John Aubrey: My Own Life (72 page)

visits Yorkshire, 353–4

begins study of British place names, 354

and death of Petty, 354–5

serves on Royal Society audit committee again, 355

grateful that Wood mentions his great-grandfather in his book, 355

dines with Wood and Plot, 355

makes donations to Ashmolean Museum, 355–6

and Wood’s failure to deliver his box to Ashmolean Museum, 356

needs to sell his last remaining interest in Broad Chalke farm, 357

1688–1693
:

and national events, 361, 366, 368, 373–4

visits Ashmole, 362

Wood continues to refuse to send box to Ashmolean Museum, 362

concerns about his manuscripts, 362, 366, 368, 375, 383

works on manuscripts and transcriptions, 362–6, 367–8, 369, 370, 373, 374, 378, 383–4, 385–6, 387

and death of Vossius, 366–7

letter from Ray, 367

continuing problems with his brother, 368, 372, 376, 377, 383, 385

asks Wood to help Jane Smyth, 368

and Seth Ward’s papers, 369

visits Rushworth, 369

dines with Ashmole 369

collects samples of handwriting, 370

suffers noisy lodgings, then moves out due to smallpox cases, 370–1

hope to visit Oxford, 371, 378, 379

and Hooke’s controversy with Newton, 371–2, 377, 379, 393

instructs his brother to pay debt owed to Captain Stumpe, 372

sells his last interest in Broad Chalke to Mr Kent, 372

in communication with Paschall, 372–3

suggestion to Bathurst about epitaph for Petty is declined, 373

makes collection of letters, 374

at Mariett’s house, 374

illness, 375

and death of Fabian Philips, 375

talks with Hamden about Edmund Waller, 375

letter from Guidott, 376

entrusts a transcription to Royal Society, 376

fears arrest, 376, 377

and Wood’s queries, 376, 382

gift of watch to Wood, 377, 379

sends box to Wood, 377

debt to Stumpe is not repaid by his brother, 377, 385

places manuscripts in Ashmolean Museum, 378

gift to New Inn Hall, Oxford, 378

on gardening, 378–9

and death of Mariett, 379

visits Clarendon in the Tower, 379–80

Hanson reports observations on Wiltshire water to, 380

on the publication of Wood’s book
Athenae et Fasti Oxonienses
, 380

invited to stay with Earl of Abingdon, 380–1

Royal Society wants transcripts to be made of his manuscripts, 381

chosen to serve again on Royal Society audit committee, 381

receives comments on his work, 381, 382–3, 389, 390

Ray reads manuscript of, 381–2, 382–3

and robbery at Ashmolean Museum, 383

has concerns about pictures in Ashmolean Museum, 384

receives advice from Gibson about printing his book, 384

on Ray’s book, 385

faces lawsuit brought about by his brother, 385

on Hooke’s desire to know what is in Wood’s book about him, 385, 386

and death of Ashmole, 387, 388

obtains water samples in Bagley Wood, 388

and publication of second volume of Wood’s book, 388

on reactions to Wood’s books, 384, 389, 390, 391

wants to know origin of name of River Thames, 385, 392

visits Oxford, 390

lists his works, 390–1

returns to London, but unable to move back into his old lodgings, 391

is given cause for concern by Earl of Abingdon, 392

Llwyd willing to have his collection of letters bound for Ashmolean Museum, 395

1693–1697
:

atttacked, robbed and wounded, 399

suffers with gout, 399, 401

continues to deal with matters concerning his manuscripts, 399, 401–2, 403, 404–5, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, 413, 419, 422

and people offended by Wood’s book, 399, 401, 403, 404

designs his own epitaph, 401

and Tanner, 401, 402, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410

makes visits, 403

in Cambridge, 403

and Wood, 403, 405, 406, 407, 412, 413–14, 415, 417

dragged into legal proceedings between his brother and Kent, 403, 405

deposits material in Ashmolean Museum, 404

and Lhwyd, 404, 405, 407, 408–9, 410, 411, 414, 419, 421, 422

stays with Earl of Abingdon, 405

has apoplectic fit, 406

wants to have quadrant made, 407

donations to Ashmolean Museum, 407, 408–9, 411, 417

and purchase of Dobson’s painting on behalf of Earl of Pembroke, 408, 409

ill with fever, 409

gets to know Sir Henry Chancey, 410–11

invited to Borstall, 411

observation on Midsummer’s Day, 411–12

at Borstall, 412

visits Oxford, 413

ill again, 413

urged to accompany Sir John Aubrey to Glamorganshire, 413

and Lord Abingdon’s admission of banter, 413

stays with Lord Abingdon, 414

ill with a cold, 414

and investigation into Bagley Wood springs, 415, 417

problems with his eyes, 416, 417, 418

at Llantrithyd, 417, 419, 421

donations to Royal Society, 418, 422

and deaths of Wood and Wylde, 418

intends to stay with Lady Long, 418

publication of
Miscellanies
, 419–21

hopes to borrow painting by Van Dyck, 421

has copies of Love’s pamphlet reprinted, 421

thoughts about his work in preserving antiquities, 422

buried in unmarked grave, 423

After his death
:

posthumous reputation, 425–32

Writings:

account of Avebury, 154, 192, 209

Adversaria Physica, 390, 391

Antiquities of Wiltshire, 338, 378, 391, 401, 403, 405, 406, 407, 409, 410, 425, 428–9

Apparatus of the Lives of Mathematicians, 374, 391

Book of Lives (
Brief Lives
), 7–8, 10, 291–2, 294–5, 296–7, 298–310, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320–2, 323, 324–5, 326, 329, 368, 402, 406, 413, 414, 427–8, 429, 431

Chorographia Antiquaria, 209, 260

Chronologia Architectonica, 198, 370, 432

The Country Revell, 195

Idea of Education, 335–6, 338, 362–6, 381, 387, 391, 408, 419, 430

Life of Thomas Hobbes, 166–7, 286, 287, 291, 292–3, 391

Miscellanies: A Collection of Hermetick Philosophy
, 7, 391, 407, 410, 418, 419–21, 422, 424, 425, 429–30

Monumenta Britannica, 296, 317, 373, 384, 391, 393–5, 399, 402, 403, 405, 406, 409, 410, 411, 421, 426, 430–1

Natural History of Wiltshire, 254, 257, 337, 338, 344, 348, 349, 350, 354, 376, 377, 378, 381, 382–3, 385, 391, 401, 405, 406, 407, 428

Perambulation of Surrey, 383–4, 385–6, 389, 391, 402, 426

Remaines of Gentilism (collection of folklore), 350–1, 357, 391, 401, 409, 410, 419, 422, 430

Templa Druidum, 192, 209, 228, 247, 296, 351, 381, 389, 395

Villare Anglicanum (collection of English place names to be interpreted), 354, 379, 391

Aubrey, Sir John, 1st Baronet (JA’s uncle), x, 305, 306, 399

Aubrey, Sir John, 2nd Baronet (JA’s cousin and patron), x, 101, 130, 198, 204, 241, 403, 409, 410, 411, 412, 413, 416, 417, 421

Aubrey, Lewis, 306

Aubrey, Richard (JA’s father)

and JA’s birth, 17

and JA’s childhood, 25

and his stepfather, 26

eye problem, 30

summons JA home from Oxford, 41, 46, 53, 59

Major Morgan stays at home of, 55

does not permit JA to return to Oxford, 66

hands over money to Parliamentarian committee, 66

illness, 67, 75

death, 94–5

burial, 95

will, 98, 195

JA plans inscription for, 102

JA inherits debts from, 191

brief references, x, 84

Aubrey, Thomas (JA’s ancestor), 303

Aubrey, Thomas (JA’s brother), x, 65, 194, 196, 206–7, 323, 354

Aubrey (
née
Williams), Wilgiford (JA’s paternal great-grandmother), 111, 304

Aubrey, Dr William (JA’s paternal great-grandfather), x, 21, 30, 111, 171, 173, 207, 210, 254, 262, 303–5, 355

Aubrey, William (JA’s brother)

birth of, 55

JA unwilling to give key of trunk to, 210

difficulties between JA and, 345–6, 351, 356, 357, 368, 372, 376, 377, 383, 385, 403, 405

and burial of his mother, 349

and JA’s Wiltshire Antiquities manuscript, 403, 405, 428

brief references, x, 196, 402

Auburn Chase, 352

Austen, Ralph, 108

Avebury, 7, 75, 105, 138, 140, 141, 142, 143, 151–4, 155, 192, 209, 339, 350, 426

Avicenna, 92

Avon, River, 7, 54, 159, 167, 177, 197, 325, 326, 344, 347

Axe, Thomas, 336

Azores, 132

Babell Hill, 46

Bachelar, Daniel, 25

Bacon, Francis

sets foundation for advancement of learning through experiment and observation, 3

on antiquities, 3, 31

comparison of Strachey’s style with Aubrey’s in description of, 9

JA’s early reading of, 30, 31

and Sir John Danvers, 31, 89

and Verulam House, 52, 84–5, 110

and Bushell, 60

plans for St Albans, 84

winter-house and park at Gorhambery, 86

experiment with snow, 9, 87

death, 87

manuscript shown to JA by Hartlib, 97

Hartlib and Comenius correspond about ideas of, 101

JA writes about life of, 104, 254, 292

Royal Society’s interest in works of, 173, 280

coffin removed, 323

brief references, 114, 171

Works:

De Mirabilis Artis et Naturae
, 241

Elements of the Law
, 151

Essays
, 31

Historia Naturalis Et Experimentalis De Ventis
, 88

History of Henry VII
, 31, 89

Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning
, 171

Of Building
, 85

Remaines
, 88

The Student’s Prayer, 365

The Writer’s Prayer, 365

Bacon, Sir Nicholas, 86

Bacon, Roger, 280

Works:

Computus Naturalium
, 280

Bagford, Mr, 412

Bagley Wood, 388, 415, 416, 417

Bagshot, 380

Bagworth, 388

Baldum, Bernardinum:
Heronis Ctesbii Belopoica: Telefactivia
, 185

Ball, Dr William, 115, 184

Balliol College, Oxford, 50

Baltimore, Lord, 196

Banbury, 43

Bancroft, Archbishop, 355, 356, 383

Banqueting House, 185

Bansted, 260

Bansted Downs, 221

Barbados, 82, 271

Barclay, Robert:
System of the Quakers’ Doctrine in Latin
, 352

Barlowe, Thomas, 160

Barrington, Mr, 255

Barrow, William, known as Father Harcourt, xiv, 283

Barrow Hill (Hubbaslow), 69

Bartholemus, 99

Bartholomews (or Bullington-green), 42

Baskervill, Mr, 388

Bath, 107, 140, 142, 158, 166, 197, 352, 376

Abbey, 20

Bathford, 197

Bathurst, Dr George, xi, 51, 52, 64, 70

Bathurst, Edward, 344

Bathurst, Dr Ralph

biographical details, xi–xii

book collection, 39–40

and Petty, 70, 88

on Ben Jonson, 70

and JA’s absence from Oxford, 72–3

presents some of his work on anatomy, 99

mentioned in JA’s draft of will, 102

eulogy for Lydall, 113

writes letter of approval and recommendation for Plot, 244

declines suggestion that he should write epitaph for Petty, 373

and JA’s Monumenta Britannica, 402, 403

brief references, 97, 98, 193 236

Bave, Samuel, 94

Bawdrip, 373

Bayley, Thomas, 378, 407

Bayley, Mrs, 369, 376

Bayly, John, 67

Baytins:
De Re Navali
, 235

Bayworth, 382

Beach, Major, 409

Beaufort, Duchess of, 108

Beckley, 414

Bede, Venerable, 102, 174, 185, 218, 372, 377, 378

Bedford, Earl of, 53

Bee, Cornelius, 104

Beeston, Mr, 321, 322, 324

Bemerton, 177–8

Bennen, 205

Bennet, Mr, 394

Bere Regis, 352

Berford, 44

Berkshire, Earl of, 317

Bermondsey Abbey, 386

Bermudas, the, 239, 240, 246, 249, 269

Berners, Dame Juliana, 27

Bernini, Giovanni, 50

Bertie, James, Lord Norris of Rycote, 1st Earl of Abingdon
see
Abingdon, James Bertie, Lord Norris of Rycote, 1st Earl of

Bery-well, 140

Bill against Atheism, Prophaneness and Swearing, 161

Birkenhead, John, xii, 59, 68, 286

Birket, Dr Henry, 374

Birkhead, Mr, 412

Bishop’s Canning, 33

Bishop’s Down, 67

Blackbourne, Dr Richard, 293–4, 316

Black Boy, Fleet Street, 395

Black Bull, Cornhill, 394

Blackheath, 222, 233

Black Notley, 367

Blandford, 32, 33, 106, 114, 124, 352

School, 6, 31–2, 61, 75, 224, 329, 335

Bliss, Revd. Dr Philip, 427

Bloomsbury, 253

Bloomsbury coffee house, 285

Blount, Sir Henry, 77, 111, 327–8

Blunt, Colonel, 247

Bodenham, Anne, 98–9

Bodleian Library

protected by soldiers during Civil War 68

William Burton leaves manuscripts and collections to, 114

collection of Roman coins catalogued, 160

John Milton’s work burnt in quad, 167

JA’s donations to, 246, 249–50, 317

books added to JA’s donation by George Ent, 249–50, 317–18, 319

JA wants to see conjuring books in, 251

and Jonas Moore’s books, 331

exhibition on ‘John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning’, 431

brief references, 280, 329, 362

Boevey, James, 269

‘The Art of Governing the Tongue’, 269

‘The Governance of Resolution’, 269

Bohemia, 101

Book of Common Prayer, 4