Brief Lives, Vol. 2

by John Aubrey

[85] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 58^v.

[86] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 59.

[87] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 59^v.

[88] An error. Robert Abbot was never Vice-Chancellor. His brother George Abbot, afterwards archbishop of Canterbury, was Vice-Chancellor three times, in 1600, 1603, 1605.

[89] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 400: March 31, 1690.

[90] Henry Birkhead, matric. at Trin. 1634, aet. 16; died 1696.

[91] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 5.

[92] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 61^v—a note from Kitson himself.

[93] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12.

[94] Anthony Wood notes, 'The poem cal'd Lepanto was written by King James.'