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                        AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES'

                            _ANDREW CLARK_

VOL. I.

                          HENRY FROWDE, M.A.

                 PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

                            [Illustration]

                    LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK

[Illustration: JOHN AUBREY: AETAT. 40

_From a pen-and-ink drawing in the Bodleian_]




              _'Brief Lives,' chiefly of Contemporaries,
                              set down by
                         John Aubrey, between
                        the Years 1669 & 1696_


                     EDITED FROM THE AUTHOR'S MSS.

                                  BY

                             ANDREW CLARK
      M.A., LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD; M.A. AND LL.D., ST. ANDREWS

                           _WITH FACSIMILES_

                            VOLUME I. (A-H)

                                Oxford

                        AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

                                 1898

                        [Illustration: Oxford]
                    PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
                         BY HORACE HART, M.A.
                       PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY




PREFACE


The rules laid down for this edition have been fully stated in
the Introduction. It need only be said here that these have been
scrupulously followed.

I may take this opportunity of saying that the text gives Aubrey's
quotations, English and Latin alike, in the form in which they are
found in his MSS. They are plainly cited from memory, not from book:
they frequently do not scan, and at times do not