Read John Aubrey: My Own Life Online
Authors: Ruth Scurr
Dockwra, Mr, 292
Dodington, Sir Francis, 63
Dodington, Lady, 274
Dodoens, Rembert:
Herbarium
, 110
Doight, Mr, 256
Dolphin, the, Bishopsgate, 402
Domesday Book, 227
Donhead St Andrews, 132
Donne, John, 315
Dorset, 145, 352
see also
names of places
Dorset, Richard, 5th Earl of, 66, 259, 308, 309
Dotrice, Roy, 429
Doué-la-Fontaine, 150
Dover, 126–7
Castle, 127
Dowch, Jack, 41
Draper, Mr, 204
Draycot Cerne, 19, 74, 108–9, 180, 196, 251, 325
Draycot House, 109
Dreyden, Sir Erasmus, 321, 322
Droitwych, 309
Druids, 2, 143, 185, 426
Druid-Stones (Kerrig y Druid), 154
Drury Lane, 302, 427
Dryden, John, 293, 295, 322, 399
Dublin, 132, 300
Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester, 31, 96
Dugdale, William, xiii, 167, 175, 210–11, 233, 294, 321, 345, 351, 352, 376, 391, 418
Illustrations of Warwickshire
, 115
Monasticon Anglicanum
, 4, 135, 167, 210, 211, 243, 431
Short View of the Late Troubles
, 316
Duke’s Company, 195
Duke’s Playhouse, 195
Dun, Sir Daniel, 262, 303
Dun (
née
Aubrey), Joane, 262, 303
Dundery Hill, 139–40
Dunning, Mr, 174
Duret:
Histoire des Langues
, 235
Durham, 315
Dutch, the / Netherlands, 98, 157, 161, 166, 201, 215, 236, 302
Dyar, Mr, 382
Earl’s Arms, Beckley, 414
Easton Pierse
JA’s childhood at, 17–26
description of JA’s home at, 18
Raleigh is remembered with misgivings in, 32–3
JA obtains trees for planting at, 108
death of JA’s grandfather, 115
death of JA’s grandmother, 130
JA spends time at, 159
and Joan Sumner, 160, 161
JA unable to afford to keep house at, 180
JA’s sketches of house at, 180, 181, 182
JA’s thoughts and feelings about, 180–2
JA completes sale of house at, 187
JA wants Wood to mention in his book, 194
JA’s enjoyment of life after losing house at, 195
JA sends information to Wood about, 234
JA is asked by Royal Society to procure clay from, 256
brief references, 34, 46, 60, 74, 178, 326, 344, 375, 391
Eaton, Byrom, 253, 274
Ebble, River, 26
Edgar, King, 275
Edgehill, Battle of, 48, 51–2, 59, 61, 68, 77, 95, 176
Edinburgh, 5
Edward V, King, 248
Edward VI, King, 82, 130, 132, 192
Edwin, King, 219
Egerton, Lord Chancellor, 298
Egham, 225
Egmont, 307
Eldred, King, 219
Elinor of Aquitaine, 43
Elizabeth I, Queen, 1, 4, 17, 20, 21, 23, 24, 28, 110, 171, 207, 304, 305, 355, 383
as Princess, 44
Ely, 116
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 274
Enderbie, Percy, 183
Cambria Triumphans
, 183
Enston Abbey, 308
Enstone, 60–1, 155, 181, 206
see also
Bushells’ Rock
Ent, Sir George, xiii, 145, 149, 285, 287
Ent, George (son of Sir George Ent)
brief biographical details, xiii
travels to France with JA, 149
finds servant for JA, 151
moves to Oxford, and receives letter of introduction to Wood, 242
and a copy of Hobbes’s life in prose, 243, 244
quarrels with Wood, 247, 251
donates books to Bodleian Library on JA’s behalf, 249–50, 317–18, 319
JA comments on behaviour of, 250–1
suggests possible purchasers for Lady Dodington’s medals, 274
illness, 280
asked by JA to try and recover a text from Wood, 284
death, 285
brief references, 272, 317, 392
Epsom, 107
Esher, 228
Essex, 202, 263
Ethelred, King, 65
Eton College, 70, 104
Ettrick, Anthony, xiii, 44, 82, 91, 92, 98, 102, 132, 133, 247, 319, 345
Euclid, 235, 328
Data
, 176
Elements
, 336, 363
Eure, River, 350
Euripides:
Medea
, 23
Evelyn, John
brief biographical details, xiii
and Royal Society, 139, 201, 226
visits Cassiano dal Pozzo, 145
JA’s query about, 226
house at Wotton, 226–7, 259–60
and JA’s work on Surrey, 259–60, 385, 389
visits Ashmole’s library and collection, 277
suggests Dr Plot as first keeper of Ashmolean Museum, 282
and Hollar, 307
and elms, 367
and JA’s manuscript about education, 387
angry with Wood, 399, 401
brief references, 11, 12, 221, 391
Writing:
Sylva
, 262
Exclusion Bill, 282
Exeter, 5, 106
Exeter College, Oxford, 42
Eynsham Abbey, 70, 96
Fairfax, Lord Thomas, xiii, 63, 68
Fairfax, Mr, 283
Faithorne, William, xiv, 160, 431
Faldo, Goody, 207
Falkland, Dr Lucius Cary, Viscount, 62, 176, 294
Falkner, Elizabeth, 309
Falstone House, 66
Fanshawe, John, 50
Fanshawe, William, 381
Fanshawe, Mistress, 50–1
Faringdon, 64
Battle of, 64, 70
Faringdon House, 64
Farleigh Abbey, 20
Farnham, 178, 224
Farr, Mr, 111
Feathers, St Paul’s Churchyard, 394
Fell, Dr John, xiv, 178, 216, 237, 238, 239, 240, 244, 248, 249, 287, 316, 366
Feriby, George:
Life’s Farewell
, 115
Ferrara, 314
Ferraran library, 314
Fisher, Payne, 186
Fisher, Sir Thomas, 315
Fishmongers’ Company, 347
Flamstead, Mr, 348
Flatman, Thomas, 183
Fleet Street, 95, 104, 267, 395, 415
Fleur-de-luce, Fleet Street, 415
Flintshire, 354
Florence, 179, 269
Florio, John, 192
Folkestone, 113
Forest, Edward, 167
Forne, Edith, 49
Fosse Way, 77, 404
Foster, Samuel, 260
France
Hobbes flees to, 34
Hobbes in exile in France, 91, 92
Hoskyns writes to JA about, 130
JA visits, 149–50
England in alliance with, 201
end of English alliance with, 236
Petty in, 299–300
Dr William Aubrey in, 304
Jenkins in, 306
James II flees to, 366
brief references, 3, 27, 95, 170
Franciscus Linus, Father, 243
Freeman, Elizabeth (JA’s cousin), x, 399, 403
Freeman, Ralph, 399
Frensham, 223
Fromantel, Mr, 328
Fulham, 192
Gadbury, John, 193, 285, 299, 389, 390, 391, 412
Gale, Dr Thomas, xiv, 389, 392, 402, 403, 408, 426
Galileo:
Tractus de Proportionum Instrumento
, 241
Gander, Mr, 157
Garden, Dr, 389, 405
Gardiner, Sergeant, 238
Garland, Patrick:
Brief Lives
(play), 429
Garraway’s coffee house, 227, 235, 238, 239, 246, 255, 256, 257, 258, 268
Gascoigne, William, 317
Gawain, 30
Gawen’s –barrow, 30
Gayford, Samuel, 169
Gebri:
Alchimia
, 241
Geneva, 149
Gibbons, Christopher, 89
Gibbons, John:
Day Fatality
, 419–20
Gibson, Edmund, 384, 405, 410, 411, 428
Chronicon Saxonicum
, 392, 418
Gillingham, Dorset, 48
Glamorganshire, 365, 413
see also
Llantrithyd
Glasgow, 5
Glastonbury, 339
Glastonbury Thorn, 156, 339
Glazeley church, 418
Glazeley Hall, 94
Gloucester, 24, 25, 77
Gloucester Hall, Oxford, 41, 253, 274, 365, 415, 417
Gloucestershire, 74, 256, 305, 354
Glover, Robert, 345
Glynne, Serjeant, 106
Godolphin, Dr John, 287
Godstone nunnery, 243
Gogges, the, 74, 252, 347
Golden Cross, Newgate Street, 259
Gondamar (Spanish ambassador), 65
Gonville Hall, Cambridge, 200
Goodall, Dr, 416
Gore, Thomas, xiv, 194, 244–5
Goresuch, Mr, 211
Gorhambery House, 85, 86–7
Gothic architecture, 185, 198
Gratius the Faliscian:
Cynegeticon
, 84
Grand Tour, 12, 102, 145
Gravesend, 200
Great Council, 62
Great Fire of London (Great Conflagration) (1666)
catastrophic effect on book trade, 5
loss of
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
, 5, 164
JA describes aftermath of, 161
the need to rebuild after, 161
St Paul’s destroyed by, 162
coffins disturbed by, 162
discovery of Roman remains after, 165
loss of etching of Osney Abbey in, 175, 243, 432
many inscriptions not legible after, 186
Ogilby’s losses in, 204
and the Tower, 218
excavations of ruins after, 235
St Bride’s church damaged in, 267
monument to Venetia Stanley destroyed by, 259, 310
St Mary Staining church destroyed by, 315
copies of Love’s pamphlet burnt in, 421
brief references, 6, 8, 201, 227, 373
Great Freeze (1684), 335
Great Plague (1665–6), 6, 8, 157, 158, 159
Greatrex, Ralph, 162, 221
Greece, 2–3
Green, Nan, 87–8
Green Dragon, 91, 273
Greenwich, 29, 114, 185
Gregory the Great, 39
Grendon, 321
Gresham College
Petty elected Professor of Music at, 88
Royal Society offered rooms for meetings at, 137
Hooke chosen as Professor of Geometry at, 151
plague causes Royal Society to stop meetings at, 159
city’s officials and clerks move to, 161
Royal Society meets at, 164
JA’s lodgings near, 236, 351
Sir Kenelm Digby at, 259
Samuel Foster held position of Professor of Astronomy at, 260
election of council and officers of Royal Society at, 273
brief references, 249, 314, 350, 387, 418
Greville, Sir Fulke, 200
Greville, Robert, Lord Brooke, 43, 53
Grew, Dr Nehemiah, 166, 273, 314
Grimston, Sir Harbottle, 110, 323
Groveley, 367
Guidott, Thomas, 376
Guild Hall, 161
Guilford, 222–3
Guyana, 47
Gwyn, Dr, 250
Haak, Mr, 291
Hadrian’s Wall, 2
Hale, Matthew, 71
Hales, John, 70, 104
Half-Moon, St Paul’s Churchyard, 394
Hall, Mrs, 408
Halley, Edmund, xiv, 285–6, 336
Hambden, Mr, 235
Hamden, Captain Edmund, 375
Hampstead Theatre, 429
Hampton Court, 114
Hancock’s well, Luckington, 107
Hankerton, 74
Hanson, Thomas, 380, 393
Hanway, Captain, 348
Harcourt, Father (William Barrow), xiv, 283
Harding, Mr, 32, 39
Hardwick, 273, 286
Harnham Bridge, 46
Harrington, James, xiv, 71, 78, 92–3, 109, 119, 125, 135, 179, 244, 271–2
Commonwealth of Oceana
, 109, 119
Diverse Modells of Popular Government
, 119
The Rota
, 119
Harrington, William, 163
Harris, Jo, 47
Hart, Mr, 179
Hart Hall, Oxford, 323, 324
Hartlib, Samuel, xiv, 95–6, 97, 99, 101, 104, 109, 135, 241
The True and ready way to learn the Latin tongue
, 101
Harvey, Eliab, 69, 92, 106, 113
Harvey, Dr William, xiv, 9, 51, 52, 69, 92, 93, 98, 99, 106, 107, 113, 145
De Motu Cordis
, 106
Hawes, William, 87, 102
Hayward, John, 305
Hearne, Thomas, 425–6
Heddington, 101, 185–6
Hempstead, 113
Henley, 61
Henley, Robert, 285, 326
Henrietta Maria of France, Queen (wife of Charles I), ix, 49, 60, 61, 82, 95
Henry II, King, 43
Henry IV, King, 208
Henry VI, King, 44, 45
Henry VII, King, 187, 352
Henry VIII, King, 1, 27, 188, 301
Henry, Prince (son of James I), 192
Henry of Huntingdon, 141
Henshaw, Mr, 255, 258, 260, 273, 315
Hensman, Mr, 394
Heralds’ Office, 201
Herbert, Henry, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
see
Pembroke, Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of
Herbert (
née
Sidney), Mary, Countess of Pembroke
see
Pembroke, Mary Herbert (
née
Sidney), Countess of
Herbert, Philip, 4th Earl of Pembroke
see
Pembroke, Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of
Herbert, Philip, 5th Earl of Pembroke
see
Pembroke, Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of
Herbert, Philip, 7th Earl of Pembroke
see
Pembroke, Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of
Herbert, Thomas, 8th Earl of Pembroke
see
Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of
Herbert, Sir Thomas, 71, 78
Herbert, William, 1st Earl of Pembroke
see
Pembroke, William Herbert, 1st Earl of
Herbert, William, Lord Herbert of Cardiff, 83, 84
Hereford, 6, 275
Herefordshire, 66, 98, 118, 256, 354
Hersham, 323
Hertfordshire, 399, 403, 408, 410–11
Hesketh, Mr, 52, 206, 413
Hewer, Mr, 281
Heyrick, Mr, 382
Highgate Hill, 9, 87
Highworth, 100, 380
Hill, Mr, 235, 255, 256, 258, 261, 268, 273
Hilliard, Nicolas, 355, 383
Hilrewers, 296
Hindmarsh, Mr, 394
Hinton, Mr, 156
Historia Roffensia, 208, 242, 318
Hobbes, Edmund, 22, 116, 133
Hobbes, Thomas
brief biographical details, xv