Note CL — AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES' (continued 5)
Reading edition
This sentence stood at first:—'The first remarkable passage of his life was that he was an instrument of fetching Laud's (archbishop of Canterbury) head of, by being a witnesse at the tryall.' Then Aubrey noted in the margin:—'Quaere which of these <i.e. Laud's trial, or the king's letters infra> was first in time'; and afterwards altered the sentence to what it now is.