Note FK — THE 'LIVES' (continued 6)
Reading edition
(P. 326.) The verses alluded to are in Hobbes's metrical life of himself (MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 28—'he writt his life last yeare, viz. 1673, in Latin verse'). Aubrey cites these lines, MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 31v:—
'T.H. Vita in verse
Oppidulum parvum est; habuit sed multa relatu Digna, sed imprimis Coenobium celebre, Et castrum (melius nisi sint dua castra vocanda) Colle sita, et bino flumine cincta fere.
Vide mapp' <perhaps Speed's map of Wiltshire: but on a slip at fol. 31v, Aubrey gives a 'map' of Malmesbury: see supra, pp. 325, 326>.
On this Anthony Wood comments: 'See 1 vol. of Monast. Anglican. concerning the monastery.'