For full details, see Bibliography.
Bennett: John Aubrey, John Aubrey: Brief Lives
Clark: John Aubrey, ‘Brief Lives’, chiefly of Contemporaries
Monumenta: John Aubrey, Monumenta Britannica
Natural History: John Aubrey, The Natural History of Wiltshire
Surrey: John Aubrey, The Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey
Wiltshire Collections: John Aubrey, Wiltshire: The Topographical Collections
Education: John Aubrey, Aubrey on Education
Three Prose Works: John Aubrey, Miscellanies, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, Observations
1 He offered as a ‘probability’: MS Aubrey 14, fol. 25.
2 In the aftermath of: Powell (1949), p.xxii.
3 The historical and scientific interests: K. J. Williams (2012); Poole (2010).
4 Looking back: Powell (1948), p.274; MS Aubrey 3.
5 Antiquities, according to Bacon: Robertson (ed.) (2013), p.82.
6 One of the drawings: William Dugdale collaborated with Roger Dodsworth. The Monasticon Anglicanum was first published in Latin, vol. 1 (1655), vol. 2 (1661) and vol. 3. (1673). Hollar’s engraving was published in vol. 2 (1661) facing p.136.
7 Aubrey records that: Keynes (1968); Bennett, vol. 1, p.432; Clark, vol. 1, p.37.
8 After the Restoration: Compare the work of William Somner in Canterbury and see, A treatise of the Roman ports and forts in Kent.
9 Before Printing: Three Prose Works, p.290.
10 From here the book trade: Raymond (2003), p.83.
11 He became a Fellow: Hunter (1975), p.64; Hunter (1981), p.21; Hunter (1989), p.8–9.
12 He promised to give his own important collection: Ovenell (1986), pp.14–15.
13 At the end of his life: MS Aubrey 6, MS Aubrey 7, MS Aubrey 8. Bennett; Clark.
14 About himself Aubrey concluded: Bennett, vol. 1, p.429; Bobrick (2006), p.231.
15 He cursed the classical tradition: MS Wood 39, fol. 340r.
16 A Life, he insisted: MS Wood 39, fol. 340r.
17 His idea was to get at the truth: MS Aubrey 6, fol. 12; Bennett, vol. 1, p.38.
18 An example is the Life: Bennett, vol. 1, p.406.
19 In Elizabeth and Essex, Lytton Strachey writes: Powell (1949), pp.xxi–xxii.
20 Among the manuscripts and letters: MS Aubrey 7, fol. 3; Bennett, vol. 1, p.429.
21 When he could no longer afford: Or occasionally with antiquarian services, see Thanet’s archive.
22 In describing himself: MS Wood 39, fol. 196; MS Aubrey 9, fol. 8.
23 In the pencil portrait of Aubrey: Portrait of John Aubrey by William Faithorne, in the Ashmolean Museum, Accession Number WA1904.3, graphite and wash on vellum, with red chalk and graphite.
24 I was inspired: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Latham and Matthews (1971–1983); de Beer (1955); Robinson and Adams (1935).
25 Pepys kept his diary for a decade: Even though he wrote in shorthand, Pepys took care over the final copy of his diary, which was elegantly bound and shelved for posterity.
1 My grandfather tells me: Wiltshire Collections, pp.240–1.
2 I like to ask: MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 207.
3 I lie on the bank: MS Aubrey 10, fol. 117.
4 The north part: Three Prose Works, p.312; Wiltshire Collections, p.236.
5 The stones at Easton: MS Aubrey 1, fol. 84.
6 I am so bored: MS Aubrey 10, fol. 7b.
7 When I was learning: Natural History, p.43.
8 I love to read: MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 203v. In his Idea of Education, Aubrey complained about the use of hornbooks that taught children to read using gothic characters instead of Latin: Education, p.51.
9 I started school: Clark, vol. 1, p.33; MS Ballard 14, fol. 133.
10 There is another: Natural History, p.17.
11 I have moved: MS Aubrey 2, fol. 18b.
12 My fine box top: MS Aubrey 10, fol. 8b.
13 In Latin lessons: Education, p.53.
14 My most distinguished ancestor: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.114–19; Clark, vol. 1, pp.210–15. Dr John Dee (1527–1609), mathematician, astrologer and antiquary.
15 My nurse, Kath: Bennett, vol. 2, p.439.
16 Kath knows the history: Three Prose Works, pp.287, 290.
17 I am newly recovered: Bennett, vol. 1, p.439.
18 It is venison season: Aubrey is mistaken. In fact Hobbes’s father was vicar of the small neighbouring parish of Brokenborough, one of the poorest livings in the area. See Malcolm, p.2. Hobbes went to school in Westport when Robert Latimer was teaching there. Clark, vol. 1, pp.331–2.
19 Mr Hobbes went to Oxford: Malcolm, pp.4–12. Hobbes returned to England in October 1636.
20 Here are some: Clark, vol. 2, p.325.
21 I rode over: Natural History, p.44; Monumenta, p.103.
22 Sir Philip Sidney: Monumenta, p.98. Note that in his manuscript transcription of Sidney’s poem Aubrey writes ‘stones’ instead of ‘stone’. Duncan-Jones (1973), p.102.
23 My honoured teacher: ‘Here lieth Mr Robert Latymer, sometime rector and pastor of this church, who deceased this life the second day of November, anno domini 1634’.
24 I love the music: Bennett, vol. 1, p.36; Clark, vol. 2, p.319.
25 Above alderman and woollen draper: Bennett, vol. 1, p.259; Clark, vol. 2, pp.249–50; Duncan-Jones (1991), p.299.
26 My grandmother, Rachel Danvers: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.712–13; Clark, vol. 2, pp.298–9.
27 Since Alderman Whitson’s death: Monumenta, pp.47, 65.
28 When we are not: Dr William Aubrey and William, Earl of Pembroke, were distantly related (by descent from the Welsh princes Melin and Philip ap Elydr) and fought together at the Battle of St Quentin (1557). See Powell (1948), p.22.
29 I have seen a book: MS Aubrey 2, fols 36, 167.
30 Here is the 1st Earl of Pembroke: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.247–50; Clark, vol. 1, pp.314–17.
31 Here is Mary, Countess of Pembroke: Bennett, vol. 1, p. 251–3; Clark, vol. 1, pp.310–3.
32 Here is Sir Philip Sidney: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.256–60; Clark, vol. 2, pp.247–50.
33 The situation of Wilton House: MS Aubrey 2, fol. 31.
34 There is a picture: MS Aubrey 2, fol. 32.
35 Peacock has run: Natural History, p.117.
36 This autumn, Broad Chalke: MS Aubrey 1, fol. 171.
37 Mr Peyton is now: Bennett, vol. 1, p.527; Clark, vol. 2, p.307. Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans (1561–1626), Lord Chancellor, politician and philosopher.
38 Lord Bacon has argued: Bacon (2013), p.82.
39 I have found: Education, p.20.
40 A terrible day: Education, p.18.
41 Sir Walter Raleigh: Bennett, vol. 1. p.232, pp.241–2; Clark, vol. 2, p.191.
42 I have heard my grandfather: Bennett, vol. 1, p.35.
43 Sometimes, on holy days: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 21a(r).
44 Sauntering through Blandford: Aubrey is referring to the Thirty Years War.
45 7 November: Malcolm, pp.15–16.
1 Mr Hobbes encouraged me: Clark, vol. 2, p.322. Magdalen Hall was originally next to Magdalen College. The Hall, unlike the College, had no chapel: see Malcolm, p.4. It was re-founded as Hertford College in the nineteenth century.
2 All this time: Education, p.86.
3 Because I am busy: On Aubrey’s knowledge of rattlesnakes see Bennett, pp.321–2.
4 ‘Turds! Tarrarags!’: Brief Lives, Kettell; MS Ballard 14, fol. 127.
5 In Dr Ralph Kettell’s dining room: Gloucester Hall is now Worcester College.
6 May Day: Three Prose Works, p.137.
7 Today I heard: Clark, vol. 2, p.294.
8 This morning, I saw: Manning.
9 At St John’s College: Three Prose Works, p.350.
10 There has been a brush: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.448–9; Clark, vol. 1, p.188.
11 Now the place is full: MS Aubrey 15; MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 89.
12 Today Dr Kettell: Bennett, vol. 1, p.175; Clark, vol. 1, p.250.
13 Dr Kettell upbraided: MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 204.
14 Today I visited Abingdon: Bennett, vol. 1, p.352; Clark, vol. 1, p.185.
15 How now Bellona thunders: Bennett, vol. 1, p.432.
16 I have regretfully obeyed: Natural History, p.15.
17 The eldest son: Natural History, p.81.
18 Francis Potter, a reclusive: Revd Francis Potter BD FRS (1594–1678) was a commoner of Trinity College, Oxford, and in 1637 succeeded his father, Prebendary Richard Potter (Fellow 1579–85), as rector of Kilmington in Somerset. His brother, Revd Hannibal Potter DD (1592–1664), was elected into the Trinity Fellowship in 1613.
19 I have met: Bennett (2009), p.330; Bennett, vol. 1, p.134; Clark, vol. 1, p.200; MS Aubrey 6, fol. 44.
20 I am made much of: Powell (1948), p.54.
21 Tonight I watched: Three Prose Works, pp.27–8.
22 Many of the courtiers: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.181–2;
23 I have seen Dr William Harvey: Bennett, vol. 1, p.200; Clark, vol. 1, p.300.
24 I have heard another: Bennett, vol. 1, p.198; Clark, vol. 1, p.298.
25 In George Bathurst’s rooms: Harvey (1628), p.34; Frank (1981). Harvey’s Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium, quibus accedunt quaedam de Partû, de Membranis ac Tumoribus Uteri, et de Conceptione was printed in 1651.
26 I hope I can find: Bennett, vol. 1, p.432;
27 Camp fever is raging: MS Ballard 14, fol. 96; ‘unpolished’ by smallpox is a phrase Aubrey uses about Sir John Denham: Bennett, vol. 1, p.505. Grim the Collier is a figure in seventeenth-century folklore appearing in songs and stories.
28 Smallpox is periodical: Three Prose Works, p.24.
29 I am not there: Wiltshire collections, p.263.
30 Sir William Waller’s soldiers: Wiltshire Collections, p.258.
1 My father’s caution: Clark, vol. 1, p.38.
2 Dr Ralph Kettell has died: MS Ballard 14, fol. 131.
3 I went to visit Mr Bushell: Clark, vol. 1, pp.133–4.
4 In this time of civil war: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.314–5.
5 My friend and tutor: MS Aubrey 12, fols 47, 48.
6 According to William Browne: Clark, vol. 1, p.173.
7 William Browne says: MS Aubrey 12, fols 49, 50.
8 I rode over: Natural History, p.99.
9 The Parliament’s soldiers: Hartmann.
10 On this day: Wood, Athenae Oxonienses I, p.515.
11 Mr William Browne writes: MS Aubrey 12, fols 43, 44.
12 When I was a boy: Wiltshire Collections, p.136.
13 There is a church: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.587–8; Clark, vol. 1, p.244.
14 My friend William Browne: MS Aubrey 12, fols 35–6.
15 Old Mr Broughton: Bennett, vol. 1, p.335; Clark, vol. 1, p.128.
16 There are otters: MS Aubrey 1, fol. 132r.
17 The Middle Temple gardens: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 23r.
18 Sir Thomas Fairfax: Bennett, vol. 1, p.651; Clark, vol. 1, p.251; MS Aubrey 8, fol. 60.
19 While the King: Bennett, vol. 1, p.267; Clark, vol. 1, p.104.
20 My honoured neighbour: MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 57v).
21 To my great joy: Bennett, vol. 1, p.433.
22 The Parliamentarian Visitation: Hopkins, p.119.
23 Ralph Bathurst says: Clark, vol. 2, p.11.
24 My Trinity friends: Bennett, vol. 1, p.399.
25 I went to visit William Stumpe: Natural History, p.79.
26 Despite all the disruptions: MS Wood 49, fol. 42. Matthew Hale (1609–76), judge and writer; his integrity was founded on puritan manners and religion. Henry Rolle (1589–1656), politician and judge. Both men served on the King’s Bench. Hale edited the treatise on common law which Rolle composed for students.
27 How it comes to pass: Natural History, p.17; Three Prose Works, p.25.
28 Mr Lydall has not yet received: MS Aubrey 12, fols 296–7; Frank (1973); Frank (1981), p.165.
29 Mr Lydall has done: MS Aubrey 12, fols 298–9.
30 Hannibal Potter: Hopkins, p.119.
31 The south front: Natural History, p.82.
32 At Morecomb-bottome: Natural History, p.33.
33 The walls of the church: Natural History, p.43.
34 The River Thames: Natural History, p.30.
35 Clay abounds in Wiltshire: Natural History, p.35.
36 I believe the name: Wiltshire Collections, p.251.
37 We set off with the hounds: Natural History, p.44.
38 On this day, at last: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.184–95; Clark, vol. 2, pp.161–70.
39 These are the peaks: Natural History, p.38.
40 Mr Potter tells me stories: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.336–9; Clark, vol. 1, p.108.
41 Mr Emanuel Decretz: Bennett, vol. 1, p.558; Clark, vol. 1, p.10.
1 In our present times: Frank (1973).
2 Since the Parliamentary Visitation: The King’s Cabinet Opened, or certain packets of secret letters and papers written with the King’s own hand and taken in his cabinet in Nasby-field, June 14, 1645 by victorious Sir Thomas Fairfax, wherein many mysteries of state, ending to the justification of that cause, for which Sir Thomas Fairfax joined battell that memorable day are clearly laid open, published by special order of the Parliament by Robert Bostock, London, 1645.
3 At Hullavington: Three Prose Works, p.358.
4 Old good-wife: Natural History, p.69.
5 I attended the baptism: Clark, vol. 2, p.229.
6 It is rumoured: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 306.
7 Mr Lydall and I: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 302.
8 Mr Lydall has written: MS Aubrey 12, fols 304–5.
9 I have been hunting: Clark, vol. 2, p.317; MS Aubrey 1, fols 135–6.
10 My friend Mr Christopher Wase: Wase (1654).
11 I have been to Verulam: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.205–27; Clark, vol. 1, pp.66–84.
12 Gorhambery House is large: Virgil (1999–2000), Eclogues 4, vol. 1, p.50.
13 My friend John Lydall: MS Aubrey 12, fols 306–7.
14 There has been a remarkable occurrence: Bennett, vol. 1, p.43; Clark, vol. 2, p.141.
15 I have acquired: Williams, ‘Training the Virtuoso’.
16 Mr Lydall is leaving: MS Aubrey 12, fols 310–11.
17 I have acquired: Bacon (1648).
18 My friend Mr Francis Potter: Royal Society, London, Classified Paper XII (I) 17; Bennett, introduction.
19 Sir John Danvers’s house: MS Aubrey 2, fol. 56.
20 Lord Bacon came often: Bennett, vol. 1, p.206; Clark, vol. 1, p.70; MS Aubrey 6, fol. 67v.
21 Mr Potter is greatly obliged: Wilkins.
22 Mr Potter considers: MS Aubrey 13, fols 141–3.
23 I am like Virgil’s Dido: Bennett, vol. 1, p.440; Virgil (1818), p.202.
24 Here are some: MS Aubrey 12, fols 308–9; Kircher.
25 On this day: Three Prose Works, p.29; MS Wood 39, fol. 247; Powell (1948), pp.70–1.
26 The bookseller Mr Crooke: Malcolm, pp.200–29.
27 My friend Dr William Petty: Bennett, vol. 1, p.43; Clark, vol. 2, p.140; MS Aubrey 9, fol. 51. On Hobbes’s treatise on optics, see Malcolm, p.13.
28 At last I have met: Bennett, vol. 1, p.198; Clark, vol. 1, p.302.
29 Mr Harrington was: Bennett, vol. 1, p.244.
30 I have been to see Mr Hobbes: Clark, vol. 1, pp.351–2.
31 It was Mr Mudiford: MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 207; Ellis.
32 Dr William Petty: Bennett, vol. 1, p.45; Clark, vol. 2, p.142.
33 Sir Charles Cavendish: Bennett, vol. 1, p.90; Clark, vol. 1, p.153.
34 The London physician: MS Aubrey 12, fols 29–30.
35 On this day my father: Three Prose Works, p.73.
36 My friend Mr Potter: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 144.
37 At Wilton House: Bennett, vol. 1, p.348; Clark, vol. 1, p.218.
38 Today I went: 26 April 1649.
39 Then we talked: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.52–3; Clark, vol. 1, p.121.
40 Mr Boyle speaks Latin: Bennett, vol. 1, p.291; Clark, vol. 1, p.183.
41 I returned to Eynsham: Bennett, ‘John Aubrey and the Circulation’; MS Aubrey 6, fol. 100; MS Ashmole 1722.
42 Despite these troubles: MS Aubrey 12, fols 315–16.
43 Mr Lydall has sent: MS Aubrey 12, fols 319, 320.
44 Mr Hartlib has a manuscript: MS Aubrey 12, fols 155a–156b.
45 Mr Potter was to come: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 145.
46 I am trying to find: MS Aubrey 12, fols. 312, 313.
47 Dr Harvey has prescribed: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 107.
48 My friend Anthony Ettrick: Natural History, p.121; Gaskill (2007).
49 Mr Potter’s brother: MS Aubrey 13, fols 146, 162.
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.
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.
1 I have reached Paris: Hobbes (1994), vol. 2, p.620.
2 The shopkeepers here: Powell (1948), p.8.
3 About a mile: MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 56).
4 Not far from the road: MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 56).
5 I have paid: MS Aubrey 21, fol. 56.
6 I hear that Mr Hooke’s: Bennett, vol. 1, p.98; Clark, vol. 1, p.411.
7 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.
8 Mr Hobbes always has: MS Aubrey 9, fol. 54; Hobbes (1994), vol. 1, p.xxx.
9 My friend Mr George Ent: MS Aubrey 12, fols 102–3.
10 I have written: The preface to Templa Druidum.
11 The similarity between: Monumenta, p.42.
12 I have made a close study: MS Aubrey 11, fols 1b, 3.
13 Mr Charlton claims: MS Aubrey 11, fols 13b, 14.
14 Southward from Avebury: MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 63).
15 How well I remember: Bennett, vol. 1, p.315; Clark, vol. 1, p.134.
16 I missed seeing: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 236.
17 The bush in Mr Hinton’s garden: Three Prose Works, p.330.
18 The widow of: Bennett, vol. 1, p.455; Clark, vol. 1, p.127. Aubrey comments: ‘but it was his Father-in-lawes invention’.
19 Looking on a serene sky: Boyle (2001), vol. 3, p.111.
20 Mr Samuel Pepys: Birch, vol. 2, p.13.
21 Sir John Hoskyns: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 196.
22 The poet Sir John Denham: Bennett, vol. 1, p.349; Clark, vol. 1, p.219.
23 I have been to see: Bennett, vol. 1, p.171; Clark, vol. 2, p.304.
24 Mr Wenceslaus Hollar: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 174.
25 In Mr Camden’s Britannia: Bennett, vol. 1, p.359; Clark, vol. 1, p.145.
26 I discovered the waters: MS Aubrey 1, fol. 34.
27 I sent my servant: Natural History, pp.21–2.
28 In about a month: Boyle (2001), vol. 3, pp.111–12; Pell.
29 I have shown: Boyle (1772), vol. 1, section VIII, p.451; vol. 3, p.148.
30 Mr Hobbes is disturbed: Hobbes (1994), vol. 1, p.xxv.
31 The Parliamentary Committee: Hobbes (1994), vol. 1, p.xxv.
32 Following the Great Conflagration: Bennett, vol. 1, p.98; Clark, vol. 1, p.411.
33 I saw Bishop Braybrook’s body: Three Prose Works, p.349.
34 I spoke to some: MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 37.
35 A little before: MS Top. Gen. C.25, fols 37r–38r; Bennett (2014).
36 Lord Henry Howard: Birch, vol. 2, pp.121–2.
37 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.
38 Blood has been moved: Birch, vol. 2, p.123.
39 The band of my turquoise ring: Boyle (1772), vol. 3, p.151.
40 At the meeting today: Birch, vol. 2, pp.127, 142.
41 At the Royal Society’s: Birch, vol. 2, pp.129–30.
42 My lord Brouncker: Britton, p.96.
43 Lady Denham died: Bennett, vol. 1, p.350; Clark, vol. 1, p.219; MS Aubrey 12, fols 96–7.
44 My friend Edward Davenant: Bennett (2009), p.330.
45 Since the Great Conflagration: Natural History, p.38.
46 Many Roman remains: Monumenta, pp.498–9.
47 I have promised: MS Aubrey 9, fol. 31v; Wiltshire Collections, pp.251, 255.
48 We talked of Mr Hobbes: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 5, p.10.
49 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.
50 I have received: MS Ballard 14, fol. 80r.
51 At a meeting: Birch, vol. 2, p.224.
52 Today, before the Royal Society: Gunther (1923–45), vol. 6, p.321; Birch, vol. 2, p.226.
53 I am at last: MS Ballard 14, fol. 80.
54 I went today: Bennett, vol. 1, p.145; Clark, vol. 1, pp.208–9.
55 Thomas May translated: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.573–4; Clark, vol. 2, pp.55–7; Raymond (1996), p.285.
56 I have seen Mr Hobbes: Hobbes (1994), vol. 1, p.xxv. On the dating of Hobbes’s tract on heresy, see Willman.
57 The Council: Birch, vol. 2, p.265; Lewis (2001).
58 Today I brought before: Birch, vol. 2, p.272.
59 I have decided: MS Top. Gen. C.24, fol. 251.
60 Exploring the sky: Register Book Copy 3, 128; Classified Paper VIII (I) 24.
61 The Royal Society: Birch, vol. 2, p.283; Lodwick, pp.19–20.
62 When I was a boy: MS Wood 39, fol. 118.
63 I have been told: MS Wood 39, fol. 318.
64 My servant Robert: MS Ballard 14, fol. 81.
65 I have been to see: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 211r.
66 As soon as my lawsuit: MS Ballard 14, fol. 82.
67 The great poet: Clark, vol. 1, pp.190–1.
68 St Paul’s Day: MS Ballard 14, fol. 86.
69 If Mr Wood needs: MS Ballard 14, fol. 84.
70 I brought my drawing: Register Book Copy 3, 128.
71 Sir John Denham: Bennett, vol. 1, p.350; Clark, vol. 1, p.219.
72 Today, I brought before: Birch, vol. 2, p.361.
73 In Mr Samuel Cooper’s studio: Bennett, vol. 1, p.295; Clark, vol. 1, p.151; Mortimer, p.68.
74 Lord Cary adhered: Bennett, vol. 1, p.298; Clark, vol. 1, pp.152, 173.
75 I have sent: MS Aubrey 12, fols 94–5.
76 Mr Wood has quarrelled: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, pp.163–4.
77 The work of making: Natural History, p.27.
78 Seth Ward tells me: Natural History, p.37. Wilkins became Bishop of Chester in November 1668.
79 This searching: MS Aubrey 3, fol. 11.
80 At Bemarton: Natural History, p.95.
81 Mr Wood has been summoned: Ballard MS 14, fol. 84.
82 A new idea: MS Aubrey 10, fol. 2.
83 I am in Broad Chalke: MS Ballard 14, fol. 88.
84 I have heard: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 142v. Mr William Browne died on 21 October 1669.
85 I have presented: Hobbes (1994), vol. 2, p.521.
86 I was to see: MS Aubrey 12, fols 153–4.
87 I have a short poem: MS Aubrey 21, fol. 3; Bennett, vol. 1, p.323; Clark, vol. 1, p.293.
88 Mr Harrington suffers: Bennett, vol. 1, p.321; Clark, vol. 1, p.292.
89 My former servant: MS Aubrey 13, fols 256–7.
90 Easter Tuesday: MS Tanner 456a, fol. 9.
91 Many of the old ways: Wiltshire Collections, p.236.
92 I remember how my grandfather: Wiltshire Collections, p.236.
93 I have collected together: MS Aubrey 17, fols 1–2; Ovid, Metamorphoses, lib. 9.
94 I saw Mr Wood today: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.192.
95 I am at Broad Chalke: MS Aubrey 12, fols 116–17.
96 My former servant: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 258.
97 This year, not far: Three Prose Works, p.50.
98 Mr Lodwick, my friend: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 264; Lodwick, pp.33–4.
99 Between south Wales: MS Wood 39, fol. 128.
100 When I was a boy: MS Ballard 14, fol. 133; Clark, vol. 1, pp.146–7.
101 Also in Yatton Keynell: Monumenta, p.126.
102 Mr Samuel Butler: Bennett, vol. 1, p.396; Clark, vol. 1, pp.145–6.
103 The Roman architecture flourished: MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 168).
104 The Roman architecture came again: MS Aubrey 16, fol. 8.
105 Today I presented: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 28, no. 2 (1 April 1974), p.168.
106 Today I gave: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 28, no. 2 (1 April 1974), p.168.
107 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.
109 Glass is becoming: Clark, vol. 2, p.329.
110 I have been helping: MS Wood 39, fol. 165.
111 I have introduced: MS Wood 39, fol. 165.
112 My friend Walter Charleton: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 66.
113 Surely my stars: MS Wood 39, fol. 166.
114 I have now completed: Wiltshire Collections, p.119.
1 I am concerned: MS Ballard 14, fol. 92.
2 In London I have received: MS Aubrey 12, fols 82, 83.
3 Henry Coley was born: Bennett, vol. 1, p.753; Clark, vol. 1, p.181.
4 John Florio was born: MS Wood 39, fols 131, 133; Clark, vol. 1, p.254.
5 If you dissolve sugar: Three Prose Works, p.356.
6 It is a relief: Clark, vol. 1, p.42.
7 I am interested: MS Wood 39, fol. 131: 14 June 1671.
8 Mr Gadbury assures me: Bennett, vol. 1, p.580; Clark, vol. 2, p.324.
9 I think it might be said: MS Wood 39, fol. 131.
10 Mr Wood writes: MS Wood 39, fols 135, 183.
11 I am rumoured: MS Wood 39, fol. 141.
12 Mr Thomas Gore: MS Aubrey 12, fols 140–1.
13 Sir John Hoskyns: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 197.
14 I have asked: MS Wood 39, fols 141–5.
15 I have drawn inspiration: MS Aubrey 21, fol. 24.
16 I shall set my play: Clark, vol. 2, p.268; vol. 1, p.277; MS Aubrey 21, fol. 24v.
17 Before I leave England: MS Wood 39, fol. 141.
18 Sir James and I: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.561–2; Clark, vol. 2, p.37.
19 After the mosaic: MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 104).
20 I have noticed: MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 155),
21 I have sought advice: Clark, vol. 2, p.149.
22 Two trunks full: MS Ballard 14, fol. 89.
23 I wish to go: MS Wood 39, fol. 149.
24 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.
25 Mr Edward Bradsaw: Clark, vol. 2, p.85.
26 My lord the Earl: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 209.
27 Mr Isaac Newton: Birch, vol. 3, p.1.
28 To help Mr Wood: MS Wood 39, fol. 195.
29 Sir John Hoskyns: MS Aubrey 12, fols 209–10.
30 I am going to Somerset: MS Aubrey 26, fol. 10v.
31 The headmaster of Brentwood: MS Aubrey 13, fols 49–51.
32 I know of men: MS Aubrey 10, fol. 7.
33 For his collection: Boyle (2001), vol. 4, p.319.
34 Mr Wood is a candid historian: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 8.
35 My honoured friend: Bennett, vol. 1, p.7; Clark, vol. 1, pp.182–3.
36 Mr Cooper gave me: Clark, vol. 1, p.368; Foskett, p.63. An unfinished portrait of Hobbes is among others listed as being in the artist’s studio after his death.
37 Mr Paschall tells me: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 2; Salmon.
38 Sir John Hoskyns: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 202.
39 I have discovered: MS Wood 39, fol. 181.
40 In his youth: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.609–19; Clark, vol. 2, pp.102–4; Ogilby.
41 Mr Ogilby’s list: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 244; Bennett (2014).
42 Mr Hooke is ill: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 203.
43 I have found out: MS Wood 39, fol. 185.
44 Mr Thomas Browne: MS Aubrey 12, fols 52–4.
45 About a hundred: MS Wood 39, fol. 188.
46 I am staying: Boyle (2001), vol. 4, pp.319–20.
47 Sir John Hoskyns insists: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 205.
48 My lord the Earl: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 210.
49 My thoughts keep returning: MS Wood 39, fol. 192, October 1672; MS Top. Gen. C.25, fols 23–33.
50 I have in my possession: MS Wood 39, fol. 190; Surrey, vol. 1, p.v (introduction).
51 Mr Hobbes has given: Birch, vol. 3, p.58.
52 I have a great desire: MS Wood 39, fol. 147.
53 Sir John Hoskyns has written: MS Aubrey 12, vol. 206.
54 I hope to retrieve: MS Wood 39, fol. 181.
55 According to Goody Faldo: MS Wood 39, fol. 192, 18 January; Bennett (2009), p.338.
56 My friend and fellow antiquary: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.114–19; Clark, vol. 1, pp.210–15; MS Aubrey 8, fol. 6v.
57 My friend Henry Coley: MS Aubrey 23, fol. 113.
58 I am back: Hooke (1935), p.18.
59 It has been decided: MS Wood 39, fol. 253. Dr Poole has argued that Aubrey’s identification of his manuscript as Historia Roffensia is mistaken. The manuscript is a copy of ‘Flores Historiarum’ now MSe Musae 149.
60 I think my former servant: MS Wood 39, fol. 261.
61 I dined yesterday: MS Wood 39, fol. 195.
62 Christopher Wren’s sister: Bennett, vol. 1, p.280; Clark, vol. 1, p.405.
63 I have succeeded: MS Wood 39, fol. 196; MS Aubrey 9, fol. 8.
64 Mr Ashmole has shown: MS Wood 39, fol. 255.
65 I would like to return: MS Wood 39, fols 261, 258.
66 My books: MS Wood 39, fol. 199, 7 April 1673.
67 I dined recently: Bennett, vol. 1, p.573; Clark, vol. 1, pp.170–1.
1 Sir Lleuellin Jenkins: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.75–6; Clark, vol. 2, p.8.
2 My spirit is dejected: MS Wood 39, fol. 206.
3 At last, Mr Ogilby: Surrey, vol. 1, introduction; Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.265; MS Aubrey 4, fol. 243r; see also Ogilby (1673). Also Aubrey’s note that the Royal Society considered these queries at several meetings (MS Aubrey 4, fol. 244).
4 Alas, I must wait: MS Wood 39, fol. 214.
5 Dr Fell: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.200.
6 I have sent: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.265.
7 Two days ago: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.265.
8 Robert Moray’s death: Bennett, vol. 1, p.633; Clark, vol. 2, p.82; Monumenta, p.128; Birch, vol. 3, p.113.
9 I have decided: Surrey, vol. 1, introduction. The earliest notes regarding Aubrey’s perambulation of Surrey are from July 1673 (MS Aubrey 4, fols 235r–242v). He later reworked them, as did his editor, Rawlinson.
10 The celebrated River Thames: MS Aubrey 4, fols 5a(r), 13.
11 London Bridge: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 10r.
12 It is generally agreed: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 14r.
13 The Tradescant collection: Surrey, vol. 1, pp.12–13.
14 In the ditches: MS Aubrey 4, fols 25, 32.
15 East of Kingston: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 37r.
16 All Saints’ Church: Horsfall Turner, p.182; Surrey, vol. 1, pp.18–19; MS Aubrey 4, fol. 38.
17 At Cobham: Three Prose Works, p.318; MS Aubrey 4, fol. 44r.
18 At Norbury: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 48.
19 At Deepdene: MS Aubrey 4, fols 49–50, 53–4.
20 There is a vineyard: Three Prose Works, p.318.
21 I have copied: MS Aubrey 4, fols 51–2.
22 As I rode: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 59r.
23 On Letherhed Down: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 89r.
24 In Albury Park: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 99r.
25 Ben remembers: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 105r.
26 I went to see the remains: Surrey, vol. 4, pp.79–80; MS Aubrey 4, fols 102r–103.
27 I have reached Guilford: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 108r; for illustrations see fol. 183v.
28 Mayden-hair grows: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 117v.
29 Here at Frensham: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 140ar.
30 Waverley Abbey is situated: Surrey, vol. 3, p.360; MS Aubrey 4, fol. 141r.
31 Waverley was the mother church: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 142v.
32 Above the town: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 148r.
33 In Woking I spoke: Three Prose Works, p.319; MS Aubrey 4, fol. 163r.
34 The cheese of this county: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 170r.
35 Croydon market: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 180r.
36 Bordering on Hampshire: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 182r.
37 I made diligent enquiry: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 189a(r). Aubrey notes that according to his friend Christopher Wase, Sir John Denham called the place Cooper’s Hill after his man Cooper, who took a great delight in going there because of the prospect.
38 I have reached Runnymede: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 189a(r).
39 I am still searching: MS Wood 39, fol. 221.
40 Quaere: if Mr John Evelyn: MS Wood 39, fol. 221; MS Aubrey 4, fol. 95r.
41 I think and hope: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 246.
42 I am back: MS Wood 39, fol. 223; Wattie, p.214.
43 I met Mr Ogilby: Hooke (1935), p.62.
44 My friend Christopher Wase: MS Aubrey 13, fols 247–9; Wase (1678).
45 I am ashamed: MS Wood 39, fol. 231.
1 I have returned: Hooke (1935), p.65.
2 I dined this evening: MS Ballard 14, fol. 96.
3 Mr Ashmole once lived: Surrey, vol. 4, pp.70, 79; MS Aubrey 4, fol. 99.
4 I have sent: MS Tanner 456a, fol. 15.
5 I have been to Richmond: Clark, vol. 2, p.177.
6 I have sent Mr Wood: MS Wood 39, fol. 243.
7 My friend Sir John Hoskyns: Clark, vol. 1, p.425; MS Aubrey 23, fol. 63.
8 I have drafted: MS Ashmole 1829, fol. 5.
9 Today I drank: Hooke (1935), p.70.
10 I presented Mr Hooke: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 28, no. 2 (1 April 1974), p.169.
11 Mr Hooke has lent me: Hooke (1935), p.71.
12 I visited the apothecary: See MS Top. Gen. C.24, fol. 244v; MacGregor, p.86.
13 I was hoping: MS Wood 39, fol. 241.
14 I was at Garraway’s: Hooke (1935), p.77.
15 My lodgings: Bennett, vol. 1, p.438; Clark, vol. 1, p.44; MS Wood 39, fol. 261.
16 I presented: Birch, vol. 3, p.122.
17 I am so importuned: MS Wood 39, fol. 255.
18 Mr Hobbes tells me: MS Aubrey 12, fols 166–7.
19 I have had to break: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.290.
20 Mr Wood’s book: Clark, vol. 1, p.343; MS Aubrey 9, fol. 43.
21 I spent the day: Hooke (1935), p.89.
22 I was at Garraway’s: Hooke (1935), p.90.
23 On this day: MS Wood 39, fol. 261; Wattie; Hooke (1935).
24 Mr Hooke has newly: MS Wood 39, fol. 261; Lodwick, p.30.
25 I saw Mr Hobbes: MS Ballard 14, fol. 98.
26 I am reminded: Surrey, vol. 3, p.367; MS Aubrey 4, fol. 140a(r).
27 Other friends urge me: MS Ballard 14, fol. 98.
28 Mr Hobbes plans: MS Ballard 14, fol. 99.
29 I went to visit: Hooke (1935), p.99.
30 The Earl of Thanet: MS Ballard 14, fol. 99; Bennett, vol. 1, p.745; Clark, vol. 1, p.97.
31 I do think: MS Wood 39, fol. 268.
32 Mr Hooke and I: Hooke (1935).
33 I have sent: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.293.
34 Mr Hooke lent me: Hooke (1935), p.109.
35 Two dozen copies: MS Ballard 14, fol. 103.
36 I took leave: Hooke (1935), p.111; Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 28, no. 2 (1 April 1974).
37 Mr Hooke lent me: Hooke (1935), p.112.
38 Mr Hobbes’s letter: Clark, vol. 1, p.345.
39 Mr Wood has sent me: MS Ballard 14, fol. 105.
40 A very rainy morning: Hooke (1935), p.115.
41 Mr Hooke lent me: Hooke (1935), p.116.
42 George Ent desires: MS Ballard 14, fol. 108.
43 I have a curious manuscript: Clark, vol. 2, p.158.
44 I do not think: MS Ballard 14, fol. 107.
45 I went to Joe’s: Hooke (1935), p.118.
46 The Earl of Rochester: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.151, 171; Clark, vol. 2, pp.34, 54.
47 I am reconsidering: MS Ballard 14, fol. 110.
48 I cannot persuade: Hobbes (1994), vol. 2, pp.918–19.
49 It is a shame: MS Ballard 14, fol. 111.
50 The antiquary: Ovenell, p.31.
51 Meanwhile, Thomas Gore: MS Wood 39, fol. 282.
52 Mr Hooke lent me: Hooke (1935), p.123.
53 I have easily answered: MS Wood 39, fol. 282; MS Ballard 14, fol. 111.
54 I have been to see: Bennett, vol. 1, p.191; Clark, vol. 2, p.170.
55 I wish I had: MS Ballard 14, fol. 113.
56 I am concerned about: MS Aubrey 13, fols 211–12.
57 Sir Jonas Moore: Birch, vol. 3, pp.158–9.
58 I went to Garraway’s: Hooke (1935), p.135; Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 28, no. 2 (1 April 1974), p.181.
59 I went to Joe’s: Hooke (1935), p.138; Clark, vol. 2, pp.230, 229.
60 Mr Wylde has: Turner; see Powell, Add MS 82701.
61 I am in London: MS Wood 39, fol. 288.
62 I have asked Mr Wood: MS Wood 39, fol. 265.
63 Sir John Hoskyns: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 215.
64 Sir Christopher Wren says: MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fols 133, 132).
65 If I can: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 265r.
66 In his book: Monumenta, p.72.
67 I have sent: Hobbes (1994), vol. 2, pp.751–3.
68 All men cry out: MS Wood 39, fol. 291.
69 I was sorely mistaken: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 265v.
70 George Ent will give: MS Aubrey 12, fols 105–6.
71 Now that the days: MS Ballard 14, fol. 115.
72 On this day: Clark, vol. 1, p.45.
73 Mr Wylde is thinking: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 213.
74 My friend George Ent: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 109.
75 My lord the Earl: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 217.
76 I have told: Clark, vol. 1, p.211; MS Aubrey 6, fol. 37.
77 I cannot deny: MS Wood 39, fol. 296.
78 Mr Paschall has asked: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 4.
79 Next time: MS Wood 39, fol. 299.
80 I have reassured: Hobbes (1994), vol. 2, pp.753–6.
81 What can be said: Bennett, vol. 1, p.301; Clark, vol. 2, p.282.
82 Mr Hooke has written: Gunther (1923–45), vol. 7, pp.434–5.
83 I have written: Hooke (1935), p.184.
84 In Minty Common: Three Prose Works, p.324.
85 In Stanton Parke: Three Prose Works, p.325.
86 Jane Smyth: Clark, vol. 2, p.229; Bennett (2014), pp.317–32.
87 Mr Paschall: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 5.
88 Mr Meredith Lloyd: MS Aubrey 5, fol. 4.
89 A good way: MS Tanner 456a, fol. 19r.
90 I have deposited: MS Ballard 14, fol. 127.
91 I remember: Bennett, vol. 1, p.210; Clark, vol. 1, p.71; MS Aubrey 6, fol. 68.
92 On the first date: Hooke (1935), p.197.
93 Quaere: does the brain: Three Prose Works, p.340.
94 I think it is strange: MS Hearne’s Diaries 159, fol. 204; Bennett, introduction.
95 I went to Garraway’s: Hooke (1935), p.198.
96 I was at Garraway’s: Hooke (1935), p.199.
97 Mr Hooke, Mr Hill: Hooke (1935), p.199.
98 At Joe’s coffee house: Hooke (1935), p.200; Hunter (1981), p.45.
99 I was with Mr Hooke: Hooke (1935), p.201.
100 Mr Newton read: Hooke (1935), p.201.
101 I went to Garraway’s: Hooke (1935), p.202; M. Hunter and S. Schaffer (eds), p.174; Bennett, vol. 1, p.99; Clark, vol. 1, p.411.
102 I dined: Hooke (1935), p.202.
103 I was at Cardinal’s: Hooke (1935), p.204.
104 Mr Oldenburg: Classified Paper VII (I) 28; Birch, vol. 3, p.271.
105 On the first day: Hooke (1935), p.207.
106 I was with Mr Hooke: Hooke (1935), p.208.
107 Mr Paschall says: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 6.
108 Now I come: MS Ballard 14, fol. 116.
109 I was at Garraway’s: Hooke (1935), p.211.
110 I smoked at Garraway’s: Hooke (1935), p.212.
111 On this day: Hooke (1935), p.213.
112 There was much rain: Hooke (1935), p.213.
113 Mr Paschall’s letter: Birch, vol. 3, p.280.
114 I visited Sir Christopher Wren: Hooke (1935), pp.214–15.
115 Dr Holder is beholden: Lodwick, p.32.
116 As I was walking: Bennett, vol. 1, p.333; Clark, vol. 1, pp.224–33.
117 My friendship: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 28; Surrey, vol. 1, Evelyn’s letter.
118 Dr Plot says: MS Aubrey 13, fols 137–8, 222–3.
119 I went to Man’s: Hooke (1935), p.218.
120 My friend Jane Smyth: Clark, vol. 2, p.229.
121 I told the Royal Society: Birch, vol. 3, p.316.
122 While I was with: Hooke (1935), p.235.
123 I observed the eclipse: Hooke (1935), p.235.
124 The Royal Society: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 28, no. 2 (1 April 1974), p.167.
125 Mr Charles Snell has written: Clark, vol. 1, p.50; MS Aubrey 23, fols 116, 117.
126 Mr Charles Snell has also: Bennett (2009), p.343.
127 My friend Thomas Mariett: MS Aubrey 1, fol. 30b.
128 If I had wings: MS Ballard 14, fol. 118.
129 Today, Sir Henry: Bennett, vol. 1, p.60; Clark, vol. 1, p.53; MS Ballard 14, fol. 119; MS Aubrey 6, fol. 19v.
130 My friends: MS Ballard 14, fol. 119.
131 My lord the Earl: MS Wood 39, fol. 301.
132 I am soon to go: MS Ballard 14, fol. 119.
1 Feeling against: MS Wood 39, fol. 301.
2 Mr Ogilby: MS Wood 39, fol. 316. Ogilby died on 4 September 1676: Bradley and Pevsner.
3 Some time ago: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 264.
4 Mr Thomas Pigott: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 105.
5 I went to celebrate: Hooke (1935), p.254.
6 Today I was with: Hooke (1935), p.255.
7 I went home: Hooke (1935), p.257.
8 I went to Child’s: Hooke (1935), p.257.
9 Mr Hooke and I: Hooke (1935), p.259.
10 I went to the Crown: Hooke (1935), p.261.
11 My friend the Reverend: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 14. Note example of Universal Language in MS Aubrey 13, fol. 15.
12 My lord the Earl: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 226.
13 My friend Mr Thomas Pigott: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 112.
14 My friend Mr James Boevey: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.467–70; Clark, vol. 1, p.115.
15 Jane Smyth, who is somewhat: Hooke (1935), p.278.
16 Jane Smyth has the idea: Turner.
17 Lady Day: Bennett, vol. 1, p.78; Clark, vol. 1, p.408.
18 Mr Hooke saw: Hooke (1677), p.1.
19 I went to Mr Hooke’s: Hooke (1935), p.287.
20 Mr Charles Snell: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 189.
21 I have sold: Clark, vol. 1, p.45.
22 I am recovered now: MS Aubrey 13, fols 21, 22, 24.
23 Mr Oldenburg: Clark, vol. 1, p.362.
24 Mr Hooke came to dine: Hooke (1935), p.311.
25 My friend Mr Harrington: Clark, vol. 1, p.294.
26 I coincided: Hooke (1935), p.313.
27 Today I watched: Hooke (1935), p.317.
28 Mr Hooke has my picture: Hooke (1935), p.318.
29 I will undertake: Hooke (1935), p.319.
30 Today I was at the Rainbow: Hooke (1935), p.320.
31 St Andrew’s Day: Hooke (1935), p.331.
32 Some of my letters: MS Aubrey 9, fol. 9.
33 In Oxford: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.398.
34 I dined: Hooke (1935), p.354.
35 I have been misdirecting: MS Aubrey 12, fols 111–12.
36 My friend Andrew Paschall: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 29.
37 John Ray tells me: MS Aubrey 13, fols 170, 171.
38 I have had: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 115.
39 The great lover: Bennett, vol. 1, p.510; Clark, vol. 2, p.255.
40 Yesterday on the Exchange: MS Wood 39, fol. 324.
41 I have heard: MS Wood 39, fol. 307.
42 Andrew Paschall has had an idea: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 31.
43 Today I presented: Birch, vol. 3, p.423.
44 Thomas Pigott tells me: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 116.
45 Andrew Paschall has sent me: MS Aubrey 13, fols 32–3.
46 Mr Evelyn has been: MacGregor, p.45; Evelyn’s diary, 23 July 1678.
47 I have promised: MS Wood 39, fol. 311.
48 When I went to see: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.663–4; Clark, vol. 2, p.72.
49 Mr Sheldon’s house: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.420.
50 Mr Wood agreed: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.420.
51 Mr Pigott tells me: MS Aubrey 13, vol. 119, 3 November 1678.
52 Together with the future: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 28, no. 2 (1 April 1974), p.167.
53 Today I left: MS Wood 39, fol. 312.
54 I sent Mr William Howe: MS Aubrey 12, fols 232–3.
55 I join Mr Wood: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.435.
56 Mr Crooke tells me: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 88.
57 I have sent Mr Hobbes: Hobbes (1994), vol. 2, p.770.
58 I was at Jonathan’s coffee house: Hooke (1935), p.404.
59 I was at Jonathan’s coffee house again: Hooke (1935), p.404.
60 At the Royal Society: Birch, vol. 3, p.472.
61 I went to Child’s: Hooke (1935), p.405.
62 Often, as I lie: MS Wood 39, fol. 319.
63 I am told: MS Wood 39, fol. 321.
64 My lord the Earl: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 227.
65 At Jonathan’s: Hooke (1935), p.406.
66 My friend Mr Thomas Pigott: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 120.
67 Today Mr Michael Dary: Bennett, vol. 1, p.4; Clark, vol. 1, p.198; MS Aubrey 6, fol. 1v. On the winter of 1678–9 see Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, pp.426, 432, 439.
68 On this day: See Ashmole’s own account, quoted in Gunther (1925) and (1933), p.148.
69 Sixteen days after: MacGregor, pp.43–5.
70 Mr Wylde Clerke: MS Aubrey 12, fols 80, 81.
71 Mr Thomas Pigott asks: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 121.
72 There is a rumour: Bennett, vol. 1, p.32; MS Aubrey 6, fol. 10. See histories of the Civil War published at the time of the Popish Plot, when events were interpreted through the experiences of 1637–42. Raymond (1996), p.280; Bennett, vol. 1, p.672; Clark, vol. 1, p.284.
73 Since the discovery: Miscellanies, p.31.
74 I met Mr Sheldon: MS Wood 39, fol. 328.
75 Mr Hobbes tells me: Hobbes (1994), vol. 2, pp.772–3, 820; Clark, vol. 1, p.342; MS Aubrey 9, fol. 42v.
76 In his book: Raymond (1996), pp.290–1.
77 I went to Bloomsbury: Hooke (1935), p.418.
78 Mr friend Robert Henley: MS Aubrey 12, fols 160–1.
79 My friend George Ent: Three Prose Works, p.71.
80 I was at Jonathan’s: Hooke (1935), p.430.
81 I sent my letter: MS Aubrey 12, fols 147–8.
82 I have heard: Bennett, vol. 1, p.268; Clark, vol. 1, p.105.
83 My honoured friend: Clark, vol. 1, pp.17, 20, 21; MS Aubrey 9, fol. 29.
84 Now that the sun: MS Wood 39, fol. 331.
85 Mr Wood asks much: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.475.
86 Could one have thought: MS Wood 39, fol. 327.
87 Mr Henry Vaughan: MS Aubrey 13, fols 238–9.
88 At Burbage: Natural History, p.36.
89 I have often wished: Three Prose Works, p.313.
90 Spectacles have been worn: Bennett, vol. 1, p.33; Clark, vol. 2, pp.319–20; MS Ballard 14, fol. 126.
1 I was at Jonathan’s: Hooke (1935), p.438.
2 I hope Mr Wood: MS Ballard 14, fol. 127.
3 Mr Wood chides me: Clark, vol. 1, p.17.
4 While I was smoking: MS Ballard 14, fol. 127.
5 The science of astrology: Bennett, vol. 1, p.39; Clark, vol. 1, p.9.
6 This month: Bennett, vol. 1, p.581; Clark, vol. 2, p.91.
7 Today, at about 3 p.m.: MS Aubrey 6, fol. 2.
8 Mr Wood warns me: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.480.
9 I have persuaded: Bennett, vol. 1, p.48; Clark, vol. 2, p.145.
10 He was my singular: Bennett, vol. 1, p.136; Clark, vol. 1, p.201.
11 Sir Jonas Moore: Birch, vol. 4, p.29.
12 I have made an index: MS Ballard 14, fol. 131.
13 If I could get up: MS Ballard 14, fol. 131.
14 Quaere: MS Ballard 14, fol. 133; Bennett, vol. 1, p.395; Clark, vol. 1, pp.144–5.
15 Mr Dryden tells me: Bennett (2009), p.344.
16 I could afford: Bennett, vol. 1, p.676; Clark, vol. 2, p.119.
17 Today I was: Hooke (1935), p.442; Clark, vol. 1, p.411.
18 I am sending: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.472.
19 I have been very ill: MS Wood 39, fol. 340.
20 I have decided: MS Wood 39, fol. 340.
21 I also described: Birch, vol. 4, p.41.
22 I wish someone: Bennett, vol. 1, p.37; MS Aubrey 6, fol. 12.
23 The Earl of Rochester: Bennett, vol. 1, p.171; Clark, vol. 2, p.304.
24 A friend tells me: MS Wood 39, fol. 343.
25 My Book of Lives: MS Wood 39, fol. 347.
26 I have given: MS Wood 39, fol. 351.
27 Sir William Petty, Knight: MS Aubrey 6, fol. 12; Bennett, vol. 1, pp.41–52; Lawson Dick, pp.237–241.
28 Robert Boyle: MS Aubrey 6, fol. 16; Bennett, vol. 1, pp.52–3, Lawson Dick, pp.36–7.
29 General Monck: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.53–60; Clark, vol. 2, pp.72–8.
30 William Aubrey, Doctor of Laws: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.60–74; Clark, vol. 1, pp.53–66.
31 Sir Lleuellin Jenkins, knight: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.74–6; Clark, vol. 2, pp.7–9; Lawson Dick, pp.174–6.
32 Wenceslaus Hollar: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.76–8; Clark, vol. 1, pp.407–8, Lawson Dick, pp.163–3.
33 Monsieur Renatus Descartes: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.104–5; Clark, vol. 1, pp.221–2; Lawson Dick, pp.94–5.
34 Venetia Stanley: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.330–4; Clark, vol. 1, pp.229–33; Lawson Dick, pp.100–1.
1 About twenty years ago: Three Prose Works, p.316.
2 I have often thought: Three Prose Works, p.317; MS Aubrey 1, fol. 89.
3 I dined: Hooke (1935), p.455.
4 Today I helped carry: Bennett, vol. 1, p.388; Clark, vol. 1, pp.136–7.
5 Mr Hobbes’s short autobiography: Clark, vol. 1, p.17; MS Wood 39, fol. 347.
6 I am at Gresham: MS Aubrey 13, fols 127, 128.
7 I have given: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 28, no. 2 (1 April 1974), p.168.
8 I am trying: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 165.
9 Mr Paschall has asked: MS Aubrey 13, fols 43, 44.
10 Today I have received: Bennett, vol. 1, p.357; Clark, vol. 2, p.14; MS Aubrey 6, fol. 107.
11 Mr Wood has written: MS Wood 45, fol. 181.
12 I went with Mr Hooke: Hooke (1935), p.460.
13 Israel Tonge was buried: Bennett, vol. 1, p.153; Clark, vol. 2, p.262; Education, p.89.
14 Dr Blackbourne and I: MS Wood 39, fol. 351.
15 Mr Dugdale has printed: Raymond (1996), p.282.
16 The Earl of Berkshire: MS Aubrey 12, fols 57–8.
17 The King has dissolved: MS Ballard 14, fol. 130b.
18 I intend to send: MS Ballard 14, fol. 129.
19 I intended to take: MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 11.
20 When I sent: MS Wood 39, fol. 358.
21 Mr Paschall has sent: MS Aubrey 13, fols 45, 46.
22 Mr Wood complains: MS Wood 45, fol. 184.
23 Sir James Long: MS Aubrey 1, fol. 30b.
24 Mr Wylde has given: MS Wood 39, fol. 354.
25 Mr Wood has sent me: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 2, p.545.
26 I went to a tavern: Bennett, vol. 1, p.618.
27 On behalf: MS Aubrey 13, fols 101–2.
28 I told the Royal Society: Birch, vol. 4, p.94.
29 I hope: MS Wood 39, fol. 360.
30 I am concerned: Bennett, vol. 1, p.299; Clark, vol. 1, p.119.
31 I fear the truths: MS Wood 39, fol. 397.
32 I met with: MS Wood 39, fol. 357.
33 Mr William Shakespeare was born: MS Aubrey 8, fol. 81. Bennett, vol. 1, pp.365–6; Clark, vol. 2, pp.225–7; Lawson Dick, pp.275–6.
34 Mr Edmund Spenser: Bennett, vol. 1, pp.260–1; Clark, vol. 2, pp.232–3; Lawson Dick, pp.282–3.
35 At my mother’s request: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 48.
36 On this day: MS Wood 39, fol. 357.
37 I have brought: MS Tanner 456a, fol. 27.
38 Mr Ashmole and I: MS Ballard 14, fol. 134.
39 Mr Ashmole also has: Bennett, vol. 1, p.32; Clark, vol. 2, p.33.
40 Today I was smoking: MS Ballard 14, fol. 135.
41 I am too late: Bennett, vol. 1, p.447; Clark, vol. 1, p.97.
42 I went to visit: Natural History, p.141; Bennett, introduction.
43 Two days before: Bennett, vol. 1, p.343; Clark, vol. 2, p.150.
44 The Earl of Clarendon: MS Wood 39, fol. 365. The Earl of Clarendon’s History was eventually printed in 1704 and the profits used to establish the Clarendon Press. Bennett, vol. 1, p.8; Clark, vol. 1, p.426.
45 I have consulted: MS Aubrey 12, fols 279–80.
46 The second reading: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 5.
47 London has become: Bennett, vol. 1, p.654; Clark, vol. 2, p.60. See also Aubrey’s life of Mr Inglebert, where he claims Inglebert ‘was the first inventor, or projector, of bringing the water from Ware to London (called Middletons water) he was a poore-man, but Sir Hugh Middleton, Alderman of London moneyed the business, undertook it, and got the profit, and also the credit of that most useful invention’: Bennett, vol. 1, p.606.
48 When Lord Norris: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 8; Lord Norris of Rycote, later Earl of Abingdon.
49 I have had: MS Aubrey 17, fol. 18.
50 I have now sent: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 3, p.14.
51 When I was staying: MS Wood 39, fol. 369.
52 Mr William Penn: Bennett, vol. 1, p.594; Clark, vol. 2, p.133; MS Aubrey 2, fol. 27.
53 From Africa: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 78.
54 Sir Henry Blount: Bennett, vol. 1, p.339; Clark, vol. 1, p.111.
55 Thomas Merry: Bennett, vol. 1, p.749; Clark, vol. 2, p.60.
56 Today at the Royal Society: Birch, vol. 4, p.186.
57 The curious clock: Bennett, vol. 1, p.647; Clark, vol. 2, pp.58–9.
58 My loyal, dear, useful: MS Ballard 14, fol. 137.
59 The chalybeate spring: MS Ballard 14, fol. 136.
60 On this day: Ovenell, pp.21–2; Wood, 20 March 1683 (cited in MacGregor, p.49).
61 Mr Penn is making: MS Aubrey 13, fols 98–9.
62 My friend Jane Smyth: Clark, vol. 2, p.229.
63 Earlier this month: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 132.
64 I have called on: MS Aubrey 4, fol. 299.
65 Sir Jonas Moore’s books: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 243. Aubrey had known Sir Jonas Moore since 1664: see Willmoth, p.164.
66 Sir Jonas Moore intended: Bennett, vol. 1, p.305; Clark, vol. 2, p.78.
67 Alas: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 244.
68 Sir Isaac Newton: MS Aubrey 12, fols 347–8.
1 I am still grieving: MS Ballard 14, fol. 137.
2 I am ordering: MS Aubrey 10, fol. 6b.
3 Mr Paschall urges me: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 66b. For Aubrey’s manuscript, see MS Aubrey 10.
4 Without doubt: MS Aubrey 10, fols 9, 8a.
5 A banker: MS Aubrey 10, fol. 35a.
6 William Brouncker: Bennett, vol. 1, p.478; Clark, vol. 1, pp.128–9.
7 Sir William Petty’s: Philosophical Transactions, vol. 14 (1684), pp.802–3; Natural History, p.26.
8 I am beset: MS Wood 39, fol. 375.
9 Mr Paschall has written: Surrey, vol. 1, pp.xviii–xix, introduction.
10 The great stone: Monumenta, p.56.
11 I have asked my friend: MS Aubrey 13, fols 71–2.
12 I related: Birch, vol. 4, p.348.
13 Mr Wood tells me: MS Wood 45, fol. 192; Bennett, vol. 1, p.252.
14 Just as the King: Three Prose Works, p.29.
15 Tonight stately fireworks: Three Prose Works, p.29.
16 Titus Oates has come: Macaulay, Chapter IV.
17 I have nearly finished: MS Aubrey 1, fol. 7.
18 I need to move: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 87.
19 There is a hill: Three Prose Works, p.317.
20 It seems to me: Bennett, vol. 1, p.713; Clark, vol. 1, p.147; MS Aubrey 8, fol. 105; MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 133).
21 Yesterday I came: MS Wood 39, fol. 374.
22 I hope to find out: MS Wood 39, fol. 375.
23 I have heard: Bennett, vol. 1, p.698; Clark, vol. 1, p.267.
24 I cannot read: MS Wood 39, fol. 377.
25 John Pell: Bennett, vol. 1, p.163; Clark, vol. 2, p.127.
26 I have visited: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 89.
27 I am back now: MS Wood 39, fol. 377.
28 Captain Poyntz: Clark, vol. 1, p.45; MS Aubrey 26, fol. 6.
29 I have started composing: MS Aubrey 26, fols 2–6; MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 137).
30 My friend Mr Edward Lhwyd: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 240; Ovenell, p.23.
31 Mr Loggan will draw: MS Aubrey 1, fol. 3; MS Aubrey 2, fols 2, 31.
32 Today I told: Birch, vol. 4, p.468.
33 I also mentioned: Birch, vol. 4, p.469.
34 My friend Mr Paschall: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 77.
35 My good mother: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 77.
36 I am troubled: MS Ballard 14, fol. 139.
37 May I live: MS Ballard 14, fol. 139.
38 Mr Paschall tells: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 78a, b.
39 My friend Thomas Mariett: MS Aubrey 12, fols 330–1.
40 Mr Paschall has described: MS Aubrey 13, fols 79, 80.
41 Today I showed: Birch, vol. 4, p.511.
42 I am embattled: MS Ballard 14, fol. 141.
43 I have acquainted: MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 134v).
44 Meanwhile he writes: MS Aubrey 12, fols 283–4.
45 My friend Mr Paschall: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 81.
46 Robert Barclay’s book: Clark, vol. 1, p.86; MS Aubrey 8, fol. 53v. The book first appeared in Latin in 1678, Theologiae verae Christianae apologia.
47 Today at the Royal Society: Birch, vol. 4, p.546.
48 Mr Dugdale has criticised: Clark, vol. 2, p.89; MS Wood 39, fol. 397.
49 On a rocky mountain: MS Aubrey 1, fol. 14b.
50 In Yorkshire: Monumenta, p.110.
51 In this county: Clark, vol. 2, p.324.
52 Sir Charles Snell: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 190.
53 Following my Natural History: MS Wood 39, fol. 392; MS Aubrey 5, fol. 17.
54 On this day: Bennett, vol. 1, p.51; Clark, vol. 2, p.148.
55 I have been chosen: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 28, no. 2 (1 April 1974), p.167.
56 I dined this evening: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 3, p.269.
57 I have decided: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 140; Ovenell, pp.67–8.
58 May, June: MS Aubrey 1, fol. 171.
59 I am concerned: Ovenell, p.58.
60 I desire of God: MS Tanner 456a, fol. 34.
1 I went to see: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 2.
2 My school would need: MS Aubrey 10, fol. 10.
3 I would like to see: Bennett (2009), p.335; Education, p.115.
4 I think the best: MS Aubrey 10, fol. 23.
5 It is certain: MS Aubrey 10, fol. 24.
6 Mr Hobbes told me: Education, p.61.
7 I would have nothing: MS Aubrey 10, fol. 137.
8 I believe the disposition: MS Aubrey 10, fol. 10.
9 I envisage: MS Aubrey 10, fol. 10.
10 I would furnish: Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke invented a portable camera obscura in 1665–6.
11 I would have those: Education, p.112.
12 I would have the boys: MS Aubrey 10, fols 127–9.
13 We are taught: Aubrey attributes this remark to the Italian doctor, scientist and natural philosopher Fortunius Licetus (1577–1657), a friend of Galileo.
14 In my school: Education, p.70.
15 Gloucester Hall: MS Aubrey 10, fol. 133b.
16 I will soon make: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 172.
17 At Groveley: MS Aubrey 1, fol. 132r.
18 I grow old: MS Wood 39, fol. 386.
19 My friend Edward Lhwyd: MS Aubrey 5, fol. 6.
20 My candle burns low: MS Wood 39, fol. 397; MS Wood 40, fol. 372.
21 I have asked Mr Wood: Clark, vol. 2, p.230.
22 Since Seth Ward: Clark, vol. 2, p.289; MS Aubrey 10, fols 64–5.
23 Yesterday I went: Raymond (1996), p.270.
24 My visit to him: Clark, vol. 2, pp.207–9; MS Wood 39, fol. 386v.
25 I dined with Mr Ashmole: Clark, vol. 2, p.92; MS Wood 39, fol. 390.
26 I have been setting: MS Wood 39, fol. 389.
27 Thank God: MS Wood 40, fol. 372.
28 I have collected: MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 185).
29 Just as the Roman: MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 186).
30 It is said: Three Prose Works, p.354.
31 I hope I can go: MS Wood 39, fol. 395.
32 I hope Mr Wood: Bennett, vol. 1, p.104; Clark, vol. 1, p.415.
33 Mr Paschall has: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 83.
34 Mr Hooke affirms: Monumenta, p.505.
35 Mr Ralph Bathurst: MS Aubrey 12, fols 21, 22.
36 Mr Paschall tells me: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 84.
37 This month: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 11.
38 Mr Wood claims: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 3, p.319.
39 It is said: Three Prose Works, p.31.
40 I have made a collection: MS Wood 39, fol. 402.
41 I have begun: Clark, vol. 1, p.16; MS Aubrey 8, fol. 70.
42 The other day: Kemp; MS Wood 39, fol. 400.
43 I will go to Oxford: MS Wood 39, fol. 402.
44 How I wish: MS Ballard 14, fol. 142.
45 I have been speaking: Bennett, vol. 1, p.379; Clark, vol. 2, p.278.
46 Thomas Guidott: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 144.
47 My brother’s ill humour: MS Wood 39, fol. 411.
48 I wish Mr Wood: MS Wood 39, fol. 412.
49 I have decided to place: MS Wood 39, fol. 414.
50 I hoped to go: MS Wood 39, fol. 414.
51 From New Inn Hall: MS Aubrey 12, fols 31–2.
52 Next week I think: MS Wood 39, fol. 417; Clark, vol. 2, p.312; MS Aubrey 21, fol. 69; MS Aubrey 7, fol. 8v.
53 I think there is: Natural History, p.93.
54 Mr Hooke has been: MS Wood 39, fol. 424.
55 I have written: MS Aubrey 5, fol. 2.
56 I have heard: MS Wood 39, fol. 426.
57 I hope to get: MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 95.
58 I have been to the Tower: MS Wood 39, fol. 427.
59 Mr Hanson of Magdalen: Natural History, pp.25–6.
60 Since there has been: MS Ballard 14, fol. 143.
61 Today I sent to Oxford: MS Wood 39, fol. 405.
62 I have been chosen: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 28, no. 2 (1 April 1974), p.167.
63 The Royal Society’s transcription: MS Wood 39, fol. 429.
64 Mr William Fanshawe: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 115.
65 Mr John Ray has agreed: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 173.
66 I have now been: MS Wood 39, fol. 433.
67 Mr John Ray has read: MS Ballard 62, p.123.
68 I went to Bayworth: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 3, p.372.
69 He says there is only: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 174.
70 The Ashmolean Museum: Foskett, p.54. Dr Plot acknowledged receipt of the portraits on 18 October 1688.
71 My brother has been unkind: MS Wood 39, fol. 435.
72 I am plagued: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 175.
73 I have prepared: Surrey, vol. 1, To the Reader, 1691; MS Aubrey 4, fol. 31.
74 I think someone: MS Aubrey 5, fol. 8b.
75 The Earl of Pembroke: MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 98.
76 I have asked him: MS Aubrey 12, fols 138c, d.
77 The Earl of Clarendon: Hearne (1906), p.102.
78 Mr Hooke is very anxious: MS Ballard 14, fol. 145.
79 My brother William: MS Ballard 14, fol. 146.
80 At the request: MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 99.
81 I have started preparing: MS Ballard 14, fol. 147.
82 He says he is very glad: MS Aubrey 12, fols 243–4.
83 The account of Southwark: MS Wood 51, fol. 3.
84 Dr Hooke is concerned: MS Ballard 14, fol. 149.
85 I have left: MS Aubrey 10, fol. 1.
86 Sir Roger L’Etrange’s: MS Aubrey 10, fol. 66b.
87 As for history: MS Aubrey 10, fol. 97.
88 I imagine the boys: Education, p.69.
89 My pretty little bitch: MS Tanner 456a, fol. 40.
90 I am staying: MS Wood 51, fol. 11.
91 I go tomorrow: MS Ballard 14, fol. 153.
92 I have seen Mr Wood’s books: MS Wood 51, fol. 4.
93 I have had a very: MS Wood 51, fol. 4; Clark, vol. 1, p.258.
94 Mr John Ray’s daughters: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 176.
95 Mr John Ray has read: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 177.
96 Mr Wood now regrets: MS Ballard 14, fol. 154.
97 I have asked Mr Wood: MS Wood 39, fol. 437.
98 In Oxford: MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 101.
99 Today Mr Lhwyd: MS Aubrey 5, fol. 123v.
100 I was ill: MS Tanner 456a, fol. 41.
101 Mr Wood has written: MS Wood 45, fol. 208.
102 I have written: MS Aubrey 12, fols 149, 150.
103 As soon as I have time: MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 102.
104 Mr Lhwyd longs: MS Aubrey 12, fols 241–2.
1 Mr Dryden will try: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 3, p.420.
2 Frances Sheldon: MS Wood 51, fol. 5.
3 I have now been: MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 91.
4 I have designed: MS Aubrey 5, fol. 122.
5 Mr Thomas Tanner urges: MS Tanner 25, fol. 40.
6 At the Saracen’s Head: MS Tanner 25, fol. 49.
7 Mr John Ray says: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 178.
8 Dr William Holder: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 168.
9 My brother went: MS Tanner 25, fol. 66.
10 Dr Ralph Bathurst: MS Aubrey 12, fols 23, 24.
11 I am in Cambridge: MS Tanner 25, fol. 82; Clark (1891–1900), vol. 3, p.429.
12 I will visit Rycot: MS Tanner 25, fol. 82.
13 I called on Mr Coley: MS Wood 51, fol. 6.
14 I have sent a boxful: MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 92.
15 Mr Thomas Tanner: MS Tanner 25, fol. 83.
16 Mr Lhwyd: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 248; MS Aubrey Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 153v.
17 I have asked Mr Thomas Tanner: MS Tanner 25, fol. 94.
18 Mr Thomas Tanner has read: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 201.
19 I am back: Natural History, p.93.
20 I am reading over: MS Aubrey 10, fol. 4; MS Wood 51, fols 6, 21.
21 Mr Lhwyd is trying: MS Aubrey 12, fols 249–50.
22 Mr Thomas Tanner now advises: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 204.
23 I came back to London: MS Wood 39, fol. 442; MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 114.
24 At a party yesterday: Add MS 1388, fol. 149.
25 I had an apoplectic fit: Clark, vol. 1, p.45.
26 Mr Lhwyd says: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 251.
27 I hope to see: MS Wood 51, fol. 8.
28 I am busy: Three Prose Works, p.42.
29 I do not think: MS Tanner 25, fol. 118.
30 On behalf of my friend: MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 94; MS Aubrey 12, fols 260–1; Bennett, ‘John Aubrey, William and Judith Dobson’.
31 The Earl of Pembroke has read: MS Aubrey 10, fol. 2.
32 I doubt I will live: Education, p.16.
33 I never go out: MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 107.
34 Mr Thomas Tanner called: MS Wood 39, fol. 450.
35 I am receiving: MS Aubrey 12, fols 252–3.
36 Mr Thomas Tanner has asked: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 196.
37 The Earl of Pembroke: MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 106.
38 Several Roman coins: MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 119; MS Aubrey 12, fols 6–7.
39 Lord Pembroke has received: MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 109.
40 Mr Lhwyd has written: MS Aubrey 12, fols 254–6.
41 At last, Mr Thomas Tanner: MS Aubrey 13, fols 202–3.
42 Sir John Aubrey: MS Wood 39, fol. 440.
43 I hope to be: MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 112.
44 I remember that: MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 242v.
45 I hope Mr Lhwyd: MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 113.
46 Mr Lhwyd says: MS Aubrey 12, fols 256–7.
47 Today is Midsummer’s Day: Three Prose Works, p.83.
48 I am at Borstall: MS Wood 39, fol. 447.
49 Mr Wood makes such demands: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 3, p.440.
50 Sir John Aubrey and his lady: MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 116; MS Ballard 14, fol. 155.
51 Mr Wood is furious: MS Tanner 456a, fol. 48.
52 I miss my friend: MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 117.
53 When I last wrote: MS Tanner 25, fol. 240.
54 I have been ill: MS Wood 39, fol. 450.
55 It has been a most unnatural: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 3, p.483.
56 Coming through Bagley Wood: Natural History, p.26.
57 I was in Fleet Street: Clark (1891–1900), vol. 3, p.483.
58 Today I tested: Natural History, p.26.
59 My friend William Holder: MS Aubrey 12, fol. 173.
60 I cannot now read: MS Wood 39, fol. 452.
61 I can hardly read: MS Ashmole 1829, fol. 25; MS Wood 51, fol. 9.
62 I am in London: MS Wood F 51, fol. 9–10.
63 Mr Wood has written: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 269.
64 Mr Wood asks me: MS Aubrey 13, fol. 269.
65 My eyes are mending: MS Ashmole 1829, fol. 28; MS Wood 39, fol. 440.
66 My eyes mend: MS Wood 51, fol. 11.
67 My cousin spoils me: MS Ashmole 1829, fol. 31.
68 I have written: MS Sloane 1039, fol. 108.
69 I have given: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 28, no. 2 (1 April 1974), p.179.
70 I shall never see: MS Tanner 24, fol. 108.
71 It is so cold: Evelyn’s diary, 24 January 1684.
72 I will stay: MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 118.
73 I am told another: MS Ashmole 1829, fol. 56.
74 At long last: Miscellanies.
75 In my chapter on magic: Miscellanies, p.87.
76 I am at Llantrithyd: MS Ashmole 1829, fol. 13.
77 When I next go: MS Tanner 24, fol. 108.
78 I am hoping: MS Tanner 24, fol. 196.
79 The printer: MS Ashmole 1829, fol. 78.
80 How clearly: MS Ashmole 1829, fol. 86.
81 I have presented: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 28, no. 2 (1 April 1974), p.169.
82 I have always done my best: MS Aubrey 7, fol. 4v.
83 Matters of antiquity: MS Aubrey 9, fol. 29r.
84 Aubrey is buried: Hearne (1906), vol. 7, p.153; Surrey, vol. 1, p.ix, introduction.
1 The only book: Miscellanies was republished in 1721 and 1784; I am grateful to Dr William Poole for drawing my attention to the fact that on the contents page of the Ashmolean’s copy an early reader has written ‘superstitiosi’.
2 Hearne noted that details: The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary, published by Thomas Hearne (James Fletcher, 1770), p.124.
3 Rawlinson complained: Surrey, vol. 1, p.ii.
4 He read Aubrey’s friend: Haycock, pp.126–32.
5 The five women resolved: Bennett, vol. 1, p.54.
6 it is impossible to understand: Clark, vol. 2, p.73.
7 A much more interesting: Clark, vol. 1, p.5.
8 Those who possess it: Aubrey, Brief Lives and other selected writings, p.xxii.
9 In 1972, the publisher and editor: A less satisfactory edition of the Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme first appeared in 1881.
10 Many of the additions: Education.
11 Hunter explained: Hunter (1975), p.21.
12 In his brief foreward: The edition looks like a facsimile but is not. There are many omissions and the plates have been reordered.
13 As part of Oxford University’s Cultures of Knowledge project: see emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk