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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    John Ashindon (obiit 13—?). * Johannes Escuidusa, Merton College :—Elias Ashmole, esq., hath the corrected booke by the originall MSS. of Merton College library, now lost, which is mentioned in Mr. William Lilly’s almanack 1674, a folio. Amongst many other rarities he haz a thin folio MS. of Alkindus in Latin. ** Johannes Escuidus:—Summa astrologiae judicialis, in folio, Venetiis, 1489.—It is miserably printed, he sayes there; and that he was a student of Merton College Oxford.—Mr. Elias Ashmole has the booke. Elias Ashmole (1617 -1692). *** Memorandum—the lives of John Dee, Dr. (Richard) Nepier, Sir William Dugdale, William Lilly, Elias Ash- mole b, esq.,—Mr. Ashmole haz and will doe those himselfe : asc he told me formerly but nowe he seemes to faile. Deborah Aubrey (i6y|—168-J). **** Mris. Deborah Aubrey, my honoured mother, was borne at Yatton-Kaynes, vulgo West-Yatton, in the parish of Yatton-Keynel in com. Wilts., January 29th 1609d, mane. In a letter from my mother, dated Febru. 3d, i6J|-, she tells me she was seaventie yeares old the last Thursday [29 Januarii]—quod N. B. Her accidents. My mother was maried at 15 yeares old. She fell sick of a burning feaver at Langford, Somerset. * MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 147. b In MS. Ballard 14, fol. 19, 20 is ft John Ashindon (or Eastwood): an autobiography dictated by Ashmole see Brodrick’s Memorials of Merton to Robert Plot, to be sent to Anthony College (O. H. S.), p. 200. Wood, Dec. 29, 1683. ** Aubrey, in MS. Wood, F. 39, c Added later by Aubrey to his note, fol. 229: Sept. 22, 1673. * ** *** **** MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 8iv, 82. *** MS. Aubr. 6, fol. iov. d i6££. I. D