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See also:ANTHONY See also:A2 See also:WOOD (1632-1695)
, See also:English See also:antiquary, was the See also:fourth son of See also:
He steadily investigated the muniments of all the colleges, and in 1667 made his first See also:journey to See also:London, where he visited See also:Dugdale, who introduced him into the Cottonian library, and See also:Prynne showed him the same civility for the See also:Tower records
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On See also:October 22, 1669, he was sent for by the delegates of the See also:press, " that whereas he had taken a See also:great See also:deal of paines in See also:writing the Hist. and Antiq. of the Universitie of Oxon, they would for his paines give him an See also:loo li. for his copie, conditionally, that he would suffer the book to be translated into Latine." He accepted the offer and set to See also:work to prepare his English MS. for the translators, See also:Richard Peers and Richard See also:Reeve, both appointed by Dr See also:Fell, See also:dean of Christ Church, who under-took the expense of See also:printing
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In 1674 appeared Historia et antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis, handsomely reprinted " e Theatro Sheldoniano," in two See also:folio volumes, the first devoted to the university in See also:general and the second to the colleges
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Copies were widely distributed, and university and author received much praise
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On the other See also:hand, See also:Bishop See also:Barlow told a correspondent that " not only the Latine but the See also:history itself is in many things ridiculously false" (Genuine Remains, 1693, p.183)
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In 1678 the university registers which had been in his custody for eighteen years were removed, as it was feared that he would be implicated in the Popish See also:plot
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To relieve himself from suspicion he took the oaths of supremacy and See also:allegiance
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During this time he had been gradually completing his great work, which was produced by a London publisher in 1692—2692, 2 vols. folio, Athenae Oxonienses: an Exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their See also:Education in the University of Oxford from 1500 to 1690, to which are added the See also:Fasti, or See also:Annals for the said time
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On the 29th of See also:July 1693 he was condemned in the See also:vice-See also:chancellor's See also:court for certain libels against the late See also:earl of See also:Clarendon, fined, banished from the university until he recanted, and the offending pages burnt
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The proceedings were printed in a volume of Miscellanies published by See also:Curll in 1714
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Wood was attacked by Bishop See also:Burnet in a See also:Letter to the Bishop of See also:Lichfield and See also:Coventry (1693, 4to), and defended by his See also:nephew Dr Thomas Wood, in a Vindication of the Historiographer, to which is added the Historiographer's See also:Answer (1693), 4to, reproduced in the subsequent See also:editions of the Athenae
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The nephew also defended his See also:uncle in An Appendix to the Life of Bishop See also:Seth See also: After a See also:short illness he died on the 28th of See also:November 1695, and was buried in the See also:outer See also:chapel of St John Baptist (Merton College), in Oxford, where he superintended the digging of his own See also:grave but a few days before . He is described as " a very strong lusty See also:man, " of uncouth See also:manners and See also:appearance, not so See also:deaf as he pretended, of reserved and See also:temper-See also:ate habits, not avaricious and a despiser of honours . He received neither See also:office nor See also:reward from the university which owed so much to his labours . He never married, and led a life of self-denial, entirely devoted to antiquarian See also:research . Bell-ringing and music were his See also:chief relaxations . His See also:literary See also:style is poor, and his See also:taste and See also:judgment are frequently warped by See also:prejudice, but his two great See also:works and unpublished collections form a priceless source of See also:information on Oxford and her worthies . He was always suspected of being a See also:Roman See also:Catholic, and invariably treated See also:Jacobites and Papists better than Dissenters in the Athenae, but he died in communion with the Church of See also:England . Wood's See also:original See also:manuscript (See also:purchased by the Bodleian in 1846) was first published by John Gutch as The History and Antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford, with a See also:con-tinuation (1786-1790, 2 vols . 4to), and The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford (1792-1796, 3 vols . 4to), with portrait of Wood . To these should be added The Antient and See also:Present See also:State of the City of Oxford, chiefly collected by A. a Wood, with additions by the Rev . See also:Sir J .
Peshall (1773, 4to; the See also:text is garbled and the editing very imperfect)
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An admirable edition of the Survey of the Antiquities of the City of Oxford, composed in 1661–66 by AnthonyWood, edited by See also:Andrew Clark, was issued by the Oxford See also:Historical Society (1889-1899, 3 vols
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8vo)
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Modius Salium, a Collection of Pieces of See also:Humour, chiefly See also:ill-natured See also:personal stories, was published at Oxford in 1751, 12m0
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Some letters between See also:Aubrey and Wood were given in the See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine (3rd See also:ser., ix. x. xi.)
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Wood consulted Dr See also:Hudson about getting a third volume of the Athenae printed in See also:
The Ecclesiastical History Society proposed to bring out a fourth edition, which stopped at the Life, ed. by Bliss (1848, 8vo; see Gent
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Mag., N.S., See also:xxix
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135, 268)
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Dr Bliss's inter-leaved copy is in the Bodleian, and Dr Griffiths announced in 1859 that a new edition was contemplated by the Press, and asked for additional See also:matter (see Notes and Queries, 2nd ser., vii
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514, and 6th ser., vi
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5, 51)
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Wood bequeathed his library (127 See also:MSS. and 970 printed books) to the Ashmolean Museum, and the keeper, See also: Bliss (2nd ed., 1869, 3 vols . 12mo) ; See also:Hearne's Remarks and Collections (Oxford Historical Society, 1885–1907), vols. i.-viii.; Macray's Annals of the Bodleian Library (2nd ed., 189o) ; See also:Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, i, iv. v. viii . ; See also:Noble's Biogr . History of England, i . (H . R . |
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