United States or Fiji ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Wright was soon released, and died two years later defending his episcopal seat, Eccleshall Castle, against the Parliamentarians, a member of the Church militant like Ancktill. The history of the College from its foundation to the beginning of the Civil War is uneventful, one of great prosperity.
But Colonel Henry Ancktill, "the priest and malignant doctor," as he was known among the Roundheads, one of the first Fellows, ought to be remembered, partly on his own account, for he was a vigorous and devoted Royalist, a fighting man when his cause was hopeless; partly because he may have been the original of Dr Rochcliffe in 'Woodstock. Sir Walter Scott read the 'Athenæ Oxonienses, and the resemblance between Ancktill and Rochcliffe is striking; but who can say what a great writer finds or creates in fiction or in history!
Word Of The Day