The Project Gutenberg eBook of Aubrey's 'Brief Lives' (Vol. 1), by Andrew Clark.

[1219] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29^v.

[1220] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7^v.

[1221] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29^v.

[1222] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 30.

[1223] Dupl. with 'vicar.' Anthony Wood wrote in the margin 'vicar of Malmsbury,' but scored it out, as in error.

[1224] Wood wished to add 'or Sir Rogers.'

[1225] Dupl. with 'did.'

[1226] Dupl. with 'valued not.'

[1227] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29^v.

[1228] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 30.

[1229] i.e. Thomas, the father.

[1230] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 31.

[1231] Dupl. with 'pasture.' In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 28, Aubrey calls it 'a good moweing ground, called Gaston, not far from the house he <T. H.> was borne in.'

[1232] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 30^v.

[1233] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 31.

[1234] Dupl. with 'with,' i.e. with his uncle, as well as to his trade.

[1235] Dupl. with 'about.'

[1236] Dupl. with 'face.'

[1237] In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 28, Aubrey says, 'He <T.H.> had an elder brother, named Edmund Hobbes, more then once alderman of Malmesbury': but this is probably an error, from confusing him with the uncle.

[1238] Dupl. with 'parts.'

[1239] i.e. William Aubrey.

[1240] Dupl. with 'boy'

[1241] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 32.

[1242] Dupl. with 'pourtraying.'

[1243] Other drawings of Malmsbury by Aubrey are in MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 35 and 39.

[1244] On this Anthony Wood comments:—'I think 'tis fit it should be drawne and represented, for the abbey sake. 'Tis cheap to have cut in box.'

[1245] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 32.

[1246] scil. of the 'neck of land.'

[1247] Dupl. with 'melted.'

[1248] Dupl. with 'adorned.'

[1249] Dupl. with 'and.'

[1250] Anthony Wood notes here 'as it was concerning Homer.'

[1251] Dupl. with 'as I say.'

[1252] Dupl. with 'enjoyed.'

[1253] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 33.

[1254] Dupl. with 'with.'

[1255] See infra, p. 388.

[1256] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 32^v.

[1257] Quoted from Hobbes' metrical life of himself.

[1258] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 33.

[1259] Dupl. with 'proves.'

[1260] Aubrey notes opposite this sentence:—'This is good.'

[1261] Dupl. with 'and then.' Subst. for 'at eight yeares of age he could.'

[1262] Written at first 'Three Tunnes (quaere William Aubrey)': and then changed when W. A. answered the query.

[1263] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 34.

[1264] Dupl. with '25 +.'

[1265] Dupl. with 'the oven' <dupl. with 'pies'> 'had devoured them.'

[1266] Dupl. with 'the boyes.'

[1267] Dupl. with 'strings.'

[1268] Dupl. with 'draw through.'

[1269] Anthony Wood corrects to 'the stationers' shops.'

[1270] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 35.

[1271] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 34^v.

[1272] This paragraph is an insertion by Anthony Wood in answer to Aubrey's query.

[1273] His name is not entered in the University matriculation-register.

[1274] Part of the formula of admission: Clark's Reg. Univ. Oxon. II. i. 48.

[1275] 1607/8; ibid. II. iii. 278.

[1276] ibid. II. i. 50.

[1277] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 35.

[1278] Subst. for 'Mr. John Wilkinson.'

[1279] Dupl. with 'did believe.'

[1280] Dupl. with 'then.'

[1281] Dupl. with 'was.'

[1282] Dupl. with 'notions.'

[1283] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 36.

[1284] The chronology is here difficult. William Cavendish, second earl of Devonshire, died 20 June, 1628; and it is he whom Hobbes regarded as his 'first' lord (see his inscription, infra, p. 386), not his father William, first earl, who died 3 March, 1625/6. Bacon died 9 Apr. 1626.

[1285] Subst. for 'time.'

[1286] In the first attempt at this paragraph Aubrey wrote, 'T. H. came into his native country. I was then a little youth and went to schoole to Mr. Robert Latimer at Leigh-de-la-mere in the church about a mile from my father's house (Easton Pierse).'

[1287] In a second attempt it stood '... at Leigh-de-la-mere. I was then a little youth newly entred into my grammar by him, and we went to schoole in the church.'

[1288] Dupl. with 'came to.'

[1289] Dupl. with 'friends.'

[1290] Dupl. with 'equipage.'

[1291] Here followed 'and moist-curled,' dupl. with 'and with moist curles'; but both struck out.

[1292] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 35^v.

[1293] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 36.

[1294] Anthony Wood writes here 'do not you mean 40?' Aubrey had written '4' by a pen-slip; afterwards he corrected it.

[1295] 'Element' used for 'proposition.'

[1296] Subst. for 'He would now and then use an emphaticall oath.'

[1297] Dupl. with 'curious witt.'

[1298] 'Began it early' is written over, in explanation.

[1299] Dupl. with 'to the witts.'

[1300] Dupl. with 'then doe well.'

[1301] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 37.

[1302] 'In his bed' followed, scored out.

[1303] Dupl. with 'as.'

[1304] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 36^v.

[1305] Dupl. with 'study.'

[1306] Dupl. with 'knowledge.'

[1307] Dupl. with 'rubiginous.'

[1308] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 37.

[1309] Subst. for 'discussed.'

[1310] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 38^v.

[1311] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 37.

[1312] Anthony Wood notes 'Roger Manneringe.'

[1313] Dupl. with 'went.'

[1314] 'Mostly' followed: scored out.

[1315] Anthony Wood notes 'Robert Sibthorpe, vicar of Brackley.'

[1316] Dupl. with 'became.'

[1317] 'At Paris' followed: scored out.

[1318] Dupl. with 'cane.'

[1319] Dupl. with 'notion.'

[1320] Dupl. with 'or els he should.'

[1321] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 38.

[1322] Subst. for 'of Euclid and Vitellio.'

[1323] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 39.

[1324] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 37^v.

[1325] i.e. fol. 50^v of the MS., where is a note by Anthony Wood, as given infra, p. 367.

[1326] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 39.

[1327] Subst. for 'which came out anno ...' Anthony Wood notes, 'Vide catalogue of <Hobbes's> books in Hist. <et Antiq. Univ.> Oxon., and vide transcript thence.'—MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 38^v.

[1328] 'his Dialogi' followed: scored out.

[1329] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 40.

[1330] 'a yeare +' followed: scored out.

[1331] Dupl. with 'an ill.'

[1332] In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 28, Aubrey says that Thomas Hobbes gave it to 'his elder brother, named Edmund Hobbes.'

[1333] Dupl. with 'in Derbyshire.'

[1334] Dupl. with 'good.'

[1335] Dupl. with 'want.'

[1336] Subst. for 'thought.'

[1337] Aubrey notes opposite this: 'better this expression.'

[1338] Dupl. with 'designe.'

[1339] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 42. On fol. 41^v Aubrey makes this apology for its coming there out of due order of time:—'Give notice how things are to be right placed, for all things comes not into my memory chronologically and this seemes almost necessary to be forced.'

[1340] Dupl. with 'way.'

[1341] Subst. for 'researching and contemplating one thing, then of another; but he had a method for it.'

[1342] Dupl. with 'proviso' or 'observation.'

[1343] Infra, p. 382.

[1344] Dupl. with 'such a poeme.'

[1345] Sir John Vaughan, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1668-1674.

[1346] Dupl. with 'great.'

[1347] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7—'quaere bishop Sarum when he was motioned to be burnt.' Ibid., fol. 7^v, 'Quaere bp. Sarum <Seth Ward> who and when (annum) the motion in parliament was to have Mr. Hobbes burnt.'

[1348] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 40.

[1349] Subst. for '1660. The winter before (of 1659) he spent his time in Derbyshire.'

[1350] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 39^v.

[1351] Dupl. with 'good newes.'

[1352] Dupl. with 'hearing.'

[1353] Dupl. with 'opportunity.'

[1354] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 41.

[1355] Aubrey writes opposite on fol. 40^v:—'embouche, such word in English?'

[1356] MS. has 'and,' by a slip for 'at.'

[1357] Dupl. with 'enterteyned.'

[1358] Dupl. with 'facetiae.'

[1359] Dupl. with 'the witts.'

[1360] Aubrey wishes to limit the readiness in reply to cases of light badinage: in serious subjects Hobbes was slow and deliberate.

[1361] Dupl. with 'good.'

[1362] Dupl. with 'a present answer.'

[1363] Dupl. with 'mathematicall.'

[1364] i.e. see further about this on fol. 45^v of the MS., the note found infra, p. 356.

[1365] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 42.

[1366] Subst. for 'he last left London, he was often in London at his lord's.'

[1367] Dupl. with 'penned': see infra, p. 351.

[1368] The two sentences in square brackets are added by Anthony Wood.

[1369] Infra, p. 346.

[1370] Subst. for 'about.'

[1371] Dupl. with 'inventive.'

[1372] Subst. for 'that 'twas a long, taedious, and difficult taske.'

[1373] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 43.

[1374] Dupl. with 'attempt.'

[1375] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 42^v.

[1376] Dupl. with 'I. A.'

[1377] Subst. for 'sayes.'

[1378] Dupl. with 'together.'

[1379] A London bookseller, who had offered to publish an authorized copy.

[1380] Subst. for 'knowledge.'

[1381] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 43.

[1382] Dupl. with 'since.'

[1383] Dupl. with 'found': and subst. for 'erect.'

[1384] Subst. for 'Upon.'

[1385] Dupl. with 'power' or 'possession.'

[1386] Dupl. with 'hoped.'

[1387] Dupl. with 'but queen Katharine.'

[1388] Dupl. with 'hating him.'

[1389] Dupl. with 'prevented.'

[1390] '1674' is struck out and 1669/1670 substituted for it—this latter being the date of Wood's altercations with Dr. Fell. 1674 was the date of publication: see infra.

[1391] Anthony Wood struck out the passage enclosed in square brackets, and sent Aubrey a more elaborate account (now fol. 48, 48^v of MS. Aubr. 9) to take its place. This is printed in Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 291, 292; and is perhaps the paper which Wood blames Aubrey for having kept, ibid. ii. 475, 476.