[173] 'Blind from his birth,' S. John ix. 2; 'born blind,' S. John ix. 19, etc. Martin remembered 'lame from his mother's womb' of Acts iii. 2.

[174] S. John ix. 18, 'He had been blind and received his sight,' seems the nearest expression. The 'restored' is a figment of Martin's own, to give point to his jest.

[175] Scattered notes on fol. 103 of MS. Aubr. 6.

[176] Edited by Edmund Gayton.

[177] Aubrey in MS. Rawl. D. 727, fol. 96.

[178] Appointed in Sept. 1618, died Oct. 31, 1618.

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

[180] Aubrey here put down a memorandum, 'Paste on his picture here'; and added a note of its fulfilment, ''tis donne,' scil. when he inserted fol. 17 (see note 2).

[181] i.e. Sept. 2.

[182] Brooke.

[183] Donne.

[184] Cranefield.

[185] Phillips.

[186] Nevile, alluding to the family motto 'Ne vile velis.'

[187] Conyoke.

[188] John Hoskins, quasi 'hose-kin.'

[189] Martin; supra, p. 47.

[190] Goodyear.

[191] West.

[192] Holland; supra, i. p. 406.

[193] Inigo Jones.

[194] Tom Coryat, i. 188.

[195] Thomas Egerton, lord Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor 1603-1617.

[196] Robert Cecil, earl of Salisbury, Lord Treasurer 1609-1612.

[197] Henry Howard, earl of Northampton, Lord Privy Seal 1608-1614.

[198] Thomas Howard, earl of Suffolk, Lord Chamberlain of the Household 1603-1613.

[199] This attribution of the piece to Hoskyns is from Mr. Madan's MS.; see supra, p. 50.

[200] John Reynolds, Fellow of New College 1600, died 1614.

[201] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 104. Aubrey, in the margin, draws a wreath of laurel, for a poet.

[202] This sentence is subst. for 'He was a man of very few words.'

[203] Anthony Wood notes in the margin 'E. of Roff.', a reminder to himself to incorporate this criticism in the life of Rochester in the Athenae.

[204] This paragraph was added some time after the above notice was written.

[205] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 171; May, 1672.

[206] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 252: Jan. 31, 1673/4.

[207] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 27.

[208] Subst. for 'to be Poet Laureate.'

[209] See i. p. 110.

[210] See i. p. 289.

[211] A mock-epitaph on May is found among Anthony Wood's papers in Wood MS. F. 39, fol. 154.

[212] Dupl. with 'odorem.'

[213] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 42^v.

[214] ? court.

[215] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 414: Febr. 1, 1690/1.

[216] Subst. for 'for a.'

[217] In Westminster Abbey.

[218] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 155^v: Dec. 30, 1671.

[219] i.e. beside Camden's monument, supra, i. p. 145. Anthony Wood notes here that this inscription for May was 'made by Marchmount Needam.'

[220] This latter part of the inscription is found also in MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 103^v.

[221] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 59.

[222] 'darke' written over 'grey,' as a correction.

[223] i.e. more than an inch thick.

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

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

[226] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 82.

[227] i.e. MS. Aubr. 4.

[228] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6.

[229] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 43.

[230] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 42^v.

[231] See supra, p. 1.

[232] MS. Aubr. 6, fol 60^v.

[233] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63.

[234] Subst. for 'barister.'

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

[236] Inserted later in answer to the following question:—'quaere, if he has not a son.'

[237] Christopher Milton.

[238] i.e. Foresthill.

[239] The Milton family.

[240] Shotover forest.

[241] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63.

[242] Subst. for 'Whateley,' i.e. Wheatley.

[243] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 64.

[244] Subst. for 'in that yeare that the army marched thorough the city.'

[245] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63.

[246] Subst. for 'at the Rose: he had also there another house.'

[247] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 64.

[248] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 65.

[249] This paragraph is not in Aubrey's hand; ? Christopher Milton's. Anthony Wood grumbles here: 'Why do you not set downe where John Milton was borne?' forgetting fol. 63.

[250] i.e. Friday.

[251] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63.

[252] Subst. for 'Dr.'

[253] i.e. as a 'pensioner,' and not holding any exhibition or scholarship.

[254] Subst. for 'very young (scilicet, about thirteen was the most).'

[255] Aubrey, writing on June 29, 1689, says: 'Mr. Edward Philips tells me his uncle, John Milton, was Master of Arts of Cambridge, of Christ's College. He was never of Oxford': Wood MS. F. 39, fol. 386^v.

[256] Subst. for 'with Carolo Diodati, ... son of the learned Dr. Deodati of Geneva.'

[257] 'beyond sea' followed: scored out.

[258] Subst. for 'returned a very little before the civill warres brake-out.'

[259] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 64.

[260] MS. Aubr. 8, fol 64^v.

[261] This is not in Aubrey's hand; perhaps in Edward Phillips' writing.

[262] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63.

[263] 'and Hebrew' followed: scored out.

[264] Mary Powell. The words in brackets have been substituted for 'He parted from her'; the second half of the sentence has been left unchanged.

[265] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 68.

[266] Subst. for 'Different religions.'

[267] Space left for an adjective, like 'zealous.'

[268] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 66. This paragraph was added later by Aubrey, perhaps from information supplied by E. Phillips.

[269] 'Dancing, etc.,' is written over, in explanation.

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

[271] Probably Edward Phillips.

[272] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63.

[273] 'Second' underlined for correction to 'third.' For the same reason the note on fol. 68 is erased: 'He maried Elizabeth ..., second wife, anno Domini 16—.'

[274] Subst. for 'to Oliver Cromwell.'

[275] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 66^v.

[276] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 68.

[277] Dupl. with 'quite.'

[278] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63.

[279] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 68.

[280] The London bookseller. The words in brackets were added later, when Aubrey found that the MS. had passed from E. Phillips to Pitt.

[281] Subst. for 'He died of a feaver, at his house in Quin Street, about the 64th yeare of his age.'

[282] Dupl. with 'stone.'

[283] Dupl. with 'dwelt.'

[284] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63.

[285] 'Abroun' = auburn. Subst. for 'a light browne.'

[286] Subst. for 'very.'

[287] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63^v.

[288] Subst. for 'great.'

[289] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 68.

[290] Subst. for 'an extraordinary.'

[291] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63^v.

[292] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 68. The note was written in pencil, from Dryden's information, over the verso of one leaf and the recto of the next; and then inked over. Foll. 64-67 were inserted later.

[293] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 66^v.

[294] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63.

[295] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63^v.

[296] i.e. at 4 A.M., for more than half an hour.

[297] Subst. for 'thought.'

[298] Subst. for 'a mercer.'

[299] 'and at' is subst. for 'e.g.'

[300] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 65.

[301] Subst. for:—'From Mr. E. Philips:—his invention was much more free and easie in the aequinoxes than at the solstices, as he more particularly found in writing his Paradise Lost. Mr. Edward Philipps his nephew and then amanuensis, hath....'

[302] Subst. for '2^d or 3.'

[303] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 65^v.

[304] This paragraph is not in Aubrey's hand.

[305] Dupl. with 'captaines.'

[306] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 66^v.

[307] 'Coeli' followed: scored out.

[308] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 68.

[309] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 372: May, 1684.

[310] i.e. MS. Aubr. 8, then in Anthony Wood's hands.

[311] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 68.

[312] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 64. I am doubtful whether this list is in Aubrey's hand.

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

[314] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 66^v.

[315] i.e. by Allam. This was Anthony Wood's friend (obiit 1685), who helped with notices of contemporary writers: Clark's Wood's Life and Times, iv. 90.

[316] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63^v.

[317] Dupl. with 'grant.'

[318] Dupl. with 'were diametrically opposed.'

[319] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 17.

[320] Anthony Wood expands to 'Monke.'

[321] Very probably the (MS.?) collection at Ralph Sheldon's: supra, p. 4.

[322] It is fol. 18 of MS. Aubr. 6. 'A | letter | from his | excellencie | the | lord general Monck | and the officers under his command | to the | Parliament; | in the name of themselves, and the souldiers | under them:' printed by John Macock, 1660, 8 leaves, small 4to. It begins: 'Mr. Speaker, We cannot but with thankfulness acknowledge the wonderful goodness ...,' and is dated from 'White-hal, Feb. 11, 1659.'

[323] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 17^v.

[324] Dupl. with 'noises.'

[325] 'On horseback' subst. for 'of dores.'

[326] Subst. for 'burned.'

[327] 'Many there were' followed: scored out.

[328] 'Haec' in the Vulgate.

[329] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 19.

[330] Died Dec. 17, 1661.

[331] Dupl. with 'hold a correspondence.'

[332] Added later. And then Aubrey struck out 'hath' in the preceding memo.

[333] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12^v.

[334] See supra, p. 4.

[335] i.e. Duke of York.

[336] Subst. for 'to his highnesse.'

[337] Notes on fol. 96 of MS. Aubr. 6, perhaps added later than the body of the notice.

[338] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 96.

[339] William Milbourne.

[340] 'so' subst. for 'for.'

[341] 'a youth' subst. for 'one.'