John Aubrey: My Own Life (66 page)

19
 
There is a hill:
Three Prose Works, p.317.

20
 
It seems to me:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.713; Clark, vol. 1, p.147; MS Aubrey 8, fol. 105; MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 133).

21
 
Yesterday I came:
MS Wood 39, fol. 374.

22
 
I hope to find out:
MS Wood 39, fol. 375.

23
 
I have heard:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.698; Clark, vol. 1, p.267.

24
 
I cannot read:
MS Wood 39, fol. 377.

25
 
John Pell:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.163; Clark, vol. 2, p.127.

26
 
I have visited:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 89.

27
 
I am back now:
MS Wood 39, fol. 377.

28
 
Captain Poyntz:
Clark, vol. 1, p.45; MS Aubrey 26, fol. 6.

29
 
I have started composing:
MS Aubrey 26, fols 2–6; MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 137).

30
 
My friend Mr Edward Lhwyd:
MS Aubrey 12, fol. 240; Ovenell, p.23.

31
 
Mr Loggan will draw:
MS Aubrey 1, fol. 3; MS Aubrey 2, fols 2, 31.

32
 
Today I told:
Birch, vol. 4, p.468.

33
 
I also mentioned:
Birch, vol. 4, p.469.

34
 
My friend Mr Paschall:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 77.

35
 
My good mother:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 77.

36
 
I am troubled:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 139.

37
 
May I live:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 139.

38
 
Mr Paschall tells:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 78a, b.

39
 
My friend Thomas Mariett:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 330–1.

40
 
Mr Paschall has described:
MS Aubrey 13, fols 79, 80.

41
 
Today I showed:
Birch, vol. 4, p.511.

42
 
I am embattled:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 141.

43
 
I have acquainted:
MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 134v).

44
 
Meanwhile he writes:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 283–4.

45
 
My friend Mr Paschall:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 81.

46
 
Robert Barclay’s book:
Clark, vol. 1, p.86; MS Aubrey 8, fol. 53v. The book first appeared in Latin in 1678,
Theologiae verae Christianae apologia
.

47
 
Today at the Royal Society:
Birch, vol. 4, p.546.

48
 
Mr Dugdale has criticised:
Clark, vol. 2, p.89; MS Wood 39, fol. 397.

49
 
On a rocky mountain:
MS Aubrey 1, fol. 14b.

50
 
In Yorkshire: Monumenta
, p.110.

51
 
In this county:
Clark, vol. 2, p.324.

52
 
Sir Charles Snell:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 190.

53
 
Following my Natural History:
MS Wood 39, fol. 392; MS Aubrey 5, fol. 17.

54
 
On this day:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.51; Clark, vol. 2, p.148.

55
 
I have been chosen: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London
, vol. 28, no. 2 (1 April 1974), p.167.

56
 
I dined this evening:
Clark (1891–1900), vol. 3, p.269.

57
 
I have decided:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 140; Ovenell, pp.67–8.

58
 
May, June:
MS Aubrey 1, fol. 171.

59
 
I am concerned:
Ovenell, p.58.

60
 
I desire of God:
MS Tanner 456a, fol. 34.

Part XIV: Transcriptions

1
 
I went to see:
MS Aubrey 12, fol. 2.

2
 
My school would need:
MS Aubrey 10, fol. 10.

3
 
I would like to see:
Bennett (2009), p.335;
Education
, p.115.

4
 
I think the best:
MS Aubrey 10, fol. 23.

5
 
It is certain:
MS Aubrey 10, fol. 24.

6
 
Mr Hobbes told me: Education
, p.61.

7
 
I would have nothing:
MS Aubrey 10, fol. 137.

8
 
I believe the disposition:
MS Aubrey 10, fol. 10.

9
 
I envisage:
MS Aubrey 10, fol. 10.

10
 
I would furnish:
Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke invented a portable camera obscura in 1665–6.

11
 
I would have those: Education
, p.112.

12
 
I would have the boys:
MS Aubrey 10, fols 127–9.

13
 
We are taught:
Aubrey attributes this remark to the Italian doctor, scientist and natural philosopher Fortunius Licetus (1577–1657), a friend of Galileo.

14
 
In my school: Education
, p.70.

15
 
Gloucester Hall:
MS Aubrey 10, fol. 133b.

16
 
I will soon make:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 172.

17
 
At Groveley:
MS Aubrey 1, fol. 132r.

18
 
I grow old:
MS Wood 39, fol. 386.

19
 
My friend Edward Lhwyd:
MS Aubrey 5, fol. 6.

20
 
My candle burns low:
MS Wood 39, fol. 397; MS Wood 40, fol. 372.

21
 
I have asked Mr Wood:
Clark, vol. 2, p.230.

22
 
Since Seth Ward:
Clark, vol. 2, p.289; MS Aubrey 10, fols 64–5.

23
 
Yesterday I went:
Raymond (1996), p.270.

24
 
My visit to him:
Clark, vol. 2, pp.207–9; MS Wood 39, fol. 386v.

25
 
I dined with Mr Ashmole:
Clark, vol. 2, p.92; MS Wood 39, fol. 390.

26
 
I have been setting:
MS Wood 39, fol. 389.

27
 
Thank God:
MS Wood 40, fol. 372.

28
 
I have collected:
MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 185).

29
 
Just as the Roman:
MS Aubrey 15 (MS Top. Gen. C.25, fol. 186).

30
 
It is said:
Three Prose Works
, p.354.

31
 
I hope I can go:
MS Wood 39, fol. 395.

32
 
I hope Mr Wood:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.104; Clark, vol. 1, p.415.

33
 
Mr Paschall has:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 83.

34
 
Mr Hooke affirms: Monumenta
, p.505.

35
 
Mr Ralph Bathurst:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 21, 22.

36
 
Mr Paschall tells me:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 84.

37
 
This month:
MS Aubrey 12, fol. 11.

38
 
Mr Wood claims:
Clark (1891–1900), vol. 3, p.319.

39
 
It is said:
Three Prose Works
, p.31.

40
 
I have made a collection:
MS Wood 39, fol. 402.

41
 
I have begun:
Clark, vol. 1, p.16; MS Aubrey 8, fol. 70.

42
 
The other day:
Kemp; MS Wood 39, fol. 400.

43
 
I will go to Oxford:
MS Wood 39, fol. 402.

44
 
How I wish:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 142.

45
 
I have been speaking:
Bennett, vol. 1, p.379; Clark, vol. 2, p.278.

46
 
Thomas Guidott:
MS Aubrey 12, fol. 144.

47
 
My brother’s ill humour:
MS Wood 39, fol. 411.

48
 
I wish Mr Wood:
MS Wood 39, fol. 412.

49
 
I have decided to place:
MS Wood 39, fol. 414.

50
 
I hoped to go:
MS Wood 39, fol. 414.

51
 
From New Inn Hall:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 31–2.

52
 
Next week I think:
MS Wood 39, fol. 417; Clark, vol. 2, p.312; MS Aubrey 21, fol. 69; MS Aubrey 7, fol. 8v.

53
 
I think there is: Natural History
, p.93.

54
 
Mr Hooke has been:
MS Wood 39, fol. 424.

55
 
I have written:
MS Aubrey 5, fol. 2.

56
 
I have heard:
MS Wood 39, fol. 426.

57
 
I hope to get:
MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 95.

58
 
I have been to the Tower:
MS Wood 39, fol. 427.

59
 
Mr Hanson of Magdalen: Natural History
, pp.25–6.

60
 
Since there has been:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 143.

61
 
Today I sent to Oxford:
MS Wood 39, fol. 405.

62
 
I have been chosen: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London
, vol. 28, no. 2 (1 April 1974), p.167.

63
 
The Royal Society’s transcription:
MS Wood 39, fol. 429.

64
 
Mr William Fanshawe:
MS Aubrey 12, fol. 115.

65
 
Mr John Ray has agreed:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 173.

66
 
I have now been:
MS Wood 39, fol. 433.

67
 
Mr John Ray has read:
MS Ballard 62, p.123.

68
 
I went to Bayworth:
Clark (1891–1900), vol. 3, p.372.

69
 
He says there is only:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 174.

70
 
The Ashmolean Museum:
Foskett, p.54. Dr Plot acknowledged receipt of the portraits on 18 October 1688.

71
 
My brother has been unkind:
MS Wood 39, fol. 435.

72
 
I am plagued:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 175.

73
 
I have prepared: Surrey
, vol. 1, To the Reader, 1691; MS Aubrey 4, fol. 31.

74
 
I think someone:
MS Aubrey 5, fol. 8b.

75
 
The Earl of Pembroke:
MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 98.

76
 
I have asked him:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 138c, d.

77
 
The Earl of Clarendon:
Hearne (1906), p.102.

78
 
Mr Hooke is very anxious:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 145.

79
 
My brother William:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 146.

80
 
At the request:
MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 99.

81
 
I have started preparing:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 147.

82
 
He says he is very glad:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 243–4.

83
 
The account of Southwark:
MS Wood 51, fol. 3.

84
 
Dr Hooke is concerned:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 149.

85
 
I have left:
MS Aubrey 10, fol. 1.

86
 
Sir Roger L’Etrange’s:
MS Aubrey 10, fol. 66b.

87
 
As for history:
MS Aubrey 10, fol. 97.

88
 
I imagine the boys: Education
, p.69.

89
 
My pretty little bitch:
MS Tanner 456a, fol. 40.

90
 
I am staying:
MS Wood 51, fol. 11.

91
 
I go tomorrow:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 153.

92
 
I have seen Mr Wood’s books:
MS Wood 51, fol. 4.

93
 
I have had a very:
MS Wood 51, fol. 4; Clark, vol. 1, p.258.

94
 
Mr John Ray’s daughters:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 176.

95
 
Mr John Ray has read:
MS Aubrey 13, fol. 177.

96
 
Mr Wood now regrets:
MS Ballard 14, fol. 154.

97
 
I have asked Mr Wood:
MS Wood 39, fol. 437.

98
 
In Oxford:
MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 101.

99
 
Today Mr Lhwyd:
MS Aubrey 5, fol. 123v.

100
 
I was ill:
MS Tanner 456a, fol. 41.

101
 
Mr Wood has written:
MS Wood 45, fol. 208.

102
 
I have written:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 149, 150.

103
 
As soon as I have time:
MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 102.

104
 
Mr Lhwyd longs:
MS Aubrey 12, fols 241–2.

Part XV: Crepusculum

1
 
Mr Dryden will try:
Clark (1891–1900), vol. 3, p.420.

2
 
Frances Sheldon:
MS Wood 51, fol. 5.

3
 
I have now been:
MS Ashmole 1814, fol. 91.

4
 
I have designed:
MS Aubrey 5, fol. 122.

5
 
Mr Thomas Tanner urges:
MS Tanner 25, fol. 40.