[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[172] i.e. Aubrey then wished he could have withdrawn into a monastery.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. 4^v.

[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.

[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. 5^v.

[207] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 97^v.

[208] 1673/4.

[209] i.e. Thursday.

[210] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 2.

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

[212] MS. Aubr, 26, pp. 9, 10.

[213] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 103^v.

[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. 30^v.

[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. 19^v.

[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. 20^v.

[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. 21^v, may be inserted.

[250] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 21^v.

[251] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 20^v.

[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. 21^v.

[261] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 19^v.

[262] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 1^v.

[263] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 23.

[264] i.e. John Dee's book, the 'child of his invention.'

[265] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 23^v.

[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. 24^v.

[269] It should be 'azure.'

[270] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67.

[271] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15^v.

[272] i.e. in the life in MS. Aubr. 6; see infra, p. 84.

[273] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 16^v.

[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. 67^v.

[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. 69^v.

[283] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 70.

[284] Horat., Ars Poet. 346.

[285] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67^v.

[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. 71^v.

[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. 68^v.

[301] i.e. Hobbes.

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

[303] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68^v.

[304] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 70^v.

[305] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68^v.

[306] Dupl. with 'luxuriously.'

[307] Explicit MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 68^v.

[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. 72^v.

[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. 73^v.

[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. 6^v.

[322] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9^v.

[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. 319^v.

[326] Idem, ibid., fol. 163^v: Jan. 27, 1671/2.

[327] Robert Bolton, obiit 1631.

[328] Cited by Aubrey, in MS. Wood, F. 39, fol. 175^v.

[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. 53^v.

[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. 99^v.

[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.