The manuscript was in the hands of White Kennett, and as a result it is not with Aubrey's other collections in the Bodleian: it is in the British Library, as Lansdowne MS. 231.

The most widely known information about Venetia comes from John Aubrey's Brief Lives, but Aubrey mostly wrote down hearsay.

Her family had occupied Damplow, a house near General Aubrey's estate and Jack learned mathematics and Latin from her.

: This edition is, indeed, the first one that has been faithful to Aubrey's text and that has attempted to make a book from his manuscripts.

It was said of him by one of his friends that he expected to hear of Aubrey's breaking his neck someday as the result of dashing downstairs to get a story from a departing guest.

* Scotty Harris was one of Davan's and Aubrey's best friends from growing up.

* Aubrey's schemes, one of which was a TV show so bad that the state took out a restraining order to keep her away from TV stations or recording equipment.

He and the hands are given permission to leave the ship heading for Cape Town ( with a bundle of dispatches from Stephen ), but many of Aubrey's old shipmates and the other officers remain.

In part he does this because he remains deeply implicated in the intelligence game and would not sail with anyone other than Jack ; he also understands that Aubrey's dismissal from the Navy has wounded his friend dreadfully, and that life ashore as a disgraced officer would probably destroy him.

CBS founder and board chairman William S. Paley supported the news, however, and protected Friendly's division from Aubrey's proposed budget cuts.

By May 1919 also, the Directorate of Intelligence had changed hands, on the authority of Lord Curzon ( acting Foreign Secretary while Arthur Balfour was negotiating in Paris ) from Aubrey's chief General MacDonogh to Sir Basil Thomson of Scotland Yard Special Branch i. e. from military to civilian in view of the Bolshevik threat on the home front.

During the same typhoon, the marooned Diane is destroyed but Aubrey's crew are able to begin to build a fair-sized schooner from what remains of the frigate-her starboard bow and hull.

This villa is described in this extract from John Aubrey's Monumenta Britannica ;

Aubrey's vivid account, which portrays Bacon as a martyr to experimental scientific method, had him journeying to Highgate through the snow with the King's physician when he is suddenly inspired by the possibility of using the snow to preserve meat: " They were resolved they would try the experiment presently.

However, Aubrey's embarrassing father, a fugitive since his part in the stock-jobbing affair, is found dead in a ditch, and Aubrey is offered a Parliamentary seat by his cousin, Edward Norton, who owns the borough of Milport.

In John Aubrey's Brief Lives is the story of the Earl of Oxford, who bowed deeply to the first Queen Elizabeth and accidentally farted.

An influential account of the circumstances of his death was given by John Aubrey's Brief Lives.

As a result advocates of a Saxon origin of the figure debated with those favoring an ancient British origin for three centuries after Aubrey's findings.

He also located a bottle of port in the Slaughter Stone socket left by Cunnington, helped to rediscover Aubrey's pits inside the bank and located the concentric circular holes outside the Sarsen Circle called the Y and Z Holes.

The work of Waller, along with John Ward's Lives of the Gresham Professors and John Aubrey's Brief Lives, form the major near-contemporaneous biographical accounts of Hooke.

John Aubrey's confusion of the two persisted occasionally into late twentieth-century literature.

The evidence whether Wren was a speculative freemason is the subject of the Prestonian Lecture of 2011, which concludes on the evidence of two obituaries and Aubrey's memoirs, with supporting materials, that he did indeed attend the closed meeting in 1691, probably of the Lodge of Antiquity, but that there is nothing to suggest that he was ever a Grand Officer as claimed by Anderson.

With time, Aubrey's biographical researches went beyond mere assistance to Wood and became a project in its own right.

Aubrey's Brief Lives has been loved for generations for its colorful gossipy tone and for the glimpses it provides of the unofficial sides of its subjects.

Aubrey's use of informants and his eye for the unusual provides much more vivid pictures than a biography based on documents could.

Patrick Garland wrote and directed a play Brief Lives based on Aubrey's work of the same title ; featuring Roy Dotrice in the title role, the production has been performed worldwide since 1969.

In 2008, Aubrey's Brief Lives was a five part drama serial on Radio 4.

Writer Nick Warburton intertwined some of Aubrey's biographical sketches with the story of the turbulent friendship between Aubrey and Anthony Wood.

U. S. Highway 321 saw by far the most growth with new restaurants such as Ruby Tuesday, Chili's, Cracker Barrel, Aubrey's, and Zaxby's to name a few.

On 14 March 1673, Browne sent a short autobiography to the antiquarian John Aubrey, presumably for Aubrey's collection of Brief Lives, which provides an introduction to his life and writings.

He then edited a selection of Aubrey's writings that appeared the following year.

The twenty ( and one incomplete draft )- book series encompasses Aubrey's adventures and various commands along his course to flying a rear admiral's flag.

While a midshipman aboard the HMS Resolution commanded by a friend of General Aubrey's, Captain Douglas, Jack was turned before the mast for hiding a girl aboard the ship.

The manner of his death is uncertain, but Aubrey's statement that he put an end to his life by poison in May or June 1642 in fear of poverty is generally accepted.

For anecdotes of Suckling's life see John Aubrey's Brief Lives ( Clarendon Press ed., ii. 242 ).

In the letter to Wanley, Hickes responds to an apparent charge against Smith, made by Wanley, that Smith had failed to mention the Beowulf script when cataloguing Cotton MS. Vitellius A. XV.

David Diringer noted that " the first mention of Egyptian documents written on leather goes back to the Fourth Dynasty ( c. 2550-2450 BCE ), but the earliest of such documents extant are: a fragmentary roll of leather of the Sixth Dynasty ( c. twenty-fourth century BCE ), unrolled by Dr. H. Ibscher, and preserved in the Cairo Museum ; a roll of the Twelfth Dynasty ( c. 1990-1777 BCE ) now in Berlin ; the mathematical text now in the British Museum ( MS. 10250 ); and a document of the reign of Ramses II ( early thirtheenth century BCE ).".

The most prolonged of Cecil's surviving personal correspondences is with an Irish judge, Nicholas White, lasting from 1566 until 1590 ; it is contained in the State Papers Ireland 63 and Lansdowne MS. 102, but receives hardly a mention in the literature on Cecil.

In the 10th century, Old Welsh " Harleian " genealogies ( Harleian MS 3859 ), mention is made of Lou Hen (" Lou the old ") map Guidgen, who most scholars identify with Lleu and Gwydion ( who is implied to be Lleu's father in the Mabinogi of Math, though this relationship isn't explicitly stated ).

In the 10th century, Old Welsh " Harleian " genealogies ( Harleian MS 3859 ), mention is made of Lou Hen (" Lou the old ") map Guidgen, who most scholars identify with Lleu and Gwydion ( who is implied to be Lleu's father in the Mabinogi of Math, though this relationship isn't explicitly stated ).

The oldest manuscript of the Chanson de Roland that we possess is also a manuscript written in England, and amongst the others of less importance we may mention La Chançun de Willame, the MS. of which has ( June 1903 ) been published in facsimile at Chiswick ( cf.

The only mention of Idwal Iwrch in the historical record is the appearance of his name in genealogies such as those from Jesus College MS. 20 ( as the father of " Rhodri Molwynog son of Idwal Iwrch son of Cadwaladr Fendigiad ") and the Harleian genealogies ( as the father of " Rotri son of Intguaul son of Catgualart ").

The only mention of him in the historical record is the note of his death, as King of the Britons, in the Annales Cambriae, and the appearance of his name in genealogies such as those in Jesus College MS. 20 ( as the son of " Idwal Iwrch son of Cadwaladr Fendigiad ") and the Harleian genealogies ( as the son of " Tutgual son of Cadwaladr ").