John Aubrey: My Own Life (65 page)

73
 
Since the discovery:
Miscellanies
, p.31.

74
 
I met Mr Sheldon:
MS Wood 39, fol. 328.

75
 
Mr Hobbes tells me:
Hobbes (1994), vol. 2, pp.772–3, 820; Clark, vol. 1, p.342; MS Aubrey 9, fol. 42v.

76
 
In his book:
Raymond (1996), pp.290–1.

77
 
I went to Bloomsbury:
Hooke (1935), p.418.

78
 
Mr friend Robert Henley:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 160–1.

79
 
My friend George Ent:
Three Prose Works
, p.71.

80
 
I was at Jonathan’s:
Hooke (1935), p.430.

81
 
I sent my letter:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 147–8.

82
 
I have heard:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.268; Clark, vol. 1, p.105.

83
 
My honoured friend:
Clark, vol. 1, pp.17, 20, 21; MS Aubrey 9, fol. 29.

84
 
Now that the sun:
MS Wood 39, fol. 331.

85
 
Mr Wood asks much:
Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.475.

86
 
Could one have thought:
MS Wood 39, fol. 327.

87
 
Mr Henry Vaughan:
MS Aubrey 13, fols 238–9.

88
 
At Burbage: Natural History
, p.36.

89
 
I have often wished: Three Prose Works
, p.313.

90
 
Spectacles have been worn:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.33; Clark, vol. 2, pp.319–20; MS Ballard 14, fol. 126.

Part XI: Brief Lives

1
 
I was at Jonathan’s:
Hooke (1935), p.438.

2
 
I hope Mr Wood:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 127.

3
 
Mr Wood chides me:
Clark, vol. 1, p.17.

4
 
While I was smoking:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 127.

5
 
The science of astrology:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.39; Clark, vol. 1, p.9.

6
 
This month:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.581; Clark, vol. 2, p.91.

7
 
Today, at about 3 p.m.:
MS Aubrey 6, fol. 2.

8
 
Mr Wood warns me:
Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.480.

9
 
I have persuaded:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.48; Clark, vol. 2, p.145.

10
 
He was my singular:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.136; Clark, vol. 1, p.201.

11
 
Sir Jonas Moore:
Birch, vol. 4, p.29.

12
 
I have made an index:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 131.

13
 
If I could get up:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 131.

14
 
Quaere:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 133; Bennett, vol. 1, p.395; Clark, vol. 1, pp.144–5.

15
 
Mr Dryden tells me:
Bennett (2009), p.344.

16
 
I could afford:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.676; Clark, vol. 2, p.119.

17
 
Today I was:
Hooke (1935), p.442; Clark, vol. 1, p.411.

18
 
I am sending:
Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.472.

19
 
I have been very ill:
MS Wood 39, fol. 340.

20
 
I have decided:
MS Wood 39, fol. 340.

21
 
I also described:
Birch, vol. 4, p.41.

22
 
I wish someone:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.37; MS Aubrey 6, fol. 12.

23
 
The Earl of Rochester:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.171; Clark, vol. 2, p.304.

24
 
A friend tells me:
MS Wood 39, fol. 343.

25
 
My Book of Lives:
MS Wood 39, fol. 347.

26
 
I have given:
MS Wood 39, fol. 351.

27
 
Sir William Petty, Knight:
MS Aubrey 6, fol. 12; Bennett, vol. 1, pp.41–52; Lawson Dick, pp.237–241.

28
 
Robert Boyle:
MS Aubrey 6, fol. 16; Bennett, vol. 1, pp.52–3, Lawson Dick, pp.36–7.

29
 
General Monck: Bennett
, vol. 1, pp.53–60; Clark, vol. 2, pp.72–8.

30
 
William Aubrey, Doctor of Laws:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.60–74; Clark, vol. 1, pp.53–66.

31
 
Sir Lleuellin Jenkins, knight:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.74–6; Clark, vol. 2, pp.7–9; Lawson Dick, pp.174–6.

32
 
Wenceslaus Hollar:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.76–8; Clark, vol. 1, pp.407–8, Lawson Dick, pp.163–3.

33
 
Monsieur Renatus Descartes:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.104–5; Clark, vol. 1, pp.221–2; Lawson Dick, pp.94–5.

34
 
Venetia Stanley:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.330–4; Clark, vol. 1, pp.229–33; Lawson Dick, pp.100–1.

Part XII: More Lives and Deaths

1
 
About twenty years ago: Three Prose Works
, p.316.

2
 
I have often thought: Three Prose Works
, p.317; MS Aubrey 1, fol. 89.

3
 
I dined:
Hooke (1935), p.455.

4
 
Today I helped carry:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.388; Clark, vol. 1, pp.136–7.

5
 
Mr Hobbes’s short autobiography:
Clark, vol. 1, p.17; MS Wood 39, fol. 347.

6
 
I am at Gresham:
MS Aubrey 13, fols 127, 128.

7
 
I have given: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London
, vol. 28, no. 2 (1 April 1974), p.168.

8
 
I am trying:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 165.

9
 
Mr Paschall has asked:
MS Aubrey 13, fols 43, 44.

10
 
Today I have received:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.357; Clark, vol. 2, p.14; MS Aubrey 6, fol. 107.

11
 
Mr Wood has written:
MS Wood 45, fol. 181.

12
 
I went with Mr Hooke:
Hooke (1935), p.460.

13
 
Israel Tonge was buried:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.153; Clark, vol. 2, p.262;
Education
, p.89.

14
 
Dr Blackbourne and I:
MS Wood 39, fol. 351.

15
 
Mr Dugdale has printed:
Raymond (1996), p.282.

16
 
The Earl of Berkshire:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 57–8.

17
 
The King has dissolved:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 130b.

18
 
I intend to send:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 129.

19
 
I intended to take:
MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 11.

20
 
When I sent:
MS Wood 39, fol. 358.

21
 
Mr Paschall has sent:
MS Aubrey 13, fols 45, 46.

22
 
Mr Wood complains:
MS Wood 45, fol. 184.

23
 
Sir James Long:
MS Aubrey 1, fol. 30b.

24
 
Mr Wylde has given:
MS Wood 39, fol. 354.

25
 
Mr Wood has sent me:
Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.545.

26
 
I went to a tavern:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.618.

27
 
On behalf:
MS Aubrey 13, fols 101–2.

28
 
I told the Royal Society:
Birch, vol. 4, p.94.

29
 
I hope:
MS Wood 39, fol. 360.

30
 
I am concerned:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.299; Clark, vol. 1, p.119.

31
 
I fear the truths:
MS Wood 39, fol. 397.

32
 
I met with:
MS Wood 39, fol. 357.

33
 
Mr William Shakespeare was born:
MS Aubrey 8, fol. 81. Bennett, vol. 1, pp.365–6; Clark, vol. 2, pp.225–7; Lawson Dick, pp.275–6.

34
 
Mr Edmund Spenser:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.260–1; Clark, vol. 2, pp.232–3; Lawson Dick, pp.282–3.

35
 
At my mother’s request:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 48.

36
 
On this day:
MS Wood 39, fol. 357.

37
 
I have brought:
MS Tanner 456a, fol. 27.

38
 
Mr Ashmole and I:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 134.

39
 
Mr Ashmole also has:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.32; Clark, vol. 2, p.33.

40
 
Today I was smoking:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 135.

41
 
I am too late:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.447; Clark, vol. 1, p.97.

42
 
I went to visit: Natural History
, p.141; Bennett, introduction.

43
 
Two days before:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.343; Clark, vol. 2, p.150.

44
 
The Earl of Clarendon:
MS Wood 39, fol. 365. The Earl of Clarendon’s History was eventually printed in 1704 and the profits used to establish the Clarendon Press. Bennett, vol. 1, p.8; Clark, vol. 1, p.426.

45
 
I have consulted:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 279–80.

46
 
The second reading:
MS Aubrey 12, fol. 5.

47
 
London has become:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.654; Clark, vol. 2, p.60. See also Aubrey’s life of Mr Inglebert, where he claims Inglebert ‘was the first inventor, 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 business, undertook it, and got the profit, and also the credit of that most useful invention’: Bennett, vol. 1, p.606.

48
 
When Lord Norris:
MS Aubrey 12, fol. 8; Lord Norris of Rycote, later Earl of Abingdon.

49
 
I have had:
MS Aubrey 17, fol. 18.

50
 
I have now sent:
Clark (1891–1900), vol. 3, p.14.

51
 
When I was staying:
MS Wood 39, fol. 369.

52
 
Mr William Penn:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.594; Clark, vol. 2, p.133; MS Aubrey 2, fol. 27.

53
 
From Africa:
MS Aubrey 12, fol. 78.

54
 
Sir Henry Blount:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.339; Clark, vol. 1, p.111.

55
 
Thomas Merry:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.749; Clark, vol. 2, p.60.

56
 
Today at the Royal Society:
Birch, vol. 4, p.186.

57
 
The curious clock:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.647; Clark, vol. 2, pp.58–9.

58
 
My loyal, dear, useful:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 137.

59
 
The chalybeate spring:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 136.

60
 
On this day:
Ovenell, pp.21–2; Wood, 20 March 1683 (cited in MacGregor, p.49).

61
 
Mr Penn is making:
MS Aubrey 13, fols 98–9.

62
 
My friend Jane Smyth:
Clark, vol. 2, p.229.

63
 
Earlier this month:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 132.

64
 
I have called on:
MS Aubrey 4, fol. 299.

65
 
Sir Jonas Moore’s books:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 243. Aubrey had known Sir Jonas Moore since 1664: see Willmoth, p.164.

66
 
Sir Jonas Moore intended:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.305; Clark, vol. 2, p.78.

67
 
Alas:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 244.

68
 
Sir Isaac Newton:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 347–8.

Part XIII: Manuscripts

1
 
I am still grieving:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 137.

2
 
I am ordering:
MS Aubrey 10, fol. 6b.

3
 
Mr Paschall urges me:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 66b. For Aubrey’s manuscript, see MS Aubrey 10.

4
 
Without doubt:
MS Aubrey 10, fols 9, 8a.

5
 
A banker:
MS Aubrey 10, fol. 35a.

6
 
William Brouncker:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.478; Clark, vol. 1, pp.128–9.

7
 
Sir William Petty’s: Philosophical Transactions
, vol. 14 (1684), pp.802–3;
Natural History
, p.26.

8
 
I am beset:
MS Wood 39, fol. 375.

9
 
Mr Paschall has written: Surrey
, vol. 1, pp.xviii–xix, introduction.

10
 
The great stone: Monumenta
, p.56.

11
 
I have asked my friend:
MS Aubrey 13, fols 71–2.

12
 
I related:
Birch, vol. 4, p.348.

13
 
Mr Wood tells me:
MS Wood 45, fol. 192; Bennett, vol. 1, p.252.

14
 
Just as the King:
Three Prose Works
, p.29.

15
 
Tonight stately fireworks:
Three Prose Works
, p.29.

16
 
Titus Oates has come:
Macaulay, Chapter IV.

17
 
I have nearly finished:
MS Aubrey 1, fol. 7.

18
 
I need to move:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 87.