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(the only property with which he was able to endow her) for the copyright of his unpublished sermons, no less a sum than two thousand five hundred guineas. They have ever since been admired as models of correct and elegant com- position in the department of literature to which they belong. After the death of the archbishop, a bundle of libels were found among his papers, on which he had written, "these are libels, I pray Ood forgive them as I do." A strilcing proof of his charity and benevolence.
1695, Nov. 29. Died, Anthony Wood, a celebrated antiquary, and author of the History €tnd Antiquitiet of the Colleget and Halls m the University of Oxford. This work was com- menced about the year 1656, and was completed in the year 1668. It consisted of two parts; the first being a general history of the University, from its institution to the year 1649 ; the second, a history of the ancient and present schools, theatres, lectureships, &c. together with a his- tory of the several colleges and halls, from their first foundation, down to the year 1668. To the whole of this was subjoined an appendix, enti- tled, Fasti Oxoniensis, or a Commentary on the ■npreme Magistrates of the Univeisitie of Oxford, namely of the Chancellours, Commissaries, Pro- chancellours, or Vicechancellours, and Proctors : also of the High Stewards and Parliamentarie Burgesses of the Universitie. For the compila- tion of this elaborate work, the author, by means of Dr. Wallis, obtained leave to consult the university registers, monuments, and writings. After he had extracted from these writings every thing he thought useful for his great undertak- ing, he went to London, with letters of recom- mendation from Dr. Barlow, provost of Queen's college, to sir William Dugdale, by whose means he obtained leave to peruse some manu- scripts in the Cotton library, and had free access to the records in the Tower. With these advan- tages he easily furnished himself with authentic facts; yet the labour in collecting them must have been immense, and the judgment in select- ing what would be useful, and in rejecting what was superfluous, must have required time and attention ; so that we cannot sufficiently admire his great assiduity in order to bring so elaborate a performance to a conclusion, in so short a time. On the 22d of October, the university of Oxford offered the sum of Ont Hundred Poimds for the copy of this work ; he accepted it, and received the money on the 29th of March following. What astonishing liberality ! ! This purchase was made for the purpose of translating the work into Latin. The version was accordingly per- formed, under the inspection of Dr. Fell, dean of Christ Church, and published in 1674, in folio, under the title of Historia et Antiquitates Universitatie Oxoniensis, duobus voluminibus eomprehensa. Mr. Wood was greatly displeased with this translation, as appears from many pas- sages in his Athen. Oxon. where he makes heavy complaints of the injury done to his book (Via. Tol. 3d. Col. 853. 2d edition). The Editors of tht BiograjMa Britannica give a remarkable
instance of the translator's wilful misrepresenta- tion of the author's meaning. Bishop Burnet having attacked this work, it was vincucated by the author, in an 8vo. volume. Wood was born at Oxford in 1632, and educated in that univer- sity. A new edition from the original manuscript in the Bodleian library ; with a continuation to the year 1786, was published by the Rev. John Gutcb, chaplain of All Souls' college, Oxford.
1695, Jan. 14-17. The Proceedings of the King^s Commission on the Peace.
1695, Jan. 22. The Philosophical Observator.
1696, March 6. The Form of the Proceeding to the Funeral of her late Majesty Queen M»ry II. of blessed Memory.*
1695, May 11. The Flying Post from Paris and Amsterdam, giving an impartial AceotuU of the present Occurrences abroad, as related by the Confederates and the French ; together with tckat ismost remarkable at Home. No. 2. "Our design is not to interfere with the London Gazette, but to pursue another method; there being many things below its cognizance, that are yet usefu to be known, and may give further light into present transactions."
1695, May 17. The Post Boy, Foreign and Domestic. No. 1.
1695, July 1(1. Great News from the King's Army before Namur, in a Postscript to the Poet Boy.
1695, July 11. An Express of the Burning «f St. Maloes.
1695, Jvly 13. An Account of the Taking of a Fort and Entrenchment before Namur.
1695, July 16. An Account of the CapitnU- tion of the Town of Namur; and the Surrender of Casal, 4re. In a Postscript to the Flying Poet.
1^5, July 26. An Account of the intire D^emt of the Turhuh Army in the Morea, by the Vene- tian Forces.
1695, Aug.79. An Account of the Surrendering of the Castle of Namur to the Confederates, as also of AdmircU Russers Burning Marseilles.
1695, Sept. 3. The Monthly Land Bank. No.2.
1695, Nov. 28. The Flying Post. No. 84. " If any gentleman has a mind to oblige his country friend or correspondent with this account of publick affairs, he may have it for 2d. of J. Salusbury, at the Rising Sun in Comhill, on a sheet of tine paper ; half of which being blank, he may thereon write his own private business, or the material news of the day. " If any per- son has any study of books or library to dispose of, if they will send a catalogue of them to John Salusbury, at the Rising Sun in ComhiU, they shall have the full value of them in ready money. Dec. 17.
1696. A work was secretly printed within the convent of La Grande Chartreuse, chief of the whole order of Carthusians, situate on the Guyer, within five leagues of Grenoble in Danphme,
- Qaccn Mary died Dec. 28, \tt4, at Kendagton, in the
tbirty-thlrd year of her age, and was buried in Westmin- ster abbey. Her domesUc and rewrred taaUt* had texled to reform the llcentionineH of the conrt, which had dia- Un(ai*hcd the two precedinc rel(n*.
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