The well-connected antiquary John Aubrey noted in his Brief Lives concerning Bacon, " He was a Pederast.

Ronald Hutton suggests following the 18th-century Welsh clergyman antiquary John Pettingall that it is merely an Anglicisation of Gŵyl Awst, the Welsh name of the " feast of August ".

* March 12 – John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer ( d. 1697 )

** John Greaves, English mathematician and antiquary ( d. 1652 )

* June 7 – John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer ( b. 1626 )

Ultimately John became a distinguished antiquary, publishing numerous books and articles.

The addition of spices such as cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg was, according to the English antiquary John Timbs, " in token of the offerings of the Eastern Magi.

The antiquary John Brand claimed that in Elizabethan and Jacobean-era England they were known as minched pies, but other names include mutton pie, and starting in the following century, Christmas pie.

The " Black Prince " sobriquet is first found in writing in two manuscript notes made by the antiquary John Leland in the 1530s or early 1540s: in one, Leland refers in English to " the blake prince "; in the other, he refers in Latin to " Edwardi Principis cog: Nigri ".

* John Watson ( antiquary ) ( 1725 – 1783 ), English clergyman and antiquary

It was owned by John Leland, the antiquary, in the 1540s.

About 1535, he met the ex-Carmelite churchman and fellow antiquary John Bale, who much admired his work and offered his assistance.

The original notebooks passed from Henry Cheke to Humphrey Purefoy, and so ( following his death in 1598 ) to Humphrey's son Thomas, who divided many of them between his two cousins John Hales and the antiquary, William Burton.

The antiquary was satirised in John Earle's Micro-cosmographie of 1628 (" Hee is one that hath that unnaturall disease to bee enamour'd of old age, and wrinkles, and loves all things ( as Dutchmen doe Cheese ) the better for being mouldy and worme-eaten "), in Jean-Siméon Chardin's painting " Le Singe Antiquaire " ( c. 1726 ), in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Antiquary ( 1816 ), in the caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson, and in many other places.

* John Marsden ( archaeologist ) ( 1803 – 1870 ), English antiquary and vicar

* John Williams ( Ab Ithel ) ( 1811 – 1862 ), antiquary and Anglican priest

* John Lloyd ( antiquary ) ( 1733 – 1793 ), Welsh cleric and antiquarian

When antiquary John Leland visited the castle some time between 1535 and 1543, he noted that:

Reprints of the first edition, intended for practical use rather than antiquary interest, were published until the 1870s in England and Wales, and a working version by Henry John Stephen, first published in 1841, was reprinted until after the Second World War.

Reprints of the first edition, intended for practical use rather than antiquary interest, were published until the 1870s in England and Wales, and a working version by Henry John Stephen, first published in 1841, was reprinted until after the Second World War.

John Nichols ( 2 February 1745 – 26 November 1826 ) was an English printer, author and antiquary.

John Gough Nichols ( 1806 – 73 ), John Bowyer Nichols ' eldest son, was also a printer and a distinguished antiquary.

In humanist fashion, Leland styled himself antiquarius, a title which was at one time interpreted as referring to a formal appointment as ' king's antiquary ': however, it is now understood to have been merely Leland's own preferred way of describing himself.

This criticism touched a patriotic nerve with the antiquary John Leland, who responded first in an unpublished tract, written perhaps in 1536, the Codrus sive Laus et Defensio Gallofridi Arturii contra Polydorum Vergilium (" Codrus ", a reference to Vergil, was a type-name drawn from Juvenal for an offensive hack-poet ); and then in a longer published treatment, the Assertio inclytissimi Arturii regis Britannia ( 1544 ).

Repairs to the castle continued to at least 1430, but just a century later the antiquary John Leland recorded that the castle was a ruin set in marshland, with a single tower being used as a prison.

By the reign of Henry VIII, the antiquary John Leland reported that the castle was in considerable disrepair ; nonetheless the water defences remained intact, unlike those of many other castles of the period.

The contemporary antiquary John Leland described the Malvern Hills and Hanley Castle.

Morpeth was described, in 1540, by the royal antiquary John Leland, as " long and metely well-builded, with low houses ," and as " a far fairer town than Alnwick.

* John Leland ( antiquary ), English antiquary

Although the leather and textile trades were still major features of the Birmingham economy in the early 16th century, the increasing importance of the manufacture of iron goods, as well as the interdependence between the manufacturers of Birmingham and the raw materials of the area that later became known as the Black Country, were recognised by the antiquary John Leland when he travelled through in 1538, providing the town's earliest surviving eyewitness description.

The Abbey library was described by John Leland, King Henry VIII's antiquary who visited it, as containing unique copies of ancient histories of England and unique early Christian documents.

Thereafter, the castle fell into disuse and by Tudor times, the antiquary John Leland described it as " all in ruin no big thing but high ".

John Leland, the Royal Librarian and antiquary, complained to Thomas Cromwell that young German scholars were appearing and cutting documents out of books in the cathedral libraries.

An antiquary was originally someone concerned with antiquities, and John Leland was appointed the " King's Antiquary " by Henry VIII, but in modern usage the term is mostly associated with antiquarian books-a category even less precisely defined than antiquities.

The Heraldic badge | badge of Prince Edward ( later Edward VI of England | Edward VI ), as published in the Genethliacon illustrissimi Eaduerdi principis Cambriae of John Leland ( antiquary ) | John Leland ( 1543 ).

The chapel possessed a " table " or handboard containing a summary history of the bridge, which was the source of the statement by the 16th-century antiquary John Leland that " a mason beinge master of the bridge howse ", built the chapel at his own expense.

* July 24 – George Vertue, English engraver and antiquary ( b. 1684 )

* October 21 – Richard Gough, English antiquary ( d. 1809 )

* December 30 – William Hamilton, British diplomat and antiquary ( d. 1803 )

* October 30 – Jean-Jacques Boissard, French antiquary and Latin poet ( b. 1528 )

* September 12 – William Dugdale, English antiquary ( d. 1686 )

* May 13 – Ole Worm, Danish physician and antiquary ( d. 1654 )

* August 31 – Ole Worm, Danish physician and antiquary ( b. 1588 )

* February 9 – Johannes Meursius, Dutch classical scholar and antiquary ( d. 1639 )

* January 7 – Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary ( b. 1618 )

* William Camden ( 1551 – 1623 ), antiquary, historian, and Clarenceux King of Arms, lived in the house later known as Camden Place from c. 1609 until his death there in 1623.

* Daines Barrington, ( 1727 – 1800 ), lawyer, antiquary and naturalist

* Richard Carew ( 1555 – 1620 ), translator and antiquary

Charles Townley ( 1 October 1737 – 3 January 1805 ) was an English country gentleman, antiquary and collector of the Townley Marbles ( or Towneley Marbles ).

The earliest English account is that of Richard Rowland Verstegan ( 1548 – c. 1636 ), an antiquary and religious controversialist of partly Dutch descent, in his Restitution of Decayed Intelligence ( Antwerp, 1605 ); he does not give his source.

William Forbes Skene ( 7 June 1809 – 29 August 1892 ), Scottish historian and antiquary, was the second son of Sir Walter Scott's friend, James Skene ( 1775 – 1864 ), of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen.

1503 – 18 April 1552 ), was an English poet and antiquary.

* Thomas Beckwith, F. A. S ( 1731 – 1786 ) English painter, genealogist and antiquary.

* Heywood Sumner ( 1853 – 1940 ), an English painter and antiquary