Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey].

  • John Aubrey
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1784
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Credit: Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PA Toa £ Ler ft Pos sic 3 FAMILIES and PLACES. 3 heap Lord Chancellor Bacon fays*, “ As “for nobility in particular perfons, it “is a reverend thing to fee an antient caftle or “* building not in decay; or to fee a fair tim- *< ber tree found and perfect ; how much more “*to behold an antient noble family, which ~ ** hath ftood againft the waves and weathers “of time: for new nobility is but the a& of ‘* power; but antient nobility is the ac of *° tine. But Omnium rerum eft viciffiitudo: families, and places have their fatalities, according to that of Ovid. Fors fua cuique loco eff. Fatt. lib. 4, * Effay XIV. of nobility. This
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