Read John Aubrey: My Own Life Online
Authors: Ruth Scurr
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.