[93] See the list, ibid., pp. 478 f., and the references there given.

[94] Riley (p. 444) dismisses this book as “a vapid and superficial production”; but there is little doubt that Savage had the assistance in it of no less an antiquary than Anthony Wood. See his Life, pp. 104-108, 143 f., 157. When Wood speaks disparagingly of Savage, it must be remembered that he had himself proposed to write a work on a similar plan: Athen. Oxon. (ed. Bliss, 1817), iii. 959.

[95] Reg. of Visit., p. 4.

[96] Athen. Oxon., iii. 1154.

[97] Letters, pp. 12 f.

[98] The sign of the house is understood to have been a double-headed eagle.

[99] Dr. Bathurst, President of Trinity, Vice-Chancellor, 1673-1676.

[100] Letters, pp. 13 f., under date 23 August, 1674.

[101] Life of Ralph Bathurst (1761), p. 203.

[102] Gutch, Collect. cur., i. 195.