Volume 2

Letters written by eminent persons in the 17th and 18th centuries : to which are added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of eminent men / by John Aubrey, esq. The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian library and Ashmolean Museum, with biographical and literary illustrations.

  • Aubrey, John, 1626-1697.
Date:
1813
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Credit: Letters written by eminent persons in the 17th and 18th centuries : to which are added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of eminent men / by John Aubrey, esq. The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian library and Ashmolean Museum, with biographical and literary illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / 17 ticularly about Uiis as soon as you can with your thoughts and sentiments, and excuse my hasty scribble, who am, with most sincere affection, gratitude, &c. Dear and Honored Sir, Your most devoted, obliged, &c. Fcl. and Sent. Browne Willis. Whaddon Hall, April 19, 1716. And in a Letter from I)r. Tanner to Dr. Charlett, dated Norwich, Aug. 10, 1709, we find the following note : “ On the other side, is a coeval note at the end of an old MS. belonging to our Cathedral, of the odd exit of the great Cardinal Wolsey, not mentioned, I think, in Caven- dish, or any of the Historians,—much like Oliver’s Wind. “ Ad finem Annalium Bartholomoei Cotton MS. in Bib- lioth. Eccl. Cath. Norwic. habetur base notata. “ Anno Xti 1530 nocte immediate sequente quartum diem Novemb. vehemens ventus quasi per totam Angliam accide- bat, et die proxime sequente quinto sc. dieejusdem mensis circa horam primam post meridiem captus erat Dns Thomas Wulsye Cardinalis in aedibus suis de Cahow [Cawood] infra Diocesin suam Eboracensem; et postea in itinere ejus versus Londoniam vigilia St. Andreas prox. sequente apud Leyces- triam moriebatur, quo die ventus quasi Gehennalis tunc fere per totam Angliam accidebat, cujus vehementia apud Ley- gtoft infra Dioc. Norwicensem et alibi in diversis locis infra Kegnum Anglioe multse naves perienrat.” VOL. II. C