[520] The MS. with this symbol I have not identified. Anthony Wood also quotes a MS. with this symbol.

[521] MS. Aubr. 8, slips at fol. 13.

[522] Sic in MS.: either a slip of the stone-cutter for T. B., or a heartless recalling of his nick-name (supra, p. 130).

[523] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 114^v.

[524] Subst. for 'was borne at Powyk, neer Worcester (where he went to schoole).'

[525] Subst. for 'when he was a boy.'

[526] Subst. for 'which tooke, nothing so much!'

[527] Subst. for 'desire.' Persons of position were usually buried in church.

[528] The words in square brackets are struck out, apparently only because Aubrey thought they went too much into detail.

[529] Subst. for 'beare.'

[530] The inscription on the coffin.

[531] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5^v.

[532] Anthony Wood, in obedience to this injunction, inserted the leaf which is now fol. 115 of MS. Aubr. 6.

[533] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 115.

[534] Subst. for 'the charges of their health.'

[535] Read, perhaps, 'on,' 'her.'

[536] See Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 186, note 2.

[537] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 114^v.

[538] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7.

[539] Inserted by Anthony Wood.

[540] Inserted by Wood, who wrote 'Henry' and then changed it to 'Robert.'

[541] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 26^v.

[542] Anthony Wood inserts the Christian name 'William.'

[543] Subst. for 'Upon the first of King James.'

[544] Dupl. with 'this physitian.'

[545] 'Husband's' subst. for 'hers.'

[546] No doubt Edmund Waller, supra; and Thomas Gale, infra.

[547] Dupl. with 'a man of great moodes.'

[548] infra, p. 142.

[549] Subst. for 'habit.'

[550] Subst. for 'plate.'

[551] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 22.

[552] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 24.

[553] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 23. The inscription is Henry More's autograph.

[554] Anthony Wood queries 'Where is this monument?' having forgotten MS. Aubr. 6: supra, p. 140.

[555] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 26^v.

[556] Dupl. with 'fashion.'

[557] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25.

[558] For the answer to this query, see infra.

[559] Dupl. with 'said.'

[560] Dupl. with 'then.'

[561] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 22.

[562] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 138: Sept. 2, 1671.

[563] Ibid., fol. 141^v: Oct. 27, 1671.

[564] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 119. Aubrey gives in trick the coat:—'or, a fess engrailed between 6 cross crosslets fitchée sable.'

[565] Subst. for 'was short-<sighted>.'

[566] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 119^v.

[567] MS. Aubr. 6, a slip pasted on to fol. 119.

[568] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 119^v.

[569] 'Non' is added by Anthony Wood in red ink, in answer to this inquiry.

[570] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 119.

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

[572] See Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 268.

[573] MS. Ballard 14, fol. 133; a letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood, dated July 15, 1681.

[574] Isaac Lyte.

[575] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 105.

[576] Subst. for 'built.'

[577] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 4^v.

[578] 'At Northway': so his baptismal certificate in MS. Wood F. 49, fol. 25.

[579] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 138^v: Sept. 2, 1671.

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

[581] Aubrey, at this date, was in hiding at Broad Chalk.

[582] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 93.

[583] Dupl. with 'mayds.'

[584] Dupl. with 'bargaine.'

[585] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 93^v.

[586] Anthony Wood notes in the margin 'Jo<hn> Triplett.'

[587] Charles Gataker was author of several pamphlets.

[588] Subst. for 'Wayneman.'

[589] 'excellent' written over 'witts,' as an alternative.

[590] Dupl. with 'victory by the Devizes.'

[591] Subst. for 'Some now that.'

[592] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 94.

[593] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 29.

[594] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 29: Aubrey repeats the coat given supra.

[595] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 29^v.

[596] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 39.

[597] Anthony Wood notes 'col. Charles Cavendish.'

[598] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 39^v.

[599] 'Abner' in MS. by a slip.

[600] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 59^v.

[601] Sir William Montagu, Chief Baron of the Exchequer 1676-1686.

[602] John Cecil, succeeded as fourth earl in 1643.

[603] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60.

[604] Dupl. with 'degree.'

[605] Subst. for 'keepe.'

[606] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 19.

[607] The words in square brackets are added by Anthony Wood. Chaloner matriculated at Exeter College, June 7, 1611.

[608] i.e. 'tutor,' in the sense of instructor (not, of comptroller of the household).

[609] Dupl. with 'false,' i.e. falsehood.

[610] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 19^v.

[611] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 61. Aubrey has been unable to make out the whole inscription.

[612] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 53^v, and a slip at fol. 100^v.

[613] 'His father was minister there': Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 144.

[614] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 54.

[615] Wednesday.

[616] i.e. the horoscope which Aubrey has there.

[617] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 77.

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

[619] Anthony Wood noted here 'rather 1680; if you meane Stephen Charnock, the divine': but saw his error and erased the note.

[620] i.e. as fol. 56-58 of MS. Aubr. 8.

[621] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 58^v; the heading is by Aubrey; the letter is the original.

[622] Earth.

[623] Salt.

[624] Rabbet = 'a groove cut along the edge of a board ... to receive a corresponding projection cut on the edge of another board, required to fit it.'—Century Dictionary.

[625] Address, on MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 53. Postage is marked as '6d.'

[626] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 57. The letter is the original.

[627] Line frayed off.

[628] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 56^v.

[629] Elias Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, 1652.

[630] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 56.

[631] i.e. of the roll mentioned, supra, p. 164.

[632] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 56^v.

[633] 'Perfet' is scored through.

[634] A note added in the text by Paschall.

[635] A description by Paschall of a drawing on the roll, after the above verses.

[636] The symbols for sun and moon = gold and silver.

[637] Half a line which Paschall could not read.

[638] Printed in Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum.

[639] Printed ibid.

[640] Printed ibid.

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

[642] Sir Thomas Richardson, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 1631.

[643] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 200: April 7, 1673.

[644] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 121^v.

[645] i.e. Arch Bishop of Canterbury.

[646] 1642, in MS.

[647] Dupl. with 'terrible.'

[648] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121^v.

[649] MS. Aubr. 6. fol. 6^v.

[650] MS. has 'did had,' i.e., Aubrey at first thought of writing 'did have.'

[651] Perhaps John Nayler, fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.

[652] Aubrey, in MS. Rawl. D. 727, fol. 96^v.

[653] Subst. for 'a great many.'

[654] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 28.

[655] The number was doubtful, see supra, p. 175.

[656] 'Thomas,' is in error for Edward.

[657] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 208: May 17, 1673.

[658] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 28.

[659] 'Or sonne' is scored out.

[660] Dupl. with 'which belonged to him.'

[661] Nov. 15, 1616.

[662] Three lines of the text are suppressed here.

[663] Sept. 3, 1633.

[664] Subst. for 'will play.'

[665] Henry Cuff: Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 424.

[666] Ovid, Metam. iii. 230.

[667] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 27^v.

[668] Subst. for 'envyed.'

[669] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 5. Aubrey gives in trick the coat '..., a serpent in pale vert.'

[670] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60^v.

[671] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 131: June 14, 1671.

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

[673] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 28.

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

[675] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25.

[676] See Clark's Wood's Life and Times, iii. 24.

[677] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 316: April 9, 1679.

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

[679] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.

[680] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 91^v.

[681] Subst. for 'about.'

[682] MS. Aubr. 8, a slip at fol. 4.

[683] Josias Pullen, Vice-Principal of Magdalen Hall.

[684] Anthony Wood notes:—'afterwards of Winton.'

[685] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 69.

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

[687] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 106.

[688] Subst. for 'farther.'

[689] i.e. MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15^v, ut supra. He was never Canon of Ch. Ch.

[690] Dupl. with 'ruffe.'

[691] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 106^v.

[692] Subst. for 'company.'

[693] Subst. for 'pressing upon the.'

[694] The words in square brackets are substituted for 'with this inscription ... (vide).'

[695] i.e. MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15^v, ut infra.

[696] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 106.