[346] 1655-59.

[347] i.e. 100.

[348] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 100^v.

[349] Dupl. with 'unravelling.'

[350] Dupl. with 'he was not a Dr. Smirke'—in Andrew Marvell's satire.

[351] Subst. for 'I sawe.'

[352] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 101.

[353] 'In geometrie' is written over 'about mathematics' in explanation.

[354] MS. Aubr. 8, fol, 101^v.

[355] See Cooper's Athenae Cant. ii. 96.

[356] MS. Aubr. 6. fol. 51. Aubrey gives in trick the coat:—'sable, two swords in saltire between four fleur-de-lys....'

[357] Anthony Wood notes:—'This was made for Dr. Barrow, Vicechancellor of Cambridge, vide part iii,' i.e. MS. Aubr. 8, ut supra.

[358] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 100^v.

[359] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60^v. Thomas Batchcroft was Master of Gonville and Caius College, 1625-49, 1660-1670.

[360] Note in pencil (partly inked over) by Aubrey at end of MS. Rawl. 766. The slip is addressed (not by Aubrey) 'To Mr. Thomas Awbrey at Broad Chalke—, to be left at the Lambe in Katherine Streete in Salisbury.' The seal is 'party per chevron, ... and or (?), in chief 2 eagles (or falcons) rising, a mullet for difference,' a coat for Stephens. Aubrey gives in trick, as on the monument, 'sable, a fesse engrailed argent, between 3 dexter hands couped bendways or.'

[361] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 116^v.

[362] Francis Beaumont, Justice of the Common Pleas, 1593.

[363] Subst. for 'illorum.'

[364] 'Super' is written above 'over.'

[365] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6.

[366] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 357: written Sept. 1, 1681.

[367] Blank in MS., Aubrey forgetting the name at the moment.

[368] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 45^v. The first part of the note seems to be a character of Beeston; the second part is a note of questions to be put to him.

[369] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6.

[370] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 71.

[371] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 70^v.

[372] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6.

[373] Charles Berkeley, created viscount Fitz-hardinge 1663, killed in the sea-fight, June 3, 1665.

[374] MS. Aubr. 7 (fol. 5) is dated 'January 1684/5.'

[375] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 90.

[376] i.e. in the scheme of the nativity, which portended immediate death.

[377] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 11.

[378] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5.

[379] i.e. in MS. Aubr. 6, ut supra.

[380] This sentence possibly refers to some other topic than the preceding.

[381] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 35^v.

[382] MS. 'laeto.'

[383] 'faire' is scored out.

[384] i.e. 1½ mile.

[385] i.e. if descended from Alderman Henry Billingsley.

[386] i.e. MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67^v—in Francis Bacon's life.

[387] i.e. Henry Billingsley's, to whom in this paragraph Aubrey harks back.

[388] 'Richard,' infra, p. 103.

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

[390] This injunction was addressed to Anthony Wood.

[391] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18.

[392] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 90.

[393] Anthony Wood notes 'Luce, in vol. i, p....' i.e. MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 35^v, ut supra, p. 100.

[394] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 89^v.

[395] In the library of the College of Arms.

[396] Aubrey notes here:—'Quaere if this Thomas was not Sir Thomas Billingsley, the famous horseman?': see supra, p. 100.

[397] MS. Aubr. 8 (Aubrey's volume of Lives of the English Mathematicians), fol. 76.

[398] i.e. written; viz. in MS. Aubr. 6, ut supra.

[399] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 35^v.

[400] i.e. from Sir Henry Billingsley.

[401] As given in next paragraph.

[402] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18.

[403] 'Portavit,' bore to his arms.

[404] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18.

[405] Called 'Robert,' supra, p. 101.

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

[407] i.e. Richard Sackville, 5th earl; obiit 1677.

[408] i.e. Charles Louis, Elector Palatine 1648-80; his brothers were Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice.

[409] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 85.

[410] Anthony Wood corrects this to 'Northwich.'

[411] i.e. Anthony Wood's Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon., 1674. Birkenhead became servitor at Oriel in 1632, aged 15.

[412] Philip Gwyn, matr. at Oriel in 1634.

[413] Subst. for 'dischardged.'

[414] In 1639.

[415] Subst. for 'bold': Aubrey writes here κυνώπης, in explanation.

[416] MS. Aubr. 6 was written in Feb. 1679/80.

[417] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 85^v.

[418] For choosing a grave in the churchyard, and not, as was usual with persons of substance, in the church.

[419] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 85.

[420] These words, added (? by Wood) in pencil, probably give the reason assigned in the royal mandate recommending him for D.C.L.

[421] Aubrey in MS. Tanner 24, fol. 159: Nov. 21, 1696.

[422] i.e. All Souls: the letter is written to Thomas Tanner.

[423] Thomas Farnaby, ut infra.

[424] Louis XIV.

[425] Aubrey in MS. Wood, F. 39, fol. 354^v: June 21, 1681.

[426] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 33.

[427] Matric. at St. Alban Hall Jan. 26, 1614/5, aged 17; took B.A. from Wadham Feb. 10, 1617/8.

[428] At St. Alban Hall. Norborne matric. in Oct. 1620; and took B.D. in 1637/8.

[429] Bridgewater, 1640.

[430] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121.

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

[432] i.e. Oct. 1682.

[433] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 102.

[434] Matric. June 30, 1615; B.A. June 18, 1618.

[435] Subst. for 'friendship.'

[436] Dupl. with 'came.'

[437] Dupl. with 'combe-makers.'

[438] Dupl. with 'who was an extraordinary handsome man.'

[439] Subst. for 'whores.'

[440] Dupl. with 'honour.'

[441] The words in square brackets are insertions by Anthony Wood.

[442] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 102^v.

[443] A note added after the preceding life had been written.

[444] Aubrey in MS. Wood, F. 39, fol. 273^v: May 30, 1674.

[445] See sub nomine, Thomas Stephens.

[446] Anthony Wood notes here,'false'; i.e. having inquired at Pembroke (in 1674), he found no trace of this tradition.

[447] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121.

[448] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 12.

[449] The horoscope is left blank.

[450] Dupl. with 'Negotiative.'

[451] Subst. for 'understands.'

[452] Subst. for 'spare body.'

[453] Subst. for 'a very black eie.'

[454] Dupl. with 'From his youth he.'

[455] Dupl. with 'fowle.'

[456] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 12^v.

[457] Aubrey, on fol. 12^v, gives the full list of 32 titles copied (with some slight changes of spelling, etc.) from Bovey's own list, given infra.

[458] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 13^v, Bovey's autograph.

[459] No. 18 is no. 19 in Aubrey's copy; no. 19 is no. 18 in Aubrey's copy.

[460] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 12^v.

[461] 'From a child' followed: scored out.

[462] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 11^v.

[463] i.e. Aubrey remembered seeing the sermon in a shop there. He went and found it, and has excerpts infra, p. 116.

[464] MS. Aubr. 8 fol. 12.

[465] MS. Ballard 14, fol. 127, a letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood of date Feb. 21, 1679/80.

[466] MS. Aubr. 7. fol. 10.

[467] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 10^v.

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

[469] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 11^v.

[470] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12^v.

[471] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6^v.

[472] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 16^v.

[473] Subst. for 'cared not for.'

[474] Probably Robert Hooke.

[475] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5.

[476] 1679/80, in this case.

[477] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 33.

[478] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 33^v.

[479] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 47^v.

[480] Subst. for 'that the beginnings of the Thames and Avon.'

[481] Dupl. with 'and sappable.'

[482] Dupl. with 'the Bylanders.'

[483] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 49.

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

[485] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 79.

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

[487] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 48.

[488] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 38^v.

[489] MS. Aubr. 7, a slip at fol. 8^v.

[490] Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 237.

[491] William Oughtred.

[492] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 101^v.

[493] Given by Aubrey in colours in a lozenge.

[494] Venetia Stanley.

[495] Dupl. with 'had.'

[496] Aubrey notes in the margin:—'Barbara C.C. <i.e. countess of Castlemaine> had such a one: nay sempstresse helped to worke it.'

[497] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 18.

[498] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 26.

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

[500] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 29, a note appended to 'the scheme of the nativity of Democritus junior on his monument at Christ Church in Oxon: he writt the Melancholy.'

[501] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 97^v.

[502] The words in square brackets are the answer to the inquiry, added later.

[503] Dupl. with 'Wales.'

[504] The reference is to MS. Aubr. 8, (Lives, part iii.): see infra, p. 134.

[505] Dupl. with 'I could have contentedly begged, like a poor man.'

[506] Dupl. with 'make.'

[507] Dupl. with 'the turret.'

[508] Subst. for 'painted with.'

[509] Subst. for 'stretched.'

[510] Bacon.

[511] Added later.

[512] i.e. sew in.

[513] Jack Sydenham, supra, p. 132.

[514] Dupl. with 'did sett.'

[515] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 98.

[516] Subst. for 'whether he lived to see the king's restauration I cannot now perfectly remember; but he did, or neer it: and (I thinke) dyed in London. Quaere Mr. Watts the taylor.'

[517] Dupl. with 'his pretty house at the.'

[518] Subst. for 'rock.'

[519] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12^v.