Th. 23 June 1664  ' at Pinnocks with Mr John Curteyne, Richard Lower,

            monsier, and Thomas Drope and Mr Southby.

            ('monsier' was his brother Robert, who had spent time in France,

            and married a daughter of the Drope family. Richard Lower was

            an Oxford physician who was pioneering work in blood transfusion)

T. 20 September 1664  at Pinnocks with Mr Francis Peacock,  and Mr John

            Peacock, and Dr Jackson, Mr Grenway, Mr Curteyne and monsier -6d.

W. 12 October 1664  at Pinnock's with John Pecock, John Spene and Mr

            Cheyney, -6d

F. 12 May 1665  at Pinnock's with Mr Curteyne, Lower, Grenwode, Nichols

            and Mr Cole,  10d.

W. 2 May 1666  at Pinnock's with Mr Curteyne, Dr Lower, and monsier, and

            Francis Peacocke -1s 8d

M. 28 May 1666  at Pinnock's with Francis Drope and John Peacock -6d

T. 28 May 1667 at Pinnock's with Mr Curteyne when wee went to hear the

            nightingale sing -1d

F 26 May 1669  at Pinnock's with Mr Peter Nicolls, Francis Peacock and

            Major Peacock, and Mr Sparkes and Mr Thomas Wring

            (the latter was Thomas Ringe, who lodged at Denmans Farm)

            Richard Levins of Botley in Berks, son of William, died the 14 or 15

            of May 1665 and was buried in All Saints Church by his father. He

            married Anne, daughter of William Finmore of North Hinksey by

            Botley (which William Finmore died the latter end of May 1677), by

            whom he had issue a son Richard, now a preacher, sometimes

            Master of Arts of S.Marie's Hall - The said Anne died in the latter

            end of June or beginning of July anno 1681.

the south side (the upper part) to St Katherine.........  At the west end of the

church is the ruins of a mannor house, antiently belonging as a cell or place

of removall (as some say) to the monkes of Abington. At the dissolution the

said mannor or lordship was conveyed to one Owen ......    In the hall, over the

chymney, I find Abingdon armes cut in stone, viz. a cross patonce inter 4

martletts, and alsoe another escotcheon viz. a lyon rampant; and several

mitres cutt in stone about the house. There is aloe in the said house, as the

inhabitants tell me, a chamber, called 'Dudley's chamber', where the Earl of

Leicester's wife was murdered.

(Wood then recounts hearsay about the alledged crime, committed chiefly

by Sir Charles Varney. After noting that some said it was an accident, he

continued:)

the inhabitants will tell you that shee was conveyed from her usuall chamber

where she lay to another where the bed-head of the same chamber stood close

to a privy posterne doore where they in the night came abd stiffled her in her

bed, bruised her head very sorely, broke her necke, and at length flung her

downstaires therby thinking the people would have thought she did it by

accident and also to have blinded their villany.

(After recounting the woeful ends of the various alleged conspirators, Wood

suggests that Amy was at first buried hastily at Cumnor, though the burial

register has no such entry)

This month about the middle, the well at Comnore in the high way going down

to Bablackhyth was discovered and frequented.  It will never be famous because

there is not water to supply a multitude. Much resorted to by scholars; the water

was brought to Oxford

About the 8 of May, F., was found and gathered a couslip in 'Philipson's leas'

in the parish of Comnore,Berks, having a stalk a foot long, 2 inches and a half

about in bigness; floures in number on it 258 and the circumference about them

14 inches and a half.  This relation Isent to the Royall Society and is entred in

their publick register. Colonel John Peacock had it and he gave it me on Holy

Thursday Even (W., 27 May) when I was with him.

a blazing starr seen by several people in Oxon; and A.W. saw it a few nights after

on Botley Causey about 6 at night, in his return from Cumnore. In the next yeare

followed a great plague in England, prodigious births, great inundations and

frosts, war with the Dutch, sudden deaths, particularly in Oxon &c.