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Aubrey, John
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Aubrey, John (ô`brē), 1626–97, English antiquary and miscellaneous writer, b. Kingston, Wiltshire, educated at Trinity College, Oxford. He knew most of the famous people of his day and left copious memorandums as well as letters. His most celebrated work, Lives of Eminent Men, was originally compiled for the use of Anthony Wood in his Athenae Oxonienses. The Lives first appeared in print in 1813. Only his Miscellanies (1696), a collection of stories and folklore, was published in his lifetime. Extremely interested in antiquities, he wrote the Natural History of Wiltshire (ed. by John Britton, 1847) and Perambulation of Surrey, which was included in the Natural History and Antiquities of Surrey (1719).


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Byline: Peter Spaull AS JOHN AUBREY wrote in his diaries, "Box about, t'will come back".
amp;#183; John Aubrey, 17th-century antiquary, discovered the row of barely visible pits now named after him, which possibly held the first wooden posts, and believed the structure was a druid temple.
Sally Jeffrey relates that "in 1669 John Aubrey sat down with his watercolours and a small book of paper, and made some sketches of his house and garden at Easton Piercy in Wiltshire," and that the "title page was decorated with a cartouche which featured the word villa prominently surrounded by quotes from Ovid and Virgil" (111).
 
 
 
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