[1046] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 50.

[1047] Aubrey gives in colours the coat: 'sable, a fret and a canton argent'; also Halley's horoscope.

[1048] Halley did not graduate in the ordinary course, but was made M.A. by diploma in 1678.

[1049] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 10.

[1050] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 49, fol. 39^v.

[1051] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 16^v. Hamey was M.D., Leyden; incorporated at Oxford, Feb. 4, 1629/30.

[1052] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5^v.

[1053] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 10^v.

[1054] In June, 1679: Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 453.

[1055] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 68^v.

[1056] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 35.

[1057] 'Country,' with Aubrey, = county.

[1058] Added as a suggestion that Hariot's family may be looked for in those counties.

[1059] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12.

[1060] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 91.

[1061] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12.

[1062] Aubrey writes in the margin the reference 'vide pag. 40,' i.e. fol. 9^v, ut infra.

[1063] Subst. for 'Steward.'

[1064] See Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 24, 25, 33, 53.

[1065] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 35.

[1066] Perhaps because the letters ended in tridents; see Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 498, and the facsimile.

[1067] Anthony Wood writes 'R. Hues' in the margin.

[1068] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 91.

[1069] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 138: Sept. 2, 1671.

[1070] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 141: Oct. 27, 1671.

[1071] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 72.

[1072] See supra, p. 157.

[1073] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 11.

[1074] i.e. Friday, Jan. 3, 1611/2. The date is noted also in MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 103.

[1075] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 98.

[1076] Written in pencil only, being a later insertion.

[1077] Jane, daughter of Sir William Samwell of Upton, co. Northts.

[1078] Written in pencil only, being a later addition.

[1079] Scil. of the Rota club, described infra.

[1080] i.e. at the meetings at Miles's.

[1081] Subst. for 'night.'

[1082] Dupl. with 'Mr.'

[1083] These two names are struck out, as is Mariet infra.

[1084] Struck out.

[1085] Subst. for 'Also, as.'

[1086] i.e. as listeners only. Those above were of Harrington's 'party.' The 'antagonists,' who wished to break up the meetings, follow.

[1087] Dupl. with 'lord.'

[1088] Dupl. with 'opponents.'

[1089] 'Officers' dupl. with 'soldiers.' These, like Aubrey, were 'auditors' only.

[1090] Subst. for 'came in drunke.'

[1091] Dupl. with 'Howse.'

[1092] Harrington.

[1093] MS. Aubr. 6, a slip at fol. 98^v.

[1094] Subst. for 'sent.'

[1095] Dupl. with 'grew conceited that.'

[1096] Subst. for 'a versatile timber house built.'

[1097] i.e. window frames; French 'châsse.'

[1098] i.e. the coat given in note 1 from MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 29^v.

[1099] Subst. for 'though neer <i.e. near> a.'

[1100] Verso of the slip at fol. 98^v of MS. Aubr. 6.

[1101] i.e. John Aubrey.

[1102] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 3.

[1103] The passage in square brackets is Harrington's autograph.

[1104] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 308: June 6, 1678.

[1105] A slip pasted to a slip inserted at fol. 98^v of MS. Aubr. 6, a direction to Anthony Wood.

[1106] supra, p. 290.

[1107] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121^v.

[1108] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 64.

[1109] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 108^v.

[1110] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 64.

[1111] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 66^v.

[1112] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18.

[1113] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 64.

[1114] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 64^v.

[1115] Dupl. with 'a kind of Convocation-house.'

[1116] Subst. for 'the king.'

[1117] Anthony Wood writes 'Adrian Scrope' in the margin, to mark this place for use in his Athenae.

[1118] Rectius June: Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 128.

[1119] Subst. for 'great.'

[1120] Subst. for 'St. Dunstan's church in the....'

[1121] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 65.

[1122] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 65^v.

[1123] The records of the Steward's court of the University of Oxford show several cases of homicide, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the hasty drawing of daggers worn as part of the ordinary dress. See also supra, p. 150.

[1124] Dupl. with 'complexion like wainscott.'

[1125] Dupl with 'our.'

[1126] Dupl. with 'see.'

[1127] Subst. for 'to know him.'

[1128] Subst. for 'would.'

[1129] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 66.

[1130] Subst. for 'William.'

[1131] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 66^v.

[1132] Dupl with 'this towne.'

[1133] i.e. prescriptions.

[1134] i.e. Shaftesbury; Lord High Chancellor, 1672.

[1135] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 12.

[1136] Dupl. with 'despicable.'

[1137] i.e. of those who have married for policy.

[1138] i.e. in inducing gentlemen to marry into noble families in order to impale a distinguished coat.

[1139] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 15. The sowgelder, in Aubrey's comedy, is dissuading Sir John Fitz-ale from marrying a widow.

[1140] Dupl. with 'proud.'

[1141] Dupl. with 'retarders.'

[1142] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 9.

[1143] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 15^v.

[1144] Subst. for 'transmographie.'

[1145] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 21.

[1146] MS. Aubr. 6, a jotting on a slip at fol. 86, explained by the next paragraph, which is found on the back of the slip.

[1147] 'Mr. Elize Hele': see the details of the endowment in Lysons' Britannia (Devonshire), pp. 405, 609.

[1148] John Maynard (1602-1690): Serjeant at Law 1654.

[1149] 'did ordered' in MS., by a slip for 'did order it.'

[1150] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 96^v.

[1151] i.e. took to his bed. The astrologer then took his 'decumbiture,' i.e. position of the stars at the time of his being laid up.

[1152] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 28.

[1153] i.e., I suppose, in Aubrey's pocket Almanac for 1672: see pp. 39, 51.

[1154] 'lib. B' is a lost volume of Aubrey's own antiquarian notes.

[1155] See, for the explanation of this jotting, in George Herbert's life, infra, p. 310.

[1156] The blank is perhaps for 'wife of Sir John Danvers.'

[1157] MS. Aubr. 8, a slip at fol. 95.

[1158] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 95.

[1159] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 95^v.

[1160] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 96.

[1161] Subst. for 'the parsonage of Bemmarton.'

[1162] i.e. step-mother.

[1163] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5^v.

[1164] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 18.

[1165] Some portions of the text, three lines in all, are suppressed here.

[1166] Subst. for 'elaborator.'

[1167] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 81^v.

[1168] Subst. for 'but he.'

[1169] Anthony Wood corrects this to 'Juliana,' i.e. Berners.

[1170] Some expressions in the text, two lines in all, are suppressed here.

[1171] MS. Aubr. 6, a slip at fol. 81.

[1172] Subst. for 'kill'st.'

[1173] Dupl. with 'his.'

[1174] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 95.

[1175] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 95^v.

[1176] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 80.

[1177] 'one time' followed, scored out.

[1178] Dupl. with 'runne.'

[1179] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 80^v.

[1180] Dupl. with 'face.'

[1181] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 81.

[1182] MS. Aubr. 6, a note on fol. 80^v.

[1183] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 106^v.

[1184] 23 March.

[1185] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 55^v.

[1186] MS. Aubr. 6, a slip at fol. 81.

[1187] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 4^v.

[1188] i.e. Ashmole.

[1189] Anthony Wood notes here:—'Sir William Backhouse, quaere.'

[1190] i.e. among N. Culpepper's papers.

[1191] i.e. cited in the MS. he was exploiting.

[1192] Aubrey in Wood MS. F. 39, fol. 160^v: 16 Jan. 1671/2.

[1193] Inserted by Anthony Wood.

[1194] Wrongly changed by Wood to 1663.

[1195] Ibid., fol. 156: 30 Dec. 1671.

[1196] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 38^v.

[1197] The words follow, scored out, 'but no writer that ever I heard of, or if he was,' [his writings].

[1198] Subst. for 'or remembered him.'

[1199] The statement in square brackets is scored out, and the comment added 'negat.' Aubrey had enquired of Philips.

[1200] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 389: 15 July 1689.

[1201] Wood notes 'false.'

[1202] Ibid., fol. 389^v.

[1203] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 389.

[1204] Ibid., fol. 354: 21 June 1681.

[1205] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 30.

[1206] This title is subst. for 'Supplementum vitae Thomae Hobbes, Malmsburiensis': see p. 17.

[1207] There are two other drafts of the opening sentence:—'The ancients, when they writt the lives'; 'It was usuall with the writers of the lives of the ancient philosophers, in the'.

[1208] Dupl. with 'stock.'

[1209] Dupl. with 'rich' or 'illustrious.'

[1210] Dupl. with 'derived.'

[1211] Dupl. with 'though of no illustrious family.'

[1212] Dupl. with 'extraction.'

[1213] Dupl. with 'great parts.'

[1214] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29^v.

[1215] i.e. for the etymology; infra, p. 324.

[1216] Aubrey's MS. is only a rough draft for Anthony Wood's perusal. Hence these queries.

[1217] For the pedigree supplied by William Aubrey, see infra, p. 388.

[1218] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 30.