain Hicks' Oxford Jests ; 6, an account of persons buried in the city of Oxford; 7, a volume describing the pageants of his time: but as these are left, all of them in a rough, and most of thcm in a flagnaentary, condition, it is necessary to bring them all into one work, accordinô to the only unity existing among them, the unity of chronologîcal sequence 1. In doing so I have adhered closely to two rules, to give Wood's statements faithfully, and to give them in full. 13reach of the first of these rules sins against the truth of history by coneealing the sordidness of the so-called 'happy' Restoration. As regards the second rule, many of the notes are indeed very trivial, but their mere triviality is often of help towards understanding the manners and habits of the time. It is chiefly by Wood's jottings of his petty expenditure that we ean appreeiate the part then played, in academie life, by the eook-shop, the tavem, and the eoffee-house, or such things as the rain of pamphlets whieh aceompanied the movements of the da)', the Restoration, the Popish Plot, the Revolution. It will readily be understood that in such hasty and unfinished notes, punctuation is practically absent, and contractions of words abound. I have, as a matter of course, neglected these throughout, and presented Wood's text simply and exactly, as one would now put one's own MS. into print. I have, however, carefully followed Wood's own spelling, wherever he writes his words in full. family,' and that ber daughter Elizabeth Beare, who died aged 80 in I668, told Wood himself some ' whic/ I shall re- me»tb«r in another book.' The initial C with Wood's arms is pasted inside the eover. This Phillipps MS. belonged to and hŒEs the book-plate of' Sir George ayler, Garter,' who died 1831. I have to thank T. Fitzroy Fenwick, Esq., for his kinchaess in allowing me access to this volume. a I have abstained from incorporating the Wood eorrespondence, reserving that for treatment hereafter. The ' book of jests' bas been printed: ' Iodius Salium, a collection of such pieces of humour as prevailed at Oxford in the rime of Mr. Anthony à Wood, collected by himself and published from his original MS.,' Oxf. II, I2mO. 6 VOOD'S LIFE AND TIzIIES. II. /'he IVood Collectz'on of dlISS, and prz'ntcd books. A Collection formed two centuries ago, and still preserved practi- cally 1 intact, deserves a note about its character and contents; and Wood in his journal-notes makes so frequent reference to his papers and books that their present arrangement must be explained. A Catalog'ue of the Wood IISS., full in some respects though in others unsatisfactory, has been printed in several recensions 3. Of the printed books there is no account in existence, except a Cata- logue s (in lx, IS.) ruade before 1769, when the Collection was in the Ashmolean, supplemented, for the books in Wood ]3-Wood E, by a hand-list ruade in the Bodleian in  89o. On Wood's death in 1695 , his IISS. and such of his printed books and pamphlets as were not already in that institution were deposited in the library of the Ashmolean l\Iuseum. At this rime the Keeper of the Ashmolean was Edward Lhwyd, a man thoroughly capable, vho drew up the Catalogue of Wood's lx, ISS. for the Catalogus IISS. AngL ci 11fbern. of 1697, numbering them from i to le 7. Subse- quent Keepers were less competent, and the Collection suffered many things. Some entire hlSS. were stolen, and papers and portions out of others. Several hlSS. were negligently re-bound, (a) parts of one hlS. being mixed up with others; (b) lx, ISS. incongruous both in size and in contents being bound together to the injury of each other ; 1 not absolutely, partly from losses, partly from volumes being shifted from the Wood Collection into other collec- tions. The losses will be noticed after- wards ; but it may here be noticed that Wood 757 bas been removed to " 8vo Prayer Books," and Wood 7o6, Wood 7 x 6, Wood 8o 9 bave become respectively Mather 8vo 7,' «Mather 8vo Iz,  'lather 8vo I43 ,' changes (made, I believe, by Dr. Coxe) which seem to me ill-advised. Wood 7o6 is Cotton 5ather's' Late memorable providences relating to witchcmft,' the second im- pression, Lond. I69I ; and bas these notes by Wood :--(a) ' x 7 Jan. 169 , re- cepi a Crescentio Mathero ' ; (b) ' Cotton Mather, the author of this book, vas son of Crescentius (or Increase) Mather.' Wood 716 is 'de successu Evangelii apud Indos in Nov.-Angliâ epistola ' a Crescentio Mather% Lond. I688 ; and has the note by Wood :--' Jan. 17, 1690 (i. e. > rec(epi} ab autbore.' Wood 8o 9 is ' Diatriba de signo Filii Hominis et de secundo l%lessiae adventn...' antbore Crescentio l%athero, Amstel. I682; and bas this note by Wood 'x 7 Jan. x69o (i.e. î) recepi ab au- thore.' z in I697 in Edward Bernard's ' Car. Codd. 1MSS. Angl.et Hibern.'; reprinted by William Huddesford ' Cat. lib. iISS. Antonii à Wood,' Oxf. 176I ; reprinted in I824 at his Middlehill press by Sir Thomas Phillipps. John Gutch prefixed a recension of it to his edition of Wood's History of the University (x 79z). a now in the Bodleian ; ' Librorum impressorum et iMScriptorum Antonii à Wood Catalogus '--the printed books occupy pp. I-7o ; at the end is a Cata- logue ofthe Dugdale iISS. I bave cited it as ' Wood Catalogue' (x INTRODUCTION. 7 (c) the distinctive features of the binding being lost, so destroying the possibility of tracing Wood's references to his 'russet book, 'black book,' etc. Forty-eight printed books were stolen, besides numerous single tracts out of others. The binder was allowed to wreck the pamphlet volumes, shearing away here a line or two of text and there a marnal or foot-note added by Wood. In Nov. x837 a survey of the Collection by W. Kirtland and W. H. ]31ack shewed the extent of the injury it had sustained. In 1860 the Collection was transferred to the ]3odleian. The arrangement and numeration of the volumes in the Ashmolean, where they were grouped in a room ealled ' Mr. Wood's study,' were, of course, retained in the ]3odleian, where with the Ashmole Collection they oeeupy the 'Ashmole' room. That arrangement must, therefore, next be described. The Wood MSS. and books were arranged in four divisions :-- (i) those without mark; (il) those indicated by letters; (iii) those indieated by letters and numbers ; (iv) those indicated by numbers. Division (i) was a mass of unbound MS. notes, letters, and loose charters, contained in boxes, which were handed over from the Ashmolean to the ]3odleian in i86o. The eharters and rolls have now been arranged as part and pareel of the Bodleian collection of eharters, and calendared in W. H. Turner's and H. O. Coxe's Calendar of todldan Charters. The test of the loose papers have been bound up into volumes, Wood F 39-Wood F 50, vhich will be notieed afterwards. I have great suspicions that, while the ' Wood boxes' were in the Ashmolean, several collectors, or the persons who supplied them, helped themselves from the unguarded store; and hence perhaps many of the Wood papers in the Rawlins (of Pophills, co. Warwick), Ballard, and Rawlinson Collections. Division (ii) eomprised six volumes, lettered A-F. These volumes contain Almanacs which will be noticed later on. Division (iii) comprised rive series, containing all the bound Wood MSS. and (excluding some intruded volumes) 92 of the Wood printed volumes. Wooà B. Wood B -B 15 are MSS. B i6-]3 4I are 27 volumes of printed books, ]3 28 having to be counted twice (I3 28 a, ]3 28 b). Wooà (3. Wood C I-C 12 are MSS. C 13-C 49 are 37 volumes of printed books. C 5 ° xvas lost anterior to the making of the 'Wood Catalogue' in i7--. C 51 (a printed book), C 52 (a few pages of MS.), and C 53 (Laud's resignation of his Chancellorship in I641, with autograph signature) bave been added to the original set of Wood books in this series. The MS. now rnarked C i (formerly 8 WOOD'S ZIFE AND TIAIES. ]S 3 o) has taken the place of the original C i, which was ' Dictionarium duplex Anglo-Britaniculn, authore iErasmo Lewin,' a book or giS. "vhich I have hot been able to trace. Wood I). Wood D I-]ï) 20 and D 32, ]ï) 33 are lISS.--now 29 in number, D 7 having been wisely re-bound in rive parts [D 7(i), D 7 (2), etc.] and D 19 in four parts, each part having been originally a distinct MS. D2I-D3I are i2 volulnes of printed books, representing two volumes. Wood :N. Wood EI-EI2 and E29 are MSS. EI3-[E28 are 6 volumes of printed books. Wood E 3 ° was a MS., which has been moved to, and is now, C i. These represent the original XVood set as placed in the Aslmmlean. [E3I, E32 , and E33 are three small MSS. of Wood's writing, which had passed into private posses- sion (being part of the 'private papers' left to Jalnes Bissel and Thomas Tanner to dispose of) and were afterwards procured for the Ashmolean. Unfortunately E 31 (Wood's ' book of libells on diverse persons in Oxford,' MS.) was early stolen, the Wood Catalogue having the note 'E3I de-est, Nov. 2o, I837--W. K."-' E34 is a printed book presented by Richard Rawlinson to the Ashmolean. Woocl P contained 37 volumes, all MSS., F I-F 37- F 31 was 'missing' at a very early date, and has never been traced. At a later date several of the volumes were bound together, so that the remaining 36 MSS. are now found in 24 volumes. F 15 has F io added toit. FII has FI8 addedtoit. F2I hasFi2, FiT, Fi9, F2o, F23, and F24 added toit. F22 bas F36 and F37 added toit. F 32 has F 3 ° and F 34 added to it.--To these considerable additions have latterly been ruade ; F 29 is now marked F 29 A, and a transcript of it (hot ruade for Sir John Peshall) in two volulnes is Inarked F 29 B, F 29 C. For the missing F 31 a volume (inarked F 31) has been substituted; ruade up of loose papers which had accumulated in the Ashlnolean by sifling out of the Wood MSS., the débris froln F i and F29A being the chief element. F38 is an (imperfect) MS. of Wood's History of the University and Colleges, bought by the Bodleian in letters to and from Wood. laneous papers--scraps for 1 E 3 "A has the signature ' G. P. Bisse' as of a former owner. E 33 has a broken piece of a printed book-plate which says :--' I) s Jacobus Bisse de Codicot ....... YVadh .... postea e testamenti curatoribus.., pha (quae sibi vivens 1846. F 39-F 45 are seven volumes of F 46-F 5 ° are rive volumes of Iniscel- the Athenae and personal--Inade up out donaverat A...) ... d. curavit.' Also the signature 'G. P. Bisse, I73.' See R. 13. Gardiner's 2çeg'. Coll. IVad]. p. 352.  William Kirtland, a capable and painstaking under-keeper of the Ah- molean. INTRODUCTION. 9 of l)ivision (i). F 51 is a srnall volume containing sorne Wood letters and papers round in 1891 in the Rawlinson D Collection. .Division (iv) comprised the mass of the printed boçks, numbered Wood 1-Wood 899. This numbering, however, was hot consecutive. Nos. lXO, 7oo, '/23, '/48, 887 each represented two volumes (ioA, fro B, etc.); and 660 rive volumes: and for a lost 276 two volumes of Wood single-sheets (76 A, 276 B) were substituted. This would give an apparent total of 91o volumes as placed in the Ashmoleah from the Wood bequest ; but some deductions have to be ruade, e.g. Wood 556-Wood 558 are Gazettes published aiter Wood's death. There were also a nurnber of intruded volumes, some of which bave since been removed into the Ashmolean numeration. Wood  II A-II C ('The New 13aronetage of ]ïngland,' Lond. 1769) have the inscription 'dono dedit J. Peshall Nov. 29mo , I768.' Wood 276C-276]ï are now Ashmole i818-i82o. Wood 2 428B-428]ï are books s printed after Wood's death. Wood 623 13 has the inscrip- tion ' dono dedit 13roxvne WiIlis, Aed. Xti socio-commensalis.' Wood 660 R has the inscription ' Ds. Jacobus Bisse M.D. de Codicot-13erry I-Iertf., longe abbinc e sociis Coll. Wadb., honoris ergo musaeo Antonii à Wood clarissimi antiquarii dono dedit 1737.' Wood 660, in addition to the Wood volumes (Wood 660 A-66o E) proper, repre- sents 37 intruded volumes (sorne of them Ashmole MSS.), riz. 66o R just mentioned, Wood 66oQ (now "I3ibl. ]ïngl. 17I 5 b. 3"), tcn volumes Wood 66oA-66oP, three voIumes marked Wood 66o,q, two volumes marked Wood 66oT, one marked Wood 66oTT. Wood 660 U, 66oV, 66oUV, 660 W, 66oGG, are now Ashmole 1813-1817 (correspondence and papers of ]ïdward Lhwyd and minutes of the Philosophical Society at Oxford). Wood 660 AA is now Ashmole 1821; Wood 66o1313-66ol)1) and 66oFF are now AshmoIe 18o6-18o8. Wood 66oEE (an intruded MS.) bas long been ' missing.' Of these Wood books forty-seven, over rive per cent., were 'missing' before the Wood Collection left the insecurity of the Ashmolean :--viz. nos. I, 50, 51 , 56, 57, 58 , 61, 63, 64, 66, '/4, 77, 86, 94, 11013, i2o, 123, 132 , 161, 192 , 2Ol, 276 , 282, 298, 324, 395, 398 , 400, 44 ° , 449, 49 ° , 692, 729, 734, 74 SA, 748]3 , 749, 755, 758 , 79 °, 791 8o2, 827 , 842, 881, 887A, 887 B. 1 additional to Wood I proper. 1698 ; Hickes' T/esaurus Ling. l'ct.,  additional to Wood 428 A. Oxon xe 5.  Hofmann Lexicon, Lugd. Bat. Io I/VOOD'S LIFE AND TI3IES. Excluding 45 books added at later dates and 12 MSS. 1 not of Wood's writing or collecting, we have, as the present total of the genuine Wood Collection, 115 volumes of MSS3 (or, if we include also the 39 almanacs interleaved with Wood's diary, 154 MSS.), and 959 printed volumes . These printed volumes represent an enor- mously greater number of printed pieces, 5 or 6 and in some cases io or 20 pieces being bound together; while in the pamphlets we have sometimes 5 ° or 60, or even 15o or 16o, separate pieces bound together. In getting his single-sheets and pamphlets bound up, Wood arranged them in divisions according to subject, and (generally speaking) tried to arrange each division in chronological order 4. Some of these divisions deserve particular notice. (A). The Almanacs. Wood was a considerable buyer of Almanacs. Those now found in the Wood Collection in the Bodleian occur in three sers :-- (a) Almanacs from 1657-1695 , interleaved, with Wood's diaries written in them. The history of these is very obscure. They were known to Dr. Richard Rawlinson, who ruade excerpts  from them, now found in IIS. Rawl. D 26. Thereafter they disappeared en- tirely and seem to be quite unknown to the successive editors of Wood's life (William Huddesford in I77 % and Dr. Philip Bliss in 1848). A good many years ago they were found in the Bodleian in a drawer in the Gough Room by the Rev. W. Dunn IXIacray, and then carefully bound. They had no doubt been in the library for many years, and are probably the papers mentioned in a small 4to lX'I S. Catalogue of lXISS, in the I3odleian (bound in green vellum, written G 1747): but how, or when, they came into the ]3odleian is hot known. 1 8 of them Ashmole MSS. ronde up out of those in Wood 660.  this takes no account of lost vo- lumes, some of which disappeared prior to the 17-- ' Wood Catalogue.' Nor, of course, is any account taken of MSS. of Wood's writing or collectîng in other collections in the Bodleian or elsewhere. Tor, again, do I include the ' rolls' and • eharters' of Wood's collecting vhich are now in the Bodleian.  lOO6, less 47 lost volumes. No account of course, is taken of any printed books formerly possessed by Wood which may be in other collections in the Bodleian or elsewhere; as one (and a most valnable one) is in Jcsus Coll. Libr., as will be noted afterwards.  in many cases Wood has marked on the title-page the date of appearance of the pamphlet.  I(awlinson's excerpts begin with the 1657 Almanac, but Huddesford in cdi- ting Wood's life printed the exccrpts from 1673 only.  by Humphrey Owen. INTRODUCTION. (b) Six volumes of Almanacs known as Wood A, 13, C, D, 13, F. These were among the books bequeathed to the Ashmolean by Wood in i695 and transferred with the other books of the Ashmolean Library to the Bodleian in i86o. (c) Stray volumes of Almanacs in the ordinary enumeration of the Wood printed books; e.g. Wood i-6, Wood io, Wood i2-i5, Wood 498, Wood 843. The Almanacs are by a great variety of writers : the more recognisable of them may be arranged thus alphabetically, putting first a short title by vhich they may be eited. Andrews: ' de rebus coelestibus or an ephemeris' . . . by William _A_ndrews, London. Atkinson: 'Pantcrpe, id est, omne delectare, or a pleasant almanack for' . . . by Charles Atkinson, London. 1ooker : appeared in different years under different titles, e.g. in 643 ' _A_lmanack et Prognosticon,' in 646 ' Mercurius Coelicus sive Almanack et Prognos- ticon,' in 66 ' Telescopium Uranicum or an Almanack' . . .--all by John ]3ooker, Lond. Coelson : * Speculum perspicuum Uranicum or an _A_lmanack ' . . . by Lancelot Coelson. Coley : ' Nuncius Coelestis or Urania's Messenger'... by Henry Coley, London. Crawford: "Vox Uraniae or Astrological Observations . . . for the year' . . . by Henry Crawford, Lond. 290ve: ']3ove: Speculum Anni . . . or an almanack for the year' . . . Cam- bridge. E2bisco2bal : ' _An episcopal almanack for the year ' . . . Lond. Gd6to'jt : 'E,I,H'MEPIN or a diary astronomical and astrological for the year.'... by John Gadbury, Lond. Gallez : either  An almanack and prognostication for the year' . . . or ' A com- pleat pocket Almanack for the year  . . . by Thomas Gallen Lond. i[oelelioz : « Montelion or a prophetical Almanack ' . . . 2Vaworll : ' A new almanack and prognostication for the year' . . . by George Naworth [an anagram for Wharton.] t'armer : ' Mercurius .A_nglicanus, or an English Mercury ' . . . by George Parker, Lond. t'aqridge : ' Merlinus liberatus, being an almanack '... by John Partridge, Lond. AZrs. Partridge: ' The Woman's Almanack for the year' ... by Dorothy Partridge. /'oa': A new almanaek for the year' . . . by Benjamin Pond, Oxford; or ' Pond : an almanaek for . . .' Cambridge. t'oor o6in : ' Poor Robin . . . An almanack after the old and new fashion' . . . L0nd. iider : ' Rider's ]3ritish Merlin ' . . . by Cardanus Rider, Lond. ._çaunders : ' Apollo Anglicanus, The English Apollo' . . . by Richard Sannders, Lond. Scri2bl«re : ' A scfipture almanack opening and reconciling difficult Scriptures' • . . by H. JJ  Wood notes ' II(enry) Jessey published a Scripture Almanack (for) t657.' I2 bVOOD'S Z1FE AND T1MES. Smith : ' A new almanack and prognostication ' . . . by John Smith, Lond. Swan : ' An ephemeris or almanack for'.., by John Swan, Cambr. ; also ' Swan: a new almmmc for' . . . Cambr. Tanner : ' Angelus tritannicus, an Ephemeris for ' . . . by John Tanner, Lond. Trigge : ' Calcndarium astrologicum or an almanac for' . . . by Thomas Trigge. IVkarton : appeared in successive years under a great variety of names : thus ' No Merline or Mercurie but a new Almanack after the old fashion '... ; ' He- meroscopeion, a meteorologicall diary and prognostication '... (followed by ' Proanaphonesis, or an astrall prediction ') ; ' Ephcmeris, or a I)iary' . . . ; ' Hemerologium' ; 'Calendarium Ecclesiasticum' ; ' Calendarium CaroIinum'; etc.--all by George Wharton, London. See 'Naworth,' supra. IV[ng: "Ohlma Adela'a ; or an almanack '... by Vincent Wing, Lond. ; after- wards by John Wing, Cambr. Y«a and 2Vhy: ' A yea and nay almanack for the people called by the men of the xvorId Quakers,' Lond. ; intended to satirise the Quakers. Arranged chronologically, with references to the volumes in xvhich they are round (those marked * being in the diary set), the Wood collection of Almanacs runs as follovs :-- 1529, Kalendrier ou Journal pour . . . 1529, par Jean Franco, Anvers 1629; Wood 2.--A IXltch almanac  ; Wood 498 (14). 163% Pond; Wood Ahn. A. I631, I,Lalendrier ou Journal pour . . . 1631 , par Jean Franco, Anvers 1631; Wood 3- 63, I)avid Origanus , a Dntch almanac, printed at Amsterdam ; Wood Alto. A. 1634, a Dutch almanac ; Wood  I. I64I, 164, 1643, I644, I645, 646, I647, I648, X649, 165o, 165I, 1652 , 1653, 1654, I655, Pond ; Wood Alm. A. Naworth ; Wood Alm. A.--Gallen, Wood Alto. B. Booker ; Wood Alm. A. Naworth ; Wood Alto. A. iN!aworth ; Wood Alto. A. Booker ; Wood Alto. A. Wharton ; Wood Alto. B. Wharton ; Wood Alm. B.--Scripture ; Wood AIm. A. Wharton ; Wood Alm. B. Wharton ; Wood Alm. ]3. Wharton ; Wood Alto. B (also in Wood IO). Wharton ; Wood IO.--Smith ; Wood Alm. A. Wharton ; Wood IO. Wharton; Wood Io.--Merlinus Anonymus byRaphael Desmos; Wood 15. Wharton ; Wood io.--Merlinus Anonymus ; Wood I5- 1 | Comptoir Almanach,' Amster- dam, I629.  this book contains notes of travels, etc., by a former owner, an English-  this book contains the diary of a former owner, resident at the ttague, etc. The hand is the smne as that which wrote the notes in Pond for 163o. I should hot be surprised if on exami- nation these turaed out to be the Jour- nals of Griffin Higgs, fellov of Merton; resident abroad from 1627 to 1638 as chaplain to Elizabeth (daughter of James I) ; afterwards dean of Lichfield; died 16 Dec. 1659.  this book is now 'missing' from the Library. INTRO1) UCTIO I656, Wharton; Wood IO. 1657, *Sanners.--Wharton ; Wood IO. 16.58, *Wing.--Wharton ; Wood IO. 1659, *Saunders.--Wharton ; Wood IO. 166% *Gadbury.--Wharton ; Wood IO.--Montelion t ; Wood I 5. 1661, */3ooker. XVharton ; Wood Alto. C.--Montelion ; Wood I5.--Gadbury; Wood Alto. D.--Tanner; Wood Alm. E.--Calendarium Catholicum or an Uni- versal Almanack for 1661 ; Wood 4- 1662, *Pond.--Wharton ; Wood Alm. C.--Montelion ; Vood 15.--Trigge ; XVood Alto. E.--Guzman's Ephemeris ; Wood I 5. 1663, *Saunders.--Wharton; Wood Alto. C.--Andrews; Wood Alto. E.-- Poor Robin ; Wood I2.--Endymion, his northern weatherglass ; Wood 15.--A new almanac after the old fashion for 1663, Lond. 1663 ; Wood 6. 1664, *Pond.--Wharton; Wood Alm. C.--Poor Robin ; Wood 12. 1665, *Wing.Wharton ; Wood Alm. C.--Poor Robin ; Wood I2. I666, *Dove.--Wharton ; Wood Alm. C.Poor Robin; XVood I2. 1667, *Swan.--Wing ; Wood Alto. E.--Poor Robin; Wood 12. 1668, *Dove.--Gadbury : Wood Alm. D.--Poor Robin ; Wood 12.The Pro- restant Almanac, by Philoprotest ; Wood Alto. E. 1669, *Pond.--Gadbtry ; Wood Alm. D.---Poor Robin; Wood 12. 1670 , *Pond.Gadbnry; Wood Alm. D.--Poor Robin; Wood I2.--Satmdcrs, Wood Alm. F. 1671 , *Atkinson.--Satmders, ,Vood Alto. F.--Poor Robin ; ,Vood 13. 1672, *Tanner.Saunders, Wood Alto. F.--Poor Robin ; Wood 13. 1673 , *Gadbury.Saunders, Wood Alm. F.--Poor Robin ; Wood 13. x674 , *Episcopal.--Poor Robin ; Wood 13. 1675 , *Episcopal.--Poor Robin ; Wood I3.--]Iercnriu$ Verax ; Wood I 5. 1676 , *Crawford.--Poor Robin ; Wood I 3. 1677 , *Pond.--Poor Robin; Wood x$.The New Protestant Almanac, by Philoprotest ; Wood Alm. E. 1678 , *Gadbury.--Poor Robin ; Wood I3.--Yea and 1Vay ; Wood Alm. E. 1679 , *Coley.--Poor Robin ; Wood l$.--Yea and l'qay ; Wood Alm. E. T68o, *Pond.--Poor Robin; Wood I3.--Coelson ; Wood Alm. E.--The 1Vew Protestant Alm., by Philoprotest ; Wood Alm. E. 1681, *Pond.--Poor Robin ; Wood 14. 1682, *Dove.--Poor Robin ; Wood I4.Rider ; Wood 5. 1683, *Swan.Poor Robin ; Wood 14.--Gallen ; Wood Alm./3. 1684, *Dove.--Poor Robin ; XVood 14. 1685, *Satmdêrs.--Poor Robin ; Wood 14. I686, *Wing.Poor Robin ; Wood I4.--Kalendarinm Catholicnm ; Wood 843. 1687, *Gadbury.--Poor Robin ; Wood 14.  Wood I5(3) is Montelion for I66O in vhich Wood notes :--« John Philipps, nephew by the mother to John Milton, was authour of this l[ontelion and hot of the rest that follow ; see in his l[er- curi, ts Verax, etc.'  Wood 748 A was ' Meflini Angliei Ephemeris' for I6î3 ; but the volnmê is ' missing.'  Wood 843 (I) is ' Kalendarium Catholicnm for the year I686,' 1686, price 6d; with this note by Wood : ' Snch an almanac as this was published I661, '62, '63; and if I ara hot mis- taken Thomas Blount of the Inner Temple had a hand in it. Airer it had laid dormant 2o yeares it was againe published when all people expected popery to be introduced.' I4 IVOOD'S L[Ftï AND 688, *Gadbnry.--Poor Robin ; Wood I4.--Ephemeris ad annum I688, Lond. 1688 ; Wood t 498 (I5). i689, *Wing.---Poor Robin ; Wood 14.--Pond ; Wood Alm. E. i69o , *Saunders.--Poor Robin; Wood x4- i69i , *Gadbury.--Poor Robin ; Wood Alm. F.--Parker ; Wood Alm. F. i692 , *Gadbury.--Poor Robin ; Wood Alm. F.--Partridge; Wood Alm. F.-- Gadbury ; Wood  Alm. D. i693 , *Gadbury.--Poor Robin; Wood Alm. F.--Partridge; Wood Alm. F.-- Gadbury ; Wood 3 Alto. D. i694 , *Partridge.--Poor Robin ; Wood Alm. F.--lIrs. Partridge, Wood Alm. F. --Gadbury, Wood Alm. D. 1695 , *Tanner.wPoor Robin ; Wood Alm. F.--Gadbury; Wood Alm. D. (]3). Nws2bapers in lhe IVood Colleclion. (i) Pcriodicals called AH'rcuries. i64t , Mereurius 13ritannieus or The English Intelligeneer ; Wood 6I i64-643 , pp. 1-75 o, Mererius Alics 4; Wood 623. 164ï-i644 , pp. 75i-i328, Mererius Aulicus ; Wood 624. Z)ec. I656, Mercurius Politicus ; at the beginning of Wood 389. i65,-i657, Mereurius Politicus ; Wood 522. I65-I658 , Mercuris Politicus ; Wood 523. i65-I659, Mercurius Politicus; Wood 524. Jan. 16ï-I2 Apr. I66o', Mercurius Politicus; Wood [- Wood notes in Wood 524 :--' Marchiomont Needdaam gives of(f) writing, or rather prohibited, about this time ; and l]Iercurius f'ztblicus goes folvard who began in the beginning of the year I66o?] 9 Dec. 1659-3 Jan. I66,ï Mercurius Publicus ; Wood 393- I66-I66I, Mercurius Publicus ; Wood 394- I66½-I662, Mereurius Publicus; Wood 52o. I6 Jan. I66-3I Aug. [" Wood notes in Wood 521 :--' Mr. Henry lIuddiman desisting from writing 2][erctrius 29ttblicts, Mr. Roger L'strang by order succedes in writing the Intel- ligencer and the Newes '--the title had been already in use. 15 Dec. I656-28 Dec. I657, Publick Intelligencer ; Wood 389. 8 Z)ec. 1657-2I Dec. I658, Publick Intelligencer ; Wood 39o.] (ii) The InMh'gencer and lhe lY«ws. Wood in his diaries freely cites ' the News,' ' News.' ' The Intelligeneer' was published on Monday ; ' the News published for the satisfaction and information of the people,' on Thursday. t this book bas the note :--' Johannis Aubrey ex dono Edmundi Halley, au- toris.' z this book has the note :--' Jo(hanni) Aubrey, R(egiae) S(ocietatis) S(ocio), dedit author.' a this book has the antograph : ' Ed(ward) Shirburne.' 4 in Wood's Cataloffue of his own books, now in Wood MS. E. 2, he speaks of having three volumes of l]Icrcurius Aulicus, and mys they con- tain ' a great deal of wit and buffoonry.'  in Wood MS. D. t8 are notes, ap- parently excerpted from l]Iercurius tgoliti«us» for the years 651-1656. INTRODUCTION, 15 3r Aug, I663-8 Dec. I663  The Intelligencer  Wood 5I. The News Jan. 166- 9 Dec. 1664 » ; Wood 391. Jan. x66- 9 Jan. 166 ,, ; Wood 39 z. Gazette.' lYood's Gazettes :- Vol. I. ! Nos. Nos. ¥ol. II. Nos. ¥ol. III. Nos. Vol. IV. Nos. Vol. V. Nos. Vol. ¥I. Nos. ¥ol. ¥II. Nos. Vol. VIII. Nos. Vol. IX. Nos. ¥ol. X. Nos. Vol. XI. Nos. (iii) The Gazette, freely cited by Wood in his diaries. Nos. 1-23 were entitled ' the Oxford Gazette' : nos. 24 onwards ° The London 1-23, 7 Nov. 1665-1 Feb. 166 ; Wood 4 I. 24-246 , 1 Feb. 166-. 4 Mat. 166 ; Wood 541. 247-454, 26 Mat. 1668-24 Mat. 16{{ ; Wood 542. 455-662, 28 Mar. 167o-24 Mat. 167½ ; Wood 543- 663-871, 25 Mar. 1672-23 Mat. t 6,'" Wood 544 t. 872-1o8 % 26 Mat. 1674-27 Mat. 1676 ; "Wood 545- lO81-1288, 27 Mar. 1676-25 MaL I6î8 ; Wood 546. 1289-I497, 25 Mar. 1678-25 Mar. I6So ; Wood 547 3. 1498-17o5, 25 Mar. 168o-23 Mat. I68; Wood 5483. 17o6-1914, 23 Mar. 168½-24 Mar. 168-; Wood 549% 1915-2123, 24 Mat. 168-25 Mat. I6S6; Wood 55o. 2124-2332 , 25 Mar. 1686-26 Mar. 1688 ; Wood I. Vol. XII. Nos. 2333-2542, 26 Mat. 1688-24 Mat. I6 ; Wood 552. ¥ol. XIII. Nos. 2543-2751, 24 Mar. I6]--2I Mar. 169{ ; Wood 553- Vol. XIV. Nos. 2752-296o , 24 Mar. I69X_-26 Mar. 1694 ; Wood 554- Vol. XV. Nos. 2961-3272 , 26 Mat. 1694-22 Mar. I69{ ; Wood 555- But Wood died on 28 Nov. 1695 and therefore the last Gazette he can bave had is No. 3134, that 'from 21 Nov.-25 Nov. I695.' The set of Gazettes is continued in Wood 556, Wood 557, and Wood 558 to the year 17o 4. (iv) Lilerary periodicals. (a) The series freqnently cited by Wood as Terre Cataloues : the title of vhich was at first 2]Iercurius Librarius, but was soon changed. An index ruade by Wood (for purposes of the ,4thenae) to the Mercnrii Librarii and Term Catalogues is found in Wood MS. F 36. Nos. 1-7, Mich. Terre I668-Easter Term 167o , ' Mercnrins Librarius'; Wood 658. Nos. 1-57 , Easter Terre I6îo-Trinity Terre 1695 , ' Catalogue of books printed and published at London'; Wood 658. (b) 'The Universal Historical Bibliothèque,' 3 parts (Jan., Feb., Match Lond. 1687 ; Wood E 26. (c) ' The works of the learned or a historical acconnt . . . of books newly printed' by J. de la Crose, Lond. 1691 , 1692 , nine parts (Aug.-Dec. 1691, Jan.- Mar. 169, Apr. 169 ) ; Wood E 24. (d) 'Mercurius Eniditonim or news from the leamed world," one part only (no. 2, that for Wedn., Ang. 12, I69I), probably sent to Wood because containing a laudatory notice of the tthenae ; in Wood E 24.  Wood notes that he paid for ' bind- ing, 2s 6d,' and that it was 're-bound, 3 Apr. 1694 , IS 6d.'  Wood notes that he paid for bind- ing this volume ' 2s 6d, Dec. 24 anno 1688.' 16 WOOD'S LIFE AWD TIilIES. (C). Oford pamphlets : cited by Wood as ' Oxoniensia.' Vol. I, Wood 51, 16 pamphlets, 157-1669, chiefly Latin speeches. Vol. II, Wood 513, 8 pamphlets, 1651-I697, chiefty topographical. Vol. III, Wood 514, 54 PamP hletsx, 164ï--1649, Laud's resignation, the siege of Oxford, the Parliamentary Visitors. Vol. IV, Wood 515, 34 pamp hlets, 164o-1687, stires, the Quakers in Oxford, etc. Vol. V, Wood 516,  pamphlets, 1585-16-. Vol VI, Wood 517, 6 pamphlets, 1688-1691, Magd. Coll. and James II. To these must be added Wood 4-3 (containing 67 pamphlets, 1679-1689), Wood 631 (containing .o pamphlets, chiefly concerned with the troubles at Exeter College in 169o-1691). Also Wood 776 A and Wood 776 B, containing numerous Oxford single-sheets, especially University notices , cited frequently by Wood as  Oxford papers.' Wood 614 (6 pamphlets), Wood 615 (.6 pamphlets), Wood 616 (5 pamphlets) contain some Oxford pieces. (D). Iamthlcls aou! Engh'sh contemtorary ht'story, arranged in several distinct sers :-- (a) _Pambhlets abou! ski2h-money, I64I , Wood 527 (4 pamphlets). (b) PamMets about lhe Civil IVar, I64i-I6. Nine volumes of' pamphlets eontaining matters making for and against the rebellion that broke forth anno 16422 Vol I, Wood 373, 67 pamphlets, 1641. Vol. II, Wood 374, 36 pamphlets, 1642. Vol. III, Wood 375, 47 pamphlets, I642-I64§ . Vol. IV, Wood 376, 73 pamphlets, 1643-I64. Vol. V, Wood 377, 43 pamphlets, 644-I64. Vol. VI, Wood 378, 66 pamphlets, 1645. Vol. VII, Wood 5i, 42 pamphlets, I646 , 1647. Vol. VIII, Wood 57, 75 pamplfiets, 1648. Vol. IX, Wood 503, 37 pamphlets, 1649-1659. Several single-sheets belonging to this set are round in Wood 776 A. Wood 6 4 (6z pamphlets), Wood 615 (.6 pamphlets), Wood 616 (5 pamphlets), Wood 617 (71 pamphlets), and Wood 619 (3 pamphlets) also contain several pieces belonging to this set. (c) tgamphlcts aboutarty-leaders of the Civil War pedod (and later). (i) King Charles I ; Wood 244 (4 pamphlets), Wood 363 (7 pamphlets about the Eiudv Ba«,,u eontroversyini69ï-1693), Wood 364 (37 pamphlets, I649-166o ). (ii) Royalist sufferers, Stafford, Laud, etc. ; Wood 366 (33 pamphlets, 1641- I646; Wood 367 (23 pamphlets, 165o-1655 ; with added pamphlets about exeeufions 169o-1691 ). (iii) The Regieides; Wood 369 (IO pamphlets, 166o-1662). (iv) Parliamentary leaders; Wood 531 (15 pamphlets, 1642-1681 ).  bound together Feb. 8, I6ï, at a cost of 6d; so Wood's note. z bound together Feb. 8, i6-, at a cost of 5d; so Wood's note.  one section of these Wood fre- quently cites as ' Encaenia papers.' * the year with Wood being 5 March-z 4 March. INTRODUCTION. 17 (a) l'amjbhlets about the agitation for and against [onarchy,  649-I66o. Wood 608 (72 pamphlets); Wood 609 (48 pamphlets); Wood 6Io (64 pamphlets) ; Wood 6x2 (72 pamphlets); Wood 6x3 (63 pamphlets) ; Wood 533 (x 7 pamphlets). Several single-sheets of this elass are round in Wood 276 A. (e) l'amihIets about the estoration. Wood 537 (2o pamphlets); Wood 398 (22 pamphlets); Wood B 37 (I3 pamphlets). ( l'amibhlets about Charles 11's l'arliamenls. Wood 65î (62 pamphlets, but only a few of them on this subject) ; Wood 560 (the Collection of State tracts of Charles IFs reign). OE) t'amtshlets x about the « l'o2bish t'lot," x678-I683. Vol. I, Wood 424, 3I pamphlets, I678-I679. Vol. II, Wood 4z5, 3o pamphlets, I679-x68o. Vol. III, Wood 4z6, 35 pamphlets, 168o-6S. Vol. IV» Wood 4z 7, 5o pamphlets, x68x-683. Wood 276 A contains several single-sheets belonging to this period. (]t) l'amt]dets about the  l'resbyterian l'lot,' x683-I685. Wood 428 A (33 pamphlets). (i) l'am2bklets about James, Duke of ]brk, andJames IL x673-I688. Wood 66o C ; Wood 6z 9 (8 treatises about James II's dispensing power). (k) l'amibhlets about A[onmouth and his invasion ( 68o-I685). Wood 660 C ,,the volume eontains 37 pamphlets, but several of them belong to the preceding set). (1) l'amibhlets about the l'rince of Orange aud the evolution, I688-1689. Wood 529 (22 pamphlets); Wood 530 (5 pamphlets) ; Wood D 29 (twdve Collections of Papers relating to the present juncture of affairs in England,' with other similar Collections). (E). Pamphlets Vol. Vol. Vol. Vol. Vol. Vol. Vol. a3out Irdand, chiefly about contemporary events. I, Wood 504, 4 pamphlets. II, Wood o,  pamphlets. III, Wood 506, 2 pamphlets, I64O-X64L IV, Wood o7, 48 pamphlets, x64o-I64I. V, Wood 508, 52 pamphlets, x642-x644. VI, Wood o9, 35 pamphlets, x645-164]. VII, Wood IO, 37 pamphlets, 649-i692. (F). tamphlets concerned with dia3lerie and the marvellous. Wood 643, ' God's judgments' ; x  pamphlets. Wood 646. prophecies ; t 7 pamphlets. Wood 7o4-Wood 708, Wood B I6-Wood B 23, witches, ghosts, etc. Wood ]3 35, apparitions, monsters, etc. ; 35 pamphlets. Wood D 28 floods, earthquakes, comets, great rires, etc. (G). l amphlets connected wilh crimes and criminals. Rogues and thieves: Wood 284 (xo pamphlets), Wood 37I (IX pamphlets), Wood 372 04 pamphlets, i65x-694). Murders : Wood 365 (35 pamphlets, x649-1692).  see Wood E 27, infra p. 9. C 18 IVOODS LIFE AND TIMES. Traitors: Wood 586 (2 pamphlets, I58-679), Wood 587. Trials and executions : Wood 368 (28 pamphlets, 1645-1649), Wood 4I (I4 pamphlets, I685-1689), Wood 422 (I6 pamphlets). (H). Chap-books, ballads, and poems. (i) Chap-books. Wood C 31, Wood C 3u, Wood 54, Wood 59, Wood 84, Wood 3u1 (Tom a Lincoln, Guy earle of Warwick, Sir 13cris of Hampton, etc.), Wood 35 o. (ii) t?allads. Wood E 25 is a collection of 153 ballads, arranged in great measure in chrono- logical order of publication, and dealing largely with political affairs, e.g. nos. 1 io sqq. are about the Prince of Orange and 1688. Wood 40o was a collection of ballads, but was stolen before 1837. Vgood 4Ol is a large collection of ballads, arranged for the most part in chrono- logical order ; Wood 4021 is a similar collection. In 4Ol the Robin Hood ballads are well represented. Wood 416 and Wood 417, containing respectively 133 and 18 3 pieces, are a collection of ballads and other pieces in verse , largely political and arranged for the most part in chronological order and in groups, e.g. Rump ballads, ballads about General Monck, ballads against the Quakers. Wood 276 A and Wood 276 13 eontain a number of ballads, ehlefly politieal. (iii) oems. Garlands; Wood 94, stolen belote 1837 , contained a number of «garlands,' e.g. the ' Robin Hood Garland' 1689, the' Garland of Goodwill,' Lond. 1685, etc. Song's ; Wood 326 contains Rump satires and Restoration drolleries, Col- lections of New Songs" of dates 1673 , 1675 , 1677. Wood 126 is 'A choice collection ofcatches, rounds, etc.,' Lond. 1652. Wood 11o A is a collection of Christmas carols. Wood 399, stolen before 1837 , was a volume of songs printed at Edin- burgh. tgoems ; Vood 382 contains 8 collections of verses, in particular the first, second, third, and ' fourth and last' Collections ' of poems, satyrs, songs, against popery," I)ec. I688-March I68. Wood 460, endorsed t:unebria, is a collection of rnemorial verses, e.g. to Sir Thomas 13odley, etc. Wood 429 is a collection of 54 Elegies and other funeral verses, from before I65: to t694. Wood 483 and "VVood 484 contain respectively 24 and i i pieces and collections of verses. Wood 319 is a collection of funeral poems, congratulatory verses, etc. (j). took-lisls, authors, subjects, printed catalogues of books written by individual of books for sale by booksellers, of books in given of books for sale by auction . 1 this volume, Wood notes, was made up and bound at ' Christmas I689.'  Wood refers to these two volumes in a note in Wood 382 :--' Memorandum that I have two volumes in folio en- dorsed oems songs, eleffles, seeral things in prose, etc. : the first volume eontains 132 several things and the second 83, among which many are ballads ; but those being all printed in folio sheets and papers cannot be botmd with these (i.e. Wood 382) following ; nor a thick octavo book (Wood 326) endorsed Song's, Z)rolleries containing 7 severall 8vo books bound together.' z sec also the Lilerary t9eriodicals, supra, p. INTRODUCTION. 19 Wood E 13-E 20 contain chiefly auction catalogues t, quarto size, which Wood has arranged chronologically and numbered consecutively (as Catalogue i, Cata- logue 2, etc.), and which Wood probably cites in his papers by their numbers. He has also re-paged them in many cases for easier reference. Wood E 21 and E 22 continue the series. Wood E 13 ; Catalogues 2 i-a; i676-i678. Wood E 14; Catalognes 7-12 ; 1678-i68o. Wood E 15 ; Catalognes 13--18 ; 1680-1681. Wood E 16 ; Catalognes 19-26 ; 168t-1683. Wood E7 ; Catalogues 27-38 ; 1683-68 . Wood E 8 ; Catalognes 39-49 ; z685-I686. Wood E 19 ; Catalognes 50-56; 1686-687. Wood E 20 ; Catalognes 57-68 ; 1687-168 . Wood E 21 ; catalogues not numbered as in the series; 168-1688. Wood E 22 ; ,, ,, , ..... ,, ; I688-1692. Wood E 23 ; ehiefly duplieates ; 1674-1687. Wood C 26 ; catalogues of books 16o9-1678. Wood D 22 ; eighteen catalogues of books 1618-1693. Wood E 273 ; 'Catalogue c of all stitch'd books and single-shcets since the first discovery of the Popish Plot. Sept. 1678-an. 16-,' price 6d.--" Continuation' of this catalogue « from I Jan. 16 to 25 June 1680,' price 6a'.m' Continuation  fronl 24 June to Michaelmas Tcrm 1680,' price 42/. Wood 91 ; catalogues of books 654-1692. Wood 654 C ; Andrew Mannsell's Catalogue of Books, Lond. I 95- Wood 658 bas at the end a number of book prospectuses, 1667-694. Wood 66o B ; Robert Clavell's catalogues, catalogues of books printed at the Theatre, etc. Wood 896 ; nine catalogues of books, 1597-1694. Wood 897 , 898 ; William Crowe's catalogues (Engl., Lat.) of Divinity books. Wood 899; seven catalogues, 1624-1695. (K). Calalogues oflaA's; Wood E 28. (i) Wood E 28 (i) is (anonymous) ' An exact and perfect catalogne of all playes that are printed,' which Wood dates as of 656. t many of these are marked as gifts from Andrew Allam, others from Henry Cruttenden, lessee of the printing-press in the Theatre. The booksellers Edward Millington and William Cooper are the persons by whom most of these cata- logues are drawn up ; lichard Chiswell, John Dunmore, Robert Scot contribute a few. Many have slight notes by Wood in preparation for the Athcnae. 2 nos. I and 2 Wood round he had cited sometimes by one number some- rimes by another, and so he dubs them ' Catalogue I alias 2 " and « Catalogue 2 alias i.' 3 nos. 2-4 in this volume. Wood E 2î (3 is Thomas Gore's (1674) Cata- logue of Heraldry Books. Wood E 27 (5) is ' A catalogue of all discourses published against Popery... during the reign of James II,' Lond. I689, in which Wood notes that it cost him ' 6d, 14 Match 1688,' i.e. , and that 'Mr. William Wake of Ch. Ch., the author, under R. Baldwin's [the printer's of the book] name.' c at the end Wood makes several ad- ditions of paFers printed I6{, 6î9 , I68O.  the publisher states' the eontinua- tion is intended to be publish'd every terre,' on which Wood remarks 'but your intention was hOt suffered to take efect.' 2 20 I'OOD'S I.IFE AND TIIES. (ii) Wood E 28 (2) is (anonymous) ' An exact and perfect catalogue of all the plaies that were ever printed,' on which Wood notes ' this catalogue of playes was taken fronl the end of a comedy called The Old Zaw printed at London I656.' (iii) Wood E 28 (3) is ' A true perfect and exact catalogue of ail the Comedies etc .... printed.., till this present year I671 . .. for sale at the shop of Francis Kirkman, London,' on which Wood notes ' this catalogue was taken from the end of a Tragi-conledy called ïcomede translated out of the French of monsieur Corneille by John Dancer, printed at London I67I.' (iv) ' An exact catalogue  of all comedies, etc.,.., printed till this present year i68o,.., printed.., for Nicholas Cox,' Oxford I68O, price bd., on which Wood notes :--' Note that at the end of Nicomede . . . is a Catalogue... from which catalogue did Nicholas Cox manciple of St. Edmund's Hall in Oxon. take the following catalogue, adding thernnto ail such that came out to this present yeare 168o. The said catalogue at the end of Nicomede was by Francis Kirkman, stationer, living in Thames Street, London. I Kirkman I Mr. Cox seveml of our Oxford scholars have read your catalogues of playes.., and like them well, but would have lik'd them better had you set down the yeare when they were printed that they might have knowne when the authors lived and when the playes came first in use, for without time they cannot be exact judges of matters ; but they hope that for the future you will hot omit those matters and [other 2 plays] that are not yet [set downe but are yet] extant, as :-- °, the tragedy of Herod and Antipater, by Gervase Markham and William Sampson, Lond. 1662, 4to. 2% the Maske of Flowres, a play acted by the gentlemen of Grey's Inne, Lond. I614, 4to. 3% Paria, comoedia per Thomam Vincent, Lond. 1648. 4 °, The Yrojector lately dead, printed I634 , ruade against William Noy lately attomey-general. 5% Thomas Randolphe's playes, 4to. 6o, John Skelton's playes and interludes.' (v) X'Vood E 28 (5) ' A new Catalogue of English playes...' by Gerard Lang- baine, gent., Lond. I688, price IS., on which Wood notes:--' Yublished in the beginning of Dec. J687. The first edition of this book bore this title "AIomus triumibhans , or the plagiaries of the English stage expressed in a catalogue of comedies, etc., by Gerard Langbaine esq." Lond. J688, 4to, published Nov. I687. Which title with the book it selfe being contrary to the mind of the author, as in the Advertisement [in the 2nd issue] it appeares, and 5oo of them sold, he forthwith caused the title following as also the Advertisement to be printed and set before the remaining part of the copies.' (L). 13[iscellaneous pamphlels. (i) Pamphlets about relioous questions. for and afiainst fiovernment by bishops ; Wood D 31 (I636-66o. for and against Presbyterianism ; Wood D 26 (I6 pamphlets, I645-I68I ). for and against Quakers ; Wood 645 (26 pamphlets, I653-I675 ). for and gainst 'sectaries'; Wood 647 23 pamphlets). t Wood C 26 (2o) is a duplicate and has practically the same note. a the words in square brackets are inserted from the copy in Wood C 26, to mend the sense. INTRODUCTIOW. 2  for and against Romanists; Wood 854 (a pamphlets), Wood B 4 ° 07 pamphlets), Wood D 24 (o pamphlets).  for and against Toleration ; Wood 6x (19 pamphlets).  services and formulae of the Church of England, Wood D 2, "Wood B 36, Wood B 37. (ii) Pamhlets about olitical questions. -- about the power of Parliament ; Wood 457, Wood 518, Wood 519, Wood 62o (1642-I66o), Wood 62x (i678), Wood 657 (I66O, x688). -- about the forms of Government, Wood 65, Wood 66 (nineteen pamphlets). (iii) tamhlets about legal questions. Wood 630 (I642-1672), Wood 632 (78 pamphlets). (iv) tamphlets about military matters. Wood 635(Eglish drill and taeties), Wood 55 (wars abroad). (v) tamphlets about economic questions. -- about national prosperity, etc. ; Wood D  about usury and investments ; Wood 628. -- about tithes ; Wood 370. -- about taxation ; Wood 526 (Io pamphlets). (ri) tamphlets about social matters.  tobacco, ale, wine, tea, coffee, chocolate, coffce-houses, etc. ; Wood 679 0652-67,), Wood D 3 ° (I6o2-I675). -- about women and marriage, usually against them ; Wood 654 A, Wood 750. (vii) tamphlets about literay malters. -- about the art of printing, Wood 642.  about writers of almanaeks, Wood 622.  about the value of University studies, Wood B 24- III. Of the naine Woo or ). Woo. It is plain from several pieces of evidence that the family name was ' Wood' and hot' à Wood' : thus, (a) in different MSS. by our author, where he is writing naturally and hot pacing on the high horse, he refers to his father, rnother, brothers, nephews, as 'Wood' or ' Woode' simply ; (b) in other writings by other people they are called Wood simply, e.g., in the rnatriculation and degree books of the University ; (c) in their autograph signatures, found in various volumes of printed books in the Wood collection, the naine is always Wood or Woode, never à Wood. The fatker, Thomas Wood senior, signs himself ' Tho. Wood' in Wood 239 (' A hundredth sundrie Flowres' etc. Lond. [576]). The mothe; Mary Wood, has written ber name several rimes :--e.g. 'Mary Wood' in Wood B 34, in Wood 34, in Wood  46 ('A short introduction to grammar generally to be used' Oxford x636), in Wood 330 (8) (Beaumont and t the evidenee of _MS. Phillipps 7oI 8 by vriting ' à Wood' or ' at Wood,' is important. There in the earlier slips but afterwards uses most frequently on paper at the end our author gives 'à Woode.' • Wood' or' Woode' ; but in the formal  the date is given in this instance : and later writing on vellum he begins 'Mary Wood 1647.' II/'OOD'S LIFE A,VD TIiI[ES. Fletcher's 'A king and no king,' Lond. 63I), in Wood 4I; ' Mary Wod'in Wood C 4 ° (' lOavid's desire to goe to church,' Oxford 1615) ; ' Mary W.'--her abbreviated signature--in Wood 46, in Wood 595, in Wood 64 (48) (« A de- claration or remonstrance of the Lords and Commons, 19 May I642,' Lond. I642), and in Wood 614 (57) (' His majestie's declaration to ail his loving subjects,' I642). The brothers (Thomas (junior), Edward, Robert) also sign themselves Wood. ' Thomas Wood' and ' Edward Wood' are round in Wood 411. ' Robert Wood' (before 1645 ) is found in Wood 54 ; ' Robert Wood 1647 ' in Wood 46 ;  Robert Wood' in Wood 7o. It is plain also that our author's contemporaries generally wrote his naine as Wood, as will appear from the addresses of several le ters given in the course of these volumes. Further, there are numerous signatures t showing that at first our author wrote his name Wood or Woode. The signature ' A. Wood,' Anthony  Wood,' ' Ant. Wood,' ' Antonius XVood ' is round in 1653 (Wood 8 no. 1) ; in 1656 Wood MS. B 15) ; in 1658 (Wood 16, Wood 34, Wood 129, Wood 6o2, Wood 66 no. 12) ; in 1659 (Wood Ol) ; in 166 (Wood 141, Wood 4o6); in 1667 (Wood 126). The signature 'A. Woode," Ant. Woode,' 'Anthony Woode' is round in 1651 (Wood 515 no. 12) ; in 1655 (Wood 348) ; in 1656 (Wood C 44, Wood 279 ) ; in 1657 (Wood 498) ; in 1658 (Wood 16, Wood iMS. D 7 no. 3, Wood MS. D 21, Wood 134 , "Vood I49); in I65 (Wood 46- ) ; in 1659 (Wood 13 32 no. 4, Wood MS. C 2, Wood 376 no. 17, Wood 381, Wood 385) ; in 66o (Wood D 25, Wood 2,Wood 523, Wood 524) ; in 166 (Wood MS. D 8, Wood 136 , Wood 393, Wood 394) ; in 664 (Wood 391); in 1665 (Wood 39 z, Wood 516) ; in 1665) (Wood 33o); in 1668 (Wood 534 no. 3)- The form à lFood was therefore only a fanciful form adopted by our author as more distinctive and distinguished. Latterly it is his common signature 'Anthony à Wood,' ' Antonius à Wood.' On its adoption he defaced a good many of his former signatures :--(1) by drawing a peu through them and blotting them out, e.g. in Wood 13 z 5 (Owen l:eltham's ' Resolves,' Lond. 1634) the inscription ' Anthonius Wood, 1656' is thus scored out; similarly, in Wood 34 Anthony Vfood his booke Amen I656'is scored out and his book-plate destroyed because it had no 'à' ; similarly ' Aut. Woode»' I6g-, in Wood 13 3z ()» is scored out : (2) by pasting a slip of paper over--e.g, if the title-page of Wood D 24 no. IO ('The Jesuits' downefall threatened against them by the secular priests,' Oxford 1612) be held to the light it will show, under the pasted-on slip, the inscription' Ant. Woode !Iert. Coll. Oxon. 1658 ' : (3) by inserting the à, e.g. Wood IO has the note  Ant. à Woode Jan. 21 A.D. 1659' (i.e. i6{-) and Wood C 28 (Thomas James' ' Ecloga Oxonio- Cantab.,' Lond. 16oo) has 'A. W. (I6)6o' and (apparently ofthe same date) ' Ant. à Wood Coll. blert.'; but in both cases the difference of the ink shows that the  besides those with dates, there are undated (but obviouslyearly) signatures, e.g. ' Anthony Wood ' in Wood 2 and Wood 46 ; ' Anthony Woode' in Wood C 7 and Wood C 6 (14 . * 'Anthony' is the form which he naturally uses for his Christian name; latterly he writes also 'Antony' from influence of the Latin ' Antonits.' IWTROD UCTIOIV. 3 • à ' is a later insertion (Wood C 8 has also the signature ' Antonii à Wood I67x ' ; in this case genuine). Wood 438 exhibits as in x658 the form ' Ant. k Woode,' but I doubt its genuineness. ' Ant. à Uuod' is round in x662 in Wood 34 I. Wood at first wrote his initials as 'A.W.,' e.g. in 66o in Wood 326 (i) ; but latterly he almost invariably used the monogram ' zW,' /Vood.' Wood also, from about 167o , ruade frequent use of a Latinized form of his naine in accordance with the absurd fashion of the day, In Wood 296 and Wood 654 A (x6) he xvrites 'A. Bosco.' In Wood 3 t, in Wood 4o3, in MS. Jes. Coll. 32 (an illuminated Latin service-book formerly belonging to him), 8ce., he writes ' Ant. k Boseo.' In Wood MS. B x- (O.C. 8583) we have 'Antonius a Boseo z,ulg'o a Wood, historiograihus Oxoniensis.' He uses also the monogmms ' Z3,' ' osco.' E.g., Wood MS. D 3 (O.C. 85x4), a volume of collections ruade by him, is marked 3t3, just as a similar volume, Wood MS. C 2 (O.C. 8516), is marked/W. Wood 87,' Ovid his invective against Ibis trans- lated into English meeter by T.V.,' Lond. I569, bas the signature ' A3osco' [and the autograph of' Richard Dier,' a former owner]. Wood 457 (3) John Selden's ' The priviledges of the Baronage of Egland,' Lond. I64 ; and Wood 88 Edward Phillips' ' Theatrum Poetarum,' Lond. x68o, are also marked ' A3osco.' Wood B 36 (4)' Fides Aboriginum Britanniae' has the note :--' Ant. k Bosco ex douo Jos. Crowther S.T.P. et principalis aulae B. Mafiae Virg. 5 Aug. x683.' IV. Wood's family hislory. I have brought together from the entries in Wood's autobiography and diaries, Wood's notes as to the history of his family, with addi- tional names and dates supplied by parish Oxford (MS. Rawl. B 4o2a), 33, etc. I have been allowed to the register of S. John Baptist by Wood MS. C  2, Wood MS. verify the statenlents here ruade by comparison with Wood's own history of his family in MS. Phillipps 7oi 8. Reference may also be ruade to the pedigree of Wood printed by Dr. Bliss (' Life of Wood,' edit. 1848 , 13. 357)" The Wood family believed that they came from . . . Wood of Croston a parish near Preston in Lancashire. This man, the fami]y tradition tan, after his wife's death, took upon him priestly orders at the beginning of Queen Mary's reign, and nlade a vow, which he kept to his death, never to eat flesh. In Elizabeth's reign he refused to take the oath of supremacy, and was thereupon imprisoned in Lancaster castle. He died there towards the end of 568 (11 Eliz.), t a paper in MS. Phillipps 7o18 has excerpts, sent by some one to Wood, of burials, marriages, christenings of persons named Wood in the parish register of Croston ; but they seem to throxv no light on the desccnt of the family. 4 WOOD'S ZIFE AND TI3IES. afier an imprisonment of seven years, and was buried in the Castle precincts. Wood eould hot discover his Chrisfian naine for certain, but thought that it was Richard i (ii) Selllement of lhe family in O.rforàshire and Zondon. •.. Wood of Croston, co. Lancs., (Anthony Wood's great-grand- father)-cas survived by three daughters and a son. The three daughters were 'menial servants' in the household of the earl of Derby (Wood thought, at Latham House ), and came with the rest of the household to Einsham (co. Oxon.), where the earl had a seat on the site of Einsham Abbey. There they married tenants of the earl. Emme Wood, married, lstly, on 9 May 1568 George Makyne of ]Sinsham, who was buried io Match 158; married, 2ndly, on 9 Nov. 1588 WilliamS Yate or Yates, tailor of Einsham, of kin to the Yates of Witney, by this second husband she had no children. She ' lived and died a papist,' and was buried at ]Sinsham 1 Apr. 16o 3. Alice Wood, married, lstly, John ]3eare of ]Sinsham, who was buried 5 Sept. 1595; married, 2ndly, John ]3olton 4 of that ]Sinston (i.e. ]Snstone) near Chipping-Norton which is called ' Neat ]Sinston.' She died 'a verie old woman,' z 9 Apr. 1634. She told Wood's father many stories of the family, stories which (to Wood's regret) died with him ; see in July 1634. Her daughter by the first marriage, ]Slizabeth ]3eare, told stories of the family to Wood himself; was twice married ; died in the latter end of May 1668 at Gasingwell in ]Snstone parish, aged 80; and was buried in ]Snstone churchyard. Mary Wood, married on ii July 1587 John ]3arncote, xvho was buried 25 Feb. (?) 1599. She ' lived and died a strong papist.' Her eldest son Thomas ]3arncote is mentioned several rimes in the diaries as receiving small presents from Wood, his mother, and brothers. Wood describes him as having been ' tall and proper, a free-mason by trade.' He died 13 June 1665, aged 77.  Wood notes that in lXTicholas Sanders' De visibili monarchia, pp. 674 , 677, mention is ruade of' Willelmus Woddus, presbiter, in carcere defunctus' at Lancaster. Wood cites the copy of the book in Selden's library (Wirceb. ,59 u, fol. : press-mark "H. L 9 Th. Seld.")  Wood MS. D 6 (O.C. 8555) is * A journal of the siege against Lathom ttouse [643 ] xvherein I was wounded, Ed[ward .9] Halsoll.'  Wood was uncertain about the Christian naine, giving in one place ' William.' in another ' George.' * Wood says that by this marriage she had issue John Bolton who married ]ïlizabeth 13eare. 13ut, if this were so, F.lizabeth ]3eare would be his sister. This John ]3olton (junior) was perhaps only a stepson. In Wood MS. E 33 there is an entry'.--'I65ï- , Jan. 4, Eward ]3olton, alehouse keeper of the Pit, son of John ]3olton of Einston, died; buried in the parish isle' of S. John Bapt. chur ch, Oxford. OE6 WOOD'S LIFE AND TI21IES. Richard Wood (Anthony Wood's grandfather) was in his boyhood taken by Robert Wood, his godfather and kinsman, to Islington, where he acquired wealth, being lessee of the White Lion at Islington and of Axe-Inne in Aldermanbury. He rnarried Elizabeth Jackson I, daughter of Henry Jackson, draper, of S. Mary's parish in Oxford and sister of Henry Jackson, B.D., fellow of C. C.C. Richard Wood died at S. James', Clerkenwell, and was buried at Islington in April 1594, his sons, Richard, Thomas, James, being then aged respectively 14, 13, 12. Their ' overseer and guardian  till they carne of age' was their uncle, Henry Jackson, rnercer, of Oxford : they had, Wood says, a portion of at least 5oo li. a piece, ' but were cozened out of rnuch of it' by hirn. This Richard Wood (senior) is described s as 'a person tall and proper, . . . and in later years inclining to corpulency.'-- Richard Wood (junior), Anthony's uncle, was baptized at Islington .Ta. 'lived to rnan's estate and died without issue.' James 4 Jan. Io80, Wood, another uncle, baptized at Islington 22 Apr. 1582 , although having no better edueation than that of the grammar school, 'yet being handsome and gay rnarried a gentleman's daughter of Surrey called ... Cole' but was immediately separated frorn her, probably by the intervention of her friends. He bought lands at Wytbam, died in Sept. 169 9 in his brother Thornas' house, and was buried in S. John Baptist (Merton College) church. (iii) Selllement of lhe Woods in O.,ford city. Thomas Wood, B.A. Corpus 15 March x6o, ]3.C.L. ]3roadgates Hall io March x6x§, married in 16o 3 at Wood-eaton co. Oxon. Mar- garet Wood. She died 14 July 1621 at Tetsworth, and was buried in Tetsworth church (S. Giles' church). Her children had all died in infancy. Thomas Wood on io Oct. 1622 at Witney co. Oxon. rnarried Mary Petty, he being then in his 4end year, she in ber 2lSt. She was born at Wood-eaton, about Christmas 16Ol. Her mother was l»enelope Taverner, sister of Richard Taverner of Wood-eaton near Oxford. Anthony Wood was the fourth child of this marriage. 1 Wood notes that the Jacksons came from Preston, eo. Lanes. They were therefore possibly old acquaintances of the X¥oods. * their mother was buried 9 Dee. i.96 , two years after her husband. Their sister, Elizabeth Wood, act. 6 at ber father's death, was married on 9 Jan. i6o, at the age of 17, from this uncle's house, to Thomas Frit.h, fellow of Ail Souls.  this seems to be the family type: see what Wood says of his father in 164 ] ; his father's sister, Elizabeth Frith, he calls ' a fat, comlie woman.' 8 OOD'S LIF ,4ND TIzIS. (iv) 1;'amilies of IVood's brolhers. Robert Wood, as the eldest surviving son of the family, and joint owner with his mother and brothers of the family property, settled himself on his marriage in Postmasters Hall, his father's house, where he continued till Nov. 1662. On 8 Nov. 1662 he went with his family to a house at the east end of the street (S. John Baptist Street) in S. Peter's-in-the-East parish, and continued there till z June 1663. After that date he and his family returned to Postmasters Hall, where they subsequently abode 1. Anthony Wood had rooms in the house, and for some years  took his meals with his brother's family, as a sort of boarder. He complains much of his ' sister's" (i.e. Robert's wife's) temper and tongue, and his after life was much embittered by strife with her. In Thomas Tanner's account of Wood's last illness is this sentence :--' he is very charitable, forgiving every body and desiring ail to forgive him : he talkt a great while this evening with his sister, with whom he had been so long at variance.' Christopher Wood, on his first marriage, settled in a house in the old Bocherew (the modern Queen Street) on the north side; but before December 1661, he moved into a house at the south corner of ]3ullock's Lane (the modern Bulwarks Alley, near the east end of Castle Street). After his second marriage in 1667, he lived for some years at lXlarriage Hill, a farm in Ufton parish, Berks (near Reading), which he had bought but afterwards sold. In 167o he removed to a house in Holywell in Oxford, where he continued till his death.--The three daughters of Christopher who grew up all made bad marriages, their husbands John lXIayot, Edward Read, and Robert Aldworth ail being bankrupt about 1694. i they seem to bave let part of the house or taken in lodgers. In Wood lXlS. E 33 is this entry :--' I674 , Sept. , Wilson Luffe son of I)r. John Luffe, physitian, was baptized; borne in the bouse of Mr. lobert à Wood against lXerton College, Sept. xst.' ; and so in the entries of the birth of ' Anne Luffe, 9 !March 67{,' and of' lXIary Luffe io Dec. 677.'  see 26 June, I669. 0 ,.-, 0 0 1NTROD UCTIOW. 37 The following are the names and matches of the daughters of Charnell Petty s»ra, p. 3 6, among whose children Wood counts many ' cozens.' i, Frances Petty, «. Thoraas Widmere of Hughenden, Bucks. 2, Ellen Petty, m. (i) William Davies, impropriator of Great Milton ; (2) John Cave, vicar of Great Milton, sometimes rector of Middleton Cheyney, l'qorthts, eldest i son of Sir I3rian Cave. She died 2o Match 168, aet. 8o or moe ; buried in Great Milton chnrch. John Cave, B.A., ,. Ellen (Petty or) Davier. Magd. H. 22 Oct. I 629. I I I I John Cave , m .... St. John. ]3rian Cave z, George Cave, m. Ellen Petty. fellowofLinc. I fellow of'Vadh, of Milton. I Coll. in 66o in 1662 ; died died 69o. I 1675" I I George Cave, matric, at Trin. ohn Cave, m .... Henry Cave, adm. at Coll. 7 Feb. 69ï. adrn. at Linc. Linc. Coll. 9 July Coll. 5 Nov. 1694, aet. 17. 168o, aet. 16. John Cave, marrie, at Magd. tIall, March 7o5. 3 .... * Petty, m. Aylworth Major of Cowley in the parish of Preston, co. ]3ucks. I Chamell Major, m. Mary, daughter of a silkman inPater- ... Royston, of noster Row» London, on to Feb. London. 66½, being then Shrove Monday. I Edmund Major, M. of t. Susan, his first Arts, and sometimes fel- cozen, daughter low ofLync. Coll.,rector of Thomas of Whitchurch co. Oxon., Holt of and also minister of Stokeline. Turston near Brackley ; died at Whitchurch r 7 Oct. 1685. 4, Annis Petty, »t. to ... XVolley of co. Leic. 5, Mary Petty, rit. to William Meade of Narborough co. Leic. which William died in 1663. 6, Susan, m. () Thomas Holt ofStokelyne ; (z) ... Templer, of ... in Northants. Thomas Holt, m. Susan Petty. (see the pedigree in Oct. 658. ) [ I I Ralph Holt, High Sheriff Susan Holt, »«. Edmund of Oxfordshire, 1678. Major. 7, Elizabeth, m. William Bent of Cosby co. Leic., died sine proie.  ' second son ', J. Foster ,41umni and now illegible. Wood notes that Oxvn. (early series) i. 25. ' she died 6 Jnne 1659, and was buricd " Bloxam, Reg. Coll. Magd. v. 2I. at Preston ; he (ber husband) died 23  Gardiner, Reg. Coll. Wadh., p. 26. Nov. I664, and was buricd by his wife.' t naine writtcn in pencil as doubtful, Z 0 m o 0 0,.. IUOOD'S LIFE .4WD 7IAIIï2S. NOTANDA. Passages without distinctive mark are from the Almanacs. Passages marked with an asterisk * are from ' Tanner MS. lO2' part i, the « Secretum Antonii.' Passages marked with a dagger f are from ' Tanner MS. IO2' part il, the ' Indices pro annis 166o-168o.' Passages enclosed in square brackets [ ] are later additions made by Wood in the MS cited, or notes by Wood round in other MSS. or books, or, in a few cases, notes communicated to Y'ood and round in his MSS. The nature and source of each of these passages is indicated in the notes toit. Passages, words, and letters enclosed in angular brackets ( ) are insertions by the editor. The mark ... indicates that XVood has omitted a word or words, or left the sentence unfinished. Throughout, wherever it was omitted, the day of the week bas been supplied without comment. The editor is responsible for the notes. Anno Domini 1632 : regni 8 Caroli I. I)ecember.--* Dec. t 7, M., Anthony Wood or à Wood 1 (son of Thomas Wood or à Wood, bachelaur of Arts and of the Civil Law) vas borne in an antient stone-house opposite to the forefront of Merton Coll. in the collegiat parish of S. John ]3aptist de Merton, situat and being within the City and Universitie of Oxford, on Munday the sevententh day of December (S. Lazarus day) at about 4 of the clock in the morning, anno i632 : which stone house, with a backside and garden adjoyning, was bought by his father of John Lant ,  for the forms \\ ood and Wood' see, st@rg, p. 2I. John Lant, M.A. Ch. Ch. 21 May ï9; Clark's Rcg. Unir. Oxon. II. iii. 56. 44 tVOOD'S LIFE t2VD TI]IES. toaster of Arts of the Univ. of Oxon, 8 December, 6 Jac. I, Dom. 16o8, and is held by his family of Merton Coll. before mention'd. *Dec. 23, Su., he was christned or taken into the bosome of the church. At which time he had to his godfathers, Anthony Clopton 1 bachelaur of Divinity and fellow of Corp. Christi College, and Edward Dawson  Doctor of physick of Lincolne College: and to his god- mother, Mris. Catherine Fisher, the wife of William Seymoure of Oxon an attorney; and afterwards the first wife of Thomas Rowney an attorney also of the saine place, father (by his second wife) to Thomas Rowney esq. High Sherriff of Oxfordshire anno 169( I ). An. I)om. 1633:9 Car. I: (Wood aet. 1.) * He was altogether nursed by his mother (of vhome shal be men- tion ruade under the year i666s), and by none else. For as she nursed his 3 elder brothers, so she nursed him (whom she found very quiet) and the two next that followed. <163: Wood act. 2.) a curat in Oxon-- driven thence "by the malice of some people," as he sayes--afterwards in the country neare Oxon (for Dr. (Samuel) Ratclifl; principall of Brasenose, at Steple Aston, I think). A round- head; denied contribution: his horse seized on, and he imprisoned 14 weeks in Oxford. The f'risaner's Reort, quaere inter Ashmdiana p. 41. ' The book referred to is Edward Wirley's ' The Prisoner's Report or a true rela- tion of the cruell usage of the prisoners in Oxford . . [20 March] 1642' [i.e. ], 4to ; Ashmole IO34 (8) is its Bodleian press-mark. * the person who is to preaeh the University sermon is conducted from his college (or residence) to the church by one of the bedells with a maee. - Wood 4Ol fol. 137 b, with the signature ' Anthony Wood," is entitled ' Britaine's Honour in the two valiant XYelchmen ' . . . and begins ' Ye noble Britaines bold and hardy ] That justly are derived from Brute.' Æ also on fol. I3r some lines in an ill-formed hand which it is to be hoped were hot written by any of the boys Wood.  other early signatures 'Anthony Wood his booke' (several times) will be found in Wood's school dictionar); Wood 308, « Rider's dictionarie cor- rected.., by Francis Holyoke»' Lond. 16o6. 'L4RCH, 11340 -- .4 UG. 1641. 49 An. Dom. 1641: xvii Car. I: