Volume 1

'Brief Lives', chiefly of Contemporaries, set down by John Aubrey, between the years 1669 & 1696. / Edited from the author's mss. by Andrew Clark.

  • Aubrey, John, 1626-1697.
Date:
1898
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Credit: 'Brief Lives', chiefly of Contemporaries, set down by John Aubrey, between the years 1669 & 1696. / Edited from the author's mss. by Andrew Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mr. Henry Birchit of the Middle Temple promised to gett for me Mr. Hobbes’ letter to ... of Mr. Scargill’s recantation, which he left with Sir John Birkenhead.—MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 54v. T. Hobbes—quaere Mr. H. Birchet de letter of Scargill’s recantation which Sir John Birkenhead would not licence.— MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8. (In MS. Aubr. 9 at the end are some of the printed tracts issued by Hobbes in his controversy with Dr. John Wallis, viz.:— (1) A folio sheeta, headed ‘To the right honorable and others the learned mem- bers of the Royal Society for the Advancement of the Sciences, presenteth to your consideration your most humble servant Thomas Hobbes (who hath spent much time upon the same subject) two propositions, whereof the one is lately published by Dr. Wallis, a member of your society. . . . Dr. Wallis: de motti, cap. 5. prop. 1. ( Thomas Hobbes, Roset. prop. 5.’ (2) A quarto sheetb, headed : ‘ To the right honourable and others the learned members of the Royal Society for the Advancement of the Sciences, presenteth to your consideration your most humble servant Thomas Hobbes a confutation of a theoreme which hath a long time passed for truth.’ (3) A quarto tractc (the 1 Propositions ’ occupy 3 pages, the ‘ Considerations,’ 4 pages), entitled :— ‘Three papers presented to the Royal Society against Dr. Wallis, together with considerations on Dr. Wallis his answers to them, by Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbury; London, printed for the author and are to be had at the Green Dragon without Temple Bar: 1671.’) With Mr. Hobbes’s small tracts inscribed to the Royal Society came a letter offering that some of the small pieces of his might be published in the Transactions ; which was a Marked MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 56. b MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 57. c MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 59.