Being thus utterly undon again by the fire, he made his proposalls for the printing of a faire English Atlas[450], of which he lived to finish the Historys of Africa, America, and part of Asia. And then, being encouraged by the king and the nobility to make[451] an actuall survey of England and Wales[AL], he proceeded in it so far as to an actuall survey of the roads both in England and Wales, which composed his ... volume of his Britannia, published....
[452]Mr. John Ogilby died Sept. 4, 1676; and was buried in the vault at St. Bride's.
[453]Vide his obiit in Almanack[454] 1675: quaere Mr. Lacy.
[455]Anno ... John Ogilby maried ..., the daughter of ... Fox[XLII.], of Netherhampton, neer Wilton in com. Wilts, who was borne as he was wont to say 'in the first Olympiad,' scil. when the first race was ran at Sarum in Henry[456], earle of Pembroke's time. She had only one daughter by him, maried to ... Morgan, who left a son who now suceeds his grandfather as his majestie's cosmographer. She dyed in London ... being aged ... (neer 90[457]).
[XLII.] Servant to the earl of Pembroke, a good liverie.
[458]His wife dyed 3 or 4 dayes before Xtmas 1677, aetatis circiter[459] 112.
Notes.
[AI] This life of Ogilby is found confusedly in two drafts in MS. Aubr. 7, foll. 19v-20v, and MS. Aubr. 8, foll. 44-47v.
In MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 19v, and in MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 44, Aubrey gives the coat: '..., a lion passant gardant crowned ..., a mullet for difference'; and notes that 'the crest is a 1/2 virgin in an earle's coronet holding a castle.'
[AJ] Gadbury, Aubrey thought, must have been told the place of Ogilby's birth with a view to constructing his horoscope.