[1021] 'look't' is written over '...,' as the English for the French word which Aubrey had forgot.

[1022] Substituted for 'Sir John Digby.'

[1023] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 110v.

[1024] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 109v. Aubrey heads the leaf: 'More of Sir John Suckling.'

[1025] Dupl. with 'paper.'

[1026] Subst. for 'come.'

[1027] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 10v.

[1028] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 59v.

[1029] The Charterhouse.

[1030] Subst. for 'Newcastle.'

[1031] Aubrey omits to say that Sutton married this rich widow.

[1032] The estate.

[1033] i.e. made presents to him.

[1034] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 27.

[1035] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 41v.

[1036] The astrological details here given are omitted.

[1037] The same note is given in MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121, out of Dr. Richard Napier's papers in Ashmole's hands.

[1038] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 82.

[1039] The words 'anciently a pleasant monasterie' followed: scored out, because repeated below.

[1040] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 82v.

[1041] Anthony Wood notes:—'Edmund Spenser; quaere whether this be true?'

[1042] Subst. for 'brought.'

[1043] 'young gentleman' subst. for 'cavalier.'

[1044] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 83.

[1045] Dupl. with 'tender.'

[1046] Subst. for 'neer upon.'

[1047] This pedigree is in MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 83.

[1048] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 81 B.

[1049] Dorothy, younger daughter of Walter Devereux, earl of Essex, married (2ndly) Henry Percy, ninth earl of Northumberland.

[1050] Penelope, elder daughter of Walter Devereux, earl of Essex, m. Robert Rich, third baron Rich.

[1051] Lettice, daughter of Sir Francis Knolles, married (1st) Walter Devereux, created earl of Essex in 1572; (2nd) Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, brother of Sir Philip Sydney's mother.

[1052] The place is inserted by Aubrey.

[1053] Letter torn.

[1054] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 58.

[1055] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121.

[1056] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 82.

[1057] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 114v.

[1058] 'his brother' underlined with pencil, as doubtful: Anthony Wood, in the Athenae, styles him nephew.

[1059] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 116.

[1060] Over against the house which in 1680 was called the Goat.

[1061] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8.

[1062] MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 77.

[1063] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7v.

[1064] i.e. Birch.

[1065] i.e. Joseph Crowther, Reg. Prof. Greek, Oxon., a prebendary of Worcester.

[1066] Of Harwich.

[1067] The Cavaliers and Churchmen were now looking out for 'God's judgements' on the buyers of Church land, as the Puritans before them had looked out for judgements on Sabbath-breakers, play-actors, &c. (see Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 49, 322).

[1068] Dupl. with 'a K——.' ? a knave.

[1069] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8.

[1070] i.e. Taylor's Herefordshire collections.

[1071] Taylor's autograph, Nov. 30, 1673, sent to Aubrey for A. Wood: MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 237.

[1072] Taylor to Aubrey, 'Harwich, 18 Nov. 1673': ibid., fol. 236.

[1073] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 50v.

[1074] Installed Sept. 5, 1661.

[1075] Anthony Wood notes here:—'quaere in Thomas Hariot.'

[1076] Isaac Barrow, bishop of St. Asaph; see Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 489.

[1077] 'Barrow': Aubrey's marginal note.

[1078] 'He is interred in the church-yard at the west end of the church there: June 30, 1680': Aubrey's marginal note.

[1079] Subst. for 'qui intratis domum.'

[1080] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 79v.

[1081] Dupl. with 'sect.'

[1082] Subst. for 'Leominster.'

[1083] i.e. Dromore.

[1084] Dupl. with 'frequent.'

[1085] Dupl. with 'owe.'

[1086] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 13.

[1087] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 13v.

[1088] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 49v.

[1089] Subst. for 'minister.'

[1090] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8.

[1091] Thomas Colepeper, 2nd baron, appointed governor of Virginia in 1675, but went not out till 1680, returning in 1682.

[1092] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 10v.

[1093] Subst. for 'inventor.'

[1094] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 8v.

[1095] sic in MS.

[1096] François Viet, mathematician, 1540-1603.

[1097] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 91.

[1098] Joscelyne Percy, 11th earl, died 1670: see Clark's Wood's Life and Times, ii. 193.

[1099] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 51v.

[1100] Aubrey sketches, as on the top of the monument, a circle with the coat of arms, 'a doe statant regardant, transfixed at the neck by an arrow, a chief indented.'

[1101] See in the life of Dr. Gill, supra, i. p. 263.

[1102] Subst. for 'during the troubles.'

[1103] These lives being addressed by Aubrey to Anthony Wood.

[1104] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 52.

[1105] William Burt, Anthony Wood's schoolmaster; Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 108.

[1106] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 96v.

[1107] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 59v.

[1108] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 3.

[1109] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6.

[1110] i.e. a sword fit only to stick a pig.

[1111] i.e. then.

[1112] See p. 249, supra.

[1113] i.e. six, eight, twelve or more.

[1114] Aubrey notes in the margin:—'vide Macchiavelli's Prince.'

[1115] Aubrey notes in the margin:—'vide Oceanam,' i.e. Harrington's.

[1116] Dupl. with 'bare.'

[1117] The revel Aubrey pictures in his comedy took place on St. Peter's Day. A collection for the poor was made at the Wake.

[1118] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 25.

[1119] At Sir John Aubrey's.

[1120] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 169: March 14, 1671/2.

[1121] Puisne Justice of Chester, 1622-1636.

[1122] Ibid., fol. 169v.

[1123] Henry Vaughan's autograph to Aubrey, in Wood MS. F. 39, fol. 216: June 15, 1673.

[1124] Ibid., fol. 216v.

[1125] Idem, ibid., fol. 227: July 17, 1673.

[1126] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, 219: July 5, 1673.

[1127] Added by Anthony Wood.

[1128] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 389: July 15, 1689.

[1129] Dupl. with 'Florence.'

[1130] Dupl. with 'ashamed.'

[1131] Subst. for 'a beggar.'

[1132] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121.

[1133] MS. Aubr. 23, a slip at fol. 121v.

[1134] Mary Villiers, mother of George, first duke of Buckingham, created countess of Buckingham July 1, 1618.

[1135] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5.

[1136] Second son of George, first duke: killed 1648.

[1137] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 14.

[1138] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 8.

[1139] The University of Oxford offered £3,000 for it, and was refused. It was soon afterwards sold for that sum to the University of Leyden.

[1140] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 5.

[1141] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 98.

[1142] John Wild, Chief Baron of the Exchequer 1648-1655, 1660 (Jan.-June).

[1143] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 121: Dec. 5, 1668.

[1144] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 11.

[1145] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 79. The horoscope is given.

[1146] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 111.

[1147] Aubrey notes in the margin in pencil 'From Mr. T. B.,' i.e. Thomas Bigg.

[1148] Subst. for 'before.'

[1149] Anthony Wood objects—'quaere.'

[1150] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 111v.

[1151] Subst. for '1,500 li.'

[1152] Subst. for 'still.'

[1153] Subst. for 'is revered' <as having>.

[1154] Dupl. with 'sprang.'

[1155] Explicit fol. 111v.

[1156] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 113.

[1157] Subst. for 'undertake it, for that it could not be done better.'

[1158] Dupl. with 'lost.'

[1159] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 112.

[1160] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 113.

[1161] Subst. for 'poëtique.'

[1162] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 112v.

[1163] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9v.

[1164] Dupl. with 'scommaticall.'

[1165] Inserted by Anthony Wood.

[1166] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6v.

[1167] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 94v.

[1168] Dupl. with 'irreconcileable.'

[1169] Dupl. with 'square.'

[1170] Dupl. with 'might precede.'

[1171] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 95.

[1172] See vol. i. p. 404.

[1173] Dupl. with 'the author.'

[1174] Dupl. with 'been.'

[1175] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 101.

[1176] Subst. for 'Betty.'

[1177] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 86.

[1178] See infra, p. 290.

[1179] Dupl. with 'the.'

[1180] Dupl. with 'scholar.' The reference is added 'vide pag. d.', i.e. fol. 6v, the life of Laurence Rooke, q.v.

[1181] Subst. for 'upon.'

[1182] Dupl. with 'was sequestred.'

[1183] 'Dr.' is erased: Greaves was M.A. only.

[1184] The passage in brackets was added by Aubrey in the margin. He ought then to have changed 'Mr. Freeman's' infra to 'lord Wenman's.'

[1185] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 86v.

[1186] Space left for Hawes' degree, i.e. M.A.

[1187] MS. Aubr. 10, fol. 24v.

[1188] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 86v.

[1189] Anthony Wood writes over, for clearness sake, 'Dr. Ward.'

[1190] Dupl. with 'wonne their love.'