Table Of ContentCONTENTS
Cover
About the Book
About the Author
List of Illustrations
Dedication
Title Page
Introduction
Foreword
The Life and Times of John Aubrey
George Abbot
Thomas Allen
Lancelot Andrewes
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Albans
Isaac Barrow
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Sir John Birkenhead
Sir Henry Blount
Edmund Bonner
Caisho Borough
James Bovey
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork
The Hon. Robert Boyle
Henry Briggs
Elizabeth Broughton
Thomas Bushell
Samuel Butler
William Butler
William Camden
William Cartwright
Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland
Sir Charles Cavendish
Charles Cavendish
Thomas Chaloner
William Chillingworth
George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland
Sir Edward Coke
Jean Baptiste Colbert
John Colet
Thomas Cooper
Richard Corbet
Abraham Cowley
Sir Charles Danvers
Sir John Danvers
Edward Davenant
Sir William Davenant
John Dee
Sir John Denham
René Descartes
Sir Everard Digby
Sir Kenelm Digby
Venetia Digby
Desiderius Erasmus
Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron Fairfax
Carlo Fantom
Sir William Fleetwood
John Florio
Francis Fry
Thomas Goffe
John Graunt
Edmund Gunter
John Hales
Edmund Halley
William Harcourt
Thomas Hariot
James Harrington
William Harvey
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
George Herbert
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke
William and Philip Herbert, 3rd and 4th Earls of Pembroke
Thomas Hobbes
William Holder
Wenceslas Hollar
Robert Hooke
John Hoskyns
Henry Isaacson
David Jenkins
Sir Leoline Jenkins
Ben Jonson
Ralph Kettell
Richard Knolles
Sir Henry Lee
William Lee
Richard Lovelace
Henry Martin
Andrew Marvell
Thomas May
Sir Hugh Middleton
John Milton
George Monk, 1st Duke of Albemarle
Sir Jonas Moore
Sir Robert Moray
Sir Thomas More
Sir Thomas Morgan
Robert Murray
Richard Napier
John Ogilby
William Oughtred
John Overall
John Pell
William Penn
Sir William Petty
Katherine Philips
Sir William Platers
Sir John Popham
Francis Potter
William Prynne
Eleanor Radcliffe, Countess of Sussex
Sir Walter Raleigh
Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick
Charles Robson
Walter Rumsey
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset
Sir Henry Savile
Sylvanus Scory
John Selden
William Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
William Shakespeare
Olive Sherington
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Henry Spelman
Edmund Spenser
Thomas Street
Thomas Stump
Sir John Suckling
Thomas Sutton
Silas Taylor
John Tombes
Nicholas Towes
Thomas Triplett
William Twisse
Thomas Tyndale
Henry and Thomas Vaughan
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
William de Visscher
Edmund Waller
Seth Ward
Walter Warner
John Whitson
John Wilkins
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
Thomas Wolsey
Glossary of Persons
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
Copyright
ABOUT THE BOOK
John Aubrey was a modest man, a self-styled antiquarian and the inventor of
modern biography. His ‘lives’ of the prominent figures of his generation and the
Elizabethan era, including Shakespeare, Milton and Sir Walter Raleigh, have
been plundered by historians for centuries for their frankness and fascinating
detail. Collected here are all of Aubrey’s biographical writings, a series of
unforgettable portraits of the characters of his day – still more alive and kicking
than in any conventional work of history.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born 12th March 1626 in Wiltshire, antiquary and biographer John Aubrey was
the eldest surviving son of an affluent family. Having experienced a lonely
childhood he later immersed himself in society, associating with many of the
most distinguished figures of his time. He documented their lives in unique
accounts, contained in manuscripts which were deposited in the Ashmolean
Museum by the antiquary Anthony Wood in 1693. He had a keen interest in
archaeology and is credited with a number of significant discoveries in Britain,
including the ruins of Avebury, and the ring of chalk pits at Stonehenge which
bear his name. He died 7th June 1697 and is buried in the churchyard of St Mary
Magdalen in Oxford.
ILLUSTRATIONS
John Aubrey
Aubrey’s bookplate
PLATE
I. A page of Aubrey’s manuscript
II. A page of Aubrey’s manuscript
III. Easton Piers as it was at the time of Aubrey’s birth
IV. Easton Piers after its rebuilding by his father
V. Easton Piers, northern elevation
VI. Sir James Long and John Aubrey Hawking
VII. Anthony Wood
VIII. Sir Henry Lee
IX. George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland
X. George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury
XI. Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland
XII. Ben Jonson
XII. Thomas Hobbes
XIV. Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset
XV. Venetia Digby
XVI. Sir Kenelm Digby
XVII. Sir John Suckling
XVIII. James Harrington
XIX. Samuel Butler
XX. Richard Lovelace
XXI. Abraham Cowley
XXII. Andrew Marvell
XXIII. Sir Walter Raleigh
XXIV. Sir Philip Sidney
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
XXV.
XXVI. The Hon. Robert Boyle
XXVII. William Penn
XXVIII. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
