Volume 2

Letters written by eminent persons in the 17th and 18th centuries: to which are added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of eminent men / by John Aubrey, esq. The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian library and Ashmolean Museum, with biographical and literary illustrations [by J. Walker and P. Bliss].

Date:
1813
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Credit: Letters written by eminent persons in the 17th and 18th centuries: to which are added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of eminent men / by John Aubrey, esq. The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian library and Ashmolean Museum, with biographical and literary illustrations [by J. Walker and P. Bliss]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    u Han c Rasilicam, Totamque Ecclesiam Anglicanam Insigniter ornavit, Obiit Octob. x. Anno Dni. MDCCVIII. AEtatis suse LXL I hope you will excuse this long letter, and look upon me, as I am. Your affectionate humble servt. Thos. Wac-staffe.* LETTER CXV. Mr. BROWNE WILLIS to Dr. CHARLETT. On Cardinal Wolsey’s burial place, &c. and on removing his body to Christ Church. As to the great Cardinal Wolsey’s Sepulchre, the best account I have met with is from one Mr. John Hasloe, whose grandfather Arthur Bare- foot was Gardiner to the Countess of Devonshire, who lived at the Abby before the Civil Wars. He tells me that the Church stood part of it in i what is now a little garden, and the east end of it, in the Orchard (which was formerly called the New Garden) where his grandfather, with others digging, found several stone coffins, the cavities of which did not lie uppermost but were inverted over the bodies. That among these he Probably son of the Rev. Thomas WagstafTe, who is noticed in Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes, Vol, I. 36; and Vol. IV. 171.