Brief Lives, Vol. 2

by John Aubrey

[165] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12^v.

[166] Dupl. with 'spued.'

[167] Probably Edmund Wyld.

[168] Dupl. with 'his aunt's husband.'

[169] i.e. Richard Cromwell's.

[170] Apparently a memorandum to recall a story about Martin. There is similarly a memorandum to recall an indecent story, at the foot of fol. 103 of MS. Aubr. 6.

[171] Inserted by Anthony Wood.

[172] So Aubrey often spells it.

[173] 'Blind from his birth,' S. John ix. 2; 'born blind,' S. John ix. 19, etc. Martin remembered 'lame from his mother's womb' of Acts iii. 2.

[174] S. John ix. 18, 'He had been blind and received his sight,' seems the nearest expression. The 'restored' is a figment of Martin's own, to give point to his jest.