John Aubrey: My Own Life (73 page)

Borough-Bridge, 353

Borstall, 403, 411, 412, 414, 417, 421

Botley, 233

Boudicca, 184

Bow church, 165

Bowden Park, 329

Bowman, Mr, 93

Boxley Abbey, 205

Boyle, Sir Richard, 1st Earl of Cork, 254, 300, 319

will, 301

Boyle, Robert, xii, 6, 9, 96, 130, 137, 159, 160, 164, 205, 292, 300–1, 383, 413

The History of Fluidity and Firmness
, 130

Bradon Forest, 74, 140

Bradshaw, Edward, 200

Bradshaw, John, 129

Brasenose College, Oxford, 70, 132, 208

Braybrook, Bishop, 162

Brecknock/Brecknockshire, 111, 112, 254, 410

Brecon, 98, 238

College of, 303

Breda

Declaration of, 126

Treaty of, 166

Brentwood School, 201–2

Brerewood:
De ponderibus
, 241

Bridgwater, 201, 344, 345, 349

School, 202

Bristol, 18, 26, 27, 61, 67, 178, 288, 344, 345, 347, 351

Castle, 62

Priory of Augustine, 344

Brittany, 149

Britton, John, 428

Memoir of John Aubrey
, 428

Broad Chalke

JA’s childhood at, 26, 30, 34

JA returns from Oxford to, 46

Major Morgan at, 55

JA meets soldier garrisoned near, 59

JA’s father pays money to Parliamentarian committee for farm at, 66

practice of watering meadows at, 67

JA spends time at, 72, 81–2, 178, 183

JA visited by Francis Potter at, 88

Hartlib writes to JA at, 97

JA inherits farm at, 98

JA becomes churchwarden, 116

celebration bonfire, 124

springs, 141

JA sells farmland at, 187

JA plans to move his mother back to, 344

JA’s domestic troubles at, 346

JA consider sale of farm, 349

plant called Star of the Earth found at, 352

JA needs to sell his interest in farm, 357

problems between JA and his brother concerning farm, 357, 368, 372, 377, 385

JA sells his interest in farm to Mr Kent, 372

brief references, 48, 74, 169, 271, 389, 423

Broad Stock Priory, 20

Broadway, 429

Brooke, Robert Greville, Lord, 43, 53

Brookes, Christopher, 156

Brookes, Margaret
see
Denham (
née
Brookes), Lady Margaret

Broughton, Bess, 66–7

Broughton, Mr, 66, 67

Brouncker, William, 2nd Viscount Brouncker of Lyons, xii, 136, 137, 141, 164, 187, 251, 272, 273, 336

Browne, Anthony (JA’s uncle), 34

Browne, Israel (later Israel Lyte; JA’s maternal grandmother), x, 18

Browne, Sir Richard, 93

Browne, Sir Thomas, xii, 4, 205, 206, 207

Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial
, 4, 206

Religio Medici
, 59, 351

Browne, William, xii, 61, 62, 64, 65–6, 178, 224

Browne, Mrs (wife of Sir Richard Browne), 93–4

Browning, Mr, 183

Buckingham, Duke of, 204

Bull Head tavern, Cheapside, 114, 115

Bullington-green, 42

Burbage, 288

Burford, 180

Burges, Mr, 216

Burleton, 98, 118

Burnett, 26

Burton, William, 114, 260

A Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary
, 114

Bushell, Kath, 19, 21, 22, 43

Bushell, Thomas, xii, 60–1, 62, 69, 86, 155, 181, 206, 407

Bushell’s Rock, 243, 413
see also
Enstone

Bushnell, Mr, 330–1

Butler, Samuel, 185, 314

Hudibras
, 314

Button, Mr, 84

Caen, 299

Caerleon, 101, 103

Caernarvonshire, 173

Caerphilly Castle, 112, 405, 409

Caesar, Julius, 173–4

Commentaries
, 364

Caius College, Cambridge, 113

Calais, 149

Calne, 64, 344

Cambridge, 5, 202, 399, 402, 403

University, 274, 331, 367, 403, 416
see also
names of colleges

Camden, William, 4, 158, 184, 185, 248, 294, 345

Britannia
, 4, 105, 154, 158, 184, 384, 404, 406, 407, 409, 428

Camelot, 239

Carbery, Sir John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of, xx, 239

Cardiff, 421

Cardinal’s Tavern, 256, 269

Carisbrooke Castle, 78

Carlisle, 185

Carolina, 276

Cary, Dr Lucius, Viscount Falkland, 62, 176, 294

Caster, 205

Castle, Edward, 419

Castlehaven, Earl of, 301

Castle-hill, 77

Castlemaine, Earl of, 281

Catharine of Braganza, Queen (wife of Charles II), 136, 142, 278, 284

Catullus, 364, 376

Caulfield, James, 427

Caus, Solomon de, 29

Cavendish, Sir Charles, 94

Cecil, Robert, Earl of Salisbury, 28

Censorinus:
De Mensura Anni
, 235

Chaldon, 111

Chalke River, 141

Chancey, Sir Henry, 410–11

Chandler, Mr, 98

Chapman, Jack, 323

Charing Cross, 96, 97, 331

Charles I, King

brief biographical details, ix

portrait by Van Dyck, 29

summons Parliament, but dismisses it after three weeks, 34

recalls Parliament again, 34

unable to agree with Parliament, 41

in Oxford during Civil War, 48–9, 50, 52, 61, 62, 63, 68

army defeated at Abingdon and Naseby, 64

portrait painted by Dobson, 68

at Holmeby House, 71

taken as prisoner from Holmeby House, 72

trial and sentence, 77–8

execution, 78

letters deciphered, 81

lands of, 82

Harrington grief-stricken by execution of, 120

identity of executioner of, 129

and Lord Cary, 176

and Fabian Philips, 325

brief references, 1, 83, 95, 124, 185, 369

Charles II, King

brief biographical details, ix

as Prince of Wales, 51, 52, 82, 95, 106, 118–19, 124

Restoration of, 1, 126–7, 128

and Hobbes, 128, 135, 136, 240

and pardon of those involved in his father’s death, 128

coronation, 131

Cooper commissioned to draw profile for new coinage, 135

Royal Society receives charter from, 137

issues Royal Command that Stonehenge and Avebury be investigated, 141

shown draft of Avebury by JA, 142

JA shows Avebury to, 7, 142

JA climbs Silbury Hill with, 142

commands JA to write description of Avebury, 143

and Sir John Denham, 165

orders burning of Milton’s works, 167

hand cured by Susan Holder, 209

opposes his brother’s conversion to Catholicism, and ensures that James’s children are raised as Protestants, 211

and Robert Moray, 217

arranges marriage of Mary to William of Orange, 270

orders arrest of Titus Oates, 278

Queen accused of plotting against, 284

dissolves Parliament, 316

refuses to compromise on succession, 316

dissolves Parliament again, 317

grants Penn and his heirs a province in America, 327

and Mercator’s clock, 328

founds Christchurch Hospital, 336

death and burial, 340

brief references, 4, 175, 204, 325, 350, 378, 390

Charleton, Walter, xii, 137, 140, 141, 142, 154, 164, 187, 249, 412, 422

Chorea Gigantum
, 141, 154

Charlett, Dr, 402, 403

Chase, Mr, 260

Chatsworth, 140

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 175, 211

‘Squire’s Tale’, 30

Cheapside, 165

Chedzoy, 345, 348

Chelsea, 31, 89, 105, 181, 379

Chepstow, Deputy Governor of, 163, 164

Chepstow Bridge, 348

Chertsey, 225

Chief Chidley Mount, 201

Child’s coffee house, 257, 268, 273, 280

Chillingworth, Dr William, xii, 62

Chippenham, 19, 33, 107, 197

Chivers, Mr, 64

Christ Church, 177, 344

Christ Church, near Newgate, 281

Christ Church, Oxford, 49, 63, 50, 168, 178, 216, 237, 240

Christchurch Hospital, 336

Christina, Queen of Sweden, 308, 367

Chrysostom
102, 246

Churchill, Dorset, 224

Churchill, Mr, 421

Church of the Bohemian Brethren, 101

Church of England (Anglican Church), 4, 211, 236, 274, 275, 284, 352

Cicero (Tully), 92, 365

Offices
, 31

Cirencester, 25, 77, 183

Abbey, 20

Civil War

JA’s life during, 43–78

JA describes events of, 43, 45, 46, 48–9, 50–1, 51–2, 53, 54, 55, 61–2, 62–4, 68, 69, 71, 72, 73, 77

trial, sentencing, and execution of Charles I, 77–8

Dugdale writes about, 316

brief references, 1, 4

Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of, 325, 384–5, 390, 392

Clarendon, Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of, xvi, 325, 379–80, 384–5, 392, 413, 414

Clarendon Press, 431

Clarges, Nan, 301–2

Clarges, Thomas, 302

Clarkenwell, 187

Clavel, Mr, 394

Clay-hill, 77

Clements, Henry, 395

Clerke, Wylde, 283, 327

Clifford, Rosamund de, 43, 44

Clifford’s Inn, 94

Cobham, 219

Cocherel, 350

Cockaine House, 106

Codrington, Jane, xi, 83

Colet, Dean, 162–3

Coley, Henry, xii, 192, 208, 234, 404

Clavis Astrologiae
, 192

College of Arms, 345

Collegium de Valle Scholarum, College de Vaux, 46

Colleton, Sir Peter, 276

Collins, Captain, 348

Collins, John, 165, 246, 335, 374

Cologne, 215

Combe, Surrey, 106

Combe church, Oxfordshire, 44

Combes (usurer), 321

Comenius, Jan Amos, xiii, 101, 202

Comineus, Philip, 102

Committee of Both Kingdoms, 63

Commons, House of, 63, 69, 77, 82, 123, 279, 282, 369
see also
Parliament

Commonwealth

abolition of episcopacy and Book of Common Prayer under, 4

declared by Act of Parliament, 82

JA’s life during period of, 82–120

Love beheaded for plotting against, 91

Harvey is a critic of, 92

Hales refuses to swear oath of loyalty to, 104

brief mentions, 1, 132, 146

Compton Dando, 26

Congo, the, 279

Constantine the Great, 100, 186

Convention

in 1660, 126

in 1689, 366

Conyers, John, 235

Cooper, Alexander, 308

Cooper, Christiana, 203

Cooper, Samuel, xiii, 127, 128, 133, 135, 176, 203, 272, 293, 355, 383

Cooper, Thomas: Dictionary, 31, 96, 301, 363

Cooper’s Hill, 225

Copernicus:
De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium
, 241

Cork, Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of
see
Boyle, Sir Richard, 1st Earl of Cork

Cornwall, 47, 195, 203, 351

Corpus Christi, Oxford, 49, 82

Covent Garden, 314

Coventry, Bishop of, 294

Coway Stakes, 173–4

Cowbridge, 305

Cowley, Dr Abraham, 174

Coxe, Thomas, 163

Cranborne, 365, 408

Cranborne Chase, 253, 367

Cremer church, 210

Crescy, Dr Hugh, 176

Cricklade, 74, 100, 325, 380

Crisp, Mr, 268

Croft, Herbert, Bishop of Hereford, 118

Cromwell, Oliver

suffers a defeat in Civil War, 62

as Lord Protector, ix, 1, 100, 104, 110, 114

Tufton suspected of plotting against, 107

death, 114

body exhumed and hung on gallows, 129

and Sir James Long, 196–7

and General Monck, 302

brief references, 117, 247, 300, 369, 432

Cromwell, Richard, ix, 1, 114, 117

Crooke, Mr, 91, 273, 280, 284, 291

Crouch, Sam, 395

Crown, the, Threadneedle Street, 255, 268

Crown Tavern, Oxford, 169

Croydon, 225

Crudwell, 140

Cubberley, 74

Cuckold’s Point, 218

Curll, Edmund, 426

Curson, Sir John, 389

Cutchinlow Hill, 49

Dale, Dr, 304

Dalen, C.V., 307

Danby, Earl of, 361, 421

Danes, 141, 154, 404

Danvers, Sir John, x, 31, 63, 78, 89, 96, 105, 181, 308, 405

Danvers, Rachel (JA’s paternal grandmother), x, 25–6, 27, 67

Dary, Michael, 282

Dauntsey, 105

Davenant, Anne, 91

Davenant, Edward, xiii, 48, 91, 165, 176–7, 293, 294, 336

Davenant, John, 102

Davenant, Sir William, 170, 321

Gondibert
, 170, 322

Madagascar
, 170

Davies, Dr John, 354, 412

Grammatica Linguae: Cambro-Britanniae
, 185

Deale, 327

Declaration of Breda, 126

Decretz, Emanuel, 78

Dee, Arthur, 208

Dee, Dr John, 21, 28, 140, 207–8, 250, 254, 292, 305

Monas Hieroglyphica
, 241

The Soveraignty of the Sea
, 207, 305

Deepdene, 219–20

Denham, Sir John, 95, 157, 165, 170, 174, 175, 224, 225, 322

Cooper’s Hill
, 95

Denham (
née
Brookes), Lady Margaret, 157, 165

Derbyshire, 313

Derham, Lady, 421

Derham Abbey, 421

Descartes, Renatus, 307–8

De Lumine
, 241

Of Method
, 307

Devil’s Arrows, 353

Devil’s Coytes, 155

Devizes, 159, 380

Devon, 114, 195, 203, 301

Devonshire, Earl of, 23, 361

Dew, goodwife, 82

Dickenson, Henry, 395

Dieppe, 150

Digby, Sir Kenelm, xiii, 140, 168, 259, 308–9

‘Observations on Religio Medici’, 59

Diophantes:
Artihmeticorum libri VI
, 241

Dissolution Act, 35

Dobson, Judith, 52, 69, 131

Dobson, William, xiii, 52, 68, 69, 157, 206

The Executioner with John the Baptist’s Head
, 408