Chapter 231

[1219]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29v.[1220]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7v.[1221]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29v.[1222]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 30.[1223]Dupl. with 'vicar.' Anthony Wood wrote in the margin 'vicar of Malmsbury,' but scored it out, as in error.[1224]Wood wished to add 'or Sir Rogers.'[1225]Dupl. with 'did.'[1226]Dupl. with 'valued not.'[1227]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29v.[1228]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 30.[1229]i.e. Thomas, the father.[1230]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 31.[1231]Dupl. with 'pasture.' In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 28, Aubrey calls it 'a good moweing ground, called Gaston, not far from the house he was borne in.'[1232]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 30v.[1233]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 31.[1234]Dupl. with 'with,' i.e. with his uncle, as well as to his trade.[1235]Dupl. with 'about.'[1236]Dupl. with 'face.'[1237]In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 28, Aubrey says, 'He had an elder brother, named Edmund Hobbes, more then once alderman of Malmesbury': but this is probably an error, from confusing him with the uncle.[1238]Dupl. with 'parts.'[1239]i.e. William Aubrey.[1240]Dupl. with 'boy'[1241]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 32.[1242]Dupl. with 'pourtraying.'[1243]Other drawings of Malmsbury by Aubrey are in MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 35 and 39.[1244]On this Anthony Wood comments:—'I think 'tis fit it should be drawne and represented, for the abbey sake. 'Tis cheap to have cut in box.'[1245]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 32.[1246]scil. of the 'neck of land.'[1247]Dupl. with 'melted.'[1248]Dupl. with 'adorned.'[1249]Dupl. with 'and.'[1250]Anthony Wood notes here 'as it was concerning Homer.'[1251]Dupl. with 'as I say.'[1252]Dupl. with 'enjoyed.'[1253]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 33.[1254]Dupl. with 'with.'[1255]Seeinfra, p.388.[1256]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 32v.[1257]Quoted from Hobbes' metrical life of himself.[1258]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 33.[1259]Dupl. with 'proves.'[1260]Aubrey notes opposite this sentence:—'This is good.'[1261]Dupl. with 'and then.' Subst. for 'at eight yeares of age he could.'[1262]Written at first 'Three Tunnes (quaere William Aubrey)': and then changed when W. A. answered the query.[1263]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 34.[1264]Dupl. with '25 +.'[1265]Dupl. with 'the oven' 'had devoured them.'[1266]Dupl. with 'the boyes.'[1267]Dupl. with 'strings.'[1268]Dupl. with 'draw through.'[1269]Anthony Wood corrects to 'the stationers' shops.'[1270]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 35.[1271]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 34v.[1272]This paragraph is an insertion by Anthony Wood in answer to Aubrey's query.[1273]His name is not entered in the University matriculation-register.[1274]Part of the formula of admission: Clark'sReg. Univ. Oxon.II. i. 48.[1275]1607/8;ibid.II. iii. 278.[1276]ibid.II. i. 50.[1277]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 35.[1278]Subst. for 'Mr. John Wilkinson.'[1279]Dupl. with 'did believe.'[1280]Dupl. with 'then.'[1281]Dupl. with 'was.'[1282]Dupl. with 'notions.'[1283]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 36.[1284]The chronology is here difficult. William Cavendish, second earl of Devonshire, died 20 June, 1628; and it is he whom Hobbes regarded as his 'first' lord (see his inscription,infra, p.386), not his father William, first earl, who died 3 March, 1625/6. Bacon died 9 Apr. 1626.[1285]Subst. for 'time.'[1286]In the first attempt at this paragraph Aubrey wrote, 'T. H. came into his native country. I was then a little youth and went to schoole to Mr. Robert Latimer at Leigh-de-la-mere in the church about a mile from my father's house (Easton Pierse).'[1287]In a second attempt it stood '... at Leigh-de-la-mere. I was then a little youth newly entred into my grammar by him, and we went to schoole in the church.'[1288]Dupl. with 'came to.'[1289]Dupl. with 'friends.'[1290]Dupl. with 'equipage.'[1291]Here followed 'and moist-curled,' dupl. with 'and with moist curles'; but both struck out.[1292]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 35v.[1293]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 36.[1294]Anthony Wood writes here 'do not you mean 40?' Aubrey had written '4' by a pen-slip; afterwards he corrected it.[1295]'Element' used for 'proposition.'[1296]Subst. for 'He would now and then use an emphaticall oath.'[1297]Dupl. with 'curious witt.'[1298]'Began it early' is written over, in explanation.[1299]Dupl. with 'to the witts.'[1300]Dupl. with 'then doe well.'[1301]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 37.[1302]'In his bed' followed, scored out.[1303]Dupl. with 'as.'[1304]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 36v.[1305]Dupl. with 'study.'[1306]Dupl. with 'knowledge.'[1307]Dupl. with 'rubiginous.'[1308]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 37.[1309]Subst. for 'discussed.'[1310]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 38v.[1311]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 37.[1312]Anthony Wood notes 'Roger Manneringe.'[1313]Dupl. with 'went.'[1314]'Mostly' followed: scored out.[1315]Anthony Wood notes 'Robert Sibthorpe, vicar of Brackley.'[1316]Dupl. with 'became.'[1317]'At Paris' followed: scored out.[1318]Dupl. with 'cane.'[1319]Dupl. with 'notion.'[1320]Dupl. with 'or els he should.'[1321]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 38.[1322]Subst. for 'of Euclid and Vitellio.'[1323]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 39.[1324]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 37v.[1325]i.e. fol. 50vof the MS., where is a note by Anthony Wood, as giveninfra, p.367.[1326]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 39.[1327]Subst. for 'which came out anno ...' Anthony Wood notes, 'Vide catalogue of books inHist. Oxon., and vide transcript thence.'—MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 38v.[1328]'hisDialogi' followed: scored out.[1329]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 40.[1330]'a yeare +' followed: scored out.[1331]Dupl. with 'an ill.'[1332]In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 28, Aubrey says that Thomas Hobbes gave it to 'his elder brother, named Edmund Hobbes.'[1333]Dupl. with 'in Derbyshire.'[1334]Dupl. with 'good.'[1335]Dupl. with 'want.'[1336]Subst. for 'thought.'[1337]Aubrey notes opposite this: 'better this expression.'[1338]Dupl. with 'designe.'[1339]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 42. On fol. 41vAubrey makes this apology for its coming there out of due order of time:—'Give notice how things are to be right placed, for all things comes not into my memory chronologically and this seemes almost necessary to be forced.'[1340]Dupl. with 'way.'[1341]Subst. for 'researching and contemplating one thing, then of another; but he had a method for it.'[1342]Dupl. with 'proviso' or 'observation.'[1343]Infra, p.382.[1344]Dupl. with 'such a poeme.'[1345]Sir John Vaughan, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1668-1674.[1346]Dupl. with 'great.'[1347]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7—'quaere bishop Sarum when he was motioned to be burnt.'Ibid., fol. 7v, 'Quaere bp. Sarum who and when (annum) the motion in parliament was to have Mr. Hobbes burnt.'[1348]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 40.[1349]Subst. for '1660. The winter before (of 1659) he spent his time in Derbyshire.'[1350]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 39v.[1351]Dupl. with 'good newes.'[1352]Dupl. with 'hearing.'[1353]Dupl. with 'opportunity.'[1354]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 41.[1355]Aubrey writes opposite on fol. 40v:—'embouche, such word in English?'[1356]MS. has 'and,' by a slip for 'at.'[1357]Dupl. with 'enterteyned.'[1358]Dupl. with 'facetiae.'[1359]Dupl. with 'the witts.'[1360]Aubrey wishes to limit the readiness in reply to cases of light badinage: in serious subjects Hobbes was slow and deliberate.[1361]Dupl. with 'good.'[1362]Dupl. with 'a present answer.'[1363]Dupl. with 'mathematicall.'[1364]i.e. see further about this on fol. 45vof the MS., the note foundinfra, p.356.[1365]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 42.[1366]Subst. for 'he last left London, he was often in London at his lord's.'[1367]Dupl. with 'penned': seeinfra, p.351.[1368]The two sentences in square brackets are added by Anthony Wood.[1369]Infra, p.346.[1370]Subst. for 'about.'[1371]Dupl. with 'inventive.'[1372]Subst. for 'that 'twas a long, taedious, and difficult taske.'[1373]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 43.[1374]Dupl. with 'attempt.'[1375]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 42v.[1376]Dupl. with 'I. A.'[1377]Subst. for 'sayes.'[1378]Dupl. with 'together.'[1379]A London bookseller, who had offered to publish an authorized copy.[1380]Subst. for 'knowledge.'[1381]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 43.[1382]Dupl. with 'since.'[1383]Dupl. with 'found': and subst. for 'erect.'[1384]Subst. for 'Upon.'[1385]Dupl. with 'power' or 'possession.'[1386]Dupl. with 'hoped.'[1387]Dupl. with 'but queen Katharine.'[1388]Dupl. with 'hating him.'[1389]Dupl. with 'prevented.'[1390]'1674' is struck out and 1669/1670 substituted for it—this latter being the date of Wood's altercations with Dr. Fell. 1674 was the date of publication: seeinfra.[1391]Anthony Wood struck out the passage enclosed in square brackets, and sent Aubrey a more elaborate account (now fol. 48, 48vof MS. Aubr. 9) to take its place. This is printed in Clark's Wood'sLife and Times, ii. 291, 292; and is perhaps the paper which Wood blames Aubrey for having kept,ibid.ii. 475, 476.

[1219]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29v.

[1220]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7v.

[1221]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29v.

[1222]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 30.

[1223]Dupl. with 'vicar.' Anthony Wood wrote in the margin 'vicar of Malmsbury,' but scored it out, as in error.

[1224]Wood wished to add 'or Sir Rogers.'

[1225]Dupl. with 'did.'

[1226]Dupl. with 'valued not.'

[1227]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29v.

[1228]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 30.

[1229]i.e. Thomas, the father.

[1230]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 31.

[1231]Dupl. with 'pasture.' In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 28, Aubrey calls it 'a good moweing ground, called Gaston, not far from the house he was borne in.'

[1232]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 30v.

[1233]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 31.

[1234]Dupl. with 'with,' i.e. with his uncle, as well as to his trade.

[1235]Dupl. with 'about.'

[1236]Dupl. with 'face.'

[1237]In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 28, Aubrey says, 'He had an elder brother, named Edmund Hobbes, more then once alderman of Malmesbury': but this is probably an error, from confusing him with the uncle.

[1238]Dupl. with 'parts.'

[1239]i.e. William Aubrey.

[1240]Dupl. with 'boy'

[1241]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 32.

[1242]Dupl. with 'pourtraying.'

[1243]Other drawings of Malmsbury by Aubrey are in MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 35 and 39.

[1244]On this Anthony Wood comments:—'I think 'tis fit it should be drawne and represented, for the abbey sake. 'Tis cheap to have cut in box.'

[1245]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 32.

[1246]scil. of the 'neck of land.'

[1247]Dupl. with 'melted.'

[1248]Dupl. with 'adorned.'

[1249]Dupl. with 'and.'

[1250]Anthony Wood notes here 'as it was concerning Homer.'

[1251]Dupl. with 'as I say.'

[1252]Dupl. with 'enjoyed.'

[1253]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 33.

[1254]Dupl. with 'with.'

[1255]Seeinfra, p.388.

[1256]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 32v.

[1257]Quoted from Hobbes' metrical life of himself.

[1258]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 33.

[1259]Dupl. with 'proves.'

[1260]Aubrey notes opposite this sentence:—'This is good.'

[1261]Dupl. with 'and then.' Subst. for 'at eight yeares of age he could.'

[1262]Written at first 'Three Tunnes (quaere William Aubrey)': and then changed when W. A. answered the query.

[1263]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 34.

[1264]Dupl. with '25 +.'

[1265]Dupl. with 'the oven' 'had devoured them.'

[1266]Dupl. with 'the boyes.'

[1267]Dupl. with 'strings.'

[1268]Dupl. with 'draw through.'

[1269]Anthony Wood corrects to 'the stationers' shops.'

[1270]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 35.

[1271]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 34v.

[1272]This paragraph is an insertion by Anthony Wood in answer to Aubrey's query.

[1273]His name is not entered in the University matriculation-register.

[1274]Part of the formula of admission: Clark'sReg. Univ. Oxon.II. i. 48.

[1275]1607/8;ibid.II. iii. 278.

[1276]ibid.II. i. 50.

[1277]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 35.

[1278]Subst. for 'Mr. John Wilkinson.'

[1279]Dupl. with 'did believe.'

[1280]Dupl. with 'then.'

[1281]Dupl. with 'was.'

[1282]Dupl. with 'notions.'

[1283]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 36.

[1284]The chronology is here difficult. William Cavendish, second earl of Devonshire, died 20 June, 1628; and it is he whom Hobbes regarded as his 'first' lord (see his inscription,infra, p.386), not his father William, first earl, who died 3 March, 1625/6. Bacon died 9 Apr. 1626.

[1285]Subst. for 'time.'

[1286]In the first attempt at this paragraph Aubrey wrote, 'T. H. came into his native country. I was then a little youth and went to schoole to Mr. Robert Latimer at Leigh-de-la-mere in the church about a mile from my father's house (Easton Pierse).'

[1287]In a second attempt it stood '... at Leigh-de-la-mere. I was then a little youth newly entred into my grammar by him, and we went to schoole in the church.'

[1288]Dupl. with 'came to.'

[1289]Dupl. with 'friends.'

[1290]Dupl. with 'equipage.'

[1291]Here followed 'and moist-curled,' dupl. with 'and with moist curles'; but both struck out.

[1292]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 35v.

[1293]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 36.

[1294]Anthony Wood writes here 'do not you mean 40?' Aubrey had written '4' by a pen-slip; afterwards he corrected it.

[1295]'Element' used for 'proposition.'

[1296]Subst. for 'He would now and then use an emphaticall oath.'

[1297]Dupl. with 'curious witt.'

[1298]'Began it early' is written over, in explanation.

[1299]Dupl. with 'to the witts.'

[1300]Dupl. with 'then doe well.'

[1301]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 37.

[1302]'In his bed' followed, scored out.

[1303]Dupl. with 'as.'

[1304]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 36v.

[1305]Dupl. with 'study.'

[1306]Dupl. with 'knowledge.'

[1307]Dupl. with 'rubiginous.'

[1308]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 37.

[1309]Subst. for 'discussed.'

[1310]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 38v.

[1311]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 37.

[1312]Anthony Wood notes 'Roger Manneringe.'

[1313]Dupl. with 'went.'

[1314]'Mostly' followed: scored out.

[1315]Anthony Wood notes 'Robert Sibthorpe, vicar of Brackley.'

[1316]Dupl. with 'became.'

[1317]'At Paris' followed: scored out.

[1318]Dupl. with 'cane.'

[1319]Dupl. with 'notion.'

[1320]Dupl. with 'or els he should.'

[1321]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 38.

[1322]Subst. for 'of Euclid and Vitellio.'

[1323]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 39.

[1324]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 37v.

[1325]i.e. fol. 50vof the MS., where is a note by Anthony Wood, as giveninfra, p.367.

[1326]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 39.

[1327]Subst. for 'which came out anno ...' Anthony Wood notes, 'Vide catalogue of books inHist. Oxon., and vide transcript thence.'—MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 38v.

[1328]'hisDialogi' followed: scored out.

[1329]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 40.

[1330]'a yeare +' followed: scored out.

[1331]Dupl. with 'an ill.'

[1332]In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 28, Aubrey says that Thomas Hobbes gave it to 'his elder brother, named Edmund Hobbes.'

[1333]Dupl. with 'in Derbyshire.'

[1334]Dupl. with 'good.'

[1335]Dupl. with 'want.'

[1336]Subst. for 'thought.'

[1337]Aubrey notes opposite this: 'better this expression.'

[1338]Dupl. with 'designe.'

[1339]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 42. On fol. 41vAubrey makes this apology for its coming there out of due order of time:—'Give notice how things are to be right placed, for all things comes not into my memory chronologically and this seemes almost necessary to be forced.'

[1340]Dupl. with 'way.'

[1341]Subst. for 'researching and contemplating one thing, then of another; but he had a method for it.'

[1342]Dupl. with 'proviso' or 'observation.'

[1343]Infra, p.382.

[1344]Dupl. with 'such a poeme.'

[1345]Sir John Vaughan, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1668-1674.

[1346]Dupl. with 'great.'

[1347]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 7—'quaere bishop Sarum when he was motioned to be burnt.'Ibid., fol. 7v, 'Quaere bp. Sarum who and when (annum) the motion in parliament was to have Mr. Hobbes burnt.'

[1348]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 40.

[1349]Subst. for '1660. The winter before (of 1659) he spent his time in Derbyshire.'

[1350]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 39v.

[1351]Dupl. with 'good newes.'

[1352]Dupl. with 'hearing.'

[1353]Dupl. with 'opportunity.'

[1354]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 41.

[1355]Aubrey writes opposite on fol. 40v:—'embouche, such word in English?'

[1356]MS. has 'and,' by a slip for 'at.'

[1357]Dupl. with 'enterteyned.'

[1358]Dupl. with 'facetiae.'

[1359]Dupl. with 'the witts.'

[1360]Aubrey wishes to limit the readiness in reply to cases of light badinage: in serious subjects Hobbes was slow and deliberate.

[1361]Dupl. with 'good.'

[1362]Dupl. with 'a present answer.'

[1363]Dupl. with 'mathematicall.'

[1364]i.e. see further about this on fol. 45vof the MS., the note foundinfra, p.356.

[1365]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 42.

[1366]Subst. for 'he last left London, he was often in London at his lord's.'

[1367]Dupl. with 'penned': seeinfra, p.351.

[1368]The two sentences in square brackets are added by Anthony Wood.

[1369]Infra, p.346.

[1370]Subst. for 'about.'

[1371]Dupl. with 'inventive.'

[1372]Subst. for 'that 'twas a long, taedious, and difficult taske.'

[1373]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 43.

[1374]Dupl. with 'attempt.'

[1375]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 42v.

[1376]Dupl. with 'I. A.'

[1377]Subst. for 'sayes.'

[1378]Dupl. with 'together.'

[1379]A London bookseller, who had offered to publish an authorized copy.

[1380]Subst. for 'knowledge.'

[1381]MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 43.

[1382]Dupl. with 'since.'

[1383]Dupl. with 'found': and subst. for 'erect.'

[1384]Subst. for 'Upon.'

[1385]Dupl. with 'power' or 'possession.'

[1386]Dupl. with 'hoped.'

[1387]Dupl. with 'but queen Katharine.'

[1388]Dupl. with 'hating him.'

[1389]Dupl. with 'prevented.'

[1390]'1674' is struck out and 1669/1670 substituted for it—this latter being the date of Wood's altercations with Dr. Fell. 1674 was the date of publication: seeinfra.

[1391]Anthony Wood struck out the passage enclosed in square brackets, and sent Aubrey a more elaborate account (now fol. 48, 48vof MS. Aubr. 9) to take its place. This is printed in Clark's Wood'sLife and Times, ii. 291, 292; and is perhaps the paper which Wood blames Aubrey for having kept,ibid.ii. 475, 476.

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