The Native will be subject to Calumny & Troubles in the Course of his life ... a defect in the Elocution ... and not only so but superlative vexations in Matters Relating to Marriag, or great Discords if so united; besides wondrous Contests in Law suits.
Nativity of John Aubrey, Aubrey 23, 104r-v.
Happy John Aubrey Day – 400 years old today! The original stone botherer, who recognised the Avebury stones for the prehistoric marvel they are, and rightly commented that the site 'doth as much exceed Stonehenge as a cathedral doth a parish church'.
John Aubrey’s 400th tomorrow!! And at @chippenhammuseum.bsky.social we are celebrating his b’day & the launch of the Chippenham Our History festival & book with cake 🎂
An Aubrey exhib. & launch of @wiltshistory.bsky.social vol 20 & more to follow!!
I hope Aubrey doesn’t mind us eating his face 🫢
On this day 400 years ago, John Aubrey was born in the little Wiltshire hamlet of Easton Piercy, weak and like to die. To celebrate his unexpected flourishing, my new biography has been signed by Penguin Random House. and we are launching a new edition of ‘Aubrey’s Villa’ today…
Yayyy
Born weak. Shipwrecked. Cursed by a witch. John Aubrey antiquary, naturalist, biographer, folklorist, visionary was born 400 years ago this month. Find out more and how we are celebrating 👇@chippenhammuseum.bsky.social @wiltshistory.bsky.social
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Very lovely
Envy
They made little Gibbetts, and roasted Rumpes of Mutton, nay I sawe some very good Rumpes of Beefe: there were Healths to the King Charles II dranke in the streets by the Bonfires even on their Knees:
Ian Donaldson told me he got the circumference and diameter of the Rose theatre confused and a reviewer of his Jonson bio spotted it.
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.
‘Tomalin describes Pepys going “out on his rounds like an animal” – prowling Westminster and beyond for a woman or girl who would “tocar” his penis or let him kiss her “mamelles”, or in his favourite phrase, “do what I would with her”.’
Deborah Friedell on Samuel Pepys
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You have my dinner service I see
Stained glass, open to the squawks of birds in Sta Theresa, Rio de Janeiro
‘There was little point in listing the merits of Lady Mary if few other ladies could read about them. Two centuries later, knowledge of Latin was not assumed even in the most intelligent female company.’
Nicholas Penny on church monuments.
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But were you born with Saturn ascendant?
You must tell us now
Bath, looking at the back of Pultney bridge and the weir
I got a lovely huge dead spider
who made the eyes but I?
There are lots of Charles I, of course, including the fabulous mica overlay portraits www.npg.org.uk/collections/...
He was a great person
'A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions, partly in the composer’s own hand – the first Purcell autograph to be found for more than 30 years.' 1/3
Not really.
Why? I suppose we could call the Sheldonian Theatre the Degree Building.
1817 map snipping, "Well. Well. Well."
Look what we have here then.
On a whim I googled my grandmother’s name and found one of her paintings had been sold at auction. I wish I’d known. This is called The Rehearsal.
