[1392] Aubrey added, in the margin, the correction 'A. W. sayes but ten.'

[1393] Dupl. with 'the absolute.'

[1394] Wood adds 'and after.'

[1395] Dupl. with 'his great griefe, expunged and inserted what he thought fitt.'

[1396] Corrected by Wood to '376, 377.' The mistake is made in Hobbes's printed epistle, and Aubrey copied it thence.

[1397] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 45.

[1398] Corrected by Wood to 'without the advice and quite contrary to the mind of the author.'

[1399] Corrected by Wood to 'know what he had done.'

[1400] Note on fol. 43^v of MS. Aubr. 9. 'Page 15' in Aubrey's numbering is now fol. 45 of the MS.

[1401] Wood adds 'in the beginning of 1674.'

[1402] i.e. John Aubrey.

[1403] Wood adds 'and to let him see that he would do nothing underhand against him.'

[1404] Wood adds 'that he had sent to Mr. Wood.' See Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 288.

[1405] Wood adds 'at it as a most famous libell.'

[1406] Corrected by Wood to 'and, soon after, meeting with the author.'

[1407] Wood adds 'and that he would have the printer called to account for printing such a notorious libell.'

[1408] The advance-copies of Wood's Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. were issued July 17, 1674 (Wood's Life and Times, ii. 289); the ordinary issue took place on July 27 (ibid., 290), being perhaps delayed for the insertion of the rejoinder to Hobbes; Hobbes's epistle had been circulated on July 11 (ibid., p. 288).

[1409] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46.

[1410] Aubrey inserts a copy as fol. 44 of MS. Aubr. 9.

[1411] See it in Wood's Hist. et Antiq. at the end.

[1412] Dupl. with 'scurrilous.'

[1413] Subst. for 'never replied.'

[1414] Dupl. with 'neglected.'

[1415] See infra, p. 363.

[1416] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 53^v.

[1417] Aubrey proposed bringing this in after the Catalogue of his writings: but it is better here.

[1418] See the answers to these enquiries in the letters appended to this life.

[1419] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 22^v.

[1420] As in the letter infra, p. 382.

[1421] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 53^v.

[1422] i.e. the metrical autobiography, infra, p. 363.

[1423] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7.

[1424] MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 27^v.

[1425] MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 28.

[1426] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46.

[1427] Dupl. with 'suavitas.'

[1428] Dupl. with 'recalvus.'

[1429] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 45^v.

[1430] Dupl. with 'he.'

[1431] Subst. for 'nature.'

[1432] This quotation is subst. for 'He would say that cheerfulnes of countenance was a signe of God's grace.'

[1433] Dupl. with 'depended not on.'

[1434] Dupl. with 'esteemed' or 'measured.'

[1435] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46.

[1436] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 45^v.

[1437] Dupl. with 'earnest.'

[1438] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46.

[1439] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47.

[1440] Dupl. with 'he was never out.'

[1441] i.e. fol. 54, as given here. Opposite it, on fol. 53^v, is the direction 'Let this be brought in to it's proper place: referre this to p. 17' (i.e. fol. 47).

[1442] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 54.

[1443] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47.

[1444] Subst. for 'but 'twas but little in respect of his contemplation (thinking).'

[1445] Subst. for 'he should have continued still as ignorant as other men.'

[1446] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46^v.

[1447] MS. Aubr. 9, fol 45^v.

[1448] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46^v.

[1449] As an alternative Aubrey suggests:—'As he had an harmonicall soule, so consequently he was no woman-hater (misogynist).' But he adds the criticism that this sentence is 'perhaps too affected.'

[1450] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47.

[1451] Subst. for 'that he haz been drunke in his life.'

[1452] Dupl. with 'long.'

[1453] Subst. for 'did eate.'

[1454] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 45^v.

[1455] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47.

[1456] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46^v.

[1457] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47.

[1458] Dupl. with 'buskins.'

[1459] Dupl. with 'but to cleare his pipes.'

[1460] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 50.

[1461] Subst. for 'letters he hath honoured me withall.'

[1462] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46^v.

[1463] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 50.

[1464] Dupl. with 'charity.'

[1465] Dupl. with 'begged.'

[1466] Subst. for 'sayd one that stood by.'

[1467] Dupl. with 'apprehend.'

[1468] 'by rogues' followed, scored out.

[1469] Dupl. with 'had about him.'

[1470] Louis XIV.

[1471] Anthony Wood notes, on fol. 47^v, 'he used to take the sacrament, and acknowledge a supreeme being.'

[1472] Here Aubrey intended (see infra) to cite evidence as to Hobbes's religious opinions.

[1473] Dupl. with 'give it the lye.'

[1474] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47^v.

[1475] i.e. it was to Aubrey himself that Hobbes expressed this opinion.

[1476] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 45^v.

[1477] Dupl. with 'Though he went from Malmesbury.'

[1478] Puisne Judge of the King's Bench, 1641-45 and 1660-63.

[1479] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 42^v.

[1480] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 28.

[1481] By Samuel Cowper, supra, p. 338.

[1482] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 54^v.

[1483] Dr. Philip Bliss has written a note here, '1663: see loose paper—Aubrey's inscription,' referring to MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7^v, as given below.

[1484] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7^v.

[1485] i.e. either to attach this inscription to the picture, or to hang the picture by.

[1486] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 49.

[1487] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 55.

[1488] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 42^v.

[1489] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 28. Aubrey gives the coat in trick.

[1490] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 53^v.

[1491] Dupl. with 'might.'

[1492] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29. In MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1^v, Aubrey cites the same passages from Brome and Jonson, and also:—

'J. Gadbury: "the heavens are the best heraulds."'

[1493] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 46.

[1494] Dupl. with 'goes.'

[1495] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 55.

[1496] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 50.

[1497] Anthony Wood has a note (MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47^v) about these:—'If you think that those sayings are true, pray publish them: for they being printed in one sheet, will be quickly lost.'

[1498] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 45^v.

[1499] Dupl. with 'love.'

[1500] i.e. fol. 41 of MS. Aubr. 9; supra, p. 340.

[1501] MS. Aubr. 9, a slip at fol. 3.

[1502] Dupl. with 'sport.'

[1503] i.e. elsewhere in this life.

[1504] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7.

[1505] St. Matt. vii. 1.

[1506] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47^v.

[1507] The golden calf: Exod. xxxii. 26-28.

[1508] MS. Aubr. 9, a slip pasted to fol. 5.

[1509] Dupl. with 'an old tender,' i.e. attendant.

[1510] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 54^v.

[1511] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 18^v, in the handwriting of James Wheldon.

[1512] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 54^v.

[1513] Possibly a paper by Anthony Wood containing an account of Hobbes, in preparation for the Athenae: cp. Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 480.

[1514] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 55.

[1515] Wood changes this to 'A. à:' see Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 22.

[1516] Corrected to '1674': with a marginal note:—[1769] 'I believe a mistake for 1674.' For this letter, see Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 288.

[1517] Anthony Wood notes in margin: 'This is in Wood's Catalogue': i.e. Wood, l. c., mentions the 1666 (second) edition of the piece (in Latin only).

[1518] Marginal query:—'When was the first copie printed? Vide Bibl. Bodlei.' The printed edition is not in the 1674 Catal. impress. libb. Bibl. Bodl.

[1519] Added opposite, on fol. 54^v.

[1520] This query is inserted by Anthony Wood.

[1521] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 54^v.

[1522] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 55.

[1523] Henry Birkhead is meant, 'Birket' representing the slurred pronunciation of the name. Anthony Wood has scored through the 'Dr.' and added a note:—'Birket is not a Dr.'

[1524] Marked MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 56.

[1525] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 57.

[1526] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 59.

[1527] MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 28:—'He writt his life last yeare (viz. 1673) in Latin verse.'

[1528] Dupl. with 'bookeseller.'

[1529] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 16: see p. 381.

[1530] Dupl, with 'leave.'

[1531] Publ. in 1680; supra, p. 333.

[1532] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 42^v.

[1533] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 49.

[1534] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 50.

[1535] Anthony Wood objects, on fol. 47^v: 'You say p. 11' (i.e. fol. 40) 'that he was acquainted with Mr. Selden and Dr. Harvey. Why do you not set them downe here?' But, as Wood might have remembered, they have been 'already mentioned.'

[1536] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47^v.

[1537] Aubrey has a memorandum, MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7, 'take ... Ayton's inscription.' See supra, p. 25.

[1538] Dupl. with 'perpetuall' or 'lasting.'

[1539] In the Auctarium Vitae Hobbianae, 1681.

[1540] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 50^v.

[1541] See infra, p. 371.

[1542] On fol. 52^v, Aubrey repeats this name, 'Sir Charles Cavendish.'

[1543] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 51.

[1544] Aubrey leaves a space for his title or profession, adding the reminder—'Expresse his quality.'

[1545] Dupl. with 'They were not much unlike in their countenances.'

[1546] Dupl. with 'may.'

[1547] A memorandum for the date when they first met each other.

[1548] See infra.

[1549] See infra, p. 367.

[1550] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 50^v.

[1551] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7.

[1552] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 50^v.

[1553] Dupl. with 'conscience.'

[1554] Dupl. with 'flatter.'

[1555] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 51.

[1556] Dupl. with 'from.'

[1557] Scored out here; inserted infra, p. 369.

[1558] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7.

[1559] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 51.