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

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

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

[700] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6^v.

[701] Subst. for 'I left Oxford': see supra, p. 37.

[702] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 113^v.

[703] Subst. for 'to buy it.'

[704] i.e. Tom.

[705] MS. Aubr. 6, a slip at fol. 113^v.

[706] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 36.

[707] Jane Smyth, see sub nomine.

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

[709] MS. Aubr. 21, p. 11.

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

[711] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25^v.

[712] i.e. 1600/1.

[713] Dupl. with 'shew the like two brothers,' scil. as Sir Charles Danvers and his brother Henry, earl of Danby.

[714] Edward Vere, seventeenth earl of Oxford.

[715] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 26^v.

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

[717] Aubrey, in the margin, notes 'Anne Bulleyn.'

[718] For the murder of Henry Long.

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

[720] Dupl. with 'dyed.'

[721] This symbol I cannot explain.

[722] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25^v.

[723] Dupl. with 'discreet.'

[724] George Legge, created (1682) lord Dartmouth.

[725] MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 46.

[726] MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 44^v.

[727] Over the almshouse: ibid. fol. 45.

[728] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25^v.

[729] Grandson.

[730] Their flight, after the murder of Henry Long.

[731] MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 46.

[732] George Herbert. This note follows Herbert's verses on the gravestone of Henry Danvers.

[733] i.e. in his son, Henry, earl of Danby.

[734] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18^v.

[735] His elder brother.

[736] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25^v.

[737] i.e. at the time of his father's death, supra, p. 195.

[738] i.e. the arrangement of these gardens proved his good taste.

[739] Dupl. with 'to collogue with the P.'

[740] Sir Robert Danvers, justice of the Common Pleas, 1450; Sir Thomas Littelton (the jurist), justice of the Common Pleas, 1466.

[741] This is the 'Elizabeth, viscountess Purbeck,' who so frequently appears in these biographies as an informant of Aubrey.

[742] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 97.

[743] Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Danvers, ut supra.

[744] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 97^v.

[745] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1^v.

[746] The winter of 1678-79 was a severe one: Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 426, 432, 439.

[747] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 45.

[748] Omitted here, because given, infra, p. 199, from fol. 43.

[749] MS. Aubr. 26, p. 16.

[750] Whiddy Island, in Bantry Bay.

[751] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 43.

[752] Subst. for 'an incomparable.'

[753] There followed '(except the gout),' scored out.

[754] 'Luctu' in the copy on fol. 43; 'dolore,' in the copy on fol. 45.

[755] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 43^v.

[756] Dupl. with 'where he profited very well.'

[757] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 44.

[758] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8^v.

[759] MS. Aubr. 10, fol. 31.

[760] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 44^v.

[761] John Pearson, bishop of Chester 1672-86.

[762] Of which he had been President.

[763] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 46.

[764] The words here put in square brackets are a later insertion: the first clause is scored out.

[765] Aubrey adds 'vide p. 79 (Suckling)'; i.e. fol. 110 of this MS. Aubr. 6, in the life of Sir John Suckling infra.

[766] Subst. for 'Robert was vicar of West Kington, chaplain to bishop Davenant.'

[767] The words in square brackets are scored out.

[768] Dupl. with 'was.'

[769] 'Contentended' in MS.

[770] The words in square brackets are scored out.

[771] Dupl. with 'whereby she was called a whore': also scored out.

[772] Dupl. with 'empaled.'

[773] Anthony Wood notes in the margin 'Grevill, lord Brookes.'

[774] Wood notes in the margin, 'Sir Fulk Grevill, poet.'

[775] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 46^v.

[776] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 47.

[777] Subst. for 'and went with them.'

[778] Subst. for 'then almost forgot.'

[779] Subst. for 'the best coffin they sayd that.'

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

[781] Subst. for 'spirit.'

[782] Letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood, of date May 19, 1668; MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 118.

[783] Wood queries:—'in S. Bennet chapel, quaere.'

[784] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 9^v: a memo. intended for Anthony Wood.

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

[786] Davenport was pastor at Newhaven in New England.

[787] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 18^v.

[788] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 37: also verbatim from the Ephemerides Stadii, in MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 77.

[789] In a letter from Elias Ashmole to Anthony Wood: MS. Ballard 14, fol. 13.

[790] In a letter from Dr. John Conant to Anthony Wood, 1683: MS. Wood F. 49, fol. 101.

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

[792] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 78.

[793] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 77^v.

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

[795] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 37.

[796] See supra, pp. 61-65.

[797] Sir William Boswell.

[798] Anthony Wood notes, 'false.'

[799] See Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 158.

[800] Dupl. with 'sanguine.'

[801] '1672' is added in pencil.

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

[803] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 96.

[804] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 7.

[805] i.e. Thursday.

[806] For purposes of testing the astrological scheme.

[807] Philip Herbert, fifth earl, succeeded 1655, died 1669.

[808] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 7^v.

[809] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7^v.

[810] Subst. for 'proofe.'

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

[812] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 84.

[813] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 105.

[814] Judge of the King's Bench, 1660.

[815] Dupl. with 'when noboby suspected it.'

[816] Subst. for 'Paschalius.'

[817] Subst. for 'most guilty of it.'

[818] i.e. 1638/9.

[819] 'William, lord,' subst. for 'the lord.'

[820] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 105^v.

[821] John Denham, fellow-commoner of Wadham, in July 1654.

[822] Subst. for 'and then would not.'

[823] Elizabeth Mallet, wife of John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester.

[824] Richard Escott matr. at Exeter, July 3, 1612; afterwards of Lincoln's Inn.

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

[826] Dupl. with 'loines.'

[827] Sir Henry Savile.

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

[829] Dupl. with 'opinion,' or 'conscience.'

[830] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 31.

[831] i.e. 1600/1.

[832] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1^v.

[833] In 1596.

[834] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 10.

[835] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 178: July 6, 1672.

[836] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 99.

[837] This title is substituted in the margin. The text had 'de fallaciis,' scored out, and 'vide margent' written over.

[838] i.e. if Anthony Wood wants to know which of the suggestions is correct, Aubrey can find out.

[839] i.e. although in Glocester Hall, he did not matriculate in the University. This was by no means infrequent all through the seventeenth century, and was especially common with students of Roman Catholic families.

[840] Subst. for 'they remain.'

[841] i.e. to Philip Herbert, fifth earl of Pembroke, obiit 1669; father of William, sixth earl, obiit 1674, and Philip, seventh earl, obiit 1683. MS. Aubr. 6 was written in 1680.

[842] Subst. for 'loved.'

[843] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 99^v.

[844] Dupl. with 'excellency.'

[845] Subst. for 'more.'

[846] Dupl. with 'play.'

[847] Subst. for 'dedication.'

[848] A pen-slip for 'contested': see supra.

[849] Dupl. with 'people.'

[850] Dupl. with 'he was here two.'

[851] Subst. for 'studyed chymistry': 'made artificiall stones' is written over as an alternative.

[852] Subst. for 'de Corpore.'

[853] July 1648.

[854] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 100.

[855] '2' is written over the '1,' perhaps as a correction.

[856] Afterwards Aubrey added 'I have seen.'

[857] Subst. for 'a lawyer.'

[858] i.e. vellum.

[859] Subst. for 'much.'

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

[861] Grandson; his father Robert, second earl, died in 1609, a year after his father, Thomas Sackville, first earl.

[862] John Danvers, p. 196, supra.

[863] Subst. for 'had some children.'

[864] Dupl. with 'good.'

[865] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 101.

[866] Subst. for 'braine.'

[867] Aubrey gives (MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 101) a drawing of this monument here given in facsimile.

[868] '... Fryars' is written over 'Christ Church,' as an alternative.

[869] Dupl. with 'degrees.'

[870] 'Or Bedfordshire' followed, scored out.

[871] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 73.

[872] This entry is scored out.

[873] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 73^v.