[855] See supra i. p. 122.

[856] Walter, eldest son of Sir Walter Raleigh, matric. at Corpus in 1607.

[857] 'Coursing' in the Oxford Schools frequently ended in blows between individuals, and fights between Colleges: see Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 75.

[858] Subst. for 'wiped.'

[859] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 387: June 29, 1689.

[860] Philippa, widow of Sir Anthony Ashley.

[861] On June 15, 1660.

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

[863] In Jan. 1680/1: Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 513.

[864] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 114.

[865] Aubrey, in these notices, frequently marks the University of the man whose life he is writing, in a prominent manner, for the benefit of Anthony Wood, at whose instance they were written.

[866] Given on fol. 113v of MS. Aubr. 6, as on '15 Junii 1605, the moon past the first quarter.'

[867] Aubrey plumed himself on being fairly tall: for his height, see p. 67.

[868] i.e. see more about this in a letter in the hands of Anthony Wood; see infra, p. 198.

[869] ... Stafford, of Blatherwicke, Northants.

[870] So Aubrey writes it.

[871] The passage in square brackets is on fol. 113v of MS. Aubr. 6, being a note added later by Aubrey. Aubrey notes on fol. 114—'quaere Dr. Pell <for> the prebendary's name'; and the same query is on fol. 7 of MS. Aubr. 9.

[872] Subst. for 'care.'

[873] See note [b], supra.

[874] Subst. for 'who.'

[875] Subst. for 'words.'

[876] Subst. for ''tis rare to find.'

[877] These two lines stood at first:—

Short-hand he wrote well and could measure land
As now he doeth the ground whereon you stand.

[878] Subst. for 'could measure.'

[879] Anthony Wood fills up this name, as Peter 'Hausted.'

[880] Wood notes 'Hertfordshire, quaere.'

[881] MS. Aubr. 21, p. 11.

[882] Eleanor, widow of Sir Henry Lee, married (1634) Edward Ratcliffe, 6th earl of Sussex (who died 1643).

[883] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 71v.

[884] Anthony Wood's, 1674.

[885] Record was fellow of All Souls in 1531.

[886] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 72.

[887] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 8v.

[888] Aubrey jotted down queries in this way in his MS., to meet the eye of Anthony Wood, to whom it was to be sent.

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

[890] Dupl. with 'sayes.'

[891] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 9v.

[892] Clark's Wood's Life and Times, iii. 252, 294, 295.

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

[894] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 10v.

[895] Dupl. with 'Lyte.'

[896] So Aubrey writes ἀνώνυμος.

[897] Dupl. with 'thoroughly.'

[898] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 55v.

[899] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 42v.

[900] The note follows that about Inglebert, supra, p. 1.

[901] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 49, fol. 42v. On fol. 41 Aubrey gives long extracts from the 'preface of Judge Hales, though his name is not to it: but it is knowne to be his,' to 'Un abridgment de plusieurs cases ... per Henry Rolle,' London, 1668, folio.

[902] Dupl. with 'a clearer elucidation.'

[903] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 6v.

[904] Anthony Wood notes in the margin, 'This is in Mr. Edward Sherburne's edition of Manilius'; and on the inserted slip (fol. 7), ''Tis this that is in Sherburne.'

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

[906] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 94v. Anthony Wood has a note in pencil: 'Vide latter end of Catalogue 4,' i.e. Wood MS. O.C. 8533, now in Wood MS. E. 2.

[907] Dupl. with 'putt.'

[908] MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 383: written by Rushworth's servant from his dictation, to be transmitted by Aubrey to Anthony Wood.

[909] Wood notes:—'near Berwick, quaere.'

[910] MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 383v.

[911] Wood wrongly suggests 'Newbury.'

[912] MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 384.

[913] This is Rushworth's autograph.

[914] Wood notes here:—'a prisoner in the king's bench in Southwarke, where he hath been at least 3 or 4 yeares.'

[915] Added by Aubrey July 28, 1687, at the end of Rushworth's statement.

[916] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 386v: June 29, 1689.

[917] Ibid., fol. 405: July 5, 1690. The same note is found also in MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 78.

[918] In MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5, Aubrey had noted: 'Mr. ... Rushworth obiit London 1684, quaere.'

[919] MS. Aubr. 6, fol 100v.

[920] A slip for grandson. Robert, son of Thomas, first earl, succeeded in 1608 and died 1609.

[921] Margaret Sackville, daughter of this Richard, 3rd earl of Dorset, married John Tufton, 2nd earl of Thanet.

[922] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 20v

[923] Subst. for 'Cecil, earle of Exeter.'

[924] i.e. fol. 20v of MS. Aubr. 8, as now foliated.

[925] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 32v.

[926] Sir Thomas Temple, of Stowe, Bart.

[927] MS. Aubr. 6, fol 88v.

[928] Subst. for 'that bishop,' i.e. Sanderson.

[929] Aubrey in MS Wood F. 39, fol. 185: Aug. 22, 1672.

[930] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 50.

[931] 'This is printed in Westminster Monuments'—marginal note by Anthony Wood.

[932] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9.

[933] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 84.

[934] Subst. for 'been one of his Professors.'

[935] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 84v.

[936] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 104v. Aubrey gives in trick the coat:—'or, on a saltire sable 5 roses of the field.' Cooper, Athenae Cantab., i. 514, gives a very different coat to bishop Scory.

[937] Dupl. with 'or an angell.'

[938] Dupl. with 'favour.'

[939] Subst. for 'gave.'

[940] Dupl. with 'very fairly.'

[941] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 83v.

[942] This notice of Securis is written at the foot of the leaf which has the notice of Thomas Muffet, supra, p. 89.

[943] Here followed 'and dedicated to ... then Lord Chancellor of England.' Aubrey scored this out, on finding that the Almanac for 1582 so dedicated was by Evans Lloyd, supra, p. 35.

[944] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 208: May 17, 1673.

[945] The stone-cutter; often cited by Aubrey for inscriptions.

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

[947] Dupl. with 'write.'

[948] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 120. Dr. Philip Bliss has added a reference to 'Part iii, p. 17b,' i.e. to MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 81v.

[949] Four lines of text are suppressed in this paragraph.

[950] 'daughter' written over 'child,' as a correction.

[951] Subst. for 'brought.'

[952] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 120v.

[953] Dupl. with 'throw.'

[954] Subst. for 'were.'

[955] Subst. for 'alter.'

[956] Subst. for 'were in.'

[957] Given by Aubrey in trick.

[958] Subst. for 'decent.'

[959] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 121.

[960] Dupl. with 'confute.'

[961] The earl of Kent's or Shrewsbury's.

[962] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 81v.

[963] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 109. Aubrey draws, in the margin, a wreath of laurel.

[964] See vol. i. p. 97.

[965] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 80.

[966] To Catherine, queen of Charles II.

[967] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 73v.

[968] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9.

[969] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 91v.

[970] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 91.

[971] MS. Aubr. 23, notes on foll. 32v-36.

[972] April 15, 1649, was a Sunday.

[973] April 14, 1648, was a Friday.

[974] Lues Venerea: fol. 31.

[975] Aubrey to Wood in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 387: June 29, 1689.

[976] In Feb. 1687/8: Clark's Wood's Life and Times, iii. 251.

[977] See p. 178.

[978] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 42v.

[979] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 17. Aubrey gives the arms:—'parted per fess or and gules, in chief 2 "pidgeons"; impaling, azure, a chevron ermine between 3 mullets or.'

[980] Anthony Wood notes in the margin: 'This is printed in Stowe's Survey, edit. 1633, fol....'

[981] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 85.

[982] Lond. 1617.

[983] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 89.

[984] ? Sir Peter Ball, recorder of Exeter.

[985] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 89v.

[986] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 41.

[987] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 83. Anthony Wood adds the reference 'Edmund Spencer, vide pag. 53 b,' i.e. fol. 82v of MS. Aubr. 6, in the life of Sir Philip Sydney.

[988] Subst. for 'made.'

[989] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5v.

[990] i.e. Samuel Fell, dean of Ch. Ch. 1638.

[991] i.e. more than thirty.

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

[993] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 97.

[994] Subst. for 'barrister.'

[995] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 84v.

[996] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 88v.

[997] Subst. for 'Henfold.'

[998] Subst. for 'remaines.'

[999] Written 'Henry': but corrected by Anthony Wood.

[1000] i.e. the Picture Gallery at the Bodleian.

[1001] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 273v: May 30, 1674.

[1002] Thomas Stephens matric. at Pembroke in 1637, and took a degree in Arts in 1642.

[1003] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18.

[1004] Anthony Wood notes: 'Vide among Windsore epitaphs.'

[1005] i.e. in the life of W. Oughtred, supra, p. 108.

[1006] i.e. Aubrey's Perambulation of Surrey (MS. Aubr. 4).

[1007] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 90v.

[1008] i.e. in his monument.

[1009] i.e. farther ('plus').

[1010] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 1v.

[1011] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 88.

[1012] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 88v.

[1013] Dupl. with 'can be.'

[1014] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 88.

[1015] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 88v.

[1016] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 91.

[1017] Second son to James Stuart, husband of Elizabeth, countess of Moray; K.B. June 2, 1610.

[1018] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 23.

[1019] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 110.

[1020] Controller of the Household to James I, 1621; Cofferer of the Household to Charles I, 1628.