1643.
[149] Dupl. with 'now did Bellona....'
[150] Dupl. with 'black.'
[151] Dupl. with 'one.'
[152] Dupl. begun, but scored through 'J.' i.e. July.
[153] Dupl. with 'importunity.'
[154] Trinity Sunday, 1643, was June 4.
[155] Subst. for 'was faine' <to converse>.
[156] Dupl. with 'renewed' <acquaintance>.
[157] i.e. though my friends were not debauchees, yet their
conversation was not improving. For the low tone which grew up among
Oxford scholars from contact with the garrison, see Clark's Wood's
_Life and Times_, i. 129.
[158] Subst for 'like.'
[159] 'Dew' is subst. for 'and sp<irit>.'
[160] i.e. my character throughout my life was that I discharged the
function of a whetstone.
[161] Perhaps scil. 'others.' He set other people to work to record
matters and so rescued them from oblivion.
[162] The people he set to work.
[163] i.e. her portion was to be more than £2000, and her husband was
to be guardian of her brother's estate (during minority?) which was
worth £1000 a year.
[164] Subst. for 'my.'
[165] Dupl. with 'was procatractique cause' <of my ruine>.
[166] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 4.
[167] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5ᵛ.
[168] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 4.
[169] Joan Sumner.
[170] Gen. xxii. 14.
[171] Dupl. with 'submitted myselfe to God's will.'
[172] i.e. Aubrey then wished he could have withdrawn into a monastery.
[173] i.e. had been left.
[174]? i.e. the advantages of the Reformation in England have drawbacks
in the disadvantages of losing monasteries.
[175] 'tooke' in MS.
[176] Nicholas Tufton, 3rd earl. In MS. Ballard 14, fol. 99, April 23,
1674, Aubrey mentions a project for his advantage:--'The earl of Thanet
would have me goe to his estate in the Bermudas.'
[177] The paragraphs following repeat, with some enlargement, the
statements already made.
[178] Dupl. with 'till all was sold.'
[179] Dupl. with 'great.'
[180] Aubrey adds a reference:--'vide Camden's divinum instr.'
[181] One volume is now MS. Aubr. 3; the second is lost.
[182] Aubrey's symbol for 'fortune' or 'wealth.'
[183] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 4ᵛ.
[184] The marginal note names two exceptions.
[185] i.e. Ralph Sheldon's (Anthony Wood's friend): Aubrey was there in
1678, Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, iii. 420.
[186] Dupl. with 'a little.'
[187] In these paragraphs Aubrey jots down his opinions as to his own
character.
[188] TAC. _Ann._ iv. 44.
[189] Dupl. with 'negligence (lachesse).'
[190] i.e. school holidays.
[191] Subst. for 'drawer.' See _supra_, p. 36.
[192] See _supra_, p. 39.
[193]? acquaintance begun at the Middle Temple.
[194] i.e. who discovered (in his own opinion) 'the number of the
beast.'
[195] i.e. Aubrey had a hundred letters of his.
[196] 'Father' is written, as frequently in Aubrey, in a symbol, viz.
[Illustration: ᖤͧ]
[197] See note on p. 43.
[198] See Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, iv. 191.
[199] Now MS. Aubr. 1 and 2.
[200] The monogram of Anthony Wood.
[201] This is now MS. Aubr. 10.
[202] i.e. on business of the suit concerning the entail: _supra_, p.
39.
[203] This symbol is for 'opposite to.'
[204] Sir Llewelyn (_or_ Leoline, from the Latin form) Jenkins,
Secretary of State 1680-1684.
[205] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5.
[206] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5ᵛ.
[207] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 97ᵛ.
[208] 1673/4.
[209] i.e. Thursday.
[210] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 2.
[211] MS. Aubr. 23, a slip at fol. 103ᵛ.
[212] MS. Aubr, 26, pp. 9, 10.
[213] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 103ᵛ.
[214] Aubrey in MS. Rawl. J. fol. 6 (No. 15041 in Summary Catal. of
Bodl. MSS.), fol. 30.
[215] Subst. for 'Mich:'<aelmastide>.
[216] Letalis arundo: VERG. _Aen._ iv. 73.
[217] i.e. a year.
[218] i.e. Wiseman, _ut supra_.
[219] Ibid., fol. 30ᵛ.
[220] Two initials obliterated.
[221]? 1663/4.
[222] i.e. 1669/70.
[223] Ibid., fol. 31.
[224] ⌗; a symbol I have not found elsewhere in Aubrey, as indicating a
person.
[225] Aubrey adds: 'vide Almanac: 'twas that yeare I went to Hethfield.'
[226] Some astrological symbols follow.
[227] One word I cannot decipher.
[228] Two words I cannot decipher.
[229] See _infra_, p. 52.
[230] Vere Bertie, Baron of the Exchequer, 1675-78.
[231] Seth Ward.
[232] 'At Malmsbury' is scored out, and the following substituted:--'In
a private schoole at Westport, next to the smyth's shop as is (now,
1666) opposite to the ... (an inne).'
[233] i.e. at Leigh-de-la-mere.
[234] Anthony Ettrick, 'of Berford, co. Dorset': matric. at Trinity
College in 1640, and was afterwards called at the Middle Temple.
[235] William Hawes, of Byssam, Berks, aged 16, was elected Scholar of
Trinity College, Oxford, June 5, (Trinity Monday) 1640; President in
1658.
[236] Of Uxmore, Oxon, aged 15, elected Scholar of Trinity, June 4,
1640.
[237] Of Hoothorpe, Northants., elected Scholar of Trinity, June 5,
1637; Fellow, June 4, 1640; President, 1664.
[238] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 19ᵛ.
[239] The blank is left for his official title, viz. Clarencieux King
of Arms.
[240] William Aubré was elected into a Law Fellowship at All Souls in
1547.
[241] i.e. a number of the All Souls Fellowships were set aside for
'legists,' i.e. students of Civil Law.
[242] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 20.
[243] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 20ᵛ.
[244] Dupl. with 'for.'
[245] Dupl. with 'some thought.'
[246] He died more than seven years before James's accession.
[247] '2 eldest' is written over as a correction.
[248] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 21.
[249] This sentence is scored out on fol. 21; perhaps that the
following paragraph, on fol. 21ᵛ, may be inserted.
[250] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 21ᵛ.
[251] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 20ᵛ.
[252] Sir Edward Atkins, Puisne Justice of the Common Pleas, 1649.
[253] John Cruso, LL.D., Caius Coll., Cambr. 1652.
[254] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 22.
[255] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 21.
[256] Here followed, 'which Mr. Shuter etc. told me they had seen':
scored out, as belonging _infra_.
[257] Subst. for 'gave.'
[258] William Aubrey, Student of Ch. Ch. in 1580; D.C.L. 1597.
[259] See _infra_, p. 61.
[260] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 21ᵛ.
[261] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 19ᵛ.
[262] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 1ᵛ.
[263] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 23.
[264] i.e. John Dee's book, the 'child of his invention.'
[265] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 23ᵛ.
[266] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 24.
[267] Anthony Wood has put dots under this word, and noted in the
margin 'sic.'
[268] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 24ᵛ.
[269] It should be 'azure.'
[270] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67.
[271] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15ᵛ.
[272] i.e. in the life in MS. Aubr. 6; see _infra_, p. 84.
[273] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 16ᵛ.
[274] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67.
[275] Dupl. with 'lost.'
[276] Part of the page left blank for insertion of the letter.
[277] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67ᵛ.
[278] Richard Sackville, 3rd earl, ob. 1624.
[279] See _infra_, sub nomine.
[280] Donne.
[281] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 69.
[282] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 69ᵛ.
[283] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 70.
[284] HORAT., _Ars Poet._ 346.
[285] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67ᵛ.
[286] Subst. for 'will.'
[287] Subst. for 'had been.'
[288] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68.
[289] His brother-in-law, Mervyn Touchet, second earl of Castlehaven,
was executed on this charge, May 14, 1631.
[290] Alice, daughter and co-heir of Bennet Barnham.
[291] Over 'delicate,' Aubrey has written 'T. Hobbes,' either as his
authority for the statement, or comparing Bacon's eyes with Hobbes',
which were 'hazell' and 'ful of life.'
[292] i.e. the original, and the Greek version.
[293] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 71ᵛ.
[294] 'doe things' subst. for 'live much.'
[295] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 74.
[296] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68.
[297] _Rectius_, of the King's Bench.
[298] Dupl. with 'pretty.'
[299] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68.
[300] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68ᵛ.
[301] i.e. Hobbes.
[302] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 71.
[303] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68ᵛ.
[304] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 70ᵛ.
[305] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68ᵛ.
[306] Dupl. with 'luxuriously.'
[307] Explicit MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68ᵛ.
[308] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 72.
[309] Dupl. with 'respective.'
[310] Aubrey's drawing will be found among the facsimiles at the end of
this volume.
[311] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 72ᵛ.
[312] Here followed 'the servant would shutt the dore': scored out.
[313] French 'concierge.'
[314] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 73.
[315] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 73ᵛ.
[316] A blank space is left in the MS. for their insertion.
[317] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 74.
[318] Subst. for 'was wont' <to meditate>.
[319] i.e. yew.
[320] 'Belvideri' is written over 'good viewes,' as an alternative.
[321] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 6ᵛ.
[322] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9ᵛ.
[323] MS. Aubr. 21, p. 11.
[324] Sir Thomas Badd, of Cames Oysells, created a baronet in 1642.
[325] Aubrey, in MS. Wood, F. 39, fol. 319ᵛ.
[326] Idem, ibid., fol. 163ᵛ: Jan. 27, 1671/2.
[327] Robert Bolton, obiit 1631.
[328] Cited by Aubrey, in MS. Wood, F. 39, fol. 175ᵛ.
[329] Anthony Wood notes 'made, they say, by Dr. <John> Owen,' Puritan
dean of Christ Church, Oxford.
[330] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.
[331] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 53ᵛ.
[332] Robert Barclay was _not_ son of John Barclay; see the dates
_supra_.
[333] Theologiae verae Christianae apologia, Amstel. 1676. The English
version appeared in 1678.
[334] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 99.
[335] Isaac Barrow.
[336] Subst. for 'November.'
[337] i.e. this 'captain of the school.'
[338] _sic_, for Felsted.
[339] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 99ᵛ.
[340] William Fairfax, born June 6, 1630, succeeded as 3rd viscount
Fairfax of Emley, Sept. 1641, married Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander
Smith of Stulton co. Suffolk, and died 1648. His son Thomas, 4th
viscount, died 1650/1.
[341] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 100.
[342] Thomas Hill, intruded Master by the Parliamentary Visitors,
1645-1653.
[343] Dupl. with 'the boy.'
[344] ? i.e. receiving his fellowship.
[345] Ralph Widdrington, Reg. Prof. Greek, 1654-1660.
[346] 1655-59.
[347] i.e. 100.
[348] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 100ᵛ.
[349] Dupl. with 'unravelling.'
[350] Dupl. with 'he was not a Dr. Smirke'--in Andrew Marvell's satire.
[351] Subst. for 'I sawe.'
[352] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 101.
[353] 'In geometrie' is written over 'about mathematics' in explanation.
[354] MS. Aubr. 8, fol, 101ᵛ.
[355] See Cooper's _Athenae Cant._ ii. 96.
[356] MS. Aubr. 6. fol. 51. Aubrey gives in trick the coat:--'sable,
two swords in saltire between four fleur-de-lys....'
[357] Anthony Wood notes:--'This was made for Dr. Barrow,
Vicechancellor of Cambridge, vide part iii,' i.e. MS. Aubr. 8, _ut
supra_.
[358] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 100ᵛ.
[359] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60ᵛ. Thomas Batchcroft was Master of Gonville
and Caius College, 1625-49, 1660-1670.
[360] Note in pencil (partly inked over) by Aubrey at end of MS. Rawl.
766. The slip is addressed (not by Aubrey) 'To Mr. Thomas Awbrey
at Broad Chalke--, to be left at the Lambe in Katherine Streete in
Salisbury.' The seal is 'party per chevron, ... and or (?), in chief
2 eagles (or falcons) rising, a mullet for difference,' a coat for
Stephens. Aubrey gives in trick, as on the monument, 'sable, a fesse
engrailed argent, between 3 dexter hands couped bendways or.'
[361] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 116ᵛ.
[362] Francis Beaumont, Justice of the Common Pleas, 1593.
[363] Subst. for 'illorum.'
[364] 'Super' is written above 'over.'
[365] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6.
[366] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 357: written Sept. 1, 1681.
[367] Blank in MS., Aubrey forgetting the name at the moment.
[368] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 45ᵛ. The first part of the note seems to be a
character of Beeston; the second part is a note of questions to be put
to him.
[369] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6.
[370] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 71.
[371] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 70ᵛ.
[372] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6.
[373] Charles Berkeley, created viscount Fitz-hardinge 1663, killed in
the sea-fight, June 3, 1665.
[374] MS. Aubr. 7 (fol. 5) is dated 'January 1684/5.'
[375] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 90.
[376] i.e. in the scheme of the nativity, which portended immediate
death.
[377] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 11.
[378] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5.
[379] i.e. in MS. Aubr. 6, _ut supra_.
[380] This sentence possibly refers to some other topic than the
preceding.
[381] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 35ᵛ.
[382] MS. 'laeto.'
[383] 'faire' is scored out.
[384] i.e. 1-1/2 mile.
[385] i.e. if descended from Alderman Henry Billingsley.
[386] i.e. MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67ᵛ--in Francis Bacon's life.
[387] i.e. Henry Billingsley's, to whom in this paragraph Aubrey harks
back.
[388] 'Richard,' _infra_, p. 103.
[389] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 9.
[390] This injunction was addressed to Anthony Wood.
[391] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18.
[392] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 90.
[393] Anthony Wood notes 'Luce, in vol. i, p....' i.e. MS. Aubr. 6,
fol. 35ᵛ, _ut supra_, p. 100.
[394] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 89ᵛ.
[395] In the library of the College of Arms.
[396] Aubrey notes here:--'Quaere if this Thomas was not Sir Thomas
Billingsley, the famous horseman?': see _supra_, p. 100.
[397] MS. Aubr. 8 (Aubrey's volume of _Lives of the English
Mathematicians_), fol. 76.
[398] i.e. written; viz. in MS. Aubr. 6, _ut supra_.
[399] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 35ᵛ.
[400] i.e. from Sir Henry Billingsley.
[401] As given in next paragraph.
[402] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18.
[403] 'Portavit,' bore to his arms.
[404] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18.
[405] Called 'Robert,' _supra_, p. 101.
[406] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67ᵛ.
[407] i.e. Richard Sackville, 5th earl; obiit 1677.
[408] i.e. Charles Louis, Elector Palatine 1648-80; his brothers were
Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice.
[409] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 85.
[410] Anthony Wood corrects this to 'Northwich.'
[411] i.e. Anthony Wood's _Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon._, 1674.
Birkenhead became servitor at Oriel in 1632, aged 15.
[412] Philip Gwyn, matr. at Oriel in 1634.
[413] Subst. for 'dischardged.'
[414] In 1639.
[415] Subst. for 'bold': Aubrey writes here κυνώπης, in explanation.
[416] MS. Aubr. 6 was written in Feb. 1679/80.
[417] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 85ᵛ.
[418] For choosing a grave in the churchyard, and not, as was usual
with persons of substance, in the church.
[419] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 85.
[420] These words, added (? by Wood) in pencil, probably give the
reason assigned in the royal mandate recommending him for D.C.L.
[421] Aubrey in MS. Tanner 24, fol. 159: Nov. 21, 1696.
[422] i.e. All Souls: the letter is written to Thomas Tanner.
[423] Thomas Farnaby, _ut infra_.
[424] Louis XIV.
[425] Aubrey in MS. Wood, F. 39, fol. 354ᵛ: June 21, 1681.
[426] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 33.
[427] Matric. at St. Alban Hall Jan. 26, 1614/5, aged 17; took B.A.
from Wadham Feb. 10, 1617/8.
[428] At St. Alban Hall. Norborne matric. in Oct. 1620; and took B.D.
in 1637/8.
[429] Bridgewater, 1640.
[430] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121.
[431] MS. Aubr. 23, a slip at fol. 103ᵛ.
[432] i.e. Oct. 1682.
[433] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 102.
[434] Matric. June 30, 1615; B.A. June 18, 1618.
[435] Subst. for 'friendship.'
[436] Dupl. with 'came.'
[437] Dupl. with 'combe-makers.'
[438] Dupl. with 'who was an extraordinary handsome man.'
[439] Subst. for 'whores.'
[440] Dupl. with 'honour.'
[441] The words in square brackets are insertions by Anthony Wood.
[442] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 102ᵛ.
[443] A note added after the preceding life had been written.
[444] Aubrey in MS. Wood, F. 39, fol. 273ᵛ: May 30, 1674.
[445] See _sub nomine_, Thomas Stephens.
[446] Anthony Wood notes here,'false'; i.e. having inquired at Pembroke
(in 1674), he found no trace of this tradition.
[447] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121.
[448] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 12.
[449] The horoscope is left blank.
[450] Dupl. with '_Negotiative_.'
[451] Subst. for 'understands.'
[452] Subst. for 'spare body.'
[453] Subst. for 'a very black eie.'
[454] Dupl. with 'From his youth he.'
[455] Dupl. with 'fowle.'
[456] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 12ᵛ.
[457] Aubrey, on fol. 12ᵛ, gives the full list of 32 titles copied
(with some slight changes of spelling, etc.) from Bovey's own list,
given _infra_.
[458] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 13ᵛ, Bovey's autograph.
[459] No. 18 is no. 19 in Aubrey's copy; no. 19 is no. 18 in Aubrey's
copy.
[460] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 12ᵛ.
[461] 'From a child' followed: scored out.
[462] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 11ᵛ.
[463] i.e. Aubrey remembered seeing the sermon in a shop there. He went
and found it, and has excerpts _infra_, p. 116.
[464] MS. Aubr. 8 fol. 12.
[465] MS. Ballard 14, fol. 127, a letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood of
date Feb. 21, 1679/80.
[466] MS. Aubr. 7. fol. 10.
[467] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 10ᵛ.
[468] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 11.
[469] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 11ᵛ.
[470] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12ᵛ.
[471] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6ᵛ.
[472] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 16ᵛ.
[473] Subst. for 'cared not for.'
[474] Probably Robert Hooke.
[475] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5.
[476] 1679/80, in this case.
[477] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 33.
[478] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 33ᵛ.
[479] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 47ᵛ.
[480] Subst. for 'that the beginnings of the Thames and Avon.'
[481] Dupl. with 'and sappable.'
[482] Dupl. with 'the Bylanders.'
[483] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 49.
[484] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8.
[485] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 79.
[486] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 49.
[487] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 48.
[488] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 38ᵛ.
[489] MS. Aubr. 7, a slip at fol. 8ᵛ.
[490] Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, ii. 237.
[491] William Oughtred.
[492] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 101ᵛ.
[493] Given by Aubrey in colours in a lozenge.
[494] Venetia Stanley.
[495] Dupl. with 'had.'
[496] Aubrey notes in the margin:--'Barbara C.C. <i.e. countess of
Castlemaine> had such a one: nay sempstresse helped to worke it.'
[497] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 18.
[498] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 26.
[499] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 9.
[500] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 29, a note appended to 'the scheme of the
nativity of _Democritus junior_ on his monument at Christ Church in
Oxon: he writt the _Melancholy_.'
[501] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 97ᵛ.
[502] The words in square brackets are the answer to the inquiry, added
later.
[503] Dupl. with 'Wales.'
[504] The reference is to MS. Aubr. 8, (_Lives_, part iii.): see
_infra_, p. 134.
[505] Dupl. with 'I could have contentedly begged, like a poor man.'
[506] Dupl. with 'make.'
[507] Dupl. with 'the turret.'
[508] Subst. for 'painted with.'
[509] Subst. for 'stretched.'
[510] Bacon.
[511] Added later.
[512] i.e. sew in.
[513] Jack Sydenham, _supra_, p. 132.
[514] Dupl. with 'did sett.'
[515] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 98.
[516] Subst. for 'whether he lived to see the king's restauration I
cannot now perfectly remember; but he did, or neer it: and (I thinke)
dyed in London. Quaere Mr. Watts the taylor.'
[517] Dupl. with 'his pretty house at the.'
[518] Subst. for 'rock.'
[519] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12ᵛ.
[520] The MS. with this symbol I have not identified. Anthony Wood also
quotes a MS. with this symbol.
[521] MS. Aubr. 8, slips at fol. 13.
[522] _Sic_ in MS.: either a slip of the stone-cutter for T. B., or a
heartless recalling of his nick-name (_supra_, p. 130).
[523] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 114ᵛ.
[524] Subst. for 'was borne at Powyk, neer Worcester (where he went to
schoole).'
[525] Subst. for 'when he was a boy.'
[526] Subst. for 'which tooke, nothing so much!'
[527] Subst. for 'desire.' Persons of position were usually buried in
church.
[528] The words in square brackets are struck out, apparently only
because Aubrey thought they went too much into detail.
[529] Subst. for 'beare.'
[530] The inscription on the coffin.
[531] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5ᵛ.
[532] Anthony Wood, in obedience to this injunction, inserted the leaf
which is now fol. 115 of MS. Aubr. 6.
[533] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 115.
[534] Subst. for 'the charges of their health.'
[535] Read, perhaps, 'on,' 'her.'
[536] See Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, i. 186, note 2.
[537] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 114ᵛ.
[538] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7.
[539] Inserted by Anthony Wood.
[540] Inserted by Wood, who wrote 'Henry' and then changed it to
'Robert.'
[541] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 26ᵛ.
[542] Anthony Wood inserts the Christian name 'William.'
[543] Subst. for 'Upon the first of King James.'
[544] Dupl. with 'this physitian.'
[545] 'Husband's' subst. for 'hers.'
[546] No doubt Edmund Waller, _supra_; and Thomas Gale, _infra_.
[547] Dupl. with 'a man of great moodes.'
[548] _infra_, p. 142.
[549] Subst. for 'habit.'
[550] Subst. for 'plate.'
[551] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 22.
[552] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 24.
[553] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 23. The inscription is Henry More's autograph.
[554] Anthony Wood queries 'Where is this monument?' having forgotten
MS. Aubr. 6: _supra_, p. 140.
[555] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 26ᵛ.
[556] Dupl. with 'fashion.'
[557] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25.
[558] For the answer to this query, see _infra_.
[559] Dupl. with 'said.'
[560] Dupl. with 'then.'
[561] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 22.
[562] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 138: Sept. 2, 1671.
[563] Ibid., fol. 141ᵛ: Oct. 27, 1671.
[564] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 119. Aubrey gives in trick the coat:--'or, a
fess engrailed between 6 cross crosslets fitchée sable.'
[565] Subst. for 'was short-<sighted>.'
[566] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 119ᵛ.
[567] MS. Aubr. 6, a slip pasted on to fol. 119.
[568] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 119ᵛ.
[569] 'Non' is added by Anthony Wood in red ink, in answer to this
inquiry.
[570] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 119.
[571] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18.
[572] See Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, ii. 268.
[573] MS. Ballard 14, fol. 133; a letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood,
dated July 15, 1681.
[574] Isaac Lyte.
[575] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 105.
[576] Subst. for 'built.'
[577] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 4ᵛ.
[578] 'At Northway': so his baptismal certificate in MS. Wood F. 49,
fol. 25.
[579] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 138ᵛ: Sept. 2, 1671.
[580] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 141: Oct. 27, 1671.
[581] Aubrey, at this date, was in hiding at Broad Chalk.
[582] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 93.
[583] Dupl. with 'mayds.'
[584] Dupl. with 'bargaine.'
[585] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 93ᵛ.
[586] Anthony Wood notes in the margin 'Jo<hn> Triplett.'
[587] Charles Gataker was author of several pamphlets.
[588] Subst. for 'Wayneman.'
[589] 'excellent' written over 'witts,' as an alternative.
[590] Dupl. with 'victory by the Devizes.'
[591] Subst. for 'Some now that.'
[592] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 94.
[593] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 29.
[594] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 29: Aubrey repeats the coat given _supra_.
[595] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 29ᵛ.
[596] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 39.
[597] Anthony Wood notes 'col. Charles Cavendish.'
[598] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 39ᵛ.
[599] 'Abner' in MS. by a slip.
[600] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 59ᵛ.
[601] Sir William Montagu, Chief Baron of the Exchequer 1676-1686.
[602] John Cecil, succeeded as fourth earl in 1643.
[603] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60.
[604] Dupl. with 'degree.'
[605] Subst. for 'keepe.'
[606] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 19.
[607] The words in square brackets are added by Anthony Wood. Chaloner
matriculated at Exeter College, June 7, 1611.
[608] i.e. 'tutor,' in the sense of instructor (not, of comptroller of
the household).
[609] Dupl. with 'false,' i.e. falsehood.
[610] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 19ᵛ.
[611] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 61. Aubrey has been unable to make out the
whole inscription.
[612] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 53ᵛ, and a slip at fol. 100ᵛ.
[613] 'His father was minister there': Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol.
144.
[614] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 54.
[615] Wednesday.
[616] i.e. the horoscope which Aubrey has there.
[617] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 77.
[618] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9ᵛ.
[619] Anthony Wood noted here 'rather 1680; if you meane Stephen
Charnock, the divine': but saw his error and erased the note.
[620] i.e. as fol. 56-58 of MS. Aubr. 8.
[621] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 58ᵛ; the heading is by Aubrey; the letter is
the original.
[622] Earth.
[623] Salt.
[624] Rabbet = 'a groove cut along the edge of a board ... to receive a
corresponding projection cut on the edge of another board, required to
fit it.'--_Century Dictionary._
[625] Address, on MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 53. Postage is marked as '6_d._'
[626] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 57. The letter is the original.
[627] Line frayed off.
[628] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 56ᵛ.
[629] Elias Ashmole's _Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum_, 1652.
[630] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 56.
[631] i.e. of the roll mentioned, _supra_, p. 164.
[632] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 56ᵛ.
[633] 'Perfet' is scored through.
[634] A note added in the text by Paschall.
[635] A description by Paschall of a drawing on the roll, after the
above verses.
[636] The symbols for sun and moon = gold and silver.
[637] Half a line which Paschall could not read.
[638] Printed in Ashmole's _Theatrum Chemicum_.
[639] Printed ibid.
[640] Printed ibid.
[641] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 27.
[642] Sir Thomas Richardson, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 1631.
[643] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 200: April 7, 1673.
[644] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 121ᵛ.
[645] i.e. Arch Bishop of Canterbury.
[646] 1642, in MS.
[647] Dupl. with 'terrible.'
[648] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121ᵛ.
[649] MS. Aubr. 6. fol. 6ᵛ.
[650] MS. has 'did had,' i.e., Aubrey at first thought of writing 'did
have.'
[651] Perhaps John Nayler, fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.