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AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES'
ANDREIV CLARK
VOL. II.
HENRY FROWDK, M.A.
PUHLISHKK T() THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFOMD
LONDON, EDINBIRGH, ANU NEW YORK
AUBREY'S BOOK-PLATE
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^ Brief Lives ^ chiefly of Con-
temporaries^ set down by
John Aubrey^ between
the Years i66g & i6g6
EDITED FROM THE AUTHOR'S MSS.
BY
ANDREW CLARK
M^., LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD; MA. AND LL.D., ST. ANDREWS
WITH FACSIMILES
VOLUME II. (I — Y)
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1898
Oxford
PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
BY KORACK HART, M.A.
rRINTBR TO THE UNIVERSITY
■76/
AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES'
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• • • Ingelbert*
* Mr. Ingelbert was the first inventer or projector of
bringing the water from Ware to London ^ called Middletons
water. He was a poore-man, but Sir Hugh Middleton',
alderman of London, moneyed the businesse ; undertooke
it; and gott the profit and also the credit of that most
usefuU invention, for which there ^ ought to have been
erected a statue for the memory of this poore-man from
the city of London. — From my honoured and learned
friend Mr. Fabian Philips, filiser of London, etc, who
was in commission about this water.
Notes,
* In MS. Aubr. 6, fol. i^, Aubrey has this note : — * In Pond's Almanack^
1647, thus — **• Since the river from Ware to London began by Edwaxd Pond,
Jan. 2, 35 yeares. *Twas finished, Sept. 30, 34 yeares ** — .'
John Innooent (14 1545)«
** At Doctors Commons is 'argent on gules a mayd
stark naked with a chaplet in her hand dexter.' The
name I could never learn, till by chance, in Hampshire,
by a courtier. It is the coate of Dr. Innocent, deane of
Paule's and master of St. Crosses, tempore Henrici VII.
Borne at Barkehamsted, Hertfordshire; where he built
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 43\ due for the.'
* See infra, sub nomine, ** Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol.
^ Subst. for 'there was a statue 135: 6 Aug. 167 1.
II. B
2W04H
Aubrey^s 'Brief Lives*
a free-schole, where this coat is in severall places. 'Tis
endowed with 500/1. per annum for 120 scholars from
any part of England. The Visitor is the Warden of
All Soules, Oxon.
Henry Isaacson (1581-1654).
* Mr. Henry Isaacson was secretary to Lancelot
Andrews, lord bishop of Winton. Was borne in this
parish (of St. Katharine Coleman) anno Domini
♦ St. Catherine o , . , . • r^ i *u
Coleman, «8i— 1581 ; chnstncd — ex registroj — Septemb. 17^^ ;
iM^^n'_ and buried in this church. He died about the
MS. Aubr. 8, yth of December, 1 654. Hehad severall children :
four sonnes still living, one is a minister at
Stoke neer Ipswych in Suffolk.
In the chancell here * I find this inscription, on a marble
grave-stone, viz. :
' Here lyeth the body of Richard Isaacson, esq., Eastland
merchant, and free of the Paynters Stayners of this citie of London,
t SciLHenricu ^^^ having lived in this parish 58 yeares, slept in the
praedictna. Lqj.^ j^ January, Anno Domini 1620. t Henricus filius
et haeres hoc memorabile posuit pietatis ergo.'
** Memorandum : — (Thomas) Bourman, Dr. of Divinity,
of Kingston upon Thames, did know Mr. Isaacson, and
told me that he was a learned man, which I easily believed
when I heard he was secretary to that learned prelate, who
made use of none but for merit. The Dr. told me that
Twaa when he presented his Chronologie to his
JSIJct'"/"'" n^ajestie King Charles the first, 'twas in the
woSd°*h!L matted gallery at White-hall %. The (king)
ESw/iSlfav presently discerned the purpose of the treatise,
tantld^goc^* ^"^ turned to his owne birth ; sayd the King,
election. < Here' 5 one lye to begin with' It seemes that
Mr. Isaacson had taken it out of ... (a foreigner), who
used the other account. Poor Mr. Isaacson was so ashamed
at this unlucky rencounter, that he immediately sneak't
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 90. Aubrey • i. e. in St Katherine Coleman's,
gives the coat, 'or, a pile azure between ♦♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 90',
2 escallops . . .'
Henry Isaacson
away and stayd not for prayse or reward, both which perhaps
he might have had, for his majestic was well pleased with
it. He wrote severall little bookes, besides his Chrono*
logic: quaere of the minister's wife (his niece) their titles.
He was of Pembroke-hall, in Cambridge. He was there
about Master of Arts standing.
«. * Concerning Henry Isaacson^.
I find that my grandfather dyed in St.Cathrin Coleman's
parish London, the 19* January, 1620, and to my best
rememberance upon his gravestone in the chancell it was
ingraven that hee had lived in the said parrish 58 yeares.
He (was) fined for not serving the office of shereif of
London, being chosen in the yeare 161 8.
My father died in St. Cathrin Coleman's parrish above-
said about the 7* of December, 1654, which is neare
34 years after my grandfather's death. I calculate from
the tyme of his birth to my grandfather's death to bee
39 yeares : ad ^ the 34 yeares after my grandfather's death
to the 39 before : 39 + 34 makes 73 yeares his age — which
all the familie agree that hee was seaventy three yeares
of age when hee died, soe that hee was borne in anno 1581.
Borne in anno 1581, dyed aged 73, makes 1654 the yeare
when he dyed. And in all probabillity hee was borne
in St. Kathrin Coleman's parrish, my grandfather having
lived soe long tyme there : the church booke, if extant,
will soone resolve yow — I never heard any thing to the
contrary.
My brother William Isaacson could more exactly give
you an account of the degrees he tooke, if any, but the
University was Cambriegeand the Collie Pembrooke-Hall.
I thinke I have heard hee was Mr. of Arts standing, but
am somthing uncertayne of this. ^^^^ Isaacson.
Fifeild,
the ai« Aprill 1681.
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 89. of Anthony Wood : the letter is the
* This title is in the handwriting original. ^ i.e. ad''.
B 2
Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
* In the table of benefactors in the Church of St. Catherine
Colman, viz. —
* 1620: Mr. Richard Isaacson' — the
chronologer' — '2//. \2s. per annum to the poor.'
James I (1566-1625).
(A life of 'James R.' is entered in the index to MS.
Aubrey 6 (see vol. i. p. 8), as contemplated by Aubrey. If
written, the life was hostile in tone, as may be seen from
the following query towards it (Aubrey, in MS. Wood
F. 39, fol. 347 : 8 Sept. 1680) : —
*Pray search that booke^ and see if you can find the
ballad, or verses, on the coronation of king James —
And at the erse of them marched the Scotish peeres
With lowzie shirts, and mangie wrists, went pricking-up
their eares.')
• • • Jaquinto.
** Dr. Jaquinto : physitian to pope . . . , then to king
James ^ He went into the marshes of Essex, where they
putt their sheep to cure them of the rott, where he lived
sometime purposely to observe what plants the sheep did
eat, of which herbs he made his medicine for the con-
sumption, which Mr. E. W.^ haz.
David Jenkins (1586-1663).
*** Judge Jenkins, prisoner in the Tower of London,
Windsor, etc., (eleven) yeares, for his loyalty. He would
have taken it kindly to have been made one of the judges
in Westminster Hall, but would give no money for it, [so
the Lord Chancellor Hyde never preferred him].
He was of very good courage. Rode in the lord Gerard's
e
* MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 9. • Subst. for * physician to queen
• A slip : the • chronologer * was Anne or prince Henry : quaere E. W. :
his son. vide <p,* a MS. not yet identified.
»» The balUd-book at Ralph Shel- *» Probably Edmund Wyld.
don's. *** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 27.
** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 11. • These words are scored through.
David Jenkins
army ia Pembrokeshire, in the forlorne-hope, with his long
rapier drawne holding it on-end.
Obiit Dec. 3, anno Domini 1663 ; sepult at Cowbridge
church in the south aisle in Glamorganshire. No remem-
brance yet (1682) set up for him.
[Quaere ' Sir Robert Thomas whereabout in the church
or chancelL]
* David Jenkins hath writt a learned treatise of the
lawe, in folio, of cases twice judged (quaere nomen) ; and
an * opusculum' ij^ex terrae, etc.) in i6mo.
Borne at ... in Glamorganshire. He was of Edmund
Hall. Afterwards of Graye's inne. One of the judges**
in South Wales. Imprisoned a long time in the Tower,
Newgate, and Windsore. Was the only man that never
complied. Dyed about 1665, at Cowbridge in Glamorgan-
shire.
He marryed Sir John Aubrey's sister.
** David Jenkins, judge, was borne at Hensol, the place
where he lived, in the parish of Pendeylwyn in com.
Glamorgan. He was reciting this verse out of Ausonius,
not long before he dyed, to Sir Llewellin Jenkins : —
£t baculo innitens, in qua reptabat arena.
Scripsit Opuscula, contayning severall little treatises, viz.
Lex terrae, etc. ; Rerum judicatarum censurae octo, in
folio ; praeter alias ejusdem naturae ineditas.
He was one of the judges of the Carmarthen, Cardigan,
and Pembrokeshire circuit before the wars. In the warres
he was taken prisoner at Hereford. Long time prisoner
in the Tower, Newgate, Wallingford, and Windsore. Never
submitted to the usurping power (I thinke, the only man).
All his estate was confiscated ; and was always excepted
by the parliament in the first ranke of delinquents.
In his circuit in Wales at the beginning of the warres,
he caused to be indicted severall men of those parts (that
• These words are scored out. Orig, Jurid,*
* Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, *♦ Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39,
fol. 128: Nov. 17, 1670. fol. 160: Jan. 16, 167I.
^ Wood notes *vide Dugdale*s
Aubreys ^ Brief Lives*
were parliament, etc. engaged against the king) for highe
treason ; and the grand jury indicted them. Afterwards,
when he was prisoner in Newgate, some of these grandees
came to him to triumph over him, and told him that if
they had been thus in his power, he would have hanged
them. * God forbid els ! ' replied he — which undaunted
retume they much admired.
The parliament intended to have hanged him ; and he
expected no lesse, but resolved to be hangd with the
Bible under one arme and Magna Charta under the other.
And hangd he had been, had not Harry Martyn told them
in the house that
Sanguis martyrum est semen ecclesiac,
and that that way would doe them more mischiefe. So
his life was saved, and they removed him out of the way
to Wallingford Castle.
He dyed upwards (something*) of fowrscore ycares of
age at Cowbridge in the county of Glamorgan,* on
St. Nicholas day, November *" the sixth, 1663 ; and in that
church lyes buried, yet without a monument, but I thinke
my cosen intends one.
'Tis pitty he was not made one of the judges of
Westminster-hall for his long sufferings; and he might
have been, he told me, if he would have given money
to the Chancellor — but he scornd it. He needed it not,
for he had his estate againe ([500//. per annum), and
being old and carceribus confractus. Mr. T. H., Malmes-
buriensis, told him one day at dinner that * that hereafter
would not shew well for somebodie's honour in history.'
** Sir Llewellin Jenkins remembers himself kindly
to you. He hath made a very fine inscription (which is
an abstract of his life) in laxe lambiques for judge David
Jenkins. I would have him send it to you, but he is too
modest.
* Dupl. with * few yeares.' *» Wood corrects to * December/
* Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. ♦♦ Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39,
160*. fol. 183: Aug. 19, 1672.
Str Leoltne Jenkins
Sir Leoline Jenkins (1623-1685).
* Sir LleuelJin Jenkins, knight, was borne at Llantrithid
in the countie of Glamorgan, anno domini . . .
His father (whom I knew) was a good plaine countrey-
man, a coppyholder of Sir John Aubrey, knight and baronet
(eldest son of Sir Thomas), whose mannour it is.
He went to schoole at Cowbridge, not far off.
David Jenkins, that was prisoner in the Tower (maried
a sister of Sir John Aubrey), was some remote kin to him ;
and, looking on him as a boy towardly, diligent, and good,
he contributed something towards his education.
Anno Domini 164(1), he was matriculated of Jesus
Collie in Oxford, where he stayed till (I thinke) he tooke
his degree of Bac. Artium.
About that time Sir John Aubrey sent for him home to
enforme his eldest sonne Lewis Aubrey (since deceased,
1659) in grammar; and that he might take his learning
the better, he was taught in the church-house where
severall boyes came to schoole, and there were 6 or 7
gentlemen's sonnes (Sir Francis Maunsell, bart. ; Mr.
Edmund Thomas ; Mr ) boarded in the towne.
The young gentlemen were all neer of an age, and ripe for
the University together ; and to Oxford they all went
under Mr. Jenkins' care about anno 1649 or 50, but by
reason of the disturbances of those times. Sir John would
not have his sonne of any college. But they all studyed
at Mr. (now Sir) Sampson White's house, a grocer, opposite
to University College. Here he stayed with my cosen
about 3 yeares or better, and then, in anno 165- (vide
Mr. Hobbes' de Corpore^ 'twas that yeare), he travelled
with my cosen and two or 3 of the other gentlemen into
France, where they stayd about 3 yeares and made them-
selves masters of that language.
He first began* the Civill lawe, viz., bought (Arnold)
Vinnius on Justinian, 1653 *».
* MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 25. Aubrey gives in trick the coat: '(^''S^^O'
a chevron, between 3 (cocks gnle^).*
• Dupl. with 'studied.' ^ Subst. for *late.*
8 Aubreys 'Brief Lives'
When he brought home Mr. Lewis Aubrey, he returned
to Jesus College (quaere, if he was of the foundation).
After his majestie's restauration Dr. (Francis) Maunsell
was restored to his principallship of that house, but being
very old and wearie of worldly cares, he kept it not long,
before he resigned it to Mr. Jenkins.
Gilbert Sheldon, archbishop of Canterbury, and Sir John
Aubrey were co-etanei^ and contracted a great friendship
at Oxon in their youth, which continued to their deaths.
In the troublesome times after Dr. Sheldon was expelled,
he was a yeare (I thinke) or two with Sir John at Llantrithid,
where he tooke notice of the vertue and assiduity of the
young man Mr. Jenkins. After the king's restauration
Sir John Aubrey recommended Mr. Jenkins to him ; made
him. Anno (1668) he was archbishop of Canterbury:
Sir {William) Meyric, LL.D. and Judge of (the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury), dyed, and the archbishop conferred
that place otl Mr. Jenkins.
Anno ... he had the honour of knighthood.
Anno 1673, (he) was sent with Sir Joseph William-
son, plenipotentiaries, to Nemeghen: I remember that
very time they went away was opposition of Saturn and
Mars. I sayd then to the earl of Th(anet) that if that
ambassade came to any good I would never trust to
astrologie again.
Anno 167- sent embassador to . . ., from whence he
returned anno 16J5. ^
March 25, 1680, he was made Principall Secretary of
Estate. — When I came to wayte on him to congratulate
for the honour his majestic had been pleased to bestowe
on him, he recieved me with his usuall courtesie, and sayd
that * it had pleased God to rayse-up a poore worme to
doe his majestie humble service.'
He haz a strong body for study, indefatigable, temperate
and vertuous. God blesse him.
When Mary the queen-mother dyed at Paris, the king of
Fraunce caused her Jewells and treasures to be locked up
and sealed. His majestie of Great Britaine sent Sir
George Johnson
Llewellin (which is Leoline in Latin) to Paris concerning
the administration [1668'].
Gtoorge Johnson (162^-1683).
* It pleased God at Whitsuntide last to bereave me
of a deare, usefuU, and faithfull friend Mr. Johnson who
had the reversion of the place of Master of the Rolles ;
who generously, for friendship and neighbourhood sake (we
were borne the same weeke and within 4 miles and educated
together), gave me the graunt to be one of his secretaries
— which place is worth 500 U, per annum. He was a strong
lustie man and died of a malignant fever, infected by the
earl of Abington's brother, making of his will. It was
such an opportunity that I shall never have the like again.
** George Johnson, esq., borne at Bowdon parke, March
the sixth i62|-; respond et that he remembers his mother
sayed 'twas just at noone. His mother was three dayes in
labour with him.
Fever at Bowdon about 1669 ; quaere R. Wiseman.
Fever, most dangerous, at London Nov. and Dec, 1677.
Burghesse of Devises, 166- ; made one of the judges of
Ludlow, . . . ; maried about 1660; reader of the Middle
Temple, . . .
Mr. Vere Bertie** was his chamber-fellowe in anno 1655,
the wintertime, which was his rise.
My honoured and kind friend George Johnson, esq., died
at his house at Bowdon-Iodge, of an ague and feaver on
the aSth of May ^ at 10** a.m., being Whit-munday,
cujus animae propitietur Deus.
His death is an extraordinary losse to me, for that
had he lived to have been Master of the Rolles I had been
one of his secretarys, worth 600 //.+: — sed fiat voluntas
Domini.
• Added by Anthony Wood. ♦♦ MS. Aubr. 33, fol. 38^.
* MS. Ballard 14, fol. 137 ; a letter ^ Baron of the Exchequer 1675,
from Aubrey to Anthony Wood, dated Justice of the Common Pleas 1678-
June 36, 1683. 1679.
lo Aubreys 'Brief Lives'
He went from London the Monday before ; came home
Tuesday ; ill that night. Thursday pretty well. Fell ill
again of an intermitting fever and died.
Note.
' Anthony Wood notes : — * you do not set downe the yeare that Mr. Johnson
died/ In 1683 Whitmonday fell on May 38. The reversion of the Master-
ship of the Rolls was granted to Johnson Aug. 15, 1667, ^^^ ^^ Harbottle
Grimston, appointed Nov. 3, 1660, did not die till Jan. a, i68|.
Inigo Jones (1573-1652).
* Inigo Jones* monument ^ — this tombe is on the north
side of the church, but his bodie lies in the chancell
about the middle. The inscription mentions that he built
the banquetting howse and the portico at St. Pauleys. — Mr.
Marshall in Fetter lane tooke away the bust, etc. here to
his howse, which see. Quaere Mr. Oliver + de hoc.
** Inigo Jones : vide epitaph at Mr. Marshall's.
Mr. (John) Oliver, the city surveyor, hath all his papers
and designes, not only of St. Pauls Cathedral etc. and the
Banquetting-house, but his designe of all Whitehall, suite-
able to the Banquetting house ; a rare thing, which see.
Memorandum : — Mr. Emanuel Decretz (serjeant painter
to King Charles 1st) told me in 1649, ^^^^ ^^e catafalco of
King James at his funerall (which is a kind of bed of state
erected in Westminster abbey, as Robert, earl of Essex,
had, Oliver Cromwell, and general Monke) was very
ingeniosely designed by Mr. Inigo Jones, and that he
made the 4 heades of the Cariatides (which bore up the
canopie) of playster of Paris, and made the drapery of
them of white callico, which was very handsome and very
cheap, and shewed as well as if they had been cutt out of
white marble.
Note.
' Aubrey gives a drawing of the monument. It is a rectangular stone,
having the inscription on the front; at one end 'the banquetting-howse at
Whitehall in bas relieve,* at the other * west end of St. Pauleys in has relieve.'
On the top, his bust, in the middle, and at each end a pinnacle. In MS.
Wood F. 39, fol. 163, on Jan. 27, 167 J, Aubrey notes that the inscription is
* yet legible, notwithstanding the fire.*
♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 19. ♦* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. ao.
Thomas Jones. Ben Jon son ii
Thomas' Jones (i6 i68a).
* . . . Jones, B.D., obiit at the house of (Francis) Charl-
ton, esq.; buried the 8th of October, Sunday, 1682, at
East Barnet in Middlesex : [student ' sometime of Ch. Ch. ;
master . . . ].
Ben Jonson (1574-1637).
** Mr. Benjamin Johnson ^, Poet Laureat ; — I remember
when I was a scholar at Trin. Coll. Oxon. 1646, I heard
Dr. Ralph Bathurst^ (now deane of Wells) say that Ben
Johnson was a Warwyckshire man — sed quaere. 'Tis
t In his dedica- ^S*"^^ ^^^ ^^^ father was a minister ; and by
^cSl^ELry^ his epistle dedicat.f of * Every Man . . .' to
IS^rw ^^' William Camden that he was a West-
ciwSJ^S^S':- minster scholar and that Mr. W. Camden was
n^rJthS^ his school-master.
Ihfiinefi"^" [Anthony »> Wood in his Nt'st. {et Antiq.
royyoJthtS" Utiiv, Oxott,), lib. 2, p. 273, sayes he was
S^iTua"^ borne in Westminster: that (at riper yeares)
tSt*^r^S^^ after he had studied at Cambridge he came
tiSn^^^s. of his owne accord to Oxon and there entred
Aubr.8,foL55. himselfe in Ch. Ch. and tooke his Master's
degree in Oxon (or conferred on him) anno 1619.]
His mother, after his father's death, maried a brick-
layer ; and 'tis generally sayd that he wrought sometime
with his father-in- la we*' (and particularly on the garden-
wall of Lincoln's Inne next to Chancery-lane — from old
parson (Richard) Hill, of Stretton, Hereff., 1646), and
that , a knight, a bencher, walking thro' and hearing
him repeat some Greeke verses out of Homer, discoursing
with him, and finding him to have a witt extraordinary,
gave him some exhibition to maintaine him at Trinity
college in Cambridge, where he was (quaere).
♦ MS. Aubr. 23, a slip at fol. 103*. M.A. Feb. 20, 165^. Hewasnot B.D.
* The words in square brackets are ** MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 108.
scored out, being in error. The ^ The note in square brackets is
reference is to Thomas Jones, in- a later, marginal addition,
truded P'ellow of Univ. Coll. 1649, ^ L e. step-father.
12 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
Then he went into the Lowe-countreys, and spent some
time (not very long) in the armie', not to the disgrace
of . . ., as you may find in his Epigrammes.
Then he came over into England, and acted and wrote,
but both ill, at the Green Curtaine, a kind of nursery or
obscure playhouse, somewhere in the suburbes (I thinke
towards Shoreditch or Clarkenwell) — from J. Greenhill.
Then he undertooke againe to write a playe, and did
hitt it admirably well, viz. * Every man . . / which
was his first good one.
Serjeant John Hoskins^ of Herefordshire, was his father.
I remember his sonne (Sir Bennet Hoskins, baronet, who
was something poeticall in his youth) told me, that when
he desired to be adopted his son : * No/ sayd he, * *tis
honour enough for me to be your brother; I am your
father's son, 'twas he that polished me, I doe acknow-
ledge it.'
He was (or rather had been) of a clear and faire skin ;
his habit was very plaine. I have heard Mr. Lacy, the
player, say that he was wont to weare a coate like a coach-
man's coate, with slitts under the arme-pitts. He would
many times exceed in drinke (Canarie was his beloved
liquour) : then he would tumble home to bed, and, when
he had thoroughly perspired, then to studie. I have seen
his studyeing chaire, which was of strawe, such as old
woemen used, and as Aulus Gellius is drawen in.
When I was in Oxon, bishop Skinner (of Oxford), who
lay at our College, was wont to say that he understood
an author as well as any man in England.
He mentions in his Epigrammes a sonne that he had,
and his epitaph.
Long since, in King James' time, I have heard my
uncle Danvers say (who knew him), that he lived with-
out Temple Barre, at a combe- maker's shop, about the
Elephant and Castle. In his later time he lived in West-
minster, in the house under which you passe as you goe
out of the churchyard into the old palace ; where he dyed.
• Snbst. for * war.*
Ben Jonson 13
He lies buryed f in the north aisle in the path of square
t Ben johnion stone (the lest is lozenge), opposite to the
Itrn^rtTaiirc scutcheon » of Robertus de Ros, with this in-
Abb^^jSlrt*^ scription only on him, in a pavement square, of
•ratoh^^of ^ blew marble, about 14 inches square,
Robertus de _
Ro^nodwthe Q RARE BEW lOHNSON
middle walke or
ston«i^^of which was donne at the chardge of Jack
o RARE BEN Young (aftcrwards knighted) who, Walking there
rfo^r"ard?from ^^^^ ^^^ grave was covering, * gave the fellow
Ms.^^ib?T eighteen pence to cutt it.
^o\.sS' His motto before his (bought) bookes was,
Tanquam Explorator. I remember 'tis in Seneca's Epistles.
He was a favourite of the Lord Chancellor Egerton,
as appeares by severall verses to him. In one he begges
his lordship to doe a friend of his a favour.
*Twas an ingeniose remarque of my lady Hoskins, that
B. J. never writes of love, or if he does, does it not
naturally.
He killed Mr. . . . Marlow, the poet, on Bunhill, comeing
from the Green-Curtain play-house. — From Sir Edward
Shirburn.
** Ben Johnson : — Ben Jonson had 50 //. per annum
for . . . yeares together to keepe off Sir W. Wiseman of
Essex from being sheriff. At last king James prickt him,
and Ben came to his majestie and told him he * had prickt
him to the heart' and then explaynd himselfe {innuendo
Sir W. W. being prickt sheriff) and got him struck off.
Vide his Execration against Vulcan, Vide None-such--
Charles, When B. J. was dyeing king Charles sent him
but X //. Quaere T. Shadwell pro notes of B. J. from the
duke of Newcastle; and also quaere Thomas Henshawe
(as also de saxis in Hibemia). Quaere my lord Clifford
of the gentleman that cutt the grasse under Ben Jonson's
* Aubrey tricks it in the margin, ^ Aubrey generally spells the name
* argent, 3 water bougets gules.' In Johnson. Here the H is scored out, as
MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5^, is the note : — also are the words in square brackets.
' Ben Johnson is just opposite Rober- * MS. Aubr. 6, foL 108^.
tus de Ros.* ♦* MS. Aubr. 8, fol 15.
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Aubrey^s ^ Brief Lives*
feet, of whom he sayd * Ungrateful! man ! I showed him
Juvenal.' •
* B. Jonson; one eye' lower then t'other and bigger.
He tooke a catalogue from Mr. Lacy of the Yorkshire
words ^ — his hint to Tale of a Tub for the clownery.
** Ben Johnson had one eie lower than t'other, and
bigger, like Clun, the player : perhaps he begott Clun. He
tooke a catalogue from Mr. Lacy (the player) of the York-
shire dialect *'. 'Twas his hint for clownery to his comoedy
called T/ie Tale of a Tub, This I had from Mr. Lacy.
*** King James made him write against the Puritans,
who began to be troublesome in his time.
A Grace by Ben Johnson, extempore, before King
James.
Our King and Queen, the Lord-God blesse.
The Paltzgrave, and the Lady Besse,
And God blesse every living thing
That lives, and breath's, and loves the King.
God bless the Councell of Estate,
And Buckingham, the fortunate.
God blesse them all, and keepe them safe,
And God blesse me, and God blesse Raph.
The king was mighty enquisitive to know who this
Raph was. Ben told him 'twas the drawer at the
Swanne tavernne, by Charing-crosse, who drew him
good Canarie. For this drollery his majestie gave him
an hundred poundes.
**** This account^ I received from Mr. Isaac Walton (who
wrote Dr. John Donne^s ^c. Life\ Decemb. 2, 1680, he
being tlien eighty-seaven years of age. This is his owne
hand writing.
♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 45'.
• This note comes after the note
about W. Beeston (vol. i. p. 97),
which ended ' Quaere etiam for Ben
Jonson/ This note abont Jonson*s
eyes may therefore come from that
' chronicle of the stage,' as reported
to Aubrey by John Lacy.
^ Subst. for « dialect/
♦* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 54.
« Dnpl. with * words.'
♦** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 55.
*♦♦♦ MS. Anbr. 6, fol. I07^
Ben Jonson 15
* Ffor yo' ffriend's que. this :
I only knew Ben Johnson : but my lord of Winton
knew him very well, and says he was in the 6°, that is the
vpermost fforme in Westminster scole. At which time
his father dyed, and his mother marryed a brickelayer,
who made him (much against his will) to help him in his
trade. But in a short time, his scole maister, Mr. Camden,
got him a better imployment, which was to atend or
accompany a son of Sir Walter Rauleyes in his travills.
Within a short time after their returne, they parted (I
think not in cole bloud) and with a loue sutable to what
they had in their travills (not to be comended) ; and then,
Ben began to set up for himselfe in the trade by which
he got his subsistance and fame. Of which I nede not
giue any account. He got in time to haue a 100 li. a yeare
from the king, also a pention from the Cittie, and the
like from many of the nobilitie, and some of the gentry,
w** was well payd for loue or fere of his raling in verse
or prose, or boeth. My lord of Winton told me, he told
him he was (in his long retyrement, and sicknes, when he
saw him, which was often) much aflickted that hee had
profain'd the scripture, in his playes ; and lamented it with
horror ; yet, that at that time of his long retyrement, his
pentions (so much as came yn) was giuen to a woman that
gouern'd him, with whome he liud and dyed nere the Abie
in West mimster ; and that nether he nor she tooke much
care for next weike, and wood be sure not to want wine ;
of which he vsually tooke too much before he went to bed,
if not oftner and soner. My lord tells me, he knowes not,
but thinks he was borne in Westminster. The question
may be put to Mr. Wood very easily vpon what grownds
he is positiue as to his being borne their ? he is a friendly
man and will resolue it So much for brave Ben. You
will not think the rest so tedyus, as I doe this.
Ffor yo' 2 and 3° que. of Mr. Hill and Bilingsley, I doe
nether know, nor can learn any thing worth teling you.
** For y' two remaining que. of Mr. Warner and Mr.
♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 107. ♦* MS. Aobr. 6, foL I07\
1 6 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives*
Harriott, this : — Mr. Warner did long and constantly lodg
nere the water-stares or market in Woolstable (Woolstable
is a place or lane not far from Charing Crosse, and nerer
to Northumberland howse). My lord of Winchester tells
me he knew him, and that he saide he first fownd out the
cerculation of the blood, and discovered it (to) Do' Haruie
(who said that 'twas he (himselfe) that found it), for which
he is so memorably famose. Warner had a pention of
40 li, a yeare from that earle of Northumberland that lay
so long a prisner in the Towre, and som alowance from Sir
Tho. Alesbery with whome he vsually spent his sumer in
Windesor park, and was welcom, for he was harmless and
quet. His winter was spent at the Wolstable, where he
dyed in the time of the Parliament of 1640, of w*'**, or
whome, he was no louer.
Mr. Harriott ; my lord tells me, he knew him also : that
he was a more gentile man, then Warner. That he had
120//. a yeare pention from the said earle (who was a louer
of ther studyes) and his lodging in Syon howse, where he
thinks, or beliues, he dyed.
This IS all I know or can leame for yo' friend ; which
I wish may be worth the time and troble of reading it.
J. W.
Nou*^ 22, 80.
I forgot to tell, that I heard the sermon preacht for the
lady Danuers, and have it : but thanke y' ffriend.
Notes,
^ An anecdote of Ben Jonson (possibly from some Book of Jests) is commu-
nicated to me by Professor York Powell as still current in Oxford in oral
tradition : —
*■ One day as Ben Jonson was working at his first trade a fine lady passed
and greeted him —
'* A line and a trowel
Guide many a fool:
Good morning, Ben I "
— "In silk and scarlet
Walks many a harlot :
Good morning, Madam ! '*
answered the poet.'
* Aubrey, writing Aug. 7, 1680, in Wood MS. F. 39, fol. 343, says : — * Pray
ask the deane of Welles what countreyman Ben Joiinson was. To my best
John Kersey. Ralph Kettell
17
remembrance I heard bim say (1648) Warwicksbire ; and I bave beard some
say that be was of Trinity College Cambridge.'
^ This is an autograph letter by Izaak Walton, with a heading (here in
italic) added by Aubrey.
John Kersey (1616-167-?).
* John Kersey, borne at Bodicot in Oxfordshire neer
Banbury, anno domini 161 6. Scripsit ; — Arithmetique,
8vo ; and two volumes of Algebra, folio.
Obiit in Shandos street, London, neer St. Martin's lane,
anno domini 167-. He died of a consumption.
He did survey. a
Balph Kettell (i 563-1 643).
** Ralph Kettle, D.D., praeses Coll. Trin. Oxon., was
borne at (King's Langley) in Hertfordshire.
The lady Elizabeth Pope brought him in to be a
scholar of the house at eleaven yeares of age ^ (as I have
heard Dr. Ralph Bathurst say).
I have heard Dr. Whistler • say that he wrote good Latin,
and Dr. Ralph Bathurst (whose grandmother, . . . Villers,
he maried), that he scolded the best in Latin of any one
that ever he knew. He was of an admirable healthy
constitution.
He dyed a yeare + after I came to the Colledge, and
he was then a good deale above 80 (quaere aetatem), and he
had then a fresh ruddy complexion. He was a very tall
well growne man. His gowne and surplice and hood being
on, he had a terrible gigantique aspect, with his sharp
gray eies. The ordinary gowne he 'wore was a russet
cloath gowne.
He was, they say, white ^ very soon ; he had a very
venerable presence, and was an excellent governour. One
of his maximes of governing was to keepe-downe the
t *Ti8 seneca*8 juvenilis iffipetus^. He was chosen President
expression. ^^^^ Domini <i59f> the second after the
foundation of the College.
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 14*.
♦♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 57.
II.
* See sub nomine^ Daniel Whistler.
^ Subst. for ' gray.*
C
A
i8 Aubrey's 'Brtef Lives*
He was a right Church of England man, and every
Tuesday, in terme time, in the morning, the undergraduates
(I have forgott if baccalaurs) were to come into the chapell
and heare him expound on the 36 Articles • of the Church
of England. I remember he was wont to talke much
of the rood-loft, and of the wafers : he remembred those
times. On these dayes, if any one had committed a fault,
he should be sure to heare of it in the chapell before
his fellow collegiates.
(On^ these days, he would be sure to) have at him
that had a white cap on ; for he concluded him to have
been drunke, and his head to ake. Sir® John Denham
had borrowed money of Mr. Whistler, the recorder*, and,
after a great while, the recorder askt him for it again.
Mr. Denham laught at it, and told him he never
intended that. The recorder acquainted the President,
who, at a lecture in the chapell, rattled him, and told him,
*Thyfath#r,' (judge®) *haz hanged many an honester man.'
In my time, Mr. Anthony Ettrick and some others frighted
a poor young freshman of Magd. Hall with conjuring,
which when the old Dr. heard of : on the next Tuesday, sayd
he, *Mr. Ettrick'— who is a very little man — 'will conjure
up a jackanapes to be his great-grand-father.'
He sawe how the factious in religion in those dayes
drew, and he kept himselfe unconcerned. W. Laud,
archbishop of Canterbury, sent him one time a servant
of his with venison, which the old Dr. with much earnestnes
refused, and sayd that he was an old man, and his stomach
weake, and he had not eaten of such meate in a long time,
and by no meanes would accept of it ; but the servant
was as much pressing it on him on the other side, and
told the President that he durst not carry it back ' againe.
Well, seing there was no avoyding it, the President asked the
• '36* in MS., with 'quaere* in « Dupl. with * Mr.*
the margin; Aubrey having forgot ^ John Whistler, recorder of Oxford
the number. City.
* The remainder of the paragraph ** Sir John Denham, Chief Justice
is in the margin of the MS., an of the King's Bench in Ireland, i6i 2.
amplification of the preceding sentence. ' Subst. for * retume it*
Ralph Kettell 19
servant seriously, if the archbishop of Canterbury intended
to putt in any scholars or fellowes • into his College ?
Mr one of the fellowes (in Mr. Francis
Potter's time) was wont to say, that Dr. Kettel's braine
was like a hasty-piidding, where there was mefnorie^ judge-
fnenty atid pliancy all stirred together. He had all these
faculties in great measure, but they were all just so
jumbled together. If you had to doe with him, taking
him for a foole, you would have found in him great
subtilty and reach : i contra^ if you treated with him as
a wise man, you would have mistaken him for a foole. A
neighbour of mine (Mr. La(urence) St. Low^) told me
he heard him preach once in St. Marie's Church, at Oxon.
He began thus : * being my tume to preach in this place,
I went into my study to prepare my selfe for my sermon,
and I tooke downe a booke that had blew strings, and
look't in it, * and 'twas sweet Saint Bernard. I chanced to
read such a part of it, on such a subject, which haz made
me to choose this text .' I know not whether this was
the only time or no that he used this following way
of conclusion : — * But now I see it is time for me to shutt
up my booke, for I see the doctors* men come-in wiping
of their beardes from the ale-house.' — (He could from the
pulpit plainly see them, and 'twas their custome in sermon
to go there, and about the end of sermon to retume to
wayte on their masters).
He had two wives, if not three, but no child (quaere).
His second wife was a Villiers, or rather (I thinke) the
widowe of . . . Villers, esq., who had two beautifull daugh-
ters, co-heires. The eldest, whom severall of good estate ''
would gladly have wedded, he would needs dispose of
himselfe, and he thought nobody so fitt a husband for
this angelique creature as one Mr. Bathurst, of the
College, a second brother, and of about 300 lu per annum,
but an indifferent scholar, red fac'd, not at all handsome.
* Land had done this at All Souls, ^ Subst. for < severall good gentle-
where he was Visitor. men.*
♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 57^
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20 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
But the Doctor's fashion was to goe up and down the
college, and peepe in at the key-holes to see whether
the boyes did follow their books or no. He seldome
found Bathurst minding of his booke, but mending of
his old doublet or breeches. He was very thrifty and
penurious, and upon this reason he caried away this
curious creature. But she was very happy in her issue;
all her children were ingeniose and prosperous* in the
world, and most of them beautifuU.
About (neer 70 yeares since, I suppose,) one
Mr. Isham (elder brother to Sir Justinian Isham), a gentle-
man-commoner of this howse, dyed of the small pox.
He was a very fine gentleman, and very well beloved by all
the colledge, and severall of the fellowes would have
preacht his funerall sermon, but Dr. Kettle would not
permitt it, but would doe it himselfe ; which the fellowes
were sorry for, for they knew he would make a ridiculous
piece of worke of it. But preach the Dr. did : takes a
text and preaches on it a little while; and then takes
another text, for the satisfaction of the young gentleman's
mother ; and anon he takes another text, for the satis-
faction of the young gentleman's grandmother. When
he came to the panegyrique, sayd he, * He was the finest,
swet ^ young gentleman ; it did doe my heart good to see
him walke along the quadrangle. Wee have an old pro-
verbe that Hungry dogges will eate dirty puddings ; but
t They were I must ncedes say for this young gentleman,
wont to mock iti i ij. >« «..«
me with this-, that he always loved j sweet — he spake it with
a squeaking voice — ^ things,' — and there was an end.
He observed that the howses that had the smallest
beer had most drunkards, for it forced them to goe into
the town to comfort their stomachs ; wherfore Dr. Kettle
alwayes had in his College excellent beer, not better to be
had in Oxon ; so that we could not goe to any other
place but for the worse, and we had the fewest drunkards
of any howse in Oxford.
• Subst. for ' happy.* « ? to jibe Aubrey in College for
*> i. e. sweet. having * a sweet tooth.*
Ralph Kettell 21
He was constantly at lectures and exercises in the
hall to observe them, and brought along with him his
hower-glasse ; and one time, being offended at the
boyes, he threatned them, that if they would not doe
their exercise better he 'would bring an hower-glass two
howers long/
He was irreconcileable to long haire ; called them hairy
scalpes, and as for periwigges (which were then very
rarely worne) he beleeved* them to be the scalpes of men
cutt off after they were hang'd, and so tanned and dressed
for use. When he observed the scolars* haire longer then
ordinary (especially if they were scholars of the howse),
he would bring a paire of cizers in his muffe (which he
commonly wore), and woe be to them that sate on the
outside of the table ^. I remember he cutt Mr. Radford's *
haire with the knife that chipps the bread on the buttery-
hatch, and then he sang (this is in the old play — Henry
Vni('s time) — of Grammar^ Gurton^s needle)
*And was not Grim the collier finely trimm'd?
Tonedi, Tonedi.'
'Mr.'* Lydall,' sayd he, 'how doe you decline tondeof
Tondeo, tondes, tonedi ? '
One time walking by the table where the Logick lecture
was read, where the reader was telling the boyes that a
syllogisme might be true quoad for mam ^ but not quoad
materiam ; said the President (who would putt-in some-
times), ' There was a fox had spyed a crowe upon a tree,
and he had a great mind to have him % and so getts under
the tree in a hope, and layes out his tayle crooked like
a home, thinking the crowe might come and peck at it,
and then he would seise him. Now come we ' (this **
was his word), ' I say the foxe's tayle is a home : is this
a true proposition or no ? ' (to one of the boyes). ' Yes,'
♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 58. * grandmother.'
* See sub nomine^ William Rad- « Snbst. for * this crowe.*
ford. ^ i. e. he had a trick of asing the
^ Aubrey always writes the word expression ' now come we.*
so, probably as a contraction for
22 Aubrey^s * Brief Lives'
sayd he (the Dr. expected he should have sayd No ; for
it putt him out of his desigfne) ; * Why then,' said he, * take
him and toot him ' ; and away he went.
He dragg'd with one (i. e. right*) foot a little, by which
he gave warning (like the rattlesnake) of his comeing.
Will. Egerton (Major-Generall Egerton's younger brother),
a good witt and mimick, would goe so like him, that some-
time he would make the whole chapell rise up, imagining
he had been entring in.
As they were reading of inscribing and circumscribing
figures, sayd he, * I will shew you how to inscribe a triangle
in a quadrangle. Bring a pig into the quadrangle, and
I will sett the colledge dog at him, and he will take the
pig by the eare ; then come I and take the dog by the
tayle, and the hog by the tayle, and so there you have
a triangle in a quadrangle ; quod erat faciendum*
He preach't every Sunday at his parsonage at Garsington
(about 5 miles off). He rode on his bay gelding, with
his boy Ralph before him, with a leg of mutton (commonly)
and some colledge bread. He did not care for the countrey
revells, because they tended to debauchery. Sayd he, at
Garsington revell, ' Here is Hey for Garsington I and
Hey for Cuddesdon I and Hey Hockly ! but here's nobody
cries, Hey for God Almighty ! '
Upon Trinity Sunday (our festival day) he would
commonly preach at the Colledge, whither a number of
the scholars of other howses would come, to laugh at
him. In his prayer (where he was of course to remember
Sir Thomas Pope, our founder, and the lady Elizabeth
his wife, deceasd), he would many times make a willful!
mistake, and say, * Sir Thomas Pope our Confounder ^l
but then presently recall himselfe.
He was a person of great charity. In his college, where
he observed diligent boyes that he ghessed had but a
slender exhibition from their friends, he would many times
putt money in at their windowes ; that his right hand
* Scored out, Aubrey apparently doubting whether it was, or was not, the
right foot. ^ for * co-founder.'
Ralph Kettell 23
did not know what his left did. * Servitors that wrote
good hands he would sett on worke to transcribe for him
and reward them generosely, and give them good advise.
Mris. Howe, of Grendon, sent him a present of hippocris,
and some fine cheese-cakes, by a plain countrey fellow,
her servant. The Dr. tastes the wine : — * What/ sayd
he, * didst thou take this drinke • out of a ditch ? ' and
when he saw the cheese-cakes : — * What have we here,
crinkuniy crankum ? ' The poor fellow stared on him, and
wondered at such a rough reception of such a handsome
present ; but he shortly made him amends with a good
dinner and halfe-a-crowne. The parsonage of Garsington
(which belongs to the college) is worth per
annum, and this good old Doctor, when one of his parish **,
that was an honest industrious man, happened by any
accident to be in decay and lowe in the world, would
let his parsonage to him for a yeare, two, or three, fourty
pounds a yeare under value.
In his younger yeares he had been chaplain to (Thomas)
Bilson, bishop of Winton.
In August, 1642, the lord viscount Say and Seale came
(by order of the Parliament) to visit the colleges, to see
what of new Popery they could discover in the chapells.
In our chapell, on the backside of the skreen, had been
two altars (of painting well enough for those times, and
the colours were admirably fresh and lively). That on
the right hand as you enter the chapell was dedicated
to St. Katharine, that on the left was of the taking our
Saviour off from the crosse. My lord Say sawe that this
was donne of old time, and Dr. Kettle told his lordship
* Truly, my Lord, we regard them no more then a dirty
dish-clout ' ; so they remained untoucht, till Harris's time ^^
and then were coloured over with green. The windowes
of the chapell were good Gothique painting, in every
columne a figure;— e.g. St. Cuthbert, St. Leonard, St.
♦ MS. Aiibr. 6, fol. 58'. « Robert Harris, intruded President
■ Subst. for • bring this liquour.' of Trinity, 1648-1658.
^ Subst. for * when a neighbour.'
24 Aubreys * Brief Lives*
Oswald. I have forgott the rest. Tis pitty they should
be lost. I have a note of all the scutcheons in glassc
about the house. 'Twas pitty Dr. Bathurst tooke the
old painted glasse out of the library. Anciently, in the
chapell, was a little organ over the dore of the skreen.
The pipes were, in my time, in the bursery.
* Memorandum : — ^till Oxford was surrendred we sang
the reading psalmes on Sundayes, holy-dayes, and holy-day
eves ; and one of the scholars of the house sang the ghospell
for the day in the hall, at the latter end of dinner, and con-
cluded, Sic desinit Evangelium secundum beatum Johanncfu
(or etc.) : /// autem^ Dominey miserere nostru
He (Kettle) sang a shrill high treble ; but there was
one (J. Hoskyns ^) who had a higher, and would play the
wag with the Dr. to make him straine his voice up to his.
** Memorandum : — there was in my time a rich pall •
to lay on a coffin, of crimson velvet, with a large plaine
crosse on it of white silke or sattin.
*** *Tis probable this venerable Dr. might have lived
some yeares longer, and finisht his century, had not those
civill warres come on : which much grieved him, that was
wont to be absolute in the colledge, to be affronted and
disrespected by rude soldiers. I remember, being at the
Rhetorique lecture in the hall, a foot-soldier came in and
**** brake his hower-glasse. The Dr. indeed was just stept
out, but Jack Dowch • pointed at it. Our grove was the
Daphne for the ladies and their gallants to walke in, and
t < She) lav at ^any times my lady Isabella Thynne t would
Baiiioi coifege. ^^j^^ j^^j. entrcy with a theorbo or lute played
before her. I have heard her play on it in the grove
myselfe, which she did rarely ; for which Mr. Edmund
Waller hath in his Poems for ever made her famous.
One may say of her as Tacitus sayd of Agrippina,
Cuncia alia illi adfuere^ praeter animum honestum. She
was most beautifull, most humble, charitable, etc. but she
♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 57. chapel.
•♦ MS. Aubr. 6. fol. 59\ *»♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 58'.
• i. e. belonging to the College *♦♦♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol.* 59.
Ralph Kettell 25
could not subdue one thing. I remember one time this
lady and fine Mris. Fenshawe t (her great and
t She was wontf .^. /••iii ^ w \ 11
and my lady mtimate mend, who lay at our college), would
Thynne, to come , rfi 1 •• \ tx » %
to oar chapeii, have a froliCK to make a visitt to the President.
mornings, halfe , iit-v -ii •«« 1
dressd,Tike The old Dr. quickly perceived that they came
to abuse him; he addresses his discourse to
Mris. Fenshawe, saying,* Madam, your husband ^ and father
I bred up here, and I knew your grandfather ; I know
you to be a gentlewoman, I will not say you are a whore ;
but gett you gonne for a very woman/ The dissolute-
nesse of the times, as I have sayd, grieving the good
old Doctor, his dayes were shortned, and dyed (July)
anno Domini 1643, and was buried at Garsington : quaere
his epitaph.
Seneca's scholar Nero found fault with his style, saying
'twas arena sine calce : now Dr. Kettle was wont to say that
* Seneca writes, as a boare does pisse,' scilicet, by jirkes.
I cannot forget a story that Robert Skinner, lord bishop
of Oxford, haz told us : — one Slymaker ®, a fellow of this
College long since, a fellow of great impudence, and little
learning — the fashion was in those dayes to goe, every
Satterday night (I thinke), to Joseph Barnes' shop, the
bookeseller (opposite to the west end of St. Mary's), where
the newes was brought from London, etc. — this impudent
clowne would alwayes be hearkning to people's whisperings
and overlooking their letters, that he was much taken
notice of. Sir Isaac Wake, who was a very witty man,
was resolved he would putt a trick upon him, and under-
stood that such a Sunday Slymaker was to preach at
St. Mary's. So Sir Isaac, the Saterday before, reades
a very formall lettre to some person of quality, that
cardinal Baronius was turned Protestant, and was marching
with an army of 40,000 men against the Pope. Slymaker
hearkned with greedy eares, and the next day in his prayer
before his sermon^, beseeched God **of his infinite
mercy and goodnesse to give a blessing to the army of
cardinall Baronius, who was tumd Protestant, and now
♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 59\
26 Aubreys * Brief Lives*
marching with an army of forty thousand men/ and so
runnes on: he had a Stentorian voice, and thunderd it
out. The auditors all stared and were amazed : . • •
Abbot (afterwards bishop of Sarum*) was then Vice-
cancellor, and when Slymaker came out of the pulpit,
sends for him, and asked his name : * Slymaker/ sayd
he ; * No/ sayd the Vice-canc, * 'tis Lyemaker.'
Dr. Kettle, when he scolded at the idle young boies
of his colledge, he used these names, viz. Turds^ Tarrarags
(these were the worst sort, rude rakells), Rascal-Jacks^
BlifidcinqueSy Scobbcrlotchers (these did no hurt, were sober,
but went idleing about the grove with their hands in their
pocketts, and telling the number of the trees there, or so).
* To make you merry Tie tell you a story that Dr.
Henry Birket^ told us tother day at his cosen (Thomas)
Mariet's, scilicet that about 1638 or 1640 when he was
of Trinity College, Dr. Kettle, preaching as he was wont
to doe on Trinity Sunday, told 'em that they should keepe
their bodies chast and holy : * but/ said he, * you fellows
of the College here eate good commons and drinke good
double-beer . . . and that will gett-out/ How would the
good old Dr. have raunted and beat-up his kettle-drum,
if he should have seen such luxury in the College as there
is now ! Tempora mutantur.
Notes,
^ It is difficult to decide whether these personal traditions are accurate or
not By the College records it appears that * Ralph Kettell, Hertfordshire,
aged sixteen ^ was elected scholar of Trinity i6 June 1579.* But he may have
been in residence earlier. He was elected fellow May 30, 1583 ; and admitted
///in^ president Feb. 12, 159$. He died in July, 1643.
' Laurence Saintloe was B.A. from Exeter College Nov. 14, 1633 : probably
of the Saintlowes of Wiltshire.
' In College halls, till modem increase of numbers brought in more tables to
block the floor, there were only the high table on the dais, and side-tables along
the walls of the body of the hall. The inner seats for these were often part of the
wainscotting, and in any case there would be no passage behind them.
» An error. Robert Abbot was ♦ Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol.
never Vice-Chancellor. His brother 400: March 31, 1690.
Cieorge Abbot, afterwards archbishop ^ Henry Birkhead, matric. at Triu.
of Canterbury, was Vice-Chancellor 1634, aet. 16 ; died 1696.
three times, in 1600, 1603, 1605.
Ludolph van Keulen. Richard Kitson 27
^ John Lydall, scholar of Trinity College, June 4, 1640 : Aubrey's particular
friend, died Oct. 12, 1657 (Clark's Wood's Life and Times ^ i. 229). Aubrey
often refers to him in his letters, generally with some expression of deep sorrow.
^ John Hoskins of Rampisham, Dorset, elected Scholar of Trinity, May 28,
'^35» i^cd 16 ; Fellow June 4, 1640.
* John Douch, matric. at Trin. July 5, 1639, &g^ 1^' afterwards rector
of Stalbridge, Dorset.
^ John Fanshawc of Dagenham, Essex, matric. at Trin. Coll. Feb. 9, i63{,
aged 18.
* Henry Slymakcr, of Oxford city, aged 18, elected Scholar of Trin. May 26,
1592; Fellow June 13, 1598.
' It would be interesting to know when the 'bidding prayer* became a form,
as it now is, and ceased to be composed for the occasion. See a notice of this
prayer being habitually used to express personal opinions in 1637, in Clark's
Wood's Life and TimeSy ii. 238.
Ludolph van Eetilen (1554?-! 6 10).
* Ludolphus van Ceulin was first, by profession, a fencing-
master ; but becomeing deafe, he betooke himselfe to the
studie of the mathematiques wherin he became famous.
He wrote a learned booke, printed at ... in 4to of
the proportion of the diameter of a circle to the peripherie :
before which is his picture, and round about it in the com-
partiment are swords and bucklers and holberts, etc., —
weapons : the reason wherof I understood not till D'. John
Pell gave the aforesaid account, who had it from Sir Francis
Godolphin, who had been his scholar as to fencing and
boarded in his house.
He dyed at Leyden anno . . . , aetat. 56, as I remember
(vide) ; and on his monument, according to his last will, is
engraved the proportion abovesayd, which is . . .
Bichard Kitson.
** My lodging is at the Geoi^e Inne in Little Drury
lane, very early or late, or at other times at Mr. Samuell Eyres
his chamber at Lincolne's Inne or at Mr. John Hancock s
chamber in the Middle Temple — Ric. Kitson.
Direct your letter in the country to me at my house
in Amesbury neere Salisbury, Wiltes.
♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 5.
** MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 6i*~a note from Kitson himself.
28 Aubreys 'Brief Lives'
I use to be at Salisbury Tuesdayes and Saturdayes
weekely — R. K.
Richard Knolles (T54 1610).
* (The) author of the battaile of Lepanto* {was^
hangd at Tyburne ; he was reduced to such necessity.
The lord Burleigh, when he read (Richard) Knolls'
Turkish history was particularly extremely pleased at the
discription of the battail of Lepanto ; sent for Knolles,
who told him an ingeniose young man came to him,
hearing what he was about^ and desired that he might
write that, having been in that action. I thinke he has
taught schoole about Sandwych.
My lord hunted after him, and traced him from place
to place, and at last to Newgate. He was hanged but
a 14 night before. He unluckily lost a good opportunity
of being preferred — (from) Mr. Smyth, Magd. Coll.
John Laoy (16 1681).
** John Lacy, player, of the King's house, borne at . . .
neer Doncaster in Yorkshire. Came to London to the
. . . playhouse, 1631. His master was .... Apprentice
(as were also . . . and Isaac) to Mr. John Ogilby.
B. Jonson tooke a note of his Yorkshire words and
proverbcs for his Tale of a Tuby several * Gad kettlepinns ! '
1642 vel 3, lievetenant and quartermaster to the lord
Gerard ^ Vide Dr. Earles* Character of a Player.
He was of an elegant shape, and fine ® complexion.
His majestie (Charles H**) haz severall pictures of this
famous comoedian at Windsore and Hampton Court in the
postures of severall parts that he acted, e.g., Teag, Lord
Vaux, the Puritan.
He dyed of ... . He made his exit on Saturday
September 17th 1681, and was buryed in the farther
♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12. ^ Charles Gerard, in 1645 baroii
■ Anthony Wood notes, ' The poem Gerard of Brandon, in 1679 earl of
cal'd Lepanto was written by King Macclesfield.
James.' • Dnpl. with 'good.'
♦* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 20».
Edward Lane 29
churchyard of St Martyn's in the fields on the Monday
following, aged . . .
Scripsit these comoedies : that is to say,
• • •
• • •
Edward Lane (i 605-1 685).
* Edward Lane, who wrote against . . . Du Moulin * :
the title ofhisbooke is . . . , London, printed for W. Crooke,
A.D. . . .
In a letter from him to Mr. Crooke, thus, viz. : —
* As to the postscript of your letter, wherein I am desired
to give an account of my academicall education, etc., know
that in the yeare 1622, after I had been brought up to
some learning in Paule s Schoole, London, I was admitted
into St. John's Colledge, in Cambridge, where the president
was my tutor ; and after I had duely performed all that
was required of me both in College and Schooles, I tooke
my degree there of Master in Arts in the yeare 1629.
And ten yeares after that, viz. in the yeare 1639, I was
admitted ad eimdetn gradum in the university of Oxford.
In the yeare 1630, my Lord Keeper Coventrey gave (me)
a little vicarage in Essex, called North Strobury; and
in the yeare 1635 his good Lordship removed me to the
place where I now am. This I concieve is all that is
now enquired of me by you. — The Lord give me grace
so to number my dayes that I may apply my heart better
then I have yet donne to Spiritual Wisdome.
Good sir,
I am your true friend and servant,
Edward Lane.*
Sparsholt, Hants.
Novemb. 16, 1681.
Note.
^ Id 1680 Lewis du Monlin published a pamphlet, ' Moral reflections upon
the number of the elect, proving . . . that . . . probably not one in a million
from Adam down to our time shall be saved.' Lane*8 answer appeared in the
same year : — * Mercy triumphant : the kingdom of Christ enlarged beyond the
narrow bounds which have been put to it by Dr. L. du Moulin . . .'
♦ MS. Aubr. 8, foL a;'.
30 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
Sip Henry Lee (1530-161 §).
Sip Henpy Lee (15 1631).
* Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley in com. Oxon was a gentle-
man of a good estate, and a strong and valiant person.
He was raunger of Woodstocke parke, and (I have heard
my old cosen Whitney say) would many times in his younger
yeares walke at nights in the parke with his keepers.
Sir Gerard Fleetwood succeeded him in this
he^i<iIl npistin place f ', as his nephew Sir William Fleetwood
Drayton-' In did him, and him the earl of Rochester,
time, one This Sir Hcnry Lee's nephew and heire
Vaughan.* ^ n i /•
(whom I remember very well ; he often came
to Sir John Danvers*) was called Whip-and-away. The
occasion of it was thus : — this old hero declining in his
strength by age and so not being able to be a Tighter
of his owne wronges as heretofore —
Labitur occiduae per iter declive senectae.
Submit haec aevi demoliturque prioris
Robora. Fletque Milo senior cum spectat inanes
Illos, qui fuerant solidorum more tororum
Herculeis similes, fluidos pendere lacertos.
Ovid. Metamorp. lib. xv, fab. 3 (1. 227) —
some person of quality had affronted him. So he spake
to Sir Henry Lee his heire to lie in wayte for him about
the Bell Inne in the Strand with halfe a dozen or more
lustie fellowes at his back and as the partie passed along
to give him a good blow with his cane and whip and away^
the tall fellowes should finish the revenge. Whether 'twere
nicety of conscience or cowardice, but Sir Henry the
younger absolutely refused it. For which he was dis-
inherited, and (Sir Henry the elder) setled his whole
estate upon a keeper's sonne of Whitchwood-forest of his
owne name, a one-eied young man, no kinne to him, from
whom the earle of Lichfield* now is descended, as also
the lady N orris and lady Wharton.
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 91*. Aubrey * SirEdward Henry Lee, 5th l>aronet
gives the arms in trick, viz., ' argent, created earl of Litchfield in 1674.
a fess between 3 crescents sable.*
Sir Henry Lee
31
He was never maried, but kept woemen to reade to him
when he was a bed. One of his readers was parson Jones *
his wife of Wotton. I have heard her daughter (who had
no more witt) glory what a brave reader her mother was
and how Sir Harry's worship much deh'ghted to heare her.
But his dearest deare was Mris. Anne Vavasour. He
erected a noble altar monument of marble (fCl* see it)
wheron his effigies in armour lay ; at the feet was the effigies
of his mistresse Mris. Anne Vavasour. Which occasioned
these verses : —
Here lies good old knight Sir Harry,
Who loved well, but would not marry** . . .
Memorandum : some bishop did threaten to have this
monument defaced (at least to remove Mris. A. Vavasour's
effigies).
{Pedigree of the Lees of Ditchley)
* (1) Old Sir Henry Lee° of Ditchley, com. Oxon.
(2) Sir Henry Lee, whom they called Whip-and-away^
was cosen-g^rman to the other Sir Henry; he dyed a
batchelor, sine prole.
;) Sir Henry Lee*, «i. Elenor Wortlcy, whose
mother was coantesse
of Dover.
with oiie eie, a keep-
er's son, adopted by
old Sir Henry.
Ha^« Lee tm. {Anne> St. John, . . . daneh
of Sir John St John, of Lydis
jhter
Hard
Trefi^CMe, Wilts; now countess
of Rochester.
Harry Lee' tn. Anne Danvers, second danehter of
Sir John Danvers, brother and
heire of Henry, earl of Danby.
(Eleanor) Lee i». James, lord Norris
of Ricot^ since earl
of Abingdon.
(Anne) Lee i». (Thomas) eldest son
of the lord Wharton.
I. Monumi, now
lord Norris.
.1 ' '
2. James. 3 4
* Thomas Johnes, instituted to
Wootton, Dec. 8, 1609.
^ Four lines are suppressed.
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 92 : found also
in a fragmentaxy jotting, in MS. Aubr.
8, fol. 8*.
« K.G.;obiit 161 J.
^ Obiit 1631.
• Sir Francis Henry Lee, obiit circ.
1640. Henry, his elder brother, died
in infancy.
' Obiit 1659.
32 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives*
Old Sir Henry Lee, knight of the Garter, and was
supposed brother of queen Elizabeth. He ordered that
all his family should be christned Harry's.
This account I take from my lady Elizabeth viscountesse
Purbec, the eldest daughter of Sir John Danvers, sister
to the lady Anne Lee.
* One-eied Lee * m. ( Anne > St. John m. { Heniy >, lord Wilmot.
i<Johny earl of Rochester,
enry ) Lee mr. Anne Danvera
carl of Litchfield *». j^ \
Lady Norrts. Lady Wharton.
William Lee (15 1610).
** Mr. William Lee, A.M., was of Oxon® (I thinke,
Magdalen Hall ^). He was the first inventor of the weaving
of stockings by an engine of his contrivance. He was a
Sussex man borne, or els lived there. He was a poor
curate, and, observing how much paines his wife tooke in
knitting a payre of stockings, he bought a stocking and a
halfe, and observed the contrivance of the stitch, which he
designed in his loome, which (though some of the appendent
instruments of the engine be altered) keepes the same to
this day. He went into France, and there dyed before his
loome was made there. So the art was, not long since, in
no part of the world but England. Oliver Protector made
an act that it should be felonie to transport this engine.
Vide Stowe's Chronicle and Baker's Chronicle, if any
mention of it. This information I tooke from a weaver
(by this engine) in Pear-poole lane, 1656. Sir John
Hoskyns, Mr. Stafford Tyndale, and I, went purposely
to see it
Kote.
* In MS. Aubr. 8. fol. 4, Anthony Wood notes: — ' 11 Nov. 1681 : — **John
Lee, Surrey, son of Thomas Lee, of London, gent., act. 17, 1624 " (matriculated
* MS. Aubr. 8, foL 93. (w. Elizabeth Pope), younger brother
* A step is missing here : cp. the of Sir Henry Lee (#«. Anne Danvers).
preceding pedigree. ** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5a.
*» This is an error. Sir Edward <' An error. William Lee was of
Henry Lee, created earl of Litchfield, Christ*s College, Cambridge,
was son of Sir Francis Henry Lee
William Lilly 33
at) " Aul. Magd." — this I set here because one Lee is mentioned in this book,
— see page 18/ i.e. fol. 3a as above.
WiUiam LiUy (1601-1681).
* W. Lilly — (life) donne by himselfe penes Mr. Ellas
Ashmole.
** Mr. W. LiUy obiit at his house in Hersham, Thursday,
June 9, and is to be buried at Walton chancel* this day,
scil. June 10, 1681. He was borne on May day 1601**:
had he lived till next May he had been full fourscore. He
setled his estate at Hersham, 200 //. per annum, on . ". .
Whitlock, esqre, Sonne of the Lord Commissioner Whitlock °
(who was his great patrone).
*** Mr. William Lilly, astrologer : he wrote his owne
life very largely, which Elias Ashmole, esq., hath. Memo-
randum he predicted the great comete which appeared in
anno Domini^ 168(0), in his almanack 1677, which was
the last that he wrote himselfe with his owne hands; for
afterwards he fell blind. Memorandum, to bind up the
almanack aforesayd with other 8vo pamphlets, for 'tis
exceeding considerable.
♦♦*♦ Ne oblivione contereretur uma
Gulielmi Lillii
astrologi peritissimi
qui fatis cessit
V*** Idus Junii anno Christi Juliano
MDCLXXXI
Hoc illi posuit amoris monumentum
Elias Ashmole,
armiger.
On a black marble (good marble ; 7 //. •) gravestone in
the middle towards the north wall of Walton-on-Thames
(church).
♦ MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 86. »*» MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 45^
** MS. Aubr. 6, fol. io\ ** Nov. 1680— Jan. i68f : see Clark's
• Subst. for ' Hersham ChunclL' Wood's Life and THmes, ii. 503, 504.
*» * 1601 * is inserted by Anthony **** MS. Aabr. 23, fol. 122.
Wood. * Anbrey*s estimate of its probable
« Bulstrode Whitelocke. cost.
II. D
34 Aubreys ^ Brief Lives ^
Quaere — he wrote his own life which Mr. Ashmole hath
and is dedicated to him.
FrancisctiB Linus.
* Father Franciscus Linus, i.e. Hall, was borne in London
— which captain Robert Pugh, h Societate Jesus, assured
me, who was his great acquaintance.
He was of the Societie of Jesus and lived most at Li^e,
where he dyed . . •
He writt a learned discourse, de coloribus^ which Sir
Kenelm Digby quotes with much praise in his philosophic.
He printed a discourse of dialling in 4to, Latin, and
made the Jesuits Collie there the finest dialls in the
world, which are described in that booke. The like dialls
he made (which resemble something a ... of candlesticks)
in the garden at Whitehall, which were one night, anno
Dni. 167- (4*, as I take it), broken all to pieces (for they
were of glasse spheres) by the earl of Rochester, lord
Buckhurst, Fleetwood Shephard, etc., comeing in from
their revells. * What I ' said the earl of Rochester, * doest
thou stand here to . . . time ? ' Dash they fell to worke.
Ther was a watchman alwayes stood there to secure it.
He wrote a piece of philosophy in Latin in 8vo, called . . .
He had great skill in the optiques, and was an excellent
philosopher and mathematician, and a person of exceeding
suavity, goodnes, and piety, insomuch that I have heard
father Manners, h Soc. Jes., say that he deserved
canonisation.
Memorandum — he writ a little tract, about halfe a sheet
or not much more, of Transubstantiation, proveing it meta-
physically and by naturall reason — which I have seen.
** Franciscus Linus (Hall), Jesuite, at Leige. He told
me he was born in London ; see more in my memorandums
of him to Mr. Anthony Wood.
Sir Kenelme Digby, in his booke of bodies, in the chapter
of colours, speakes with a very great respect of Mr. . . . HalL
• MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 49\ ** i.e. 1674. ♦* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 83.
Str Matthew Lister. Evans Lloyd 35
He writ and published a prety little booke in 8vo (or
lesse) of natural philosophy — quaere nomen.
Sir Matthew Lister ([564-1656).
* Sir Matthew Lister was bom at Thornton in Craven
in Yorkshire. His nephew Martin Lister, M.D., R.S.S.*,
from whose mouth I have this information, tells me he was
of Oriel College in Oxon ; he thinkes he was a fellowe.
He built that stately house at Ampthill in Bedfordshire
(now the earle of Alesbury's). He sent for the architects
from Italie.
He died at Burwell neer Lowth in Lincolnshire about
1656 or 1657, aged 9a yeares.
He was physitian to queen Anne (queen of king James).
See the list of the names of the physitians before the
London dispensatorie ; as I remember, he was then president
of the Physitians' College at London.
He printed nothing that Dr. Martin Lister knowes of
(Sir Matthew Lister bred him up).
** Mr. (Edmund) Wyld sayes Sir Matthew Lister built
the house for Mary, countesse of Pembroke. He was her
surveyour, and managed her estate **. The seat at Ampthill
is now in the possession of the earl of Alesbury, whose
grandfather (the earl of Elgin) bought it of the countesse
of Pembroke. — That he was president of the Physitians
College appeares by the dedication of the London dispen-
satory to him, being then president.
Evans Lloyd.
*** 1582 : Almanack, supputated specially for the eleva-
tion and meridian of London but may generally serve for
all England — by Evans Lloyd, student in Astronomie.
'Tis dedicated *To the right honourable Sir Thomas
Bromley, Lord Chancellour of England, and one of her
majestie's most honourable privy councell.' He concludes
♦ MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 9^ fol. 390: July 15, 1689.
• i. e. F.R.S. *» Dupl. with ' businesse/
»* Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, **♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 8i\
D 2
36 Aubreys ^ Brief Lives'
thus: — *Your honour's most humble and dutifull, Evans
Lloyd, late student in Oriall CoUedge in Oxford.'
Martin Lluelyn (161 6-1 68 i).
* Martin Lluellyn was borne on Thursday the 12 of
December 1616, a quarter befor 11 of clock in the night,
the moon newly entred into Capricorn and near the full in
Gemini. He was the seventh son. without any daughter
between. He was christned on the 22 day of December
at Litle St. Bartholomeu's church near Smithfeild, London:
buried in the left chancel of Wicombe church near the wall.
Our faith and duty, pure without allay.
As our Apollo we our kii^s obey,
To both implicit homag allways pay.
When the God moves we seldom reasoning stand.
But feareless march wherere he does command.
And thus we treat all mortall majesty
And never put the saucy question, Why?
** He lies interred in the middle of the north aisle of
the chancell, towards the step or elevation, of Chipping
Wickham in the county of Bucks, under a fair black marble
gravestone.
Sir James Long (i6i3-]65§).
*** Sir James Long, baronet : — I should now be both
orator and soldier to give this honoured friend of mine,
' a gentleman absolute * in all numbers,' his due character.
Only son of Sir W. L. ; borne at South Wraxhall in
Wilts. Westminster scholar ; of Magd. coll. Oxon ; Fisher
there. Went to France. Maried anno . . . D. ^' Leech, a
most elegant beautie and witt, daughter of Sir E. L.,
* Wood MS. F. 39, fol. 381 : a Oxon.), and the coat of arms, * • , . ,
communication 'from (George) a lion rampant crowned . . .; im-
Llewellin, commoner of Merton paling, . . ., a lion rampant . . .,
College, son of Dr. Martin Llewellin, a hand in the lyon's month, within
18 Mar. 168^/ a bordure ermine.*
** Aubrey in Wood MS. F. 39, fol. *** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. ai.
379'': Sept. 2 5, 1686. Aubrey gives the * Ben Jonson*s phrase, Jtt/ra, L p.
inscription (printed in Wood's AfA. 23a. ^ Dorothy.
Richard Lovelace 37
25 aetat. In the civill warres, colonel of horse in Sir
Fr. Dodington's brigade. Good sword-man ; horseman ;
admirable extempore orator pro harangue ; great memorie ;
great historian and romanceer ; great falkoner and for horse-
manship; for insects; exceeding curious and searching
long since, in naturall things.
Oliver, Protector, hawking at Hownselowe heath, dis-
coursing with him, fell in love with his company, and
commanded him to weare his sword, and to meete him
a hawkeing, which made the strict cavaliers look on him
with an evill eye.
Scripsit * History and Causes of the Civill Warre,' or
' Reflections ' (quaere) ; * Examination of witches at
Malmesburie.'
Note.
MS. Anbr. 3, fol. 187, is a coloured sketch by Aubrey of Sir James Long of
Draycot and himself hawking ; fol. 189 is Aubrey's pencil drawing for it.
Biohard Lovelaoe (1618-1658).
* Richard Lovelace ^, esq. : he was a most beautifuU
gentleman.
Geminum, seu lumina, sydus,
£t dignos Baccho digitos, et Apolline crines,
Impubesque genas, et ebumea colla, decusque
Oris, et in niveo mistum candore ruborem.
Ovid. Metamorph,^ fab. 5 (Echo), lib. III.
Obiit in a cellar in Long Acre, a little before the
restauration of his majestie. Mr. Edmund Wyld, etc.,
have made collections for him, and given him money.
One of the handsomst men of England. He was of . . .
in Kent, 500 IL per annum and + (quaere E. W.).
t Lucasta, He was an extraordinary handsome man, but
pSmJor" prowd. He wrote a poem called Lucas ta f, 8vo,
Lovelace, esq., printed London by Thomas Harper to be sold
with venes of « •^ . ▼ 1 ^ k
•ereraiiofhis at the Gun m Ivy lane, 1649 ^
friends on him : __ /.^, ««« ti 1 ti
8vo. He was of Glocester hall ®, as I have been told.
♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9. " Matric. June 27, 1634, aged 16:
* Ovid. Metam, iii. 420-423 : eldest son of William, ' anniger,' of
fabnla VI — Narcissus. Woolwich, Kent.
^ In error for 1659.
38 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives*
He had two younger brothers, viz. colonel Francis
Lovelace, and another brother (William) that died at
Carmarthen (prout per poema).
George Petty, haberdasher, in Fleet Street, carried xxj.
to him every Monday morning from Sir • . . Many and
Charles Cotton, esq., for . . . (quaere quot) moneths, but
wa$ never repayd ^.
Notes,
^ In MS. Anbr. 7, fol. 5, is the note : — ' Let me see colonel Lovelace's life
to insert some verses ; ' i. e. Anbrey asks back from Anthony Wood MS. Anbr.
8, to insert ' some verses.' This seems not to have been done, unless they be
those quoted from Ovid.
^ The meaning seems to be that these two commissioned Petty to pay
Lovelace a weekly allowance, but never re-paid him. Is ' Sir . . . Many *
Sir John Mennis ? George Petty was a distant connexion of Anthony Wood :
Clark's Wood's Life and TimeSy L 35.
Cyprian Luoar.
* Mr. Cyprian Lucar^ published a very profitable
treatise in 4to for young b^inners in the Mathematicks,
intituled
' Lucar solace, divided into fower bookes, which in part
are collected out of diverse authors in diverse languages,
and in part devised by Cyprian Lucar, gentleman. Im-
printed at London by Richard Field anno Domini 1590.'
It is dedicated * to the right worshipfull his brother-in-law
Maister William Roe, esquier, and alderman of the
honorable citie of London.' This dedicatory epistle is
a well writ and close stile. He expresseth himselfe short
and cleare and to have been a publick-spirited and a good
man as well as learned and ingenious. He dates it * From
my house in London the i day of May in the yeare of
the creation of the world 5552, and in the yeare of our
redemption 1590.'
The contents of the four bookes of Lucar Solace : —
*The first book containeth definitions of divers words
and terms, names and lengthes of divers English measures,
the true difference between an acar of land measured
» MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 77.
Cyprian Lucar 39
with a pearch of 12 foot, 18 foot, 20 foote, or 24 foote
in length, and an acar of land measured with a pearch
of 16 foot and an halfe foote in length, names and
types of divers geometrical instruments, names and
dwelling places of workmen which can make and doe
sell such instruments, meanes to disceme whether or no
the edge of a ruler is right, and infallible instructions by
which an ingenious reader may readily measure upon any
smooth table, drummes head, stoole or other superficies
measurable lengths, bredthes, heights, and depthes, apply
known lengthes, bredthes, heights, and depthes to many
good purposes, know recorded heighthes, lengthes, and
bredthes of some famous monuments in Sarum, in West-
minster and in the honorable citie of London, know the
antiquitie of the sayd citie of London, draw the true plat
of any place, make a fit scale for any platt or mappe,
reduce many plats into one fair mappe, reduce a mappe
from a bigge forme to a lesse forme, and from a lesse
forme to a bigge forme, and leame to know the commodities
and discommodities of places.
* * The second book sheweth how an ingenuous person
may measure a right-lined distance between any two
places described in a mappe, how he may measure the
circuite and superficial! content of any described peece of
land, how he may find the centre of any polygonon
equiangle figure, how he may find the center of any circle,
how he may make by a part of the circumference the
whole circumference agreeing unto that part, how he may
bring any right lined figure into triangles and how he may
know what number of angles in a right-lined figure are
equall to any certain number of right angles.
* The third book instructeth the reader to make any
triangle, square, or long-square, to erect a plumbe line
upon any part or point of a line, to divide any circle into
divers numbers of equall parts, to make any polygonon
equiangle figure, to make an egge-forme figure, to know
when a figure is inscribed within another figure or circum-
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 84.
40 Atibrey's ^ Brief Lives ^
scribed about another figure, to inscribe certain rightlined
figures within certain other rightlined figures, to circum-
scribe certain rightlined figures about certain other right-
lined figures, to divide a right line into so manyequall parts
as he will, to tell whether a thing seen afar off doth stand
still, goe from him, or come towards him, to draw a line
equall to any assigned arch-line or to the whole circum-
ference of any assigned circle or to any assigned part of
a circle, to draw a circular line equall to any assigned right
line, to separate, lay out, and inclose within a long square,
one, two or three acars of land by diverse waies from any
peece of ground adjoyning, to change a figure of one forme
into an equall figure of another appointed forme, to make
a right line angle equall to a right line angle given, to
draw a parallel to a right line given, and to cube any
assigned sphere.
* The fourth booke teacheth the reader to know fruitfull
barren and minerall grounds, g^rowthes ages and solid
contents of trees, and where a good air is. It doth also
teach the reader to build for the preservation of health, to
make a tunnell of a chimney so as no smoak shall annoy
him in his house, to fell timber and make sound boords
for buildings, to sink a well in due time and in a place
where water may be found, and to know whether a new
found spring of water will drie up in a hot and dry
summer ; also it sheweth how water in a shallow well is
more wholesome than water in a deep well, how every
well ought to be uncovered * and often times drawn drie,
how the use of water is necessary, how divers sorts of
water have divers qualities, how there are divers meanes
to trie among many sorts of water which water is best,
how great store of water may be thrown out of a new-
devised squerte upon any fired house or other thing, how
water may be brought in pipes or in gutters within the
ground to any appointed sesterne, how the depth of any
sea may be found; how the force of running waters which
weare away land may be broken ; how wet grounds and
♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. %^\
Henry Lyte 41
bogges may be drained, and how by the art taught in
these 4 bookes the ingenuous reader may devise new
workes, strange engins and instruments not only for private
pleasure but also for sundry purposes in the common-
wealth.'
Memorandum : — in the XXIII chapter of the third
booke of Lucar Solace, in the beginning of the chapter,
he quotes the 67 chapter of his booke (^intituled Lucar
appendix, which I never saw.
Note.
* Aubrey gives in trick the coat, ' . . . , a chevron between 3 trefoils slippeil
. . • , a crescent for diflfezence/ and then scores it out, adding ' this is Roe's
coate.* Then he has given as Lucar's coat : — * . . ., a chevron between 3
nags' heads erased bridled . . .; quartering, ... a fess nebula, in chief a
lion's head erased between a mascles, in base a mascle.' He adds that the
motto is 'In spe/ and 'the crest is a lure for a hawke held in one's hand.*
— Cyprian Lucar, of London, adm. probationer of New College, Dec. 20, 1561,
and adm. Fellow July 25, 1563, vacated his fellowship in 1565. — Mark
Lucar, probably his brother, of St. Botolph's parish, London, was admitted
prob. of New Coll., Aug. 16, 1570; Fellow March 30, 157a, resigned 1575;
and took B.A. on May 24, 1574.
Henry Lyte (i529(?)-i6o7).
* I will enquire at Lyte s-Cary when Henry Lyte *, esq.,
dyed. — He translated Dodantus' Herball, and writt a little
pamphlet, which I have, called ' The light of Britainey
being a short summary of the old English history,'
dedicated to queen Elizabeth.
He began the genealogy of king James, derived from
Brute ; which his eldest son Thomas Lyte, of Lyte's-Cary
aforesaid, finished, and presented to king James. It is
most rarely donne and exquisitly limmed by a limmer —
all the kings* pictures, etc. King James, after it had hung
some time at Whitehal, ordered him to have it ** again
and to gett (it) ingraved, which was donne. Mr. Humble
of Pope's-head alley had the plates before the fire : I hope
* Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. Tinus, iv. a8i.
141' : Oct. 37, 1671. ♦* Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol.
* See Clark's Wood's Life and 14a.
42 Aubreys * Brief Lives ^
they are not lost — it is most curiously donne, by Hole.
It is as big as the g^reatest map of England that ever
I sawe. Mr. Camden much admired, and at the foot writt
6 or 8 verses with his owne hand : —
Artificemne manum laudem celebremne labores,
Lyte, tuos: hi namque docent delectat at ilia,
etc. — which I have forgott.
T. Lyte writt the best print hand that ever I yet sawe.
The orjginall; which is now in the parlour at Lyte's-Cary,
was writt with his hand, and limmed by a famous artist.
* They' both lye buried in a burying place belonging
to them in the church at Charlton Makerell in Somerset-
shire.
** Henry Lyte lived to the age of 78, and was buried
in the north aisle of the church of Charlton Makarell in
Somersetshire anno 1607 — which aisle belongs to Lyte's-
Cary.
Isaac Lyte {iSlf-^mY
*** Mr. Isaac Lyte, of Easton-Piers, my honoured grand-
father, was born there March XIX, 1576 ; hora ignoratur.
Baptizatus March XIX, 1576 — ex registro.
Obiit Febr. ai, 1659, die Martis ^ circiter horam quartam
mane.
Mris Israel Lyte, my honoured grandmother, died Febr.
24, i66|, inter horas 3 et 4 P.M.
Sir John Mandeville.
**** ^"" Captain Robert Pugh*' assures me that Sir
John Mandeville, the famous traveller, lyes buryed at Liege
in Germany, with which note amend lib. B ^, where I thought
he had been buryed at St. Alban's abbey church as
* Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. **** MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 217.
141*. o A slip at fol. 47 of MS. Aubr. 23,
* i. e. Henry and Thomas (obiit has the first draft of this note : —
1639?) Lyte, father and son. 'Captain Pugh assures me that Sir
** Ibid., fol. 210: May 24, 1673. John Mandeville lies buryed at Liege
*** MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 82. —quod N. B.'
^ Tuesday. * Sec vol. i. p. 65.
Gervase Markham. Sir Henry Martin 43
Mr. Thomas Gore told me. But I thinke I remember
something writt of him there in a table on a pillar or wall :
but he was there borne (as in his life).
Gervase MarXham (1568-1637).
* Mr. . . . Markham : he wrote of husbandry and
huswifry, 4to ; of horsemanship, 4to ; of the art of shooting
with the long bow, 8vo ; etc.— quaere.
He was a Nottinghamshire gentleman. His brother Sir
Gryffin Markham was servant to the emperor . . ., and
did deserve well of him.
This . . . Markham, the writer, dyed poor. — Old Jack
Markham (late gentleman-usher to the queen) from whom
I have these informations told me he hath given (him)
many a crowne.
William Marshall (1606-16 — ).
** William Marshall, sculptor, natus Oct. 7, hor& o
min. 23 P.M., 1606. — Conjunction of Mercury and Leo made
him stammer.
Sir Henry Martin (1562- 1641).
*** Sir Henry Martin, LL.D., was borne at Stoke-Poges
in the countie of Bucks; his father a copy-holder there
of about 60//. per annum. He was formerly a fellow of
New CoUedg, Oxon. He left his sonne 3000 //. per annum.
**** H. Martyn. — his father (Sir Henry) has a hand-
some monument at Becket in Berks which he purchased of
Sir . . . Essex.
Note,
Henry Martyn, of the parish of ' S. Michael in Basingeshall,' London, was
adm. probationer of New CoUege, Aug. 19, 1580, and Fellow July 6, 1582 ;
vacated his fellowship in 1595. He was Judge of the Admiralty, Dean of the
Arches, and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Aubrey (MS. Aubr.
8, fol. I a^) gives for his coat, 'argent, a bars gules, each charged with 3 besants.*
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. loa^. from Dr. Richard Napier*s papers.
♦* MS. Aubr. a3,fol. 59 : given also *** MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 103.
on fol. lai of MS. Aubr. a3, as taken **** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. la^.
44 Aubreys 'Brief Lives'
Henry Hartin (i 602-1 680).
* Henry Martin, esq., son and heir of Sir Henry Martin,
knight, Judge of the Arches, was borne at (Oxford).
Henry, the son, was of the university of (Oxford •) ;
travelled France, but never Italie. His father found out
a rich wife for him, whom he married something un-
willingly. He was a great lover of pretty girles, to whom
he was so liberall that he spent the greatest part of his
estate.
When he had found out a maried woman ^ that he
liked (and he had his emissaries, male and female, to
looke out) he would contrive such or such a good
bargain, 20 or 30 li, per annum under rent, to have her neer
him. He lived from his wife a long time. If I am not
mistaken shee was sometime distempered by his unkind-
nesse to her.
King Charles I had complaint against him for his
wenching. It happened that Henry was in Hyde-parke
one time when his majestic was there, goeing to see a race.
The king espied him, and sayd aloud, * Let that ugly rascal!
be gonne out of the parke, that whore-master, or els I will
not see the sport.' So Henry went away patiently, sed
manebat alia viente repostiim. That sarcasme raysed the
whole countie of Berks against him*^: he^ was as far
from a Puritane as light from darknesse. Shortly after*,
(1641) he was chosen knight of the shire of that county,
nemine contradicenie^ and proved a deadly enemy to the
king.
He was a great and faithfull lover of his countrey, and
never gott a farthing by the Parliament. He was of an
incomparable witt for reparte's ; not at all covetous ;
humble, not at all arrogant, as most of them were ; a great
* MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 103. Aubrey ° The king.
gives in trick the coat. ' argent, 2 bars ^ Martin. The preceding clause
gules, each charged with 3 besants.* explains why, having this character,
* Matric. at Univ. Coll. Oct. 31, Martin took the side of the Parlia-
161 7, aged 15; took B.A. Jan. 24, ment.
16^. • Dupl. with * About a year after.'
** Subst. for * a pretty wench.*
Henry Martin 45
cultor of justice, and did always in the house take the part
of the oppressed.
Anno 1660 he was obnoxious for having been one of the
late king's judges, and he was in very great danger to
have suffred as the others did (he pleaded only the king's
Act or Proclamation at Breda, which he shewd in his
hand), but (as he was a witt himselfe) so the lord Falkland
saved his life by witt, saying, * Gentlemen, yee talke here
of makeing a sacrifice ; it was the old lawe % all sacrifices
were to be without spott or blemish ; and now you are
going to make an old rotten rascall a sacrifice.' This witt
tooke in the house, and saved his life.
He was first a prisoner at the Tower ; then at Windsore
(removed from thence because he was an eie-sore to his
majestic etc.) ; from thence to Chepstowe, where he is now
(j68o). During his imprisonment his wife relieved him
out of her joincture, but she dyed. . . .
His stature was but midling ; his habit moderate ; his
face not good. Sir Edward Baynton was wont to say that
his company was incomparable, but that he would be
drunke too soon.
His speeches in the house were not long, but wondrous
poynant, pertinent, and witty. He was exceeding happy
in apt instances. He alone haz sometimes turned the
whole house. Makeing an invective speech one time
against old Sir Henry Vane, when he had don with him,
(he) said, But for young Sir Harry Vane and so sate
him downe. Severall cryed out — * What have you to say
to young Sir Harry ? ' He rises up : Why ! if young Sir
Harry lives to be old ; he will be old Sir Harry! and so
sate downe, and set ^ the house a laughing, as he oftentimes
did. — Oliver Cromwell once in the house called him,
jestingly or scoffingly, ' Sir Harry Martin.* H. M. rises
and bowes, * I thanke your majestie, I alwayes thought
when you were king^ that I should be knighted.' — A
godly member made a motion to have all profane and
unsanctified persons expelled the Houses. H. M. stood
* Snbst. for ' cnstome.' ^ 'Sate,' by a slip, in the MS.
46 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives*
up and moved that all the fooles might be putt out like-
wise, and then there would be a thin house. — He was wont
to sleep much in the house (at least dog-sleepe) : alderman
Atkins made a motion that such scandalous members as
slept and minded not the businesse of the house, should be
putt-out. H. M. starts up — 'Mr. Speaker, a motion has
been to tume out the Nodders ; I desire the Noddees may
also be tumd out.' — H. M. sayd that he had *seen the
Scripture fulfilld — Thou hast exalted the humble and
meeke ; thou hast filled the emptie with . • . things, and
the rich hast thou sent emptie away.' — See a pretty speech
of his in print about the comeing in of the Scotts to assist
and direct us.
* Henry Martyn made the motion in the house to call
the addressers to account (viz. those that addressed to
Richard Cromwell, Protector, to stand by him with their
lives and fortunes), and that all the addressers that were
of it (of the house) might be tumd • out as enemies to the
commonwealth of England and betrayers of their trust to
bring in government by a single person. Had not Dick
Cromwell sneak't away, then it is certaine that the Rump
would have cutt-off his head, as I am well assurd from
a deare friend ^ of mine.
Memorandum that Dr. (John) Wilkins (who® maried
his^ aunt) was very instrumentall in perswading persons
of quality and corporations to addresse : but what did it
signifie ?
Henry Martin, esq. ; * you ® have already made your
little less.'
His short lettre to his cosen Stonehouse of [Radley*^
by Abingdon that * if his majestic should take advice of
his gunsmiths and powder-men he would never have
peace ' — from Sir John Lenthall : as also of his draweing
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12^. recall a story about Martin. TTieie
• Dupl. with 'spued.' is similarly a memorandum to recall
* Probably Edmund Wyld. an indecent story, at the foot of fol.
« Dupl. with * his aunt's husband.* 103 of MS. Aubr. 6.
«* i. e. Richard Cromwell's. ' Inserted by Anthony Wood.
• Apparently a memorandum to
Richard Martin 47
the remonstrance of the Parliament when 'twas formed
a commonwealth — within five or six lines of the beginning
he sayes * restored to it's auncient goverment • of a common-
wealth' When 'twas read Sir Henry Vane stood up and
repremanded and * wondred at his impudence to affirme
such a notorious lye/ H. M., standing up, meekely
replied that * there was a text had much troubled his spirit
for severall dayes and nights of the man that was blind
from his mother's womb ** whose sight was restored ® at
last/ i.e. was restored to the sight which he should
have had.
* Insert the song of
'Oliver came to the House like a spright' etc.
Obiit at Chepstowe, a prisoner, September . . . (about
the middle) anno Domini 1680.
He was very hospitable and exceeding popular in Berks,
t H. Martin, *e whole countic.
ITitotohS^'* Memorandum when his study was searcht
anS^i6so!* they found lettres f to his concubine, which was
hudli^w? printed 4to. There is witt and good nature in
evidence of reall f U^-yi
naturall witt Uicni.
S2torei?-Ms. Becket in the parish of Shrineham, his
Aubr. 8. foi. 11. ^j^j^fg g^^^g . jj^ ^jj^ y^j^ ^f White-horse : now
major Wildman's.
Biohard Martin (1570-1618).
** Richard Martin ^ was borne ....
Insert here his picture^ which I sent to Mr. A.
Wood 3.
He was of the ancient familie of the Martins of Athel-
minston in the count ie of Dorset, a very faire seate. The
* So Aubrey often spells it. b a figment of Martin's own, to give
* * Blind from his birth/ S. John point to his jest
ix. a ; ' bom blind/ S. John ix. 19, * Scattered notes on fol. 103 of
etc. Martin remembered ' lame from MS. Anbr. 6.
his mother's womb ' of Acts iii. a. ^ Edited by Edmund Gayton.
" S.Johnix. 18, 'He had been blind ** Aubrey in MS. Rawl. D. 727,
and received his sight/ seems the fol. 96.
nearest expression. The 'restored'
48 Aubrey's ^ Brief Lives*
name was lost about 50 yeares since by a daughter and
heire, who was maried to . . . Bruen, who had a daughter
and heire maried to Sir Ralph Banks, who sold it to Sir
Robert Long (1668). In the church are severall noble
monuments. Their crest is an ape; men use to say
t He was 'a Martin ape.'
HeSMkrnt'o (In queen Elizabeth's time, one Penry of
Sthlr* *^*" Wales wrote a bookef called Martin Mar-
prelate ^ on which there was this epigram : —
Martin the ape, the drunke, and the mad,
The three Martins are whose workes we have had.
If a fourth Martin comes after Martins so evill,
He can be no man, he must be a devill.)
He was a very handsome man, a graceful! speaker,
facetious, and well-beloved. I thinke he dyed of a merry
symposiaque.
He was recorder but a moneth before his death •.
These verses were written on his Bible : —
Ad has reliquias illustrissimi amicissimique
Richardi Martini^ Recordatoris
Londinens,y qui fato concessit
ulf Octob. 1 61 8.
Tu liber aetemae complectens verba salutis,
Pignus amicitiae moestitiaeque liber,
Fac me Martini memorem dum vivo sepulti,
Fac memorem mortis, fac memoremque Dei.
J. HOSKYNS.
He is buried in the north side of the Temple church,
where is a faire monument of him kneeling, with this
inscription, made by his friend serjeant Hoskyns : —
Salve Lector.
Martinus jacet hie ; si nescis, caetera quaere.
Interea tumuli sis memor ipse tui.
Vale Jurisconsulte.
Accedat totum precibus, quodcumque recedit
Litibus, aetemum sic tibi tempus erit.
* Appointed in Sept. 1618, died Oct. 31, 1618.
Richard Martin 49
* Richard Martin •, recorder of London,
Ben Johnson dedicates his comoedie called the Poetaster
to him : —
* A thankefuU man owes a courtesie ever, the unthanke-
full but when he needes. For whose innocence, as for the
author's, you were once a noble and timely undertaker to
the greatest justice of this kingdome.'
Died of a symposiaque excesse with his fellow- witts*.
Was not recorder above a quarter of a yeare : quaere Sir
(John) Hoskins.
Notes.
^ Aabrey gives in trick his coat : — ' ...» two bars gales ; ' and adds ' the
crest is an ape.*
' This engraved portrait is now foond in MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 17. Anthony
Wood has written at the top, ' Richard Martin, recorder of London, 1618.'
On the back is a note by Anbrey : — ' This picture Mr. John Hoskyns (now Sir
John Hoskins, knight and baronet) gave me; grandsonne to John Hoskyns^
Martyn*s friend.*
At the top of the picture is engraved 'Anno Dni 1620*; and round the
picture, *Richardns Martinus, oracnlnm Londinense.' There are also the
following dedication and verses : —
' Viro illostri Lionello Cranfeildio, eqniti aorato, Apothecae angtistae (Gnar-
darobam magnam vnlgns vocat) et pupillorum magistro majestatiqne, Britannicae
e sanctioribus consiliis, Richardum (hen fata) Martinnm, Chr. Brocus, Jo.
Hoskinnius, et Hugo (heu itemm !) HoUandns, obseqnii et amoris triumvirata
nexi, Amico Amicnm Amid, junctis mannbns votisqne sacrant
Princeps amomm, principnm necnon amor,
Legnmqne lingua, Lexque dicendi magis,
Anglomm alumnus, praeco Virginiae ac parens,
Generosus ortu, moribus nee degener,
Invictus animi, corporis formft decens,
Oriens cadente sole sol, ortu cadens,
Magnae urbis Os, Orbis minoris corculum,
Bono suorum natus, extinctus suo,
Cunctisque cognitus, nee ignotus sibi,
HoUandi amicus, nemini hostis, ni malis,
Virtutis (heu) Martinus hie compendium.
Hugo Hollandus Simon Passaeus sculpsit.
flevit aureumque
aere os exprimi
curavit.
' Anthony Wood has written at the top of fol. 96 of the MS., <see in
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18. and added a note of its fnUilment,
* Aubrey here put down a memo- ' *tis donne,* scil. when he inserted
randnm, 'Paste on his picture here '; fol. 17 (see note 2).
II. £
50
Aubrey*s * Brief Lives*
Trin. Coll.'; i.e. in his own Hisi, et Antiq. Univ, Oxon, (1674), ^^* I^- P^C*
396. Also, on a slip attached here, Wood notes : —
' Mr. Isaac of Exeter hath told me that Richard Martin, recorder of London,
was son of Richard Martin, merchant, of Exeter: see G. i. So this last
Richard Martin, borne in Somerset, cannot be he ; and he that was borne in
Devonshire
(lib. matric. P, p. 496 (Broadgates Hall); — Dec. 10, 1585, Rich. Martin,
Devon., generosae conditionis filius, aet. 15)
is too soone.*
For the reference * G. i.' see Clark's Wood's Life and TinteSy iv. 232, 233;
and for ' lib. Matric. P/ see ibid,y 156.
* An echo of a symposium in which this Richard Martin and other 'jolly
companions ' took part lingers in a copy of Macaronic verses by John Hoskyns
(see i. 416). I give them here from the copy on fol. 185^ of an old common-
place book in Lincoln College Library. Falconer Madan, Esq., Fellow of
Brasenose, has another old copy, with an English version, which by his
kindness I am able to add. The title of it in the Lincoln MS. is —
' Convivium philosophicum : tentnm in clauso Termini S^. Micbaelis in
crastino* festi S^ Egidii in campis, authore Rodolpho Calsabro, Aeneaoensi.*
But in Mr. Madan's MS. it is headed,
' Mr. Hoskins, his Convivium Philosophicnm/
and this attribution of authorship is repeated at the end of the piece.
The Convivium itself must have taken place between 1608 (Tom Coryat's
European tour) and 161 2 (Henry, Prince of Wales, died November 6).
Quilibet si sit contentus
Ut statutus stet conventus
Sicut DOS promisimus ;
Signum Mitrcu erit locus,
Erit cibus, erit jocus,
Oplimatatissimus.
Veniet, sed lente currens,
Christofems vocatus Torrens^
Et Johannes Facius*',
Gruicampus^ et Arthurus,
Ante coenam non pransurus,
Veniet primo exactus.
Robertus Equorum amicus • ,
Ne vile aestimet^ Henricus
Dignabitur adesse,
Cunicu/usque quercianus *,
Caligiila^ occurret Janus
Si modo sit necesse.
Whosoever is contented
That a number be convented
Enough but not too many ;
The Miter is the place decreed.
For witty jests and cleanly feed,
The bettercst of any.
There will come, though scarcely
current,
Christopherus sumamM Torrent **,
And John yclep^d Afade *^,
And Arthur MeadoTV-pigtuies" -foe ^ ,
To sup, his dinner will foregoe.
Will come as soon as bade.
Sir Robert liorse-iover* the while
A> Ut Sir Henry count it vile*
Will come with gentle speed ;
And Rabbit'tree-where-acom-frrows^
And John sumamid Little-kose^
Will come if there be need.
• i. e. Sept. 2.
** Brooke.
* Cranefield.
« Donne.
• Phillips.
' Nevile, alluding to the family
motto * Ne vile velis.* « Conyoke.
^ John Hoskins, quasi * hose-kin.*
Richard Martin
51
£t Richardns Cuasia-siannum^
£t Henricns Bcnum-annum^
£t Johannes Occidens^
£t si qnis desideretur
Protinns amercietnr
Pro defkulto fonrty-pcnce.
Hugo Inferior- Gemtanus^t
Nee indoctus nee profanns
Ignatius architecius:
Sed jocns, nisi invitatns
Veniet iliac Coriaitis^,
£rit imperfectus.
Nam fincete super ilium,
Sicut malleus in anvillum,
Unusquisque ludet.
Coriatus cum potavit,
Lingua r^[num peragnibit
Nee ilium quioquam pndet.
Puer fuit expers artis
£t cum fabis et cum fartis
Somersetizatus.
Vir cum Scotis et cum Anglis
£t cum scarfis et cum spanglis
Est accommodatns.
Si Londinum,
Si Latinom,
Amas, te amabit.
Sive Graecum,
Ille tecum
Sir Edward Ratcliffabit,
Hie orator aratores,
Studens meliorare mores,
Ubi congregavit,
Rusticos et Corydones,
Fatuos et moriones,
Dis> coxcombiavit
Ultra littus, nkra mare.
Per Europam Fleetstreetare,
Res periculosa.
Idem calceus bunc revexit,
Eadem camisia texit,
Res pediculosa.
• Martin ; su^a, p. 47.
^ Holland ; supra, i. p. 406.
And Richard Pewter-waster*' best
And Henry Tweive^rmmth-good^ at
least
And John Hesperian^ true.
If any be desiderated
He shal bee amerciated
Forty-pence in issue.
Hogh the Inferiar-Germayne^y
Nor yet unlearned nor prophane
Inego lonicke-pUler;
But yet the number is not ri<gh)ted ;
If Coriate^ bee not invited,
The jeast will want a tiller.
For wittily on him, they say.
As hammers on an anvil play,
Each man his jeast may breake.
When Coriate is fudled well,
Hb tongue begins to talke pel-mel,
He shameth nought to speake.
A boy he was devoid of skill
With white-pots and oaten-cakes at
will
Somersetizated.
And is a man with Scots and Angles
With silken scarfes and with spangles
Fitly accommodated.
Are you in love with London dtty?
Or else with Venice ? he will fitt ye ;
You have his heart to prize it
Or love you Greeke— of tongues (the)
chiefe.
Or love you Latin? hee*le in briefe
Sir Edward Ratcliffize itt.
This orator of Odcombe towne
Meaning to civilize the clowne,
To parl^ 'gan to call
The rusticks and the Condons.
The naturalls and morions,
And dis-coxcombde them alL
To pass the sea, to pass the shore.
And Fleet-street it all Europe o*re,
A thing periculous.
And yet one paire of shoes, they say,
And shirt did serve him all the way,
A thing pediculous.
* Goodyear.
* Inigo Jones.
E %
• West.
' Tom Coryat, i. 188.
52
A uhrey^s 'Brief L ives *
Qmsqnis hunc ecavilat,
Garretando sqnabberizat,
£t pro hac injuria
Disrespectns ambulabit,
Cum bonis sodis non coenabit
In nrbe vel in cnria.
Hie in stolidnm elatns,
Ut monntebankos hie effatns,
Harangnizans bene.
Quisquis hie vult esse prudens.
Adsit, nihil aliud stadens,
Qnam potare plene.
Qaicquid agis, quicquid dicis,
Jocnndando cum amicis,
Ens fortunatus.
Hunc secnndum rectum stampum,
Qui non vivit rampum scrampum
Nemo est beatns.
Rex religionem curat,
Populus legianciam jurat.
Gives foenerantur;
Miles et mercator clamant,
Pner(i) et puellae amont,
Foeminae moechantur.
Princeps nesdt otiari,
Cupiens matenam dari
Propriae virtuti.
Carolus, imago patris,
Imitatur acta fratris,
Praelucens juventuti.
Canccllarius* juvat multos,
Prudentes juvat, juvat stultos,
Humillime supplicantes.
Thesaurarias * juvat summos ;
Sed qnoniam non habet nummos,
Invident mcndicantes.
Xorthamptonius*'. nunquam satis
Literis et literatis
Juvandis, delectatur.
\\i Suffolcius •*, severe
Regis familiam coercere
Quaerens, defatigatur.
* Thomas Egerton, lord Ellesmere,
Lord Chancellor 1603- i6i 7.
^ Robert Cecil, earl of Salisbury,
Lord Treasurer 1609- 161 2.
<= Henry Howard, earl of North-
Whoso him exoutbenizth,
Garretating swaberizeth.
And for this injurie
He shall walk as disretpected,
Of good fellows still neglected.
In dty and in curie.
To a fool thus elevated,
Mountebanke-like thus hee pnted,
Harringuizing rowndly.
Whosoe will be counted prudent.
Let him be no other stndent
But to drinke profoimdl]r.
Whatsoever yon speak or doe
With your friends, in jocond row.
It cannot be misdeemed.
For he that lives not ramp and scrmmp.
According to the swaggering stampe.
Can never be esteemed.
The king religion doth oat-bear.
The people doe allegiance sweare.
Citizens nsurize it.
The soldiers and the merchants feare,
Theboyesand girlesdo love their paire.
And women cuculize it.
Prince Henry cannot idly liven.
Desiring matter to be given
To prove his valour good.
And Charles, the image of his father.
Doth imitate his eldest brother.
And leades the noble blood.
The Chancellour* relieveth many.
As well the wyse as fooles, or any
In humble- wise complayninge.
The Treasurer*' doth help the rich.
And cannot satisfy the stitch
Of mendicants disdayninge.
Northampton <', seeking many wayes
Learning and learned men to ra3rse,
Is still negotiated.
And Suflfolke**, seeking, in good sorte,
The king his household to sapporte.
Is still defatigated.
ampton, Lord Privy Seal i6oS~
1614.
«* Thomas Howard, earl of Suffolk,
Lord Chamberlain of the Hoaaehold
1603-1613,
Andrew Marvel
53
Proceres aedificant,
Episcopi sanctificant,
Clenis coucionatur ;
Generosi terras yendimt,
£t, dum nistici contendunt,
Juridicns Incratur.
Unusquisqne sic facessit,
Cor nnllins conqniescit,
Nemo faabet satU.
Solus Coriatos sapit,
Nihil peidit qnicquid capit,
Nee stnltescit gratis.
— per Johannem Hoskins *, London.
The noblemen do edifye,
The bishops they do sanctifie,
The cleargie preach and pray :
And gentlemen their lands doe sell,
And, while the downes strive for
the shell,
The fish is lawyers* prey.
Thus every man is busy still,
Each one practising his skill,
None hath enough of gayne.
Bat Coriate liveth by his witts,
He looseth nothinge that he getts,
Nor playes the fool in vayne.
— per Johannem Reinolds**, Socium
Coll. Novi, Ozon.
Andrew ICarvel (1620-1678).
* Mr. Andrew Marvell : his father was minister of . . .
(I thinke, Hull : quaere). . . ., he was borne.
He had good grammar^education : and was after sent to
. . . , in Cambridge.
In the time of Oliver the Protector he was Latin
Secretarie. He was a great master of the Latin tongue ;
an excellent poet in Latin or English : for Latin verses
there was no man could come into competition with him.
The verses called Tke Advice to t/ie Painter were of his
making.
His native towne of Hull loved him so well that they
elected him for their representative in Parliament, and gave
him an honourable pension to maintaine him.
He was of a middling stature, pretty strong
sett, roundish faced, cherry cheek't, hazell eie,
browne haire. He was in his conversation very
modest, and of very few words ® : and though
he loved wine he would never drinke hard in
company, and wasf wont to say that, ke would not flay the
t He was wont
to say that he
would not
drinke hirh or
freely wiUi any
man with whom
he woald not
intrust his life.
* This attribntion of the piece to
Hoskyns is from Mr. Madan*s MS.;
see supra, p. 50.
*> John Reynolds, Fellow of New
College 1600, died 161 4.
♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 104. Aubrey,
in the margin, draws a wreath of
laurel, for a poet.
^ This sentence is subst. for *He
was a man of very few words.'
54 Aubreys 'Brief Lives*
good-fellow in any man^s company in whose hands he would
not trust his life.
He kept bottles of wine at his lodgeing, and many times
he would drinke liberally by himselfe to refresh his spirits,
and exalt his muse. I remember I have been told (Mr.
Haake and Dr. Pell) that the learned . . . (an High-
German) was wont to keep bottells of good Rhenish-wine
in his studie, and when he had spent his spirits he would
drinke a good rummer of it.
James Harrington, esq. (autor Oceanae\ was his intimate
friend. John Pell, D.D., was one of his acquaintance. He
had not a generall acquaintance.
He wrote The Rehersall transprosedy against Samuel
Parker, D.D. ; Mr, Smirke^ (stich't, 4to, about 8 sheets) ;
The naked Trtuth,
Obiit Londini, Aug. 18. 1678 ; and is buried in St Giles
church in-the-fields about the middle (quaere iterum) of
the south aisle. Some suspect that he was poysoned by
the Jesuites, but I cannot be positive.
I remember I heard him say that the earle of Rochester*
was the only man in England that had the true veine of
satyre.
Replies interred under the pewes in the south side of
Saint Giles' church in-the-fields, under the window wherein
is painted in glasse a red lyon, (it was given by the
inneholder of the Red Lyon Inne in Holborne) and is the
. . . window from the east. This account I had from the
sexton that made his grave.
Philip Massinger (1584?-! 6 J g).
* My brother Tom searcht the register of Wilton
from the beginning and talk't with old men. Philip
Massinger was not buried there ; but his wife dyed at
• Anthony Wood notes in the '' This paragraph was added some
margin ' £. of RofT/, a reminder to time after the above notice was
himself to incorporate this criticism written.
in the life of Rochester in the * Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39,
Athettae. fol. 171 ; May, 1672.
Thomas May 55
Cardiffe in Wales, to whom the earl of Pembroke payd
an annuity.
* This day I searched the register of St. Saviours,
Southwark, by the playhouse then there, vulgo St. Mary's
Overy*s ; and find Philip Massinger buryed March i8th,
1639. I am enformed at the place where he dyed, which
was by the Bankes side neer the then playhouse, that he
was buryed about the middle of the Bullhead-churchyard
— i. e. that churchyard (for there are four) which is next the
Bullhead taverne, from whence it has its denomination.
He dyed about the 66th yeare of his age : went to bed
well, and dyed suddenly — but not of the plague.
Thomas May (1595-1650).
** He stood candidate for * the laurell after B. Jonson ;
but Sir William Davenant caried it —
manet alta mente repostum,
perhaps.
A great acquaintance of Tom Chaloner. Would, when
inter pocula^ speake slightingly of the Trinity.
Shammed ^
Amicus^ Sir Richard Fanshawe. Mr. (Emanuel)
Decretz heard (was present at) the debate at their parting
before Sir Richard went to the king, where both camps
were most rigorously banded *^.
Clap. Came of his death after drinking with his chin
tyed with his cap (being fatt) ; suffocated.
Quaere Anthony Wood pro epitaph *, etc.
Lord Chief Justice (John) Vaughan, amicus — verses.
The Heire. iScripsii.)
Quaere Mr. (John) Dreyden, if not another (play.)
Lucan, and Supplemenitim,
* Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. « See i. p. 289.
25a : Jan. 31, 167I. ** A mock-epitaph on May is found
*♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. a;. among Anthony Wood's papers in
» Subst. for 'to be Poet Laureate.' Wood MS. F. 39, fol. 154.
^ See i. p. no.
56 Aubrey's ^ Brief Lives'
Translation of GeorgiqueSy i6mo.
Historie of Civill War and Epitome,
His translation of Lucan's excellent poeme made him in
love with the republique, which tang* stuck by him.
In the Session of Poets by Sir John Suckling: —
' There was Lucan*s translator too/
* Thomas May, esq., a handsome man, debaucht ad
omnia ; lodged in the little ** by Canon-rowe, as you gee
through the alley. Translated Virgil's Georgiques. Writt: —
Breviary of the historie of the Parliament of England
(London, 1650; reprinted j68o, 8vo.); History of the
victorious Edward Hid., in English verse, by Charles I's
speciall command (8vo, 1639); and also Henry lid., in
English verse, both in 8vo.
** As to Tom May, Mr. Edmund Wyld told me that
he was acquainted with him when he was youngs and then
he was as other young men of this towne are, scil. he said
he was debaucht ad omnia : but doe not by any meanes
take notice of it — for we have all been young. But
Mr. Marvel in his poems upon Tom May's death falls very
severe upon him.
He was choaked by tyeing his cap.
That of Lucan is true, sell., that it made him incline ^ to
a republic.
He was of the Sussex Mayes, as appeares by his coate of
armes : but where borne or of what university I know not,
and cannot enquire.
Dr. (Thomas) Triplet's monument is set up** where his
stood. Thomas May's inscription was, after it was pulled
downe, in St. Bonnet's chapell, i.e. where the earl of
Middlesex's monument is : but perhaps now converted
to some use.
" Dnpl. with ' odorem.* fol. 414 : Febr. i, 169^.
* MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 42'. « Snbst. for 'for a.*
^ ? court. d In Westminster Abbey.
♦* Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39,
Thomas May 57
* By * Camden : —
Quern Anglicana respublica
habuit vindicem,
omamentum literaria,
secli sui vatum celeberrimus,
deliciae futuri,
Lucanus alter plus-quam Romanus,
historicus fidus,
equitis aurati filius primogenitus,
Thomas Maius
Qui paternis titulis claritatis suae
specimen usque adeo superaddidit
ut a supremo Anglorum senatu
ad annales suos conscribendos
fuerit accitus.
Tandem, fide intemerata Parlamento
praestita, morte inopina
noctu correptus, diem
suum obiit
Id. Nov.
A K i-i_ ^ .• J humanae ) ,.^ ^ J MDCL.
Anno" libertatis i . i- ( restitutae J
( Anghae ) ( ii.
Aetatis suae LV.
Hoc in honorem servi tam
bene meriti
Parlamentum Reipublicae AngL
P. P.
Dr. Triplet's monument now stands in the place where
this did.
This was a very fine monument of white marble. This
inscription I had much adoe to find out, after severall
enquiries severall yeares. It is putt upside downe in the
chapell where the earle of Middlesex tombe is.
His coate is ' gules, a fess inter six billets or.*
* Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 59, fol. was ' made by Marchmount Needain.'
155' : Dec. 30, 1671. * This latter part of the inscription
* i. e. beside Camden's monument, is found also in MS. Aubr. 23, fol.
supra, i. p. 145. Anthony Wood notes 103^.
here that this inscription for May
58 Aubrey's ^Bnef Lives*
Nicholas Meroator (1640-168^).
* Mr. Nicholas Mercator * : his father was
Philip Melancthon was his great-grandmother's brother.
He is of little stature, perfect ; black haire, of a delicate
moyst curie ; darke * eie, but of great vivacity of spirit
He is of a soft temper, of great temperance (amat Venerem
aliquantum) : of a prodigious invention, and will be
acquainted (familiarly) with nobody. His true German
name is Nicolas Kauffman, i. e. chapman, i. e. Mercator.
The first booke he printed was his Cosmographia^ at . . .,
where he uses his German name, 'qua sternitur funda-
mentum Trigonometriae sphericorum, Logarithmicae,Astro-
nomiae sphaericae,Geographiae, Histiodromiae gnomonicae;
a Nicola Kauffman, Holsato-Dantisc, Anno mdcli.'
Nicolai Mercatoris in Geometriam introduciio brcvis qui
magnitudinum ortus ex genuinis principiis et ortarum
affectiones ex ipsa genesi derivantur, printed at London
1678, before a little booke of Euclid's Elements demon-
strated after a new method.
Astronomia'^^ printed at London, 167-,
Logarithmotechnia \ the first part printed with ... of
Slusius, anno Domini, 166- : the second part of it, being
8 sheets 4*°, lyes in the hands of Mr. Moyses Pitts and is
a most admirable piece.
Astrologia : unprinted : in 4to, altogether after a new
manner and on other principles.
A treatise of musique '*, in 4to, inch + thick ^, unprinted.
Memorandum : — Mr, Nicholas Mercator made and pre-
sented to King Charles the 2** a clock ('twas of a foote
diameter) which shewed the inequality of the sunn's motion
from the apparent motion, which the king did understand
by his informations, and did commend it, but he never had
a penny of him for it.
Well I This curious clock was neglected, and somebody
of the court happened to become master of it, who under-
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 59. • * darke ' written over * grey/ as a correction.
'' i. e. more than an inch thick.
Christopher Merret. Thomas Merry 59
stood it not ; he sold it to Mr. Knib, a watch-maker, who
did not understand it neither, who sold it to Mr. Fromantle
(that made it) for 5 //. who askes now (1683) for it aoo //.
Anno 168a, mense Febr., Mr. N. Mercator left London ;
went with his family to Paris, being invited thither by
Monseigneur Colbert.
Nicholas Mercator, Holsatus, mathematicus, obiit Parisiis,
4to Januarii 168?^ : he went to Paris (being invited thither
by Monseigneur Colbert) the 30th of November, 1682: —
from his son, David Mercator.
Notes,
' Aubrey gives, incompletely, a scheme of the nativity 'clarissimi viri
N. Mercatoris, Holsati ' ; adding that in it * Mars is in proximity to Mercury,
hiii he has forgot on which side.'
* On May 17, 1673, Aubrey had written to Anthony Wood (MS. Wood
F. 39, fol. 208) : —
' The learned (yet poore) Mr. Nicholas Mercator has a most elaborate piece,
'' Astronomiae compendium sphacrice et theorice, et hypotheses Ptolemaei,
Tychonis, Copemici, Kepleri, BuUialdi, et Mercatoris.'*
It i^ill be in 4to, two fingers thick; pret. lox. Cambridge has subscribed
for 50 ; London, as many more. If he could gett, at Oxon, 50 subscriptions
more the printer would print it ... . There are 70 schemes.*
' A copy of this treatise is found as MS. Aubr. 35. It is in two parts : —
CO 55 pag^» *" Musica^ autore N. Mercatore, Holsato, 1673/ on which Aubrey
notes, 'the original copie was lost at Paris, Jo. Aubrey'; (ii) 19 pages,
'• Musica, autore N. Mercatore, Holsato, 167a,* with the note, 'sum Jo. Aubrii,
R. S. S.'
Christopher Merret (161J-1695).
* Christopher Merret, M.D., of the College of Physicians,
London, was borne in Winchcumbe in Gloucestershire,
1614, Feb. XVI about xi at night.
** Scripsit against the apothecaries, etc.
Thomas Merry (16 1682).
t Thomas *** Thomas Merry f, esq., was born at . . .
{to>his*^' in Leicestershire. His father or grandfather
kinsman : vide /. , » 1 r 1 11
Surrey papers-, was One of the clarkes of the green-cloth.
He was disciple to Sir Jonas Moore ; became an excellent
* MS. Aubr. 33, fol. 96\ »»* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8a.
♦♦ Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. • i. e. MS. Aubr. 4.
178*: July 6, 167a.
6o
Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
logist. He had donne all Euclid in a shorter and clearer
manner than ever was yet donne, and particularly the
tenth booke : I have seen it. But he never stitch't it up ;
and, after his death, when I came to enquire for it, it was
disparted like Sibyllae folia^ and severall of the papers lost.
I got what I could find and brought them to the Royal
Society, where they were committed to Mr. Paget to
peruse, but they were so imperfect (he said) they were
not fit to be printed. What is become of them now God
knowes.
* Thomas Merry, esq., a great algebrist and a great
Whig, dyed at Westminster Octob. . . . 1682, and lies
in the vault of his grandfather at Waltham-Stowe in
Essex. ^
Sir Hugh Middleton ( 1555-163 1).
** From Dr. Hugh Chamberlayn, M.D. — that King
James took a moiety of the profitts of the New River
from Sir Hugh Middelton. Some say *twas in considera-
tion of money advanced by the king ; but this is not
certain. He did indeed reconvey this back to him and
his heires, etc., for a rent of 500//. per annum, which is
duly payd, but I think graunted him from his majestic.
*** This Sir Hugh Middleton had his picture in Gold-
smyths* hall with a waterpott by him, as if he had been
the sole inventor. Mr. Fabian Philips sawe Ingolbert*
afterwards, in a poore rug-gowne like an almesman, sitting
by an applewoman at the Parliament stayres.
**** Memorandum that now (168J) London is growne
so populous and big that the New River of Middleton can
serve the pipes to private houses but twice a weeke. —
quod N. B.
John Milton (1608-1674).
(This life is found in MS. Aubr. 8, foil. 63-68 ^ Aubrey's notes for
it were at first very slight, but were increased by information after-
* MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6.
»♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 43.
*♦* MS.Aubr. 8, fol. 42'.
• See supra y p. i.
**** MS. Aubr. 6, fol 60*.
/"
John Milton
6i
wards obtained from Milton's widow, from his brother Christopher,
and from his nephew Edward Phillips. In the life as now printed
these later notes, brought in very disjointedly into the MS., have been
set in their proper places.
When he first began writing his * Lives/ Aubrey set aside fol. 103^
of MS. Aubr. 6 (opposite the life of Andrew Marvell) for Milton,
writing the heading ' Mr. John Milton ' and in the margin drawing a
wreath of laurel, for a poet. Afterwards he scored the heading out,
and added the reference, 'vide part iii^.' i.e. MS. Aubr. 8. Again, in
MS. Aubr. 8, he at first set aside fol. 93 for the life of ' Mr. John
Milton,' but afterwards scored the heading out, and wrote there the
life of Dr. John Overall.
In MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63, Aubrey gives in trick the coat for Milton : —
* argent, a double-headed eagle displayed gules legged and beaked
sable : crest, an arme dexter holding an eagle's head and neck erased
gules.' And, for Bradshaw, he gives the coat, 'argent, 2 bendlets
sable,' noting * his mother was a Bradshaw.'
On fol. 68^, in the pedigree, he gives the coats ; — * JefT(rey), azure, a
fret or, on a chief or a lion passant gardant sable : impaling [Haughton],
sable, 3 bars argent ' : Bradshaw, as above ; Powell of Foresthill and
Webber, left blank ; and MinshuU, ' . . ., an estoyle over a crescent . . .
a canton . . .')
(^His parentage,)
* Quaere Christopher Milton, his brother, of
the Inner Temple, bencher *.
f John, he *>
beleevet.
X Mr. Milton
lived next towne
to Postbill «
within half a
mile like
[Holton], and
they* were
ranngera of
the forest '.
t Milton t
I
. . Jeffrey.
I. John Milton
iH. Sarah
Bradshaw.
a. . . Milton (qaaere
ubi vivit If not at
Shotover ?).
Mary «m
Powell,
daughter
orMr.
Powell of
PosthUL
. Tohn
Milton
(poeta).
fH, (and wife)
Elizabeth
Minshull,
of Cheshire.
sans issue.
I
a. Christopher m, Thomaxine
Milton. Webber,
London.
Mr. Richard Milton,
Paper buildincrs.
Inner Temple.
Anne m. Edward
Philips.
A son John ',
that dyed at
twoyearesold.
I. Anne mt. . . ., a mecha-
nique.
a. Mary,
unmaried.
3. Deborah mt. . . . Clarice,
a ... in
Dublin.
nne prole.
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63.
* Subst. for * barister.*
** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 68^.
** Christopher Milton.
® i.e. Foresthill.
* The Milton family.
• Shotover forest.
' Inserted later in answer to the
following question : — ' quaere, if he
has not a son.'
62 Aubrey's * Brief Lives*
* Mr. John Milton was of an Oxfordshire familie.
His grandfather, . . . , (a Roman Catholic), of Holton,
in Oxfordshire, neer Shotover •.
His father was brought-up in the University of Oxon,
at Christ Church, and his grandfather disinherited him
t Quaere-he because he kept not to the Catholique religion f-
ES^HA^n hii" So therupon he came to London, and became
chamber. ^ scrfvener (brought up by a friend of his ;
was not an apprentice), and gott a plentifull estate by it,
and left it off many yeares before he dyed. — He was an
ingeniose man ; delighted in musique ; com-
piavfordpro poscd many songs now m print, especially
^nr iiDy s sett ot ^_ ,
oriana*s.-Ms. that of Ortatia I.
Aobr. 8, foL 65.
** I have been told that the father com-
posed a song of fourscore parts for the Lantgrave of
Hess, for which (his) highnesse sent a meddall of gold,
or a noble present. He dyed about 1647**; buried in
Cripplegate church, from his house in the Barbican.
{His birth,)
*** His son John was borne in Bread Street, in London,
at *^ the Spread Eagle, which was his house [he had also in
that street another house, the Rose ; and other houses
in other places].
He was borne anno Domini . . . the . . . day of ... ,
about ... a clock, in the . . .
**** j^ Quaere Mr. Christopher Milton to see the date
of his brother's birth.
***** [John Milton ^ was born the 9th of December, 1 608,
die Veneris ®, half an hour after 6 in the morning.]
♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63. **** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 64.
• Subst. for * Whateley,' i. e. ***** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 65.
Wheatley. ^ This paragraph is not in Aubrey's
** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 64. hand ; ? Christopher Milton's. An-
*» Subst. for * in that yeare that the thony Wood grumbles here : * Why do
army marched thorough the city.' you not set downe where John Milton
*** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63. was borne?* forgetting fol. 63.
° Subst. for * at the Ko?e: he had • i. e. Friday,
also there another house.'
John Milton
63
(^His precocity,)
* Anno Domini 1619, he was ten yeares old, as by his
picture ; and was then a poet.
{School, college y and travel.)
His school-master then was a Puritan, in Essex, who
cutt his haire short.
He went to schoole to old Mr. • Gill, at Paule's schoole.
Went, at his owne chardge ^ only, to Christ's College in
Cambridge at® fifteen, where he stayed eight yeares at
least ^. Then he travelled into France and Italic «he)
had Sir H. Wotton's commendatory letters). At Geneva
he contracted a great friendship with® the learned Dr.
Deodati of Geneva : — vide his poems. He was acquainted ^
with Sir Henry Wotton, ambassador at Venice, who de-
lighted in his company. He was severall t yeares
t Quaere, how , ^ , , , t- , , .
many? Resp., bcyond sca, and returned 8 to England just
two yeares. c» ^z
upon the breaking-out of the civill warres.
** From his brother, Christopher Milton : — when he
went to schoole, when he was very young, he studied
very hard, and sate-up very late, commonly till 12 or
one a clock at night, and his father ordered the mayde
to sitt-up for him, and in those yeares (10) composed many
copies of verses which might well become a riper age.
And was a very hard student in the University, and per-
formed all his exercises there with very good applause.
His first tutor there was Mr. Chapell; from
whom receiving some unkindnesse t, he was
afterwards (though it seemed contrary to the rules of the
t Whip't him.
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63.
• Subst. for * Dr.'
^ i. e. as a 'pensioner,* and not
holding any exhibition or scholarship.
« Subst. for * very young (scilicet,
about thirteen was the most).'
** Aubrey, writing on June 29,
1 689, 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».
* Subst. for ' with Carolo Diodati,
. . . son of the learned Dr. Deodati of
Geneva.'
' ' beyond sea ' followed : scored
out.
« Subst. for 'returned a very little
before the civill warres brake-out.'
** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 64.
\\ \ \'
64 Aubrey's ^ Brief Lives'
college) transferred to the tuition of one Mr. Tovell, who
dyed parson of Lutterworth.
* He went to travel! about the year 1638 and was
abroad about a year's space, cheifly in Italy.
{Return to England,}
Immediately after his return he tooke a lodging at
Mr. Russell's, a taylour, in St. Bride's churchyard, and
took into his tuition his sister's two sons, Edward and
John Philips, the first 10, the other 9 years of age ; and
in a year's time made them capable of interpreting a Latin
authour at sight, etc. And within three years they went
through the best of Latin and Greec poetts • — Lucretius
t and with him ^"^ ManiHus t, of the Latins ; Hesiod, Aratus,
IftobS^ Md** Dionysius Afer, Oppian, Apollonii Argonautica,
S^ihmcSr'* and Quintus Calaber. Cato, Varro, and Colu-
and geometry, ^^^jj^ jj^ ^^ rustica were the very first authors
they learn't. — As he was severe on one hand, so he was
most familiar and free in his conversation to those to whome
most sowre in his way of education. N.B. he made his
nephews songsters, and sing, from the time they were
with him.
{First wife and children. }
** He maried his first wifet (Mary) Powell, of Fosthill,
, c. at Shotover, in Oxonshire, anno Domini . . . ;
ln*ci*^ent°''''*'*'' ^V ^hom hc had 4 children. (He) hath two
hulband'i*'^ daughters living: Deborah was his amanuensis
mothe^M'rTthe" (^G taught her Latin, and to read Greeke "^
shl^d'ySYnnS" ^o him when he had lost his eie-sight, which
Domini . . . ^^ ^^^^ Domini . . .).
{Separation from his first zvife,)
[She*^ went from him to her mothers at ... in the
♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 64^. « Mary Powell. The words in
* This is not in Aubrey's hand ; brackets have been substituted for
perhaps in Edward Phillips' writing. * He parted from her'; the second
*♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63. half of the sentence has been left
*> ' and Hebrew * followed : scored unchanged,
out.
John Milton
65
king's quarters, neer Oxford], anno Domini . . . ; and
wrote the Triplechord about divorce.
* Two opinions • doe not well on the same boulster.
She was a . . . ** royalist, and went to her mother to the
king's quarters, neer Oxford. I have perhaps so much
charity to her that she might not wrong his bed : but
what man, especially contemplative, would like to have
a young wife environed and storm'd by the sons of Mars,
and those of the enemi partie ?
** His first wife (Mrs. Powell, a royalist) was brought
up and lived where there was a great deale of company
and merriment*^. And when she came to live with her
husband, at Mr. Russell's, in St. Bride's churchyard, she
found it very solitary ; no company came to her ; often-
times heard his nephews beaten and cry. This life was
irkesome to her, and so she went to her parents at Fost-hill.
He sent for her, after some time ; and I thinke his servant
was evilly entreated : but as for matter of wronging his
bed, I never heard the least suspicions ; nor had he, of that,
any jealousie.
(^Second wife,)
*** He had a middle wife, whose name was (he^ thinkes,
Katharin) Woodcock. No child living by her.
(^Third wife,)
**** He maried his second ® wife, Elizabeth Minshull,
anno . . . (the year before the sicknesse) : a gent, person,
a peacefull and agreable humour.
(^His public employment,)
He was Latin secretary to the Parliament *.
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 68.
• Subst. for * Different religions.*
*> Space left for an adjective,
like ' zealous.*
** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 66. This
paragraph was added later by Aubrey,
perhaps from information supplied by
E. Phillips.
^ * Dancing, etc.,* is written over, in
explanation.
11.
♦♦* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 68^.
<* Probably Edward Phillips.
**** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63.
* '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—.*
' Subst. for *to Oliver Crom well*
66 Aubrey's * Brief Lives'
{His blindness,}
* His sight b^^an to faile him at first upon his writing
against Salmasius, and before 'twas fully compleated one
eie absolutely faild. Upon the writing of other bookes,
after that, his other eie decayed.
** His eie-sight was decaying about 20 yeares before
his death: quaere, when starke^ blind? His father read
without spectacles at 84. His mother had very weake
eies, and used spectacles presently after she was thirty
yeares old.
(^Writings after his blindness,}
*** After he was blind he wrote these following bookes,
viz. Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained^ Grammar^ Die tionarie
(imperfect) — quaere + .
**** I heard that after he was blind that he was writing
a Latin Dictionary (in the hands of Moyses Pitt **). Vidua
affirmat she gave all his papers (among which this dictionary,
imperfect) to his nephew, a sister's son, that he brought
up, . . . Philips, who lives neer the Maypole in the Strand
(quaere). She has a great many letters by her from learned
men, his acquaintance, both of England and beyond sea.
(^His later residences,}
He lived in several places, e.g. Holborne neer King's-
gate. He died in Bunhill, opposite to the Artillery-garden
wall.
{His death and burial.}
He died of the gowt° struck in, the 9th or loth of
November, 1674, as appeares by his apothecarye's booke.
He lies buried in St. Giles's Cripplegate, upper end of
chancell at the right hand, vide his gravestone ^. — Memo-
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 66*. when Aubrey found that the MS. had
♦* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 68. passed from E. Phillips to Pitt.
» Dupl. with * quite.* ^ Subst. for * He died of a feaver,
**♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63. at his house in Quia Street, about the
**♦* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 68. 64th yeare of his age.'
** The London bookseller. The ^ Dupl. with * stone.*
words in brackets were added later.
John Milton 67
randum his stone is now removed ; for, about two yeares
since (now, 1681), the two steppes to the communion
table were raysed. I ghesse John Speed and he lie
together.
(^Personal characteristics.)
His harmonicall and ingeniose soul did lodge* in a
beautifull and well-proportioned body : —
In toto nusquam corpore menda fuit.
Ovid, (i Amor, 5, 18.)
* He was a spare man. He was scarce so tall as
I am — quaere, quot feet I am high : resp., of middle
stature.
He had abroun** hayre. His complexion exceeding®
faire— he was so faire that they called him the lady of
Christ* s College, Ovall face. His eie a darke gray.
** He had a delicate tuneable voice, and had good**
skill. His father instructed him. He had an organ in his
howse : he played on that most.
*** Of a very cheerfull humour. — He would be chear-
full even in his gowte-fitts, and sing.
He was very healthy and free from all diseases : seldome
tooke any physique (only sometimes he tooke manna):
only towards his latter end he was visited with the gowte,
spring and fall.
He had a very good ® memorie ; but I beleeve that his
excellent method of thinking and disposing did much to
helpe his memorie.
**** He pronounced the letter R (littera canina) very
hard — ***** a certaine signe of a satyricall witt — from
John Dreyden.
• Dnpl. with * dwelt.* • Subst. for * an extiaordinary.'
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63. **** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63^.
^ *Abroun*« auburn. Subst. for ***** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 68. The
' a light browne.* note was written in pencil, from
« Subst for * very.' Dryden's information, over the verso
** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63'. of one leaf and the recto of the next ;
^ Subst. for *• great.' and then inked over. Foil. ^^-^1 were
*** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 68. mserted later.
F %
68 Aubrey's ^ Brief Lives'
{Portraits of him,)
* Write his name in red letters on his pictures, with
his widowe, to preserve.
** His widowe haz his picture, drawne very well and
like, when a Cambridge schollar.
She has his picture when a Cambridge schollar, which
ought to be engraven ; for the pictures before his bookes
are not at all like him.
{His habits,^
***" His exercise was chiefly walking.
He was an early riser (scil. at 4 a clock mani) ; yea, after
he lost his sight. He had a man read to him. The first
thing he read was the Hebrew Bible, and that was* at
4 h. mane i h. + . Then he contemplated ^
At 7 his man came to him again, and then read to him
again, and wrote till dinner : the writing was as much as
the reading. His (2) daughter, Deborah, could read to
him Latin, Italian and French, and Greeke. (She) maried
in Dublin to one Mr. Clarke (sells *^ silke, etc.); very like
her father. The other sister is (1) Mary, more like her
mother.
After dinner he used to waike 3 or four houres at a time
(he alwayes had a garden where he lived) ; went to bed
about 9.
Temperate man, rarely dranke between meales.
Extreme pleasant in his conversation, and** at dinner,
supper, etc. ; but satyricall.
{Notes about some of his works.)
**** P>om® Mr. E. Philips : — All the time of writing his
* MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 66^. • Subst. for :— 'From Mr. E.
** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63. Philips : — his invention was much
*** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63*. more free and easie in the aequinoxes
* i.e. at 4 A.M., for more than half than at the solstices, as he more
an hour. particularly found in writing his
^ Subst. for * thought.' Paradise Lost Mr. Edward Philipps
^' Subst. for ' a mercer." his nephew and then amanuensis,
** * and at * is subst. for * e. g.* hath . . .*
**** MS. Aubr. 8. fol. 65.
John Milton 69
Paradise Lost^ his veine began at the autumnall aequinoc-
tiall, and ceased at the vemall (or thereabouts : I believe
about May) : and this was 4 or 5 yeares of his doeing it.
He began about 2 yeares before the king came-in, and
finished about three yeares after the king's restauracion.
In the 4th* booke oi Paradise Lost there are about six
verses of Satan's exclamation to the sun, which Mr. E.
Philips remembers about 15 or 16 yeares before ever his
poem was thought of Which verses were intended for
the beginning of a tragoedie which he had designed, but
was diverted from it by other businesse. .
* [Whatever ** he wrote against monarchic was out of I
no animosity to the king's person, or owt of any faction I
or interest, but out of a pure zeale to the liberty of
mankind, which he thought would be greater under
a fre state than under a monarchiall goverment. His
being so conversant in Livy and the Roman authors,
and the greatness he saw donne by the Roman common-
wealth, and the vertue of their great commanders "^ induc't
him to.]
** From Mr. Abraham Hill : — Memorandum : his
sharp writing against Alexander More, of Holland, upon
t Quaere the a mistake, notwithstanding he had given him
^eofMr.' by the ambassador t all satisfaction to the
Niwportf tEe Contrary : viz. that the booke called * Clamor ^ '
ambassador. was wrftt by Pctcr du Moulin. Well, that was
all one ; he having writt it, it should goe into the world ;
one of them was as bad as the other.
*** Memorandum : — Mr. Theodore Haak, Regiae
Societatis Socius, hath translated halfe his Paradise Lost
into High Dutch in such blank verse, which is very
well liked of by Germanus Fabricius, Professor at Hei-
delberg, who sent to Mr. Haak a letter upon this trans-
lation: — 'incredibile est quantum nos omnes affecerit
• Subst. for * a* or 3.* ^ Dnpl. with * captaines.'
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 65'. ** MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 66».
*» This paragraph is not in Aubrey's ^ * Coeli * followed : scored ont.
hand. *** MS* Aubr. 8, foL 68.
70 Aubrey's ^ Brief Lives*
gravitas styli, et copia lectissimorum verborum/ etc.— vide
the letter.
* Mr. John Milton made two admirable panegyricks,
as to sublimitie of witt, one on Oliver Cromwel, and the
other on Thomas, lord Fairfax, both which his nephew
Mr. Philip hath. But he hath hung back these two yeares,
as to imparting copies to me for the collection of mine with
you •. Wherfore I desire you in your next to intimate
your desire of having these two copies of verses aforesayd.
Were they made in commendation of the devill, 'twere all
one to me : 'tis the v\^os that I looke after. I have been
told 'tis beyond Waller's or anything in that kind.
{Catalogue of his writings,)
** Quaere his nephew, Mr. Edward Philips, for a perfect
catalogue of his writings. Memorandum, he wrote a little
tract of education.
*** I. Of Reformation. » Qu. whether two
Against prelatical Episcopacy- ) books ?
2. The reason of Church Goverment.
3. A defence of Smectymnuus.
4. The Doctrin and Disciplin\
of Divorce.
5. Colasterion.
6. The Judgement of Martin
Bucer.
7. Tetrachordon (of divorce)./
Areopagitica, viz. for the libertie of the presse.
Of Education.
Iconoclastes.
Tenure of Kings and Magistrates.
Defcnsio populi Anglicani.
Defensio a** contra Morum.
Defensio 3*^*.
* Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, ** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 68.
fol. 372 : May, 1684. **♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 64. I am
* i.e. MS. Aubr. 8, then in An- doubtful whether this list is in Aabrey's
thony Wood's hands. hand.
\
All these in prosecution
of the same subject.
John Milton 71
His Logick.
Of the powr of the civil magistrate in ecclesiastical affairs.
Against Hirelings (against Tythes).
Of a Commonwealth.
Against Dr. Griffith.
Of Toleration, Heresie, and Schisme.
* Catalogus Librorum^.
t Set them i. Pocms, 8vo, printed . . . Twice printed.
downeaccordingr y i r r
to order of time. SomC wrftt but at l8.
Of Reformation.
2. 'EilKOvoK\6.(TTr\Si printed at . . .
3. pro populo Anglicano defensio, contra Salmasium.
4. Tetrachordon, 4to : of divorce.
5. Paradise / Lost, 4to. ) Edward Philips his cheif
/
4to. \
ined, 4to. I
6. ( Regained, 4to. ) amanuensis.
7. Latine epistles, 8vo. / ^^?"^^^-
I Politique.
8. Latin grammar in English, 8vo.
9. The history of Britain from the first tradicionall
beginning continued to the Norman Conquest, 4to, London,
MDCLXX, for James Alesly, Rose and Crowne, Paul's
Churchyard. Scripsit prout per effigiem [sed falsam] 1670,
aetat. 62.
10. A letter of education to Mr. S. Hartlib (with his
poems).
11. A brief history of Muscovia and other less knowne
countries lyeing eastward. Advertisement : — *writt by the
author's owne hand before he lost his sight and intended
to have printed it before his death.'
12. His logick.
13. Idea Theologiae in MS. in the handes of Mr. Skinner,
a merchant's sonne, in Marke-lane. Memorandum there
was one Mr. Skinner of the Jerkers office up 2 paire of
stayres at the Custome-house.
14. He wrote a dictionary called Idioma linguae Latinae
(from Mr. Packer who was his scholar).
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6S\
72 Aubrey's * Brief Lives*
{An almost contemporary life of Milton.^
* Quaere Mr. (Andrew) Allam, of Edmund-hall, Oxon,
of John Milton's h'fe writt by himselfc*: vide pagg. . . .
{His acquaintance, y
** He was visited much by learned (men) ; more then
he did desire.
He was mightily importuned to goc into France and
Italic. Foraigners came much to see him, and much
admired him, and offered to him great preferments to come
over to them : and the only inducement of several!
foreigners that came over into England, was chiefly to
see Oliver Protector, and Mr. John Milton ; and would
see the house and chamber wher he was borne. He was
much more admired abrode then at home.
His familiar learned acquaintance were Mr. Andrew
Marvell, Mr. Skinner, Dr. Pagett, M.D.
Mr. (Cyriack) Skinner, who was his disciple.
John Dreyden, esq.,. Poet Laureate, who very much
admires him, and went to him to have leave to putt his
Paradise Lost into a drama in rhymne. Mr. Milton
recieved him civilly, and told him he would give him
leave to tagge his verses.
His widowe assures me that Mr. T. Hobbs was not one
of his acquaintance, that her husband did not like him at
all, but he would acknowledge* him to be a man of
great parts, and a learned man. Their interests and
tenets did^ run counter to each other; vide in Hobbes*
Bcliemoth,
George Monk (i 608-1 670).
*** G. M^ was borne at ... in Devon (vide Devon
in Heralds' Office), a second son of . . ., an ancient
♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 66\ • Dnpl. with * grant*
• i.e. by Allam. This was Anthony ** Dnpl. with * were diametrically
Wood's friend (obiit 1685), who opposed.'
helped with notices of contemporary ♦** MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1 7.
writers: Clark's Wood's Life and « Anthony Wood expands to
7iWj, iv. 90. ' Monke.'
** MS. Aubr. 8, foL 6y,
George Monk 73
familie, and which had about Henry 8's time 10,000//. per
t From Mrii annuHi (as he himselfe sayd).
kfrawSmS a ^^ ^^ ^ stfong, lusty, wcU-sctt youttg
ShJS?iIla?iS!i*^as fellow; and in his youth happened to slay
Monke. ^ ^^^ |^ wWch was the occasion of his flying
into the Low-countries, where he learned to be a soldier.
At the beginning of the late civil) warres, he came over
to the king's side, where he had command (quaere in what
part of England).
Anno ... he was prisoner in the Tower, where his
semstres, Nan Charges) (a blacksmith's %
kill of that '*' daughter), was kind to him; in a double
coniCTdipp, the Capacity. It must be remembred that he then
the right hand was in Want §, and she assisted him. Here she
as you come oat
of the Strand was gott with child. She was not at all hand-
into Dnirjr-lane ; "
the howMianow some, nor cleanly. Her mother was one of the
built of bnck. ' '
f He was uken fivc wocmcn barbers.
KSSJmebt ^ Anno ... (as I remember, 1635) there was
forces, and kept . , . -r-v t t i i i
in the Tower: a mafied woman m Drury-lane that had clapt
andthetrurtfi ,. . , » » i t ,
was, he was (i.e. given- the pox to) a woman s husband,
neglected at a ncic^hbor of hers. She complained of this
Court, that they ** i i j
didnotthinkeof to her neighbour g^ossips. So they concluded
exchanging him, ** tor J
and he was in on this rcvcnge, viz. to gett her and whippe
her and . . . ; which severities were executed
and put into a ballad. 'Twas the first ballad I ever cared
for the reading of: the burden of it was thus: —
Did yee ever heare the like
Or ever heard the same
Of five woemen-barbers
That lived in Drewry lane?
Vide the Ballad-booke •.
Anno . . . her brother, T(homas) Cl(arges), came a
ship-board to G. M. and told him his sister was brought to
bed. ^ Of what ? ' sayd he. * Of a son.' ' Why then,' sayd
he, * she is my wife.' He had only this child.
* Very probably the (MS. ?) collection at Ralph Sheldon's : suprOf p. 4.
74 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
Anno . ., (I have forgott by what meanes) he gott his
libertie, and an employment under Oliver (I thinke) at sea,
against the Dutch, where he did good service; he had
courage enough. But I remember the sea-men would
laugh, that in stead of crying Tack about, he would say
Wheele to the right (or left).
Anno i6 . . . he had command in Scotland (vide his
life), where he was well beloved by his soldiers, and, I
thinke, that country (for an enemie). Oliver, Protector, had
a great mind to have him home, and sent him a fine comple-
t onaSatcrday. mcntall letter, that he desired (him) to come
!f«f dav?^ ^'^"^ into England to advise with him. He sent
SydeifhLn (his his highnesse word, that if he pleased he
w^TSSddlScd would come and waite upon him at the
with him, and \ ■% e o^i^i-
after dinner told head oi io,ooo men. bo that designe was
him that God - ,
hadpnttagood Spoyled.
his handes, Anno ] 6 JJ, Febr. icth (as I remember), being
restoring the then scttt for by the Parliament to disband
he rave an Lambcrt's armie, he came into London with
mdefinite
answer, and his armv about onc a clock P.M.t He then
sayd he hoped ^
he should doe sent to the Parliament this letter, which*.
like an honest
'"^"•c-^^S''l'» printed, I annex here. Shortly after he was
were Sir Ralph s *^ ' '
acquaintance sent for to the Parliament house ; where, in the
were long^ing '
for his coming howsc, a chairc was sett for him, but he would
homo to supper ' '
a^nsH^TX^^ ' "^^ (^" modestie) sitt downe in it. The Parlia-
STni'^t'.'" ment (Rumpe {) made him odious to the citie,
kingWs!Sura. purposcly, by pulling down and burning their
Ma"steTot *''"' g^tcs (which I myselfc sawe). The Rumpe
\^aTR^^m^' invited him to a great dinner, Febr. . . .
^tC^^a^hTw^den (shortly after) ; from whence it was never in-
gcn^raiiVrowne tcndcd that hc should have returned (of this
(awoodmonger). \ ^im assurcd by one of that Parliament).
The members stayd till i, 2, 3, 4 a clock, but at last
• It is fol. 18 of MS. Aubr. 6. them:* printed by John Macock,
* A I letter | from his | exceUencie | 1660, 8 leaves, smaU 4to. It begins :
the I lord general Monck | and the * Mr. Speaker, We cannot but with
officers nnder his command | to thankfulness acknowledge the wonder-
the I Parliament ; | in the name of ful goodness . . .,' and is dated from
themselves, and the sculdiers | under *White-hal, Feb. 11, 1659.'
George Monk 75
his excellency sent them word he could not come: I
beleeve he suspected some treacherie.
You must now know that long before these dayes, colonel
(Edward) Massey, and Thomas Mariett, of Whitchurch
in Warwickshire, esqre, held correspondence with his
majestic, who wrote them letters with his owne hand,
which I have seen. Both these were now in London
privately. Tom Mariett laye with me (I was then of the
Middle Temple) ; G. M. lay at Draper's hall * in Throck-
morton-street. Col. Massey (Sir Edward afterwards), and
T. Mariett every day were tampering with G. M., as also
col. (John) Robinson (afterward Liewtenant of the Tower:
whom I remember they counted not so wise as King
Salomon); and they could not find any inclinatioa or
propensity in G. M. for their purpose, scil. to be instru-
mentall to bring in the king. Every night late, I had an
account of all these transactions abed, which like a sott
t Quaere T. M. ^^ ^ v<i^s^ I did not, whilc frcsh in memorie,
itenimdehia. committ to wHtiug, as neither has T. M.f :
but I remember in the maine, that they were satisfied he
no more intended or designed the king's restauration, when
he came into England, or first came to London, then his
horse did. But shortly after finding himselfe at a losse;
and that he was (purposely) made odious to the citie, as
aforesayd — and that he was a lost man — by the Parliament ;
and that the generality of the citie and country were for the
restoring the king, having long groaned under the tyranny
of other governments ; he had no way to save himselfe but
to close with the citie, etc., again. Memorandum that
Thredneedle-street was all day long, and late at night,
crammed with multitudes, crying out A free Parliament^
a free Parliament, that the aire rang with their clamours •.
One evening, viz. Feb. . . . (quaere diem) he comeing out
on horseback**, they were so violent that he was almost
afrayd of himselfe, and so, to satisfie them (as they use to
doe to importunate children). Pray be quiet, yee shall have
* MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 17*. *» 'On horseback' subst. for *of
• Dupl. with * noises.* dores.*
76 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
a free Parliament, This about 7, or rather 8 as I remember
at night. Immediately a loud holla and shout was given,
all the bells in (the) city ringing, and the whole citie looked
as if it had been in a flame by the bonfires, which were
prodigiously great and frequent and ran like a traine over
the citie, and I sawe some balcone's that began to be
kindled. They made little gibbetts, and roasted* rumpes
of mutton; nay, I sawe some very good rumpes of beefe**.
Healths to the king, Charles II, were dranke in the streets
by the bonfires, even on their knees ; and this humor ran
by the next night to Salisbury, where was the like joy ; so
to Chalke, where they made a great bonfire on the top of
the hill ; from hence to Blandford and Shaftesbury, and so
to the Land's-end : and perhaps it was so over all England,
t A Domino ^^ ^^^ ^^ retum of his most gracious majestic
S^S'^IJibii?'^' was by the hand of GODf; but as by this
H<2^?«t"diS^'' person meerly accidentall, whatever the pom-
3^/^'exuite. Pous History in 8vo. saycs (printed at . . .
S'SL-iC!"''^ opposite to St. Dunstans church: quaere if
oiviii. 23, 34. jjQj ^^it^ by sij. Thomas Clargies, brother to
her Grace, formerly an apothecary ; and was physician to
his army, and 1660 was created M. Dr., who commonly
at Coffee-houses uses to pretend strange things, of his con-
trivances, and bringing-on of his brother-in-lawe to . . .).
Well I A free Parliament was chosen, and mett the . . .
of ... . Sir Harbottle Grimston, knight and baronet, was
chosen Speaker. The first thing he putt to the question
was, ' Whether Charles Steward should be sent for, or
no ? ' * Yea, yea,' nemine coniradicente. Sir John Greenvill
(now earle of Bathe) was then in towne, and posted away
to Bruxells ; found the king at dinner, little dreaming
of so good newes, rises presently from dinner, had his
t This I have coach immediately made readie, and that night
lohn Earies and gott out of the king of Spainc's domiuions
his wife Bridget, . , . r .o. ^ t i • i
then at Bnweiis, luto the pnnce of Orange s country, I thmke,
say, sevcrall t* , .
times. Breda J.
* Subst. for * bumed.' ^ * Many there were * followed : scored out.
« * Haec * in the Vulgate.
George Monk 77
Now, as the morne growes lighter and lighter, and more
glorious, till it is perfect day, so * it was with the joy of the
people. Maypoles, which in the hypocriticall times, *twas
. . . to sett-up, now were sett up in every crosse-way:
and at the Strand, neer Drury-lane, was sett-up the most
prodigious one for height, that (perhaps) was ever seen ;
they were faine (I remember) to have the assistance of the
sea-men's art to elevate it ; that which remaines (being
broken with a high wind anno .... I thinke about 1672) is
but two parts of three of the whole height from the grownd,
besides what is in the earth. The juvenile and rustique
folkes at that time had so much their fullnesse of desires
in this kind, that I thinke there have been very few sett-up
since. The honours conferred on G. M. every one knowes.
His sence might be good enough, but he was slow, and
heavie. He dyed anno . . . and had a magnificent funerall,
suitable to his greatnesse. His figure in his robes was very
artificially donne, which lay in a catafalco under a canopie,
in or neer the east end of Westminster abby, a moneth
or 6 weekes. Seth Ward, lord bishop of Sarum (his great
acquaintance), preached his funerall sermon, which is
printed for . . . His eldest brother dyed sine prole, about
the time of the Kings returne. His other brother,
(Nicholas Monk*) was made bishop of Hereford. G. M.
and his duchess dyed within a day or two of each other.
The bishop of Sarum told me that he did the last office of
a confessor to his grace ; and closed his eies, as his lordship
told me himselfe.
Some moneths before G. M.'s comeing into England, the
king sent Sir Richard Grenvill (since earl of Bath) to him
to negotiate with him that he would doe him service, and
to correspond with him. Said he, ' If opportunity be, I will
doe him service ; but I will not by any meanes have any
correspondence ** with him ' ; and he did like a wise man
in it ; for if he had he would certainly have been betrayed.
*Twas shrewd advice which (William) Wyld, then
» MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 19. * Died Dec 17, 1661.
^ Dupl. with ' hold a correspondence.*
78 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
Recorder of London, gave to the citizens, i. e. to keep their
purse-strings fast ; els, the Parliament would have payed
the army and kept out the king.
He was first an ensigne, and after a captain, in the Lowe-
countreys, and for making false musters was like to have
been . . . which he afterward did not forget: — from
major Cosh.
This underneath was writt on the dore of the House
of Commons.
Till it be understood
What is under Monke's hood,
The citizens putt in their homes.
Untill the ten dayes are out,
t Lenthall. The Speaker t haz the gowt,
And the Rump, they sitt upon thomes.
Memorandum: — Mr. Baron Brampton hath invited me
to his chamber to give me a farther account of generall
Monk. — I* let slip the opportunity, and my honoured
friend is dead.
Sir Jonas Moore (1617-1679).
* Sir Jonas More: vide^ 4>, p. 128. Sciatica he cured
it, by boyling his buttock. The D. ° Y. said that * Mathe-
maticians and physicians had no religion ' : which being
told to Sir Jonas More, he presented his duty to the D. Y.^
and wished *with all his heart that his highnesse zvere
a mathematician too ' : this was since he was supposed to
be a Roman Catholic.
** He was a clarke under Dr. Burghill, Chancellor of
Durham. Parson Milbourne, in the Bishoprick, putt him
upon the Mathematiques, and instructed him in it. Then
he came to the Middle Temple, London, where he published
his Arithmetique, and taught it in Stanhop-street. After
this, gott-in with the lord Gorges, earle of Bedford, and
• Added later. And then Aubrey c i.e. Duke of York.
struck out ' hath ' in the preceding *• Subst. for ' to his highnesse.*
memo. ** Notes on fol. 96 of MS. Aubr. 6,
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12'. perhaps added later than the body of
** See supra^ p. 4. the notice.
Sir Jonas Moore 79
Sir Thomas Chichiley, for the surveying of the fennes : —
from captain Sherbourne.
Mr. . . . Gascoigne (of the North, I thinke Yorkeshire),
a person of good estate, a most learned gentleman, who
was killed in the civill warres in the king's cause, a great
mathematician, and bred by the Jesuites at Rome, gave
him good information in mathematical! knowledge. Pray
inquire of our friend, Mr. Ralph Sheldon, for as many
memorialls of him ^ as you can : he was one of the most
accomplisht gentlemen of his time.
* Sir Jonas Moore ^ was borne at Whitelee in Lanca-
shire, towards the bishoprick of Durham. He was inclined
to mathematiques when a boy, which some kind friends*
of his (whom he mentions in the preface of his first edition
of his Arithmetique, dedicated to . . . about 1647, ^^^
Edmund Wyld, esq.), and afterwards Mr. Oughtred, more
fully enformed him ; and then he taught gentlemen in
London, which was his livelyhood.
When the great levell of the fennes was to be surveyed,
Mr. Wyld aforesaid who was his scholar and a member of
Parliament was very instrumentall in helping him to the
employment of surveying it, which was his rise, which I
have heard him acknowledge with much gratitude before
severall persons of quality, since he was a knight, and
which evidenced an excellent good nature in him.
C3^ Memorandum: — when he surveyed the fennes, he
observed the line that the sea made on the beach, which is
not a streight line (quaere what line ?), by which meanes he
gott great credit in keeping-out the sea in Norfolke ; so ^
he made his bankes against the sea of the same line that
the sea makes on the beach ; and no other could doe it,
but that the sea would still breake-in upon it.
Memorandum : — he made a modell of (a) citadell for
Oliver Cromwell, to bridle the city of London, which
Mr. Wyld has; and this citadell was to have been the
crosse building of St. Paule's church.
» MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 96. • William Milboume.
^ * so * sabst. for * for.*
8o Aubrey's * Brief Lives'
Upon the restauration of his majestic he was made
Master Surveyor of his majesties ordinance and armories.
A. D. 167- he received the honour of knighthood. He
was a good mathematician, and a good fellowe.
He dyed at Godalmyng, comeing from Portsmouth to
London . . ., and was buried Septemb. 2* 1679, at the
Tower Chapell, with sixtie peices of ordinance (equal to
the number of his yeares). He was tall and very fat, thin
skin, faire, cleare grey eie.
He alwayes intended to have left his library of mathema-
tical! bookes to the Roy all Societie, of which he was
a member ; but he happened to dye without making a will,
wherby the Royal Societie have a great losse.
His only sonne, Jonas, had the honour of knighthood
conferred upon him, August 9, 1680, at Windsor; 'his
majestie being pleased to give him this marke of his favour
as well in consideration of his owne abilities, as of the
faithfull service of his father deceased ' {London Gazette, no.
1537) — but young Sir Jonas, when he is old, will never be
old Sir Jonas, for all the Gazette's elogie.
Memorandum : — speake to Sir Christopher Wren to gett
the wooden sphaere that was made for Prince Henry by
Mr. (Edward) Wright, out of young Sir Jonas Moore's
handes, into the king's again.
I remember Sir Jonas told us that a Jesuite (I think
'twas Grcnbergerus, of the Roman College) found out
a way of flying, and that he made a youth * performe it.
Mr. Gascoigne taught an Irish boy the way, and he flew
over a river in Lancashire (or therabout), but when he was
up in the ayre, the people gave a shoute, wherat the boy
being frighted, he fell downe on the other side of the river,
and broke his legges, and when he came to himselfe, he
sayd that he thought the people had seen some strange
apparition, which fancy amazed him. This was anno
1635, and he spake it in the Royall Societie, upon the
account of the flyeing at Paris, two yeares since. Vide
the Transactions.
• • a youth * subst. for * one.*
Str Robert Moray 8i
I remember I have heard Sir Jonas say that when he
began mathematiques, he wonderfully profited by reading
Billingesley's Euclid, and that 'twas his excellent, cleare,
and plaine exposition of the 4*^ proposition of the first
booke of the Elements, did first open and cleare his under-
standing: quod N.B.
^ i. e. William Gascoigne : vol. i. p. a6o. Ralph Sheldon of Beoly was a
Catholic ; and at his house Anthony Wood received much information about
Catholic writers : Clark's Wood's Life and TimeSf iii. 98.
' Aubrey gives in trick the coat : ' azure, a swan within a bordore engrailed
argent/
Sir Robert Moray (16 1673).
* Sir Robert Moray, knight: — he was of the ancient
family of the Morays in Scotland. He was borne ... (as
I take it, in the Highlands), anno domini . . . The High-
landers (like the Swedes) can make their owne cloathes ;
and I have heard Sir Robert say that he could doe it.
He spent most of his time in France. After his juvenile
education at schoole and the University he betooke himselfe
to military employment in the service of Lewis the 13th.
He was at last Lieuetenant- Colonel to . . . He was a great
master of the Latin tongue and was very well read. They
say he was an excellent soldier.
He was far from the rough humour of the camp breeding,
for he was a person the most obh'ging about the court and
the only man that would doe a kindnesse gratis upon an
account of friendship. A lacquey could not have been
more obsequious and diligent. What I doe now averre
I know to be true upon my owne score as well as others.
He was a most humble and good man, and as free from
covetousness as a Carthusian. He was abstemious and
abhorred woemen. His majesty was wont to teaze at him,
'Twas pitty he was a Presbyterian.
He was the chiefe appuy of his countreymen and their
good angel. There had been formerly a great friendship
between him and the duke of Lauderdale, till, about a yeare
or two before his death, he went to the duke on his returne
♦ MS. Aubr. 8. fol. 53.
II. G
82 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
from Scotland and told him plainly that he had betrayed
his countrey.
He was one of the first contrivers and institutors of the
Royall Societie and was our first president, and performed
his charge in the chaire very well.
He was my most honoured and obligeing friend, and
I was more obliged to him then to all the courtiers besides.
I had a great losse in his death, for, had he lived, he would
have got some employment or other for me before this
time. He had the king's eare as much as any one, and
was indefatigable in his undertakings. I was often with him.
I was with him three houres the morning he dyed ; he seemed
to be well enough *. I remember he dranke at least \ pint
of faire water, according to his usuall custome.
His lodgeing where he dyed was the leaded pavillion in
the garden at Whitehall. He dyed suddenly July 4***
about 8 hours P.M. A^D. 1673. Had but one shilling in
his pocket, i. e. in all. The king buryed him. He lyes by
Sir William Davenant in Westminster abbey.
He was a good chymist and assisted his majestie in his
chymicall operations.
Sir Thomas More (1480- 1535).
* Sir Thomas More \ Lord Chancellour: — his countrey-
howse was at Chelsey, in Middlesex, where Sir John Danvers
built his house. The chimney-piece of marble in Sir John's
chamber, was the chimney-piece of Sir Thomas More's
chamber, as Sir John himselfe told me. Where the gate is
now, adorned with two noble pyramids, there stood anciently
a gate-house, which was flatt on the top, leaded, from
whence is a most pleasant prospect of the Thames and the
fields beyond. On this place the Lord Chancellour More
was wont to recreate himselfe and contemplate. It happened
one time that a Tom of Bedlam came-up to him, and had
a mind to have throwne him from the battlements, saying
» A note of Aubrey's conversation under Henry and Thomas Vaughan,
with him that morning is found in * MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 96'.
a letter dated July 5, 1673, cited
Sir Thomas More 83
* Leap, Tom, leap.* The Chancellour was in his gowne, and
besides ancient, and not able to struggle with such a strong
fellowe. My lord had a little dog with (him) ; sayd he
* Let us first throwe the dog downe, and see what sport
that will be ' ; so the dog was throwne over. ' This is very
fine sport,' sayd my lord, * let us fetch him up, and try once
more.' While the madman was goeing downe, my lord
fastned the dore, and called for help, but ever after kept
the dore shutt.
Memorandum that in his Utopia his lawe • is f that
t Vide Utopia, ^'^ young people are to see each other stark-
p?^et'^i^ naked before marriage. Sir (William) Roper,
mrS!Je?Ms. of ... in** Eltham in Kent, came one morning,
Aubr. 8, foi. 4a. pretty early, to my lord, with a proposall to
marry one of (his) daughters. My lord's daughters were
then both together a bed in a truckle-bed in their father's
chamber asleep. He carries Sir (William) into the
chamber and takes the sheet by the corner and suddenly
whippes it off. . . .® Here was all the trouble of the
wooeing. — This account I had from my honoured friend
old Mris. Tyndale, whose grandfather Sir William Stafford
was an intimate acquaintance of this Sir . . . Roper, who
told him the story.
This Sir (William) Roper (from whom^ is descended
the lord Tenham) had in one piece, drawne by Hans
Holbeine, the pictures of Sir Thomas More, his lady, and
all his children, which hung at his house aforesaid in
Kent: but about 1675 'twas presented as a raritie to King
Charles II and hangs in Whitehall.
His discourse was extraordinary facetious. Riding one
night, upon the suddaine, he crossed himself majori cruce^
t videErasmi Crying out f * Jcsu Maria! doe not you see
* Spectrum.' that prodigious dragon in the sky ? ' They all
lookt-up, and one did not see it, nor the tother did not
* Dupl. with * fashion.* * Rectius from whose younger
*> Dupl. with * by.' brother Christopher Roper ; Chris-
« Five lines of text are here sup- topher's son, Sir John Roper, being
pressed. created baron Teynham in 1616.
G a
84 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
see it. At length one h^d spyed it, and at last all had
spied. Wheras there was no such phantdme; only he
imposed on their phantasies.
After he was beheaded, his trunke was interred in Chelsey
* e- Tu church, neer the middle of the south wall,
♦ Sir Thomas '
tfOTb'iiTthe^ where was some slight monument t erected,
SSnaiuiS*^^^^ which being worne by time, about 1644 Sir . • .
^"ir j^hi"'^*'*'^ Laurence, of Chelsey (no kinne to him), at his
ch^STy" ?Lred ^w^ proper cost and chardges, erected to his
More'l^fU^p. niemorie a handsome faire inscription of marble.
lidytebS ^^ ^^^ ^^^ "P^^ London bridge: there
To*hn\lf^ncc, g^^ ^^is story in the family, viz. that one
,6jts.-Ms^'*^ ^ay as one of his daughters was passing under
Aubr. 7, foi. 16. ^j^^ bridge, looking on her father's head*,
sayd she, * That head haz layn ** many a time in my lapp,
would to God it would fall into my lap as I passe under.'
She had her wish, and it did fall into her lappe. and is now
preserved in a vault in the cathedrall church at Canterbury.
The descendant of Sir Thomas, is Mr. More, of Chilston,
in Herefordshire, where, among a great many things of
value plundered*' by the soldiers, was his chap, which they
kept for a relique. Methinks 'tis strange that all this time
he is not canonized, for he merited highly of the church.
Memorandum : — in the hall of Sir John Lenthall, at
Bessils-Lye in Berks, is an original of Sir Thomas and his
father, mother, wife, and children, donne by Hans Holbein.
There is an inscription in golden letters of about 60 lines,
which I spake to Mr. Thomas Pigot. of Wadham College,
to transcribe, and he has donne it very carefully. Aske
him for it. Vide Mr. Thomas Pigot, in part ^ iii.
Memorandum : — about tlie later end of Erasmus's
Episiolae^ Antverp edition, pag. 503, 504, 505, is an epitaph
for Sir Thomas More, and another for his lady.
■ Dupl. with 'when she looked on Wood, Jan. i6, 167I: MS. Wood F.
his head.* 39, fol. 160'.
^ Dupl. with *been.' * i.e. MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 97'; see
^ In the Civil War. This story is in the life of Thomas Pigot, infra.
told by Aubrey in a letter to Anthony
Sir Thomas More 85
Memorandum : — Sir Thomas Mere's father had a countrey
house at Gubbins in Hertfordshire, which is in the familie
still, who are still Catholiques ; whether he was borne there
or no, non constat: — (from) Seth Ward, episcopus
Sarum.
* Educatus in aula cardinalis Morton, prout in Utopia
pag. 49> 50-
Sir John Lenthall at Besilslye haz a rare and large
picture of Hans Holbein's painting in his hall there, where
are the figures, as big as the life, of Sir Thomas (More)
and his father (a judge) and mother, wife and children, and
a long inscription, which gett Mr. Pigot to transcribe, for it
begins to be defaced.
Sir Thomas More, knight : Quaestiones duae : —
— An chimaera bombinans in vacuo possit comedere se-
cundas intentiones ?
— An averia capta in Withernamio sint replegiabilia ?
Memorandum: — his folio, English.
Epigrammata, i6mo.
Utopia. — Vide in Utopia his titles of civis Londiniensis
and vicecomes Londiniensis.
His behaviour on the scaffold.
** fcy" See about the later end of Erasmus' Epistolae
(in the Antverp edition, 8vo, 'tis in pagg. 503, 504, 505)
an epitaph made for Sir Thomas More, and another for
his wife (as I thinke, never set up). But be sure to
obtaine a copie of the inscription under his picture and of
his family at Basilleigh, which Mr. Thomas Pigot hath,
and he only can help you to it. Therin are remarques
of that family nowhere els to be had.
Note.
* Aubrey gives the coat: '. . ., a chevron between 3 heath-cocks . . .'
wreathed with laurel. He adds : ' This coate of armes is in the hall at New
Inne, of which house I presume Sir Thomas was, according to the education
of former times.*
He adds the references 'see part iii, p. 45 b' (i.e. MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 97^ in the
life of Thomas Pigot), and * vide A. Wood's Antiq, Oxon*
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 43. »» MS. Anbr. 7, fol. 5.
86 Aubrey^s * Brief Lives'
laanoelot Morehouse (i6 1672).
* Mr. Launcelot Moorhouse, minister of Pertwood
(40 li. per annum), about 6 miles from Kilmanton, a very
learned man, and a solid and profound mathematician,
wrote against Mr. Francis Potter's booke of 666, and falls
upon him, for that 25 is not the true roote, but the pro-
pinque root ; to which Mr. Potter replied with some
sharpnes, and that it ought not to be the true roote, for
this agrees better with his purpose. The manuscript pro
and con Mr. Morehouse gave to Seth Ward, bishop of
Sarum, 1668 ; together with a MS. in folio (in French)
of legues between . . . king of England and . . • king of
France, and a prophecy concerning England, curiously
written in Latin verse, one sheet in 4to, which he rescued
from the tayler's sheeres.
Mr. Moorhouse (of Cambridge) is dead and left his
many excellent mathematicall notes to his ingeniose friend,
John Graunt, of Hindon.
He writt in 4to de Quadratura Circuli ; wherin is a great
deale of witt and learning ; but at last Dr. Davenant (his
neighbour) evinced him of his paralogisme. I would have
it printed (for it is learnedly* donne) to show where and
how great witts may erre and be decieved.
He was a man of a very searching witt, and indefatigable
at solving a question, as I have heard Dr. Edward Davenant
oftentimes say.
He was either of Clare-hall or King's Colledge. West-
moreland by birth. Curate at Chalke to Mr. Waller. He
was preferred by bishop (Humphrey) Hinchman to Little
Langford, where he dyed about 1672.
Sir Thomas Morgan (16 1679).
** The life of Sir Thomas Morgan will be printed in
about three weekes time by . . .
From Mr. Howe : —
* MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 6o». ♦* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 14 : the part in
■ Subst. for * well.* square brackets is Howe's autograph.
Str Thomas Morgan 87
[Clarissimo fartissimoque Thomae Morgano, equiti aurato, impera'
forum hujus aetatis facile principi.
Quae non in terris sensit gens beUica quantus
Dux sit Morganus, compede, strage, fugi?
Ashleus, AustriacuS) Condaeus, Monkus et ipse,
Lesleiusque aquilas erubu^re tuas.
Faiifaxus, Glencamus, famaque Middletoni,
Hopton jure prior sed tibi Marte minor.
Victrices culpas delemus, vidimus ex quo
Erecta auspiciis sceptra Britanna tuis,
£t Carolum regnis reducem et Monkum modo fultum
Auxiliis fusum Lamberitumque tuis.
Inclytus Arthurus tibi conterranneus olim,
Her6e Arthuro p^dimus esse satum.
(by) . . .' Jones*, B.D.]
* Sir Thomas Morgan : — Sir John Lenthall told me
that at the taking of Dunkyrke, Marshall Turenne, and,
I thinke, Cardinall Mezarine too, had a great mind to see
this famous warrior. They gave him a visitt, and wheras
they thought to have found an Achillean or gigantique
person, they sawe a little man, not many degrees ^ above a
dwarfe®, sitting in a hutt of turves, with his fellowe soldiers,
smoaking a pipe about 3 inches (or neer so) long, with
a green hatt-case on. He spake with a very exile tone,
and did cry-out to the soldiers, when angry with them,
* Sirrah, Tie cleave your skull I ' as if the wordes had been
prolated by an eunuch.
He was of meane pai'entage in Monmouthshire. He went
over to the Lowe-Countrie warres about 1 6, being recom-
mended by some friend of his to some commander there, who,
when he read the letter, sayd, * What I has my cosen . . .
recommended a rattoon to me ? ' at which he tooke pett»
and seek't his fortune (as a soldier) in Saxon Weymar.
He spake Welch, English, French, High Dutch, and
Lowe Dutch, but never a one well. He seated himself at
Cheuston, in Herefordshire.
* Probably Thomas Jones ; supra, ^ In the index to MS. Aubr. 6, he
}). II. is referred to as 'little Sir Thomas
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15. Morgan, the great soldier.'
^ Subst. for * not much above.*
88
Aubrey's * Brief Lives*
* Sir Thomas Morgan : quaere Dr.* Jones. — Quaere
Mr. Howe at Peter Griffiths*, in Yorke buildings, neer the
staires: he was his secretary and haz his memoires. —
Quaere Mr. Jones for a copie of Sir Thomas Morgan's
epitaph. — He lies buried in St. Martyn*s church (in-the)-
fields, London: quaere if his tombe is erected. Obiit
about 1679.
** Thomas Morgan : — vide Mr. Howe at Mr. Griffyn's
howse in York buildings, below Mi. Kent, next house but
one or two to the water : he was his secretary and has his
memoires. Quaere Mr. Jones for the copie of his epitaph.
He lies interred in St. Martin's church : quaere if his tombe
is erected. Obiit about 1679.
William Morgan (1622-16 — )
*** Mariana Morgan, . . . daughter of major Morgan of
Wells, was borne there, New Yeare's Eve's eve, XX yeares
since next New Yeare's Eve, about 5 or 6 a clock P.M.
She is a swidging lustie woman.
**** William Morgan, first son of captain William
Morgan, was borne at Wells, the 6th of November, Saterday
morning, something before day. When he dyed he was
22 and as much as from the time of his birth. He dyed
last Xtmas, viz. 1674, the Fryday after XH day**.
Memorandum in 1670 he was very like to dye of a feaver.
Anno . . . , he maried (I think not much above a yeare
before his death). Anno ... he dyed.
***** Thomas Morgan, second sonne, natus ibidem,
September 14, 1657 (about midnight, his mother thinkes).
He was idle and unfortunate, and dyed 167-. Seemed
to have Saturne much his enemie.
Not€,
These Morgans of Wells were * cousins * of Aubrey : see in the life of Sir
Edmundbury Godfrey. The William Morgan who is there mentioned I take
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15.
* A slip for * Mr.,' as infra.
♦* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 18.
**» MS. Aubr. 23, fol. jfi\
*♦♦* MS. Aubr. 33, fol. 49.
^ i.e. Twelfth-day.
»**♦» MS. Aubr. 33, fol. 49'.
John Morton. Thomas Mouffet 89
to be William Morgan (son of John Morgan, gent., of Worminster, co. Som.)
who matriculated at Christ Church on Dec 13, 1639, <^g^ '7* '^^ ^^ ^ ^^^
Captain (or Major) William Morgan of this notice. William Morgan, the son,
of this notice, is probably William Morgan (son of William Morgan of Wells,
CO. Som., gent.) who matriculated at Trinity College, May 27, 1669, aged 16.
John Morton (14 10-1500).
* Cardinal Morton : — lettre from A. Ettrick, esq., 9 July
1 681: — 'The grant of Mortons coate was not to the
cardinal, but I beleeve he like other great new clergie-men
tooke the libertie to use what coate he pleased ; but
about the 7th of Henry VIII (1515), the coate is granted
by three heralds to one of the same family with a gratis
dictum recital in the grant of a descent of a pretty many
auncestors ingrafting him into the family of Bawtry (vide
^* of Bawtry) in York.shire. This Sir Edward Bysh
shewed me in the Heralds* Office.* — Quod vide.
Vide Utopia^ pp. 49, .50, an immortall elogie ; Sir Thomas
More in aula ejus educatus.
** In my last I gave you some memoirs of cardinall
Morton, and that the tradicion of the countrey people in
Dorset, when I was a schooleboy there at Blandford, was
that he was a shoe-maker's son of Bere in com. praedict. :
but Sir William Dugdale • . . sayes *by no meanes I
must putt in writing hear-sayes.'
His coate is this ^ * quarterly, gules and ermine, in the
first quarter a goat's head erased . . .* : which something
resembles the shoemakers' armes, who give * three goates'
heades,' as you may see in the signe without Bocardo.
This coate of Moreton is in the west chamber of the
Katherine-wheele Inne at Great Wiccomb in Bucks, with
(as I remember) the cardinalFs cappe.
Thomas Monfibt (1553-1604).
*** . . . Muffett, M.Dr., lived in his later time at
Bulbridge (at the west end of Wilton — it belongs to the
♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. i8^. fol. 397: Ang. 4, 1687.
* i.e. the shield, the coat of arms. ^ Given in trick.
»» Aubrey in MS. Wood, F. 39i *** MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 83'.
go Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
earle of Pembroke) at the mannor-house there, which is
a faire old-built house. This Bulbridge is adjoyning to
Wilton ; the river* only parts it
At this place he dyed and lyes ft^^ buryed at Wilton,
but no memoriall of him — vide the Register.
The earl of Pembroke's steward told me that he findes
by the old bookes and accounts that a pension of . . .
was payd him yearly. He was one of the leamedest
physitians of that age. He writt a booke in Latin in
folid de insectis which Dr. John Pell told me (quaere) here-
tofore was first begun by a friar .... There was
printed, long since his death, his booke Of Meates (in
quarto, English), about 1649. Vide ; I have it.
* . . . Mouffet: — quaere brother** Tom ; vide the register
at Wilton ; write to Mr. Gwyn ® de hoc. — Thomae Moufeti,
Londinatis, Opera sumptibus Theodori de Mayeme edita,
. . . Munday (16 166-).
** Mr. . . . Munday, a merchant, was a great traveller,
and travelled from Archangel to the East Indies by land.
He wrote Memoires of all his journeys, a large folio, wherein
he had draughts of their cities, habits**, customs, etc.
He had a great collection of natural rarities, coynes,
prints, etc.
Mr. Baker® knew him.
He died at Penrhyn in Cornwall about 20 yeares since.
Ouaere for them ^.
Robert Murray (1633-17 25).
*** Mr. Robert Murray is a citizen of London, a milliner,
of the company of cloathworkers. His father, a Scotch-
* Subst. for * water.* ** i.e. dress.
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9. • i.e. 'printseller by the Royal
^ Aubrey's brother, see supra^ p. 54. Exchange,* this note following that
*= Philip Gwyn, rector of Wiltoa given under Silas Taylor.
St. Mary, Wilts, 1664. ' i.e. these memoirs and collections.
** MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 77. »** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 28\
Richard Napier 91
man ; mother, English. Borne in the Strand, Anno Dni.
1633, December; christened (Dec.) la***.
The penny-post was sett up anno Domini 1680, Our
Lady day, being Fryday*, a most ingeniose and useful!
project. Invented by Mr. . . . Murray** first, and then
Mr. Dockery ® joyned with him. It was set up Feb. i6fj.
Mr. Murray^ was formerly clarke to the generall
company for the revenue of Ireland, and afterwards dark
to the committee of the grand excise of England ; and was
the first that invented and introduced into this city the club
of commerce consisting of one of each trade, whereof there
were after very many erected and are still continued in
this city. And also continued* and sett-up the office or
banke of credit at Devonshire house in Bishopsgate Street
without, where men depositing their goods and merchan-
dize were furnished with bills of current credit on 3 or J of
the value of the said goods answering to the intrinsique
value of money, whereby the deficiency of coin might be
fully subplyed: and for rendring the same current, a
certaine or competent number of traders (viz. 10 or 20 of
each trade, wherof there be 500 severall trades within the
citty) were to be associated or formed into such a society
or company of traders as might amongst them compleat
the whole body of commerce, whereby any possest of the
said current credit might be furnisht amongst themselves
with any kind of goods or merchandise as effectually as
for money could do elsewhere.
Biohard Napier (1559-1634).
* Dr. Richard Napier ^ : — he was no Doctor, but a divine
(rector Lindfordiensis) and practised physick — natus Maii
4> i559j II li« 4' P-M. in urbe Exoniae.
* March 25, 1680, was a Thnrsday. Life and Times, iii. 31, 310.
*» Snbst. for • Dockery.' An inter- ^ This paragraph is not in Aubrey's
linear note, * He was heretofore clarke hand. Perhaps written for Anbrey by
of the Committee of Indempnity/ is Murray himself,
also scored out. • . ? contrived.
"^ William Dockwra;Clark'sWood's * MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 121.
92 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
* Dr. Napier was uncle and godfather to Sir Richard
Napier.
Note.
* He is found at Exeter College (' Richard Napper*), aet. 17, Dec 20, 1577.
Aubrey intended to include his life in his collection, and has mentioned it in
the index to MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 9' :— * . . . Nepier, M.D. : (his life is> donne
by Mr. Ashmole.' Ashmole's, and Aubrey's, interest in him arose from his
astrological practice : * nativities had (Dec 1681) from Elias Ashmole, esq.,
out of Dr. Napier's papers,' are found in MS. Aubr. 23, fol. lai, 121^, and on
a slip there.
Sir Hiohard Napier (1608-167!).
** Yesterday I was with Mr. Elias Ashmole, who tells
me that Sir Richard Napier * was of AUsoules, and about
1642.
I writt to you from Mr. Ashmole in a former letter*
that Sir Richard Napier is buryed at Lindford, but died
at Besels-leigh ; but before he came thither, he lay at an
inne at . . ., where, when the chamberlain brought him
up to his chamber, and the Dr. look't on the bed and saw
a dead man lye in or on the bed — * What ! ' sayd he,
* do you lodge me where a dead man lies ? ' Sayd the
chamberlain, * Sir, here is no dead man.' The Dr. look*t
at it again, and saw /'/ zvas hivt sclfe. And from thence he
went (ill) to Bcsils-leigh and died.
*** On Sunday last I dined with Mr. Ashmole, who
bids me answer you^ positively that Sir Richard Napier
never did write anything, and sayes he haz acquainted you
thus much before by letter.
Notes.
* He was nephew of the preceding. He matriculated at Wadham in 1624;
was fellow of All Souls in 1628 ; and created M.D. in Nov. 1642.
^ On June 29, 1689: now in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 386': — *Sir Richard
Napier was buried at Lynford, in Buckinghamshire : it was his manour, which
his Sonne sold for 19,500 /iV
' This note is a postscript torn from a letter addressed, no doubt to Anthony
Wood, by * your faithful friend, J. Aubrey.*
* Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, ** Ibid., fol. 390 : July 15, 1689.
fol. 386\ *♦* MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 90.
Str William Neale. Richard Neile 93
Sir William Neale (1610-169^).
* Sir William Neale, knight, skowt-master generall to
king Charles the first, died on the 24th of March last
169^, in Grayes Inne lane, being 81 yeares old. He was
buried, according to his desire, in Convent-garden church,
and lies at the west dore, first by the christning pew.
When he died, he was the oldest field-officer of king Charles
the first.
He was not lesse than 6 foot high: very beautifull in
youth — I remember him : and of great courage, but a
great plunderer and cruell.
He lived in towne ever since the Plott, and that worthy
generous gentleman Edmund Wyld, esq., was much
supporting to him. His mother and Sir William were
cosens german. But for these 5 yeares last past his
gowtes etc. emaciated him extremely ; so that he did often
put me in mind of that of Ovid. Metamorph. (xv. 229),
Fletque Milo senior cum spectat inanes
Illos, qui fuerant solidorum more tororum
Herculeis similes, fluidos pendere lacertos.
He died poenitent.
He was the grandsonne of . . . Neale, esq., of Wollaston
near Northampton, who maried one of Sir Edmund
Conquest's sisters, of Houghton-Conquest, Bedfordshire.
Sir Francis Clarke of Houghton-Conquest aforesaid (father
of Mr. Edmund Wyld's mother, a daughter and heir)
maried another sister of Sir Edmund Conquest.
Sir William maried major- generall Egerton's sister, by
whom he had issue William, a lusty stout fellow, of the
guards, who died about the abdication, and two daughters.
Biohard Neile (1562-1640).
** The father of . . . Neile, archbishop of Yorke, was
a tallow-chandler in Westminster— from old major Cosh.
* Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 4aa : March 26, 1691.
** MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6.
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William Neile (1637-1670).
* I have sent now to Sir Paul Neile, whose father was
archbishop of Yorke, for his sonne. Memorandum: — a
better-natured man* never lived: for his worth Dr. (John)
Wallis can better characterise him than I can.
** William Neile, esq., gentleman of the privy chamber
in ordinary to king Charles the 2nd, eldest son to Sir
Paul Neile, eldest son to the archbishop of Yorke, was
borne at Bishops-thorpe (a house belonging to the arch-
bishops of Yorke) neer Yorke, December the seventh,
1637 ; and dyed at his father's howse in White Waltham
in Berkshire, August 24th, 1670, and is buried in White
Waltham church. Enquire of Dr. Wallis of his rare
invention, which he has printed in one of his bookes:
never before found out by man.
John Kewton (1622-1678).
*** Dr. Newton, now parson of Rosse in Herefordshire,
told me that he was of Edmund hall : yet living ; and
lives-like, for when his stomach is out of order, he cures
himselfe by eating a piece of hott roast beefe off the spitt. —
**** Dr. J. Newton : — he told me he was borne in Bedford-
shire, but would not tell me where.
***** . . . Newton, D.D., minister of "Ross, dyed there on
Christmas day 1678, and buried in the chancell at Rosse
neer the middle of the south wall. He was against learn-
ing of Latin in a mathematical! school.
John Norden (i 548-1 625).
****** John Norden — from Mr. Bagford, a good anti-
quary, Mr. Crump's acquaintance.
He lived at Fulham, and (perhaps) died there.
♦ Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood
135': Aug. 9, 1671. dated Nov. 17, 1670.
• Than William Neile, the mathe- **♦* Ibid., fol 129.
matician. »♦♦♦♦ \£S. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.
** Ibid., a little later in the volume. ****** Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 49,
*** MS. Wood F. 39, fol. laS, a fol. 67.
Roger North 95
He made mappes of Middlesex, Hartfortshire, Surrey,
and Hampshire, and also Cornwall ; and he did not only
make the mappes aforesaid but hath writt • descriptions of
them, which Mr. Bagford hath, in quarto. The description
of Cornwall (I thinke) was not printed; but Dr. Gale of
Paule's schoole hath it in manuscript, quod N.B.
He printed a booke called a Preparative to Speculum
Britanniae, in 8vo ; item, his Travellers Guide, in 4to.
Mr. Morgan, the herald painter, gives us an account
in his Armorie, that he had, in his custodie, Kent, Essex,
Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, and Hants.
In the end of Mr. Gregorie's posthumous workes, he
gives us an account of the excellency of Mr. Norden's
mappes, and Saxton's too.
His dialogues I have, in 4to, printed first, 1610 ;
dedicated to (Robert) Cecil, earle of Salisbury, whose
servant he was, (I suppose) steward or surveyor.
Sometime or other I will looke into the church at
Fulham : he died ('tis thought) in King James the first
raigne.
Mr. Wood ! pray add this to the rest of the lives.
Boger North (i585?-i652).
* Captain Roger North was brother to (Dudley, 3rd)
lord North. He was a great acquaintance of Sir Walter
Ralegh's and accompanied him in his voyages. He was
with him at Guiana, and never heard that word ^ but he
would fall into a passion for the miscariage of that action.
He was a great algebrist, which was rare in those dayes ;
but he had the acquaintance of his fellow-traveller
Mr. Hariot.
He and his voyages are much cited in . . . Voyages in
Latin in folio (quaere nomen libri a domino J. Vaughan®).
He was a most accomplished gentleman.
• Dupl. with * printed.* * John Vanghan, son of Richard,
♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 3a'. second earl of Carbeny ; succeeded at
^ i. e. the name ' Gniana.' 3rd earl in 1687 ; governor of Jamaica.
96 Aubrey's ^ Brief Lives'
He died in Fleet Street about anno Domini 1656 or 57,
and buryed . . .
He had excellent collections and remarques of his
voyages, which were all unfortunately burnt in Fleet
Street at the great conflagration of the city. — From my
(friend) Sir Francis North, Lord Chiefs Justice of the
Common Pleas, his nephew, and Edmund Wyld, esq.,
who knew him very well.
He dyed about the time of the fire (?) ; quaere iterum.
This family speakes not well of Sir Walter Raleigh, that
Sir Walter designed to breake with the Spanyard, and to
make himselfe popular in England. When he came to
. . . , he could not show them where the mines of gold
were. He would have then gonne to the king of France
(Lewis XIII), but his owne men brought him back.
* Capt. North — quaere, if of Oxon • : I thinke of
University College.
Thomas North (1535- 1601).
** Mr. Thomas North, that translated Plutarch's Lives
(my lord chief justice^ tells me) was great-uncle to his
grandfather.
Richard Norwood (1590?- 1675).
*** Mr. Richard Norwood : — where he was born I can-
not yet learn.
Norwood is an ancient family: about 300 yeares since
St. Low maried with a daughter and hcire of them and
quarters the coate in the margent ^. They flourish still in
Gloucestershire, the mannour of Lakhampton belonging
to them. — *Tis probable that this learned Norwood was
that countreyman.
In his Epistle to the Reader before his Trigonometric : —
* but I am already sensible of the unfriendly dealings of some, even
of our own countreymen, who, when these tables were printing and
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6. ^ Sir Francis North. Chief Justice
* He is not found in the matricu- of the Common Pleas, 1675.
laiions. ♦♦* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 79'.
♦* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 32'. « * Ermine, a cross engrailed gules.*
Richard Norwood 97
almost finished, came to the printing house and not onely tooke a
sufficient view of them there, bat carried away a president without the
printer's leave, and have caused them to be printed beyond sea, the
impression or a great part of it being already come over.
Tower-hill, anno 1631, November 1/
My edition is the third, 1656 ; and there hath been one
since.
The Seaman's practice, containing a fundamental
probleme in navigation experimentally verified, namely,
touching the compasse of the earth and sea, and the
quantity of a degree, in our English measure ; also an exact
method or form of keeping a reckoning at sea in any kind
or manner of sayling, with certain tables and other rules
usefull in navigation ; as also the plotting and surveying
of places, the latitude of the principal places in England,
the finding of the currents at sea and what allowance is to
be given in respect of them, by Richard Norwood, reader
of the Mathematicks, London, 1655, 4to — dedicated to
Robert, earle of Warwick.
He, at his owne chardge, measured with a chaine from
Barwick to Christ Church (he sayes he came up in ten or
eleven dayes)* in order to the finding the quantitie of
a degree, and so the circumference of the earth and sea, in
our known measures — July i, 1636.
He also published a treatise of the modern way of
fortification, 163-, in 4to.
By a letter from Nicholas, earle of Thanet, to me,
concerning his purchase in the Bermudas, not dated, but
writ about 1674 or 5 — thus : — * as to old Mr. Norwood, to
whom the Royal Society would send some quaeres, is
lately dead, as his sonne informes me, who lately went
captaine in that ship wherein I sent my gardiner and
vines to the Bermudas. He was aged above 90.'
* Trigonometric, both plain and sphaerical, by Richard
Norwood, reader of the Mathematicks. * This seaventh
edition being diligently corrected ; in divers difficult places
explained ; new table of the starres' right ascentions and
♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 80.
II. H
98 Aubreys ^ Brief Lives*
declinations added ; and the whole worke very much
enlarged by the author himselfe.* Printed for William
Fisher at the Postern gate neer the Tower, etc., 1678.
*To the Reader. If any man thinke it should be
a hinderance to them who have been at the ehardge to print
that which Mr. Briggs hath h&ffin upon that subject, he may
be pleased to take notice that though we both handle the
same thing, yet it is in a different manner, and there is
scarce any one proposition handled by us both ; besides
his is in Latine, mine in English. Towerhill, anno 1631,
November i.'
William N07 (1577-1634).
* From Fabian Philips, esq. : —
Mr. attomey-generall Noy was a great lawyer and
a great humorist. There is a world of merry stories
of him.
A countrey-fellow of Cumberland * • . •
He would play at spanne-counter with the taveme*
barre-boy.
A countrey clowne asked for a good inne, and he bids
him ride into Lincoln's Inne, and asked if his horse went
to hay or to grasse.
He caused the breeches of a bencher of Lincolne's Inne
to be taken-in by a tayler and made him beleeve that he
had the dropsie.
One time he mett accidentally with Butler**, the famous
physitian of Cambridge, at the earle of SufTolke's (Lord
Treasurer *'). They were strangers to each other, and both
walking in the gallerie. Noy was wearied, and would
be gonne. Butler would know his name. Noy had him to
the Peacock Taverne in Thames Street, and fudled all
that day.
Another time Noy and Pine of Lincolne's Inne went
afoot to Bamet with clubbes in their hands, like countrey-
♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 36. Referred ^ Vol. i. p. 138.
to in MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6 : — ' see con- ^ Thomas Howard, created Earl of
ceming attorney Noy, in part the 3^.' Suffolk 1603 ; Lord High Treasurer
* Story left untold. 1614-1618; died 1626.
John Ogilhy 99
fellowes. They went to the Red Lyon inne ; the people
of the house were afrayd to trust them, fearing they might
not pay.
* Ex registro Brandford, thus : — ' WilUam Noy, the
king's attorney, buried August the nth day, 1634.' Buried
under the communion table, not alter-waies, in the chancell
at New Brentford in the county of Middlesex, under
a stone broken ; brasse lost and inscription.
John Ogilby (1600-1676).
** Mr. John Ogilby^ natus* November 17, 5** 15' mane,
1 600.
*** John Ogilby, esq., was borne at . . . (quaere
Mr. John Gadbury*) in Scotland, November . . ., 1600,
Scorpione ascendente. He was of a gentleman's family,
and bred to his grammar.
**** (He) would not tell where in Scotland he was
borne: quaere. He sayd drollingly that he would have
as great contests hereafter for the place of his birth as of
Homer's : but he made this rythme : —
At . . . cleare
ther did I well fere
where** . . . man
***** Mr. Gadbury sayes that Mr. Ogilby told him (he
was very sure) that he was borne either in or neer Edin-
burgh. Sed tamen quaere de hoc of Mr. Morgan his
grandson.
****** Mr. John Ogilby, borne ... in Scotland, of a
gentleman's family; bred a scholar. In® his youth bred
to dancing at London : which he afterwards professed. His
father spent his estate and fell to decay ; and J. O. by his
* Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, J. Gadbury) in Scotland, November
fol. 181 ; Aug. 13, 167a. . . ., anno Domini 1600.*
*♦ MS. Aubr. 8. fol. 46. **** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 45.
• Aubrey gives there the horoscope ^ The writing is partly illegible,
on this scheme. from blots.
*** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 44. In MS. *»*♦♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 46.
Aubr. 7, fol. 19^, the draft is * John *♦**»» MS. Aubr. 7, fol. ao.
Ogilby, esq., was borne at . . . (quaere ^ This sentence is scored out
H 2
loo Aubr^s * Brief Lives'
owne industry t at or about the age of la or 13, he relieved
his parents.
* His father' had spent his estate, and fell
to decay, and was a prisoner in the King's Bench, whom,
together with his mother, his son relieved by his owne
industry, being then but about the age of 12 or 13 yeares.
By the advantage of his Sonne's industry, he raysed a small
summe of money, which he adventured in the lottery for
the advancement of the plantation in \nrginia, anno • . •
and he gott out of prison by this meanes. His motto (of
his lott) was,
' I am a poor prisoner, God wott,
God send me a good lott,
He come out of prison, and pay all my debt*
It so happened that he had a very good lott, that did
pay his debts.
** John (the son) bound himselfe apprentice to one
Mr. Draper \ who kept a dancii^-schoole in Gra]res-Inne-
Lane, and in short time arrived to so great excellency in that
art, that he found meanes to purchase his time of his
master and sett up for himselfe.
When the duke of Buckingham's great masque** was
represented at court (vide Ben Jonson), anno . . . (quaere),
he was chosen (among the rest) to performe some extra-
ordinary part in it, and high-danceing, i.e. vaulting and
cutting capers, being then in fashion, he, endeavouring to
doe something extraordinary, by misfortune of a false step
when he came to the ground, did spraine a veine on the
inside of his leg, of which he was lame ever after, which gave
an occasion to say that 'he was an excellent dancing
master, and never a good leg.*
He taught 2 of the lord Hopton s (then Sir Ralph) sisters
to dance, then at Witham in Somersetshire ; and Sir Ralph
* MS. Anbr. 8, foL 44. Anbr. 8, fol. 45.
*♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 44. The first ^ * quaere the D<uke of) B<iickmg-
draft is in MS. Anbr. 7, fol. 30. hain*)t maske' — MS. Anbr. 8, foL 45.
* * He was apprentice to John ' Quaere nomen and time — vide
Draper, a dancing- master.' — MS. B. Jonscn.'— MS. Aubr. 7. fol. aa
• • .••
John Ogtlby loi
taught ^ him to handle the pike and musket, scil. all the
postures.
* Anno ** . . . (the yeare before lord Strafford went to
Ireland ®, Deputie) he kept a dancing school in the Black-
Spread-Eagle Court (then an inne) in Grayes Inne lane.
Mr. John Lacy, the player, from whom I take this informa-
tion, was his apprentice.
** In the yeare . . ., he went over into Ireland to
Thomas, earle of Strafford, Lord Liuetenant there, and
was there enterteined to teach in that family. And here
it was that first he gave proofe of his inclination to poetry,
by paraphrasing upon some of iEsop's fables. (He writt
a fine hand.) He had ^ a warrant from the Lord Livetenant
to be Master of the Ceremonies for that kingdome ; and
built a little* theatre in St. Warburgh street, in Dublin.
It was a short time before the rebellion brake out, by
which he lost all, and ran thorough many hazards, and
particularly being like to have been blow'n-up at the castle
of Refarnum neer Dublin.
*** Anno 16 — he went into Ireland with the lord
Strafford (Deputy) and rode in his troupe of guards, as
one of my lord's gentlemen, which gave occasion of his
writing an excellent copie of verses called The description
of a trouper^ which gett '.
Mr. J. O. was 8 in the Lord Lieutenant's troope of
guards, and taught his lady and children to dance; that
was his place. And he there made those excellent verses
of the Trouper (quaere). 'Twas there he . . .
knees 'gainst knees
(umbonibus umbo).
" 'tought him his use of pike and • 'pretty little* in MS. Aubr. 7,
mnskct.' — MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 20. fol. 20.
♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 45. **♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 45.
^ * 1627* was written but scored out. ' 'Quaere his Description of a
^ This was in 1633. trooper in English verse ; Tery good.'
♦* MS. Aubr. 8. fol. 44. —MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 45^
** 'had a* subst. for 'was by.' « Subst. for 'was of the Lieutenant's
'Master of the Revells* in MS. Aubr. troupes.'
7, fol. 20.
Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
Upon this Mr. Chantrel f putt him upon learning the
t Mr. chsnuei', Latin tonguc (in the 40 aetat. + ), and taught
Si^f^ge him himself and tooke a great deale of paines
ftiTOiiriir-. with him. This was the first time he b^an
Batdifl^oiu his Latin. He stayed in Ireland a good while
.fterwiirdithe , , . ■', "
duke of Vork-i after the warres broke-out.
fwMt ' * After John Ogiiby had built the theatre
at Dublin, he was undon at the Irish rebellion. He was
wreckt at sea, and came to London very poor, and went
oa foot to Cambridge.
, ** Mr. J. Ogiiby wrote at Dublin (bdng then <tf- tiw
gsurdes of the carle of Strafford) the character of a trooper,
in English verse, which is very witty : , Mr. Moi^an bltll
[msmised to gett it for me. He built the theatre at Dublin.
He was undon at the Irish rebellion ; returning to Englattd,
was wreckt at sea, and came to Londtm veiy poor awl
went on foot to Cambridge.
*** He wrote a pUy at Dublin, caU*d TJif M€rckmt tf
DubUn, never printed.
**** He came into England about the yeare 1648 (vide
iv»eii.8TO! ^^ ^^^ °f ^'^ Viigil, 8vo). He printed J
J^iJs*"^ Vii^ill, translated by himselfe into English
ABbr,7.fd.». ygrse, 8vo, 164-, dedicated to the right honour-
able William, lord marquesse of Hertford, who loved htm
very well.
After he had translated Virgil, he learned Greeke § of
I Mr. ^iibr Mf. Whitfield '", a Scotch bishop's son, and
'6.^-MS. grew so great a proficient in it that he fell-to
■"■■ ' to translate Homer's Iliads, 1660.
Next, as if by a prophetique spirit, foreseeing the
restauration of King Charles IP, and also the want there
might be of Church Bibles, he ***** printed the fairest
' Snbst. for ' Mr. Chantrel, of •••■ MS. Anbr. 8, fol. ^^.
Gnyet Inne, wu hii <i.e. the Lord * David Whitford, ton of Walter
Lieutenant's) >ecRtax7.' Whitfbrd, bUbop of Brechin (i6}4-
* Ma Anbr. 8, fbl, 45'. 1638),
■* MS. Anbr, 8, foL 44'. «♦•• MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 44'.
'•• MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 47'.
John Ogtlby 103
impression, and the most correct of English Bibles, in royall
and imperiall paper, that ever was yet donne.
He printed and published his majestie's entertainment at
his coronation, in folio with cutts, 1662.
The same yeare (1662) he went into Ireland again, being
then, by patent (before, but by warrant) master of the
revells, having disputed his right with Sir William
Davenant, who had gott a graunt, and built a noble theatre
at Dublin, which cost 2000 /r., the former being ruined* in
the troubles.
His Odysses came out in 1665. People did then suspect,
or would not beleeve that *twas he was the author of the
paraphrase upon iEsop, and to convince them he published
a 2^ volume, which he calles his iEsopiques, which ^ he did
during the sicknesse, in his retirement at Kingston upon
Thames, after he had published Homer's Iliads and
Odysses.
His History of China, in fol., anno . . . (before the fire) ;
then his History of Japan.
The generall and dreadfull conflagration burn't all that
he had, that he was faine to begin the world again, being
then at best worth 5 //.
He had such an excellent inventive and prudentiall witt,
and master of so good addresse, that when he was undon
he could not only shift handsomely (which is a great
mastery *=), but he would make such rationall proposalls
that would be embraced by rich and great men, that in
a short time he could gaine a good estate again, and never
failed in any thing he ever undertooke but allwayes went
through with profits and honour^.
Being thus utterly undon again by the fire, he made his
proposalls for the printing of a faire English Atlas^^ of
which he lived to finish the Historys of Africa, America,
* * being ruind and spoyled and a Aubr. 7, foL 20'.
cowhouse made of the stage/— MS. « DupL with * ingenie.*
Aubr. 7, fol. 30^. «* Dupl. with *glorie.'
*> ' which he did after the fire • Anthony Wood notes : * cosmo-
(part of it) at Kingston upon Thames grapher.'
at Mr. le Wright's house.'— MS.
I04 Aubreys 'Brief Lives*
and part of Asia. And then, being encouraged by the
king and the nobility to make* an actuaU survey of
England and Wales S he proceeded in it so &r as to
an actuall survey of the roads both in England and
Wales, which composed his . . . volume of his BriUmnia,
published . • •
* Mr. John Ogilby died Sept 4, 1676 ; and was buried
in the vault at St. Bride's.
** Vide his obiit in Almanack * 1675 : quaere Mr. Lacy.
*** Anno . . . John Ogilby maried . . ., the daughter
t ServMt to of . . . Fox f, of Netherhamptott, neer Wilton
5J;;5gj£L % *^ c^'"* Wilts, who was borne as he was wont
good ihSe. to say Mn the first Olympiad,' scil. when the
first race was ran at Sarum in Henry % earle of Pembroke's
time. She had only one daughter by him, maried to • • .
Morgan, who left a son who now suceeds his grandfather
as his majestie's cosmographer. She dyed in London • • .
being aged . • . (neer 90^).
**** His wife dyed 3 or 4 Azyes before Xtmas 1677,
aetatis circlter ^112.
^ This life of Ogilby is found confiisedly in two drafts in MS. Aubr. 7, foil.
I9▼-3o^ and MS. Aubr. 8, foil 44-47^
In MS. Anbr. 7, fol. 19*, and in MS. Aabr. 8, fol. 44, Anbrey gives the
coat : ' . . H II lion passant gardant crowned . . ., a mallet for difference ' ; and
notes that ' the crest is a | virgin in an earle*s coronet holding a castle.*
' Gadbnry, Aubrey thought, must have been told the place of Ogilby*s birth
with a view to constructing his horoscope.
' The first draft, in M.S. Anbr. 7, fol. 30, runs : —
' His father was then a prisoner at the King's bench ; by the advantage of
his son*s industry, raysed a small some of money, which he adventnred in the
lottery (in such a yeare . . . — since 1600 — quaere annum) for the advancement
of the plantation in Virginia : but he gott out of prison by this meanes. His
motto was
* The draft in MS. Aubr. 7, foL 20^, Morgan/ who has added the note,
gives the date ' 1673.' ' from my worthy friend Mr. Aubrey,
♦ MS. Aubr. 7, fol. i^\ for Mr. OgUby*8 Ufc'
** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8. ^ Henry Herbert succeeded as second
^ 1. e. Aubrey's pocket Almanac, earl, 1569; died 1601.
with his diary notes. ^ Subst. for ' 100.'
**♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 47, The leaf **** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 45.
is endorsed : ' for my worthy friend Mr. • '113* is scored out
Thomas Osborne. IVtlliam Oughtred 105
I am a poor prisoner, God wott:
God send me a good lott*
rie come out of prison and pay all my debt.
It so happened that he had a very good lott, that pay(d) all his debt.*
* Aubrey came near being employed on this survey. Writing on Aug. 12,
167a, MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 181, he says : —
' I had gone sooner into Kent, but Dr. Wren, my deare friend, without my
knowledge contrived an employment for me, which he referred to me to
consider of it. So I shall till Michaelmas terme.
'Tis this. — Mr. Ogilby is writing the history of all Elngland : the map is
mending already. Now the Dr. told him if that were all, it would be no very
great matter. He was pleased to tell him that he could not meet with a fitter
man for that tome then J. A. Now it*s true it suites well enough with my
genius ; but he is a cunning Scott, and I must deale warily with him, with the
advice of my friends. It will be February next before I begin, and then
between that and November followeing I must (s)curry over all England and
Wales. . . . The king will give me protection and letters to make any inquiries,
or etc'
Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby (1631-1712).
* Lord Treasurer, Thomas, earle of Danby, natus A.D.
i63i<>, Febr. 19°, hor. 15 min. 53 P.M.— latit. 54.
** *2o Febr., 163 J, fower a clock in the mom.' — I take
this to be the Lord Treasurer's (nativity), scil. Thomas,
earle of Danby. Respondet — 'tis so.
William Oughtred (1574-1660).
*** Gulielmus Oughtred ^ natus 5 Martii 1574, 5^ P.M.
**** Mr. Oughtred: — Mr. (John) Sloper tells me that
his father was butler of Eaton Colledge: he remembers
him, a very old man.
***** William Oughtred : — ^vide Henry Coley's Astrologie,
— A note from my honoured and learned friend Thomas
Flud, esq., who had been High Sheriff of Kent, scilicet^ he
was Mr. Oughtred's acquaintance. He told me that
Mr. Oughtred confessed to him that he was not satisfied
how it came about that one might foretell by the starres,
but so it was that it fell out true as he did often by his
experience find. Mr. T. Flud obiit . . .
• Subst. for * luck.' **♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 3^
♦ MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 115. *♦*♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. la
** MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 93. ♦♦**» MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8.
io6 Aubreys 'Brief Lives'
* This* from Mr. Uniades, who was his scholar.
[Mr. Oughtred's children : —
I. William.
a, Henrcy : haz a son (of the Custom-house).
3. Benjamin : a bachelor : yet living,
4. SimcKL
5. Edward. .
6. George,
7. John.
Marget.
Judeth : married a glazier.
Elizabeth.
One of them (married) to Christopher Brookes of
Oxford, a mathematical-inatniment-maker.]
** Mr. William Oughtred, B.D., Cambr., was borne at
Eaton, in Buckinghamshire, neer Windsor, Anno Domini
1574, March the fifth, 5 hours P.bL
His father taught to write %t Eaton, and was a scrivener :
and understood common arithmetique, and 'twas no small
helpe and furtherance to his son to be instructed in it when
a schoole-boy. His grandfather came from the north for
killing a man. The last knight of the family was one
Sir Jeffrey Oughtred. I thinke a Northumberland family
(quaere).
Anno Domini ... he was chosen to be one of the
King's scholars at Eaton Colledge (vide register). A.D. , . .
he went to King's Colledge, in Cambridge.
Anno aetatts 23, he writt there his Horologiographia
Geometrica, as appeares by the title.
Anno Domini ... he was instituted and inducted into
the rectory or parsonage of Albury, in com. Surrey, lett
for ' a hundred pounds per annum : he was pastor of this
place fifty yeares.
He maried . . . Caryl (an ancient family in those parts),
* MS. Acbr. 7, B (Up Bt fol. 8'. Uniadea' band.
■ This hciding is added by Aubrey *" MS, Anbr. 6, fol. 39.
in red ink : the reM of the note, here " Dnpl. with ' woith.'
encloKd ia iqniie bnckett, is in
William Oughtred 107
by whom he had nine sonnes (most lived to be men) and
four daughters. None of his sonnes he could make*
scholars.
He was a little man, had black haire, and blacke eies
(with a great deal of spirit). His head** was always
working. He would drawe lines and diagrams on the
dust.
. His oldest son Benjamin, who lives in the house with
my cosen Boothby (who gives him his dyet) and now an
old man, he bound apprentice to a watchmaker ; who did
worke pretty well, but his sight now failes for that fine
worke. He told me that his father did use to lye a bed
till eleaven or twelve a clock, with his doublet on, ever
since he can remember. Studyed late at night ; went not
to bed till 1 X a clock ; had his tinder box by him ; and on
the top of his bed-staffe, he had his inke-home fix't. He
slept but little. Sometimes he went not to bed in two or
three nights, and would not come downe to meales till he
had found out the quaesitum.
He was more famous abroad for his learning, and more
esteemed, then at home. Severall great mathematicians
came over into England on purpose to converse** with him.
His countrey neighbours (though they understood not his
worth) knew that there must be extraordinary worth in
him, that he was so visited by foreigners.
When Mr. Seth Ward, M.A. and Mr. Charles Scar-
borough, D.M., came (as in pilgrimage, to see him and
admire him) — they lay at the inne at Sheeres (the next
parish) — Mr. Oughtred had against their comeing prepared
a good dinner, and also he had dressed himselfe, thus, an
old red ^ russet cloath-cassock that had been black in dayes
of yore, girt with a old leather girdle, an old fashion russet
hatt, that had been a bever, tempore reginae Elizabethae.
When learned foreigners came and sawe how privately he
lived, they did admire and blesse themselves, that a person
* Subst. for *■ make any great ^ Dupl. with ' be acquainted.'
scholars.' * * red russet' subst. for * red.'
^ DupL with * Witt.'
loB
of so much worth and learning should not be betl
provided for.
Seth Ward, M.A., a fellow of Sydney Colledge
Cambridge (now bishop of Sarum). came to him, and
lived with him halfe a yeare (and he would not take
a farthing for his diet), and learned all his mathcmatiquer
of him. Sir Jonas More was with him a good while, and
leam't ; he was but an ordinary legist before. Sir Charles''
Scarborough was his scholar; so Dr. John Wallis was hi»
scholar ; so was Christopher Wren his scholar ; so waa
Mr. . . . Smethwyck, Regiae Sodetatis Socius. One Mw,
Austin (a most ingeniose man) was his scholar, and studyed,
so much that he became mad, fell a laughing, and so dyed,
to the great griefe of the old gentleman. Mr. . . . Stoke9»
another scholar, fell mad', and dream't that the good oldi
gentleman came to him, and gave * him good advice, and
so he recovered, and is still well. Mr. Thomas Henshawe,'
- Regiae Societatis Socius, was his scholar (then a young
gentleman). But he did not so much like any a.s those
that tu^ed ft:^* and tooke paines to worke out questions.
He taught all free.
He could not endure to see a scholar write an ill
hand ; he taught them all presently to mend their handa.
Amongst others Mr. T. H." who when he came to him
wrote a lamentable hand, he taught to write very well.
He wrote a very elegant hand, and drew his schemes most
neatly, as they had been cut in copper. His father (no
doubt) was an ingeniose artist at the pen and taught him
to write so well.
He was an astrolc^er, and very lucky in giving his
judgements on nativities; he would say, that he did not
understand the reason why it should be so, but so it would
happen ; he did beleeve that some genius or spirit did help.
(t^" He has asserted the rational way of dividing the XII
houses according to the old way, which (the original!)
Elias Ashmole, esq., haz of his owne handwriting ; which
* 'and laii^ng' followed : tcored * MS. Anbr. 6, fol. 39'.
oat ^ Probably TbomsiHeniha we, m/m.
William Oughtred 109
transcribe. Captaine George Wharton hath inserted it in
his Almanack, 1658 or 1659.
The countrey people did beleeve that he could conjure,
and 'tis like enough that he might be well enough con-
tented to have them thinke so. I have seen some notes of
his owne handwriting on Cattan^s Geomantie.
He has told bishop Ward, and Mr. Elias Ashmole (who
was his neighbour), that * on this spott of ground/ (or
' leaning ag^nst this oake,' or ' that ashe,') * the solution of
such or such a probleme came into my head, as if infused
by a divine genius, after I had thought on it without
successe for a yeare, two, or three.'
Ben Oughtred told me that he had heard his father say
to Mr. Allen (the famous mathematical! instrument-maker),
in his shop, that he had found out the Longitude ; sed
vix credo.
Nicolaus Mercator, Holsatus (whose mathematical!
writings . . . ), went to see him few yeares before he
dyed. 'Twas about midsommer, and the weather was very
hott, and the old gentleman had a good fire, and used
Mr. Mercator with much humanity (being exceedingly taken
with his excellent mathematicall witt\ and one piece • of
his courtesie was, to be mighty importunate with him to
sett on his upper hand next the fire ; he being cold (with
age) thought he ** had been so too.
He ® was a great lover of chymistry, which he studyed
before his son Ben can remember, and continued it;
and told John Evelyn, of Detford, esq., R.S.S., not
above a yeare before he dyed, that if he were but
five yeares (or three yeares) younger, he doubted not
to find out the philosopher's stone. He used to talke
t Quaere for much of the maydcu-earth f for the philo-
wasgood?^ * sopher*s stone. It was made of the harshest
cleare water that he could gett, which he lett stand to
putrify, and evaporated by cimmering^. Ben tended his
» Subst. for * part.' writing ' A chymist ' in the margin.
*» Dnpl. with 'they.' * i.e. simmering.
^ Aubrey draws attention to this by
furnaces. He has told me that his father would some-
times say that he could make the stone. Quicksilver
t Thia itne h Tefiii'd afld strain'd, and gold as it came naturall
!,"iSiSi«mx overt
!Dr<B«h»ni) '^^^ "'** gentleman was a great lover of
h(''^^oi[i'o" heraldry, and waa well knowne • with the heralds
2i^rii^"'He *' '''^'■' office, who approved his descent J.
!^1'aS?.T Memorandum: — he struck-out above halfe
'^•^ of the accedence, and wrote new instead. He
taught a gentleman in halfe a yeare to understand Latin,
at Mr. Duncombe's hia parishioner. Quaere his daughter
Brookes at Oxford for it *■.
* His wife was a penurious woman, and would not
allow him to burne candle after supper, by which meanes
many a good notion is lost, and many a probleme
unsolved ; so that Mr. (Thomas) Henshawe, when he was
there, bought candle, which was a great comfort to the
old man.
The right hon*''" Thomas "= Howard, earle of Arundel and
Surrey, Lord High Marshall of England, was his great
patron ^, and loved him iatirely. One time they were like
to have been killed tt^ether by the fall at Albury of a grotty
which fell downe but just as they were come out. ftj* My
lord had many grotts about his house, cutt in the sandy
sides of hills, wherin he delighted to sitt and discourse.
In the time of the civill warres the duke of Florence
invited him over, and offered him 500 It. per annum ; but
he would not accept of it, because of his religion.
Notwithstanding all that has been sayd of this excellent
man, he was in danger to have been sequestred, and . . .
Onslowe that was a great stickler against the royalists and
a member of the House of Commons and living not far
from him — he translated his Clavis into English and
dedicated it to him to clawe with him, and it did soe his
businesse and saved him from sequestration. Now this
■ Dapl. with 'ocquaiotcd.* * MS. Anbr. 6, Tol. 41.
'i.e. the iMia gnmmiir, with •' TbomM'mljst. fot 'William.'
Ongbtred't modificatioiu. * Dapl, with 'friend,'
William Ought red iii
Onslowe was no scholar and hated by the country* for
bringing his countrymen of Surry into the trap of slaughter
when so many petitioners were killed at Westminster and
on the roads in pursuite, anno Domini i6 — .
I have heard his neighbour ministers say that he was
a pittiful preacher ; the reason was because he never
studyed it, but bent all his thoughts on the mathematiques ;
but when he was in danger of being sequestred for a
royalist, he fell to the study of divinity, and preacht (they
sayd) admirably well, even in his old age.
He was a good Latinist and Graecian, as appears in
a little treatise of his against one Delamaine, a joyner,
who was so sawcy to write against him (I thinke about
his circles of proportion) : upon which occasion I remember
I have seen, many yeares since, twenty or more good verses
made ^, which begin to this purpose : —
Thus may some mason or rude carpenter®
Putt into the ballance his rule and compasses
'Gainst learned Euclid's pen, etc.
Enquire for them and insert them.
Before he dyed he burned a world of papers, and sayd
that the world was not worthy of them ; he was so superb.
He burned also severall printed bookes, and would not
stirre, till they were consumed. His son -Ben was confident
he understood magique. Mr. Oughtred, at the Custom
House, (his grandson) has some of his papers ; I myselfe
have his Pitiscus, imbelished with his excellent marginall
notes, which I esteeme as a great rarity. I wish I could
also have got his Bilingsley's Euclid, which John Collins
sayes was full of his annotations.
He dyed the 13*** day of June, 1660, in the yeare of his
age eighty-eight + odde dayes. Ralph Greatrex, his great
friend, the mathematicall instrument-maker, sayed he
conceived he dyed with joy for the comeing-in of the king,
which was the 29*'' of May before. * And are yee sure he
■ * country ' in Aubrey is generally— * county.' ^ Snbst. for * writt.*
® Subst. for ' Thus may a joyner or bold caq)cnter.'
Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
is restored ? ' — ' Then give me a glasse of sack to * drinke
his sacred majestie's health.' His spirits were then quite
upon the wing to fly away. The 15"' of June he was
buried in the chancell at Albury, on the north side neer
the cancelli. I had much adoe to find the very place
where the bones of this learned and good man lay (and
'twas but 16 yeares after his death). When I first ask't
his son Ben, he told me that truly the griefe for his father's
death was so great, that he did not remember the place —
now I should have thought it would have made him
remember it the better — but when he had putt on his
considering cap (which was never like his father's), he told
as aforesaid, with which others did agree. There is not
to this day any manner of memorial for him there, which
is a great pitty. I have desired Mr. John Evelyn, etc.,
to speake to our patrone, the duke of Norfolk, to bestowe
a decent inscription of marble on him, which will also
perpetuate his grace's fame- I asked Ben concerning the
report 'of his father's dyeing a Roman Catholique : he told
me that 'twaa indeed true that when he was sick some
priests came from my lord duke's (then Mr. Henry Howard,
of Norfolk) to him to have discoursed with him, in order
to his conversion to their church, but his father was then
past understanding. Ben was then by, he told me.
His Clavis Matkevtatica was first dedicated to the lord
(Thomas'") Howard, earle of Arundel and Surrey, and
Lord Marshall of England, anno Domini MDCXXXI,
London, apud Thomam Harperum.
His Clavis Mathematica, denuo limata sive fotius fabrkata
was printed by the said Thomas Harper, 1648,
Editio tertia aucfior et emendatior was at Oxford, 165* •
where Dr. John Wallis, the Savillian professor, corrected
the presse. The old gentleman in his Preface to the
Reader mentioned with much respect Seth Ward (Savillian
professor of Astronomy), Dr. Charles Scarborough, John
Wallis, Mr. Christopher Wren, and Mr. Robert Wood.
IVtlliam Oughtred 113
He writt a stitch't pamphlet about 1 6^{} 4) against . . •
Delamaine.
His first edition of his Circles of Proportion was in 4to,
and dedicated to Sir Kenelm Digby, printed . . . The
second edition was at Oxford, 165-.
He writt a little pamphlett in 8vo, viz. The new arti-
ficiall gauging-rod^ with the use therof^ London, printed
by Augustin Matthewes, 1633. Ben, {his son), gave me
a copie of it ; but this art is since much improved.
He wrote a little treatise of watchmaking for the use
of his son Benjamin, who told me that Mr. Horton of
Whitehall, of the Woodyard, haz the true copie of it.
Memorandum: — about 1678 were printed at Oxon at
the Theatre some opuscula of his . . .
I have heard Mr. Hobbes say, and very truely, that with
all his great skill in Algebra, he did never adde one pro-
position to Geometrie : he could bind up a bundle well.
Mr. John Sloper, vicar of Broad Chalke (which is in
the gift of King's College, Cambridge) tells me that
Mr. Oughtred's father was the pantler of Eaton College.
Memorandum : — there is a booke of lives in folio, by . . .
Lloyd, and among others this Mr. Oughtred : which see.
Memorandum : — Richard Blackbourne, of London, M.D.,
hath Mr. W. Oughtred's genealogie of his owne draweing;
gett it for Mr. Elias Ashmole.
* Worthy Sir,
I made bold lately when I sent my book in a leter
to Mr. Wood * to nominate you and Mr. Wallis together
with him, to whose judgment and discretion I commit
all my right and interest for the printing therof at Oxford.
I nowe have sent the Epistle, which, though written long
since, yett was soe mislayed and mingled with many other
papers, that I thought it lost, and light but lately upon
it. Therin I make noe unloving mention of your self
and Dr. Scarbrough, whose surname I remember not.
* MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 40. The letter • Robert Wood, Fellow of Lincoln :
is in Oughtred's beautiful hand : the see supra^ i. p. 295.
nddress is on fol. 41^.
II. I
I hope neyther of you will take my officiouaneaae in cvell
part. Yett y( anything shall displease, you are intreated
of me to alter it or raze it with a blott; but yf in and
by your suffrage it maye passe, I would intreat you to
supplie the Doctor's surname.
I have another suit, and that is in behalf of Mr. Brookes,
late chosen manciple of Wadham Collcdg, that you would
be pleased to commend him and give htm what countenance
you can with the Warden of the house. He is a very
honest man, well travelled and experienced in the world.
and is also an exact workman in his trade of making
mathematical instruments in metall.
Sir, you will be pleased to remember my best respects
to Mr. Wallis and favourably to pardon this troublesome
interruption of him who am.
Your truly loving freind to my power.
William Oughtred.
Aldburie
April 19, 1651.
To my very worthy and loving freind, Mr. Seth Ward,
at Wadham Collcdg in Oxford, present
JVM.
' Aabrejr gives in colonn Ibe coat : ' gnlo, i crou malioe or (*ide the
Hetmldi' office if any chftrge On the ctom) ' ; and nota that the 'ciett ' i* ' a
head like > hare's head.' He adds also the refcreDces:~(a) 'vide hii life wiitt
by . . ., m Svo ' ; {i) ' quaere Mr. Elia» Ashmole for hi* nativity.' He has
diBwn the lignre for the insertion of the planetary signs, and left it blank.
VilUam Outram (1625-1679).
In Westminster Abby south aisle, white marble
inscription. Prope ja«t
Gulielmus Outram, S.T.P.
ex agro Derbiensi, collegiorum apud Cantabrigieiises
S. ct individuae Trinitatis et Chriati socius, hujus
ecclesiae canosicos ct Leycestr. archidiaconiu^
Theologus consuininatuB et omnibus
numeris absolutus, Scripior nervosus et accuratus,
* MS. Aubr. 8, IbL ji. Antbon; Wood nota: ' vide Wettmim^tr mentf
John Overall 115
Concionator egr^us et assiduus primo in agro Lincoln.
postea Londini et tandem apud S. Maigaretam West-
mon. ubi confecit postremum vitae suae cursum magna
cum laude nee minore fructu. Sed in tantis laboribus
et animi contentione dum sacranim literarum et
sanctorum patrum studio ardebat ut in renum dolores
incident, quibus diu afflictus et tandem fractus
aequissimo animo e vita discessit
Aug. XXIII anno Dni mdclxxix
postquam impleverat annum
quinquagesimum quartum.
His grave-stone (a faire black marble) is not far off from
the above-mentioned inscription. There is written on it
thus, viz. : —
...
He was a tall spare leane pale consumptive man ; wasted
himself much, I presume, by frequent preaching.
Scripsit . . .
John Overall (1560-1619).
* Dr. Overall and his wife : —
Dr. (John) Overall was deane of St. Paules, London.
I see his picture in • the rationale writt by (Anthony)
Sparrow, bishop of Exon, in the beginning wherof are the
effigies** of L(ancelot) Andrews, bishop of Winton, Mr.
(Richard) Hooker, and John Overall, bishop of Norwich —
before which is writt Ecclesiae et Liturgiae Anglicanae
vindices. Quaere if this deane was that bishop.
I know not what he wrote or whether he was any more
than a common-prayer Doctor ; but most remarqueable by
his wife, who was the greatest beautie in her time in
England. That she was so I have it attested from the
famous limmer^ Mr. (John) Hoskins^ and other old
painters, besides old courtiers. She was not more beautifull
than she was obligeing and kind, and was so tender-hearted
* MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 93. ® i. e. limner.
* Snbst. for ' in some of oar common- ^ Samuel Cooper, Aubrey*! friend,
prayer bookes.' was Hoskins* nephew.
^ Subst for ' pictures.'
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Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
that (truly) she could scarce denie any one. She had (the/B
told me) the loveliest eJes that ever were seen, but wondrou3 ; ■
wanton. When she came to court or to the playhouse,
the gallants would so flock round her. Richard, the carle
of Dorset, and his brother Edward, since earle, both did
mightily adore her. And by their report he must have
had a hard heart that did not admire her. Bishop Hall
sayeth in his Meditations that ' there is none so old that
a beautiful! person loves not ; nor so young whom a lovely
feature moves not,'
The grood old deaae, notwithstanding he kseir wdl
enou{^ that he waa homed, loved her infinitdy : bt so
much that he was wiUtng she should enjoy what she liad
a mind ta
Among others who were charmed by her was 5If Jolui
Selby of Yorkshire. 1656, old Mris Tyndale (of '£he
Priory near Easton-piers), who knew her, remcndWcs
a song made or her and Sir John, part wherecf was this,
vizt. : —
The deane of Paule's did search for his wife,
And where d'ee thinke he found her? . . .•
etc.
On these two lovers was made this following copie of
pastorall verses (vide the ballad-booke in Museo Sful-
dotiiauo^)^ e.g.
* Downe lay the shepherd swaine
So sober and demure,
Wishing for his wench againe"
So bonny and so pure,
With his head on hillock lowe
And his armes akimboe,
And all was for the losse of his
Hye nonny nonny noe.
■ Two lin« Me suppretied. • MS. Anbt. 8, fol. 93'.
' i.e. iDtlwlibruyof RalphSheldoD * SnbsL for 'sighing for hii love
at Westoa: m« CUrlc't Wood'* Lift in nine'
and Tima, iii. lOi, 103, n. 19a.
John Overall 117
His teares fell as thinne
As water from the still,
His haire upon his chinne
Grew like thyme upon a hill,
His cherry cheekes* pale as snowe
Did testifye his mickle woe,
And all was for the losse of his
Hye nonny nonny noe.
Sweet she was, as kind a love
As ever fetter'd swayne;
Never such a daynty one
Shall man enjoy again.
Sett a thousand on a rowe
I forbid that any showe
Ever the like of her
Hey nonny nonny noe.
Face she had of filberd hue,
And bosom'd ^ like a swan ;
Back she had of bended ewe,
And wasted by a span.
Haire she had as black as crowe
From the head unto the toe
Downe, downe, all over her
Hye nonny nonny noe.
With her mantle tuck't-up high
She foddered her flock
So bucksome and alluringly,
Her knee upheld her smock.
So nimbly did she use to goe,
So smooth she danc't on tip-toe,
That all men were fond of her
Hye nonny nonny noe.
• Here followed ' were * : scored ont. *> Dnpl. with ' breasted.
* She smiled like a Holy-day
And simpred like the Spring,
She pranck't it like a popingaic
And like a swallow sing,
She trip't it like a barren doe,
She strutted like a gor-crowe,
Which made the men so fond of her
Hye nonny nonny noe.
To sport it on the merry downe
To daunce the liTcly Haye
To wraatle for a gnen gowne
In hcate of afi tiie daye
Never would she ny me no
Yet me Hiot^t I had tiiA
Never enougfa (tf her
Hye nonny nonny noe.
But gonne she is, the prettfeat' lasse
That ever trod on plaine.
What ever hath hetide of her
Blame not the shepherd swayne
For why? she was her owoe foe
And gave her selfe the overthrowe
By being so fraake of her
Hye nonny nonny noe.
Finis.
Sir Thomas Orerlmry (1581-1613).
** Sir Thomas Overbury, knight : — ex registro capellae
Turrb Lond., scilicet 'Anno Domini 1613, Sir Thomas
Overbuiy, poysoned, buryed September 15'^.'
His father was one of the judges of South Wales, viz.
Caermarthen, Cardigan, and Pembroke drcuites. He
lived in his later time at Burgfaton on the hill in Glocester-
• MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 94. gives io trick the coat :— 'Mbk, 3
* DupL.with ' lighten.' ^inlleti between two beodlet* argent
** MS. Anb(. 8, foL 90'. Aabrej [Ovcrbtu;].'
John Partridge 119
shire. Sir Giles Overbury was his eldest brother, who dyed
in London in St. Clements Danes parish about 1651 or 2.
Scripsit : — Characters, Of education of youth, a stitch't
8vo. Translated Ovid de remedio amoris — which I have
('twas one of old Dr. Kettle's bookes).
Sir Nicholas Overbaiy, m. ... Palmer,
judge.
I. Sir Giles. a. Sir Thomas, (sine prole). 3. Walter, of Barton.
Sir Inomas (orbos). 1
I I
Charles Famphlin (1649-1678).
* This is the copie of his mother's owne handwriting : —
* Charles Pamphlin was borne the last day of August
before day, the howre I did justly know but I guesse it
might be about 3 or 4 a clock in the morning, being Fryday
the August after the king was beheaded ; which I thinke
was 29 yeares since, last August.'
He was hanged in Convent Garden on a gibbet, for
stealing his Majestie's chapell-plate, May 22, 1678.
John Partridge (164I-1715).
** John Partridge, astrologue, the son of . . . Partridge
(yet living, 1680, an honest waterman at Putney* in
Surrey).
He was borne, as by his scheme ^ appeares, January the
i8**>, 164}, lat. London.
He was taught ** to read, and a little to write. He
learn 'd no farther then As in praesenti.
He was bound apprentice to a shoe-maker in . . ., anno
aetat. . . . ; where he was kept hard to his trade.
At 18 he gott him a Lillie's grammar, and Goldman's
dictionary, and a Latin bible, and -Ovid's Metamorphoses,
He is of an excellent healthy constitution and great
♦ MS, Aubr. 23, fol. 77. the planets, etc. ; also in MS. Anbr.
•♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 98. 23* ^1- 88.
• Snbst. for ' Fulham.* « Subst. for * bred.'
^ Given here, with the positions of
temperance, of indefatigable Industrie, and sleepes but
. . ■ houres.
In . . . yeeres he made himselfe a competent master of
the Latin tongue, well enough to reade any astrologicall
booke, and quickly became a master of that science. He
then studyed the Greek tongue, and also the Hebrew, to
neither of which he is a stranger. He then studyed good
authors in physique, and intends to make that his profession
and practyse; but is yet (1680) a shoemaker in Convent
Garden.
Scripsit, viz. : —
first. The Hebrew Kalendar, 1678.
Ecclesilogia (almanack), 1679.
The same againe, 16K0.
Vade Mecum, fjvo.
The King of France his nativity.
A discourse of two moones.
Mercurius Coelestis (almanack), 1681.
Prodromus, a discourse of the conjunction of Satui
Mars, anno idJJo.
James Feele.
* Maister James Peele— 'tis a folio, 1569 : —
1 The pathewaye to perfectnes in th' accomptea of
debitour and creditour, in manner of a dial<^e very
pleasant and profitable for merchauntes and all other that
mlnde to frequent the same, once again set forth and very
much enlarged by James Peele, citizen and Salter of London,
Clercke of Christes Hospitall, practiser and teacher of the
same, imprinted at London in Paule's church-yard by
Thomas Purfoote, dwelling at the signe of the Lucrece,
Aug. 16.
He is drawne before his booke in his gowne and a cap
(scilicet, like the cappes the undergraduates weare), short
haire and long beard.
It is dedicated to the right worshipful master John
* MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 71. Anbrejr given in trick the coat :'..., a bend
between a mnllctt pierced sable.'
n and \
John Pell 121
Mershe, esq., govemour, the assistants, and companie of the
Merchaunte Adventurers of England.
In the dialogue between the merchant and the schoole-
master, the merchant thanks him and sayes* It is now street
time, wherfore I must begonne.' In those times, before the
Royal Exchange was built by Sir Thomas Gresham, the
merchants did meet in the street as now a dayes at
the Exchange. The place was what we now call the old
Change ; but I believe the street was then broader than
it is now.
In those dayes* they did alwaies upon the top of the
first clean leafe in the inventorie booke write thus : —
* In the name of God, Amen.
1566
December the xxxi daye.*
John Pell (161^-1685).
(When Aubrey had finished the first sketch of this life he submitted
it for revision to Dr. Pell, who made several corrections. To these
Aubrey draws attention by a note :— ' This is Dr. Pell's owne hand-
writing : ' it is a neat print-like hand. These corrections in the text
here are enclosed in square brackets.)
* John Pell ^, S.T.Dr., was the son of John, who was
the son of John.
John Pell, D.D., was the son of John Pell, ... ^ of
Southwyck in Sussex, in which parish he was borne, at
. . ., on St. David's day (ist of March) 1610 «, hor4 • . .
(his youngest uncle guessed about noon).
His father was [a divine] but a kind of Non-conformist ;
of the Pells of Lincolneshire, an ancient familie ; his mother
[of the Hollands of Kent]. His father dyed when his son
John was but 5 yeares old and six weekes, and left him an
excellent library.
(He) went to schoole at the free-schoole at Stenning,
• Subst. for * In those dayes they ♦ MS. Anbr. 6, fol. 39.
did alwayes, before the inventorie of ^ A word is blotted oat
employments for trafiqne in merchan- ^ Changed by Pell to 1610 from
disc, write in above thus :— ' Aubrey's 161 1 .
Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
a burrough towne in Sussex, at the first founding of the
schoole ; an excellent schcxil master, John Jeffreys. At
13 yearcs and a quarter old he went as good a scholar to
Cambridge, to Trinity Colledge, as most Masters of Arts
in the University (he understood Latin, Greek, and
Hebrew), so that he played not much (one ■ must imagine)
with his schoolfellowes, for, when they had play-dayes,
or after schoole-time, he spent his time in the library
aforesaid.
He [never '' stood at any election of] fellow[s] or scholar[9
of the House at] Trinity College.
Of person he was very handsome, and of a very strong
and excellent habit of body, melancholic, sanguine, darke
browne haire with an excellent moist curie.
[Before " he went first out of England,] he understood ^
these langu^es (besides his mother-tongue), viz. Latin,
Greek, Hebrue, Arabique, Italian, French, Spanish, High-
Dutch, and Low-Dutch.
Anno Domini 1652 he maried [Ithamara Reginalds,
second daughter to Mr. Henry R^inalds of London. He
had by her 4 sonnes and 4 dai^rhters home in this (mler*
S.. D., D.. S., D., S., D., S.].
Dr. Fell tiaz sayd to me that he did believe that he
solved some questions non sine divino auxilio.
Anno Domini 1643 he went to Amsterdam, in December;
was there Professor of Mathematiques, next after Martinus
Hortensius, about 3 yeares.
1646, the prince of Orange called for him to be pub*
lique professor of Philosophy and Mathematiques at the
Schola lUustris at Breda, that was founded that yeare
by his Highnesse; vide the Doctor's inaugurall Oration'
there, printed— the first thing printed that bis name
was to.
■ Sabat. foT 'yoD.' ' Snbst for ' imdetstindi,' to in>ke
^ Subit. by Pell for ' He «m nevei the lentence ■gree with Pell'i iniertion.
fellow or icholu it Trio. CoU.' • i. e. Son, D&ugbter, etc.
<■ Aabiey note* : ' ThU ii Dr. Fell's ' Snhtt for ' ipeech.'
owne htuid-WTiting.'
John Pell
123
He returned into England, 165a.
In 1 654 Oliver, Lord Protector, sent him envoyd to the
Protestant cantons of Switzerland ; resided chiefly at
Zurich. He was sent out with the title of ablegatus^ but
afterwards he had order to continue there with the title of
Resident.
In 1658 he returned into England and so little before the
death of Oliver Cromwell that he never sawe him since he
was Protector.
Memorandum — when he tooke his leave from Zurich,
June 23, 1658, he made a Latin speech, which I have seen.
Memorandum that in his n^ociation he did no disservice
to King Charles 11^. nor to the church, as may appeare by
his letters which are in the Secretarie's Office.
* Richard Cromwell, Protector, did not fully pay him
for his business in Piedmont, wherby he was in some want ;
and so when King Charles II was restored*, Dr. Sanderson,
bishop of Lincoln, perswaded him to take Holy Orders.
He was not adroit for preaching.
** When King Charles II had been at home ten months,
Mr. John Pell first tooke Orders. He was made deacon
upon the last of March, j66i, by bishop Sanderson of
Lincoln, by whom he was made priest in June following.
Gilbert Sheldon, bishop of Lundon, [procured ^ for] him
the parsonage of Fobbing^ in Essex, 1661, and two yeares
after (1663) [gave him] the parsonage of Laindon cum
annexa capella de Bartelsdon in eodem comitatu, which
benefices are in the infamous and unhealthy (aguesh^)
hundreds of Essex.
Mr. Edward Waller on the death of the countesse of
Warwick : —
Curst be alreadie those Essexian plaines
Where . . . Death and Horrour reignes. —
etc.
♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 53*.
* Subst for ' returned, in
** MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 52^.
. . .,
^ Subst. by PeU for ' gave him.'
^ i.e. ague-ish.
124 Aubreys ^ Brief Lives*
[At Fobbing, seven curates dyed within the first ten
yeares] ; in sixteen yeares, six of those that had been his
curates at Laindon are dead; besides those that went
away from both places ; and the death of his wife [servants,
and grandchildren].
Gilbert Sheldon being made archbishop of Canterbury,
t Quaere, ^^ — \ Jo^tt Pell f was made one of his Cam-
jTeST,*''* ^"^^^""^ chapleines; and complaining one day
wnSlSdT ^^ ^^^ Grace at Lambith of the unhealthinesse
Cambridge. ^f ^jg benefice as abovesayd, sayd my Lord,
' I doe not intend that you shall live there.' ' No/ sayd
[Doctor] Pell, (' but ^ your grace does intend that) I shall
die there.'
Now by this time (1680), you doubt not but this great,
learned man, famous both at home and abroad, haz
obtained some considerable dignity in ^ the church. You
ought not in modestie to ghesse at lesse then a deanery*—
Why, truly, he is stak*t to this poor preferment still 1 For
though the parishes are large, yet (curates, etc, discharged)
he cleares not above 3-score pound per annum (hardly
s utsaepe fourscore), and lives in an obscure § lodging,
inoccuitSiatent. thfce storics high, in Jermyn Street, next to
Captivi, the signe of the Ship, wantmg not only
bookes but his proper MSS. which are many, as by and
by will appeare. Many of them are at Brereton at my
lord Brereton's in Cheshire.
Memorandum : — ... lord Brereton ® was sent to
Breda to recieve the instruction of this worthy person, by
his grandfather (George Goring, the earle of Norwich)
anno 1647, where he stayed . . . ^ where he became
a good proficient, especially in algebra to which his genius
most inclined him and which he used to his dyeing day,
* Sheldon was * confirmed * arch- « The words in brackets are scored
bishop Aug. 31, 1663; but Aubrey out.
perhaps meant the date to be that <* Subst. for ' of/
of Peirs appointment as chap- • William, (third) lord Brereton.
lain. ' Blank in MS., for the number of
*» D.D. (Lambeth), Oct. 7, 1663. years.
John Pell
125
which was 17 March, 16JJ : Hes* buried in . . .** St.
Martin's church in-the-fields. I cannot but mention this
noble lord but with a great deale of passion, for a more
vertuous person (besides his great learning) I never knew.
I have had the honour of his acquaintance since his comeing
from Breda into England. Never was there greater love
between master and scholar then between Dr. Pell and this
scholar of his ^, whose death March 1 7, i6|^ * hath deprived
this worthy doctor of an ingeniose companion and a usefull
friend.
Scripsit *.
His* table of squares, printed at London, 1672 ; 8 sheetes
fol.
Rhonius's Algebra, in High-Dutch, was (indeed) Dr.
Pell's; is translated into English, halfe. — Rhonius was
Dr. Peirs scholar at Zurich and came to him every Friday
night after he (J. Pell) had writt his post-lettres.
Controversia de veracirculi mensura inter Longomontanum
et Pellium, Amstel.(?) Blaeu, 165^.
J. Pellii Idea of ^ Mathematicks printed in English and
in Latin at the same time, i6mo.
Inaugural oration, p. 33 ».
/ ^ayniirqs^ a quarter of a sheet of paper one
Both MSS.< side ; and also
' Euclid's ** X**» Element(orum liber) (vide
infra) which is in Cheshire at my lord Brereton's.
He hath written on the tenth booke of Euclid, which is
in Cheshire at the lord Brereton's, and he hath also done *
• i. e. lord Brereton.
*» Blank in MS. ; Aubrey generally
says whether chancel, aisle, etc., and
did not know in this case.
« * buried at St. Martin*s-in-the-
fields,' interlinear note.
* MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 55.
^ In MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8, Aubrey
thinks of further inquiry under this
head: — *J. Pell— quaere Catalogum
librorum.'
* This entry is scored out, perhaps
only as out of chronological order.
' The words 'of Mathematicks'
are added by Anthony Wood.
s i.e. fol. 5a ; see page laa, supra.
The note is added by Wood.
^ Wood notes : ' demonstrated the
lo*** book of Euclid.'
1 Wood scores out the word and
substitutes ' demonstrated.'
126 Aubreys ^ Brief Lives^
the greatest part of Diophantus \ which is there ^ — both
unprinted \
Also he hath donne^ the second booke of Euclid in one
side of a laige sheet of paper most clearly and ingeniously.
He hath donne most succinctly and dearly Archimedis
"ifafxidrr^ in one side of an 8vo paper.
Also he hath demonstrated the proportion of die
diameter to the circumference, and shewes what was the
reason why Archimedes did use these two numben — he
did it at the instance of Su* Charles Scarborough— one
sheet
03^ In the booke called Branker's Algebra that which
is purely Dr. Pell's bonnes at p. 79 and so continues to
FINIS — ^this I had from his owne mouth. — Desire Mr. A.
Wood to take some paines to enquire for Mr. Turner,
M.A. at Oxon (I thinke of Exon. ColL), who tooke
some paines about Branker's Algebra.
Dr. Pell haz often sayd to me that when he solves
a question he straines every nerve* about him, and that
now in his old age it brings him to a loosenesse.
* Dr. J. Pell was the first inventor of that excellent way
or method of the marginal! working in algebra.
I have heard him say several times that the Regula falsi
was falsly demonstrated by Mr. William Oughtred (quod
N.B.) and that Petiscus hath donne it right.
See Dr. Pell's letter, printed by Joachim Jungius in
his Doxo ... in 4to at Hamborough — Mr. Cluverus haz it.
He could not cringe and sneake for preferment though
otherwise no man more humble nor more communicative.
He was cast into King's Bench prison ^ for debt Sept. » 7,
1680.
* Wood adds: * his Arithmetic, more ^ Wood writes 'MS.* over, as an
than was done before by . . ., a improvement.
Frenchman.' This was perhaps a bit ^ Wood writes 'demonstrated' over,
of information made orally to Wood, • Dupl. vdth ' yeine.'
whose deafness prevented his catching * MS. Anbr. 6, fol. 52^
the name. In the Foiti he says, ' a ' Snbst. for ' Newgate prison.'
certain Frenchman.' ' Snbst. for ' August the last'
»> Wood adds: * in Cheshire.'
John Pell J2J
* In March 1682 he was very kindly invited by Daniel
Whistler, M.D., to live with him at the Physitians College
in London, where he was very kindly entertained. About
the middle of June he fell extreme sick of a cold and
removed to a grandchild of his maried to one Mr.
Hastings in St. Margaret's Churchyard, Westminster, neer
the tower, who now (1684) lives in Brownlow Street in
Drury Lane, where he was like to have been burnt in his
bed by a candle. Nov. 26, fell into convulsion fitts which
had almost killed him.
** Gilbert Sheldon, Lord Bishop of Londqn, gave Dr.
Pell the parsonage of Lanedonf cum Basseldon in the
t Vide the booke Hundreds of Essex (they call it kill-priest \
Beneficwrum. sarcastically) ; and king Charles the Second
gave him the parsonage of Fobing f, 4 miles distant. Both
are of the value of two hundred pounds per annum (or
so accounted); but the Doctor was a most shiftless man
as to worldly affaires, and his tenants and relations cousin'd
him of the profits and kept him so indigent that he
wanted necessarys, even paper and inke, and he had not
6d. in his purse when he dyed, and was buried by the
charity of Dr. Richard Bu.sby and Dr. {John) Sharp,
Rector of St. Giles-in-the-fields and Dean of Norwich,
who ordered^ his body to lye in a vault® belonging to
the Rector (the price* is x/i.).
I could not persuade him to make a will ; so his books
and MSS. fell by administratorship to Capt. . . . Raven,
his son-in-law.
His son (John) is a Justice of Peace in New Yorke*,
and lives well. He thought to have gonne over to him.
• MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 55. to Chester ; Clark's Wood's Life and
*♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 51^. The Times, ii. 253.
following notes were written by Aubrey ^ Subst. for ' layd his body.'
after Pell's death, and are therefore <* i. e. in St. Giles-in-the-fields
(like the quotation from Horace, infra. Church.
p. 131, added at the same time) ^ Subst. for 'value.* The fee
franker than the pages which were charged for a burial in this vault was
written to be submitted to Pell's £10,
revision. • *or Jersey* followed, but was
* C p. the word ' kill-biihop ' applied scored out.
This learned person dyed in St. Giles' parish aforesaid
at the house of Mr. Cothorne the reader in Dyot Street
on Saterday December the twelfth 16H5, between 4 and 5
P.M. Dr. Busby, schoolmaster of Westminster, bought all
his bookes and papers of Captain Raven, among which is
the last thing he wrote (which he did at my earnest
request} viz. THE TABLE.S, which are according to his
promise in the last line of his printed tables of squares and
cubes (if desired) and which Sir Cyrillus Wych (then
president of the Royall Society) did license for the press.
There only wants a leafe or two for the explanation of
the use of them, which his death hath prevented. Sir
Cyril Wych, only, knowes the use of them. I doe
(imperfectly) remember something of his discourse of
them, viz. whereas some questions are capable of several!
answers, by the help of these tables it might be discovered
exactly how many, and no more, solutions, or answers,
might be given.
I desired Mr. Theodore Haakc, his old acquaintance,
to make some additions to this" short collection of
memoirea of him, but he haz donnc nothing ^.
He dyed of a broaken heart.
* Dr. Whistler " invited Dr. Pell to his house in anno
. . ., which the Dr. likt and accepted of, loving good cheer
and good liquour, which the other did also ; where eating
and drinking too much, was the cause of shortmng his
daies.
Dr. Pell had a brother a chirurgiao and practitioner
in physick, who purchased an estate of the natives of
New- York and when he died he left it to his nephew
John Pell, only son of the Doctor. It is a great estate
8 miles broad and . . . miles long (quaere Capt. . . .
Raven).
He had 3 or 4 daughters.
• Sabat. for ' aj' * MS. Anbr. 6, fol. 54.
■■ Huke's paper came afterwards, " See Clark's Wood'* /.i/e and
and is now fol. 53 or MS. Anbi. 6. Timts, iii. 95.
It i* prinled itifra.
John Pell 129
* This {is} writt by Mr. Theodore Haake,
In the year 1638 I came first to be acquainted with
Mr. Pell by Mr. S. Hartlib's meanes, who having heard of
his extraordinarie parts in all kinde of learning, especially
the mathematics, perswaded that the same might be farre
more usefully employed and improoved for the publick
advancement of learning, he never left soliciting and engag-
ing frends heer to perswade Mr. Pell instead of keeping
scool, as he then did at ... in Sussex, to come up to
London, where he soon got into great esteem among the
most learned, both natives and forreigners, with whom he
conversed. But he so minded and followed still the
cultivating of his more abstracting studies, and naturally
averse from suing or stooping much for what he was
worthy of, it was a good while before he obtained any
suteable place or settlement.
I recommended him once to my Lord Bishop of Lincoln •
(quondam Lord Keeper of England), who became very
desirous to see the man, inviting us of purpose to dine once
with his lordship for the freer discourse of all sorts of
literature and experiments, to get a touch and taste that
satisfaction Mr. Pell could give him. Which proved so
pertinent and abundant that my lord put the question to
him whether he would accept of a benefice which he was
ready, glad, and willing to bestow on him for his encour-
agement. Mr. Pell thankd his lordship, saying he was
not capacitate for that, as being no divine and having
made the mathematics his main studie, for the great
publick need and usefullnesse therof, which he had in
a manner devoted himself to improve and advance to the
uttmost of his reach and abilities. Which answer pleased
my lord so well that he replyed, ' Alasse I what a sad
case it is that in this great and opulent kingdome there
is no publick encouragement for the excelling in any pro-
fession but that of the law and divinity. ** Were I in place
* MS.Aubr.6,fol.53. The heading » John Williams, Lord Keeper
is by Anbrey ; what follows is Haak*s 1631-1625.
writing. ** MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 63\
II. K
igo Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
as once I was, I would never give over praying and pressing
his majesty till a noble stock and fund might be raised for
so fun da men tall, universally usefull, and eminent sciencc
as mathcmaticks,' And therupon his lordship requested
Mr. Pell to befriend him with his visits as often as he could
spare time, promising him always a very hearty welcome.
Yet Mr. Pell who was no courtier came there no more.
In the mean time he communicated to his friends his
excellent Idea Matiieseos in half a sheet of paper, which
got him a great deal of repute, both at home and abroad,
but no other special advantage, till Mr, John Morian,
a very learned and expert gentleman, gave me notice that
Hortensius, mathematical professor at Amsterdam, was
deceased, wishing that our friend Mr. Pell might succeed.
Sir William Boswell, his maj'eslie's ambassador in Holland.
being here then, I conferred with him about it, who pro-
mised all his assistance ; and between them, and by these
two, a call was procured from Amsterdam for Mr. Pell,
in 164-^ : and in May 1644 I met him settled there on my
return out of Denmarke. Where he was, among others,
dearly welcome to Gerardus Joannes Vossius. And soon
after his fame was much augmented by his refuting a lat^e
book of Longomontanus Quadratura, which caused the
Prince of Orange (Henry Frederick) Tieing about to erect
an Academie at Breda, borrowed' Mr. Pell from the
magistrate of Amsterdam, to grace his new Academy with
a man of that fame for a few years. And there being
comfortably stayed, the most learned of the then .parliament
heer, jealous that others should enjoy a countryman of
their own, they never left offers and promises till they got
him hither to be — they gave out — Professor Honorarius
heer. But the sucessc prov'd soon deficient, and reduced
him to much inconvenience, as having now a charge of
a pretty large family, viz. his wife with 4 or 5 children.
And this continued till T. H.*" was offerd byTh." to be
* The duoge of coaitmction U u ■ Aubrey aom; 'Mr. lecietiiy
in Ihe MS. Thurlo.' John Thnrloe, SecieUiy of
^Aabreynoteii'Mr.TheodorHuUc.' Stole 1*53-60.
IVilliam Penn 131
employed in Swisse and about the E.* collection for
Pyemont ; who excused himself it and recommended
Mr. Pell.
This ^ account of Dr. John Pell I had from my worthy
friend Mr. Theodore Haak, whose handwriting it is.
* John Pell, D.D., was borne at Southwick in Sussex
on St. David's day, anno Domini 1611; his youngest
uncle ghesses about noon.
Anno 1632 he maried.
1643, went to Amsterdam and was there professor of
Mathematiques.
1646, the Prince of Orange called for him to be publique
professor at Breda.
i^54> Oliver, Protector, sent him envoy6 to the cantons
of Switzerland.
1 661, Gilbert Sheldon, bishop of London^ gave him
a scurvy parsonage in Essex (* kill-priest ').
168c, August last, he was arrested and layd in prison.
Notes,
* Aubrey quotes, as applicable lo Pell :—
'Ingenium ingens
Inculto latet hoc sub corpore.
Horat. Sat. I. iii. 54.'
He gives a derivation of the name ' Pell, i. e. a poole — Sussex.' He gives
also the coat : ' Ermine, on a canton ... a pellicane (but not feeding her
young ones) . . . [Pell].*
' Fobbing was a Crown living — net annual value, in 1893, ;£'534 : Laindon-
cum-Basildon was in the gift of the see of London — net annual value, in 1893,
;£'49i. The figures suggest that Pell had a good appetite for preferment, to ask
for more.
William Penn (1644-1718).
** William Penn natus Oct. 14, 1644, hori 7 mane,
Londini. .
*** William Penn^, the eldest son of Sir William Penn,
knight, [admirall® both of the English navy before the
* Aubrey notes: 'English.' »** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 34.
^ Note added by Aubrey at the end ^ The words in square brackets
of Haak's letter. are a note in the top margin, re-
* MS. Aubr. 23, fol. ao. placing '. . . admiral and . . .,' in
♦* MS. Aubr. 33, fol. 90^ the text.
K 2
132 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives' I
restauration of the king, and commanded as captain-
general! under the D. Y. ' in 1 665 against the Dutch fleet ''],
was borne in London, at Tower hill, the 14' day of
October 1 644, 'Twas upon a Monday he thinkes ; but
'twas about 7 a clock in the morning.
(His father was a very good man, but no Quaker; was
very much against his sonnc.)
Went to schoolc in London, a private schole on that
hill, and his father kept a tutor in the house : but first he
went to school at ChigwcU in Essex.
(He was) mighty lively, but with innocence; and^
extremely tender under rebuke ; and very early delighted
in retirement; much given to reading and meditating^
of the scriptures, and at 14 had marked over the Bible.
Oftentimes at 13 and 14 in his meditations ravisht with
joj', and dissolved into teares.
The first sense he had of God was when he was
1 1 yeares old at Chigwell, being retired in a chamber alone.
He was so suddenly surprized with an inward comfort and
fas he thought) an externall glorj' in the roomc that he
has many times sayd that from thence he had the scale of
divinity and immortality, that there was a God and that
the soule of man was capable of enjoying his divine com-
munications. — His schoolmaster was not of his perswasion.
To Christ's Church in Oxon anno 1660, anno aetatis 16;
stayed there about two yeares.
Anno 1662, went into France ; stayd there two yeares.
Returnd and was entred of Lincoln's Inne.
About the plague, growing entirely solitary, was again
diverted. Was employed by his father in a journey into
Ireland to the duke of Ormond's court : the diversions of
which not being able to keepe downe the stronger motions
of his soule to a more religious and retired life, upon the
• D. Y. in a monogram; i.e. Duke '' Dupl.wlth ' (ensible nnder tender
of York. retrakei.'
*• ' Commanded bj Opdam ' fol- • * (Wept moth) ' followed : »wieJ
lowed : scored out. oat, and expanded in the next len-
" ' Or ly' To) lowed : scoted out. tence.
Oct. 14. 1644, was a Mondajr.
William Penn 133
hearing of one Th^omas) Lowe, a tradesman, of Oxon,
at Cork, 1667, was so thoroughly convinced of the simplicity
and selfe-deniali of the way of the people called Quakers
that from thence he heartily espoused that judgment • and
beliefe.
Since which time he haz passed a life of great variety
of circumstances ^ both with respect to good and evill
X « ^. . ,. report, divers controversies orall and written f,
T Ben Clark the
bookseller* scverall imprisonmcttts t (one in Ireland, one
will give me a * ^
catarogueofaii in the Tower, <a) oj^ in Newgate).
MIS writings. ^ \ r %j o /
t Quaere annum Travelled into Germany, Upper and Lower,
et diem of his , ^ % ^ -t it
imprisonments annis 1671 and 1 677, whcrc severall were
and his sick-
nesses and affcctcd with his way 6.
danger& — MS.
Aubr. 8, foi. 34'. Notwithstanding those many odd adventures
anytohliS^in* of his life, hc hath severall times® found
— Ms!*Aub?8, favour from his majestie and also the D. Y. ^,
fol a it*
with divers of the nobilitye «, and men of quality
and learning in this kingdom.
His majestie owing to his father 10,000 //., 16 — , (which,
with the interest of it, came not to lesse than 20,000//.,)
did, in consideration therof, grant to him and his heirs
a province in America which his majesty was pleased to
name Pensylvania^ the 4th day of March i68f, to which
he is now goeing this next September i68i,
*** His patent for Transylvania ^ is from the beginning
of the 40th degree to 43 degrees in latitude, and 5 d^rees
in longitude from Chisapeak-bay.
E.W.' {says'' that there are) 2 or 3 things, e. g.
military, mighty necessary (for the colony) — quaere some
proposalls.
He speaks well * the Latin and the French tongues, and
• Subst. for * society.' of York.
** *, of reproach * followed: scored » 'Sometimes' followed: scored out.
out. ♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 34\
^ In MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6^, Aubrey *» Pennsylvania,
notes : * Call on B. Clarke, Quaker, « Edmund Wyld.
for a catalogue of Mr. Penn's writings.' ^ The note requires expansion in
^ i. e. Negative ; the answer is ' no.' this way. It is preceded by ' Caro-
• Subst. for * sometimes.' lina,' scored out.
' D. Y. in a monogram : i.e. Duke * Subst. for * perfectly.'
134 Aubre/s 'Brief Lives'
his owne with great mastership. He often declares*
in the assemblies of his Friends, and that with much
eloquence'' and fervency of spirit — by which, and his per-
petuall attendances on K{ing) and l^(rince) for the reliefe
of his Friends, he often exposes his health to hazard.
He was chosen (ballotted) November 9th, nemine con-
tradicentc, admitted Fellow of the Royal Societie, London',
with much respecte.
* August 16, 168a, Saturday. This day about
4 a clock P.M. W. Penne, esq-, went towards Deale to
launch for Pensylvania. God send him a prosperous and
safe voyage.
Last Wednesday in August (scil. Aug. 30, i68a) about
noon he tooke shippe at Deale.
He returned into England, October (about the middle*)
1 684 — quaere diem.
** W. Penn, esq., married Gulielma Maria Springet,
daughter of Sir William Springet, of the Springets of the
Rroyles in Sussex.
She was a poslhnma of her father, a young gent, of
religion and courage who dyed at the aiege of Arundel.
His daughter was his image in person and qualities,
virtuous, generous, wise, humble"; generally beloved for
those good qualities and one more' — the great cures she
does, having great skill in physic and surgery, which she
freely bestows.
She early espoused the same way^, about anno 1657.
She was a great fortune to her husband, being worth de claro
above 10,000 /(. Her fortune, quality, and good humour
gave her the importunity of many suitors of extraordinary
condition, e.g. lord Brookes and lord J(ohn) (Vaughan),
etc. ; but vahieing the unity of beliefe and the selfe deniall
* i.e. declaims, I say,' i.e. in the Alkttxu Oxtni-
^ Dnpl. wilb ' with fluent copie of tnsis.
wordi.' ' Copie ' i> cepia Engliibed. *• MS. Aobt, 8. fol. 3s'.
"■November l6Sl ' followed: • Subst. for < plaine.'
scored oat. ' ' which src ' Tollowccl ; scored
- MS. Aubi. 8, fol, 35. out.
* Anthony Wood notes: 'faeEuining: ■ 'of being* followed : scored out.
William Penn
135
of her profession above the glories of the world, resisted
their motions till Providence brought a man of equall
condicion and )8(* to herself to the syncere embracing of
the same fayth, whose mariage haz been crowned with
a continued affection.
[Sir William Penn, knight ^] his father, was a man of
excellent natural! abilities, not equalled in his time for the
knowledge of naval 1 affayres and instrumentall to the
raysing of many families. Bred his son religiously; and, as
the times grew loose, would have had his sonne of the
fashion, and was therfore extreme bitter at his Sonne's
retirement. But this lasted not alwayes ; for, in the con-
clusion of his life, he grew not only kind, but fonde ; made
him the judge and ruler of his family ; was sorry he had
no more to leave him (and yet, in England and Ireland,
he left him 1500 li. per annum). But, which is most
remarkeable, he that opposed his Sonne's way because of
the crosse that was in it to the world's latitude, did himselfe
embrace this faith, recommending to his son the plainesse
and selfe deniall of it, sayeing ' Keep to the plainesse of
your way, and you will make an end of the priests to the
ends of the earth.' And so he deceased, desiring that
none but his son William should close his eies (which he
did). Obiit anno aetatis 49, 4 months.
• Pfen fm, ...
I
. . . Penn, of Mynety com. iw. Joane Gilbert
Wilts (Hal<shoaae in
Minety). He lies buried
in Myntie chancell, vide
the inscription.
(oftheGtlberU
of Yorkshire).
Sir William Prnn, m. Mai^aret Jasper,
knight.
daughter of John
Jaspar, merchant,
of Roterdam.
I. W. Ptenn, Iff. Gulielma
esq.
Maria
Springet.
a. Richard,
obiit sine
prole.
3. Margaret, m. Anthonjr Lowder
of Mask in Cleave-
land in Yorkshire.
I. Springet Pen,
eldest son.
I
3. William. 3. Laetitia.
I
I i
» This is Aubrey's symbol for
* fortune.*
'• Added by Anthony Wood.
* This pedigree is in MS. Aubr. 8,
fol. 35^. Aubrey notes in the margin :
< Pen's- lodge in Bradon forest.' On
136
Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
* A Catalogue of WilliafH Penn's writings.
IIEBTS, No.
8. I. The guide mistaken, being an answer to J. Clap-
ham, ififiX, 4tO.
6. 2. The sandy foundation shaken, or an answer to
Vincent, etc., 1668, 4to.
2, 3. An apology for the sandy foundation, 1669, 8vo.
3. 4. Truth exalted, or a testimony to rulers, preists,
and bishops, 1669, 4to ; addit. { 16)71.
24. 5. No cross, no crownc', 1669, 4to. Reprinting.
36. 6. A serious apology for {the) people cal'd
Quakers ; answer to Taylor and Tyms of
Ireland ; ij written by G. Whithead, 1669, 4to.
1. 7. A letter of love to the young convinc'd, i66y,
4to.
H. A seasonable caveat against popery, 1669, 410.
9. The'' ancient liberties of the people asserted in
W. P. tryal, i6;o, 4to.
10. Truth rescued from imposture, being an answer
to S. Sterling'^, 1670, 410.
1 1. The great case of liberty of conscience asserted,
1670, 4to.
12. New wittnesses proved old hereticks, being an
answer to Mugleton, 1673, 4to.
13. The spirit of truth vindicated, being an answer
to a Socinian, 1673, 4to.
14. Plaine dealing with a traducing Baptist ; answer
to Morse, 1672, 410.
fol. 34' Aubrey bas in trick the coal :
' argent, on a fess sable, three besanls,
a crescent for difference; impaling
. , ,' with the note ' Sir ... Pen of
Pen in Bucks, tempore Edw. Ill or
Hen. Ill, qnaere.' He adds: 'iride
lib. A ' (hia ovm Wiltshire coUections):
see Clark'i Wood's Lift and Timei,
iv. 191.
* MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 36; nut in
Anbiey's hand, and perhaps su[iplied
him bj Benjauio Clark the book-
seller (»/ni, p. 133). Anthony Wood
notes (scored out) : 'Thiaii butavety
Imperfect caUlogne,' and 'qnaere
Silas Norton the quaker.' For Silas
Norton, see Clark's Wood's Li/i and
Timet, iii, 179.
■ Wood notes: 'Catalogue 1.16,1':
see Wood's L^tand Times, Iv. 135.
■> Wood notes 'habeo'; he bad
this book in his library.
' Wood notes: ' Sam. Starling, Lord
Mayor' (of London, 1670).
IVtlliam Penn 137
Sheets. Na
1 larg sheet. 15. A winding-sheet for controversy
ended ; answer to Morse, 1672, 4to large.
!• 1 6, Propos'd comprehension seriously to be con-
sidered, 167a, broadside.
18. 17. Quakerisme, a new nickname for old Christi-
anity, answer to Faldo, 1672, 8vo large.
32. 18. The invalidity of J. Faldo, being a rejoynder
in answer to him, 1673, 8vo large.
12, 19. Wisdom justified of her children, or an answer
to Hallywell, 1673, 8vo large.
16. 20. Reason against rayling, or an answer to Hicks
Dialogues, 1673, 8vo large.
12. 21. The counterfitt Christian detected, answer to
Hicks 3d. Dialogue, 1674, 8vo large.
2. 22. A briefe returne to J. Faldo's curbe, 1674, 8vo
large.
169. 23. The Christian Quaker and his divine testimony
vindicated, 1674, folio.
2. 24. Vrim and Thummim or light and righteousness
vindicated, 1674, 4to.
4. 25. A just rebuke • to 21 divines that vindicated
J. Faldo's book, 1674, 4to.
26. Christian liberty desired, in a letter to the
States at Emden, 1674, 4 to.
27. A solemn offer to the Baptist to vindicate
truth, 1674, broadside.
28. Naked truth needs no shift, being an answer to
The last shift, 1674, broadside
29. Libels no prooffs, 1674, broadside
30. A returne to Jer. Jues sober request, 1674,
broadside.
24. 31. A treatise of oathes or not-swearing vindicated,
1675, 4to.
6. 32. England's present interest, with honour to the
prince, and safty to the people, 1675, 4to.
• Wood notes * Cat. a. 270.'
1 '38
■
Aubrey's 'Brief Lives' 1
2.
no.
33-
Saul smitten to the ground, or Mathew Hide's 1
remorse, 1675, 4to.
5.
34-
The continued cr>-of the oppressed, or Friends'
sufierings presented, 167,^, 4to.
1.
35-
Epistola consulibus Emdcni, 167,1, 4to,
6.
36-
The skirmisher defeated or an answer to - - .
1676, 4to.
2.
37-
An epistle to the churches of Jesus, 1677, 4to.
4,
38-
A briefe answer to a foolish libell, 1678. 4to.
1.
39-
To the children of l^ht in this generation.
i6yH, 4to.
3.
40
One project more for the good of England,
1679, folio.
3.
41
Anaccount of the province of Pensilvania*, 1681,
folio.
1.
42
An abstract of the province of Pcnnsilvania,
i6«i, folio.
' The face oTlhe leaf is frayed, and two notes In the top margiii hare become
iUeglbte : one said something aboDt ' navj ' ; the other ended ' uino in Sept.
On fol. 34' of MS. Aubt. 8 Anthony Wood noies ■ Will. Pen, the corjphaens
and piide of the Quakeis.' A comparison of this life with the notice of Penn
in the Athmae Oxmiensts, and of the life of John Pell with the nolice in the
Fasti, shows how large is Wood's debt to Aubrey in that work.
* Al MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 37, is fonnd Ibis pamphlet, ' A brief acconnt of the
province of Pennsylvania, lately giar.teH by the king ... to William Penn,'
folio, S pages, ' London, printed for Benjamin Clnik in George Yard In
Lombard Street, 1681.'
Sir Thomas Fenruddook.
* {It was a) capital (offence) for a native Irishman to
come to Dublin without a passe.
Sir . • . espying . ■ . went into the come . . . found
him and hung him up immediately — Mr. Anderson
* MS. Aubr. S, fol, 1 1 : a fragmen- ai an infonnant on Irish mntteis in the
lary jotting about the icverity of the life of Richaid Boyle, earl of Cotk,
penal laws. 'Mr. Andeison' ocean toL i. pp. 115, 116.
Str IVilliam Petty 139
Sip WilUam Petty (1632-1687).
{His coat of arms*: MS. Aubr. 6, fol. I2\)
Ermine, on a bend gules f, a (magnetic) needle, pointing
1 1 have given to the Polaf Star, or, for Petty : impaline^ sable
this bend of Sir - , , * -^ , „
William Petty's three walnut leaves, between 2 bendlets, or,
coateofarmes - ___ ,,
afalsecolourinfr, for Waller **.
scilicet red (but _, . t t • • i i
it was my lady's The crest IS a beehive, or, with bees about it :
mistakeo); fori . '
find in his the mOttO IS
scutchin at
ni^.I'h -ff/i !!,i U^ ^P^s Geometria,
death tt is azure. •'
{His horoscope^', MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 12^).
Monday, Mail 26to, 1623: 11^ 42' 56" P.M., natus
Gulielmus Petty, miles, sub latitudine 51° 10' (tempus
verum), at Rumsey in Hants.
This was donne, and a judgement® upon it, by Charles
Snell, esq., of Alderholt neer Fordingbridge in Hampshire
— 'Jupiter in Cancer makes him fatt at heart/ John
Gadbury also sayes that vomitts would be excellent good
for him.
* Sir William Petty, knight, was the [eldest^ or only,] son
of . . . Petty, of Rumsey in Hampshire, by . . . his wife.
His father was borne on the Ashwednsday, before Mr.
Hobbes, scil. 1587 ; and dyed and was buryed at Rumsey
1644, where Sir William intends to sett up a monument
for him. He was by profession a clothier, and also did
dye his owne cloathes : he left little or no estate to Sir
William.
He« was borne at his fathers house aforesaid, which
is . . ., on Monday, the twenty-sixth of May 1623, eleven
houres 42' 56" aftemoone (vide Scheme ''): Xt°*^ on
Trinity Sunday.
Rumsey is a little haven towne, but hath most kinds
• Given in colours by Anbrey. nativity made by Charles Snell, July
^ i. e. Aubrey had been misinformed lo, 1676.
by Lady Petty. ♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 13.
® He married Elizabeth Waller. ' The words in square brackets are
^ I omit the technical figure. a pencil note in the margin.
• In MS. Aubr. 23, fol. ii\ is an » Subst for * Sir William.'
'astrological judgment* on Peity's * i. e. of his nativity : x«/ra.
140 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives*
of artificers in it. When he was a boy his greatest delight
was to be looking on the artificers,— e, g. smyths, the watch-
maker, carpenters, joyners, etc.— and at txvelve years old
could have worked at any of these trades. Here he went
to schoole, and Icam't by 1 2 yeares a competent smattering
of Latin, and was entred into the Greek. He haz had
few sicknesses. About H, in April very sick and so con-
tinued till towards Michaelmas. (Cj*About 12 (or 13), i.e.
before (5, he haz told me, happened to him the most
remarkable accident of life {which he did not tell me), and
which was the foundation of all the rest of Jus greatnes
and acquiring riches.
He* enformed me that, about 15. in March, he went over
into Normandy ^ to Caen, in a vessell that went hence, with
a little stock, and began to merchandize", and had so good
successe that he maintained himselfe, and also educated
himselfe ; this I guessed was that most remarkable accident
that he meant. Here he learn't the French tongue, and
perfected himselfe in the Latin, and had Greeke enough
to serve his turne. Here (at Caen) he studyed the arts.
Memorandum : — he was sometime at La Flesshe in the
college of Jesuites. At it), he waa (I have heard him say)
a better mathematician then he is now : but when occasion
is, he knows how to recurre to more mathematical know-
ledge. At Paris he studyed anatomie, and read Versalius
with Mr. Thomas Hobbes (vide Mr. Hobbs' life), who
loved his company. Mr. H. then wrot his Optiques; Sir
W. P. then had a fine hand in drawing and limning, and
drew Mr. Hobbes's opticall schemes for him, which he was
pleased to like. At Paris, one time, it happened that
he was driven to a great streight for money, and I have
heard him say, that he lived a weeke on two peniworth (or
3, I have forgott which, but I thinke the former) of walnutts.
Quaere whether he was not sometimes a prisoner there ?
* Subsl. for ' I hare been enformed of Ihi) word —
tbat about tbia time.' 'To begin to pUj the mer-
^ bolAt. for ' France.' chant.'
< Aubrey sddt the laterpretnCion ■* ' I gneue ' fnb*L for ' no doabc'
Str IVtlltam Petty 141
Anno Domini 164- he came to Oxon, and entred him-
selfe of Brasen-nose college. Here he taught • anatomy
to the young scholars. Anatomy was then but little
understood by the university, and I remember * he kept
a body that he brought by water from Reding a good
while to read on, some way preserved or pickled ^
Anno Domini (1650) happened that memorable accident
and experiment of the reviving Nan Green®, which is to be
ascribed and attributed to Dr. William Petty, as the
first discoverer of life in her, and author of saving her.
Vide and insert the materiall passages in the tryal, and
anatomicall experiment of Nan Green at Oxon : vide the
narrative.
Here he lived and was beloved by all the ingeniose
scholars ^ particularly Ralph Bathurst of Trin. Coll. (then
Dr. of Physique) ; Dr. John Wilkins (Warden of Wadham
Coll.) ; Seth Ward, D.D., Astronom. Professor ; Dr.
(Robert) Wood ; Thomas Willis, M.D., &c. — Memoran-
dum : — about these times experimental! philosophy first
budded here and was first cultivated by these vertuosi in
that darke time.
Anno Domini . . . (quaere) he was chosen musique
professor at Gresham Colledge, London, v. pag.* 2.
Anno Domini . . . (quaere Edmund Wyld, esq., when) the
Parliament sent surveyors to survey Ireland ; vide pag.® 2.
** Dr. Petty was resident in Oxon 1648, 1649, ^^d
left it (if Anthony Wood' is not mistaken) in 1652. He
tooke his degree of Dr. of Physique anno Domini ... at
. . . (quaere).
He was about 1650 (quaere) elected Professor of
Musique at Gresham Colledge, by, and by the interest of,
his friend captaine John Graunt (who wrote the Observa-
tions on the Bills of Mortality), and at that time was worth
but fourtie pounds in all the world.
* 'taught' subst. for ' r^d and i. 165.
langht.* «* Subst. for * gent*
♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. ij,", • i. e. fol. 14.
*> Dnpl. with 'sowsed.* ♦* MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 14.
« Clark's Wood's Life and Times ^ ' See vol. i. p. 367, note (e).
I
Shortly after {soil, anno Domini iSj^i in August, he had
I Quwre ^^^ patent for Ireland) he was recommended
«n rei'pmci** ^^ ^^^ Parliamentt to be one of the sur\'eyors
i°s^^i'i*^''d» ^^ Ireland, to which employment capt. John
p^^itamMT" Graunt's interest did also helpe to give him
ihc^Irii^n" * ^''^'' ^"'^ Edmund Wyid, esq., also, then
H^BTWTOfl'ibr" ^ member of Parliament, and a great fautor
SooIv^''''bui'''' °^ ingeniose and good men, for meer meritt
nhmDf'wMt sakcj (not being formerly acquainted with him)
«'ii^d''g." I'l"™ '^''i ^•■n great service, which perhaps he knowes
™&"« not of.
teS^'wJWpr To be short, he is a person of so great
hrtuiirrayd"" worth and learning, and haz such a prodigious
FrmdiiS^T working witt, that he is both fitt for, and an
piiF^'j.^s. honour to, the highest preferment-
°'3- By this siir\'eying employment he gott an
estate in Ireland (before the rcstauration of King Charles II)
of iHoco//. per annum, the greatest part wherof he was
forced afterwards to refund ^ the former owners being then
declared innocents. He hath yet there 7 or 8000 It, per
annum and can, from the Mount Mangorton in the com.
of Kerry, behold 50C00 acres of his owne land. He hath
an estate in every province of Ireland.
The kingdome of Ireland he hath surveyed, and that
with that exactnesse (quaere Sir J. H. de modo), that there
is no estate the(re) to the value of Ihrescore pounds per
annum but he can shew, to the value, and those that he
employed for the geometricall part were ordinary fellowes,
some (perhaps) foot-soldiers, that circumambulated with
their dox and needles, not knowing what they did, which
Sir William knew right well how to make use of.
Anno Domini 1667 (vide his Scheme'), he marled on
Trinity Sunday . . . the relict of Sir (Maurice) Fenton, of
Ireland, knight, daughter of Sir Hasdras Waller of Ireland
by . . ., a very beautifull and ingeniose lady, brownc, with
** tiubsl. for ' lo rcuore tc
' Sufi-a,v. 139.
Sir J/Villiam Petty 143
glorious eies, by whom he hath . . . sonnes, and . . .
daughters, very lovely children, but all like the mother.
He has a naturall daughter that much resembles him,
no legitimate child so much, that acts at the Duke's play-
house, who hath had a child by . . . about 1679. She is
(1680) about 21.
* I remember about 1660 there was a great difference
between him and Sir , one of Oliver's knights,
about . . . They printed one against the other : this
knight was wont to preach at Dublin. The knight had
been a soldier, and challenged Sir William to fight with
him. Sir William is extremely short sighted, and being
the challengee it belonged to him to nominate* place and
weapon. He nominates, for the place, a darke cellar, and
the weapon to be a great carpenter's axe. This turned
the knight's challenge into ridicule, and so it came to
nought.
He can be an excellent droll (if he haz a mind to
it) and will preach extempore incomparably, either the
Presbyterian way, Independent, Cappucin frier, or Jesuite.
** He recieved the honour of knighthood Anno Domini
. . •
He had his patent for earle of Kilmore and baron of . . .
... .. 166- which he stifles during his life to avoyd
SUlrfAS??^' envyt, but his sonne will have the benefitt
ifi^J^Jop ^^ ^^^ precedency.— [I expected ** that his
•^"* Sonne would have broken-out a lord or earle :
ft^ but it seemes that he had enemies at the court at
Dublin, which out of envy obstructed the passing of his
patent.]
Anno 1660 he came into England, and was presently
recieved into good grace with his majestie, who was
mightily pleased with his discourse.
Anno Domini 1663 he made his double-bottom'd vessell
(launched about new-yeere's tide), of which he gave a
modell to the Royall Societie made with his owne hands,
* MS. Anbr. 6, fol. 14^. ** MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 13^
* Subst. for * appoint' ^ This sentence is a later addition.
I
144 Aubrey's 'Brie/ Lives'
and it is kept in the repository at Gresham College. It did
doc very good service, but anno 16 — liappned to be
lost in an extraordinary storme in the Irish sea. (Memor-
andum : — there is yet a double bottomd vessell in the
Isle of Wight, made by one Mr which, they say,
sailes well : quaere capt. Lee.)
* Anno Domini 167^ (vide the yeare of T. Deer's
lettres), March iS, he was correpted by the Lord Chan-
cellor Finch, when the patent for the farming of Ireland
was scaled, to which Sir William would not scale.
Monday: 20th March, he was affronted by Mr. Vernon :
Tuesday following Sir William and his ladie's brother (Mr.
Waller) Hectored Mr. Vernon and caned him.
** He went towards* Ireland in order to be a member
of that Parliament, March 22, ifiJS — God send him a
prosperous journey.
16S0 ''..., he went to Rumsey to see his native country,
and to erect a monument to his father.
He is a person of an admirable inventive head, and
practicall parts. He hath told mc that he hath read but
little, that is to say, not since 3j aetat., and is of Mr.
Hobbes his mind, that had he read much, as some men have,
he had not known so much as he does, nor should have
made such discoveries and improvements.
I remember one St. Andrewe's day (which is the day
of the generall meeting of the Royal) Society for annuall
elections), I sayd, ' methought 'twas not so well that we
should pitch upon the Patron of Scotland's day, we should
rather have taken St. George or St Isidore ' (a philosopher
canonized). ' No,' said Sir William, ' I would rather have
had it "^ on St. Thomas day, for he would not beleeve till
he had seen '' and putt his fingers into the holes,' according
to the motto Nullius in verba.
He haz told me that he never gott by legacies in his
life, but only x H. which was not payd.
* MS, Aubr. 6, fol. 14. '' This sentence has been icoredont.
** MS. Anbr. 6. fol. 14'. ° ' been ' followed : scored out.
* SDbst. for ' into.' * DupL with ' felL'
Sir William Petty 145
* He has told me, that wheras some men have
accidentally come into the way of preferment, by lying at
f B.^.mycosen an inne^ and there contracting an acquaint-
piatt«S!*whom ance ; on the roade ; or as some others f have
cit?nrton donne ; he never had any such like opportunity,
n^nbefoVe,^ but hewed out his fortune himselfe— quod N.B.
liked so well, tt • t j j •
that he made He IS a proper handsome man, measured six
gentleman of the foot high, good head of browue haire, moder-
horac when he , . . - , . . -tn r
went hia ately tuming up : vide his picture as Dr. of
embassy mto ^ ox *
spainc*. This Physique. His eies are a kind of goose-grey,
board. but very short sighted, and, as to aspect,
beautifuU, and promise sweetnes of nature, and they doc
not decieve, for he is a marveillous good-natured person,
and rfo-TrXayxros. Eie-browes thick, darke, and straight
(horizontall). His head is very lardge, luiKpoxiipakos. He
was in his youth very slender, but since these twenty
yeares and more past he grew very plump, so that now
(168c) he is abdamine tardus. This last March, i6|^J»
I perswaded him to sitt for his picture to Mr. Loggan,
the graver, whom I forthwith went for myselfe, and he
drewe it just before his goeing into Ireland, and 'tis very like
him. But about 1659, he had a picture in miniturc drawne
by his friend and mine, Mr. Samuel Cowper (prince of
limners of his age), one of the likest that ever he drew.
Scripsit:
1. W. P.'s Advice concerning the Education of Youth ^
sticht, 4*®, printed.
2. [A® contest and controversie between him and Sir . . . :
about which Sir William printed a little discourse in 8vo :
quaere nomen libri.]
3. Historic or Discourse of Taxes, 4to.
4. Duplicate Proportion, 8vo., printed. [G. ^ 28, p. 5.]
* MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 15. • Written at first '. . . with Sir
* In 163 1. ... in Syo*: and then a line drawn
^ Anthony Wood notes : — ' See to bring in this fuller title from the
another title in B. 19 ; G. a 8, p. 5/ opposite page.
collections of Wood's own : Clark's •* Note by Anthony Wood : erased.
Wood's Life and Times, iv. 232.
II. L
146 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
5. Politique Arithmetique, MS. [vide" part 3, p. aa : G.
28, 6.]
6. Politique Anatomic of Ireland, MS-
7. A treatise of building shippcs, which he presented
to the Royal) Societie about 1661 ; which the lord
Erounker was pleased to keepe to himselfe, and never
returned it; a MS.
Observalions on the Bills of Mortality^ were really his.
Translation of Psalme in Latin hexameter,
stitch't, folio, printed, London. 1677 (quaere").
Since his death I have seen, in his closet, a great
many tractatiuncli in MS.— e. g. Religio Christiana Puerilis ;
Via brevis ad Medicinam ; An Essay to know or judge
the Value of Landcs ; His owne life in Latin verse ; De
Connubiis; Severall Epigrammes and Verses by him;
Of Mills; An Engine very useful! for raysing of water ;
cum miillis alUs that have slipt out of my raemoric.
Memorandum : his 3 last printed tracts were comparisons
or paralleling of London and Paris, stitcht, 8vo.
* I have heard Sir William say more than once, that
tHmKuiiiM ^^ knew not that he was purblind till his
b™nd.pprtii- master t (a master of a shippe) bade him
«A uptaine. climbe-up the rope ladder, and give notice when
he espied such a steeple (somewhere upon the coast of
England or France, I have foi^ot where), which was
a land-marke for the avoyding of a shelfe; at last the
master sawe it on the deck, and they fathom'd and found
they were but . . . foot water, wherupon (as I remember)
his master drubb't him with a cord.
Before he went into Ireland, he sollicited, and no doubt
he was an admirable good soUicitor. I have heard him
say that in solliciting (with the same paines) he could
dispatch severall businesses, nay, better than one alone,
for by conversing with severall he should gaine the more
knowledge, and the greater interest.
■ Note by Anthony Wood : erased. * Supra, vol. 1. p, ajj.
* Anthony Wood >ddi tbc relerence ' G. )S, p. 6.'
• MS. Aobr. 6, fol. 15',
Sir Willtam Petty 147
In the time of the warre with the Dutch, they concluded
at the councell-board at London, to have so many
sea men out of Irland (I thinke 1500). Away to Irland
came one with a commission, and acquaints Sir William
with it ; sayes Sir William, * you will never rayse this
number here.* ' Oh/ sayd the other, * I warrant you, I
will not abate you a man.' Now Sir William knew 'twas
impossible, for he knew how many tunne of shipping
belongd to Ireland, and the rule is, to tunnes
so many men. Of these shipps halfe were abroad, and
of those at home so many men unfit. In fine, the com-
missioner with all his diligence could not possibly rayse
above 200 seamen there. So we may see how statesmen
may mistake for want of this Politique Arithmetique.
Another time the councell at Dublin Were all in a great
racket for the prohibition of coale from England and
Wales, considering that all about Dublin is such a vast
quantity of turfe ; so they would improve their rents, sett
poor men on worke, and the city should be served with
fuell cheaper. Sir William prima facie knew that this
project could not succeed. Sayd he, *If you will make
an order to hinder the bringing-in of coales by foreigne
vessells, and bring it in vessells of your owne, I approve
of it very well : but for your supposition of the cheapnesse
of the turfe, 'tis true 'tis cheape on the place, but consider
carriage, consider the yards that must contayn such a
quantity for respective houses, these yards must be rented ;
what will be the chardge?' The(y) supputated, and
found that (every thing considered) 'twas much dearer then
to fetch coale from Wales, or etc.
Memorandum: — about 1665 he presented to the Royall
Societie a discourse of his (in manuscript, of about a quire
of paper) of building of shippes, which the lord Brounker
(then president) tooke away, and still keepes, saying, * 'Twas
too great an arcanum of state to be commonly perused ' ;
but Sir William told me that Dr. Robert Wood, M.D.,
aforesayd, has a copie of it, which he himselfe haz not:
quaere Dr. Wood for it.
L %
Sir William Petty died at his bouse in Peccadilly-street
(almost opposite to St. James church ', on Fryday, i6tli day
of December, 1687, of a gangrene in his foot, occasioned
by the swelling of the gowt, and is buried with his father
and mother in the church at Rumsey in Hampshire. Qi^See
his will.
My lady Petty was created baronnesse of Shelburn in
Ireland, and her eldest sonne baron of the same, a little
before ihe comeing-in of the Prince of Orange.
* Sir William Petty had a brother . . ., like him, who
dyed sine prole : he has his picture. — Quaere if I have
mentioned Nan Green'' out of the printed narrative?
** His picture by Fuller in his Dr. of M(cdicine) gowne,
a skull in his hand ; then a spare man ; (with a) little
band ; Veslingius' Anatomic by him. 'Twas he (Sir
William) that putt Fuller to drawe the muscles as at Oxon
gallery-^.
*** Quaere nomen of the knight his aniagonist, Sir
? Resp. — 'Twas Sir Hieromc Sanchy that was his
antagonist : against whnm he wrote the 8vo booke, about
1662. He was one of Oliver's knights, a commander and
preacher and no conjuror. He challenged Sir William
to fight with him. Sir William being the challengee named
the place, a darke cellar, the weapon, carpenter's great
axe ; so by this expedient Sir William (who 19 short-
sighted) would be at an equall tourney with this douty
knight.
**** Sir W. Petty was a Rota man, and troubled
Mr. James Harrington with his arithmeticall proportions,
reducing politic to numbers,
***** SirW. P. i8March<i67S> correpted by the Lord
Chancellor when the patent was to be sealed, which he
■ Written at first ' to ihe church' ; " MS. Anbr. 8, fol. u.
Anthony Wood queried in the matgin ' i.e. the Pictore Galler7 at the
' what chnrch ' ; and then Aubrey Bodleian,
inserted the name. ••• MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 11'.
• MS. Aubr. 8, fol. I.'. "" MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 11.
>■ Clark's Wood's Li/e and Times, *•"• MS. Aobr. 33, a slip at fol.
Sir IVilltam Petty 149
would not scale. Monday, 20th, he was affronted by Mr.
Vernon ; Tuesday, he hectored him.
* Sir William Petty scripsit A Politicall Anatomic of
Ireland. He assured me by letter from Dublyn, July 12,
1681 : — *I am not forward to print this Politicall Arith-
metique but doe wish that what goeth abroad were
compared with the copie in Sir Robert Southwell's hand,
which I corrected in March 1679.' He told me some
yeares since, before the copie was dedicated to the Royal
Societie, that * the doeing of it would cost 50,000 //., but
Ireland will be donne.'
(In MS. Aubr. 22 is a printed tract, 26 pages (besides
prefatory matter), * The advice of W. P. to Mr. Samuel
Hartlib for the advancement of some particular parts of
learning,' Lond. 1648: the preface signed *W. P., London,
8 Jan. 164I; i.e. W. Petty.)
(In MS. Aubr. 26, at p. 24, are 'Directions from Sir
William Petty to me heretofore, scil. 1671/ for collecting
national statistics.)
(In MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 62, are 4 folio printed pages con-
taining the evidence of Sir William Petty, as sole surviving
trustee for 900 soldiers commonly called the three Regiments^
given on 25 July, 168 1, before Henry Hen, Lord Chief
Baron of Ireland, about lands in the baronies of Iveragh,
Dunkeron, and Glanoroght in county Kerry.)
** Sir William Pety — his eldest sonne is baron of
Shelbrooke in Ireland; and his lady (widow) is baroness
by patent from king James the 2*, anno 1688.
*** In the Paris Gazette about January, i68|^, * Mon-
sieur Coussin travaille pour faire iloge de Sir W. Petty
which will be inserted in the Journal de Scavans^ —
which see.
**** Sir William Petty had a boy that whistled in-
comparably wisll. He after wayted on a lady, a
widowe, of good fortune. Every night this boy was to
whistle his lady asleepe. At last shee . . . marries
♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8. **♦ MS. Aubr. 6. fol. ia\
*♦ MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 8. *»*♦ MS. Aubr. 2i, p. ii.
him .... This is certeyn true ; — from himselfe and
Mrs. Grant '-
Fabiaa Fliilipa (1601-1690).
* Fabian Philips '—from himselfe, i6fi2 — borne hard by
Prestbury in Gloucestershire, anno Domini ifioi, in
September, on Michel mas- Eve. His mother's name was
Ragehott (an heire to a younger brother) ; his father was
Andrew Philips, of an ancient familie in Herefordshire,
seaven descents, who sold 600//. per annum in Hereford-
shire, in Leominster ; some of it his sonne Kabian (of whom
I write) bought again. He was of the Middle Temple,
London: a filizer of London, Middlesex, Cambridgeshire,
and Huntingdonshire. Of great assiduity, and reading,
and a great lover of antiquities. He haz a great memorie,
which holds still well now in his Both yeare. He told me
St. Austin wrote at 90; judge Coke at 84; and bishop
Hall, of Norwych, at 8-. His house is over against the
middle of Lincoln's Inne garden, in Chancery Lane. Two
dayes before king Charles ist was beheaded, he wrote
a ' protestation against the intended murther of the king,'
and printed it, and caused it to be putt upon the posts.
When all the courts in West minster- hall were voted-downe
by Baiebones Parliament, he wrote a booke to justifie the
right use of them, and Lenthall (the speaker} and the
Keepers of the Libertie did send him thanks for saveing
of the courts. ~ ., .,
Scnpsil :
' ' M.S. Fabiani Phiiipps, armigeri, Medii Templi sodi, qui quosdam
perfidos ec ingraios nimium amando scipsum non (uti potuit) amavit,
curis librisque consenuit, aliorum totus vix suus, tandem per vaiios
vitae vortices et aenimnarum anfractus ad amoris et lucis aetemttates
coeli sedesque bcatissimas transmigravit . . . die . . . aerac Christianae
iniilessimo sexcentessimo . . . cum . . . soles vixisset.
Qui vero fidus veri Fabianus amator
Decumbens requiem morte Philippus ^it.
■ Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. ^9, fol.
Fabian Philips 151
{Catalogue of his writings.)
* I. King Charles the First no man of blood, but a martyr for
his people.
2. The antient legall fundamentall and necessary rights of courts of
justice in their writs of capias arrests and proces of outlawry against
peremptory summons and citations: printed 1676.
3. The reforming registry, against publick registries ; printed 1678.
' 4. Reasons for the continuance of the writs of capias and proces of
arrest against peremptory summons, etc. : printed 1675.
5. A view of the chancery.
6. The pretended perspective glasse.
7. Tuenda non tollenda.
8. Ligeancia lugens.
9. The antiquity of fines and amerciaments.
10. The mistaken recompence.
11. Restauranda.
12. Monenda.
13. Ursa major et minor.
14. Investigatio jurium et antiquorum et rationalium regni etc. :
printed 1687,
1 5. Legale necessarium : about estreateing and leavying fines and
amercements and other profits of the king's casuall revenues.
Tristia difTugiunt, paupertas, cura, labores,
Quae tulit ingratis gratior uma tulit
O miseris miserans, Jesus, miserere Philippo;
Defesso Fabian sanguine parta tuo,
Sanguine parta tuo, da gaudia luce perenni,
Gaudia coelicolis morte parata tua.
Oh ens entium, deus misericordiarum, amator animarum, spes
viventium et mortuorum, miserere mei et posterorum.
He dyed the 17th of November 1690, and lies buried by
his wife at Twyford, a little church neer Acton in Middlesex,
in the southwest part of the church at the lower end of the
church.
His Sonne will not be at the chardge to sett this up for
his father. But I have spoken to his good daughter to
sett his name and obiit. His workes will praise him in
the gates •.
* Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 49, fol. 33, 34: March 11, 169!.
• Prov. xxxi. 31.
— From his eldest sonne, who succeeds him in his place
of filazer.
* Old Fabian Philips has told me severall times
that it hath cost him 800 li. in taking paines searching and
writing to assert the king's prerogative and never gntt
a groate. Only, when the regulation of the lawc was, he
was made one of the commissioners, which was worth 200//.
per annum — 1 thinke it lasted two yeares.
' Aubrey j^vts in tiick the coat; ' aiurc, t fcss between 3 ffllcon* axgern.'
This life is latef thnii the olhets in MS. Aubr. (•, beiny written on a p^^
originally set Bsidc for ' Mr. John Millon.' Letters of F. Philips to A. Wood
ore foond in MS. Wood F. 39. fol. 64, 65.
John FhilipB (i6i;i
1706).
** Mr. Philips, author of Montelion * and Don Juan
Lamierto^, is very happy atjiggish poctrey.
MonteHon is happy for a j'iggish phancy and gypsies and
ballads.
Efttherine Fhilipa {i6^\-i66^).
*** Orinda — From Mr. J, Oxenbridge, her uncle (now
prisoner in the Fleet on her account for a dept of her
husband, scil. bound for him 3ii yeares since), and lady
Montagu.
Mris' Katharine Fowler was the daughter of John
Fowler of London, merchant (an eminent merchant in
Bucklersbury), and Katherine Oxenbridge, daughter of . . .
Oxenbridg, M.D., President of the Physicians' Collie —
quaere de hoc in (the London) Dispens(atory).
• Aobrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol.
414': Feb. I, i6irf.
'• MS. Aobr. )i, p. 3, and p, 13'.
Thomai Flatman ii said by Anthony
Wood 10 have had the chief hand in
these books.
» Montelion's Almannc, 1660 {by
Philips), 1661,1661 (both by Flatman).
'' 1661 : a saiire od major.£eDeraI
John Lambert (t by Flatmaa).
•»• MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 38.
' MS. Aubr. g, fol. 40, n a fair
copy of part of this patsgiaph in
Dr. Philip Bliu' hand, probably as a
guide to his copyisL
John Philips. Katherine Philips 153
She was . . . christned in Woollchurch. If alive now
(July 1681), she might be 48 or 49 ; vide register*.
* Katharine, the daughter of John Fowler and Katharine
his wife, was baptized January 11, 1631, as per the register
booke of St. Mary Woole-church appeareth.
I say,
Robert Watkins, churchwarden.
** She went to schoole at Hackney to Mris Salmon,
a famous schoolmistris, Presbyterian, (John) Ball's cate-
chism ^ Amici'^y — Mris Mary Aubrey and Mris . . .
Harvey since, lady (Sir . . . ) Deering. Loved poetrey at
schoole, and made verses there. She takes after her
grandmother Oxenbridge, her grandmother, who was an
acquaintance of Mr. Francis Quarles, being much inclined
to poetrie herselfe.
Maried to James Philips of the Priorie at Cardigan, esq.,
about 1647 (scil. the yeare after the army was at Putney),
by whom she had one sonne, dead (in her booke), and one
daughter married to Mr. Wgan of . . . , in some degree
like her mother.
She was very religiously devoted when she was young ^ ;
prayed by herself an hower together, and tooke sermons
verbatim when she was but 10 yeares old.
She died of the small pox in Fleet Street. Shee lies buried
at St. Benet-Sherehog at the end of Syth's lane in London.
Ex registro istius ecclesiae : — * Mris Katherine Philippes,
the wife of James Philippes, was buried the 23 of June 1664
in the north ayle under the great stone with the brasen
monyment ' — the brasse is now lost.
She was when a child much against the bishops, and
prayd to God to take them to him, but afterwards was
reconciled to them. Prayed aloud, as the hypocritical)
fashion then was, and was overheared — vide a of T(homas)
H(obbes) Civill Warres and Satyre against Hypocrites.
• The paragraph following is the ♦* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 38.
certificate from the parish register of ^ In 1632, in its 15th edition,
baptisms. ^ Sic, ^ * Her scfaool-fnends were.'
♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 38^ * Dnpl. with * Uttlc.'
154 Aubrey's ^Bn'ef Lives'
My cozen Montague (told me that she had a) read
pumpled face ; wrote out verses in imies, or mottos in
windowes, in her table- boo ke,
* Memorandum .—La Solitude de St. Amant was
cnglished by Mris Katherine Philips. 'Tis lo stanzas —
I thinke not yet printed— I had them from Elizabeth, the
countcsse of Thanet, 1673.
Quaere what shee wrote?
Poemes.
Pompey — tragedy.
She went into Ireland (after her mariage) with the lady
Dungaanon (whom she calles Lucatia) ; and at Dublia she
wrote Pompey.
Her husband had a good estate, but bought Crowne
landcs ; he mortgaged, etc. His brother Hector tooke oif
the mortgages and haz the lands.
From her cosen Blacket, who lived with her from her
swadling cloutes to eight, and taught her to read:— She
informcs me viz.- — when a child she was mighty apt to
learne, and she assures me that she had read the Bible
thorough before she was full four ycarcs old ; she could
have sayd I know not how many places of Scripture and
chapters. She was a frequent hearer of sermons ; had an
excellent memory and could have brought away a sermon
in her memory. Very good-natured ; not at all high-
minded ; pretty fatt ; not tall ; reddish faced.
Quaere my cosen Montagu" when she began to make
verses. — Quaere how many children she had — Quaere her
coat of arms, and her husband's.
Major-GenerallSkippen''was her mother's third husband.
' She ° lies interred under a gravestone with her father
and grandfather and grandmother, just opposite to the
dore of the new churchyard, about 3 yards distant ' —
quaere if from the doore or the opposite wal ; and quaere
if any inscription on her relations on the said stone.
• MS. Anbr. 8, fol. j8'. ' laformRtion given by lome one
* SUter of Sir John Aubre}', to Aubrey, who Qotes an ambiguity
>' Philip SkippoQ. in it.
Thomas Pigot. Thomas Pittis 155
She had only one daughter . . . who is maried to . . .
Wgan esq. of Pembrokeshire or Caermarthenshire — quaere
iterum her uncle Oxenbridge.
Thomas Pigot (i 657-1 686).
* Mr. Thomas Pigot was borne at Brindle, in Lancashire,
about eleven a clock at night (sed quaere his brother Henry
+ de hoc) — from Mr. Pond.
** I have got Mr. Pigot's birth, as to the month and
howre from his kinswoman who was at his mother's labour
and recieved him in her lapp. If you are acquainted with
his brother, desire him to give you the anno Domini.
*** Mr. Thomas Pigot, M.A. Coll. Wadh., my worthy
friend, obiit August 14, A.D. 1686, of a feaver, about one
a clock in the afternoon.
He was fellow of Wadham College and chaplain in
ordinary to the earle of Ossory, at whose house in St. James'
Square he deceased. He was buried in St. James's church
by St. James's fields, Sunday the 15th, in the middle aisle
between the pulpit and the railes of the communion-table
of the north side of this aisle, in the grave of Mr. Rigby,
the first rector* here, upon whose coffin he lies. His head
lies under 14.
His brother haz a MS. of musick written by him, a
little 4to.
Quaere for his decyphering the inscription on Sir Thomas
More's family-picture at Bessills-Leigh. Memorandum —
this decyphering gives great light to the antiquitie of the
family which els would be lost utterly.
He haz some pieces of opus tessellatum found at or near
Badmanton (the duke of Beauford's) not long before his
death.
Thomas Pittis (1636-1687).
**** Dr. Thomas Pittis, rector of St. Botolph's Bishops-
gate, died Wednesday in Christmas weeke in December
♦ MS. Anbr. 23, fol. 9a\ ♦♦♦ MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 97'.
♦♦ Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, • DupL with ' minister.'
fol. 380: Sept. 25, 1686. ♦♦♦♦ MS. Anbr. 7, fol. 9'.
156 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
iftS;. He was buryed in the Isle of Wight at the west
Cowts.
He liaz a sonne of the same College ' in Oxford that he
«'as of.
Sir William PlaterB.
* Sir William Plater'', knight, was a Cambridgeshire
gentleman at ... . He had a good estate (about 3C300 li.
per ainium). He was a very well bred gentleman, as most
was of those times; had travelled France, Italic, etc., and
understood well those languages. He was one of the Long
Parliament in the time of the late warres.
He was a great admirer and lover of handsome woemcn,
and kept severall. Henry Martyn and he were great
cronies, but one time (about 1^44) there was some difference
between them — Sir William had gott away one of Henry's
girles, and Sir John Berkinhcad inserted in his Mercuritis
Aulicus how the saintea fell out. He was temperate and
thriftie as to all other things.
He had oncly one sonne, who was handsome and
ingeniose, and whomc he cultivated with all imaginable
care and education" ... He allowed his son liberally
but enjoyned him still temperance, and to sett downe his
expences*' . . .
The father was a good linguist and a good antiquary.
This beloved sonne of his dyeing .... shortned his father's
dayes. He built the triumphall-like arch wheron the
king's armes is in the partition between church and chancell
at St, Margaret's Westminster, under which he lies buried.
The following inscription is on the arch', viz. . . .
** Sir William Platers', knight and baronet; about
5000//. per annum. His sonne very ingeniose, and made
a very good retume of his education. He was a colonel
in the king's army and was killed in his service, which his
t ue here rup-
Tiinily College, Oiford.
' Two lines of
MS. Aiibr. 7, fol. 15.
ireBsed.
In MS. Aubr. S. fol. u', Anbrey
" A line of text
■ note:-' Sir William PUjiers
" MS. Anbr. 8
of SufTulke.'
Sir Thomas Pope 157
father tooke so to heart that he enjoyed not himselfe
afterwards.
Henry Martyn, his crony, invited him to a treat, where
Sir William fell in love with one of his misses and slockst
her away^which Sir J(ohn) B(irkenhead) putt in the
Mercurius Aulicus.
In St. Margaret's Westminster he erected a monument
against the south wall for Mr. James Palmer ^ B.D.,
sequestred minister of St. Bride's London. He (Mr
Palmer) was a very pious good man, and a benefactor
to his native parish here, where he built an almes-howse ;
obiit 1659; ^^d this monument was erected at the sole
chardge of Sir William Platers, knight and baronet— sett
downe so there.
Notes,
^ Aubrey notes the inscription in MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 29 : — ' St. Margaret's
Westminster.
m
C.K.
Erected at the charge of Sir William
Platers, Knight and Baronet, anno T662.'
To which he adds the note : —
* Hee departed this life the 19th of Aprill anno 1668 — idem *, east side.'
Here Anthony "Wood makes the query : —
'Who doe yon meane by this person that died 1668?' And Aubrey
answers : —
' Sir William Platers. I doe not enter him here as a worthie, but he does
implcre locum. He was a merry man in the raigne of the Saints. Mercurius
j-lu/tcus made a good sport with him and Henry Martin.'
* Aubrey gives in trick the coat : * bendy wavy of six argent and azure * ; but
leaves blank the coat it impales.
' James Palmer, B.A., of Magd. Coll., Cambr , 160^ ; B.D. 161 3 ; vicar of
St. Bride's, Fleet Street, 1616-45.
Sir Thomas Pope (1508-1559).
* Sir Thomas Pope, founder of Trinity Collie, Oxon,
bought church-lands without money. His way was this.
He contracted, and then presently sold long leases, for
which he had great fines and but a small rent. These
leases were out in the reigne of King James the first, and
'^ Meaning, I suppose, that this the same monument,
date is carved on the east side of * MS. Aubr. a6, fol. 23.
158 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
then the estate was worth 8000 pounds per annum. He
could have rode in his owne lands from Cogges {by Witney)
to Banbury, about iS miles.
* I have a curious MSS, manuall of Sir Thomas Pope,
which if I thought would be chained in Trinity College
library, I would dedicate it there, but I know not how
magistracy, etc., have altered somebody*.
Sir Jolm Fopham (t.'i3i-i6o7).
** Sir John Popham ', Lord Chiefe Justice of the King's
Bench, was the . . . son of ... . Popham, of .... in
the countie of Somerset.
He was of the Societie of . . . and for severall (years)
addicted himselfe but little to the studie of the lawes, but
profligate company, and was wont to tak a purse with them.
His wife considered her and his condition, and at last
prevailed with him to lead another life, and to stick to the
studie of the lawe : which, upon her importunity, he did,
being then about thirtie ycarcs old. (He> spake to his
wife to provide a verj'good entertainment for hiscamerades
to take his leave of them ; and after that day fell extremely
hard to his studie, and profited exceedingly. He was
t Tie picture oi ^ Strong, stout man, and could endure to sit
i»«^yT™— He ^* '^ "^^y ''"'^ night t; became eminent in his
iron'h^Sdra'" calling, had good practise; called to be a
^wi™"'' "^ Serjeant (157**), a Judge < 1592) ; vide
breech.' Origtnes Jurtduiales.
Sir . . . (John, I think) Dayrell, of Littlecote, in com,
Wilts, having gott his ladie's waiting woman with child,
when her travell came, sent a servant with a horse for
a midwife, whom he was to bring hood-winked. She was
brought, and layd the woman, but as soon as the child was
borne, she sawe the knight take the child and murther it,
* MS. Ballard 14, tol. 108, a letter 1670, and was now Vice-Chanccllor
rrom Anbrey to Anthony Wood, dated of Oirord. Wood bad accnsed him
Aug, 18.1674. of growing airogant in his office.
• Ralph Batharst, Pretident of •• MS. Aubr. 6, foL 89'.
Trinity, bad become dean or Wells in
Sir John Popham 159
and burnt it in the fire in the chamber. She having donne
her businesse was extraordinarily rewarded for her paines,
and sent blinfold away. This horrid action did much run
in her mind, and she had a desire to discover it, but knew not
where 'twas. She considerd with herselfe the time that she
was riding, and how many miles might be rode at that rate
in that time, and that it must be some great person's house,
for the roome was 1 2 foot high ; and she could know the
chamber if she sawe it. She went to a Justice of Peace,
and search was made. The very chamber found. The
knight was brought to his tryall ; and to be short, this
t Sir John judge had this noble howse, parke, and man-
BcmeSS^^* nor, and (I thinke) more, for a bribe to save
according to - . .,- ,
lawe; but beinj; hlS lite J.
a KTcat person. , , . . , ,
and a favourite, I have sccu his picturc ; he was a huge,
he * procured a
noii prosequi, hcavic. Ugly man. He left a vast estate to his
son, Sir Francis (I thinke ten thousand pounds, per annum) ;
he lived** like a hog, but his sonne John was a great
waster, and dyed in his fathers time.
He^' was the greatest howse-keeper in England ; would
have at Littlecote 4 or 5 or more lords at a time. His
wife (Harvey) was worth to him, I thinke, 60000 It., and
she was as vaine as he, and she sayd that she had brought
such an estate, and she scorned but she would live as high
as he did ; and in her husband's absence would have all
the woemen of the countrey thither, and feast them, and
make them drunke, as she would be herselfe. They both
dyed by excesse ; and by luxury and cosonage by their
servants, when he dyed, there was, I thinke, a hundred
thousand pound debt.
Old Sir Francis, he lived like a hog, at Hownstret in
Somerset, all this while with a moderate pittance.
Mr. John would say that his wive's estate was ill gott
and that was the reason they prospered no better ; she would
say that the old judge gott the estate unjustly, and thus they
would twitt one another, and that with matter of trueth.
» Sir . . . Dayrell. * * lived' subst. for * was.*
^ John Popham, son of Sir Francis.
p
i6o Aubrey's 'Brief Lives^
[ remember this epitaph was made on Mr. John
Popham r —
Here lies he, who, not long since,
Kept a table lilce a prince,
Till Death came, and tooke away-
Then ask't the old man, What's to pay?
* Meinorandum : — at the hall in Wellington ^ in the
countie of Somerset (the ancient seate of the Pophams),
and which was this Sir John's, Lord Chiefe Justice, (but
quaere if he did not buy it?) did hang iron shackells, of
which the tradicion of the countrey is that, long agoe, one
of the Pophams (lord of this place) was taken and kept
a slave by the Turkes for a good white, and that by his
ladie's great pictie, and continuall prayers, ht was brought
to this place by an invisible power, with these shackells on
his legges, which were here hung up as a memonall, and
continued till the house (being a garrison) was bum't. All
the countrey people steadfastly beleeve the truelh hereof.
** Lord Chief Justice Popham first brought in (i.e.
revived) brick building in London (scil. after Lincolne's
Inne and St. James's); and first sett-afoote the Planta-
tions, — e.g. Virginia (from Fabian Philips)— which he
.stockt or planted out of all the gaoles of England.
Nolis.
' Aubrey gives in trick [he coat : ' argent, on a chief gules a bucks' head*
caboshed or, a crescent for difference.'
' MS. Wood F. 49, fol. 139, has a note which Wood describe* to be bjr
' Francis Snow, of Merton College,' vii, ' " Sir John Popham, LordChiefe Jiutke
of England, Privy Conncellor of Queen Elizabeth and King J&mes, aged 76,
died 10 of June 1607 ": at Wellington in Sonwrset. this cost me a ihilling.'
Wood notes that the words are ' on bis moanment ; which is all written thereon,
and therefore piint it.'
SBmael Fordage (1633-1691?).
*** Samuel Pordage I knew very well. He was head-
steward of the lands to the right honourable Philip, carl
of Pembroke.
• MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 90. '• MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 10.
*" MS. Anbr. 7, fol. 9*.
Francts Potter i6i
His father was called Dr. Pordage, a physitian and astro-
loger ; I know not whether he was rector. His picture was
graved three or four yeares since, I thinke 'tis before a book.
The son (Samuel), a civil courteous person, and a hand-
some man ; gave me (1660) his translation of Seneca's Troas
in English ; and I think he hath printed something since.
Francis Potter (1594-1678).
* Mr. Francis Potter's father * was one of the benefactors
to the organ at the cathedrall church at Worcester, and
there amongst others is this coate — * . . . , a chevron between
3 flower-vases . . .* [Potter].
** Francis Potter, B.D., borne at Mere, a little market-
to wne in Wilts, * upon Trinity-Sunday-eve 1594, in the
evening.' — *Anno Domini 1625, December 10*^, hor4 decimA,
inventum est mysterium Bestiae ' as he went up the staire
to his chamber (which was at his brother's, scil. the great
roome that nowe is added to the President's lodgeing).
*** ' A.D. 1625, December 10*^, hora decima inventum
est Mysterium Bestiae' — these words I found wrote in
his Greeke Testament. He told me the notion came into
his mind as he was goeing up staires into his chamber at
Trin. Coll. which was the senior fellowe's chamber then
(he lay with his brother, Dr. Hannibal Potter): this
chamber is now united to the President's lodgeings.
**** Francis Potter, B.D. : Anthony Ettrick adviseth
me to write
* To the worthy successor of Mr. Potter at Kilmington,'
and it will oblige the said rector to speed an answer, and
also an account of the picture of Sir Thomas Pope — No
answer ! Quaere my brother Tom who is successor ; and
quaere and vide register and place of buriall.
***** Mr. Francis Potter, B.D., was borne at the
[vicaridge^] house at Mere in the county of Wiltes,
♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 60. *♦*♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8^
• Richard Potter, SchoUr of Trin. ♦**♦♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol 60.
Coll. Oxon., B.D. 1587, prebendary ^ The words in square brackets are
of Worcester 1598-1628. added by another hand, possibly
♦♦ MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5. Potter's own.
*♦♦ MS. Aubr. 6 fol. 63.
II. M
anno Domini [1594, upon Trinity Sunday eve, in the
evening].
His father was minister there, and also of Kilmanton
in com. Somerset about 3 miles distant, and was also
a prebendary of the Cathedrall Church of Worcester.
He had three sonnes, Hannibal, Francis, and
His wife's name was Horsey, of the worshipfull and
ancient family of the Horseys of Clifton in com. Dorset.
He was taught his grammar learnings by Mr. <Henry)
Bright (the famous school master of those times) of tlie
schoole at Worcester.
Anno ;Etatis (15) (vide A. Wood's Antiq. Oxon.) he
went to Trinity CoUcdgc in Oxon, where his father (who
was an Oxfordshire man borne) had been a fcllowe. His
brother Hannibal was his tutor. Here he was a commoner
twenty-seaven yeares, and was senior to all the house but
Dr. Kettle and his brother.
His genius lay most of all to the mechanicks ; he had
an admirable mechanicall invention, but in that darke time
wanted encouragement, and when his father dyed (which
was about 1637) he succeeded him in the parsonage of
Kilmanton, worth, per annum, about 140 U. He was from
a boy given to draweing and painting. The founder's
(Sir Thomas Pope's) picture in Trinity Colledge hall is of
his copying. He had excellent notions for the raysing of
water ; I have heard him say, that he could rayse the
water at Worcester with lesse trouble, 1. e, fewer ,
then there are ; and that he had never seen a water-house
engine, but that he could invent ' a better. Kilmanton is
on a high hill, and the parsonage-well is extraordinary
deepe. There is the most ingcniose and usefull buckett-
well, that ever I sawe. Now, whereas some deepe wells have
wheeles for men or doggs to go within them, here is
a wheele of foot diameter, with steps (like stayres)
to walke on as if you were goeing up staires, and an
ordinary bodye's'' weight drawes-up a great bucket, which
' Dn[.l. wiih 'find-oQt' * Dup!. with'personV
Francis Potter 163
holdes a barrell, and the two bucketts are contrived so
that their ropes alwaies are perpendicular and consequently
parallell, and so never interfere with one another. Now,
this vast buckett would be to combersome to overtume
to power out the water ; and therefore he contrived a board
with lifts about the sides, like a trough, to slide under the
bucket, when 'tis drawne up ; and at the bottom of the
buckett is a plug, the weight of the water jogging upon
the sliding trough, the water powres out into the trough,
and from thence runnes into your paile, or other vessell.
'Tis extremely well worth the seeing. I have* taken hereto-
fore a draught of it. I have heard him say that he would
have undertaken to have brought up the water from the
springs at the bottom of the hill to the towne of Shaftes-
bury, which is on a waterles hill.
Anno Domini 16(25) (see* part li) goeing into his
chamber, the notion of 25, the roote of 666, for the roote
of the number of the Beast in the Revelation, came into his
head ; so he opposed 25 to 12, the roote of 144.
When he tooke his degree of Batchelaur in Divinity,
his question was. An Papa sit Anti-Christus ? Aff. —
In his younger yeares he was veiy apt to fall into a swoune,
and so he did when he was disputing in the Divinity-
schoole upon that question. — I remember he told me that
one time reading Aristotle de Natura Animalium, where
he describes how that the lionesses, when great with
young, and neer their time of parturition, doe goe between
two trees that growe neer together, and squeeze out
their young ones out of their bellies ; he had such
a strong idea of this, and of the paine that the lionesse was
in, that he fell into a swoune.
He was of a very tender constitution, and sickly most
of his younger yeares. His manner was, when he was
beginning to be sick, to breath strongly a good while
together, which he sayed did emitt the noxious vapours.
He was alwayes much contemplative, and had an
♦ MS. Anbr. 6, fol. 6o^ . "i.e. MS. Aubr. 7 ; 8ce p. 161.
M 2
excellent philosophical! head. He was no great read man ;
he had a competent knowledge in the Latin, Greeke, and
Hebrue tongues, but not a critique. Greeke he learn 'd by
. . . ■ Montanus's Interlineary Testament', after he was
a man, without a grammar, and then he read Homer. He
understood only common Arithmetique, and never went
farther in Geometrie then the first six bookes of Euclid;
but he had such an inventive head, that with this foundation
he was able to doe great matters in the mechaniques, and
to solve phaenomcna in naturall philosophy. He had but
few bookes, which when he dyed were sold for fifty-six
shillings, and surely no great bargaine. He published''
nothing but his Interpretation of the number 666, in 4to,
printed at Oxford, 1642, which haz been twice translated
into Latin, into French, and other languages'. He made
the fine diall with its furniture, on the north wall of the
quadrangle at Trinity CoUedgc, which he did by Samminiti-
atus's booke of Dialling (it haz been gonne about 1670, and
another is there putt). He lived and dyed* a batchelour.
He was hospitable, vertuous, and temperate; and, as
I sayd before, very contemplative. He lookt the most
like a monk, or one of the pastours of the old lime, that
I ever sawe one. He was pretty long visagd and pale
cicare skin, gray eie. His discourse was admirable, and
all new and unvulgar. His house was as undeckt" as
a monke's cell ; yet he had there so many ingeniose
inventions that it was very delightfull. He had a pretty
contrived garden there, where are the finest box hedges
of his planting that ever I sawe.
^ ^ ?. The garden is a good large square ;
*»' X^' '^' ''^ middle is a good high
f.'-l..j„.„*S.__-^ mount, all fortified (as you may
^^'^M^^K ^'^y) ^^^ adorned with these
. - t .*j •„ . i)g(]ggg^ which at the interstices
of foot have a high pillar (square cutt) of box,
■ Snbst. for ' Bilile." •■ Subst. for ' printed.'
• Explicit MS. Anbr. 6, fol. 6o»; incipit fol. 63.
• Dnpl. with ' nnf(nnii»hed).'
Francis Potter 165
that shewes very stately and lovely both summer and
winter.
On the buttery-dore in his parlour he drew his father's
picture at length, with his booke (fore-shortned), and on
the spectacles in his hand is the reflection of the Gothique
south windowe. I mention this picture the rather, because
in processe of time it may be mistaken by tradition for his
son Francis's picture, author of the booke aforesayd.
I never have enjoyed so much pleasure, nor ever so
much pleased with such philosophicall and heartie enter-
tainment as from him. His booke was in the presse at
Oxford, and he there, when I was admitted of the College,
but I had not the honour and happinesse to be acquainted
with him till 1649 (Epiphanie), since which time I had
a conjunct friendship with him to his deaths and corre-
sponded frequently with him. I have ail his letters by me,
which are very good, and I beleeve neer 200, and most
of them philosophicall.
I have many excellent good notes from him as to
mechaniques, etc., and I never was with him but I learn't,
and alwayes tooke notes ; but now indeed the Royall
Societie haz out-donne most of his things, as having a
better apparatus, and more spare money. I have a curious
designe of his to drawe a landskip or perspective (1656),
but Sir Christopher Wren hath fallen on the same principle,
and the engine is better work't. He was smyth and
joyner enough to serve his turne, but he did not pretend
to curiosity in each. He gave me a quadrant in copper,
and made me another in silver, of his owne projection,
which serves for all latitudes He shewed me, 1649, the
best way of making an arch was a parabola with a chaine ;
so he tooke of his girdle from his cassock, and applyed it
to the wall, thus :
y
,.''
I
i66 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
He invented and made with his owne handes a paire
of beamc ' compasses, which will divide an inch into
a hundred or a thousand parts. At one end of the beame'
is a roundle, which is divided into loo equall parts, with
a sagitta to tiime about it with a handle : this handle
turnes a skrew of a very fine thread, and on the back of the
saiJe or beame is a graduation. With these compasses he
made the quadrants aforcsayd. He gave me a patre of
these compasses, which I shewed to the * Royall Societie
at their first institution, which they well liked, and
I presented them as a rarity to my honoured friend, Edmund
Wyld, esqre. There are but '■ two of them in the world.
(tj* Memorandum that at the Epiphanic, 1649, when
I was at his house, he then told me his notion of curing
diseases, etc. by transfusion of bioud f out of
— My-M™Ji>t> one man into another, and that the hint came
tb»t Libairius jnto his bcad reflecting on Ovid's story of Medea
umniftition and Jason, and that this was a matter of ten
of bJiHid, which ^ '
Mr*" PMur ycares before that time. About a yeare after,
w«fif"*^'" '"^ ^"*^ ^ went to trye the experiment, but
'twas on a hen, and the creature to little and
our tooles not good : I then sent him a surgeon's lancet.
Anno .... I recieved a letter from him concerning this
subject, which many yeares since I shewed, and was read
and entred in the bookes of the Royall Societie, for
Dr. Lower would have arrogated the invention to him-
selfe, and now one [R." Griffith,] Dr. of Physique, of
Richmond, is publishing a booke of the transfusion of
bloud, and desires to insert Mr. Potter's letter: which I
here annex in perpetuam rei memoriam,
** 'Worthy Sir,
' I am sorrie tliat I can as yet give you no better
account of that experiment of which you desire to heare.
* ' beamc ' wrilten over ' soiU ' bs ■ Aatbony Wood suppUei the name.
" MS, Aubr. 6, fol. 61. The
letter is Pottei's anlograph. On this
page U written by wiothei huid (not
Francis Potter 167
I am as yet frustrated in ipso limine (but it is by my owne
unexpertnes, who never attempted any such thmg upon
any creature before) ; for I cannot, although I have tried
divers times, strike the veine so as to make him bleed in
any considerable quantity.
' I have prepared a little cleare transparent vessel (like
unto a bladder), made of the • craw of a pullet ; and I have
fastened an ivory pipe to one of the neckes of it, and
I have put it into a veine which is most conspicuous about
m
the lowest joint of the hinder legges ; and yet I cannot
procure above 2 or 3 drops of blood to come into the pipe
or the bladder.
* I would have sent this bladder ^
and pipe in my letter unto you but
that I feare it might be an occasion
that my letter might not come into
your hands. — This is the rude figure
of it which I do here set down
because I thinke it the most con-
venient for this purpose : —
'^=the necke of the craw which goeth to the mouth.
*^=the other necke which goeth from the craw to the
gissar. Another pipe may be tied to this end
and put into the veine of another living creature
at the same time.
*^/=a little crooked ivory pipe, fastened (as a clister pipe
is) to a bladder.
V=the capacity of the craw or bladder.'
'Sir,
* I received that oyle in a little glasse which you had
from Mr. Decreet and a receipt in another letter, and
I desire you not to impute it to my unthankefulnes that
I did not thanke you for it in my last letter. I have most
Potter's) — <Hanc desigoationem Dr. quaere. Consult Dr. Glisson':
Harveus frivolam et impossibilem h. propos of what T
omnino esse asseruit : sed tamen * Subst for ' an hen*s craw.*
i68 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
times such sorrow and discontents in my breast which
make me forget my seife and my best friends and such
things as I most delight in.
■ If I should have occasion to write anything unto you in
characters you may be pleased to remember this key, that
the three first letters and every other three letters doe
qiiiescere and that a comma is placed at the end of every
word. As for example this writing i —
' Sed ca^ssat ar, otracci elusus, subest : —
< that is,
' csesar occisus est.
'You need but cancell or make a line under every other
three letters, and then you may easily and speedily read
it, as this example : —
' Sed c!£ssat ar, oiraca cJusns, surest.
' Sed Cccssat ar, otfacei elusus, stibest.
'Sir,
' I humbly present my service and best wishes unto
you and shall still be
' Yours, in all true affection, to be commanded
Ffrancis Potter.
' Kilmanton,
Decemb. 7°, 1653,' ^
(The address (on fol. 6a') is :~-
' To ihe right worshipfull, his
' much honoured friend, Mr. John
' Aubrey, at the signe of the
' Kainebowe, a stationer's shop
' In Fleelstreet by Temple
' 8*'^! E'^'e these.
' Post- pay d.
The letter has been sealed with numerous seals : e. g. (1) a rose ;
(3) ' on a cross, 5 pheons ; impaling, z lions rampant combattant ' ;
(5) Aesculapius, with his staif, a vase in front of him ; {4) a. male
head, in profile, with long hair and moustaches ; (5) an antique head,
with basket-work cap having a circle of spikes round it.)
* Anno Domini 166- he was chosen fellowe of the
* HS. Aabr. 6, foL 6y.
Francis Potter 169
Royall Societie, and was there admitted and recieved with
much respect.
As he was never a strong man, so in his later times he
had his health best, only about four or five yeares before
his death his eie-sight was bad, and before he dyed quite
lost. He dyed . . . and is buryed in . . . of the
chancell at Kilmanton.
Memorandum : he played at chesse as well as most men.
Col. Bishop, his contemporary at Trinity Coll., is accounted
the best of England. I have heard Mr. Potter say that
they two have played at Trin. Coll. (I thinke a daies
together) and neither gott the maistery. Memorandum:
he would say that he look't upon the play at chesse {as)
very fitt to be learn't and practised by young men, because
it would make them to have a foresight and be of use to
them (by consequence) in their ordering of humane affaires.
Quod N.B.
He haz told me that he had oftentimes dream*t that he
was at Rome, and being in fright that he should be seised
t Pope ^^ ^^^ brought before the pope, did wake with
kXrd±^ thefeare.t
Lfn^iiSl wrote) 'Twas pitty that such a delicate inventive
biS^'of Linl"* witt should be staked to a private preferment
h?m.\nd^aJe i^ an obscure corner (where he wanted ingeniose
blo^SS\he conversation), from whence men rarely emerge
itaffcT^idc* to higher preferment, but contract a mosse
Piaunam. ^^ them like an old pale in an orchard for
want of ingeniose conversation, which is a great want even
to the deepest thinking men (as Mr. Hobbes haz often sayd
to me).
The last time I sawe this honoured friend of mine,
Octob. 1674. I had not seen him in 3 yeares before, and
his lippitude then was come even to blindnesse, which did
much grieve me to behold. He had let his beard be
uncutt, which was wont to be but little. I asked him why
he did not get some kinswoman • or kinsman of his to live
* Diipl. with ^ coAsin.*
year ' I know not
170 Aiibrey's ^ Brief Lives'
with him, and lookc to him now in his great age? He
answer'd mc that he had trycd that way, and found it not
so well ; Tor they did begrudge what he spent that 'twas
too much and went from them, whereas his servants
(strangers) were kind to him and tooke care of him.
In the troublesome times 'twas his happincsse never to
bee scquestred. He was once maliciously informed against
to the Committee at Wells {a thing very common in those
times). When he came before them, one of them (I have
foi^ot his name) gave him a pint of wine, and gave him
great prayae, and bade him goe home, and feare nothing.
(., * Kilmington, November S"", 1671.
I recieved your letter but yesterday. I was borne
upon Trinitie Sunday eave ; baptized May the aa, 1594,
but what day of the moneth Trinity Sunday was tiiat
1671
^594
0077
I heare that bis^hop) Ironsid is lately dead, but where
hee was borne or when he was buried I know not.
I will see those bookes yoii mention if I can get them.
I have writte no booke called The Key of Knowledg,
but there is a booke called The Key of the Scripture written
by a London divine, who is something large upon the
Revelation, and preferreth my interpretation of 666 before
all others.
I shalbe very glad to see you here at Kilmington ; and
' Your humble servant
Francis Potter.
Nott.
* Anbiey, id MS. Wood F. 39, fol. ig9,wiidngoD Apiil 7, 1673, uyc: *Mr.
Francis Potter s " 666 " was translated into Latin by an Almalgne or a Swisse,
whose name I have fo^ott, and printed, as I remember, at Basil. Dr. Johil
Pell lold me it ii in French, and oae of the Dutch laagnagei (bat which
1 have forgott).'
* MS. Aabi. 13, fol. IiS. binh mutt be. Sat. Mft; 18, WhU-
' It was Maj 96; 10 the date of mmlaji eie.
Hannibal Potter. Vavasor Powell 171
Hannibal Potter (1592-1664).
* At Oxford (and I doe believe the like at Cambridge)
the rod was frequently used by the tutors and deanes on
his pupills, till bachelaurs of Arts ; even gentlemen-
commoners. One Dr. I knew (Dr. Hannibal Potter, Trin.
Coll. Oxon) right well that whipt his scholar with his
sword by his side when he came to take his leave of him
to goe to the Innes of Court.
Vavasor Powell (1 618-1670).
** Life and death of Vavasour Powell, 1671, p. 106: —
Mr. Vavasour Powell * was borne of honest and honourable
parentage. His father, Mr. Richard Powell, of a very
ancient family in Wales, living in the burough of Knocklas
in Radnorshire, where his ancestors had lived some 100
yeares before; his mother of the Vavasors, a family of
great antiquity, that came out of Yorkshire into Wales :
and so by both allyed to most of the best families in North
Wales. He was brought up a scholar, and taken by his
uncle Mr. Erasmus Powell to be curate at Clun, where he
also kept a schoole.'
Concerning his severall imprisonments, vide pag. ia6, etc.
Mrs. Bagshawe haz heard him say that he was at Jesus
College, Oxon ; and Mr, Oliver, a minister, did remember
it. Vavasor Powell told Mris Bagshaw of a sermon that
he preached when he was of Jesus College.
Vide his Z//i?* concerning his imprisonments etc. — * Sir
J. A.' there is Sir John Aubrey ; and * Dr. B.' is Dr. Basset,
LL.D. ; * C is Caerdif in Glamorganshire.
*** Vavasour Powell — Mr. Edward Bagshawe, his friend
and fellow-prisoner, edidit ** scil. : —
* Israel's Salvation, or a collection of the prophecies
which concern the calling of the Jewes and the glory that
* MS. Aubr. 3, foL iS\ ^ i.e. completed and published V.
♦* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 1 1. Powell's * collection of prophecies,'
* See the reference, supra, at the end of the Concordance.
♦♦* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 91'.
shali be in the later dayes,' by E. B. : London, printed for
Francis Smith of the Elephant and Castle without Temple
barre, 1671.
He wrote a very good concordance, printed ( 167 1 ).
Sir Hobert Poyntz (1589-1665).
• Sir Robert Pointz of Iron-acton in com, Gloc, knight
of the Bath, is the same family with Clifford (as may be
seen by the pedegree), Clifford being called de Potts till he
was lord of Clifford Castle in com. Hereff, adjoynii^ to
Breconshire.
In Henry III they maried with -a daughter and heire
of Acton, by whom they had the niannor aforesayd and
perhaps other lands.
<Sir Robert was of) Line. Coll,'' Vide the rest in
torn, '' iii,
** When I was sick of the smallpox at Trinity College "=,
Mr. Saul, who was an old seiTant of his, told me I thinke
that he was of Lincoln (or, perhaps, that he by there in
the warrea).
*** Sir Robert Poynts, knight of the Bath; his seate
was Iron Acton, in com. Gloc, which came to that family
by match of daughter and heire, tempore Hen. III.
Mr. Player, Mr. Anthony Ettrick's son-in-Iawe, who
bought this estate, June, 1684, haz all the old evidences,
and can farther enforme me.
But this family and Clifford are the very same, as may
be seen by the pedegre of Cliflbrd, who was de Pons till
he gott Clifford-castle, in com. Hereff. juxta com. Brecon.
This family have had a great estate, and were men of
note at Court.
Sir Robert, son of Sir John, Poyntz of whom I now write,
and with whom I had some small acquaintance, was a loyall,
• MS. Anbr. 7, fol. 5', " Anbrey ia MS. Wood F. 39,
• Of B.N.C,, where be malricu- fol. 398: Aug. 4, 1687.
lated in ifiof. ' In 164J.
' i. «. MS. Aobr. 8, mI infra. •" MS. Anbr. 8, foL 96'.
IVtlltam Prynne 173
sober, and a learned person. His study, law ; chiefly towards
the Civill Lawe. Since ^ the king's restauration he published
in print, a pamphlet, about the bignesse of a good play-
booke, entitled, The Right of Kings (ox to that purpose^;
but to my best remembrance, that is the very title).
As I remember he told me when I was of Trin. Coll. Oxon,
1643, that he was of Lincoln college. He maried first,
Gresill, one of the daughters and co-heires of . . . Gibbons,
of . . . Kent, by whom he had only two daughters.
After her decease he had a naturall sonne by Cicely
Smyth, who had been his lady's chamber-mayd, whose
name was John, as I remember, who maried . . . daughter
of . . . Cesar, in com. Hertf. He dyed without issue about
4 or 5 years since (1684), or lesse. So there is an end of
this ancient family.
Memorandum : — Newark (now the seate of Sir Gabriel
Lowe) was built by Sir Robert's grandfather to keep his
whores in. Sir Robert dyed at . . . anno Domini 16—
and buryed ....
William Prynne (1600-1669).
* Memorandum Sir John B(irkenhead) and Mr. Prinne
were allwayes antagonists in the Parliament howse.
William Prinne^, esq., was borne (as his nephew George
Clarke assures me®: quaere plus de hoc) at Aust in
Glocestershire, where his father had an estate. I find by
the Heralds' bookes that he is descended of an ancient
family (vide Bibliothecam Sheldonianam ^ no. 115). His
father, and also he, lived at . . . wyck ^, a pleasant seate
in Somerset, about 3 miles from Bathe, where his grand-
father, . . . Sherston, his mother s father, lived, and had
been mayer, and a very wise magistrate ; here * he learn 't
his grammar-learning. He was of Oriall College in Oxon^
where, I thinke, he tooke the degree of M.A. From hence,
• Subst for 'about the time of.' « Subst. for ' thinkes/
*> 'A vindication of the mon- * Changed by Anthony Wood to
archy . . .' Lend. 1661. *Swanswyck.*
* MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 85'. • At Bath.
1 74 ^ ttbrer/s 'Brief Lives '
anno. . . was admitted of Lincoln' s-Inne. He was alivayes
temperate and a very hard student, and he had a prodigious
mem one.
Anno (1637) he was stigmatiz'd t in the pMlorie, and
I HiaearesKHE ^heo banished to Cornet-castle in (Giiern)sey'.
os oniy'^" where he was very civilly treated by the gover-
JSm^S^'"'* "o"*" • ■ ■ Carteret, a very ancient familie in that
wiHi^m Sdf island. Anno 164(0) he was, with Burton and
m^m^h**' Bastwyck, called home by the Parliament,
£^'t'^" and hundreds mctt him and them, out of
K^uwiiSl^i London, some miles.
VI o^arae. p^^ ^^^ ^ leamed man, of immense reading,
but is much blamed for his unfaithfull quotations.
His manner of studie was thus : he wore a long quilt
cap, which came, 2 or 3, at least, inches, over his cies, which
served him as an umbrella to defend his eies from the
light. About every 3 houres his man was to bring him
a roll and a pott of ale J to refocillate his
poTwOTBt.'.. wasted spirits. So he studied and dranke, and
bfiieri hckcpi munched some bread: and this maintained
Rbeniih w^ne In him till night ; and then he made a good
mhcnhbJpMu suppcT. Now he did well not to dine, which
■ gnod rammer brcakcs of one's fancy, which will not presently
be regained : and 'tis with invention as a flux
— when once it is flowing, it runnes amaine ; if it is
checked, flowes but ^//)>K.* and the like for perspiration
— check it, and 'tis spoyled.
Thou that with ale, or viler liquors,
iwaioncof Didst inspire Wythers, Prinne, and Vicars S,
flndirycra. And tcach, though it were in despight
Of nature and the starres, to write,
&c.
Hudibras: part ist.
He was burghcsse of the citie of Bath, before and since
the king's restauration. He was also Keeper of the
Records in the Tower of London.
• Rtciius Mount Oi^euil in Jeriey. * See p. S4>
Robert Pugh 175
East end.
Pillars.
D
Crave.
He endured severall imprisonments for the king's cause,
and was (really) very instrumentall in his restauracion.
. • . , upon the opening of the Parliament, viz. letting in
the secluded members, he girt on his old long rustic sword
(longer then ordinary). Sir William Waller marching
behind him (as he went to the Howse), W. Prynne's long
sword ranne between Sir William's short l^ges, and threw
him downe, which caused laughter.
He was of a strange Saturnine complexion. Sir C. W. •
sayd once, that he had the countenance of a witch.
He dyed at his chamber in Lin-
colne's-Inn, anno . . . and is interred
at . . . Quaere Ant. Wood {pro)
catalogo librorum.
* William Prynne, esq., was buryed
under Lincolne's Inne chapell, ut
apparet ex inscriptione et inscripta
tabula in capella suspensa, viz.
'Gulielmus Prynne, armiger, de Banco hujus hospitii,
obiit 24^ die Octobris, anno Domini 1669, aetatis 69.'
Notes,
* Aubrey gives in trick the coat: *or, a fess engrailed aznre, between
3 escallop shells gules.'
' i.e. no. 115 of the MSS. in the library of Ralph Sheldon of Beoly:
afterwards bequeathed by Sheldon to the Heralds' College : Clark's Wood's
Life and Tinus, iii. 98, 115.
' Matric. April 24, 1618; B.A. Jan. 22, 162}.
Bobert Pugh (1609-1679).
** Captain Pugh, my acquaintance, a writer and a poet.
Bred up in Societate Jesu ; but turn'd out because he was
a captaine, viz. in the late warres.
He hath a Latin poem, printed, which will.be augmented ;
* ? Christopher Wren. 14, fol. 96, a letter to Wood of date
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7. Oct. 28, 1673, Aubrey says : * I mett
** MS. Ballard 14, fol. 103 : a letter on Sunday was sennight at Mr. Ash-
from Aubrey to Anthony Wood, of moll's one Captain Pugh, a rubro-
date July 2, 1674. In MS. Ballard literate gent'
176 Aubreys 'Brief Lives'
and printed a bookc against Dr, ^George) Bates' Elettchus
moUium nupcrorum.
He was borne of a good family in . . . North Wales
{I tliinkc, Caernarvonshire).
* The native place of captain R. Pugh is spelt thus —
Penrhyn. — When you saw him at Bathe, he uTOt this
discourse in 8vo, viz.
Bathoncnsium et Aquisgranensium therniarum com-
paratio, variis adjunctis illustrata : R. P. : epistola ad illus-
trissinmm virum, Rogeriim. Castlemaini comitctn: Londini :
Jo. Martyn, at the Bell in St. Paul's church-yard, 1676.
He was educated at St, Omar's.
When his studie was searcht, hia orders were there found,
and also a lettre from the Queen-mother, whose confessor
he had sometimes been, to the king, that, if he should fail
into any danger of the lawe, upon sight of that lettre he
should obtaine his majesties pardon.
** My honoured friend, captain Robert Pugh, dyed in
Newgate, on January aa 0^7S). Wednesday night, la
a clock ; and lyes buryed in Christ Church churchyard on
the north side, a yard or two from the wall, neer about the
middle of the length. He writt a booke, which is almost
finished, ' Of the severall states and goverments that have
been here since the troubles,' in the earl of Castlemaine's
hands.
All his bookes were seised on ; amongst others his
almanac, wherin he entred omnia Carol! II deliramenta ■,
which was carryed to the councell boord : but, as I have
sayd, the earl of Castlemain hath gott the former-mentioned
treatise.
Francis Quarles (1593-1644).
*** Francis Quarles, lived at Bath at the Katherine-
wheele inne (opposite to the market-house), and wrote
there, a yeare or two.
• Aabrer in MS. Wood F. 39, •• Ibid., fol. 316 : April 9, 1679.
fol, 311 : April 11, 1679. * Dupl. with 'vilia.'
•*• MS. Aobr. 8, fol. 15*.
William Radford. Sir Walter Raleigh 177
WUliam Badford (1623-1673).
* William Radford, my good friend and old acquaintance
and fellow coll(egiate), ended his dayes at Richmond,
where he taught schoole, 14 dayes since, I was with him
when he first tooke his bed.
And when I was sick of the small-pox at Trinity College
Oxon, he was so kind as to come to me every day and
spend severall houres, or I thinke melancholy would have
spoyled a scurvey antiquary. He was recounting not many
dayes before he dyed your brother Ned's voyage* and
Mr. (Thomas) Mariett's to London on foote.
** Mris Anne Radford, the widowe of Mr. William
Radford, schoolmaster of Richmond, is now (1673) 33
yeares old. Was borne the 4th of June at 4** P.M. She
haz a solar face (yet the sun (in her horoscope) could not
be in ascendente\ and thrives well, and has a good sound
judgment.
Note,
William Radford (of North Weston, Oxon, aged 17) was elected Scholar
of Trinity June 4, 1640, and afterwards Fellow; took M.A. July 4, 1646;
and was ejected from his fellowship by the Parliamentary Visitors in June,
1648.
Sir Walter Baleigh (1552-1618).
*** Sir Walter Ralegh, knight: — vide Howe's continua-
tion of Stowe's Chronicle. — Vide Gerard Winstanley's
Worthies of England, where he hath 5 or 6 leaves con-
cerning Sir Walter Ralegh.
(^Coat^ of arms. y
**** Gules, four fusils conjoined in bend argent.
♦ MS. Ballard 14, fol. 96; a letter *♦ MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 46^.
from Aubrey to Anthony Wood, of **♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 75.
date Oct. a8, 1673. ^ Given by Aubrey in colours.
• Sec i. p. 380, suprcL ♦♦»♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 74^.
II. N
Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
(Z'frf.ifrff.)
. . . Ralech m. (md y
Adrian Gilbert. chyn^M.
Sir Came i
Ralegh.
jUuiUlus;
Wilis.
■■jSjS'
. . . Throcl.- m. Sir Waller Ralejl.. «. (™d>
mortoa 4tDtGliu*.
Walter R., kil>d Carw R., ■•. . . .
inAnKrieB.Bm of... in I
prole; vide His- Samy.
ESS'-W i '
W— . ..R.m. Sir John
1 E,o„.
Wrmghloa.
Cilptaln George Walto- Ruleeh. D.D^ dnuie
rfalrgh, •i»r of Well. ar.d^r«tor of Ched-
-^I
a,
...E™ley,ofl
Waller, 3. Ttioma., «>K "d iJ-aplsine to Ki=<
e prole. -ire prulr, J^^^"!^' '« ■■ vde prt..,man.
(//^w marriages and issue,}
* He had two wives. His first was (Elizabeth) Throck-
morton ; second, mother of Carew Ralegh,
second '' son.
** Sir John Elwowys maried the daughter and heir of
Sir Walter Ralegh, who was the sonn of Carew Ralegh
of ... in Surrey, who was the second son of Sir Walter
Ralegh, the hero. Quaere Sir John EJlowys pro his skull'
pro Oxon or Royal Societie.
*** (I'' cannot yet heare where Sir Edward Shirbume
is.) About the beginning of April I shall satisfy you about
Carew Ralegh's daughter — I doe verily believe 'twas his
only child.
• i.e. fol. r.iofMS. Aubr, 6.
• MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 75.
• For Ihe eldest son, see in/ra, p.
'94-
" MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7. On the
Mmc page ti another draft of this
note :— ■ Quaere his sknll of Sir John
EllowTi, who msried hie sonne Carew
Ralegh's daughter and hnte.'
• See JH^-a, p. 189.
"• MS. Anbr. 7. fol. 9'.
' A Dote intended for AothoD^
Wow), in answer to two of hb
qaeriet : see Clark'i Wood'* Z^ afd
Times, iil 105.
Sir Walter Raleigh 179
(^His brother's family. y
* Sir Carew Ralegh, of Downton in com. Wilts, was his
t They eldest t brother, who was gentleman of the
(Walter and /^. t t r«, /. ▼ ,
Tom, his grand- horse to Sir John Thynne of Longleate, and
that Sir Carew after his death maryed his lady; by whom he
elder knijrki, had children as in the pedigre.
I have heard my grandfather say that Sir Carew had
X TisaBbigaa ^ delicatc cleare voice, and played singularly
beUy^^^h "" well on the olpharion % (which was the instru-
wirc strings. ment in fashion in those dayes), to which
he did sing.
His grand-children, Walter and Tom (with whom
** I went to schoole at Blandford in Dorset 4 yeares) had
also excellent tuneable voices, and playd their parts well
on the violl ; ingeniose, but all proud and quarrelsome.
{At Oxford.)
Sir Walter Ralegh was of . . . in Oxford : vide de hoc
Anthony Wood's Antiquities.
{A ^poor ' scholar.)
*** In his youth for severall yeares — quaere Anthony
Wood how long* — ^he was under streights for want of
money. I remember that Mr. Thomas Child of Worcester-
shire told me that Sir Walter borrowed a gowne of him
when he was at Oxford (they were both of the same
College), which he never restored, nor money for it.
**** Sir Walter Ralegh was of Oriel College. Mr.
Child's father of Worcestershire was his chamber-fellow,
and lent him a gowne, which he could never gett, nor
satisfaction for it. — from Mr. Child.
*■ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 75. Oxford, and so in straits.
♦♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 75'. ♦*♦♦ MS. Wood F. 39, foL 135,
♦** MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 77. a letter from Aubrey to Wood, of
* i.e. he was an undergraduate at date Aug. 9, 1671.
N %
(^Raleigh in Elizabeth's reign.^
* He went into Ireland, where he served in the warres,
I Qmete+Mr. ^""^ shewcd iiiuch coufagE and conduct, but
'"■"'" ^"- the would be perpetually differing with ... (I
thinke, Gray) then Lord Deputy; so that at last the
hearing was to be at (the) councell table before the
queen, which was that he desired ; where he told his tale
so well and with so good a grace and presence that the
queen tooke especial! notice of him and presently preferred
him. {So that it must be before this that he served in
the French warres.)
** Queen Elizabeth loved to have all the servants of
her Court proper men, and (as beforesaid Sir W. R.'s
gracefull presence was no meane recommendation to him).
I thinke his first preferment at Court was Captaine of her
Majesties guard. There came a countrey gentleman (or
sufficient yeoman) up to towne, who had severall sonns,
but one an extraordinary proper handsome fellowe, whom
he did hope to have preferred to be a yeoman of the
guard. The father {a goodly man himsclfe) comes to Sir
Walter Raleigh a stranger to him, and told him that he
had brought up a boy that he would desire (having many
children) should be one of her majestie's *** guard.
Quod Sir Walter Raleigh ' Had you spake for your selfe
I should readily have graunted your desire, for your person
deserves it, but I putt in no boyes.' Said the father, ' Boy,
come in.' The son' enters, about i8 or 19, but auch
a goodly proper young fellow, as Sir Walter Raleigh had
not seen the like — he was the tallest of all the guard. Sir
Walter Raleigh sweares him immediately ; and ordered
: ukesur. him to carry-up the first dish at dinner, where
htid'snci' ' the Queen beheld him with admiration {, as
oiher inn. ™ if a beautlfull young giant had stalked in
with the service ''.
••• MS. Aobr. 6, fol. 77.
* SubM. Sot ' boj.'
* Subst. for ' diih.'
Str Walter Raleigh i8i
* Vide lord Bacon's apothegms and letters. As the
queen (Elizabeth) was playing on the virginalls, . . . made
this observation, that *when Jack's went up, keys went
downe/ reflecting on Ralegh.
{ Tobacco.^
** He was the first that brought tobacco into England^
and into fashion.— In our part of North Wilts, e.g.
Malmesbury hundred, it came first into fashion by Sir
Walter Long.
I have heard my grandfather Lyte say that one pipe
was handed from man to man round about the table.
They had first silver pipes; the ordinary sort made use
of a walnutshell and a straw.
It was sold then for it's wayte in silver.
+ Josias Tayler.
I have heard some f of our old yeomen neigh-
bours say that when they went to Malmesbury or Chippen-
ham market, they culled out their biggest shillings to lay
in the scales against the tobacco.
Sir W. R., standing in a stand at Sir Robert Poyntz'
parke at Acton, tooke a pipe of tobacco, which made the
ladies quitt it till he had donne.
Within these 35 years 'twas scandalous for a divine to
take tobacco.
Now, the customes of it are the greatest his majestie
hath—
Rider's Almanac (1682, scilicet) — * Since tobacco brought
into England by Sir Walter Raleigh, 99 yeares, the custome
whereof is now the greatest of all others and amounts to
yearly . . .*
*** Mr. Michael Weekes of the Royall Societie assures
me, out of the custome-house bookes, that the custome of
tobacco over all England is 400,000 //. per annum.
**** Mr. Weekes, register * of the Royal Society and an
officer of the custome-house, does assure me that the
* MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 77'. *♦*♦ MS. Anbr.7,fol.8; notesdated
** MS. Anbr. 6, fol. 75'. * London, March 12, i68f.'
*** MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 77'. • Snbst. for 'clerk.'
Aubrey's ^ Brief Lives'
I
customes of tobacco over all England is four hi
thousand pounds per annum.
(^Personal characteristics.^
• He was a tall, handsome, and bold man: but his
naeve was that he was damnable proud. Old Sir Robert
Harley of Brampton-Brian Castle, who knew him, would
say 'twas a great question who was the proudest. Sir
Walter, or Sir Thomas Overbury, but the difference that
was, was judged on Sir Thomas' side.
** His beard turnd up naturally. — I have heard my
grandmother say that when she was young, they were wont
to talke of this rebus, viz.,
The enemie to the stomack', and the word of di^^ace^
Is the name " of the gentleman with a bold face.
*** Old Sir Thomas Malett, one of the justices of the
King's Bench tempore Caroli I ct H, knew Sir Walter; and
I have heard him say that, notwithstanding his so great
mastership in style and his conversation with the learnedst
and politest persons, yet he spake broad Devonshire to his
dyeing day. His voice was small, as likewise were my
schoolfellowcs', his grandnephewes ''.
**** Sir Walter Ralegh was a great chymist ; and amongst
some MSS. reciepts, I have seen some secrets from him.
He studyed most in his sea-voyages, where he carried
always a trunke of bookes along with him, and had nothing
to divert him.
***** Memorandum : — he made an excellent cordiall,
good in feavers, etc. ; Mr. Robert Boyle haz the recipe, and
makes it and does great cures by it.
****** A person so much immerst in action all along and
in fabrication of his owae fortunes, (till his confinement in
• MS. Aabr. 6, fol. 75. the nune.
•* MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 75'- *•♦ MS. Aubr. 6, foL JJ\
• Raw. ' Supra, p. 1 79.
*> Lie (in ibetheo oidinarjipclling, **•• MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 75'.
*lye'). •"•• MS. Anbr.ti, fol. 75,
• Rawlj^, a common ipelliii£ of ••*••• MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 76.
Sir Walter Raleigh 183
the Tower) could have but little time to study, but what he
could spare in the morning. He was no slug; without
doubt, had a wonderful! waking spirit, and great judgment
to guide it.
{His residences.^
Durham-house was a noble palace ; after he came to his
greatnes he lived there, or in some apartment of it. I well
remember his study, which was a little turret that looked
into and over the Thames, and had the prospect which is
pleasant perhaps as any in the world, and which not only
refreshes the eie-sight but cheeres the spirits, and (to speake
my mind) I beleeve enlarges an ingeniose man's thoughts.
Shirburne castle, parke, mannor, etc., did belong (and
still ought to belong) to the church of Sarum. 'Twas
aliened in . . . time (quaere bishop of Sarum) to . . . ;
then . . . ; then Sir W. R. begged (it) as a b6n from
queen Elizabeth : where he built a delicate lodge in the
park, of brick, not big, but very convenient for the bignes,
a place to retire from the Court in summer time, and to
contemplate, etc. Upon his attainder, 'twas begged by the
favorite Carr, earl of Somerset, who forfeited it (I thinke)
about the poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury. Then
John, earl of Bristowe, had it given him for his good
service in the ambassade in Spaine, and added two wings
to Sir Walter Ralegh's lodge. In short and indeed 'tis
a most sweet and pleasant place and site as any in the
West, perhaps none like it.
{His acquaintance.'}
In his youth his companions were boysterous blades, but
generally those that had witt ; except otherwise uppon
designe to gett them engaged for him, — e. g. Sir Charles
Snell, of Kington Saint Michael in North Wilts, my good
neighbour, an honest young gentleman but kept a perpetuall
sott, he engaged him to build a ship (the Angel Gabriel)
for the designe for Guiana, which cost him the mannor of
Yatton-Keynell, the farme at Easton-Piers, Thomhill, and
184 Aubrey's 'Brie/ Lives'
the church-lease of Bishops Cannings ; which ship, upon
Sir Walter Raleigh's attainder, was forfeited. No question
he had other such young . . .
From Dr. John Pell : — In his youthfull time, was one
Charles Chester, that often kept company with his
acquaintance ; he was a bold impcrtenent feJlowc, and they
could never be at quiet for him; a pcrpctuall talker, and
made a noyse like a drumme in a roome. So one time at
a tavcme Sir VV. R. beates him and scales up his mouth
(i.e. his upper and neather beard) with hard wax. From
him Ben Johnson takes his Carlo Buffono (i. e, 'jester ') in
Every Man out of his Humour.
* He was a second to the earle of Oxford ia a duel).
Was acquainted and accepted with all the hero's of our
nation in his time.
Sir Walter Long, of Dracot (grandfather to this old Sir
James Long) maricd a daughter of Sir John Thynne, by
which meanes, and their consimility of disposition, there
was a very conjunct friendship between the two brothers
(Sir Carew and Sir Walter) and him ; and old John Long,
who then wayted on Sir W. Long, being one time in the
Privy-Garden with his master, saw the earle of Notting-
ham wipe the dust from Sir Walter R.'s shoes with his
cloake, in compliment.
(^Portraits of him.)
In the great parlour at Downton, at Mr. Ralegh's, is
a good piece (an original!) of Sir W. in a white sattin
doublet, all embrodered with rich pearles, and a mighty
rich chaine of great pearles about his neck, and the old
servants have told me that the pearles were neer as big as
the painted ones.
He had a most remarkeable aspect, an exceeding* high
forehead, long-faced, and sour eie-lidded, a kind of pi^e-eie.
N.B. — At ... an obscure taverne, in Drury-Iane (a
baylifTs), is a good picture of this worthy, and also of
* MS. Anbr. 6, foL 75'. * Sabit. for 'it miehtj bi^'
Str Walter Raleigh 185
others of his time ; taken upon some execution (I suppose)
formerly.
(^Miscellaneous anecdotes.')
* I have heard old major Cosh say that Sir W. Raleigh
did not care to goe on the Thames in a wherry boate : he
would rather goe round about over London bridg.
** My old friend James Harringfton, esq. [Oceana] was
well acquainted with Sir Benjamin Ruddyer, who was an
acquaintance of Sir Walter Ralegh's. He told Mr. J. H.
that Sir Walter Ral^h being invited to dinner to some
great person where his son was to goe with him, he sayd
to his son * Thou art expected to-day at dinner to goe along
with me, but thou art such a quarrelsome % aflfronting . . . ^
that I am ashamed to have such a beare in my company.'
Mr. Walter humbled himselfe to his father, and promised
he would behave himselfe mighty mannerly. So away they
went (and Sir Benjamin, I think, with them). He sate
next to his father and was very demure at least halfe
dinner time. Then sayd he, ' I, this morning, not having
the feare of God before my eies but by the instigation of
the devill, went ° . . .' Sir Walter being strangely surprized
and putt out of his countenance at so great a table, gives
his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as
he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face
the gentleman that sate next to him and sayd * Box about :
'twill come to my father anon.' 'Tis now a common-usod
proverb.
*** He loved ^ . . . one of the mayds of honor f • • •
t Quaere She provcd with child and I doubt not but this
'ti^'kulfiret hero tooke care of them both, as also that
^^* the product was more then an ordinary
mortall •.
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7. •♦♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 77.
*♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 74^. * Eight lines of text are here «ip-
'^ Dupl. with 'engaging in quarrells.' pressed.
^ Aubrey has forgotten the exact * In MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1% Aubrey
word Ruddyer used. cites for approval : — ' '* Poets and
« Four lines of text are here sup- bravo*s have punkes to their mothers '*
pressed. — from D. Long.' * DoL Long (now
* 'Twas Sir Walter Ralegh's epigram on Robert Cecil,
carle of Salisbury, who died In a ditch 3 or 4 miles west
from Marlcborough, returning from Bathe to London, which
was printed in an Svo booke about 1656 {perhaps one of
Mr. Osborne's) : —
Here lies Robert, our shepherd whilerc,
Who once in a quarter our fleeces did sheer:
For his oblation to Pan his manner was thus,
He first gave a trifle, then offred up us.
In spight of the tarbox he dyed of the shabbo.
— This I had from old Sir Thomas Malett, one of the Judges
of the Kings Bench, who knew Sir Walter Ralegh, and did
remember these passages.
(^Raleigh in y antes /'s reign. ^
** I have now forgott (vide History) whether Sir Walter
was not for the putting of Mary, queen of Scotts, to death ;
I thinke, yea. But, besides that, at a consultation at
Whitehall, after queen Elizabeth's death, how matters"
were to be ordered and what ought to be donne, Sir
Walter Raleigh declared his opinion, 'twas the wisest way
for them to keep the government '' in their owne hands,
and sett up a commonwealth, and not be subject to a needy
beggerly nation. It secmes there were some of this caball
*** who kept not this so secret but that it came to king
James's eare ; who at . , . (vide Chronicle) where the
English noblesse mett and recieved him, being told upon
their presentment to his majesty their names, when Sir
Walter Raleigh's name was told {' Ralegh ') said the king
' On my soule, mon, I have heard rawly of thee.' — He
was such a person (every way) that (as King Charles .1
sayes of the lord Strafford) a prince would rather be afrayd
of then ashamed of. He had that awfulnes and ascendency
in his aspect over other mortalls, that the king . . .
Udy Heron)' bora July 3, 1643, is - *' MS. Aabr. 6, fol. 76.
mentLonedMS.ADbr.J3,foI.68. S«e • Subst. for ■ things.'
alio Dorolty, lady Long, supra, p. 36. " Dnpl. wilb ' staffe.'
• MS. Anbr. S, fol. 78'. ••* MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 76\
Str Walter Raleigh 187
It was a most stately sight, the glory of that reception
of his majesty, where the nobility and gentry were in
exceeding rich equippage, having enjoyed a long peace
under the most excellent of queens; and the company*
was so exceeding numerous that their obedience ** carried
a secret dread with it. King James did not inwardly like
it, and with an inward envy sayd that, though so and so
(as before), he doubted not but he should have been able on
his owne strength (should the English have kept him out)
been able to have dealt with them, and get his right.
t From Dr. t Sayd Sir Walter Raleigh to him, * Would to
Whistler. • Q^ J ^i^^^ h^ J ^^^^ p^^ ^^ ^he tryalL' * Why
doe you wish that ? ' sayd the king. — * Because,' said Sir
Walter, *that then you would have knowne your friends
from your foes.* But that reason of Sir Walter was never
forgotten nor forgiven.
* He W2is prae/ec/us { ..-*') of Jarsey (Caesaria).
** Old major 1 Stansby of . . ., Hants, a
t Quaere Sir R. ^ - ^. / r • j j • uu J
Henley, if not most mtimate friend and neighbour and
colonel.
coetanean of the late earle of Southampton
(Lord Treasurer), told me from his friend, the earle,
that as to the plott and businesse (vide Chronicle) about
the lord Cobham, etc., he being then governor of Jersey^,
would not fully, or etc., doe things unles* they would
goe to his island and there advise and resolve about it ; and
that really and indeed Sir Walter's purpose was when he
had them there, to have betrayed them and the plott, and
to have then delivered-up to the king and made his peace.
As for his noble design in Guiana, vide the printed
bookes. Vide a Latin voyage which John, lord Vaughan,
showed me, where is mention of captaine North (brother
to the lord North) who went with Sir Walter, where is
a large account of these matters. Mr. Edmund Wyld
* Dtipl. with ' traine.' Raleigh was Governor of Jersey, 1601 .
^ Dupl. with * duty ' or ' respect.* ♦♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 76^.
• MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 79. * Sabst. for ' of Gamesey (or
« Aubrey seems to have doubted Jersey, I have forgot).'
what was the official title : Sir Walte • Subst. for < till.*
knew him ' and sayes he was a learned and sober gentleman
and good mathematician, but if you happened to speake
of Guiana he would be strangely passionate and say 'twas
' the blessedst countrey under the sua,' etc., reflecting on
the spoyling that brave designe.
* Vide de ilto in Capt, North, pag. ''18 b.
** When he was attached by the officer about the
businesse which cost him his head, he was carryed in
a whery'', I thinke only with two men. King James was
wont to say that he was a coward to be so taken and
conveyed, for els he might easily have made his escape
from so slight a guard. ■
(//(J iniprisomnetit, death, and burial.) I
He was prisoner in the Tower . . . (quaere) yeares; '
quaere where his lodgeings were ?
He there (besides his compih'ng his History of the
World) studycd chymistry. The earle of Northumberland
was prisoner at the same time, who was the patrone to
Mr. . . . Harriot and Mr. Warner, two of the best mathe-
maticians then in the world, as also Mr. Hues ((who wrote)
de Globis). Serjeant Hoskins (the poet) was a prisoner
there too.
I heard my cosen Whitney say that he saw him in the
Tower. He had a velvet cap laced, and a rich gowne, and
trunke hose.
*** He was scandalizd with athelsme ; but he was a bold
man, and would venture at discourse which was unpleasant
to the church-men. I remember (the) first lord" Scuda-
mour sayd ' 'twas basely sayd of Sir W. R,, to talke
of the anagramme of Dog'. In his speech on the scaffold,
I heard my cosen Whitney say (and I thinke 'tis printed)
that he spake not one word of Christ, but of the great and
• i. e. Capt, Ri^r North. "• MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 77'.
• MS. Aubr. 8, foL 7. 1 Sub*!, for ■ mj lord,' John
• \. e. fol, 3]' of MS. Aubr. 8, at Scndamore^ created liicount Scada-
printed supra, p. 95. more in the peerage of Ireland 1G38,
'• MS. Aabr. 6, fol. 77. obuc 1671.
' Dopl. with ' boate,"
Str IValter Raleigh 189
incomprehensible God, with much zeale and adoration, so
that he concluded he was an a-christ, not an atheist.
t (recorded Hc tooke t 21 pipe of tobacco a little before
by>J. Stowc, I , , /v- , , , . ,
thinke. he wcnt to the scaffold, which some formal!
persons were scandalized at, but I thinke 'twas well and
properly donne, to settle his spirits.
I remember I heard old father . . . Symonds {h Societate
Jesu) say, that . . ., a father, was at his execution*, and that
to his knowledge he dyed with a lye in his mouth : I have
now forgott what 'twas. The time of his execution was
contrived to be on my Lord Mayer s day (viz. the day after
St. Simon and Jude) 1618, that the pageants and fine
shewes might drawe away ^ the people from beholding the
tragoedie of one of the gallants worthies that ever England
bred. Buryed privately under the high alter at St.
Margaret's church, in Westminster, on . . . (vide Register) ;
in which grave (or neer) lies James Harrington, esq., author
of Oceana.
Mr. Elias Ashmole told me that his son Carew Ralegh
told him he had his father's skull ; that some yeares since,
upon digging-up the grave, his skull and neck-bone being
viewed, they found the bone ® of his neck lapped over so, that
he could not have been hanged. Quaere Sir John Elowys for
the skull, who married Mr. Carew Ralegh's daughter and
heire.
** Sir W. Raleigh — Baker's Chronicle, p. 441 — *A scaffold
was erected in the Old Palace Yard, upon which, after
14 yeares reprivement, his head was cutt off. At which
time such abundance of bloud issued from his veines that
shewed he had stock of nature enough left to have continued
him many yeares in life though now above 3-score yeares
old, if it had not been taken away by the hand of violence.
And this was the end of the great Sir Walter Raleigh,
great sometimes in the favour of queen Elizabeth, and
(next to Sir Francis Drake) the great scourge and hate of
the Spaniard ; who had many things to be commended in
* Subit. for ' sawe him beheaded.* ° Dopl. with ' Tertebn.*
»» Dupl. with * might avocatc.' ♦* MS Aubr. 6, foL 78.
his life, but none more than his constancy at his death,
which he tooke with so undaunted a resolution that one
might percieve he had a certain expectation of a better
life after it, so far he was from holding those atheisticall
opinions, an aspersion whereof some had cast upon him.'
* In the register of St. Margaret's, Westminster, in the
moneth of October, Sir Walter Raleigh is entred, and is
the last of that moneth, but no dayes of the moneth are
sett downe, so that he being beheaded on the Lord Mayer's
day, was burycd the . . . He was buryed as soon as you
arc removed from the top of the steps towards the altar,
not under the altar.— from Elias Ashmole, esq.
On Sir Walter RawUigk.
Here lieth, hidden in this pitt.
The wonder of the world for witt.
It to small purpose did him serve ;
His witt could not his life preserve.
Hee living was belov'd of none,
(HomLtp.!, Yet in his death all did him moane f.
EHfncmi Heaven hath his soule, the world his fame,
The grave his corps, Stukley his shame.
This I found among the papers of my honoured friend
and neighbour Thomas Tyndale, esq., obiit . . . 167-,
aet, 85. This Stukely was . . .
(^His writings.)
** At the end of the History of the World (vide last
folio. Hist. World), he laments the death of the most noble
and most hopefull prince Henry, *** whose great favourite
he was, and who, had he survived his father, would quickly
have enlarged him, with rewards of honour. So upon the
prince's death ends his first part of his History of the World,
with a gallant eulogie of him, and concludes*. Versa est in
luctum cithara mea ; et cantus ' mens in vocem fUntium,
* MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 79. • Job ixx. 31.
*• MS. Anbr. 6, fol. 77. ^ ' Cantns ' lubat. for ' vox.' The
*** MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 77*. Valgnte bu 'organnni roenm.'
Str Walter Raleigh 191
He had f an apparatus for the second part, which he,
t From his ^^ discontent, burn't, and sayd, * If I am not
S^KhSS!'*'''*^ worthy of the world, the world is not worthy
feiiowcs. qC j^y workes.'
* His booke sold very slowly at first, and the bookeseller
complayned of it, and told him that he should be a looser
by it, which put Sir W. into a passion ; and sayd that since
the world did not understand it, they should not have his
second part, which he tooke and threw into the fire, and
burnt before his face.
Mr. Elias Ashmole sales that Degore Whear in his
Praelectiones Hyemales gives him an admirable encomium,
and preferres him before all other historians.
** Verses W. R. before Spencer's F. Queen.
*** He was somtimes a poet, not often*. — Before
Spencer's Faery Q. is a good copie of verses, which begins
thus : —
Methinkes I see the grave wher Laura lay ;
at the bottome W. R. : which, 36 yeares since, I was
told were his.
**** Scripsit.
A dialogue between a Privy Councellor and a Justice of
Peace.
The father's advice to his son.
Historic of the World.
Maximes of State.
History of William the Conqueror — Thomas Gale hath it.
Edmund Wyld, esq., hath his^ (a manuscript) 03^ *A tryall
X 'Take a ^^ oarcs and indications of metalls and mines.'
?hc'M°^:'o/ ***** E<dmund> W<yld>,esq.,hathhisMSS.
^thec7T5\^at of mines and trialls of mineralls — quod vide,
fet str^t? Vide Mr. Coniers J, apothecary, for Sir Walter
AutXfoi. 6%- Raleigh's examination (the originall).
♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 79. »♦♦♦ MS. Anbr. 6, fol. 79.
*♦ MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7. ^ Subst. for * his (I thinke a MS.)
♦*♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 77». . . . of metalls and oare^
• Subst. for 'much.* »♦♦♦* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7.
193 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
(^His friends.'^
* His intimate acquaintance and friends were :—
. . . ■, earle of Oxford.
Sir Francis Vere.
Sir Horatio Vere.
Sir Francis Drake.
Nicholas Hill.
(Thomas) Cavendish,
Mr. Thomas Harlot,
Sir Walter Long, of Dracot in Wilts.
Cavaliero Surff,
etc.
Ben: Johnson.
When Serjeant Hoskyns was a prisoner in the Tower,
he was Sir Walter's Aristarchus,
(^Cefiy of a Utter by him.')
1 1 ihinke I «ni ** A copic f of Sir W. Ralegh s letter, sent
to'jSilww' to Mr, Duke, in Devon, writt with his owne
*«^ hand.
Mr. Duke,
I wrote to Mr. Prldeaiix to move you for the
loHavMisin purchasc of Haycs J, a farme sometime in
Eait Budir\h. my father's possession. I will most willingly
boryfdM givc whatsoevcf in your conscience you shall
i»'hMBiid " decme it worth, and if at any time you shall
shifburncTn^ have occasion to use me, you shall find me a
riibern'fwSfcii thankcfull friend to you and yours. I am
fill wifciin his resolved, if I cannot entreat you, to build
'"E."4W' *^ Colliton ; but for the natural! disposition
Hii father had I havc to that place, being borne in that
ivmtx^vjts, house, I had rather seate myselfe there then
'enjuiet.' any where els; I take my leave, readie to
countervaile all your courtesies to the utter of my power.
Court, the xxvi Your very willing friend,
of Jttly, 1584. In all I shall be able,
Walter Ralegh.
• MS. Anbr. (,, fol. 77'. • Edward de Vere, 17th emrL
" MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 75.
Str Walter Raleigh 193
{Addenda,^
{His last lines. y
* Even such is tyme, which takes in trust
Our youth, our joyes, and all we have,
And payes us but with age and dust.
Within the darke and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our waycs,
Shutts up the story of our dayes.
But from which grave and earth and dust
The Lord will rayse me up I trust.
These lines Sir Walter Ralegh wrote in his Bible, the
night before he was beheaded, and desir'd his relations with
these words, viz. 'Beg my dead body, which living is
denyed you ; and bury it either in Sherburne or Exeter
church/
{His burial'place.y
** The bishop of Sarum (Seth Ward) saieth that
Sir Walter Raleigh lyes interred in St. Marie's church at
Exon, not the cathedral : but knowes not if any inscription
or monument be for him.
*** (James Harrington) lyes buried in the chancell of
St. Margarite's church at Westminster, the next grave to
the illustrious Sir Walter Raleigh, under the south side
of the altar where the priest stands.
Sir Walter Raleigh hath neither stone nor inscription.
Mr. Ashmole was the first told me of Sir Walter Raleigh.
His son* was buryed since the king's restauration in his
father's grave.
(^MS. account of his trial.)
**♦* I am promised the very originaU examination of
* Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. • Carew Raleigh, 00 January i,
223' : Sept 16, 1673. i66f .
*♦ Ibid., fol. 166: Feb. 12, 167}. •»*• Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol.
♦*• Ibid., fol. 308 : June 6, 1678. 354^ : June ai, 1681.
II. O
194
Aubrey's 'Brie/ Lives'
I
Sir Walter Ralegh, in the Tower, by Lord Chancellor
Bacon, George Abbot (archbishop of Canterbury), and
Sir Edward Coke, under their ownc hands, to insert in
my books. ^9
{His 'Bislory of ike World;) ■
* An attorney's father (that did my businesse in
Herefordshire, before I sold it") maryed Dr. (Robert)
Burhill's widdowe. She sayd that he (Burhill) was a great
favourite of Sir Walter Ralegh's (and, I thinke, had been
his chapiayne) : but all or the greatest part of the drudgery
of his booke, for criticismes. chronology, and reading of
Grceke and Hebrew authors, was performed by him for
Sir Waller Ralegh, whose picture my friend haz as part
the Doctor's goods.
i
Walter Baleigh, son of Sir Walter (1593-1617).
** Sir Walter Ralegh's eldest son, Walter, by his first
wife, was killed in America, as you may find in the Historic
of the World, which see.
My cosen Whitney '' was coetanean with this Walter
Ralegh at Oxon. I have now forgot of what house he
was of° : but I remember he told me that he was a hand-
some lusty stout fellow, very bold, and apt to aflfront.
Spake Latin very fluently ; and was a notable disputent
and courser, and would never be out of countenance nor
baffeled ; iighf* lustily ; and, one time of coursing, putt
a turd in the box, and besmeared " it about his antagonist's
face.
• Aubrey in MS. Wood F.
fol. ]o6* : Mty 14, 1673.
• i. e. Aubrey's CTiaie, in t
county : told ttrcUer 1661.
•• MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 74'.
Rfllcigli, matric. at Corpus b 1607.
^ ' Couraing ' in the Uxibid Schooli
freqnently ended in blovi between
iiidividaalt, and lights between Col-
leges: see Claik'i Wood'* Uft and
Tim.
1.75.
• Waller, eldett ton of & Walter • SubM. for ' wiped.'
Walter Raleigh. ..Ralphson. T.Randolph 195
Walter Baleigh, grandson of Sir Walter (16 1663).
* Sir Walter Ralegh, mi. . . .
Carew Ralq^h, nv. . . . lady Ashlev* ; bat he had a former wife :
bat by whi(£ wife he bad the JMae Mr.
of ... in com.
Sarrey, esq.
Thomas liariet knowes not.
Sir Walter Raleifih.
I 'I I
I. . . ., M. , . . Wilks. «...., m. Sir John 3. • . ., «•. John Knight of
Elowys. Barwick Green
in Warwick-
shire.
He was knighted ^ by king Charles II at the same time
when Sir Thomas Overbury was, and some wished that
they might both have better fortunes than the other Sir
Walter Ralegh and the other Sir Thomas Overbury. So
you see Sir John Elowys married a daughter and co-heire
of Sir Walter Raleigh.
. . . Balphson ( i68i).
** Mr. . . . Ralphson, a nonconformist, was buried in
London at . . ., March 14th, 168}; above a 1000 persons
were at his funerall.
Note.
This note is referred to by Anthony Wood in Clark^s Wood's Life and
Timesy iii. 91. Wood gave Aubrey several commissions to make inquiries
about non-conformists, as is seen in the following notes : — MS. Aabr. 8, fol. 6 —
' Nonconformists : vide Mr. Collins neer Grub Street and (Francis) Smyth the
bookeseller.' MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 7 — * Vide Mr. Collins a nonconformist in an
alley by Gmb Street towards Finsbery at a sadler's ; quaere de Anthony Wood's
note of nonconformists which was sent ^ to ThankfuU Owen ' : here Wood adds
' I desire without any delay to get this paper.'
Thomas Bandolph (1605-163I).
*** Thomas Randolph, the poet, Cambr.^: — I have
sent to A. k Wood his nativity* etc., which I had from
♦ Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. •*♦ MS. Aubr. 6, foL 114.
387 : June 29, 1689. ^ Aubrey,in these notices, frequently
* Philippa, widow of Sir Anthony marks the University of the man
Ashley. whose life he is writing, in a promi-
^ On June 15, 1660. nent manner, for the benefit of Anthony
•♦ MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5. Wood, at whose instance they were
" In Jan. i68f : Clark's Wood's written.
Life and Times, ii. 513. • Given onfoL iia^ofMS. Aubr.6,
O %
his brother John, an attorney (who lives at . . -)- ^^•
Thomas Randolph was the eldest son of William Randolph
by his wife Elizabeth Smyth ; he was borne at Newnham
necr Daintre in NorthamptonBhire, June the fifteenth,
1605.
At the age of nine yeares, he wrot the history of our
Saviour's incarnation in English verse, which his brother
John haz to shew under his owne handwriting — never
printed, kept as a rarity.
From Mr. Needier : — his haire was of a very light flaxen,
almost white (like J. Scroope's). It was flaggy, as by his
picture before his booke appcares. He was of a pale
ill complexion and pock-pitlen — from Mr. Thomas Fludd,
his scholefcllow at Westminster, who saycs he was of
about my stature or scarce so tall'.
His father was steward to Sir George Goring in
Sussex. He had been very wild in his youth ; and
his father (i.e. grandfather to Thomas Randolph) left
him but a groat or ^d. in his will, which when he
recievcd he nailed to the post of the dore— vide + A. W.
lre3^ His father was a surveyor of land, i.e. a land
measurer.
Anno Domini (1623) he was elected to Trinity College in
Cambridge.
Anno ... he rencountred captain Stafford " (an ingeniose
gent, and the chiefe of his family, and out of which the
great duke of Bucks brancht) on the roade . . . He g^ve
him a pension of I thinke c". per annum, and he was
tutor to his son and heir.
He was very praecocis ingenii, and had he lived but
a little longer had hc^nfamae suae superstes.
He writt (as before mentioned) the history of our
Saviour's incarnation (at 9 yeers old).
*s on ' 15 Jnnii 1605, the moon past in the hands of Anthony Wood ; tee
the first quartet.' iffra, p. igS.
' Aubrey plumed himself on being ' . . . Stafford, of Blathenricke,
flirty tall : for his heighi, see p. 67. Northanti.
* i. e. Me more about this in a lettei
Thomas Randolph 197
Aristippus, and the Joviall Pedler, 2 shewes, quarto,
printed at London by . . ,
Cornelianum dolium, a comoedie in Latin, 8vo, iivovvy^m^.
The Jealous Lovers, a comedie : printed.
His Poems, with The Muses Looking-glas, and Amyntas,
printed at Oxon by Francis Bowman, 16 — , in 4to ; after,
16 — , by him again in 8vo.
The epitaph on William Laurence in Westminster
cloysters ^ —
[Dr. Busby, schoolmaster of Westminster, was Tom
Randolph's schoolfellow and coetanean, and sayth that
he made these verses — 'tis his vaine : —
With diligence and trust® most exemplary
Did William Laurence serve a prebendary^,
And® for his paines, now past before, not lost,
Gain'd this remembrance at his master's cost.
— O read those lines' againe: you seldome^ find
A servant faithfuil and a master kind.
Short-hand** he wrote; his flowre in youth did fade:
And hasty death short hand of him hath made.
Well couth he numbers and welP measur'd land.
Thus doth he now that ground wheron you stand
Wherein he lies; so geometricall
Art maketh some, but thus will nature all.
Obiit Dec. 28, 1621,
aetatis suae 29.]
He dyed in the twenty-eighth yeare of his age at
Mr. (William) Stafford's, Blatherwyck, aforesayd ; was
• So Aubrey writes it • Subst. for * who.*
^ The passage in square brackets is ' Subst for ' words.'
on fol. 113* of MS. Aubr. 6, being < Subst for < *tis rareto find.'
a note added later by Aubrey. Au- *» These two lines stood at first : —
brey notes on fol. 114 — 'quaere Short-hand he wrote weU azid could
Dr. Pell ( for) the prebendary's name *; measure land
and the same query is on fol. 7 of As now he doeth the ground wheieon
MS. Aubr. 9. you stand.
"^ Subst. for * care.' * Subst. for ' could measure.*
^ See note **, supra.
igB Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
there buryed March 17, 1634, in the aisle of that church
among that noble family.
Sir Christopher, lord Hatton, erected to his memorie
a monument of white marble— quaere his epitaph ; I thinke
A<iithony> W<ood> haz it.
I sent to A. Wood his brother's letter to me from
whence I had most of this, and also his epitaph which my
lord Hatton gott Mr. H.' rector of Hadham in Essex ^ to
make, but it is puerile.
Eleanor Batolifib, Countess of Sussex (16 \666).\
* Countesse of Sussex " : a great and sad example of
the power of lust and slavery of it. She was as great
a bea{u)tie as any in England and had a good witt.
After her lord's death (he was jealous) she sends for . . ■
(formerly) her footman, and makes him groom of the
chamber. He had the pox and shee knew it ; a damnable
sot. He waz not veiy handsom, but his body of an
exquisit shape {hinc sagiltae). His nostrills were stuffl
and borne out with corkes in which were quills to breath
through. About 1666 this countess dyed of the pox.
Bobort Heoord {i$\o1-tSS'i).
** Robert Record, M.D. — his life is in lib. 2, p. 174 of*
Historia et Antiquiiates Universitatis Oxon., among the
writers of All Soules College ".
He was the first that wrote a good arithmetical treatise in
English, which hath been printed a great many times, viz. his
' Arithmetick, containii^ the ground of arts in which is
taught the general parts rules and operations of the same
in whole numbers and fractions after a more easie and
■ Anthony Wood GIU up this Dame, married (1634) Edmrd Ratclifle, 6th
as Peter ■ Haoited.' earl of Somoc (who died 1643).
" Wood notes ' Hertfordihire, •• MS. Anbt. 8, fol. 71^
quaere,' ' Anthony Wood'*, 1674.
* MS. Aabr.ii,p. 11. • Recoid was fellow of AU Sodli in
■ EkftDoi, widow of Sir Henr; Lee, 1531.
Robert Record 199
exact methode then ever heretofore, first written by Robert
Record, Dr. in Phisick/ printed . . .
It was dedicated * to the most mighty prince Edward the
6th by the grace of God king of England, Scotland, France
and Ireland, etc' In the end of which epistle : —
* how some of these statutes may be applied to use as
well in our time as in any other time I have particularly
declared in this book and some other I have omitted for
just considerations till I may offer them first unto your
majestie to weigh them as to your highness shall seem
good. For many things in them are not to be published
without your highness knowledge and approbation, namely
because in them is declared all the rates of all oyles, for
all standards from an ounce upwards, with other mysteries
of mint-matters, and also most part of the varieties of
coines that have been current in this realme by the space
of 600 yeares last past, and many of them were currant in
the time that the Romans ruled here. All which with the
ancient description of England and Ireland, and my simple
censure of the same, I have almost compleated to be
exhibited to your highnesse.' —
Quaere if ever published ?
* To the reader : — It shall induce me to set forth those
further instructions concerning geometrie and cosmography
which I have already promised and am sure hath not
hitherto in our English tongue been published/ —
Quaere of these.
The Whetstone of Witt, which is the second part of
Arithmetick, containing the extraction of rootes, the
cossicke practice, with the rule of equation and the workes
of surd nombers. Quarto ; dedicated * to the right worship-
full the governors, consulles, and the rest of the company
of venturers into Muscovia.' Here he speakes : — * For your
commodities I will shortly set forthe suche a book of
navigation' — quaere de hoc libro — *as I dare saie shall
partly satisfy and contente not onely your expectation but
also the desire of a great nomber beside. Wherein I will
not forget specialy to touche bothe the old attempte for
the northerly navigations and the late good adventure
with the fortunate successe in discovering that voyage
which no man before you durst attempt sith the time of
l<ing Alfred his reigne, I meane by the space of 700 yerc,
nother ever any before that time had passed that voiage
except onely Ohthere that dwelt in Halgolande who
reported that jorney to the noble king Alurcde, as it
doeth yet remain in auncient recorde of the old Saxon
longi.ie. — In that book also I will show certain meanes
how without great difficultie you may saile to the North-
east Indies and so to Camul Chinchilal and Balor which
be countries of great commodities ; as for Chatai lieth
so far within the land toward the South Indian seas that
the journey is not to be attempted untill you be better
acquainted with those countries that you must first arrive
at. — At London the xii day of November 1557.'
Preface : — ' by occasion of trouble upon trouble I was
hindered from accomplishing this work as I did intend.'
In the last leafe of this booke he is frighted by the
hasty knocking of a messenger at the dore and sayes
— ' then is there no remedie but that I must neglect all
studies and teaching for to withstand these dangers. My
fortune is not so good to have quiet time to teache.'
The Castle of Knowledge, printed at London, 1596,
quarto*, and is dedicated 'to the most mightie and most
puissant princesse, Marie, by the grace of God, Queen
of England, Spaine, both Sicilies, France, Jerusalem, and
Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Archduchesse of Austria,
Duchesse of Milaine, Burgundie, and Brabant, Countesse
of Haspurge, Flanders, Tyroll, etc'
He was the first that ever writ of astronomie in the
English tongue.
In an admonition for orderly studying of tlie author's
workcs before this booke there is an intimation in verse
that he wrote these five bookes, scilicet, (1) The Ground
of Arts, (2) the Pathway to Knowledge, (3) the Gate of
• MS.Anbr.8,fol. 7a.
John David Rhees. George Ripley. 201
Knowledge, (4) the Castle of Knowledge, (5) the Treasury
of Knowledge.
All that I have seen of his are written in dialogues
between the master and scholar.
* Can you • enforme me where Dr. Record lies buried ?
Me thinks Mr. Stow should mention him.
John David Bhees (1534-1609).
** Johannes David Rhesus, M.D. : — he wrote a com-
pendium of Aristotle's Metaphysiques in the British
language, mentioned in his epistle to Sir (Edward)
Stradling before his Welsh Grammar. 'Twas in Jesus
College library, Oxon, and my cosen Henry Vaughan
{Olor Iscanus) had it in his custody. Dr. Rhees averres^
there that the British language is as copious in expressing
congruous termes of art as the Greeke or any language
whatsoever. I have sent to Henry Vaughan for it.
*** I have not yet heard from my cosen Henry Vaughan
(*01or Iscanus') concerning your queres** of Dr. David
Rhese the physitian, which I wonder at.
John Bider (1562-1632).
**** Memorandum — Rider is a Berks family, portant
* party per chevron argent and sable 3 crescents counter-
chang'd.* Quaere if bishop (John) Rider, the author of the
Dictionary, was a Berkshire man.
(George Bipley (14 1490?).
***** George Ripley was a canon of Burlington, the
greatest chymist of his time. Mr. Elias Ashmole has the
draught of his monument there.
Mr. Meredith Lloyd (an able chymist, and who informed
♦ MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 8*. *> Dnpl. with 'saycs.'
• Aubrey jotted down queries in *♦♦ MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 9*.
this way in his MS., to meet the eye ^ Clark's Wood's Life and TUmes,
of Anthony Wood, to whom it was to iii. 353, 294, 295.
be sent. ♦**♦ MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6.
♦♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 11. ♦»♦*♦ MS. Aubr. 8, foL io\
Aubrey's 'Brie/ Lives'
his majestic and Sir Robert Moray herin) hath a MS.
in 8vo, 3 inches thick, transcribed by T. P. 15S0, viz.: —
Medulla Philosophiae, in English; item, Ripley's Xll
Gates, in Enghsh verse (more full then in Mr. Ashmole's
Tluatrum Chymkiim) — 'Geo. Ripley finivit opus, anno
1471 ' — with the astronomicall tables comprehending the
secret of the booke.
Item, Mr. Meredith Lloyd haz here in this collection
another MSS. of Chymistry aroiiijKus. ^^
Item, another MS. of Birford, a monk of Ford. ^^|
Item, The Mirror of Light ', another MS. ^H
^_ Item, another of an av6iii}Lm '', on the same subject. ^H
^H The Ordinall of Alchymy, by Norton, MS. ^H
^^1 Item, de Mercuno et lapide philosophorum, MS. ^^|
^^B la this volumne is also bound-up Ripley's Ars chymtdl^^l
^H quod sit licita recte exercentibus. ^H
^H Item, Mercurii Trismagisti 7 tractat. ^H
^^H Item, ejusdem. Tabulae Smaragdinae.
^^v StudiumconciliiconjugiidcmassaSolisetLunae, impress.
^1 Argentorati, 1566.
^ I have not had leisure to peruse tliis rare treasure enough " ;
but I remember Ripley trounces the monkcs of Westminster
for cheating the citizens of London, promising them making
of gold.
. . . Bobartes.
* Concerning Furseatlters. — Brianstoo by Blandford in
Dorset was, tempore Henr. 8, belonging to (Sir John,
I thiake) Rocklington. He had a faire estate, and no
child ; and there was a poor cottager whose name was
Rogers that had a pretty wife whom this knight did visit
and had a mind to have a child by her. As he did suppose,
he afterwards had ; and in consideration of affection, eto,
settled his whole estate on this young Rogers. William,
lord marquesse Hartford (duke of Somerset), was son of
the grand-dai^hter of this Rogers.
• DupL with ' Lyle.' * Dupl, with ' ttoronghlr.'
* So Anbrej wnte* irSmiun. * MS. Aubr. 6, fat J5'.
. . . Robson. Henry Rolle. 203
This present lord Roberts of Truro (now carl of Radnor)
his grandfather (or great-grandfather) was a furze-cutter at
... in Cornwall — which I have heard old parson Wodenot
of Linkenhome in Cornwall say many times.
• • • Bobsoxi*
* Mr. (Fabian) Philips also* tells me that . . . Robson
was the first that brought into England the art of making
Venice glasses, but Sir Edward Zouche (a courtier and
drolling favourite of King James) oppressed this poor man
Robson, and forc*t it from him, by these 4 verses to King
James, which made his majestie laugh so that he was
ready to bes — his briggs. The verses are these : —
Severn, Humber, Trent, and Thames,
And thy great Ocean and her streames
Must putt downe Robson and his fires
Or downe goes Zouche and his desires.
The king granted this ingeniose manufacture to Zouch,
being tickled as aforesayd with these rythmes ; and so poor
Robson was oppressed and utterly undon, and came to
that low degree of poverty that Mr. Philips told me that
he swept the yard at Whitehall and that he himselfe sawe
him doe it.
Sir Robert Mansell had the glasse-worke afterwards, and
employed Mr. James Howell (author of The Vocall Forest)
at Venice as a factor to furnish him with materialls for
his worke.
Henry Belle (1589-1656).
** I remember, about 1646 (or 1647) that Mr. John
Maynard (now Sir John, and serjeant), came into Middle
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 43^. Hales, though his name is not to it :
* The note follows that aboat Ingle* bnt it is knowne to be his,' to 'Un
bert, supra f p. i. abridgment de plusieors cases . . .
** Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 49, fol. per Henry Rolle,' London, 1668,
42^. On fol. 41 Anbrey gives long folio,
extracts from the ' pre£ue of Judge
I
204 Aubrey's 'Brie/ Lives'
Temple hall, from Westminster-hall, weary with business,
and hungry, when we had newly dined. He sate downe
by Mr. Bennet Hoskyns (the only son of serjeant Hoskyns
the poet), since baronet, and some others ; who having
made an end of their commons, fell unto various discourse,
and what was the meaning of the text (Rom. 5, 7) ' For
a Just man one would dare to die ; but for a good man one
would willingly die.' They askt Mr. Maynard what was
the difference between a just man and a good man. He
was beginning to eate. and cryd : — ' Hoh ! you have eaten
your dinners, and now have leasure to discourse; I have
not.' He had eate but a bitt or two when he reply'd :■ —
' rie tell you the difference presently; serjeant Rolle is
a just man, and Matthew Hale is a good man'; and so fell
to make an end of his dinner. And there could not be
a better" interpretation of this text. For serjeant Rolle
was just, but by nature penurious ; and his wife made him
worse: Matthew Hale was not only just, but wonderfully
charitable and open handed, and did not sound a trumpet
neither, as the hypocrites doe.
X>aurenoe Booke (1613-1662).
* Laurence Rooke, borne at ... in Kent, was of
(King's) Colledge in Cambridge, a good mathematician
and a very good man, an intimate friend of Dr. Scth Ward
(now lord bishop of Sarum).
I heard him reade at Gresham College on the sixth
chapter of Clavis Mathemalka, an excellent lecture : quaere
for his papers which the bishop of Sarum haz.
He was a temperate man and of strong constitution, but
tooke his sicknesse of which he dyed by setting up often
for astronomicall observations. He lyes buried in the
church of St. Bennet Finke in London, neer the Old
Exchange,
His deare friend the bishop (then of Exon) gave to the
* Dupl. with 'a clearer elucidation.' * MS. Anbr. 6, foL fi'.
Laurence Rooke 205
Royall Societie a very faire pendulum clock, dedicated to
Mr. Rooke's memory, with this inscription • : —
Societati Regali ad scientiam naturalem
promovendam institutae
dono dedit
Reverendus in Christo pater, Sethus, episcopus
Exon, ejusdem societatis sodalis
in memoriam
Laurentii Rook
viri omni literarum genere instructissimi
in Collegio Greshamensi primum Astronomiae
deinde Geometriae professoris
dictaeque societatis nuper sodalis,
qui obiit Jun. 26, 1662.
Seth (Ward), now lord bishop of Salisbury, hath all
Mr. Rooke's papers : quod N.B.
♦ M.S.
Hie subtus sive dormit sive contemplatur
Qui jamdudum animo metitus est
Quicquid aut vita aut mors habet
V.C. Laurentius Rooke e Cantio oriundus
In Collegio Greshamensi
Astronomiae primo, dein Geometriae professor,
Utriusque omamentum et spes maxima,
Quern altissima indoles, artesque omnifariae,
Mores pellucidi, et ad amussim probi,
Consuetudo facilis et accommoda.
Bonis doctisque omnibus fecere commendatissimum :
Vir totus teres et sui plenus
Cui virtus et pietas et summa ratio
Desideria metusque omnes sub pedibus dabant.
Ne se penitus saeculo subducere mortuus possit
Qui iniquissima modestia vixerat
Sethus Ward episcopus Exon
Sodalis et symmystae desideratissimi
Longas suavesque amicitias
Hoc saxo prosecutus est.
Obiit Junii xxvii, A.D. mdclxii, aetat. XL.
M.S.
• Anthony Wood notes hi the on the uiscrtcd slip (fol. 7), * Tis this
margm, * This is in Mr. Edward that is in Sherbnme.'
Sherborne's edidon of Manilius ' ; and * MS. Aobr. 6, fol. 7.
Aubreys 'Brie/ Lives'
I
This inscription was never set up; made, I thinke, by
Ralph Bathurst; quaere Mr. Abraham Hill.
JVote.
Id MS. Ante, 6, (ol. 117, atlacbed to the notice of William Camden, arc
pp. 17-94 of Lewis da Moolin'i Latia oratioDi. 165). On p, iS of this, Aabrcy
wiilei ; ' I found this fragment amongst the papers of Mr. Laurence Rooke in
biibopSeth Warcl'i itndy after bis death.' Page 19 b^ai: 'Oiatin in Uadcm
. . Cambdeni/ July 10, 1651. beginning : ' Cum mnneria ratio poatulet.'
Waltor Hnmeey (1584-1660). ^M
* Judge Rumsey : vide A. Wood's Autig. Oxoh, ^\
Waiter Rumsey, of Lanover, in com. Monmouth, esquier
(borne there), was of (Gloucester Hall>inOxon ; afterwards
of the society of Graye's Inne, where he was a bencher.
He was one of the judges in South Wales, viz, Caer-
marthen, Pembrokeshire, and Cardigan circuit. He was
so excellent a lawyer, that he was called The Picklock of
the Lawe.
He was an ingeniose man, and had a philosophical!
head ; he was most curious for graffii^, inoculating, and
planting, and ponds. If he had any old dead plumbe-tree,
or applc-tree, he lett them stand, and planted vines at the
bottome, and lett them climbe up, and they would beare
very well.
He was one of my councell in my law-suites in Brecon-
shire about the cntaile. He had a kindnesse for me and
invited me to his house, and told me a great many fine
things, both naturall and antiquarian.
He was very facetious, and a good musitian, playd on
the organ and lute. He could compose.
He was much troubled with (legme, and being so one
winter at the court at Ludlowe (where he was one of the
councesellours), sitting by the fire, spitting and spawling,
he tooke a fine tender sprig, and tied ' a rag^ at the end,
• MS. Aubr. 8, fol. <M'. Anthony MS. O.C. 8533, now in Wood MS.
Wood has a note in pencil: 'Vide £. 3.
latter end of Catalogue 4,' i.e. Wood ■ Dnpl. vrith 'pnlt'
John Rushworth 207
and conceited he might putt it downe his throate, and
fetch-up the flegme, and he did so. Afterwards he made
this instrument of whale-bone. I have oftentimes seen him
use it. I could never make it goe downe my throat, but
for those that can 'tis a most incomparable engine. If
troubled with the wind it cures you immediately. It
makes you vomit without any paine, and besides, the
vomits of apothecaries have aliquid veneni in them. He
wrote a little 8vo booke, of this way of medicine, called
Organon Saluiis : London, printed for Daniel Pakeman, at
the Rainebowe, in Fleet-street, 1659, scil. the second edition,
dedicated to Henry (Pierrepont), marquess of Dorchester.
I had a young fellow (Marc Collins), that was my servant,
that used it incomparably, more easily than the Judge ; he
made of them. In Wilts, among my things, are some of
his making still. The Judge sayd he never sawe any one
use it so dextrously in his life. It is no paine, when downe
your throate ; he would touch the bottome of his stomach
with it. There is praefixt a letter from the Judge to Sir
Henry Blount, knight; to which is annexed Sir Henry
Blount's ingeniose answer.
John Bushworth (1607-1690).
* I was borne in Northumberland *, but my parents were
both bom in the county of York. The title of the books
I writ went by the name of Historicall Collections; except
The earle of Strafford s triall^ which I toke with my owne
pen in characters at the time of his triall, which I have
impartially published in folio. And I gave the first
president of my method in writing and declaring onely
matter of fact in order of time, without observation or
reflection : but Dr. Nalson, a learned man, finds fault with
me, but I leave it to posterity to judg.
I being neere of kin to Sir Thomas Fairfax, the parla-
♦ MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 383 : Aubrey to Anthony Wood.
written by Rashworth's servant from • Wood notes: — 'near Berwick,
his dictation, to be transmitted by quaere.*
2o8 Aubrey's 'Bite/ Lives'
merit's generall, he made choice of me to be his secretary
in the wars*, by which means I am beter inabled to give
account of military affairs, both in the first wars and in
the second which hapened in the year 1648 — all which
I am now upon perfeting the same, but the times favors
not the comeing of it forth.
There is an other thing which inables me the better to
proceed with the work I am now upon, my privity to all
debates and passages in the house of Commons: for that
house made choice of me to be assistant at the table to
Mr. Ellsing, dark of that parlament to the house of
Commons, by which means I was privcy to all circum-
stances in there procedings.
I might perticularly remonstrate more concernements
of my owne, as being with the king Charles the first at
the camp at Harwick, at the great councill at York, at
Newborne' nere Newcastle upon the Scots invading of
England, et cetera.
Both the houses of parlament had the confidence in me
that they sent by me ther** addresses to the king after
he left the parlament and went to Yorke. And it so felt
out that I rode severall times, with that expedition betwen
London and Yorke (being one hundred and fivetey miles)
in 24 hours at a time.
Sir ", pardon my boye's ignorance in writeing :
Jo. RUSHWORTH ".
Southwarke,
July 21, 1687.
Mr,"* Rushworth tells me he is superannuated. He hath
forgott to putt downe the name of the place where borne :
as also that he was secretary to Sir Orlando Bridgeman,
when Lord Keeper of the great seale, which was a con-
siderable place.
* MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 3S3'. In ibe king'i bench in Sonthwarice,
■ Wood wrongly laggests 'New- where he hath been at least 3 or 4
bury." yearcs.'
•• MS. Wood r. 39, fol. 384. * Added by Aubrey Jnly 18, 1687,
'' This is Rnihwoith's aatograph. at the end al Rnihworth'i itate-
' Wood noles here : — ' a priioiiei ment.
Richard Sackville 209
* Yesterday I saw Mr. Rushworth : which was a
great mortification. He hath quite lost his memory with
drinking brandy. Remembred nothing of you, etc. His
landlady wiped his nose like a child.
** John Rushworth, of Lincoln's Inne, esq., historian,
died in the Rules Court Alley in Southwarke, at the
widow Bayley's house, a good woman and who was very
carefull and tendfull of him, on Monday the twelfth day
of May 1690*; and was buried the Wednesday following
behind the pulpit in St. George's church in Southwarke.
He was about 83, onwards to 84. He had no son, but 3
or 4 daughters, virtuous woemen: one is maried to Sir
Francis Vane of ... in the north. He had forgot his
children before he died.
Richard Sackville, third earl of Dorset (1589-1624).
*** Richard, earle of Dorset (eldest son'* and heire to the
Lord Treasurer) : he lived in the greatest grandeur of any
nobleman of his time in England. He had 30 gentlemen,
and gave to each 50/r. per annum, besides keeping his
horse. George Villiers (after, duke of Bucks) was a
pe(ti)tioner to have had a gentleman's place under him,
and miss't it, and within a la moneth was a greater man
himselfe ; but the duke ever after bore a grudge to the
earl of Dorset. — from the countesse of Thanet ^
Richard Sackville, fifth earl of Dorset (1622-1677).
**** Richard Sackville ^, earle of Dorset d father of this
earle (Richard) — 'twas he that translated ^ the Cid^ a French
comoedie, into English, about 1640.
♦ Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, foU ^ A slip for grandson. Robert, son
386*: June 29, 1689. of Thomas, first earl, sncceeded in
♦♦ Ibid., fol. 405 : July 5, 1690. 1608 and died 1609.
The same note is found also in MS. ^ Margaret Sackville, daughter of
Aubr. 21, fol. 78. this Richard, 3rd earl of Dorset,
• In MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5, Aubrey married John Tufton, and earl of
had noted: 'Mr. . . . Rushworth obiit Thanet.
London 168.^ quaere.' ***♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 20^
*** MS. Aubr. 6, fol 100^. * Subftt.for * Cecil, earle of Exeter.'
II. P
Aubreys 'Brief Lives'
I
Obiit anno Domini i^jO) '■ sepult. with his ancestors
at Knoll in Kent. He was a fellow of the Royall Sodctic.
He maried ^Frances) Cranfield, daughter of the carle
of Middlesex, by whome he had severall sonnes and
daughters.
His eldest sonne is Richard, earl of Dorset and Middl<
a most noble lord and my most kind friend,
Obiit i6<77>-
lesoc^
' This note is In MS. Anbr. 8, fol. ao'. Aubrey gives in trick the coat:—
'quBtterly (or and enle*) over all i btDd vair [Sackville]; impaling, (or),
on > pale <aiiire), ; fleur dc lys (of the field) [CtnnfieW],' Jiimioiuited by
a corocel. The note coctaini sooic conliiEiotix, which may be cleared up.
(a) MS. Aubr. 8 was vritleo in l6Si, ' Ihis eul ' is theieTore Cbatlei, 6lb eul
(EDcceeded 1677, died 1706) ; but Anbrey twice calls him kiikard. lb' The
Uanslation of thi Cid appeared, part i in 1G37, and part ii in 1640. Jl was
executed by Joseph Ruller (tulor to Richard, jlh earl) at the command of
Edward, 4th eail ; and therefore the Ulribntion of the trasslatioD shoald be to
Edward, 4th earl, who died 165a.
' In MS. Aubr. S, fol. 101', Anthony Wood haa wriltea this note : — ' In
pog.* lo, 'ti( raid that Richard, earl of Dorset, translated into Engtiih a
French comedy called iMi Cid, whereas both the parti of it were done by
Joseph Rulter.' To which Aubrey answer?: 'Il was Sara Buller told me
that my lord of Dorset translated il.'— In MS. Anbr. 7, fol. 9', Anbicy writes:
' Sam, Builcr (HudcbrasJ one time al the tavern sayd that 'iwas this earl of
Donet's father that translated the comoedie catted T)u Cid, wntt by ComeilU.
Me thinks he should not be mistaken; but the world is mighty apt to it.
Thomas Sookrille, first earl of Dorset (1536-1608).
* Epigram on the earle of Dorset, who dyed suddenly
at the council-boord.
Uncivil death ! that would'st not once coaferre.
Dispute, or parle with our treasurer,
Had he been thee, or of thy fatall tribe,
He would have spar'd thy life, and ta'ne a bribe.
He that so often had, with gold and witt,
Injur'd strong lawe, and almost conquer'd it,
At length, for want of evidence to shewe,
Wa.s forc't himselfe to take a deadly blowe.
• i.e. fol. ao' of MS. Aabr. S, as now foliated. ■ MS. Aabi. 8, fol. 3a'.
Robert Sanderson 211
These verses I transcribed out of the collection of my
honoured friend and neighbour, Thomas Tyndale, esq.
Memorandum : — the tryall was with this Sir Richard
Temple's great grandfather*. The Lord Treasurer had in
his bosome some writings, which as he was pulling-out to
give in evidience, sayed * Here is that will strike you dead! '
and as soon as he had spoken these words, fell downe starke
dead in the place. — from Sir Richard Temple. (Memo-
randum : — an extraordinary perturbation of mind will bring
an apoplexie : I know severall instances of it.)
'Twas this lord that gott Salisbury house cum appur-
tenantiis, juxta St. Bride's, in exchange for a piece of land,
neer Cricklade in Wilts, I thinke called Marston, but the
title was not good, nor did the value answer his promise. —
from Seth, (bishop of) Sarum, who sayes that all the
parish of St. Bride's belonged to the bishop of Sarum,
as also all Shoe-lane.
NoU,
In an old common-place book, of date circ, i6ia, in Lincoln College library,
is found this version of the lines : —
Immodest death! that never woaldst confer,
Dispute, nor parl6, with our Treasurer,
Had he bene thou, or of thy fatall tribe.
He would have saved thy life and ta'ne a bribe.
He that so often, both with golde and witt.
Had injurde law, and almost conquerde it;
He that could strengthen causes, and was able
To starve a sutor at the Counsell-table ;
At length, not having evidence to show.
Was faine, good lord, to take his death: 'twas so.
Bobert Sanderson (1587-1661).
* Dr. Robert Sanderson ^ lord bishop of Lincoln, would
confesse to his intimate friends, that 'he studied and
♦ (Samad) mastered only TuUy's Offices t> Tho. Aquinas's
bishop of Yorke, Secunda Secundae. and Aristotle's Rhetorique,
alwayea carried
it in his bosome. and that all other bookes he read but cur-
sorily': but he had forgott, by his favour, to speake of
• Sir Thomas Temple, of Stowe, Bart. ♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 88*.
p a
Aubrey's ^ Brief Lwes'
I
Aristot. Organon, etc. {Logique bookes), els lie could never
have compiJed his owne excellent Logique, — from Seth
Ward, bishop of Sarum, and (John) Pierson, bishop of
Chester, his great friends. And bishop Ward sayd that
he* would doe the like were he to begin the world again.
He was a lover of musique, and was wont to play on
his base violl, and also to sing to it. He was a lover of
heraldry, and gave it in chardge in his articles of enquiry;
but the clergie-men made him such a lamentable imperfect
returne that it signified nothing. The very Parliamentarians
reverenced him for his learning and his vertue, so that he
alwayes kept his living, quod N.B, (the information in the
Oxon. Antiq.^ was false).
He had no great memorie, I am certaine not a sure one ;
when I was a fresh-man and heard him read his 6rst
lecture, he was out in the Lord's Prayer, He alwayes
read his sermons and lectures. Had his memorie been
greater his judgement had been lesse ; they are like two
well-bucketts.
In his Logique, he recommends disputation to young
men, as the best exercise for young witts. Under his
picture, before his booke, is 'Aetat. 76, 1662/
Nattt.
' Aubrey gives in trick the coat, as foatid under one of Sand enon'l engraved
porttails :— ' See of Lincoln ; impaling, paly of sii Mgent and aiure, a bend of
the first, quartering, ermine, on a canton . . .. a cross engrailed . . .'a crescent
for difleience.
' i. e. Anthony Wood's Hist, tt Aiiliq. Univ. Oxm. lib, ii. psg. 167, where
^Vood says ' hit omnibus ... a Parllamenlo privatus es(,' indudiag. i. e., his
rectory of Booth by-Pa gna II. In (tie Alhituu Wood modified the statement, in
accordance with what Anbiey says here.
Oeorge Sandys {1578-164!).
* In Boxley register thus : — ' Georgius Sandys, poetarum
Anglorum sui saeculi facile princeps, sepultus fuit Martii 7,
stilo Anglicano, anno Domini 1643.'
I happened to speake with his niece, my lady Wyat, at
• Subat. for ' that bishop,' i.e. San- * Aubrey in MS Wood F. 39, fol.
deison. 1S5 : Ang. }}, \6j7.
William Saunderson 213
whose howse, viz. at Boxley abbey, he dyed. She saies
he told her a little before he dyed that he was about 63.
He lies buried in the chancel neer the dore on the south
side, but without any remembrance or stone — which is
pitty so sweet a swan should lye so ingloriously.
He had something in divinity ready for the presse, which
my lady lost in the warres — the title of it shee does not
remember.
William Saunderson (15 1676).
* (In) Westminster abby* north aisle, the very place
where colonel . . . Matthews his statue was erected by the
Parliament, to whom by his will he left all his estate. —
This monument is of alablaster, a bust, but no coate
of armes. ., _
M.S.
Guliel. Saundersoni, equit. aurati
Regiaeque camerae generos. ordinan,
viri
k natalibus, ab eruditione, ab invicta sua erga principes
fide, a scriptis, a candore,
clari.
Scripsit inter alia inque lucem emisit vitanim Mariae
Scotorum reginae, Jacobi, et Caroli I historias
idiomate Anglicano.
Post varias clades sub nupera perduellium tyrannide
acceptas, post diutumos labores domi peregreque fortiter
exantlatos, vitae hujus umbratilis satur, plus quam
nonagenarius, animi tamen integer, transit
ad meliorem,
Julii 15 anno Christianonim mdclxxvi.
H.M.
Conjugi optime de se merito quicum L annos
concord iter vixerat Brigitta Edvardi Tyrelli
eq. aurat. filia, virginumque nobilium sereniss.
Catharinae reginae ancillantium (ut vocant) Mater
M.P.
** Sir W. Saunderson: — he did read and write to his
* MS. Aubr. 8. fol. 50.
• ' This is printed in Westtnimter Monuments ' — marginal note by Anthony
Wood. *♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9.
214 Aubrey's ^ Brief Lives'
dying day. Sir Christopher Wren said that as he wrote
not well 30 he wrote not ill. He dyed at Whitehall (I was
then there): went out like a spent candle — died before
Dr. (William) Holder could come to him with the sacra-
ment. Quaere his family and coat of arms.
Sip Henry Savile (1549-162!).
* Sir Henry Savill', knight, was borne in Yorkshire
(vide A. Wood's Antiq. Oxon.) . . . He was a younger
(or (son) of a younger) brother, not borne to a foot of
land. He came to Merton Coll. Oxon. (1565}; made
Warden there <I5*I5>.
He was a learned gentleman, as most was of his time.
Hcwould faine have been thought (I have heard Mr. Hobbes
say) to have been as great a scholar as Joseph Scaligcr.
But as for mathematiques, I have heard Dr. Wallis say
that he look't on him to be as able a mathematician as
any of his time. He was an extraordinary handsome and
beaulifuU man ; no lady had a finer complexion.
Queen Elizabeth favoured him much ; he read (I think)
Greekc and Politiques to her. He was also preferred to
be Provost of Eaton colledge (1596).
He was a very severe governour, the scholars bated him
for his austerity. He could not abide mtts: when a
young scholar was recommended to him for a good witt,
' Out upon him, Pk have nothing to doe with him ; give me
the ploding sittdent. If I would look for wilts Iwotildgoe to
t This t wa> Newgate, there be the witts t ; ' and John Earles
skiline^S^h^ (afterwards bishop of Sarum) was the only
of ion, 164 ■ scholar that ever he tooke as recommended for
a witt, which was from Dr. (William) Goodwyn, (dean)
of Christ Church.
He was not only a severe governor, but old Mr. Yates'
(who was fellow in his time) would make lamentable com-
plaints of him to his dyeing day, that he did oppresse the
fellows grievously, and he was so great and a favourite
• MS. Aobr. 6, fol. 84.
Sir Henry Saviie 215
to the Queen, that there was no dealing with him ; his
naeve was that he was too much inflated with his learning
and riches.
He was very munificent, as appeares by the two lectures
he has given of Astronomy and Geometry. Bishop Seth
Ward, of Sarum, has told me that he first sent for
Mr. (Edmund) Gunter, from London, (being of Oxford
university) to have been his • Professor of Geometrie : so
he came and brought with him his sector and quadrant,
and fell to resolving of triangles and doeing a great many
fine things. Said the grave knight, * Doe you call this reading
of Geometrie ? This is shewitig of tricks^ man I * and so
dismisst him with scorne, and sent for (Henry) Briggs,
from Cambridge.
I have heard Dr. Wallis say, that Sir H. Savill has
sufficiently confuted Joseph Scaliger de Quadratura Circuli,
in the very margent of the booke: and that sometimes
when J. Scaliger sayes * A B=C D ex constructione/ Sir
H. Savill writes sometimes in the maiden t, ' £t dominatio
vestra est aslnus ex constructione.*
He left only one daughter, which was * maried to
Sir . . . Sedley, of ... in Kent, mother to this present
Sir Charles Sedley, who well resembles his grandfather
Savill in the face, but is not so proper a man.
Sir H. Savill dyed at, and was buried at Eaton colledge,
in the chapell, on the south east side of the chancell, under
a faire black marble grave-stone, with this inscription : —
He had travelled very well, and had a generall ac-
quaintance with the learned men abroad ; by which meanes
he obtained from beyond sea, out of their libraries, severall
rare Greeke MSS., which he had copied by an excellent
amanuensis for the Greeke character.
. . . putt a trick upon him^ for he gott a friend to send
him weekely over to ... in Flanders (I thinke), the
sheetes of the curious Chrysostome that were printed at
* Subst. for 'been one of his Professors.* * MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 84\
Eaton, and translated them into Latin, and printed them
Greekc and Latin together, which quite spoyled the sale
of Sir Henry's,
Memorandum : — he gave his collection of mathematicaJl
bookes to a peculiar little library belonging to the Savillian
Professors *.
' Aabrcy gives in trick the coat :—' aigent, oa a bend uLIe, 3 owli of the field
[Savile].'
* Aabrey leemi to have had a spccisl inierest in this story. He notes it
twice in MS. Anbr. 11 ifol. 3, nnd fol. 4) :— 'Sit H. Savifc— If yon'l haxe
wills, goe lo Newgale.'
' LeonardYatcs. fellow of Merlon in I5((j, reclorof Cnxham, co. Oitm., 1608,
died if*62, aged dr^. 9]. His son, John Vntes, was M.A. of Trinity in 1639,
and probably Anbtey knew him there.
' This Collection was incorporated with ibe Bodleian in tSS4: Macray't
Annals of the Bodleian, p. 359. Stephen Fetcr Rigaud (Savilian Professor of
Geometry l8lo-i3a7^ and of Astronomy 1837-1839) had, in his lim^ thoianghly
examined it, an;i found many books missing.
S7lvaiiiiB Soory (15 1617).
* Sylvanus Scory (quaere if he was not knighted ?) was
the son and heire of (John) Scory, bishop of Hereford.
His father, John Skory, in the raigne of Kii^ Edward
the Sixt, was bishop of Rochester, and translated from
thence to Chichester, and afterwards to Hereford; 'who
departed this life, at his house, at Whitburn, in com.
Hereff., 36 Junii, Anno Domini 1585' — this out of an
epitaph on his wife Elizabeth, who hath an inscription
in St. Leonards Shoreditch church.
He was a very handsome gentleman, and had an excellent
witt, and his father gave him the best education, both
at home and beyond the seas, that that age would afford,
and loved him so dearly that he fleeced the church of
Hereford to leave him a good estate, and he did let such
long, and so many, leases, that, as M''" Masters (daughter
of Herbert Westphaling, esq., eldest son and heir to bishop
Westphaling, of Hereford) told me, they were not out
• MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 104'. Aubrey Athenae CaHlab., i. 514, giTes a very
gives in trick the coat: — ' or, on a sallire different coat to bishop Scoty.
sable 5 roses of the field.' Cooper,
Sylvanus Scory 217
till about these 60 yeares. To my best remembrance,
she told me the estate left him was 1500 li. per annum,
which he reduced to nothing (alloweing himselfe the
libertie to enjoy all the pleasures of this world), and
left his Sonne so poor, that when he came among gentle-
men, they would fancy a crowne or ten shillings* for him.
I have heard Sir John Denham say (at Chalke, 1652),
that he haz been well enformed that he was the most
accomplished gentleman of his time. 'Tis a good testimonial!
of his worth, that Mr. Benjamin Johnson (who ever scorned
an unworthy patrone) dedicated his . . . to him. I have
heard Sir John Denham also say that he was the greatest
confident and intimate favorite of Monsieur of France
(brother to the French king), who was a suitor to queen
Elizabeth, and whom her majestie entirely loved (and as
a signall of it one time at St. Paule's church, London,
openly kissed him in time of divine service) and would
have had him for her husband, but only for reasons of
state. When her majestie dismissed him, 'twas donne with
all passion and respecte imaginable. She gave him royall
presents ; he was attended to Dover by the flower of the
court; among others, by this sparke of whom I now
write. When Monsieur tooke his leave of him he told him
that though 'twas so that her majestie could not marie
him (as aforesayd), yet he knew that she so much loved
him that she would not deny him any request, wherby he
might honour and benefit a friend ; and accordingly writes
his love-letter to his mistresse, the queen of England, and
in it only begges that single W«^ to looke upon Mr. Scorie
(the bearer) with a particular and extraordinary grace, for
his sake ; delivered ^ him the letter (and as I take it, gave
him a jewell). As Sylvanus returned to London, through
Canterbury, the mayer there (a shoemaker), a pragmatical!
fellow, examined him, who and whence, etc. and what
his business was, and if he had a passe ? ' Yes,' quod he^
* I have a passe,* and produces Monsieur's letter, super-
• Dupl. with * or an angell.* *» Dupl. with * favour.'
« Subst. for 'gave.'
2l8
Aubrey's ^Brief Lives'
I
scribed to her majestie, which, one would have thought,
had been enough to have shewen. The mayor presently"
breakes open the love-letter, and reades it. I know not
how, this action happened to take wind, and 'twas
brought to court, and became so ridicule that Sylvanus
Scory was so laughed at and jeer'd that he never delivered
the letter to the queen, which had been the easiest and most
honourable step to preferment that mortall man could
have desired.
John Secnru.
* I have heard my old great-uncle, Mr. Thomas Browne,
say that when he was a school boy there was one Dr,
Securis a noted physitian at Salisbury (who was con-
temporary with this Dr. Mouffett''). He writt Almanacks
— I have only seen two, which Henry Coley haz, which
were for the yeares of our Lord i5[8i "'].
1580, a prognostication for the yeare of our Lord
God MDLXXX, made and written in Salisbury by John
Securis, Maister of Artes and Physick. London, cum
privilegio regiae majestatis,
1581, codem autore, wherunto is joynd a compendium or
brief instruction how to keepe a moderate diet. London,
etc. — Vide his preface wherin he speakes (t;j"of haile-
stones neer Salisbury as big as a child's fist of three or
fower yeeres old.
Dorothy Selby.
** From Mr. Marshall '' : —
Dedicated
to the pious memory
of
Dame Dorothy Selby
[etc.]
■ Dup]. with 'very fairly,'
• MS. Aubr, 6, fol. 83'.
* This notice o( Securis iiwrilten at
the foot of the leaf which hoi the
notice of Thomss MulTet. supra, p. gg.
' Here followed ' and dedicated to
. . . tbcD Lord Chancellor of EiigUod.'
Aubrey scored this ont, on finding
that the Almanac for isSlsodedicmted
was by Evani Lloyd, tuprOy p. 35.
•• Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39. fol.
J08: May 17, 1673.
^ The stone- caltci ; often cited by
Aubrey for bMriptiont.
John Selden 219
She was a Dorcas
Whose curious needle tum'd the abused stage
Of this lewd worid into a golden age :
Whose pen of Steele, and silken inke, enroll'd
The acts of Jona in records of gold ;
Whose art disclos'd that plott, which had it taken,
Rome had triumph't and Britaine's walls had shaken.
Shee was
In heart a Lydia, and in tongue a Hanna,
In zeale a Ruth, in wedlock a Susanna.
Prudently simple, providently wary,
To the world a Martha, and to heaven a Mary.
John Selden (i 584-1 654).
* Mr. John Selden when young did copie ■ records for
Sir Robert Cotton — from Fabian Philips.
** John Selden, esq., was borne (as appeares by his
epitaph, which he himselfe made, as I well remember
archbishop Usher, Lord Primate, who did preach his
funerall sermon, did then mention scil. as to spe certae
resurrectionis) at Salvinton, a hamlet belonging to West
Terring, in the com. of Sussex.
His father was a yeomanly man, of about fourty pounds
per annum, and played well on the violin, in which he
tooke delight, and at Christmas time^ to please him selfe
and his neighbours, he would play to them as they
danced. My old lady Cotton t (wife to Sir
in^SjeT" ""^"^ Robert Cotton, grandmother to this Sir (John)
i^mi^8o+. Cotton) was one time at Sir Thomas Alford's,
^i^wiUiSS ^^ Sussex, at dinner, in Christmas time, and
SS^Sv'cStton. ^^' J^^" Selden (then a young student) sate
phiiiMtoid*" ^^ ^^ lower end of the. .table, who was lookt
"sdSe^iS yypovi then to be of parts extraordinary, and
ropS^r^oH^ some body asking who he was, 'twas replyed,
ciuon*^°^' his son that iV playing on the violin <in> the
hall f. I have heard Michael Malet (judge ^
Malet's son) say, that he had heard that Mr. John Selden's
* MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5. Philip Bliss has added a reference to
• Dupl. with * write.' * Part lit, p. 17b.* i.e. to MS. Aubr. 8,
** MS. Aubr. 6, fol. lao. Dr. fol. 8j\
e2o Aubrey's 'Bn'e/ Lives'
father taught on the lute. He had a pretty good estate by
his wife.
He (vide A, Wood's Antig. Oxoit.) was of Hart-hall in
Oxon, and Sir Giles Mompesson told me that he was then
of that house ^ and that he was a long scabby- pold boy,
but a good student.
Thence he came to the Inner Temple. His chamber
was in the paper buildings which lookc towards the garden,
. . . staire-case, uppermost story, where he had a tittle
gallery to waike in.
He was quickly taken notice of for his learning, and
was sollicitor and steward to the earl of Kent', whose
countesse (was) an ingeniose woman . . .' After the carle's
death he married her. He had a daughter ^ if not two, by
. , , ; one was maried to a tradesman in Bristowe . . , Mris.
Williamson, one of my lady's woemen, a lusty, bouncing
woman, . . . robbed him on his death-bed . . .
His great friend heretofore was Mr. . . . Hayward,
to whom he dedicates his Titles of Honour ; also Ben
Johnson.
His treatise that Tythcs were not jure divino drew* a
great deale of envy upon him from the clergie. W. Laud,
archbishop of Canterbury, made him make his recantation
before the High Commission Court, of which you may
have an account in Dr. Peter Heylen's Historic. After,
he would never forgive the bishops, but did still in his
writings levell them with the presbyterie. He was also
severe and bitter in his speeches against ship-money,
which speeches see.
He was one of the Assembly of Divines, and (Bulstrode)
Whitlock, in his memoires, sayes that he was wont to
mock the Assembly men about their little gilt Bibles, and
would baffle them sadly ; sayd he, ' I doe consider the
original.'
* (Richard) Montague, (bishop) of Norwich, was his
• Four lines of teit «re snppresied as a correclion.
in thii.paraEiapb. ' Sub>t. for ' bronght.'
^ ' daughter ' writlen over 'child,' • MS. Anbr. 6, tol. HO'.
John Selden 221
great antagonist; vide the bookes writt against each
other.
He never owned the manage with the countesse of
Kent till after her death, upon some lawe account. He
never kept any servant peculiar, but my ladie's were all
at his command ; he lived with her in Aedibus Carmeliticis
(White Fryers), which was, before the conflagration, a noble
dwelling.
He kept a plentiful! table, and was never without learned
company. He rose at . . . clock in the morning (quaere
Sir J. C.*) and went to bed at . . .
He was temperate in eating and drinking. He had a
slight stufTe, or silke, kind of false carpet, to cast* over
the table where he read and his papers lay*, when a
stranger came- in, so that he needed not to displace® his
bookes or papers.
He wrote . . . : vide A. Wood's Antiq. Oxon. for the
catalogue of the bookes writt by him.
He dyed of a dropsey ; he had his funerall scutcheons
all ready . . . moneths before he dyed.
When he was neer death, the minister (Mr. (Richard)
Johnson) was comeing to him to assoile him : Mr. Hobbes
happened then to be there ; sayd he, * What, will you
that have wrote like a man, now dye like a woman ? ' So
the minister was not let in.
He dyed in Aedibus Carmeliticis (aforesayd) the last
day of November, Anno Domini 1654; and on Thursday,
the 14th day of December, was magnificently buryed in the
Temple church. His executors were Matthew Hales
(since Lord Chiefe Justice of the King's Bench), John
Vaughan (since Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas),
and Rowland Jewkes, Esq.: quaere the fourth executor*.
They invited all the Parliament men, all the benchers, and
great officers. All the judges had ^ mourning, as also an
abundance of persons of quality. The Lord Primate of
Ireland, (James) Usher, preach't his funerall sermon.
• Dupl. with • throw.* « Snbst. for ' alter.'
^ Subst for * were.' * Snbst. for * were in.'
Aubre/s 'Brief Lives*
I
His grave was about ten foot decpe or better, walled up
a good way with bricks, of which also the bottome was
paved, but the sides at the bottome for about two foot
high were of black polished marble, wherein his coffin
(covered with black bayes) lyeth, and upon that wall
of marble was presently lett downe a huge black marble
stone of great thicknesse, with this inscription : J
HeU jacet corpus "Johannis Seldeni, qui ^(
obiit 30 die Novemhris, 1654.
Over this was turned an arch of brick {for the house
would not loose their grownd), and upon that was throwne
the earth, etc. and on the surface Heth another faire grave-^
stone of black marble, with this inscription : |
I. SELDENVS, I. C. heic situs est.
This coate' ('. . .,3 roses on a fess, between 3 swans'
necks, erased, collared' [this is the coatc of Baker]) is on
the flatt marble ; but is, indeed, the coate of his mother,
for he had none of his owne, though he so well deserved
it, 'Tis strange (me thinke) that he would not have one.
On the side of the wall above, is a faire'' in'^eription
of white marble : the epitaph he made himselfe as is
before sayd, and Marchamond Needham, making mention
of it in his Mercuriits Politicus, sayd 'twas well he did it,
for no man els could doe it for him. He was buried by
Mr. (Richard) Johnson, then Master of the Temple, the
directory way, where Mr. Johnson tooke an occasion to
say *, ' a learned man sayes that when a learned man dies
a great deale of learning dies with him : then certainly in
this,' etc.
• Joannes Seldeih;s
heic juxta situ$,
Natus est xvi Decembris, mdlxxxiv,
Salvintoniae,
Qui viculus est Terring occidentalis
in Sussexiae maritimis,
Parent i bus honestis,
^ SabEt for ' decent'
John Selden 223
Joanne Seldeno Thomae filio,
e quinis secundo,
Anno MDXLi nato,
et
Margareta filia et haerede unica
Thomae Bakeri de Rushington,
ex equestri Bakeronim in Cantio familia,
filius e amis superstitum unicus,
aetatis fere LXX annonim.
Denatus est ultimo die Novembris,
Anno Salutis Reparatae MDCLIV,
per quam expectat heic
RESVRRECTIONEM
Felicem.
He would tell his intimate friends, Sir Bennet Hoskyns,
etc., that he had nobody to make his heire, except it
were a milke-mayd, and that such people did not know
what to doe with a great estate. Memorandum : — bishop
Grostest, of Lincoln, told his brother, who asked him to
make him a grate man ; ' Brother,' said he, * if your plough
is broken, I'le pay the mending of it \ or if an oxe is dead,
rie pay for another : but a plough-man I found you, and
a plough-man Tie leave you ' — Fuller's Holy State ^ p. . . .
He never used any artificiall help to strengthen his
memorie : 'twas purely naturall.
t He haa a ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^'^> ^ guessc about 6 foot high ;
of*™^*bSore sharp ovall face ; head not very big ; long nose
fcon?2rdanccof inclining to onc side; full popping eie (gray).
B^'^nio^^"' He was a poet f, and Sir John Suckling brings
worU; &c j^jj^ i^ ^g c Session of the Poets.'
The poets met, the other day,
And Apollo was at the meeting, they say,
'Twas strange to see how they flocked together:
There was Selden, and he stood next to the chaire,
And Wenman not far off, which was very faire,
etc.
He was one of the assembly of divines in those
dayes (as was also his highnesse . . . Prince Elector
I
Palatine'), and was like a thoriie in their sides; for he
did baffle and vexe" them; for he was able to runne
them all downe with his Greeke and antiquities.
Sir Robert Cotton (the great antiquary, that collected
the library) was his great friend, whose son. Sir 7'homas
^ Maaona- Cotton, was obnoxious to the Parliament, and
F»bi^FhiHpa skuIkcd in the countrcy: Mr. Selden had the
StJdenbad " key and command of the library, and pre-
£o^.^lii™^ served it, being then a Parliament man.
finr.hatthat vr - * * ■ - , - ,-,
thcUnivaaiiy He mtcndcd to have given his owne library
had diubligol , ,, . , ^ . , ..
<him)bynot to the University of Oxford t, but received dis-
lemUiaif Rim H
Ms.orMss. obligation from them, for that they would not
lend him some MSS. ; wherfore by his will he left it to
the disposal] of his executors, who gave it to the Bodlean
library, at Oxon.
He understood . . . languages : — Latin, Greeke,
Hebrew, Arabique, besides the learned modem.
In his writing of ... he used his learned friend,
Mr. Henry Jacob, of Merton College, who did transcribe
etc. for him, and as he was writing, would many times
putt-in things of his owne head, which Mr. Selden did let
stand, as he docs, in his preface, acknowledge.
In his younger yeares he affected obscurity of style,
which, after, he quite left off, and wrote perspicuously.
'Twill be granted that he was one of the greatest critiques
of his time.
I remember my sadler who wrought many yeares to
that family'' told me that Mr. Selden had got more
by his marriage then he had done by his practise. He was
no eminent practiscr at barre; not but that he was or
might have been able enough ; but after he had got a
d/iUe ocium he chiefly addicted himselfe to his more
ingeniose studies and records.
I have heard some divines say (I know not if maliciously)
that 'twas true he was a man of great reading, but gave
not his owne sentiment.
He was wont to say 'lie keepe myselfe warnie and
» Dupl. with ' confute." . ' The earl of Kent's or Hhrewsbni y'l.
William Shakespear 225
moyst as long as I live, for I shall be cold and dry when
I am dead.'
* John Selden, esq., would write sometimes, when
notions came into his head, to preserve them, under his
barber's hands. When he dyed his barber sayd he had
a great mind to know his will, 'For,' sayd he, *I never
knew a wise man make a wise will.' He bequeathed his
estate (40,000 It. value) to four executors, viz. Lord Chiefe
Justice Hales, Lord Chief Justice Vaughan, Rowland Jukes,
and . . . (his flatterer) — from Fabian Philips.
Notes,
• Sir Thomas Mallet, Justice of the King's Bench 1641-45, 1660-63.
' John Selden matiic. at Hart Hall Oct 34, 1600, aged 15. Giles
Mompesson matric. at Hart Hall, same day, aged 16.
• Henry Grey succeeded as 7th earl of Kent in 1623, died 1639. ^^^
widow Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Gilbert Talbot, 7th earl of Shrewsbury,
died Dec 7, 1651, bequeathing her estate to Selden.
• It is not clear whether this is * Sir J. C or * Sir J. H.' (in a monogram). If
the former, perhaps ' Sir John Cotton ' ; if the latter, as is more probable, then
perhaps Sir John Hoskyns, son of Sir Bennet, p. 233.
• Anthony Wood adds the note: * Vide Collect, ex Convoc. 1653,* i. e. Wood's
own Collections ex reg. Convoc. Oxon. (MS. l^odl. 594^ : see Clark*s Wood's
Life and Tinus, i. 187, 209.
• Reported slightly more fully by Aubrey, writing April 7, 1673, in MS.
Wood F. 39, fol. 199* : — * Mr. Johnson, minister of the Temple, buryed him,
secundum usum Directory, where, amongst other things, he quoted ^'thesayeing
of a learned man " (he did not name him) " that when a learned man dies, there
dyes a great deale of learning with him/' and that " if learning could have kept
a man alive our brother had not dyed." '
^ Charles Louis. ' He received permission from the House of Commons to
sit and hear on Oct. 24, (1643), but does not seem to have actually made
his appearance till the 28th : when an address of welcome was made by the
Prolocutor, Dr. (William) Twisse, who had been at one time chaplain to the
princess (his mother), and a reply was made by the prince. Somewhat frag-
mentary notes of his speech are found in the first volume of the minutes of the
Westminster Assembly, which has never been published ' — a note kindly sent
me by Dr. A. F. Mitchell, Emeritus Professor of Ecclesiastical History in
St. Andrews.
William Shakespear (1564-1616).
** Mr. William Shakespear was borne at Stratford upon
Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher,
» MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8i\
** MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 109. Aubrey draws, in the margin, a wreath of laurel.
II. Q
I
and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours,
that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but
when he kill'd a calfe he would doe it in a high style, and make
a speech. There was at that time another butcher's son
in this towne that was held not at all inferior to him for
A naturall witt, his acquaintance and coctanean, but dyed
young.
This William being inclined naturally to poetry and
acting, came to London, I guesse, about iH; and was an
actor at one of the play-housea, and did act exceedingly
well (now B. Johnson was never a good actor, but an
excellent instructor).
He began early to make essayes at dramatique poetry,
which at that time was very lowe ; and his playes tooke well.
He was a handsome, well shap't man : very good com-
pany, and of a very readie and pleasant smooth witt.
The humour of . ■ . the constable, in Midsonwrnigfifs
Drrame, he happened to take at Grendon in Bucks —
I thinlte it was Midsomer night that he happened to lye
there — which is the roade from London to Stratford, and
there was living that constable about [643, when I first
came to Oxon : Mr. Josias Howe is of that parish, and
knew him. Ben Johnson and he did gather humours of
men dayly where ever they came. One time as he was at the
tavern at Stratford super Avon, one Combes, an old rich
usurer, was to be buryed, he makes there this extemporary
epitaph,
Ten in the hundred the Devill allowes,
But Combes will have twelve, he sweares and vowes :
If any one askes who lies in this tombe,
' Hoh 1 ' quoth the Devill, ' 'Tis my John o Combe.'
He was wont to goe to his native countrey once a yeare.
I thinke I have been told that he left a or 300 /(. per
annum there and thereabout to a sister. Vide his epitaph
in Dugdale's Warwickshire,
I have heard Sir William Davenant and Mr. Thomas
Shadwell (who is counted the best comoedian we have
Ralph Sheldon. John Sherburne 227
now) say that he had a most prodigious witt, and did
admire his naturall parts beyond all other dramaticall
writers. He was wont to say (B. Johnson's Underwoods)
that he * never blotted out a line in his life * ; sayd Ben:
Johnson, * I wish he had blotted-out a thousand/
His comoedies will remaine witt as long as the English
tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominiim.
Now our present writers reflect so much upon particular
persons and coxcombeities, that twenty yeares hence they
will not be understood.
Though, as Ben: Johnson sayes of him, that he had but
little Latine and lesse Greek, he understood Latine pretty
well, for he had been in his younger yeares a schoolmaster
in the countrey. — from Mr. . . . Beeston ».
Ralph Sheldon (1623-1684).
■
* Ralph Sheldon, of Beoley, esq., natus at Weston,
Warwickshire, Aug. 4, 1623, about 5 of the clock in the
morning.
Memorandum the plott brake out in Oct. 1678. His
house was search't ; he disarmed ; and afterwards a prisoner
at Warwick.
Anno . . ., very like to dye of a dropsey— quaere
Sir Thomas Millington de hoc.
Faire Madam Frances Sheldon (one of the maydes of
honour ^) was born 24 Febr. at 8 or 9 at night. She was
23 last Febr. (167 J).
Note,
This Ralph Sheldon was Anthony Wood's friend : see Clark's Wood's Lifa
and Times ^ ii. aa;, iii. 98.
John Sherburne (161 6-1 635).
** Sir Edward Shirboum, knight, natus 1 8** Sept. A.D.
1616, hora 10 A.M. A little past halfe an hower after was
born his twin brother John, who died anno aetatis 19**.
• See vol. i. p. 97. * To Catherine, queen of Charles II.
♦ MS. Aubr. as, fol. 80. ♦* MS. Aubr. 33, fol. 73\
Q a
Both were borne before eleaven a clock ; both excelieat
scholars ; and excellent poets.
John, before he dyed, translated Ovid's Kpistles, and
better (I am informed, by Sir Edward, and John Davya
of Kidwelly) then any we have in print.
James Shirley (1594-1666).
* James Shirley :^capt, (Edward) Shirbume, and
Mr. (Thomas) Stanley{(author of) de vitis philosopkorunt,
who was his scholar), say that he was of no University ;
bred a Panic's schole scholar.
He taught in Shoe lane : quaere. _
Thomas Shirley (1638-1678),
** Thomas Shirley ', M.D., of Weston-neston in Suffolk,
edidit' 'A true and perfect account of the examination
confession tryall and condemnation, and execution of Joan
Perry and her two sonnes for the supposed murther of
Mr. William Harrison, being one of the most remarkable
occurrences that hath happened in the memory of man ' ;
Lond., for Rowland Reynolds next Arundel gate opposite
to St. Clements Church, 1676, stitch't, 4to.
Vide in (Sir Thomas) Herbert's travells, where are
honourable remembrances of his relations in Persia.
' Aubrej' gives in Iricl: the coal ; — ' paly of 6, or and aiure, a ouiton ermine.'
' Anthony Wood notes here : — ' Thb was wrilten by Sir Thomas Overbury
of Bouiton on the hill to Dr. Thomo* Shirley." See Clark's Wood's Life and
John Sloper.
*** Mrs. Abigail Sloper [Grove] borne at Broad Chaike
neer Salisbury, a.d. 1648 (the widowe Chaike sayeth
'twas on a Thursday). She was baptized May 4th, 1648.
Good wife Smyth (then a servant there) sayeth she beleeves
• MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9. •• MS. Aubr, 8, fol. 91'.
"• MS. Aubr. 13, fol. 91.
I
Jane Smyth 2!2ic)
she was borne 14 of Aprill. Pride ; lechery ; ungrate-
full to her father ; maried, . . . ; runne distracted, . . . ;
recovered, . . .
John Sloper, my godson, baptized Feb. 7, 1649.
Note.
John Sloper, fkther of these two, was vicar of Broad Chalk, Wilts. ; see in the
life of John Hales.
Jane Smyth (1649-16 — ).
* Mris Jane Smyth borne at . . . the 15th of April
1 649, between fower and 5 a clock in the morning. — She
was told on Venus's day, i.e. Fryday*: if not so, 'twas
on a Tuesday. It was the April after the beheading King
Charles the first. It thundered and lightened and the
house was on fire then.
My almanac, 1676, says the natalis was the 14th April**
—quod N.B. : but Mrs. J. S. tells me again 'twas the
fifteenth.
About 7 yeares old she lived in Sussex, Redhill,
neer which Mr. Bradshaw, schoolmaster, lived — uxores
germanorum.
On her trunk is : — ^g
1.8.
She came the second time to London halfe a yeare
before the great plague in 1665.
She was sick of a feaver a.d. 1665 ; she sayd, not in
London.
She was like to dye of St. Anthonie's fire about
Michaelmas 1675. Mris Smyth fell sick dangerously of
a pleurisie about the first weeke of October 1675. About
the latter end of March 167^ she had a terrible chronical!
disease °, under which she laboured a 12 month or +.
The first weeke in August 1683, in extreme danger of
death by a suppression of urine, the ureters being stopped.
* MS. Aubr. 33, notes on foil. ^ April 14, 1648, was a Friday.
32^-56. ° Lues Venerea : fol. 31.
^ April 15, 1649, was a Sunday.
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»
* Now I conclude with an earnest request that you
would please to enquire for a colledgc lease, as you did
for Edward Shirbourne* (whom nobody can find''). It is
for that obliging body, Mris Smith, that lives with
Mr. WyJd. They cohabite, as Mary, countess of Pembrolce,
with Sir Martin Lister. I owe most of Mr. Wyld's civility
from her goodness. And herein you will doe me the
greatest kindness that you could imagine, for I am more
obliged to her than to anybody. I beseech you, for God's
sake, to mind this humble request of mine.
Charles Snell (1639-16 — ).
** Charles Snell, armiger, natus December 30,
between 8 and 9 P.M. He maried September 1672.
Neu.
Cfair1c9 Snctl lived neir Fording bridj^e in Ilampshiic He occnrt in these
■ Bcier Lives ' and other Aubrey MSS. as > frequcDl corrMpondent of Anbrcy'^
on matters astroli^ica].
God's ^^
John Speed (1543-1629).
*** He is in effigie, a faire monument, not much unlike
Mr. Camden, in the south side of the chancell of St. Giles
Cripplegate ". p. m. Charissimorum
Parentam
Johannii 5p«d dii^ Londinensi^
iKrcUanini Kiidonim fialii*, ierii Gd
■imi i=Bianim majtstalom Eliiabeth
Jaeobi et Caroli none lupcrxitii, lemt
noalranim gngraphi accuiati vt Hd
Anliquitalis Brilannicae hirtoriogiap
GcncoloEiae Mcrar dcgantitnmi deline
non Urn murbo confediu qium man
Joly jB, 1619, ct JDCundinino Red
nao cam ChriHm venerit rectptnn
• Aubrey to Wood in MS. Wood F.
3Q, fol. 38; : June ap, 1689.
* In Feb. 168S: Clark's Wood's
life and Times, iii. 151.
" See p. 178.
" MS. Aubr. ij, fol. 41'.
"• MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 17. Aubrey
and gules,
paling, aiB
rma : — 'parted per fe5s or
n chief 1 "pidgeons"; im-
e, achevroQ ermine between
" Anthony Wood notes in the
margin: 'This is printed in Stowe'i
Surv4y, edit. 1633, fol. . . .'
John Speidell. Sir Henry Spelman 231
John Speidell.
* Mr. . . . Spiedell : — he taught mathematiques in
London, and published a booke in quarto named Spiedel's
Geometrical Extractions (London •, 1 6^-)^ which made
young men have a love to geometric.
Sir Henry Spelman (i 562-1 641).
** Sir Henry Spelman, knight, borne at . . . (quaere
Henry Spelman, his grandson).
From Mr. Justice BalP at Windsore : — when he was
about 10 or 12 he went to schoole to a curs*t school-
master, to whom he had an antipathic. His master would
discountenance him, and was very severe to him, and to
a dull boy he would say as very a dunce as H. Spelman,
He was a boy of great spirit, and would not leame there.
He was (upon his importunity) sent (to) another school-
master, and profited very well. I have heard his grandson
say, that the Spelmans* witts open late.
He was much perplexed with lawe-suites and worldly
troubles, so that he was about 40 before he could settle
himselfe to make any great progresse in learning, which
when he did, we find what great monuments of antiquarian
knowledge he has left to the world. W. Laud, archbishop
of Canterbury, had a great esteeme for him, and made him
one of the ... of the High Commission Court ; yet (he
being one that was extreme rigid as to the licensing of
bookes, and against any notivelle) hindred the printing of
the 2d part of his Glossary, which began at M, where there
were three M*s that scandalized the Archbishop, viz. —
Magna Charta ; Magnum Consilium Regis ; and . . .
From George Lee : — he was a handsome gentleman (as
appeares by his picture in Bibliotheca Cottoniana), strong
and valiant, and wore allwayes his sword, till he was about
70 or +, when, finding his legges to faulter through
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 85. ** MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 89.
* Lond. 1617. '^ ? Sir Peter Ball, recorder of Exeter.
Aubrey's 'Brie/ Lives'
I
feeblenes as he was walking, 'Now,' said he. " 'tis time to
leave off my sword.'
When his daughter-in-lawe (Sir John's wife) returned
home from visitting her neighbours, he would alwaies aske
her what of antiquity she had heard or observed, and if
she brought home no such account, he would chide her
(jestingly).
He lies buried in the south crosse-aisle of Westminster
abbey, at the foot of the pillar opposite to Mr. Camden's
monument, but without any word of inscription or monu-
ment hitherto (1680). * I very well remember his penon
that hung-up there, but it was either taken downe or fell
downe when the scaffolds were putt up at the coronation
of his majestie king Charles II.
Sir William Diigdalc knew Sir Henry Spelman, and
sayes he was as tall as his grandson, Harry Spelman. He
haz been told that Sir Henry did not understand Latin
perfectly till he was fourty years old. He said to Sir
William. ' We are beholding to Mr. Speed and Stowe for
stiuhhig up for us our Knglish History.' It secmcs they
were both taylers — quod N.B.
Note.
Anlirey noles Ihat he was of ' Cambr.' ; and (^<fs in trick the cost : — ' sable.
i
i
9 plat.
Edmund Spenser (i553~i59b)-
** Mr. Edmund Spencer was of Pembrooke-hall in
Cambridge ; he misst the fellowship there which bishop
Andrewes gott. He was an acquaintance and frequenter
of Sir Erasmus Dreyden. His mistris, Rosalind, was
a kinswoman of Sir Erasmus' lady's. The chamber there
at Sir Erasmus' is still called Mr. Spencer's chamber.
Lately, at the College takeing-downe the wainscot of his
chamber, they found an abundance of cards, with stanzas
of the ' Faerie Queen ' written on them. — from John
Dreyden, esq.. Poet Laureate.
• MS. Anbr. fi, fol. 89'. " MS. Anbr. 8, foU 41.
William Stafford. Robert Stafford 233
Mr. Beeston sayes he was a little man, wore short haire,
little band and little cuffs.
* Edmund Spenser : — Mr. Samuel Woodford (the poet,
who paraphras'd the Psalmes) lives in Hampshire neer
Alton, and he told me that Mr. Spenser lived sometime
in these parts, in this delicate sweet ay re; where he
enjoyed his muse, and writt good part of his verses.
I have said before that Sir Philip Sydney and Sir Walter
Ralegh were his acquaintance. He had lived some time
in Ireland, and wrote • a description of it, which is printed
with Morison's History, or Description, of Ireland.
Sir John Denham told me, that archbishop Usher, Lord
Primate of Armagh, was acquainted with him, by this
token : when Sir William Davenant's Gondibert came forth,
Sir John askt the Lord Primate if he had seen it. Said
the Primate, * Out upon him, with his vaunting preface, he
speakes against my old friend, Edmund Spenser.'
In the south crosse-aisle of Westminster abbey, next the
dore, is this inscription :
* Heare lies (expecting the second comeing of our Saviour
Christ Jesus) the body of Edmund Spencer, the Prince
of Poets of his tyme ; whose divine spirit needs no
other witnesse then the workes which he left behind
ft^ him. He was borne in London, in the yeare 1510,
and dyed in the yeare 1596.'
William Stafford (i 593-1 684).
Robert Stafford (1588-1644).
** William Stafford, of Thornbury in com. Gloc, esq.,
descended of the family of the duke of Buckingham, was
a student of Christ Church, Oxon. Old Dr. Fell ^ was his
tutor. About 30 yeares + since "" he printed a pamphlet,
viz. The reasons of the warre, I thinke he was a parlia*
* MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 83. Anthony • SuUt for « made.'
Wood adds the reference ' Edmund ** MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5^.
Spencer, vide pag. 53 b,' i. e. fol. 82' *> i. e. Samuel Fell, dean of Ch. Ch.
of MS. Aubr. 6, in the life of Sir 1638.
Philip Sydney. ^ i. e. more than thirty.
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334 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
tnent man — but of that party he was- He dyed about:!
May last, i6J*4, aged , . . (at) Thornbury,
* Dorothy, sister lo William Stafford aforesayd, married '
to her first husband, (Robert) Stafford, her kinsman, who
was of Exeter Coll., and pupill to Dr. John Prideaulx.
He wrote a thin 4to Geographic, which I have read.
I remember he begins thus ;—
' Indignation made Juvenal a poet and me a geographer,'
Thomas Stanley {1625-1678).
** Thomas Stanley, esqr., son to Sir Thomas Stanley,
born at Cumberlow . . .
Hbpraeceptor, Mr. William Fairfax, in his father's howse.
Was of Pembrooke hall in Cambridge) where he took
the degree of Master of Arts.
Was admitted ad euridem gradum in Oxford.
Writ his poems about the years 1646, 1647.
His History of Philosophy, in the years 1655, 1656.
His Aeschylus about the same time.
Dy'd April 12, 167S. Buried at St. Martin's in the
Fields, in the middle isle.
His eldest sonne is Thomas Stanley, esq., of the Middle
Temple, jurisconsultus*. He hath left two other sonnes,
viz. 2. George, 3. Charles.
Thomas Stanley, the sonne, aforesayd, translated Aelian's
Variae Historiae at 14 ycares of age. He was also of
Pembrooke-hall in Cambridge.
Quaere his sonne pro nativitate patris and also of what
age he was when he went to Cambridge,
Biohard Staper {15 160S).
*** Richard Staper, alderman of London ; — On the south
wall of St. Martin Outwich church, London, is a faire
monument with this inscription, viz. —
Here resielh the bodie of the worshipful! Richard Staper, elected
alderman of this citty anno 1594. He was the greatest merchant in
• MS. Aubi. 7,fol. 6.
•• MS, Aubr, 8, fol, 97.
Thomas Stapleton. Thomas Stephens 235
his time, the chiefest actor in the discovery of the trades of Turkey
and East India, a man humble in prosperity, painfull and ever ready
in affaires publique, and discreetly carefull of his private, a liberall
howsekeeper, bountifull to the poore, an upright dealer in the world,
and a divout aspirer after the world to come, much blessed in his
posterity, and happy in his and their allyaunces. He dyed the last
June anno Domini 1608.
Intravit ut exiret.
Besides the figures of himselfe and wife are 5 sonnes and
4 daughters. At the top of the monument is a shippe.
Npte,
Anbreygivesintrick three coats: — (i) * argent, a cross between 4estoyIes sable*;
(a) the same ; impaling, . . ., a cross • . . ; (3) the coat of the clothworkers'
company, viz., (sable) a chevron ermine between (a hanettes) in chief (argent)
and in base (a teazel or).
Thomas Stapleton (1535-1598).
* Thomas Stapleton, D.D., e Societate Je$u (vide
Anthony Wood's Antiq. Oxon,)wa,s bom at Henford* in
Sussex, which is about the middle of the river that runnes
to Shoreham.
He was formerly of New Colledge in Oxon. Q^ Quaere
of attorneys of that countrey if his familie continues^ in
those parts still : and if so, if his pi(:ture is there or
elswhere ; and quaere for it at the Convent at Lovaine
where he died. Dr. John*^ Lamphire, principall of Hart
Hall, would present it to the Schooles^.
Thomas Stapleton, of Henfield, Sussex, adm. probationer of New College
Jan. 18, 155I; adm. Fellow Jan. 18, 155! : resigned his fellowship in 1559.
Thomas Stephens (1620-16 — ).
** Mr. Steevens®, formerly of Pembrocke College, my
old acquaintance there ; but formerly at Blandford schole
* MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 88\ Bodleian.
• Snbst for ' Henfold.' *♦ Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol.
^ Snbst. for * remafaies.* 273' : May 30, 1674.
« Written * Henry ' : but corrected • Thomas Stephens matric. at
by Anthony Wood. Pembroke in 1637, ^^ ^^^ * degree
^ i.e. the Picture Gallery at the in Arts in 164a.
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236 Jltibrey's ''Brief Lives'
in Dorset, where he was usher about a ycare and by
whom I reap't much information : since schoolemaster of
Buckingham ; and last, of Worcester : a very good and
ingeniose person, J
Hichaj-d Stokes [16 1681). ^
* (Richard) Stokes. M,D.— his father was fellow of
Eaton College (quaere if not prebend of Windsor', and if not
schoolmaster of Eaton ? quaere Christopher Wase de hiis).
He was bred there and at King's College. Scholar to
Mr. W. Oughtred for Mathematiques (Algebra). He made
himselfe mad with it, but became sober again, but I feare
like a crackt glasse: vide my Lives'", and Surrey notes".
Edidit Mr. Oughtred's " Trigonometrie.' Became a Roman
Catholique ; maricd unhappily at Liege, dog and catt, etc.
Became a sott. Dyed in Newgate, prisoner for debt, . . .
April, 1681 (quaere Mr. Evcrard diem).
John Stowe (1525-1605), 1
** He was of the company of the Merchant Taylors, as
by the scutcheon of that company* doeth appeare —
quaere + " of that company,
St. Andrewes Undershaft, London, i. e. under, or by, the
Maypole, which was anciently called a shaft. It stood
over against the west end of the church, where now
Mr. (Michael) Weekes's howse is.
His monument is in effige, sitting with a little table
before him, with a booke. He was a handsome sanguine
old man. 'Tis well carved (of wood) and painted.
On the north side of the chancel at the upper end ' ; —
Memoriae Sacrum
Kesurrectionem in Chrisio hie expeaat Johannes Stowe, Civis
LondinensiE, qui, in antiquis monumentis eruendis accural issima
■ MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 18. °i. e. Aubrey'K PeiambnlUioD of
'Anthony Wood notes; 'Vide Surrey (MS. Aubr. 4).
among WindEore epitaphs.' ** MS. Anbr, 6, foL 90*.
■• i. e. in the liTe of W. Oughtred, * i. e. ii
supra, p. 108. • i.e. &
Thomas Street 237
diligentia usus, Angliae AnnaUs et Civitatis Londini Synopsim, bene
de sua, bene de postera aetate meritus, luculenter scripsit. Vitaeque
stadio pie et probe decurso, obiit aetatis anno 80
Die 5 Aprilis 1605.
Elizabetha conjux, ut perpetuum sui amoris testimonium, dolens . . .
* Sir William Dugdale told me that speakeing of . . .
Stowe to Sir Henry Spelman, Sir Henry told him that he
bad ' stich't us up a historie.' He was a taylor.
Note,
' Aubrey gives a drawing of the monnment. At the top are the arms of the
Merchant Tailors* Company, viz. ' argent, a royal tent between two parliament
robes gales lined ermine, on a chief azore a lion passant guardant or.* Under-
neath is ' his effigies.* On the right side, the legend Aut scribenda agere over
the figure of his ' Annales of England*; on the left, the legend A%U legenda
scriberi over the figaze of his 'Survey of London.*
Thomas Street (i62i-i689).
** Mr. Thomas Streete f, astronomer, was borne ^ in
Ireland, his widowe thinkes, at Castle Lyons,
nocnical tables March the 5*^ 162I.
ewwcreyct Anno 1661 he printed that excellent piece
of Astronomia Carolina^ which he dedicated to
king Charles H, and also presented it well bound to prince
Rupert and the duke of Monmouth, but never had a
farthing of any of them.
Afterwards he published an Appendix to his Astronomia
Carolina, 4to, which makes it perfect — printed for Francis
Cossinet at the Anchor and Mariner in Tower Street,
1664.
Before this appendix he writes thus, scilicet : —
* I doe here think it fitting for once publiquely to propose
unto all the world that by the farther blessing of God on my
astronomical studies since the publication of my Astronomia
Carolina I can discover and demonstrate the never yet
discovered art and science of finding ^jT the true
longitude, and can make it universally practicable at sea
and land with the like ease and certainty as the latitude,
♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. V. ♦» MS. Auhr. 8, foL 88.
and though the failings of severall specious pretenders to
this discovery have almost perswadcd the world to believe
the impossibility thereof, if those that are most concerned
herein will accept of it, either upon the same termes which
them selves have already offered or other the like just and
proportionable considerations, this proposall shall be (God
willing) on my part faithfully and according to the attest
of competent judges performed ; otherwise I intend not to
proceed any farther with it.
'Thomas Streete.' ■
* He had the true motion of the moon by which he
could doe it — {he hath finished the tables of the moon and
also of Mercury, which was never made perfect before) — but
two of his familiar acquaintance tell me that he did not
committ this discovery to paper : so it is dead with him.
He made attempts to be introduced to king Charles II and
also to king James II, but courtiers would not doc it
without a good gratuitie.
He was of a rough and cholerique humour. Discoursing
with prince Rupert, his highnessc affirmed something that
was not according to art ; sayd Mr. Street, ' whoever
affirmes that is * no mathematician.' So they would point
at him afterwards at court and say ' There's the man that
huff't prince Rupert.'
{Scripsit: — )
*■* Memorial verses relating to the Calendar, 4to.
Some Almanacks, for about three yeares, dedicated to
Elias Ashmole, esquire : but was not encouraged for his
great paines. — He was one of Mr. Ashmoie's clarkes in the
Excise office, which was his chiefest lively-hood.
The Planetary Systeme, with a description of the house,
(Mr. Morden haz of them) — this was about 1670.
*** He hath left with his widowe ({who) lives in Warwick
lane at the signe of the . . . ) an absolute piece of
Sir Francis Stuart 239
Trigonometric, plain and spherical, in MS., more perfect
than ever was yet donne, and more cleare and demon-
strated.
He dyed in Chanon-row (vulgarly Channel-rowe) at
Westminster, the 17th of August 1689, and is buried in
the church yard of the new chapell there towards the
east window of the chancel, scilicet, within twenty or
30 foot of the wall.
Hee made this following epitaph himself : —
* Here lies the earth of one that thought some good,
Although too few him rightly understood:
Above the starres his heightned mind did flye,
His hapier spirit into Eternity.*
His acquaintance talke of clubbing towards an inscription.
No man living haz deserved so well of astronomie.
' MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 87, is a lithographed chart for inserting a scheme of
nativity, * sold by George Parker at the Leopard in Newgate Street.* On it
Anbrey has pnt the scheme for the subject of this biography, on the calcula-
tion * Mr. Thomas Street natus March 5***, 162 1, at 5^ 43' la" P.M., latitude
51^ 46'.* Some notes about astrological conjunctions at various times in his
life follow ; and the note ' maried at 55*"". a33*^«*.'
Sir Francis Stuart.
* This Sir Francis Stuart • was uncle (or great uncle) to
the present dutchesse of Richmond.
He was a sea-captaine, and (I thinke) he was one
summer a vice or rere-admirall. He was a learned gentle-
man, and one of the club at the Mermayd, in Fryday street,
with Sir Walter Ralegh, etc., of that sodalitie : heroes and
witts of that time. Ben Jonson dedicates TAe Silent
Woman to him.
* To the truly noble by all titles Sir Francis Stuart.
' This makes that I now number you not only in the
* MS.Aubr. 8, fol. 91. husband of Elizabeth, oonntess of
* Second son to James Stuart^ Moray ; K.B. June a, 1610.
240 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives*
names of favour but the names of justice to what I write,
and doe presently call you to the exercise of the noblest
and manliest vertue as coveting rather to be freed in my
fame by the authority of a judge than the credit of an
undertaker,'
Henry Stubbe (1634-1676).
* Dr. Henry Stubbs, physitian at Warwick, drowned
July the middest 1676, riding between Bath and Bristol.
Born 1631 Febr.
Six John Sackling (160^-1641).
** Sir John Suckling', knight, was the eldest son of
{Sir John) Suckling, of the Green Cloath, tempore* . . .
(I thinke, Car. I). His mother was the daughter of . . .
He was borne (Febr. i60e)-
Ihave heard Mris Bond say, that Sir John's father was
but a dill! fellow [her husband, Mr. Thomas Bond, knew
him) : the witt came by the mother.
Quaere Dr. Busby if he was not of Westminster schoole ?
he might be about his time, I have heard Sir William
Davenant say that he went to the university of Cambridge
at eleaven yeares of age, where he studied three or four
yeares (I thinke, four). By 18 he had well travelled France
and Italie, and part of Germany, and (I thinke also) of
Spaine.
He returned into England an extraordinary accomplished
gentleman, grew famous at court for his readie sparkling
witt which was envyed, and he was {Sir William sayd) the
bull that was bayted. He was incomparably readie at
repartyng, and his witt most sparkling when most sett-
upon and provoked.
He was the greatest gallant of his time, and the greatest
• MS. Aubr. 13, M. 33. James
" MS. Aubr. 6, fol, no. hold t.
' Coalroller of the Hontehold to
Str John Suckling 241
gamester, both for bowling f and cards, so that no shop-
t He was one of l^^^P^^ would trust him for 6d., as to-day, for
ofliiftlra^n^" instance, he might, by winning, be worth 200 //.,
piayd Steals ^^c ncxt day he might not be worth half so
SriL'^o^'*"^ much, or perhaps be sometimes minus nihilo.
fS^Tfea^bed, Sir William (who was his intimate friend, and
rtudy!S'how the loved him intirely) would say that Sir John,
manJ^n/the when he was at his lowest ebbe in gameing,
H^sirt^^*^* I meane when unfortunate, then would make
^cadfiiS^^* himselfc most glorious in apparell, and sayd
cr^nefoM'h? that it exalted his spirits, and that he had
iTOSeafic their) then bcst luck whcn he was most gallant, and
portions. <■■ ••< «*i .•
his spirits were highest.
Sir William would say that he did not much care for
a lord's converse, for they were in those dayes damnably
proud and arrogant, and the French would say that * My
lord d'Angleterre . . .*comme un mastif-dog*; but now
the age is more/efined, and much by the example of his
gracious majestie, who is the patterne of courtesie.
Anno Domini 163- there happened, unluckily, a dif-
ference between Sir John Suckling and Sir John Digby
(brother to Sir Kenelme) about a mistresse or gameing,
I have now forgott. Sir John was but a slight timberd
man, and of midling stature ; Sir John Digby a proper
person of great strength, and courage answerable, and
yielded to be the best swordman of his time. Sir John,
with some 2 or 3 of his party assaults Sir John Digby goeing
into a play-house ; Sir J. D. had only his lacquey with
him, but he** flew on them like a tigre, and made them run.
'Twas pitty that this accident brought the blemish of
cowardise to such an ingeniose young sparke. Sir J. D.
was such a hero that there were very few but he would
have served in the like manner.
Anno Domini 163- when the expedition was into
Scotland, Sir John Suckling, at his owne chardge, raysed
a troope of 100 very handsome young proper men, whom
• • look't ' is written over *...,* which Aubrey had forgot.
as the English for the French word ^ Sabstitnted for ' Sir John Digby.'
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243 Aubrey's ^ Brief Lives'
he clad in white doubletts and scarlett breeches, and
scarlet coatcs. hatts, and . . . feathers, well horsed, and
armed. They say 'twas one of the finest sights in those
dayes. But Sir John Menis made a lampoon ^ of it
(vide the old collection of lampoons) :
'The ladies opened the windows to see
So fine and goodly a sight-a,' &c.
I thinke the lampoon sayes he made an inglorious
chardge against the Scotts.
Quaere in what army he was in the Civill Warres,
* Anno ... he went into France, where after some
time being come to the bottome of his fund that was left,
reflecting on the miserable and despicable condition he
should be reduced to, having nothing left to maintaine
him, he {having a convenience for that purpose, lyeing at
an apothecarie's house, in Paris) tooke poyson, which killed
him miserably with vomiting. He was buryed in the Pro-
testants church-yard. This was (to the best of my remem-
brance) 1646.
His picture, which is like him, before his Poems, says
that he was but 28 yeares old when he dyed.
He was of middle stature and slight strength, brisque
round eie, reddish fac't and red nose (ill liver), his head
not very big, his hayre a kind of sand colour ; his beard
turnd-up naturally, so that he had brisk and gracefull
looke. He died a batchelour.
Memorandum 1 — he made a magnificent entertainment
in London, at . . ., for a great number of ladies of
quality, all beauties and young, which cost him . , .
hundreds of poundes, where were all the rarities that this
part of the world could afford, and the last service of all
was silke stockings and garters, and I thinke also gloves.
Anno Domini 1637 Sir John Suckling, William Davenant,
poet laureat (not then knighted), and Jack Young came
to the Bathe. Sir John came like a young prince for all
manner of equipage and convenience, and Sir W. Davenant
• MS. Aubr. 6, fol. no'.
Sir John Suckling 243
told me that he had a cart-load of bookes carried downe,
and 'twas there, at Bath, that he writt the little tract in his
booke about Socinianism. *Twas as pjeasant a journey
as ever men had ; in the heighth of a long peace and
luxury, and in the venison season. The second night they
lay at Marlborough, and walking on the delicate fine downes
at the backside of the towne, whilest supper was making
ready, the maydes were drying of cloathes on the bushes.
Jack Young had espied a very pretty young girle, and had
gott her consent for an assignation, which was about mid-
night, which they happened to overheare on the other
side of the hedge, and were resolved to frustrate his
designe. They were wont every night to play at cards
after supper a good while ; but Jack Young pretended
wearinesse, etc. and must needes goe to bed, not to be
perswaded by any meanes to the contrary. They had
their landlady at supper with them ; said they to her,
* Observe this poor gentleman how he yawnes, now is his
mad fit comeing uppon him. We beseech you that you
make fast his dores, and gett somebody to watch and looke
to him, for about midnight he will fall to be most outragious :
gett the hostler, or some strong fellow, to stay-up, and we
will well content him, for he is our worthy friend, and a very
honest gentleman, only, perhaps, twice in a yeare he falls
into these fitts.' Jack Young slept not, but was ready
to goe out as the clock struck to the houre of appointment,
and then goeing to open the dore he was disappointed,
knocks, bounces, stampes, calls, * Tapster 1 Chamberlayne !
Hostler ! ' sweares and curses dreadfully ; nobody would
come to him. Sir John and W. Davenant were expectant
all this time, and ready to dye with laughter. I know not
how he happened to gett-open the dore, and was comeing
downe stayres. The hostler, a huge lusty fellow, fell upon
him, and held him, and crj'^ed, * Good sir, take God in your
mind, you shall not goe out to destroy your selfe.' J. Young
struggled and strived, insomuch that at last he was quite
spent and dispirited, and faine to goe to bed to rest
himselfe. In the morning the landlady of the house
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a44 Aubrey's * Brief Lives'
came to see how he did. and brought him a cawdle. 'Oh
sir,' sayd she, ' you had a heavy fitt last night, pray, sir,
be pleased to take some of this to comfort your heart.'
Jack Young thought the woman had been mad. and being
exceedingly vextd, flirted the porrenger of cawdle in her
face. The next day his camerades told him all the plott,
how they crosse-bitt him. That night they went to
Bronham-house, Sir Edward Baynton's (then a noble seat,
since burnt in the civill warres), where they were nobly
entertained sevcrall dayes. From thence, they went to West
Kington, to parson . . . Davenant, Sir William's eldest
brother, where they stayd a weeke — mirth, witt, and good
cheer flowing. From thence to Bath, six or seven miles.
Memorandum :^parson Robert Davenant haz told me
that that tract about Socinianismc was writt on the table
in the parlour of the parsonage at West Kington.
* My lady Southcot, whose husband hanged himselfe,
was Sir John Suckling's sister, to whom he writes a con-
solatory letter, viz. the first. She afterwards marled
. , . Corbet, D.D., of Merton Coll. Oxon * At her house in
Bishop's Gate-street, London, is an originall of her brother,
Sir John, of Sir Anthony van-Dyke, all at length, leaning
against a rock, with a play '-booke, contemplating. It is
a piece of great value. There is also another rare picture,
viz, of that pretty creature, Mris Jane Shore, an original!.
When his A^/aura was (acted), he bought all thecloathes
himselfe, which were very rich ; no tinsill, all the lace pure
gold and silver, which cost him ... I have now forgott.
He had some scaenes to it, which in those dayes were only
used at masques.
Memorandum : — Mr. Snowdon tells me, that after Sir
John's unluckie rencounter, or quarrell, with Sir John
Digby, wherin he was baflled : 'twas strange to see the
envie and ill nature of people to trample, and scoffe at,
and deject one in disgrace ; inhumane as well as un-christian.
The lady . . . Moray (quaere) had made an entertainment
• MS. Aubr.6,foI. log". Aobrey beads the leaf; 'More of Sir John Snckling.'
* Dupl. with ' paper.'
Sir John Suckling 245
for severall persons of quality at Ashley (in Surrey, near
Chertsey), whereat Mr. Snowdon then was. There was
the countesse of Middlesex, whom Sir John had highly
courted, and had spent on her, and in treating her, some
thousand of pounds. At this entertainment she could
not forbeare, but was so severe and ingrate as to upbraid
Sir John of his late recieved baffle ; and some other ladys
had their flirts. The lady Moray (who invited them)
seing Sir John out of countenance, for whose worth she
alwaies had a respect : ' Well ■,* sayd shee, * I am a merry
wench, and will never forsake an old friend in disgrace,
so {co)me sitt downe by me. Sir John ' (said she), and
seated him on her right hand^ and countenanced him.
This raysed Sir John's dejected spirites that he threw
his reparties about the table with so much sparklingness
and gentilenes of witt, to the admiration of them all.
* Sir John Suckling — from Mr. William Beeston —
invented the game of cribbidge. He sent his cards to
all gameing places in the country, which were marked
with private markes of his : he gott 20,000 //. by this way.
Sir Francis Cornwallis made Aglaura, except the end.
Notes,
^ Aubrey gives io trick the coat : — ' parted per pale gules and argent, 5 bucks
or ; a crescent for difference / wreathing it in laurel. On this he notes : (a)
' This coat was in his banner when he went into Scotland * ; {b)* Suckling of
Wotton in Norfolke*; (r) *vide Heralds* Office'; {d) * Memorandum :^this
Sir John (Suckling) is not to be found in the (Heralds*) Office : quaere Sir
. . . Bourman of White Hall.* Dr. Philip Bliss has added also the reference :
* vide part iii, pag. 4b,* i. e. MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 10^, the passage given supra.
' In the letter in which Aubrey speaks of writing this life {supra i. p. 2 :
MS. Ballard 14, fol. 131) he says: — * I want the scoffing ballad that Sir John
Menis made against him, upon his fine troope and his running away. To
which Sir John Suckling replyed in another ballad : —
"I prithee, foole, who ere thou bee,
That madest this fine sing-song of mee
... a sott
... or els some rebell Scott.*'
Pray, search Mr. (Ralph) Sheldon's ballad collections for them.'
' Anthony Wood objects here : * Dr. Corbet married Sir Nathaniel Brent's
daughter' : sec Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 235
• Subst. for * come.' ♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. io\
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246 Aubreys ^ Brief Lives'
Thomas Satton (1532-1611).
* . . . Sutton, founder of the Hospitall* — from old
Thomas Tyndale, esq,, the father — was first a garrison-
soldier at Banvick''. He was a lusty healthy handsome
fellowe, and there was a very rich brewer who brewed
to the navy, etc., who was ancient and he had raaried
a young buxome wife . . . The old brewer doted on his
desirable wife and dies and left her all his estate which
was great ".
Sutton was a man of good understanding, and improved
if* admirably well, but the particular waycs by which he
did it I have now forgot ; but he was much upon mortgages,
and fed severall with hopes of being his heire.
'Twas from him that B. Johnson tooke his hint of the
fox, and by Seigneur Volpone is meant Sutton.
The later end of his daycs he lived in Fleetstreet at
a woilendraper's shop opposite to Fetterlane, where he
had so many great chests full of money that his chamber
was ready to groane under it ; and Mr. Tyndale, who
knew him and I thinke had money of him on mortgage
during his lawe-suite {vide the lord Stafford's case in
Coke's Reports), was afrayd the roome would fall. He
lived to establish his hospitall, and was governor there
himselfe. Obiit ....
The earle of Dorset {I thinke, Richard) mightily courted
him and presented' him, hoping to have been his heire;
and so did severall other great persons.
Vide his life in 4to.
William Sutton {1562-1632).
** Mr. William Sutton came to Ch. Ch. Oxon at
eleaven. He wrote much, but printed nothing but a little
}<vo against the Papists.
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 59'. niBrrietl this rich widow.
' The Charterhouse. 1 The esUte.
i> Sabst. for ' Nencastle.' * i. e. made presents to him.
° Aabrey omit> to say that Satton ** MS. Aabr. 6, fo[. 17.
Sir Philip Sydney 247
Note.
The Matric. Reg. does not bear out the statement as to his age : he appears
there as matriculating Nov. 30, 1580, aged 18. He may have previously been
cliorister. He was elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1579; ^^^^ 'Q.T). in 1593 ;
and was Aubrey's schoolmaster at Blandford St. Mary*s, Dorsetshire, where he
was rector from 159a till his death.
Sir PhiUp Sydney (i 554-1 586).
* Sir* Philip Sydney, natus 29 November, 1554, 19**
50' P.M., Cantiae, polo 51** 5a' ; ex MSS. Eliae Ashmole^
armigeri.
** Sir Philip Sydney ^, knight, was the most accomplished
cavalier of his time. He was the eldest son of the right
honourable Sir Henry Sydney, knight of the noble order of
the Garter, Lord President of Wales, and Lord Deputie of
Ireland, 1570. I suppose he was borne at Penshurst in
Kent (neer Tunbridge) ; vide.
He had the best tutors provided for him by his father
that could then be had, as . . . Vide my Grammar*
notes.
He travelled France, Italie, Germany; he was in the
t Thi« my Poland warres, and at that time he had to his
iJJj;^'^^**' page t (and as an excellent accomplishment)
pySSJI'hS*' Henry Danvers (afterwards earle of Danby),
niece, has told. ^^^^ stcotiA son of Sir John Danvers of
Dantesey in Wilts, who accounted himselfe happy that his
son was so bestowed. He makes mention, in his Art of
Poesie, of his being in Hungarie (I remember).
He was not only of an excellent witt, but extremely
beautifull ; he much resembled his sister, but his haire was
not red, but a little inclining, viz. a darke amber colour. If
I were to find a fault in it, methinkes *tis not masculine
enough ; yett he was a person of great courage. He was
much at Wilton with his sister, and at Ivy-church ^ (which
adjoyns to the parke pale of Clarindon Parke), situated on
* MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 41*. Napier's papers in Ashmole*s hands.
* The astrological details here given ** MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 82.
are omitted. * The words < anciently a pleasant
^ The same note is given in MS. monasterie * followed : scored out,
Anbr. 23, fol. i a i, out of Dr. Richard because repeated below.
248 Aubrey's 'Brie/ Lives'
a hill that overlookes all the country westwards, and north J
over Sarum and the p!aines, and into that delicious f
(which was accounted the best of England) eastw
It was heretofore a monastery (the cloysters remayne
still) ; 'twas called cocnobium Edrosium. My great uncle,
Mr. Thomas Browne, remembred him ; and sayd that he was
often wont, as he was hunting on our pleasant plaines, to
take his table booke out of his pocket, and write downe his
notions as they came into his head, when he was writing
his Arcadia, (which was never finished by him).
He was the reviver of poetry in those darke times,
which was then at a very low ebbe, — e, g. ' The Pleasant
Comoedie of Jacob and Esau,' acted before King Henry
VHI's grace (where, I remember, is this expression, that
the pottage was so good, that God Almighty might have putt
kis finger in' t) \ ' Grammar Gurton's Needle'; and in these
playes there is not 3 lines but there is ' by God,' or ' by
God's wounds.'
He was of a very munificent spirit, and liberal! to all
lovers of learning, and to those that pretended to any
acquaintance with Parnassus; in so much that he was
cloyd and surfeited with the poetasters of those dayes.
Among others* Mr. Edmund Spencer' made his addresse
to him, and brought his Faery Queen. Sir Philip was busy
at his study, and his servant delivered '' Mr. Spencer's booke
to his master, who layd it by, thinking it might be such kind
of stuffe as he was frequently troubled with. Mr. Spencer
stayd so long that his patience was wearied, and went his
way discontented, and never intended to come again.
When Sir Philip perused it, he was so exceedingly delighted
with it, that he was extremely sorry he was gonne, and
where to send for him he knew not. After much enquiry
he learned his lodgeing, and sent for him, mightily caressed
(him), and ordered his servant to give him . . . pounds in
gold. His servant sayd that that was too much; 'No,'
said Sir Philip, 'he is , . . ,' and ordered an addition.
• MS. Aubr. 6, M. 81'.
• Anlhoay Wood notes ; — 'Edmond
Sir Philip Sydney 249
From this time there was a great friendship between them,
to his dying day.
I have heard Dr. Pell say, that he haz been told by
ancient gentlemen of those dayes of Sir Philip, so famous
for men at armes, that 'twas then held as great a disgrace
for a young gentleman * to be seen riding in the street in
a coach, as it would now for such a one to be seen in the
streetes in a petticoate and wastcoate; so much is the
fashion of the times nowe altered.
He maried the daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham,
Principall Secretary of Estate (I thinke his only child —
quaere), whom he loved very well. . . .
Having recieved some shott or wound in the warres in
the Lowe-countreys, where he had command of . . . (the
Ramikins, I thinke), he (acted) contrary to the injunction
of his physitians and chirurgions, which cost him his life :
upon which occasion there were some roguish verses made.
His body was putt in a leaden coffin (which, after the
firing of Paule's, I myselfe sawe), and with wonderfull
greate state was carried from ... to St. Paule's church,
where he was buried in our Ladie's Chapell : vide Sir
William Dugdale's Paiits^ and epitaph. There solempnized
this funerall all the nobility and great officers of Court ; all
the Judges and Serjeants at Lawe ; all the soldiers, and
commanders, and gentry that were in London ; the Lord
Mayer, and Aldermen, and Livery-men. His body was
borne on men's shoulders (perhaps 'twas a false coffin).
When I was a boy 9 yeares old, I was with my father at
one Mr. Singleton's, an alderman and wollen-draper in
Glocester, who had in his parlour, over the chimney, the
whole description of the funerall, engraved and printed on
papers pasted * together, which, at length, was, I beleeve,
the length of the room at least ; but he had contrived it to
be turned upon two pinnes, that turning one of them made
the figures march all in order. It did make such a strong
impression on my young ^ phantasy, that I remember it as
* < young gentleman * subst for *■ cavalier.'
* MS. Aubr. 6. fol. 83. *» Dnpl. with ' tender.'
350 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
if it were but yesterday. I could never see it elswhere. >
The house is in the great long street, over against* the 1
high steeple ; and 'tis likely it remaines there still, 'Tis
pitty it is not re-donne.
In St, Mary's church at Warwick is a sumptuose monu-
ment of the lord Brooke, round a great altar of black marble
is only this inscription; —
' Here lies the body of Sir Fulke Grevill, knight, servant
to Q, Elizabeth, counsellor to K. James, and friend to Sir ^^
Philip Sydney.' ^H
On a little tablet of wood ;— ^H
^B ' England, Netherlands, the Heavens and the Arts ^H
^B Of . . . Sydney hath made . . . parts ; ^|
^^M ... for who could suppose, ^^M
^H That one heape of stones could Sydney enclose.' ^H
^^1 • Sic Hcniy Sydccv. knlElit or », Mirv. dauchlci of John Dudley. ^H
^^H (lie Guia, ud rrankni of I duke of Nonhumticrliind, tiatr ^^M
^^M Wile* 10 AnibioH. uric ol WvwidL. ^M
^^^^ 1. Sir nillp M. . . . dBBEhtBT aad i. Robrrt, j. Thomu. Miry. ' — 7 '
I iilaj pL .586. 1 1 . ofGU™*
EILubcIh, danghter m. Rag" Mannera, carl guishitE,
and heir at RutUiul. LrMhcn.
c:_ ** Key of Pembroke s Arcadia ',
All the good bodies thanke you for your remembrance,
which I ought to have told you sooner if a paine in my
head had not hinderd me,
I wishe I could give you the key you desire, but all
I know of it is not worth anything; though conversant
amongst his relations, could leame noe more then Pamelas
being my lady Northumberland*, Philo[clea] my lady
Rich ", two sisters, the last beloved by him, upon whose
* Sabst. fur ' neer upon.' married (lodly) Hcory Percy, ninth
■ This pedigree is in MS. Aubr. carl oT NoilbumberlBiid.
6, fol. S3. ° Penelope, elder daughter of
" MS. Aobr.S, fol. 81 B. Walter Derereai, earl of Essei, m,
•* Dorothy, younger dangbter of Robert Rich, Ibitd baron Rich.
Waller Dcvcreni, earl of Esiex,
Sir Philip Sydney 251
account he made his Astrophell and Stella \ Miso, lady
Cox, Mopse, lady Lucy, persons altogether unknowne
now ; Musid[orus] and Pericles, the two ladies' husbands.
Lord Ri[ch] being then his friend, he perswaded her
mother to the match, though he repented afterwards : she
then very young and secretly in love with him but he no
consem for her. Her beauty augmenting, he sayes in his
Astrophel and Stella^ he didnt think ' the morn would have
proved soe faire a daye.' Their mother* was beautiful!
and gallant (whether he meant Ginesia by her or noe,
I know not) ; but their father died, they being young. She
remaried to Dudley, Leycester and Northumberland, and
afterwards to her gentleman of the horse, Sir Cristopher
Blunt, which was beheaded with lord Essex. It was
thought he meant himself by Amphi[alus] and his lady,
Sir Francis Walsingham's daughter and heire, the queen
of Corinth. If he did make his owne character high, they
sayd Philisides was himself to, but it was all a guesse. He
made it young, and diyng desired his folies might be
burnt.
Some others I have heard guessed at, but have forgot.
Therfore canot satisfie the lady, which I would for your
sake.
I give you thankes but shall not want my grandmother's
epitaph (which was for a relation of ours heere, who
desird it), having found it of your giving.
I knew of my brother's place, but know nothing of his
mariyng yett.
My service to your brother. I am sorry all thinges
should not answear both your desires.
You have perfectly the good wishes of,
Your humble servant,
D. Tyndale.
[Langton ^ in Lincolneshire]
Feb. 18, i68|.
• Lettice, daughter of Sir Francis (2nd) Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester,
KnoUeg, married (ist) Walter Deve- brother of Sir PhiUp Sydne/i mother,
lenz, created earl of £ssex in 1572 ; *> The place is inserted by Aubrey.
Aubrey's "^ Brief Lives'
Service to my lady Long. Whyc doe you tell us no J
newes? Does not Mrs. Mason's mar* ... 1
Ncita. \
' Aubrey gi*e> in trick the eon, ' or, b pheon vert [Sytlney],' wreslhed in
kutcl (as is bis custom for a poet'.. Dr. Philip Blihs bis added the icference
'See pari iii ante p. 14 for hit birth,' i.e. the horoscope in MS. Aubi. S,
fol.^l•-I,(J<.;^™p. 147.
' MS. Aabi. II ; lee vol. i. p. taj.
' This ii the Ulle ^xytn by Aubiey to D. Tjndale's Icttw. The letter U
inicrted between foil. 81, 8j ofMS. Aubr. 6. It U addressed— ' (for Mr. John
Anbry, to be Icfl at Mr. Hooke's lodging in Cresham Coledge, p. postp^."
Sir Bobert Talbot (164I-1681),
• Sir Robert Talbot natus 164^, Friday, January ai,
14'' o' 14" r.M.
Sent by King Charles i"" into France to cure Mada-
mosillc d'Orleans, May last, 1678.
Oct. 1678, knighted,
A second voyage into France, being sent for by that
king, Dec'. 1678.
Married February 1675.
He dyed about September )68i.
** Sir Robert Talbot, ague doctor, natus 21 Januarii
164I, 14'' o' 14" P.M.
John Tap.
*** . . . Tappe:^he writ a very good Arithmetlque for
those times, with an introduction to Algebra, in English,
in 8vo.
John Taylor (1580-1654}.
**** John Tayler, the water-poet : — his Workes are a fair
folio, printed, London, 1630.
{He) wasbornein the citie of Glocester : — . . . Tayler,
a painter, was his brother'', who told me thus 23 yeares
• Letter torn. •"• MS. Aobr, 6, fol. 114'.
• MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 58. "'bis brother' underlined with
•* MS. Aubi. J3, fol. I J I. pencil, as doubtfnl : Anthony Wood,
••• MS. Aubr. S, fol. 8a. in the Athenat, styles him nephew.
John Taylor 253
since (he lives yet at Oxon) : and his picture hung in the
School es gallery.
He came to London and bound himselfe to a water-man,
in which capacity he wrote his poems. I have heard
Josias Howe, M.A., say that he will choose out 6 verses
(quaere) there as good as you will find in any other.
He was very facetious and diverting company ; and for
stories and lively telling them, few could out-doe him.
Anno 1643, at the Act time, I sawe him at Oxon.
I guesse he was then neer 50. I remember he was of
middle stature, had a good quick looke, a black velvet,
a plush-gippe and silver shoulder-belt ; was much made of
by the scholars, and was often with Josias Howe at
Trinity College.
He had heretofore in the long peace several 1 figgaries,
e. g. he came from Lbndon to Salisbury in his skuller.
He went so to Calais. He went to Scotland (I think
round Great Britaine) littus legens in his skuller.
Ever since the begining of the civill warres he lived in
Turne-stile-alley in Long Acre, about * the middle on the
east side over against the Goate (now*), where he sold ale.
His conversation was incomparable for three or four
mornings' draughts. But afterwards you were entertained
with crambe bis cocta. His signe was his owne head, and
very like him, which about 22 yeares since was removed to
the alehowse, the corner howse opposite to Clarendon
howse. Under his picture are these verses ; on one side : —
There 's many a head stands for a signe.
Then, gentle reader, why not mine?
On the other : —
Though I deserve not, I desire
The laurell wreath, the poet's hire.
This picture is now almost wome out.
Obiit . . . (about 25 years since) : sepult. in the church-
yard of St. Martin's- in-the-fields.
* MS. Anbr. 8, fol. ii6.
* Over against the house which in 1680 was called the Goat
254 Aubreys * Brief Lives'
* John Taylor, water poet, quaere his obiii. Quaere
his brother the payiiter at Oxon. A(nthony> W(ood>
respondet that he haz notes from the paynter who is dead.
Silaa Taylor [1624-1678). J
** Mr. Baker, the printscller, by the Royal Exchange,
hath a MS., a thin folio, viz. the description of Harwich
and all its appurtenances and antiquities by capt. Silas
Tayler.
*** Captain Silas Tayler : vide A.Wood'sNisi. eiArifig.
Oxon. He was a captaine in the Parliament army, under
col. (Edward) Massey. He was a sequestrator, in Here-
fordshire, and had, in those times, great power, which
power he used civilly and obligeingly, that he was beloved
by all the King's party.
He was very musical], and hath composed many things,
and I have heard anthemes of his sang before his majestic,
in his chapell, and the king told him he liked them. He
had a very fine chamber organ in those unmusicall dayes.
There was a great friendship between Matthew Lock, since
organist of the Queen's chapell, and him f-
miryed Mr. His father left him a pretty good estate, but
da'n^wr.in hc bougM church lands and had the moeity of
the bishop's palace, at Hereford, where he layd
out much money in building and altering. Col. John
Burcli " had the other moeity.
The times turning, he was faine to disgorge all he had
gott, and was ruined, but Sir Paul Neile got for him the
keeper of the King's stores at Harwich, worth about Cli.
per annum.
He was a great lover of antiquities, and ransackt the
MSS. of the Church of Hereford (there were a great many
that lay uncouth and unkiss).
He also garbled the library of the church of Worcester,
and evidences, where he had the originall grant of King
* MS. Aubr. S, fol. 8. **• MS. Aubr. 8, fol. ;'.
•• MS. Aubr. »i, fol. 77. • i.e. Birch.
Silas Taylor 255
Edgar (^aAa<r<rtapx^O> whence the Kings of England derive
their right to the soveraig^ty of the sea. 'Tis printed in
Mr. Selden's Mare Clausum. I have seen it many times,
and it is as legible as but lately written (Roman character).
He offered it to the king for 120//. but his majesty would
not give so much. Since his death, I acquainted the
Secretary of Estate that he dyed in debt, and his creditors
seised on his goods and papers. He told me that it did of
right belong to Worcester Church. I told one of their
prebends, and they cared not for such things. I beleeve it
haz wrapt herings by this time.
He had severall MSS. by him of great antiquity : one
thin 4to. of the Philosophers Stone, in Hieroglyphicks,
with some few Latin verses underneath ; the most curiously
limned that ever I sawe. His Majesty offered him 100//.
for it, and he would not accept it. Tell Dr. Crowder * of
the deed of king Edgar.
Memorandum: — Capt. Tayler search(ed) the Records
in the Tower, etc., and retrived some privileges that the
borough ^ had lost, for which the borough ought ever to
have his remembrance in esteeme : and tho' he dyed above
100/1. in their debt, yet the towne lost not by him, for the
reason aforesaid.
The history or collection of this ancient borough he
pawned a little before his death to Mr. Baker, the print-
seller by the Old Exchange, for 4//. 15^. I acquainted
Sir Philip Parker, whom the borough uses to choose for
their burghesse, to buy it for his borough. He would
not lay out so much money, which would doe them
more service then all his roast-beefe, wine, and ale at
an election.
Digitus Dei^. All that family came to unfortunate
ends. His eldest sonne, wife, and children, were all burnt
• i. e. Joseph Crowlher, Reg. Prof. judgements * on the buyers of Church
Greek, Oxon., a prebendary of Wor- land, as the Puritans before them had
cester. looked out for judgements on Sabbath-
•» Of Harwich. breakers, play-actors, &c. (see Clark*s
^ The Cavaliers and Churchmen Wood's Life and Times t i. 49* 333).
were now looking out for ' God*s
256 Aubrey's * Brief Lives'
in their beds in . . . near Lothbury ; another son, ■ . . ;
another son (a dragoon"), a churchyard wall fell on him
and kiilcd him.
* He surveyed very ingeniously and carefully the
antiquities of Herefordshire, scil. about i of the county,
before the restauralion of his majesty. He then left the
country and went to his friend, Sir Edward Harley, then
governour of Dunkirke, who gave him some command, —
These papers '' are in the hands of Sir Edward Hariey at
Brampton -Bryan Castle.
** Silas Domvillc alias Taylor, comitatus Salopicnsis,
xvi'" die mensis Julii anno Domini MDCXXlV" in
Harlcya natus: in scholis Westmonasteriensi, Salopiensi
(S c robes byri ens i, si placeat), et aliis alumnatus : in tabulis
publicis Aulae Novi Hospitii Oxoniensis circa annum
MncxLi conscriptus erat. Anno MDCLX apparatus bellici,
armorum, et munimcntorum rerum nauticarum Harvici
in e.Ktrema maritima parte Essexiae pro serenissimo rege
Carolo secundo usque adhuc ab anno MDCLXV custos et
Inter alios libros .wripsit de terrarum partJtione inter
liberos secundum tenuram Wallensium, Anglice the History
of Gavel kind, et ad finem ejusdem historiolam quandam
ducum Normannorum tempore Henrici primi Latine
scriptam divulgavit, quae vocatur Brevis relatio .... In
historia et dcscriptione comitatus Hercfordiensis per quad-
riennium, immo vero lustrum, enixe laboravit sed nee
absolute aut ad plenum perfecit.
*** For what other bookcs, besides Gavel-kind, I have
wrote, as my name for cogent reasons when first printed
was not to them because of the nature of them, soe I shall
not be soe vaine as now, after soe long a sleep, to awaken
them with it.
' Dupl. wilh ' a K .' ? a knave. J673, sent lo Aubrey for A. Wood ;
• MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8, MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 137.
*■ i.e. Taylor's Herefordshire col. •" Taylor to Aubrey, ' Harn-lcb,
lections. 18 Nov. 1673': ibid., fol. 536.
•■ Taylor's autograph, Nov. 30,
Herbert Th'omdyke 257
Herbert Thorndyke (16 167a).
* Mr. Herbert Thorndyke was borne at ... in Lincoln-
shire, went to schoole at . . . (quaere if at Westminster) ;
. . ., was fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge ; after-
wards prebendary of Westminster •.
He was a good poet. I have seen a poemation of his
on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden,
in Latin hexameters, about 100 verses or better.
He was (as I am enformed by Seth Ward, Lord Bishop
of Sarum, and other learned men) one of the best scholars
and mathematicians of this age.
He printed . . . but he does not write clearly (quaere
Dr. Pell de hoc).
Richard Busby, schoolmaster of Westminster, has his
MSS. ; quaere what they are.
He dyed* (JuJy)> 1^7(2); and lies interred in the
north-east angle of Westminster cloysters, next to the
grave-stone of (Thomas) Nurse, M.D., a piece of a blew
marble stone on him but yet no inscription.
He made his own inscription which is mentioned by
Mr. Andrew Marvell in his Rehearsall Transpros^d^ viz. : —
Hie jacet corpus Herberti Thomdike
praebendarii hujus ecclesiae, qui vivus
veram Reformatae Ecclesiae
rationem et modum precibus
studiisque persequebatur.
Tu, Lector, requiem et beatam
in Christo resurrectionem precare.
A parallel written by the bishop ° and found under his
owne hand and appointed for his epitaph, but I heare
that Dr. (William) Lloyd his successor will have it altered
to avoyd offence : —
* MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 5o\ * Isaac Barrow, bishop of St. Asaph;
* Installed Sept. 5, i66r. see Clark's Wood*s Life and Times^
* Anthony Wood notes here : — ii. 489.
' quaere in Thomas Hariot*
II. S
258
Aubrey's ^ Brief Lives*
iae • Isaaci. Asaphensis cpiscopi,
n manuE Domini depositae,
n spem laetae resurrcctionis
per sola Christi raerita.
9 transeunlest domum* Domini,
Domum oralionis,
Orate pro conseiTo vestro
misericOTdiam die Domini.
June 30, 1680.
I
John Tombea (1603-1676),
** Mr. John Tombs, B.D. (quaere A. Wood's Antiq. Oxon.)
was bome at Beaudiey in Worcestershire; his father was a . . .
Anno Domini <i6ij) he was admitted at Magdalen-hall,
in Oxon. Anno (i6ai>, A.B.; Anno <i624>, A.M. He
read to pupills, and was tutor there to John Wilkins, after-
wards bishop of Chester. He was a great master of the
Greeke tongue, and the Hebrue he understood well. He
ahvaies carried a little Greeke Testament about with him ;
he had (it) almost memoriter. He was an admirable dis-
putant ; I remember he was wont to say, that to be a good
disputant, 'tis requisite for one to be a good grammarian,
as well as logician. I have forgott if he was pupill to the
learned Mr. (William) Pemble ; but his favourite he was.
He was soon taken notice of for his curious searching,
piercing witt; he preached somewhere eastwards from
Oxon, and had a company'' followed him; and 'twas
predicted he would doe a great deale of mischiefe to
the Church of England, reflecting upon what . . . sayes,
that the greatest witts have donne the most mischiefe
to the Church, introducing new 0|)inions, etc. Anno
... he was vicar of a market-towne'= in Herefordshire,
where he was very well beloved by his parish, and Sir
. . . Croftes, eldest brother to the now bishop of Hereford,
buiit a house in Leominster, to live there, to heare him
y
* ' Bittow ' : Aubrey's marginal
t ' He is interred in ihe chnrch-
yard at the west end of the church
there : June 30, 1680' ; Aubrey's
* Suiist. for ' qui intratis dotntiui.*
" MS, Aubr. 6, fol. 79'.
•• Dup]. vfith ' aett.'
' Snbsl. for'Ucminster.'
John Tomhes 259
preach. Anno ... he writt . . ., 8vo, dedicated to John
Scudamore, viscount Slego, baron of . . . drum •. Anno
1645, 1646, he was master of the Temple at London,
i. e. minister. In 1 647 he was supplanted there by parson
Johnson. Then he went into his owne country, to Beaudley
(a market-towne), at which time Mr. Baxter (his antagonist)
preacht at Kitterminster, the next market-towne, two miles
distant. They preacht against one another's doctrines, and
printed against each other. Mr. Tombes was the Cory-
phaeus of the Anabaptists : both had great ** audience ;
they went severall miles on foot to each doctor. Once
(I thinke oftner), they disputed face to face, anno . . .;
and the followers were like two armies, about 1500 of
a party; and truly, at last they fell by the eares, hurt was
donne, and the civill magistrate had much adoe to quiet
them. About anno 1664 he came to the Act at Oxford
(quaere), and did there in vesperiis sett up a challenge to
maintaine contra omnes gentes the Anabaptisticall doctrine ;
but not a man would grapple with him. Now, though
primd facie this might seeme very bold to challenge a whole
University, 'twas not so very strange neither, for he came
throughly prepared, after 30 yeares' study and thoughts,
and most of them surprised.
Scripsit . . .
Dr. (Robert) Sanderson, lord bishop of Lincolne, and
he, had a greate esteeme for each other, so also had
Dr. (Thomas) Barlowe (now bishop there). Putting aside his
Anabaptisticall positions, he was comformable enough to the
Church of England. About 1658 or 9, he maried the
widowe of . . . Dove, of Salisbury, and went to hear the
Common Prayer there, and recieved the Sacraments ; and
sometimes wayted on bishop Ward, who respected him for
his learning. He was thought to be as great a divine as
most we had after bishop Sanderson dyed. I remember he
never, or seldome, was wont to say Our Saviour Christ, but
My Lord Christ. He seemed to be a very pious and zealous
Christian. I have heard him say (though he was much
• i. e. Dromore. ^ Dapl. with * frequent.*
S %
^
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opposite to the Romish religion) that truly, for his part, |
should he seea poor zealous friargoeiiig to preach, heshould j
pay' him respect. He was but a little man, neat limbed, j
a little quick searching eie. sad. gray. He dyed at Salisbury, I
May 22, and was buried 2jth, in St. Edmund's church- j
yard, anno Domini 1676, opposite to the steeple, a good 1
distance on the north side. His daughter dyed 7 yearea I
before him, and haz a grave-stone on her, with an inscrip* i
tion. He lyes there, and in the same stone is since engraven i
an inscription to the purpose already written of Mr. John J
Tombes. I
* Dcare Sir'. I
According to your desire I have sent you (although' I
long, for it), my cozen Gore and my cozen Gastrell'a |
nativityes ; also your brother William who is now in this
countrey desired mec to send you up Mr. Francis Potter's
place of interment in the church at Killmanton, and the
inscriptions on Mr. Tombs' and and his daughter's tombston.
I have enquired of Mr. Kent ; and hee sayth that
Mr. Potter is buryed in Killmanton church, but in what
part of the church hee knoweth not.
The inscription on Mr. Tombes his tomb is first: —
' Here lyeth the body of Elizabeth the wife of Mr. Wolston
Abbott,'
and under itt this inscription on the same stone : —
' Here (lycth) the body of Mr. John Tombes, Batchelour
■ in Divinity, a constant preacher of God's word, who deceased
the 22'' of May 1676, aged 75.'
I will finish Mr. Penriiduck's- genesis as soone as I can ;
but I am somewhat hussy att present; therefore must
begge his pardon.
I will write to H. Coley shortly, for lately I received
a letter from him.
Soe in hast I am, Sir,
Your faythfull servant to bee commanded,
Charles Sni^ll.
• Dupl. viitli ' owe.' • MS. Aubr. 8, fol, 13.
Ezreel Tonge 261
Sarum; Yesterday the good lord bishop of
*a°*>Apnli5i6i8. Sarum arrived att his pallace in the
Close.
* To John Aubrey, esq., att Mr. Hooke's chamber in
Gresham Colledge with care these present.
London.
Notes,
* This letter from Charles Snell to Aubrey is sealed with the following
coat : — * ... a cross pattee crossed ; quartering, ... 3 roses on a fess
between 6 martlets.*
Aubrey has on it a jotting ' Memorandum his life as to Dove/ and in MS.
Aubr. 8, fol. 15, the note * Mr. . . . Tombes : mend the mistake of . . . Dove's
widdowe/ i.e. supra ^ p. 259, correct the statement that ' he maried the widowe
of . . . Dove.* He married the widow of Wolston Abbott of Salisbury :
Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 360: July 14, 1681.
' George Penruddock, of Broad Chalk, bom at Westminster. —MS. Aubr. 23,
fol. 61.
Ezreel Tonge (162 1-1680).
** Ezreel Tong ^, D.D., was borne at Tickell, in York-
shire, between Bautre and Doncaster.
Obiit . . . Decemb., sepultus 23 Decemb. (1680) in the
vault of the church-yard of St. Mary Stayning, London;
where, before the conflagration, was a church, of which he
was the parson • ; but I have heard his brother, captain
Tong (of the King's Guards) say 'twas worth but 18/r. per
annum, for he had gathered it.
Mr. {Thomas) Jones (who preached his funerall sermon :
printed) sayes that he haz left two tomes in folio of alchymie.
His excellency lay there.
About 1658, or 1659, the then-Power made an Academic
of the Bishop's Pallace at Durham, for the benefit of the
North. Dr. Tonge was the governour, or one of the pro-
fessors. Ned Bagshawe was proposed to have been another.
The Dr. had an excellent schoole there, and followed pre-
cisely the Jesuites' method of teaching ; and boyes did profit
wonderfully, as needes they must, by that method.
He afterwards taught at Islington, at Sir Thomas Fisher's
* MS. Aubr. 8, foL 13'. ** MS. Aubr. 6, foL 49'.
* Subst. for ^ minister.*
house*, where was a long gallery, and he had sevcrall
printed heads of Caesars, &c. ; vcrbes under such a head,
governed a dative case ; under another, an ablative. The
boyes had it as rcadie as could be. I have been there.
* Ezerel Tong, D.D. r — Mr. Cadnam, bookcseller, New
Exchange, hath his papers, among which is a MS. (folio)
of chymistrie: quaere title. Respondet quod noii r Captain
Tonge (his brother) gave all his papers to my lord Cul-
pepper*, when he went to Virginia. I spake to Sir R.
Reding to quaere (about them), and my lord heeded not
such things. So there is a precious collection of other
men's labours lost.
** Ezerel Tong, D.D., invented (among other things)
the way of teaching children to write a good hand in
twenty daycs' time, by writing over, with black inke, copies
printed from copper-plates in red inke: — viz., the children
(scilicet, about 8 or 9 aetatis) were to do it four howers in
the day ; i. e. 2 howers or 2 halfe-howers in the morning
at a time (as the boycs' temper could endure it, without
tyring him) ; and then to play as long ; and then to it
again, to keep up the idea in the child fresh. Since his
death, Mr. Robert Moray (projector "^ of the Penney Post)
haz engraven scverall plates printcd-off in red letters, by
which mcanes boycs Icarne (to admiration) as aforesayd —
quod N.B.
His funerall sermon was preached in the church of
St. Michael, Wood-street ; the church of St. Mary Stayning
being burn't, and never to be rc-cdified, but both parishes
putt together.
A'otis.
' Aubrey givts in iricW the coat, ' aiure, a bend or colli!ed argent, between
six manlets or,' and notes ' Iliis is the same coal thai is botne by Delatwte.'
' MS. Aubr. ai is a collection of sliott treatises, chielly oh haiiii grnmmar.
Of this Aubrey saj-s :— ' Meraotaiidum :— Ihis colltclion of Eiammalical leatiiiiig
(and another in 8vo) is in relation to mj idea of the cdocation of the noblesse,"
i.e. is in pieparatiun for MS. Aubt. 10 infra,— \a tbis volume is a tieniise
» MS. Aubr. 8, fol, 8. returning in 16S2.
• Thomas Colcpcpcr, jnd baron, *• MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 10'.
appointed governor of Virginia in * liubst. for ' inventor.'
1675, but weal not out till 1680,
I
Nathaniel Torporley. Thomas Triplett 263
*by Dr. Tonge, Brampton Castle, Dec 23, 1672/ entitled *Dr. Tonge de
punctis^ 3 pp., dealing with Wasmnth's rules for punctuation.
Also. An epitome of Grammar , by Ezerel Tonge, D.D., being 18 memorial
verses, beginning
' Eight parts, two numbers, six cases, these.'
Also, a prospectus of 'J''ong*s school, ' At Islington in or near Sir Richard
Fisher's house, next the church, having a prospect into Canbury fields * ; and
on the back of it a scheme of the terminations in the declension of Latin
nouns. Also, 4 pp. of memorial verses (Latin), and (in MS.) a scheme for
the conjugation of verbs.
MS. Aubr. 10 is Aubrey's * The idea of education of a young gentleman.'
In this, chapter 3 (i. e. foil. 13-20) is * An introduction to the Latin tongue, by
Ezerel Tong, D.D.'
Nathaniel Torporley (1563-1632).
* Mr. J.* Torporley — Mr. (Robert) Hooke affirms to me
that Mr. J. Torporley was amanuensis to Vieta ** ; but from
whom he had that information he haz now forgot, but he
had good and credible authority for it, and bids me tell you
that he was certainly so.
He printed something against Vieta by the name of
John Poulterey (a disguised name, the same letters a little
transposed).
** Memorandum : — Mr. Nicholas Mercator (who taught
the last earl of Northumberland**, then lord Percy, at
Petworth) assures me that the earle of Northumberland
who was prisoner in the Tower gave also a pension to one
Mr. . . . Torporley, Salopiensis, a learned man ; and that
in the library of that family (I thinke) at Petworth, are
some papers of his : quaere iterum.
Ex catalogo librorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae :
Nath, Torporlaeus^ Diclides coelometricae, seu valvae
astronomicae universales : Lond. i6oa, 4to : C. 46 Art.
Thomas Triplett (1603-1670).
*** Next to Dr. Outram's inscription (in the south aisle
of Westminster abbey) stands this of Dr. Triplett, in the
* MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 8». • Joacelyne Percy, nth earl, died
• sic in MS. 1670 : see Clark's Wood's Life and
^ Fran9ois Viet, mathematician, Times ^ ii. 193.
1 540-1603. *»» MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5l^
** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 91.
264 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
very place where Mr. Thomas May's stood, of white
marble': —
Reverend. Dr. Thomas Triplett,
ex agro Oxoniensi,
Praebendarius hujus ecdesiae.
Qui postquain ad annum aetalis sept uHgesi mum
pielaie et cultus assiduitate, Deo,
Craecae linguae peritia non vulgari, doctis,
largitate et continua beneficcniia, egenis,
morum innocua jucunditale, omnibus,
carum se pracbuissct,
Ab hac vita ad melioreni commigravit.
Anno Domini 1670
Die Julii 18.
He went to schoole to Dr. Gill, as appeares by his
ballad ^ which will last longer then any sermon that ever
he made.
After his sequestration" he kept a schoole at Dublyn
(when the king \vas beheaded); afterwards at Hayes,
Surrey, 12 miles from London. 'Twas here our^ common
friend George Ent went to achoole to him, who told me
that he had foi^ot the smart of his old master, Gill; he
was very severe.
I'ie tell you a story of our old friend. His master
Triplett was a great lover of honey, and one of his schoole-
fellow's mother having sent a pott of honey to the doctor,
G. Ent putt his schoolefellow to beg a little of his master,
and he had gott a manchet and so they would have
a regalio. The doctor was in his study; and the boy takes
the confidence to approach, with his 'Quaeso, praeceptor,
da mihi mel.' G. Ent was sneaking behind. Q'*. the
disturbed doctor, ' You audacious raskall,' and gave him
a good cuffe on the ear, 'how dare you be thus impudent?
Sirrah, who putt you on ? ' The boy answered (whiningly)
* Aubrey sketches, as on ihe lop of '' See in the life of Dr. Gill, JH/ra,
the monument, a circle with the coat 1. p. 163.
of arms, 'a iloe stalani icEardatit, ' Subst. for ' dnring the troubles.'
transfixed at the neck by an arrow, * These lives being adJressed by
a chief indented. ' Anbrcy to Anthony Wood.
Thomas Tusser. lA/illiam Twisse 265
* G. Ent/ The enraged doctor flies out of his study (he
was a very strong man), gives poore George a kick in the
breech, and made him fly downe a flight of 7 or 8 staires
to the landing-place, where his head first came to. He
was stunn*d, but 'twas well his neck was not broken.
*Twas a most cruel and inhumane act to use a poore child
so. It so happened that a day or two before G. E. had
shaled a tooth. He writes a letter to his father (now Sir
George Ent) and incloses the tooth in it ; relates the story
and that he lost the tooth by that meanes *. The next
day the grave and learned Dr. Ent comes to Hayes (the
fame of whose learning and testimonie did give great credit
and reputation to this schoole); expostulates with the
doctor about his sonne. To be short, tooke him away, and
placed him with Mr. William Radford at Richmond (an
honest sequestred fellow of Trinity College, Oxon, and
an excellent schoolmaster, having been bred at Thame
under Dr. Birt» and afterwards sent to Winton.) This
accident well-nigh did breake Dr. Triplett*s schoole. But
shortly after this time, happened the restauration of his
majestic, and then he was also restored to his former
preferments.
Thomas Tusser (i 527-1580).
** Memorandum: — Edward Bullock, of Faybume-hall,
in Essex, esq. assures me, that this Tusser was borne at
Riven-hall in Essex. The howse wherein he was borne
they doe yet shew. He rented the parsonage of Fairested.
He speakes in his booke of the people's cosening him of
his tythes.
William Twisse (1574-1646).
*** . . . Twisse, D.D., of Newbury : — his sonne Dr. . . .
Twisse, minister of the new church neer Tothil street,
Westminster, told me that he had heard his father say that
* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 52. and Times ^ i. 108.
• William Bart, Anthony Wood's *♦ MS. Anbr. 8. fol. 96'.
schoolmaster; Clark's Wood's Life ♦** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 59^
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266 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
when he was a schoole-boy at Winton Colledge ihat he
was a rakell, and that one of his schoolefellowes and
camerades (as wild as himselfe) dyed there ; and that his
father goeing in the night to the house of office, the
phantomc or ghost of his dead schoolefollow appeared to
him and told him ' I am damn'd'; and that this was the
beginning of his conversion. 1
Memorandum :— the Dr. had a melancholiqiie and hypo- |
condriaque temperament.
John Twyne (15 i.'iSi).
* Jo. Twini, Bolingdunesis, Angli, de rebus Albiomcis,
Britannicis, atque An'jlicis commcntariorum libri 2, ad
Thomam Twinum, filium : Lond. i,';9y.
The father was schoolmaster of St. Saviour's in Canter-
bury. John Lcland haz verses on him.
Thomaa Twyne (1,543-1613).
** Kj" From Mr. Meredith Lloyd — ' The Breviaric of
Britaine of Humphrey Lloyd, dedicated to Ortclius,
translated out of Latine by Mr. Twyne, wherein are the
etymologies of the Welsh names, rivers, cities, etc' He says
that the Latin edition is altogether false writt, which names
Mr. Twyne hath printed true in the English edition.
Thomas Tyndale (i588-i6;i).
(In MS. Aubr. 21, among Ihc notes Aubrey has jotted down for his
projected comedy The Cminlry Revel, are a number under the initials
of T. T., i.e. of Thomas Tyndjilc (see p. 190, supra), whom Aubrey
took for his model in depictinj; an old gentleman (' Sir Eubule Nestor ')
of the heroic age. Some of these opinions of ' an oid courtier of the
Queen's' are collected here.}
In those days (Elizabetha regina) the great men had
a gate (the yettes), and when a senator went to the
Parliament-house a-foote, or a horse-back with his foot-
cloath, he had at his hceles i a dozen or 1 o tall fellowcs with
blew coates and badges and long basket-hilt swords. Now
forsooth only a laqucy and a little spitt-pig'.
' IIS. Aubr. 8, fol. 3. •• Ma Aubr. 7, fol. 6.
* i.e. a sword fitonly to slicka pig.
Thomas Tyndale 2&1
T. T. — The advantage that king Charles I had : gentle-
men tho » kept good horses, and many horses for a man-
at-armes, and men that could ride them ; hunting horses.
Now we are come all to our coaches forsooth I (Sir Philip
Sydney ^), Now young men are so farre from managing
good horses, they know not how to ride a hunting nag nor
handle their weapons. So God help the king if, etc.
In Sir Philip Sydney's time 'twas as much disgrace for
a cavalier to be seen in London rideing in a coach in the
street as now 'twould be to be seen in a petticoate and
wastcoate. They rode in the streets then with their rich
footcloathes, and servants wayting on them with blewe
coates and badge, 6 *^, 8, 1 2 + .
T. T., an old gentleman that remembers Queen Elizabeth's
raigne and court, one of true gravity and prudence, not one
that depends upon the grave cutt of his beard to be thought
so. He hath seen much in his time both at home and
abroade; and with much choler inveighes against things
now : — * Alas I O* God's will I Now-a-dayes every one,
forsooth ! must have coaches, forsooth ! In those dayes
gentlemen kept horses for a man-at-armes, besides their
hackney and hunting horses. This made the gentry robust
and hardy and fitt for service ; were able to be their owne
guides in case of a rout or so, when occasion should so
require^. Our gentry forsooth in these dayes are so
effeminated that they know not how to ride on horseback.
— Tho when the gentry mett, it was not at a poor blind
sordid alehouse, to drinke up a barrell of drinke and lie
drunke there two or three dayes together ; fall together by
the eares. They mett tho in the fields, well-appointed, with
their hounds or their hawkes ; kept up good hospitality ;
and kept a good retinue, that would venture that bloud
and spirit that filled their vaines which their masters* tables
nourisht ® ; kept their tenants in due respect of them. We
had no depopulacion in those dayes.
» i. c. then. * vide MacchiavcUi's Prince.
*» See p. 349, supra. • Anbrey notes in the margin: —
« i. e. six, eight, twelve or more. * vide Oceanam* i. e. Harrington's.
** Aubrey notes in the margin: —
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268 Aubrey's 'Bn'e/ Lives'
' You sec in me the ruines of time. The day is almost at
end with me, and truly I am glad of it: I desire not to
live in this corrupt age. I foresawe and foretold the late
changes, and now easily foresee what will follow after.
Alas I 0' God's will ! It was not so in Queen Elizabeth's
time : then youth had ■ respect to old age.
'Revels — Tho the elders and better sort of the parish
sate and beheld the pastimes of the young men, as wrastling,
shooting at butts, bowling, and dancing. All this is now
lost ; and pride, whoreing, wantonnesses, and drunkennesses.
Tho the charity of the feast, St. Peter's box'', maintayned
the old impotent poore.'
JamoB TTBher (158J-1655).
* Memorandum:—, . , Usher, Lord Primate (of Ireland),
was at Llantrithed = for severall moneths, and divertised
himselfe much to talke with the poore people to understand
Welsh, for that ' it had,' he sayd, ' a great affinity with the
Irish.' He .sayd the Old Testament was translnted by
the Universities, but the New Testament was translated
by the bishops ; but the Old is much better donne.
Henry Vaughsu (1631-1695).
Thomas Taughan (1621-166?).
** There are two Vaughans,twinnes, both very ingeniose
and writers. One writt a poeme called 0/or /scatn/s Cticnry
Vaughan, the first-borne), and another booke of Divine
Meditations. His brother wrote severall treatises, whose
names I have now forgott, but names himself Eugenius
Philalcthes.
They were borne at Llansanfraid in Brecknockshire, by
the river Uske (Isca), Their grandmother was an Aubrey ;
• Dupl. wUh ' bare.' * MS. Aubr, 6, fol. 15.
' The revel Aubrey pictores in his ' At Sir John Aubrey's.
comeily look place on Si. Pefcr'sDay. •• Auljtey in MS. Wood F. J9, fol.
A eolleclion for the poor was made i6g: Match 14, 167J.
at the Wake.
Henry Vaughan. Thomas Vaughan 269
their father, a coxcombe and no honester then he should
be — he cosened me of 50J. once.
Eugenius Philalethes was of Jesus College. Whither
Henry was I have forgotten ; but he was a clarke sometime
to Judge Sir Marmaduke Lloyd ^
* Henry Vaughan, * Silurist ' : — you know Silures con-
tayned Breconockshire, Herefordshire, etc.
** My brother and I were borne att Newton, in Breck-
nockshire, in the parish of St. Briget's, in the year
1621.
I stayed not att Oxford to take my degree, but was sent
to London, beinge then designed by my father for the study
of the law, which the sudden eruption of our late civil
warres wholie frustrated.
My brother continued there for 10 or 12 yeares, and
I thinke he could be noe lesse than Master of Arts. He
died upon an imployment for his majesty, within 5 or 6
miles of Oxford, in the yeare that the last great plague
visited London. He was buried by Sir Robert Murrey,
his great friend (and then secretary of estate for the
kingdome of Scotland) ; to whome he gave his bookes
and MSS.
*** My profession allso is physic, which I have practised
now for many years with good successe (I thanke God)
and a repute big enough for a person of greater parts than
my selfe.
**** My brother died in the seaven and fortieth year of
his age, upon the 27th of Februarie in the yeare 1666, and
was buried upon the first of March.
***** Sir Robert Moray . . . told me he buryed (my
cosen Thomas Vaughan) at Albery neer Ricot within three
miles of Oxford. He dyed at Mr. [Sam. *] Kem's howse,
the minister.
* Puisne Jastice of Chester, 1622- *♦* Ibid., fol. 2i6».
1636. **** Idem, ibid., fol. 227 : July 17,
* Ibid., fol. 169^ 1673.
♦* Henry Vauj^han's autograph to ♦♦*♦* Aubrey in MS. Wood F, 39,
Aubrey, in Wood MS. F. 39, fol. 216: 219 : July 5, 1673.
June 15, 1673. ^ Added by Anthony Wood.
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Edward do Vere, 17th carl of Oxford (15 1604).
* Mr. Thomas Henshawc, Regiae Societatis Socius, tells
me that Nicholas Hill was secretary to . . ., the great
earle of Oxford, who spent fourty thousand pounds per
annum in seaven yeares travell. He lived at Florence in
more grandeur than the duke of Tuscany '.
This earie of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to
queen Elizabeth, happened to , . . , at which he was
so abaslied "■ that he went to travell 7 yeares. On his
returne the queen welcomed him home and sayd, ' My lord,
I had forgot the . . .'
A poor man" askt of Mr. Hill one time to give him dd.
(or \s. or such an almes). Sayd Mr. Hill ' What doest say,
if I give thee ten pounds?' 'Oh!' sayd he, ' ten pounds
would make nie a man.' And he did put it downe in the
account—' Item, x/(. for making a man' — which his lord-
ship allowed and was well pleased at it.
Villiers, duke of Buckingham.
** George Villiers, ist duke of Buckingham, natus 28
Aug. 1592, 4'' 40' A.M., at Brookesby, Leicestershire.
George, filius of the duke of Buckingham, natus 30
Januarii, i6a^ ; obiit in Yorkshire, Saturday, 16 Apr. 1687.
*** [a] George, duke of Buckingham, borne Aug. 28,
Thursday, \^ P.M. 1595-— (1*) George Villiers, duke of
Buckingham, natus Tuesd. 38 Aug. 1592, 16'' 45' P.M. — ■
[Here (fj) the yeare is 1592 ; but in the former {a) 1595.]
The duke's sonne borne Wedn. 30 January 162J, i** P.M.
The countcsse of Bucks ^ died of a dropsi and phisick,
14 Apr. 1632,
**** Vide in Vaticinium Poeticum de obitu lord Francis
Villers \
' Anlircy in MS. Wood F. 39, ^ Marj' Villiers, mother of C.eo:^e,
fol..'t89: July 15, i6S(|. first duke of Uuckinghum, created
' Dupl. with 'Florence.' counltss of liuckingham July 1, 161S.
" Dn|-1, with 'astiBmed.' *•" MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5.
* -Subst. f ■ r ' a beugar.' • Second son of George, first duke:
♦• MS, Aubr. a3, ful. 121. killed 1648.
•*• MS. Aubr. liaslipai fol. m'.
Willtam de Visscher 271
William de Visscher.
* From Mr. Bovey: — William de Visscher, merchant
in London, borne at Emden in East Frisland in Germany,
a Hans-towne — now under the Dutch. At 2 yeares old
was brought into England by his father, an eminent
merchant ; lived 55 yeares in one house at St. Mary Hill,
and dyed in the 74th yeare of his age. He lived there till
the fire of London ; he dyed about 3 yeares after — he did
not enjoy himselfe afterwards.
In the last great dearth of come in England, which was
t Quaere ^^ anno f • • •» whcu there was a grieat com-
JS y'iS^ sin^"* plaint and cry of the poore, he bade them bee
i^7r*or*'i64S^ ^f good comfort for they should not starve,
quaere. f^j. j^g would give them his labour and the
use of his estate for that yeare. He being a man of
vast credit, gave his factors order that what corne they
could buy at such and such rates beyond sea, to hire flye-
boates and send them over to the port of London, of which
he bought in one yeare two thousand five hundred sayle.
The corne that cost him 1 2s. per bushell beyond sea, he
sold here for 14J. ; and some of the places from whence he
had corne (they selling it by reason of the greatnesse of
the price) afterwards wanted it themselves and were faine
to be supplied from hence, i. e. in some places, for which
they were faine to pay halfe value more then the first cost,
or els must have starved.
Many disasters happened to many of the shippes that
were bound for London (some that never arrived were
destroyed by foule weather ; some wind-bound so long till
their corne fired for want of ayering, and was faine to be
throwne over-board) that in the whole matter, after all the
adventures runne, he did not gaine five and twenty hundred
pounds. The fly-boates caryed 800 tunne, and some more.
He left two sonnes and {one) daughter behind him,
named Isabella (who was maried to Mr. James Bovey, by
which he haz one sonne and one daughter).
» MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 14.
272 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
He was a very eminent merchant, as most was of his
time ; and was valued by common reputation (when he
maried his daughter) to be worth sixscore thousand
pounds.
He stayed in London during the whole time of the
plague, and had not all that time one sick in his family.
He was a temperate man, and had his house veiy cleanly
kept.
iBaao Vossiua {1618-1688),
* Isaac Vossius died at his lodgeings in Windsor Castle,
February the tenth, anno 168^; and hath left the best
private library, they say, in the world. 'Tis sayd king
Wilh'am will buy it to send into Holland*.
JohamiOB Oerhardua Tossius ([,577-1649).
** He alwayes wrote his Adversaria on one side only of
a sheet of paper, so that as occasion required, he only tore
his papers and fixt them together, and would so send them
to the presse without any more transcribing. If his paper
would beare ink of one side 'twas as much as he desired.
This way did save him a great dealc of paines — quod N.B, : —
from Dr. John Pel!.
Vide Drexelii, e Soc. Jcsu, de legendis auctoribus cum
proficiio.
Sir Isaac Wake (i575-i632).
*** Sir Isaac Wake : he had a fine seate at Hampsted
in Middlesex, which lookes over London and Surrey, where
he made those delicate walkes of pines and firres, also
corme-trees, etc. — The Lord Chiefe Baron Wyld '' had it
afterwards. His study was mighty pleasant.
The lord dc la Ware, who maried the daughter and heire
of the chiefe baron, sold this seat about i6t*;j to a citizen of
London, who pulled it downe to build a house (1686).
• MS. Aiibr. 7, fol. 8. •* MS. Aul,r. 6, fol. 5.
• The UnLversily of Oiford offered •" MS. Aabr. 8, fol. 98.
,£3,000 fur il, nnd was refoseil. It '' John Wild, Cbief Baron of the
was soon afterwaids sold (or that sum Exchequti 1648-1655, 1660 tjnn.-
lo the Univeraity ofLt-jden. June).
Clement Walker. Edmund Waller 273
The Chief Baron told his cosen Edmund Wyld, esq., that
Sir Isaac Wake was the first that planted pines and firres
in England. E. W. might have had the study for 8 lu per
annum.
Clement Walker (i 595-1 651).
* Clement W&lker, esq. (* Theodorus Verax '), author of
the History of Independency, was of Christ Church, Oxon.
Obiit . . ., in the Tower (about Worcester fight).
** Clement Walker ^ esq. — vide registrum at All Hallows,
Barking, about 1650, ubi sepultus, November: — he asked
about an hower before he dyed, how long it was to full-sea.
They sayd, an hower. *Then,* sayd he, *at that time
I shall depart * ; and he did so, quietly — from E. P — ., esq.,
his fellow-prisoner there, who told me that he wrote a
continuation of his Historic of the king's comeing to
Worcester : 'tis pitty 'tis lost.
His son *, W. W., now living, was a minor when his
father dyed ; and . . ., an elder brother of his, was made
executor, who is also dead.
Notes,
* Anbrey adds also the references : — (a) ' vide A(nthony) W^ood's) lettre,
about June i68x ' ; (^) ' vide <t>, p. 88,' a MS. I have been unable to identify.
• Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39,fol. 360: July 14, I68I^— *Mr. Clement
\Valker's son tells me that his father was buried in Allhallowes Barking church,
November . . ., 165 a : wherabout he knowcs not, being then but 9 aetatis.*
Edmund Waller (160I-1687).
*** Mr. Edmund Waller of Beconsfield, the poet, was
♦ • Edmundu. ^^"^^ t ^t Colshill ^ in Hertfordshire neer
SSlTterttodie Agmundesham a.d. 1606, Martii die 13, hord
S^nufol- ^^> niin. 16 P.M.— scilicet March after the
pStTyz-Ms**"* Gunpowder plot.
Aubr. 6,foi. ..a. j^is was donc in Italic by an Italian :—
♦ Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. ♦♦♦ MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 79. The
lai : Dec 5, 1668. horoscope is given.
♦♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 11.
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'Hie Mercurius in 13' monslrac felix et sublime ingcniuni, scd ipsi
autori noxiuin propter O cum Luna. Satumua in Medio Coeli indiDit
multcs inimicos, quibus tamen natus praevalebit propter A quern
habet Saiumus cum Venere. Supervivet naius suae uxori ; caveat
tamen sibi 1655, minantur enim tunc astra morbura periculosum, quern
si nalus supcrnl. potcrit (naturuliter loquendo) pen'cnire ad annum
1669. Apparel tamen perlculum ab aquis ct a veneno, Videtur
honorandus ab aliquo principe externa. — Comptexio est frigida et
humida, undc bonum erit uli ctbis calidi$, scd facilis digestioDis
propter dcbililalem stomachi.'
Obiit Octob, 20, 1687; sepultus at Beconsfield in the
churchyard with his father and grandfathers, where are
two walntitt -trees sett at the head and foot of his grand-
father's grave.
* Edmund Waller*, esq., son and heire of (Robert
Waller) by (Anne) Hamden. He was cosen-gcrmane to
Oliver Cromwell, Protector, whose mother was his mother's
sister.
He was borne at Beconsfield, in Bucks, Anno Domini
. . . (quaere) in the fair brick house, the farthest on the
left hand, as you goe to Wickham.
He had grammcr learning from the information of
Mr. (Gerard) Dobson'', minister of Market Wickham,
who taught a private schoole there, and was {he told me)
a good schoolmaster, and had been bred at Eaton College
schoole. I have heard Mr. Thomas Bigge, of Wickham,
say (who was his schoole-fellow, and of the same forme),
that he little thought then he would have been so rare
a poet ; he was wont to make his exercise for him.
His paternall estate, and by his first wife, was 3000//.
per annum. His first wife was . . . (vide Heralds'
Office) of Worcestershire, by whom he had . . . per
annum, and issue by her, son. His second wife (maried
to her A. D. . . .) was . . . Brace; a woman beautiful!
and very prudent, by whom he has several! children
(I thinke 10 or 12).
About' 33, or between that and thirty, he grew (upon
- M.S. Aubr.6, fol, i([.
• Anbrej notes in the margin in pencil ' Kiom Mr. T. B.,' i. e. Tliomas Bigg,
Edmund Waller 275
I know not what occasion) mad ; but 'twas (I thinke) not
long ere* he was cured : — this from Mr. Thomas Bigg.
Non tulit aethereos pectus mortale iuntultus.
Ovid.
Memorandum : — he was proud : to such, a check often
gives that distemper.
He was passionately in love with Dorothea, the eldest
daughter of the earle of Leicester*, whom he haz eternized
in his poems: and the earle loved him, and would have
been contented that he should have had one of the youngest
f Mr. Thomas daughters ; perhaps this might be the check t.
h^ been dead . . . Waller (I thinkc, Walter) was his
these ao yrares, •»>••> /^ n /^ « • i i
who could have tutof at Kmcr s College, Cambridge, who was
told me the , ^, ^ \ /• , .
cause. I beieeve a Very Icamed man, and was afterwards vicar
that I am right. /. -r^ i /^« ttt.i
You see how of Broad Chalke, Wilts.
thmgs become
antiquated. A burghessc in Parliament, for Beconsfield,
in king James's^ time, and has been of all the Parlia-
ments since the restauration of king Charles II (1680,
aetat. 74+).
One of the first refiners of our English language and
poetrey. When he was a brisque young sparke, and first
studyed poetry, * Methought,' said he, * I never sawe a good
copie of English verses ; they want smoothnes ; then
I began to essay.' I have severall times heard him say,
that he cannot versify when he will; but when the fitt
comes upon him, he does it easily, 1. e. in plaine termes,
when his Mercurius and Venus are well aspected.
He told me he was not acquainted with Ben. Johnson
(who dyed about 1638), but familiarly with Lucius, lord
Falkland ; Sydney Godolphin, Mr. Hobbes ; &c.
He was very much admired at Court before the late
civill warres. 164-, he being then a member of the House
of Commons, he was committed prisoner to the Tower, for
the plott, with (Nathaniel) Tomkins (his cosen-germane)
*and (Richard) Chaloner, for firing the City of London, and
* Snbst for * before.' ** Anthony Wood objects — * quaere.'
* MS. Aubr. 6, fol. iii\
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delivering the Parliament, etc. to the King's partie: vide
Transactions of those times. He had much adoe then to
save his life, and in order to it, sold his estate in Bedford-
shire, about" 1300//. per annum, to Dr. Wright, M.D. for
10,000//., (much under value) which was procured in 24
hours' time.or els he had been hanged (quaere E.Wyld, esq.).
With which money he bribed the whole House, which was
the first time a House of Commons was ever bribed. His
excellent rhetoricali speech to the House (vide his speech
to save his life), as also his panegyrique to Oliver, Lord
Protector, he would not suffer to be inserted In the edition
of his Poems since the restauration of king Charles II.
After he had obtayned his pardon of the Parliament, he
went to France, where he stayed • . . yeares, and was
there very kindly recieved, and esteemed. Anno Domini
... he returned into England.
When king Charles II returned, he recieved Mr. Waller
very kindly, and no man's conversation is more esteemed
at court now then his. The dutches of Yorke (daughter
to the duke of Modena) very much delights (in) his
company, and hath layed her commands on him to
write, which he hath dedicated to her highnes.
His intellectualls are very good yet " (1680), and makes
verses ; but he growes feeble. He wrote verses of the
Bermudas 50 yeares since, upon the information of one
that had been there ; walking in his fine woods, the poetique
spirit came upon him.
He is of somewhat above a middle stature, thin body,
not at .ill robust : fine thin skin, his face somewhat of an
olivaster ; his hayre frizzd, of a brownish colour; full eye,
popping out and working: ovall faced, his forehead high
and full of wrincklcs. His head but small, braine very
hott, and apt to be cholerique — Quatito doctior, eo ira-
cundior. — CiCERO- He is something magisterial!, and haz "^
a great mastership of the English language. He is of
admirable and gracefull elocution, and exceeding ready.
» Subsl. for ' 1,500 ft'.' * Snbst. for 'Elill,'
" Subft. for ■ is revered ' (m having).
Edmund Waller 277
He has spent most of his time in London, especially in
winter ; but oftentimes in the summer he enjoyes his muse
at Beconsfield, which is incomparable aire, and where are
delicious walks in the woods. Now I speake of woods, I re-
member he told us there, that he cutt downe and grubbed-up
a beech wood of his, at Beconsfield in Bucks, and without
soweing, but naturally, there grew up • a wood all of birch.
A. D. ... he was admitted a fellow of the Royal 1
Societie.
He haz but a tender weake body, but was alwayes very
temperate. . . . (quaere Samuel Butler) made him damn-
able drunke at Somerset-house, where, at the water-
stayres, he fell downe, and had a cruell fall. 'Twas pitty
to use such a sweet swan so inhumanely *.
** He hath a great memory, and remembers a history,
etc. etc. best when read to him : he uses to make his
daughters read to him. Yet, notwithstanding his great
witt and mastership in rhetorique, etc. he will oftentimes
be guilty of mispelling in English. He writes a lamentably
(bad) hand, as bad (as) the scratching of a hen.
I have heard him say that he so much admired
Mr. Thomas Hobbes' booke De Cive^ when it came forth,
that he was very desirous to have it donne into English,
and Mr. Hobbes was most willing it should be done by
Mr. Waller's hand, for that he was so great a master of
our English language. Mr. Waller freely promised him
to doe it, but first he would desire Mr. Hobbes to make
an essaye ; he (T. H.) did the first booke, and did it so
extremely well, that Mr. Waller would not meddle with
it^ for that nobody els could doe it so well. Had he
thought he could have better performed it, he would have
himselfe been the translator.
Memorandum: his Speech against Ship-money which
is in his booke of Poems : his Panegyrique to Oliver the
Protector I have : and also to King Charles H.
*' Dapl. with ' sprang.' ^ Snbst. for ' nndertake it, for that
* Explicit fol. iii\ it could not be done better.*
•• MS. Anbr. 6, foL 113.
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Aubrey's 'Brie/ Lives'
He sayes that he was bred under severall ill, dull,
ignorant schoolmasters, till he went to Mr. Dobson, at
, . . Wickham, who was a good schoolmaster, and had
been an Eaton scholar.
Memorandum :— later end of Aug. 1680, he wrote verses,
called ' Divine Love,' at the instance and request of the
lady viscountesse Ranulagh.
He missed' the Provostship of Eaton CoUedge, (Feb.)
1680 (i.e. j) ; (Zachary Cradock) haz it
* He lies buried In the chUrch-yard (south east of the
church), where his grandfather and father were buried. This
burying-place {is) railed about like a pound, and about
that bignesse. There is a walnut tree planted, tliat is,
perhaps, 50 yeares old ; (the walnut tree is their crest.)
There are nine graves or cippi, no gravestone or inscription.
They lye thus :
** From Capt, Edmund Hamden, his cousin-german,
1690 : — Edmund Waller, esq., was borne in the parish of
Agmundesham, in Buckinghamshire, at a place called
Winch more-hill, which was sold by his father, and which
he had a very great desire to have bought again, not long
before his death, but the owner would not sell it : part of
the house haz been new-built, but the roome wherein he
was borne is yet standing'. Said he, to his cousin Hamden,
A stagge, when he is hunted, and tieer spent, alwayes
retiirncs home. He dyed at 83, and his wltt was as florid
• Dupl. with ' lost.' • MS. Anbr. 6, foL 1
•• MS. Anbr. 6, fol. 113.
Edmund Waller 279
then as at any time of his life. He derived his poetick*
witt from the Hamdens ; severall of them have been poets.
Whereas Rutt, that kepi the . • < Inne (the Crowne,
I thinke) at Beconsfield, told me, many yeares since, that
he had been distempered ; captain Hamden affirmes it is
false; but his brother was a foole, as to discourse or
businesse, but was very learned. And whereas Dr. (Peter)
Birch told me that he had a prodigiouse memorie ; his
sonnes affirme that he had no good memorie, and was
never good to leame a thing by heart, but some things
that pleased him he did strongly retaine.
* Captain Hamden told me that the soldiers came
to Beconsfield to search for money ; his mother told them
if they would goe along with her, she would shew them
where she had buried five thousands pounds, and had them
t 4 or 6 verse, to the housc of offke.-
iSm byTrUil ** Edmund Waller, esq., poet :— Mr. Chris-
ds!°TJ^^nai topher Wase repeating to him the bitter saty-
w^^>^°' °°^ ricall verses f made on Sir Carre Scroop, viz. —
Thy brother murdred, and thy sister whor'd,
Thy mother too — and yet thy penne *s thy sword ;
Mr. Waller replyed sur le champ 'that men write ill
things well and good things ill ; that satyricall * writing
was downehill, most easie and natural! ; that at Billingsgate
one might hear great heights of such witt ; that the cursed
earth naturally produces briars and thornes and weeds, but
roses and fine flowers require cultivation.'
All his writings are free from offence.
His poems are reprinted now (1682) by his owne orders
and his pictures (young and old) before it, and underneath
Sed Carmina major imago.
Ovid. (Trist. I. vii. ii.)
[Edmund Waller ® : — ] he made some verses of his owne
dyeing, but a fortnight, or little more, before his decease.
* Subst. for • poctique.' *» Dupl. with ' scommaticaU.*
* MS. Aubr. 6, foL iia". • Inserted by Anthony Wood.
*♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9'.
' In MS. Apbr. 6, fol. rii, not in Anbre^'s tiuidwriting, is tbc ume Tkema
^tiulkHiiien, wilh Ihe jadgement npon it. There Aubiey nolis :—
■ This accoDnt 1 b*d bata Dt. ^Petei) Birch, mtniiler of St. Jamo'a, who
maiicd one of Mr. W»l!et'» danghlcrs.'
The conclusion of Ihe judgemeni there is ; —
t 'TnamiitBlii' ' Nbws opnd Colshlll + in ■e'O Httrtfonlienai jnxta . . .
^deimi Inic— Denatns Oct. lo, iGSjii lepultus Beconsfield in 3sra Bucking-
<l.e.(ol. ii]>. hamiensi. Paler, Robertu* Waller; mnfer, Anne Hamdcn,"
' Aubrey notes that be wasof 'C»mbr.',and gives in eolonrs the coal 'lable,
3 walnat leaves in bend between two bendlets or.' Also, he notes £a) ' Tide
Heiaidg' Office'; (i) 'gelt his nativity '—see mfra, p. 173.
' Gerard Dolison, M.A., Magd. Coll., Oioii. 1613, Vicar of High Wycombe
' Dorothy, daughler of Robert Sydney, jnd eail of Leicester, nijirried Henry
Spencer, 3rd htiaa Spencer of Wonnleighton, created earl of Sonderluid in
Juae, 1643, and killed at Newbniy Sept. JO, 1543.
John WaUiB (1616-1703).
* John Wallis, D.D.— I find at Lid in Kent that his
father was Mr. John Wallis, minister of Ashford, in Kent.
** John Wallis >, D.D., was borne at Ashford, in the
county of Kent, Anno Domini {1616). His father was
minister there He went to schoote there.
At . . . yeares old he was admitted at Emanuel Colledge
in Cambridge ; ' ubi fuit alumnus, deinde Collegii Reginalis
ibidem socius ' (Mr. Oughtrcd's preface to his Clavis). Anno
(163?) A.B. ; anno (1640) M.A. Hewas a good student,
but fell not to the study of the mathematiques till he was
above twenty.
A^ remarkable passage of his life, was, that he
was a witnesse of W. Laud's (archbishop of Canterbury)
tryall, for hi.s introducing popish innovations into the
University of Cambridge: sec Canterbury's Doome, printed
1646, pag. 73, and elswhere. The first remarqueable
passage of his life was his decyphering the letters of King
Charles I taken at the battle at Nasby, which booke is
called The King's Cabinet Opened, printed at London, . . ,
Anno . . . was scolar to Mr. W, Oughtred.
• MS. Aobr. 8, fol. 6'. •• MS. Anbr. 6, fol. 94'.
John Wallis 281
Anno 164(9) lifter the Visitation by the Parliament, he
came to Oxen, and was made SaviUian Professor of
Geometrie. . . ., (elected) Fellow of the Royall Societie.
Great* contests between him and Mr. Thomas Hobbes, of
Malmesbury : sure their Mercuries are in D* or opposition.
Anno Domini 1657, he gott himselfe to be chosen by
t Vide Hemy unjust mcancs t to be Custos Archivorumof the
iLliiiSi ^ University of Oxon, at which time Dr. (Richard)
«» rtSSd* Zouch had the majority of voyces, but because
drho<i:'^hax Dr. Zouch was a malignant (as Dr. Wallis
"° ** ' openly protested, and that he had talked
against Oliver), he was putt aside. Now, for the Savillian
Professor to hold another place besides, is so downeright
against Sir Henry Savile's statutes, that nothing can be
imagined more ; and if he does, he is downeright perjured.
Yet the Dr. is allowed to keepe the other place still.
Anno (1654) he tooke his degree of Doctor, at the Act,
at Oxon, and went out grand-compounder (which costes
2co//.), only that he might take place® of Dr. Seth Ward,
who was about a yeare his senior. In 1661 Dr. Ward was
made deane of Exon, and the next yeare bishop of the
same place ; and so Dr. Wallis's 200/1. was meerly cast
away. The bishop protested he was troubled for the losse
of his brother Wallis's two hundred pounds.
He hath writt severall treatises, and well ; and to give
him his due prayse, hath exceedingly well deserved of the
commonwealth of learning, perhaps no mathematical!
writer so much,
'Tis certaine that he is a person of reall worth, and may
stand ^ with much glory upon his owne basis, needing not
(to) be beholding to any man for fame, of which he is
so extremely greedy, that he steales flowers from others
to adome his owne cap,— e. g. he lies at watch, at
Sir Christopher* Wren's discourse, Mr. Robert Hooke's,
Dr. William Holder^, &c. ; putts downe their notions in
* Dupl. with ' irreconcileable.* * MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 95.
*> DupL with * square.* •* See vol. i. p. 404.
^ DnpL with ' might ptecede.'
paBa Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
his note bookc, and then prints it, without owncing the i
authors. This frequently, of which they complaine.
But though he does an injur}' to the inventors, he does
good to [earning, in publishing such curious notions, which
the author (especially Sir Christopher WrcnJ might never
have the leisure to write of himsclfe.
When Mr.Oughtrcd's Claris Mal/iematicawas printed at
Oxford (editio tertJa, with additions), Mr. W. O.,' in his
preface, gives worthy characters of scverall young mathe-
maticians that he cnformed, and, amongst others, of John
Wallis, who would be so kind to Mr. Uiightred. as to take
the paincs to correct the prcsse, which the old gentleman
doth with respect there thus acknowledge, after he hath.*
enumerated his titles and preferments ; viri iitgenni, pii,\
industrii, in otnni reconditiore literatura versatissimi, in
rebus M athtmaticis admodum perspicaeis, et in enodatione
expHcationeqtte scriptorum intricatissimis Zipherarum in-
volucris occultatorum {quod ingenii sublilissinii argumentunt
est) ad miraculum foelicis. This last, of the cyphers, was
added by Dr. Wallis himselfe; which when, the bookc
being printed, the old gentleman sawe, he was much
vexed at it : and sayd, that he had thought he had given
him sufficient praysc, with which he might have rested''
contented.
He maried . . . and haz a good tempomll estate in Kent.
, . . He has only two daughters, handsome young gcntle-
woemen ; one maried to Mr, . . . Blencowc, of Middleton-
Cheyncy, in . . .
He lives at a well-built house, near New Colledge, in Oxon ;
is a Justice of the Peace there, and has been 167-, 1679,
i6})o.
Catalogus librorum ab illo scriptorum.
Aubrey gives in colours the coal, ' gulcB, n bend ermine' In MS. Aubr. 8,
6", he gives in trick, for John Wallis, the coat, ' ermine, a bend argent,"
• Dupl, with ' the antbor.' "i DujiL with ' been.'
Lucy Walters. Seth Ward 283
^ This sentence stood at first :— ' The first remarkable passage of his life was
that he was an instrument of fetching Laud*s (archbishop of Canterbury) head
of, by being a witnesse at the tryall.* Then Aubrey noted in the margin : —
* Quaere which of these (i.e. Laud's trial, or the king's letters infra) was first
in time ' ; and afterwards altered the sentence to what it now is.
^ A duplicate draft of this sentence is — * and may stand very gloriously upon
his owne basis, and need not be beholding to any man for fame, yet he is so
extremely greedy of glorie, that he steales feathers from others to adome
himselfe.*
Lucy Walters.
* Memorandum : — Mr. Freeman (who maried the lady
Lake) has the duke of Monmouth's mother's — Mrs. Lucy*
Walters, who could deny nobody — picture, very like her, at
Stanmore neer Harrow-on-the-hill.
Seth Ward (1617-1685).
{Birth and education.^)
** Seth Ward^, lord bishop of Sarum, was borne at
Buntingford, a small market-towne in Hartfordshire, anno
Domini i6i8*», December the . . ., (when the great blazing
starre appeared). His father was an attorney there, and of
a very honest repute.
At (16) yeares old he went to Sydney Colledge in Cam-
bridge ; he was servitor f to Dr. (Samuel) Ward (Master of
the Colledge, and Professor of Divinity), who,
•servitour/ bciug much takcu with his ingenuity and
£reaia.^iAS. industry, as also with his suavity of nature,
quickly made him scholar of the howse, and
after, fellowe. Though he was of his name, he was not
at all akinne to him (which most men imagined because of
the great kindnesse to him) ; but the consimility of their
dispositions was a greater tye of friendship then that of
blood, which signifies but little, as to that point.
{Mathematical studies.^
His father taught him common arithmetique, and his
genius lay much to the mathematiques, which being naturall
to him, he quickly and easily attained.
♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. loi. *♦ MS. Aubr. 6, foL 86.
• Subst. for ' Betty.* *» Sec infra^ p. 290.
Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
Sir Charles Scarborough, M.D. (then an jngeniose young
student, and fcllowe — quaere — of Caius Colledgc in Cam-
bridge), was his great acquaintance ; both students in
malhematiqucs ; which the better to perfect, they went to
Mr. Willam Oughtred, at Albury in Surrey, to be cnformed
b)' him in his Clavis MathematUa, which was then a booke
of nenigmata. Mr. Oughtred treated them with exceeding
humanity, being pleased at his heart when an ingeniose
young man came to him that would ply his Algebra hard.
When they returned to Cambridge, they read the Clavis
Mathematica to their pupills, which was the first time that 1
that booke was ever read in a" university. Mr. Laurence
Rooke, a good mathematician and algebrist, (and I thinke
had also been Mr. Oughtred's disciple'') was his great
acquaintance. [tj^Mr. Rooke (I remember) did read (and
that admirably well) on the sixth chapter of the Clavis- 1
Mathematica in Gresham Colledge.
(^Ejected front Cambridge.'}
Anno Domini 164(4), ^t the breaking out of the civill
warres, he was a prisoner, together with Dr. (Samuel)
Ward, Dr. (Samuel) Collins, Sir Thomas Hatton, &c, for"
the king's cause, in St, John's Colledge in Cambridge, and
was ^ putt out of his fellowship at Sydney Colledge. Being
gott out of prison, he was very civilly and kindly received
by his friend and neighbour, Ralph Freeman, of Apsten,
esq., a vertuous and hospitable gentleman, where he
continued . . .
(^Professor in Oxford.)
Anno Domini (1648) the Visitation of the Parliament was
Oxford, and turned out a great many professors and
fellowes. The Astronomy Reader (Dr.* (John) Greaves)
■ Dnpl. wilh ' the.' = Subst. for ' upon.'
'' Dapl. rtith ' scholar.' The refer- ^ Dupl. with ' was seqnestred.'
ence is added ' vide pag. d.', i. e. fol. ' ' Dr.' is erased ; Greaves was
6', the life of Laurence Rooke, q.v. M.A. onlf.
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being sure to be ejected, Seth Ward, A.M. (living • then with
my lord Wenman, in Oxfordshire, and . . . Greaves was
unwilling to be turned out of his place, but desired to resigne
it rather to some worthy person, wherupon Dr. Charles
Scarborough and William Holder, D.D. recommended to
. . . Greaves, their common friend, Mr. Seth Ward) was
invited to succeed him, and came from Mr. Freeman's to
Oxford, had the Astronomy Professor's place, and lived at
Wadham Colledge, where he conversed with the warden,
Dr. John Wilkins.
{First ecclesiastical dignity,)
* Anno Domini 165- (quaere), he had from B(rownrigg)
bishop of Exon, the grant of the chantor s place of Exon,
which then signified nothing
{President of Trinity College^ Oxford,)
Anno Domini 165(9) William Hawes, ...**, then pre-
sident of Trinity Colledge in Oxford, having broken in his
lunges a vein (which was not curable), Mr. Ward being very
well acquainted and beloved in that colledge; by the consent
of all the fellowes, William Hawes resigned up his president-
ship to him, and dyed some few dayes after *. Anno 1660,
upon the restauration of King Charles II, Dr. Hannibal
Potter (the president sequestred by the Parliamentary
Visitors) re-enjoyed the presidentship again.
** Dr. Seth Ward, now bishop of Sarum, when he was
president of Trinity College, Oxon, did draw his geometri-
call schemes with black, red, yellow, green, and blew inke to
avoid the perplexity of A, B, C, etc.
{His doctorate,)
*** I should have said that, anno 165(4), he** tooke his
* The passage in brackets was ^ Space left for Hawes' degree, i e.
added by Aubrey in the margin. He M.A.
ought then to have changed * Mr. *♦ MS. Anbr. lo, fol. a4\
Freeman's ' infra to * lord Wen- ♦** MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 86^.
man's.' " Anthony Wood writes over, for
* MS. Anbr. 6, foL 86\ clearness sake, ' Dr. Ward.*
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degree of doctor io Divinity, at t
same time with Dr. John Wallis.
(^CJntrck preferment. ^
He then enjoyed his chanter's place at Excester, and,
I thinke, was certainly minister of St. Laurence (Jewry)
church (quaere) in London.
Anno Domini i66{i), the deaneof Exondyed, and then
it was his right to step-in next to the deanry.
(^Becomes bishop of Exeter.')
Anno Domini 1663, the bishop of Exon dyed : Dr. Ward,
the deane, was in Devonshire at that time, at . . . (I tliinke
'twas Taverstoke), at a visitation at . . ., f where
♦ Videthe ' . r .L
MircnnWof wcrc a great number of the gcntrey of the
tra»mH.' countrey. Dcane Ward was very well knowne
to the gentry, and his learning, prudence, and
comity had wonne them'' all to be his friends. The
ncwes of the death of the bishop being brought to them,
who were all very merry and rejoycing with good entertain-
ment, with great alacrity the gentlemen cryed all, uno uiw",
' Wtc will have Mr. Deanc'' to be our Bishop.' This was
at that criticall time when the House of Commons were the
king's darlings. The deane told them that for his part he
had no interest or acquaintance at Court ; but intimated to
them how much the king esteemed the members of parlia-
ment {and a great many Parliament men were then there),
and that his majestie would deny them nothing. * If 'tis
.so, gentlemen ' (sayd Mr. Deane), ' that you will ncedes
have me to be your bishop, if some of you make your
t Sir F..iwaH addressc to his majestie, 'twill be donne.'— With
• ••; ...'...; that theyf dranke the other glasse, a health
to the king, and another to their wished-for
bishop ; had their horses presently made ready, putt
" Henry Broome, or iirome, a '' Dupl. with ' wonne iheir love.'
Lender bookseller: MS. Aubr. a6, • A slip /or ' uno Bit.'
fol. 64. s ' VVaiU ' followed : scored out.
Seth Ward 28j
foot in stirrup, and away they rode merrily to London ;
went to the king, and he immediately graunted them
their request. This is the first time that ever a bishop was
made by the House of Commons. Now, though envy
cannot deny, that this worthy person was very well worthy
any preferment could be conferred on him, yet the old
bishops (e. g. Humphrey (Henchman), bishop of London ;
John Cosins, bishop of Durham ; etc.)* were exceedingly
disgruntled at it, to see a briske young bishop that could
see through all their formall gravity, but 40 yeares old, not
come in at the right dore but leape over the pale. It went
to their very hearts. Well, bishop of Excester he was, to
the great joy of all the diocese *. Being bishop he had then
free accesse to his majestie, who is a lover of ingenuity and
a discerner of ingeniose men, and quickly tooke a liking to
him.
** His great friend and patrone. Dr. (Samuel) Ward,
. . . ; quaere what preferment did Dr. (Seth) Ward give
him in the Church ?
{Tra7tslated to Salisbury,)
*** Anno 1667, Alexander Hyde, the bishop of Sarum,
dyed, and then he was made bishop of Sarum, mense (Sept.)
(^Personal characteristics^^)
He is (without all manner of flattery) so prudent, learned,
and good a man, that he honours his preferment as much
as the preferment does him ; and is such a one that cannot
be advanced too high. My lord (Lucius) Falkland was
wont to say that he never knew any one that a pair£ of
lawne sleeves had not altered from himselfe, but only
bishop Juxon ; had he knowne this excellent prelate, he
would have sayd he had knowne one more. As he is the
pattern of humility and courtesie, so he knowes when to
be severe and austere ; and he is not one to be trampled
or worked upon. He is a batchelour, and of a most
magnificent and munificent mind.
♦ MS. Aubr. 6. fol. 87. ♦♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 86\
• Subst. for * country.' ♦♦♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 87.
He hath been a benefactor to the Royall Societie, (of
I Th-brtrinmnE ^^^1''^'' ^^ ^'^^ ""^ ^'^ ^^^ ^^^^ mcmbcrs and
^^riS^« institutora t). gave them, Anno Domini. . . . //.
Tiiltttiiy'o^' ^^ ^'^'^ gave a noble pendulum clock to the
wllrd!^^'' Royall Societie (which goes a weeke), to per-
Baiiiuni. Sc. petuatc ■ thc memory of his deare and learned
friend, Mr. Laurence Rooke.
Quaere, was the bishop ever professor at G re sham
College ?
He gave anno 167-, . , , //. towards the making of the
river at Salisbury navigable to Christ Church. Anno 1679
he gave to Sydney CoUcdge a thousand pounds.
He haz perused all the records of thc Church of Saruni,
which, with long lyeing, had been conglutinated together;
read them all over, and taken abridgements of them, which
haz not been donne by any of his predecessors I beleeve
for some hundreds of yeares.
He had an admirable habit of body (athletique, which
was a fault), a handsome man, pleasant and sanguine; he
did not desire to have his wisdome be judged by the
gravity of his beard, but his prudence and ratiotination.
This, methinkes, is strange to consider in him, that being
a great student (and that of mathematiques and difficult
knotty points, which does use to make men unfit for
businesse), he is so cleare and ready, as no sollicitor is
more adroit for looking after affaires.
Sukttes *'.
* The black malice of the dean ' of Sarum — he printed
sarcasticall pamphletts against him — was the cause of his
disturbd spirit, wherby at length he quite lost his memorie.
For about a moneth before he dyed he tooke very little
sustenance, but lived on the stock and died a skeleton.
He deceased at his house at Knightsbridge neer London,
on Sunday morning, January the sixth, i68| : the Gazetts
• Dnpl. wllh ' continue.'
I' A memo, to bring ia here an accousl of the bishop's last illnest.
• MS. Aobr. ;, fol. 8.
Seth Ward 289
and Newsletters were severally mistaken as to the day
of his death. — This from Mr. Seth Ward, B.D.
{His burial.)
* Seth, episcopus Sarum, is buried at Sarum as neer as
may be to John Davenant, episcopus.
(^His papers,)
** I searcht all Seth, episcopus Sarum's, papers that
were at his house at Knightsbridge where he dyed : of
which I will give and bring you an account when I come
to Oxon about the latter end of this moneth. I have
taken care with his nephew and heir* to looke over his
papers in his study at Sarum. He tells me the custome
is, when the bishop of Sarum dies, that * the deane and
chapter lock-up his studie and put a scale on it.* It was
not opened lately, but when it is he will give me an
account for you.
*** Scripsit: —
That there is a God — i6mo: quaere nomen libri.
Vindiciae, 4to, Oxon.
. . . contra Thomam Hobbium, 8vo, Oxon.
Trigonometria, 4to, Oxon.
Astronomia geometrica, 4to, Oxon.
Severall sermons, wherof one was at the funerall of
the duke of Albemarle, who was his great friend, and
whose eies he closed.
**** Seth Ward, lord bishop of Salisbury, studied the
common lawe, and I find this paper, which is his owne
handwriting, amongst his scattered papers which I rescued
from being used by the cooke since his death, which was
destinated with other good papers and letters to be put
under pies.
***** He writ a reply to Bullialdus, which might be
♦ Anbrey in MS. Wood F. 39. fol. ♦** MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 87\
386' : June 29, 1689. ♦♦♦♦ MS. Aubr. 10, fol. 65.
** Ibid., fol. 387. ♦♦♦♦♦ MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 8.
• Seth Ward, B.D.
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290 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
about the bigness of his Astronomia Geometrica, which
he lent to somebody (forgot), and is lost. In the bishop's
study are several letters between Bullialdus and him, and
between Hevelius and him.
{His foundation at Buntingford.)
* At Buntingford, Hertfordshire' : —
ti6«4-
This hospitall was erected and endowed by Seth Ward,
D.D., lord bishop of Salisbury and chancellor of the most
noble order of the Garter, who was bom in this towne
within the parish of Aspden and educated in the free-
schoole of Buntingford ]
The bishop's will not observed : the people there say so
cosen Freeman" said <so).
( Corrigendum.')
** Seth Ward, cpiscopus Sarum: — Whereas I put downe
in my memorandums, from his owne mouth, viz. that he
said, occasionally, that 'he was borne when the great
comet appeared ' (that, I am sure, was in anno 161S} ; but
his nephew, Seth Ward, treasurer of the church of Sarum
and his executor, told me that the last sommer he searched
in the register at Buntingford where he was born, and finds
thus : —
' Seth Ward christned April 5, 1617.'
NeUt.
' Aubrey gives in Icicl: the coat :— ' See of Sanim ; impaling, Rinre a cross
moline or.' Dr. I'liilij) Bliss lias adiletl the icferenc<.-s ' see parts ii and iii,' i. e.
MSS. Auhr. 7 and 8, as cited supra.
' Ilawes resigned Sept. n, and died Sept. 14, 1659. Ward *a! elected on
Sept. 14.
' Thomas Pierce, inslallcd dean May 4, 1G75, died March iS, 169I. Anthony
Wood comments on Pieice's quarrelsome and tyrannical disposition; Clark's
Wood's Lifiand Tim/!, i. 4J0.
' The paragraph in square brackets is a copy of the inscription on (he
building, sent lo Anbrey by some correspond en t. Over the date is the coat of
arms, as above, ensigned with a mitre and encircled by the Garter buckle and
* MS. Aubr. 6, a slip at fol. 86. • Sufi-a, p. )84.
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Walter Warner (15 1640).
* From Dr. John Pell : — Mr Walter Warner : — his
youngest brother was High Sheriff of Leicestershire, about
1642. He and his brother dyed both batchelors. Dr. Pell
haz seen him that was sheriff; but was well acquainted
with Walter. The estate came to a middle brother, a
lame man.
Walter had but one hand (borne so), he thinks a right
hand ; his mother was frighted, which caused this deformity,
so that instead of a left hand, he had only a stump with
five warts upon it, instead of a hand and fingers. He wore
a cuffe on it like a pockett. The Doctor never sawe his
stump, but Mr. Warner's man • has told him so.
This Walter Warner was both mathematician and philo-
sopher, and 'twas he that putt-out Thomas Hariot's Algebra,
though he mentions it not.
Mr. Warner did tell Dr. Pell, that when Dr. Harvey
came out with his Circulation of the Blood, he did wonder
whence Dr. Harvey had it : but comeing one day to the
earle of Leicester, he found Dr. Harvey in the hall, talking
very familiarly with Mr. Prothero (Wallici ap Roderic),
to whom Mr. Warner had discoursed concerning this
exercitation of his De Circulatiofte Sanguinis^ and made
no question but Dr. Harvey had his hint from Prothero.
Memorandum : — Dr. Pell sayes that Mr. Warner rationated
demonstratively by beates of the pulses that there must be
a circulation of the blood.
When Mr. Hariot dyed, he made Sir Thomas Alesbury
and Mr. Prothero his executors, by which meanes his
papers came to be divided into two hands. Those which
fell to Sir Thomas Alesbury, fell, after his death, to
his sonne-in-lawe, Edward, earle of Clarendon, Lord
Chancellor, and in his Sonne's hands (this present, 1680,
earle of Clarendon) *tis beleeved are those that are
yet left ; none of them were printed, save that Artis
♦ MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 34. . ■ Snbit. for 'servant.'
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Analyticae Praxis, which was printed by Mr, Warner upon
this occasion, viz. Sir Thomas Alesbury obtained of
Algernon, carle of Northumberland (son to that carle,
prisoner in the Tower), a continuation of the annuity,
dureing Warner's life, upon condition that he should,
out of Mr. Hariot's papers, drawe out some piece fitt
to be published', which he did, under the title aforcsayd,
in folio, 1631, London: but did not sett his name to
it, and accordingly Warner had his money as long as he
lived. The other part of Mr. Hariot's papers, which were
in Mr. Prothero's keeping, came to the hands of the lord
John Vaughan, eldest son to the carle of Carbery, lately
governor of Jamaica, which vide.
Mr. Warner '.s youngest brother wa.'; a good husband and
an industrious man, and would say that had he so much
money, he could improve it to very great advantage ;
wherupon his eldest brother (Walter) did lett him sell
his land, by which meanes he did so improve his estate
by graseing, etc. that he became High Sheriff as aforesaid
(quaere of the attorneys when). Dr. Pell lias seen him,
and spalce with him.
Mr. Walter Warner made an Inverted Logarithmicall
Table, i. e. whereas Briggs's table fills his margin with
numbers encreasing by unites, and over-against them setts
their logarithms, which because of incommensurability must
needs (be) cither abundant or deficient; Mr. Warner (like
a dictionary of the Latine before the English) fills the
margin with logarithmes encreasing by unites, and * setts f
tvidtmv '° every one of them so many continuall
Mr."HooL's meane proportion alls between i and lo*", and
raponst, 16^. tjjgy fQp j[,e same reason must also have the
last figure incompleat. These, after the death of Mr. Warner,
came to the hands of Mr. Herbert Thorndyke, prebendary
of Westminster, and by him left in the hands of Dr. Richard
Busby, schoolmaster and prebendary of Westminster, which,
before Mr. John Pell grew acquainted with Mr. Warner,
■ SubsL for * printed.' • M."*. Aubr, 6, fol. 34'.
* Anthony Wood marks 'qnaere.'
Wtlltam Watson. George Webb 293
were ten thousand^ and at Mr. Warner's request were by-
Mr. Peirs hands, or direction, made a hundred thousand.
The difference of the hands will shew the workman's
in the originalls, which Dr. Busby haz.
Memorandum : — he wrote a Treatise of Coynes in relation
to mint affaires, of which Mr. John Collins haz a copie : —
from Mr. Herbert Thorndyke.
The sixth booke of Optiques in Mer9ennus is expressly
his ; the 7th is Mr. Thomas Hobbs's.
Mr. Tovey, of Leicestershire, was his kinsman : he could
tell when and where he dyed : — from Seth (Ward), bishop
of Sarum.
The bishop thinkes he was of Cambridge university, but
is not certaine. Dr. Pell believes that he was of no
university.
Quaere Dr. Pell, what is the use of those Inverted
Logarithmes ? for W. Warner would not doe such a thing
in vaine. Mr. Tovey was fellowe of Christ College in
Cambridge ; was beneficed in Leicestershire ; and maried
a neice of Mr. Warner's ; and from Mr. Tovey they • came
to Mr. Thorndyke.
William Watson (15 1603).
* . . . Watson, who wrote the Quodlibets^y was taken
in a field by the Hay in Herefordshire (or Brecknock-
shire — vide the mapp) by Mr. . . . Vaughan, and was
executed, at Brecknock (as I take it). *Twas observed
that Mr. Vaughan did never prosper afterwards.
George Webb (1581-1641).
** Dr. . . . Webbe, one of king Charles Ts chaplaines,
afterwards bishop of Limrick in Ireland, hath some sermons,
or divinity, in print ; and a translation of Terence, English
and Latin.
* The Tables of Logaiithmg. ** Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 59, fol.
* MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5. 135 : Aug. 9, 1 671.
^ Dodd's Church History, ii. 580.
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He dyed and was burled in Limrick about two or three
daies before the towne was taken by the Irish, who digged
up the body again— it was about 1643.
He was of Corpus Christi College, Oxon : borne at
Brumhum in Wiltshire.
* I confess I doe not like that super-zealc in the Canon
Lawe, not to let alone there the bodys of heretiques.
It is too inhumane. — This, as to the bishop's body being
digged up again, which I feare was so ; for his nephew who
was his archdeacon, was with him when he dyed and the
towne taken, and I remember, being then a fresh man,
I heard him tell the story. He was minister next parish
to Mr. Hine.
. . . Webb.
** Dr. Webb: — his way of teaching children, in Duck
lane. It tauglit them also to make verses. He wrote
several! bookes — from Mr. Michael Weekes : quaere + -
Jotm Wells.
*** John Wells', esq.: — he was borne at . . ., educated
at . . . He was a Roman Catholique. He published an
excellent treatise of dialling, entituled ' : —
Sciographia, or the art of shadowes, plaincly demon-
strating out of the sphaere how to project both great and
small circles upon any plane whatsoever, with a new
conceit of the reflecting of the sunne beames upon a
diall contrived upon a plane which the direct beame can
never shine upon, together with the manner of cutting the
five regular Platonical bodies and two other the one of 12,
the other of 30 rhombes never discovered heretofore, also
the finding of their declinations and recUnations and
adorning them with variety of dialls, all performed by
the doctrine of triangles, and for ease and delight sake
• Aubre)'inMS.WoodF.39,fol.i44. bishop in Ireland?'
•• MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 42', Anthony "* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. So'.
Wood (jneiics : — ' Which Dr. Webbdo ''A thieb Svo, printed anno
you meaoe! whether him th&t wu a Domini 1635' rollowed; scored out.
Str George Wharton 295
by helpe of the latfe invented and worthily admired numbers
called by the first inventor logorithmes ; by John Wells,
esquire ; London, printed by Thomas Harper and are to
be sold in Paul's churchyard at the signe of the Bell, 1635.
Mr. Henry Gellibrand, professor of (Astronomy) at
Gresham College, hath put a learned preface to it, wherein
it is mencioned that Mr. Henry Brigges and Mr. Edmund
Gunter did earnestly sollicite Mr. Wells to publish it.
* (In) Deptford (church at the) east end (of the)
south aisle (on a) white marble : —
Memoriae Sacrum.
Hie sita est Catherina Welles, generosa,
summae pietatis et virtutis, filia Thomae
Wailinger armigeri et Benedictae Gonson
primogenita, uxor charissima Johannis
Welles armigeri pro regia classe pridem
diribitoris ejusque navalium armamentonim
per triginta plus annos totius Angliae generalis
custodis, cui septem filios sexque filias
feliciter enixa est, quarum duo nati
tres natae hie uni cum ilia contumulantur.
Animam coelo pie reddidit 5 Julii 1634
aetatis 47 felicem in Christo resurrectionem
indubitanter expectans.
Ad maritum superstitem.
Pignora conjugii remanent tibi plurima nostri,
Pluraque praemisit mors mihi dira rogo :
Parte fruor tumulo, reliqua tibi prole relicta;
Festina charos lentus ad hos cineres.
Note.
* In MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 80^, Aubrey drew the coat : — * argent, a cheyron vert
powdered with ermine spots of the first between 3 martletts sable/ but crosied
it out with the note ' fklse.' On fol. 81 he gives a coat, as carved on the
monument there described : — ' or, a lion rampart within a bordnre engrailed
sable, a crescent for difference; impaling, gules, a fess verry between 3
(pheasants, I thinke) or'; and adds 'the lord Wells tempore (Henr. VII)
gave this coate.*
Sir Gtoorge Wharton (1617-1681).
** Sir George Wharton, baronet, treasurer and paymaster
to the office of his majestie's Ordinance, dyed at his howse
* MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 81. ^ MS. Anbr. 8, foL 97.
396 Aubreys 'Brief Lives'
at Enfield, 12th of August 16H1, and lyes buryed in the
Tower chapell, 35 of August following.
At the end of this oote Anthony Wood his atlded tbc reference 'vx p. 59 b,'
1 e. fol. 90' of tbc MS., where is the note — ' Sit George Wbaiton, batoocl, obiit
inTam London, dIh sepultns eW, Ang. loth 168 1.' Wood has uoltd theie ' In
page 45,' i.e. fol. 97, ut supra, ' you say 11 Angost.' Aubrey there gives in
irick the coat : — ' (sable), a tnanncb (argent), oa a canton ■ . ., 1 Uoq'e gamb,'
and adds ' sans bordure, quod N.B-'^-Oa fol. 9' of the MS. is itill another
iion : — ■ Sir George Wharton, Itnight, buryed at the Tower chapel [quaerej,
16 Angsst, Friday, 1681') and U'ood theic objects ' in pa^c 45, yoo aay
*5 Angoil: tee page jijb.'
DifflEory Whesre (i574-]64r)-
* Mr. Gibbon, Blewmantle, showed me in an old
collection in MSS., dtort/iis, that in anno 1634 was the
number of 9a students In Glocester Hall, Degory Whear
then master there.
Abraham Wheloo. ^
** . . . Wheelock, (a) simple man — {from Seth Ward)
bishop of Sarum.
Noll.
Abraham Wheloc printed notes on Bede, Cimb. 1643. How ihotoughly
Anthony Wood used up every scrap of opinion he received is shown by the
fact that even this expression (of Wheloc's •simplicity') is taken up by him ;
we Clark's Wood's Life and Timii, iv. JsS.
Daniel WMstler (1619-1684).
*** Dr. Daniel Whistler borne at Walthamstowe ■ in
Essex.
**** Daniel Whistler, M.D., dyed <May 11, 1684),
president of the Physitians' College.
• MS. Aobt. 7, fol. 9". " ■ In the Trin. Coll. Oxon. register,
•• MS. Aubr. 8. fol. 6'. where he was adm. Scholar May j8,
*** MS. Aabr. 9, a slip pasted on to 1635, aet. iG, he is entered as of
fol. 17'. Also noted by Aubrey in MS. ' Elvington in Goringe parish, Oion.'
Ballard 14, fol. 113'; Nov. 7, 1674. *••• M& Anbt. 7, foL 6.
James Whitney. John Whitson 297
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James Whitney (i 593-1 66-).
* Parson Whitney was a great nomenclator of Oxford
men, being an old fellow there ; and were he alive now
would be 81.
** My old cosen, parson Whitney, told me that in the
visitation of Oxon in Edward Vis time they burned
mathematical bookes for conjuring bookes, and, if the
Greeke professor had not accidentally come along, the
Greeke testament had been thrown into the fire for a
conjuring booke too.
John Whitson (i 557-1 629).
*** John Whitson, alderman of the city of Bristol.
John Whitson was borne at Cover in the Forest of Deane
in the countie of Glocester. He went to schoole at Bristow,
where he made a good proficience in the Latin tongue. He
was bound apprentice to alderman Vawr, a Spanish merchant
of this city. He was a handsome young fellow ; and his
old master the alderman being dead, his mistress one day
called him into the wine-cellar and bad him broach the
best butt in the cellar for her . . . His mistresse after
maried him. This story will last perhaps as long as
Bristol is a city.
He had a good naturall witt, and gaind by the Spanish
trade a fair estate.
His second wife was . . . the daughter of . . . Hine,
alderman of London, a very beautifull dame, as by her
picture, at length, in the dining rome, doeth appear. By
her he had a daughter, his only child, who was counted the
flower of Bristol, who was maried to Sir Thomas Trenchard
of Dorsetshire, who dyeing (together with her child), the
alderman gave him compensation for the mannour of
Dunderhill ^ and had it again.
♦ Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, *♦♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 104.
fol. 334 : Nov. 15, 1673. * Which he had given Trenchard as
^ Ibid., fol. 282^ : Oct 24, 1674. dowry with his daughter.
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agS Aubrey's 'Bnef Lives'
His third wife was ... by whom he had no issue. His
fourth and last wife was Rachel, daughter of Richard
Danvers of Tokenham, Wilts, esq., relict ol John Aubrey
of Burleton in the county of Hereford, esq. (my father
Richard Aubrey being then elcaven yearesof age). He had
no issue by her. The alderman made him ■ a good
falkoner, but did cutt downe his woods and never made him
any satisfaction : but lett his good workes be sett in balance
against it.
He lived nobly; kept a plentifull table; and was the
most popular magistrate '' in the city, alwaies chosen
a member of Parliament. He kept a noble house, and did
entertain and treat the peers and great persons that came
to the city. He kept his hawkes.
I remember five that had been brcd-up under him, but
not one of tliem came to good, they lived so luxuriously,
just as the servants of Sir John Robinson, governor of the
Tower.
He had a very good healthy constitution, and was an
early riser ; wrote all his letters and dispatched his businesse
betirae in the morning.
He was charitable in his life in breeding-up of poor
scholars : particularly I remember William Haywood, D.D.,
whomc he preferred to St. John's Colledge in Oxon,
where are * ccrtaine Bristowe fellowships. His father was
a cowper in Ballance Street ; his mother, whom I well
remember, was a midwife in the city.
He had a fair" house in Si. Nicholas Street, where is the
stateliest dining roome in the city. He had been thrice
mayor of this city, as is to be seen in the table of mayors
in St. Nicholas Street in golden letters.
His beloved and only daughter dyeing, and so being
orbus, Richard Wheeler his nephew, who was bred a mer-
chant under him with others, was his heir ; but he proving
a sott and a capricious coxcombe, he setled all his estate
upon the city of Bristow for pious uses, and was, I doe
* i. e. Richard Aubrey, hiastep-soD.
'' Dopl. with 'man.'
Thomas Whyte. John Wilkins 299
believe, the greatest benefactor that ever the city had. He
gave the mannour of Durdery and the mannour of Burnet
and divers houses in Bristowe.
He dyed about the seaventy-sixth yeare of his age by
a fall from his horse, his head pitching on a nail that stood
on its head by a smyth's shop. He was buried very
honourably • ; besides all his relations in mourning, he had
as many poor old men (or men and woemen) as he was
yeares old in mourning gownes and hoodes, the mayor and
aldermen in mourning ; all the trained band (he was their
colonel) attended the funerall and their pikes had black
ribons and drummes were covered with black cloath.
He lies interred in the west end of the * Crowd ' (the
name of the vault under all St. Nicholas Church, as St.
Faith's was under St. Paule's), where he lies in effigie on an
altar-monument of alabaster and marble. %gf See his
inscription.
Thomas Whyte (1582-1676).
* Memorandum : — Mr. John Davys of Kydwelly tells
me that Mr. Thomas Whyte (Blacklowe), author of De
mundo, etc., dyed in Drury lane about 7 yeares since and is
buried in St. Giles's Church in the fields. Quaere ubi: as
also where his brother Richard is buried ?
John Wilkins (161 4-1672).
** Bishop J. Wilkins : — the little picture in 8vo (is) most
like him.
*** John Wilkins, Lord Bishop of Chester; his father
was a goldsmith in Oxford. Mr. Francis Potter knew him
very well, and was wont to say that he was a very ingeniose
man, and had a very mechanicall head. He was much for
trying of experiments, and his head ran much upon the
* Dupl. with ' with a great deale of gives in trick the coat :— ' See of
state.' Chester ; impaliog, argent, on a bend
* MS. Aubr. 6, fol. a. engrailed cottised sable, 3 martlets
** MS. Anbr. 8, fol. 6^. or, a crescent for difference.*
*♦♦ MS. Aubr. 6, foL 9 a. Anbrey
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300 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
perpetual! moIwh. He maryed a daughter of Mr. John
Dod (who wrote on the Commandments), at whose house,
at ^Fawlsley, near Daventry), Northamptonshire, she
laye-in with her son John, of whome we are now to
speake.
He had a brother (Timothy), squier-beadlc of (Divinity^
in Oxford, and a uterine brother, Walter I'ope, M.D.
He had his grammar learning in Oxford, (I thinke from
Mr. Sylvester). He was admitted of Magdalen-hall in
Oxford, {1637) (vide A. Wood's Antiq. Oxon.). His tutor
there was the learned Mr. John Tombs (Coryphaeus of the
Anabaptists). Anno Domini (i63i)A.B. ; Anno Domini
(1654) M.A. He read to pupils here, (among others,
Walter Charlton, M.D,, was his pupill): he continued
here . . . yeares.
He has .sayd oftentimes that the first rise,orhint of hisriaing,
was from gocing accidentally a courseing of a hare: where
an ingeniose gentleman of good quality falling into discourse
with him, and finding him to have a very good will ', told
him that he would never gett any considerable preferment
by continuing in the university ; and that his best way was
to betake himselfe to some lord's or great person's house ''
that had good benefices to conferre. Sayd Mr. J. Wilkins,
' I am not knowne in the world; I know not to whom to
addresse myselfe upon such a designe.' The gentleman
replied, ' I will recommend you myselfe,' and did so, to (as
I thinke) lord viscount Say and Scale (quaere), where he
stayed with very good Hkeing till the late civill warres, and
then he was chaplain to his highnesse {Charles Louis)
Prince Elector Palatine of the Rhine, with whom he went
t Quaere (after the peace f concluded in Germany),
noracn iML ^^^ ^^,^g ^^,gy preferred there by his highnesse.
He stayed there . . . (not above a yeare).
After the Visitation at Oxon by the Parliament, he gott
to be Warden of Wadham CoUedge. Anno {1656) maried
to (Robina) the relict of Dr. (Peter) French, canon of
* Dup]. with ' partes.' " Dnp]. with ' family.'.
' Snbsl. Tor ' after Ihc peace in OennaD; nas made.'
John Wilkins 301
Christchurch, Oxon, and sister to Oliver, (then) Lord
Protector, who* made him anno 165(1) Master of Trinity
Colledge in Cambridge, (in which place he revived learning
by strickt examinations at elections: he was much honoured
there, and heartily loved by all ;) where he continued till
1660, (the restau ration of his majestie). Then he was
minister of Saint Laurence (Jewry) church in London ; and
anno . . . was deane of Rippon in Yorkeshire. His friend,
Seth Ward, D.D., being made bishop of Excester, he was
made there deane, and anno 166(8) by the favour of
George, duke of Buckingham, was made bishop* of
Chester ; and was extremely well beloved in his diocese.
Anno Domini (1672) he dyed of (the stone). He left
a legacy of four hundred pounds (quaere) to the Royall
Society, and had he been able would have given more.
He was no great read man ; but one of much and deepe
thinking, and of a working head ; and a prudent man as
well as ingeniose. He was one of Seth, lord bishop of
Sarum's most intimate friends. He was a lustie, strong
growne, well sett, broad shoulderd person, cheerfull, and
hospitable.
He was the principall reviver of experimentall philosophy
(secundum mentem domini Baconi) at Oxford, where he
had weekely an experimentall philosophicall clubbe, which
began i 649, and was the incunabula of the Royall Society.
When he came to London, they mett at the Bull-head
taveme in Cheapside, (e.g. 1658, 1659, and after), till it
grew to big for a clubb, and so they came to Gresham
colledge parlour.
Scripsit (vide A. Wood*s Aniiq. Oxan.) : —
The World in the Moone, . . . (long since).
Swift and Secret Messenger.
Art of Praying and Preaching.
Mathematicall Magique : dedicated to the Prince Elector:
printed . . .
Reall Character : London, printed . . .
* In error for Richard Cromwell. * MS. Aubr. 6, foL 92^
3Q2 Aubrey's 'Brie/ Lives'
This last was his darling, and nothing troubled him so
much when he dyed, as that he had not compleated it ;
which will now in a yeare more be donne by the care and
studies of Mr. Robert Hooke, of Gresham College ; Mr.
Andrew I'aschall, B.D. of Chedzoy, in com. Somerset ;
Mr. Francis Lodwyck, of London, merchant ; Mr. John
Ray, R.S.S., of Essex ; and Mr. Thomas Pigott, M.A.
(Wadham College), He lyes buried in the north-east end of
the chancell of St. Laurence . . . church, neer the wall,
where will be an inscription sett up to his memorie. h
John WiUiB.
• John Willis, B.D.— author of the Art of Memorie, in
Latin, 1618, i2mo.— Dr. Davenant told me that when he
was of Cambridge, that one preaching at St. Marie's — ' and
now.' said he (before he was aware) ' I am come to the lyon's
taile'; this was (it seemes) his locus': the people stared
on him
Inventor of Short-hand, — 'tis the beat. Bishop Wilkins
sayd, 'tis only used in England, or by the English ; and ''
'twas a good while before the lofjarithmes gott beyond sea.
Mr. Wingate first brought it into France, and shewed it to
them ; scil. when he went into France to teach the Queen-
Mother English ; he dedicated it to Monsieur the duke of
Orleans,
Thomas WiUiB (1621-1675).
** Thomas Willis, M.D. — from himselfe — borne at Great
Bedwyn in com. Wilts, January the 27th, anno Domini
1621. His father was steward to Sir Walter Smyth there,
and had been sometime a scholar at St. John's College in
Oxford.
*** Thomas Willis, M.D. ; vide Westminster Abbey
pro inscriptione.
• MS. Aubr. 8, fol. i6'. no argument against its eicellence.
• Dupl. with ■ topique.' *• MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 4'.
" A plea that the failnre of this ■" MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6'.
sborthuid to gua credit abroad is
Thomas Willis 303
* Thomas Willis, M.D., natus . . .; (vide A. Wood's
An fig. Oxon).
1647 and 1648 (quaere, if not +), kept Abingdon-
market*, and Dr. (Richard) Lydall and he had a horse
between them: this was before a Doctor**, He grew
more and more into good practise.
He studied chymistry in Peckwater Inne chamber °. He
was in those dayes very mathematicall, and I have
heard him say his genius lay more to mathematics then
chymistry.
His father was steward to Sir John (I thinke) Smyth **;
and had a little estate at Ivy Hinksey, where my lady
Smyth (vidua) dyed.
He went to schoole to Mr. (Edward) Sylvester in Oxon,
over the meadowes, where he ayred his muse, and made
good exercise : — from William Hawes, his schoolefellow.
Anno about 1657 (quaere there), riding towards Brackley
to a patient, his way led him thorough Astrop, where he
observed the stones in the little rill were discoloured of a kind
of Crocus Martis colour ; thought he, this may be an indica-
tion of iron ; he getts gaules, and putts some of the powder
into the water, and immediately it turned blackish; then
sayd he, *rie not send my patients now so far as Tunbridge/
and so he in a short time ® brought these waters into vogue,
and hath inriched a poore obscure village. He was middle
stature : darke red ^ haire (like a red pig) : stammered
much.
He was first servitor to Dr. (Thomas) lies, one of the
canons of X^ Ch. whose wife was a knowing woman in
physique and surgery, and did many cures. Tom Willis
then wore a blew livery-cloak, and studied at the lower end
of the hall, by the hall-dore ; was pretty handy, and his
♦ MS. Anbr. 8, fol. i6». • Dupl. with * in Canterbury Col-
* i. e. he used to ride over to lege.'
Abingdon on market-days, in hope of ^ Sir WalterSmith of Great Bedwin,
practice. Wilts.
*> i. e. before he took his Doctor's * Subst. for ' suddenly.'
degree, ' DupL with < brindle.*
mistresse would oftentimes have him to assist her in making
of medicines. This did liim no hurt, and allured him on.
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Jobn Wilmot, earl of Rochester (1648-1680),
* John, earl of Rochester': — he went to schoole
(Burford); was of Wadham College, Oxford; I suppose^J
had been in France.
About 18, he stole his lady, (Elizabeth) Malet, a daughti
and heir, a great fortune ; for which I remember I sawft
him a prisoner in the Tower about i66i.
His youthly spirit and oppulcnt fortune did sometimea
make him doe extravagant actions, but in the country he
was generally civill enough. He was wont to say that
when he came to Brentford the devill cntred into him and
never left him till he came into the country again
Aldcrbury or Woodstock.
He was raunger of Woodstock-parke and lived often at
the lodge at the west end, a very dclightfull place and
noble prospect westwards. Here his lordship had scverall
lascivious pictures drawen.
His lordship read all manner of bookfcs, Mr, Andrew
Marvell, who was a good judge of witt, was wont to say
that he was the best English satyrist and had the right veine.
'Twas pitty death tooke him off so soon.
In his last sicknesse he was exceedingly paenitent and
wrote a lettre of his repentance to Dr. Bumet, which is
printed.
He sent for all his servants, even the piggard-boy, to come
and heare his palinode". He dyed at Woodstock-parke,
26 July, 1680 ; and buried at Spilsbury in the same countie,
Aug. 9 following.
His immature death putts me in mind of these verses of
Propertius : —
Vere novo primoque in aetatis flore juventae,
Ceu rosa virgineo pollice carpta, jaces.
• MS. Anbr. 6, foL 55'. ■ Dqpl. with lurarotm.
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leaTF
at"
Edmund Wingate 305
* On the death of my lord Rocliester : pastoralU
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As on his death-bed, gasping, Strephon lay,
Strephon, the wonder of the plaines,
The noblest of th' Arcadian swaines,
Strephon, the bold, the witty, and the gay,
With many a sigh, and many a teare, he said,
* Remember me, ye shepheards, when I'me dead.
* Ye triflying glories of this world, adieu I
And vain applauses of the age !
For when we quit this earthly stage,
Beleeve me, shepheards, for I tell you true,
Those pleasures which from vertuous deeds we have
Procure the sweetest slumbers in the grave.
3
' Then since your fatall houre must surely come,
Surely your head ly low as mine.
Your bright meridian soon decline.
Beseech the mighty PAN to guard you home.
If to Elysium you would happy fly,
Live not like Strephon, but like Strephon die.'
T. Flatman.
Note.
' Anbrey gives in trick the coat : — ' (argent, on a fesse gales between 3 eagles*
beads, erased sable, 3 escallops or) [Wilmot] ; impaling, azure, 3 escallops or
[Malet]/ surmounted by an earFs coronet, and wreathed in lanrel (for a poet).
The top of fol. 55 has been cot off, the writing on the recto side having pre-
viously been scored out : I think the mutilation is due to Aubrey himself.
Edmund Wingate (i593'-i656)-
** Edmund Wingate, esq., was a Bedfordshire man, I
thinke ; recorder of Bedford — there you may learne, or at
my lord Bruce s (now Alesbury).
* MS. Anbr. 6, fol. 56.
•• Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 141* : Oct a;, 1671.
II. X
3o6 Aubreys ^Brief Lives'
Scripsit — Arithmctica ; J
Logarithmotechnia, with solution of triangles ; I
another little booke of working on a line of numbers ; "
Abridgment of the Statutes, . . ,
He was of Graye's Inne, and dyed . . . His yonger
Sonne was Mr. {Fabian) Stedman's fellow prentice ; since
turned a musquetere. He can tell me everything. He did
waytc at the Tower.
* Edmund Wingate dyed at Mr. Bayles howse in Gray's
Inne lane, and was buried at St, Andrewe's, Holborne, the^
13 Decemb. anno Domini 1656. |
Goorgo Withera (15RS-166;).
** Mr. George Withers (vide A. Wood's Aniig. Oxoh.)
was borne at Kentworth, near Alton, in Hantshire, on the
eleaventh of June, 15SH.
He maricd Elizabeth, eldest daughter of H, Emerson, of
South Lambeth, in com. Surrey, esqre, whose ancestors
lye entombed in the choeur of St S.ivior's, Southwark,
neer the monument of bishop Andrewes, with a statue of
white marble. She was a great witt, and would write in
verse too.
He was of (Magdalen College) in Oxford. He would
make verses as fast as he could write them. And though
he was an easie rymer, and no good poet, he was a good
votes. He had a strange sagacity and foresight into
mundane affaires.
He was an early observator of Quicquid agttnt homines ;
his witt was satyricall. I thinke the first thing he wrote
was 'Abuses whipt and stript,' for which he was committed
prisoner to ..." (I beleeve, Newgate). I believe 'twas
tempore Jacob! regis. He was a captain in the Parliament
army, and the Parliament gave him for his service
Mr. John Denham's estate at Egham, in Surrey, The
motto of his colours was, Pro Rege, Lege, Grege.
• Auhrcy in MS. Wooil K. 39, fol. •• MS. Aubr, 8, fol. 50*.
173 ; May i^, 167J. • Wood says the Marsbalsea.
Theophilus Wodenote 307
After the restauration of his majestie he was imprisoned
in the Tower about three quarters of a yeare. He died
the ad of May, 1667, and lieth interred within the east
dore of the Savoy church, where he dyed. He was pupill
to bishop (John) Warner, of Rochester.
* George Wythers, poet : — vide memorandum 1673 +/li
de G. W.»
Theophilus Wodenote (senior).
** Theophilus Woodenoth \ B.D. — ^his father^ was a
Cheshire gentleman of that ancient family ; was minister **
of Lankenhom in Cornwall, in which place his sonne
succeeded him —
'In Cornwall at a parish Lankenhom
Neer Launceston six miles southwards was I bom.*
When I was a school-boy he ^ lived two yeares with his
brother . . . Peyton, vicar of Chalke, being obnoxious to
danger of arests.
He did me much good in opening of my understanding ;
advised me to read lord Bacon's Essayes and an olde booke
of proverbs (English); answered me my questions of
antiq(uitiesX etc.
He was an Eaton scholar and fellow of King's College,
Cambridge, contemporary with Dr. (Samuel) Colins.
He wrote in his solitude at Chaike a little manuall called
* Good thoughts in bad times,' as I take it. I remember 'tis
dedicated to his cosen • . . Wodenoth of Cheshire, esq.
Notes,
' Aubrey gives in trick the coat : — *" (argent), a cross couped and voided
(sable) [Wodenote].' Anthony Wood refers to his own * Fasti 1619,* where
he occurs among the Cambridge M.A.S incorporated at Oxford.
Theophilus Wodenote was of Eton, and King's ColL Camb., RD. Oxford
1633, and D.D. 1630 ; and rector of Linkinhome, Cornwall, in 1615.
* Thomas Wodenote, Fellow of King*s Coll. Camb. ; rector of Linkinhome,
1583-
♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol 8. ♦♦ MS. Aubr. 8, foL lo^.
• I e. look in Aubrey's diary for * DupL with « rector.*
1673 (or about that year, <plu8, • i. e, Theophilus,
minus ') /or a note concerning liim.
X %
Thfiophiliu WodeDote (junior) {1625-16 — ).
* Theophilus Wodenoth, pater, natus Lankenkoro neer
Lanceaton in com. Comub., Oct. 6, 162,5, 6^ A.M., he thinkes
on a Thursday. Now rector of Blandford St Mary's in com.
Dorset.
Charles, fih'us Theophili, Wodenoth natus Blandfordiae,
Dorset, Feb, 17, 1660, die SoHs*, circa 6'' a.m.
A'ete.
This Thcopbilns WodeacKc is soa of Theophilus (KDioO- He matric. atj
Enetcr Cutlvgc, June }, 165J. fl
Thomas Wolaoy (147 — 1530). '
■"* Cardinal Woolsey : — Memorandum the Cardinal's hat
on the scutcheon at Christ Church : and quaere quot pedes
from the College to the Blew-boare ; colour with soote the
water-table, and insert in the scutcheon the Cardinal's hat.
*** Thomas Wolscy ', Cardinal, was a butcher's son, of
Ipswych, in Suffblke ; vide his Life, writt by . . .
He was a fellowe of Magdalen Colled^e in Oxford, where
he was tutor to a young gentleman of Limmington, near
Ilchester, in com. Somerset, in whose guiftthe presentation
of that church is, worth the better part of zoo U. per annum,
which he gave to his tutor, Wolsey. He had committed
hereabout some debauchery (I thinke, drunke : no doubt he
was of a high rough spirit), and spake derogatorily of
Sir Amias Paulet 'a Justice of Peace in the neighbourhood),
I Fromiry viho putt him Into the stockcs f, which, when
he came to be Cardinall, he did not forget; he
layed a fine upon Sir Amias to build the gate
of the Middle Temple ; the armes of Pawlet,
with the qiiartrings, are in glasse there to this
his^piir« day (16R0). The Cardinall's armes were, as
i.amc. jjj^ storie sayes, on the outside in stone, but
time haz long since defaced that, only you may still
discerne the place ; it was carved in a very mouldring stone.
Remaines of him shew that he was a great master of the
• MS, Aubr. 33, ftil. 75', 76. •• MS. Aobr. 8, fo!, 9.
• Sunday. •»• MS Aubr. 6. fol. 91.
from Lin.-
Thomas IVolsey " 309
Latin tongue ; Dr. John Pell tells me, that [he» finds in a
preface to a Grammar of . . . Haynes, schoolmaster, of
Christ-church, London,] that 'twas he that made the
Accedence before W. Lilly's Grammar in . . . dayes.
His rise (vide the History) was his quick and prudent
dispatch of a message to Paris for Henry 8.
He had a most magnificent spirit. Concerning his
grandure, vide Stowe's Chronicle, &c.
He was a great builder, as appeares by White-hall,
Hampton Court. — Eshur f, in Surrey, a noble
soirey note. house, built of the best burn't brick (perhaps)
<MS. Attbr. 4> ' t i
if William that ever I sawe ; stately gate- house and hall.
Wanfieetdid ' ^ ^
not uiiid^it : This Stately house (a fitt pallace for a prince *)
scutcheons are ^as bought about J 666, by . . . a vintner, of
London, who is since broke, and the house
is sold, and pulled downe to the ground, about 1678.
I have the draught of the house among my Surrey
papers. — Quaere : — he had a very stately cellar for his
wines, about Fish-street, called Cardinall Wolsey's cellar. —
He built the stately tower at Magdalen Colledge in Oxford,
and that stately palace at Winchester (where he was
bishop), called Wolsey-house ; I remember it pretty well,
standing 1647. Now, I thinke, it is most pulled downe. —
His noble foundation of his Colledge of Christ-Church,
in Oxford, where the stately hall was only perfected by
him. There were designed (as yet may appeare by the
building)* most magnificent cloysters (the brave designe
wherof Dr. John Fell hath deteriorated with his new
device) to an extraordinary spacious quadrangle, to the
entrance whereof was carryii^ up a tower (a gate-house)
of extraordinary rich and noble Gothique building. Vide
J. Oweni Epigrammata :
Sit domus imperfecta licet, similisque ruinae.
At patet in laudes area lata tuas.
Owen, £pigr.
* The words in iqQftre brackets are ^ ' of ' (a slip for * or *) 'Cardinall*
substituted for ' haz been very well followed : struck out.
assnred.' * MS. Anbr. 6, fol. 91 ^
310 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
When the present great-duke of Tuscany was at Oxford,
he was more taken with that, then all the rest of the
buildings he sawe there, and tooke a second viewe of it.
It should not be forgotten what a noble foundation there
was for the chapell, which did runne from the Collcdge,
along the street as far as the Blew-boare Inne ; which was
about 7 foot or more high, and adorned with a very rich
Gothique water-table'' as in the margin*.
It was pulled downe by Dr. John Fell (the Deane) about
1670, to use the stones about the CoUedge.
Memorandum : — about the buildings of this Colledge are
frequent the pillars, and axes, and Cardinall's cappes.
Concerning this great Cardinall's fall, see the histories
of that time.
Returning to London from Yorke, he died at Leicester,
where he lies buried (to the shame of Christ-church men)
yet without any monument.
' And though, from his owne store, Wolsey might I
have "
A palace or a colledge for his grave,
Yet here he lies interr'd, as if that all
Of him to be remembred were his fall.
Nothing but earth to earth, nor pompous weight
Upon him but a pebble or a quayte.
If thou art thus neglected, what shall wee
Hope after death that are but shreds of thee?'
Vide Dr. Corbet's Poems : his Iter Borcalc.
Scchislifewrittby , . . and also by Thomas Fuller, B.D.,
in his Holy State, where is a picture of his which resembles
those in glasse in Christ-church He was a lusty man,
thick neck, not much unlike Martyn Luther. I beleeve he
had Taurus ascending with the Pleiades, which makes the
native to be of a rough disposition.
He was Baccalaur of Arts so young, that he was
called the boy-bacchalaur. From Dr. John Pell (out of the
aforesayd preface).
■ See the facsimile >( the eod of tbis volume.
Anthony Wood. Sir Christopher Wren 311
* One of Osney bells is at Winslowe in Bucks, which is
the great bell there, but was the 3d at Osney; but
they have not long since cutt it something lesse, one
Derby decieving them LX//. of their metall. Cardinal!
Wolsey, being abbot of St. Alban's (to which Winslowe
did belong), at the pulling downe of Osney abbey, gave
this bell to Winslowe— Mr. Stcevens • was borne at
Winslowe.
Notes*
^ Aubrey gives in trick the coat : — ' sable, on a cross eDgrailcd argent a
lion passant gules between 4 leopards' faces or, on a chief or a rose gules
between a Cornish choughs proper,* ensigned with CardinaFs hat and strings,
gules.
' Aubrey wrote ' a very rich Gothique . . ./ and added a note in the margin
* quaere Sir Chr. W(ren) nomen* Wren told him * water-table,* which he then
inserted in the text, striking out the marginal note.
In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 4^, is the note : — ^ Basis, or list, or I thinke they call it
the water-table, of the parish church wall at St. Edmundsbory in Snffolke.
Of which fashion was the foundation of that famous began chapell orcathedrall
of Cardinal Wolsey*s which went towards the Blew-bore in Oxford, and pulled
downe by deane Fell about 1671. Magdalen parish {-church) tower {Oxford)
is also of thb fashion, viz. of Henry VIII.'
Anthony Wood (163^-1695).
** Mr. Anthony i Wood, M.A., antiquarius, in his lettre
to me, Palm Sunday March 23, 1672, writes thus, viz. *My
nativity I cannot yet retrive ; but by talking with an ancient
servant of my father's I find I was borne on the 17 of
Decemb., but the year when I am not certain: 'twas
possibly about 1647. — ^John Selden was borne the 16 of
December and Sir Symonds Dews the 17. But of these
matters I shall tell you more when my trouble is over.'
Sip Christopher Wren (1631-1723).
*** Sir Christopher Wren ^, surveyor of his majestie's
buildings, borne at . . . KnahilP in the parsonage-howse in
the county of Wiltes neer Shaftesbury, Thursday, October
* Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. tional stoiy.
273': May 30, 1674. ** ^S' Aubr. 23, foL 62^.
• Thomas Stephens (q.v.), from ♦♦♦ MS Aubr. 23, fol 53.
whom Aubrey recdved this tradi- ^ East Knoyle.
312
Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
\
20, 1631 ^, fiiT.M. — the bell rang VIII as his mother fell
in labour with him (from himselfe).
He was knighted ^ at Whitehall on Friday, 14th Novem-
ber 1673, *t 5"" A.M. (from Mr. Robert Hooke, the next
day).
* Anno 1669, Dr. Christopher Wren was invited by the
bishop of Sarum (Seth Ward), where he made a particular
survey of the cathedrall church *. He was at least a weeke
about it, and a curious discourse it was : it was not above
two sheetes. Upon my writing The Natural History of
Wilts, I had occasion to insert it there, and they told me
that it was lent to somebody — they could not tell to whom.
But in Febr. last Mr, Cole thinks it not unlikely that
Mr. Nash (the surveyor of the fabrick) of Sarum may have
that paper. I desired him to enquire but have not yet
received any answer.
„ (^Pedigree I in MS. Aubr. 7, fol. a8'.)
. Wren, of IpiWTcli
inSufFiilVe
1
MaUhewU-ren, >». . .
Lord Binliiip
of Ely.
ChriMopher W
°"ofw'i^d«'.
ne
. Co., of Fanthill
ircom.Wikt.
Matthew Wren, secretary
ra the Lard Chancellot
1
Faith, daoghter «. Si. Chris
CoirhMiof''£^h-
oph«„.<^ane^>_Fi^^
FiuwTlliam) in
c'or
Noct
nage
- Holder, D.D..
sub-deane ot^
A.U. . . .
' Wren was one of th
Nollt.
people from whose
patfo
■ineprale.
Aubrey, in bLs evil
days, hoped for some official post. On a slip pasted lo fol. 37' of MS. Aubr.
' Mr. Secretary Wren's indefinite (!) kindnesse is valuable if otir lord P.
<! William lord Biouncker, Pres. Roy. Soc. 1663-1677) know it, and Mr.
(John) Collins, bnt <ave. They might between them determine somewhat
• MS. Anbr. 7, fol. 8'.
Edward Wright 313
certaine. There are peaceable places among sonldien; and now the navy
offices thrive, and a man can nowhere so well hide himselfe in an office as there,
*canse 'tis out of the way.
* I cannot get Qnillettns here, but would you could find Callus Veridicus,
which you must enquire for privately. I never saw it, but Mr. Oldenburg may
possibly have heard of it.
' The want of the Royal Society is the greatest defect of our parts • : possibly
you may have some one that for money will informe mce as you doe for love.
If you find any such, fix him for ^ J. f
^ Aubrey was anxious to obtain the exact date as an item towards his pet
astrological collection. But he fancied that Wren had played a trick on him,
by taking the place of a brother of the same name, one year younger, who died
in infancy. Aubrey might have reflected that, while it is possible that parents
might give the name of a deceased child to their next, the other course is un-
likely. The following excerpts from Aubrey's letters to Anthony Wood bear
on the point : —
(fl)Nov. 17, 1670: MS. Wood F. 39, fol. ia8:— •Dr. Christopher Wren
was borne at (East) Knoyle, baptized the loth day of November 1631. I have
writt to him for the exact time, astrologiae ergo : *tis a poore-spirited thing, if
he will not resolve me.'
(^) Jan. 16, 167 J : MS. W^ood F. 39, fol. 160*: — * Dr. Christopher Wren . . .
tells me he was borne at • . . Knahill ao October, 1631. He was a second
Christopher : (the one) whome I sent to you was the first.'
(r) Feb. I, 167^ : MS. W'ood F. 39, fol. 165 : — ' Dr. Christopher Wren hath
putt a trick on us, as it seemes ; for he hath made him selfe a yeare younger
then indeed he is, though he needs not be ashamed of his age, he hath made
such admirable use of his time. I mett t'other day accidentally with the
parson of Knahill, who justifies the register, and not only so but proves it by
his neighbour that was his nurse and her son that suckled with him — evidence
notorious. 'Tis true, as the Doctor sayes, that there were two Christophers,
but it was the latter, i.e. the Doctor — that parson Hill justifies — quod nota.'
' Aubrey several times notes this. MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5 : — * Sir Xpfer W^ren
knighted, November 14, 1673.' MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 7 : — 'Sir Christopher Wren
received the honour of knighthood at Whitehall on Friday 14th November, 5h.
A.M., 1673 — from Mr. Robert Hooke, the next day.*
* MS. Aubr. 31, fol. 69-74, is * A survey of Our Lady Church at Salisbury,
taken by Dr. Christopher Wren (since Sir Christopher) anno Domini 1669,
being invited downe to doe it by Seth W^ard, lord bishop of Sarum.' — ^Another,
less perfect, MS. copy of this report is in Wood MS. B. 14.
Edward Wright (15 1615).
* Mr. Edward ^ Wright : he was of Caius College in
Cambridge (from Sir Charles Scarborough, who was of that
house).
* i.e. he misses most the meetings ^ i.e. Aubrey's initials, J. A., di»-
of the Society, and would willingly guised.
pay for a regular account of each * MS. Aubr. 8, fol. B2\
meeting. * ' Edward ' nbit. for * Edmund.'
I
I
314 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
He published his book, 4to, intituled': —
Certain errors in navigation detected and corrected by I
Edward Wright, with many additions that were not in the
former edition as appearcth in the next pages, London, 1610,
It is dedicated to the high and mighty Henry, prince of
Wales, etc. In the Epistle dedicatory he makes mention
of a goodlye and royall ship that his highncsse lately built,
and that since his highncsse comeing into England that the
'art of navigation hath been much advanced here as well
in searching the North-east and North-west passages as
also in discovering the sca-coastes and inland ofVit^inea,
Newfoundland, Groenland, and of the North New-land as far
as Hackluyt's headland, within 9 degrees of the pole, also
of Guiana and divers parts and iiands of the East Indies,
yea, and some parts also of the south continent discovered .
by Sir Richard Hawkins.' ■
He read mathematicks to Prince Henry; and Sir Jonaa I
Moore had the wooden sphaere in the Tower, which was
contrived by Mr. Wright for the more easy information of
the prince.
Amongst Mr. Laurence Rooke's papers (left with Seth
(Ward), lord bishop of Sarum) I found : —
Hypothesis stcllarum fixarum
a Edm.'' Wright,
three sheetcs, of his owne hand-writing, in folio. I depo.sited
it in the Roya! Society, but Mr, R. Hooke saieth that it is
printed in a booke by it selfe, which see.
In his preface to the reader he sayes that ' the errors
I have in the following treatise laboured to reforme to the
utmost (yea, rather beyond the utmost) of my poor abilitie,
neglecting in the meane time other studies and courses that
might have been more beneficial to me: which may argue
my good will to have proceeded further to the amendment of
such other faults and imperfections as yet remain besides
those alreadic specified.'
It appeares by his preface that his worth was attended
by a great deal of envie.
■ Sobst. for 'called.' ^ Sic.
Edward Wright 315
Ibid, — He was in the voyage of the right honourable
the earle of Cumberland in the yeare 1589. He 'devised
the seaman's rings for the present finding out both of the
variation of the needle and time of the day at one instant
without any farther trouble of using any other instrument,
and hath farther shewed how by the sun's point of the com-
passe (or magnetical azimuth) and altitude given by obser-
vation the variation may be found either mechanically with
ruler and compasse or mathematically by the doctrine of
triangles and arithmeticall calculation.'
John Collins {says that) he happened upon the loga-
rithmes and did not know it, as maybe seen in his Errors:
and Mr. Robert Norwood sayes to the reader in his Trigo-
nometrie ' neither is Mr. Edward Wright to be forgotten
though his endeavours were soonest prevented/ speaking of
the logarithmes.
He published a booke of dialling in 4to, anno . • .
* Mr. Edward Wright, ex Caialogo Bibl, Bodleianae.
Description of the sphere in three parts, London 161 3
W. I. 7.
Treatise of dialling, London 1614, 4to H. 30. Art.
Correction of errors in navigation, 4to W. 16. Art.,
et London 1599, 4to W. 2. Art. BS.
The earle of Cumberland's voyage to the Azores, ibid.
Peruse the prefaces. — * The description of the sphaere '
hath no preface, and I believe they were his notes for Prince
Henry.
** Mr. Edmund * Wright was of Caius CoUedge, in Cam-
bridge. He was one of the best mathematicians of his time ;
and the then new way of sayling, which yet goes by the
name of * sayling by Mr. Mercator's chart,' was purely his
invention, as plainely doeth and may appeare in his learned
booke called * Wright's Errors in Navigation,' in 4to. printed
A.D. . . . Mr. Mercator brought this invention in fashion
beyond seas.
He did read mathematiques to Prince Henry, and caused
to be made, for his Highnesse more easie understanding of
♦ MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 83. ♦* MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60'. • Sit.
3i6 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives' i
astronomie, a sphaere of wood, about three quarters of i
a yard diameter, which lay neglected and out of order in i
the Tower, at London, and Sir Jonas Moor begd it of hia 1
present majestic, who showed it to me. I
He wrote ' Hypothesis Stellarum Kixarum et Planctarum,' 1
a MS. of three shectes of paper, which I found among bishop |
Ward's papers, which I gave to the Museum • at Oxford. 1
He made a table of Logarithmes (scil. in his Tangents) I
before Logarithmes were invented and printed, but did not J
know he had donne it. — from John Collins. I
Edmund Wyld {:6i(5-i6 — ). I
* Edmund Wyld ^ esq., bom at Hough ton -Conquest in ■
Bedfordshire, 3'' P.M. on a Saterday, Oct. loth. i6ifi- I
He had the misfortune to kill a man in London, upoa I
3 great provocation, about A.D. 1644. He had the plague I
in the Inner Temple, 1647, and had a grevou.s quartan ague 1
in Sept. 1656. J
Memorandum, Mr. Wyld sayes that the doctors told him ^
that in 1656 there dyed in London of the quartan ague
fifteen hundred; N.B. In 1657'OlivcrCromwell, Protector,
dyed of a quartan ague.
At Christmas, 1661, Mr. E. W. had a dangerous fever,
. . . YarringtoQ.
** Capt. Yarrington dyed at London about March lasf*.
The cause of his death was a beating and throwne into
a tub of water.
Anne, duchess of York (16 1671)-
*** Colonel Popham's great tankard, the dutches Y :
dranke it (almost) off at a draught,
• i.e. [he Ashmolean. * i.e. March 1 68 J, probably. The
• MS. Auhr, 13, fol. 31. leaf is dalcd 'January i68t.'
■■ This is Aubrey's patron. So often •'* MS, Aubr. 2i, p. 19, Anthony
mentioned as giving him informatioD. Wood also alludes to her prowess
' Sept. 3, 1658. with the tankard (Clark's Wood'i
•• MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5. Life and Timts, ii. iig).
APPENDIX I
-♦♦■
NOTES OF ANTIQUITIES
(Here and there in the Lives Aubrey has jotted down notes on
various matters of antiquarian interest. These are collected here,
and a few other notes of the same type from other Aubrey volumes
added to them. Aubrey attached to some of these notes the title of
* Nouvelles,' e.g. MS. Aubr. 8, foil. 6, 28^ 103.)
{^ Sir* ^dominus.y I remember, before the late warres,
the ministers in Herefordshire, etc. (counties that way), had
the title of S^\ as the bachalours of Art • have at Oxon,
as * Sir Richard, of Stretford,' * Sir William, of Monkland.'
And so it was in Wilts, when my grandfather Lyte was
a boy ; and anciently everywhere. The example of this
appeares in the excellent comoedie of The Scornfull Ladie^
where * Sir Roger ' (the chaplain) has a great part. It was
made by Mr. J. Fletcher about the beginning of King
James' time ; but in all old wills before the reformation it
is upon record. — MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 30.
(^The ways of the gentry^ tempore Jacobi /.) In those
dayes hunting and falconery were at the height: old
Serjeant Latham then lived, and writt his falconry^. Good
cheere was then much in use ; but to be wiser then one's
neighbours, scandalous and to be envyed at. And the
nobility and gentry were, in that soft peace, damnable
prowd and insolent — MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 30.
* See Clark*8 Rtg, Univ, Oxon, books^ Lond. 1614 ; Another new hook
II. i. 50. of Falconry^ Lood. 1618.
^ SimoQ Latham : — FaUonry^ in 2
^
N
318 Aubrey's 'Brt'e/ Lives'
(^Ghost-slories.y When I was a child, and so before the
civil] warres, the fashion was for old women and njaydes to
tell fabulous stories, night-(t)imcs, and of sprights and j
walking of ghosts, etc. This was derived downe from ,
mother to daughter, etc., from the monkish ballancc, which '
upheld holy Church ; for the divines say ' Deny spirits, and I
you are an atheist,' When the warres came, and with '
them liberty of conscience and liberty of inquisition, the(
phantomes vanish. Now children feare no such things,
having heard not of them, and are not checked ' with such
feares. — MS. Aubr. 3, fol, 30.
The first pointe-de~ Venice baiid that was worne ia '1
England was by King Charles the first at his coronation,
Now^ 'tis common.— MS. Aubr. 6, fol. i'.
Point-bands. The first point-band worne in England '
was that which King {Charles) II'' wore when he was J
crowned : and presently after, the fashion was followed |
) infinitely: — from Mris Judith Dobson, vidua pictoris".-
MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1 1^
Apothecaries. Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice of
the King's Bench, sales, as I remember, in the College
of Physicians case, that . ■ . Falconti'', an Italian, was the
first apothecarie in London. But vide Sir Geofrey Chaucer,
in his Prologue of the Doctor of Physick, [s(ae)c. *
xiiii* thus] :—
'Full readie had he his apothecaries
To send him drugg and electuaries.'
And Mr. Anthony \ Wood shewes in his Oxon. Antiquities '
that there was a place there, called Apothecaria, 300 yeares
ago. In queen Elizabeth's time the apothecaries did sell
• i. e. when nnujjhty are not thieat- is said by Clement Reyner (Apostol,
cned by Iheir nurses with ' tbe bogy- Bcced. in Anglia) lo have been the
man.' first -ipothecaty in Enjiland, A.D. 1357.
•■ i.e. sobseqncnt lo 1680, for this " The words in sc)uare bracltcis are
MS. was Ijegiin in that year. scored out.
= William Dubson, i. 78. ' Wood's Hist, it Aiiliq. Univ.
' Clark's Wood's Lift and Times, Qxm. i.l(f}\j-
x. 4S0 : Johaoncs Falcandus of Lucca
Notes of Antiquities 319
sack in their shoppes : my grandfather * and several! old
men that I knew heretofore did remember it. — MS. Aubr.
6, fol. I V.
Tabor and pipe. When I was a boy, before the late
civill warres, the tabor and pipe were commonly used,
especially Sundays and Holydayes, and at Christnings
and Feasts, in the Marches of Wales, Hereford, Glocester-
shire, and in all Wales. Now it is almost lost : the drumme
and trumpet have putte that peaceable musique to silence.
I believe 'tis derived from the Greek ** sistrtim^ a brasen or
iron timbrel ; craialum °, a ring of brasse struck with an
iron rod — so we play with the key and tongs. — MS. Aubr.
6, fol. ii\
Clocks', — Chaucer, Nonne's Priest's tale — (Chanteclere).
' Well sikerer was his crowing in his loge
Then is a clock or in an Abbey an orloge.'
Sir Geoffrey Chaucer obiit 1400, aetatis 7a. — MS. Aubr.
6, fol. lo^
(The) clock ^ at Panic's on the north crosse aisle west
side (is) stately. That at Welles is like it. Vide Chaucer
in aliqua vita*. — MS. Aubr. 8, fol. io\
Spectacles '. Dr. Pell tells me the antiquity of spectacles
is about two hundred yeares standing, and that they were
sold, when first invented, for 3 or 5 li, a paire. The
ancientest author wherin he finds them is cardinal Cusa —
vide Cusanum, quaere Sir John Hoskins, who (I thinke)
knowcs. ['Tis . . . Redi, an Italian, about 400 yeares
since.] The Germans call them Brill^ from the beril-stone,
i. e. chrystall, of which they were first made. RpvoraXAo;
is not properly * chrystall/ but * ice.' Erasmus in Colloquio
Senis —
' Quid tibi vis cum vitreis oculis, fascinator ? '
' See p. 42, supra. the quotalion given supra from MS.
^ Subst. for *■ RomaD.* Aubr. 6.
^ i. e. crotalum. ' The same matter is found in MS.
<> Dupl. with *■ orloge.' Ballard 14, fol. ia6, in a letter from
* i. e. in one of the lives written Aubrey to Anthony Wood, dated Feb.
by Aubrey. The reference is to 17, i6{f.
I
. Vide Thomas Hobbes' Optiques in libro De Homine,
where he interprets this piece of I'tautus, in Cistellaria, act.
1, seen. 1 r —
' Conspicillo consequutus 'st danculum me usque ad fores,'
where he proves that there ' conspicillo ' could not signify
a pairc of spectacles, as we now use it : for then he could
not have l<enned her at a distance. I remember he told
me 'tis that which the French call vidette, a hole to peepe
out at — Vide (Hier.) Sirturus de Perspicillis, a thin 4to;
Mr. Edmund Wyld has it, scil. a rarity. — MS. Aubr, 6^,1
fol. II. X
Gunnes. The Almanack chronologic tells us (i68o) —
' Since the invenlion ofguntxfs ' — by . . ., a monlce of . , .,
in Germany — '270 yeares," scil. in the reigne of (Henry
IV), anno 1410. Philip de Commines tells us that in his
time, when Charles S went into Italy, the country- people
flocked mightily to see the great gunnes shott off, which
was the first time they came in use : but musquetts and
fowling- peeces came not to perfection long after. Memo-
randum : — in the Princes' Chamber at the House of Lords*,
scil. the roome where the king does retire, are very old
hangings, viz. of Edward the P'ourth's time, in which is
described the invention and use of gunnes. The muskets
there are only a long tube stop't at one end, with a touch-
hole, and fitted to a long stafl*. This gun one holds on
a rest and aimes ; and then another comes with a lighted
match in a stick and gives fire, so that 'twas the worke of
two men then to manage one piece. Till the late warres
refined locksmiths' worke, I remember when I was boy
the firelocks were very bungling to what they now are.
And in queen Elizabeth's time they used caiivers, of which
* Subst. for ' Pailiamcnl-bouie.'
Notes of Antiquities 321
I remember many in gentlemen's halls before the civill
wars (for then the soldiers converted them into carbines).
The stock was like a wooden basting-ladle, and it had
a match-lock, and was not much longer then a carbine.
* Cualibre ' in French signifies the bore of a gun, or the
size of the bore; and (thence) also the size capacity or
fashion of any such thing — Cotgrave's Dictionary. — MS.
Aubr. 6, fol. II.
(^Printing.) Memorandum, in the librarie of Francis
Bernard, M.D., in London, behind Sepulcher s church, is
Tulie's Offices (*tis printed Tulii) in 4to, printed at Mentz
by (Johann) Fust, 1466. — The sayd Dr. sayes that he
hath seen Saint Hierome on the Creed, printed at Oxford,
1467'. — Memorandum, Mr. . . . Morris of Llansilly in
Denbighshire hath a manuscript Bible in Welsh 1500^
years old. It was found at the dissolution of the monas-
teries in an old wall which parted the monastery from the
Bishop's Palace'' at Hereford, lap't-up in lead, and the
inscription on it doeth testifie the antiquitie of it. 'Tis
thought 'twas hid and layd-up there when the great
difference, and troubles, was between the Welsh monkes
and those of Austin the monke: — from Mr. Middleton,
(of) Denbighshire, merchant in London. Quaere Mr.
Meredith Lloyd de hoc : there may be something of trueth
to be pickt out in this storie. — MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 11.
Catafalconi is the magnificent contrivance for kings' and
princes' and generalls' effigies to lie in state in some
eminent church for some weekes, e.g. King James P';
Robert, earle of Essex; generall Monke, duke of Albemarle.
It takes its name from * Falconi,' which signifies in Italian
* an eagle.' — Memorandum at the solemne funeralls of the
Roman emperors they had an eagle to fly away from the
rogiis when it tooke fire. — MS. Aubr. 8, fol 3.
• See Clark's Wood's City of Ox- Oxford Press,
ford, i. 175 ; Doble's Hearne's Col- *> Sic, in MS.
lections, iii. 215; Madan's Early <> Sabst. for ' the cathedrall church.'
II. Y
I
{Stavud glass tn Oxford.") When I came to Oxford,
crucifixes were common in the glasse windowes in the
studies' windowes*; and in the chamber windowes were
canonized saints (e.g. in my chamber window, Sl Gregorie
the great, and another, broken), and scutcheons with '' the
pillar, the whip, the dice, and the cock. But after 1647
they were all broken — 'downe went Dagonl' Now no
vestigia to be found. — MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 3.
Mr. Fabian Philips sayes the winter 1625 before the
plague was such a mild winter as this": quod N.B. — MS.
Aubr. 8, a slip at fol. 6.
Quaere Dick Brocas, prisoner in King's Bench, pro legier
booke of Bradstock abbey.— MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6'.
Quaere nomen ccclesiae unde deducebantur picturae
Mri. Davys.— MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6^
Oliver turned out the parliament, ao Apr. 1653. — MS.
Aubr. 8. fol. 5.
. . . Knox began his voyage to Tunquin, Aug. 18, 1681.
—MS. Aubr. 8, fol. ,5'.
The first beginning of ike Royal Society (where they putt
discourse in paper and brought it to use) was in the
chamber of William Ball, esqr., eldest son of Sir Peter
Ball of Devon, in the Middle Temple. They had meetings
at taverns before, but 'twas here where it formally and in
good earnest sett up''. In Dr. Spratt's History you may
sec when the patent was granted. — MS. Aubr. 8, a slip
at foL 6.
< Wiltshire.) Quaere Mr. (Thomas) Mariet and Mr,
Packer (pro Anthony Wood) if (there is) a camp neer
■ Some of thp uliler icts of collc(^
rooms in Oxford still .show (he differ-
eccc of rooms rcfcned lo here and
«-v«al times in Ihe Lives. There
was a large room, the ' chamber ' or
living and sleeping room, with two
or more beds ; off this, there were two
which the students did their v
>rkby
wnrmth. See T. C. Jackson's IVadJiam
CcIUgi. p. 133.
^ Heraldic memorials of Ihe eveiif^
of our Savioar's passion.
' The slip is perhaps of date Dtc.
16S1, or a little later: cp. Clark's
Wood's Lift and Times, ii. P38, iii.
3. The index to the MS. is dated
July I, i63i (.MS, Aubr. 8, fol. 5).
J Dupl. with ''ti
Notes of A ntiquities 323
Camden, and if another on Broadway. — Memorandum . . .
{to put) my brother's notes of . . . Hyde, etc., into * Liber'
B ' before I send it to Anthony Wood. — * Liber ** A ' (preface)
— the * clerici ' (i. e. parish priests) did write the bayliffs'
accounts and that in Latin, a specimen whereof I have
with me of . . . — MS. Aubr. 8, a slip at fol. 13.
(^Oxford,) Insert the shields in St. Ebbe's church at
Oxon in * Liber B. — MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6\
The paper mill at Bemmarton, Wilts, is 11a yeares
standing (1681). Twas the second in England. — MS.
Aubr. 8, fol. 28^
Jessamines came into England with Mary ®, the queen-
mother; Lour ell was first brought over by Alathea**,
countesse of Arundell, grandmother to this duke of
Norfolke®.— MS. Aubr. 8, fol. a8\
Rider's (Almanack), i68a : — ' Since tobacco^ hxoM^X. into
England by Sir Walter Raleigh, 99 yeares ; the custome ^
wherof now is the greatest of all others and amounts yearly
to . . . — MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 103.
Rider's Almanack, 168a : — * Since Tobacco first used, 99
yeares ; since the New River was brought to London, 79 ;
since coaches were first used, 128.' — MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 28^.
The first glasse-coach that came into England was the
duke of Yorke's when the king was restored. In a very
short time they grew common, and now (1681), at Waltham
or Tottnam high crosse, is sett-up a mill for grinding of
coach-glasses and looking glasses (much cheaper, viz.). —
MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 28\
• See i. 65. These notes by Aubrey's married in 1606 Thomas Howard,
brother perhaps account for the loan earl of Amndel.
of the volume to him, which has * Henry Howard, 6th duke, obiit
caused its loss. Jan. 11, i68|.
* i. e. MS. Aubr. 3. ' Aubrey has a reference 'vide page
« Henrietta Maria, consort of 16 b,' i.e. MS. Aubr. 8, fol. a8^, as
Charles I, came to England 1635. given infra. See also supra^ p. 181.
^ Alathea (died 1654), daughter of ' i.e. the duty levied on it
Gilbert Talbc^ 7th earl of Shrewsbury,
Y 2
324 Aubrey's 'Brie/ Lives'
Penny Post Office, vide vitam R. Morey". Mr. Robert
Murrey began it in May 1680, and the duke of York seized
on it in 168a'' — quaere about what time of the yeare?
Let Mr. Murry goe to Dr. Chamberlaync at Suffolke house.
—MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 30.
{ The penny post.y Doe right to Mr Murrey in a Memo-
randum as to the refelHng of Dr. (Edward) Chamberlayne
who ascribes that invention or project of the i'' post to
W. Dockwray, which is altogether false. — MS. Aubr. 8,
a slip at fol. 13. ■
(^Printing.) Mr. J. Gadbury assures me that the first ■
printing in England was in Westminster Abbey. They yet
retaine the name ' Treasurer of the chapell.'— MS. Aubr. 8,
fol. 2H'.
Mr. Theodore Haak saieth that the antiquity of fiinnes is
not above aoo yeares. Before, they used a thorne, etc.,
more primitU'o. He saies moreover that he heard the
Swedish ambassador asked two other ambassadors what
they thought was the greatest waste of copper. One said
bells, another said cannons. ' No,' sayd he, ' 'tis pinnes ' —
quod N.B.-MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 30.
Shoes. I doe remember, in my native county of North
Wilts, husbandmen did wcare high shoes till 1633 common
enough, scil. i bootes slitt and laced. The Benedictine
monks wore bootes, I belecve, like these — at least \ bootes.
—MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 30.
Gentilisme". Memorandum in Yorkeshire the country
woemcn doe still haiht the new niewne, scil, they kncele
with their bare knees on a grownd-fast stene and say all
baile, etc. The moon hath a greater influence on woemen
than on nien.^MS, Aubr. 8, fol. 69.
' Supra, p. gi. ' i.e. a note for Aubreys 'Observa-
>■ Ste Clark's Wood's Li/( and tions on Oviils fasli' ixe i. 44), a
Tim{5, iii. 31, 310. LaDsdowDC MS., since printed.
Notes of Antiquities 325
GentUisnu. Weddings out. Ovid's Fastorum lib. (iii.
397, 398) :—
His etiam conjux apia sancta* dialis
Lucibus impexas debet habere comas —
see the two distiches preceding.
This St. Andrewe's crosse we wore on our hatts, pinned
on, till the Plott, and never since. — MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 69.
Avebury, Between pages 1 and 2 ^ insert the scheme of
Avebury. — . . . miles westwards from Marleborough (not
far from Bristowe-roade) is a village called Avebury which
stands within one of the most remarkeable monuments of
its kind in England. It seemes strange to me that so little
notice hath been taken of it by writers. Mr. Camden only
touches on it aild no more. — MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 50^.
{Palm Sunday, y Antiquity — the fashion hereabout ® was
before the warres that on Palme Sunday the young men
and maydes received the communion, and in the afternoon
walkt together under the hedges about the cornefields,
which was held to be lucky. — MS. Aubr. ai, fol. 2^.
{Simplest) Some write that the water . . ., vervayn,
....... or sprinkled about the hall or place where any
feast or banket is kept maketh all the company both lusty
and merry. — Dodoens HerbalL — MS. Aubr. 21, a slip at
fol. 9.
Witches (maleficae). Twisting of trees, tearing and turning
up oakes by the roots. Raysing tempests ; wracking ships ;
throwing down steeples ; blasting plantes ; dwindle away
young children. To overlooke and binde the spirits and
phantasy ; bewhattling and making men impotent, woemen
miscarry (countesse of Carlisle): Whirlcwinds ; haracanes.
• * Apicati dncta.* * Templa Druidum* * or if Druidum
^ I do not know what MS. of his 7Vmr//0r^^/ViVa,*apparently suggested
Anbiey is here thinking of inserting titles for a treatise by Aubrey. MS.
Avebnry in ; possibly the lost ' Liber Aubr. 1 1 is a treatise by Aubrey on
B.* MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 55^, is an Stonehenge.
envelope addressed ' for Dr. Black- « In North Wilts.
bnme with care,* and ha$ the notes
I
Mr. Morehouse*: — spirits in 'em. Bishop of Bahuse ; the
devili's black mace of ranimcs homes; the session, a la
mode de Royal Society, with ballotting box. Memoran-
dum; — Sir H. B. (said) wise men alwaies saw that as
some malicious woemcn increased in yeares, increased also
in malice: set howses on fire, mlschiefe (to) children, etc.
Thought it better to have them underground then above _
ground and raise storms: the familiars could not hand* |
somely knock 'em in the head. — MS. Aubr. 21, p. 1 1.
(^Provincial ignorance.) Sir Eglamour and Fitz-ale (two
of the persons in Aubrey's 'Comedy TAe Country Revel}
discourse of the go thique manner of living of these gentle-
men, of their ignorance, anrf envy of civilized and ingeniouse
men ; of the promising growth of civility and knowledge in
the next generation*' (in our grandfathers' or great -grand-
fathers' dayes few gentlemen could write a letter : then ' the
Clarke made the Justice '} ; that there is a sort of provinciall
witt, or rather a humour that goes for witt, e. g, in the west,
which if used in the north, or elsewhere, secmes strange and
ridiculous. — MS. Aubr. 21, p. 11,
Stivimcr watch. Vide Sir Thomas Smyth's Common-
ivcalth de hac. Cause is that the blood is then high :
keepe downe ihe Juvenilis impetus. The old men in those
dayes were not so ignorant in philosophy as the virtuosi,
forsooth, doe thinke they were. They knew, etc. — MS.
Aubr. 21, p. II.
{Provincial manners.') Collecf^ the gothicismes and
clownrys of ... in Chester, Dick Pawlet, Secole Chivers,
W. Ducket's clan of Clowne-hall. Their servants like
cJownes too, drunkards too: quails herus, talis serviis ;
breeches of one sort, doublet of another, drabled with the
teares of the tankard and grcasie. He built an alehouse
for his servants, without the gate, for convenience sake,
projected comedy T/ie Counhy Rtod.
Notes of Antiquities 327
because the servants should be within call. (Before they
came hither above a mile for their ale.) Vide Osburne, of
distinction of habitts. — MS. Aubr. ai, p. 12.
Country tnagique. Walking about the church Midsomer
eve at night, one shall meet the party that shall marry.
They must goe round the church nine times (or seven times),
with a sword drawne, if a man ; if a woman, with a scabbard.
— To putt a smock on the hedge on Midsommer-eve night,
the man that is to have her shall come and turne it.
— They take orpin and stick branches of it on the wall,
and fancy such a branch for such a man, such a branch for
such a woman, and divine their loves and marriage or not-
marriage by the inclining or aversion of the branches. —
They tye magicall knotts with certayne grasses, which,
putt in the bosome of the man or woman, if their love have
not love for them, will untye. — MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 24^.
(^Sketches far designed inventions: MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 57 :
illustrated in most cases by drawings. One (fol. 57) is
for a cart with one wheels imitated from *the slids in the
forrest of Deane, for their narrow wayes where carts cann't
passe.*
* A forrest cart '
t^^^ CoT^.
Another (fol. 57^) is for a bcdloon: — *Fill or force in
smoake into a bladder and try if the bladder will not be
carryed up in the ayre. If it is so, severall bladders may
drawe a man up into the ayre a certaine hight, as the
hoUy-berrys arise to the middle of water in a glasse.
Memorandum try to what hight they will ascend in a
deep vessell, and also try other berryes if any will doe so.'
Another (fol. 57) is for ajlying maekine and parachute: —
' Memorandum to propose that Mr, Packer sends to Norfolk
or Suffolke to the gentleman that hath with much curiosity
measured the feathers in the wings of severall birds and
taken proportions of them and the weight of their bodies,
and to send to Mr. Francis Potter for his notions of flying
and of being safely delivered upon the ground from great
heights with a sheet, etc'
Another (fol. 5H) is for sailing a skip: — 'Memorandum
Dr. Wilkins his notion of an umbrella-like invention for
retarding a ship when shee drives in a storm.'
Another (fol. 59) is for a sowing-machine : — ' Let a ginne
be invented to shatter out come by jogging in stead of
fioweing or setting, the one being too wastfull, the other
taking up too much time ; and that the sowcing and
harrowing may bee but one and the same labour.') I
Herifordshire. AU the earth red, as also all Wales from
Severn to the sea. — The twanging pronunciation more here
then in South Wales ; in North Wales, not much. So
about Newcastle they speak more of the Scotch twang
than they doe at Berwick or Scotland. — Get the song or
speech of serjant Hoskyns of the earl of Northampton,
the Lord President of Wales. — At Mordcford. the serpent
with 6 or 8 wings, every ... a paire. — Vide the little
bookcs of the old earl of Worcester' in lamo, where,
amongst other things, he mentions a profecie by a bard
of RagJand. that it should be burnd or destroyed and after-
wards be rebuilt out of Redwood ; set forth (vide), I thinke,
by Dr. (Thomas) Bayly his chaplain : where be many
pretty romances of that earle, etc., his life and death, etc.
The same Dr. also writt a booke in folio (thinne) called Parie-
taria : which see. He (or his father ''} would shoe his horse.
Was a great patron to the musicians, e. g. Caporavio, etc.
This duke's father" had an excellent mcchanicall head:
* Henijr, i;th earl. 1st macqueu. cester; hii son Henry was created
" hdward, 4lh earl. duke of Beanfort, Dec. a, i6Sj.
" Edward, lod roarqneii of Wot-
Notes of Antiquities 329
quaere what he writt : Mr. Wyld, I thinke, hath the booke
printed in red. — MS. Aubr. ai, p. 68.
Monmouthshire, About the beginning of Queen Eliza-
beth's time Welsh was spoken much in Hereford and
I believe 100 years before that as far as the Severn. It
weares out more and more in South Wales, especially since
the Civill Warres (and so in Cornwall : Mr. Francis Potter
did see one that spake of a woman towards the farther end
of Cornwall that could speak no English) — but they still
retaine their ancient way of pronunciation, which is with a
twang worse than the Welsh. — MS. Aubr. 21, p. 68^
{Dress,} Memorandum — anciently no bandes wome
about their neckes, but furre : as in old glasse pictures. —
Memorandum till queen Elizabeth's time, no hattes, but
cappes, i. e. bonnetts. — Trunke hose in fashion till the later
end of King James the first. — About 90 yeares ago' (1670)
noblemen and gentlemen's coates were of the fashion of
the bedells and yeomen of the guard, i. e. gathered at the
girdle place ; and our benchers' gownes retayne yet that
fashion of gathering. — MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 95^
By reason of fasting dayes all gentlemen's howses had
anciently fishpondsy and fisb in the motes about the howse.
—MS. Aubr. ai, fol. 95\
Heretofore glasse windowes were very rare, only used in
churches and the best roomes of gentlemen's howses. Yea,
in my remembrance, before the civill warres, copyholders
and ordinary poore people had none. Now the poorest
people, that are upon almes, have it. In Herefordshire,
Monmouth, Salop, etc., it is so still. But now this yeare
(1671) are goeing up no lesse then 3 glasse-howses between
Glocester and about Worcester, so that glasse will be
common over all England. — MS. Aubr. ai, fol. 95\
Memorandum — ^without doubt, before the Reformation
there was no county in England but had several! glasse-
painters. I only remember one poore one, an old man
* i. e. 90 yetn before 1670^ the date of this note.
^
^
(Harding) at Blandford, in that trade.— MS. Aubr.
fol. 95'.
Riiihiff at the quinlin at ■weddings is now left in these i
partes ' but in the west of England is sometimes used yet.
I remember when I learned to read English I saw one at '
Will Tanner's wedding sett up at the green by Bownet
howse by the poundc. Vide the masque of Ben Johnson,
wher is a perfect description of rideing at the quintin.
Quaere the antiquity and rise of it, — Memorandum I sawc
somewhere that rideing at the quintin is a remayn of the
Roman exercise ; vide Juvenal ", Satyr vi. 248 —
Aut quis Qon vidit vulnera pa.li *
Quem cava.1 assiduis sudibus, scutoqiie laceasit
Atque omnes implet numcros ?
* Ad quem in teirS. dcfixum foeminae se exercent tanquam lyrones
ut simulata pugna, feriendi, insiliendi, recedendl veram disciplinam
ediscant (Vegetius.)
A quintin " (' quintaine ' in French).
{a) a leather satchell filled with sand.
{b) a roller of come * pitched on end in some crosse way
or convenient place where the bride comes along home.
(it) at this end the fellowes that bring home the bndc
give a lusty bang with their clubbes or truncheons which
they have for the purpose, and if they are oot cunning and
nimble the sandbag takes them in the powle ready to hitt
them off" their horses. They ride .a full career when they
make their stroke.
{a c) a piece of wood about a nell " long that turnes on
the pinne of the rowler(f). — MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 95.
Chelsey Hospitall. On Thursday morning, February the
sixteenth i68i, his majestic layed the foundation stone of
* North Wills. •! The heavy wooden roller with
'' Aubrey no donbt cites text nnd whichthegroundisrolledafter sowing,
note from Thom.is Famaby's edition. oi when the com sprouts in April and
* Sec facsimile at end of this May.
volume. ' Sic in MS.
Notes of Antiquities
331
the college appointed for the reliefe of indigent officers at
Chelsey College. — MS. Aubr. 23, fol. ao^.
(^Siamese iwins^.) May 19, 1680, about sun rising were
borne at Hillbrewers neer Ilminster in Somerset twinne
sisters growne together at the belley: christned Aquila
and Priscilla. Quaere the judgment by Dr. Bernard. —
MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 92.
RoUright stones. Except i, 2, the rest + — 4 foote**;
about 4i ; quaere quot^ — MS. Aubr. 23, a slip at fol. 92.
{Apparition^.y 1679 : as Tie was a bed sick of an ague,
(he awake — daytime) came to him the vision of a Master
of Arts with a white wand in his hand, and told him that
if he lay on his back fhree howres, viz. 10 to i, that he
should be rid of his ague. He was weary® and turned
and immediately the ague came: a^ter, he did not, etc.,
and was perfectly well. — MS. Aubr. 23, a slip at fol. ioo\
{Soap,} A Bristow-*man living in Castile in Spain
learn't their art of making soape, which he did first set
up in Bristowe about the yeare 1600. By this, alderman
Rogers there gott a great estate, and Mr. . . . Broughton ^
* For a similar birth at Middleton-
Stony, Oxfordshire, in 1 55a , see Clark*s
Wood*8 Life and Times, iv. 64.
^ i.e. except the first and second
stones, they are more or less (plus,
minus) about 4 feet high. The dia-
gram gives Aubrey*s measorement of
the circle : p. spaces.
^ i.e. measure exactly their height.
<* There is no indication of the
person who saw the apparition.
Anthony Wood (^Life and Times, ii.
4) reports an apparition which appeared
to Richard Lower in 1664.
• SciL of lying in that position.
' See supra, i. p. 1 a8.
I
333 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
was the first that improved barren ground there with the
aoape-ashes, now not uncommon. — MS. Aubr. 26, page 18.
A Bristow-man living in Castile in Spaine learnt their
art of makeing soape, which he first sctt-up in Bristow, now
(i6«i) 80 + yeares since.— MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 28'. 1
(^TAe Fishmongers Company, London.) To discover'
and find out the lands concealed and embezilled by the
Fishmongers' company, which was to maintain so many
scholars in Oxford and for the ease of poor Catholiques in
Lent. Mr. Fabian Philips tells me I may find out the j
donation in Stow's Survey of London : he can put me in a J
way to help me to a third or fourth part for the discoverie. J
J. Collins, who enformed me of this discovery, sayd the lands i
are worth some thousands per annum, scil. two or three |
thousand pounds per annum, which devout Calholiques i
in ancient times gave to this company for their pious j
and charitable use. My lord Hunsdon would be a good
instrument herein. Memorandum in the records of the |
Tower are to be found many graunts, etc., to the Fish-
mongers' company. Edmund Wyld, esq., saith that the
old Parliament did intend to have had an inspection into
charitable uses. See Sir Richard Baker's Chronicle pag. 267
G, anno 2a Henry VII (1507), scil. Thomas Knesworth,
mayor of London, gave to the Fishmongers' company,
certain tenements for which they are bound to allow fower
scholars, that is to say, two at Oxon, and two at Cambridge,
to each of them fower pounds per annum, as also to poor
people prisoners in Ludgate something yeerely. Quaere
Anthony Wood de hiis. — MS. Aubr. 26, page 1.
• The MS. from wbich this para- taininj; a nambcr of projects by which
graph is taken was called by Anbtey be hoped to make monej'. This here
Fahtr Ferlunat, was written for his is the fourth on the list.
own private use {supra, i. p. 44), con-
APPENDIX II
-M-
AUBREY'S COMEDY OF BE8TOBATION MANNEHS
(While hiding from the bailifTs in 1671 at Broad Chalk, Aubrey (see
i. 52) set himself to compose a comedy descriptive of country life as
he had seen it, abating nothing of its grossness, and concealing
nothing of its immorality. The rude draft of this comedy is found in
MS. Aubrey 21, written in the blank spaces and between the lines of
a long legal document.
Although few of the scenes are sketched, and fewer completed, it is
possible to form an idea of the scope and plot of the piece.
The jumbling together of all classes of society in the rude merriment
of a country wake was designed to bring out the follies and vices of
them all. A few gentlemen and ladies of the old school, of courtly
manners and decent carriage, were brought in to set out by contrast
the boorishness, the insolence, and the mad drunken bouts of Aubrey's
contemporaries. A mixed company of sow-gelders, carters, dairy-
maids, gypsies, were to give evidence, in dialogue and song, of the
coarse talk and the vile ideas of the vulgar. And a still more dis-
reputable rout of squires who had left their wives and taken up with
cook-maidsy and of heiresses who had run away with grooms, was to
exemplify the degradation of the gentry. In several cases, over the
names of his Dramatis Personae^ Aubrey has jotted the names or
initials of the real persons he was copying.
The plot was to have a double movement ; on the one hand, the
innocent loves of a boy and girl of gentle birth, living in disguise as
shepherd and dairy-maid, the * Lord and Lady of the Maypole,' and,
on the other hand, the fortunes of an adulteress, pursued by her
husband, following her paramour in page*s attire, jealous of his atten-
tions to other women, ending in murder all round— 'Raynes* comes
and invades Sir Fastidious Overween, and is slayne by him; and
* Apparently the real name of the injured husband.
334 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives '
then Sir Fastidious neglects her ; she comes and stabbes him, and
then herselfc'
The scene, on the title-page, is laid, for a blind, at 'Aldford in
Cheshire, by the river Dee, St. Peters day, 1669'; but in act i, scene
I, Aubrey, laying pretence aside, places il on 'Christian Malford
green' in his own district in Willshire, near Kington St. Michael.
Draycot Ceme, etc.
Taken as a whole, both in what is written out and in ihc anecdotes
collected 10 be worked into the plot, the comedy affords a terrible
picture of the corruption of Aubrey's county and times. It may be
compared with the society pictures in Anne Bronte's Tke Tenant of
Wildfcll Hall.
Two scenes, of the less offensive ones, may serve to give a faint idea
of this curious piece of seventeenth century realism.)
* The Countrey Revell. *
Act II, scene iii.
A faire roome. Enter Sir Eglaraour, Lady Euphrasia, Lady
Patnela : to them, Sir Eubulc Nestor ; then, squire Fitz-aJe.
Sir J, Fits-ale. Sir Eglamour, your most humble
servant.
Sir Eglamonr. Sir John Fitz-ale, the welcomest man
alive.
Fitz-ale. Save you, ladies ! I'm come to wayte on you
at the famous revell here, to help celebrate the festival! of
St, Peter.
Ladyes. Most kindly donne, Sir John ! We heard you
strictly kept his virgil last night at Justice WagstafTs.
Fitz-ale. So strickt that none of us have been a-bed
to-night, that's the trueth on't. I beleeve, since the
Conquest, St. Peter had never a merrier eve observed.
Ladyes. Pray, Sir John, favour us to let us heare some
of the mirth.
Fitz-ale. Why, ladies, 3'esterday we Cheshire gentlemen
mett at a barrell of ale at the bull-ring where we sufficiently
bayted both bull and barrel] ; and having well dranke
there, staved and tayled, till 5 a-clock i' th' afternoon, wee
" MS. Aubr. II, pp. 8 sqq.
Aubrey's Comedy 335
were invited to the Justice's ; where being come into the
great hall wee mett for a good omen the servants labouring
at heaving into the cellar a teirce of French wine, newly
brought by the barge from Chester. Faith I we had
a frolique, and voted it {nemine contradicente) to have itt
sett abroach in the midest of the hall. To worke we goe,
and we four knights mount the tierce, bestride it, like the
quarter files*' d Amond upon one horse. Then we drankB^
his Majestie's health, the Queen's, and the royal! family :
then, faire ladies, (//^ bovres) your two healths ; then, our
mistresses : then, God knows who — till the cooke knockt for
supper. So the tierce was reprieved till after supper, a
guard sett over it. As wee were going to sitt downe to
supper in the parlour a sudden quarrell arose between Sir
Fastidious Overween and Captain Quarelsome about
precedency. To cuffs they fell, all in confusion ; the
ladies cryed out, Sir Fastidious' great periwig was throwne
into the fire and made an abominable stinke.
Sir Eubule ^. Blesse me ! What unheard of rudenesse !
This to be donne at a gentleman's house and by gentlemen,
senators, parliamentary justices of the peace !
Sir J. Fitz-ale. In this scuffle the chiape of Capt.
Quarelsome's sword hitcht in the cubboard of glasses :
downe came all the glasses of the butler with a most
dreadfull esclate. But this is not all — the cross-bar « of
Sir Fastidious' sword hitchd in my old ladie's vaile and
pluckt it off, together with her periwig, and showed her
poor bald old death's head.
Sir Eubule. Lord blesse me I
Sir J. Fitz-ale, The Justice and I struck in between
'em and parted 'em, and, with something more trouble then
staving and tayling dog and bulM, they were reconciled
and sate down opposite to each other. To a noble supper
we sate downe.
After supper desert was brought. My country gentlemen
* i. e. * qnatre fils d* Aymon ' of the old romance.
^ Anbrey notes that this speech is ' an kit/^inrtiuK*
• Dnpl. with * hilt.' *» Dupl. wiUi ' bearc'
»
336 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives' |
catcht and snatchd like schoolboies and gobbt up the I
sweetmeats like ducks, and . , . And being very drunke, ]
some putt cvun marmalade into their pocketts. A noble I
carpet in the parlour traylcd on the ground, which with I
their dirty bootcs they made the faire edge and bordure as I
dirty as a woman's saddlecloth. I
Supper being ended, faith ! the justice would have the |
tother bout at the butt for a confirmation of friendship* l
between the two antagonists. I could not refuse to help 4
carry on such a good workc of charity. So we drank I
friendly on til! 2 a-clock i' th' morning. By that time you I
may well thinke our braines were we!! warmd. We sung', i
hooped, hallowd, jubilled — set the cennell of hounds all in 1
a larum. We had the wenches and all the servants of the |
house to participate in the great jubilee. 1
Well, about daybrake 'twas the general! vote for thej
unhinging of the cellar dore and throwe it from the prcci-l
pice of the cliffe into the Dee. The good old dore. tliat.l
haz turnd on his hinges for these two centuries of yeares |
in the daycs of his hospitable ancestors, was taken downe,
and by four tall fellowes borne to the cliffe. Hautboies"
loud musique playd before ; the bearers followed ; and then
came the chiefe mourners, the butler, brewer, and pantler,
weeping with blubbered eies for the decease of that had
turnd out and doubled in the dayes of his hospitable
ancestors: — 'it was an ill omen'' of the fall of that ancient
family.'
Sir Enbule. And they sayd well. I knew their Justice's
grandfather and great grandfather too. (They) kept 12
men in blew coates and badges. We had no such doings
in their dales. They were sober, prudent ; kept good well-
ordered hospitality. We are like to have a fine world
when Parliament men and Justices shall give such lewd
example. , , .
■ Dupl. wilh 'cup of tccontilia- the first line or burden of an appro-
tion.' piiale Dacchatalian song.
" Aubrey writes in the marjjin, ' Subsl. for ' the waytea.'
'Looke, looke then, boy I'; perhaps ^ Dupl. with ' boding.'
Aubreys Comedy 337
Fitz-ale. Well ! after the mourners, we came with our
levetts* and clarions. Then the rest. We had the sow-
gelder there, who loud performes the thorow-base. The
dogges tooke it in turne too along the river into Chester,
and sett all the dogges there barkeing.
Ladies. I warrant the country people thought you
mad —
[Sir Eubule^ : And well they might, by my troth !)
— or that there was an insurrection of the fanatiques.
Fits-ale. My tall lads® hand downe the dore, and
committ it from the cliff to the deepe. Downe, downe, it
falls ; but yet with severall bounds it made as with disdaine
to be at last so servd for's long and faithfull service. Into
the river Dee down dash it ^ fell and away towards Chester
swimmes, but seemed to give a* mournefuUyV «' scay quoy
and, as sighing, seemed to say
Those that I trusted do my trust betray!
*Not Orpheus' harp did swimme more solempnely!
The Thracian dames that Orpheus did discoup,
Whose head and harpe they into Hebrus flang,
Were not with greater rage possest, then we!'
Lady Euphrasia, I swear, Sir- John, you have made
a very poetical' description of it.
Sir y, Fitz-ale. Ah ! I steepd * my muse last night in
Aganippe.
Sir Eubtile Nestor. Ah ! the Justice now may well be
said to keepe an open howse.
Sir y. Fitz-ale. Sir Eglamour, the Justice intends to
wayte on any ladies come and dine with you. Sir Fastidious
and the Captaine comes with him ; as also the bull-bayters,
his old companions of the tappe ; neither witt nor learning ;
impudent swearers ; bestiall drinkers, a peck at a draught ;
• Subst. for * homes.' ® Dupl. with ' men.'
*> By a slip Aubrey, instead of <* * he ' in MS., by a slip,
writing Sir EubttU here, writes T. T., • Subst. for * flebile nescio quid.'
i.e. the initials of Thomas Tjmdale, ' Dupl. with 'pleasant* or *ro-
whom he intended to copy in this mancy.*
character. s Dupl. with ' drencht.'
II. Z
338 Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'
hacking blades ; huge colosses, with long swords, horse-skin
belts ; old reformados of Cliarles the first ; sad wretches :
old cinque-qualers ; bacon "-fac't fellowes ; centaiires that
looke as if they could not prove the Christian ; downe their
beardes'' . . . and dyed with raundungus". Now, ladies,
looke to yourselves, for every one will have a smack at
your lipps with their unsanctified mustaches.
Ladies. Bless us I I'le not come neer 'em, if they be
such.
Fit2-ale. The Justice and's myrmidons are to drinke up
1000 of ale at mother Mackerell's-
Sir Eubuh — drinke as in the dayes of Pantagruel.
FiiB-ale. Plato sales perpetual! drunkennesse is the
reward of virtue.
* The Countrey Reveli..
An alehouse bower. Enter Mris. Maquerell, Justice WagstalTe,
Sir John Fitz-ale, Captain Exceptious Quarrel I so me, Sir Fastidious
Oicnvcen, the soivj,'elder, and Sir Hugh the licar, myrmidons.
Justice Wagstaffe. Mother Margery, a merry rcvcll to
you ! I am come to sec you according to custome.
Margery. I thanke your worship. You are my old
guest and acquaintance, and that does stand my friend with
the excisemen.
Sir Fastidious. Prithee, give us a cup of the best revcll
ale. We are come to drinke not less then 1000 of ale
before we goe.
Justice Wagstaffe (sings).
Come, fill us a 1000 jugges, etc.
Margery (curtsies). Mr. Justice Wagstafi'c, a good
health to your worship !
Aubreys Comedy 339
Wagstaffe. I thankc thee, Margery. — How doest doe
Peg t ? Firsti I must have a kisse. Come, let's
niayd'or fancy her \ a crowne a piece. She's a good-
natured girle. — [They give.]
Sir John Fitz-ale. Sir Hugh, drink to the king's health.
[Sir Hugh takes off his glasse super naculum^
Sir y. Fitz-ale. Bravely done, parson ! — a true spunge
of the Church of England, i' faith.
Sir Hugh, I'm one of the old red-nosd clergy, orthodox
and canonicall.
Sir J. Fits-ale. You helpe solemnize the revell.
( In MS. Aubr. 21, p. 20, Aubrey jots down an anecdote for use here
*All the parsons herabout,' in Wiltshire, *are alehouse-hunters.
J(ames) L(ong), esq., hunted Sir Hugh driefoote to the alehouse
with his pack of hounds to the great griefe of the revered divine.')
Z 2
INDEX
-♦♦■
Abbot, abp. Geo., i. 24; ii. a6, 194.
Bp. Rob., iL a6. Wolston, ii.
260, 261.
AbingdoD, Berks, i 184, 185, 244; ii.
303-
Abingdon, (Bertie, lord Noneys), earl
of—
— James, ist carl, i. 45, 53, 98, 192 ;
ii. 9, 31.
Eleanor (Lee), co. of, ii. 30-32.
— Montague, 2nd earl, ii. 31.
— Willonghby, 3rd earl, i. 98.
Ailesbnry, see Aylesbary.
Alton (Ayton), Sir John, i. 26. Sir
Rob., i. 25, 33a, 365.
Albemarle, duke of, see Monk, Geo.
Anne (Clarges), dachess of, ii.
73, 76, 77-
Albiis, Thos. de, see White.
Alcome, Rich., i. 8.
Aldington, Kent, L 248.
Aldsworth, Mr., L 15, 26.
Alen9on, Fran9ois, due d', it 217.
Alesbory, see Aylesbury.
Alesly, Jas., ii. 71.
Aleyn, see AUeyn.
Alford, Sir Thos., ii. 219.
Allam, Andr., ii. 72. Thos., i. 182.
Allen, H., i. 310. Thos., i. 26-28, 84,
225, 318. Mr., ii. 209.
Alleyn (Aleyn), Chas., i. 29.
Alsop, Dr., i. 296.
America, i. 175, 177, 307, 310 ; ii. 103.
— alphabet for native language, L 285.
•^ Barbadoes, i. 210.
•^ Bermudas, i. 41 ; iL 97, 276.
America, Davis strait, i. 210.
— Guiana, U. 95, 183, 187, 188, 3x4.
— Jamaica, i. 50, 53 ; ii. 292.
— Maryland, i. 143.
— Mexico, i. 137.
— Newfoundland, ii. 314.
— New York, ii. 127, 128.
— Pennsylvania, i. 45 ; il 133, 134,
138.
— Plantations, the, i. 53, 210 ; ii. i6a
— Tobago, i. 45, 53.
— Virginia, i 207, 285, 287 ; ii 49,
100, 104, 160, 262, 314.
Ampthill, Beds., i. 312 ; iL 35.
Amsterdam, L 331,364, 376, 421 ; iL
122, 130, 131.
Anderson, Sir John, i. 1 16. Mr., L
115, 116; iL 138.
Andrewes, bp.Lanc., L 29 ; iL 2, 115,
232, 306.
Anne, consort of Jas. I, L 25, 151,
254 ; iL 14, 35.
Anstey, Mr., i. 220.
Anthony, Franc, i. 32.
Apothecaries, ii. 59, 318.
Aquapendente, H. Fabr. ab, i. 296,
304.
Arabic, L 121 ; iL 122, 224.
Archangel, ii. 90.
Archer, Thos., i. 32.
Archimedes, iL 126.
Ardeme, Jas., L 290, 294.
Aristotle, L 300, 357, 359, 360; ii.
201, 211, 212.
Arundel Castle, Sussex, i. 172 ; iL
134-
Arundel, Thomas Howard, i4lh earl,
i. 7S, 3o:,407; ii. no, lu, 313.
— Alethcifl ^Talboi), eo, of, ii.
313-
Aniadcll, Will, (f), i. 119.
Amndell of Wardour, ThoB., ind
baron, i. 139.
Ashindon i,Ejcuidus), John, i. 16, 33.
Ashmolt, Elias, L 33, 163, 185, jgS,
416; ii. 33, 91, 109, il3, 11+, 175,
189-191, 193, 138.
— MSS. and books in his bands, i. )6,
"7.33.441 59- "'. >". "4. "9,
»6a, 318; ii. 33, 9s, 108, aot, J47.
— His Tktalr. Clutn. Bril. died, i.
'47. 16J-170, "o; ii. »0J.
Aahton, John, i. 335. Sir Thos., i.
104.
Aspeden (Apslen), Herts., ii. 184, 19a
Aston, Sir Walt., L 139.
Aitrop. Noithts., il. 303.
Atkins, Sir Edw., L 58, 6a Sir Rob.,
i. 106. Aid., ii. 46.
Alwood, Rich., i. 195.
AubicT, John, L 34-53, tuApasHnt.
Aubrey, Deborah, molhtr of John, i.
33. SK-SO- lyiw., i. 56, 57, 59, 60.
]6\\n, eraiid/alier,\. 49, 51,56, 59,
60; ii. iqS. Sir John, f. 3[5; ii. 5,
7,8, 154. 171, j68. Lewis, if. 7, S.
Mary, ii.: 54. RadieI,.f«ufe/mo/Ac/-,
i, 56 ; ii. igS. Rizh.,falhi:r. i. 37,
38, 41, 46. 49-51; iL 349, 39S.
Thos., i. 56, 57, 59, 60. .Sir Thos.,
ii. 7. Thomas, brolhcr, i. 49, 95 ;
ii. 54, 90, }6i. Wilgiford, gnat-
graitdmothcr, i.55, 60,61. Sir Will.,
i, 59. Xit.'^S!i\., grcat-gratidfathcr.
i. 33, 49, 51, 53-66, Jii; ii. 48.
Dr. Will., of Ch. Ch.. Oxon., i. 59.
Will,, brolhcr, i. 49, 193, 304,
3>.V3iS, 386, 389; ii. i6o, 313.
Ade"'-, Mr., i. iij.
Austin, Mr., ii. 108.
Avebiiry, Wilts., ii. 335.
Ajlesbnry, Sir Thos., i. 187, 1S8, 386;
ii. 16,391,393.
Ajlesbnry, Rob. Bmce, ist carl, ii.
303. Tiios., xaH call, ii. 35.
Ajrlmer, Brabaion, i. ES, gi.
AytoB, itt Alton,
Arores, ii. 315.
Babel (Babylon) bill, Dors., i. 1B8.
Babylon, i. 154.
Backhouse, Sir Will., i. 318.
Bacon, Francis, i. ii, 36, 66-S4, 130,
131, 177, 180, 196, 114, ]S8, 199,
33'. 34'. 348. 37'. 37.'!. 393. 394.
395; ii. 181, 194. 301, 307-
BacoB, Aiuie,i. 76. Aoth.,!. 76,81.
Elii., 1. 77. Sir Nicb., i. 68, 69, 76,
77. 8". 338.
Bacon, Friar Rog., i. 84, 165, 184.
187. '44-
Bodd, Sir Tboi., i. 64.
Badminton. Glouc, iL 155.
Bagford, Mr., ii. 94,
Bagshawe, Edw., i. 85, 99, 1E7, 190 ;
ii. .7', "6:.
Baker, Mr., ii. 90, 354, 355.
Ball, John, ii. 153 r Sir Peter jMtice:>,
ii 180, 18s. i3i, 3»J. Wai, i.
3SS; ii.3»'-
BattitEorti Geo., and Cedl (Calvert).
1st and and baron, i. 143.
Baliac, Jean 1, G., i. 14, 66, 86, 158,
^8,, 34H.
Hancrofl, abp. Rich., i. 86.
liankes, Sit John, i. 169. Sir Ralph,
ii. 4S.
Baramore, see Barrj-niore.
Barclay, John, I 31, 86. Rob., i. 86.
Barker, Will., i. 3S5.
Barlow, hp. Thos., i, 148,313; ii. 359.
Barnes, Jos., ii. 3j.
Barrow, Isaac, M.D., i. 93. Isaac, of
Sjiinney Abbey. Cambr,, i. 87, 93.
Isaac, bp. of St. Asaph, i. 93 ; ii.
^57i ^5^' faaac. Master of Ttin.
L"oll.,Caiiibr.,i. 3,87-94,308,371.
Phil., i. 93. Thos., i. 87, FS, S9,
93, 94- Dr. . . „ i. 94.
Barrymorc, David Barry, 1st earl of.
Alice (Boyle),
Basket, Rev i. ]
Unsset, Will., ii. 171.
Bastwick, Jolit
of, i.
74-
Index
343
Batchcroft, Thos., i. 94.
Bate (Bates), Geo., i. 95; ii. 176.
John. i. 36, 51.
Bath, Som., i. 40, 123, 169, 176, 351,
279; "• I73» i74» 176, 186, 240-344.
Bath, John Granville, ist earl of, ii.
76, 77'-
Bathnrst, Geo., i. 28, 29, 300. Ralph,
i. 5a. ^5o» 310, 371. 377; ii. II, 16,
17, 24, 141, 158, 206, 288. Mr.,
ii. 19.
Battering-ram, i. 98.
Baxter, Rich., i. 86, 373 ; ii. 259.
Bayes, Mr., i. 256.
Bayly, Thos. (N. I. H.), i. 364.
Thos., ii. 328.
Baynton, Sir Edw., ii. 45, 244.
Beach, Mr., i. I33-I35-
Beaconsfield, Bucks., ii. 274, 277, 279.
Beaudley, Wore, ii. 259.
Beaufort, Henry Somerset, ist duke of,
"• i55» 338.
Beaumont, Francis, i. 22, 95.
Becket, Berks., ii. 43, 47.
Bedford, Jasper Tudor, duke of, i.
315-
Bedford (Russell), earl of —
— Fran., 2nd earl, i. 175, 177.
— Fran., 4th earl, i. 275 ; ii. 78.
Bedwell, Will., i. 96.
Bee, Com., i. 279, 281.
Beech, see Beach.
Beeston, Will., i. 96; ii. 14, 227, 233,
345.
Belvoir, Leic, i. 230.
Bemerton, Wilts., i. 309 ; ii. 333.
Bendish, Sir Thos., i. 90.
Benese, Rich., i. 97.
Bennet, bp. Rob., i. 418.
Bere, Dors., ii. 89.
Berkeley, Miss, i. 98.
Berkhampstead, Herts., ii. i.
Bermudas, ii. 341.
Bernard, Chas., i. 356. Franc, i.
356, 393,393; ii. 331, 330.
Bertie, Henry, ii. 9. James, i. 98 ;
ii. 31. Vcre, i. 50, 153; ii. 9.
Berwick, ii. 97, 246, 328.
Besilsleigh, Berks., ii. 84, 85, 9a, 155.
Betenham, Jer., i. 6*1,
Betridge, Col., i. 108.
Bigge, Thos., i. 253; ii. 274, 275.
Billingsley, Sir Henry, i. 16, 99-103,
126, ?I2; ii. 15, 81, III. Sir
Henry (son), i. 102. Henry
(grandson), i. 102. Martin, i. 103.
Rich. (Rob.), i. 101, 103. Sir
Thos., i. 67, 100, 102, 103. Sir
. . . , i. 100.
Bilson, bp. Thos., ii. 23.
Binnion, Rev. . . . , i. 387.
Birch, John, ii. 254. Peter, ii. 279,
280.
Birford, . . . , ii. 202.
Birkenhead, Sir John, i. 104-106, 290,
360-362 ; ii. 157, 173.
Birkhead, Henry, i. 106, 361, 36a ; ii.
26.
Bishe, see Bysshe.
Bishop, Col., ii. 169.
Bishops Canning, Wilts., i. 251, 252 ;
ii. 184.
Blackbume^ Rich., i. 15, 18-20, 107,
333, 359-3^7, 373, 386, 393, 395 ;
ii. 113.
Blagrave, John, i. 107.
Blake, Rob., i. 107.
Blandford St. Mary's, Dors., i. 36 ; ii.
1/9, 335,330.
Blencowe, Mr., ii. 282.
Bletchingdon, Oxon., i. 403.
Blount, Sir Chas., i. 248. Dr. Chas.,
i. ^09, 3560> SirChr.,ii. 251. Sir
Henry, i. 10^-111, 356; ii, 207.
Sir Thos. Pope, i. iii.
Blundeville, Thos., i. 15, 77.
Blunt, see Blount.
Boleyn, Anne, i. 193.
Bolton, Rob., i. 85.
Bond, Henry, i. 15. John, i. 311.
Thos., it 240.
Bonham, Thos., i. 108, iii, 424.
Bonner, £dm., i. iii.
Booker, John, i 112, 318.
Boothby, Mr., ii. 107.
Boston, Mr., i. 311.
• * Richard,* in error.
Bosweil, Sir Will, L 73, ill
1131
11. 130.
Boumnn, Tho.., ii. 1. Sir.
., ii.
'4S-
Bonnie, Mr., 1.417,^34.
Bovey, Jai., i. iij-115, 141,
305:
Bowman, Franc, 1,371 ! iL 197. Mr,,
Boyle, Lewis, i 1 lo. Rolwit, i. 1 1 8,
110,371,411,413; a. ie».
Bradon forest, Wilti,, i. J43 ; ii. 133.
Bradshsw, Sarati, iL 61. Mr.,ii. iig.
Btadstoclt (Bradenstoke)abi)ey, Willi,,
ii. ill.
Bramhall, John. 1. 3S3, 373.
Brampton (Braniiton), Sir Fnmc,
ii. JB.
Bnimvlon, Sir Mnddiford, i. 104.
Branker, Thoi., ii. 116.
BrsvTDC, Sir J., 1. 139,
Brecon (town), i. 54, 59: (shire), i.
46. 51, 59. '76, 313-
Bicda, i. iJi; ii. 45, 76, 111, 134.
lift, 131.
Bretit, Sit Nath., ii. 145.
Brentfoid, Midd., ii. 99,
Brereton, (Brerelon', baron —
— Will., 3rd Lsron, i. Ul; ii, 114,
— Kolji, 4th baron, ii, 134, iJj.
Brcrclon, Sir Will,, i. laj.
Brerewood, Edw., i. lai.
BteU, Aitli., i. 113.
Bridges, Gabr., i. 104.
Bridgewfltet, Jolin Egerton, 1st cnrl
of, i. =4?.
Btidgman, Sir Orl., ii. 108.
11. gS. 315, 191, 395.
BrLelil, Henry, ii. iGi.
Btightinan, Thos., i. 1 1 (.
B.i3tDl, Glouc, i. 36, ;33, :
'8s. '77. 3'4. 315: 403,
'91-^9% 33'. 33 J-
Biistol, (Uiyby) earl of—
— John, 1st carl, ii. 183.
:lway, Dors., ii. 3
Brocas, Rich., ii. 33a.
Broke, ite Brooke.
Broken borough, Wilts., i. 333-314, I
39'.
Brome (Bioome), Alex., i irf, 3g& I
Henry, i. 136, 156, 367; ii, 3
Bromley, Sir Thos., ii. 35.
Bromiiiiin (Brooham), Wilti., i
194.
Brooke, (Greville) baron —
— Fulke, isl baron, 1. 67, 30j, ajg; I
ii. 150.
— Robert, ind baron, 1
Catherine (Russell), baronew, ]
i- '75-
— Robert, 4tli baron, ii. 134.
Brooke (Broke, Brookes), Chr. (rf"J
Oifoid), i. 136; ii, 106, no, 114,
Chr. (of Lond.), il. 49, 50. Marg.^,
i. 119. N„i. 3)1. Rob, i. 87.
Broome, lei Brome.
liroughton, Ed«.,L ii7,ttS; li.3}IV.I
EILi.,i. 117.
Brouncker, (Bronocker), «
— Will., IM vise, i. 139.
WiaiIlc<J (Leigh),
i. 119.
— Will.,ind vise, i. 138.
ii. 146, 147.3"-
Browne, Anth., i. 37, 316.
i. 49. SirThoB.,M.D.,i. 37."o,
311. Tho5,,ii. >i8, 348. Will.
ipoet\ i, 130, 311. Will. (Trin.
Coll., Oif.), i, 173, 174. Maj.-
'-74-
Mr., i
Brownrigg, bp. Ralph, ii. 285.
Bnice of Kinlosa, Edward, 1st baron,
i. 157. Kob., 4th baron, ii. 305.
ISruen, Mr , ii. 48, .
Krynnttonc, Dora., ii. 103,
Lnckhnrst, Charles Sackville ", lord.
u, 34.
r!uckinghai
, iVillie
i), duke of—
^ Afterwards Cth carl of Dorset.
Index
345
Buckingham, Mary Villien, co. of,
ii. 370.
BnckiDghamshire, i. 1 78.
Budldgh, East, Devon, ii. 192.
Bulbridge, Wilts., ii. 89.
Bullen, Anne, L 193.
Bnllialdus, Israel, ii. 59, 289, 290.
Bullock, Edward, ii. 265.
Btmtingford, Herts., ii. 283, 290.
Burched, H., ii. 124.
Barges, Mr., i. 48.
Burghill, Dr., ii. 78.
Burghley, William Cecil, baron, i. 61,
158, 237; ii. 28.
Borhill, Rob., ii. 194.
Burlington, (Boyle), earl of—
— Rich., 1st earl, i. 116, 118, 175-
177.
Burnet, bp. Gilb., i. 166, 169; ii.
304.
Burt, WMll., U. 265.
Burton, Hen., ii. 174. Rob., L 130.
Bury St. Edmunds, Suff., ii. 311.
Busby, Rich., i. 146, 217, 285, 410;
ii. 127, 128, 197, 240, 257, 292, 293.
Bushell, Thos., i. 71, 72, 83, 130-135,
331.
Bussey, Rev. . . . , i. 184.
Butler, Sam., ('Hudibras*), i. 135-
138, 146, 175, 204, 342, 371, 381 ;
ii. 210, 277. Will., i. ia6, 138-
144 ; ii. 98.
Butts, John, i. 270.
Bysshe (Bishe), Edw., i. 239, 355 ;
ii. 89.
Cadiz, i. 223.
Cadnam, Mr., ii. 26a.
Caen, ii. 140.
Caesar, Sir Julius, i. 75. Mr., ii.
173.
Caliver, a, ii 320.
Calne, Wilts., ii. 202.
Calvert, Cecil, Geo., Leon., L 143,
Cambridge (^University), i. 76, 90, 93,
I37» 141* 142, 178, 269, 309 ; ii. 53,
59, 102, 124, 171, 240, 280, 284,
a93> 33a. (Town), i. 90, 91, 92,
103, 36a The play at, i 180.
Great St Mjuy*s, i. 30, 139, 140 ;
ii. 302.
Cambridge (colleges) —
— Caius, i. 94, 268, 295, 296 ; ii.
384, 3»3-3i5-
— Christ's, ii. 32, 63, 67, 68, 114,
293.
— Clare Hall, i. 138, 139, 142, 180 ;
ii. 86.
— Emmanuel, i. 29 ; ii. 28a
— St John's, i. 123, 174, 175 ; ii. 29,
284.
— King's, i, 139, 143; it 86, 106,
113, 204, 236, 275, 307.
— Magdalene, ii. 157.
— Pembroke Hall, L 29, 403 ; ii. 3,
3321 234-
— Peterhouse, i. 88.
— Queens*, i. 95, 200, 203, 247, 248.
— Sidney, i. 257; it 108, 283, 284,
288.
— Trmity, i. 76, 88, 89, 93, 107, 414;
ii. II, 17, 114, 122, 19(5, 257, 301.
Camden, Will., i. 42, 144-147, 267,
322, 39a ; "• "» »5> 42, 57. ao^j
232, 325.
Camden (Came Down), Dors., ii. 323.
Canons Ashby, Northts., i. 240.
Canterbury, i. 206, 296; ii. 84, 217,
266.
Canterbury, abp. of, ii 124.
Canynges, Will., i. 147.
Caporavio, . . . , ii. 328.
Carberry, (Vaughan), earl of, ii. 95,
292.
Cardiff, Glam., i. 315 ; ii. 55, 171.
Cardiganshire, L 131.
Carew, Thos., i. 34.
Carey, Sir Edm., i. 193.
Carisbrooke Castle, I. of W., i. 1971
207,
Carlisle, Anne Howard, co. of Charles,
1st earl, ii. 325.
Carlton, Sir Dudley, i. 279.
Carnarvon, (Dormer), earl of, L 130,
312.
Camwarth, Rob. Dalzell, 2nd earl of,
i. 191.
Carteret, Phil., i. 290. . . . , ii. 174.
Cartwright, Will, i. 148.
CuanboD, Itsac, i, g6.
Cispars, J. B.,i. 354.
Cutlehaven, Mervyn Toachet,
Caillemainp, (Palmer), c«il of—
— Roger, lit enil, ii. 176.
Barbara (Villiera), Co.
Catnfclquc, ii. 10, 77, 3)1.
Cavendish, Hit Chas., i. 153, 366,
370, 386. Col. Chat, i. 154-
isr. Tho., ii. igj.
Caveadiih of Hiidwick, Will., lA
baron, i, 396.
Chalk, Broad Challt, Wilts., 1. 40, 44,
316; 11,76, 113,175, 307-333-
Chaltmer, Jaa., i. 160. Rich., ii.
37s. Sir Thoi, L 69. Thos.
(ruher^ i. 159, 160. Tho*. (son),
i. 169! ii. 55.
Chainbc[layne,Edw.,li.334. Hugh,
i, 60.
Champcniowi
178.
Kath., i. 26a ;
Cbandoi, bareo, i. 413,
Chantrel, Mr., il. loi.
Chapell, Mr., ii. 63.
Charles I, Prince Charles, i. 104, io5>
118, 148, 151, 156, ijg, 171, rgS,
106, 2i8, 1S8, 2St,, 297,333; ii- 1,
'3- 44. 5 = 1 Jfi. 93. '5°. "SS- 'oS,
167. 180, siSfO-
Charles II, Charles Prince of Wales,
i. 86,87,134. 207, 118, ai9, !3y,
'S3. J97. 33.'!. 338-343. 3S4. 3S8.
3?'. 38", 385, 394.395. 397, 4°'.
4°3.40S; ii-8, aS, 45, JS, 74-78,
80-83,103-105, 111,119, 113, 117,
'33i 134, '3S, 143. 176, '95, '°h
»3>. »37. 138, 341, jsj, 353, a76,
177, 386, 1S7, 318,330.
Charleton, Francis, ii. 11. Walt., i.
67. '6'. 37"; "-300-
Charlton, Wilts., i. 323, 391.
Charaock, Tho., i. 161-170.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, i. 96, 170, i8g,
193. 319; ii. 318,319.
Chelsea, Middl., i. 70, 75, 131, 196,
J71, iSi, 307, 313; ii. 8j, 84,
330-
Cheihire, i. 167, 193, 417 ; ii. 307,
316.
Chesttr (city), 1, 131.
Chester, Chox., ii. 184.
Cheynell, Kian., i. 171, 174.
Chichester, Sus^x, i. 171.
Chichley, Sir Tlio., ii. 79.
Chigwell, Essex, it 13*.
Child, Tho., ii. 179.
Chillingworth, Wm., L ijt, 171,370,
Chippenham, Wilts., i. 14] j ii. 181.
Chivcn, Secole, ii. 3^6.
Christ Church, Huiti., ii. 97, iSS,
Clatendon, [HydeJ earl of —
— Edward, ist earl, i. 136, 373,416;
— Heniy, ind earl, i. i), 41G, 417!
ii. >9l.
Clarendon park, Wilts., ii. 147.
Claires, Anne, ii. 73, 76, 77. Tho.,
ii- 73, 7fi.
Clark, Ben-, ii. 133, 136, 138.
Deborah, ii. 61, G8. Sir Fraacis,
ii. 93. Geo., ii. 173. Juhn, i.
»65-
CUvell, John, i, 174-
CUvius, Chr.. i. 94, 333.
Clconardns. Nic, i. 144.
Cleveland, John, i. 174.
Clifford of I^nesborough, Chas. Boyle,
jrdbaron, ii. 13.
Clifford Castle, Heref., iL 171.
Clinton, Edw. Fienncs, baron, i. 333.
Clinton, Ceivttse, i. 396.
Ciun, . . ..ii, 14.
Cluveras, Job., i. 338. Mr,, ii. ij6.
Coaches, i. fio, 340, 347 ; ii. 149, 367,
3'3-
Cobham, Henry Brooke, baron, ii. 187.
Cockaine, Mr., i. 71.
Codiington, Jane, I 34.
197,
50. 194, 246, 3lS,
Roger, i. 17s,
390.
Colbcit, J.-B„ i. 180; i!. 59.
Coldwell, bp. John, i. 102.
Cole, Dr., 1. 137. Mr., ii. 31
Colepcper, John, isl boron,
Thos., md baron, ii. 161.
Index
347
Colepeper (Culpepcr), Nich., i. 318.
Colet, John, i. 181.
Colcy, Henry, i. 48, 49, 53, 181, 393,
425; ii. 105, 118, a6o.
Collins, John, i. 153, 159, 182 ; ii.
I", 293, 312, 315, 316, 332.
Mark, ii. 207. Sam., i. 8 ; ii. 284,
307. Mr., ii. 195.
Colyton, Devon, ii. 192.
Combe, John, ii. 226.
Compostclla, i. 147.
Conant, John, i. 210.
Confacins, i. 115.
Conquest, Sir Edm., ii. 93.
Constable, Sir John, i. 77.
Constantinople, i. 90, 91, 108.
Conyers, Mr., ii. 191.
Conyoke, Mr., ii. 50.
Cooke, Anne, i. 76. Arnold, i. 309.
Sir Rob., L 309.
Cooper (Cowper), Alex.,i. 222. Sam.,
i. 136. 150, 182, 222. 338, 340, 354.
368, 394, 410; ii. 115, 145. Bp.
Tho., i. 36, 120, 183.
Coote, Dr., i. 309.
Copernicus, Nic, i. 238, 419 ; ii. 59.
Corbet, Edw., ii. 244. Bp. Rich., i.
183-188, 270, 286 ; ii. 310. Vine.
(sen.), i. 183, 184. Vine. (jwi-)» i-
187.
Cork, ii. 133.
Cork, ^^ Boyle), earl of —
— Rich., 1st earl, i. 8, 1 15-120.
Cath. (Kenton), co. of, i. 116,
117.
— Rich., 2nd ^arl, i. 116, 118, 175,
176,177.
Eliz. (Clifford), co. of, i. 175,
177.
Combury, Oxon., i. 194.
Cornwall, ii. 95, 329.
Comwalleys, Sir Franc, ii. 225. Mr.,
i. 228, 231.
Coryat, Tho., i. 188 ; ii. 51-53.
Cosens, bp. John, i. 353, 398 ; ii. 287.
Cosh, major, i. 185 ; ii. 78, 93, 185.
Cosham, Wilts., i. 193.
Cossinet, Fran., ii. 237.
Cothorae, Mr., ii. 128.
Cottington, Fran., baroui ii. 145.
Cotton, Chas., ii. 38. Sir John, ii.
219, 225. Sir Rob., i. 74, 212;
it 219, 224. Sir Tho., ii. 224.
Coventry, Sir Tho., ii. 29.
Coventry, Warw., i. 150, 256, 406.
Cowbridge, Glam., ii. 5-7.
Cowley, Abr., i. 76, 189, 219, 226,
368, 377. . . . , i. 193.
Cowper, see Cooper.
Cox, lady, ii. 251.
Cradock, Franc, i. 290. Zach., ii.
278. . . ., i. 191.
Crane, John, i. 139.
Cranfield, Arthur, ii. 50.
Cressy, Hugh, i. 150, 427.
Cribbage, ii. 245.
Croft, bp. Herb., i. 39. Sir ... , ii.
258.
Cromwell, Oliver, i. 90, 132, 155, 156,
196, 268, 290, 328, 335 ; ii. 10, 32,
37» 45» 47, 53, 65, 70, 72, 74, 79,
"3i 131, 374, 276, 281, 301, 316,
322. Rich., it 46, 123, 301.
Crooke, Andr., i. 359, 360, 364, 369.
Will., i. 333-391 ; "• 39.
Croone, Will., i. 191, 290.
Crowther, Jos., ii. 255.
Croydon, Surrey, i. 200.
Crump, Mr., ii. 94.
Cruso, John, i. 58.
Cuff, Henry, i. 179.
Culpeper, see Colepeper.
Cumberland, (Clifford), earl of Cum-
berland, i. 175-177.
— George, 3rd earl, i. 175 ; ii. 315.
— Henry, 5th earl, i. 176.
Curie, bp. Walt., i. 173.
Curtin, Sir Will., i. 191.
Curwyn, Mr., i. 280.
Cusa, Nich. di, ii. 319.
Cutler, Sir John, ii. 411, 412.
Dale, Val., i. 56, 58.
Dalen, . . . , i. 221.
Danby, (Henry Danvers), earl of, i.
i9>» 193» i95» 19^1 358; ii. Ih
247.
Danby, Tho. Osborne, earl of, ii. 105.
Daniel, Sam., i. 230.
Dantesey, see Dauntesey.
Danveni, Anne,
Sir Chis., i. 191, i<h. Chu., i.
310. Elii, (Ne»ill), i. 193. EUt,
ite Purbec. Grace (Haghes), i.
196. Henij, j« Dajiby. Mr.
Henry, L 196, 358. Jaoe, L 31a
Sit John (obiit 1594), i. 19s; ii.
847. Sir John (regicide), i. 70,
76. "4. '3', '34. '78, iSo, 19s,
196, 130, »44, J45, J58, 307, 308,
313; ii. 13, 30, 31, 33, B3. Mr.
Jolui,i. 19J, 196, 348. Mngdalen,
i- 19s. J07i 313: "■ 'fi- Rachel
and Rich., I 56; ii. 398. Sir
Rob., I. J9G. R., i. 194. Rob.,
ite Purbec. Tho., i. 309, 310.
Danveis-ViUieiH, family, i. 196.
Daitmoulb, Geo. Lc^^, baron, i. 194.
Dary, Mich., i. 198.
Daunisey, Wilts., L 134, 193-194,196,
310.
Davenant, Chu.. i. 137, 309. Edw..
merchaat, L 198, 199, loo. Dr.
Edw., 1. 4a, 1B3, 19B-303, 35Ti ii.
86, sot. Jm., i. 303. John,
vintner, i. 304. Bp. John, i. 198-
304, 357 ; ii. 389. John, barrister,
!■ S'l '98, 303. Nich,, i. 304.
Rev. Rob., i. 304, 3oG; ii. 344.
Sir Will., i. 171, 304-109, )i6, 375,
360, 370 ; ii. 55, 83, 103, 336, 333,
340-344.
Davenport, John, i. 309.
Davis (Davits, Dnvys), capt John, i,
Jio. Sir(Dr.)John,i.ji3. Dr.
John (Welsh digt.), i. 334. John,
of Kidwelly, i, 306, 353; ii. aaS,
399.333. Mr., i. 98, Mr., i. 308.
DflvisQD, Dr.. i. 336.
DBTton, Tho., i. 16B.
Dawes.Jon., i. 91.
Day, John, i. 100,
Dayitll, air John,
393,
Miss 393, 395.
Dean, Forest of, ii. 337.
Decietz, Emnnuel, ii. 10, 55, 167.
Dee, Arthur, i. 310-31J. John, i
'^ 33. 59. Si, 65, 100, 310,315
337i '38f j63. Rowl. (sen.), i
3U. Howl. CJim.),i. 310.
Deekes, Jon,, i. 387,
Deere, Tho,, i 3lj ; ii. 144.
Deeriog, Sir . . . , iL 153.
Delamaine, . . . , iL 1 1 1 . ^
Delanne, Gideon, i. ai6.
Delawarr, Cbas. West, 5tb baron, ii.
373.
Dell, Mary, i. 3S5.
Den ham, Eleanor, i. 117. Sir John,
jadge, i. 3i6, 117, llg; ii. 18.
Sir John, poet, L 190, 306-308,
31G-331, 363; ii. iS, 317, a}3,,
306. Margaret, i, jig. "
Deodati, Carlo, ii. 63. I
Deptford, Kent, ii. agj. %
Derby, (Stanley), earl of— '
— Edw,, 3rd earl, i. 133.
— Will., 6lh earl, i. 339.
Derby, Mr., a 311.
Des Cartes, Ren^, L aoi, 311, )Gt,
366,367,411.
de Valke, iii Vaike.
Devonshire, L 363, 306, 354; it 73,
1B3.
DcTOnsblie, (Caveodidi), earl of—
— Will, 1st earl, i. 331, 396,
— Will., and earl, i. 154, 156, 330,
33'.347-386, 393. 39fi-
Christian (Bruce), co. of, i.
'54. 15S, 157,396,397-
— Uill., 3rd earl, J. 154, 341, 346,
351. 3S4. 356. 357. iH 383. S^S.
3S61 395. 3961 397-
Dewes, Sii Symond, ii. 311.
Dij;by, Sir Everard, i. 313, 133, 334.
Ceo., i. 331. Sir John, L 334,
1351 i'' '4'. >44- ^- John,
i. 333, 238, 339, 331. Sir Ken.,
i. aS, 37, 131, igo. 314-333. 367;
ii. 34, 113. Mr. Kenelm, i. 217.
231. Venctia (Stanley), i. 1J7,
336, 339-333.
Digby of Geashlll, Robert, ist baron,
i. 118.
Digges, Dudley, i. 233, 236. Leon,,
i- "6, 333-339. Tho.,i. i5, 133,
»35. »3fi-'39-
DlghtoD, Mr., i. 433,
Dinlon, Wilts, i. 437.
DobEon, Gerard, ii. 374, 27S, 180.
Index
349
Jndith, ii. 318. WiU., i. 38, 51,
78; ii. 318. . ..,i. 78.
Dockwra (Dockeiy), Will., ii. 91,
324.
Dod, John, ii. 300.
Dodington, Sir Fran., ii. 37.
DodsoQ, Rev. ...» i. jo i.
Dolman, Sir Tho., i. 293.
Domville, Silas, ii. 256.
Donne, John, i. 59, 68, 307, 308, 313,
418; ii. 14,50.
Donnington Castle, Berks., L 170.
Dorchester, Henry Pierrepoint, marq.
of, i. 138 ; ii. 307.
Dore Abbey, Herel, i. 423.
Dorset, (Sackville), earl ot—
— Tha, ist earl, i. 229 ; iL 309, a 10.
— Rob., 3nd earl, L 339 ; ii. 309.
— Rich., 3rd earl, i. 67, 100, 115,
"7» i75» i77» 236, 339, 330, 331 ;
ii. 309, 246.
Anne (Clifford), ca of, L 175,
I77» 239-
— Edw., 4th earl, i. 171 ; ii 115,
310.
— Rich., 5th earl, i. 104; ii. 309.
' Frances (Cranfield), ii. 310.
— Chas., 6th earl, i 31 ; ii. 3ia
See Buckhurst.
Dorsetshire, L 84, 363.
Douay, i. 171.
Douch, John, ii. 34, 37.
Dover, countess of, ii. 31.
Downton, Wilts., ii. 178, 184.
Drake, Arth., i. 194. Sir Franc.,
ii. 189, 193.
Draper, John, ii 100.
Draycot, Draycot Ceme, Wilts., i.
176,388; ii. 184.
Drayton, Mich., i 339 ; ii. 30.
Drew, John, i. 351, 253.
Droitwich, Wore, i. 330, 333, 385.
Dmry, Wili, i 58.
Dryden, Erasmus, i 340; ii 333.
John. i. 35, 97, 209, 240, 241, 257,
373 ; ii 55. ^7« 73. 233. 379«
Dublin, i 149, 216; ii 68, 101-103,
138, i43» 147. I54» 3^4-
Docket, Wili, ii. 327.
Dadley, Henry, i. 38.
Dngdale, Sir John, i 309, 341. Sir
Will.,i 33, 51, 133, 146, 181, 333,
341, 367, 375, 313, 317, 355.418;
ii. 89, 319, 336, 333, 337.
Duke, Dr., i. 135. Mr., ii 193.
Dumoulin, Louis, ii 39, 306. Peter,
ii. 69.
Dun, Sir Daniel, i 53, 56, 65.
Dnncomb, Sir John, i 363. Dr., i
149. Mr., ii no.
Dungannon, Anne Trevor, viae., ii.
154.
Dunkirk, i 387 ; ii 87, 356.
Dunmore, John, i 93.
Dunning, Mr., i 190.
Dunstable, Sir John, i 343. Mr.,
i 178, 180.
Dunstan, Saint, i 343.
Duport, Dr., i 89.
Duppa, Brian, i 381.
Durham, ii 361.
Dutch, the, see Holland.
Earles, bp. John, i 95, 96, 145, 151,
153; ii 28, 76, 214.
Easton Piers, Wilu., i 35, 36, 40, 44,
49. 51.
Eastwell, Kent, i. 419.
Eastwood, John, i 33.
Edgar, king, ii. 255.
Edgehill, Warw., i 108, 148, 297.
Edinburgh, i 422 ; ii. 99.
Edmund, Saint, (Rich), i. 244.
Edward the Confessor, i 341.
Edward I, i. 185. Edw. II, i 360.
Edw. Ill, u. 56. Edw. VI, u.
199.
Egerton, Sir John and Sir Rich., i.
344. Sir Thos., sei Ellesmere.
Maj-gen., ii. 23, 93.
Egham, Surrey, i. 217, 319, 331 ; ii
306.
Eglionby, Geo., i. 151, 37a
Elector, the Prince, see Palatine.
Elgin, Tho. Bruce, ist earl, i 313 ;
ii 35-
Elizabeth, queen, i. 38, 54, 55, 58, 59,
6^ 145. 19.H. 313. 3x4, 319. 420;
ii 33, 180, 181, 183, 186,214, 317,
367, 370.
Index
EUiabefli, dnughler of James
I, i.
Fairfai of Catneron, Tho., 3rd baton,
J96i ii. M, JiS.
i. Jjo; ii. 70, 87, 107.
Eilesmere, Salop, i. J4S.
FairfiiiofEinley.Will., 3rd,aiidTlio.,
Ellesmete, Tho, Eg ert on, baron.
.69,
4th, vise. i. U.
i»a, 844; ii. 13, S3.
Fairstead. Es«lt, !L its-
Elowjs. Sir John, 11.178, 189,1
S-
FalcmHi, Gionwni, ii. 318.
Elung, Henry, ii. 108.
Faldo, J.,ii. 137. Mrs., i. ili-tl^
Elyol, Sir The, i. 69.
Fale, Tho., L 15.
Emerson, H.,ii. 306.
FalkUnd, (Ca(y),viacount—
tjiMonc, Oxon„i. i3i-i3St ''9
*3.V
— Henry, lit vise, i. 149,
Eot, Sir Geo., i. 145, 347, 148,
399.
— Ludiu, indvi«c,i. 149-153. »7»-
3o'. 370. 379. 380. 38'; ii-
365.
174, 36s; ii-373, 187.
Mr. Geo., i. 245, 380 ; ii. i^
Knuinns, i. IS4. Mo, J^', '4*-
HOi
i. 149, ISO.
ii. 83-85, 3'9-
— Henry, jrdvisiL, i. 30S ; iL 45.
EriEeaa,Jo=nnes,i. 391.
— Anth., 4th vise, i. 149.
Jjher, Surrey, ii. 3t>9-
Fansbawc (Fe.isbawel. John, it 17.
EiMx.ii. 4, 13.6.1,95, 113, 114
131-
Sir Rich., ii. SS- Mr5.,ii. J4, Jj.
E»je«, Sir ... , ii. 43.
Famaby, Tho., i. 19, 71, 106.
Essei. (Devcreui). earl of—
Famham Casllc, Surr., i. ai8.
—Walt., isl earl, ii. as". 'S'-
Farr,Mr-, i. 1:0.
Lenice (KnoUef), co. of, ii.
Faucet, Mr., i. 67.
J51.
Faulkner, Elii., i. 13'- Nich., i.
— Rob., and earl, 1.69,76, 179,
19J,
387-
M»;ii. asi.
Fell. John,!. », i9.M3-34«! ii- SOS-
-Kob., ardearl, ii. 10, 331.
Si >. Sam.i. 1851 ii. 333.
Kstcotl, Kic!i.,i, 130.
FeU<:d,Essei.,i.8S. 116.
Esteourt, Geo., i. ifio.
Fcllon, John. i. 105.
Eatrtes. Cesar d', carJiual.imd Je
m&-,
Fcnshaiie, )■« Fanbhawe.
admiial, i. JS3.
FcQion.Sir Gcjff., i. I16, 117, 110.
Etchinfi, i. 407.
SirMaiir„iL, 141.
Elhetcge. Geo,, i, 15.
Feriby, Geo., i. 351.
Eton College, i. lao, J78-a8i,
Field, John, i. 92. Rich., ii. 38.
iL loj, io6, 113, 114-316,
3.16,
Fieldine, Rob., i. 197.
274, =78.307-
Ficnnes, SirEdw..!. 235-
Ellriclt, Anth., i. 43, 47, 52,
iifi,
Filmorc,.SirKolj., i. 145.
119, 103, iso; ii. 18,89, i5f,
i;3.
Finch, Sir Mojie, i 419.
■\Vm., i jjo. Mrs,!, aoi.
Fy,tr, Sir Rich. (Tho.), ii. j6i, 363.
Evan*, Rev...,i, :,3H, .,93.
WUl.,ii.98, ...,ii.36.
Evcljn, John, i. 53, 350, ^07,
40S;
Fiskc, Nich., i. 352.
ii. 109, MJ.
Filigcrald family, i. 118.
I'lvcrard, Mr., ii. J3O,
FiL2-hamond, Sir Rob., i, .-.,15,
Exeter, ii. 193.
Fid-hardinge, Chas. Betkeley, vise.
txetcr, John Cecil, 4th earl of, i.
15S-
i. .;S.
EvyasJ.acy, Hcref.,i. 4^3-
Fiu William, Will., and baron, ii.3r 3,
Eytishftm,Oxon„i.i33.
Flamstcd, Edm,, i. 361. John, i. S.
EjTea, Sam,, ii. 37.
38.1.
Fabricios, Gcnnanns, iL 69.
Fairfax, Will., ii. 334.
Flalman, Tho., i. ajj ; ii. 153, 305.
FletlwoDd, Sir Gerard, il. 30. SJI
Will., L 3£3. Sir Will., ii. 30.
Index
351
Flesher, J., i. 103.
Fletcher, Giles, i. 213. John, i. 95,
96, 254; ii. 317.
Florence, i. 319, 366 ; ii. 270.
Florio, John, i. 254.
Fludd, Tho., i. 145, 308 ; ii. 105, 196.
Fobbing, Essex, ii. 123, 124, 127, 131.
Folkestone, Kent, i. 295.
Ford, Sir Edw., i. 255. Henry, i.
290.
Foresthill (Fosthill), Oxon., ii. 61,
64, 65.
Fortescue, Sir John, i. 229.
Foster, Sam., i. 256.
Foughelston (Fugglestone), Wilts., i.
309-
Fountains Abbey, Yorks., i. 177.
Fowler, John and Kath., ii. 152, 153.
Foxe, John, i. 256, 268. Sam., i.
257. Mr., ii. 104.
France, i. 54, 61,63, i.*^?. 181, 270,
283, 3i6» 399» 402 ; ii. 32, 59» 7a,
80, 81, 86, 133, 140, 180, 241, 242,
35^} 302* Enslavement of Pro-
testants in, i. 45, 27a Refuge of
Royalists, i. 105, 206; 207, 334,
3^» 37o» 397» 398 ; ii. 276. Sphere
of educational travel, i. 39, 47, 90,
94. 112, 154, 159, 288, 296,396.
397. 398; ii. 7» 36. 44» 63, 132,
156, 240, 247, 304. French lan-
guage, i. 113, i8i, 254; ii. 68, 87,
122, 133, 140, 156, 164, 170.
Charles VIII, ii. 320. Francis I.
i. 241, 249, 315. Henry III, ii.
217. Henry IV, i. 81. Louis
Xni, ii. 81, 96. Louis XIV, i.
50, 106, 181, 207, 270, 353. 384;
ii. 81, 120, 252.
Freeman, Ralph, iL 284, 285, 290.
Mr.,ii. 283.
French, Peter and Robina, ii. 300.
Fromantle, Mr., iL 59.
Fromundz, Jane, i. 215.
Fulham, Midd., i. 74, 254; iL 94, 119.
Fuller, Nich., L 31, 257. Tho, i.
29, 60, 100, 118, 126, 144, 158,
249» 2f 7» 267 ; ii. 223, 310. Mr.,
ii. 148.
Fnrbisher, Simon, i. 258.
Gadbury, John, i. 215, 241, 252, 258,
356, 393. 393 ; ii. 99» 104. ^39,
324. Will., L 258.
Gainsborough, Lines., i. 155, 156.
Gale, Peter, i. 47. Dr. Tho., i. 84,
94, >39, 140, 143. 190, 259, 282 ;
iL 95, 191. WilL, L388.
Galileo, i. 366.
Gardiner, bp. Steph., i. 69. Mr., i.
45.
Gargrave, lady, i. 196.
Garnet, Anne, i. 310.
Gamons, Mr., ii. 254.
Garsinglon, Oxon., L 29; ii. 22, 23,
25.
Garth, Rol., i. 265.
Gascoigne, Will., L 260; iL 79-81.
Gassendi, Pierre, L 366, 367, 398.
Gastrell, Mr., ii. 260.
Gataker, Chas. and Tho., L 151.
Gawen, . . . , L 316.
Gay, Anne, L 388, 389.
Gayton,Edm., ii. 47.
Gazaeus, Angelinus, i. 242.
Gellibrand, Henry, i. 261, 366 ; ii.
395.
Geneva, iL 63.
George, Hugh, L 59.
Gerard, Gerard, i. 246. Mr., i.
262.
Gerard of Brandon, Chas., ist baron,
ii. 4, 28.
Germany, L 100, 113, 159 ; iL 54, 133.
Sphere of educational travel, i. 90,
112, 159; iL 240, 247. Language,
High Dutch,!. 113, 375 ; ii. 69, 87,
122, 125, 17a Low Germany, j^^
Holland. Emperor, (?) Rodolph II,
iL 43. Ferdinand III, i. 407.
Leopold I, i. 41 2.
Gibbon (Gibbons) , Chr., L 1 96. John ,
i. 241, 242, 268 ; ii. 296. Mr., ii.
173.
Gibson, Edw., i. 126.
Gilbert, Adrian, L 262, 311 ; iL 178.
WilL, L 73.
Gill, Alex, (sen.), L 171, 262-266.
Alex, (jun.), L 171, 174, 262-266.
Thos., ii. 264.
Gillingham, Dors., i. 200-203.
I
I
GlanvUle. Joi., i. »66, 185.
Glastonbui;, Som., i. 143.
. Cleadower, Owen, i. J67.
Gliison, FfBD., iL 167.
Gloncester (city), i. 147, 151, 315,
411 ; ii. 149, 151, 339 : (shire), L
J78; U.319.
Gloacesler, Heniy Stuiut, duke of,
L »18.
GloTci, Rob,, L 367.
Glyn, John, i. 137.
Goclcnius, ■ . , , ii. J4, 174.
Godbid, A.,i. i8j. W., i. asj.
Goddani, Jon-, L 168.
Godfrey, Sir Edm. Bnry, i. 369, 310.
Mr., i
GodQlpbui,SirFiai].,ii.
1.98.365,371; ii. 175.
Goldiaan, Mr., ii. Iig.
Gondomii, L 144.
Goodsll, Slephen, i. 13J, 135.
Goodmin, Gnbriel, dean of Weil-
miasicr, i- 60.
Goodwyn, Tbo., L »6g. Will., 1.
185; ii. »14.
GoodycBT, Heniy, ii. £1. Mr., i.
13'. "34.
Gore, Tho., i. 370; il. 43, j6o.
Goresuch. Mr., i. 370.
Gorges, Atlhnr, sen, and jnn., i. 370,
271. Kcrd., i. 193.
Gorges of Dundalk, Edm.,
Gorhamburj', Herts., I. ig, 71, 79,
81,84. .13'. 393. 394-
Goricg, George, baron, i« Norwich.
Goring, gen. Geo., i. 118.
Golehuisi, Bucks., i. ai8, a3».
Gower, John, i. 171.
Grantham, Lines., i. tis, 1^6.
Giaunt, Henry, i. 371. Maj. John,
Hh
I. 171-374: "■
John, ii. 8G.
Gravelines, i. 3S7.
Greatorex, Ralph, i.
Greaves, Edw., i.
Greek language, i. 144,
3^9. 349. i°S. ^°6, 4
ISO.
31 S. 114, _
Green, Anne, ii. 141
Greenhill, J., ii. 1 3.
Grcenway, Mr., i. f
Gregory, Sir WiJ!.
=74-
197.
■ »74-
"■95-
Grenbergerui,
Creadon, Bucks., ii.
Gieniille (Granville), John, ii. 76, 77
(' Rich." in error).
Gresbam, Sir Tho.,
Grew, Nehein., i. 40
Giey, lady Kath., L
Grey of Wilton, Arthnr, baron, tL
180.
GriHiai (Griffyn), Peter, ii, 88. R^j
ii. 166. . . .,ii. 7r '
Grimston, Sir Harb., i. 66, 76, ft,
393 ; "■ '°, 76-
GrMlest, bp. Rob^ il. 169, jij.
Grosvenor, Sir Tho., i. 193.
Grove, WiU.. i. aoo.
Gnbbint, Ueita., ii^ 85.
Guernsey (Gamiey), i. 190 ; ii. 1 74.
Gniuia, »i America.
Guitdfotd, Surrey, i. 14.
Cmntaj, Pettr, 1. i;6.
Giintcr, Edm,, i. 176; ii. aif, agj.
Capt.,i. 196.
Guy, John, i. 377.
Gwj-nD, MatL, i. 31, 112. Phil., i.
104; ii. 90. . . .,i. 377.
H., Sit J. (quaere Sir John Hoskyns),
Haak, Theod., i. 26, 375; ii. 54, S9,
138-131, 3U-
Habington, Will., i. 177,
Hacket, bp. John, i, 146,
Hajjgar, Mr., i. jS6.
Haines, J« Hnyne.
Hake, Mr., i. 111.
Hale, Sir Matt., i. 378, 394; ii. aoj,
104, 3ii, 235.
Hales, Sir Jaa., i. 96. John, i.
I
1
Index
353
Hallely, Mr., i. 363, 366, 381, 382,
384.
HalJey, Edm., i. 8, 282.
Hamey, Baldwin, i. 284.
Hammond, Henry, i. 19.
Hampden. Ann, ii. 274, 280. £dm.,
ii. 279, 280.
Hampshire, ii. 95.
Hampton Court, Midd., ii. 28, 309.
Hancock, John, ii. 27.
Harcourt, Will., i. 225, 284.
Harding, Eleanor, i. 322, 384, 385,
388. . . . , ii. 330.
Hardwick, Derb., i. 383.
Hard wick. Will., ist baron Cavendish
of, i. 396.
Harington, set Harrington.
Hariot (Harriot, Herriot), Tho., i.
16, 176, 187, 284-287; ii. 16, 95,
188, 192, 257, 291, 292.
Harley, Sir Edw., i. 53, 287 ; ii. 256.
Sir Rob., sen., i. 287, 419; ii. 182.
Sir Rob., jun., i. 157, 288.
Harper, Tho., ii. 37, 112, 295.
Harrington (Harington), Jas., i. 288-
395» 366, 376; ii. 54» 148, 185,
189, 193, 267. John, baron, i.
288, 295. Sir Sapcote, i. 288, 294.
Harriot, see Hariot.
Harris, Rob., ii. 23.
Harrison, Will., ii. 228.
Harsnet, Sam., ii. 211.
Hart, Mr., i. 292.
Hartlib, Sam., i. 295 ; ii. 71, 129, 149.
Harvey, Eliab, i. 295-299, 302. Dr.
W^ilL, i. 72, 295-305, 337, 365,
368 ; ii. 16, 167, 291.
Harwich, Essex, ii. 254-256.
Hastings, Mr., ii. 127.
Hatton, Chas., i. 389, 391. Chr.,
1st baron, i. 389; ii. 198. Sir
Tho., ii. 284. Sir . . . , i. 179.
Hault Hncknall, Notts., i. 383.
Hausted, Peter, ii. 198.
Hawes, Will., i. 52, 149, 173 ; ii. 285,
290» 303.
Hawking (falconry), i. 51, 331 ; ii. 37,
267, 298, 317.
Hawles, John, i. 305.
Hay, Breckn., iL 293.
Hayes, Devon, ii. 192.
Hayes, Surrey, it. 264.
Haynes (Haines), Mr., i. 53 ; ii. 309.
Hay ward, John, i. 57 ; Mr., ii. 220.
Haywood, Will., ii. 298.
Head, Rich., i. 305.
Heath, Jas., i. 306. Sir . . . , i. 306.
Hebrew, i. 420 ; ii. 68, 120, 122, 164,
194, 224, 258.
Hele, Elize, i. 306.
Hempstead, Essex, i. 296.
Hen, Henry, ii. 149.
Henchman, Humph., ii. 86, 267.
Henderson, . . . , i. 156.
Henley, Sir Rob., I 293, 306; ii. 187.
Henrietta Maria, consort of Chas. I;
the Queen Mother, i. 133, 134, 190,
207, 216, 218, 225, 270; ii. 8, 176,
302.
Henry Vni, i. 193, 315; ii. 248, 309.
Henry, Prince of Wales, i. 159, 194,
254; ii. 50, 52, 80, 190, 314, 315.
Henshaw, Tho., i. 320, 321, 354,
418; ii. 13, 108, no, 270.
Herbert, bp. of Norwich, i. 187, 188.
Herbert, Edw., i. 315. Geo., i. 68,
76, 194-196, 307, 309* 313. Jane,
i. 310. Magdalen, i. 195, 307,
313. Rich., i. 313. Sir Tho.,
i 289 ; ii. 228. See alsoVtmhxoVtj
earl of.
Herbert of Chirbury, Edward, baron,
i. 68. 196, 307, 313, 37a
Herbert, Will., lord (afterwards 6th
earl of Pembroke), i. 48, 218.
Herbert family, i. 313, 314,
Hereford (city), i. 422; ii. 5, 254:
(cathedral), i. 187, 419; ii. 254,
321 : (shire), i. 39, 154, 267; ii.
25'>, 319* 329.
Heringman, H., i. 221.
Hertfordshire, ii. 95.
Hertford, (Seymour), earl and marq.
of—
— Edw., 1st earl, i. 57, 66.
— Will., 2nd earl, 1st marq., i. 57,
66; ii. 202.
Hesketh, Mr., i. 38, 51.
Hesse, landgrave of, ii. 62.
Hevelins, Joannes, i. 283, 41 a ; ii. 290.
II.
A a
Index
Heydon, John, i. 318.
HoU, Mr., L »:.v
Hcylyn, Peter, i. 375, 319 : ii. lao.
Holybnsh, Joim, i. 408.
J
Hiehlandflof&otland, ii. 81.
Holyolie, Fmnc, i. lofi.
{
Hill, Abr., i. loi, ijs; U. 69, »o6.
Holywood. John. i. 408.
1
Unt., i.3'o. Nich., L 319; iL
Hoodc, Thos., i. 409.
ip, igi, >7o. OHvCT, i. no.
Hooke, Grace, i. 416. John, i
409.
Rich,, ii. 1 1. Tho., L 89. Rev.
Rob., i. 43. no, 136, 130,
140,
. . .,«. 313-
164, 166, 371. 381. 40!)-4>6
: ii-
HillbrewCis, Som„ii. 330.
353, 361, 363, 381, 193,
3<".
Hine,/^HIynd.
313^314. Mr., L39S-
Hobbes, Tbomfis, ■ of Mnlmsbury.' L
Hooke, H«nls.,i. 409.
3, i6~3i, J6. 4^,50, 70, 74,75, 83,
Hooker, Rich., i. 69: ii. us.
105, i.=.i,i5a, iH, i?3. '07, jjj,
Hooks and eyes, i. 305.
389, 399,301,310, 331-403; ii, 6,
Hoplon, Arth., i. 16,84,343; a
333-
7.73,113.139, 140, 144,153, 169,
Ralph, bsron, ii. 100.
314, jji, 375, 377, 181, 389,193.
310.
Hojilon family, i. 179.
Home, Mr., I 34*. 38'- .
Hobbes, pedigree of, i. 333, jS?.
Homcrfcmily, i. 179.
Edmund, brother of Thomns, i, 313,
Hotsey, capt., i. 115.
iH, 3'S> .H7, 3'9. 384. 385.388.
Hortcnsius, Msrtinns, iL 133, 130.
Edmund, grsnd-nepbcH'.i. 313, 335,
Horton, Mr., ii. 113.
3S9. Francis, uncle, i 33J, 334.
Hoskins, John, pkinter, i. 409 ; iL
iij.
3B8, 301. Fnmcis, nephew, i. 333,
John, of Trin. Coll., O»oiu, ii
i4>
3aS. 337. 387. 388, 389. Thomas,
37.
UOxt, i. jaa, 3*3, 3^4, 3»7, 387.
Hoskyn^ BeredkU, i. ^^
Si
3SS, 391. Thomss, (jnuid-nephew,
Bennet, i.416, 432, 433; ii. u
104,
i. .133, 3is, 337, 3S5, 389-
313. Aime, wifc of Sir Be
Hobhes, Dr. Will.,i. 36 1 . Mr. Will.,
ii. 13. Chas., i. 416. Jane. i.
i. 387.
415. Rev. John,B.C.L., i.
416.
Hfidgea, Mr., i. 110.
4io, 434. John. 5crj.-at-1iw
Holbein, Hans, ii. S3-S5.
319, 4''^-4iS; ii- ". 48-.^o
?.l.
HDlbiti;h, Mr.,i. R7-M9,
1S8, 192, 318, Hir John, i. 8
43i
Holder,\Vili-,i.3,,44,3r«,4°3-40S-
SO, 330, 390, 394, 319, 330,
367.
409: ii. 314, 3R1, jsj, 313.
418,411,435: 11.33,49,335,
3'y.
Hole, Mr., ii, 41.
John, i. 435. Sec Hoskias.
Holland, ihe Butch, Ihe Netherlands,
Hoslc, Mr., i. 113, 113.
the Low Countries, i. 63. 73, [13,
Hothara 1.155. . . . , i.
i5o.
133,310,135.336.38^,408; ii.ij.
Houghton-Conqnest, Beds,, i. 3
; ii.
73, 74. ;8. 87, 133, 147, 349. 171.
93, 3:6.
The Dutch lon(:uag<>. Low-Dutch,
Ilonghloa Lodge, Beds., i. 313.
i. 113, 361; ii. 87. [33. 170.
Honnalow.Midd., 1,3191". 37-
Lower Germany, i. 407 ; ii. 1,13.
Howard, hon. Chas,, &c., i. 413
436.
Hollaiid.IIaph.i, 73.406; ii. 49,51,
SirKoh.. i. 397. Hon ,i
360.
Philemon, t. T.so, :4R, 406,
Howe. Jo6i.is, i, 186. 317; ii.
3]6.
Holland, Henry Rich,, i^l carl of.
Hy Mr ii, S6,S8.
Mr.
L 317.
ii. 1J7. Mrs„ii. 33.
Hollar, Wenceslans, L 301, 407.
Howel-Da, i, HI.
Holies, Den?.ill, i. 137.
llaweU. Jas.,i. MS, 34S; ii. 30
Holmby, Norlhls., i. iSR.
HowUnd, kdy, i. .303.
Holm-Lagy, Heref.,!. 37.
Uucknall, Notts., i. 383.
Index
355
Hnes, Rob., i. 15, a86y 287, 436;
ii. 188.
Hugo, magister, L 244.
Hull, Yorks., ii. 53.
Humble, Mr., ii. 41.
Hungary, ii. 347.
Hungerford, lady» i* 48.
Hunsdon, Rob. Carey, 6th baron,
ii. 332.
Hunt, Mr., L 71.
Hussey, Jas., i. 330, 393.
Hyde, pedigree of, i. 427 ; ii. 323.
Bp. Alex., i. 427; iL 287. Sir
Rob., i. 303, 427.
Hynd (Hyne, Hine), Rich., i. 154,
387; U. 294, 297.
Idney, Mr., i. 71.
Ilchester, Som., i. 417 ; ii. 308.
lies, Tho., ii. 303.
India, i. 71, 157 ; ii. 90, 200, 235.
Ingelbert, Mr., ii. 1 , 60.
Inglefield, lady, i. 284.
Innocent, John, ii. i.
Innocent X, pope, i. 225, 226.
Ipswich, Suff., ii. 308, 313.
Ireland, i. 41, 47, 59, 88, 11 6-1 21,
149, 198, 199, 217, 256, 368,433;
ii. 13, 91, 101-103. 133-135, 138,
141-149, 154, 180, 199, 333.
Irish language, ii. 268. Irish
nursing, i. 120. Irish stitch, i.
79-
Iron-acton, Glouc, ii. 172, 181.
Ironside, bp. Gilb., ii. 170.
Isaac, Rich., ii. 50. Mr., ii. 28.
Isaacson, Henry, ii. 2. Rich., ii. 2,
3, 4. Will, and Randall, ii. 3.
Isham, Sir Just, ii. 30. Mr., ii. 30.
Islip, Adam, i. 93.
luly, i. loi, 153, 347. 354, 399, 313,
408, 431 ; ii. 35, 73, 303, 375, 320.
A sphere of educational travel,
i- 39» 90> 94, ii3» "O, 154, 159,
388, 396, 300, 396, 397 ; iL 63, 64,
156, 340, 347. See tUso Rome.
Italian language, i. 113, 193, 354;
ii. 68, 133, 156.
Ives, SanL,i. 135.
Ivy church, Wilts., ii. 347.
Jackson, Mr., i. 346.
Jacobs, Henry, i. 348; ii. 324.
Jakeman, Dan., i. 289.
Jamaica, ii. 341.
James I, i. 8, 25, 30, 31, 56, 66, 70,
71, 82, 139, 146, 171, 178, 180, 185,
203, 334, 351-354, 366, 431 ; ii. 4,
JO, 13-15, 28, 41, 52, ^o, 186-188,
303, 331.
James II, i. 86; ii. 149, 338. See
York.
Jaquinto, . . . , ii. 4.
Jaspar, John, ii. 135.
Jeffreys, John, ii. 133.
Jenkins, David, i. 13 ; ii. 4-6. Sir
Leoline, i. 44 ; ii. 5-9.
Jermyn, Henry, baron, i. 189, 205.
Jersey, ii. 174, 187.
Jessamine, ii. 323.
Jessop, John, i. 202.
Jesuits, i. 94, 137, 331, 225, 229, 260,
367; ii- 34> 54, 79, 80, 140, 143,
i75» 189, 235, 261, 273.
Jewkcs C Jukes), Rowl., ii. 331, 335.
Johnes, Tho., ii. 31.
Johnson, Aubrey's spelling for Ben
Jonson. See Jonson, Ben.
Johnson, Geo., ii. 9. Rich., ii. 331,
323, 335, 359.
Jones, Henry, L 58. Inigo, i. 161,
319, 396; ii. 10,51. Tho., ii. 11,
88, 89. Tho., ii. 31. Tho., ii.
361. . . . , i. 331.
Jonson, Ben, i. 35, 68, 97, 128, 151,
179, 184, 305, 308, 314, 334, 338,
331, 333, 345, 319, 331, 333, 356,
3<55. 370, 40<^, 418; ii. 11-17, a8,
36. 49, 55, 100. 184, 193, 317, 330,
333, 336, 339, 346, 375, 330.
Joyner, Sir Andr., i, 61.
Jukes, see Jewkes.
Juxon, bp. WilL, ii. 387.
Katherine, consort of Chai. II, i. 350,
343; il 43, 313. 327.
Kaufman, Nich., ii. 58.
Kelly, £dw., i. 310.
Kem, Sam., ii. 369.
Kent (county), ii. 95.
Kent, Mi., ii. 88. Mr., ii. 260.
K ^ %
KeiH, (Hollanfl), carl of, i. 406.
Kent, (Grey), earl of—
— Henry, 8tt eatl. ii. aao, 334.
Elii. (Talbot), CO. of, i. I3S.
137. 138; u. a»o, jji,)J5.
Ktraey, Jobn, ii. i;.
Kettcll. Ralph, i. J7, 95, 173. 174;
ii. 17-17,119,161.
KguIcd, Lodolph vao, ii. 17.
Kidderminster, Wore, ii. 159.
Kildare, (Fili-geraldl, earl of, i. 1 iB.
Killlgiew, Tho.,i. 190.
KilnmnKui (Kilmington), Wills., ii.
S6, 161, 161, 168-170, a6o.
Kilmorc, eail of, ii. 143.
King, John, bp. of^London, i. 74.
Kingslon-OQ-Tlismis, Sorrey, i. 95,
'43;
r, 103.
Kinelon St. Mithflcl, Wills., i. 37, J4,
iF, 49, 5°. >ih Hi. 386. 388,
389 i ii. 183.
Kitson, Rich., ii. 17.
Knib, Mr., ii. 59.
Koight, John, i. 3B6. Rich., i. 310.
Mn., i. >o6.
KdoUcs, Sir Franc, ii. 151. Rich.,
Knowyll (E^st Knoyle), Wilts., 1.
403; ii. 311-313.
Knoji, Mr,, i!. 312.
Lacy, John, ii. la, 14, iS, loi, 104.
Laindon, Ksseit, ii. 113,124,117, ijc.
Lake, lady, ii. 183.
Lanibett, John, i. 11; iL 74,87, 151.
Lam ph ire, John, ii. 13 j.
I.ampluijb, bp. Tho., i. 101.
l.one,Edw., ii, 19,
I.antjhaine, Cjerard, i. 84.
Latham, Simon, ii. 317.
Lalimcr, (Nevill), Jjaren, i. .93.
Latimer, Kob , i. 3:, go, agij. 316-
33'. ,193-
Latin,!. 35, 36, iSi, 376, 301,319,
331. 3A 404. 417.
14Q, J
"971 .^'3- The meitium of Slate
cum-Epondence, i. 417; ii, 53, 6.s,
71. A fpokeu language, i, 113,
iiiJ; ii. 17, 1J3, 133, 194. Utm
ETainmars,Bretl's,l 113: Enismu^,
i, 149 ; Hirllib'B, i. 195 ; Lilly'a,
ii.119; Milton's, ii. 66; Ooghtred**,
ii. no; ToDg's, ii. 161, 163;
Woljey'a, ii. 309. Ijitin diction-
aries. Cooper's, i. 36, t»o, 183;
Goldman's, ii. 119; Milton's, ii.
66. 71.
Latrone, Meriton, i. 305.
Laad, Will., i. 104, 171, 174; ii. |g,
174, 110, aji, 380. SS3.
Laoderdale, John ^taiilBud, dtike of,
Laurel, ii. 313.
Laurence, Sir John, ii. 84. Philip,
i- 3Ji!, 36'- Will., ii. 197-
Lavington, Wilts, i. 196, 158.
Lawes, Henry, J. 351.
Lee. pedigree of, iL 31, 31.
Lee, Geo., ii. 131. Sir Henry (obiit
i6il),ii.3»-3J. SirHcniy('Whip
and away'), B. 30, jt, Sr Henry
(obiit 1631), ii. 30. 31, 19S, Sir
Heni; (obiit 1659), i. 196 ; it. 31,
31. Sbbl, i. iBi. Will., ii. 31.
Capt ,i. 409iii. .44.
Leech, Abs., i. gB. -Sit Kdv... L 43 ;
ii- 36-
I.Etke, Mr., i. 101.
I-eiceslcr, Kobcrt Dudley, earl of, i.
37. '1^.1. '.l6: ii-151-
I*icester, Robert Sydney, md earl uf,
ii. 175, jBo, 391,
Leijih-de-Ia-Mere, Wilts., i. 35, fo,
3"9-333-
I-ely. Sir Peter, i. 410.
Lenihali. Sir John, ii. 46, 84. 8?.
S7. Will., i. 149; ii. 78, 'io.
Leominster, Hcref-, ii. 150, 3j8.
L'tstranRc, Sir Hamond, i. ] 70.
H,.<g.,i. i;o, 193.
Levant, the. i. lo.S.
Leivis, David, i, ;S.
Le Wright, Mr., ii. 103.
Lhwyd, lidw,, i- u,
Lichfield, Staff., i- 375.
Index
357
Lichfield, £dw. Henry Lee, ist earl
of, ii. 30, 32.
Lidyate, see Lydiat.
Liege, i. 197, 227, 404; ii. 34, 4a,
336.
Lilly, Will, (grammar), ii. 119, 309.
Will, (astrologer), i. 33, 40, 18a,
318 ; ii. 33. Mr., i. 410.
Limerick, ii. 294.
Linden, Mrs., ii. 73.
Lingua franca, i. 113.
Linus, Franc, ii. 34.
Lisle, Rob. Sydney, vise., ii. 25a
Lismore, L 116, 120..
Lister, Mart., ii. 35. Sir Matt%, i.
312; ii. 35, 230.
Littlebury, Mr., i. 32, 45.
Littlecote, Wilts., ii. 159, 160.
Littleton, Sir Tho., i. i^, 196.
Llannelly, Breck., i. 59.
Llantony, Monm., i. 416.
Llantrithid, Glam., i. 39, 56, 315 ;
ii. 7, 8, 268.
Lloyd, David, i. 193, 307; ii. 113.
Evans, ii. 35. Humph., ii. 266.
Sir Marm., ii. 269. Meredith,, i.
66, 211, 212, 243, 295, 307 ; ii. 166,
201, 202, 266. Bp^WilL, ii. 257.
Lluelyn, Geo., and Mart., ii. 36.
Lock, Matt, ii. 254.
Lodwick, Franc, i« 166 ;. ii. 302.
Loggan, David, i. 93, 283, 338, 354 ;
ii. 145.
J^llards, i. 178.
London,/«7Xjf>/. — In the Lives Aubrey
cites by name about 140, streets
and quarters, over 50 churches, 20
' houses,' 20 inns or taverns, and
about 25 shop-signs.
Long, Barbara, i. 270. Dorothy,
ii. 36, 185, 186. Henry, i. 193-
195. Sir James, i. 43, 176, 270,
324» 388 ; ii. 36, 184. James, ii.
339* John, ii. 184. Sir Rob.,
i. 194; ii. 48. Sir Walt, i. 270,
312 ; iL 36, 181, 184, 192. . . .,
i. 194.
Long family, i. 316.
Longomoutanns, Christian Severin,
i- i54i37o; ii. 125, 130,
Lopez, Roger, i. 213.
Louis XIV, see France.
Lovelace, Franc, Rich., Will., ii. 37,
38.
Low Countries, the, Low Dutch, Low
Germany, set Holland.
Lowder, Anth., ii. 135.
Lowe, Sir Gabr., ii. 172. Tho., ii.
133.
Lower, Rich., ii. 166.
Lucar, Cyprian, ii. 38. Mark, ii.
41.
Lucas, Anth., i. 404.
Luce (Lucy), Jacob, i. 100, 102.
Lucy, bp. W'ill., i. 373. Lady, ii.
251.
Ludlow, Salop, i. 136^ 270; ii. 9,
206.
Lully, Raymond, i. 164, 166, 168, 211,
320.
Lundy island,.!. 131, 132.
Lushington, Tho., L 186-188.
Lydall, John, i. 43, 52 ; ii. ai, 27.
Rich., ii. 303.
Lydiat, Tho., i. 15.
Lyte, Deborah, i. 35, 49,50. £dm.,
i. 154. Henry, ii. 41.. Isaac,
i. 35, 36, 49. 5i» '33, 146, 252,
299; ii. 42, 179, 181, 308, 317.
Israel (a female Christian name),
i. 49» 51 ; »• 4^. Tho., i. 387;
ii. 41, 42.
Macclesfield, Chas. Gerard, ist earl
of, ii. 28.
Macock, John, ii. 74.
Madock, John, i. 60.
Mainwaring, bp. Rog., i. 334.
Malay, i. 121.
Malet, Mich., i. 75, 290; ii. 219.
Sir Tho., i. 354; ii. 182, 186, 219,
225.
Malmsbury, Wilts., i. 19, ao, 50,
3a3-329» 332, 342» 387-395 ; >• 37»
181.
Man, Isle of, i. 160 ; ii. 95.
Manchester, Henry Montagu, ist earl
of, i. 74.
Mandeville, Sir John, it 42.
Mangerton, Kerry, ii. 142.
p
Manners, . . . C^JOi "' 34-
MaiueU, Anlh., i, s6. Sir Fran.,
iL 7. Dr. Fran., ii. 8. Sir
Rob., ii, ao3 ii. 350.
Muiy, Sir. . . , ii. 3S.
Mapielott, John, i. 94.
M»rlow,Chr., ii. 13.
Maiiei, Tho., i. 13a, i£i, 139, aSo,
190; ii. 59' 75. '77. '95- 3'»-
Mnrlthain, Gervtue, i. jjj ii. 43.
John, L 311; ii. 43. Griffin, ji.
43- Col i. 155.
Marlborongh, Wlltl, ii. 1S6, 143.
Martbonmgh, William Ley. 4th carl
of, L 388.
ManicL, stt Mariet
Manhatl, Will., i. 339, 140, 195,
196; ii. 10, 43, J18.
Martio femilj, ii. 47, 48.
Manin CMartjm), Sit Henry, ii. 43,
44. Henry, i. 159, »o8 ; ii. 6,
43. 44-47. 15*. 157- John. ii.
176. Rich., i.418; li.47-ji.
Uaniii Hsrprelale, iL 48^
Marrell, Aadr., i. 91, 18B, 193; ii.
53. 5". 7a. 157, 304.
Mary Tudor, queen, i. )34, 156, 316 ;
Mary, qoccn of Scols, i. 56, 57, 65 ;
ii. 185, J 73.
Mai}', consort tifChas.I,j« Henrietta.
Masoo, Sir John,!. 53. Sir Kich.,
WassingEr, Phil, ii. 54.
MaKers, Tha, i. 309. Mr. .
Matthews, August!
CdI..
Mr.,
Matthews' pill, i. gi.
Maunsell, set Manse I.
Maurice, prince, i. 104.
May, Tho., i. J09 ; ii. 51;. 3G4.
Mayerac, Sir Theod,, i. 113; ii. 90.
Majnard, Sir John, i, 137, aoS, 306;
ii. 303.
Majne. Jasptr, i. 3S'. 3?°-
Maypole, ii. 66, 77, 336.
Maiaiin, cardinal, i. 181 ; ii. 87.
Meaolyt, Sit Tho., i. 71, 76.
Mecs, Nidi., i. 134.
MelanclHhon,Phil.,ii. 58.
Mellifont, Garret Moore,
317.
Menis. Sir John, i, 106 ; iL
=45-
Metcator, Dav., IL £9.
94,144: ii. 58. i«9. »*3-
Niik, i.
MeriCon Latrone, i. 305.
Merret, Chr., ii. 59.
Merry, Tho., ii. 59.
Met$enne, Marin, i. 154, 366, 397,
398 ; iL J93-
Mcrshe, John, ii. ill.
Merton abbey, Surrey, i. 97.
Meyrick, Sir WUL, iL 8.
Middlesex, iL 95.
Middlesex, Lionel Ciontieltt, earl o(|
L 96, 406; iL 49, 56. 57, aio.
Anne CBreltl, co. of, ii. 145.
Middlesex, Chni. Sackrille, earl of.
I
Middleloa
Sir
nugh.
i-»5R
6o.
Milbumc
Will
iL 78, 79-
Miles, M
= ',1-
Mr.,
294.
MillingW
Milton, John,
7, IT
, 290;
. 60-
7'. '5"-
Millon, Anne [sister of the poet), and
Anne tdaughler}, ii. 61. Chr.
(brother), iL 61,61,63. Deborah
Cdaughterl, ii. 61, 64, 68. EIiki-
belh MinshuU (wife),!!, 61, 65,66,
73, JohnC?) tgrandfaticr, ii.Ol.
61. John i.fatherj,iL 61,61,66,
67. John(Bon),ii.6i. Katherine
Woodcock [wife), ii. 65. Mary
Powell twife),ii. 61,64.65. Matj-
[daughter), iL 61, 68. Rich,
(nephew), iL 61. Sarah Biad-
shaw (.mother), ii.6i, 66. Thonia-
zine isiiter-in-law), ii. 61.
Miii3luUl,i.lii., 11.61,65.
Mi.iupesson, Sir Giles, ii. 310, 115,
Monk. (;eo„ i. 94, 191, 394; iL 10.
71-78, 87, 389, 31 1. Nich.. ii. 77.
Index
359
Monmouthshire, i. 51, 158, 574; ii.
sap-
Montagu, bp. Rich., ii. 220. Sir
VVill.,i. 1 58. Lady (Mary Aubrey),
i. 230, 300; it 152, 154. Mr.,
i. 32.
'Montelion,' ii. 152.
Montgomery castle, i. 307, 308, 313,
314-
Montgomery, Phil. Herbert, ist earl
of» >• i76» 320. Susan (Vere), co.
of, i. 320. Anne (Clifford), co. of,
i. 175.
Montjoy, Will. Blount, 4th, and Chas.,
5th, baron, i. 248.
Moore, Sir Garret, i. 21 7. Sir Jonas
(sen.), i. 124, 260, 332. 369, 394;
u. 69, 78-81, 108, 142, 314, 316.
Sir Jonas (jun.), ii. 80. See also
More.
Moorhampton, Heref., i. 419.
Moray, Sir Rob., i. 208, 285 ; ii. 81,
202, 269. Lady, ii. 244, 245.
Miss . . . , i. 152. See also Murray.
Morden, W., i. 103, 107. Mr., ii.
338.
Mordiford, Heref., ii. 328.
More, Alex., ii. 69, 70. Henry, i.
141, 142. Sir Tho., i. 69 ; it 82-
^hi ^9* '55* ^^*i ^^* ^4' Mrs.,
ii. 44, 382. See also Mooie.
Morehouse, Lane, I 20 ; ii. 86, 326.
Morgan, SirTho.,ii. 86-88. William,
i. 294 ; ii. 88. ... (of Oxford),
i. 54. Mr., L 136. Mr., ii. 95.
Mr., ii. 99, 102, 104.
Morian, John, ii. 1 30.
Morison, Sir Rich., i. 149.
Morley, bp. Geo., ii. T5, 16.
Morris, Mr., ii. 321.
Morton, card., ii. 85, 89.
Mouffet (Mnffet), Tho., i. 311 ; iL 89,
218.
Moxon, Mr., L 382.
Mulcaster, Rich., i. 29, 3r.
Mummy, i. 133.
Munday, Mr., ii. 90.
Murray, Rob., ii. 90, 263, 324. See
also Moray.
Mynne, Rich., i. 361.
Nalson, John, ii. 207.
Napier, John, of Merchiston, i. 135.
Dr. Rich., i. 32, 33, 224, 229, 241,
262; ii. 43, 91, 92,247. Sir Rich.,
ii. 92.
Naseby, Northts., ii. 280.
Nash, Mr., ii. 312.
Nayler, ? John, i. 174, 175.
Nay lour, Will., i. 156.
Nealand, Will., i. 91.
Neale, Sir Will , ii. 93. Will., Ii.
93.
Needier, Mr., ii. 196.
Neile, Sir Paul, i. 372; ii. 94, 254.
Rich., ii. 93, 94. Will., ii. 94.
Nevile, Eliz., i. 193. Henry, i. 109,
289-293 ; ii. .^o.
Newark-on-Trent, Notts., i. 156, 174.
Newbury, Berks., i. 152; ii. 365.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, ii. 328.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, WHUiam Caven-
dish, earl, marq., duke of, i. 153,
156, 206, 359. 366, 370, 386 ; ii. 13.
Marg. (Lucas), duchess of, i. 105.
Newcombe, Tho., i. 361.
Newmarket, Cambr., i. 138, 139.
Newmarsh, Sir Bern., i. 276.
Newport, . . . , ii. 69.
Newport, I. of W., L 287, 409.
Newton, Isaac, i. 15, 414, 415.
John, ii. 94.
Newton-tony, Wilts., i. 203.
Niceron, Jean-Fran9ois, i. 367.
Nicholas, Sir Edw., i. 151.
Nicholson, James, i. 97.
Nightingale, . . . , i. 24.
Nimeguen, ii. 8.
Norbome, Henry, i. 107.
Norden, John, ii. 94.
Norfolk, ii. 79.
Norfolk, Tho. Howard, ist earl of,
i. 408. See AmndeL
Norfolk, Henry Howard, 6th dnke
(obiit 1684), L 328; ii. 113, 335.
Norreys, lord, see Abingdon.
North, Sir Fran., ii. 96. Dudley,
3rd baron, ii. 95, 187. Rog*, ii.
95, 187, 188. ThoM iL 96.
Northampton, Will. Panr, ist earl of
i. 3i5» 3*7-
of, i.
Northnmplon, Henry Ho»
Northampton, tComplon), cail of-
— Will., latearl, ii jaS.
— Spencer, 2nd enrl, i. 188,
— James, 3rd carl, L 175.
IsabelU (SackviUe),
175-
Norlhumbetland, John Dudley, duke
Northnmberland, (Percy), earl of —
— Henry, 8lh carl, 1. 191,
CslherlDe [Nevile), co. of, i.
191.
— Heniy, 9I)] earl, i. 185, 187 ; U. 16,
188, 150, »9).
Peaelope {Sydney), eo. oi, ii.
— Algernon, loth earl, I. i\%\ ii.
aga.
— Joieclyne, lilh earl, ii. aSj.
Norton, Silas, ii. 136: Tho.. i. 147,
168- Capt U 135. ...,
Nonrich, i. 1S7, 18B, iia
Norwich, Geo. Goring, earl of, i. 118,
i.,:B. ,14.1,6.
food, Rich., I. 134; ii. ijfx, 315
ingham, Chat Howard, call of.
Ormoad, Jaa. Butler, duke o^ ii. I
Orrery, Roger Boyle, 1st earl o(, 1. 1
Orwinclc (i.e. Aldwinkle), Noilhlk,,^
.i. 3ro;ii.i74. 1*6.
■ 38, 39- S'. 3'9i ii-
Nor
Ni-illinghnin, UeneaBe h'inch, cail ol
ii_ 144,
Noy, ■Will., i. 139, =+4; ii. yS.
Nun*, Tho., ii. 157.
Oales, ? Titua, i. 367.
^tl''^yi John. i. 41 ; ii. iS, 99-105.
Oldcnburgh, Mr,, i, 363 ; ii, 313,
Opdam de Wassenaer,
Orange, prince ol —
— b'rederlcli Henry, i
■30, 131.
— Will. II, ii. 76.
— Will. HI, ii. 148.
OrlcfliK, duke of. ii. i
Osney abbey,
311.
Offiory, Tho. BuUer, earl of, U. 155.
Oughlrcd, Ben., ii. 106-113. Wilt.,
i.4>, TJ4. "7. JyS; "wft 'Oi-"*.
126, 136, aSo, iSi, 184.
Ontr»m,WiU,,ii, 114,363.
Overall, John, iLtit. Iij.
Ovcrbnty, Sir Gilej, ii. irg. Sir
Tho. (sen.),!. 96, 194; il. ti8, iSi,
195. Sir Tho. (Jan.), ii. 119, 193,
J2S.
Owen, John, epierammitist, L 191.
417, 418, 415; ii. 309. John,
divine, i. 83, Thanklnl, iL 195,
Oienbridge, Dr. Dan., John, Kalb.,
Mw. . . ,,ii. ijj, 153.
Oxford (Colleges)—
— St. Alhan Kail, L 107,
— All SonU, i, J4, 104, lofi, 336 ; ii,
3, 19,91, 198.
— Ifroadgales Hall, i. 111 ; ii. 50.
-ChrislChurdi, i, 85, 123.130,133,
1.15,148, iji, 177, 1S4, 185, IS8.
376, 386, 306, 343-34.^- 4'o,
89, 131, 214, 333,
426;
394.
— Si, Edmund Hall. ii. 5, 71, 94.
— Extter, i. 113, 130, Tjg, 330;
>5. 93, 12G, 334, 308.
~ Gloucester Hall, i, 36-28, 32;
ii. 37. 106, 296.
— Hart Hnll, iL 130, 231;.
— Jtsus College, i
7,8,1
- St, John's, i. 31, 304, 330; ii, J9S,
302-
— Lincoln, i. 195 J ii. =0, 113, 173,
Index
361
Oxford (Colleges)— r^if/f /rtiA/.
— Magdalen College, i. 183, 251 ; ii.
28, 36, 280, 308, 309. Magd.
Coll. School, i. 343.
— Magdalen Hall, i. 183, 268, 278,
287, 324* 328-330, 377. 391. 393,
427; ii. 18,32, 33, 258,300.
— St. Mary Hall, i. 122, 426.
— Merton, i. 33, 123, 150, 151, 268,
278, 279. 301 ; ii. 36, 160, 214,
216, 224,244.
— New College, i. 252, 253, 309, 416,
419, 424, 425; ii. 235. N«w
College School, i. 343.
— New Inn Hall, i. 364 : ii. 256.
— Oriel, i. 104, 203, 287 ; ii. 35, 36,
173, >79-
— Pembroke, i. 112, 188; ii. 235.
— Queen's, i. 282, 305.
— Trinity, L i, 26-29, 38, 43, 46, 51,
52, 106, 108, III, 143, 149, 151,
171-174, 186, 217, 255, 261, 275,
280, 288, 300, 377; ii. II, 12, 17-
27» 50» 89, 141, 156-158, 161-165,
169-173, 177, 216, 253, 265, 285,
296, 322.
— Univ., i. 244; ii. 7, 11, 44, 96.
— Wadham, i. 103, 107, 126, 174,
218, 266, 410; ii. 84, 92, 1.14, 141,
155» 285, 300, 302, 304.
Oxford (Biiildings)<
— Ashmolean, i. 21, (?) 106-; ii.
316.
— Friar Bacon's Study, L 184.
— Bodleian Library, i. 77, 125, 21 2^
225, 250; ii. 214, 216.
— Bodleian Picture Gallery, i. 249,
258, 368 Cthe archives'); ik 148,
235» 253.
— Botanic Garden, i. 194*
— Castle, i. 51.
— Crown Inn, i. 204.
— St. Ebbe's Church, ii. 323.
— St. Mary Virgin Church, ii. 19, 25.
— St. Mary Magd. Church, ii. 311.
— Osney abbey, ii. 360.
Oxford, (Vere), earl of —
— Edward, 17th earl, i. 192, 319, 322 ;
ii. 184, 192, 27a
— Aubrey, 20th earl, i. 277.
P— , E., ii. 273.
Packer, Philip, i. 98, (?) 296 (* Parker ') ;
ii. 71,322, 328.
Paget, Dr., ii. 72. Mr., ii. 60.
Pakeman, Dan., ii. 207.
Palatine of the Rhine, Palsgrave,
Frederick V, ii. 14.. Chas. Louis,
i. 101, 104; ii. 224, 225,. 300, 301.
Palmer,. Jas., ii. 157.
Pamphlin, Chas , ii. 119.
Parker, Geo., ii. 239* Sam., ii. 54.
Sir Phil., ii. 255. Mr. (? Packer),
i. 296.
Parr, Catherine, i. 193, 315. Sir
Tho., i. 315.
Parsons, Rob., i. 27^
Partridge, John, i. 283 ; ii. 119.
Pascall, Andr., i. 61,. 162-170, 247,
248, 256 ; ii. 302.
Passaeus, Simon, ii. 49.
Paulet, Amyas, ii. 308 ; Rich., ii. 326.
Paynter, Jonathan, L no.
Pearson, bp. John, i. 203, 353; ii.
212.
Peele, James, ii. 120.
Pell, Dr. John, i. 16, 86, 121, 124,
^54, 181, 234, 247-249, 284, 285,
293» 37o» 394, 4^8 ; ii. 27, 54, 90,
121-131, 184, 197, 249, 257, 272,
291-293, 309,. 310, 319. Mr.
John, ii. 127, 128.
Pemble, Will., ii. 258.
Pembridge castle, Heref., i. 59, 204.
Pembroke, (Herbert), earl of —
— Will., 1st earl, i. 54, 60, 61, 310,
314-3 J 7-
Anne (Parr), co. of, i. 3 1 5, 3 1 7.
— Henry, 2nd earl, i. 310, 312, 315;
ii. 90, 104.
Mary (Sydney), co. of, i. 243,
262, 310-313; ii. 35, 230, 247,
250.
— Will, 3rd earl, i. 312, 313, 317,
418.
— Phil., 4th earl, i. 105, 175, 177,
218,309, 312; ii. 55, 104.
■ Anne (Clififord), co. of, i. 175,
J 77.
— Phil., 5th earl, i. 216, 325 ; ii. 160.
— Will, 6th earl,i. 48,49, 225 ; ii. 353.
. '33> 135'
— 'nio..BtiiMti, 1.45,
Penkelly, Breckn., i. Jl
Penn, Sir Will., U-iji,
Will., i .3, 45. S3
Pedigree, ii. 135.
Pennj post, ii. 91, 314.
Pcnniddock, Geo., ii. ifio, a6i. Sir
John, i. iga, 406. SirTbo., ii. 13S.
Penry, John, ii. 48.
Pctry,J<«n.ii.ai8.
Peteia, capt., L iy6.
Petrarca, Fiancesco, i. 431.
Peily, Elii., lady.L 116; ii. 139, 14a.
Geo., tL iS. Max., i. 290. Sir
Will., i. 9, 4,1, 50, 53, syi, 174,
33fi, 349. 365, 367. 368: iL 139-
M9. '73-
Peyton, Re». . . . , i. 180; ii, 307.
Phftlc. f« Fale.
Philips, Andiew, U. 150. Anne, ii.
61. 64. Edw. (fetlicr), iL 61.
Edw. Cson).ii,6i,63-7i. Fiblan,
i. 3;o; ii. I, 60, 98, 150, 160, J03,
'ij. 3".33"
H. 164. Ji"
ii. 64, ,S2.
i. 153. John,
Katb,, j. 116; ii.
i-96:
155.
Piso, i. »47.
Pilther, Mr,, i,
Pitiscufl, ISarth,,
Pitlis,
Pitla. Moses, ii, sB,fi6,
Plflicrs, Sir Will'., ii,ii6,
PlilUes, Howl,, ii. 145,
PUytr, Mr., ii. 17a.
Plajfotd, J,, ii. 6a.
ricyiieU, Jq5., i. 167,
Plot, Roij., i. 33, 134,404.
Poland, i. 150, 113, 1I4) ii.
Wait., Ii. 300.
Popham family, ii. I Go,
Popbmn, Sir Fnu., ii. 159.
John, ii. 158-160. Mr. John, iL
1J9, iGo. Admiial . , ., i. ,
Col..
i, 316.
Pordige, Dr. John, i
iGo.
Sam..
Potter, Endymion, i. 105,
Portland, Don., i, 161, 119.
PoctscB Castle, Honti., L 191.
Portsmouth, Hants,, i. S5, 194;
So.
Portugal, i. 58.
Post and pair, i. 339.
Politick I 3*7,388.
Pott, Geo., i, 39S-
Poiter, Franc-, 1. 43, 108, 143, 1
ai4, 3S1, 304; iL 19, B6, i6i~i
360, 199, 318, 3*9.
L iii,rrj.l74, »Si; Ii
171. jSj. Rich., iL i
Pollerne, Wilts., i. lai.
Pnulterey, John, ii, 163.
Ponilney ^Puitencj), Sir Will., i.
l'o«ell, Dav., i. 51. Mary, ii
64, 63. Erasmus, Rich., Vav:
, ^\ill. Herbert,
Puwocy, Mr^., i. a)
royntcr, Tho., i.
Sir Rob,, ii.
. . , L 45, 53.
PjiJf:iui,John,i.343;iLa34.
mljng, 11. 311, 3M
Index
363
Prynne, Will., i. 261 ; il 173-175.
Pufendorf, Sam., i. 376.
Pugh, Rob., i. 60; ii. 34, 42, 175.
Pullen, Josias, i. 183, 377.
Pulteney, see Ponltney.
Purbeck (Villiers), visconnt —
— John, 1st vise., i. 196, 197.
Frances (Coke), viscotintcss,
i. 197, 406.
— Robert •, 2nd (self-styled) vise., i.
196, 197.
— — ^— Eliz. (Danveis), viscountess,
i. 179, 192, 193, 194 (Eliz. Villiers),
196, 197, 222, 357; ii. 32, 84,
H7.
— Rob., 3rd (self-styled) vise., L 197.
Marg. (Burke), viscountess, i.
197.
Purchas, Sam., i. 175, 285.
Purfoote, Tho., iL 1 20.
Pye, Sir Rob., i. 422.
Quakers, i. 84, 133, 134, 209; ii. 132,
133, 136, 137-
Quarles, Fran., i. 240; ii. 153, 176.
Queen Mottier, see Henrietta.
Quintin, riding at the, ii. 330.
Radford, Will., i. 280; ii, ai, 177,
265.
Radnor, John Robartes, earl of, ii.
203.
Raglan, Monm., ii 328.
Rainsford, Sir Henry, i. 151.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, i. 69, 115, 116,
176, 179, 187, 192, 262, 285, 287,
294» 3"» 354» 418; "• *5» 95» 9^,
177-195. 233, 239, 323.
Raleigh, Carew (brother of Sir Walter),
ii. 178, 179, 184. Carew (son), ii.
178, 189, 195, 195. Geo. and Gilb.
(nephews), ii. 178. Tho. (grand-
nephew), ii. 178, 179, 182, 191.
Dr. Walt., ii. 178. Walt, (son),
ii. 1 78, 194. Walt (grandson), ii.
195. Walt, (grandnephew), ii.
178, 179, 182, 191.
Ralphson, Mr., ii. 195.
Ramsbury Abbey, Wilts., i. 315.
Ramus, Peter, i. 8, 100, 224.
Randolph, John, ii. 195, 196. Tho.,
i. 76; ii. 195-198. Will.,ii. 196.
Ranelagh, (Jones), viscount —
— Arthur, 2nd vise, i. 118.
Kath. (Boyle), viscountess, i.
118, 121 ; ii. 278.
— Rich., 3rd vise., 1st earl, i. 118.
Ranew, Nath., i. 116.
Ratcliffe, Sir £dw., ii. 51. Sir Geo.,
iu 102.
Raven, capt., ii. 127, 128.
Rawley, Will., i. 67, 74, 394.
Ray, John, ii. 302.
Reade, Alex., i. 286.
Reading, Berks., i. 61, 107 ; ii. 141.
Record, Rob., ii. 198-aoi.
Redi, . . . , ii. 319.
Reding, Sir R., ii. 262.
Reynolds, £dm., i. 26, 27, 28. John
(C. C. C), i. 26. John (New
Coll.), ii. 53. Rowl., ii. 228.
Rhees, John David, i. 57, 214; ii.
201.
Rhonius, . . ., ii. 125.
Rich, Robert, 3rd baron, and Penelope
(Sydney), baroness, ii. 250, 251.
Richardson, Sir Tho., i. 170.
Richelieu, card., 1. 66, 77.
Richmond, Surrey, ii. 16(5, 177, 265.
Richmond, (Stuart), duke of —
— James, i st duke, and Mary (Villiers) ,
duchess, L 205.
— Charles, 3rd duke, and Frances
(Stuart), duchess, ii. 239.
Riekmansworth, Herts, i. 255.
Rider, Cardanus, ii. 181. John, ii.
201. . . ., ii. 323.
Ridgely, see Rugeley.
Rigby, Rev. . . . , ii. 155.
Riolani, Jean, i. 301, 304.
Ripley, Geo., i. 163, 168 ; ii. 201.
Rivenhall, Essex, ii. 265.
Robartes of Truro, John, baron, ii.
203.
• Called, at several times, Robert Wright, Robert Danvers (taking his
wife's name), Robert Villiers (by usurpation).
KoboiU, Geo. (D.D., TtId. Coll.,Oxf.,
1640,1.173.
Robimon, John, iL 75, 19S.
RobEoo, Mr., ii. 103.
Rochester, (WLlmot), eirl of—
— Henrj, isl eart, ii. 33.
Anne (SL John), co. of, ii.
31. 3J.
— John, 3Dd eirl, i. 134, 311, 119;
ii- 30. 31. 34. S4. 304-
Elii, (MiletJ, CO of, i. 319;
ii. 304.
Roclclingtcn, Sir John, ii. io3\
Kogen funilj, 1.389. Mr., ii. 101.
Rolle, Hfnry, ii. 303.
Rollington (Rowlington; park, Wilis,,
i. 3fi.,3M.
Roll Wright, OiOD., ii. 330.
Rome, i. 39, jj, lao, aifi, S47, 149;
ii. 79. '69.
Romie}', Hants., iL 139, 144, 148.
Rooke, LaDT., i. 366 ; ii. 104, 1S4,
188,314.
Roper, Chr,, John, Sii Will., ii. 83.
S<», Robert de, ii. IJ.
Ros. John Manners (aftemrards 10th
ettrlofKiitland', lord,i,i38.
Rose, Mr., i. 330.
RoS9, John Lesley, bp. of, i. 58.
Kotterdnm, i. 14^, 24S ;. ii, 135.
Rnandwnj' Dovrn, Wilts., i. 151.
Royal Society of London, i. 40, 115,
iig, aor, 12S, 168, 369, »85, 336,
354. i^'. 37". it'. 409-4'S : 'i- (io.
80, gj,97, 134, 143,144,147,149,
i6j, ]6G, 169. 178, 305, 381., jf'S.
30't 3'3i 3J4. 3"-
Roydon, Mr.,i.iS+,
RovEton, Mr., i. 417^
Rnddycr, Ben., i. S, 318, 418; ii.
18s.
Rngeley (Ridficly), Luke, i. 143, 195.
Tho.,i. 143.
Rugglc, Geo., i, 180.
Kamsey, WalL, ii. ao6.
Runnymend, Surrey, L 330.
Rupert, prince, i. 104, J56; ii, J37.
Kuihworth,John,L 107; ii J07.
Rnsicll, Mr., ii. 64, 65.
Rnlliind, (Manncnl, eul of—
— Roger, 5lh earl, ii. 150.
Elii. (Sydney), 00. of, i. 96 1I
— John, loth cart, . 130; ii. 364.
Rnlt, Mr., ii. 179.
Rntler, Jd3., ii. 310.
Rymer, Tho., i. 364.
Ryres, Kalh., i. 39, 47.
Sacrobosco, Joannes de, i. 408.
St. Albans, Herts, i. 66, 71, 78, 108,
St. Albans, FraaciE Bacon, vise., i. 67,
69, 76.
St. Albans, Henry Jermyn, earl of, i.
1S9, 190, 305,
St. Amatit, . . , , ii. 154.
Si. George, Sir Henry, i. 53, 65, 14^
St. Helena, i. »83.
Sl John, Anne, Sir John, ti. 31.
Saintlove, John, i 31. lj[Dr.,iL 19,
Salisbury (New Sarum;., Wilts., i. 4S.
yj, 105, 169, Hi, 344. 30J. 311,
3i6i ii. 38, 39, 76, 104,318, 348,
J53, »6o, 38S.
Salisbury cathedral, i. 173, 198, igy,
aoo, ao3. 309, 313; ii. ^^8, 31J,
313'
Salifibury, see of, ii. 183, 10:, m,
289.
Salisbury, (Cecil), earl of-
— Kob., 1st earl, i. 93, 17.^-' 77. 3'!;
ii. Sl, 95, 18G.
— Will., 3nd enrl, i. igi.
SaUceld, Will, i. 48.
Salmasius, Claude, ii, 66, 71.
Salmon, Dr., L 31. Mrs., ii. 153.
Salter, lady, i. 379, iSi.
Samliroke, Fran,, i. 309. - - - , i.
30J, 303-
Samwell (San
Sandwich, Kenl,
), Will.,
Index
365
Sandys, Sir Edwin, i. 69. Geo., i.
36, 151 ; ii. 21 a.
Sanford, Henry, i. 311.
Sarney, . . . , i. 41.
Saul, Mr., ii. 273.
Saunders, Mr., i. 137.
Saundcffon, Will., ii. 213.
Savile, Sir Henry, i. 69, 118, 123, 212,
222, 279; ii. 214, 281.
Saxe-Weimar, ii. 87.
Saxton, Mr., ii. 95.
Saye and Sele, (Fiennes) , lord —
— £dw., 5th baron, i. 235.
— Will., 1st vise., i. 88, 89; ii. 23,
300.
Scaliger, Jos. Justus, i. 333; ii. 214,
215. Jul. Caes., i. 106. 249.
Scanderoon, i.e. Alexandria, i. 224,
227.
Scarborough, Sir Chas., i. 94, 299,
303* .^55» 361, 3^59; ii- io7» 108,
112-114, 126, 284, 285,313.
Scargill, Dan., i. 360, 362.
Scory, John, Sylvan us, ii. 216.
Scotland and Scots, i. 31, 58, 65, 66,
7o» 73> 75» 86, 94, 123, 180, 192,
268, 365, 397, 421 ; ii. 4,46, 74, 81,
82,90, 186, 187, 241, 245, 253, 269.
Scotus, Joannes, i. 391.
Scropc, Sir Adrian, i. 297. Sir Carr,
ii. 279. John, ii. 196.
Scudamore, John, ist vise., i. 28 ; ii.
188, 259. John, 2nd vise, i. 28.
Securis, John, ii. 218.
Sedley, Sir Chas., ii. 215.
Seend, Wilts., i. 40.
Scile, H., i. 275.
Selby, Dorothy, ii. 218. Sir John,
ii. 115.
Selden, John, i. 16, 84, 137, 138, 180,
339. Hh 337i 365* 369; ii. 219-
^H* a55» 311.
Seymour, Sir £dw., ii. 286.
Seymour of Trowbridge, Chas., 2nd
baron, i. 43.
Shadwell, Tho., i. 52, 136; ii. 226.
Shaftesbury, Dors., ii. 76, 163.
Shaftesbury, Anth. A. Cooper, 1st
earl, i. 182, 303, 305.
Shakespear, Will., i. 97, 204; ii. 225.
Shannon, Fran. Boyle, ist vise., i. 1 18.
Sharp, John, ii. 127.
Shelbume, Eliz. Petty, viscountess, ii.
148, 149.
Shelbume, Chas. Petty, baron, ii. 149.
Sheldon, Frances, ii. 227. Gilb., ii.
8, 123, 124, 127, 131. Ralph, i.
42 ; ii. 4» 73» 79» 81, "5, I73, i75.
227, 245.
Shepherd, Fleetwood, i. 21 ; ii. 34.
Sherborne, Dors., i. 188, 227 ; ii. 183,
192, 193.
Sherburne, Edw., i. 8, 16, 103, 306 ;
ii. 13, 79. >78, 305, 227, 228, 230.
J6hn,'ii. 227. Will., i. 204.
Sherston, Mr., ii. 173.
Shervill, Mr., i. 244.
Shipey, Mr., i. 97.
Shippon, L., i. 193.
Shirbume, see Sherborne.
Shirley, Jas., ii. 228. Thos., ii. 228.
Shirman, Mr., i. 274, 275.
Shore, Jane, ii. 244.
Short-hand, i. 272, 273; ii. 197, 302.
Shrewsbury, i. 145; ii. 256.
Shrewsbury, Gilb. Talbot, 7th earl,
i. 245 ; ii. 224, 225, 323.
Shrivenham, Berks., ii. 47.
Shropshire, ii. 329.
Shuter, Mr., i. 57, 58.
Sibthorpe, Rob., i. 334.
Singleton, Mr., ii. 249.
*Sir,* a clergyman's title, i. 97, 168,
323,391.422; ii. 317-
Sitsilt family, i. 158.
Skidmore of Kenchurch, i. 267.
Skinner, Cyriac, i. 290 ; ii. 7 2. Matt.,
i. 86. Bp. Rob., ii. 12, 25, 214.
Sir Tho., i. 102. . . ., ii. 7I1 72.
Sloper, John, i. 28, 278, 279; ii.
105, 113, 228.
Slusius, Ren. Fran., ii. 58.
Slymaker, Henry, ii. 25, 27.
Smethwick, Mr., ii. 108.
Smyth, Cicely, ii. 173. Edm., i.
297. Fran., ii. 172, 195. Henry
(I550-(')I5V3), i. 308. J*ne» i.
191; ii. 229. Sir Tho., i. 69;
ii.326. (?) Tho., u. a8. Sir Walt.,
ii- 302, 303-
I
Snell, Sir Cbm., i. iji; ii. 1S3.
Chas., i. 34. 50. "7"; ''■ '39i *30.
Snow, Fran., ii. 160.
Snowdon, Wales, i. 134.
Snowdoa. Mr., ii. 144, 345.
Soap-making, i. llS ; ii. 331.
Socinianian, i. 150, 373,179; ii, 13G,
'43, 344-
Somcrfoid, Wilts., i. 195.
SomeiKt, Rob. Carr, earl of, iL 183.
Somenet, (Scymoar), duke of.
— Will., islduke.iujoi.
— Chas., fithdoke. i. 43.
Somereelsliire, i. 161; ii. 51.
Sorbier. Sam., i. 367.
SouDd, Mr., i. 965.
Soalhampton, Thiu. WriolhMle;, 4th
earlof, ii. 1B7.
Southcott, lad;, ii. 144.
Soothwell, Sir Rob., ii, 1 49,
Spain, i. 101. 113. >37. 17s. '76. »>:.
"75. 3=7. 39°! ii-9fi.'»». MS. '83.
189, 340, 397, 331. Phil. lU, L
gg. Phil. IV, iL 76. Spanteb
coin, i. 131.
Sparrow, hp. Anth., ii. I15.
Speclttcles, ii. 319.
Spceii, John, i. 147, 336, 393 ; ii, 6j,
J,lo, 131-
SpeidcU, John, ii. 131.
Spclman, Sir Henrj', ii 131, 1.17.
Henry, ii. J31, 33a. Sir John,
Spclsbuiy, Oxon., iL 304.
SpcnEcr, Kdm,, i, 140; ii. 191, 233,
Spenstr of W'ormleighl on, Henry, 3rd
b.iron, ii. 375. 3S0.
Spinoia, Benedittns, i. 357.
Spratt, Thos., i. 190: ii. 3)1.
SpringElt. Sir Will,, ii. 134,
Stadiui "
Stafford, Dorothy, ii, 334, Rob., ii.
333. Sir Will., ii. S3. Will.,
ii. 197. Will., ii. 333. Capt.
. . . , il, 196, Mr,, i. sgo.
Stafford, (Stafford), baron, ii. 247.
Stalhridge, Dors., i, lal ; ii, 17.
Standiih, Henry, i. 349.
Stanhope of Hatiington, John,
baron, i. 30S.
Stanley, Sir Edw,, i. 339, J33. Sir
Tho., i. 33,1. Tho. (father),
u8, 334- Tho. (>on), ii. 134-
Stanmore, Midd., iL 383,
Stansbj, maj,, iL 187.
Stapcr, Rich., ii. 334.
Stapleton, Tho,, iL 135.
Stawcll , Sir John, L 44.
Stedman, Fran., ii. 306.
Stephanot, . . ., L 379.
Stephens (SleTeni), Eitw., i. »JS.
Rich., i. 1B3. Rob., L 37J.
Tho., i. 36, III; iL 135, 311.
. . .,L6i.
Sterling, Sam., ti. 136.
Steyning, Siusei, iL I3i.
StilUngllcet, Edw., i. 437.
Stokes, John, i. 11)3, 3S6. Rich., li.
loS, 936.
Stonehonse, Sir Geo., ii. 46.
Slonrton, Chas., 7th baron, i. 316.
317-
Stow, Jolm, L loi, ig* ; u. 1S9, 331,
Stubbes, Henry, i. 366, 371 ; ii. 340,
3S1.
StBlibinc, John, L 1S6, 188.
Slukely, Lewis, ii. 190.
Stnmpe, Tho,, i, B, Rev. . . , ,
L 387.
Suckling, Sir John, i. 304. 305, 179;
ii. 56, 333, 340.
Suffolk, Heury Grey, isl duke of. i. 66.
Suffolk, Tho. Howard, earl of, ii. 51,
I
Sumner, Joan, i. 39, 40, 47. John,
ii, 40.
Sunderland, Henry Speiiier, earl of,
Surff, cavaliero, ii. 193.
Index
367
Surrey, i. 218, 220, 250; it 95, iii,
236.
Surrey, Tho. Holland, duke of, i. 406.
Surrey, (Howard), earl of —
— Henry (the poet), i. 69.
— Tho., 4th earl, i. 407, 408 ; ii,
no, 112.
Sussex, Edw. Ratc1ifre,earl of, Eleanor
(Lee), CO. of, ii. 198.
Sutton, Tho., ii. 246. Will., i. 29,
36; ii. 246.
Sweden, i. 222, 376; ii. 81, 257, 324.
Switzerland, i. 112; ii. 123, 131.
Sydenham, John, i. 132-134. Sir
Ralph, ii. 74.
Sydney, Sir Henry, ii. 247, 250.
Sir Philip, i. 67, 69, 177, 194, 243,
375» 310-313; "• 233, 247-252,
267. Tho., ii. 250.
Sylvester, Edw., i. 204; ii. 300, 303.
Symonds, . . . (S.J.), i. 183 ; ii. 189.
Tabor and pipe, ii. 319.
Talbot, Sharington, i. 245. Sir Rob.,
ii. 252.
Tandy, Tho., i. 374.
TanBeld, Laur., i. 149.
Tanner, Tho., i. 21, 106. Will.,
ii- 330-
Tap, John, ii. 252.
Tavemer, Rev. . . . , i. 51,
Taylor,John,ii. 252-254. Jo<sia8>,
i. 387 ; ii. 181. Silas, ii. 254-256.
Temple, Sir Rich., Sir Tho., ii. 211.
Tew, G reat, Oxon. , i. 1 3 1 , 1 49- 152.
Tewkesbury, Glouc, i. 315.
Teynham, John Roper, baron, ii 83.
Thames river, i. 123.
Thanet, (Tufton), carl of—
— John, 2nd earl, i. 175 ; ii. 209.
— Marg. (Sackville\ co. of, i.
104, 175; ii. 209.
— - Nich., 3rd earl, i. 41, 52, 175, 177 ;
ii. 8, 97.
Eliz. (Boyle), co. of, i. 116,
120, I75-I77» 191.226; ii. 154.
— John, 4th earl, and Rich., 5th earl,
>• 175.
Thomas, Edm., ii. 7. Sir Rob., i.
136; ii. 5.
Thomson, Sam., i. 412.
Thome, Rich., i. 337.
Thomdyke, Herb., i. 146 ; ii. 257,
292, 293.
Throckmorton, Eliz., ii. 178.
Thuanus (de Thou), Jacques Auguste,
i- 57» 65, 145, 270.
Thurloe, John, ii. 130.
Thurlow, Suffolk, i. 103.
Thynne family, i. 279.
Thynne, Egremund, i. 424. Fran.,
i. 74. Isabella, ii. 24, 25. John,
i. 219. Sir John, ii. 178, 179,
184.
Tillotson, John, i. 87, 93.
Tirell, Mary, i. 322, 384, 385, 388.
Tittinghanger, Herts., i. 108.
Tobacco, i. 198, 351, 422; ii. 181,
i89» 323.
Toman, Mrs , L 197.
Tombes, John, ii. 258-261, 300.
Tomkins, Nath., ii. 275.
Tong, Ezerel, i. 94; ii. 261. Capt.
. . ., ii. 261, 262.
Tonquin, ii. 322.
Torporley, Nath., i. 287 ; ii. 263.
Tottenham, Midd., i. 96 ; ii. 323.
Tounson, Rob., i. 202, 203.
TovcU, Mr., ii. 64.
Tovy, Mr., ii. 293.
Townley, Rich., i. a6i. Mr., i.
285.
Trapps, lady, i 102.
Trenshard, Sir Tho., ii. 297.
Triplett, John, i. 151. Tho., i. 263 ;
ii. 56, 57» 263.
Troutbeck, Dr., i. 211, 295.
Tunbridge, Kent, ii. 303.
Turenne, Henri de, ii. 87.
Turkey, i. 41, 64, 90, 91, lio, 154,
172, I93» 299; ii. i6o.
Turner, Mr., ii. 126.
Tuscany, i. 212; ii. no, 270, 31a
Tusscll, John, i. 178.
Tusser, Tha, ii. 265.
Twisse, Will., i. 343; ii. 225, 265.
Dr. . . . , ii. 265,
Twyne, John, Tho., ii. «66.
Tyndale, D., ii. 251, 252. Stafford,
ii. 32. Tho., i. 312 ; ii. 190, an,
Index
146,166. Mre.,ii.83. us- Mr
i. 53-
Tyrconpcl, Rich. Tolbot, enrl of,
Unrfethill, Sir Tho., i. ji,
Uniadts, Mr., ii. tc6.
Usher, James,!. 307; ii. )l
Valke, Jacob dp, i. 15
Vandyk-e, Anlbony, i,
131;
Vane, Sii Fmn., ii. io^. Sir Henry,
ii. 45. 47-
Vanore, Sir Ptter, i. lu.
Vaoghftn, Henry, ii. loi, 168. Sir
John, i. 337, 339, 3^1, 369, 38a,
394; i'-iS' "»'< '»S- I^rdjcihn,
i. 50, j8i; ii. 95. '34. '^r. '9^-
Tho., ii. 368. Mi..ii. 193. ...,
ii- 30-
Vkoghaa of Hergesl, i. 167,
L VaTUour, Anne, ii. 31.
' Vawr, Mr., ii. 397.
Venice, i. 90. loS ; ii, 51. 63, J03.
VerdnsiDS.,.'.,i.367,
Vcre family, i. 118. Sir Fran, nnd
SirUoiace, i. igj ; ii. 19).
Vernon, Mr., ii. 144. 149.
Vcrstcgan, Rich., i. 158, 1S3,
Vcrulam, Herts., i. Jj,6f., 76-7S, 81,
Vcnilani, Frnncis
76.
Ve5a1in<>. Andr., i. 304, 33G, 36S;
140.
Veslingius, Joannes, ii. 148.
Vicars, J olin, ii. 174.
Vienna, i.3Qi,. 107.
Vis!cli«. Will. He, i.
VossinsGerJ„..ii.i
Wainfleel, bp. Will., ii. 309.
Wake, Sit Itaac, ii. 15, 17a.
Wales, i. 51,55. 5<i. 59- 60. '58, an.
307. 3'5; i'.J. "8. '47. 3'9.3J9-
Welsh longnage, i. 57, 61, 145, 314,
314; iLS7,3oi,a66,aGS,3ai,3a8,
319-
Wfllker, Anth.,
Clem., ii
75-
Waller, Edra., i. 136, 13B, 139, 1
"7. 357- 358. 3«, 3*7. 369. l\
ii. 14, 70, 133. '73-'5o.
Waller, ElU.. ii- :39, 141.
Hasdras, ii. 141. Rob., ii. l
aSo. Woltec, i. 51; ii. 86, »
Sir Will., i. 337, 391
Mr., ii. 144-
WalliBgford, Berks., ii. 56.
Wallis, Comeliui, i. 364. John, i.
"9. 35». 360, l^>, 37'-373. 377.
378,404,405,4[5; iL 94, 108. 1 . 1-
114, ai4, ais, aSo, aB6,
Walpole, Mr,, i, 89.
Walsiajrham, Sir Fnu)., i. 61 j ii. 349-
Walters, Lacy, ii. 383.
Wahon, iTsak, ii. 14, 16, 17,
Wansdyke, Wilts., i. 351.
Ward, Sara., ii. 783. 384, aSj. Ep.
Selh, i. 44, ;o. 344, 186, 339, 351,.
373. 405; ii- 77. 8;, Sfi, 107-109,
in, 114, 141, 1S3, 193. 304-106,
aSi, aSj-ago, 293, 396, 301, 311-
314, 3l5. Selh, B.D., ii. 2S9,
Varwick, IRich), earl of—
- Rob., 3td earl, ii. 97.
,1) A.no tC..mdi.l
Index
369
Warwick, Mary (Boyle), co. of, i. 1 15-
119.
Wase, Chr., i. 109, 218, 311, 312 ; ii.
279.
Watkins, Rob., ii. 153.
Watfon, Will., ii. 293.
Watts, Will., i. 187. Mr., i. 133.
Wayte, Mr., i. 329.
Wcbbe, bp. Geo., ii. 293. J., i. 158.
Dr., ii. 294.
Weekes, Mich., i. 268; ii. 181, 236,
294.
Weldon, Sir Anth., i. 66, 67, 202.
Welles, John, vise., ii. 295.
Wellington, Som., iL 160.
Wells, Cath., ii. 295. John, ii. 294.
Mr.,i. 107, 162, 163.
Wells, Som., ii. 88, i;o. Wells
cathedral, i. 229; ii. 319.
Welsh, see Wales.
Welsted, Rob., i. 53.
Wenman, Sir Fran., i. 151. Tho.,
2nd vise., ii. 285. Mr., ii. 223.
West, John, ii. 51.
Westbury, Som., i. 147.
Weston, Warw., i. 42 : ii. 227.
Westphaling, bp. Herb., ii. 216.
Westport, Wilts., i. 50,322-328, 387-
393.
Wgan, Mr., i. 313 ; ii. 153, 155.
Wharton, Geo, i. 126, 213; ii. 295.
Tho., i. 210.
Wharton, Phil., 4th baron, ii. 31.
Tho., 5th baron, ii. 31, and Anne
(Lee), baroness, ii. 30-32.
Wheare, Chas., i. 204. Degory, i.
194, 204; ii. 191, 296.
Wheeler, Rich., ii. 298.
Wheldon, Jas., i. 349, 351, 355, 358,
378-386, 395.
Wheloc, Abi., ii. 296.
Whipping undergraduates, ii. 65, 171.
Whistler, Dan., ii. 17, 127, 128, 187,
296. John, ii. 18.
Whitby, Oliver, i. 172, 174.
Whitchcot, Dr., i. 1 24.
White, Rich., i. 8, 369 ; ii. 299. Sir
Sampson, ii. 7. Tho. (*de Albiis *),
i. 227,369; ii. 299.
Whitefoot, Rev, . . . , i. 210.
II. B
Whitehead, friar, i. 203. Geo., ii.
131-
Whitelock, Bulstrode, ii. 33, 220.
Whitford, David, ii. 102.
Whitgift, John, i. 56.
Whitney, James, i. 122, 184, 225, 314,
426; ii.30, 188, 194,297.
Whitson, John, i. 51, 299, 315 ; ii.
297.
Widdrington, Ralph, i. 90.
Wight, Isle of, ii. 95, 144.
Wilby, . . . , ii. 62.
Wild, see Wylde.
Wildman, John, i. 290.
Wilkins, John, i. 218, 410 ; ii. 46, 141,
258, 285, 288, 299, 30a, 328.
Tim., ii. 300.
Wilkinson, John, i. 330, 393.
Williams, bp. John, ii. 129.
Williamson, Sir Jos., i. 58, aoi ; ii. 8.
Mrs., ii. 220.
Willis, John, ii. 302. Tho., i. 39,
410; ii. 141, 302-304.
Willoughby of Parham, Fran., baron,
i. 156.
Wilmot, Henry, baron, and Anne (St.
John), baroness, ii. 32.
Wilton, Wilts., i. 105; ii. 54, 90.
Wilton abbey, i. 315, 316. Wilton
house, i. 60, 218, 247, 311, 312,
3171320.
Wiltshire, i. 52, 332; ii. 181, 317,
324, 334. Pronunciation, i. 324,
354. Drunkenness, i. 325 ; ii, 339.
Aubrey's Wilt«ihire collections, i.
Winchester ^^Winton), i. 221 ; ii. 309.
Winchester College, i. 183, 203, 305,
417, 425; ii. 265, 266.
Winchilsea, Heneage Finch, 2nd carl
of, i. 419.
Windsor, Berks., i. 232, 279, 280; ii.
4. 16, 28,45, 273-
Wingate, Edmund, i. 15 ; ii. 302.
Winslow, Bucks., ii. 311.
Wiseman, Mary. i. 46, 50, 52. Rob.,
i. 47, 388; ii. 9. Sir W., ii. 13.
Witherborne, Dr., i. 75.
Withers, Geo., i. 221 ; ii. 174, 306.
Wodenote (Woodnoth), Theophilus
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(sen.). 1. 139, "i; u, joj, 307,
Theoph. 1 ;>">■)■ '■ »45. 30K.
Wokcy-hole, Som.. i. ijj.
WolteljF, Chas., 1. 190.
Wolsey, Tho,, iL 308-31 1.
I^'ood, ADthooy, ii. iW.mA fMfim.
Edw.,i i.j8o;ii. 177. Dr.RoU.i.
i»o, 190, 195; ii. Ii», 113, 141
"+?■
Woodcock, K«(h., ii. fij.
Woodford. Sam., ii. 133.
Woodgmie, Peter, i. 411]. .
Woodnodc, Oxoo., i. 170. iSj^; ii.
.10, 304.
Wootton BBStctl, Wilts,, i. 144.
Worceslet, i. 135, a8i. 4O9 ; ii. 163,
>h^7 339' Cathedral, Ii. 161, 155.
Worcester, (SotncnetJ,»ri u(, i
i. 76, 418,
Wotlon, Sir Uaiiy, i
il63.
WoUon, baioa, i. 3S5, 1S7.
Wren, pedigree of, ii. 31 3,
Wren, Dr. Chr. (Uber), i. 31, 4031
U, 311. Sir Chr.. i. 41, 100, 119,
3S4. 371 -40.1- 4os:i'-fo, 10s. 108.
Ill, 16s, 166, 17s, J14, 118. i8j,
31J-313. Mal..,ii.3>».
Wright, lidward (lidmuini). i 176;
".So, 313-3115. Rich.,ii. 376.
W)atl.SirTho.,i. 6y. Ijidj- ii.
Wych, Sit Cvril, ii. iiS.
WycoiDb(Wicamb,WicUiam),Bnckt.i
i. m\ ii- 36, 39. '!■*■ '7S. 178.
18a.
Wylde tWildl, Sir Edroond, i. J30,
331. EdroaDd, i. 4, 41, 43. 109,
134. 160. 181,151, »sSi " 4.35.
37> 4fi, .16. 79i 93. 96. '33. M' ■ M*.
166, 187. 191, 330. 173, 176, 3tti,
3'°i 3^9. 33'- Geo., i. 178. 180,
131. Sir John, i. 17S, iSo, iSj;
ii. J7J.373. Will., il. 77.
Wyndham. Sir Fnui., i. 77, Hr
VVtdltam, i. 117, 144, 316.
' YairingtoQ, capL. ii. 316.
I Vales, John. ii.itfi. Leonud.li. ai4i
I 216.
! Vatlon-Keynell, Wills., i. 33, 146 ; li-
(. 3S,
.5"4-
Voik, Jama, duke of. i. 196. 108,118.
at9. »97. 369 : !"■ 78, 101. '3"-i34.
333, 314. Su Jamei U.
York, Anne [Hyde . duchess of,
ii. 316. Maria, ducbesa of, ii.
.76.
Voung, John, ii. i.l, 241-144.
Zeiglet, Cnspai. i. 375. 376.
Zouch, Sir Ed-w., ii, 103. Rich., i.
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