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looked upon this as an ominous event ; noted the day and hour, 

 and drew a horoscope. "25 March 1671. One p.m. Possession 

 given by Jonatlian Rogers to Mr. Sherwin ; " and in his Nat. Hist, 

 of Wilts, p. 119, (" Fatalities and Places") thus alludes to the sale. 

 " Several places in this county have been fortunate to their owners. 

 Contrarywise there are some unlucky. Easton Piers hath had six 

 owners, since the reign of Ilenry VII.: where I myself had a 

 share to act my part. One part of it called Lyte's Kitchen hath 

 been sold four times over since 1630." He appears to have realized 

 by the sale of Easton and Broad Chalk less than he expected by 

 " £500, plus £200 goods and timber." 



Having now been obliged, from "debts, lawsuits, oppositions, 

 refusals, and perpetual riding," to part with the whole of his pro- 

 perty " I absconded as a banished man. Ubi? In monte Dei vide- 

 bitur."' I was in as much affliction as a mortal could be : and 

 never quiet till all was gone f submitted mysclfe to God's will : 

 wliolly cast myselfe on God's providence. I wished Monasterys 

 had not been put down, that the Reformers would have been more 

 moderate as to that point. Fit there should have been receptacles 

 for contemplative men. If of 500 but one or two. What a plea- 

 sure t'would liave been to have travelled from monastery to 

 monastery. The Reformers in the Lutheran Countries were more 

 prudt.'ut than to destroy them, as in Alsatia, &c. Nay, the Turks 

 have monasteries : why should our Reformers be so severe ? Pro- 

 vidence raysed mc (unexpectedly) good friends: the Rt. Hon. 



• i.e. " Whore ? In the mount of the Lord it shall bo seen." Alliidinf? to tlio 

 meaning of the name "Jehovah-jireh" (Geu. xxii. 11.) viz., "The Lord will 

 l)rovide." 



'•* In liis unpublished letters to Anthony Wood (inx'served in the Ashmolean 

 Museum) Aubrey "Htill harps" upon liis favourite maternal acres. 



1071. " I am much beholding to you for the honour that you arc pleased to 

 let my name live. Pray putt in my beloved Lastou I'icrse — where and to what 

 estate I was born. If heaven had pleased I might have enjoyed it." In another 

 " 1 humldy thank you for the honour that you intend me by inserting my name 

 in your living and lasting History. 1 desire you to name mo of Kaston I'iersc : 

 to contradistinguish me from other John Aubreys: it being the place where I 

 was i)orii, and my M<jther'b inheritance which my cruel P'utc ouforced me to 

 part with. A most lovely Bcate it iw." 



