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sicke but is now pretty well upon recovery.
I am now as hard, as I can drive, upon the
Naturall History of Wilts, and in a moneths
time shall send you my Antiq: libb A & B.
Pray remember me very kindly to that worthy good man M r Allam whom I wish as good prefer- ment as he does merit : but certainly ye Dunces have the best preferment. I am confident I gave you an account of Sir Jo: Davys many years past (15 or more). And D r Holder tells me, that in ye Library at Ely is a MS. Historia Eliensis w ch he could gett for to shew at Oxon. You shall now heare often from me
J. ALBERICUS.
pray tell me exactly when Merton Coll: Tower was built : and when the chancill or Chapell."
" The late Alteration " was the death of Charles II. on 6 Feb., and the consequent accession of James II.
In the pedigree of Wood's distant connexions the Petty family (v. Wood's ' Life and Times,' i. 35, ed. Rev. Andrew Clark), George Petty, fourth son of Maxi- milian Petty and Elizabeth Maney (born Waller), of St. Dunstan's, London, haber- dasher of hats, is said to have died in con- vulsion fits about the middle of January, 1684/5.
Wood (v. 'Athense,' iii. 462; 'D.N.B.,' xxxiv. 168) omits mention of Petty 's kind- ness to the dying Lovelace ; but Aubrey in his ' Brief Lives ' gives the passage as follows (ii. 38) :
" George Petty, haberdasher, in Fleet Street, carried xxs. to him [Lovelace] every Monday morning from Sir .... Many and Charles Cotton, esq., for .... (quaere quot) moneths, but was never repayd."
Upon which his learned editor (Rev. Andrew Clark) asks, "Is ' Sir. .. .Many ' Sir John Mennis ? "
Anthony Ettrick, or Etterick, was a close friend of Aubrey's, and is often mentioned by him, and occasionally by Wood.
In 1685 Aubrey " tumultuarily stitched up " his notes on the Natural History of Wilts (v. ' D.N.B.,' ii. 244).
" Mr. Ashmol(e) "is no doubt Elias Ash- mole, the famous " virtuoso and curioso " (' Athense,' iv. 354 ; ' D.N.B.,' ii. 172).
The Rev. Andrew Allam was Vice-Principal of St. Edmund's Hall, Oxon, and assisted Wood in his ' Athenae ' (' Athense,' iv. 174 ; ' D.N.B.,' i. 293).
Sir Jo. Davys is Sir John Davies, Attorney- General for Ireland and poet (' Athense,' ii. 400 ; ' D.N.B.,' xiv. 140).
William Holder, D.D., divine and mathe- matician, was brother-in-law of Sir Christo - pher Wren ('D.N.B.,' xxvii. 121).
3. From Samuel Palmer (of Merton Coll.,
Prebendary of Winchester) to Wood, of
31 Dec., 1684.
Palmer sends date of death and place of burial of Bishop George Morley, as well as the inscription which, in accordance with the Bishop's direction, was to be placed upon his tomb. Wood (' Athenae,' iv. 158) follows Palmer's account minutely ; but omits the epitaph both on account of its length and because it is a mere recapitulation of the facts already given in the Life (v. also ' D.N.B.,' xxxix. 74). Palmer then speaks of Thomas Tanner, historian (' Athense,' iv. 59 ; ' D.N.B.,' Iv. 359) ; and his remarks are incorporated in Wood's account of Tanner. Palmer adds :
" but if you write to one M r Bob* ffoster on Tower Hill, London, he can informe you in every par- ticular ; being M r Tanner's brother in law."
A letter of 14 Feb., 1684/5, from Tanners widow (who is not mentioned in 'D.N.B.') to Wood is extensively used by the latter. She states, however, that while Tanner held "Coliton in Devon" (1666-76), he " had as an adition given him Rimton in Somerset-sheer which he held to-gether " ; and that after being a volunteer in Flanders, he went " into holand and retournd a little befor the restoration of his maiesty." She concludes :
" this is the slender account of that good man who spent his strenght in serving of the Church and for 6 or 7 of his last years was so constant in his studies that tho his phision [sic] and his f rinds told him it would be a means to hasten his death, yet he could not be drawn from thence till 3 weeks befor he died. Now, sir, I leave this relation and the memory of that worthy man to yo\ir pen which may give him a new and more lasting life, which will be an obligation to her who is tho unknown
Y or most humble servant ELIZ TANNER."
4. DOCTOR ANTHONY WOOD
SIR. I understand by a note left at my cosen, M r John Crisp's, that you desire an account of ye time and place of ye birth and burial of my Deare ffather Doctor Tobias Crisp [' Athenae,' iii. 50 ; ' D.N.B.,' xiii. 99] in order to ye inserting his name w th others in a book you are making.
ffor y r Information wherein be pleased to take notice, that ye said Doctor T. C. was ye son of Ellis Crisp who died Sheriff of London anno 1625 ; and was married 11 Aprill 1626 ; since many years minister at Brinkworth in Wiltshire. In August 1642, upon ye breaking out of ye warrs, he removed to London where ye 27 ffebniary 1642/3 he departed this life by ye smal pox w ch he caught presently upon a great dispute w th 52 opponents of ye freenes of ye grace of God in Jesus Christ to poor sinners w ch my father maintained against every thing y* tended to Arminianism suitable 'to ye Doctrine of ye Church of England w 1 ' 1 ' saith in ye homilies fo. 17 : Justification is ye
