John Aubrey: My Own Life (76 page)

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