Memoir of John Aubrey, F.R.S.; embracing his autobiographical sketches, a brief review of his personal and literary merits, and an account of his works, with extracts from his correspondence, anecdotes of some of his contemporaries, and of the times in which he lived / By John Britton ... Published by the Wiltshire Topographical Society [with its 5th Annual Report, 1845].
- John Britton
- Date:
- 1845
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Credit: Memoir of John Aubrey, F.R.S.; embracing his autobiographical sketches, a brief review of his personal and literary merits, and an account of his works, with extracts from his correspondence, anecdotes of some of his contemporaries, and of the times in which he lived / By John Britton ... Published by the Wiltshire Topographical Society [with its 5th Annual Report, 1845]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![When a boy he did ever love to converse with old men as Living Histories: he cared not for play, but on play dayes he gave himselfe to drawing and painting. Never riotous or prodigall, but (as Sir E. Leech s¢) lachese sloath and negligence, carlessnesse, =valent [equivalent] to all other vices. Whereas very sickly in youth, Deo gratias, healthy from 16 . . AMICI. A. Ettrick, Tr. Coll. A. Wood, 1665. Fr. Potter, of C.C.C. Bp. Sarum. M. T. Jo. Lydall. Dr. W. Holder. Sir J. Hoskyns, Baronet. Sir William Petty, my singular friend. Ed. Wyld, Esq. of Glazely Hall. Sir James Long, Baronet, of Draycot. Mr. Rob. Hooke, Gresh. Coll. Mr. Ch. Seymour, . . of the D. of S.* Mr. Hobbes, 165-. I now indulge my genius wth my friends, and pray for ye young angells rest, at Mrs. Mores, neer Gresh. Coll. I. A. lived most at Broad Chalk, in Com. Wilts. Sometimes at Easton Piers. At London every terme. Much of his time spent in journying to §. Wales,—Entaile,—and Heref.sh. SCRIPSIT, Naturall History of Wiltshire. Idea of Education of the Noblesse from the age of 10 or 11 till 18. In Mr. Ashmole’s hands. Item, Remaynders of Gentilisme, being Observations of Ovid’s Fastorum. Mem. Villare Anglicanum interpreted. Item, Faber Fortune. For his owne private use. These lives p. A. W.} 16238. It was I. A. that did putt Mr. Hobbes upon writing his Treatise de Legibus, which is bound up with his Rhetorique ; that one cannot find it but by chance. No mention of it in the first title. Mem. I. Aubrey, in the year 1666, wayting then upon Joan Sumner, to her brother at Seen, in Wilts, there made a discovery of a chalybiate waters, and these more impregnated than any waters yet heard of in England. I sent some bottles to the R. S. in June, 1667, which were tryed with galles before a great assembly there. It turns so black that you may write legibly with it, and did there, after so long a carriage, turn as deepe as a deep claret. The physitians were wonderfully surprised at it, and spake to me to recom- * [Brother of Francis, 5th Duke of Somerset, on whose death, in 1678, he succeeded to the title. ] + [These Lives for Anthony a Wood. ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33522169_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
