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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![ACCIDENTS OF JOHN AUBREY.* Born at Easton-Piers March 1625-6, about sun-rising ; very weak, and like to dye, and therefore christned that morning before prayer. I think I have heard my mother say I had an ague shortly after I was born. 1629. About three or four years old I had a grievous ague ; I can remember it. I got not health till eleven or twelve, but had sickness of vomiting for 12 hours every fortnight for . . . years, then it came monthly for . , then quarterly, and then half-yearly ; the last was in June 1642. This sickness nipt my strength in the bud. 1633. At eight years old I had an issue (naturall) in the coronall sutor of my head, which continued running till 21. 1634. October, I had a violent fevor, it was like to have carried me off ; twas the most dangerous sickness that ever I had. : 1639. About 1639 or 1643 I had the measills, but that was nothing, I was hardly sick. Monday after Easter week my uncle’s nag ranne away with me, and gave me a very dangerous fall. 1642. May 3, entered at Trinity College. 1643. April and May, the small pox at Oxon ; after left that ingeniouse place, and for three yeares led a sad life in the country. 1646. April. . admitted of the M. Temple; but my father’s sickness and business never permitted me to make any settlement to my study. 1651. About the 16 or 18 of April I sawe that incomparable good conditioned gentlewoman, Mrs. M. Wiseman, with whom at first sight I was in love. 1652. October the 21, my father died. 1655 (1 think) June 14, I hada fall at Epsam, and brake one of my ribbes, and was afraid it might cause an apostumation.f 1656. Sept. 1655, or rather I think 1656, I began my chargeable and tedious lawe suite on the entaile in Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire. This yeare and the last was a strange yeare to me. Several love and lawe suites. 1656... .%. Decemb. y morb. 1657. Novemb. 27, obiit Dna Kasker Ryves, with whom I was to marry, to my great losse. 1659. March or April, like to break my neck in Ely Minster: and the next day, riding a gallop there, my horse tumbled over and over, and yet, I thank God, no hurt. 1660. July, Aug. I accompanied A. Ettrick into Ireland for a month, and returning, were like to be ship- wreckt at Holyhead, but no hurt done. * This document has been printed, though somewhat imperfectly, in a work entitled Oxoniana ; (4 vols, 12mo.) edited by the late Rev. J. Walker, of New College, Oxford. + “Apostumarion, An abscess.” [Johnson.] A prescription written for Aubrey by Dr. W. Harvey “to prevent an impostumation,” and dated November 1655, is inserted in the collection of Letters from Aubrey’s correspondents, in the Ashmolean Museum (vol. i.). |](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33522169_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
