Note 23 — INTRODUCTION
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For his biography and that of his father, Gerard Langbaine the Elder, see Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss (London, 1813-1820), III, 446-468. There is a note recording an illicit romance for the son in Andrew Clark, The Life and Times of Anthony Wood (Oxford, 1891), I, 237-238.