of Hereford was his godfather) told me that one time desiring Mr.
Johnson to adopt him for his sonne, 'No,' said he, 'I dare not; 'tis
honour enough for me to be your brother: I was your father's sonne,
and 'twas he that polished me.' In shorte, his acquaintance were all
the witts then about the towne; e.g. Sir Walter Raleigh, who was his
fellow-prisoner in the Tower, where he was Sir Walter's _Aristarchus_
to reviewe and polish Sir Walter's stile; John Donne, D.D.; John Owen,
(vide Epigr. 1--
Hic liber est mundus; homines sunt, Hoskine, versus:
Invenies paucos hîc ut in orbe bonos;)
<Richard> Martyn, recorder of London; Sir Benjamin Ruddyer, with whom
it was once his fortune to have a quarrell and fought a duell with him
and hurt him in the knee, but they were afterwards friends again; Sir
Henry Wotton, provost of Eaton College; cum multis aliis.
His conversation was exceedingly pleasant, and on the roade he would
make any one good company to him. He was a great master of the Latin
and Greke languages; a great divine. He understood the lawe well, but
worst at that.
He was admitted at the Middle Temple anno ...; called to be a
serjeant at lawe anno <1623> (vide <Sir William Dugdale's> _Origines
Juridiciales_).
His verses on the fart in the Parliament house are printed in some of
the _Drolleries_. He had a booke of poemes, neatly written by one of
his clerkes, bigger then Dr. Donne's poemes, which his sonn Benet lent
to he knowes not who, about 1653, and could never heare of it since.
Mr. Thomas Henshawe haz an excellent Latin copie in rhythme in the
prayse of ale of his.
He was a very strong man and active. He did the pomado in the saddle of
the third horse in his armour (which Sir John Hoskins haz still) before
William, earle of Pembroke. He was about my heighth.
He had a very readie witt, and would make verses on the roade, where
he was the best company in the world. In Sir H. Wotton's _Remaynes_
are verses (dialogue) made on the roade by him and Sir Henry. He made
an antheme (gett it) in English to be sung at Hereford Minster at the
assizes; but Sir Robert Harley (a great Puritan) was much offended at
it. He made the epitaph on <Peter> Woodgate in New College cloysters.
He made the best Latin epitaphs of his time; amongst many others
an excellent one on <Sir Moyle> Finch, this earl of Winchelsey's
grandfather, who haz a noble monument at Eastwell in Kent.
I will now describe his seate at Morhampton (Hereff.), which he bought
of....
[1740]At the gate-house is the picture of the old fellowe that made the
fires, with a block on his back, boytle and wedges and hatchet. By him,
this distich:--
Gratus ades quisquis descendis, amicus et hospes:
Non decet hos humiles mensa superba Lares.
By the porch of the howse, on the wall, is the picture in the margent:--
[Illustration: Noverint universi
et douch et gallante
ꝑroviso semꝓ
hec est finalis concordia]
Above it are these verses:--
Stat coelum, fateor, Copernice; terra movetur;
Et mutant dominos tecta rotata suos.
In the chapelle, over the altar, are these two Hebrewe words[1741],
viz.:--
וְשָֽׁמַעְתָּ֖ וְסָלָֽחְתָּ
and underneath this distich (1 Reg. 8. 30):--
Hac quicunque orat supplex exoret in aede,
Nec pereant servis irrita vota tuis.
Here is an organ that was queen Elizabeth's.
In the gallery <is> the picture of his brother (<the> Doctor) in the
pulpit, <of the> serjeant in his robes, the howse, parke, etc.; and
underneath are these verses:--
Est casa, sunt colles, lateres[1742], vivaria[1743], lymphae,
Pascua, sylva, Ceres[1744]: si placet, adde preces[1745].
In the garden, the picture of the gardiner, on the wall of the howse,
with his rake, spade, and water-pott in his left hand. By it, this
distich:--
Pascitur et pascit locus hic, ornatur et ornat:
Istud opus nondum lapsus amaret Adam.
In the first leafe of his fee-booke he drew the picture of a purse
as in the margent, and wrote [Illustration: καὶ δῶμεν ὁσκινδω.]
underneath, out of Theocritus.
On his picture in the low gallery are writt on his deske these verses,
viz.:--
Undecies senos exegi strenuus annos,
Jam veniet nullo mors inopina die;
Quae dixi, scripsi, gessive negotia, lusus,
Obruat aeterno pax taciturna sinu.
Si quid jure petunt homines, respondeat haeres,
Dissipet ut cineres nulla querela meos.[1746]
Quodque Deo, decoctor iniquus, debeo, solve,
Quaeso, Fidejussor, {sanguine}, Christe, {tuo}.
{ nomine } {meo}
These verses with a little alteration are sett on his monument.
Under severall venerable and shady oakes in the parke, he had seates
made; and where was a fine purling spring, he did curbe it with stone.
This putts me in mind of Fr. Petrarch's villa in Italie, which is not
long since printed, where were such devises--vide Tomasini _Petrarcha
redivivus_, Lat., Amsterdam, 12mo.
Besides his excellent naturall memorie, he acquired the artificiall way
of memorie.
He wrote his owne life (which his grandsonne Sir John Hoskyns, knight
and baronet, haz), which was to shew that wheras Plutarch, ..., ...,
etc., had wrote the lives of many generalles, etc., grandees, that
he, or an active man might, from a private fortune by his witt and
industrie attained to the dignity of a serjeant-at-lawe--but he should
have said that they must have parts like his too.--This life I cannot
borrowe.
He wrote severall treatises. Amongst others:--
a booke of style;
a method of the lawe (imperfect).
His familiar letters were admirable.
He was a close prisoner in the Tower, tempore regis Jacobi, for
speaking too boldly in the Parliament house of the king's profuse
liberality to the Scotts. He made a comparison of a conduit, whereinto
water came, and ran-out afarre-off. 'Now,' said he, 'this pipe reaches
as far as Edinborough.' He was kept a 'close prisoner' there, i.e., his
windowes were boarded up. Through a small chinke he sawe once a crowe,
and another time, a kite; the sight whereof, he sayd, was a great
pleasure to him. He, with much adoe, obtained at length the favour
to have his little son Bennet to be with him; and he then made this
distich, viz.:--
Parvule dum puer es, nee scis incommoda linguae,
Vincula da linguae, vel tibi vincla dabit.
Thus Englished by him:--
My little Ben, whil'st thou art young,
And know'st not how to rule thy tongue,
Make it thy slave whil'st thou art free,
Least it, as mine, imprison thee.
[1747]I have heard that when he came out of the Tower, his crest
(before expressed) was graunted him, viz., 'a lyon's head couped or,
breathing fire.' The serjeant would say jocosely that it was the only
lyon's head in England that tooke tobacco.
Not many moneths before his death (being at the assises or sessions at
Hereford) a massive countrey fellowe trod on his toe, which caused a
gangrene which was the cause of his death. One Mr. Dighton[CXXXIV.] of
Glocester (an experienced chirurgian who had formerly been chirurgian
in the warres in Ireland) was sent for to cure him; but his skill and
care could not save him. His toes were first cutt-off. The minister
of his parish had a clubbe-foote or feete (I think his name was
Hugh). Said he, 'Sir Hugh'--after his toes were cutt off--'I must be
acquainted with your shoemaker.'
[CXXXIV.] Mr. Dighton would oftentimes say that he generally observ'd
in the Irish warres that those men that went to their wenches the day
before the battayle either did dye upon the spott or came under his
handes. _Digitus Dei!_
Sir Robert Pye, attorney of the court of wardes, was his neighbour,
but there was no great goodwill between them--Sir Robert was haughty.
He happened to dye on Christmas day: the newes being brought to the
serjeant, said he 'The devill haz a Christmas pye.'
He was a very strong man, and valiant, and an early riser in the
morning (scil., at four in the morning). He was black-eyed and had
black hayre.
He lies buried under an altar monument on the north side of the choire
of Dowr abbey in Herefordshire.
(In this abbey church of Dowre are two _frustum's_ or remaynders of
mayled and crosse-legged monuments, one sayd to be of a lord Chandois,
th' other, the lord of Ewyas-lacy. A little before I sawe them a mower
had taken one of the armes to whett his syth.)
On his monument is this inscription:--
Hoc tegitur tumulo totus quem non tegit orbis,
Hoskinus, humani prodigium ingenii,
Usque adeo excoluit duo pugnacissima rerum
Et quae non subeunt numina[1748] pectus idem,
Pieridum Legumque potens, jucundus honesto
Mixtus, Liticulans Musa, forense melos,
Orando causas pariter pariterque canendo,
Captavit merito clarus utrumque sophos.
Sic dum jura tenens Solymorum et gentis Idumae,
Narratur cytharâ percrepuisse David;
[1749]Talem Thebanas[1750] struxisse Amphiona turres,
Sic indefessa personuisse chely,
Sic populos traxisse truces et agrestibus antris
Exutos homines consociasse lyrâ;
Sic magni pectus divinum arsisse Platonis,
Tum, cum deplorans Astera, jura daret;
Talem credibile est vixisse Solona poëtam
Et queiscunque datum est et sapere et furere[1751].
Sed tu, magne, peris, dum lis certatur utrinque,
Te Astraea suum vultque Thalia suum.
Haec habitat coelis, sed et haec terrestribus oris,
Ipse tui judex poneris ante Deos;
Scilicet in partes se dividit Hoskinus ambo,
Haec coelo potitur particula, illa solo.
{ Canoro cineri jurisprudentissimi
{ Parentis pii, memoriae ergo,
Obiit Aug. 27 { hunc posuit cippum conscriptum marmoreum
1638 { flens Benettus, sequiturque Patrem
{ non passibus aequis.
This epitaph was made by Thomas Bonham, of Essex, esquier.
The serjeant's epitaph on his wife at Bowe church, Heriff.:--
Hic Benedicta jacet, de qua maledicere nemo
Cui genus aut virtus vel pia lingua potest:
Bournii et Hoskinii conjux et prolis utrique
Mater erat, Moyli filia, serva Dei.
On Mr. Bourne, his sonne-in-lawe[1752], by him:--
Nobilis innocuos transegit Bournius annos
Multa legens, callens plurima, pauca loquens.
Juridicus causis neque se ditavit[1753] agendis
Non in habendo locans sed moriendo lucrum.
[1754]_Serjeant Hoskins_:--Serviens ad legem; quaere, if <he was> a
knight. His crest (I believe) granted for his bold spirit, and (I
suppose) contrived by himselfe.
_Amici_ <included> Egremund Thynne.
Hic jacet Egremundus Rarus,
Tuendis paradoxis clarus.
Mortuus est, ut hic apparet:
At si loqui posset, hoc negaret.
Was wont to say that all those that came to London were either carrion
or crowes.
[1755]<Memorandum>:--Hoskyns--to collect his nonsense discourse, which
is very good.
_Notes._
[GC] Aubrey gives in trick the coat:--'parted per pale gules and azure,
a chevron between 3 lions rampant or [Hoskyns]: the crest is a lion's
head crowned or, vomiting flames.'
[GD] John Hoskins, of 'Mownton' (Monnington on the Wye) in 'Lanwarne'
parish, Hereford, was admitted probationer of New College June 22,
1584, and Fellow 1586. He was expelled in 1591 'propter dicteria
maledica sub persona Terrae filii.' This was the Serjeant-at-Law.
John Hoskins, of 'Mownton in Lanwarne parish,' Hereford, was admitted
probationer of New College, Aug. 24, 1599, and fellow Aug. 24, 1601,
and resigned his fellowship in 1613. He took D.C.L. in 1613. He died in
1631 (buried at Ledbury, on August 9). This was 'the Doctor.'
[GE] John Owen (the 'epigrammatist'), of Armon in Carnarvonshire, was
admitted probationer of New College Oct. 20, 1582, and Fellow March 31,
1584. He resigned his fellowship in 1591.
[GF] Aubrey, writing Oct. 27, 1671, in Wood MS. F. 39, fol. 142, says:--
'At Winton College is the picture of a servant with asses eares and
hind's feet, a lock on mouth, etc., very good hi<er>oglyphick, with a
hexastique in Latin underneath.... It was done by the serjeant when he
went to school there; but now finely painted. It is at the fountain
where the boyes wash their hands.'
=Sir John Hoskyns= (1634-1705).
[1756]Sir John Hoskyns, knight, one of the Masters of the Chancery,
borne at Morehampton in the countie of Hereford, A.D....
Aug. 3rd, 1671, the native maryed.
Aug. 20, 1667, the native broke his thigh; Oct. 1671, the native had
another fall which was no lesse dangerous then the former.
Sir John Hoskyns' eldest son John[GG], borne at ..., 14 die Novembr.
1673, 4ʰ 48´ A.M. Obiit ... 1684.
Mris Jane Hoskyns, daughter of Sir John Hoskyns of Morhamton, Hereff.,
borne at Harwood in com. praedict. March the 2nd, about 6 a clock in
the morning, A.D. 1677/8.
[1757]Gazette de Londres:--Jean Hoskins, esq., honoré du titre de
chevalerie et l'un de maîtres ordinaires de la cancellerie 30 Janvier
1675.
_Note._
[GG] In MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 63, is a letter to Aubrey from Sir John
Hoskyns, dated Nov. 15, 1673, announcing the birth of this son on Nov.
14, 4ʰ 48´ A.M., and asking him to send to H. C., i.e. Henry Coley the
astrologer.
=Charles Howard= (16-- -16--).
[1758]Charles Howard, eldest son of the honourable Charles Howard of
Norfolke, borne 1664 (old style) on a Thursday between 3 and 4 of the
clocke in the morning, the last day of March, London. Obiit May 5th
1677, of the small pox.
Henry Howard, second son, borne 1668, between 8 and 9 in the morning,
being Sunday 18 of Oct., St. Luke's day.
Thomas Howard, 3rd son, born 12 of July, between one and 2 in the
morning, 1670, being Thursday. Obiit, All Saints (day), twelvemonth
after his birth.
Elizabeth Teresa Howard borne the 6 of April, being Easter Eve, 22
minutes after 9 of the clock in the evening. Obiit August 12-moneth
after her birth.
=Robert Hues= (1553-1632).
[1759]My cosen Whitney, a parson, quondam Aeneinas., told me that Hues
_de Globis_ was of that house[1760]; which I put downe in the margent
of the Oxford book[1761].
[1762]Mr. Ashmole thinkes that Robert Hues was of Christ Church.
Perhaps he might be of St. Mary Hall too--for so my old cosin Whitney
told me by tradition.
[1763]Hues _de Globis_:--I have heard my old cosen parson Whitney
say--an old fellow of Brasennose (dyed 12 yeares since, aetat. 78 or
9)--(that) he was of St. Mary Hall.
=Edward Hyde=, earl of Clarendon (1608/9-1674).
[1764]Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor of England,
was borne at Dinton in com. Wilts., anno Domini 1608, Febr. 16, as
this[1765] earle thinkes. He told me he has his father's life written
by himselfe, but 'tis not fitt so soon to publish it.
[1766]I 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.
[1767]I 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.
[1768]The place of the Lord Chancellor Hyde's birth is Dinton, four
miles from Chalke.
_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. | |
FOOTNOTES:
[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, '1_s._ 4_d._' 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 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 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. 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. ᴊᴬ 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.