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.

  • John Aubrey
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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    Francis Anthony (1550-1623). * Dr. [Francis3] Anthony, the chymist, Londinensis, natus 16 Aprilis, 1550, ih. P.M., Virgo o° 3' ascend. Quaere A (nthony) W (ood) if of Oxon or Cam- bridge b. Scripsit 2 libros, viz.:—Aurum potabile, and his Defense against Dr. (Matthew) Gwyn (who wrote a booke called Aurum non Aurum). This is all that Mr. Littlebury, bookeseller, remembers. He lived in St. Bartholomew’s close, London, where he dyed, and is, I suppose, buried there, about 30 yeares since scil. 1652. Vide his nativity in Catalogue2. He had a sonne who wrote something, I thinke (quaere Mr. Littlebury); and a daughter maried to . . . Montague, a bookeseller in Duck-lane, who in Oliver’s time was a soldier in Scotland. Notes. 1 Wood notes here ‘so that by this reckoning,’ i. e. if born in 1550 ut supra, * he was 102.’ 2 i. e., I suppose, in MS. Aubrey 23 (Aubrey’s Collectio Geniturarum), where at fol. 121, among nativities from Dr. Richard Napier’s papers, is:—‘Dr. Anthony, Londinensis, who made aurum potabile at London, natus 16 April, 1550, ih P.M.’ Thomas Archer (1554-1630 ?). ** Mr. Archer, rector of Houghton Conquest, was a good scholar in King James’s (the 1st) dayes, and one (of) his majestie’s chaplains. He had two thick 4to MSS. of his own collection; one, joci and tales etc., and discourses at dinners; the other, of the weather. I have desired parson Poynter0, his successor, to enquire after them, but I find him slow in it. No doubt there are delicate things to be found there. * MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 2iv. * ** MS. Aubr. 8, fol. iv. a Added by Anthony Wood. c Thomas Poynter, rector of Hough- b He was M.A., Cambridge, 1574. ton Conquest, Beds., 1676-1700.