Excerpt from The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, Antiquary of Oxford, Vol. 30: 1632-1695, Described by Himself In this volume I have brought together certain documents and notes which seemed to me to serve naturally as appendixes to Woods autobiographical remains. By prescription of former editions, some of the documents connected with Woods trial for libel, 1692-1693, had acquired a right to a place in Woods Life. To these I was able to add other documents of the set, recently brought to light by the Keeper of the Archives, and not inferior in value or interest to those hitherto published. Nor did I think it right, on account of the triviality of some of the records, to leave out any document connected with the case. So far as I know, this is the only suit in the University Court, in which anything approaching to a complete set of documents is preserved; and, therefore, apart from its connexion with Wood's life, it is the one case in which we have set before us the procedure of the Curia Cancellarii. The Catalogue of MS. Authorities was finished, after a fashion, in 1889, and sent to press on January 14, 1890, with a view to then printing it. It has since been added to and re-written. During the years in which it has lain by me in MS., I have found that it has supplied answers to many questions raised by others as well as myself; and therefore I have some warrant for supposing that, in spite of its imperfections, it will prove of service to students. Further search among MSS. bearing on Oxford would have improved it at many points; but in such further search I can take no part, since my new duties have removed me far from Oxford and from all libraries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.