Brief Lives, Vol. 1

Note FM — THE 'LIVES' (continued 7)

Reading edition

(P. 328.) Aubrey's Collection of Genitures is now MS. Aubr. 23. The place Aubrey here refers to is fol. 52v in that MS., viz.:—

'Mr. Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury borne at Westport juxta Malmesbury 1588, April 5, being Good Fryday, 5^h 2´ mane, horâ solis' <i.e. at sunrise>. 'I had the yeare, and day, and houre from his owne mouth.'

Aubrey in several places recurs to this point, e.g. in MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 28:—

'Mr. Thomas Hobbes told me that he was borne Apr. 5^th 1588 on Good Fryday, in the morning between 4 and six.'

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