Note 94 — II. BALLIOL COLLEGE.[7]
Reading edition
Riley (p. 444) dismisses this book as “a vapid and superficial production”; but there is little doubt that Savage had the assistance in it of no less an antiquary than Anthony Wood. See his Life, pp. 104-108, 143 f., 157. When Wood speaks disparagingly of Savage, it must be remembered that he had himself proposed to write a work on a similar plan: Athen. Oxon. (ed. Bliss, 1817), iii. 959.