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[682] Sic. = 'Her school-friends were.'

[683] Dupl. with 'little.'

[684] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 38^v.

[685] Sister of Sir John Aubrey.

[686] Philip Skippon.

[687] Information given by some one to Aubrey, who notes an ambiguity in it.

[688] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 92^v.

[689] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 380: Sept. 25, 1686.

[690] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 97^v.

[691] Dupl. with 'minister.'

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

[693] Trinity College, Oxford.

[694] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 15.

[695] In MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12^v, Aubrey has a note:—'Sir William Playters was of Suffolke.'

[696] Two lines of text are here suppressed.

[697] A line of text is suppressed.

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

[699] Meaning, I suppose, that this date is carved on the east side of the same monument.

[700] MS. Aubr. 26, fol. 23.

[701] MS. Ballard 14, fol. 108, a letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood, dated Aug. 18, 1674.

[702] Ralph Bathurst, President of Trinity, had become dean of Wells in 1670, and was now Vice-Chancellor of Oxford. Wood had accused him of growing arrogant in his office.

[703] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 89^v.

[704] Sir ... Dayrell.

[705] 'lived' subst. for 'was.'

[706] John Popham, son of Sir Francis.

[707] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 90.

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

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

[710] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 60.

[711] Richard Potter, Scholar of Trin. Coll. Oxon., B.D. 1587, prebendary of Worcester 1598-1628.

[712] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5.

[713] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 63.

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

[715] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 60.

[716] The words in square brackets are added by another hand, possibly Potter's own.

[717] Dupl. with 'find-out.'

[718] Dupl. with 'person's.'

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

[720] i.e. MS. Aubr. 7; see p. 161.

[721] Subst. for 'Bible.'

[722] Subst. for 'printed.'

[723] Explicit MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 60^v; incipit fol. 63.

[724] Dupl. with 'unf<urnished>.'

[725] 'beame' written over 'saile' as a correction.

[726] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 63^v.

[727] Subst. for 'but his'.

[728] Anthony Wood supplies the name.

[729] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 61. The letter is Potter's autograph. On this page is written by another hand (not Potter's)—'Hanc designationem Dr. Harveus frivolam et impossibilem omnino esse asseruit: sed tamen quaere. Consult Dr. Glisson': à propos of what?

[730] Subst. for 'an hen's craw.'

[731] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 63^v.

[732] Dupl. with 'coasin.'

[733] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 118.

[734] It was May 26; so the date of birth must be, Sat. May 18, Whitsunday eve.

[735] MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 18^v.

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

[737] See the reference, supra.

[738] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 91^v.

[739] i.e. completed and published V. Powell's 'collection of prophecies,' at the end of the Concordance.

[740] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5^v.

[741] Of B. N. C., where he matriculated in 1604/5.

[742] i.e. MS. Aubr. 8, ut infra.

[743] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 398: Aug. 4, 1687.

[744] In 1643.

[745] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 96^v.

[746] Subst. for 'about the time of.'

[747] 'A vindication of the monarchy ...' Lond. 1661.

[748] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 85^v.

[749] Subst. for 'thinkes.'

[750] Changed by Anthony Wood to 'Swanswyck.'

[751] At Bath.

[752] Rectius Mount Orgeuil in Jersey.

[753] See p. 54.

[754] ? Christopher Wren.

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

[756] MS. Ballard 14, fol. 103: a letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood, of date July 2, 1674. In MS. Ballard 14, fol. 96, a letter to Wood of date Oct. 28, 1673, Aubrey says: 'I mett on Sunday was sennight at Mr. Ashmoll's one Captain Pugh, a rubro-literate gent.'

[757] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 321: April 12, 1679.

[758] Ibid., fol. 316: April 9, 1679.

[759] Dupl. with 'vitia.'

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

[761] MS. Ballard 14, fol. 96; a letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood, of date Oct. 28, 1673.

[762] See i. p. 280, supra.

[763] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 46^v.

[764] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 75.

[765] Given by Aubrey in colours.

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

[767] i.e. fol. 75 of MS. Aubr. 6.

[768] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 75.

[769] For the eldest son, see infra, p. 194.

[770] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7. On the same page is another draft of this note:—'Quaere his skull of Sir John Ellowys, who maried his sonne Carew Ralegh's daughter and heire.'

[771] See infra, p. 189.

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

[773] A note intended for Anthony Wood, in answer to two of his queries: see Clark's Wood's Life and Times, iii. 295.

[774] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 75.

[775] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 75^v.

[776] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 77.

[777] i.e. he was an undergraduate at Oxford, and so in straits.

[778] MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 135, a letter from Aubrey to Wood, of date Aug. 9, 1671.

[779] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 75^v.

[780] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 76^v.

[781] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 77.

[782] Subst. for 'boy.'

[783] Subst. for 'dish.'

[784] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 77^v.

[785] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 75^v.

[786] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 77^v.

[787] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 8; notes dated 'London, March 12, 1688/9.'

[788] Subst. for 'clerk.'

[789] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 75.

[790] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 75^v.

[791] Raw.

[792] Lie (in the then ordinary spelling, 'lye').

[793] Rawlye, a common spelling of the name.

[794] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 77^v.

[795] Supra, p. 179.

[796] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 75^v.

[797] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 75.

[798] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 76.

[799] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 75^v.

[800] Subst. for 'a mighty high.'

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

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

[803] Dupl. with 'engaging in quarrells.'

[804] Aubrey has forgotten the exact word Ruddyer used.

[805] Four lines of text are here suppressed.

[806] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 77.

[807] Eight lines of text are here suppressed.

[808] In MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1^v, Aubrey cites for approval:—'"Poets and bravo's have punkes to their mothers"—from D. Long.' 'Dol. Long (now lady Heron)' born July 3, 1643, is mentioned MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 68. See also Dorothy, lady Long, supra, p. 36.

[809] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 78^v.

[810] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 76.

[811] Subst. for 'things.'

[812] Dupl. with 'staffe.'

[813] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 76^v.

[814] Dupl. with 'traine.'

[815] Dupl. with 'duty' or 'respect.'

[816] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 79.

[817] Aubrey seems to have doubted what was the official title: Sir Walte Raleigh was Governor of Jersey, 1601.

[818] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 76^v.

[819] Subst. for 'of Garnesey (or Jersey, I have forgot).'

[820] Subst. for 'till.'

[821] i.e. Capt. Roger North.

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

[823] i.e. fol. 32^v of MS. Aubr. 8, as printed supra, p. 95.

[824] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 77.

[825] Dupl. with 'boate.'

[826] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 77^v.

[827] Subst. for 'my lord.' John Scudamore, created viscount Scudamore in the peerage of Ireland 1628, obiit 1671.

[828] Subst. for 'sawe him beheaded.'

[829] Dupl. with 'might avocate.'

[830] Dupl. with 'vertebra.'

[831] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 78.

[832] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 79.

[833] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 77.

[834] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 77^v.

[835] Job xxx. 31.

[836] 'Cantus' subst. for 'vox.' The Vulgate has 'organum meum.'

[837] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 79.

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

[839] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 77^v.

[840] Subst. for 'much.'

[841] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 79.

[842] Subst. for 'his (I thinke a MS.) ... of metalls and oare.'

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

[844] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 77^v.

[845] Edward de Vere, 17th earl.

[846] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 75.

[847] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 223^v: Sept. 16, 1673.

[848] Ibid., fol. 166: Feb. 12, 1671/2.

[849] Ibid., fol. 308: June 6, 1678.

[850] Carew Raleigh, on January 1, 1666/7.

[851] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 354^v: June 21, 1681.

[852] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 206^v: May 14, 1673.

[853] i.e. Aubrey's estate, in that county: sold circiter 1662.

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