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Abbot, George, Archbishop of

Canterbury, 222, 223

Abercunvrig, 303

Aberdeen, 5

Abingdon, 45, 49, 61, 64, 275, 415

Abingdon, James Bertie, Lord Norris of Rycote, 1st Earl of, xvii–xviii, 326, 346, 366, 380–1, 392, 405, 406, 410, 413, 414, 419

Act of Free and General Pardon, Indemnity and Oblivion, 128

Act of Uniformity, 274

Africa, 283, 327

Agmundesham, 375

Albemarle, General George Monck, 1st Duke of see Monck, General George, 1st Duke of Albemarle

Albury, 221

Albury Downs, 220, 233

Albury Park, 221

Aldgate, 341

Alençon, 118

Alhurst, Mr, 271

Allan, Mr, 338

Allen, Thomas, 41–2, 374

Allington, 74, 180

Allmon, Mr, 380

All Saints’ Church, Kingston-upon-Thames, 219

All Souls College, Oxford, 303

Ambrosinus, 276

America, 2, 3, 240, 249, 327, 330

Amsterdam, 367

Anchor, the, New Exchange, 154

Anderson, Alexander: Tracts LXXIV, 241

Andrewes, Bishop, 321

Angel Gabriel (ship), 32–3

Anne, Queen (wife of James I), 192

Anne, Queen (as a child; daughter of James II), 211

Ansted, Mr, 225

Antilles, 276

Antonius: Itinerary (Antonio Itinerario), 344

Burton’s work on, 114, 260

Antwerp, 131

Apollonius Pergoeus: Concicorum libri IV and Conicorum libri V–VII, 241

Appianus, 363

Aristotle, 52, 92

Arthur, King, 30, 239

Arthur’s Chairs, 112

Arundel, Countess of, 131, 233

Arundel House, 161

Ashbury Park, 411

Ashmole, Elias

catalogues Bodleian Library’s collection of Roman coins, 160

and Dr Dee, 208, 210, 250, 305

and Tradescant collection, xi, 218, 282, 283

JA dines with, 233

JA deposits notes with, 254, 292

makes list of books on magic in Boevey’s library, 269

Evelyn goes to see library and collection of, 277

loses some collections in fire, 279

donates collections to Oxford University, 282

and building of Ashmolean Museum, xi, 7, 282

takes lease on Tradescant house and garden, 283

JA works on manuscripts with, 323–4

Dr Plot dedicates treatise to, 339

and Wood’s failure to hand over JA’s papers to museum, 356, 362

offers advice to JA about his papers, 362

illness, 362

in Bath, 376

has concerns about pictures in museum, 384

death, 387

JA visits grave of, 388

blamed by Hearne for distracting JA into astrology, 425

brief references, 8, 209, 247, 248, 369, 401, 411 413, 420

Ashmole, Elizabeth, 376

Ashmolean Museum

Ashmole’s role in foundation of, 7, 282

Dr Plot suggested as first Keeper of, 282

foundation stone laid, 282

opens to the publice, 7, 329

Ashmole’s collection sent to, 329

description of, 347–8

JA’s donations and deposits, 7, 10, 355–6, 362, 377, 379, 384, 404, 407, 408–9, 411, 417, 421, 428

Lhwyd takes over as Keeper of, 378

robbery at, 383

inscription over entrance, 388

JA intends to dedicate his collection of correspondence to, 393

successful preservation of JA’s collections at, 431

brief references, 366, 425, 426

Aspeden Hall, 399

Astrop, 380, 415

Athelstan, King, 54, 167, 219, 370

Atkins, Sir Edward, 305

Aubrey (née Lyte), Deborah (JA’s mother)

gives birth to JA, 17

tells JA about Bacon’s visits to Sir John Danvers, 31

gives birth to William, 55

gives birth to Thomas, 65

sees portent, 72

anxious about her husband, 75

breaks her arm, 83

hinders JA’s plans to travel abroad, 3, 118

husband leaves money for, 195

sick with fever, 251, 252

reaches age of seventy, 288

falls ill, and requires cure for sore eyes, 322

reaches age of seventy three, 328

and gift of berries from Holy Thorn, 339

JA plans to move her back to Broad Chalke, 344

death, 349

brief references, x, 20, 66

Aubrey, Hopkin (JA’s ancestor), 303

Aubrey, Joane, 262, 303

Aubrey, John

achievement as England’s collector, 1–10

as a subject for biography, 10–13

1634–1641:

birth, 17

childhood, 17–35

comments on his family, 17–18, 21, 25–6

house at Easton Pierse, 18

observations in childhood, 18, 19

interested in people’s stories and memories, 18–19, 22

learns to read, 19–20

at school in church at Yatton Keynell, 20

and manuscripts, 20

attends Mr Latimer’s school, 20–1, 22–3

falls from horse, 21, 34

illness, 21–2

childhood encounter with Hobbes, 22–3

and witches, 23

childhood visits to Stonehenge, 23–4

death of his teacher, 24

loves music, 24

sees Sir Philip Sidney’s funeral procession on moving screen, 24–5

early love of drawing, 25

interested in ancient stones at Stanton Drew, 26

at Broad Chalke, 26, 30

childhood impressions of Wilton House, 26–30

education at Blandford School, 31–2

visits glass painter’s workshop, 32

comments on Raleigh, 32–3

meets a German man, 33–4

and problems between King and Parliament, 34–5

1642–1643:

as student at Trinity College, Oxford, 39–46

love of books, 39–40

goes to village celebrations in Woodstock, 42

and events of Civil War, 43, 45, 46, 48–9, 50–1, 51–2, 53, 54, 55

visits Rosamund’s Bower, 43–4

and Trinity College chapel, 45

visits Abingdon, 45

returns from Oxford to Broad Chalke, 46

makes frequent visits to Salisbury, 46

and Captain Thomas Stumpe, 46–7

interested in Potter’s ideas about numbers, 47–8

meets and becomes friend of Edward Davenant, 48

returns to Oxford, 48

interested in Osney Abbey, 49, 52

describes his appearance, 50

watches the King dine, 50

comments on the wives of courtiers, 50–1

sees Harvey in Oxford, 51, 52

commissions a drawing of Osney Abbey, 52

falls ill with smallpox, 53

entertained by his friend Radford, 53

comments on smallpox, 54

and his kinsman Major Morgan, 55

and birth of his brother William, 55

1643–1649:

returns home from Oxford, 59

and death of Kettell, 59

visits grotto at Enstone, 60–1

and events of Civil War, 61–4, 68, 69, 71

receives news of Oxford from William Browne, 61–2, 64, 65–6, 72

goes to see ruins of Wardour Castle, 63

and collapse of steeple at Calne church, 64

comments on churches, 65

and birth of his brother Thomas, 65

and his father’s refusal to let him return to Oxford, 66

and his father’s obligation to hand money to Parliamentarian committee, 66

visits Herefordshire, 66

on the practice of watering meadows, 67

admitted to Middle Temple, 67

dislikes behaviour of the King’s party in London, 68

hopes to make acquaintance of Harvey, 69

returns to Trinity College, 69

and the Parliamentary Visitation to Trinity, 69

visits ruins of Eynsham Abbey, 70

interested in Petty’s anatomical experiments, 70

and his friends’ visit to John Hales, 70

visits William Stumpe, 70–1

continues his studies at Middle Temple, 71

believes his mother saw a portent, 72

returns to Broad Chalke, 72

hears from his friends at Oxford, 72–3

and Parliamentarian Visit to Oxford University, 73–4

and fire at Wilton, 74

observations on Wiltshire, 74–5, 77

and his father’s illness, 75

goes hunting with friends, 75

sees Avebury for the first time, 75

meets Francis Potter, 76–7

and trial and execution of the King, 77–8

1649–1659:

at Broad Chalke, 81

hopes to follow progress of experimental philosophy club in Oxford, 81

on the strange wind at Hullavington, 81–2

attends baptism of his godson, 82

and national events during the Commonwealth period, 82, 100, 104, 106, 114, 115, 117, 118–19

correspondence with Lydall, 83, 87, 88, 90–1, 97, 99, 108

and books, 83, 88, 89, 91–2, 97, 100, 101, 103, 108, 109, 110, 114

and his mother’s accident, 83

pays suit to Jane Codrington, 83

and hunting, 83–4

visits Verulam House, 84–6

visits Gorhambery, 86–7

and the case of Nan Green, 87–8

helps Potter in his experiment to move blood between chickens, 88

and Potter’s visit to Broad Chalke, 88–9

describes house of Sir John Danvers, 89

discussions with Potter, 89–90

in love with Mary Wiseman, 90, 102, 112

and marriage of Ettrick, 91

sees beheading of Christopher Love, 91

interested in ideas of Hobbes, 91–2, 103

meets Harvey, 92

meets Harrington, 92–3

visits Hobbes, 93

on opening of first coffee house, 93

on the practice of drinking coffee, 93–4

on Petty’s appointment as surveyor of Ireland, 94

on death of Cavendish, 94

and his father’s death, 94–5

letters from Potter, 95, 99, 102, 109–10

and John Denham, 95

finds lodgings in Fleet Street, 95

visits Hartlib, 95–6

visits Eynsham Abbey again, 96

and his inheritance from his father, 97, 98

visits Oxford, 97

receives letter from Hartlib, 97

wants to go to Italy, 97, 98

hears from Ettrick about a witch trial, 98–9

observes round stones in Wiltshire, 100

on religion in Wiltshire, 100

and finds of Roman remains, 100, 101

stays with his cousin in Llantrithyd, 101

visits Roman baths in Caerleon, 101

hears from Hartlib, 101

intends to go on Grand Tour, and drafts a will, 102

attends Selden’s funeral, 103

visits John Hales at Eton, 104

and death of John Danvers and Ned Wood, 105

and ideas about Stonehenge, 105

becomes well-acquainted with Avebury, 105

conversation with Harvey, 106

breaks a rib in a fall, 107

becomes interested in mineral waters, 107, 109

and imprisonment of his friend Nicholas Tufton, 107

visits Sherborne House, 107–8

sees Katherine Ryves as a possible wife, 108

obtains trees for Easton Pierse, 108

visits Sir James Long, 108–9

goes to see a loom, 110

begins to collect natural remarks for Wiltshire, 110

draws Verulam House, 110–11

portrait commissioned by Charles Seymour, 111

on the opening of a second coffee house, 111

lawsuit over properties in Wales, 111

invited to stay with Rumsey, 111–12

observations in Wales, 112

begins to pay suit to Katherine Ryves, 112

suffers from venereal disease, 113

attends Harvey’s funeral, 113

and death of Lydall, 113

and death of Katherine Ryves, 113–14

hears Oliver Cromwell’s remark, 114

interested in work of William Burton, 114

and death of his grandfather, 115

becomes involved in project to survey antiquities of Wiltshire, 115–16

becomes churchwarden at Broad Chalke, 116

visits Ely, 116

visits Hobbes’s birthplace, 116–17

and Hobbes’s horoscope, 117

intends to go to Italy, 117

urged to join Tyndale abroad, 118

forbidden to travel abroad by his mother, 118

sells manor of Stretford, 118

takes lessons with Mercator, 118

shares lodgings with Mariett, and sees correspondence with Prince Charles, 118–19

attends Rota Club meetings, 119–20

1660–1664:

and national events, 123–4, 125, 126–7, 128, 129, 131, 136

and last meeting of Rota Club, 125

and books, 125, 130, 131–2, 135, 136, 141

borrows money from Captain Stumpe, 125

and his turquoise ring, 125, 128, 129, 130

advises Hobbes to return to London, 127

pleased at meeting between Hobbes and the King, 128

and proposal for Royal Society, 129

and death of his grandmother, 130

visits Old Sarum, 130

Hoskyns writes to, 130–1, 131–2, 135–6

and Hollar’s move to new lodgings, 131

visits Ireland, 132–3

returns to Wiltshire, 133

letters from Tyndale, 133, 136

pleased with portrait of Hobbes that he commissioned, 133

assessment of his life so far, 133

Hollar engraves one of his drawings of Osney Abbey, 133–5

and Harrington’s imprisonment, 135

and death of Hartlib, 135

elected and admitted to Royal Society, 137

and meetings of Royal Society, 137–8, 138–9, 140, 144, 145–6

concerned about breaking of stones at Avebury, 138

observation at Dundery Hill, 139–40

continues his observations on water, 140, 141

requested by Royal Society to investigate possibility of digging at Avebury, 140

finds location for free school Hobbes intends to establish, and finds him a house in London, 140

and discussions of Charleton and Brouncker with the King about Avebury, 141

disagrees with Charleton’s views about Stonehenge, 141

meets the King, 142

shows Avebury to the King, 142

climbs Silbury Hill with the King, 142

commanded to write description of Avebury, 143

wishes he could have visited Cassiano del Pozzo, 145

lovesick, 145

elected to Royal Society’s Georgical Committee, 145

Tufton’s kindness as patron to, 146

1664–1671:

visits France, 149–50

encourages Hobbes to write about law, 151

and books, 151, 154, 159, 170, 171, 185

Ent finds servant for, 151

makes a survey of Avebury, 151–4

further thoughts about Charleton’s ideas on Stonehenge, 154

returns to Stanton Drew to see stone monument, 155

and Devil’s Coytes, 155

visits Bushell in Lambeth, 155

sees Glastonbury Thorn, 156

damages testicle, 156

observes a nubecula, 156

has opportunity to buy paintings by Dobson, 157

and national events, 157, 161, 166

visits Lord Rochester in prison, 157

and plague, 157, 158, 159

Hollar engraves portrait of Hobbes lent by, 158

and astrology, 158, 183, 187

hopes to marry Joan Sumner, 158

discovers qualities of water at Seend, 158–9, 166

and story recounted by Joan Sumner, 159

transcribes Pell’s Idea of Mathematics, 159

continues observations of his turquoise ring, 159

takes out licence for marriage to Joan Sumner, 160

portrait drawn by Faithorne, 160

lets Boyle borrow his turquoise ring for observation, 160

Joan Sumner turns against, 160–1

and Fire of London, 161

and meetings of Royal Society, 161–2, 163–4, 166, 168–9, 170–1, 176

on coffins and bodies, 162–3

chosen to serve on committee to audit Royal Society accounts, 163

turquoise ring broken, 164

presentation of report as examiner of accounts, 164

on Lady Denham and John Denham, 165

letter from Edward Davenant, 165

on the London ruins after the Fire, 165

promises to publish life of Hobbes, 166–7

meets Anthony Wood in Oxford, 167–8

and Wood’s researches, 168, 173, 186

arrested and released, 169

spends evening with Wood in Oxford, 169

trial brought about by Joan Sumner, 169

attends William Davenant’s funeral, 170

continuing interest in mineral water, 170–1

decides to make map of remains of Roman camps, 171

observes a cloudy star, 171

hopes to visit monuments in Caernarvonshire, 173

arrested again, 173

goes to see Coway Stakes, 173–4

Joan Sumner demands retrial of, 174

on death and will of Abraham Cowley, 174

hopes that Hollar will make more etchings of Osney Abbey drawings, 175

retrial, 175

on the burial of John Denham, 175

conversation with Hugh Crescy, 176

sends Euclid’s Data to Edward Davenant, 176–7

and Wood’s personal problems, 177

given information about Silchester, 177

visits paper mill, 177–8

and death of William Browne, 178

donations to Royal Society, 178, 185–6

on Harrington, 179

hears news from his former servant, 179–80

cannot afford to keep house at Easton Pierse, 180

makes sketches of house at Easton Pierse, 180, 181–2

meets Wood in London, 183

Lodwick sends his essay to, 184

hopes to complete his perambulation of Wiltshire, 184

survey of camps, 184

observations about Yatton Keynell, 184–5

on architecture, 185

on inscriptions in London churches, 186

on increasing use of glass, 186

introduces Wood to Sheldon, 186–7

completes sale of house at Easton Pierse, 187

thoughts about entering a monastery, 187–8

1671–1673:

feels impelled to finish his description of Wiltshire, 191–2

grateful for friends in time of need, 191

and research for Wood’s book, 191, 192, 194–5, 198, 200, 201, 202, 205, 206

continuing interest in astrology, 192, 193

stomach problems, 193

delighted by Wood’s promise to mention him in his book, 194

rumours about, 194

letter from Gore, 194

invited by Hoskyns to join him on a journey through Wales, 194

writes a play, 195

thoughts about going to Maryland, 196

in fear of creditors, 196

on Sir James Long, 196–7

and phantoms, 197, 201

and mosaics at Bathford, 197–8

plans to write about architecture, 198

on the burial of Bradshaw, 200

ideas about lanterns, 200

visits Somerset, 201

and national events, 201, 211

receives letter of thanks from Paschall, 201

thinks about education, 202

visits Wood in Oxford, 202

and death of Samuel Cooper, 203

almost killed by a drunkard, 203

letters from Hoskyns, 203, 205, 207

and Wren’s suggestion that he might help Ogilby, 203–4

stays at Hothfield with Earl of Thanet, 205, 206

wants to see his brother Tom, 206–7

in search of information about Dee, 207

letter from Coley, 208

visits Hooke, 208

given small employment by Royal Society, 208

dines with friends, 209

Locke interested in work of, 209

puts Hobbes in correspondence with Vice-President of Magdalen Hall, 209

at meeting of Royal Society, 210

Ashmole shows letter to, 210

wants to visit Rosamund’s Bower again, 210

does not trust his brother William with key to his trunk, 210

dines with Goresuch, 211

1673

and national events, 215, 227

makes survey of Surrey, 215–16, 217–27, 229

on Fell’s interference with Wood’s book, 216

in danger of being killed by sword, 216

and death of Moray, 217

concerns about Ogilby, 227

and Wase’s enquiry into free schools, 228

1673–1676:

Hooke lends money to, 233, 235, 241, 242, 245

dines with Ashmole and Dugdale, 233

continuing concerns about Ogilby, 233

sends Hobbes’s lives to Wood, 233

visits Radford, 234

death of Radford, 234

sends Wood information about Easton Pierse, 234

letter from Hoskyns, 234

drafts list of questions for use in gathering information about different counties, 234

sells books to Hooke, 234–5

presents book to Hooke to be place in Royal Society library, 235

hopes for Wren’s help in finding some form of income, 235

at coffee houses and taverns with friends, 235, 238, 243, 246, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 260

moves into rooms near Gresham College, 236

presents Royal Society with observations about winds, 236

and national events, 236

friends suggest he should turn to ecclesiastical career, 236, 239, 262–3

and Hobbes, 237, 238–9, 240, 241, 242, 244, 248, 251

helps Hooke with his papers, 238

arrested for debt, then released, 238

engaged in writing Catalogue of the Repository of Royal Society, 238

urged by Vaughan to go with him to Jamaica, 239

asked by Earl of Thanet to accompany him to the Bermudas, 239

gives more books to Royal Society library, 241

gives Ent a letter of introduction to Wood, 242

sends drawings to Wood, 242–3

and Ent’s desire to see a copy of Hobbes’s life, 243, 244

hesitates about sending a manuscript to Trinity College, 243

pained by wanton destruction of dials, 243

concerned about omission of Hooke from Wood’s book, 244, 245

wants to help Dr Plot with information, 244, 254, 257, 260

displeased by Gore’s failure to mention his name in his work, 244–5

visits Potter, 245

concerned about Earl of Thanet’s health, 245–6

asked to make catalogues by Royal Society, 246

likes Jane Smyth, 246

tries to obtain preferment at court, 247, 250

wants information about Rollright Stones, 247, 248

encouraged by Hoskyns to research and write the Natural History of England, 247

hurt by Wood’s refusal to mention his name in preface to book, 248

continues research on Wood’s behalf, 248, 250, 251

gives books to Bodleian Library, 249–50

Ent makes additions to his donation, 249–50

and meetings of Royal Society, 249, 255, 256, 258, 260

offered accommodation by Earl of Thanet, 250

troubled by Ent’s behaviour, 250–1

and his mother’s illness, 251, 252

intends to visit James Long, 251

opinion of Wallis, 251–2

suggestion to Hooke about employing George Snell, 252

conducts investigation at the Gogges, 252

intends to visit Jane Smyth, 253

thoughts about Gloucester Hall, 253

deposits notes with Ashmole, 254

and setting up of new club, 255

transcription of his work done by Oldenburg, 256, 257

visits Wren, 258

sees bust of Venetia Stanley for sale, 259

friendship with Evelyn, 259–60

and Jane Smyth’s illness, 260

and The Virtuoso, 261

chosen again for committee to audit Royal Society’s accounts, 261

Snell’s letter to, 261–2

would like to visit Oxford and Weston, 262

is shown information concerning his great-grandfather, 262

plans to see Wylde, 263

1676–1680:

asks Wood to burn a letter, 267

and death of Ogilby, 267

and Paschall, 267, 268, 271, 274, 276

Lodwick sends his reflections to, 267

at Wren’s birthday celebration, 268

dines with friends, 268, 271, 274

at coffee houses and taverns with friends, 268, 269, 273, 280, 281, 285

and Dr Morison, 269, 276

Boevey sends list of his manuscripts to, 269

and death of Hollar, 270

on the marriage of Mary to William of Orange, 270

fails to see comet, 270

Snell writes to, 271

and death of Oldenburg, 271

and death of Harrington, 271–2

Hooke has picture of, 272

and choosing of President for Royal Society, 272

and election of Royal Society council and officers, 273

letter from Hobbes, 273–4

letter from Ent, 274

and John Ray, 274–5

visits Oxford, 275

and death of Silas Taylor, 275

and death of Potter, 275–6

at meetings of Royal Society, 276, 280

continues to do research for Wood, 277, 287

visits Milton’s widow, 277

on Popish Plot, 277, 278, 283–4

borrows money from Wood, 278

watches eclipse of moon, 278

chosen to inspect proceedings of Secretaries of Royal Society, 279

communicates with William Howe, 279

and loss of some of Ashmole’s collections in fire, 279

sends book to Hobbes, 280

response to pamphlet against Pepys and Hewet, 281

and death of Pugh, 281

invited to call on Earl of Thanet, 281

letter from Pigott, 282

and burial of Michael Dary, 282

on the laying of foundation stone for Ashmolean Museum, 282

on Exclusion Bill, 282–3

on Hestor Tradescant’s death, 283

letter from Wilde Clerke, 283

meets Sheldon in London, 284

wants to recover Hobbes’s autobiography from Wood, 284

on Hobbes’s ideas about civil war, 284–5

invited to visit Robert Henley, 285

and death of Ent, 285

suggests that Halley should study astrology, 285

and death of Earl of Thanet, John Birkenhead and Hobbes, 286

wants to get life of Hobbes printed, 287

Vaughan promises to find information for, 287–8

on turnips, 288

on spectacles, 288

1680:

works on his Book of Lives, 291–2, 294–5, 296–7, 298–310

at coffee houses, 291, 295

continuing interest in astrology, 292

on Penny Post, 292

persuades Petty to have his picture painted, 293

and death of Edward Davenant, 293

comments on Blackbourne’s style in compiling life of Hobbes, 293

at meeting of Royal Society, 296

and death of Earl of Rochester, 297

sends Book of Lives to Pell, 298

requests information from Wood, 298

1680–1683:

ideas about a time when globe was covered with water, 313

and Samuel Butler’s funeral, 314

makes enquiry about Ferraran library, 314

Paschall requests him to recommend writers, 315

receives account of Ben Jonson’s life, 315

encouraged in his work by Wood, 315

and burial of Israel Tonge, 315

book returned by Pell, 316

and publication of ‘Vitae Hobbianae auctarium’, 316

and national events, 316, 317

on Dugdale’s account of the civil war, 316

offered encouragement by Earl of Berkshire, 317

concerned about sending his Lives to Wood, 317

anxious about Ent’s addition to his donation to Bodleian Library, 317–18, 319

receives Paschall’s idea of a desirable Utopia, 318

sends his book to Wood, 318

continues to collect material for his Lives, 319, 320, 324–5

letter from Petty in Ireland, 319

and meetings of Royal Society, 319, 328

concerned about content of his Book of Lives, 319, 320, 329

musings about a possible burial place, 320

writes up more Lives, 320–2

letter from his mother about her illness, 322

death of his brother Tom, 323

visits Oxford, 323

and the post of Principal of Hart Hall, 323, 324

works with Ashmole in making collection of material from ancient astrologers, 323–4

and death of Beeston, 324

interested in the idea of cutting a canal to join rivers Thames and Avon, 325, 326

sends third volume of his Lives to Wood, 326

on Penn’s departure to America, 327

letter from Wylde Clerke in answer to his enquiry, 327

on illness of Henry Blount, 327–8

and death of Thomas Merry, 328

on the sale of Mercator’s clock, 328

and death of George Johnson, 329

hopes concerning the spring he discovered at Seend, 329

on the opening of Ashmolean Museum, 329

letter from Penn, 330

and illness of Jane Smyth, 330

robbed, 330

visits stonecutter and learns about Charing Cross, 330–1

and sale of Jonas Moore’s books, 331

1684–1688:

grief over deaths of George Johnson and John Collins, 335

works on manuscripts, 335–6, 344, 350–1, 354, 357

and burial of Brouncker, 336

intends to include Petty’s questions about mineral water in his own book, 337–8

concerned about safety of his manuscripts, 338, 356

witnesses experiment by Wylde, 338

receives comments about his work, 338–9, 352

hears about damage to stone at Avebury, 339

correspondence with Paschall, 339, 348, 349, 350, 352

encouraged to finish and publish his work on Wiltshire by Plot, 339

and meetings of Royal Society, 340, 348, 350, 352

is informed about sale of library at Wilton House, 340

and national events, 340–1, 345, 355

needs to move his mother to Broad Chalke, 344

on streams in Wiltshire, 344

on Bristol, 344

problems in relationship with his brother William, 345–6, 349, 356, 357

and death of Pell, 346

granted land in Tobago, 346

makes list of ideas for rescuing his fortunes, 347

on Ashmolean Museum, 347–8

and drawings by Loggan, 348

and his mother’s death, 349

concerned about the future of his manuscripts, 349–50, 354

begins to collect folklore, 350–1

embattled in lawsuit with his brother, 351

hears from Sir James Long, 351–2

visits Yorkshire, 353–4

begins study of British place names, 354

and death of Petty, 354–5

serves on Royal Society audit committee again, 355

grateful that Wood mentions his great-grandfather in his book, 355

dines with Wood and Plot, 355

makes donations to Ashmolean Museum, 355–6

and Wood’s failure to deliver his box to Ashmolean Museum, 356

needs to sell his last remaining interest in Broad Chalke farm, 357

1688–1693:

and national events, 361, 366, 368, 373–4

visits Ashmole, 362

Wood continues to refuse to send box to Ashmolean Museum, 362

concerns about his manuscripts, 362, 366, 368, 375, 383

works on manuscripts and transcriptions, 362–6, 367–8, 369, 370, 373, 374, 378, 383–4, 385–6, 387

and death of Vossius, 366–7

letter from Ray, 367

continuing problems with his brother, 368, 372, 376, 377, 383, 385

asks Wood to help Jane Smyth, 368

and Seth Ward’s papers, 369

visits Rushworth, 369

dines with Ashmole 369

collects samples of handwriting, 370

suffers noisy lodgings, then moves out due to smallpox cases, 370–1

hope to visit Oxford, 371, 378, 379

and Hooke’s controversy with Newton, 371–2, 377, 379, 393

instructs his brother to pay debt owed to Captain Stumpe, 372

sells his last interest in Broad Chalke to Mr Kent, 372

in communication with Paschall, 372–3

suggestion to Bathurst about epitaph for Petty is declined, 373

makes collection of letters, 374

at Mariett’s house, 374

illness, 375

and death of Fabian Philips, 375

talks with Hamden about Edmund Waller, 375

letter from Guidott, 376

entrusts a transcription to Royal Society, 376

fears arrest, 376, 377

and Wood’s queries, 376, 382

gift of watch to Wood, 377, 379

sends box to Wood, 377

debt to Stumpe is not repaid by his brother, 377, 385

places manuscripts in Ashmolean Museum, 378

gift to New Inn Hall, Oxford, 378

on gardening, 378–9

and death of Mariett, 379

visits Clarendon in the Tower, 379–80

Hanson reports observations on Wiltshire water to, 380

on the publication of Wood’s book Athenae et Fasti Oxonienses, 380

invited to stay with Earl of Abingdon, 380–1

Royal Society wants transcripts to be made of his manuscripts, 381

chosen to serve again on Royal Society audit committee, 381

receives comments on his work, 381, 382–3, 389, 390

Ray reads manuscript of, 381–2, 382–3

and robbery at Ashmolean Museum, 383

has concerns about pictures in Ashmolean Museum, 384

receives advice from Gibson about printing his book, 384

on Ray’s book, 385

faces lawsuit brought about by his brother, 385

on Hooke’s desire to know what is in Wood’s book about him, 385, 386

and death of Ashmole, 387, 388

obtains water samples in Bagley Wood, 388

and publication of second volume of Wood’s book, 388

on reactions to Wood’s books, 384, 389, 390, 391

wants to know origin of name of River Thames, 385, 392

visits Oxford, 390

lists his works, 390–1

returns to London, but unable to move back into his old lodgings, 391

is given cause for concern by Earl of Abingdon, 392

Llwyd willing to have his collection of letters bound for Ashmolean Museum, 395

1693–1697:

atttacked, robbed and wounded, 399

suffers with gout, 399, 401

continues to deal with matters concerning his manuscripts, 399, 401–2, 403, 404–5, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, 413, 419, 422

and people offended by Wood’s book, 399, 401, 403, 404

designs his own epitaph, 401

and Tanner, 401, 402, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410

makes visits, 403

in Cambridge, 403

and Wood, 403, 405, 406, 407, 412, 413–14, 415, 417

dragged into legal proceedings between his brother and Kent, 403, 405

deposits material in Ashmolean Museum, 404

and Lhwyd, 404, 405, 407, 408–9, 410, 411, 414, 419, 421, 422

stays with Earl of Abingdon, 405

has apoplectic fit, 406

wants to have quadrant made, 407

donations to Ashmolean Museum, 407, 408–9, 411, 417

and purchase of Dobson’s painting on behalf of Earl of Pembroke, 408, 409

ill with fever, 409

gets to know Sir Henry Chancey, 410–11

invited to Borstall, 411

observation on Midsummer’s Day, 411–12

at Borstall, 412

visits Oxford, 413

ill again, 413

urged to accompany Sir John Aubrey to Glamorganshire, 413

and Lord Abingdon’s admission of banter, 413

stays with Lord Abingdon, 414

ill with a cold, 414

and investigation into Bagley Wood springs, 415, 417

problems with his eyes, 416, 417, 418

at Llantrithyd, 417, 419, 421

donations to Royal Society, 418, 422

and deaths of Wood and Wylde, 418

intends to stay with Lady Long, 418

publication of Miscellanies, 419–21

hopes to borrow painting by Van Dyck, 421

has copies of Love’s pamphlet reprinted, 421

thoughts about his work in preserving antiquities, 422

buried in unmarked grave, 423

After his death:

posthumous reputation, 425–32

Writings:

account of Avebury, 154, 192, 209

Adversaria Physica, 390, 391

Antiquities of Wiltshire, 338, 378, 391, 401, 403, 405, 406, 407, 409, 410, 425, 428–9

Apparatus of the Lives of Mathematicians, 374, 391

Book of Lives (Brief Lives), 7–8, 10, 291–2, 294–5, 296–7, 298–310, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320–2, 323, 324–5, 326, 329, 368, 402, 406, 413, 414, 427–8, 429, 431

Chorographia Antiquaria, 209, 260

Chronologia Architectonica, 198, 370, 432

The Country Revell, 195

Idea of Education, 335–6, 338, 362–6, 381, 387, 391, 408, 419, 430

Life of Thomas Hobbes, 166–7, 286, 287, 291, 292–3, 391

Miscellanies: A Collection of Hermetick Philosophy, 7, 391, 407, 410, 418, 419–21, 422, 424, 425, 429–30

Monumenta Britannica, 296, 317, 373, 384, 391, 393–5, 399, 402, 403, 405, 406, 409, 410, 411, 421, 426, 430–1

Natural History of Wiltshire, 254, 257, 337, 338, 344, 348, 349, 350, 354, 376, 377, 378, 381, 382–3, 385, 391, 401, 405, 406, 407, 428

Perambulation of Surrey, 383–4, 385–6, 389, 391, 402, 426

Remaines of Gentilism (collection of folklore), 350–1, 357, 391, 401, 409, 410, 419, 422, 430

Templa Druidum, 192, 209, 228, 247, 296, 351, 381, 389, 395

Villare Anglicanum (collection of English place names to be interpreted), 354, 379, 391

Aubrey, Sir John, 1st Baronet (JA’s uncle), x, 305, 306, 399

Aubrey, Sir John, 2nd Baronet (JA’s cousin and patron), x, 101, 130, 198, 204, 241, 403, 409, 410, 411, 412, 413, 416, 417, 421

Aubrey, Lewis, 306

Aubrey, Richard (JA’s father)

and JA’s birth, 17

and JA’s childhood, 25

and his stepfather, 26

eye problem, 30

summons JA home from Oxford, 41, 46, 53, 59

Major Morgan stays at home of, 55

does not permit JA to return to Oxford, 66

hands over money to Parliamentarian committee, 66

illness, 67, 75

death, 94–5

burial, 95

will, 98, 195

JA plans inscription for, 102

JA inherits debts from, 191

brief references, x, 84

Aubrey, Thomas (JA’s ancestor), 303

Aubrey, Thomas (JA’s brother), x, 65, 194, 196, 206–7, 323, 354

Aubrey (née Williams), Wilgiford (JA’s paternal great-grandmother), 111, 304

Aubrey, Dr William (JA’s paternal great-grandfather), x, 21, 30, 111, 171, 173, 207, 210, 254, 262, 303–5, 355

Aubrey, William (JA’s brother)

birth of, 55

JA unwilling to give key of trunk to, 210

difficulties between JA and, 345–6, 351, 356, 357, 368, 372, 376, 377, 383, 385, 403, 405

and burial of his mother, 349

and JA’s Wiltshire Antiquities manuscript, 403, 405, 428

brief references, x, 196, 402

Auburn Chase, 352

Austen, Ralph, 108

Avebury, 7, 75, 105, 138, 140, 141, 142, 143, 151–4, 155, 192, 209, 339, 350, 426

Avicenna, 92

Avon, River, 7, 54, 159, 167, 177, 197, 325, 326, 344, 347

Axe, Thomas, 336

Azores, 132

Babell Hill, 46

Bachelar, Daniel, 25

Bacon, Francis

sets foundation for advancement of learning through experiment and observation, 3

on antiquities, 3, 31

comparison of Strachey’s style with Aubrey’s in description of, 9

JA’s early reading of, 30, 31

and Sir John Danvers, 31, 89

and Verulam House, 52, 84–5, 110

and Bushell, 60

plans for St Albans, 84

winter-house and park at Gorhambery, 86

experiment with snow, 9, 87

death, 87

manuscript shown to JA by Hartlib, 97

Hartlib and Comenius correspond about ideas of, 101

JA writes about life of, 104, 254, 292

Royal Society’s interest in works of, 173, 280

coffin removed, 323

brief references, 114, 171

Works:

De Mirabilis Artis et Naturae, 241

Elements of the Law, 151

Essays, 31

Historia Naturalis Et Experimentalis De Ventis, 88

History of Henry VII, 31, 89

Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning, 171

Of Building, 85

Remaines, 88

The Student’s Prayer, 365

The Writer’s Prayer, 365

Bacon, Sir Nicholas, 86

Bacon, Roger, 280

Works:

Computus Naturalium, 280

Bagford, Mr, 412

Bagley Wood, 388, 415, 416, 417

Bagshot, 380

Bagworth, 388

Baldum, Bernardinum: Heronis Ctesbii Belopoica: Telefactivia, 185

Ball, Dr William, 115, 184

Balliol College, Oxford, 50

Baltimore, Lord, 196

Banbury, 43

Bancroft, Archbishop, 355, 356, 383

Banqueting House, 185

Bansted, 260

Bansted Downs, 221

Barbados, 82, 271

Barclay, Robert: System of the Quakers’ Doctrine in Latin, 352

Barlowe, Thomas, 160

Barrington, Mr, 255

Barrow, William, known as Father Harcourt, xiv, 283

Barrow Hill (Hubbaslow), 69

Bartholemus, 99

Bartholomews (or Bullington-green), 42

Baskervill, Mr, 388

Bath, 107, 140, 142, 158, 166, 197, 352, 376

Abbey, 20

Bathford, 197

Bathurst, Dr George, xi, 51, 52, 64, 70

Bathurst, Edward, 344

Bathurst, Dr Ralph

biographical details, xi–xii

book collection, 39–40

and Petty, 70, 88

on Ben Jonson, 70

and JA’s absence from Oxford, 72–3

presents some of his work on anatomy, 99

mentioned in JA’s draft of will, 102

eulogy for Lydall, 113

writes letter of approval and recommendation for Plot, 244

declines suggestion that he should write epitaph for Petty, 373

and JA’s Monumenta Britannica, 402, 403

brief references, 97, 98, 193 236

Bave, Samuel, 94

Bawdrip, 373

Bayley, Thomas, 378, 407

Bayley, Mrs, 369, 376

Bayly, John, 67

Baytins: De Re Navali, 235

Bayworth, 382

Beach, Major, 409

Beaufort, Duchess of, 108

Beckley, 414

Bede, Venerable, 102, 174, 185, 218, 372, 377, 378

Bedford, Earl of, 53

Bee, Cornelius, 104

Beeston, Mr, 321, 322, 324

Bemerton, 177–8

Bennen, 205

Bennet, Mr, 394

Bere Regis, 352

Berford, 44

Berkshire, Earl of, 317

Bermondsey Abbey, 386

Bermudas, the, 239, 240, 246, 249, 269

Berners, Dame Juliana, 27

Bernini, Giovanni, 50

Bertie, James, Lord Norris of Rycote, 1st Earl of Abingdon see Abingdon, James Bertie, Lord Norris of Rycote, 1st Earl of

Bery-well, 140

Bill against Atheism, Prophaneness and Swearing, 161

Birkenhead, John, xii, 59, 68, 286

Birket, Dr Henry, 374

Birkhead, Mr, 412

Bishop’s Canning, 33

Bishop’s Down, 67

Blackbourne, Dr Richard, 293–4, 316

Black Boy, Fleet Street, 395

Black Bull, Cornhill, 394

Blackheath, 222, 233

Black Notley, 367

Blandford, 32, 33, 106, 114, 124, 352

School, 6, 31–2, 61, 75, 224, 329, 335

Bliss, Revd. Dr Philip, 427

Bloomsbury, 253

Bloomsbury coffee house, 285

Blount, Sir Henry, 77, 111, 327–8

Blunt, Colonel, 247

Bodenham, Anne, 98–9

Bodleian Library

protected by soldiers during Civil War 68

William Burton leaves manuscripts and collections to, 114

collection of Roman coins catalogued, 160

John Milton’s work burnt in quad, 167

JA’s donations to, 246, 249–50, 317

books added to JA’s donation by George Ent, 249–50, 317–18, 319

JA wants to see conjuring books in, 251

and Jonas Moore’s books, 331

exhibition on ‘John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning’, 431

brief references, 280, 329, 362

Boevey, James, 269

‘The Art of Governing the Tongue’, 269

‘The Governance of Resolution’, 269

Bohemia, 101

Book of Common Prayer, 4

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

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

JA’s first encounter with, 22–3

as pupil of Mr Latimer, 22–3

encourages JA to go to Oxford, 39

flees to France, 34

recounts the cause of Bacon’s death, 87

in exile in France, 91

ideas propounded in Leviathan, 91–2

and Petty, 92, 299

angers the King’s supporters in France, 92

returns to London, 93

clothes described by JA, 93

and Selden, 103

JA visits birthplace, 116–17

horoscope, 117

in London for arrival of Charles II, 127

meets Charles II, 128

attacks ideas of members of Royal Society, 130

suspected of atheism and heresy, 132

JA hopes to discuss Ireland with, 133

portrait by Cooper, 133, 203

Hoskyns sends JA news about, 135–6

dedicates book to Charles II, 135

granted pension by Charles II, 136

prints pamphlet to stop doubts about his loyalty to the King, 136

intends to establish a free school, 140

hestitates to take house in London found for him by JA, 140

JA writes from Paris to, 149

JA encourages him to write about the law, 151

and Bacon’s Elements of the Law, 151

method of working, 151

Hollar engraves portrait of, 158

learns that some bishops in Parliament have moved to have him burnt as a heretic, 161

JA plans to write life of, 166–7

and William Davenant, 170

in process of writing tract on the law of heresy, 170

and Lord Cary, 176

portrait by Jaspers presented to Royal Society, 178

JA sends Wood information about, 192

and gift of his works to Magdalen Hall, 196, 209–10, 228

gives copy of his book to Royal Society, 206

JA sends Wood two lives of, 233

has great esteem for Hooke, 237

displeased with Royal Society, 237

and Wallis, 237, 248, 251, 273

account of his life in Wood’s book, 237, 238

and Fell, 237, 238, 240, 244

JA visits on birthday of, 238–9

discusses Odyssey with JA, 239

plans to vindicate himself against Fell’s charges, 239

sends letter of protest for inclusion in second volume of Wood’s book, 240

copies of his letter circulate, 241, 242

leaves London for Derbyshire, 242

JA concerned about Ent seeing copy of life of, 243, 244

booksellers unwilling to include letter in second volume of Wood’s book, 244

given a copy of Petty’s book by JA, 248

response to suggestion about publication of his treatises through Royal Society, 248

translates Iliad, 252

advises JA to stay out of ecclesiastical matters, 263

sends letter to JA from Hardwick, 273–4

and Milton, 277

JA learns that there is competition for printing life of, 280

JA sends Ent’s book to, 280

will not consent to printing of his treatise on law, 284

ideas about the civil war, 284–5

death, 286

JA works on life of, 286, 287, 291

Blackbourne writes life of, 293–4

considerations of his own reputation and loyalty printed again, 295

opinion of Descartes, 308

short life of himself printed in Latin, 314

JA gives Royal Society a copy of Life of, 314

publication of ‘Vitae Hobbianae auctarium’, 316

recommendations on education, 364

brief references, 9, 49, 60, 77, 86, 101, 109, 271, 288, 292, 336, 374

Writings:

Behemoth, 284–5

De Corpore, 93, 103, 106, 130, 237

The Dialogue of the Common Law, 284

Dialogus Physicus, sive de Natura Aeris, 130

Elements of Philosophy, 108

Leviathan, 91–2, 136, 161 279, 351, 391, 407

Lux Mathematica, 206

Mr Hobbes Considered in His Loyalty, Religion, Reputation and Manners, 136

Problemata Physica 135

Tracts, 326

translation of Iliad, 252

translation of Odyssey, 239, 252

Hodby, Mr, 291

Hodges, Mr, 93

Holborn Bridge, 164

Holbourne, 187

Holder, Susan, 209

Holder, Dr William, xv, 209, 258, 259, 399, 402, 408, 416, 417

Elements of Speech, 259

Hollar, Wenceslaus, xv, 114, 131, 133, 158, 167, 175, 270, 277, 306–7, 348, 431

Holland, Earl of, 50

Holmeby House, 71, 72

Holm Lacy, 41

Holy Grail, 156

Holyhed, 112, 133

Holy-well, Chippenham, 107

Homer, 70, 151, 225, 363

Iliad, 252

Odyssey, 46, 239, 252

Hooke, Robert

biographical details, xvi

elected as Royal Society’s Curator of Experiments, 137

appearance, 137

and Royal Society meetings and discussions, 138, 163, 168

position as Curator of Experiments is confirmed for life, 151

chosen as Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, 151

chosen as a surveyor of the City after Great Fire, 161

illness, 204, 208

JA talks of his description of Surrey to, 227

at coffee houses and taverns, 227, 235, 238, 239, 243, 246, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 260, 268, 269, 270, 280, 281, 285, 291, 295, 315

lends money to JA, 233, 235, 241, 242, 245

JA sells books to, 234–5, 246

JA gives books for Royal Society’s library to, 235, 241

JA takes lodgings near Gresham College so that he can assist, 236

held in esteem by Hobbes, 237

JA as assistant of, 237, 240

and cataloguing of Royal Society’s collection, 238

JA visits, 239

omitted from Wood’s book, 244, 245

would like to publish Hobbes’s treatises through Royal Society, 248

willing to employ George Snell, 252

JA’s notes on, 254, 292

and formation of new club, 255

and mechanical principle for flying, 255, 256

visits Henshaw, 258

visits Wren, 258

character in The Virtuoso is based on, 261

observes eclipse of the sun, 261

design for pocket watch, 267

sees comet, 270

visits Hoskyns and Alhurst, 271

has JA’s picture, 272

and process of choosing new president for Royal Society, 272

elected secretary of Royal Society, 273

watches eclipse of moon, 278

JA would like to write life of, 291

and JA’s will, 350

and JA’s concerns about his work, 354

and Newton, 371–2, 377, 379, 393

on the raising of level of City of London, 373

illness, 379

theory of Terraqueous Globe, 382, 385

wants to know what Wood has written about him, 385, 386

JA writes letter of thanks to, 418

brief references, 6, 9, 12, 184, 229, 249, 251, 274, 282, 313, 330, 356, 376, 387, 412

Writing:

An Attempt to prove the Motion of the Earth, 238, 371

Hopton, Sir Arthur, 93, 94

Concordance of Years, 374

Horace, 11, 59

Horne, Mr, 284, 395

Horrox, Jeremiah, 146

Hoskyns, Bennett, 71

Hoskyns, Dr John, 168

Hoskyns, Sir John

brief biographical details, xv

at Oxford, 45

goes to see a loom, 110

member of Rota Club, 119

writes to JA about his travels abroad, 130–1

and Hobbes, 131–2, 135–6

ill with fever, 136

advice to JA when he is lovesick, 145

and Dobson’s paintings, 157

and Royal Society, 163, 328

wants JA to accompany him on journey through Wales, 194

writes to JA, 201, 203, 205, 207, 234

birth of son, 234

encourages JA to research and write about natural history of England, 247

and setting up of new club, 255

urges JA to turn to ecclesiastical career, 262

and Wren’s birthday celebration, 268

brief references, 184, 204, 254, 261, 269, 271, 272, 274, 280, 285

Hoskyns, Serjeant, 71

Hothfield, 191, 200, 205, 206

Hounslow, 165

Hounslow Heath, 196

Houlle, M de, 149

Howard, Sir Charles, xv, 219, 220, 247, 385

Howard, Lord Henry, 6th Duke of Norfolk, xv, 161, 162, 163, 175, 221

Howard, Lord Thomas, 14th Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey, and 1st Earl of Norfolk, xv, 9–10, 87, 131, 221, 306, 307

Howe, Josias, 321

Howe, William, 279

Hubbaslow (or Barrow Hill), 69

Hue and Cry, The (pamphlet), 281

Hullavington, 81

Hungerford, 64, 67, 352

Hungerford, Anthony, 63

Hungerford, Sir Edward, 347

Hungerode, 347

Hyde, Edward, 1st Earl of Clarendon see Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of

Hyde, Henry, 2nd Earl of Clarendon see Clarendon, Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of

Hyde, Mr, 249, 250

Ifley, 198

Imperato, Ferrante: Dell’historia natural, 235

Ipswich, 5

Ireland, 42, 61, 94, 204, 300, 301, 319, 322, 373, 374

Ja visits, 3, 132–3

Ireton, Henry, 129

Isey, 74

Islington, 315

Italy, 2–3, 92, 97, 98, 99, 117, 131, 179–80, 194, 300

Ivy, Thomas, 47

Jackson, Revd Canon John Edward, 428–9

Wiltshire: the Topographical Collections of John Aubrey, 429

Jamaica, 239

James I, King, 83, 86, 185, 192, 294, 298, 305

James II, King

brief biographical details, ix

as Duke of York, 51, 142, 143, 163, 165, 211, 227, 270, 282, 316

becomes Roman Catholic, 211

marries Mary of Modena, 227

consents to marriage of Mary to William of Orange, 270

and Exclusion Bill, 282

Charles II refuses to exclude, 316

coronation of, 340–1

pardons rebels, 349, 352

birth of son, 355

deposed, 1, 366

flees to France, 366

in Ireland, 373, 374

Clarendon imprisoned for corresponding with, 379

Gibbon’s eulogies to, 419–20

Janson, Sir Henry, 412

Jaspers, Jan Baptist: portrait of Thomas Hobbes, 178

Jeffreys, Judge George, 341

Jeffries, Richard, 203

Jekyll, Thomas, 412

Jenkins, David, 305

Jenkins, Judge, 384–5

Jenkins, Sir Lleuellin, 215, 305–6

Jerome, St, 378

Jesuits / Society of Jesus, 175, 188, 194, 277, 299, 307, 315, 319

Jesus College, Oxford, 102, 246, 305–6, 377

Jewell, Bishop, 194

Joe’s coffee house, 243, 246, 255

Johnson, George, xvi, 329, 335

Johnson, Richard, 103

Johnson, Mr, 276

Jonathan’s coffee house, 280, 281, 285, 291, 295, 315

Jones, Inigo, xvi, 29, 64, 74, 78, 105, 186

Jonson, Ben, 9, 70, 170, 309, 315, 320, 321, 412

The Alchemist, 207

Underwoods, 321

Joseph of Arimathea, 156

Joyce, George, 72, 129

Kempe, Sir Nicholas, 222

Kempis, Thomas à, 104

Kennett, 75

Kennett, White, 415, 419

Kensington, 365

Kent, 207, 208, 209, 263, 328, 339 see also names of places

Kent, Countess of, 9, 103

Kent, Mr, 356, 366, 371, 372, 375, 376, 377, 385, 403, 405

Kerrig y Druid (Druid-Stones), 154

Kettell, Dr Ralph, xvi, 40–1, 44, 45, 51, 53, 59, 64, 257, 295, 344, 374–5

Kew, 21

Keynsham, 26

Kilmington, 76, 77, 88, 95, 275

King, David, 262

King, Gregory, 204

King, John, 163

King’s Cabinet Opened, The, 81

King’s Council, 277

Kingston, 218–19, 229

Kington St Michael, 18, 19, 41, 74, 84, 100, 158, 180, 196, 210, 349, 402, 428

church, 65, 95, 115, 130, 198

Kircher, Athanasius: Ars magna lucis et umbrae, 90

Knaresborough, 258

Knightsbridge, 330, 369

Knoll-hill, 77

Lacock, 142

Lacy, John, 319

La Flèche, 299

Lairesse, Gérard de: The Golden Age: Aurea, 364–5

Lake, Sir Edward, 168

Lamb, the, Salisbury (Sarum), 173, 196

Lambe, John, 99

Lambert, General, 297, 302

Lambeth, 155, 217–18, 277, 283, 324, 329, 387

Lamphire, Dr, 323, 324

Lancashire, 365

Land’s End, 124

Langford, 251

Langley, 65

Langton, Sir Thomas, 351

Latham, Serjeant, 83

Latimer, Robert, xvi, 20, 22–3, 24

Laurus: Antiquae Urbis (Romae) Splendor, 109

Lavington, 181, 380, 402, 405, 414, 419

Lee, William, 110

Leech, Sir Edmund, 108

Leek, 317

Legier Book of Glastonbury, 65

Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 31, 96

Leigh Delamere, 20, 24, 180, 428

Leovicius de Directionibus, 245

Letherhed Down, 221

L’Etrange, Sir Roger: Aesop’s Fables, 387

Levins, Dr, 415

Leyden, University of, 66, 300

Lhwyd, Edward

brief biographical details, xvi

as Plot’s assistant at Ashmolean Museum, 347

becomes Keeper of Ashmolean Museum, 378

and robbery at Ashmolean Museum, 383

and JA, 368, 379, 383, 384, 385, 390 393, 395, 401, 404, 405, 407, 408–9, 410, 411, 413, 414, 417, 419, 421, 422

Licensing Act, 136

Lichfield, siege of, 53

Lidds, the, 347, 351

Ligurio, Pyrrho, 326

Lilly, William, xvi, 129, 166, 183, 208, 323–4, 374

Limerick, 42

Lincoln Inn Fields, 185

Lismor, 300

Lister, Dr, 411

Lister, Sir Martin, 246

Littlebury, Mr, 271

Llantrithyd, 101, 130, 305, 417, 419, 421

Lloyd, Meredith, 104, 253, 386, 392

Llull: Testamentum, 241

Locke, Dr John, xvi, 209

On Education, 405

Lodwick, Francis, xvi, 184, 235, 255, 256, 267, 276, 280, 282, 330, 350

A Common Writing, 184

Loggan, David, xvii, 293, 326, 348, 350

Loire, the, 149

London

JA’s youthful experience of looking at books in, 40

Charles I marches towards, 48

envoys reported to be coming to the King from, 62

members of Parliament summoned to Oxford from, 63

Browne suggests that JA should move to, 66

JA hopes to study law at Middle Temple in, 67

behaviour of courtiers in, 68

Hannibal Potter refuses to appear before parliamentary committee in, 69

JA continues his studies in, 71

Blount returns to, 77

JA based in, 91–4, 95–6, 118–20

coffee introduced in, 93–4

coffee houses open in, 93, 111

experimental philosophy club meets in, 114, 115

Rota Club meetings in, 119, 120, 125

Monck in, 123–4, 302–3

Hobbes returns to, 127

Charles II enters, 127

Hollar in, 131

JA finds house for Hobbes in, 140

plague, 157, 158, 159

Fire, 161–2 see also Great Fire of London

Royal Society in see Royal Society

ruins in, 165

inscriptions in churches in, 186

JA returns from Surrey to his lodgings in, 227, 233

Wren busy in rebuilding of, 235

JA moves to lodgings near Gresham College, 236

copies of Hobbes’s letter circulated in, 241

JA seeks to obtain preferment at court in, 247, 250

Earl of Thanet offers JA accommodation in, 250

Jesuits accused of plotting to set fire to, 277

Penny Post in, 292

JA considers where he might be buried in, 320

and Shakespeare, 320

anti-Catholic activity in, 361, 366

JA faces problem of noise in lodgings in, 370–1

level of, 373

and gardening, 378

brief references, 6, 50,70, 99, 101, 155, 178, 183, 202, 206, 208, 221, 225, 242, 245, 273, 274, 278, 282, 284, 339, 341, 355, 365, 384, 391, 405, 406, 414, 416, 421

see also names of locations in London

London, Bishop of, 361

London Bridge, 217–18, 247, 348

London Society of Antiquaries, 426

Long (née Leech), Lady Dorothy, xi, 108, 197, 418, 422

Long, Sir James, xvii, 105, 108, 140, 151, 156, 196–7, 251, 317, 318, 325, 341, 351–2, 432

Longdeane, 178

Longleat, 185, 379

Long Parliament, 117, 124, 125, 170, 286

Lords, House of, 63, 69 see also Parliament

Lothesley Manor, 223

Love, Christopher, xvii, 91, 422

Scripture Rules, 421

Lucan: Pharsalia, 170

Luckington, 107

Ludlow, Edmund, 63

Ludlow, Henry, 203

Lumley, Viscount, 361

Lundy Island, 62, 69

Lydall, John, xvii, 53, 72–3, 81, 82, 83, 87, 88, 90–1, 97, 98, 99, 102, 108, 113

Lyme Regis, 345

Lyte, Henry, 110

The Light of Britayne, 110

Translation of Rembert Dodoens’s Herbarium, 110

Lyte, Isaac (JA’s maternal grandfather), x, 17–18, 18–19, 20, 33, 60, 66, 102, 115, 130

Lyte (née Browne), Israel (JA’s maternal grandmother) see Browne, Israel

Lyte, Thomas (JA’s maternal great-grandfather), x, 18

Lytes Carey, 60, 110

Machiavelli, 269

Discourses, 72

Macock, John, 303

Magdalen College, Oxford, 380, 393

Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 39, 44, 49, 196, 209–10, 228, 244, 291

Magna Carta, 225

Maidstone, Lord, 207

Malet, Elizabeth, 157

Malmesbury

Abbey, 20, 54, 154, 167

Hobbes born in, 22, 116–17, 167

St Mary Westport Church destroyed, 54

siege of, 54

Member of Parliament for, 63

name, 75

celebration of Restoration of Charles II, 128

JA wants a map of, 167

witches at, 196

charter granted by Athelstan, 370

brief references, 18, 19, 23, 33, 44, 47, 74, 140, 197, 286, 291, 326

Malone, Edmond, 427

Man’s coffee house, 260

Margarita Philosophica, 418

Mariett, Thomas, xvii, 53, 70, 118–19, 124, 234, 262, 278, 284, 349, 374, 379

‘Mariners’s Dictionary, The, 97

Marlborough, 67, 75, 142, 344

Marsfield, 180

Marshall, Mr, 186

Martial, 364

Martin, Mr, 415

Marvell, Andrew, 243, 250

Mary I, Queen, 29–30, 192

Mary II, Queen (James II’s daughter; wife of William of Orange), ix, 1, 211, 270, 355, 366, 368

Mary, Queen of Scots, 21, 171, 173, 304, 305

Mary of Modena, Duchess of York, 227, 277

Maryland, 196, 330

Mason, Sir John, 303

Massey, Colonel Edward, 119

May, Thomas, 170

Breverie of the History of the Parliament of England, 170

Matthew’s Wagon, 410

Maynard, Sir John, 71

Mendip Hills, 258, 345

Mercator, Nicholas, 118, 328

Mercurius Aulicus, 59, 68

Mercurius Pragmaticus, 242, 250

Mere, 77

Mermaid Tavern, Oxford, 167, 355

Merret, Dr Christopher, 163, 171, 270

Merriweather, Dr, 380

Merry, Thomas, 328

Merton, Wiltshire, 365

Merton College, Oxford, 49, 176, 196

Mexico, 315

Middle Temple, 6, 67, 71, 115, 200, 216, 325, 329

Miles, Mr, 119

Millington, Dr, 272

Milson, 170

Milton, John, 9, 125, 128, 167, 250, 277

Paradise Lost, 363

The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, 125

Minty, 74, 327, 347

Minty Common, 74, 252

Modena, 314

Mole, River, 220

Monck, General George, 1st Duke of Albemarle, xvii, 119, 123, 124, 125, 126–7, 161, 285, 301–3, 427

Monmouth, 98, 203

Castle, 203

Church, 112

Monmouth, James Scott, Duke of, xix, 283, 345, 348, 349

Monmouthshire, 111, 354 see also Monmouth

Montaigne: Essays, 192

Moore, Sir Jonas, 145–6, 246, 247, 255, 293, 317, 328, 331, 348

Moore, Sir William, 223

Moorfields, 200, 320

Moray, Sir Robert, 129, 163, 217

Mordant, Sir Thomas, 277

More, Mr, 402

More, Mrs, 236

Morecomb-bottom, 74

Mores’ Wagon, 411

Morgan, Major, 55

Morgan, Mr, 303

Morison, Dr, 269, 276

History, or Description, of Ireland, 322

Morley, Bishop, 224

Mortlake, 21, 207

Morton, Cardinal, 352

Moulay Al Rashid, 175

Moxon, Mr, 270

Mudiford, Mr, 93

Muffet, Dr Thomas, 200

De Insectis, 200

Of Meates, 200

Münster, Sebastian: Rudimenta Mathematica, 132

Murray, Robert, 292

Mydorgius, Claudius: Sectiones Conicas, 113

Nantwich, 62

Napier, Sir Richard, 369

Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, 241

Naples, 179

Naseby, Battle of, 64, 81

Naule, 141

Needham, Marchamont: Medela Mediciniae, 250

Nemeghen, 215

Netherdale, 353

Netherlands see Dutch, the / Netherlands

Nevill, Henry, 109, 119, 272

The Parliament of Ladies, 77

Newbury, 64

Battle of, 61, 62, 176

New College, Oxford, 41, 168

New England, 315, 330

New Forest, 253

Newgate, 200, 281, 341

New Inn Hall, Oxford, 377, 378, 380, 391

Newman, Mr, 220

Newmarket, 352

Newnton Water, 167

Newton, George, 158–9

Newton, Sir Isaac, xvii, 6, 9, 200, 255, 258, 331, 371, 372, 377, 379, 393

Discourse, 255

Principia, 371

Newton River, 54

New York, 249, 330

Nicholas, Sir Edward, 176

Norbury, 219

Norden: Surveyors’ Dialogues, 417

Norfolk, 202, 331 see also names of places

Norfolk, Lord Henry Howard, 6th Duke of see Howard, Lord Henry, 6th Duke of Norfolk

Norfolk, Lord Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of see Howard, Lord Thomas, 14th Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey, and 1st Earl of Norfolk

Normandy, 299, 350

Norris of Rycote, James Bertie, Lord, 1st Earl of Abingdon see Abingdon, James Bertie, Lord Norris of Rycote, 1st Earl of

Northampton, 275

Northampton, Earl of, 43

Norwich Cathedral, 4, 205

Norwood, Richard, 97, 239–40

The Seaman’s Practice, 240

Nott, Mr, 394

Nymph Hay, 18

Oates, Titus, xviii, 277, 278, 341

Oath of Allegiance, 200

Offa’s Dyke, 184

Ogilby, John, xviii, 203–4, 209, 215, 227, 229, 233, 267, 319

History of England, 203

Odysses, 204

Oldenburg, Henry, xviii, 162, 256, 257, 271, 273, 314

Old Sarum, 130

Oliver, John, 161

Orford, Earl of, 361

Orleans, 149, 150

Orleans, Duke of, 138

Osney Abbey

foundation of, 49

ruins described, 49

JA commissions drawing of, 4, 52

explosion at, 62

drawings of, 133, 206, 210, 242, 244, 407, 413, 414

engraving of, 4, 133–5, 175, 242–3, 431–2

JA credited by Hearne for arranging for remains to be recorded 425, 426

brief references, 39, 168, 245

Oughtred, Ben, 221–2

Oughtred, William, 221–2, 294, 336

Overbury, Sir Thomas, 295

Overton, Mr, 260

Ovid, 76, 182, 183, 323, 357

Amores, 357

De remedio amoris, 295

Epistles, 357

Metamorphoses, 31, 363

Owen, John, 168

Oxford

JA lives in, 39–45

held by Parliamentary forces, 45

JA obeys his father and leaves, 46

JA returns to live in, 48–55

Charles I enters, 48–9

JA watches the King dine, 50

full of courtiers and their families, 50–1

Dobson in, 52

disease in, 53

Browne writes to JA with news from, 61–2, 64, 65–6

envoys reported to be coming to the King in, 62

the King summons Great Council to meet in, 62

the King sets up a new Parliament in, 63

under threat from Parliamentary forces, 64

surrenders, 68

Lydall writes to JA from, 72–3

new club established by Wilkins, 81, 114, 115

case of Nan Green in, 87–8

Lydall makes arrangements for JA’s possessions in, 88

JA states his intention of visiting, 174, 196, 198, 206, 233, 240, 245, 251, 319, 351, 371, 375, 378, 379, 385, 389, 403, 406, 411, 417, 421

JA’s desire to visit, 262, 362, 376, 414

JA’s visits to, 97, 167, 169, 202, 275, 277, 323, 369, 388, 390, 405, 416

JA’s servant seeks employment in, 173

Coley born in, 192

Hobbes’s letter sent to and distributed in, 241, 242

rumours about Popish Plot in, 278

new Parliament meets in, 316, 317

JA fears anti-Catholic unrest will spread to, 361

JA receives advice about printing his work in, 384, 393

brief references, 5, 67, 70, 77, 83, 95, 98, 99, 168, 208, 235, 243, 247, 279, 283, 315, 336, 355, 365, 372, 377, 381, 402, 407, 409, 413, 415

see also Oxford University

Oxford, Earl of, 195

Oxfordshire, 244, 254 see also names of places

Oxford University

attended by Hobbes, 23, 39

JA as student at, 1, 2, 39–46

college chapels searched for signs of Popery, 45

buildings used by the King and court, 49, 50–1

colleges used by army, 49

Castle becomes a prison, 49

Parliamentarian Visitation of, 69, 73–4, 81

Parliament intends to purge again, 82

degree ceremony, 99

JA hears about the Visitation under Edward VI, 132

Ned Wood’s election as proctor of, 167

only a few scholars at, 373–4

Anthony Wood expelled from, 403

and the study of antiquities, 410

Wood bequeaths his papers to, 418

Culture of Knowledge project, 431

see also Ashmolean Museum; Bodleian Library; names of colleges

Wood’s books about:

Athenae et Fasti Oxonienses (biographies of writers and bishops at Oxford University), 178, 202, 226, 377, 380, 388, 427; offence caused by, 384–5, 389, 390, 391, 399, 401, 403, 404

The History of the Antiquities of the University of Oxford (Historia et antiquitates universitatis oxoniensis), 178, 198–200, 216, 237, 238, 240, 242, 248, 249

Padua, 131

Paget, Mr, 328

Palace Yard, 341

Palgraves Head, near Temple Bar, 268

Palladio, Andrea: I Quattro libri dell’architettura (The Four Books of Architecture), 151

Pankhurst, Sir William, 61

Pappus Alexandrinus: Mathematicae Collectiones, 241

Paris, 92, 93, 118, 127, 130, 149, 151, 175, 208, 299, 355

Paris, Matthew, 141

Parliament

summoned, dismissed and recalled (1640), 34

passes Dissolution Act, 35

Charles I unable to agree with, 41

and civil war, 43, 45, 46, 48–9, 54, 62, 63, 64, 66, 68, 71, 73, 77, 224

abolishes kingship, 82

passes Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth, 82

and sale of lands belonging to royal family, 82, 87

Petty recommended to, 94

votes a pension to Hartlib, 96

Sir John Aubrey’s estates sequestrated by, 101

dissolved by Cromwell, 104

army defeats Penruddock and his followers, 106

called upon to address problem of debt, 115

dissolution of Parliament, and recall of 1648 Parliament, 117

Rump agrees to pay Richard Cromwell’s debts and give him a pension in return for his resignation as Lord Protector, 117

and the ideas of rotation by balloting, 119

and General Monck, 123, 124, 302–3

Long Parliament restored, 124

Long Parliament call for free elections and its own dissolution, 125

passes Act of Free and General Pardon, Indemnity and Oblivion, 128

Hartlib’s petition to, 135

passes a new Licensing Act, 136

move against Hobbes in, 161

Committee considers a bill against Atheism, Prophaneness and Swearing, 161

has little enthusiasm for war against the Dutch, 201

Test Act, 211

forces release of Titus Oates, 278

Birkenhead scorned when he stands for election to, 286

dissolved by Charles II, 316

convened in Oxford, 316

dissolved again, 317

see also Parliamentary Visitation / Visitors

Parliamentary Visitation / Visitors, 69, 70, 73, 74, 76, 81, 149, 167

Pascal, Blaise: Les Provinciales, or the Mystery of Jesuitisme, 250

Paschall, Andrew

brief biographical details, xviii

and the search for a Universal Language, 201, 267, 268, 274, 276, 282

educational ideas, 202

wants collection of words peculiar to Devon and Cornwall, 203

interest in beekeeping, 251, 253, 257

informs JA about his mother’s ill health, 251

letters to JA read to Royal Society, 258, 296

JA arranges to borrow manuscripts via, 260

JA hopes to visit, 271

kind to JA’s mother, 274

asks JA for recommendations on writers, 315

sends JA an example of a desirable Utopia, 318

supplies JA’s mother with cure for sore eyes, 322–3

encourages JA to work on his educational ideas, 335

JA’s Natural History of Wiltshire sent to, 338

comments on JA’s Idea of Education, 338–9

asked by JA to send berries of Holy Thorn to his mother, 339

and departure of JA’s mother from Bridgwater, 344

JA visits, 345

and Monmouth Rebellion, 348, 349, 352

describes a case of gonorrhoea to JA, 350

and antiquities, 372–3

Writing: Botanic Tables, 387

Payn’s Castle, 112

Peacock (racehorse), 29

Peacock, St Paul’s Churchyard, 394

Peake, the, Derbyshire, 313

Pecquet: Experimenta nova anatomica, 241

Peers, Richard, 216

Pell, Dr John, 200, 241, 254, 292, 298, 316, 346, 410

Idea of Mathematics, 159

Pembroke, Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of, 27–8, 29

Pembroke, Mary Herbert (née Sidney), Countess of, 26, 27–8, 28–9, 78, 200, 246

Pembroke, Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of, xiv, 29, 74, 83, 84, 88

Pembroke, Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of, xiv, 95, 96, 125, 130

Pembroke, Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of, xiv, 295

Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of, xvi, 279, 344, 346, 366, 375, 377, 379, 384, 408, 409

Pembroke, William Herbert, 1st Earl of, 27–8, 30, 162, 303

Pembroke-hall, Cambridge, 321

Penal Laws, 283–4

Penn, William, xviii, 3, 327, 330, 347

Penny Post, 292

Penruddock, Sir George, 30, 116

Penruddock, Sir John, 75

Penruddock, Colonel John, xviii, 75, 105, 106

Pennsylvania, 3, 327, 330, 347

Pepys, Samuel, 11, 12, 157, 281

Persia, 279

Peru, 315

Pestle & Mortar, St Martin’s Lane, 416

Peter of Langtoft (Philantiquarius), 373

Petty, Dr William

brief biographical details, xviii

teaches anatomy at Brasenose College, 70

revives woman on dissecting table, 88

discovers how to set a field of corn by means of a sowing and harrowing engine, 90

and Hobbes, 92, 299

recommended for appointment as one of the surveyors of Ireland, 94

member of Rota Club, 119

estates in Ireland, 132

knighted, 135

and Royal Society, 137, 144, 246, 319, 337

responds to JA’s request for advice on collecting statistics, 198

urges JA to turn to ecclesiastical career, 262

Wood asks questions about, 287

JA writes life of, 291, 292, 294, 298–300

portraits, 293

writes from Ireland, 319

questions for the trial of mineral water, 337–8

JA gives extracts from Wiltshire parish registers to, 350

death, 354–5

brief references, 255, 330

Writing:

Concerning the Use of Duplicate Proportion, 248

Pewter Pott, Leaden Hall Street, 381

Peyton, Mr, 30

Philantiquarius (Peter of Langtoft), 373

Philips, Fabian, xviii, 324–5, 347, 375

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 5, 164, 261, 271, 314, 337, 350

Pico, Mount, 132

Pierre Couverte, 150

Pierre Levée, 150

Pigott, Thomas, xviii, 267, 269, 275, 276, 278, 282, 283, 286, 314, 330

Pimpherne, 33

Pisa, 179

Pitt, George, 347

Plato, 251, 335

Pliny, 143, 244

Natural History, 411

Plot, Dr Robert

brief biographical details, xviii–xix

granted letter of approval and recommendation by Ralph Bathurst, 244

begins his investigation in Oxfordshire, 244

plan for his book, 244, 260

JA decides to give papers to, 254, 257

transcribes some notes given by JA, 260

suggested for post of first Keeper of Ashmolean Museum, 282

appointed first Keeper of Ashmolean Museum, 329

too busy to undertake work on Wiltshire, 339

as Professor of Chemistry, 348

and Wood, 355, 356

and JA’s Surrey papers, 368

retirement, 383

brief references, 323, 347, 378

Writing:

De Origine Fontium, 339

History of Oxford, 260

Plunia: Purpur, 235

Poole, 62

Poole, the (part of the Thames), 217

Poole, William, 431

Pope, Sir Thomas, 243, 276

Pope, Dr Walter, 163

Popish Plot, 277, 278, 283–4

Oates punished for false testimony, 341

Pordage, Samuel, 125

Portland, 165, 313

Portugal, 133

Postmaster’s Hall, Oxford, 53

Potter, Francis

brief biographical details, xix

JA interested in his ideas about numbers, 47–8

JA meets, 76–7

becomes rector of Kilmington, 76

and idea of moving blood between animals, 76, 95, 137–8, 164, 176, 323

visits JA at Broad Chalke, 88–9

reads Wilkins’s Mathematical Magick, 89

ideas about the moon and gravity, 89

ideas about flight, 89–90

ideas about submarine navigation, 90

JA talks to Hartlib about, 96

Hartlib requests more information about, 97

urges JA not to go to Italy, 98

difficulties in his relationship with his brother, 99

does not send account of his experiments for Hartlib, 99

too busy to make quadrant for JA, 102

wants JA to obtain material he needs to make screw compasses, 109–10

scheme for cart with legs, 138

elected member of Royal Society, 138

sends money for admittance to Royal Society, 139

admitted to Royal Society, 144

idea for clock, 168

JA visits, 245

blindness, 245

death, 275–6

Wood asks questions about, 287

brief references, 111, 326, 407, 421

Writing: An Interpretation of the Number 666, 47–8, 76

Potter, Hannibal, 47, 62, 69, 72, 73, 76, 99

Powell, Anthony, 2, 7–8, 9, 10, 429, 430

John Aubrey and His Friends, 9, 429

Powney, Mrs, 104

Poyntz, Captain, 346

Pozzo, Cassiano dal, 145

Prague, 131, 306

Priory of Augustine, Bristol, 344

Privy Council, 115, 278

Propertius, 297

Prynne, William, 387

Pufendorf, Samuel von, 381

Pugh, Robert, 281

Pulleyn, Octavian, 314

Quakers, 352

Queen’s College, Cambridge, 274

Queenstreet, London, 185

Radford, William, xix, 53, 70, 73, 149, 234

Radnor, 112

Rainbow, the, 111, 273

Rainbow-Stationer, Fleet Street, 95

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 32–3, 92–3, 102, 191, 251, 272, 294, 322

A Tryall of oares and indications of metalls and mines, 247

History of the World, 33

Randolph, Thomas, 294

Ranulagh, Lady, 301

Rawlinson, Richard, 426

Ray, John, xix, 274–5, 367, 381–2, 382–3, 385, 389, 390, 402

Synopsis of English Plants, Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum, 387

The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of Creation, 385

Reading, 61, 70, 344, 352

Redding, Sir Robert, 260

Reden and Holyoks Dictionary, 411

Reformation, 180, 185

Restoration, 1, 4, 126–7, 204

Reynolds, Mr, 401

Rhan, J.H.: An Introduction to Algebra, 241

Richard II, King, 219

Richard III, King, 248

Richard, Duke of Gloucester, 248

Richmond, 149, 234

Riolanus, Johannes, 99

Rochester, Countess of, 165

Rochester, Earl of, 157, 243, 297

Roehampton, 69

Rolle, Sir Francis, 260

Rolle, Serjeant, 71

Rollright Stones, 247, 248

Roman Catholicism

Oxford colleges searched for signs of Popery, 45

and Wiltshire, 100

JA’s attitude towards, 188, 194, 236, 263, 267

allegiance of Duke of York to, 211

rumours about Wood concerning, 236

JA asks Wood to burn his letters concerning, 267

prospect of a Catholic monarch feared, 270

rumours about devotees on the continent, 275

and Titus Oates, 277

Popish Plot, 277, 278, 283–4

Exclusion Bill intends to exclude Duke of York from succession, 282

Penal Laws against, 283–4

Hollar’s allegiance to, 307

Charles II refuses to compromise on succession of James, 316

James II succeeds to the throne as a Catholic, 340

Oates punished for false testimony about, 341

increasing antagonism towards, 355, 361

Wood suspected of allegiance to, 362

flight of James II, and riots in London against, 366

brief references, 222, 306, 352

see also Jesuits / Society of Jesus

Romans, 2, 143–4, 170, 185, 201, 218, 247, 350–1, 367, 370, 372–3, 385–6, 404

architecture, 185

camps, 171, 184, 205

coins, 100, 101, 160, 201, 205, 260, 376, 409

mosaics, 197–8

remains, 101, 114, 165, 185–6, 218, 219, 222, 260

ways, 165, 221

Rome, 96, 117, 131, 145, 175, 179, 300–1, 326, 350, 370

Romney, Earl of, 361

Rosamund’s Bower, Woodstock Manor, 43–4, 210

Rose, Mr, 309

Rota Club, 119, 120, 125

Rowland, Mr, 419

Royal African Company, 239

Royal Exchange, 185, 275, 341, 395

Royal Society

role played by JA in, 5–6

proposals for, 129

Hobbes’s criticisms of, 130

receives its charter, 5–6, 137

offered rooms by Gresham College, 137

Hooke elected as Curator of Experiments, 137

JA elected to, 5, 137

meetings (1663), 137–8, 138–9

Potter elected a member of, 138

council meets for first time, 139

presented with plan of Avebury, 140

Potter admitted to, 144

General Meeting 1663, 144

Ent shows table top of fossilised wood to, 145

Georgical Committee, 145

Hooke’s position as Curator of Experiments is confirmed for life, 151

Pepys elected and admitted as Fellow of, 157

meetings at Gresham College cease because of plague, 159

unable to resume meetings at Gresham College after Great Fire, 161

meetings (1666), 162, 163–4

JA serves on audit committee, 163, 164, 261, 355, 381

and JA’s investigations on water, 166, 169, 170–1, 329

Hooke reports on method of measuring time through air, 168–9

establishes a committee to consider a report on Wilkins’s Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language, 171

requests Wood to make a list of treatises written by Bacon, 173

JA brings drawing of a cloudy star to, 175

JA brings Potter’s account of his experiment in moving blood before, 176

JA presents portrait of Hobbes to, 178

JA gives books to, 185, 241, 418

JA presents piece of Roman antiquity to, 185–6

Newton elected Fellow of, 200

Evelyn becomes Secretary of, 201

Hobbes gives copy of his book to, 206

finds small employment for JA, 208

decides to keep only mathematical and philosophical books in its library, 208

JA’s presentation of winds to, 210, 236

Hobbes displeased with, 237

JA works on Catalogue of the Repository of, 238

JA asked to help make catalogues for, 246

Moore elected and admitted to, 246

Hooke would like to publish Hobbes’s treatises through, 248

Southwell reads discourse about water to, 249

new club formed by small group of members, 255

Newton reads his Discourse to, 255

JA presents his observations of Wiltshire to, 256

JA submits sheets of his observations of Wiltshire, Surrey and other counties to, 257

reading of JA’s papers and Newton’s papers on light and colour, 258

reading of Paschall’s letters to JA, 258

JA arranges loan of Foster’s manuscripts for perusal of, 260

The Virtuoso is a satire on, 261

death of Secretary of, 271

resignation of Brouncker as President of, 272

process of election of new President, 272

election of council and officers of, 273

JA presents herb to, 276

JA chosen to inspect proceedings of Secretaries of, 279

discussion about printing all Bacon’s works together, 280

discussion about monstrous births, 296

JA gives copy of Life of Thomas Hobbes to, 314

Henshaw refuses suggestion that he become President of, 315

discussion about medicated springs, 328

and Penn, 330

and Moore’s books, 331

JA presents Windham’s observation about height of barometer in Salisbury Cathedral, 340

JA hopes to obtain Hollar’s drawings of sea battles, 348

JA talks about tides to, 348

JA shows nautilus to, 350

discussion about plant called Star of the Earth, 352

takes charge of JA’s manuscript on Natural History of Wiltshire, 376

transcription of JA’s Natural History of Wiltshire, 381

Wood’s book comes before, 388

JA presents copy of Miscellanies to, 422

350th anniversary, 431

brief references, 165, 196, 204, 207, 209, 226, 235, 240, 251, 254, 269, 284, 287, 288, 293, 313, 319, 362, 367, 372, 382, 389

see also Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

Roydon, Mr, 283

Rumney Marsh, 211

Rump Parliament, 117, 123, 124, 298, 302–3

Rumsey, 299

Rumsey, Walter, 111–12

Organon Salutis, 112

Runnymede, 225

Rupert, Prince, 62

Rush, Mr, 417

Rushworth, John, 369, 376

Historical Collections, 369

Russell, Lady, 416

Rycot, 403, 421

Rydens, 20

Rye, 127

Ryves, Katherine, xi, 108, 112, 113–14

Sacwill, Mr, 280

Sadler, Mrs, 107, 108

St Albans, 52, 61, 84–7, 323, 411

St Andrews, 5

St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, 267

St Edmund’s Church, Salisbury, 65

St Faith’s Church, near St Paul’s, 162, 164

St George, Henry, 262, 303

St George’s Channel, 133

St James’s Palace, 117

St John’s College, Oxford, 42, 253, 415

St Katharine’s Church, near the Tower, 336

St Margaret’s Church, Westminster, 251, 270, 271–2, 277

St Martin’s Outwych Church, 320

St Mary Magdalen, Oxford, 423

St Mary’s Church, South Lambeth, 387, 388

St Mary Staining churchyard, 315

St Mary Westport Church, Malmesbury 54

St Michael’s Church, St Albans, 323

St Pancras Church, 203, 287

St Paul’s Cathedral, 24, 29, 162, 235, 303, 305

St Paul’s Church, 165

St Paul’s Churchyard, 5, 40, 91, 164, 257, 268, 317, 393, 394

St Paul’s School, 392

St Quentin, Battle of, 30, 304

St Thomas’s Bridge, 67

St Vincent’s rock, Bristol, 347

Salisbury

Cathedral, 29, 130, 340, 378, 380

Gaol, 196

St Edmund’s Church, 65

JA visits as a child, 46

witch trial at, 98–9

Penruddock’s uprising starts in, 106

JA visits Sherborne House in, 107–8

Katherine Ryves lives in, 108

death of Katherine Ryves, 113

JA takes out marriage licence at, 160

JA faces trial in, 169, 175

project to make River Avon navigable from 177

rumour about JA in, 194

Bishop Jewell’s epitaph in, 194

JA’s brother dies in, 323

brief references, 55, 124, 173, 196, 271, 344, 346, 369

Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 28

Salisbury Plain, 10, 23, 25

Sandys, George, 205

Santa Cruz, 283

Sapperton, 107

Saracen’s Head, 279, 381, 402

Sarsden, 23

Sarum see Salisbury / Sarum

Saumur, 150

Savile, Sir Henry, 308

Saxons, 141, 219, 354, 392, 404

Saye and Sele, Lord Viscount, 45

Scaliger: Contra Caldanum, 235

Scarnolli, 131

Scotland, 1, 50, 124, 217, 275, 302, 319, 353, 389

Scott, James, Duke of Monmouth see Monmouth, James Scott, Duke of

Scrope, Sir Adrian, 51–2

Scudamore, John, 41

Seacole, Mrs, 362, 371

‘The Seaman’s Grammar’, 97

Sedgemoor, Battle of, 345

Seend, Surrey, 225

Seend, Wiltshire, 158–9, 166, 329, 347

Seething Well, 219

Selden, John, xix, 9, 93, 101, 103, 374

Mare Clausum, 275

Seneca

Epistulae Morales, 335

Troades (The Trojan Women), 125

Severall Speeches and Songs at the presentment of Mr Bushell’s Rock to the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, 60

Seymour, Lord Charles, 75, 111

Shadwell, Thomas, 195, 261, 321

The Sullen Lovers, 195

The Virtuoso, 261

Shaftesbury, 124

Shaftesbury, Earl of, 209

Shag Heath, 345

Shakespeare, William, 320–1

Shakston, 42

Shelden, Francis, 401

Sheldon, Ralph, xix, 186–7, 262, 277, 278, 281, 284, 294, 298

Sheldonian Theatre, 192, 282, 403

Shepherds Delight Both by Day and by Night, The, 195

Sherborne, 54, 84, 88

Castle, 46

Sherborne House, 107–8

Sherburne, Sir Edward, 412

Sherston, 100

Shervill, Henry, 65

Sherwin, Robert, 187

Shipey, Mr, 324

Shirbourne, Edward, 368

Shirburn Spring, 221

Shooter’s Hill, 328

Shortgrave, Mr, 234

Shrewsbury, 61

Shrewsbury, Earl of, 361

Shotover Hill, 411, 415

Sidney, Mary see Pembroke, Mary Herbert (née Sidney), Countess of

Sidney, Sir Philip, 23–4, 24–5, 26–7, 28–9, 78, 162, 200, 322, 340

Arcadia, 25, 27, 28, 78, 221

Silbury Hill, 142, 317

Silchester, 177

Simeon of Durham, 141

Singleton, Alderman, 24, 25

Sitsilt family, 112

Skinner’s lexicon, 203

Skreen, Mr, 197, 198

Sloper, John, 82

Sloper, Walter, 339

Slough, 10, 105

Slyfiend Common, 347

Smethwick, Mr, 168

Smyth, Jane, xi, 246, 253, 256, 260, 269, 270, 330, 368, 371

Smyth (Smith), Mr, 393, 394

Snell, Sir Charles, xix, 32–3, 69, 84, 100, 261–2, 271, 298–9, 323, 354

Snell, George, 252, 255

Snell family, 18

Society of Jesus see Jesuits / Society of Jesus

Socinus, 176

Somerset, 201, 239, 256, 271, 373 see also names of places

Somerset, Duke of, 185

Somerset House, 185, 324

South Lambeth, 217–18, 277, 283, 329, 387

South Molton, 106

Southwark, 217, 373, 386

Southwell, Sir Robert, 249, 319

Spain, 93, 94

Spanish Armada, 117

Spaw, 258

Speed’s maps, 354

Spelman, Sir Henry: Villare Anglicanum, 354

Spenser, Edmund, 321–2

Faerie Queen, 322

Staffordshire, 339

Stalbridge, 301

Stamford, 354, 367

Stanes Bridge, 54

Stan Leigh Abbey, 20

Stanley, Venetia, 259, 308–10

Stansteds-bury, 127

Stanton Drew, 26, 155, 209

Stanton Park, 253

Staple Inn, 278

Star Chamber, 65

Stationers’ Hall, 5

Stedman, Fabian, xix, 198

Stephens, J.E., 430

Stidulph, Sir Richard, 219

Stokes, Captain: Wiltshire Rant, 100

Stonehenge, 1–2, 6, 10, 23–4, 75, 105, 141, 143–4, 154, 155, 372, 373, 426

Story, Mrs, 254

Stoughton, Mr, 132

Stow, Mr, 217, 386

Chronicle, 69

Survey of London, 347

Strachey, Lytton, 9 12

Elizabeth and Essex, 9

Eminent Victorians, 12

Strand, 126, 128

Stratford-upon-Avon, 320, 321

Stretford, 118

Stukeley, William, 426

Stumpe, Captain Thomas, 46–7, 71, 125, 372, 377, 385

Stumpe, William, 20, 46, 70–1

Suckling, Sir John, 294

Sumner, Joan, xi, 158, 159, 160–1, 169, 173, 174, 180

Sumner, John, 166

Surrey

JA undertakes survey of, 7, 215–16, 217–27, 228, 229

Oldenburg transcribes JA’s observations of, 256, 257

JA sends notes to Evelyn, 259

Evelyn tells JA about, 259–60

JA prepares manuscript about, 383–4, 385–6

JA passes his survey to Dr Gale, 389

JA’s account of perambulation included in his list of works, 391

Ray reads JA’s account of, 402

JA’s account published, with Rawlinson’s additions and omissions, in eighteenth century, 426

brief references, 89, 254, 328, 354

see also names of places

Surrey, Lord Thomas Howard, 4th Earl of see Howard, Lord Thomas, 14th Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey, and 1st Duke of Norfolk

Sussex, 226, 229, 331, 385

Sutton Benger, 158, 159

Switzerland, 300

Sydenham, Jack, 18, 60, 155

Symonds, Father, 203

Tacitus, 51, 66

Tainton, 304

Tangier, 175

Tanner, Thomas, xix, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 413, 415, 418, 421, 428

Taunton, 115, 183, 345

Taylor, Silas, 275

Temple Church, 103

Test Act, 211

Tetbury, 54

Tew, 176

Thames, River

Charles I’s bust carried on barge, 50

source of, 74

runs through Wiltshire, 74

whale comes into, 114

Coway Stakes in, 173–4

the Poole, 217

building of London Bridge over, 217–18, 247

Wren’s remarks on, 247

proposal to cut canal to join River Avon and, 325, 326

fire caused by fireworks on banks of, 341

origins of name, 385–6, 392

brief references, 67, 89, 225, 344, 347

Thanet, Nicholas Tufton, 3rd Earl of

brief biographical details, xix

imprisoned in Tower, 107, 146

becomes Earl of Thanet, 146

invites JA to visit, 191, 200

comments on JA’s thoughts about lanterns, 200

JA stays at Hothfield with, 205, 206

health concerns, 205, 245–6

sends horse to collect JA, 209

estate in the Bermudas, 239

advice on buying land in America, 249

offers JA accommodation, 250

invites JA to visit again, 263

promises to tell his agent about shells JA wants from the Bermudas, 269

Charles Snell’s brother is willing to work as steward for, 271

invites JA to call on him, 281

death, 286

Thaumaturgia Mathematica, 99

Therfield, 403

Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae, 31

Thetford, 352

Thornhill, 33

Threadneedle Street, 124

Thuanus; Annals, 173, 305

Thynne, Lady Isabella, 50–1, 109

Thynne, Sir James, 50

Thynne, Sir John, 185

Thynne, Sir Thomas, 29

Tisbury, 367

Tison, Mr, 291

Tittinghanger, 327

Tobacco Roll & Sugar Loaf, Bloomsbury, 386

Tobago, 346

Tonbridge, 107

Tonge, Israel, xix, 277, 315

Tooth’s coffee house, 268

Torbay, 361

Tower Hill, 91, 422

Tower of London, 135, 146, 157, 167, 218, 227, 248, 301, 305, 379

Tracy, Margaret, 131

Tradescant, Hestor, 283

Tradescant, John, the Elder, 218

Tradescant, John, the Younger, 218

Tradescant collection, 218, 282, 283

Trinity church, Guilford, 223

Trinity College, Cambridge, 114, 200, 274, 275, 331

Ray forfeits his Fellowship at, 274

Trinity College, Oxford

JA as student at, 39–45

Kettell as President of, 40–1, 44, 45, 51, 53, 59, 295, 374–5

court ladies at, 50–1, 109

Hannibal Potter as President of, 62, 69

JA returns to, 69

Parliamentary Visitation at, 69

Hannibal Potter removed from Presidency of, 72

Radford removed from his Fellowship at, 73, 76

Lydall buried in, 113

JA has reservations about giving manuscript to library of, 243

Thomas Pope is founder of, 243, 276

reminders of Francis Potter at, 275–6

brief references, 6, 47, 53, 61, 70, 71, 89, 91, 102, 111, 119, 167, 168, 209, 224, 234, 248, 250, 291, 413, 425

Trinity House, 163

Tufton, Nicholas, 3rd Earl of Thanet see Thanet, Nicholas Tufton, 3rd Earl of

Tully see Cicero

Turk’s Head, New Palace Yard, 119, 125

Tyburn, 129, 283, 328, 341

Tyndale, Stafford, 110, 118, 133, 136, 155

Underhill, Thomas, 254

University College, Oxford, 280

University Press (Oxford), 216, 384

Delegates of, 178

Usher, Archbishop, 322

Van Dyck, Sir Anthony, xx, 29, 50, 52, 259, 309, 421

Varenius, Bernhardus: Geographia Generalis, 97

Vaughan, Henry, 254, 287–8

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

Vaux family, 46

Venice, 131, 151

Verneditch Walk, 367

Verulam House, 52, 84–6, 110–11

Vesalius, 299

Vienna, 307

Virgil, 67, 90, 151, 204

Aeneid, 95

Virginia, 315, 330

Vossius, Isaac, 366–7

Wadham College, Oxford, 74, 81, 90, 267, 314

Wagstaff, John, 287

Wales

JA inherits properties in, 98

JA stays with his cousin in Llantrithyd, 101, 417, 419, 421

JA’s lawsuit over entail in, 111

JA visits, 112

Camden writes about stones in, 154

Hoskyns wants JA to accompany him on journey through, 194

Monmouth used as base for governing, 203

JA plans journey to, 367

Lhwyd’s visit to, 404

brief references, 3, 6, 7, 132, 143, 171, 184, 275, 288, 351, 365, 405, 416

Walker, Revd John, 427

Waller, Edmund, xx, 51, 108, 294, 375

‘On the Lady Isabella Cutting Trees in Paper’, 108–9

Waller, Sir William, xx, 54, 62, 412

Wallingford, 64

Wallis, Dr John, xx, 81, 136, 209, 237, 248, 251–2, 259, 273, 296, 319, 331, 404

Walton, Isaac, 315

Wantage, 64

Ward, Seth, Bishop of Exeter and Salisbury (Sarum)

brief biographical details, xx

at Oxford, 70

contribution to the work of making River Avon navigable from Salisbury to Christ Church, 177

observations at Silchester, 177

and Wood’s questions, 194–5

and search for Universal Language, 268, 274, 276, 282

death, 369

papers, 369

and Wren’s survey of Salisbury Cathedral, 378

brief references, 246, 271, 374

Wardi Astronomica Geometrica, 418

Wardour Castle, 63

Warminster, 77

Warwick, 275

Castle, 43

Gaol, 278

Wase, Christopher, xx, 84, 228, 340

Washington, Sir Laurence, 44

Watts, Mr, 379

Waverley Abbey, 223, 224

Wearyall Hill, 156

Web, Mother, 167

Webb, Dr George, 42

Webb, John, 74, 105

Webb, Mr, 410

Wednesdyke, 184

Weekfield, 101, 185–6

Wells, 201

Wells, John: Sciographia, of the Art of Shadows, 83

West Indies, 315

Westminster Abbey, 78, 170, 175, 193, 322, 340

Westminster Hall, 71, 77, 131, 325, 340, 341, 394

Westminster School, 256, 364

Weston, 173, 186, 233, 247, 248, 262, 277, 278, 281

Westport, 22, 54, 116–17

Whear, Degore: Praelectiones, 387

Wheatley, 389

Whelock’s Saxon Dictionary, 354

Whig Party, 316

Whitby, 419

Whitchurch, 53, 118

White, Kit, 368, 371, 413

White, Sir Sampson, 306

White, Thomas: The Grounds of Obedience & Government, 250

White, Mr (Mr Loggan’s scholar), 326

Whitehall Palace, 340

Whitney, James, 132

Whitson, Alderman, 25–6

Whyte, Thomas, 253

Wild, Chief Baron, 98

Wild House, 361

Wilkins John, xx–xxi, 70, 74, 81, 114, 177

Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language, 170, 171, 238

Mathematical Magick, 89

Wilkinson, Mr, 395

William III (William of Orange), ix, 1, 270, 355, 361, 366, 368, 373

Williams, Abigail, 251

Williams, John, 304

Williams, Wilgiford (JA’s paternal great-grandmother), 111, 304

Williams, Sir William, 386

Williamson, Sir Joseph, 215, 273, 305

Willis, Dr Thomas, xxi, 70, 72, 99, 118, 380

De Fermentatione, 109

Wilton, 10, 26–9, 74, 78, 83–4, 88–9, 95, 130, 156, 200, 295, 340, 348, 389, 408, 409

Wiltshire

JA’s childhood in, 1, 17–30

Raleigh in, 32–3

JA returns from Oxford to, 46

JA’s father hands over money to Parliamentary committee for his property in, 66

clay in, 74–5

peaks in, 77

religion in, 100

flints, 106

JA begins to collect natural remarks for, 6, 110

JA becomes involved in project to survey antiquities of, 115–16

JA reads paper to Royal Society on springs of, 169

JA brings mineral water from, 170–1

first paper mill in, 177–8

JA hopes to complete his perambulation of, 184

JA needs to sort his notes on, 191–2

Oldenburg transcribes JA’s observations of, 256

drought in, 262, 318

petrified shells found in, 313

Plot urges JA to complete and publish work on, 339

good for cloth and cheese, 341

streams rising in, 344

Tanner’s investigations in, 404

Abingdon wants JA to travel with him through 414

JA intends to stay with Lady Long in, 418

brief references, 2, 10, 133, 145, 226, 253, 327, 380, 389

see also names of places

JA’s writings on:

Antiquities of Wiltshire, 338, 378, 391, 401, 403, 405, 406, 407, 409, 410, 425, 428–9

Natural History of Wiltshire, 254, 257, 337, 338, 344, 348, 349, 350, 354, 376, 377, 378, 381, 382–3, 385, 391, 401, 405, 406, 407, 428

Wiltshire: The Topographical Collections of John Aubrey, FRS, 429

Wiltshire Topographical Society, 428

Wimburne Minster, 44

Winchester (Winton), Bishop of, 62, 224

Winchmore Hill, 375

Windham, Colonel John, 340

Windsor, 70

Castle, 259, 366

Wingate, Edmund, 102

Bodie of the Common Law, 250

Winterbourne Monkton, 339

Winton, 173, 175

Wiseman, Mary, xi, 90, 102, 112, 261

Wiseman, Robert, 151, 159, 169, 173, 179, 183, 208, 282

Witherborne, Dr, 87

Woburn, 74

Woking, 224

Wolsey, Cardinal, 168

Wood, Anthony

biographical details, xxi

accident, 53

JA meets, 167–8

frugal lifestyle, 167

JA offers to assist in research of, 167

JA spends evening in Oxford with, 169

makes research requests to JA, 168, 173, 202, 204, 248, 287, 376, 412–13

and JA’s Jesuit acquaintances, 175

quarrels with his sister-in-law, 177

deafness, 177, 318

offered money for his manuscript, 178

introduced to Sheldon by JA, 186

JA’s researches for, 186, 191, 192, 194–5, 201, 202, 205, 206, 226, 234, 245, 250, 251, 277, 298, 382

says he will mention JA in his book, 194

visited by JA in Oxford, 202

JA sends requests and queries to, 210, 216, 247, 291, 298

Fell’s interference with his book, 216, 237, 238, 248

JA hopes for help in getting some money from, 227

JA sends Hobbes’s lives to, 233

Hobbes makes suggestion to, 238

and Hobbes’s letter of protest, 240

sends JA a copy of his book, 242

JA gives Ent a letter of introduction to, 242

JA sends material to, 242–3

and Ent’s desire to see copy of Hobbes’s life, 243, 244

leaves Hooke out of his book, 245

quarrels with Ent, 247, 249, 251

JA’s brother fails to pass on money from, 248

refuses to mention JA’s name in preface to book, 248

Latin mistakes in his book, 249

and Ashmole, 250, 279

asked by JA to burn a letter, 267

encouraged by JA to mention Hollar, 277

lends money to JA, 278

and catalogue of Bacon’s works, 280

and JA’s Lives, 291, 292–3, 294, 296, 315, 317, 318, 323, 326, 329, 368, 406, 413, 414, 427

JA sends copy of Hobbes’s consideration on his reputation and loyalty to, 295

considered by JA as suitable candidate for Hart Hall, 324

and JA’s Antiquities of Wiltshire, 338

informs JA about sale of library at Wilton House, 340

JA grateful to, 355

JA dines at Mermaid Tavern with, 355

fails to hand over JA’s donations to Ashmolean Museum, 356

fails to hand over JA’s papers to Ashmolean museum, 356, 362

JA fears for his papers in possession of, 356, 361, 362

suspected of being a Roman Catholic, 362

asked by JA to help Jane Smyth, 368

JA wants to send transcriptions of his manuscripts to, 370

and JA’s plan to visit Oxford, 371, 375

and Hooke’s controversy with Newton, 371, 372, 377, 379

and JA’s collection of letters, 374

JA anxious to send his papers to, 375

given watch by JA, 377, 379

JA plans to send box to, 377

publishes Athenae et Fasti Oxonienses, 380, 388

causes offence by contents of his book, 384–5, 389, 390, 391, 399, 401, 403, 404

Hobbes’s concerns about book, 385

Hooke’s concerns about book, 386

summoned to appear before Vice-Chancellor’s court, 390

JA distributes copies of preface for, 391

fined and expelled from University of Oxford, 403

JA hopes to see, 407

JA feels badly treated by, 413

angry with JA, 413–14

writes angry letter to JA, 414

sends JA advice on how to cure his eyes, 417

death, 418

brief references, 193, 196, 208, 209, 217, 236, 262, 284, 286, 297, 314, 316, 327, 330, 335, 339, 346, 354, 366, 369, 373, 402, 405, 411, 415, 416, 426

Writings:

Athenae et Fasti Oxoniensis (biographies of writers and bishops of Oxford University), 178, 202, 226, 377, 380, 388, 427; offence caused by, 384–5, 389, 390, 391, 399, 401, 403, 404

The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford (Historia et antiquitates universitatis oxoniensis), 178, 198–200, 216, 237, 238, 240, 242, 248, 249

Wood, Edward (Ned), xxi, 53, 70, 105, 167, 234

Woodenoth, Theophilus, 30

Good Thoughts in Bad Times, 30

Woodford, Samuel, 322

Woodroffs Well, 415

Woodstock, 42, 211

Woodstock Manor, 43–4, 87, 206, 210

Woodstock Park, 297

Wookey Hole, 60, 313

Worcester, 275

Worcestershire, 263, 325

Wotton, 227, 259–60

Wotton Bassett, 380

Wotton Common, 415

Wren, Sir Christopher

brief biographical details, xxi

inventions, 90

and rebuilding of St Bride’s, 165, 267

discovers Roman way under Cheapside, 165

and his age, 186

suggests that JA might help Ogilby, 203, 204

and meetings of Royal Society, 204

JA dines with, 209

JA talks about his description of Surrey to, 227

busy with rebuilding of London, 235

talks about River Thames, 247

JA’s notes on, 254, 292

JA visits, 258

birthday celebration, 268

JA wants to write life of, 291

opinion of Edward Davenant, 293

writes about Salisbury Cathedral, 378, 380

brief references, 9, 191, 251, 252, 260, 282, 296, 336, 389

Wright: ‘Errors of Navigation’, 97

Wych, Peter, 273

Wyld, Mr, 178

Wylde, Edmund

brief biographical details, xxi

and Petty’s appointment as one of the surveyors of Ireland, 94

illness, 112, 135

probes the body of Dean Colet, 162–3

and meetings of Royal Society, 168–9

comments on Thomas May, 170

gives JA information about Rosamund’s Bower, 210

and Balm of Gilead tree, 218

at coffee houses and taverns, 238, 243, 246, 256, 257, 268, 280, 281

mistress (Jane Smyth), 246, 253

owns fine collection of books, pictures and precious objects, 247, 253

considers buying land in New York, 249

involved in setting up new club, 255

and Venetia Stanley, 259, 309

godson (Wylde Clerke), 283

and Jonas Moore, 331

experiment with seeds, 338

and Lhwyd, 405

grows very weak, 417

death, 418

brief references, 164, 191, 263, 270, 317, 318, 319, 324, 347, 404

Wylye, 10, 67

Wylye, River, 67

Wytham, 419

Xenophon, 151

Yatton Keynell, 4, 20, 33, 46, 74, 178, 180, 184–5

Yeovil, 106

Yokeney, William, 127

York, 5

York, Duchess of

Anne (1st wife of James II), 165

Mary of Modena (2nd wife of James II), 227, 277

Yorke, William, 115

Yorke House, 262

Yorkshire, 353

Young, Nell, 272

Zeno, 276

Zoylande, 258

Zutphen, Battle of, 24