John Aubrey: My Own Life (74 page)

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