Brief Lives, Vol. 2

by John Aubrey

[545] Wood scores out the word and substitutes 'demonstrated.'

[546] Wood adds: 'his Arithmetic, more than was done before by ..., a Frenchman.' This was perhaps a bit of information made orally to Wood, whose deafness prevented his catching the name. In the Fasti he says, 'a certain Frenchman.'

[547] Wood adds: 'in Cheshire.'

[548] Wood writes 'MS.' over, as an improvement.

[549] Wood writes 'demonstrated' over.

[550] Dupl. with 'veine.'

[551] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 52^v.

[552] Subst. for 'Newgate prison.'

[553] Subst. for 'August the last.'

[554] MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 55.