Brief Lives, Vol. 2 - John Aubrey

[461]Lord Treasurer, Thomas, earle of Danby, natus A.D. 1631º, Febr. 19º, hor. 15 min. 53 P.M.—latit. 54.

[462]'20 Febr., 1631/2, fower a clock in the morn.'—I take this to be the Lord Treasurer's <nativity>, scil. Thomas, earle of Danby. Respondet—'tis so.

William Oughtred (1574-1660).

[463]Gulielmus Oughtred [AM] natus 5 Martii 1574, 5^h P.M.

[464]Mr. Oughtred:—Mr. <John> Sloper tells me that his father was butler of Eaton Colledge: he remembers him, a very old man.

[465]William Oughtred:—vide Henry Coley's Astrologie.—A note from my honoured and learned friend Thomas Flud, esq., who had been High Sheriff of Kent, scilicet, he was Mr. Oughtred's acquaintance. He told me that Mr. Oughtred confessed to him that he was not satisfied how it came about that one might foretell by the starres, but so it was that it fell out true as he did often by his experience find. Mr. T. Flud obiit....

[466]This [467] from Mr. Uniades, who was his scholar.

[Mr. Oughtred's children:—

William Oughtred (1574-1660).

[466]This[467] from Mr. Uniades, who was his scholar.

[466]This [467] from Mr. Uniades, who was his scholar.