John Aubrey (1626-1697).
<These autobiographical jottings are found in MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 3-5. They have been printed, with a few slips and slight omissions, in John Britton's Memoir of J. Aubrey, London, 1845, pp. 12-17. Aubrey (fol. 3) directs that the paper is 'to be interposed as a sheet of wast paper only in the binding of a booke'; and appends to this direction the motto:—
'I presse not to the choire[115] ...
Thus devout penitents of old were wont,
Some without dore, and some beneath the font.
Mr. Thomas Carew.'
Aubrey gives (fol. 3) an (incomplete) drawing of his own horoscope, on the scheme:—
'
natus 1625/6, March 11th, 17h 14´ 44˝ P.M. ...[116] (tempus verum), sub latitudine 51° 30´.'
In MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 110, is Charles Snell's calculation of Aubrey's nativity, on the scheme
'Sunday, 12 Martii 1626, 5h 13´ 40˝ A.M., natus Johannes Aubreius, armiger, sub polo 51° 06´. The astrologers of the time used sometimes the English, and sometimes the Italian, enumeration of the hours.>