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AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES'

ANDREW CLARK

VOL. I.

HENRY FROWDE, M.A.

PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK

[Pg i]
[Pg ii]

JOHN AUBREY: AETAT. 40

From a pen-and-ink drawing in the Bodleian

'Brief Lives,' chiefly of Contemporaries,
set down by John Aubrey, between
the Years 1669 & 1696

EDITED FROM THE AUTHOR'S MSS.

BY

ANDREW CLARK
M.A., LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD; M.A. AND LL.D., ST. ANDREWS

WITH FACSIMILES

VOLUME I. (A-H)

Oxford

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

1898

Oxford

PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
BY HORACE HART, M.A.
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

PREFACE

The rules laid down for this edition have been fully stated in the Introduction. It need only be said here that these have been scrupulously followed.

I may take this opportunity of saying that the text gives Aubrey's quotations, English and Latin alike, in the form in which they are found in his MSS. They are plainly cited from memory, not from book: they frequently do not scan, and at times do not even construe. A few are incorrect cementings of odd half lines.

The necessary excisions have not been numerous. They suggest two reflections. The turbulence attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh seems to have made his name in the next age the centre of aggregation of quite a number of coarse stories. In the same way, Aubrey is generally nasty when he mentions the noble house of Herbert, earl of Pembroke, and the allied family of Sydney. There may be personal pique in this, for Aubrey thinks he had a narrow escape from assassination by a Herbert (i. 48); perhaps also there may be the after-glow of a Wiltshire 'feud' (i. 316).

The Index gives all references to persons mentioned in the text, except to a few found only in pedigrees, or otherwise quite insignificant; also to all places of which anything distinctive is said.

Andrew Clark.
January 4, 1898.

CONTENTS

VOLUME I
Frontispiece: John Aubrey, aetat. 40.
PAGE
Synopsis of the Lives	-xv
Introduction	-23
Lives :Abbot to Hyde	-427
VOLUME II
Frontispiece: Aubrey's book-plate.
Lives :Ingelbert TO York	-316
Appendix I: Aubrey's Notes of Antiquities	-332
Appendix II: Aubrey's Comedy The Countrey Revell	-339
Index	-370
Facsimiles	At end.
I.	Castle Mound, Oxford. Riding at the Quintin.
II.	Verulam House.
III.	Horoscope and cottage of Thomas Hobbes.
IV.	Plans of Malmsbury and district.
V.	Horoscope and arms of Sir William Petty.
VI.	Wolsey's Chapel at Christ Church.

SYNOPSIS OF THE 'LIVES'

In the text the Lives have been given in alphabetical order of the names. This was necessary, not only on account of their numbermore than 400but because Aubrey, in compiling them, followed more than one principle of selection, writing, first, lives of authors, then, lives of mathematicians, but bringing in also lives of statesmen, soldiers, people of fashion, and personal friends.

The following synopsis of the lives may serve to show (i) the heads under which they naturally fall, (ii) their chronological sequence.

The mark indicates the year or approximate year of death; denotes a life which Aubrey said he would write, but which has not been found; is attached to the few names of foreigners.

BEFORE HENRY VIII.

Writers.

Poets.

• Geoffrey Chaucer (1400).
• John Gower (1408).

Prose.

• Sir John Mandeville (1372).

Mathematics.

• John Holywood (1256).
• Roger Bacon (1294).
• John Ashindon (13..).

Alchemy.

• George Ripley (1490).

Church and State.

• S. Dunstan (988).
• S. Edmund Rich (1240).
• Owen Glendower (1415).
• William Canynges (1474).
• John Morton (1500).

HENRY VIIIMARY (1558).

Writers.

• Sir Thomas More (1535).
• Desiderius Erasmus (1536).

Mathematics.

• Richard Benese (1546).
• Robert Record (1558).

Church and State.

• John Colet (1519).
• Thomas Wolsey (1530).
• John Innocent (1545).
• Sir Thomas Pope (1559).
• Edmund Bonner (1569).

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• Sir Erasmus Dryden (1632).

ELIZABETH (1603).

Writers.

Poets.

• Thomas Tusser (1580).
• Edmund Spenser (1599).
• Sir Edward Dyer (1607).
• William Shakespear (1616).

Prose.

• Petrus Ramus (1572).
• John Twyne (1581).
• Sir Philip Sydney (1586).
• John Foxe (1587).
• Robert Glover (1588).
• Thomas Cooper (1594).
• Thomas Stapleton (1598).
• Thomas North (1601).
• William Watson (1603).
• John Stowe (1605).
• Thomas Brightman (1607).
• John David Rhese (1609).
• Nicholas Hill (1610).

Mathematics.

• James Peele (15..).
• Leonard Digges (1571).
• Thomas Digges (1595).
• John Securis (...).
• Evans Lloyd (...).
• Cyprian Lucar (...).
• Thomas Hoode (...).
• Thomas Blundeville (16..).
• Henry Billingsley (1606).
• Ludolph van Keulen (1610).
• John Blagrave (1611).
• Edward Wright (1615).
• Thomas Hariot (1621).
• Sir Henry Savile (1622).

Chemistry.

• Adrian Gilbert (...).

Zoology.

• Thomas Mouffet (1604).

Alchemy and Astrology.

• Thomas Charnocke (1581).
• John Dee (1608).
• Arthur Dee (1651).

State.

• William Herbert, 1st earl of Pembroke (1570).
• William Cecil, lord Burghley (1598).
• Robert Devereux, earl of Essex (1601).
• Sir Charles Danvers (1601).
• George Clifford, earl of Cumberland (1605).
• Thomas Sackville, earl of Dorset (1608).
• ? Sir Thomas Penruddock (...).

Law.

• Sir William Fleetwood (1594).
• William Aubrey (1595).
• Sir John Popham (1607).

Commerce, etc.

• Sir Thomas Gresham (1579).
• John Davys, capt. (1605).
• Richard Staper (1608).

Society.

• ? ... Robartes (...).
• Elizabeth Danvers (...).
• Sir John Danvers (1594).
• Richard Herbert (1596).
• Edward de Vere, 17th earl of Oxford (1604).
• Sir Henry Lee (1611).
• Silvanus Scory (1617).
• Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke (1621).

JAMES I (1625).

Writers.

Poets.

• Francis Beaumont (1616).
• John Fletcher (1625).
• Arthur Gorges (1625).

Mathematics.

• Edward Brerewood (1613).
• John Norden (1625).
• Edmund Gunter (1626).
• Thomas Allen (1632).
• Robert Hues (1632).

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