Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781548304935)

Though separated from his associates in the University, he appears to have kept up a correspondence with several of them, and among others, Anthony Wood, whom he furnished with much valuable information. Wood made an ungrateful return for this assistance, and in his Autobiography thus speaks of him: -"An. 1667, John Aubrey of Easton Piers in the parish of Kingston, Saint Michael in Wiltshire, was in Oxon. with Edward Forest, a Bookseller, living against Alls. Coll. to buy books. He then saw lying on the stall Notiti Academiae Oxoniensis, and asking who the author of that book was? He Edw. Forest] answered, the report was that one Mr. Anth. Wood, of Merton College was the author, but was not. Whereupon Mr. Aubrey, a pretender to Antiquities, having been contemporary to A. Wood's elder brother in Trin. Coll.

Author: John Aubrey
ISBN-10: 154830493X
ISBN-13: 9781548304935
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2017
Pages: 162
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.35d