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A56035 Proposals for printing Athenæ Oxonienses, and Fasti Oxonienses Both written by the famous antiquary, and historiographer, Anthony à Wood, M.A. author of the History, and antiquities of the University of Oxford. 1691 (1691) Wing P3734; ESTC R221540 10,323 4

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PROPOSALS For PRINTING Athenae Oxonienses and Fasti Oxonienses Both Written by the famous Antiquary and Historiographer Anthony a Wood M. A. Author of the History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford THE Book Entituled Athenae Oxonienses will contain an exact History of all Writers that have been Educated in the University of Oxford in all Professions and of all Archbishops and Bishops whether of this or any other Kingdoms that have been Members of the said University The Birth Fortune Preferment and Death of all those Authors and Prelates the great Accidents of their Lives and more particularly the fate of their Writings and the Character of their Works are here given with great exactness and fidelity This Work moreover gives not only an account of the Authors of Oxford but of such of the Writers of the other famous University of Cambridge as were entred at Oxford or Studied in it or Assisted Opposed or Answered any Author of that University So that either by these means or by way of digression it contains an exact History of Learning and of the Learned Men in England and fully Corrects Continues and Supplie● Leland Bale Pits and Godwin on that Subject and deserves particular encouragement as being the first Work of this Nature that ever was Printed in English The Book Entituled the Oxonian Fast● or Annals contains an account of all the Remarkable and Eminent Persons of Oxford i. e. Chancellors Commissioners Vice Chancellors and Proctors of the Universities The names of all Dignitaries as Deans Arch Deacons Chancellors Chanters Heads of Colleges and Halls Abbots Priors Monks Friars and all Doctors that have been Incorporated into the University of Oxford or have Sojourned there The whole Work will consist of two Volumes the first whereof will begin in the year 1500. and will end in 1640. The other will begin in 1641. and will end in the latter end of the year 1690. The Work will be disposed according to order of time and will be made more useful by many large and full Alphabetical Indexes at the end of each Volume A large Introduction will be prefix'd before the First Volume giving an account of the History of Learning in England before the first date of this Work in 1500. And an Appendix will be added containing an exact account of the Births Preferments and Writings of the most considerable Writers now living in England In the mean time the Undertaker Thomas Bennet doth here exhibit a Specimen of the Paper and Print in the Lives of two Authors hereafter annexed and maketh his Proposals as followeth 1. That the Book shall be Printed on the same Paper and Character with the Specimen annexed only some few of a larger Paper for Gentlemen more Curious 2. That this Book shall consist of two Volumes in Folio each above one hundred Sheets in double Columns and that every Subscriber for the ordinary Paper shall pay for both 20 s. in Sheets i. e. five down in hand at the time of subscription ten at the delivery of the first Volume and 5 s. at the delivery of the last and every Subscriber for the large Paper 30 s. at proportionable payments as before 3. That the price to any other than a Subscriber shall be one pound five shillings for the ordinary Paper in Sheets and forty shillings for the large and there are so few Printed that care will be taken none shall be undersold 4. That the Book is already in the Press and the first Volume shall be delivered at Easter Term next and the second at Trinity 5. All Gentlemen who subscribe will have their Names Titles and places of Abode Printed in a Sheet annexed to the Book The Proposals and Specimens are to be had of the Undertaker Thomas Bennet at the Half Moon in S. Paul's Church-Yard and of these Booksellers following who also take Subscriptions give Receipts and deliver Books according to the Proposals MR. Gilliflower in Westm Hall Mr. Fox in Westm Hall Mr. Patridge at Charing-Cross Mr. Nott in the Pall Mall Mr. Bentley in Covent Garden Mr. Crook without Temple Bar. Mr. Brown without Temple Bar. Mr. Basset in Fleetstreet Mr. Wilkinson in Fleetstreet Mr. Rogers in Fleetstreet Mr. Freeman in Fleetstreet Mr. Wotton in Fleetstreet Mr. Swalle in S. Paul's Chur. Yard Mr. Clavel in S. Paul's Chur. Yard Mr. Kettleby in S. Paul's Chur. Yard Mr. Watts in S. Paul's Chur. Yard Mr. Mortlock in S. Paul's Chur. Yard Mr. Smith in S. Paul's Chur. Yard Mr. Chiswell in S. Paul's Chur. Yard Mr. Adamson in S. Paul's Chur. Yard Mr. Knapton in S. Paul's Chur. Yard Mr. Anson in S. Paul's Chur. Yard Mr. Bonwick in S. Paul's Chur. Yard Mr. Robinson in S. Paul's Chur. Yard Mr. Saunders in the Exchange Mr. Churchill in Ave-mary Lane Mr. Everingham on Ludgatestreet Mr. Lawrence in the Poultrey Mr. Aylmer at Cornhill Mr. Horn. at Cornhill Mr. Crowch at Cornhill Mr. Hindmarsh at Cornhill Mr. Richard Parker at Cornhill Mr. Powel at Lincolns Inn. Mr. Sare at Grays Inn gate Mr. Littlebury in Little Brittain Mr. Sawbridg in Little Brittain And by these Booksellers in the Country Mr. Geo. West in Oxford Mr. John Crosley in Oxford Mr. Hen. Clement in Oxford Mr. John Howel in Oxford Mr. Hen. Dickenson in Cambridg Mr. Will. Graves in Cambridg Mr. Rich. Green in Cambridg Mr. Yeo in Exeter Mr. May in Exeter Mr. Manlin in York Mr. Shelmerdine in Manchester Mr. Green in Lancaster Mr. Churchill in Dorchester Mr. Lawson in Lincoln Mr. Page in Chester Mr. Lasley in Hereford Mr. Robinson in Ludlow Mr. Gravett in Bristol Mr. Wall in Bristol Mr. Evans in Worcester Mr. Palmer in Gloucester Mr. Rogers in Shrewsbury Mr. Pickering in Warrington Mr. How 's in Nottingham Mr. Ward in Leicester Mr. Fowler in Northampton Mr. Smith in Daventry Mr. Powel in Southampton Mr. Hartford in Portsmouth Mr. Smith at Stratford upon Avon Mr. Giles in Norwich Mr. Rose in Norwich Mr. Oliver in Norwich Mr. Redmain in Yarmouth Mr. Randal in Newcastle Mr. Johnson in Litchfield Mr. Hunt in Coventry Mr. Nisbet in Derby Mr. Raw in Bath Mr. Courtney in Salisbury Mr. Warden in Durham Mr. Weeks in Plimouth HENRY SAVILE Second Son of Henry Savile by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Robert Ramsden Gent. Second Son of John Savile of New-hall in Yorkshire Esquire was born at Bradley alias Over-Bradley near to Halifax in the same County on the last day of Nov. 1549. 3. Ed. 6. He was entred a Student in this University in the beginning of the year 1561. and in the beginning of Lent 1565. was admitted Bachelor of Arts and forthwith determined Not long after he was elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton College at a time when Learning in that place as indeed then in the whole University was at a very low ebb In 1570. he proceeded in his Faculty and Read his Ordinaries on the Almagest of Ptolemy So that growing famous for his Learning especially for the Greek Tongue and Mathematicks in which last