[653] Subst. for 'a great many.'
[654] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 28.
[655] The number was doubtful, see _supra_, p. 175.
[656] 'Thomas,' is in error for Edward.
[657] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 208: May 17, 1673.
[658] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 28.
[659] 'Or sonne' is scored out.
[660] Dupl. with 'which belonged to him.'
[661] Nov. 15, 1616.
[662] Three lines of the text are suppressed here.
[663] Sept. 3, 1633.
[664] Subst. for 'will play.'
[665] Henry Cuff: Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, i. 424.
[666] OVID, _Metam._ iii. 230.
[667] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 27ᵛ.
[668] Subst. for 'envyed.'
[669] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 5. Aubrey gives in trick the coat '..., a
serpent in pale vert.'
[670] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60ᵛ.
[671] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 131: June 14, 1671.
[672] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 86.
[673] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 28.
[674] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5.
[675] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25.
[676] See Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, iii. 24.
[677] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 316: April 9, 1679.
[678] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 16ᵛ.
[679] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.
[680] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 91ᵛ.
[681] Subst. for 'about.'
[682] MS. Aubr. 8, a slip at fol. 4.
[683] Josias Pullen, Vice-Principal of Magdalen Hall.
[684] Anthony Wood notes:--'afterwards of Winton.'
[685] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 69.
[686] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15ᵛ.
[687] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 106.
[688] Subst. for 'farther.'
[689] i.e. MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15ᵛ, _ut supra_. He was never Canon of Ch.
Ch.
[690] Dupl. with 'ruffe.'
[691] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 106ᵛ.
[692] Subst. for 'company.'
[693] Subst. for 'pressing upon the.'
[694] The words in square brackets are substituted for 'with this
inscription ... (vide).'
[695] i.e. MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15ᵛ, _ut infra_.
[696] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 106.
[697] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 106ᵛ.
[698] Three lines of the text are here suppressed.
[699] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15ᵛ.
[700] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6ᵛ.
[701] Subst. for 'I left Oxford': see _supra_, p. 37.
[702] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 113ᵛ.
[703] Subst. for 'to buy it.'
[704] i.e. Tom.
[705] MS. Aubr. 6, a slip at fol. 113ᵛ.
[706] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 36.
[707] Jane Smyth, see _sub nomine_.
[708] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5ᵛ.
[709] MS. Aubr. 21, p. 11.
[710] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6ᵛ.
[711] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25ᵛ.
[712] i.e. 1600/1.
[713] Dupl. with 'shew the like two brothers,' scil. as Sir Charles
Danvers and his brother Henry, earl of Danby.
[714] Edward Vere, seventeenth earl of Oxford.
[715] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 26ᵛ.
[716] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25.
[717] Aubrey, in the margin, notes 'Anne Bulleyn.'
[718] For the murder of Henry Long.
[719] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25.
[720] Dupl. with 'dyed.'
[721] This symbol I cannot explain.
[722] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25ᵛ.
[723] Dupl. with 'discreet.'
[724] George Legge, created (1682) lord Dartmouth.
[725] MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 46.
[726] MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 44ᵛ.
[727] Over the almshouse: ibid. fol. 45.
[728] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25ᵛ.
[729] Grandson.
[730] Their flight, after the murder of Henry Long.
[731] MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 46.
[732] George Herbert. This note follows Herbert's verses on the
gravestone of Henry Danvers.
[733] i.e. in his son, Henry, earl of Danby.
[734] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18ᵛ.
[735] His elder brother.
[736] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25ᵛ.
[737] i.e. at the time of his father's death, _supra_, p. 195.
[738] i.e. the arrangement of these gardens proved his good taste.
[739] Dupl. with 'to collogue with the P.'
[740] Sir Robert Danvers, justice of the Common Pleas, 1450; Sir Thomas
Littelton (the jurist), justice of the Common Pleas, 1466.
[741] This is the 'Elizabeth, viscountess Purbeck,' who so frequently
appears in these biographies as an informant of Aubrey.
[742] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 97.
[743] Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Danvers, _ut supra_.
[744] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 97ᵛ.
[745] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1ᵛ.
[746] The winter of 1678-79 was a severe one: Clark's Wood's _Life and
Times_, ii. 426, 432, 439.
[747] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 45.
[748] Omitted here, because given, _infra_, p. 199, from fol. 43.
[749] MS. Aubr. 26, p. 16.
[750] Whiddy Island, in Bantry Bay.
[751] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 43.
[752] Subst. for 'an incomparable.'
[753] There followed '(except the gout),' scored out.
[754] 'Luctu' in the copy on fol. 43; 'dolore,' in the copy on fol. 45.
[755] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 43ᵛ.
[756] Dupl. with 'where he profited very well.'
[757] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 44.
[758] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8ᵛ.
[759] MS. Aubr. 10, fol. 31.
[760] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 44ᵛ.
[761] John Pearson, bishop of Chester 1672-86.
[762] Of which he had been President.
[763] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 46.
[764] The words here put in square brackets are a later insertion: the
first clause is scored out.
[765] Aubrey adds 'vide p. 79 (Suckling)'; i.e. fol. 110 of this MS.
Aubr. 6, in the life of Sir John Suckling _infra_.
[766] Subst. for 'Robert was vicar of West Kington, chaplain to bishop
Davenant.'
[767] The words in square brackets are scored out.
[768] Dupl. with 'was.'
[769] 'Contentended' in MS.
[770] The words in square brackets are scored out.
[771] Dupl. with 'whereby she was called a whore': also scored out.
[772] Dupl. with 'empaled.'
[773] Anthony Wood notes in the margin 'Grevill, lord Brookes.'
[774] Wood notes in the margin, 'Sir Fulk Grevill, poet.'
[775] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 46ᵛ.
[776] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 47.
[777] Subst. for 'and went with them.'
[778] Subst. for 'then almost forgot.'
[779] Subst. for 'the best coffin they sayd that.'
[780] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 47ᵛ.
[781] Subst. for 'spirit.'
[782] Letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood, of date May 19, 1668; MS.
Wood F. 39, fol. 118.
[783] Wood queries:--'in S. Bennet chapel, quaere.'
[784] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 9ᵛ: a memo. intended for Anthony Wood.
[785] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 390: July 15, 1689.
[786] Davenport was pastor at Newhaven in New England.
[787] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 18ᵛ.
[788] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 37: also _verbatim_ from the _Ephemerides
Stadii_, in MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 77.
[789] In a letter from Elias Ashmole to Anthony Wood: MS. Ballard 14,
fol. 13.
[790] In a letter from Dr. John Conant to Anthony Wood, 1683: MS. Wood
F. 49, fol. 101.
[791] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6ᵛ.
[792] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 78.
[793] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 77ᵛ.
[794] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9ᵛ.
[795] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 37.
[796] See _supra_, pp. 61-65.
[797] Sir William Boswell.
[798] Anthony Wood notes, 'false.'
[799] See Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, ii. 158.
[800] Dupl. with 'sanguine.'
[801] '1672' is added in pencil.
[802] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 38.
[803] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 96.
[804] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 7.
[805] i.e. Thursday.
[806] For purposes of testing the astrological scheme.
[807] Philip Herbert, fifth earl, succeeded 1655, died 1669.
[808] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 7ᵛ.
[809] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7ᵛ.
[810] Subst. for 'proofe.'
[811] MS. Aubr. 8, fol 6ᵛ.
[812] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 84.
[813] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 105.
[814] Judge of the King's Bench, 1660.
[815] Dupl. with 'when noboby suspected it.'
[816] Subst. for 'Paschalius.'
[817] Subst. for 'most guilty of it.'
[818] i.e. 1638/9.
[819] 'William, lord,' subst. for 'the lord.'
[820] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 105ᵛ.
[821] John Denham, fellow-commoner of Wadham, in July 1654.
[822] Subst. for 'and then would not.'
[823] Elizabeth Mallet, wife of John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester.
[824] Richard Escott matr. at Exeter, July 3, 1612; afterwards of
Lincoln's Inn.
[825] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 33ᵛ.
[826] Dupl. with 'loines.'
[827] Sir Henry Savile.
[828] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 8ᵛ.
[829] Dupl. with 'opinion,' or 'conscience.'
[830] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 31.
[831] i.e. 1600/1.
[832] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1ᵛ.
[833] In 1596.
[834] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 10.
[835] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 178: July 6, 1672.
[836] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 99.
[837] This title is substituted in the margin. The text had 'de
fallaciis,' scored out, and 'vide margent' written over.
[838] i.e. if Anthony Wood wants to know which of the suggestions is
correct, Aubrey can find out.
[839] i.e. although in Glocester Hall, he did not matriculate in the
University. This was by no means infrequent all through the seventeenth
century, and was especially common with students of Roman Catholic
families.
[840] Subst. for 'they remain.'
[841] i.e. to Philip Herbert, fifth earl of Pembroke, obiit 1669;
father of William, sixth earl, obiit 1674, and Philip, seventh earl,
obiit 1683. MS. Aubr. 6 was written in 1680.
[842] Subst. for 'loved.'
[843] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 99ᵛ.
[844] Dupl. with 'excellency.'
[845] Subst. for 'more.'
[846] Dupl. with 'play.'
[847] Subst. for 'dedication.'
[848] A pen-slip for 'contested': see _supra_.
[849] Dupl. with 'people.'
[850] Dupl. with 'he was here two.'
[851] Subst. for 'studyed chymistry': 'made artificiall stones' is
written over as an alternative.
[852] Subst. for 'de Corpore.'
[853] July 1648.
[854] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 100.
[855] '2' is written over the '1,' perhaps as a correction.
[856] Afterwards Aubrey added 'I have seen.'
[857] Subst. for 'a lawyer.'
[858] i.e. vellum.
[859] Subst. for 'much.'
[860] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 101ᵛ.
[861] Grandson; his father Robert, second earl, died in 1609, a year
after his father, Thomas Sackville, first earl.
[862] John Danvers, p. 196, _supra_.
[863] Subst. for 'had some children.'
[864] Dupl. with 'good.'
[865] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 101.
[866] Subst. for 'braine.'
[867] Aubrey gives (MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 101) a drawing of this monument
here given in facsimile.
[868] '... Fryars' is written over 'Christ Church,' as an alternative.
[869] Dupl. with 'degrees.'
[870] 'Or Bedfordshire' followed, scored out.
[871] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 73.
[872] This entry is scored out.
[873] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 73ᵛ.
[874] i.e. from which Aubrey excerpted the genealogy above: probably a
MS. in the Heralds' Office.
[875] The family of Digges.
[876] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 72ᵛ.
[877] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 51ᵛ.
[878] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 75.
[879] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 75ᵛ.
[880] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 74. This folio is a slip on which Aubrey has
written a long note about the book he mentioned on fol. 75 as 'Ala seu
scala mathematices, 4to, printed at London.'
[881] MS. Aubr. 8, fol 74ᵛ.
[882] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 75.
[883] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8ᵛ.
[884] 'The countess of Dorset, that was governes to prince Charles, now
our King, was at the cost of erecting his monument': Aubrey, in MS.
Wood F. 39, fol. 208: May 17, 1673.
[885] i.e. at the side of the inscription this is carved; Aubrey gives
a rough sketch of the figures, a sun in his glory charged with a
mercury's cap, on a wreath; a shield gouttée, with a Pegasus.
[886] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 102ᵛ.
[887] Erasmus was in England 1497 and 1510. The Dryden pedigree is:--
David Dryden
|
John Dryden, obiit 1584
|
Sir Erasmus, obiit 1632
|
+----+----+
| |
John Erasmus (3rd son)
|
John (the poet)
[888] Given in trick by Aubrey.
[889] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 108ᵛ.
[890] i.e. his life. The page has been left blank for the fulfilment of
this promise: cf. Milton, _infra_.
[891] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121: out of Dr. Richard Napier's papers.
[892] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 87.
[893] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121: out of Dr. Richard Napier's papers.
[894] MS. Aubr. 7, a slip at fol. 8ᵛ.
[895] MS. Aubr. 21, p. 19.
[896] MS. Aubr. 21, p. 2.
[897] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 31ᵛ.
[898] Dupl. with 'his _athanor_ roome.'
[899] Dupl. with 'is famous in picture and poetrie.'
[900] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 1ᵛ.
[901] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 32.
[902] At Salisbury.
[903] Gondomar, ambassador of Spain to James I, 1617-23.
[904] Subst. for 'seates.'
[905] i.e. 'Cantuar. archiepiscopus,' Aubrey using his contraction for
arch-bishop (A. B.) instead of the Latin.
[906] _Sic_, in Aubrey's MS., but in error: perhaps 1210 was intended.
[907] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 83ᵛ.
[908] Here followed, scored out as being in error, 'he was created
earle of Bridgwater.'
[909] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9.
[910] A quotation jotted down as applicable to the Shrewsbury story,
_supra_.
[911] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 29.
[912] Eldest son of Sir George: see in the life of Thomas Triplett.
[913] Petron. Satir. cap. 34 (Bücheler).
[914] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 5ᵛ.
[915] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7.
[916] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 5ᵛ.
[917] Subst. for 'would not adventure him at the boarding schoole.'
[918] i.e. Andrew Paschal (B.D. 1661) had lived in the rooms formerly
occupied by Erasmus.
[919] Dupl. with 'find out.'
[920] In his horoscope.
[921] i.e. fixed the course of study.
[922] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 6.
[923] Dupl. with 'easie.'
[924] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 37ᵛ.
[925] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 94.
[926] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60.
[927] Wood 514, no. 19*, is a pass granted at the time of the siege,
with Sir Thomas Fairfax's signature and seal.
[928] Edmund Wyld (?).
[929] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 136: Aug. 9, 1671.
[930] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 369: Aug. 15, 1682.
[931] In error for 'George.'
[932] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 10.
[933] 'Fisk, M.D., or so called': Aubrey's note in MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5.
[934] 'An astrological discourse' by N. F., 1650, 12mo, is in the Brit.
Mus. Libr.
[935] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 135ᵛ: Aug. 9, 1671.
[936] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 8ᵛ.
[937] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 58.
[938] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 16.
[939] In error for 'William.'
[940] Dupl. with 'a great.'
[941] Aubrey hesitated about his correct title, noting between the
lines, 'his Worship; quaere, if Honour.'
[942] i.e. Wycombe.
[943] A line of text is suppressed here.
[944] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 45ᵛ.
[945] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 54.
[946] 'And was buryed August 29th, 1625': Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39,
fol. 253: Jan. 31, 1673/4.
[947] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 133: June 10, 1671. Ibid., fol.
131, Aubrey says the information was from Florio's grandson, 'Mr.
Molins.'
[948] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60ᵛ. Aubrey gives in trick the coat:--'azure, a
chevron wavy between 3 griffins segreant or.'
[949] An erased note, ibid., says: 'He proposed to a parliament,
tempore regis Jacobi, a way of bringing water to London from
Richmondsworth, and printed a little booke of it, which Mr. Edmund Wyld
has, and is exceeding scarce: see it, and take the title.'
[950] This sentence is scored out.
[951] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 273: May 30, 1674.
[952] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 135ᵛ: Aug. 9, 1671.
[953] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 192ᵛ: Jan. 18, 1672/3.
[954] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 14ᵛ.
[955] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 17.
[956] To the monument of John Speed in the chancel of St. Giles
Cripplegate.
[957] 'Printed also in Stowe's Survey': Anthony Wood's note.
[958] Aubrey in Wood MS. F. 39, fol. 171: May 10, 1672.
[959] _Supra_, p. 31.
[960] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18ᵛ.
[961] Dupl. with 'strong made.'
[962] MS. Aubr. 23. fol. 121.
[963] MS. Aubr. 21, p. 11.
[964] MS. Ballard 14, fol. 129: a letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood,
of date March 19, 1680/1.
[965] Dupl. with 'killed.'
[966] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 31.
[967] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 49.
[968] Subst. for 'mathematicall.'
[969] Dupl. with 'telling.'
[970] By William Prynne.
[971] MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 128, a letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood,
of date Nov. 17, 1670.
[972] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 74ᵛ.
[973] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 79ᵛ.
[974] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 51ᵛ.
[975] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 52.
[976] Dupl. with 'loud.'
[977] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 52ᵛ.
[978] Dupl. with 'sirnam'd.'
[979] Dialogue-wise between Alexander Gill, father, and Alexander Gill,
son.
[980] Interlinear note:--'The usher.'
[981] Interlinear note:--'Rowland.'
[982] Marginal note:--'When he was clark of Wadham College and being by
his place to begin a Psalme, he flung out of church, bidding the people
sing to the praise and glory of God _quicunque vult_.'
[983] Marginal note:--'he was tossed in a blanket.'
[984] MS. has 'ventest.'
[985] Marginal note:--'A knave's tongue and a whore's tayle who can
rule?'
[986] Marginal note:--'He did sitt 4 times for his degree.'
[987] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9ᵛ.
[988] i.e. Aubrey remembered having seen the sermon in a bookseller's
shop; cf. _supra_, p. 115. The sermon was by Joseph Pleydell.
[989] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.
[990] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 138ᵛ: Sept. 2, 1671.
[991] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 98.
[992] Aubrey in MS. Tanner 25, fol. 50, says '_Day-Fatality_ was writt
by Mr. ... Gibbons, Blewmantle, but I have added severall notes to it.'
[993] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 21ᵛ.
[994] MS. has 'praelectoris,' by a slip.
[995] Subst. for 'stills.'
[996] Dupl. with 'untimely.'
[997] Subst. for 'of a niece of his who maried a tradesman.'
[998] Subst. for 'impose.'
[999] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 59ᵛ.
[1000] Note added by Anthony Wood.
[1001] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15ᵛ.
[1002] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 51: also in MS. Aubr. 8, a slip at fol. 102.
[1003] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 16ᵛ.
[1004] Eldest son of the translator.
[1005] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 53ᵛ.
[1006] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 97. Aubrey gives in trick the coat:--'ermine,
on a chevron gules 5 besants.'
[1007] 1591/2.
[1008] Subst. for 'degrees.'
[1009] i.e. became bankrupt.
[1010] Died April 18, buried April 22, 1674.
[1011] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 270: May 26, 1674.
[1012] Ibid., fol. 270ᵛ.
[1013] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.
[1014] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7.
[1015] Subst. for 'the judge.'
[1016] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 28.
[1017] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.
[1018] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 4ᵛ.
[1019] _Supra_, p. 205.
[1020] Aubrey notes of this book 'I have it.'
[1021] Dupl. with 'seat.'
[1022] Dupl. with 'that in libelling characters of the Lords then, his
was.'
[1023] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 14ᵛ.
[1024] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 78ᵛ.
[1025] Dupl. with 'there.'
[1026] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.
[1027] MS. Aubr. 21, p. 11; and repeated almost _verbatim_, ibid. fol.
24ᵛ. Aubrey's character _Sir Fastidious Overween_ in his projected
comedy _The Country Revel_ was to be copied from this Gwyn.
[1028] In his projected comedy.
[1029] 'Coxcome' on fol. 24ᵛ.
[1030] Aubrey de Vere, succeeded as 20th earl in 1632, died 1702, the
last of that house.
[1031] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 7.
[1032] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 3.
[1033] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 20ᵛ.
[1034] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 144: Oct. 27, 1671.
[1035] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 119ᵛ.
[1036] Space left for his degree: M.A. (Merton, 20 June, 1609).
[1037] Substituted for:--
'Hopton, Horner, Knocknaile and Thynne,
When abbots went downe, then they came in.'
[1038] Scil. of Oxford University by the Parliamentary Commission.
[1039] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 368: 'St. Anne's day,' July 26,
1682.
[1040] Dupl. with 'in setting them up to.'
[1041] Dupl. with 'fell on their knees.'
[1042] Dupl. with 'a mistake.'
[1043] Inserted by Anthony Wood.
[1044] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60.
[1045] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 28ᵛ.
[1046] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 50.
[1047] Aubrey gives in colours the coat: 'sable, a fret and a canton
argent'; also Halley's horoscope.
[1048] Halley did not graduate in the ordinary course, but was made
M.A. by diploma in 1678.
[1049] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 10.
[1050] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 49, fol. 39ᵛ.
[1051] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 16ᵛ. Hamey was M.D., Leyden; incorporated at
Oxford, Feb. 4, 1629/30.
[1052] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5ᵛ.
[1053] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 10ᵛ.
[1054] In June, 1679: Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, ii. 453.
[1055] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 68ᵛ.
[1056] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 35.
[1057] 'Country,' with Aubrey, = county.
[1058] Added as a suggestion that Hariot's family may be looked for in
those counties.
[1059] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12.
[1060] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 91.
[1061] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12.
[1062] Aubrey writes in the margin the reference 'vide pag. 40,' i.e.
fol. 9ᵛ, _ut infra_.
[1063] Subst. for 'Steward.'
[1064] See Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, ii. 24, 25, 33, 53.
[1065] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 35.
[1066] Perhaps because the letters ended in tridents; see Clark's
Wood's _Life and Times_, i. 498, and the facsimile.
[1067] Anthony Wood writes 'R. Hues' in the margin.
[1068] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 91.
[1069] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 138: Sept. 2, 1671.
[1070] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 141: Oct. 27, 1671.
[1071] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 72.
[1072] See _supra_, p. 157.
[1073] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 11.
[1074] i.e. Friday, Jan. 3, 1611/2. The date is noted also in MS. Aubr.
21, fol. 103.
[1075] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 98.
[1076] Written in pencil only, being a later insertion.
[1077] Jane, daughter of Sir William Samwell of Upton, co. Northts.
[1078] Written in pencil only, being a later addition.
[1079] Scil. of the _Rota_ club, described _infra_.
[1080] i.e. at the meetings at Miles's.
[1081] Subst. for 'night.'
[1082] Dupl. with 'Mr.'
[1083] These two names are struck out, as is Mariet _infra_.
[1084] Struck out.
[1085] Subst. for 'Also, as.'
[1086] i.e. as listeners only. Those above were of Harrington's
'party.' The 'antagonists,' who wished to break up the meetings, follow.
[1087] Dupl. with 'lord.'
[1088] Dupl. with 'opponents.'
[1089] 'Officers' dupl. with 'soldiers.' These, like Aubrey, were
'auditors' only.
[1090] Subst. for 'came in drunke.'
[1091] Dupl. with 'Howse.'
[1092] Harrington.
[1093] MS. Aubr. 6, a slip at fol. 98ᵛ.
[1094] Subst. for 'sent.'
[1095] Dupl. with 'grew conceited that.'
[1096] Subst. for 'a versatile timber house built.'
[1097] i.e. window frames; French 'châsse.'
[1098] i.e. the coat given in note 1 from MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 29ᵛ.
[1099] Subst. for 'though neer <i.e. near> a.'
[1100] Verso of the slip at fol. 98ᵛ of MS. Aubr. 6.
[1101] i.e. John Aubrey.
[1102] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 3.
[1103] The passage in square brackets is Harrington's autograph.
[1104] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 308: June 6, 1678.
[1105] A slip pasted to a slip inserted at fol. 98ᵛ of MS. Aubr. 6, a
direction to Anthony Wood.
[1106] _supra_, p. 290.
[1107] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121ᵛ.
[1108] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 64.
[1109] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 108ᵛ.
[1110] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 64.
[1111] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 66ᵛ.
[1112] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18.
[1113] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 64.
[1114] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 64ᵛ.
[1115] Dupl. with 'a kind of Convocation-house.'
[1116] Subst. for 'the king.'
[1117] Anthony Wood writes 'Adrian Scrope' in the margin, to mark this
place for use in his _Athenae_.
[1118] _Rectius_ June: Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, i. 128.
[1119] Subst. for 'great.'
[1120] Subst. for 'St. Dunstan's church in the....'
[1121] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 65.
[1122] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 65ᵛ.
[1123] The records of the Steward's court of the University of Oxford
show several cases of homicide, in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, from the hasty drawing of daggers worn as part of the
ordinary dress. See also _supra_, p. 150.
[1124] Dupl. with 'complexion like wainscott.'
[1125] Dupl with 'our.'
[1126] Dupl. with 'see.'
[1127] Subst. for 'to know him.'
[1128] Subst. for 'would.'
[1129] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 66.
[1130] Subst. for 'William.'
[1131] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 66ᵛ.
[1132] Dupl with 'this towne.'
[1133] i.e. prescriptions.
[1134] i.e. Shaftesbury; Lord High Chancellor, 1672.
[1135] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 12.
[1136] Dupl. with 'despicable.'
[1137] i.e. of those who have married for policy.
[1138] i.e. in inducing gentlemen to marry into noble families in order
to impale a distinguished coat.
[1139] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 15. The sowgelder, in Aubrey's comedy, is
dissuading Sir John Fitz-ale from marrying a widow.
[1140] Dupl. with 'proud.'
[1141] Dupl. with 'retarders.'
[1142] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 9.
[1143] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 15ᵛ.
[1144] Subst. for 'transmographie.'
[1145] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 21.
[1146] MS. Aubr. 6, a jotting on a slip at fol. 86, explained by the
next paragraph, which is found on the back of the slip.
[1147] 'Mr. Elize Hele': see the details of the endowment in Lysons'
Britannia (Devonshire), pp. 405, 609.
[1148] John Maynard (1602-1690): Serjeant at Law 1654.
[1149] 'did ordered' in MS., by a slip for 'did order it.'
[1150] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 96ᵛ.
[1151] i.e. took to his bed. The astrologer then took his
'decumbiture,' i.e. position of the stars at the time of his being laid
up.
[1152] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 28.
[1153] i.e., I suppose, in Aubrey's pocket Almanac for 1672: see pp.
39, 51.
[1154] 'lib. B' is a lost volume of Aubrey's own antiquarian notes.
[1155] See, for the explanation of this jotting, in George Herbert's
life, _infra_, p. 310.
[1156] The blank is perhaps for 'wife of Sir John Danvers.'
[1157] MS. Aubr. 8, a slip at fol. 95.
[1158] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 95.
[1159] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 95ᵛ.
[1160] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 96.
[1161] Subst. for 'the parsonage of Bemmarton.'
[1162] i.e. step-mother.
[1163] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5ᵛ.
[1164] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 18.
[1165] Some portions of the text, three lines in all, are suppressed
here.
[1166] Subst. for 'elaborator.'
[1167] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 81ᵛ.
[1168] Subst. for 'but he.'
[1169] Anthony Wood corrects this to 'Juliana,' i.e. Berners.