The classic seventeenth century collection of all the literary history of the University of Oxford and her graduates. Every author and bishop with a degree from Oxford from 1500 to the date of publication in 1690 has a notice, with an enumeration of their books; this includes many Cambridge men with later degrees from Oxford. Anthony Wood (the à is a piece of social climbing) was a High Churchman, ever against Dissenters, and a gossip; he had John Aubrey take notes for him, published them unedited, and called him "magotie-headed" for his pains. An irreplaceable source, containing much not found elsewhere, and often unintentionally entertaining, for English literary and ecclestiacal history. With a chronology of Oxford history and a list of degrees and other University actions, called Fasti