This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker
(1770-1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian
Library and the Ashmolean Museum, but is significant because it
contains the biographical notes on the 'lives of eminent men'
furnished by John Aubrey (1626-97) to Anthony a Wood, who was at
the time compiling his Athenae Oxonienses. Aubrey's subsequently
famous Brief Lives were published for the first time in this 1813
work, and, although described as the fourth appendix to it, in fact
comprise slightly less than half of the second volume and the
entirety of the third. Volume 1 consist of letters between
antiquaries including Kenelm Digby, John Cotton and William
Dugdale, on topics ranging from the Cornish language and the cure
for a bite from a mad dog to the visit of the Princess Anne to
Oxford during the tumult of her father's deposition in 1688.
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