Quaere nomen ecclesiae unde deducebantur picturae Mri. Davys.—MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6v.
Oliver turned out the parliament, 20 Apr. 1653.—MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5.
... Knox began his voyage to Tunquin, Aug. 18, 1681.—MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 5v.
The first beginning of the Royal Society (where they putt discourse in paper and brought it to use) was in the chamber of William Ball, esqr., eldest son of Sir Peter Ball of Devon, in the Middle Temple. They had meetings at taverns before, but 'twas here where it formally and in good earnest sett up[1322]. In Dr. Spratt's History you may see when the patent was granted.—MS. Aubr. 8, a slip at fol. 6.
<Wiltshire.> Quaere Mr. <Thomas> Mariet and Mr. Packer (pro Anthony Wood) if <there is> a camp neer Camden, and if another on Broadway.—Memorandum ... <to put> my brother's notes of ... Hyde, etc., into 'Liber[1323] B' before I send it to Anthony Wood.—'Liber[1324] A' (preface)—the 'clerici' (i.e. parish priests) did write the bayliffs' accounts and that in Latin, a specimen whereof I have with me of....—MS. Aubr. 8, a slip at fol. 13.
<Oxford.> Insert the shields in St. Ebbe's church at Oxon in 'Liber B.'—MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 6v.
The paper mill at Bemmarton, Wilts, is 112 yeares standing (1681). 'Twas the second in England.—MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 28v.
Jessamines came into England with Mary[1325], the queen-mother; Laurell was first brought over by Alathea[1326], countesse of Arundell, grandmother to this duke of Norfolke[1327].—MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 28v.
Rider's <Almanack>, 1682:—'Since tobacco[1328] brought into England by Sir Walter Raleigh, 99 yeares; the custome[1329] wherof now is the greatest of all others and amounts yearly to....—MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 103.
Rider's Almanack, 1682:—'Since Tobacco first used, 99 yeares; since the New River was brought to London, 79; since coaches were first used, 128.'—MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 28v.