I am sorry that things go unluckily between you & your brother, & more sorry that you have done nothing of my queries. Wood to Aubrey, 10 Jan 1686, Wood F 45, f. 192r.

Our Mathematical instrument-maker pretends that Mr Potters quadrant is an old invention: but that he’l make one if you please for 10s; thô he says he can not see what use it will be. Lhwyd to Aubrey, 9 Jan 1694, Aubrey 12, f. 251r.

Charles II discoursing one morning within my Lord Broncker, & Dr Charleton concerning Stongeng, they told his Majestie, what they had heard me say, concerning Avbury, sc. That it did as much excell Stoneheng, as a Cathedral does a Parish church. Top Gen c 24, f. 24r.

The morrow after Twelfday (1649), Mr Charles Seymour and Sir William Button, mett with their packs of Hounds […] the Chas led us (at length) through the Village of Avbury […] where I was wonderfully surprized at the sight of those vast stones: of which I had never heard before. Top Gen c 24, f. 23r

Memorandum. The old custome (yet continued) of putting a Beane into the Cake at Twelfe-night; and also a Pea; sc., the Beane for the King (of the beane) and the pea for the Queen. Remaines of Gentilisme, Three Prose Works, p. 235.

January 5th 1694 an apoplectick fitt. circiter 4h. P.M. Aubrey 23, f. 103v.

I shall be in danger of imprisonment. But nothing dos wond me so much as my poor Creditors. Had my brother been but ordinarily civill to me, I could have conferred the estate upon him. Now, how can you thinke but I must be continually troubled in mind? Aubrey to Wood, 4 Jan 1691, Wood F 39, 411r.

The onely thing that makes this winter tedious to me is the earnest expectation of the next spring, when I hope to see you again, and against that time I hope I shall be able to present you with the little treatise of the Universal Character. Pigot to Aubrey, 5 Jan 1679, Aubrey 13, f. 119r.

I hope you are well, though I have been troubled in my dreames about you. my kind respects to Sir Browne. Tomorrow I intend to see Dr Lock the Lord Chancellor’s Secretary, & will speake to him to be mindfull of his Father. Aubrey to Wood, 2 Jan 1673. Ballard 14, f. 94r.

I wish this ensuing Yeare to be auspicious to you; with a succession of many others during your life. Aubrey to Wood, 1 Jan 1680. Wood F 39, f. 335r.