John Aubrey: My Own Life (62 page)

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About a mile:
MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 56).

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Not far from the road:
MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 56).

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I have paid:
MS Aubrey 21, fol. 56.

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I hear that Mr Hooke’s:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.98; Clark, vol. 1, p.411.

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I have seen Mr Hobbes:
Aubrey claims to have inspired Hobbes’s treatise
De Legibus
, which was bound up with his book on rhetoric, so ‘one cannot find it but by chance’: MS Aubrey 7, fol. 5r.

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Mr Hobbes always has:
MS Aubrey 9, fol. 54; Hobbes (1994), vol. 1, p.xxx.

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My friend Mr George Ent:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 102–3.

10
 
I have written:
The preface to Templa Druidum.

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The similarity between: Monumenta
, p.42.

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I have made a close study:
MS Aubrey 11, fols 1b, 3.

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Mr Charlton claims:
MS Aubrey 11, fols 13b, 14.

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Southward from Avebury:
MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 63).

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How well I remember:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.315; Clark, vol. 1, p.134.

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I missed seeing:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 236.

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The bush in Mr Hinton’s garden: Three Prose Works
, p.330.

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The widow of:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.455; Clark, vol. 1, p.127. Aubrey comments: ‘but it was his Father-in-lawes invention’.

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Looking on a serene sky:
Boyle (2001), vol. 3, p.111.

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Mr Samuel Pepys:
Birch, vol. 2, p.13.

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Sir John Hoskyns:
MS Aubrey 12, fol. 196.

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The poet Sir John Denham:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.349; Clark, vol. 1, p.219.

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I have been to see:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.171; Clark, vol. 2, p.304.

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Mr Wenceslaus Hollar:
MS Aubrey 12, fol. 174.

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In Mr Camden’s
Britannia: Bennett, vol. 1, p.359; Clark, vol. 1, p.145.

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I discovered the waters:
MS Aubrey 1, fol. 34.

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I sent my servant: Natural History
, pp.21–2.

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In about a month:
Boyle (2001), vol. 3, pp.111–12; Pell.

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I have shown:
Boyle (1772), vol. 1, section VIII, p.451; vol. 3, p.148.

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Mr Hobbes is disturbed:
Hobbes (1994), vol. 1, p.xxv.

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The Parliamentary Committee:
Hobbes (1994), vol. 1, p.xxv.

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Following the Great Conflagration:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.98; Clark, vol. 1, p.411.

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I saw Bishop Braybrook’s body:
Three Prose Works
, p.349.

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I spoke to some:
MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 37.

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A little before:
MS Top. Gen. C.25, fols 37r–38r; Bennett (2014).

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Lord Henry Howard:
Birch, vol. 2, pp.121–2.

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I have been chosen:
Birch, vol. 2, p.123;
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London
, vol. 28, no. 2 (1 April 1974), p.167; MS Aubrey 8, fol. 60v; MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 38r.

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Blood has been moved:
Birch, vol. 2, p.123.

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The band of my turquoise ring:
Boyle (1772), vol. 3, p.151.

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At the meeting today:
Birch, vol. 2, pp.127, 142.

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At the Royal Society’s:
Birch, vol. 2, pp.129–30.

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My lord Brouncker:
Britton, p.96.

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Lady Denham died:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.350; Clark, vol. 1, p.219; MS Aubrey 12, fols 96–7.

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My friend Edward Davenant:
Bennett (2009), p.330.

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Since the Great Conflagration: Natural History
, p.38.

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Many Roman remains: Monumenta
, pp.498–9.

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I have promised:
MS Aubrey 9, fol. 31v; Wiltshire Collections, pp.251, 255.

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We talked of Mr Hobbes:
Clark (1891–1900), vol. 5, p.10.

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This summer, Mr Wood:
Bennett (1998); Clark (1891–1900), vol. 1, p.286. Wood began to look at the registers, etc. in Christ Church Treasury in October 1659.

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I have received:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 80r.

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At a meeting:
Birch, vol. 2, p.224.

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Today, before the Royal Society:
Gunther (1923–45), vol. 6, p.321; Birch, vol. 2, p.226.

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I am at last:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 80.

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I went today:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.145; Clark, vol. 1, pp.208–9.

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Thomas May translated:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.573–4; Clark, vol. 2, pp.55–7; Raymond (1996), p.285.

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I have seen Mr Hobbes:
Hobbes (1994), vol. 1, p.xxv. On the dating of Hobbes’s tract on heresy, see Willman.

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The Council:
Birch, vol. 2, p.265; Lewis (2001).

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Today I brought before:
Birch, vol. 2, p.272.

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I have decided:
MS Top. Gen. C.24, fol. 251.

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Exploring the sky:
Register Book Copy 3, 128; Classified Paper VIII (I) 24.

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The Royal Society:
Birch, vol. 2, p.283; Lodwick, pp.19–20.

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When I was a boy:
MS Wood 39, fol. 118.

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I have been told:
MS Wood 39, fol. 318.

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My servant Robert:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 81.

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I have been to see:
MS Aubrey 4, fol. 211r.

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As soon as my lawsuit:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 82.

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The great poet:
Clark, vol. 1, pp.190–1.

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St Paul’s Day:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 86.

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If Mr Wood needs:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 84.

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I brought my drawing:
Register Book Copy 3, 128.

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Sir John Denham:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.350; Clark, vol. 1, p.219.

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Today, I brought before:
Birch, vol. 2, p.361.

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In Mr Samuel Cooper’s studio:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.295; Clark, vol. 1, p.151; Mortimer, p.68.

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Lord Cary adhered:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.298; Clark, vol. 1, pp.152, 173.

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I have sent:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 94–5.

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Mr Wood has quarrelled:
Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, pp.163–4.

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The work of making: Natural History
, p.27.

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Seth Ward tells me: Natural History
, p.37. Wilkins became Bishop of Chester in November 1668.

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This searching:
MS Aubrey 3, fol. 11.

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At Bemarton: Natural History
, p.95.

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Mr Wood has been summoned:
Ballard MS 14, fol. 84.

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A new idea:
MS Aubrey 10, fol. 2.

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I am in Broad Chalke:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 88.

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I have heard:
MS Aubrey 4, fol. 142v. Mr William Browne died on 21 October 1669.

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I have presented:
Hobbes (1994), vol. 2, p.521.

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I was to see:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 153–4.

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I have a short poem:
MS Aubrey 21, fol. 3; Bennett, vol. 1, p.323; Clark, vol. 1, p.293.

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Mr Harrington suffers:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.321; Clark, vol. 1, p.292.

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My former servant:
MS Aubrey 13, fols 256–7.

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Easter Tuesday:
MS Tanner 456a, fol. 9.

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Many of the old ways:
Wiltshire Collections, p.236.

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I remember how my grandfather:
Wiltshire Collections, p.236.

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I have collected together:
MS Aubrey 17, fols 1–2; Ovid,
Metamorphoses
, lib. 9.

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I saw Mr Wood today:
Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.192.

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I am at Broad Chalke:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 116–17.

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My former servant:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 258.

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This year, not far:
Three Prose Works
, p.50.

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Mr Lodwick, my friend:
MS Aubrey 12, fol. 264; Lodwick, pp.33–4.

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Between south Wales:
MS Wood 39, fol. 128.

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When I was a boy:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 133; Clark, vol. 1, pp.146–7.

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Also in Yatton Keynell: Monumenta
, p.126.

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Mr Samuel Butler:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.396; Clark, vol. 1, pp.145–6.

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The Roman architecture flourished:
MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 168).

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The Roman architecture came again:
MS Aubrey 16, fol. 8.

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

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

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I have also presented:
Birch, vol. 2, p.462.

108
 
I am pleased to hear:
MS Wood 39, fol. 163; Clark, vol. 2, p.10.

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Glass is becoming:
Clark, vol. 2, p.329.

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I have been helping:
MS Wood 39, fol. 165.

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I have introduced:
MS Wood 39, fol. 165.

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My friend Walter Charleton:
MS Aubrey 12, fol. 66.

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Surely my stars:
MS Wood 39, fol. 166.

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I have now completed:
Wiltshire Collections, p.119.

Part VII: Work

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I am concerned:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 92.

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In London I have received:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 82, 83.

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Henry Coley was born:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.753; Clark, vol. 1, p.181.

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John Florio was born:
MS Wood 39, fols 131, 133; Clark, vol. 1, p.254.

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If you dissolve sugar:
Three Prose Works
, p.356.

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It is a relief:
Clark, vol. 1, p.42.

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I am interested:
MS Wood 39, fol. 131: 14 June 1671.

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Mr Gadbury assures me:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.580; Clark, vol. 2, p.324.

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I think it might be said:
MS Wood 39, fol. 131.

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Mr Wood writes:
MS Wood 39, fols 135, 183.

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I am rumoured:
MS Wood 39, fol. 141.

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Mr Thomas Gore:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 140–1.

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Sir John Hoskyns:
MS Aubrey 12, fol. 197.

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I have asked:
MS Wood 39, fols 141–5.

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I have drawn inspiration:
MS Aubrey 21, fol. 24.

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I shall set my play:
Clark, vol. 2, p.268; vol. 1, p.277; MS Aubrey 21, fol. 24v.

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Before I leave England:
MS Wood 39, fol. 141.

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Sir James and I:
Bennett, vol. 1, pp.561–2; Clark, vol. 2, p.37.

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After the mosaic:
MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 104).

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I have noticed:
MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 155),

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I have sought advice:
Clark, vol. 2, p.149.

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Two trunks full:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 89.

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I wish to go:
MS Wood 39, fol. 149.

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I have been sending:
MS Wood 39, fol. 155; Bennett, vol. 1, p.261; Clark, vol. 2, p.90; Dr Muffet’s book was
Healths improvement, or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation
, ed. Christopher Bennet (1655); Bennett, vol. 1, p.491; Clark, vol. 1, p.275.

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Mr Edward Bradsaw:
Clark, vol. 2, p.85.