Brief Lives, Vol. 1

Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (1608/9-1674)

Laurence Hyde of Hatch (a hamlet), Wilts.; came out of Cheshire; the third son of Robert Hyde, prout per inscription at Tisbury Church. | +——+——+—+——+ | | | |... Hyde, Sir Laurence 3. Sir Nicholas 4.... (I thinke, Robert) Hyde of of Hatch. Hyde, of Hyde, Lord Chief Purton neer Highworth: he then | Hele, Wilts. Justice of the rented this estate at Dinton of... | King’s Bench. his brother Sir Laurence. | | | Edward. | Lord Chancellor Hyde. | | | +——+—+——+——+——+——+ | | | | | | | | 1....; 2. Sir Robert 3. <Alexander 4...., 5...., 6. <James | sine Hyde, Lord Hyde>, LL. Dr.; consul; Hyde>, M.D., | prole. Chief Justice bishop of sine beheaded; principal of | of the King’s Sarum. prole. sine Magdalen No sonn: Bench; sine | prole. Hall. a daughter prole. Robert. | and heire. | +—+—+ No child living. | |

Notes

1764Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor of England, was borne at Dinton in com. Wilts., anno Domini 1608, Febr. 16, as this1765 earle thinkes. He told me he has his father’s life written by himselfe, but ’tis not fitt so soon to publish it.

1766I thinke I told you that this earl of Clarendon told me his father was writing the history of our late times. He beginns with king Charles 1st and brought it to the restauration of king Charles II, when, as he was writing, the penne fell out of his hand: he took it up again to write: it fell out again. So then he percieved he was attacqued by death, scilicet, the dead palsey.—They say ’tis very well donne: but his sonne will not print it.

1767I advertised you, in my last, of a booke printed newly by... Royston, viz. ‘A vindication of Dr. Stillingfleet against Dr. Cressy, writt by a person of honour.’ Mr. Royston assures me the earl of Clarendon is the author.

1768The place of the Lord Chancellor Hyde’s birth is Dinton, four miles from Chalke.

Footnotes

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

2 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 110, 110^v.

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. 129^v.

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. 11^v 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:—ἔπεα πτερόεντα.—Hom.

30 Dated ‘July 1^mo, 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 ὕλη 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 ‘đđ’ 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. 14^v.

83 MS. Ashmole, 388.

84 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 95^v.

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. 142^v: Oct. 27, 1671.

93 Trinity College.

94 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 42^v.

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. 27^v.

100 In 1618/9.

101 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9.

102 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 21^v.

103 Added by Anthony Wood.

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

105 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 1^v.

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

107 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 14^v.

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. 10^v.

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. 81^v, 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. 3^v.

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. 3^v.

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. 5^v.

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. 4^v.

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. 5^v.

207 MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 97^v.

208 1673/4.

209 i.e. Thursday.

210 MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 2.

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

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

213 MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 103^v.

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. 30^v.

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. 19^v.

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. 20^v.

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. 21^v, may be inserted.

250 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 21^v.

251 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 20^v.

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. 21^v.

261 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 19^v.

262 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 1^v.

263 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 23.

264 i.e. John Dee’s book, the ‘child of his invention.’

265 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 23^v.

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. 24^v.

269 It should be ‘azure.’

270 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67.

271 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15^v.

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

273 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 16^v.

274 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67.

275 Dupl. with ‘lost.’

Part of the page left blank for insertion of the letter.

277 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67^v.

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. 69^v.

283 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 70.

284 Horat., Ars Poet. 346.

285 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67^v.

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. 71^v.

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. 68^v.

301 i.e. Hobbes.

302 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 71.

303 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68^v.

304 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 70^v.

305 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68^v.

306 Dupl. with ‘luxuriously.’

307 Explicit MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68^v.

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. 72^v.

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. 73^v.

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. 6^v.

322 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9^v.

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. 319^v.

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

327 Robert Bolton, obiit 1631.

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

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. 53^v.

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. 99^v.

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. 100^v.

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, 101^v.

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. 100^v.

359 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60^v. 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. 116^v.

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. 45^v. 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. 70^v.

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. 35^v.

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. 67^v—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. 35^v, ut supra, p. 100.

394 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 89^v.

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. 35^v.

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. 67^v.

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 κυνώπης, in explanation.

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

417 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 85^v.

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. 354^v: 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. 103^v.

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. 102^v.

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

444 Aubrey in MS. Wood, F. 39, fol. 273^v: 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. 12^v.

457 Aubrey, on fol. 12^v, 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. 13^v, 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. 12^v.

461 ‘From a child’ followed: scored out.

462 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 11^v.

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. 10^v.

468 MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 11.

469 MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 11^v.

470 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12^v.

471 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6^v.

472 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 16^v.

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. 33^v.

479 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 47^v.

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. 38^v.

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

490 Clark’s Wood’s Life and Times, ii. 237.

491 William Oughtred.

492 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 101^v.

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. 97^v.

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. 12^v.

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. 114^v.

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. 5^v.

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. 114^v.

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. 26^v.

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. 26^v.

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. 141^v: 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. 119^v.

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

568 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 119^v.

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. 4^v.

578 ‘At Northway’: so his baptismal certificate in MS. Wood F. 49, fol. 25.

579 Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 138^v: 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. 93^v.

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. 29^v.

596 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 39.

597 Anthony Wood notes ‘col. Charles Cavendish.’

598 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 39^v.

599 ‘Abner’ in MS. by a slip.

600 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 59^v.

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. 19^v.

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

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

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. 9^v.

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. 58^v; 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. 56^v.

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. 56^v.

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. 121^v.

645 i.e. Arch Bishop of Canterbury.

646 1642, in MS.

647 Dupl. with ‘terrible.’

648 MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121^v.

649 MS. Aubr. 6. fol. 6^v.

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. 96^v.

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. 27^v.

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. 60^v.

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. 16^v.

679 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.

680 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 91^v.

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. 15^v.

687 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 106.

688 Subst. for ‘farther.’

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

690 Dupl. with ‘ruffe.’

691 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 106^v.

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. 15^v, ut infra.

696 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 106.

697 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 106^v.

698 Three lines of the text are here suppressed.

699 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15^v.

700 MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6^v.

701 Subst. for ‘I left Oxford’: see supra, p. 37.

702 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 113^v.

703 Subst. for ‘to buy it.’

704 i.e. Tom.

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

706 MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 36.

707 Jane Smyth, see sub nomine.

708 MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5^v.

709 MS. Aubr. 21, p. 11.

710 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6^v.

711 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25^v.

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. 26^v.

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. 25^v.

723 Dupl. with ‘discreet.’

724 George Legge, created (1682) lord Dartmouth.

725 MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 46.

726 MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 44^v.

727 Over the almshouse: ibid. fol. 45.

728 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25^v.

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. 18^v.

735 His elder brother.

736 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25^v.

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. 97^v.

745 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1^v.

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. 43^v.

756 Dupl. with ‘where he profited very well.’

757 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 44.

758 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8^v.

759 MS. Aubr. 10, fol. 31.

760 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 44^v.

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. 46^v.

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. 47^v.

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. 9^v: 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. 18^v.

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. 6^v.

792 MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 78.

793 MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 77^v.

794 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9^v.

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. 7^v.

809 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7^v.

810 Subst. for ‘proofe.’

811 MS. Aubr. 8, fol 6^v.

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. 105^v.

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. 33^v.

826 Dupl. with ‘loines.’

827 Sir Henry Savile.

828 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 8^v.

829 Dupl. with ‘opinion,’ or ‘conscience.’

830 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 31.

831 i.e. 1600/1.

832 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1^v.

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. 99^v.

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. 101^v.

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. 73^v.

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. 72^v.

877 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 51^v.

878 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 75.

879 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 75^v.

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 74^v.

882 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 75.

883 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8^v.

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. 102^v.

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. 108^v.

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. 8^v.

895 MS. Aubr. 21, p. 19.

896 MS. Aubr. 21, p. 2.

897 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 31^v.

898 Dupl. with ‘his athanor roome.’

899 Dupl. with ‘is famous in picture and poetrie.’

900 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 1^v.

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. 83^v.

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. 5^v.

915 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7.

916 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 5^v.

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. 37^v.

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. 135^v: Aug. 9, 1671.

936 MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 8^v.

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. 45^v.

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. 60^v. 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. 135^v: Aug. 9, 1671.

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

954 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 14^v.

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. 18^v.

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. 74^v.

973 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 79^v.

974 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 51^v.

975 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 52.

976 Dupl. with ‘loud.’

977 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 52^v.

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. 9^v.

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. 138^v: 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. 21^v.

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. 59^v.

1000 Note added by Anthony Wood.

1001 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15^v.

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

1003 MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 16^v.

1004 Eldest son of the translator.

1005 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 53^v.

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. 270^v.

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. 4^v.

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. 14^v.

1024 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 78^v.

1025 Dupl. with ‘there.’

1026 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.

1027 MS. Aubr. 21, p. 11; and repeated almost verbatim, ibid. fol. 24^v. 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. 24^v.

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. 20^v.

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

1035 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 119^v.

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. 28^v.

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. 39^v.

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

1052 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5^v.

1053 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 10^v.

1054 In June, 1679: Clark’s Wood’s Life and Times, ii. 453.

1055 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 68^v.

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. 9^v, 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. 98^v.

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. 29^v.

1099 Subst. for ‘though neer <i.e. near> a.’

1100 Verso of the slip at fol. 98^v 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. 98^v of MS. Aubr. 6, a direction to Anthony Wood.

1106 supra, p. 290.

1107 MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121^v.

1108 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 64.

1109 MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 108^v.

1110 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 64.

1111 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 66^v.

1112 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18.

1113 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 64.

1114 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 64^v.

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. 65^v.

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. 66^v.

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. 15^v.

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. 96^v.

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. 95^v.

1160 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 96.

1161 Subst. for ‘the parsonage of Bemmarton.’

1162 i.e. step-mother.

1163 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5^v.

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. 81^v.

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. 95^v.

1176 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 80.

1177 ‘one time’ followed, scored out.

1178 Dupl. with ‘runne.’

1179 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 80^v.

1180 Dupl. with ‘face.’

1181 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 81.

1182 MS. Aubr. 6, a note on fol. 80^v.

1183 MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 106^v.

1184 23 March.

1185 MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 55^v.

1186 MS. Aubr. 6, a slip at fol. 81.

1187 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 4^v.

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. 160^v: 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. 38^v.

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. 389^v.

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. 29^v.

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. 29^v.

1220 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7^v.

1221 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29^v.

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. 29^v.

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. 30^v.

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. 32^v.

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. 34^v.

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. 35^v.

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. 36^v.

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. 38^v.

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. 37^v.

1325 i.e. fol. 50^v 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. 38^v.

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. 41^v 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. 7^v, ‘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. 39^v.

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. 40^v:—‘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. 45^v 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. 42^v.

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, 48^v 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. 43^v 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. 53^v.

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. 22^v.

1420 As in the letter infra, p. 382.

1421 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 53^v.

1422 i.e. the metrical autobiography, infra, p. 363.

1423 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7.

1424 MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 27^v.

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. 45^v.

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. 45^v.

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. 53^v, 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. 46^v.

1447 MS. Aubr. 9, fol 45^v.

1448 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46^v.

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. 45^v.

1455 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47.

1456 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46^v.

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. 46^v.

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. 47^v, ‘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. 47^v.

1475 i.e. it was to Aubrey himself that Hobbes expressed this opinion.

1476 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 45^v.

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. 42^v.

1480 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 28.

1481 By Samuel Cowper, supra, p. 338.

1482 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 54^v.

1483 Dr. Philip Bliss has written a note here, ‘1663: see loose paper—Aubrey’s inscription,’ referring to MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7^v, as given below.

1484 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7^v.

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. 42^v.

1489 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 28. Aubrey gives the coat in trick.

1490 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 53^v.

1491 Dupl. with ‘might.’

1492 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29. In MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1^v, 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. 47^v) 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. 45^v.

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. 47^v.

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. 54^v.

1511 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 18^v, in the handwriting of James Wheldon.

1512 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 54^v.

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. 54^v.

1520 This query is inserted by Anthony Wood.

1521 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 54^v.

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. 42^v.

1533 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 49.

1534 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 50.

1535 Anthony Wood objects, on fol. 47^v: ‘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. 47^v.

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. 50^v.

1541 See infra, p. 371.

1542 On fol. 52^v, 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. 50^v.

1551 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7.

1552 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 50^v.

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. 50^v:—‘Dr. Petty was resident in Oxford 1648-49, and left it (if I am not mistaken) 1652.’ Aubrey notes:—‘Entred, vide p. 8 ^b’ (i.e. fol. 37^v; supra, p. 336).

1561 Aubrey notes:—‘Quaere the name of his principall seate in Ireland.’

1562 Aubrey notes (fol. 50^v):—‘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. 51^v.

1572 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 52.

1573 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 50^v.

1574 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 52.

1575 i.e. the Harvey family.

1576 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 53.

1577 ‘Page 7,’ i.e. fol. 36^v; supra, p. 333.

1578 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 52^v.

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. 52^v:—‘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. 52^v 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. 52^v 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. 54^v.

1594 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 34^v.

1595 Dupl. with ‘truly.’

1596 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46^v.

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. 53^v), 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. 52^v.

1607 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 53^v.

1608 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 52^v.

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. 52^v.

1614 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 53^v.

1615 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 41^v.

1616 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 5^v.

1617 ‘Elementorum Jur. Univ. lib. II,’ in a partial citation in MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 28.

1618 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 6^v.

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. 10^v.

1629 MS. Aubr. 9. fol. 11.

1630 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 11^v.

1631 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 12.

1632 Sir George Ent’s son: supra, p. 245.

1633 The address: MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 13^v.

1634 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 14: the original, in James Wheldon’s handwriting.

1635 Author of Hudibras.

1636 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 15^v.

1637 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 16.

1638 1679/80.

1639 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 17^v.

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. 18^v.

1647 ‘Anything’ followed: scored out.

1648 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 19^v.

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. 21^v.

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. 3^v.

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. 2^v.

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. 26^v.

1672 The address: on MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 27^v.

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. 40^v, ‘Bring this in elswhere.’

1681 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 25^v.

1682 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 23.

1683 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 23^v.

1684 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 24.

1685 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 24^v.

1686 MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 25.

1687 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 87^v.

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. 20^v.

1700 κειμελια in MS.

1701 MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121^v.

1702 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 26.

1703 i.e. Hollar’s father’s patent.

1704 Subst. for ‘was bred up to it.’

1705 for μύωψ.

1706 Thomas Howard, earl of Arundel, Surrey, and Norfolk, died at Padua, 1646.

1707 Subst. for ‘dyed but poor.’

1708 MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5^v.

1709 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 77^v.

1710 The use of the Jacob’s Staffe. Lond. 1590.

1711 MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 56^v: as also in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 270^v.

1712 MS. Aubr. 8, a slip at fol. 99.

1713 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 32.

1714 MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 29^v.

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. 32^v.

1725 Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 270^v: 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. 135^v).

1735 ‘He was the eldest,’ is added by Anthony Wood.

1736 Dupl. with ‘emblem.’

1737 Scored out.

1738 MS. Rawl. D. 727, fol. 93^v.

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. 94^v.

1747 MS. Rawl. D. 727, fol. 95.

1748 ‘nomina’ in MS.

1749 MS. Rawl. D. 727, fol. 95^v.

1750 ‘Thebanos’ in MS.

1751 Subst. for ‘vivere.’

1752 His step-son, more correctly.

1753 ‘dicavit’ in MS.

1754 MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15^v.

1755 MS. Aubr. 21, p. 15.

1756 MS. Aubr. 23, notes in foll. 65, 65^v, 67, 67^v.

1757 MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 102.

1758 MS. Aubr. 23, slips at fol. 100^v.

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. 343^v: 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.

BY HORACE HART, M.A.

PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY