John Aubrey by Ruth Scurr

Author:Ruth Scurr
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780701179076
Publisher: Random House

September

I leave now for a few days in Oxford, where Mr Sheldon will send a horse for me, and I will travel on to his house at Weston, where Mr Wood has been staying and cataloguing his library.

I have promised47 to help Mr Wood by searching the register for the burial of John Milton. I have also encouraged him not to forget to mention Mr Wenceslaus Hollar, who so much obliged the world with his etchings and deserves to be remembered: he lies buried in St Margaret’s Church, Westminster.

When I went to see48 Mr Milton’s widow, she assured me that Mr Thomas Hobbes was not one of her late husband’s acquaintances, that he did not like Mr Hobbes at all, but would acknowledge him to be a man of great parts and learned. Their interests and tenets were diametrically opposed.

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Titus Oates, who was received into the Roman Catholic Church on Ash Wednesday last year, has accused the Jesuits of plotting to set fire to the City of London, murder the King and conquer England by Irish and French arms. The world runs madding.

Titus Oates now claims that he became a Roman Catholic only to spy on the Jesuits. Together with Israel Tonge, he wrote a manuscript outlining a Jesuit plot to assassinate the King. Today he was questioned by the King’s Council and made allegations against over 500 Roman Catholic priests and nobles. Close members of the Duchess of York’s circle are among those he has named. He has launched a public campaign against the ‘Papists’.

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