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AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES'
ANDREW CLARK
VOL. II.
HENRY FROWDE, M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK
AUBREY'S BOOK-PLATE
From MS. Aubrey 6, fol. 11v
'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 II. (I-Y)
Oxford
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1898
Oxford
PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
BY HORACE HART, M.A.
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES'
... Ingelbert.
[A]Mr. Ingelbert was the first inventer or projector of bringing the water from Ware to London[1] called Middleton's water. He was a poore-man, but Sir Hugh Middleton[2], alderman of London, moneyed the businesse; undertooke it; and gott the profit and also the credit of that most usefull invention, for which there[3] ought to have been erected a statue for the memory of this poore-man from the city of
London.—From my honoured and learned friend Mr. Fabian Philips, filiser of London, etc., who was in commission about this water.
Notes.
[A] In MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1v, Aubrey has this note:—'In Pond's
Almanack, 1647, thus—"Since the river from Ware to London began by Edward Pond, Jan. 2, 35 yeares. 'Twas finished,
Sept. 20, 34 yeares"—.'
John Innocent (14— -1545).
[4]At Doctors Commons is 'argent on gules a mayd stark naked with a chaplet in her hand dexter.' The name I could never learn, till by chance, in Hampshire, by a courtier. It is the coate of Dr. Innocent, deane of Paule's and master of St. Crosses, tempore Henrici VII. Borne at Barkehamsted, Hertfordshire; where he built a free-schole, where this coat is in severall places. 'Tis endowed with 500li. per annum for
120 scholars from any part of England. The Visitor is the Warden of
All Soules, Oxon.
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