Chapter D: O. M (9)

About 1640, he maried ... the ... daughter of <Christopher> Wren, deane of Windsore and rector of Knowyll in Wiltshire.

Anno Domini 1642, had his institution and induction for the rectorie of Bletchington in com. Oxon.

In the troublesome times he was with his father-in-lawe Wren at the garrison of Bristowe. After the surrender of it to the Parliament, he lived ... year at Knowyll with him.

Anno about 1646[1690], he went to Bletchington to his parsonage, where his hospitality and learning, mixt with great courtesie, easily conciliated the love of all his neighbours to him. The deane came with him thither, and dyed and is buryed there.

He was very helpfull in the education of his brother-in-law, Mr. Christopher Wren (now knighted), a youth of a prodigious inventive witt, and of whom he was as tender as if he had been his owne child, who[1691] gave him his first instructions in geometrie and arithmetique, and when he was a young scholar at the University of Oxford, was a very necessary and kind friend.

The parsonage-house at Bletchington was Mr. Christopher Wren's home, and retiring-place; here he contemplated, and studied, and found-out a great many curious things in mathematiques. About this house[1692] he made severall curious dialls, with his owne handes, which are still there to be seen. ☞ Which see, as well worthy to be seen.

But to returne to this honest worthy gentleman--he is a good poet. I have some very good verses (about 100) in Latin on St. Vincent's-rocks and the hott-well, neere Bristowe. He is very musicall, both theorically and practically, and he had a sweet voyce. He hath writt an excellent treatise of musique, in English, which is writt both _doctis et indoctis_, and readie for the presse. He is extremely well qualified for his[1693]place, of Sub-Deane of the King's Chapell, to which he was preferred[1694] anno 167<4>, as likewise of the Sub-Almoner, being a person abhorring covetousnes, and full of pitty[1695].

Anno 16--(vide his ...) ... Popham (the only son of ... Popham, admirall for the Parliament), being borne deafe and dumbe[1696], was sent to him to learne to speake, which he taught him to doe: by what method, and how soon, you may see in the Appendix concerning it to his _Elements of Speech_, 8vo, London, printed <1669>. It is a most ingeniose and curious discourse, and untouched by any other; he was beholding to no author; did only consult with nature. This booke I sent to Mr. Anthony Lucas, at Liege, who very much admires it and I have desired him to translate it into French. Dr. John Wallis unjustly arrogates the glory of teaching the sayd young gentleman to speake, in the Philosophical Transactions, and in Dr. Robert Plott's History of Oxfordshire; which occasioned Dr. Holder to write a ... against him, a pamphlet in 4to, 167-.

He has good judgement in painting and drawing.

In anno <1652> he was made a prebendary of Ely. Anno <1663> had the parsonage of <Northwold> in Norfolk.

He is a handsome, gracefull person, and of a delicate constitution, and of an even and smooth temper; so that, if one would goe about to describe a perfect good man, would drawe this Doctor's character. Of a just stature; grey eie; tall and well-sett; sanguine; thin skin; roundish face; gracefull elocution; his discourse so gent. and obligeing; cleer reason.

They say that _morum similitudo conci<li>at amicitiam_; then it will not be found strange that there should be such a conjunct friendship between this worthy gentleman and the right reverend father in God, Seth Ward, lord bishop of Sarum, his coetanean in Cambridge.

It ought not to be forgott the great and exemplary love between this Doctor and his vertuose wife, who is not lesse to be admired, in her sex and station, then her brother Sir Christopher; and (which is rare to be found in a woman) her excellences doe not inflate her. Amongst many other guifts she haz a strange sagacity as to curing of wounds, which she does not doe so much by presedents and reciept bookes, as by her owne excogitancy, considering the causes, effects, and circumstances. His majestie king Charles II, 167-, had hurt his ... hand, which he intrusted his chirurgians to make well; but they ordered him so that they made it much worse, so that it swoll, and pained him up to his shoulder; and pained him so extremely that he could not sleep, and began to be feaverish. ... told the king what a rare shee-surgeon he had in his house; she was presently sent for at eleven clock at night. She presently made ready a pultisse, and applyed it, and gave his majestie sudden ease, and he slept well; next day she dressed him, and in ... perfectly cured him, to the great griefe of all the surgeons, who envy and hate her.

Non Illo melior quisquam, nec amantior aequi
Vir fuit: aut Illâ reverentior ulla Deorum.

OVID. _Metam._ lib. i.

_Note._

[FY] Aubrey gives the coat, 'sable, a chevron between 3 anchors argent.' Anthony Wood adds the reference 'vide pag. 65 _a_,' i.e. fol. 95, of MS. Aubr. 6, in the life of John Wallis.

=Hugh Holland= (15-- -1633).

[1697]From Sir John Penrudock:--Hugh Holland, poeta: he was descended of the family of the earles of Kent, etc., and was a Roman Catholique. The lady Elizabeth Hatton (mother to the lady Purb<ec>) was his great patronesse (vide B. Jonson's masque of the Gipsies for these two beauties).

Sir J<ohn> P<enrudock> asked him his advice as he was dyeing, (or he then gave it) that, the best rule for him to governe his life was to reade St. Hierome's Epistles.

He was buried in Westminster Abbey[1698], in the south crosse aisle neer the dore of St. Benet's Chapell, i.e. where the earl of Middlesex monument is, but there is no monument or inscription for him. He was buryed July 23, 1633.

He was of a Lancashire family.

Tho. Holland, earl of Kent (his sonnes, dukes of Surrey), tempore Rich. 2.

=Philemon Holland= (1551-1637).

[1699]Philêmon Holland was schoole-master of the free-schoole at Coventrey, and that for many yeares. He made a great many good scholars. He translated T. Livius, anno 15--, with one and the same pen, which the lady ... (vide at the end of his translation of Suetonius) embellished with silver, and kept amongst her rare κειμηλια[1700]. He wrote a good hand, but a rare Greeke character; witnesse the MS. of Euclid's Harmoniques in the library belonging to the schoole. He translated severall Latin authors,--e.g. Tit. Livius, Plinii Hist. Natur., Suetonius Tranquillus: quaere +.

One made this epigram on him:--

'Philêmon with 's translations doeth so fill us, He will not let SUETONIUS be TRANQUILLUS.'

=Wenceslaus Hollar= (1607-1677).

[1701]Winceslaus Hollar, natus Pragae 23 Julii, st<ilo> v<etere>, 1607, about 8 A.M.

[1702]Winceslaus Hollar, Bohemus, was borne at Prague.

His father was a Knight of the Empire: which is by lettres patent under the imperiall seale (as our baronets). I have seen it[1703]: the seale is bigger then the broad seale of England: in the middle is the imperiall coate; and round about it are the coates of the Princes Electors. His father was a Protestant, and either for keeping a conventicle, or being taken at one, forfeited his estate, and was ruined by the Roman Catholiques.

He told me that when he was a schoole-boy he tooke a delight in draweing of mapps; which draughts he kept, and they were pretty. He was designed by his father to have been a lawyer, and was putt to that profession[1704], when his father's troubles, together with the warres, forced him to leave his countrey. So that what he did for his delight and recreation only when a boy, proved to be his livelyhood when a man.

I thinke he stayd sometime in Lowe Germany, then he came into England, wher he was very kindly entertained by that great patron of painters and draughts-men <Thomas Howard> Lord High Marshall, earl of Arundell and Surrey, where he spent his time in draweing and copying rarities, which he did etch (i.e. eate with aqua fortis in copper plates). When the Lord Marshall went ambassador to the Emperor of Germany to Vienna, he travelld with much grandeur; and among others, Mr. Hollar went with him (very well clad) to take viewes, landskapes, buildings, etc. remarqueable in their journey, which wee see now at the print shopps.

He hath donne the most in that way that ever any one did, insomuch that I have heard Mr. John Evelyn, R.S.S., say that at sixpence a print his labour would come to ... _li._ (quaere J<ohn> E<velyn>). He was very short-sighted (μυοψ[1705]), and did worke so curiously that the curiosity of his worke is not to be judged without a magnifying-glasse. When he tooke his landskaps, he, then, had a glasse to helpe his sight.

At Arundel-house he maried with my ladle's wayting woman, Mrs. ... Tracy, by whom he haz a daughter, that was one of the greatest beauties I have seen; his son by her dyed in the plague, an ingeniose youth, drew delicately.

When the civil warres brake-out, the Lord Marshall had leave to goe beyond sea[CXXXI.]. Mr. Hollar went into the Lowe-Countries, where he stayed till about 1649.

[CXXXI.] Italie[1706].

I remember he told me that when he first came into England, (which was a serene time of peace) that the people, both poore and rich, did looke cheerfully, but at his returne, he found the countenances of the people all changed, melancholy, spightfull, as if bewitched.

I have sayd before that his father was ruined upon the account of the Protestant religion. Winceslaus dyed a Catholique, of which religion, I suppose, he might be ever since he came to Arundel-howse.

He was a very friendly good-natured man as could be, but shiftlesse as to the world, and dyed not rich[1707]. He maried a second wife, 1665, by whom he has severall children. He dyed on our Ladie-day (25 Martii), 1677, and is buried in St. Margaret's church-yard at Westminster neer the north west corner of the tower. Had he lived till the 13th of July following, he had been just 70 yeares old.

=John Holywood= (11-- -1256).

[1708]Jo. de Sacro Bosco:--Dr. <John> Pell is positive that his name was Holybushe.

=Thomas Hoode.=

[1709]... Hood, M.D.--he practised Physick at Worcester, and printed a booke in 4to called _The Geodeticall Staffe_[1710].

=Robert Hooke= (1635-1703).

[1711]Mr. Robert Hooke, curator of the Royall Societie at London, was borne at Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, A.D. <1635>; his father was minister there, and of the family of the Hookes of Hooke in Hants.

[1712]July 19ᵗʰ, 1635, baptized Robert Hooke, the son of Mr. John Hooke.

[1713]Mr. Robert Hooke[FZ], M.A.:--his father, Mr. John Hooke,[1714]had two or three brothers all ministers: quaere Dr. <William> Holder. He was of the family of Hooke of Hooke in Hampshire, in the road from London to Saram, a very ancient family and in that place for many (3 or more) hundred yeares.

[1715]His father was minister of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight. He maried ... ..., by whom he had two sonnes, viz. ... of Newport, grocer (quaere capt. Lee) and had been mayer there, and Robert, second son, who was borne[1716] at Freshwater aforesayd the nineteenth day of July, Anno Domini 1635--vide register, et obiit patris.

At ... yeares old, John Hoskyns, the painter, being at Freshwater, to drawe pictures for ... esqre, Mr. Hooke observed what he did, and, thought he, 'why cannot I doe so too?' So he getts him chalke, and ruddle, and coale, and grinds them, and putts them on a trencher, gott a pencill, and to worke he went, and made a picture: then he copied[1717] (as they hung up in the parlour) the pictures there, which he made like. Also, being a boy there, at Freshwater, he made an ... diall on a round trencher; never having had any instruction. His father was not mathematicall at all.

When his father dyed, his son Robert was but ... old, to whom he left one hundred pounds, which was sent up to London with him, with an intention to have bound him apprentice to Mr. Lilly[1718], the paynter, with whom he was a little while upon tryall; who liked him very well, but Mr. Hooke quickly perceived[1719] what was to be donne, so, thought he, 'why cannot I doe this by my selfe and keepe my hundred pounds?' He also had some instruction in draweing from Mr. Samuel Cowper (prince of limners of this age); but whether from him before or after Mr. Lilly quaere?

☞ Quaere when he went to Mr. Busby's, the schoolemaster of Westminster, at whose howse he was; and he made very much of him. With him he lodged his C _li._[1720] There he learnd to[1721] play 20 lessons on the organ. He there in one weeke's time made himselfe master of the first VI bookes of _Euclid_, to the admiration of Mr. Busby (now S.T.D.), who introduced him. At schoole here he was very mechanicall, and (amongst other things) he invented thirty severall wayes of flying, which I have not only heard him say, but Dr. Wilkins (at Wadham College at that time), who gave him his _Mathematicall Magique_ which did him a great kindnes. He was never a King's Scholar, and I have heard Sir Richard Knight (who was his school-fellow) say that he seldome sawe him in the schoole.

Anno Domini <1658> (vide A. Wood's _Antiq. Oxon._) he was sent to Christ Church in Oxford, where he had a chorister's place (in those dayes when the church musique was putt-downe[1722]), which was a pretty good maintenance. He was there assistant to Dr. Thomas Willis in his chymistry; who afterwards recommended him to the honᵇˡᵉ Robert Boyle, esqre, to be usefull to him in his chymicall operations. Mr. Hooke then read to him (R. B., esqre) Euclid's Elements, and made him understand[1723] Des Cartes' Philosophy. He was Master of Arts anno Domini....

Anno Domini 166<2> Mr. Robert Boyle recommended Mr. Robert Hooke to be Curator of the Experiments of the Royall Society, wherin he did an admirable good worke to the Common-wealth of Learning, in recommending the fittest person in the world to them. Anno <1664> he was chosen Geometry[1724] Professour at Gresham College[GA]. Anno Domini 166- Sir John Cutler, knight, gave a Mechanicall lecture, ... pounds per annum, which he read.

Anno Domini 166<6> the great conflagration of London happened, and then he was chosen one of the two surveyors[CXXXII.] of the citie of London; by which he hath gott a great estate. He built Bedlam, the Physitians' College, Montague-house, the Piller on Fish-street-hill, and Theatre there; and he is much made use of in designing buildings.

[CXXXII.] <John> Oliver, the glasse-painter, was the other.

He is but of midling stature, something crooked, pale faced, and his face but little belowe, but his head is lardge; his eie full and popping, and not quick; a grey eie. He haz a delicate head of haire, browne, and of an excellent moist curle. He is and ever was very temperate, and moderate in dyet, etc.

As he is of prodigious inventive head, so is a person of great vertue and goodnes. Now when I have sayd his inventive faculty is so great, you cannot imagine his memory to be excellent, for they are like two bucketts, as one goes up, the other goes downe. He is certainly the greatest mechanick this day in the world. His head lies much more to Geometry then to Arithmetique. He is (1680) a batchelour, and, I beleeve, will never marie. His elder brother left one faire daughter[GB], which is his heire. In fine (which crownes all) he is a person of great suavity and goodnesse.

_Scripsit._

...
...

'Twas Mr. Robert Hooke that invented the Pendulum-Watches, so much more usefull than the other watches.

He hath invented an engine for the speedie working of division, etc., or for the speedie and immediate finding out the divisor.

An instrument for the Emperor of Germany, 1692/3.

[1725]The first thing he published was--An attempt for the explication of the phaenomena observeable in the XXXV experiment of the honourable Robert Boyle, esq., touching the aire: printed for Sam. Thomson at the Bishop's head in Paule's churchyard, 1661, 8vo: not now to be bought, and, though no bigger then an almanack, is a most ingeniose piece.

The next moneth he published another little 4to pamphlet,--Discourse of a new instrument he haz invented to make more accurate observations in astronomy then ever was[1726] yet made, or could be made by any instruments hitherto invented, and this instrument (10 or 12 _li._ price) performes more, and more exact, then all the chargeable apparatus of the noble Tycho Brache or the present Hevelius of Dantzick.

<In MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 30, 31, is this letter from Aubrey to
Anthony Wood, enclosing a communication from Hooke.>

September 15, 1689.

Mr. Wood!

Mr. Robert Hooke, R.S.S. did in anno 1670, write a discourse, called, 'An Attempt to prove the motion of the Earth,' which he then read to the Royal Society; but printed it in the beginning of the yeare 1674, a _strena_[1727] to Sir John Cutler to whom it is dedicated, wherein he haz delivered the theorie of explaining the coelestial motions mechanically; his words are these, pag. 27, 28. viz.:--

['In[1728]the _Attempt to prove the motion of the earth_, etc., printed 1674, but read to the Royall Society, 1671: pag. 27, line 31--

'I shall only for the present hint that I have in some of my foregoing observations discovered some new motions even in the Earth it self, which perhaps were not dreamt of before, which I shall hereafter more at large describe, when further tryalls have more fully confirmed and compleated these beginnings. At which time also I shall explaine a systeme of the world, differing in many particulars from any yet known, answering in all things to the common rules of mechanicall motions. This depends upon 3 suppositions; first, that all coelestiall bodys whatsoever have an attractive or gravitating power towards their own centers, whereby they attract not only their own parts, and keep them from flying from them, as we may observe the Earth to doe, but that they doe also attract all the other coelestial bodys that are within the sphere of their activity, and consequently that not only the Sun and the Moon have an influence upon the body and motion of the Earth, and the Earth upon them, but that Mercury also, Venus, Mars, Saturne, and Jupiter, by their attractive powers have a considerable influence upon its motion, as, in the same manner, the corresponding attractive power of the Earth hath a considerable influence upon every one of their motions also. The second supposition is this, that all bodys whatsoever, that are putt into direct and simple motion will soe continue to move forwards in a straight line, till they are by some other effectuall powers deflected and bent into a motion describing a circle, ellipsis, or some other uncompounded curve line. The third supposition is, that these attractive powers are soe much the more powerfull in operating, by how much nearer the body wrought upon is to their own centers. Now what these severall degrees are, I have not yet experimentally verified.'--_But these degrees and proportions of the power of attraction in the celestiall bodys and motions, were communicated to Mr. Newton by R. Hooke, in the yeare 1678, by letters, as will plainely appear both by the coppys of the said letters, and the letters of Mr. Newton in answer to them, which are both in the custody of the said R. H., both which also were read before the Royall Society at their publique meeting, as appears by the Journall book of the said Society._--'But it is a notion which if fully prosecuted, as it ought to be, will mightily assist the astronomer to reduce all the coelestiall motions to a certaine rule, which I doubt will never be done true without it. He that understands the natures of the circular pendulum and circular motion, will easily understand the whole ground of this principle, and will know where to find direction in nature for the true stating thereof. This I only hint at present to such as have ability and opportunity of prosecuting this inquiry, and are not wanting of industry for observing and calculating, wishing heartily such may be found, having my self many other things in hand, which I will first compleat, and therefore cannot soe well attend (to) it. But this I durst promise the undertaker; that he will find all the great motions of the world to be influenced by this principle, and that the true understanding thereof will be the true perfection of Astronomy.']

About 9 or 10 years ago, Mr. Hooke writt to Mr. Isaac Newton, of Trinity College, Cambridge, to make[CXXXIII.] a demonstration of this theory, not telling him, at first, the proportion of the gravity to the distance, nor what was the curv'd line that was thereby made. Mr. Newton, in his answer to the letter, did expresse that he had not known[1729] of it; and in his first attempt about it, he calculated the curve by supposing the attraction to be the same at all distances: upon which, Mr. Hooke sent, in his next letter, the whole of his hypothesis, scil. that the gravitation was reciprocall to the square of the distance, ['which[1730] would make the motion in an ellipsis, in one of whose foci the sun being placed, the aphelion and perihelion of the planet would be opposite to each other in the same line, which is the whole coelestiall theory, concerning which Mr. Newton hath a demonstration,'] not at all owning he receiv'd the first intimation of it from Mr. Hooke. Likewise Mr. Newton haz in the same booke printed some other theories and experiments of Mr. Hooke's, as that about the oval figure of the earth and sea: without acknowledgeing from whom he had them, ['though[1730] he had not sent it up with the other parts of his booke till near a month after the theory was read to the Society by Mr. Hooke, when it served to help to answer Dr. Wallis his arguments produced in the Royal Society against it.']

[CXXXIII.] To[1731] make a demonstration of it, telling him the proportion of the gravity to the distance and the curv'd line that was thereby made, to witt that it was an ellipsis in one of the foci of which was the sun and that that gravitation would make the aphelion and perihelion opposite to each other in the same diameter which is the whole celestiall theorie of which Mr. Newton haz made a demonstration.

Mr. Wood! This is the greatest discovery in nature that ever was since the world's creation. It never was so much as hinted by any man before. I know you will doe him right. I hope you may read his hand. I wish he had writt plainer, and afforded a little more paper.

Tuus,
J. AUBREY.

Before I leave this towne, I will gett of him a catalogue of what he hath wrote; and as much of his inventions as I can. But they are many hundreds; he believes not fewer than a thousand. 'Tis such a hard matter to get people to doe themselves right.

_Notes._

[FZ] Aubrey gives in trick the coat: 'quarterly, argent and sable a cross between 4 escallops all counterchanged [Hooke].'

[GA] Aubrey used Hooke's rooms in Gresham College as the place to which he had his letters addressed. E.g. MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 55, is an envelope addressed:--

'To his much honoured friend John Awbrey, esqre, these present, at Mr. Hooke's lodgeings in Gresham College, London.'

MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 48, is an envelope addressed--

'For Mr. John Aubrey: leave these at Mr. Hooke's lodging in Gresham College.'

[GB] 'Mris. Grace Hooke, borne at Newport in the Isle of Wight 2ᵈᵒ Maii, at 8ʰ P.M.; she is 15 next May, scil. 1676.... Her father died by suspending him selfe, anno ...': MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 56ᵛ.

=Charles Hoskyns= (1584-1609).

[1732]Charles Hoskyns was brother to the Serjeant and the Doctor; a very ingeniose man, who would not have been inferior to either but killed himself with hard study.

_Note._

Charles Hoskins, of 'Lenwarne' parish, Hereford, was admitted probationer July 26, 1604, and fellow of New College in 1606; took B.A. April 13, 1608; and died in 1609.

=John Hoskyns= (1566-1638).

[1733]John Hoskyns[GC], serjeant-at-lawe, was borne at Mounckton in the parish of <Llanwarne> in the com. of Hereford, Aº Dⁿⁱ <1566> [on[1734] St. Mark's day].

Mounckton belonged to the priory of Llantony juxta Glocester, where his ancestors had the office of cupbearer (or 'pocillator') to the prior. I have heard there was a windowe given by one Hoskyns there, as by the inscription did appeare.

Whither the serjeant were the eldest brother[1735] or no, I have forgott; but he had a brother, John[GD], D.D., a learned man, rector of Ledbury and canon of Hereford, who, I thinke, was eldest, who was designed to be a scholar, but this John (the serjeant) would not be quiet, but he must be a scholar too. In those dayes boyes were seldome taught to read that were not to be of some learned profession. So, upon his instant importunity, being then ten yeares of age, he learned to reade, and, at the yeare's end, entred into his Greeke grammar. This I have heard his sonne, Sir Benet Hoskyns, knight and baronett, severall times say.

He was of a strong constitution, and had a prodigious memorie. At ... yeares old, he went to Winton schole, where he was the flower of his time. I remember I have heard that one time he had not made his exercise (verse) and spake to one of his forme to shew him his, which he sawe. The schoolmaster presently calles for the exercises, and Hoskyns told him that he had writ it out but lost it, but he could repeate it, and repeated the other boye's exercise (I think 12 or 16 verses) only at once reading over. When the boy who really had made them shewed the master the same, and could not repeate them, he was whipped for stealing Hoskyns' exercise. I thinke John Owen[GE] and he were schoole-fellowes. There were many pretty stories of him when a schooleboy, which I have forgott. I have heard his son say that he was a yeare at Westminster; and not speeding there, he was sent to Winton.

The Latin verses in the quadrangle at Winton Colledge[GF], at the cocks where the boyes wash their hands, were of his making, where there is the picture[1736] of a good servant, with hind's feet, ... head, a padlock on his lippes, ... The Latin verses describe the properties of a good servant.

When he came to New College, he was _Terrae filius_; but he was so bitterly satyricall that he was expelled and putt to his shifts.

He went into Somersetshire and taught a schole for about a yeare at Ilchester. He compiled there a Greeke lexicon as far as M, which I have seen. He maried (neer there) a rich widowe, [of Mr. Bourne]; she was a Moyle of Kent; by whome he had only one sonne and one daughter.

[After[1737] his mariage] he admitted himselfe at the Middle Temple, London. He wore good cloathes, and kept good company. His excellent witt gave him letters of commendacion to all ingeniose persons. At his[1738]first comeing to London he gott acquainted with the under-secretaries at court, where he was often usefull to them in writing their Latin letters.

His great witt quickly made him be taken notice of.

Ben: Johnson called him _father_. Sir Benet (bishop Benet[1739] of Hereford was his godfather) told me that one time desiring Mr. Johnson to adopt him for his sonne, 'No,' said he, 'I dare not; 'tis honour enough for me to be your brother: I was your father's sonne, and 'twas he that polished me.' In shorte, his acquaintance were all the witts then about the towne; e.g. Sir Walter Raleigh, who was his fellow-prisoner in the Tower, where he was Sir Walter's _Aristarchus_ to reviewe and polish Sir Walter's stile; John Donne, D.D.; John Owen, (vide Epigr. 1--

Hic liber est mundus; homines sunt, Hoskine, versus:
Invenies paucos hîc ut in orbe bonos;)

<Richard> Martyn, recorder of London; Sir Benjamin Ruddyer, with whom it was once his fortune to have a quarrell and fought a duell with him and hurt him in the knee, but they were afterwards friends again; Sir Henry Wotton, provost of Eaton College; cum multis aliis.

His conversation was exceedingly pleasant, and on the roade he would make any one good company to him. He was a great master of the Latin and Greke languages; a great divine. He understood the lawe well, but worst at that.

He was admitted at the Middle Temple anno ...; called to be a serjeant at lawe anno <1623> (vide <Sir William Dugdale's> _Origines Juridiciales_).

His verses on the fart in the Parliament house are printed in some of the _Drolleries_. He had a booke of poemes, neatly written by one of his clerkes, bigger then Dr. Donne's poemes, which his sonn Benet lent to he knowes not who, about 1653, and could never heare of it since. Mr. Thomas Henshawe haz an excellent Latin copie in rhythme in the prayse of ale of his.

He was a very strong man and active. He did the pomado in the saddle of the third horse in his armour (which Sir John Hoskins haz still) before William, earle of Pembroke. He was about my heighth.

He had a very readie witt, and would make verses on the roade, where he was the best company in the world. In Sir H. Wotton's _Remaynes_ are verses (dialogue) made on the roade by him and Sir Henry. He made an antheme (gett it) in English to be sung at Hereford Minster at the assizes; but Sir Robert Harley (a great Puritan) was much offended at it. He made the epitaph on <Peter> Woodgate in New College cloysters. He made the best Latin epitaphs of his time; amongst many others an excellent one on <Sir Moyle> Finch, this earl of Winchelsey's grandfather, who haz a noble monument at Eastwell in Kent.

I will now describe his seate at Morhampton (Hereff.), which he bought of....

[1740]At the gate-house is the picture of the old fellowe that made the fires, with a block on his back, boytle and wedges and hatchet. By him, this distich:--

Gratus ades quisquis descendis, amicus et hospes:
Non decet hos humiles mensa superba Lares.

By the porch of the howse, on the wall, is the picture in the margent:--

et douch et gallante

ꝑroviso semꝓ

hec est finalis concordia]

Above it are these verses:--

Stat coelum, fateor, Copernice; terra movetur;
Et mutant dominos tecta rotata suos.

In the chapelle, over the altar, are these two Hebrewe words[1741], viz.:--

וְשָֽׁמַעְתָּ֖ וְסָלָֽחְתָּ

and underneath this distich (1 Reg. 8. 30):--

Hac quicunque orat supplex exoret in aede,
Nec pereant servis irrita vota tuis.

Here is an organ that was queen Elizabeth's.

In the gallery <is> the picture of his brother (<the> Doctor) in the pulpit, <of the> serjeant in his robes, the howse, parke, etc.; and underneath are these verses:--

Est casa, sunt colles, lateres[1742], vivaria[1743], lymphae,
Pascua, sylva, Ceres[1744]: si placet, adde preces[1745].

In the garden, the picture of the gardiner, on the wall of the howse, with his rake, spade, and water-pott in his left hand. By it, this distich:--

Pascitur et pascit locus hic, ornatur et ornat:
Istud opus nondum lapsus amaret Adam.

In the first leafe of his fee-booke he drew the picture of a purse as in the margent, and wrote underneath, out of Theocritus.

On his picture in the low gallery are writt on his deske these verses, viz.:--

Undecies senos exegi strenuus annos,
Jam veniet nullo mors inopina die;
Quae dixi, scripsi, gessive negotia, lusus,
Obruat aeterno pax taciturna sinu.
Si quid jure petunt homines, respondeat haeres,
Dissipet ut cineres nulla querela meos.[1746]
Quodque Deo, decoctor iniquus, debeo, solve,
Quaeso, Fidejussor, {sanguine}, Christe, {tuo}.
{ nomine } {meo}

These verses with a little alteration are sett on his monument.

Under severall venerable and shady oakes in the parke, he had seates made; and where was a fine purling spring, he did curbe it with stone.

This putts me in mind of Fr. Petrarch's villa in Italie, which is not long since printed, where were such devises--vide Tomasini _Petrarcha redivivus_, Lat., Amsterdam, 12mo.

Besides his excellent naturall memorie, he acquired the artificiall way of memorie.

He wrote his owne life (which his grandsonne Sir John Hoskyns, knight and baronet, haz), which was to shew that wheras Plutarch, ..., ..., etc., had wrote the lives of many generalles, etc., grandees, that he, or an active man might, from a private fortune by his witt and industrie attained to the dignity of a serjeant-at-lawe--but he should have said that they must have parts like his too.--This life I cannot borrowe.

He wrote severall treatises. Amongst others:--

a booke of style;
a method of the lawe (imperfect).

His familiar letters were admirable.

He was a close prisoner in the Tower, tempore regis Jacobi, for speaking too boldly in the Parliament house of the king's profuse liberality to the Scotts. He made a comparison of a conduit, whereinto water came, and ran-out afarre-off. 'Now,' said he, 'this pipe reaches as far as Edinborough.' He was kept a 'close prisoner' there, i.e., his windowes were boarded up. Through a small chinke he sawe once a crowe, and another time, a kite; the sight whereof, he sayd, was a great pleasure to him. He, with much adoe, obtained at length the favour to have his little son Bennet to be with him; and he then made this distich, viz.:--

Parvule dum puer es, nee scis incommoda linguae,
Vincula da linguae, vel tibi vincla dabit.

Thus Englished by him:--

My little Ben, whil'st thou art young,
And know'st not how to rule thy tongue,
Make it thy slave whil'st thou art free,
Least it, as mine, imprison thee.

[1747]I have heard that when he came out of the Tower, his crest (before expressed) was graunted him, viz., 'a lyon's head couped or, breathing fire.' The serjeant would say jocosely that it was the only lyon's head in England that tooke tobacco.

Not many moneths before his death (being at the assises or sessions at Hereford) a massive countrey fellowe trod on his toe, which caused a gangrene which was the cause of his death. One Mr. Dighton[CXXXIV.] of Glocester (an experienced chirurgian who had formerly been chirurgian in the warres in Ireland) was sent for to cure him; but his skill and care could not save him. His toes were first cutt-off. The minister of his parish had a clubbe-foote or feete (I think his name was Hugh). Said he, 'Sir Hugh'--after his toes were cutt off--'I must be acquainted with your shoemaker.'

[CXXXIV.] Mr. Dighton would oftentimes say that he generally observ'd in the Irish warres that those men that went to their wenches the day before the battayle either did dye upon the spott or came under his handes. _Digitus Dei!_

Sir Robert Pye, attorney of the court of wardes, was his neighbour, but there was no great goodwill between them--Sir Robert was haughty. He happened to dye on Christmas day: the newes being brought to the serjeant, said he 'The devill haz a Christmas pye.'

He was a very strong man, and valiant, and an early riser in the morning (scil., at four in the morning). He was black-eyed and had black hayre.

He lies buried under an altar monument on the north side of the choire of Dowr abbey in Herefordshire.

(In this abbey church of Dowre are two _frustum's_ or remaynders of mayled and crosse-legged monuments, one sayd to be of a lord Chandois, th' other, the lord of Ewyas-lacy. A little before I sawe them a mower had taken one of the armes to whett his syth.)

On his monument is this inscription:--

Hoc tegitur tumulo totus quem non tegit orbis,
Hoskinus, humani prodigium ingenii,
Usque adeo excoluit duo pugnacissima rerum
Et quae non subeunt numina[1748] pectus idem,
Pieridum Legumque potens, jucundus honesto
Mixtus, Liticulans Musa, forense melos,
Orando causas pariter pariterque canendo,
Captavit merito clarus utrumque sophos.
Sic dum jura tenens Solymorum et gentis Idumae,
Narratur cytharâ percrepuisse David;
[1749]Talem Thebanas[1750] struxisse Amphiona turres,
Sic indefessa personuisse chely,
Sic populos traxisse truces et agrestibus antris
Exutos homines consociasse lyrâ;
Sic magni pectus divinum arsisse Platonis,
Tum, cum deplorans Astera, jura daret;
Talem credibile est vixisse Solona poëtam
Et queiscunque datum est et sapere et furere[1751].
Sed tu, magne, peris, dum lis certatur utrinque,
Te Astraea suum vultque Thalia suum.
Haec habitat coelis, sed et haec terrestribus oris,
Ipse tui judex poneris ante Deos;
Scilicet in partes se dividit Hoskinus ambo,
Haec coelo potitur particula, illa solo.

{ Canoro cineri jurisprudentissimi
{ Parentis pii, memoriae ergo,
Obiit Aug. 27 { hunc posuit cippum conscriptum marmoreum
1638 { flens Benettus, sequiturque Patrem
{ non passibus aequis.

This epitaph was made by Thomas Bonham, of Essex, esquier.

The serjeant's epitaph on his wife at Bowe church, Heriff.:--

Hic Benedicta jacet, de qua maledicere nemo
Cui genus aut virtus vel pia lingua potest:
Bournii et Hoskinii conjux et prolis utrique
Mater erat, Moyli filia, serva Dei.

On Mr. Bourne, his sonne-in-lawe[1752], by him:--

Nobilis innocuos transegit Bournius annos
Multa legens, callens plurima, pauca loquens.
Juridicus causis neque se ditavit[1753] agendis
Non in habendo locans sed moriendo lucrum.

[1754]_Serjeant Hoskins_:--Serviens ad legem; quaere, if <he was> a knight. His crest (I believe) granted for his bold spirit, and (I suppose) contrived by himselfe.

_Amici_ <included> Egremund Thynne.

Hic jacet Egremundus Rarus,
Tuendis paradoxis clarus.
Mortuus est, ut hic apparet:
At si loqui posset, hoc negaret.

Was wont to say that all those that came to London were either carrion or crowes.

[1755]<Memorandum>:--Hoskyns--to collect his nonsense discourse, which is very good.

_Notes._

[GC] Aubrey gives in trick the coat:--'parted per pale gules and azure, a chevron between 3 lions rampant or [Hoskyns]: the crest is a lion's head crowned or, vomiting flames.'

[GD] John Hoskins, of 'Mownton' (Monnington on the Wye) in 'Lanwarne' parish, Hereford, was admitted probationer of New College June 22, 1584, and Fellow 1586. He was expelled in 1591 'propter dicteria maledica sub persona Terrae filii.' This was the Serjeant-at-Law.

John Hoskins, of 'Mownton in Lanwarne parish,' Hereford, was admitted probationer of New College, Aug. 24, 1599, and fellow Aug. 24, 1601, and resigned his fellowship in 1613. He took D.C.L. in 1613. He died in 1631 (buried at Ledbury, on August 9). This was 'the Doctor.'

[GE] John Owen (the 'epigrammatist'), of Armon in Carnarvonshire, was admitted probationer of New College Oct. 20, 1582, and Fellow March 31, 1584. He resigned his fellowship in 1591.

[GF] Aubrey, writing Oct. 27, 1671, in Wood MS. F. 39, fol. 142, says:--

'At Winton College is the picture of a servant with asses eares and hind's feet, a lock on mouth, etc., very good hi<er>oglyphick, with a hexastique in Latin underneath.... It was done by the serjeant when he went to school there; but now finely painted. It is at the fountain where the boyes wash their hands.'

=Sir John Hoskyns= (1634-1705).

[1756]Sir John Hoskyns, knight, one of the Masters of the Chancery, borne at Morehampton in the countie of Hereford, A.D....

Aug. 3rd, 1671, the native maryed.

Aug. 20, 1667, the native broke his thigh; Oct. 1671, the native had another fall which was no lesse dangerous then the former.

Sir John Hoskyns' eldest son John[GG], borne at ..., 14 die Novembr. 1673, 4ʰ 48´ A.M. Obiit ... 1684.

Mris Jane Hoskyns, daughter of Sir John Hoskyns of Morhamton, Hereff., borne at Harwood in com. praedict. March the 2nd, about 6 a clock in the morning, A.D. 1677/8.

[1757]Gazette de Londres:--Jean Hoskins, esq., honoré du titre de chevalerie et l'un de maîtres ordinaires de la cancellerie 30 Janvier 1675.

_Note._

[GG] In MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 63, is a letter to Aubrey from Sir John Hoskyns, dated Nov. 15, 1673, announcing the birth of this son on Nov. 14, 4ʰ 48´ A.M., and asking him to send to H. C., i.e. Henry Coley the astrologer.

=Charles Howard= (16-- -16--).

[1758]Charles Howard, eldest son of the honourable Charles Howard of Norfolke, borne 1664 (old style) on a Thursday between 3 and 4 of the clocke in the morning, the last day of March, London. Obiit May 5th 1677, of the small pox.

Henry Howard, second son, borne 1668, between 8 and 9 in the morning, being Sunday 18 of Oct., St. Luke's day.

Thomas Howard, 3rd son, born 12 of July, between one and 2 in the morning, 1670, being Thursday. Obiit, All Saints (day), twelvemonth after his birth.

Elizabeth Teresa Howard borne the 6 of April, being Easter Eve, 22 minutes after 9 of the clock in the evening. Obiit August 12-moneth after her birth.

=Robert Hues= (1553-1632).

[1759]My cosen Whitney, a parson, quondam Aeneinas., told me that Hues _de Globis_ was of that house[1760]; which I put downe in the margent of the Oxford book[1761].

[1762]Mr. Ashmole thinkes that Robert Hues was of Christ Church. Perhaps he might be of St. Mary Hall too--for so my old cosin Whitney told me by tradition.

[1763]Hues _de Globis_:--I have heard my old cosen parson Whitney say--an old fellow of Brasennose (dyed 12 yeares since, aetat. 78 or 9)--(that) he was of St. Mary Hall.

=Edward Hyde=, earl of Clarendon (1608/9-1674).

[1764]Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor of England, was borne at Dinton in com. Wilts., anno Domini 1608, Febr. 16, as this[1765] earle thinkes. He told me he has his father's life written by himselfe, but 'tis not fitt so soon to publish it.

[1766]I thinke I told you that this earl of Clarendon told me his father was writing the history of our late times. He beginns with king Charles 1st and brought it to the restauration of king Charles II, when, as he was writing, the penne fell out of his hand: he took it up again to write: it fell out again. So then he percieved he was attacqued by death, scilicet, the dead palsey.--They say 'tis very well donne: but his sonne will not print it.

[1767]I advertised you, in my last, of a booke printed newly by ... Royston, viz. 'A vindication of Dr. Stillingfleet against Dr. Cressy, writt by _a person of honour_.' Mr. Royston assures me the earl of Clarendon is the author.

[1768]The place of the Lord Chancellor Hyde's birth is Dinton, four miles from Chalke.

_Laurence Hyde_,

of Hatch (a hamlet), Wilts.; came out of Cheshire; the third son
of Robert Hyde, prout per inscription at Tisbury Church.
|
+--------------+--------------+--+-------------------------+
| | | |
... Hyde, Sir Laurence 3. Sir Nicholas 4. ... (I thinke, Robert) Hyde of
of Hatch. Hyde, of Hyde, Lord Chief Purton neer Highworth: he _then_
| Hele, Wilts. Justice of the rented this estate at Dinton of
... | King's Bench. his brother Sir Laurence.
| | |
Edward. | Lord Chancellor Hyde.
| |
| +-------+--+-------------+-------------+---------+-----------+
| | | | | | |
| 1. ...; 2. Sir Robert 3. <Alexander 4. ..., 5. ..., 6. <James
| sine Hyde, Lord Hyde>, LL. Dr.; consul; Hyde>, M.D.,
| prole. Chief Justice bishop of sine beheaded; principal of
| of the King's Sarum. prole. sine Magdalen
No sonn: Bench; sine | prole. Hall.
a daughter prole. Robert. |
and heire. | +---+---+
No child living. | |

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Letter of Aubrey to Wood: MS. Ballard 14, fol. 131.

[2] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 110, 110ᵛ.

[3] Aubrey to Wood, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 340.

[4] Ibid. fol. 347.

[5] Composing MSS. Aubr. 6, 7, and 8 (part i.).

[6] Writing MS. Aubr. 8 (part ii.).

[7] MS. Aubr. 9.

[8] The lives of Isaac Barrow, and of (Serjeant-at-Law) John Hoskyns, may serve as specimens of a fair copy.

[9] Aubrey to Wood, MS. Ballard 14, fol. 129ᵛ.

[10] In this edition, some notes about some of them have been brought in from Aubrey's letters, and his 'Collectio Geniturarum.'

[11] Aubrey notes 'Mr. <Edmund> Halley' as the person to ask about Flamsted.

[12] Aubrey adds the reference 'vide libr. B.': see Macray's _Bodleian_, p. 366.

[13] The adventures of Captain Thomas Stump in Guiana are recorded in Aubrey's _Natural History of Wilts._

[14] i.e. the schemes of nativity given at the beginning of many of the lives in MS. Aubr. 6. MS. Aubr. 23, 'Collectio genituraram,' drawn up by Aubrey in 1674 to be deposited in the Ashmolean Museum, is an earlier contribution to the 'supellex.'

[15] In fol. 11ᵛ Aubrey's book-plate is pasted on.

[16] In the top left corner, '1_s._ 4_d._' is written. Possibly the price of the original paper-book.

[17] 'Much' substituted for 'so well.'

[18] Aubrey cites in the margin:--

'Utrumque nostrum admirabili modo
Consentit astrum.

HORAT. lib. 2, ode 17:

Nescio quod certe est, quod me tibi temperet, astrum.

PERS. _Sat._ v. _v._ 50';

and adds the date in the margin '1665'; but according to Wood, 1667 was the date of their first acquaintance (Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, ii. 116).

[19] Dupl. with 'hid.'

[20] Subst. for 'girle's.'

[21] Matth. Raderi 'novi commentt.' were published in 1602, and later editions.

[22] Dupl. with 'inventions.'

[23] 'Have been' is scored out.

[24] Subst. for 'things.'

[25] Foll. 47, 48, in the original (foll. 10, 11, as now foliated). The rest are scraps: fol. 8 is a paper, bearing date 'London, March 12, 1688/9.'

[26] See, e.g. in the life of David Jenkins, from a letter of Aubrey's, the expressions which brought Wood into court and expelled him from the University.

[27] Fol. 2, in the present marking.

[28] I have little doubt that the substance of all the missing pages is incorporated into the _Athenae_: cf., e.g. William Penn's life here by Aubrey, and the notice of Penn in Wood's _Athenae_.

[29] Aubrey quotes in the margin:--ἔπεα πτερόεντα.--HOM.

[30] Dated 'July 1ᵐᵒ, 1681'--MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5. In this index the names of some persons occur for notice, of whom no account is found here or elsewhere:--e.g. '... Aldsworth; Richard Blackbourne, M.D.; Sir George Etheridge; Isaac Newton.'

[31] There are now several inserted papers and slips. The two last leaves of the MS. as now made up (foll. 104, 105), belong to neither section of it, but have been brought in from elsewhere, possibly from loose Rawlinson papers.

[32] Anthony Wood has marked it as 'G. 10' of his _Athenae_ Collections (see Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, iv. 232), thus showing that he looked on it as his own property.

[33] In this index or on blank pages in the treatise, some are mentioned for their lives to be written, of whom no account is found here or elsewhere in the biographical collections:--e.g. Mr. <Thomas> Blundeville; <Henry> Bond; Mr. Robert Hues; Mr. <Thomas> Lidyate; Mr. ... Phale <i.e. Thomas Fale>; Edmund Wingate.

[34] 'For' subst. for 'in order to the writing.'

[35] 'Is' subst. for 'Mr. Wood haz.'

[36] _Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon._, 1674.

[37] 'These following' subst. for 'my.'

[38] Aubrey queries 'Is John Escuidus mentioned among them?'

[39] Lond. 1616.

[40] Written at first 'Venit et Hobbi.'

[41] MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29. Aubrey notes in the margin:--'The ὕλη of the preface to the life written by Mr. H. him selfe in <the> third person'; intending I suppose to consult it in remodelling his own draft preface.

[42] Subst. for 'now.'

[43] Subst. for 'setting forth.'

[44] Subst. for 'honoured.'

[45] Dupl. with 'pueritia mea.'

[46] Dupl. with 'having both the same schoolmaster.'

[47] Dupl. with 'desired.'

[48] See in the life of Selden.

[49] In a marginal note Aubrey remarks 'meliorate this word.' Another note is 'Quaere of the preface of this Supplement,' i.e., I suppose, ask some one's opinion whether it will do or not.

[50] Dupl. with 'will <be>.'

[51] Dupl. with 'slipt.'

[52] Dupl. with 'đđ' i.e. dedicate.

[53] Subst. for 'But for that the _recrementa_ of such a person are valueable. It is with matters of antiquity as with the sett....'

[54] Subst. for 'good light.'

[55] Dupl. with 'so many degrees, etc.'

[56] Dupl. with 'entring.'

[57] Subst. for 'This.'

[58] 'From oblivion' followed; scored out.

[59] Dupl. with 'growing.'

[60] Dupl. with '_senescens_.'

[61] Dupl. with 'rude.'

[62] Dupl. with 'thing.'

[63] Dupl. with 'cutt off.'

[64] Dupl. with 'sense,' 'opinion.'

[65] Dupl. with 'slighted.'

[66] Dupl. with 'goe.'

[67] Dupl. with 'meane.'

[68] Subst. for '_Tuus_.'

[69] In connexion with the controversy originated by Dr. Fell's excisions in Wood's notice of Hobbes in his _Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon._, 1674, see Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, ii. 291.

[70] MS. has '1688,' by a slip.

[71] Dupl. with 'sketches.'

[72] Anthony Wood has jotted here ''Tis well.'

[73] Aubrey's letter, dated June 1, 1693, is found in MS. Tanner 25, fol. 59.

[74] Malone's note in Mr. Doble's MS.

[75] I have shown this as regards the text of Anthony Wood's _Life_; and I hope some day to show it in the much more important matter of the text of the _Athenae_.

[76] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 223; Sept. 16, 1673.

[77] Idem, ibid., fol. 221; Aug. 10, 1673.

[78] _Sic_, substituted for 'cloth-worker.'

[79] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 116.

[80] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5: in the index, as a life to be written.

[81] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 6.

[82] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 14ᵛ.

[83] MS. Ashmole, 388.

[84] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 95ᵛ.

[85] By Robert Parsons, S.J.

[86] i.e. Holm Lacy.

[87] Dupl. with 'forgett.'

[88] i.e. tongs.

[89] Subst. for 'to have drowned.'

[90] i.e. fol. 99, of MS. Aubr. 6.

[91] Subst. for 'the.'

[92] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 142ᵛ: Oct. 27, 1671.

[93] Trinity College.

[94] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 42ᵛ.

[95] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 27.

[96] Elected Fellow in 1576.

[97] Subst. for 'he followed his advice.'

[98] 'To St. Marie's' subst. for 'to church.'

[99] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 27ᵛ.

[100] In 1618/9.

[101] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9.

[102] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 21ᵛ.

[103] Added by Anthony Wood.

[104] He was M.A., Cambridge, 1574.

[105] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 1ᵛ.

[106] Thomas Poynter, rector of Houghton Conquest, Beds., 1676-1700.

[107] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 14ᵛ.

[108] John Ashindon (or Eastwood): see Brodrick's _Memorials of Merton College_ (O. H. S.), p. 200.

[109] Aubrey, in MS. Wood, F. 39, fol. 229: Sept. 22, 1673.

[110] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 10ᵛ.

[111] In MS. Ballard 14, fol. 19, 20 is an autobiography dictated by Ashmole to Robert Plot, to be sent to Anthony Wood, Dec. 29, 1683.

[112] Added later by Aubrey to his note.

[113] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 81ᵛ, 82.

[114] 1609/10.

[115] 'Nor dare I' followed, scored out.

[116] Astronomical symbols omitted.

[117] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 3.

[118] Aubrey's favourite way of writing his initials. ᴊᴬ is his favourite monogram.

[119] Dupl. with 'This person's life.'

[120] Subst. for 'being.'

[121] i.e. 1625/6.

[122] Explained in the margin as being 'the belly-ake: paine in the side.'

[123] Subst. for 'a place for solitude like an....'

[124] The notes slide from 1st to 3rd person.

[125] Subst. for 'at 9,' scil. years of age.

[126] Subst. for 'must re<peat>.'

[127] Reading doubtful, blurred.

[128] i.e. at 12 years of age.

[129] _Supra_, p. 29.

[130] Dupl. with 'our.'

[131] Thomas Stephens: see _sub nomine_.

[132] Dupl. with 'meanes.'

[133] Dupl. with 'clearnesse.'

[134] 'At 8 y<ears of age> I,' but the first words are scored out.

[135] Isaac Lyte.

[136] Dupl. with 'being only my owne instructor.'

[137] Dupl. with '<when> a boy.' For 'was' he began to write 'I <had>' but struck it out.

[138] i.e. to Saturn, patron of antiquities.

[139] Margin frayed.

[140] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 3ᵛ.

[141] In the margin Aubrey writes 'Tacitus and Juvenal,' perhaps meaning that he read these authors now, before going up to Oxford.

[142] The sentence stood at first:--'Phansie like a pure christall mirrour.'

[143] Scil. 'disorder my phansy.'

[144] MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 2.

[145] i.e. Monday, April 15.

[146] MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 3ᵛ.

[147] Aubrey intended to write a fine sentence, parallel to what follows, describing the quiet of Oxford before the outbreak of the great war.

[148] Sir Kenelm Digby's 'Observations on _Religio Medici_,' publ. in 1643.

[149] Dupl. with 'now did Bellona....'

[150] Dupl. with 'black.'

[151] Dupl. with 'one.'

[152] Dupl. begun, but scored through 'J.' i.e. July.

[153] Dupl. with 'importunity.'

[154] Trinity Sunday, 1643, was June 4.

[155] Subst. for 'was faine' <to converse>.

[156] Dupl. with 'renewed' <acquaintance>.

[157] i.e. though my friends were not debauchees, yet their conversation was not improving. For the low tone which grew up among Oxford scholars from contact with the garrison, see Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, i. 129.

[158] Subst for 'like.'

[159] 'Dew' is subst. for 'and sp<irit>.'

[160] i.e. my character throughout my life was that I discharged the function of a whetstone.

[161] Perhaps scil. 'others.' He set other people to work to record matters and so rescued them from oblivion.

[162] The people he set to work.