Brief Lives, Vol. 1

by John Aubrey

[981] Interlinear note:—'Rowland.'

[982] Marginal note:—'When he was clark of Wadham College and being by his place to begin a Psalme, he flung out of church, bidding the people sing to the praise and glory of God quicunque vult.'

[983] Marginal note:—'he was tossed in a blanket.'

[984] MS. has 'ventest.'

[985] Marginal note:—'A knave's tongue and a whore's tayle who can rule?'

[986] Marginal note:—'He did sitt 4 times for his degree.'

[987] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9^v.

[988] i.e. Aubrey remembered having seen the sermon in a bookseller's shop; cf. supra, p. [115]. The sermon was by Joseph Pleydell.

[989] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 2.

[990] Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 138^v: Sept. 2, 1671.