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Brief Lives, Vol. 2

Chapter 349: FOOTNOTES:
By John Aubrey
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A collection of concise biographical sketches of contemporaries and earlier figures recorded by an antiquarian observer, combining factual entries—births, offices, publications, and inscriptions—with personal anecdotes, hearsay, heraldic and parish-register notes, bibliographic references, and occasional critical judgments. Entries range from terse records to extended reminiscences, often citing documentary sources or witness statements, and reflect an informal, detail-driven approach aimed at preserving lives, reputations, and local traditions for reference and remembrance.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 42v.

[2] See infra, sub nomine.

[3] Subst. for 'there was a statue due for the.'

[4] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 135: 6 Aug. 1671.

[5] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 90. Aubrey gives the coat, 'or, a pile azure between 2 escallops ...'

[6] i.e. in St. Katherine Coleman's.

[7] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 90v.

[8] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 89.

[9] This title is in the handwriting of Anthony Wood: the letter is the original.

[10] i.e. add.

[11] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 9.

[12] A slip: the 'chronologer' was his son.

[13] The ballad-book at Ralph Sheldon's.

[14] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 11.

[15] Subst. for 'physician to queen Anne or prince Henry: quaere E. W.: vide φ,' a MS. not yet identified.

[16] Probably Edmund Wyld.

[17] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 27.

[18] These words are scored through.

[19] These words are scored out.

[20] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 128: Nov. 17, 1670.

[21] Wood notes 'vide Dugdale's Orig. Jurid.'

[22] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 160: Jan. 16, 1671/2.

[23] Dupl. with 'few yeares.'

[24] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 160v.

[25] Wood corrects to 'December.'

[26] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 183: Aug. 19, 1672.

[27] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 25. Aubrey gives in trick the coat: '<argent>, a chevron, between 3 <cocks gules>.'

[28] Dupl. with 'studied.'

[29] Subst. for 'late.'

[30] Added by Anthony Wood.

[31] MS. Ballard 14, fol. 137; a letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood, dated June 26, 1683.

[32] Baron of the Exchequer 1675, Justice of the Common Pleas 1678-1679.

[33] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 38v.

[34] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 19.

[35] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 20.

[36] MS. Aubr. 23, a slip at fol. 103v.

[37] The words in square brackets are scored out, being in error. The reference is to Thomas Jones, intruded Fellow of Univ. Coll. 1649, M.A. Feb. 20, 1650/1. He was not B.D.

[38] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 108.

[39] The note in square brackets is a later, marginal addition.

[40] i.e. step-father.

[41] Subst. for 'war.'

[42] Aubrey tricks it in the margin, 'argent, 3 water bougets gules.' In MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5v, is the note:—'Ben Johnson is just opposite Robertus de Ros.'

[43] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 108v.

[44] Aubrey generally spells the name Johnson. Here the H is scored out, as also are the words in square brackets.

[45] MS. Aubr. 8, fol 15.

[46] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 45v.

[47] This note comes after the note about W. Beeston (vol. i. p. 97), which ended 'Quaere etiam for Ben Jonson.' This note about Jonson's eyes may therefore come from that 'chronicle of the stage,' as reported to Aubrey by John Lacy.

[48] Subst. for 'dialect.'

[49] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 54.

[50] Dupl. with 'words.'

[51] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 55.

[52] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 107v.

[53] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 107.

[54] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 107v.

[55] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 14v.

[56] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 57.

[57] See sub nomine, Daniel Whistler.

[58] Subst. for 'gray.'

[59] '36' in MS., with 'quaere' in the margin; Aubrey having forgot the number.

[60] The remainder of the paragraph is in the margin of the MS., an amplification of the preceding sentence.

[61] Dupl. with 'Mr.'

[62] John Whistler, recorder of Oxford City.

[63] Sir John Denham, Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland, 1612.

[64] Subst. for 'returne it.'

[65] Laud had done this at All Souls, where he was Visitor.

[66] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 57v.

[67] Subst. for 'severall good gentlemen.'

[68] Subst. for 'happy.'

[69] i.e. sweet.

[70]? to jibe Aubrey in College for having 'a sweet tooth.'

[71] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 58.

[72] See sub nomine, William Radford.

[73] Aubrey always writes the word so, probably as a contraction for 'grandmother.'

[74] Subst. for 'this crowe.'

[75] i.e. he had a trick of using the expression 'now come we.'

[76] Scored out, Aubrey apparently doubting whether it was, or was not, the right foot.

[77] for 'co-founder.'

[78] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 58v.

[79] Subst. for 'bring this liquour.'

[80] Subst. for 'when a neighbour.'

[81] Robert Harris, intruded President of Trinity, 1648-1658.

[82] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 57.

[83] MS. Aubr. 6. fol. 59v.

[84] i.e. belonging to the College chapel.

[85] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 58v.

[86] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 59.

[87] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 59v.

[88] An error. Robert Abbot was never Vice-Chancellor. His brother George Abbot, afterwards archbishop of Canterbury, was Vice-Chancellor three times, in 1600, 1603, 1605.

[89] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 400: March 31, 1690.

[90] Henry Birkhead, matric. at Trin. 1634, aet. 16; died 1696.

[91] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 5.

[92] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 61v—a note from Kitson himself.

[93] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12.

[94] Anthony Wood notes, 'The poem cal'd Lepanto was written by King James.'

[95] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 20v.

[96] Charles Gerard, in 1645 baron Gerard of Brandon, in 1679 earl of Macclesfield.

[97] Dupl. with 'good.'

[98] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 27v.

[99] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 91v. Aubrey gives the arms in trick, viz., 'argent, a fess between 3 crescents sable.'

[100] Sir Edward Henry Lee, 5th baronet created earl of Litchfield in 1674.

[101] Thomas Johnes, instituted to Wootton, Dec. 8, 1609.

[102] Four lines are suppressed.

[103] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 92: found also in a fragmentary jotting, in MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8v.

[104] K.G.; obiit 1610/1.

[105] Obiit 1631.

[106] Sir Francis Henry Lee, obiit circ. 1640. Henry, his elder brother, died in infancy.

[107] Obiit 1659.

[108] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 93.

[109] A step is missing here: cp. the preceding pedigree.

[110] This is an error. Sir Edward Henry Lee, created earl of Litchfield, was son of Sir Francis Henry Lee (m. Elizabeth Pope), younger brother of Sir Henry Lee (m. Anne Danvers).

[111] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 32.

[112] An error. William Lee was of Christ's College, Cambridge.

[113] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 86.

[114] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 10v.

[115] Subst. for 'Hersham Church.'

[116] '1601' is inserted by Anthony Wood.

[117] Bulstrode Whitelocke.

[118] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 45v.

[119] Nov. 1680—Jan. 1680/1: see Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 503, 504.

[120] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 122.

[121] Aubrey's estimate of its probable cost.

[122] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 49v.

[123] i.e. 1674.

[124] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 83.

[125] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 9v.

[126] i.e. F.R.S.

[127] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 390: July 15, 1689.

[128] Dupl. with 'businesse.'

[129] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 81v.

[130] Wood MS. F. 39, fol. 381: a communication 'from <George> Llewellin, commoner of Merton College, son of Dr. Martin Llewellin, 18 Mar. 1686/7.'

[131] Aubrey in Wood MS. F. 39, fol. 379v: Sept. 25, 1686. Aubrey gives the inscription (printed in Wood's Ath. Oxon.), and the coat of arms, '..., a lion rampant crowned ...; impaling, ..., a lion rampant ..., a hand in the lyon's mouth, within a bordure ermine.'

[132] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 21.

[133] Ben Jonson's phrase, supra, i. p. 232.

[134] Dorothy.

[135] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9.

[136] Ovid. Metam. iii. 420-423: fabula VI—Narcissus.

[137] In error for 1659.

[138] Matric. June 27, 1634, aged 16: eldest son of William, 'armiger,' of Woolwich, Kent.

[139] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 77.

[140] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 84.

[141] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 84v.

[142] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 141v: Oct. 27, 1671.

[143] See Clark's Wood's Life and Times, iv. 281.

[144] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 142.

[145] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 141v.

[146] i.e. Henry and Thomas (obiit 1639?) Lyte, father and son.

[147] Ibid., fol. 210: May 24, 1673.

[148] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 82.

[149] Tuesday.

[150] MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 217.

[151] A slip at fol. 47 of MS. Aubr. 23, has the first draft of this note:—'Captain Pugh assures me that Sir John Mandeville lies buryed at Liège—quod N. B.'

[152] See vol. i. p. 65.

[153] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 102v.

[154] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 59: given also on fol. 121 of MS. Aubr. 23, as taken from Dr. Richard Napier's papers.

[155] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 103.

[156] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12v.

[157] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 103. Aubrey gives in trick the coat, 'argent, 2 bars gules, each charged with 3 besants.'

[158] Matric. at Univ. Coll. Oct. 31, 1617, aged 15; took B.A. Jan. 24, 1619/20.

[159] Subst. for 'a pretty wench.'

[160] The king.

[161] Martin. The preceding clause explains why, having this character, Martin took the side of the Parliament.

[162] Dupl. with 'About a year after.'

[163] Subst. for 'custome.'

[164] 'Sate,' by a slip, in the MS.

[165] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12v.

[166] Dupl. with 'spued.'

[167] Probably Edmund Wyld.

[168] Dupl. with 'his aunt's husband.'

[169] i.e. Richard Cromwell's.

[170] Apparently a memorandum to recall a story about Martin. There is similarly a memorandum to recall an indecent story, at the foot of fol. 103 of MS. Aubr. 6.

[171] Inserted by Anthony Wood.

[172] So Aubrey often spells it.