[874] i.e. from which Aubrey excerpted the genealogy above: probably a MS. in the Heralds' Office.

[875] The family of Digges.

[876] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 72^v.

[877] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 51^v.

[878] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 75.

[879] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 75^v.

[880] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 74. This folio is a slip on which Aubrey has written a long note about the book he mentioned on fol. 75 as 'Ala seu scala mathematices, 4to, printed at London.'

[881] MS. Aubr. 8, fol 74^v.

[882] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 75.

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

[884] 'The countess of Dorset, that was governes to prince Charles, now our King, was at the cost of erecting his monument': Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 208: May 17, 1673.

[885] i.e. at the side of the inscription this is carved; Aubrey gives a rough sketch of the figures, a sun in his glory charged with a mercury's cap, on a wreath; a shield gouttée, with a Pegasus.

[886] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 102^v.

[887] Erasmus was in England 1497 and 1510. The Dryden pedigree is:—

[888] Given in trick by Aubrey.

[889] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 108^v.

[890] i.e. his life. The page has been left blank for the fulfilment of this promise: cf. Milton, infra.

[891] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121: out of Dr. Richard Napier's papers.

[892] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 87.

[893] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121: out of Dr. Richard Napier's papers.

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

[895] MS. Aubr. 21, p. 19.

[896] MS. Aubr. 21, p. 2.

[897] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 31^v.

[898] Dupl. with 'his athanor roome.'

[899] Dupl. with 'is famous in picture and poetrie.'

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

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

[902] At Salisbury.

[903] Gondomar, ambassador of Spain to James I, 1617-23.

[904] Subst. for 'seates.'

[905] i.e. 'Cantuar. archiepiscopus,' Aubrey using his contraction for arch-bishop (A. B.) instead of the Latin.

[906] Sic, in Aubrey's MS., but in error: perhaps 1210 was intended.

[907] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 83^v.

[908] Here followed, scored out as being in error, 'he was created earle of Bridgwater.'

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

[910] A quotation jotted down as applicable to the Shrewsbury story, supra.

[911] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 29.

[912] Eldest son of Sir George: see in the life of Thomas Triplett.

[913] Petron. Satir. cap. 34 (Bücheler).

[914] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 5^v.

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

[916] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 5^v.

[917] Subst. for 'would not adventure him at the boarding schoole.'

[918] i.e. Andrew Paschal (B.D. 1661) had lived in the rooms formerly occupied by Erasmus.

[919] Dupl. with 'find out.'

[920] In his horoscope.

[921] i.e. fixed the course of study.

[922] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 6.

[923] Dupl. with 'easie.'

[924] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 37^v.

[925] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 94.

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

[927] Wood 514, no. 19*, is a pass granted at the time of the siege, with Sir Thomas Fairfax's signature and seal.

[928] Edmund Wyld (?).

[929] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 136: Aug. 9, 1671.

[930] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 369: Aug. 15, 1682.

[931] In error for 'George.'

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

[933] 'Fisk, M.D., or so called': Aubrey's note in MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5.

[934] 'An astrological discourse' by N. F., 1650, 12mo, is in the Brit. Mus. Libr.

[935] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 135^v: Aug. 9, 1671.

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

[937] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 58.

[938] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 16.

[939] In error for 'William.'

[940] Dupl. with 'a great.'

[941] Aubrey hesitated about his correct title, noting between the lines, 'his Worship; quaere, if Honour.'

[942] i.e. Wycombe.

[943] A line of text is suppressed here.

[944] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 45^v.

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

[946] 'And was buryed August 29th, 1625': Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 253: Jan. 31, 1673/4.

[947] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 133: June 10, 1671. Ibid., fol. 131, Aubrey says the information was from Florio's grandson, 'Mr. Molins.'

[948] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60^v. Aubrey gives in trick the coat:—'azure, a chevron wavy between 3 griffins segreant or.'

[949] An erased note, ibid., says: 'He proposed to a parliament, tempore regis Jacobi, a way of bringing water to London from Richmondsworth, and printed a little booke of it, which Mr. Edmund Wyld has, and is exceeding scarce: see it, and take the title.'

[950] This sentence is scored out.

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

[952] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 135^v: Aug. 9, 1671.

[953] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 192^v: Jan. 18, 1672/3.

[954] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 14^v.

[955] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 17.

[956] To the monument of John Speed in the chancel of St. Giles Cripplegate.

[957] 'Printed also in Stowe's Survey': Anthony Wood's note.

[958] Aubrey in Wood MS. F. 39, fol. 171: May 10, 1672.

[959] Supra, p. 31.

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

[961] Dupl. with 'strong made.'

[962] MS. Aubr. 23. fol. 121.

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

[964] MS. Ballard 14, fol. 129: a letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood, of date March 19, 1680/1.

[965] Dupl. with 'killed.'

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

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

[968] Subst. for 'mathematicall.'

[969] Dupl. with 'telling.'

[970] By William Prynne.

[971] MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 128, a letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood, of date Nov. 17, 1670.

[972] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 74^v.

[973] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 79^v.

[974] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 51^v.

[975] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 52.

[976] Dupl. with 'loud.'

[977] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 52^v.

[978] Dupl. with 'sirnam'd.'

[979] Dialogue-wise between Alexander Gill, father, and Alexander Gill, son.

[980] Interlinear note:—'The usher.'

[981] Interlinear note:—'Rowland.'

[982] Marginal note:—'When he was clark of Wadham College and being by his place to begin a Psalme, he flung out of church, bidding the people sing to the praise and glory of God quicunque vult.'

[983] Marginal note:—'he was tossed in a blanket.'

[984] MS. has 'ventest.'

[985] Marginal note:—'A knave's tongue and a whore's tayle who can rule?'

[986] Marginal note:—'He did sitt 4 times for his degree.'

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

[988] i.e. Aubrey remembered having seen the sermon in a bookseller's shop; cf. supra, p. 115. The sermon was by Joseph Pleydell.

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

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

[991] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 98.

[992] Aubrey in MS. Tanner 25, fol. 50, says 'Day-Fatality was writt by Mr. ... Gibbons, Blewmantle, but I have added severall notes to it.'

[993] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 21^v.

[994] MS. has 'praelectoris,' by a slip.

[995] Subst. for 'stills.'

[996] Dupl. with 'untimely.'

[997] Subst. for 'of a niece of his who maried a tradesman.'

[998] Subst. for 'impose.'

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

[1000] Note added by Anthony Wood.

[1001] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15^v.

[1002] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 51: also in MS. Aubr. 8, a slip at fol. 102.

[1003] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 16^v.

[1004] Eldest son of the translator.

[1005] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 53^v.

[1006] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 97. Aubrey gives in trick the coat:—'ermine, on a chevron gules 5 besants.'

[1007] 1591/2.

[1008] Subst. for 'degrees.'

[1009] i.e. became bankrupt.

[1010] Died April 18, buried April 22, 1674.

[1011] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 270: May 26, 1674.

[1012] Ibid., fol. 270^v.

[1013] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.

[1014] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7.

[1015] Subst. for 'the judge.'

[1016] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 28.

[1017] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.

[1018] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 4^v.

[1019] Supra, p. 205.

[1020] Aubrey notes of this book 'I have it.'

[1021] Dupl. with 'seat.'

[1022] Dupl. with 'that in libelling characters of the Lords then, his was.'

[1023] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 14^v.

[1024] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 78^v.

[1025] Dupl. with 'there.'

[1026] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.

[1027] MS. Aubr. 21, p. 11; and repeated almost verbatim, ibid. fol. 24^v. Aubrey's character Sir Fastidious Overween in his projected comedy The Country Revel was to be copied from this Gwyn.

[1028] In his projected comedy.

[1029] 'Coxcome' on fol. 24^v.

[1030] Aubrey de Vere, succeeded as 20th earl in 1632, died 1702, the last of that house.

[1031] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 7.

[1032] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 3.

[1033] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 20^v.

[1034] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 144: Oct. 27, 1671.

[1035] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 119^v.

[1036] Space left for his degree: M.A. (Merton, 20 June, 1609).

[1037] Substituted for:—

[1038] Scil. of Oxford University by the Parliamentary Commission.

[1039] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 368: 'St. Anne's day,' July 26, 1682.

[1040] Dupl. with 'in setting them up to.'

[1041] Dupl. with 'fell on their knees.'

[1042] Dupl. with 'a mistake.'

[1043] Inserted by Anthony Wood.

[1044] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60.

[1045] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 28^v.