Reall character, <things[192] that> lay dead, I caused to revive by engaging 6 or 7 ... fungor vice cotis, etc.
Wheras very sickly in youth; Deo gratias, healthy from 16.
Amici.
- A<nthony> Ettrick, Trin. Coll.
- M. T.[193]—John Lydall.
- Fr<ancis> Potter, of 666[194], C lettres[195].
- Sir J<ohn> Hoskyns, baronet.
- Ed<mund> Wyld, esq. of Glasley Hall, quem summae gratitudinis ergo nomino.
- Mr. Robert Hooke, Gresham College.
- Mr. <Thomas> Hobbes, 165-.
- A<nthony> Wood, 1665.
- ☞ Sir William Petty, my singular friend.
- Sir James Long, baronet, of Draycot, χρονογραφία etc.
- Mr. Ch<arles> Seymour, father[196] of the d<uke> of S<omerset>.
- Sir Jo<hn> Stawell, M. T.[197]
- Bishop of Sarum <Seth Ward>.
- Dr. W<illiam> Holder.
Scripsit[198].
- 'The[199] Naturall History of Wiltshire.'
- These 'Lives' (pro AW[200], 1679/80).
- 'Idea[201] of education of the noblesse,' in Mr. Ashmole's hands.
- item, 'Remaynders of Gentilisme,' being observations on Ovid's Fastorum.
- memorandum, 'Villare Anglicanum interpreted.'
- item, Faber Fortunae (for his own private use).
I. A. lived most at Broad-chalke in com. Wilts; sometimes at Easton Piers; at London every terme. Much of his time spent in journeying to South Wales (entaile[202]) and Hereff<ordshire>. I now indulge my genius with my friends and pray for the young angels. Rest at Mris More's neer Gresham College (Mrs More's in Hammond Alley in Bishopgate Street farthest house[203]☍ old Jairer (?) taverne).
<I> expect preferment <through> Sir Ll. Jenkins[204].
[205]It was I. A. that did putt Mr. Hobbes upon writing his treatise De Legibus, which is bound up with his Rhetorique that one cannot find it but by chance; no mention of it in the first title.
[206]I have writt 'an Idea of the education of the Noblesse from the age of 10 (or 11) till 18': left with Elias Ashmole, esquire.