Note AP — AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES' (continued 3)

The face of the leaf is frayed, and two notes in the top margin have become illegible: one said something about 'navy'; the other ended 'anno in Sept. 1670.'

On fol. 34^v of MS. Aubr. 8 Anthony Wood notes 'Will. Pen, the coryphaeus and pride of the Quakers.' A comparison of this life with the notice of Penn in the Athenae Oxonienses, and of the life of John Pell with the notice in the Fasti, shows how large is Wood's debt to Aubrey in that work.