part iii

,' i.e. MS. Aubr. 8, _ut supra_.

[358] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 100ᵛ.

[359] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 60ᵛ. Thomas Batchcroft was Master of Gonville and Caius College, 1625-49, 1660-1670.

[360] Note in pencil (partly inked over) by Aubrey at end of MS. Rawl. 766. The slip is addressed (not by Aubrey) 'To Mr. Thomas Awbrey at Broad Chalke--, to be left at the Lambe in Katherine Streete in Salisbury.' The seal is 'party per chevron, ... and or (?), in chief 2 eagles (or falcons) rising, a mullet for difference,' a coat for Stephens. Aubrey gives in trick, as on the monument, 'sable, a fesse engrailed argent, between 3 dexter hands couped bendways or.'

[361] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 116ᵛ.

[362] Francis Beaumont, Justice of the Common Pleas, 1593.

[363] Subst. for 'illorum.'

[364] 'Super' is written above 'over.'

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

[366] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 357: written Sept. 1, 1681.

[367] Blank in MS., Aubrey forgetting the name at the moment.

[368] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 45ᵛ. The first part of the note seems to be a character of Beeston; the second part is a note of questions to be put to him.

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

[370] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 71.

[371] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 70ᵛ.

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

[373] Charles Berkeley, created viscount Fitz-hardinge 1663, killed in the sea-fight, June 3, 1665.

[374] MS. Aubr. 7 (fol. 5) is dated 'January 1684/5.'

[375] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 90.

[376] i.e. in the scheme of the nativity, which portended immediate death.

[377] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 11.

[378] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5.

[379] i.e. in MS. Aubr. 6, _ut supra_.

[380] This sentence possibly refers to some other topic than the preceding.

[381] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 35ᵛ.

[382] MS. 'laeto.'

[383] 'faire' is scored out.

[384] i.e. 1-1/2 mile.

[385] i.e. if descended from Alderman Henry Billingsley.

[386] i.e. MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67ᵛ--in Francis Bacon's life.

[387] i.e. Henry Billingsley's, to whom in this paragraph Aubrey harks back.

[388] 'Richard,' _infra_, p. 103.

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

[390] This injunction was addressed to Anthony Wood.

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

[392] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 90.

[393] Anthony Wood notes 'Luce, in vol. i, p....' i.e. MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 35ᵛ, _ut supra_, p. 100.

[394] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 89ᵛ.

[395] In the library of the College of Arms.

[396] Aubrey notes here:--'Quaere if this Thomas was not Sir Thomas Billingsley, the famous horseman?': see _supra_, p. 100.

[397] MS. Aubr. 8 (Aubrey's volume of _Lives of the English Mathematicians_), fol. 76.

[398] i.e. written; viz. in MS. Aubr. 6, _ut supra_.

[399] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 35ᵛ.

[400] i.e. from Sir Henry Billingsley.

[401] As given in next paragraph.

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

[403] 'Portavit,' bore to his arms.

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

[405] Called 'Robert,' _supra_, p. 101.

[406] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 67ᵛ.

[407] i.e. Richard Sackville, 5th earl; obiit 1677.

[408] i.e. Charles Louis, Elector Palatine 1648-80; his brothers were Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice.

[409] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 85.

[410] Anthony Wood corrects this to 'Northwich.'

[411] i.e. Anthony Wood's _Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon._, 1674. Birkenhead became servitor at Oriel in 1632, aged 15.

[412] Philip Gwyn, matr. at Oriel in 1634.

[413] Subst. for 'dischardged.'

[414] In 1639.

[415] Subst. for 'bold': Aubrey writes here κυνώπης, in explanation.

[416] MS. Aubr. 6 was written in Feb. 1679/80.

[417] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 85ᵛ.

[418] For choosing a grave in the churchyard, and not, as was usual with persons of substance, in the church.

[419] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 85.

[420] These words, added (? by Wood) in pencil, probably give the reason assigned in the royal mandate recommending him for D.C.L.

[421] Aubrey in MS. Tanner 24, fol. 159: Nov. 21, 1696.

[422] i.e. All Souls: the letter is written to Thomas Tanner.

[423] Thomas Farnaby, _ut infra_.

[424] Louis XIV.

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

[426] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 33.

[427] Matric. at St. Alban Hall Jan. 26, 1614/5, aged 17; took B.A. from Wadham Feb. 10, 1617/8.

[428] At St. Alban Hall. Norborne matric. in Oct. 1620; and took B.D. in 1637/8.

[429] Bridgewater, 1640.

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

[431] MS. Aubr. 23, a slip at fol. 103ᵛ.

[432] i.e. Oct. 1682.

[433] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 102.

[434] Matric. June 30, 1615; B.A. June 18, 1618.

[435] Subst. for 'friendship.'

[436] Dupl. with 'came.'

[437] Dupl. with 'combe-makers.'

[438] Dupl. with 'who was an extraordinary handsome man.'

[439] Subst. for 'whores.'

[440] Dupl. with 'honour.'

[441] The words in square brackets are insertions by Anthony Wood.

[442] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 102ᵛ.

[443] A note added after the preceding life had been written.

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

[445] See _sub nomine_, Thomas Stephens.

[446] Anthony Wood notes here,'false'; i.e. having inquired at Pembroke (in 1674), he found no trace of this tradition.

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

[448] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 12.

[449] The horoscope is left blank.

[450] Dupl. with '_Negotiative_.'

[451] Subst. for 'understands.'

[452] Subst. for 'spare body.'

[453] Subst. for 'a very black eie.'

[454] Dupl. with 'From his youth he.'

[455] Dupl. with 'fowle.'

[456] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 12ᵛ.

[457] Aubrey, on fol. 12ᵛ, gives the full list of 32 titles copied (with some slight changes of spelling, etc.) from Bovey's own list, given _infra_.

[458] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 13ᵛ, Bovey's autograph.

[459] No. 18 is no. 19 in Aubrey's copy; no. 19 is no. 18 in Aubrey's copy.

[460] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 12ᵛ.

[461] 'From a child' followed: scored out.

[462] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 11ᵛ.

[463] i.e. Aubrey remembered seeing the sermon in a shop there. He went and found it, and has excerpts _infra_, p. 116.

[464] MS. Aubr. 8 fol. 12.

[465] MS. Ballard 14, fol. 127, a letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood of date Feb. 21, 1679/80.

[466] MS. Aubr. 7. fol. 10.

[467] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 10ᵛ.

[468] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 11.

[469] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 11ᵛ.

[470] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12ᵛ.

[471] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6ᵛ.

[472] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 16ᵛ.

[473] Subst. for 'cared not for.'

[474] Probably Robert Hooke.

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

[476] 1679/80, in this case.

[477] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 33.

[478] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 33ᵛ.

[479] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 47ᵛ.

[480] Subst. for 'that the beginnings of the Thames and Avon.'

[481] Dupl. with 'and sappable.'

[482] Dupl. with 'the Bylanders.'

[483] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 49.

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

[485] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 79.

[486] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 49.

[487] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 48.

[488] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 38ᵛ.

[489] MS. Aubr. 7, a slip at fol. 8ᵛ.

[490] Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, ii. 237.

[491] William Oughtred.

[492] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 101ᵛ.

[493] Given by Aubrey in colours in a lozenge.

[494] Venetia Stanley.

[495] Dupl. with 'had.'

[496] Aubrey notes in the margin:--'Barbara C.C. <i.e. countess of Castlemaine> had such a one: nay sempstresse helped to worke it.'

[497] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 18.

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

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

[500] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 29, a note appended to 'the scheme of the nativity of _Democritus junior_ on his monument at Christ Church in Oxon: he writt the _Melancholy_.'

[501] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 97ᵛ.

[502] The words in square brackets are the answer to the inquiry, added later.

[503] Dupl. with 'Wales.'

[504] The reference is to MS. Aubr. 8, (_Lives_,