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Brief Lives, Vol. 1

Chapter 183: Notes.
By John Aubrey
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A collection of concise biographical sketches compiled from the author's manuscript notes, offering anecdotal portraits of a wide range of literary, scientific, political, and social figures across several generations. Entries blend remembered quotations, learned citation, personal recollection, and occasional gossip, producing uneven but vivid character sketches. Material is presented alphabetically and supplemented by antiquarian notes, a short theatrical piece, and facsimiles of manuscript drawings and plans. An introduction outlines editorial principles and reproduces the manuscript spellings and citations where appropriate, preserving the informality and immediacy of the original notes.

The Danvers-Villiers family.

<MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 97, gives 'eight coelestiall schemes[DF], being the nativities of Robert Danvers, esq. (that is, Robert Villers, son of the viscount Purbec[DG]), the lady Elizabeth his wife, and their six children, vidt. foure daughters and two sonnes, diligently calculated according to art by the Tables of Regiomontanus by W. C.' This paper supplies the following dates:—>

  [742]Robert Danvers[DH], esq., m. the lady Danvers[743], born
      born 19 Oct., 1624,      |  Tuesday, 7 Aprill, 1629,
      11h 48´ P.M.             |  5h 26´ P.M.

Mris Frances Danvers, born Friday 12 July 1650, 0h 16´ P.M.

Mris Elizabeth Danvers, born Monday 10 November 1651, 10h 21´ P.M.

Mris Ann Danvers, born Sunday 23 October 1653, 5h 10´ A.M.

Mris Mary Danvers, born Saturday 10 November 1655, 7h 28´ A.M.

Mr. Robert Danvers, born Saturday 14 Martii 1656/7, 5h 30´ A.M.

Mr. Edward Danvers, born Thursday 28 Martii 1661, 4h 9´ A.M.

[744]Memorandum, 1676, July 19, P.M., about 6h, my lord viscount (Robert) Purbec, filius, was hurt in the neck by Mr. Fielding[DI] in Fleet Street.

<Ask Elizabeth, viscountess Purbec> the year and day when her son, the lord Purbec, was killed in a duel at Liege? Respondet: he was killed in a duell at Liege about a year before the death of King Charles IId—I thinke in the month of Aprill.

Notes.

[DF] In MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 97v, is a note:—'These,' I suppose the schemes given on the recto of the leaf, 'were done when he,' Robert Danvers, 'was in Caersbrooke Castle, prisoner, in the Isle of Wight.'

[DG] In MS. Aubr. 23, on a slip at fol. 121v, is the note:—'Lord ... Purbec,' i.e. John Villiers, created viscount Purbeck in 1619, 'natus at Godbee, Sept. 6, 12h P.M., 1591: melancholy. His mother saith he was borne Sept. 6, Monday, 12h P.M., 1591. Mris Toman writeth that it was 2h 30´ P.M.'

[DH] Robert Wright (took the name of Danvers), son of Frances (daughter of Sir Edward Coke; wife of John Villiers, of note 2) who eloped in 1621 with Sir Robert Howard. He styled himself 'viscount Purbeck'; died 1675.

[DI] Robert Fielding ('Beau' Fielding) afterwards married his widow, Margaret, daughter of Ulick Burke, marquis of Clanricarde.