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John Aubrey

[1] Letter of Aubrey to Wood: MS. Ballard 14, fol. 131.

[2] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 110, 110v.

[3] Aubrey to Wood, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 340.

[4] Ibid. fol. 347.

[5] Composing MSS. Aubr. 6, 7, and 8 (part i.).

[6] Writing MS. Aubr. 8 (part ii.).

[7] MS. Aubr. 9.

[8] The lives of Isaac Barrow, and of (Serjeant-at-Law) John Hoskyns, may serve as specimens of a fair copy.

[9] Aubrey to Wood, MS. Ballard 14, fol. 129v.

[10] In this edition, some notes about some of them have been brought in from Aubrey's letters, and his 'Collectio Geniturarum.'

[11] Aubrey notes 'Mr. <Edmund> Halley' as the person to ask about Flamsted.

[12] Aubrey adds the reference 'vide libr. B.': see Macray's Bodleian, p. 366.

[13] The adventures of Captain Thomas Stump in Guiana are recorded in Aubrey's Natural History of Wilts.

[14] i.e. the schemes of nativity given at the beginning of many of the lives in MS. Aubr. 6. MS. Aubr. 23, 'Collectio genituraram,' drawn up by Aubrey in 1674 to be deposited in the Ashmolean Museum, is an earlier contribution to the 'supellex.'

[15] In fol. 11v Aubrey's book-plate is pasted on.

[16] In the top left corner, '1s. 4d.' is written. Possibly the price of the original paper-book.

[17] 'Much' substituted for 'so well.'

[18] Aubrey cites in the margin:—

'Utrumque nostrum admirabili modo
 Consentit astrum.

Horat. lib. 2, ode 17:

Nescio quod certe est, quod me tibi temperet, astrum.

Pers. Sat. v. v. 50';

and adds the date in the margin '1665'; but according to Wood, 1667 was the date of their first acquaintance (Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 116).

[19] Dupl. with 'hid.'

[20] Subst. for 'girle's.'

[21] Matth. Raderi 'novi commentt.' were published in 1602, and later editions.

[22] Dupl. with 'inventions.'

[23] 'Have been' is scored out.

[24] Subst. for 'things.'

[25] Foll. 47, 48, in the original (foll. 10, 11, as now foliated). The rest are scraps: fol. 8 is a paper, bearing date 'London, March 12, 1688/9.'

[26] See, e.g. in the life of David Jenkins, from a letter of Aubrey's, the expressions which brought Wood into court and expelled him from the University.

[27] Fol. 2, in the present marking.

[28] I have little doubt that the substance of all the missing pages is incorporated into the Athenae: cf., e.g. William Penn's life here by Aubrey, and the notice of Penn in Wood's Athenae.

[29] Aubrey quotes in the margin:—?pea pte??e?ta.—Hom.

[30] Dated 'July 1mo, 1681'—MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5. In this index the names of some persons occur for notice, of whom no account is found here or elsewhere:—e.g. '... Aldsworth; Richard Blackbourne, M.D.; Sir George Etheridge; Isaac Newton.'

[31] There are now several inserted papers and slips. The two last leaves of the MS. as now made up (foll. 104, 105), belong to neither section of it, but have been brought in from elsewhere, possibly from loose Rawlinson papers.

[32] Anthony Wood has marked it as 'G. 10' of his Athenae Collections (see Clark's Wood's Life and Times, iv. 232), thus showing that he looked on it as his own property.

[33] In this index or on blank pages in the treatise, some are mentioned for their lives to be written, of whom no account is found here or elsewhere in the biographical collections:—e.g. Mr. <Thomas> Blundeville; <Henry> Bond; Mr. Robert Hues; Mr. <Thomas> Lidyate; Mr. ... Phale <i.e. Thomas Fale>; Edmund Wingate.

[34] 'For' subst. for 'in order to the writing.'

[35] 'Is' subst. for 'Mr. Wood haz.'

[36] Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon., 1674.

[37] 'These following' subst. for 'my.'

[38] Aubrey queries 'Is John Escuidus mentioned among them?'

[39] Lond. 1616.

[40] Written at first 'Venit et Hobbi.'

[41] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29. Aubrey notes in the margin:—'The ??? of the preface to the life written by Mr. H. him selfe in <the> third person'; intending I suppose to consult it in remodelling his own draft preface.

[42] Subst. for 'now.'

[43] Subst. for 'setting forth.'

[44] Subst. for 'honoured.'

[45] Dupl. with 'pueritia mea.'

[46] Dupl. with 'having both the same schoolmaster.'

[47] Dupl. with 'desired.'

[48] See in the life of Selden.

[49] In a marginal note Aubrey remarks 'meliorate this word.' Another note is 'Quaere of the preface of this Supplement,' i.e., I suppose, ask some one's opinion whether it will do or not.

[50] Dupl. with 'will <be>.'

[51] Dupl. with 'slipt.'

[52] Dupl. with 'dd' i.e. dedicate.

[53] Subst. for 'But for that the recrementa of such a person are valueable. It is with matters of antiquity as with the sett....'

[54] Subst. for 'good light.'

[55] Dupl. with 'so many degrees, etc.'

[56] Dupl. with 'entring.'

[57] Subst. for 'This.'

[58] 'From oblivion' followed; scored out.

[59] Dupl. with 'growing.'

[60] Dupl. with 'senescens.'

[61] Dupl. with 'rude.'

[62] Dupl. with 'thing.'

[63] Dupl. with 'cutt off.'

[64] Dupl. with 'sense,' 'opinion.'

[65] Dupl. with 'slighted.'

[66] Dupl. with 'goe.'

[67] Dupl. with 'meane.'

[68] Subst. for 'Tuus.'

[69] In connexion with the controversy originated by Dr. Fell's excisions in Wood's notice of Hobbes in his Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon., 1674, see Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 291.

[70] MS. has '1688,' by a slip.

[71] Dupl. with 'sketches.'

[72] Anthony Wood has jotted here ''Tis well.'

[73] Aubrey's letter, dated June 1, 1693, is found in MS. Tanner 25, fol. 59.

[74] Malone's note in Mr. Doble's MS.

[75] I have shown this as regards the text of Anthony Wood's Life; and I hope some day to show it in the much more important matter of the text of the Athenae.

[76] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 223; Sept. 16, 1673.

[77] Idem, ibid., fol. 221; Aug. 10, 1673.

[78] Sic, substituted for 'cloth-worker.'

[79] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 116.

[80] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5: in the index, as a life to be written.

[81] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6.

[82] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 14v.

[83] MS. Ashmole, 388.

[84] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 95v.

[85] By Robert Parsons, S.J.

[86] i.e. Holm Lacy.

[87] Dupl. with 'forgett.'

[88] i.e. tongs.

[89] Subst. for 'to have drowned.'

[90] i.e. fol. 99, of MS. Aubr. 6.

[91] Subst. for 'the.'

[92] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 142v: Oct. 27, 1671.

[93] Trinity College.

[94] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 42v.

[95] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 27.

[96] Elected Fellow in 1576.

[97] Subst. for 'he followed his advice.'

[98] 'To St. Marie's' subst. for 'to church.'

[99] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 27v.

[100] In 1618/9.

[101] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9.

[102] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 21v.

[103] Added by Anthony Wood.

[104] He was M.A., Cambridge, 1574.

[105] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 1v.

[106] Thomas Poynter, rector of Houghton Conquest, Beds., 1676-1700.

[107] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 14v.

[108] John Ashindon (or Eastwood): see Brodrick's Memorials of Merton College (O. H. S.), p. 200.

[109] Aubrey, in MS. Wood, F. 39, fol. 229: Sept. 22, 1673.

[110] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 10v.

[111] In MS. Ballard 14, fol. 19, 20 is an autobiography dictated by Ashmole to Robert Plot, to be sent to Anthony Wood, Dec. 29, 1683.

[112] Added later by Aubrey to his note.

[113] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 81v, 82.

[114] 1609/10.

[115] 'Nor dare I' followed, scored out.

[116] Astronomical symbols omitted.

[117] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 3.

[118] Aubrey's favourite way of writing his initials. is his favourite monogram.

[119] Dupl. with 'This person's life.'

[120] Subst. for 'being.'

[121] i.e. 1625/6.

[122] Explained in the margin as being 'the belly-ake: paine in the side.'

[123] Subst. for 'a place for solitude like an....'

[124] The notes slide from 1st to 3rd person.

[125] Subst. for 'at 9,' scil. years of age.

[126] Subst. for 'must re<peat>.'

[127] Reading doubtful, blurred.

[128] i.e. at 12 years of age.

[129] Supra, p. 29.

[130] Dupl. with 'our.'

[131] Thomas Stephens: see sub nomine.

[132] Dupl. with 'meanes.'

[133] Dupl. with 'clearnesse.'

[134] 'At 8 y<ears of age> I,' but the first words are scored out.

[135] Isaac Lyte.

[136] Dupl. with 'being only my owne instructor.'

[137] Dupl. with '<when> a boy.' For 'was' he began to write 'I <had>' but struck it out.

[138] i.e. to Saturn, patron of antiquities.

[139] Margin frayed.

[140] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 3v.

[141] In the margin Aubrey writes 'Tacitus and Juvenal,' perhaps meaning that he read these authors now, before going up to Oxford.

[142] The sentence stood at first:—'Phansie like a pure christall mirrour.'

[143] Scil. 'disorder my phansy.'

[144] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 2.

[145] i.e. Monday, April 15.

[146] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 3v.

[147] Aubrey intended to write a fine sentence, parallel to what follows, describing the quiet of Oxford before the outbreak of the great war.

[148] Sir Kenelm Digby's 'Observations on Religio Medici,' publ. in 1643.

[149] Dupl. with 'now did Bellona....'

[150] Dupl. with 'black.'

[151] Dupl. with 'one.'

[152] Dupl. begun, but scored through 'J.' i.e. July.

[153] Dupl. with 'importunity.'

[154] Trinity Sunday, 1643, was June 4.

[155] Subst. for 'was faine' <to converse>.

[156] Dupl. with 'renewed' <acquaintance>.

[157] i.e. though my friends were not debauchees, yet their conversation was not improving. For the low tone which grew up among Oxford scholars from contact with the garrison, see Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 129.

[158] Subst for 'like.'

[159] 'Dew' is subst. for 'and sp<irit>.'

[160] i.e. my character throughout my life was that I discharged the function of a whetstone.

[161] Perhaps scil. 'others.' He set other people to work to record matters and so rescued them from oblivion.

[162] The people he set to work.

[163] i.e. her portion was to be more than £2000, and her husband was to be guardian of her brother's estate (during minority?) which was worth £1000 a year.

[164] Subst. for 'my.'

[165] Dupl. with 'was procatractique cause' <of my ruine>.

[166] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 4.

[167] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5v.

[168] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 4.

[169] Joan Sumner.

[170] Gen. xxii. 14.

[171] Dupl. with 'submitted myselfe to God's will.'

[172] i.e. Aubrey then wished he could have withdrawn into a monastery.

[173] i.e. had been left.

[174]? i.e. the advantages of the Reformation in England have drawbacks in the disadvantages of losing monasteries.

[175] 'tooke' in MS.

[176] Nicholas Tufton, 3rd earl. In MS. Ballard 14, fol. 99, April 23, 1674, Aubrey mentions a project for his advantage:—'The earl of Thanet would have me goe to his estate in the Bermudas.'

[177] The paragraphs following repeat, with some enlargement, the statements already made.

[178] Dupl. with 'till all was sold.'

[179] Dupl. with 'great.'

[180] Aubrey adds a reference:—'vide Camden's divinum instr.'

[181] One volume is now MS. Aubr. 3; the second is lost.

[182] Aubrey's symbol for 'fortune' or 'wealth.'

[183] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 4v.

[184] The marginal note names two exceptions.

[185] i.e. Ralph Sheldon's (Anthony Wood's friend): Aubrey was there in 1678, Clark's Wood's Life and Times, iii. 420.

[186] Dupl. with 'a little.'

[187] In these paragraphs Aubrey jots down his opinions as to his own character.

[188] Tac. Ann. iv. 44.

[189] Dupl. with 'negligence (lachesse).'

[190] i.e. school holidays.

[191] Subst. for 'drawer.' See supra, p. 36.

[192] See supra, p. 39.

[193]? acquaintance begun at the Middle Temple.

[194] i.e. who discovered (in his own opinion) 'the number of the beast.'

[195] i.e. Aubrey had a hundred letters of his.

[196] 'Father' is written, as frequently in Aubrey, in a symbol, viz.
??

[197] See note on p. 43.

[198] See Clark's Wood's Life and Times, iv. 191.

[199] Now MS. Aubr. 1 and 2.

[200] The monogram of Anthony Wood.

[201] This is now MS. Aubr. 10.

[202] i.e. on business of the suit concerning the entail: supra, p. 39.

[203] This symbol is for 'opposite to.'

[204] Sir Llewelyn (or Leoline, from the Latin form) Jenkins, Secretary of State 1680-1684.

[205] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5.

[206] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5v.

[207] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 97v.

[208] 1673/4.

[209] i.e. Thursday.

[210] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 2.

[211] MS. Aubr. 23, a slip at fol. 103v.

[212] MS. Aubr, 26, pp. 9, 10.

[213] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 103v.

[214] Aubrey in MS. Rawl. J. fol. 6 (No. 15041 in Summary Catal. of Bodl. MSS.), fol. 30.

[215] Subst. for 'Mich:'<aelmastide>.

[216] Letalis arundo: Verg. Aen. iv. 73.

[217] i.e. a year.

[218] i.e. Wiseman, ut supra.

[219] Ibid., fol. 30v.

[220] Two initials obliterated.

[221]? 1663/4.

[222] i.e. 1669/70.

[223] Ibid., fol. 31.

[224] ?; a symbol I have not found elsewhere in Aubrey, as indicating a person.

[225] Aubrey adds: 'vide Almanac: 'twas that yeare I went to Hethfield.'

[226] Some astrological symbols follow.

[227] One word I cannot decipher.

[228] Two words I cannot decipher.

[229] See infra, p. 52.

[230] Vere Bertie, Baron of the Exchequer, 1675-78.

[231] Seth Ward.

[232] 'At Malmsbury' is scored out, and the following substituted:—'In a private schoole at Westport, next to the smyth's shop as is (now, 1666) opposite to the ... (an inne).'

[233] i.e. at Leigh-de-la-mere.

[234] Anthony Ettrick, 'of Berford, co. Dorset': matric. at Trinity College in 1640, and was afterwards called at the Middle Temple.

[235] William Hawes, of Byssam, Berks, aged 16, was elected Scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, June 5, (Trinity Monday) 1640; President in 1658.

[236] Of Uxmore, Oxon, aged 15, elected Scholar of Trinity, June 4, 1640.

[237] Of Hoothorpe, Northants., elected Scholar of Trinity, June 5, 1637; Fellow, June 4, 1640; President, 1664.

[238] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 19v.

[239] The blank is left for his official title, viz. Clarencieux King of Arms.

[240] William AubrÉ was elected into a Law Fellowship at All Souls in 1547.

[241] i.e. a number of the All Souls Fellowships were set aside for 'legists,' i.e. students of Civil Law.

[242] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 20.

[243] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 20v.

[244] Dupl. with 'for.'

[245] Dupl. with 'some thought.'

[246] He died more than seven years before James's accession.

[247] '2 eldest' is written over as a correction.

[248] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 21.

[249] This sentence is scored out on fol. 21; perhaps that the following paragraph, on fol. 21v, may be inserted.

[250] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 21v.

[251] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 20v.

[252] Sir Edward Atkins, Puisne Justice of the Common Pleas, 1649.

[253] John Cruso, LL.D., Caius Coll., Cambr. 1652.

[254] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 22.

[255] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 21.

[256] Here followed, 'which Mr. Shuter etc. told me they had seen': scored out, as belonging infra.

[257] Subst. for 'gave.'

[258] William Aubrey, Student of Ch. Ch. in 1580; D.C.L. 1597.

[259] See infra, p. 61.

[260] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 21v.

[261] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 19v.

[262] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 1v.

[263] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 23.

[264] i.e. John Dee's book, the 'child of his invention.'

[265] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 23v.

[266] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 24.

[267] Anthony Wood has put dots under this word, and noted in the margin 'sic.'

[268] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 24v.

[269] It should be 'azure.'

[270] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67.

[271] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15v.

[272] i.e. in the life in MS. Aubr. 6; see infra, p. 84.

[273] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 16v.

[274] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67.

[275] Dupl. with 'lost.'

[276] Part of the page left blank for insertion of the letter.

[277] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67v.

[278] Richard Sackville, 3rd earl, ob. 1624.

[279] See infra, sub nomine.

[280] Donne.

[281] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 69.

[282] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 69v.

[283] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 70.

[284] Horat., Ars Poet. 346.

[285] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67v.

[286] Subst. for 'will.'

[287] Subst. for 'had been.'

[288] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68.

[289] His brother-in-law, Mervyn Touchet, second earl of Castlehaven, was executed on this charge, May 14, 1631.

[290] Alice, daughter and co-heir of Bennet Barnham.

[291] Over 'delicate,' Aubrey has written 'T. Hobbes,' either as his authority for the statement, or comparing Bacon's eyes with Hobbes', which were 'hazell' and 'ful of life.'

[292] i.e. the original, and the Greek version.

[293] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 71v.

[294] 'doe things' subst. for 'live much.'

[295] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 74.

[296] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68.

[297] Rectius, of the King's Bench.

[298] Dupl. with 'pretty.'

[299] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68.

[300] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68v.

[301] i.e. Hobbes.

[302] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 71.

[303] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68v.

[304] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 70v.

[305] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68v.

[306] Dupl. with 'luxuriously.'

[307] Explicit MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68v.

[308] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 72.

[309] Dupl. with 'respective.'

[310] Aubrey's drawing will be found among the facsimiles at the end of this volume.

[311] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 72v.

[312] Here followed 'the servant would shutt the dore': scored out.

[313] French 'concierge.'

[314] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 73.

[315] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 73v.

[316] A blank space is left in the MS. for their insertion.

[317] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 74.

[318] Subst. for 'was wont' <to meditate>.

[319] i.e. yew.

[320] 'Belvideri' is written over 'good viewes,' as an alternative.

[321] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 6v.

[322] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9v.

[323] MS. Aubr. 21, p. 11.

[324] Sir Thomas Badd, of Cames Oysells, created a baronet in 1642.

[325] Aubrey, in MS. Wood, F. 39, fol. 319v.

[326] Idem, ibid., fol. 163v: Jan. 27, 1671/2.

[327] Robert Bolton, obiit 1631.

[328] Cited by Aubrey, in MS. Wood, F. 39, fol. 175v.

[329] Anthony Wood notes 'made, they say, by Dr. <John> Owen,' Puritan dean of Christ Church, Oxford.

[330] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.

[331] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 53v.

[332] Robert Barclay was not son of John Barclay; see the dates supra.

[333] Theologiae verae Christianae apologia, Amstel. 1676. The English version appeared in 1678.

[334] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 99.

[335] Isaac Barrow.

[336] Subst. for 'November.'

[337] i.e. this 'captain of the school.'

[338] sic, for Felsted.

[339] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 99v.

[340] William Fairfax, born June 6, 1630, succeeded as 3rd viscount Fairfax of Emley, Sept. 1641, married Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Smith of Stulton co. Suffolk, and died 1648. His son Thomas, 4th viscount, died 1650/1.

[341] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 100.

[342] Thomas Hill, intruded Master by the Parliamentary Visitors, 1645-1653.

[343] Dupl. with 'the boy.'

[344] ? i.e. receiving his fellowship.

[345] Ralph Widdrington, Reg. Prof. Greek, 1654-1660.

[346] 1655-59.

[347] i.e. 100.

[348] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 100v.

[349] Dupl. with 'unravelling.'

[350] Dupl. with 'he was not a Dr. Smirke'—in Andrew Marvell's satire.

[351] Subst. for 'I sawe.'

[352] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 101.

[353] 'In geometrie' is written over 'about mathematics' in explanation.

[354] MS. Aubr. 8, fol, 101v.

[355] See Cooper's Athenae Cant. ii. 96.

[356] MS. Aubr. 6. fol. 51. Aubrey gives in trick the coat:—'sable, two swords in saltire between four fleur-de-lys....'

[357] Anthony Wood notes:—'This was made for Dr. Barrow, Vicechancellor of Cambridge, vide part iii,' i.e. MS. Aubr. 8, ut supra.

[358] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 100v.

[359] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60v. Thomas Batchcroft was Master of Gonville and Caius College, 1625-49, 1660-1670.

[360] Note in pencil (partly inked over) by Aubrey at end of MS. Rawl. 766. The slip is addressed (not by Aubrey) 'To Mr. Thomas Awbrey at Broad Chalke—, to be left at the Lambe in Katherine Streete in Salisbury.' The seal is 'party per chevron, ... and or (?), in chief 2 eagles (or falcons) rising, a mullet for difference,' a coat for Stephens. Aubrey gives in trick, as on the monument, 'sable, a fesse engrailed argent, between 3 dexter hands couped bendways or.'

[361] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 116v.

[362] Francis Beaumont, Justice of the Common Pleas, 1593.

[363] Subst. for 'illorum.'

[364] 'Super' is written above 'over.'

[365] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6.

[366] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 357: written Sept. 1, 1681.

[367] Blank in MS., Aubrey forgetting the name at the moment.

[368] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 45v. The first part of the note seems to be a character of Beeston; the second part is a note of questions to be put to him.

[369] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6.

[370] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 71.

[371] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 70v.

[372] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6.

[373] Charles Berkeley, created viscount Fitz-hardinge 1663, killed in the sea-fight, June 3, 1665.

[374] MS. Aubr. 7 (fol. 5) is dated 'January 1684/5.'

[375] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 90.

[376] i.e. in the scheme of the nativity, which portended immediate death.

[377] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 11.

[378] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5.

[379] i.e. in MS. Aubr. 6, ut supra.

[380] This sentence possibly refers to some other topic than the preceding.

[381] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 35v.

[382] MS. 'laeto.'

[383] 'faire' is scored out.

[384] i.e. 1½ mile.

[385] i.e. if descended from Alderman Henry Billingsley.

[386] i.e. MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67v—in Francis Bacon's life.

[387] i.e. Henry Billingsley's, to whom in this paragraph Aubrey harks back.

[388] 'Richard,' infra, p. 103.

[389] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 9.

[390] This injunction was addressed to Anthony Wood.

[391] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18.

[392] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 90.

[393] Anthony Wood notes 'Luce, in vol. i, p....' i.e. MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 35v, ut supra, p. 100.

[394] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 89v.

[395] In the library of the College of Arms.

[396] Aubrey notes here:—'Quaere if this Thomas was not Sir Thomas Billingsley, the famous horseman?': see supra, p. 100.

[397] MS. Aubr. 8 (Aubrey's volume of Lives of the English Mathematicians), fol. 76.

[398] i.e. written; viz. in MS. Aubr. 6, ut supra.

[399] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 35v.

[400] i.e. from Sir Henry Billingsley.

[401] As given in next paragraph.

[402] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18.

[403] 'Portavit,' bore to his arms.

[404] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18.

[405] Called 'Robert,' supra, p. 101.

[406] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67v.

[407] i.e. Richard Sackville, 5th earl; obiit 1677.

[408] i.e. Charles Louis, Elector Palatine 1648-80; his brothers were Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice.

[409] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 85.

[410] Anthony Wood corrects this to 'Northwich.'

[411] i.e. Anthony Wood's Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon., 1674. Birkenhead became servitor at Oriel in 1632, aged 15.

[412] Philip Gwyn, matr. at Oriel in 1634.

[413] Subst. for 'dischardged.'

[414] In 1639.

[415] Subst. for 'bold': Aubrey writes here ????p??, in explanation.

[416] MS. Aubr. 6 was written in Feb. 1679/80.

[417] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 85v.

[418] For choosing a grave in the churchyard, and not, as was usual with persons of substance, in the church.

[419] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 85.

[420] These words, added (? by Wood) in pencil, probably give the reason assigned in the royal mandate recommending him for D.C.L.

[421] Aubrey in MS. Tanner 24, fol. 159: Nov. 21, 1696.

[422] i.e. All Souls: the letter is written to Thomas Tanner.

[423] Thomas Farnaby, ut infra.

[424] Louis XIV.

[425] Aubrey in MS. Wood, F. 39, fol. 354v: June 21, 1681.

[426] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 33.

[427] Matric. at St. Alban Hall Jan. 26, 1614/5, aged 17; took B.A. from Wadham Feb. 10, 1617/8.

[428] At St. Alban Hall. Norborne matric. in Oct. 1620; and took B.D. in 1637/8.

[429] Bridgewater, 1640.

[430] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121.

[431] MS. Aubr. 23, a slip at fol. 103v.

[432] i.e. Oct. 1682.

[433] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 102.

[434] Matric. June 30, 1615; B.A. June 18, 1618.

[435] Subst. for 'friendship.'

[436] Dupl. with 'came.'

[437] Dupl. with 'combe-makers.'

[438] Dupl. with 'who was an extraordinary handsome man.'

[439] Subst. for 'whores.'

[440] Dupl. with 'honour.'

[441] The words in square brackets are insertions by Anthony Wood.

[442] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 102v.

[443] A note added after the preceding life had been written.

[444] Aubrey in MS. Wood, F. 39, fol. 273v: May 30, 1674.

[445] See sub nomine, Thomas Stephens.

[446] Anthony Wood notes here,'false'; i.e. having inquired at Pembroke (in 1674), he found no trace of this tradition.

[447] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121.

[448] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 12.

[449] The horoscope is left blank.

[450] Dupl. with 'Negotiative.'

[451] Subst. for 'understands.'

[452] Subst. for 'spare body.'

[453] Subst. for 'a very black eie.'

[454] Dupl. with 'From his youth he.'

[455] Dupl. with 'fowle.'

[456] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 12v.

[457] Aubrey, on fol. 12v, gives the full list of 32 titles copied (with some slight changes of spelling, etc.) from Bovey's own list, given infra.

[458] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 13v, Bovey's autograph.

[459] No. 18 is no. 19 in Aubrey's copy; no. 19 is no. 18 in Aubrey's copy.

[460] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 12v.

[461] 'From a child' followed: scored out.

[462] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 11v.

[463] i.e. Aubrey remembered seeing the sermon in a shop there. He went and found it, and has excerpts infra, p. 116.

[464] MS. Aubr. 8 fol. 12.

[465] MS. Ballard 14, fol. 127, a letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood of date Feb. 21, 1679/80.

[466] MS. Aubr. 7. fol. 10.

[467] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 10v.

[468] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 11.

[469] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 11v.

[470] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12v.

[471] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6v.

[472] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 16v.

[473] Subst. for 'cared not for.'

[474] Probably Robert Hooke.

[475] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5.

[476] 1679/80, in this case.

[477] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 33.

[478] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 33v.

[479] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 47v.

[480] Subst. for 'that the beginnings of the Thames and Avon.'

[481] Dupl. with 'and sappable.'

[482] Dupl. with 'the Bylanders.'

[483] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 49.

[484] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8.

[485] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 79.

[486] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 49.

[487] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 48.

[488] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 38v.

[489] MS. Aubr. 7, a slip at fol. 8v.

[490] Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 237.

[491] William Oughtred.

[492] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 101v.

[493] Given by Aubrey in colours in a lozenge.

[494] Venetia Stanley.

[495] Dupl. with 'had.'

[496] Aubrey notes in the margin:—'Barbara C.C. <i.e. countess of Castlemaine> had such a one: nay sempstresse helped to worke it.'

[497] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 18.

[498] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 26.

[499] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 9.

[500] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 29, a note appended to 'the scheme of the nativity of Democritus junior on his monument at Christ Church in Oxon: he writt the Melancholy.'

[501] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 97v.

[502] The words in square brackets are the answer to the inquiry, added later.

[503] Dupl. with 'Wales.'

[504] The reference is to MS. Aubr. 8, (Lives, part iii.): see infra, p. 134.

[505] Dupl. with 'I could have contentedly begged, like a poor man.'

[506] Dupl. with 'make.'

[507] Dupl. with 'the turret.'

[508] Subst. for 'painted with.'

[509] Subst. for 'stretched.'

[510] Bacon.

[511] Added later.

[512] i.e. sew in.

[513] Jack Sydenham, supra, p. 132.

[514] Dupl. with 'did sett.'

[515] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 98.

[516] Subst. for 'whether he lived to see the king's restauration I cannot now perfectly remember; but he did, or neer it: and (I thinke) dyed in London. Quaere Mr. Watts the taylor.'

[517] Dupl. with 'his pretty house at the.'

[518] Subst. for 'rock.'

[519] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12v.

[520] The MS. with this symbol I have not identified. Anthony Wood also quotes a MS. with this symbol.

[521] MS. Aubr. 8, slips at fol. 13.

[522] Sic in MS.: either a slip of the stone-cutter for T. B., or a heartless recalling of his nick-name (supra, p. 130).

[523] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 114v.

[524] Subst. for 'was borne at Powyk, neer Worcester (where he went to schoole).'

[525] Subst. for 'when he was a boy.'

[526] Subst. for 'which tooke, nothing so much!'

[527] Subst. for 'desire.' Persons of position were usually buried in church.

[528] The words in square brackets are struck out, apparently only because Aubrey thought they went too much into detail.

[529] Subst. for 'beare.'

[530] The inscription on the coffin.

[531] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5v.

[532] Anthony Wood, in obedience to this injunction, inserted the leaf which is now fol. 115 of MS. Aubr. 6.

[533] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 115.

[534] Subst. for 'the charges of their health.'

[535] Read, perhaps, 'on,' 'her.'

[536] See Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 186, note 2.

[537] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 114v.

[538] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7.

[539] Inserted by Anthony Wood.

[540] Inserted by Wood, who wrote 'Henry' and then changed it to 'Robert.'

[541] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 26v.

[542] Anthony Wood inserts the Christian name 'William.'

[543] Subst. for 'Upon the first of King James.'

[544] Dupl. with 'this physitian.'

[545] 'Husband's' subst. for 'hers.'

[546] No doubt Edmund Waller, supra; and Thomas Gale, infra.

[547] Dupl. with 'a man of great moodes.'

[548] infra, p. 142.

[549] Subst. for 'habit.'

[550] Subst. for 'plate.'

[551] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 22.

[552] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 24.

[553] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 23. The inscription is Henry More's autograph.

[554] Anthony Wood queries 'Where is this monument?' having forgotten MS. Aubr. 6: supra, p. 140.

[555] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 26v.

[556] Dupl. with 'fashion.'

[557] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25.

[558] For the answer to this query, see infra.

[559] Dupl. with 'said.'

[560] Dupl. with 'then.'

[561] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 22.

[562] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 138: Sept. 2, 1671.

[563] Ibid., fol. 141v: Oct. 27, 1671.

[564] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 119. Aubrey gives in trick the coat:—'or, a fess engrailed between 6 cross crosslets fitchÉe sable.'

[565] Subst. for 'was short-<sighted>.'

[566] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 119v.

[567] MS. Aubr. 6, a slip pasted on to fol. 119.

[568] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 119v.

[569] 'Non' is added by Anthony Wood in red ink, in answer to this inquiry.

[570] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 119.

[571] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18.

[572] See Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 268.

[573] MS. Ballard 14, fol. 133; a letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood, dated July 15, 1681.

[574] Isaac Lyte.

[575] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 105.

[576] Subst. for 'built.'

[577] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 4v.

[578] 'At Northway': so his baptismal certificate in MS. Wood F. 49, fol. 25.

[579] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 138v: Sept. 2, 1671.

[580] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 141: Oct. 27, 1671.

[581] Aubrey, at this date, was in hiding at Broad Chalk.

[582] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 93.

[583] Dupl. with 'mayds.'

[584] Dupl. with 'bargaine.'

[585] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 93v.

[586] Anthony Wood notes in the margin 'Jo<hn> Triplett.'

[587] Charles Gataker was author of several pamphlets.

[588] Subst. for 'Wayneman.'

[589] 'excellent' written over 'witts,' as an alternative.

[590] Dupl. with 'victory by the Devizes.'

[591] Subst. for 'Some now that.'

[592] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 94.

[593] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 29.

[594] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 29: Aubrey repeats the coat given supra.

[595] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 29v.

[596] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 39.

[597] Anthony Wood notes 'col. Charles Cavendish.'

[598] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 39v.

[599] 'Abner' in MS. by a slip.

[600] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 59v.

[601] Sir William Montagu, Chief Baron of the Exchequer 1676-1686.

[602] John Cecil, succeeded as fourth earl in 1643.

[603] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60.

[604] Dupl. with 'degree.'

[605] Subst. for 'keepe.'

[606] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 19.

[607] The words in square brackets are added by Anthony Wood. Chaloner matriculated at Exeter College, June 7, 1611.

[608] i.e. 'tutor,' in the sense of instructor (not, of comptroller of the household).

[609] Dupl. with 'false,' i.e. falsehood.

[610] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 19v.

[611] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 61. Aubrey has been unable to make out the whole inscription.

[612] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 53v, and a slip at fol. 100v.

[613] 'His father was minister there': Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 144.

[614] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 54.

[615] Wednesday.

[616] i.e. the horoscope which Aubrey has there.

[617] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 77.

[618] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9v.

[619] Anthony Wood noted here 'rather 1680; if you meane Stephen Charnock, the divine': but saw his error and erased the note.

[620] i.e. as fol. 56-58 of MS. Aubr. 8.

[621] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 58v; the heading is by Aubrey; the letter is the original.

[622] Earth.

[623] Salt.

[624] Rabbet = 'a groove cut along the edge of a board ... to receive a corresponding projection cut on the edge of another board, required to fit it.'—Century Dictionary.

[625] Address, on MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 53. Postage is marked as '6d.'

[626] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 57. The letter is the original.

[627] Line frayed off.

[628] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 56v.

[629] Elias Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, 1652.

[630] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 56.

[631] i.e. of the roll mentioned, supra, p. 164.

[632] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 56v.

[633] 'Perfet' is scored through.

[634] A note added in the text by Paschall.

[635] A description by Paschall of a drawing on the roll, after the above verses.

[636] The symbols for sun and moon = gold and silver.

[637] Half a line which Paschall could not read.

[638] Printed in Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum.

[639] Printed ibid.

[640] Printed ibid.

[641] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 27.

[642] Sir Thomas Richardson, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 1631.

[643] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 200: April 7, 1673.

[644] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 121v.

[645] i.e. Arch Bishop of Canterbury.

[646] 1642, in MS.

[647] Dupl. with 'terrible.'

[648] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121v.

[649] MS. Aubr. 6. fol. 6v.

[650] MS. has 'did had,' i.e., Aubrey at first thought of writing 'did have.'

[651] Perhaps John Nayler, fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.

[652] Aubrey, in MS. Rawl. D. 727, fol. 96v.

[653] Subst. for 'a great many.'

[654] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 28.

[655] The number was doubtful, see supra, p. 175.

[656] 'Thomas,' is in error for Edward.

[657] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 208: May 17, 1673.

[658] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 28.

[659] 'Or sonne' is scored out.

[660] Dupl. with 'which belonged to him.'

[661] Nov. 15, 1616.

[662] Three lines of the text are suppressed here.

[663] Sept. 3, 1633.

[664] Subst. for 'will play.'

[665] Henry Cuff: Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 424.

[666] Ovid, Metam. iii. 230.

[667] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 27v.

[668] Subst. for 'envyed.'

[669] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 5. Aubrey gives in trick the coat '..., a serpent in pale vert.'

[670] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60v.

[671] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 131: June 14, 1671.

[672] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 86.

[673] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 28.

[674] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5.

[675] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25.

[676] See Clark's Wood's Life and Times, iii. 24.

[677] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 316: April 9, 1679.

[678] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 16v.

[679] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.

[680] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 91v.

[681] Subst. for 'about.'

[682] MS. Aubr. 8, a slip at fol. 4.

[683] Josias Pullen, Vice-Principal of Magdalen Hall.

[684] Anthony Wood notes:—'afterwards of Winton.'

[685] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 69.

[686] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15v.

[687] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 106.

[688] Subst. for 'farther.'

[689] i.e. MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15v, ut supra. He was never Canon of Ch. Ch.

[690] Dupl. with 'ruffe.'

[691] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 106v.

[692] Subst. for 'company.'

[693] Subst. for 'pressing upon the.'

[694] The words in square brackets are substituted for 'with this inscription ... (vide).'

[695] i.e. MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15v, ut infra.

[696] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 106.

[697] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 106v.

[698] Three lines of the text are here suppressed.

[699] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15v.

[700] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6v.

[701] Subst. for 'I left Oxford': see supra, p. 37.

[702] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 113v.

[703] Subst. for 'to buy it.'

[704] i.e. Tom.

[705] MS. Aubr. 6, a slip at fol. 113v.

[706] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 36.

[707] Jane Smyth, see sub nomine.

[708] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5v.

[709] MS. Aubr. 21, p. 11.

[710] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6v.

[711] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25v.

[712] i.e. 1600/1.

[713] Dupl. with 'shew the like two brothers,' scil. as Sir Charles Danvers and his brother Henry, earl of Danby.

[714] Edward Vere, seventeenth earl of Oxford.

[715] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 26v.

[716] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25.

[717] Aubrey, in the margin, notes 'Anne Bulleyn.'

[718] For the murder of Henry Long.

[719] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25.

[720] Dupl. with 'dyed.'

[721] This symbol I cannot explain.

[722] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25v.

[723] Dupl. with 'discreet.'

[724] George Legge, created (1682) lord Dartmouth.

[725] MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 46.

[726] MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 44v.

[727] Over the almshouse: ibid. fol. 45.

[728] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25v.

[729] Grandson.

[730] Their flight, after the murder of Henry Long.

[731] MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 46.

[732] George Herbert. This note follows Herbert's verses on the gravestone of Henry Danvers.

[733] i.e. in his son, Henry, earl of Danby.

[734] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18v.

[735] His elder brother.

[736] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25v.

[737] i.e. at the time of his father's death, supra, p. 195.

[738] i.e. the arrangement of these gardens proved his good taste.

[739] Dupl. with 'to collogue with the P.'

[740] Sir Robert Danvers, justice of the Common Pleas, 1450; Sir Thomas Littelton (the jurist), justice of the Common Pleas, 1466.

[741] This is the 'Elizabeth, viscountess Purbeck,' who so frequently appears in these biographies as an informant of Aubrey.

[742] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 97.

[743] Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Danvers, ut supra.

[744] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 97v.

[745] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1v.

[746] The winter of 1678-79 was a severe one: Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 426, 432, 439.

[747] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 45.

[748] Omitted here, because given, infra, p. 199, from fol. 43.

[749] MS. Aubr. 26, p. 16.

[750] Whiddy Island, in Bantry Bay.

[751] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 43.

[752] Subst. for 'an incomparable.'

[753] There followed '(except the gout),' scored out.

[754] 'Luctu' in the copy on fol. 43; 'dolore,' in the copy on fol. 45.

[755] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 43v.

[756] Dupl. with 'where he profited very well.'

[757] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 44.

[758] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8v.

[759] MS. Aubr. 10, fol. 31.

[760] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 44v.

[761] John Pearson, bishop of Chester 1672-86.

[762] Of which he had been President.

[763] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 46.

[764] The words here put in square brackets are a later insertion: the first clause is scored out.

[765] Aubrey adds 'vide p. 79 (Suckling)'; i.e. fol. 110 of this MS. Aubr. 6, in the life of Sir John Suckling infra.

[766] Subst. for 'Robert was vicar of West Kington, chaplain to bishop Davenant.'

[767] The words in square brackets are scored out.

[768] Dupl. with 'was.'

[769] 'Contentended' in MS.

[770] The words in square brackets are scored out.

[771] Dupl. with 'whereby she was called a whore': also scored out.

[772] Dupl. with 'empaled.'

[773] Anthony Wood notes in the margin 'Grevill, lord Brookes.'

[774] Wood notes in the margin, 'Sir Fulk Grevill, poet.'

[775] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 46v.

[776] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 47.

[777] Subst. for 'and went with them.'

[778] Subst. for 'then almost forgot.'

[779] Subst. for 'the best coffin they sayd that.'

[780] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 47v.

[781] Subst. for 'spirit.'

[782] Letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood, of date May 19, 1668; MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 118.

[783] Wood queries:—'in S. Bennet chapel, quaere.'

[784] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 9v: a memo. intended for Anthony Wood.

[785] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 390: July 15, 1689.

[786] Davenport was pastor at Newhaven in New England.

[787] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 18v.

[788] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 37: also verbatim from the Ephemerides Stadii, in MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 77.

[789] In a letter from Elias Ashmole to Anthony Wood: MS. Ballard 14, fol. 13.

[790] In a letter from Dr. John Conant to Anthony Wood, 1683: MS. Wood F. 49, fol. 101.

[791] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6v.

[792] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 78.

[793] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 77v.

[794] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9v.

[795] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 37.

[796] See supra, pp. 61-65.

[797] Sir William Boswell.

[798] Anthony Wood notes, 'false.'

[799] See Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 158.

[800] Dupl. with 'sanguine.'

[801] '1672' is added in pencil.

[802] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 38.

[803] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 96.

[804] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 7.

[805] i.e. Thursday.

[806] For purposes of testing the astrological scheme.

[807] Philip Herbert, fifth earl, succeeded 1655, died 1669.

[808] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 7v.

[809] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7v.

[810] Subst. for 'proofe.'

[811] MS. Aubr. 8, fol 6v.

[812] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 84.

[813] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 105.

[814] Judge of the King's Bench, 1660.

[815] Dupl. with 'when noboby suspected it.'

[816] Subst. for 'Paschalius.'

[817] Subst. for 'most guilty of it.'

[818] i.e. 1638/9.

[819] 'William, lord,' subst. for 'the lord.'

[820] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 105v.

[821] John Denham, fellow-commoner of Wadham, in July 1654.

[822] Subst. for 'and then would not.'

[823] Elizabeth Mallet, wife of John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester.

[824] Richard Escott matr. at Exeter, July 3, 1612; afterwards of Lincoln's Inn.

[825] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 33v.

[826] Dupl. with 'loines.'

[827] Sir Henry Savile.

[828] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 8v.

[829] Dupl. with 'opinion,' or 'conscience.'

[830] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 31.

[831] i.e. 1600/1.

[832] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1v.

[833] In 1596.

[834] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 10.

[835] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 178: July 6, 1672.

[836] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 99.

[837] This title is substituted in the margin. The text had 'de fallaciis,' scored out, and 'vide margent' written over.

[838] i.e. if Anthony Wood wants to know which of the suggestions is correct, Aubrey can find out.

[839] i.e. although in Glocester Hall, he did not matriculate in the University. This was by no means infrequent all through the seventeenth century, and was especially common with students of Roman Catholic families.

[840] Subst. for 'they remain.'

[841] i.e. to Philip Herbert, fifth earl of Pembroke, obiit 1669; father of William, sixth earl, obiit 1674, and Philip, seventh earl, obiit 1683. MS. Aubr. 6 was written in 1680.

[842] Subst. for 'loved.'

[843] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 99v.

[844] Dupl. with 'excellency.'

[845] Subst. for 'more.'

[846] Dupl. with 'play.'

[847] Subst. for 'dedication.'

[848] A pen-slip for 'contested': see supra.

[849] Dupl. with 'people.'

[850] Dupl. with 'he was here two.'

[851] Subst. for 'studyed chymistry': 'made artificiall stones' is written over as an alternative.

[852] Subst. for 'de Corpore.'

[853] July 1648.

[854] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 100.

[855] '2' is written over the '1,' perhaps as a correction.

[856] Afterwards Aubrey added 'I have seen.'

[857] Subst. for 'a lawyer.'

[858] i.e. vellum.

[859] Subst. for 'much.'

[860] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 101v.

[861] Grandson; his father Robert, second earl, died in 1609, a year after his father, Thomas Sackville, first earl.

[862] John Danvers, p. 196, supra.

[863] Subst. for 'had some children.'

[864] Dupl. with 'good.'

[865] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 101.

[866] Subst. for 'braine.'

[867] Aubrey gives (MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 101) a drawing of this monument here given in facsimile.

[868] '... Fryars' is written over 'Christ Church,' as an alternative.

[869] Dupl. with 'degrees.'

[870] 'Or Bedfordshire' followed, scored out.

[871] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 73.

[872] This entry is scored out.

[873] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 73v.

[874] i.e. from which Aubrey excerpted the genealogy above: probably a MS. in the Heralds' Office.

[875] The family of Digges.

[876] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 72v.

[877] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 51v.

[878] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 75.

[879] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 75v.

[880] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 74. This folio is a slip on which Aubrey has written a long note about the book he mentioned on fol. 75 as 'Ala seu scala mathematices, 4to, printed at London.'

[881] MS. Aubr. 8, fol 74v.

[882] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 75.

[883] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8v.

[884] 'The countess of Dorset, that was governes to prince Charles, now our King, was at the cost of erecting his monument': Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 208: May 17, 1673.

[885] i.e. at the side of the inscription this is carved; Aubrey gives a rough sketch of the figures, a sun in his glory charged with a mercury's cap, on a wreath; a shield gouttÉe, with a Pegasus.

[886] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 102v.

[887] Erasmus was in England 1497 and 1510. The Dryden pedigree is:—

David Dryden
"
John Dryden, obiit 1584
"
Sir Erasmus, obiit 1632
"
+----+----+
" "
John Erasmus (3rd son)
"
John (the poet)

[888] Given in trick by Aubrey.

[889] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 108v.

[890] i.e. his life. The page has been left blank for the fulfilment of this promise: cf. Milton, infra.

[891] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121: out of Dr. Richard Napier's papers.

[892] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 87.

[893] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121: out of Dr. Richard Napier's papers.

[894] MS. Aubr. 7, a slip at fol. 8v.

[895] MS. Aubr. 21, p. 19.

[896] MS. Aubr. 21, p. 2.

[897] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 31v.

[898] Dupl. with 'his athanor roome.'

[899] Dupl. with 'is famous in picture and poetrie.'

[900] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 1v.

[901] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 32.

[902] At Salisbury.

[903] Gondomar, ambassador of Spain to James I, 1617-23.

[904] Subst. for 'seates.'

[905] i.e. 'Cantuar. archiepiscopus,' Aubrey using his contraction for arch-bishop (A. B.) instead of the Latin.

[906] Sic, in Aubrey's MS., but in error: perhaps 1210 was intended.

[907] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 83v.

[908] Here followed, scored out as being in error, 'he was created earle of Bridgwater.'

[909] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9.

[910] A quotation jotted down as applicable to the Shrewsbury story, supra.

[911] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 29.

[912] Eldest son of Sir George: see in the life of Thomas Triplett.

[913] Petron. Satir. cap. 34 (BÜcheler).

[914] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 5v.

[915] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7.

[916] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 5v.

[917] Subst. for 'would not adventure him at the boarding schoole.'

[918] i.e. Andrew Paschal (B.D. 1661) had lived in the rooms formerly occupied by Erasmus.

[919] Dupl. with 'find out.'

[920] In his horoscope.

[921] i.e. fixed the course of study.

[922] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 6.

[923] Dupl. with 'easie.'

[924] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 37v.

[925] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 94.

[926] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60.

[927] Wood 514, no. 19*, is a pass granted at the time of the siege, with Sir Thomas Fairfax's signature and seal.

[928] Edmund Wyld (?).

[929] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 136: Aug. 9, 1671.

[930] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 369: Aug. 15, 1682.

[931] In error for 'George.'

[932] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 10.

[933] 'Fisk, M.D., or so called': Aubrey's note in MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5.

[934] 'An astrological discourse' by N. F., 1650, 12mo, is in the Brit. Mus. Libr.

[935] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 135v: Aug. 9, 1671.

[936] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 8v.

[937] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 58.

[938] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 16.

[939] In error for 'William.'

[940] Dupl. with 'a great.'

[941] Aubrey hesitated about his correct title, noting between the lines, 'his Worship; quaere, if Honour.'

[942] i.e. Wycombe.

[943] A line of text is suppressed here.

[944] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 45v.

[945] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 54.

[946] 'And was buryed August 29th, 1625': Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 253: Jan. 31, 1673/4.

[947] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 133: June 10, 1671. Ibid., fol. 131, Aubrey says the information was from Florio's grandson, 'Mr. Molins.'

[948] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60v. Aubrey gives in trick the coat:—'azure, a chevron wavy between 3 griffins segreant or.'

[949] An erased note, ibid., says: 'He proposed to a parliament, tempore regis Jacobi, a way of bringing water to London from Richmondsworth, and printed a little booke of it, which Mr. Edmund Wyld has, and is exceeding scarce: see it, and take the title.'

[950] This sentence is scored out.

[951] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 273: May 30, 1674.

[952] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 135v: Aug. 9, 1671.

[953] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 192v: Jan. 18, 1672/3.

[954] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 14v.

[955] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 17.

[956] To the monument of John Speed in the chancel of St. Giles Cripplegate.

[957] 'Printed also in Stowe's Survey': Anthony Wood's note.

[958] Aubrey in Wood MS. F. 39, fol. 171: May 10, 1672.

[959] Supra, p. 31.

[960] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18v.

[961] Dupl. with 'strong made.'

[962] MS. Aubr. 23. fol. 121.

[963] MS. Aubr. 21, p. 11.

[964] MS. Ballard 14, fol. 129: a letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood, of date March 19, 1680/1.

[965] Dupl. with 'killed.'

[966] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 31.

[967] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 49.

[968] Subst. for 'mathematicall.'

[969] Dupl. with 'telling.'

[970] By William Prynne.

[971] MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 128, a letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood, of date Nov. 17, 1670.

[972] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 74v.

[973] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 79v.

[974] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 51v.

[975] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 52.

[976] Dupl. with 'loud.'

[977] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 52v.

[978] Dupl. with 'sirnam'd.'

[979] Dialogue-wise between Alexander Gill, father, and Alexander Gill, son.

[980] Interlinear note:—'The usher.'

[981] Interlinear note:—'Rowland.'

[982] Marginal note:—'When he was clark of Wadham College and being by his place to begin a Psalme, he flung out of church, bidding the people sing to the praise and glory of God quicunque vult.'

[983] Marginal note:—'he was tossed in a blanket.'

[984] MS. has 'ventest.'

[985] Marginal note:—'A knave's tongue and a whore's tayle who can rule?'

[986] Marginal note:—'He did sitt 4 times for his degree.'

[987] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9v.

[988] i.e. Aubrey remembered having seen the sermon in a bookseller's shop; cf. supra, p. 115. The sermon was by Joseph Pleydell.

[989] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.

[990] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 138v: Sept. 2, 1671.

[991] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 98.

[992] Aubrey in MS. Tanner 25, fol. 50, says 'Day-Fatality was writt by Mr. ... Gibbons, Blewmantle, but I have added severall notes to it.'

[993] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 21v.

[994] MS. has 'praelectoris,' by a slip.

[995] Subst. for 'stills.'

[996] Dupl. with 'untimely.'

[997] Subst. for 'of a niece of his who maried a tradesman.'

[998] Subst. for 'impose.'

[999] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 59v.

[1000] Note added by Anthony Wood.

[1001] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15v.

[1002] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 51: also in MS. Aubr. 8, a slip at fol. 102.

[1003] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 16v.

[1004] Eldest son of the translator.

[1005] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 53v.

[1006] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 97. Aubrey gives in trick the coat:—'ermine, on a chevron gules 5 besants.'

[1007] 1591/2.

[1008] Subst. for 'degrees.'

[1009] i.e. became bankrupt.

[1010] Died April 18, buried April 22, 1674.

[1011] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 270: May 26, 1674.

[1012] Ibid., fol. 270v.

[1013] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.

[1014] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7.

[1015] Subst. for 'the judge.'

[1016] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 28.

[1017] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.

[1018] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 4v.

[1019] Supra, p. 205.

[1020] Aubrey notes of this book 'I have it.'

[1021] Dupl. with 'seat.'

[1022] Dupl. with 'that in libelling characters of the Lords then, his was.'

[1023] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 14v.

[1024] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 78v.

[1025] Dupl. with 'there.'

[1026] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.

[1027] MS. Aubr. 21, p. 11; and repeated almost verbatim, ibid. fol. 24v. Aubrey's character Sir Fastidious Overween in his projected comedy The Country Revel was to be copied from this Gwyn.

[1028] In his projected comedy.

[1029] 'Coxcome' on fol. 24v.

[1030] Aubrey de Vere, succeeded as 20th earl in 1632, died 1702, the last of that house.

[1031] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 7.

[1032] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 3.

[1033] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 20v.

[1034] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 144: Oct. 27, 1671.

[1035] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 119v.

[1036] Space left for his degree: M.A. (Merton, 20 June, 1609).

[1037] Substituted for:—

'Hopton, Horner, Knocknaile and Thynne,
 When abbots went downe, then they came in.'

[1038] Scil. of Oxford University by the Parliamentary Commission.

[1039] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 368: 'St. Anne's day,' July 26, 1682.

[1040] Dupl. with 'in setting them up to.'

[1041] Dupl. with 'fell on their knees.'

[1042] Dupl. with 'a mistake.'

[1043] Inserted by Anthony Wood.

[1044] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60.

[1045] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 28v.

[1046] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 50.

[1047] Aubrey gives in colours the coat: 'sable, a fret and a canton argent'; also Halley's horoscope.

[1048] Halley did not graduate in the ordinary course, but was made M.A. by diploma in 1678.

[1049] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 10.

[1050] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 49, fol. 39v.

[1051] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 16v. Hamey was M.D., Leyden; incorporated at Oxford, Feb. 4, 1629/30.

[1052] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5v.

[1053] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 10v.

[1054] In June, 1679: Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 453.

[1055] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 68v.

[1056] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 35.

[1057] 'Country,' with Aubrey, = county.

[1058] Added as a suggestion that Hariot's family may be looked for in those counties.

[1059] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12.

[1060] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 91.

[1061] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12.

[1062] Aubrey writes in the margin the reference 'vide pag. 40,' i.e. fol. 9v, ut infra.

[1063] Subst. for 'Steward.'

[1064] See Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 24, 25, 33, 53.

[1065] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 35.

[1066] Perhaps because the letters ended in tridents; see Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 498, and the facsimile.

[1067] Anthony Wood writes 'R. Hues' in the margin.

[1068] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 91.

[1069] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 138: Sept. 2, 1671.

[1070] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 141: Oct. 27, 1671.

[1071] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 72.

[1072] See supra, p. 157.

[1073] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 11.

[1074] i.e. Friday, Jan. 3, 1611/2. The date is noted also in MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 103.

[1075] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 98.

[1076] Written in pencil only, being a later insertion.

[1077] Jane, daughter of Sir William Samwell of Upton, co. Northts.

[1078] Written in pencil only, being a later addition.

[1079] Scil. of the Rota club, described infra.

[1080] i.e. at the meetings at Miles's.

[1081] Subst. for 'night.'

[1082] Dupl. with 'Mr.'

[1083] These two names are struck out, as is Mariet infra.

[1084] Struck out.

[1085] Subst. for 'Also, as.'

[1086] i.e. as listeners only. Those above were of Harrington's 'party.' The 'antagonists,' who wished to break up the meetings, follow.

[1087] Dupl. with 'lord.'

[1088] Dupl. with 'opponents.'

[1089] 'Officers' dupl. with 'soldiers.' These, like Aubrey, were 'auditors' only.

[1090] Subst. for 'came in drunke.'

[1091] Dupl. with 'Howse.'

[1092] Harrington.

[1093] MS. Aubr. 6, a slip at fol. 98v.

[1094] Subst. for 'sent.'

[1095] Dupl. with 'grew conceited that.'

[1096] Subst. for 'a versatile timber house built.'

[1097] i.e. window frames; French 'chÂsse.'

[1098] i.e. the coat given in note 1 from MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 29v.

[1099] Subst. for 'though neer <i.e. near> a.'

[1100] Verso of the slip at fol. 98v of MS. Aubr. 6.

[1101] i.e. John Aubrey.

[1102] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 3.

[1103] The passage in square brackets is Harrington's autograph.

[1104] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 308: June 6, 1678.

[1105] A slip pasted to a slip inserted at fol. 98v of MS. Aubr. 6, a direction to Anthony Wood.

[1106] supra, p. 290.

[1107] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121v.

[1108] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 64.

[1109] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 108v.

[1110] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 64.

[1111] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 66v.

[1112] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18.

[1113] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 64.

[1114] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 64v.

[1115] Dupl. with 'a kind of Convocation-house.'

[1116] Subst. for 'the king.'

[1117] Anthony Wood writes 'Adrian Scrope' in the margin, to mark this place for use in his Athenae.

[1118] Rectius June: Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 128.

[1119] Subst. for 'great.'

[1120] Subst. for 'St. Dunstan's church in the....'

[1121] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 65.

[1122] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 65v.

[1123] The records of the Steward's court of the University of Oxford show several cases of homicide, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the hasty drawing of daggers worn as part of the ordinary dress. See also supra, p. 150.

[1124] Dupl. with 'complexion like wainscott.'

[1125] Dupl with 'our.'

[1126] Dupl. with 'see.'

[1127] Subst. for 'to know him.'

[1128] Subst. for 'would.'

[1129] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 66.

[1130] Subst. for 'William.'

[1131] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 66v.

[1132] Dupl with 'this towne.'

[1133] i.e. prescriptions.

[1134] i.e. Shaftesbury; Lord High Chancellor, 1672.

[1135] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 12.

[1136] Dupl. with 'despicable.'

[1137] i.e. of those who have married for policy.

[1138] i.e. in inducing gentlemen to marry into noble families in order to impale a distinguished coat.

[1139] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 15. The sowgelder, in Aubrey's comedy, is dissuading Sir John Fitz-ale from marrying a widow.

[1140] Dupl. with 'proud.'

[1141] Dupl. with 'retarders.'

[1142] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 9.

[1143] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 15v.

[1144] Subst. for 'transmographie.'

[1145] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 21.

[1146] MS. Aubr. 6, a jotting on a slip at fol. 86, explained by the next paragraph, which is found on the back of the slip.

[1147] 'Mr. Elize Hele': see the details of the endowment in Lysons' Britannia (Devonshire), pp. 405, 609.

[1148] John Maynard (1602-1690): Serjeant at Law 1654.

[1149] 'did ordered' in MS., by a slip for 'did order it.'

[1150] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 96v.

[1151] i.e. took to his bed. The astrologer then took his 'decumbiture,' i.e. position of the stars at the time of his being laid up.

[1152] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 28.

[1153] i.e., I suppose, in Aubrey's pocket Almanac for 1672: see pp. 39, 51.

[1154] 'lib. B' is a lost volume of Aubrey's own antiquarian notes.

[1155] See, for the explanation of this jotting, in George Herbert's life, infra, p. 310.

[1156] The blank is perhaps for 'wife of Sir John Danvers.'

[1157] MS. Aubr. 8, a slip at fol. 95.

[1158] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 95.

[1159] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 95v.

[1160] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 96.

[1161] Subst. for 'the parsonage of Bemmarton.'

[1162] i.e. step-mother.

[1163] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5v.

[1164] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 18.

[1165] Some portions of the text, three lines in all, are suppressed here.

[1166] Subst. for 'elaborator.'

[1167] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 81v.

[1168] Subst. for 'but he.'

[1169] Anthony Wood corrects this to 'Juliana,' i.e. Berners.

[1170] Some expressions in the text, two lines in all, are suppressed here.

[1171] MS. Aubr. 6, a slip at fol. 81.

[1172] Subst. for 'kill'st.'

[1173] Dupl. with 'his.'

[1174] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 95.

[1175] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 95v.

[1176] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 80.

[1177] 'one time' followed, scored out.

[1178] Dupl. with 'runne.'

[1179] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 80v.

[1180] Dupl. with 'face.'

[1181] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 81.

[1182] MS. Aubr. 6, a note on fol. 80v.

[1183] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 106v.

[1184] 23 March.

[1185] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 55v.

[1186] MS. Aubr. 6, a slip at fol. 81.

[1187] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 4v.

[1188] i.e. Ashmole.

[1189] Anthony Wood notes here:—'Sir William Backhouse, quaere.'

[1190] i.e. among N. Culpepper's papers.

[1191] i.e. cited in the MS. he was exploiting.

[1192] Aubrey in Wood MS. F. 39, fol. 160v: 16 Jan. 1671/2.

[1193] Inserted by Anthony Wood.

[1194] Wrongly changed by Wood to 1663.

[1195] Ibid., fol. 156: 30 Dec. 1671.

[1196] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 38v.

[1197] The words follow, scored out, 'but no writer that ever I heard of, or if he was,' [his writings].

[1198] Subst. for 'or remembered him.'

[1199] The statement in square brackets is scored out, and the comment added 'negat.' Aubrey had enquired of Philips.

[1200] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 389: 15 July 1689.

[1201] Wood notes 'false.'

[1202] Ibid., fol. 389v.

[1203] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 389.

[1204] Ibid., fol. 354: 21 June 1681.

[1205] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 30.

[1206] This title is subst. for 'Supplementum vitae Thomae Hobbes, Malmsburiensis': see p. 17.

[1207] There are two other drafts of the opening sentence:—'The ancients, when they writt the lives'; 'It was usuall with the writers of the lives of the ancient philosophers, in the'.

[1208] Dupl. with 'stock.'

[1209] Dupl. with 'rich' or 'illustrious.'

[1210] Dupl. with 'derived.'

[1211] Dupl. with 'though of no illustrious family.'

[1212] Dupl. with 'extraction.'

[1213] Dupl. with 'great parts.'

[1214] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29v.

[1215] i.e. for the etymology; infra, p. 324.

[1216] Aubrey's MS. is only a rough draft for Anthony Wood's perusal. Hence these queries.

[1217] For the pedigree supplied by William Aubrey, see infra, p. 388.

[1218] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 30.

[1219] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29v.

[1220] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7v.

[1221] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29v.

[1222] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 30.

[1223] Dupl. with 'vicar.' Anthony Wood wrote in the margin 'vicar of Malmsbury,' but scored it out, as in error.

[1224] Wood wished to add 'or Sir Rogers.'

[1225] Dupl. with 'did.'

[1226] Dupl. with 'valued not.'

[1227] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29v.

[1228] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 30.

[1229] i.e. Thomas, the father.

[1230] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 31.

[1231] Dupl. with 'pasture.' In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 28, Aubrey calls it 'a good moweing ground, called Gaston, not far from the house he <T. H.> was borne in.'

[1232] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 30v.

[1233] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 31.

[1234] Dupl. with 'with,' i.e. with his uncle, as well as to his trade.

[1235] Dupl. with 'about.'

[1236] Dupl. with 'face.'

[1237] In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 28, Aubrey says, 'He <T.H.> had an elder brother, named Edmund Hobbes, more then once alderman of Malmesbury': but this is probably an error, from confusing him with the uncle.

[1238] Dupl. with 'parts.'

[1239] i.e. William Aubrey.

[1240] Dupl. with 'boy'

[1241] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 32.

[1242] Dupl. with 'pourtraying.'

[1243] Other drawings of Malmsbury by Aubrey are in MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 35 and 39.

[1244] On this Anthony Wood comments:—'I think 'tis fit it should be drawne and represented, for the abbey sake. 'Tis cheap to have cut in box.'

[1245] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 32.

[1246] scil. of the 'neck of land.'

[1247] Dupl. with 'melted.'

[1248] Dupl. with 'adorned.'

[1249] Dupl. with 'and.'

[1250] Anthony Wood notes here 'as it was concerning Homer.'

[1251] Dupl. with 'as I say.'

[1252] Dupl. with 'enjoyed.'

[1253] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 33.

[1254] Dupl. with 'with.'

[1255] See infra, p. 388.

[1256] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 32v.

[1257] Quoted from Hobbes' metrical life of himself.

[1258] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 33.

[1259] Dupl. with 'proves.'

[1260] Aubrey notes opposite this sentence:—'This is good.'

[1261] Dupl. with 'and then.' Subst. for 'at eight yeares of age he could.'

[1262] Written at first 'Three Tunnes (quaere William Aubrey)': and then changed when W. A. answered the query.

[1263] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 34.

[1264] Dupl. with '25 +.'

[1265] Dupl. with 'the oven' <dupl. with 'pies'> 'had devoured them.'

[1266] Dupl. with 'the boyes.'

[1267] Dupl. with 'strings.'

[1268] Dupl. with 'draw through.'

[1269] Anthony Wood corrects to 'the stationers' shops.'

[1270] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 35.

[1271] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 34v.

[1272] This paragraph is an insertion by Anthony Wood in answer to Aubrey's query.

[1273] His name is not entered in the University matriculation-register.

[1274] Part of the formula of admission: Clark's Reg. Univ. Oxon. II. i. 48.

[1275] 1607/8; ibid. II. iii. 278.

[1276] ibid. II. i. 50.

[1277] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 35.

[1278] Subst. for 'Mr. John Wilkinson.'

[1279] Dupl. with 'did believe.'

[1280] Dupl. with 'then.'

[1281] Dupl. with 'was.'

[1282] Dupl. with 'notions.'

[1283] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 36.

[1284] The chronology is here difficult. William Cavendish, second earl of Devonshire, died 20 June, 1628; and it is he whom Hobbes regarded as his 'first' lord (see his inscription, infra, p. 386), not his father William, first earl, who died 3 March, 1625/6. Bacon died 9 Apr. 1626.

[1285] Subst. for 'time.'

[1286] In the first attempt at this paragraph Aubrey wrote, 'T. H. came into his native country. I was then a little youth and went to schoole to Mr. Robert Latimer at Leigh-de-la-mere in the church about a mile from my father's house (Easton Pierse).'

[1287] In a second attempt it stood '... at Leigh-de-la-mere. I was then a little youth newly entred into my grammar by him, and we went to schoole in the church.'

[1288] Dupl. with 'came to.'

[1289] Dupl. with 'friends.'

[1290] Dupl. with 'equipage.'

[1291] Here followed 'and moist-curled,' dupl. with 'and with moist curles'; but both struck out.

[1292] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 35v.

[1293] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 36.

[1294] Anthony Wood writes here 'do not you mean 40?' Aubrey had written '4' by a pen-slip; afterwards he corrected it.

[1295] 'Element' used for 'proposition.'

[1296] Subst. for 'He would now and then use an emphaticall oath.'

[1297] Dupl. with 'curious witt.'

[1298] 'Began it early' is written over, in explanation.

[1299] Dupl. with 'to the witts.'

[1300] Dupl. with 'then doe well.'

[1301] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 37.

[1302] 'In his bed' followed, scored out.

[1303] Dupl. with 'as.'

[1304] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 36v.

[1305] Dupl. with 'study.'

[1306] Dupl. with 'knowledge.'

[1307] Dupl. with 'rubiginous.'

[1308] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 37.

[1309] Subst. for 'discussed.'

[1310] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 38v.

[1311] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 37.

[1312] Anthony Wood notes 'Roger Manneringe.'

[1313] Dupl. with 'went.'

[1314] 'Mostly' followed: scored out.

[1315] Anthony Wood notes 'Robert Sibthorpe, vicar of Brackley.'

[1316] Dupl. with 'became.'

[1317] 'At Paris' followed: scored out.

[1318] Dupl. with 'cane.'

[1319] Dupl. with 'notion.'

[1320] Dupl. with 'or els he should.'

[1321] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 38.

[1322] Subst. for 'of Euclid and Vitellio.'

[1323] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 39.

[1324] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 37v.

[1325] i.e. fol. 50v of the MS., where is a note by Anthony Wood, as given infra, p. 367.

[1326] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 39.

[1327] Subst. for 'which came out anno ...' Anthony Wood notes, 'Vide catalogue of <Hobbes's> books in Hist. <et Antiq. Univ.> Oxon., and vide transcript thence.'—MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 38v.

[1328] 'his Dialogi' followed: scored out.

[1329] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 40.

[1330] 'a yeare +' followed: scored out.

[1331] Dupl. with 'an ill.'

[1332] In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 28, Aubrey says that Thomas Hobbes gave it to 'his elder brother, named Edmund Hobbes.'

[1333] Dupl. with 'in Derbyshire.'

[1334] Dupl. with 'good.'

[1335] Dupl. with 'want.'

[1336] Subst. for 'thought.'

[1337] Aubrey notes opposite this: 'better this expression.'

[1338] Dupl. with 'designe.'

[1339] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 42. On fol. 41v Aubrey makes this apology for its coming there out of due order of time:—'Give notice how things are to be right placed, for all things comes not into my memory chronologically and this seemes almost necessary to be forced.'

[1340] Dupl. with 'way.'

[1341] Subst. for 'researching and contemplating one thing, then of another; but he had a method for it.'

[1342] Dupl. with 'proviso' or 'observation.'

[1343] Infra, p. 382.

[1344] Dupl. with 'such a poeme.'

[1345] Sir John Vaughan, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1668-1674.

[1346] Dupl. with 'great.'

[1347] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7—'quaere bishop Sarum when he was motioned to be burnt.' Ibid., fol. 7v, 'Quaere bp. Sarum <Seth Ward> who and when (annum) the motion in parliament was to have Mr. Hobbes burnt.'

[1348] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 40.

[1349] Subst. for '1660. The winter before (of 1659) he spent his time in Derbyshire.'

[1350] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 39v.

[1351] Dupl. with 'good newes.'

[1352] Dupl. with 'hearing.'

[1353] Dupl. with 'opportunity.'

[1354] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 41.

[1355] Aubrey writes opposite on fol. 40v:—'embouche, such word in English?'

[1356] MS. has 'and,' by a slip for 'at.'

[1357] Dupl. with 'enterteyned.'

[1358] Dupl. with 'facetiae.'

[1359] Dupl. with 'the witts.'

[1360] Aubrey wishes to limit the readiness in reply to cases of light badinage: in serious subjects Hobbes was slow and deliberate.

[1361] Dupl. with 'good.'

[1362] Dupl. with 'a present answer.'

[1363] Dupl. with 'mathematicall.'

[1364] i.e. see further about this on fol. 45v of the MS., the note found infra, p. 356.

[1365] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 42.

[1366] Subst. for 'he last left London, he was often in London at his lord's.'

[1367] Dupl. with 'penned': see infra, p. 351.

[1368] The two sentences in square brackets are added by Anthony Wood.

[1369] Infra, p. 346.

[1370] Subst. for 'about.'

[1371] Dupl. with 'inventive.'

[1372] Subst. for 'that 'twas a long, taedious, and difficult taske.'

[1373] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 43.

[1374] Dupl. with 'attempt.'

[1375] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 42v.

[1376] Dupl. with 'I. A.'

[1377] Subst. for 'sayes.'

[1378] Dupl. with 'together.'

[1379] A London bookseller, who had offered to publish an authorized copy.

[1380] Subst. for 'knowledge.'

[1381] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 43.

[1382] Dupl. with 'since.'

[1383] Dupl. with 'found': and subst. for 'erect.'

[1384] Subst. for 'Upon.'

[1385] Dupl. with 'power' or 'possession.'

[1386] Dupl. with 'hoped.'

[1387] Dupl. with 'but queen Katharine.'

[1388] Dupl. with 'hating him.'

[1389] Dupl. with 'prevented.'

[1390] '1674' is struck out and 1669/1670 substituted for it—this latter being the date of Wood's altercations with Dr. Fell. 1674 was the date of publication: see infra.

[1391] Anthony Wood struck out the passage enclosed in square brackets, and sent Aubrey a more elaborate account (now fol. 48, 48v of MS. Aubr. 9) to take its place. This is printed in Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 291, 292; and is perhaps the paper which Wood blames Aubrey for having kept, ibid. ii. 475, 476.

[1392] Aubrey added, in the margin, the correction 'A. W. sayes but ten.'

[1393] Dupl. with 'the absolute.'

[1394] Wood adds 'and after.'

[1395] Dupl. with 'his great griefe, expunged and inserted what he thought fitt.'

[1396] Corrected by Wood to '376, 377.' The mistake is made in Hobbes's printed epistle, and Aubrey copied it thence.

[1397] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 45.

[1398] Corrected by Wood to 'without the advice and quite contrary to the mind of the author.'

[1399] Corrected by Wood to 'know what he had done.'

[1400] Note on fol. 43v of MS. Aubr. 9. 'Page 15' in Aubrey's numbering is now fol. 45 of the MS.

[1401] Wood adds 'in the beginning of 1674.'

[1402] i.e. John Aubrey.

[1403] Wood adds 'and to let him see that he would do nothing underhand against him.'

[1404] Wood adds 'that he had sent to Mr. Wood.' See Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 288.

[1405] Wood adds 'at it as a most famous libell.'

[1406] Corrected by Wood to 'and, soon after, meeting with the author.'

[1407] Wood adds 'and that he would have the printer called to account for printing such a notorious libell.'

[1408] The advance-copies of Wood's Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. were issued July 17, 1674 (Wood's Life and Times, ii. 289); the ordinary issue took place on July 27 (ibid., 290), being perhaps delayed for the insertion of the rejoinder to Hobbes; Hobbes's epistle had been circulated on July 11 (ibid., p. 288).

[1409] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46.

[1410] Aubrey inserts a copy as fol. 44 of MS. Aubr. 9.

[1411] See it in Wood's Hist. et Antiq. at the end.

[1412] Dupl. with 'scurrilous.'

[1413] Subst. for 'never replied.'

[1414] Dupl. with 'neglected.'

[1415] See infra, p. 363.

[1416] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 53v.

[1417] Aubrey proposed bringing this in after the Catalogue of his writings: but it is better here.

[1418] See the answers to these enquiries in the letters appended to this life.

[1419] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 22v.

[1420] As in the letter infra, p. 382.

[1421] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 53v.

[1422] i.e. the metrical autobiography, infra, p. 363.

[1423] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7.

[1424] MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 27v.

[1425] MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 28.

[1426] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46.

[1427] Dupl. with 'suavitas.'

[1428] Dupl. with 'recalvus.'

[1429] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 45v.

[1430] Dupl. with 'he.'

[1431] Subst. for 'nature.'

[1432] This quotation is subst. for 'He would say that cheerfulnes of countenance was a signe of God's grace.'

[1433] Dupl. with 'depended not on.'

[1434] Dupl. with 'esteemed' or 'measured.'

[1435] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46.

[1436] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 45v.

[1437] Dupl. with 'earnest.'

[1438] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46.

[1439] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47.

[1440] Dupl. with 'he was never out.'

[1441] i.e. fol. 54, as given here. Opposite it, on fol. 53v, is the direction 'Let this be brought in to it's proper place: referre this to p. 17' (i.e. fol. 47).

[1442] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 54.

[1443] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47.

[1444] Subst. for 'but 'twas but little in respect of his contemplation (thinking).'

[1445] Subst. for 'he should have continued still as ignorant as other men.'

[1446] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46v.

[1447] MS. Aubr. 9, fol 45v.

[1448] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46v.

[1449] As an alternative Aubrey suggests:—'As he had an harmonicall soule, so consequently he was no woman-hater (misogynist).' But he adds the criticism that this sentence is 'perhaps too affected.'

[1450] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47.

[1451] Subst. for 'that he haz been drunke in his life.'

[1452] Dupl. with 'long.'

[1453] Subst. for 'did eate.'

[1454] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 45v.

[1455] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47.

[1456] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46v.

[1457] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47.

[1458] Dupl. with 'buskins.'

[1459] Dupl. with 'but to cleare his pipes.'

[1460] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 50.

[1461] Subst. for 'letters he hath honoured me withall.'

[1462] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46v.

[1463] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 50.

[1464] Dupl. with 'charity.'

[1465] Dupl. with 'begged.'

[1466] Subst. for 'sayd one that stood by.'

[1467] Dupl. with 'apprehend.'

[1468] 'by rogues' followed, scored out.

[1469] Dupl. with 'had about him.'

[1470] Louis XIV.

[1471] Anthony Wood notes, on fol. 47v, 'he used to take the sacrament, and acknowledge a supreeme being.'

[1472] Here Aubrey intended (see infra) to cite evidence as to Hobbes's religious opinions.

[1473] Dupl. with 'give it the lye.'

[1474] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47v.

[1475] i.e. it was to Aubrey himself that Hobbes expressed this opinion.

[1476] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 45v.

[1477] Dupl. with 'Though he went from Malmesbury.'

[1478] Puisne Judge of the King's Bench, 1641-45 and 1660-63.

[1479] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 42v.

[1480] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 28.

[1481] By Samuel Cowper, supra, p. 338.

[1482] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 54v.

[1483] Dr. Philip Bliss has written a note here, '1663: see loose paper—Aubrey's inscription,' referring to MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7v, as given below.

[1484] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7v.

[1485] i.e. either to attach this inscription to the picture, or to hang the picture by.

[1486] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 49.

[1487] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 55.

[1488] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 42v.

[1489] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 28. Aubrey gives the coat in trick.

[1490] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 53v.

[1491] Dupl. with 'might.'

[1492] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29. In MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1v, Aubrey cites the same passages from Brome and Jonson, and also:—

'J. Gadbury: "the heavens are the best heraulds."'

[1493] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46.

[1494] Dupl. with 'goes.'

[1495] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 55.

[1496] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 50.

[1497] Anthony Wood has a note (MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47v) about these:—'If you think that those sayings are true, pray publish them: for they being printed in one sheet, will be quickly lost.'

[1498] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 45v.

[1499] Dupl. with 'love.'

[1500] i.e. fol. 41 of MS. Aubr. 9; supra, p. 340.

[1501] MS. Aubr. 9, a slip at fol. 3.

[1502] Dupl. with 'sport.'

[1503] i.e. elsewhere in this life.

[1504] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7.

[1505] St. Matt. vii. 1.

[1506] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47v.

[1507] The golden calf: Exod. xxxii. 26-28.

[1508] MS. Aubr. 9, a slip pasted to fol. 5.

[1509] Dupl. with 'an old tender,' i.e. attendant.

[1510] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 54v.

[1511] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 18v, in the handwriting of James Wheldon.

[1512] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 54v.

[1513] Possibly a paper by Anthony Wood containing an account of Hobbes, in preparation for the Athenae: cp. Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 480.

[1514] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 55.

[1515] Wood changes this to 'A. À:' see Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 22.

[1516] Corrected to '1674': with a marginal note:—[1769] 'I believe a mistake for 1674.' For this letter, see Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 288.

[1517] Anthony Wood notes in margin: 'This is in Wood's Catalogue': i.e. Wood, l. c., mentions the 1666 (second) edition of the piece (in Latin only).

[1518] Marginal query:—'When was the first copie printed? Vide Bibl. Bodlei.' The printed edition is not in the 1674 Catal. impress. libb. Bibl. Bodl.

[1519] Added opposite, on fol. 54v.

[1520] This query is inserted by Anthony Wood.

[1521] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 54v.

[1522] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 55.

[1523] Henry Birkhead is meant, 'Birket' representing the slurred pronunciation of the name. Anthony Wood has scored through the 'Dr.' and added a note:—'Birket is not a Dr.'

[1524] Marked MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 56.

[1525] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 57.

[1526] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 59.

[1527] MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 28:—'He writt his life last yeare (viz. 1673) in Latin verse.'

[1528] Dupl. with 'bookeseller.'

[1529] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 16: see p. 381.

[1530] Dupl, with 'leave.'

[1531] Publ. in 1680; supra, p. 333.

[1532] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 42v.

[1533] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 49.

[1534] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 50.

[1535] Anthony Wood objects, on fol. 47v: 'You say p. 11' (i.e. fol. 40) 'that he was acquainted with Mr. Selden and Dr. Harvey. Why do you not set them downe here?' But, as Wood might have remembered, they have been 'already mentioned.'

[1536] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47v.

[1537] Aubrey has a memorandum, MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7, 'take ... Ayton's inscription.' See supra, p. 25.

[1538] Dupl. with 'perpetuall' or 'lasting.'

[1539] In the Auctarium Vitae Hobbianae, 1681.

[1540] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 50v.

[1541] See infra, p. 371.

[1542] On fol. 52v, Aubrey repeats this name, 'Sir Charles Cavendish.'

[1543] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 51.

[1544] Aubrey leaves a space for his title or profession, adding the reminder—'Expresse his quality.'

[1545] Dupl. with 'They were not much unlike in their countenances.'

[1546] Dupl. with 'may.'

[1547] A memorandum for the date when they first met each other.

[1548] See infra.

[1549] See infra, p. 367.

[1550] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 50v.

[1551] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7.

[1552] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 50v.

[1553] Dupl. with 'conscience.'

[1554] Dupl. with 'flatter.'

[1555] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 51.

[1556] Dupl. with 'from.'

[1557] Scored out here; inserted infra, p. 369.

[1558] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7.

[1559] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 51.

[1560] Suggested by Aubrey as the date of the beginning of the intimacy between Hobbes and Petty. Anthony Wood objects in a note on fol. 50v:—'Dr. Petty was resident in Oxford 1648-49, and left it (if I am not mistaken) 1652.' Aubrey notes:—'Entred, vide p. 8b' (i.e. fol. 37v; supra, p. 336).

[1561] Aubrey notes:—'Quaere the name of his principall seate in Ireland.'

[1562] Aubrey notes (fol. 50v):—'Quaere Sir John Hoskyns and Dr. Blackbourne to word this well.'

[1563] Dupl. with 'witt.'

[1564] Dupl. with 'particular.'

[1565] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 52.

[1566] Dupl. with 'graphia.'

[1567] Dupl. with 'liked.'

[1568] Dupl. with 'excellency.'

[1569] Dupl. with 'acquaintance.'

[1570] Supra, p. 338.

[1571] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 51v.

[1572] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 52.

[1573] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 50v.

[1574] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 52.

[1575] i.e. the Harvey family.

[1576] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 53.

[1577] 'Page 7,' i.e. fol. 36v; supra, p. 333.

[1578] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 52v.

[1579] Anthony Wood queries (fol. 53): 'Was not Thomas de Albiis of his acquaintance?' Aubrey answers: 'I beleeve he was.'

[1580] See note, p. 366.

[1581] i.e. their acquaintance began during Hobbes's abode there.

[1582] Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 104.

[1583] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 53.

[1584] Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 257.

[1585] Aubrey notes in the margin, 'v. librum'; i.e. look up the title of the book Pell then published to discover the subject he was professor of.

[1586] Aubrey notes: 'of Gresham Colledge.'

[1587] This entry is scored out by Aubrey, in consequence of the following note by Anthony Wood on MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 52v:—'Dr. Bathurst was never acquainted with him. Those verses were written at the desire of Mr. Bowman, stationer of Oxford, as I have heard the Dr. say.'

[1588] On fol. 52v Wood has the note:—'Stubs wrot in his defence against Wallis in a book intituled "A severe enquirie into the late Oneirocritica, or an exact account of the grammaticall part of the controversy between Mr. Thomas Hobbes and John Wallis, D.D." Lond. 1657, 4to.'

[1589] Anthony Wood on fol. 52v has a note:—'Sydney Godolphin was his acquaintance. Why mention you not him?' Aubrey answers:—'Mr. T. Hobbs told me he gave him an hundred pounds in his will, which he recieved: I thought I had entred him'; and later adds, 'Tis entred'; viz. supra, p. 365.

[1590] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 54.

[1591] 1663: see supra, p. 354.

[1592] Aubrey uses the astronomical symbol for the planet.

[1593] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 54v.

[1594] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 34v.

[1595] Dupl. with 'truly.'

[1596] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46v.

[1597] MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 28.

[1598] Changed by Aubrey, when revising, to 1634, supra, p. 331.

[1599] Scored out. A marginal note, 'This Mr. Blackburn printed' (see infra, p. 395), is also scored out. As also is, 'all his works in ... volumes.'

[1600] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 54.

[1601] The words in square brackets are insertions by Anthony Wood.

[1602] See Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 296.

[1603] Subst. for 'for this bishop's worth.'

[1604] The words in square brackets are insertions by Anthony Wood.

[1605] Added by Anthony Wood: who afterwards added the title of the treatise, opposite (on fol. 53v), viz.:—

['Edward, earl of Clarendon: A survey of the dangerous and pernicious errours to church and state in Mr. Hobs book intit. Leviathan; Oxford, 1676, 4to.']

[1606] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 52v.

[1607] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 53v.

[1608] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 52v.

[1609] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 5.

[1610] Sic in MS.

[1611] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 4.

[1612] Supra, p. 340.

[1613] MS. Aubr. 9. fol. 52v.

[1614] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 53v.

[1615] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 41v.

[1616] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 5v.

[1617] 'Elementorum Jur. Univ. lib. II,' in a partial citation in MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 28.

[1618] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 6v.

[1619] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 54.

[1620] Ovid. Amor. i. 15. 39.

[1621] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 55.

[1622] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 8; not the original, but a transcript by Aubrey.

[1623] 1672/3.

[1624] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 9: the original, in James Wheldon's print-like writing.

[1625] Subst. for 'jugleries.'

[1626] Probably Dr. William Holder's 'A Supplement to the Philosophical Transactions for July, 1670,' London, 1678, accusing Dr. Wallis of robbing him of the credit of teaching a deaf-mute. See Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 309.

[1627] i.e. 1677/8.

[1628] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 10v.

[1629] MS. Aubr. 9. fol. 11.

[1630] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 11v.

[1631] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 12.

[1632] Sir George Ent's son: supra, p. 245.

[1633] The address: MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 13v.

[1634] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 14: the original, in James Wheldon's handwriting.

[1635] Author of Hudibras.

[1636] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 15v.

[1637] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 16.

[1638] 1679/80.

[1639] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 17v.

[1640] Readdressed in another (? William Crooke's) hand:—'at Mr. Moore, in Hammond Alley'; see p. 44.

[1641] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 18.

[1642] 1679/80.

[1643] Subst. for 'Mr. Crooke.'

[1644] Subst. for 'beginning.'

[1645] Subst. for 'to the parish church.'

[1646] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 18v.

[1647] 'Anything' followed: scored out.

[1648] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 19v.

[1649] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 19.

[1650] Request added by Wheldon, at the end of the transcript of the will.

[1651] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 20.

[1652] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 21v.

[1653] This part of the address is scored out, and there is substituted, 'for Dr. Blackborn at Jonathan's Coffee.'

[1654] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 3. The letter is sealed with the Aubrey coat:—'a chevron between 3 eagles' heads erased,' an annulet (?) for difference; and marked 'post payd 3d.' The letter is mutilated.

[1655] Or Hynd: p. 154.

[1656] Of the church at Westport.

[1657] So that if there were any old gravestones in the church, they have been destroyed.

[1658] Broad Wiltshire for 'trumps'; see supra, p. 324.

[1659] Choleric.

[1660] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 3v.

[1661] Admon. of William Ley, last earl of Marlborough of that family, was granted 9 June, 1680.

[1662] A jotting on the back of the letter is:—'Malmesbury:—where the steeple is was a church dedicated to St. Paul.'

[1663] Then a common spelling for 'Alice.'

[1664] This pedigree of Rogers in William Aubrey's hand is found in MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 123.

[1665] The address on MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 2v.

[1666] Published 1681.

[1667] Republished 1682.

[1668] Republ. 1680.

[1669] Publ. 1682.

[1670] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 26. The date of the letter is circ. 1681-2.

[1671] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 26v.

[1672] The address: on MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 27v.

[1673] Or 'a nave and two aisles': supra, p. 326.

[1674] i.e. at sunrise.

[1675] Now lost: Clark's Wood's Life and Times, iv. 192: see supra, p. 65.

[1676] Dupl. with 'parke.'

[1677] Dupl. with 'banquetting-houses.'

[1678] Dupl. with 'good.'

[1679] Anthony Wood, in a note here, approves of this suggestion to add the account of Gorhambury to Aubrey's life of Bacon (supra, p. 77):—''Tis fit you should speak of this, because not mentioned by Dr. <William> Rawley in his life.'

[1680] Aubrey notes, fol. 40v, 'Bring this in elswhere.'

[1681] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 25v.

[1682] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 23.

[1683] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 23v.

[1684] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 24.

[1685] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 24v.

[1686] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 25.

[1687] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 87v.

[1688] i.e. 2nd (or 3rd) son.

[1689] 'hall,' subst. for 'Colledge.'

[1690] Subst. for '1647.'

[1691] Subst. for 'whom he instructed first in.'

[1692] Subst. for 'Here.'

[1693] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 88.

[1694] Anthony Wood notes here—'upon ... Jones his death.'

[1695] Dupl. with 'bowells.'

[1696] See p. 378.

[1697] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 10. Aubrey gives the coat, 'azure, semÉe of fleur-de-lys, a lion rampant argent [Holland].'

[1698] The words followed 'I thinke; quaere de hoc of A. Wood'; scored out.

[1699] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 20v.

[1700] ?e?e??a in MS.

[1701] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121v.

[1702] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 26.

[1703] i.e. Hollar's father's patent.

[1704] Subst. for 'was bred up to it.'

[1705] for ???.

[1706] Thomas Howard, earl of Arundel, Surrey, and Norfolk, died at Padua, 1646.

[1707] Subst. for 'dyed but poor.'

[1708] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5v.

[1709] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 77v.

[1710] The use of the Jacob's Staffe. Lond. 1590.

[1711] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 56v: as also in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 270v.

[1712] MS. Aubr. 8, a slip at fol. 99.

[1713] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 32.

[1714] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 29v.

[1715] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 32.

[1716] Corrected by Anthony Wood to 'baptized.'

[1717] Dupl. with 'drew.'

[1718] ? Sir Peter Lely.

[1719] Subst. for 'learnd.'

[1720] i.e. £100.

[1721] Probably 'to play, <in> 20 lessons, on.'

[1722] See Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 162, 163.

[1723] Dupl. with 'and taught him.'

[1724] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 32v.

[1725] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 270v: May 26, 1674.

[1726] Ibid., fol. 271.

[1727] i.e. New Year's gift.

[1728] The paragraph enclosed in square brackets is Hooke's autograph.

[1729] Dupl. with 'thought.'

[1730] The words in square brackets are Hooke's autograph, added at the time he made the corrections above.

[1731] The text embodies Hooke's corrections of Aubrey's draft. The original draft is given in the margin.

[1732] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 142: Oct. 27, 1671.

[1733] Aubrey in MS. Rawl. D. 727, fol. 93.

[1734] Added by Anthony Wood, from a letter of Aubrey's (MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 135v).

[1735] 'He was the eldest,' is added by Anthony Wood.

[1736] Dupl. with 'emblem.'

[1737] Scored out.

[1738] MS. Rawl. D. 727, fol. 93v.

[1739] Robert Bennet, bishop of Hereford 1602-1617.

[1740] MS. Rawl. D. 727, fol. 94.

[1741] 'And when thou hearest, forgive.' 1 Kings viii. 30.

[1742] Aubrey adds the interpretation:—'quarries.'

[1743] 'Parke.'

[1744] 'Harvest.'

[1745] 'Chapelle.'

[1746] MS. Rawl. D. 727, fol. 94v.

[1747] MS. Rawl. D. 727, fol. 95.

[1748] 'nomina' in MS.

[1749] MS. Rawl. D. 727, fol. 95v.

[1750] 'Thebanos' in MS.

[1751] Subst. for 'vivere.'

[1752] His step-son, more correctly.

[1753] 'dicavit' in MS.

[1754] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15v.

[1755] MS. Aubr. 21, p. 15.

[1756] MS. Aubr. 23, notes in foll. 65, 65v, 67, 67v.

[1757] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 102.

[1758] MS. Aubr. 23, slips at fol. 100v.

[1759] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 234: Nov. 15, 1673.

[1760] Wood notes here, 'quaere': see the corrections in the next paragraphs.

[1761] i.e. the Oxford 1663 edition of the De globis.

[1762] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 237: Nov. 30, 1673.

[1763] Ibid., fol. 343v: Aug. 7, 1680.

[1764] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.

[1765] Henry, 2nd earl.

[1766] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 366: June 24, 1682.

[1767] Ibid., fol. 250: Jan. 1, 1673/4.

[1768] Ibid., fol. 365: June 24, 1682.

[1769] i.e. at that time the old stained windows were still extant.

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