l. 4.  Gorhambury was Bacon’s residence in Hertfordshire, near St. Alban’s, inherited from his father.  Aubrey described it in a long digression ‘for the sake of the lovers of antiquity’, ed.  Clark, vol. i, pp. 79-84, and p. 19.

l. 5.  Thomas Bushell (1594-1674), afterwards distinguished as a mining engineer and metallurgist:  see his life in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Page 185, l. 2. (i.) or i., a common form at this time for i.e.

l. 20.  Henry Lawes (1596-1662), who wrote the music for Comus, and to whom Milton addressed one of his sonnets: 

Harry whose tuneful and well measur’d Song First taught our English Musick how to span Words with just note and accent,...  To after age thou shalt be writ the man, That with smooth aire couldst humor best our tongue.

This sonnet was prefixed to Lawes’s Choice Psalmes in 1648; his Ayres and Dialogues for One, Two, and Three Voices appeared in three books from 1653 to 1658.

56.

The Life of That Reverend Divine, and Learned Historian, Dr. Thomas
Fuller.  London, 1661. (pp. 66-77.)

This work was twice reissued with new title-pages at Oxford in 1662, and was for the first time reprinted in 1845 by way of introduction to J.S.  Brewer’s edition of Fuller’s Church History.  It is the basis of all subsequent lives of Fuller.  But the author is unknown.

The passage here quoted from the concluding section of this Life is the only contemporary sketch of Fuller’s person and character that is now known.  Aubrey’s description is a mere note, and is considerably later:  ’He was of a middle stature; strong sett; curled haire; a very working head, in so much that, walking and meditating before dinner, he would eate-up a penny loafe, not knowing that he did it.  His naturall memorie was very great, to which he had added the art of memorie:  he would repeate to you forwards and backwards all the signes from Ludgate to Charing-crosse’ (ed.  A. Clark, vol. i, p. 257).

Page 187, l. 20. a perfect walking Library, Compare p. 171, l. 19, note.

Page 191, ll. 3 ff.  Compare Aubrey.  But Fuller disclaimed the use of an art of memory.  ‘Artificiall memory’, he said, ’is rather a trick then an art.’  He condemned the ’artificiall rules which at this day are delivered by Memory-mountebanks’.  His great rule was ’Marshall thy notions into a handsome method’.  See his section ‘Of Memory’ in his Holy State, 1642, Bk.  III, ch. 10; and compare J.E.  Bailey, Life of Thomas Fuller, 1874, pp. 413-15.

57.

Bodleian Library, MS. Aubrey 8 foll. 63, 63 v, 68.

The text is taken direct from Aubrey’s manuscript, such contractions as ‘X’ts coll:’  and ‘da:’  for daughter being expanded.  For the complete life, see Brief Lives, ed.  A. Clark, vol. ii, pp. 62-72.