John Aubrey: My Own Life (68 page)

MS Wood 49 Letters from Aubrey to Anthony Wood

MS Wood 51 Letters from Aubrey to Anthony Wood

The British Library

MS Lansdowne 231 Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme

MS Sloane 1039

Add MS 82700–4 Anthony Powell Manuscripts.
John Aubrey and His Friends
; 1937–89. First published in 1948. 5 vols.

Add MS 1388

The Royal Society

Classified Paper VII (I) 28

Classified Paper VII (I) 30

Classified Paper VIII (I) 24

Classified Paper XII (I) 17

MS 92, copy of Natural History of Wiltshire, commissioned in 1691

Register Book Copy 3

Journals

Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London
,
www.rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org

Philosophical Transactions
of the Royal Society, first issue 6 March, 1665,
www.rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
,
www.oxfordnb.com
(2004–)

Printed sources

Aubrey, J.,
Miscellanies: A Collection of Hermetick Philosophy
(London, Edward Castle, 1696)

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John Aubrey: Brief Lives with an Apparatus for the Lives of our English Mathematical Writers
, ed. Bennett, K. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)

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Aubrey’s Brief Lives, edited from the Original Manuscripts and with a Life of John Aubrey
, ed. Lawson Dick, O. (London: Secker & Warburg, 1949)

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Brief Lives and other selected writings
, ed. Powell, A. (London: Cresset Press, 1949)

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Brief Lives’, chiefly of Contemporaries, set down by John Aubrey, between the Years 1669 & 1696, edited from the author’s mss
., ed. Clark, A., 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898)

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Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, to which are added Hearne’s Journey to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq. and Lives of Eminent Men, by John Aubrey, Esq. The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum, with biographical and literary illustrations
, ed. Bliss, P., and Walker, J. (London: Longman, Hurst, 1813)

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The Minutes of Lives, The Oxford Cabinet, Consisting of Engravings from Original Pictures, in the Ashmolean Museum, and other Public and Private Collections, with biographical anecdotes by John Aubrey FRS, and other Celebrated Writers
(London: printed for James Caulfield, 1797)

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Monumenta Britannica, or Miscellany of British Antiquities
, ed. Fowles, J., annotated Legg, R., 1980, 2 vols (Boston, Toronto: Little Brown and Company, 1980)

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The Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey. Begun in the Year 1673, by JOHN AUBREY, Esq; FRS and continued to the present Time
, ed. Rawlinson, R., 5 vols (originally published London, 1718–19; republished Dorking: Kohler & Coombes, 1975)

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Three Prose Works
, ed. Buchanan-Brown, J. (London: Centaur Press, 1972)

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Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme
, ed. Britten, J. (London: W. Satchell, Peyton & Co., 1881)

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Wiltshire: The Topographical Collections of John Aubrey, FRS, AD 1659–70
,
with illustrations, corrected and enlarged by John Edward Jackson, MA, FSA, of Brasenose College, Oxford, Rector of Leigh Delamere, Vicar of Norton, and Hon. Canon of Bristol
, ed. Jackson, J. E. (The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Devizes: Henry Bull, 1862)

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The Natural History of Wiltshire; by John Aubrey FRS (written between 1656 and 1691), edited and elucidated by notes, by John Britton, FRA
, ed. Britton, J. (The Wiltshire Topographical Society, London: J. B. Nichols and Son, 1847; republished, with an introduction by Ponting, K. G., Trowbridge, Wiltshire: Redwood Press Limited, 1969)

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Aubrey on Education, a hitherto unpublished manuscript by the author of Brief Lives
, ed. Stephens, J. E. (London: Routledge and K. Paul, 1972)

Bacon, F.,
The remaines of the Right Honorable Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount of St Albanes, sometimes Lord Chancellour of England being essayes and severall letters to severall great personages, and other pieces of various and high concernment not heretofore published: a table whereof for the readers more ease is adjoined
, Bacon, Francis, 1561–1626, Bodley, Thomas, 1545–1613, Palmer, Herbert, 1601–47 (London: printed by B. Alsop for Lawrence Chapman, and are to be sold at his shop . . ., 1648)

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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon
, ed., Robertson, J. M. (London: Routledge, 2013)

Balme, M., ed.,
Two Antiquaries: a selection from the correspondence of John Aubrey and Anthony Wood
(Edinburgh: Durham Academic Press, 2001)

Bennett, K., ‘John Aubrey and the rhapsodic book’,
Renaissance Studies
, vol. 28, no. 2 (2014), pp.317–32,’

–––––,’John Aubrey and the “Lives of Our English Mathematical Writers”’, in Eleanor Robson and Jacqueline Stedall, eds,
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp.301–29

–––––, ‘John Aubrey, Hint-Keeper: Life-Writing and the Encouragement of Natural Philosophy in the pre-Newtonian Seventeenth Century’,
The Seventeenth Century
, 22 (2007), pp.358–80

–––––, ‘John Aubrey and the Circulation of Edmund Waller’s Of a Tree Cut in Paper’,
Notes and Queries
, 49 (2002), pp.344–5

–––––, ‘John Aubrey, William and Judith Dobson and the 8th Earl of Pembroke: the Provenance of William Dobson’s Executioner with John the Baptist’s Head’,
Notes and Queries
, 49 (2002), pp.352–5

–––––, ‘John Aubrey’s Collections and the Early-Modern Museum’,
Bodleian Library Record
, 17 (2001), pp.213–45

–––––, ‘Editing Aubrey’, in Joe Bray, Miriam Handley, and Anne C. Henry, eds,
Ma(r)king the Text
(Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000)

–––––, ‘Shakespeare’s Monument at Stratford: A New Seventeenth-Century Account’,
Notes and Queries
, 47 (2000), p.464

–––––, ‘John Aubrey’s Oxfordshire Collections: An Edition of Aubrey’s Annotations to his Presentation Copy of Robert Plot’s Natural History of Oxfordshire’, MS Ashmole 1722,
Oxoniensia
, 64 (1999), pp.59–86

–––––, ‘John Aubrey, Joseph Barnes’s Print-Shop and a Sham Newsletter’,
The Library
, 21 (1999), pp.50–8

–––––, ‘A New Anthony Wood Manuscript Paper’,
Notes and Queries
, 45 (1998), pp.184–6

Birch, T.,
The History of the Royal Society
, 4 vols (London, 1756–7)

Bobrick, B.,
The Fated Sky: Astrology in History
(London: Simon and Schuster, 2006)

Boyle, R.,
Correspondence of Robert Boyle 1636–1691
, eds Hunter, M., Clericuzio, A., and Principe, L. M., 6 vols (London, Pickering & Chatto, 2001)

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The Works of the Honorable Robert Boyle in Six Volumes
, ed. Rivington, J. and F. (London, 1772)

Bradley, S., and Pevsner, N.,
London: The City Churches
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998)

Britton, J.,
Memoir of John Aubrey, FRS
(London: Wiltshire Topographical Society, 1845)

Browne, T.,
Hydriotaphia, urne-buriall: or, A discourse of the sepulchrall urnes lately found in Norfolk; Together with The garden of Cyrus: or The quincunciall, lozenge, or net-work plantations of the ancients, artificially, naturally, mystically considered. With sundry observations
(London: printed for Hen. Brome, 1658)

Buchanan-Brown, J., ‘The Books Presented to the Royal Society by John Aubrey, FRS’,
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London
, 28 (1974), p.167

Burl, A.,
John Aubrey & Stone Circles: Britain’s first archaeologist, from Avebury to Stonehenge
(Stroud: Amberley, 2010)

Camden, W.,
Camden’s Britannia, 1695
: a facsimile of the 1695 edition published by Edmund Gibson [translated from the Latin], with an introduction by Piggott, S., and a bibliographical note by Walters, G. (Newton Abbott: David and Charles, 1971)

de Castro, P.,
A Dictionary of Principal London Taverns since the Restoration
, 4 vols (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1985)

Charleton, W.,
Chorea Gigantum
(London: 1663)

Chitty, W.,
Historical Account of the Long Family
London: Gilbert and Rivington, 1889).

Clark, A., ed.,
The Life and Times of Anthony Wood
, 5 vols (Oxford: 1891–1900)

Colvin, H. M., ‘Aubrey’s
Chronologia Architectonica
’. In Summerson, J.,
Concerning Architecture: essays on architectural writers and writing presented to Nikolaus Pevsner
(London: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1968), pp.1–12

Davies, J. D., ‘The Navy, Parliament and Political Crisis in the Reign of Charles II’,
The Historical Journal
, vol. 36, issue 02, June 1993, pp.271–88

Douglas, D.,
English Scholars 1660–1730
(London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951)

Dragstra, H., ‘“Before woomen were Readers”: how John Aubrey wrote female oral history’, in Lamb, M. E., and Bamford, Karen,
Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts
(Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), pp.41–56

Dugdale, W.,
The History of St Paul’s Cathedral
(London, 1716)

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Monasticon Anglicanum, sive Pandectæ Coenobiorum, Benedictinorum Cluniacensium, Cisterciensium, Carthusianorum, a primordiis ad eorum usque dissolutionem. Ex MSS. Codd . . . digesti per Rogerum Dodsworth [et] Gulielmum Dugdale. [Et Propulaion Johannis Marshami.] 3 voll. [Vol. III. Additamenta quædam . . . necnon fundationes . . . Ecclesiarum Cathedralium ac Collegiatarum continens . . . per Will. Dvgdale.],
3 vols (London, vol. 1 1655, vol. 2 1661, vol. 3 1673)

Duncan-Jones, K.,
Sir Philip Sidney
:
Courtier Poet
(London: Hamish Hamilton, 1991)

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Sir Philip Sidney
,
Selected Poems
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973).

Ellis, M.,
The Coffee-house. A Cultural History
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004)

Enright, B. J., ‘Richard Rawlinson and the Publication of John Aubrey’s Natural History and Antiquities of Surrey’,
Surrey Archaeological Collections
, 54 (1956), p.124

Evelyn, J.,
The Diary of John Evelyn
, ed. de Beer, E. S., 6 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955)

Foskett, D.,
Samuel Cooper, 1609–1672
(London: Faber, 1974)

Fowles, J., ‘The Great Amateur of Archaeology’,
Natural History
, August 1982, pp.18–24

Frank, R. G., ‘John Aubrey, FRS, John Lydall, and Science at Commonwealth Oxford’,
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London
, 27 (1973), pp.193–217

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Harvey and the Oxford Physiologists: A Study of Scientific Ideas and Social Interaction
(Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1981)

Garland, P.,
Brief Lives, by John Aubrey; a play in two acts for one player
(London: Faber, 1967)

Gaskill, M., ‘Witchcraft, Politics and Memory in Seventeenth-Century England’,
The Historical Journal
, 50, 2 (2007), pp.289–308

Gregg, R.,
Harvey and the Oxford Physiologists: A study of scientific ideas
(Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980)

Grew, N.,
Musæm Regalis Societatis
(London: 1681)

Gunther, R. T.,
The Old Ashmolean: the Oldest Museum for the History of the Natural Sciences and Medicine
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1933)

–––––, ‘The Library of John Aubrey, FRS’,
Bodleian Quarterly Record
, 6 (1931), pp.230–6

–––––, ‘The Ashmolean Copy of Plot’s Natural History’,
Bodleian Library Quarterly
, 6 (1930), pp.165–6

–––––, Early Science in Oxford
, 14 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1923–45)

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Historic Instruments for the Advancement of Science: a handbook to the Oxford Collections
, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925)

Hartmann, C. H.,
Faringdon in the Civil War
,
www.faringdon.org/hycivilwarHartmann.htm

Harvey, W.,
Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium, quibus accedunt quaedam de Partû, de Membranis ac Tumoribus Uteri, et de Conceptione
(1651)

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De motu cordis
(‘Anatomical Exercises Concerning the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Living Creatures’) (1628)

Haycock, D. B.,
William Stukeley: Science, Religion and Archaeology in Eighteenth Century England
(Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2002)

Hearne, T.,
Hearne’s Remarks and Collections
, vol. 7 (Oxford: Oxford Historical Society, 1906)

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The Remains of Thomas Hearne: Reliquiae Hearnianae; being extracts from his MS diaries
, compiled by Dr John Bliss, revised by John Buchanan-Brown (London, Fontwell: Centaur Press, 1966).

Hobbes, T.,
Leviathan
, ed. Malcolm, N., 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2012)

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The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes
, ed. Malcolm, N., 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994)

Hooke, R.,
The Diary of Robert Hooke, 1672–1680
, transcribed from the original in the possession of the Corporation of the City of London (Guildhall library), eds Robinson, H. W., and Adams, W. (London: Taylor & Francis, 1935)