78 AUBREY'S NATURAL HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE. 



SOLDIERS. Sir Henry Danvers, Knight, Earle of Danby and Baron of Dauntesey, was born at 

 Dauntesey, 28th day of June Ano. Dni. 1573. He was of a magnificent and munificall spirit, and 

 made that noble physic-garden at Oxford, and endowed it with I thinke SOU. per annum. In the 

 epistles of Degory Wheare, History Professor of Oxford, hi Lathi, are severall addressed to his 

 lordship that doe recite his worth. He allowed three thousand pounds per annum only for his 

 kitchin. He bred up severall brave young gentleman and preferred them ; e. g. Colonell Leg, 

 and severall others, of which enquire further of my Lady Viscountesse Purbec. The estate of 

 Henry Earle of Danby was above eleven thousand pounds per annum ; near twelve. He died 

 January the 20th, 1643, and lies buried hi a little chapell made for his monument on the north side 

 of Dantesey-church, near to the vault where his father and ancesters lye. [Aubrey here transcribes 

 his epitaph, which, with other particulars of his life, will be found hi the Beauties of Wiltshire, vol. 

 iii. p. 76. J. B.] 



Sir Michael Emele, Knight, was second son of Sir John Ernele, of Whetham in the County of Wilts. 

 After he had spent some time at the University of Oxford, he betooke himself to a militarie life in the 

 Low Countries, where he became so good a proficient that at his return into England at the beginning 

 of the Civill warres, King Charles the First gave him the commission of a Colonell in his service, 

 and shortly after he was made Govcrnour of Shrewsbury, and he was, or intended to bee, Major 

 Generall. He did his Majesty good service in the warres, as doth appeare by the Mercurii Aulid. 

 His garrison at Shrewsbury being weakened by drawing out great part of them before the battel at 

 Marston Moore, the townesmen plotted and betrayed his garrison to the Parliament soldiers. He 

 was slain then in the market-place, about the time of the battle of Marston Moore.* 



William Ludlow, Esq. sonn and heir of Sir [Henry] Ludlow, and Dame daughter of 



the Lord Viscount Bindon, in this county, was Governour of Wardour Castle hi this county, for the 

 Parliament, which he valiantly defended till part of the castle was blown up, 1644 or 1645. He was 

 Major General, &c. See his life hi Mr. Anth. Wood's Antiquities of Oxford. [This passage refers 

 to Edward (not William) Ludlow ; the famous Republican general. His "Memoirs" were printed hi 

 1698-9, at Vevay in Switzerland, where he died about five years previous to their publication. They 

 have gone through several editions, and constitute a valuable historical record of the times. J. B.] 



Sir John Ernele, great-grandson of Sir Jolin Ernele above sayd, and eldest sonn of Sir John 

 Ernele, late Chancellour of the Exchequer, had the command of a flag-ship, and was eminent hi some 

 sea services. He married the daughter and heir of Sir John Kerle of . . . .hi Herefordshire. 



A DIGRESSION. Anno 1633, I entred into my grammar at the latin schoole at Yatton-Keynel, 

 in the church, where the curate, Mr. Hart, taught the eldest boyes Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, &c. The 

 fashion then was to save the forules of then 1 bookes with a false cover of parchment, sc. old manu- 

 script, which I [could not] was too young to understand ; but I was pleased with the elegancy of 

 the writing and the coloured initiall letters. I remember the rector here, Mr. Wm. Stump, great 

 gr.-son of St. the cloathier of Malmesbury, had severall manuscripts of the abbey. He was a proper 

 man and a good fellow ; and, when he brewed a barrell of speciall ale, his use was to stop the bung- 

 hole, under the clay, with a sheet of manuscript ; he sayd nothing did it so well : which me thought 



* [It was the common belief that Sir Michael Erneley was killed, as here stated, by the Parlimentary soldiers at the time Shrews- 

 bury was taken (Feb. 3, 1644 5) ; but in Owen and Blakeway's Hixt. of Shrewsbury, 4to. 1825, the time and manner of his death 

 is left uncertain. His name is included in the list of those who were made prisoners when the town surrendered. J. B.] 



