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, '1s. 4d.' is written. Possibly the price of the original paper-book.
[17] 'Much' substituted for 'so well.'
[18] Aubrey cites in the margin:—
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. 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.
[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.
[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. 5v.
[168] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 4.
[169] Joan Sumner.
[170] Gen. xxii. 14.