John Aubrey: My Own Life (60 page)

40
 
A terrible day: Education
, p.18.

41
 
Sir Walter Raleigh:
Bennett, vol. 1. p.232, pp.241–2; Clark, vol. 2, p.191.

42
 
I have heard my grandfather:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.35.

43
 
Sometimes, on holy days:
MS Aubrey 4, fol. 21a(r).

44
 
Sauntering through Blandford:
Aubrey is referring to the Thirty Years War.

45
 
7 November:
Malcolm, pp.15–16.

Part II: Oxford

1
 
Mr Hobbes encouraged me:
Clark, vol. 2, p.322. Magdalen Hall was originally next to Magdalen College. The Hall, unlike the College, had no chapel: see Malcolm, p.4. It was re-founded as Hertford College in the nineteenth century.

2
 
All this time: Education
, p.86.

3
 
Because I am busy:
On Aubrey’s knowledge of rattlesnakes see Bennett, pp.321–2.

4
 
‘Turds! Tarrarags!’: Brief Lives
, Kettell; MS Ballard 14, fol. 127.

5
 
In Dr Ralph Kettell’s dining room:
Gloucester Hall is now Worcester College.

6
 
May Day:
Three Prose Works
, p.137.

7
 
Today I heard:
Clark, vol. 2, p.294.

8
 
This morning, I saw:
Manning.

9
 
At St John’s College:
Three Prose Works
, p.350.

10
 
There has been a brush:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.448–9; Clark, vol. 1, p.188.

11
 
Now the place is full:
MS Aubrey 15; MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 89.

12
 
Today Dr Kettell:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.175; Clark, vol. 1, p.250.

13
 
Dr Kettell upbraided:
MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 204.

14
 
Today I visited Abingdon:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.352; Clark, vol. 1, p.185.

15
 
How now Bellona thunders
: Bennett, vol. 1, p.432.

16
 
I have regretfully obeyed: Natural History
, p.15.

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The eldest son:
Natural History
, p.81.

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Francis Potter, a reclusive:
Revd Francis Potter BD FRS (1594–1678) was a commoner of Trinity College, Oxford, and in 1637 succeeded his father, Prebendary Richard Potter (Fellow 1579–85), as rector of Kilmington in Somerset. His brother, Revd Hannibal Potter DD (1592–1664), was elected into the Trinity Fellowship in 1613.

19
 
I have met:
Bennett (2009), p.330; Bennett, vol. 1, p.134; Clark, vol. 1, p.200; MS Aubrey 6, fol. 44.

20
 
I am made much of
: Powell (1948), p.54.

21
 
Tonight I watched:
Three Prose Works
, pp.27–8.

22
 
Many of the courtiers:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.181–2;

23
 
I have seen Dr William Harvey:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.200; Clark, vol. 1, p.300.

24
 
I have heard another:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.198; Clark, vol. 1, p.298.

25
 
In George Bathurst’s rooms:
Harvey (1628), p.34; Frank (1981). Harvey’s
Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium, quibus accedunt quaedam de Partû, de Membranis ac Tumoribus Uteri, et de Conceptione
was printed in 1651.

26
 
I hope I can find:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.432;

27
 
Camp fever is raging:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 96; ‘unpolished’ by smallpox is a phrase Aubrey uses about Sir John Denham: Bennett, vol. 1, p.505. Grim the Collier is a figure in seventeenth-century folklore appearing in songs and stories.

28
 
Smallpox is periodical
:
Three Prose Works
, p.24.

29
 
I am not there:
Wiltshire collections, p.263.

30
 
Sir William Waller’s soldiers:
Wiltshire Collections, p.258.

Part III: War

1
 
My father’s caution:
Clark, vol. 1, p.38.

2
 
Dr Ralph Kettell has died:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 131.

3
 
I went to visit Mr Bushell:
Clark, vol. 1, pp.133–4.

4
 
In this time of civil war:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.314–5.

5
 
My friend and tutor:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 47, 48.

6
 
According to William Browne:
Clark, vol. 1, p.173.

7
 
William Browne says:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 49, 50.

8
 
I rode over: Natural History
, p.99.

9
 
The Parliament’s soldiers:
Hartmann.

10
 
On this day:
Wood,
Athenae Oxonienses
I, p.515.

11
 
Mr William Browne writes:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 43, 44.

12
 
When I was a boy:
Wiltshire Collections, p.136.

13
 
There is a church:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.587–8; Clark, vol. 1, p.244.

14
 
My friend William Browne:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 35–6.

15
 
Old Mr Broughton:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.335; Clark, vol. 1, p.128.

16
 
There are otters:
MS Aubrey 1, fol. 132r.

17
 
The Middle Temple gardens:
MS Aubrey 4, fol. 23r.

18
 
Sir Thomas Fairfax:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.651; Clark, vol. 1, p.251; MS Aubrey 8, fol. 60.

19
 
While the King:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.267; Clark, vol. 1, p.104.

20
 
My honoured neighbour:
MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 57v).

21
 
To my great joy:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.433.

22
 
The Parliamentarian Visitation
: Hopkins, p.119.

23
 
Ralph Bathurst says:
Clark, vol. 2, p.11.

24
 
My Trinity friends:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.399.

25
 
I went to visit William Stumpe:
Natural History
, p.79.

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Despite all the disruptions:
MS Wood 49, fol. 42. Matthew Hale (1609–76), judge and writer; his integrity was founded on puritan manners and religion. Henry Rolle (1589–1656), politician and judge. Both men served on the King’s Bench. Hale edited the treatise on common law which Rolle composed for students.

27
 
How it comes to pass:
Natural History
, p.17;
Three Prose Works
, p.25.

28
 
Mr Lydall has not yet received:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 296–7; Frank (1973); Frank (1981), p.165.

29
 
Mr Lydall has done:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 298–9.

30
 
Hannibal Potter:
Hopkins, p.119.

31
 
The south front:
Natural History
, p.82.

32
 
At Morecomb-bottome:
Natural History
, p.33.

33
 
The walls of the church: Natural History
, p.43.

34
 
The River Thames: Natural History
, p.30.

35
 
Clay abounds in Wiltshire: Natural History
, p.35.

36
 
I believe the name:
Wiltshire Collections, p.251.

37
 
We set off with the hounds: Natural History
, p.44.

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On this day, at last:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.184–95; Clark, vol. 2, pp.161–70.

39
 
These are the peaks: Natural History
, p.38.

40
 
Mr Potter tells me stories:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.336–9; Clark, vol. 1, p.108.

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Mr Emanuel Decretz:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.558; Clark, vol. 1, p.10.

Part IV: Learning

1
 
In our present times:
Frank (1973).

2
 
Since the Parliamentary Visitation: The King’s Cabinet Opened, or certain packets of secret letters and papers written with the King’s own hand and taken in his cabinet in Nasby-field, June 14, 1645 by victorious Sir Thomas Fairfax, wherein many mysteries of state, ending to the justification of that cause, for which Sir Thomas Fairfax joined battell that memorable day are clearly laid open
, published by special order of the Parliament by Robert Bostock, London, 1645.

3
 
At Hullavington:
Three Prose Works
, p.358.

4
 
Old good-wife:
Natural History
, p.69.

5
 
I attended the baptism:
Clark, vol. 2, p.229.

6
 
It is rumoured:
MS Aubrey 12, fol. 306.

7
 
Mr Lydall and I:
MS Aubrey 12, fol. 302.

8
 
Mr Lydall has written:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 304–5.

9
 
I have been hunting:
Clark, vol. 2, p.317; MS Aubrey 1, fols 135–6.

10
 
My friend Mr Christopher Wase:
Wase (1654).

11
 
I have been to Verulam:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.205–27; Clark, vol. 1, pp.66–84.

12
 
Gorhambery House is large:
Virgil (1999–2000),
Eclogues
4, vol. 1, p.50.

13
 
My friend John Lydall:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 306–7.

14
 
There has been a remarkable occurrence:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.43; Clark, vol. 2, p.141.

15
 
I have acquired:
Williams, ‘Training the Virtuoso’.

16
 
Mr Lydall is leaving:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 310–11.

17
 
I have acquired:
Bacon (1648).

18
 
My friend Mr Francis Potter:
Royal Society, London, Classified Paper XII (I) 17; Bennett, introduction.

19
 
Sir John Danvers’s house:
MS Aubrey 2, fol. 56.

20
 
Lord Bacon came often:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.206; Clark, vol. 1, p.70; MS Aubrey 6, fol. 67v.

21
 
Mr Potter is greatly obliged:
Wilkins.

22
 
Mr Potter considers:
MS Aubrey 13, fols 141–3.

23
 
I am like Virgil’s Dido:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.440; Virgil (1818), p.202.

24
 
Here are some:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 308–9; Kircher.

25
 
On this day:
Three Prose Works
, p.29; MS Wood 39, fol. 247; Powell (1948), pp.70–1.

26
 
The bookseller Mr Crooke:
Malcolm, pp.200–29.

27
 
My friend Dr William Petty:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.43; Clark, vol. 2, p.140; MS Aubrey 9, fol. 51. On Hobbes’s treatise on optics, see Malcolm, p.13.

28
 
At last I have met:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.198; Clark, vol. 1, p.302.

29
 
Mr Harrington was:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.244.

30
 
I have been to see Mr Hobbes:
Clark, vol. 1, pp.351–2.

31
 
It was Mr Mudiford:
MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 207; Ellis.

32
 
Dr William Petty:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.45; Clark, vol. 2, p.142.

33
 
Sir Charles Cavendish:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.90; Clark, vol. 1, p.153.

34
 
The London physician:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 29–30.

35
 
On this day my father:
Three Prose Works
, p.73.

36
 
My friend Mr Potter:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 144.

37
 
At Wilton House:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.348; Clark, vol. 1, p.218.

38
 
Today I went:
26 April 1649.

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Then we talked:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.52–3; Clark, vol. 1, p.121.

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Mr Boyle speaks Latin:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.291; Clark, vol. 1, p.183.

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I returned to Eynsham:
Bennett, ‘John Aubrey and the Circulation’; MS Aubrey 6, fol. 100; MS Ashmole 1722.

42
 
Despite these troubles:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 315–16.

43
 
Mr Lydall has sent:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 319, 320.

44
 
Mr Hartlib has a manuscript:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 155a–156b.

45
 
Mr Potter was to come:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 145.

46
 
I am trying to find:
MS Aubrey 12, fols. 312, 313.

47
 
Dr Harvey has prescribed:
MS Aubrey 12, fol. 107.

48
 
My friend Anthony Ettrick:
Natural History
, p.121; Gaskill (2007).

49
 
Mr Potter’s brother:
MS Aubrey 13, fols 146, 162.