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164 each day. "You might therefore always see," he said, "many of these greedily enjoying the banquets prepared for them, which gave me no small pleasure."

Bodley was buried, with great pomp and ceremony, in Merton Chapel. He left a large sum of money to buy mourning for his funeral and to furnish a dinner thereafter, the same to be distributed among many persons, including sixty-seven poor scholars; that is, scholars poor in purse but not in intellect.

Anthony Wood was not only a Gownsman, but a Townsman, of Oxford. He was born in Oxford, in one of the old houses opposite Merton; he was, as a boy, at the Choir School of New College, he was matriculated at Merton, and at Merton he died and was buried. His birthplace is set down by Thomas Hearne, as having been Portionist's, or Postmaster's Hall, in St. John the Baptist Street, now Merton Street.

His first school was at the west end of the present Queen Street, opposite the south end of New Hall Street.

Mr. John Cordy Jeaffreson, "B. A. Oxon," author of a most readable book called "The Annals of Oxford," in which he modestly asserted that he knew "nearly everything about Oxford in the dark ages," spoke in 1870 rather disrespectfully