Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: To Which Are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of Eminent Men

John Aubrey

doi:10.1017/CBO9781316018071

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Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

To Which Are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of Eminent Men

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Volume 1
Edited by John Walker
John Aubrey

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: September 2015
Print publication year:: 2015
First published in:: 1813
Online ISBN:: 9781316018071
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316018071

Subjects:: Social and Population History, British History: General Interest, British History after 1450, History
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, General

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This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker (1770–1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum, but is significant because it contains the biographical notes on the 'lives of eminent men' furnished by John Aubrey (1626–97) to Anthony à Wood, who was at the time compiling his Athenae Oxonienses. Aubrey's subsequently famous Brief Lives were published for the first time in this 1813 work, and, although described as the fourth appendix to it, in fact comprise slightly less than half of the second volume and the entirety of the third. Volume 1 consist of letters between antiquaries including Kenelm Digby, John Cotton and William Dugdale, on topics ranging from the Cornish language and the cure for a bite from a mad dog to the visit of the Princess Anne to Oxford during the tumult of her father's deposition in 1688.

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Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

To Which Are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of Eminent Men

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Frontmatter
pp i-i

Colophon
pp ii-ii

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pp iii-iv

Contents
pp v-xxiv

LETTER I - SIR KENELM DIGBY to Dr. GERARD LANGBAINE
pp 1-4

LETTER II - Dr. CHARLETON to Dr. BARLOW
pp 5-6

LETTER III - Sir W. DUGDALE to Mr. A. WOOD
pp 6-8

LETTER IV - Dr. HICKES to Dr. SMITH
pp 9-12

LETTER V - Dr. WALLIS to Dr. SMITH
pp 12-13

LETTER VI - Sir JOHN COTTON to Dr. SMITH
pp 13-13

LETTER VII - From the same to the same
pp 14-16

LETTER VIII - From the same to the same
pp 17-18

LETTER IX - From the same to the same
pp 18-19

LETTER X - From the same to the same
pp 19-21

LETTER XI - From the same to the same
pp 21-22

LETTER XII - From the same to the same
pp 22-23

LETTER XIII - Sir JOHN COTTON to Dr. SMITH
pp 24-25

LETTER XIV - From the same to the same
pp 25-26

LETTER XV - Dr. LLOYD (Bp. of St. Asaph) to Dr. FELL (Bp. of Oxford)
pp 26-30

LETTER XVI - Dr. SYKES to Dr. CHARLETT
pp 30-33

LETTER XVII - From the same to the same
pp 33-37

LETTER XVIII - From the same to the same
pp 37-39

LETTER XIX - From the same to the same
pp 39-41

LETTER XX - From the same to the same
pp 42-45

LETTER XXI - Mr. CREECH to Dr. CHARLETT
pp 45-48

LETTER XXII - Dr. SMITH to Sir WILLIAM HAWARD
pp 48-50

LETTER XXIII - From the same to the same
pp 51-52

LETTER XXIV - Mr. CREECH (under the signature of Nigellus, jun.) to Dr. HICKES
pp 52-53

LETTER XXV - Mr. PARSONS to Dr. CHARLETT
pp 54-55

LETTER XXVI - Dr. HICKES to Dr. CHARLETT
pp 55-56

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To Which Are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of Eminent Men

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