John Aubrey: My Own Life (61 page)

50
 
Following my questions:
MS Aubrey 12, fols. 314, 315.

51
 
Mr Potter has written:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 147; Robert Boyles’s
Memoirs for the Natural History of Human Blood
(1684): Hunter and Knight; Frank (1981), p.170.

52
 
At Kington St Michael: Natural History
, p.15.

53
 
As you ride: Three Prose Works
, p.314; MS Aubrey 1, fol. 17.

54
 
Captain Stokes:
Natural History
, p.12.

55
 
More Roman money:
Wiltshire Collections, p.5.

56
 
I think I will send:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.400–2; Clark, vol. 2, p.219–225.

57
 
In Weekfield:
Wiltshire Collections, p.5.

58
 
Mr Samuel Hartlib:
Lodwick, p.22.

59
 
The draft of my will:
MS Aubrey 21, fol. 75.

60
 
Mr Potter has still not:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 149.

61
 
Mr Hobbes’s friend:
MS Top. Gen. C.24, fol. 219.

62
 
Mr Selden meant:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.400–6; Clark, vol. 2, pp.219–25.

63
 
Mr Hobbes’s
De Corpore: Malcolm, p.148.

64
 
Mr Hales is a pretty little man:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.399; Clark, vol. 1, p.280.

65
 
Slough, near Eton:
MS Aubrey 5, fol. 60v.

66
 
I find it strange: Monumenta
, p.90.

67
 
The downs surrounding Avebury:
Aubrey is an early user of the word ‘romantic’, and he also uses the word ‘romancy’ (see
Surrey
, vol. 1, p.8).

68
 
Ever since I came upon: Monumenta
, p.20.

69
 
I have asked Dr Harvey: Natural History
, p.43.

70
 
Dr Harvey’s brother:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.198; Clark, vol. 1, p.298.

71
 
Dr Harvey tells me:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.201; Clark, vol. 1, pp.300–1.

72
 
I have seen Dr Harvey:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.203; Clark, vol. 1, p.302.

73
 
I had a fall:
MS Aubrey 4, fol. 180.

74
 
I have evaporated water: Natural History
, p.20.

75
 
Hancock’s well:
Natural History
, p.20.

76
 
I have received:
Clark, vol. 1, p.305; MS Aubrey 21, fol. 112.

77
 
My friend Lord Nicholas Tufton:
Became 3rd Earl of Thanet in May 1664; imprisoned in Tower December 1655–September 1656 and September 1657–June 1658; married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Boyle (Earl of Burlington) in April 1665.

78
 
I visited Sherborne House: Natural History
, p.38.

79
 
Mr Lydall tells me:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 317, 318.

80
 
I have been visiting:
Bennett, ‘John Aubrey and the Circulation’.

81
 
Here at Draycot:
Wiltshire Collections, p.233;
Natural History
, p.21.

82
 
Mr Potter has suggested:
MS Aubrey 13, fols 152, 153.

83
 
My friends:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.586–7; Clark, vol. 2, p.32.

84
 
I have started collecting:
MS Aubrey 1, fol. 6.

85
 
Henry Lyte:
MS Aubrey 2, fol. 51.

86
 
I have drawn:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.212; Clark, vol. 1, p.78.

87
 
A second coffee:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.338; Clark, vol. 1, p.110.

88
 
My tedious lawsuit:
Powell (1948), p.80.

89
 
Mr Rumsey is much troubled:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.689; Clark, vol. 2, p.207; Rumsey; Ellis, pp.132–3.

90
 
As I rode:
MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 65).

91
 
I visited Caerphilly Castle:
Aubrey’s erroneous identification of Caerphilly Castle as Roman is discussed by K. J. Williams (2012), in his thesis, John Aubrey’s Antiquarian Scholarship, see chapter entitled ‘Monumenta Britannica: II. Mapping Roman Britain’.

92
 
I went to Monmouth church:
Surrey
, vol. 1, pp.15–16.

93
 
Veneris morbus:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.440.

94
 
In his will:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.195; Clark, vol. 1, p.295.

95
 
My honoured friend:
Clark (1891–1900), vol. 1, p.229.

96
 
He left the college: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London
, vol. 27, no. 2 (Feb. 1973), pp.193–217, 208; Mydorgius.

97
 
Dining at Hampton Court:
Natural History, p.190; Powell (1948), p.91.

98
 
John Wilkins has been made:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.294; Clark, vol. 2, p.301; Bennett (2009), p.336.

99
 
On this day Oliver Cromwell:
Three Prose Works
, p.27.

100
 
The experimental philosophical club:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.506; Clark, vol. 2, p.322; MS Aubrey 8, fol. 6.

101
 
On this day:
MS Aubrey 1, fol. 1b; Clark, vol. 1, p.252.

102
 
Wiltshire is too great:
Wiltshire Collections, p.3.

103
 
Sir George Penruddock: Natural History
, p.102. Sir George Penruddock of Broad Chalke was born at Westminster: MS Aubrey 23, fol. 61.

104
 
Today, riding at a gallop:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 158b.

105
 
I have gone:
MS Aubrey 9, fols 32–3; Clark, vol. 1, pp.326–7.

106
 
Mr Hobbes’s horoscope:
Clark, vol. 1, p.328; MS Aubrey 9, fol. 33.

107
 
Mr Stafford Tyndale:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 230.

108
 
I have sold the old manor:
MS Aubrey 13, fols 245r, 255r.

109
 
I am sharing lodgings:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.56; Clark, vol. 2, p.75.

110
 
I am an auditor:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.318–19; Clark, vol. 1, pp.289–90.

111
 
My Trinity College friend:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.532; Clark, vol. 2, p.148.

Part V: Restoration

1
 
On this day:
Aubrey includes in his life of Monck
A Letter from his Excellence the Lord General Monck, and the Officers under his Command, to the Parliament, In the name of themselves and the souldiers under them
, printed by John Macock, London, 1660. The letter is dated 11 February 1659.

2
 
Someone anonymous:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.59–60; Clark, vol. 2, p.78.

3
 
The news has spread:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.57; Clark, vol. 2, p.76.

4
 
Mr Harrington’s Rota Club:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.320; Clark, vol. 2, p.74.

5
 
Samuel Pordage:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.459; Clark, vol. 2, p.160.

6
 
Earlier this month:
MS Aubrey 1, fol. 85v.

7
 
The aurora:
Uglow, p.35.

8
 
As the morning:
Clark, vol. 2, p.153.

9
 
On this day:
Uglow, p.40.

10
 
Last month, I wrote:
Foskett, p.36.

11
 
At Rye: Three Prose Works
, p.331.

12
 
Mr Hobbes tells me:
Clark, vol. 1, p.340; MS Aubrey 9, fol. 41.

13
 
The King and Mr Hobbes:
MS Aubrey 9, fol. 41.

14
 
I have heard:
Wiltshire Collection, p.255.

15
 
My turquoise ring has changed:
MS Aubrey 1, fol. 85v.

16
 
I am one of the signatories: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London
, vol. 28, no. 2 (1 April 1974), p.167.

17
 
My most honoured:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.633; Clark, vol. 2, p.82.

18
 
My servant saw:
McMains.

19
 
The astrologer:
Joyce escaped with his family to the Netherlands, where he was last heard of in August 1670.

20
 
I have been to visit: Natural History
, p.97.

21
 
The cloudy spot:
MS Aubrey 1, fol. 85v.

22
 
Since the return:
Hannibal Potter was reinstated as President of Trinity College on 3 August 1660.

23
 
Sir John Hoskyns:
MS Aubrey 12, fol. 189.

24
 
I discussed the lace:
Three Prose Works
, p.28.

25
 
Mr Hollar is very short-sighted:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.77; Clark, vol. 1, pp.407–8.

26
 
Sir John Hoskyns writes:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 224, 190.

27
 
My cousin James Whitney:
Bennett (2009), p.334.

28
 
The natives seem:
Hobbes (1994), vol. 2, p.520.

29
 
In Dublin we met:
Three Prose Works
, p.349.

30
 
Mr Tyndale writes:
MS Aubrey 13, fols 231–2.

31
 
I am delighted:
Clark, vol. 1, p.394.

32
 
My friend Mr Wenceslaus Hollar:
Hunter (2010), p.97.

33
 
Mr Samuel Cooper:
John Evelyn’s diary, January 1662.

34
 
Sir John Hoskyns writes:
MS Aubrey 12, fol. 193.

35
 
Mr Hobbes has silenced:
Clark, vol. 1, p.335; MS Aubrey 9, fol. 38. Note this summary of
Leviathan
is from
Mr Hobbes Considered in his Loyalty, Religion, Reputation and Manners
.
By way of Letter to Dr Wallis
(1662), which Aubrey is quoting.

36
 
Mr Hobbes says: Education
, p.128; Malcolm, pp.21–2.

37
 
Mr Tyndale complains:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 235.

38
 
Parliament has passed:
Malcolm, p.348.

39
 
Mr Hooke is of but middling stature:
Clark, vol. 1, p.411.

40
 
Sir William Petty presented:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.51; Clark, vol. 2, p.146.

41
 
Dr Walter Charleton:
Birch, vol. 1, p.166.

42
 
On this day:
Birch, vol. 1, p.172.

43
 
To my great joy:
Birch, vol. 1, p.179; Aubrey,
Three Prose Works
, p.359.

44
 
The minister of Avebury: Natural History
, p.44.

45
 
I presented the Society:
Gunther (1925), vol. 6, p.116; Birch, vol. 1, p.206.

46
 
Mr Hooke’s report:
Gunther (1925), vol. 6, p.116; Birch, vol. 1, p.207.

47
 
I mentioned before:
Birch, vol. 1, p.212.

48
 
Mr Potter has been invited:
MS Aubrey 13, fols 154–5.

49
 
I also described:
Birch, vol. 1, p.234.

50
 
Quaere: if a bladder:
Clark, vol. 2, p.327.

51
 
The new charter:
Birch, vol. 1, p.236.

52
 
When I was about: Natural History
, p.23.

53
 
At Crudwell: Natural History
, p.23.

54
 
Sir Kenelm Digby:
Birch, vol. 1, p.300.

55
 
I have found:
Hobbes (1994), vol. 2, p.555.

56
 
I have also found:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 162–3.

57
 
The rivulet that runs: Natural History
, p.28. Crawfish are crayfish.

58
 
In his book: Monumenta
, pp.25, 129.

59
 
I think Mr Charleton: Monumenta
, p.85.

60
 
Today I met: Monumenta
, p.21.

61
 
Afterwards, as we were leaving:
MS Top. Gen. C.24, fols 23–5.

62
 
His Majesty also: Monumenta
, p.34.

63
 
While I think it: Monumenta
, p.92.

64
 
The monument is still: Monumenta
, p.86.

65
 
Mr Francis Potter:
Birch, vol. 1, p.329.

66
 
St Andrew’s Day:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.48.

67
 
I am lovesick:
MS Aubrey 12, fol. 194.

68
 
I have been elected:
Lennard.

69
 
I have described:
Birch, vol. 1, p.422.

Part VI: Stone, Water, Fire

1
 
I have reached Paris:
Hobbes (1994), vol. 2, p.620.

2
 
The shopkeepers here:
Powell (1948), p.8.