Brief Lives (Vol. 1 of 2)

Brief Lives (Vol. 1 of 2)

Brief Lives (Vol. 1 of 2) By Aubrey, John English A Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book This book is indexed by ISYS Web Indexing system to allow the reader find any word or number within the document. AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES' ANDREW CLARK VOL. I. HENRY FROWDE, M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD [Illustration] LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK [Illustration: 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 [Illustration: 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. Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book Page 1 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 ix-xv INTRODUCTION 1-23 LIVES:--=Abbot= TO =Hyde= 24-427 VOLUME II FRONTISPIECE: AUBREY'S BOOK-PLATE. LIVES:--=Ingelbert= TO =York= 1-316 APPENDIX I:--AUBREY'S NOTES OF ANTIQUITIES 317-332 APPENDIX II:--AUBREY'S COMEDY The Countrey Revell 333-339 INDEX 341-370 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. Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book Page 2 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 number--more than 400--but 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 VIII--MARY (†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). Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book Page 3 * * * * * 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. Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book Page 4 ? ... 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). John Speidell (†16..). ‡Thomas Fale (†16..). ‡Thomas Lydiat (†1646). ASTROLOGY. Dr. Richard Napier (†1634). CHURCH. Richard Bancroft (†1610). John Overall (†1619). Lancelot Andrewes (†1626). George Abbot (†1633). John Davenant (†1641). STATE. Everard Digby (†1606). Thomas Overbury (†1613). ‡James I (†1625). William Herbert, 3rd earl of Pembroke (†1630). LAW. Sir Thomas Egerton, lord Ellesmere (†1617). Richard Martin (†1618). MEDICINE. ... Jaquinto (†16..). William Butler (†1618). Francis Anthony (†1623). COMMERCE, ETC. Thomas Sutton (†1611). John Guy (†1628). John Whitson (†1629). Sir Hugh Middleton (†1631). William de Visscher (†16..). Edward Davenant (†16..). INVENTORS. William Lee (†1610). ... Gregory (†16..). ... Ingelbert (†16..). ... Robson (†16..). SEAMEN. Walter Raleigh (†1617). ‡Thomas Stump (†16..). Roger North (†1652). SCHOOLMASTERS. Alexander Gill (†1635). Martin Billingsley (†16..). MISCELLANEOUS. Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book Page 5 Charles Hoskyns (†1609). Richard Sackville, 3rd earl of Dorset (†1624). Sir Henry Lee (†1631). Simon Furbisher (†16..). Fulk Greville, lord Brooke (†1628). Michael Drayton (†1631). George Chapman (†1634). Ben Jonson (†1637). George Feriby (†16..). ‡Benjamin Ruddyer (†16..). Prose. Henry Lyte (†1607). Richard Knolles (†1610). ‡Richard White (†1612). Thomas Twyne (†1613). Thomas Coryat (†1617). Sir Walter Raleigh (†1618). John Barclay (†1621). William Camden (†1623). Nicholas Fuller (†1624). John Florio (†1625). Francis Bacon (†1626). John Speed (†1629). Thomas Archer (†1630). John Rider (†1632). Isaac Wake (†1632). William Sutton (†1632). Philemon Holland (†1637). John Willis (†16..). CHARLES I (†1649). WRITERS. Poets. Hugh Holland (†1633). George Herbert (†1633). Richard Corbet (†1635). Thomas Randolph (†1635). John Sherburne (†1635). Sir Robert Aiton (†1638). John Hoskyns (†1638). Philip Massinger (†1640). Charles Aleyn (†1640). Sir John Suckling (†1641). William Cartwright (†1643). Henry Clifford, earl of Cumberland (†1643). George Sandys (†1644). Francis Quarles (†1644). William Browne (†1645). Thomas Goodwyn (†16..). William Habington (†1654). John Taylor (†1654). Sir Robert Harley (†1656). Richard Lovelace (†1658). John Cleveland (†1658). Gideon de Laune (†1659). James Shirley (†1666). Prose. Gervase Markham (†1637). Robert Burton (†1640). Sir Henry Spelman (†1641). W. Chillingworth (†1644). Rob. Stafford (†1644). William Twisse (†1646). Degory Wheare (†1647). Edward, lord Herbert of Chirbury (†1648). §Joh. Ger. Vossius (†1649). Abraham Wheloc (†16..). Theoph. Wodenote, sen. (†16..). §René des Cartes (†1651). ... Gerard (†16..). ‡Samuel Collins (†1651). §Jean L. de Balzac (†1655). John Hales (†1656). James Usher (†1656). Joseph Hall (†1656). William Harvey (†1657). Robert Sanderson (†1663). Sir Kenelm Digby (†1665). MATHEMATICS. Henry Briggs (†1631). William Bedwell (†1632). Nathaniel Torporley (†1632). Henry Gellibrand (†1637). Walter Warner (†1640). William Gascoigne (†1644). Charles Cavendish (†1652). Henry Isaacson (†1654). Edmund Wingate (†1656). William Oughtred (†1660). Franciscus Linus (†16..). John Tap (†16..). John Wells (†16..). CHURCH. Richard Neile (†1640). George Webb (†1641). STATE. Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book Page 6 George Villiers, duke of Buckingham (†1628). Sir Edward Coke (†1633). William Noy (†1634). Richard Boyle, 1st earl of Cork (†1643). Lucius Cary, earl

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