Note FO — THE 'LIVES' (continued 6)
Reading edition
(P. 328.) In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 26, thus:—'At fower yeer old Mr. Thomas Hobbes went to schoole in Westport church till 8—then[1675] the church was painted. At 8 he could read well and number a matter of four or five figures.
After, he went to Malmesbury to parson Evans.
After him, he had for his schoolemaster, Mr. Robert Latimer[CXXIX.], a good Graecian; by whom he so well profited that at 14 yeares old he went a good scholler to Magdalen Hall in Oxford.'