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 AUBREY. tncnt in her houfe, ami fupportcd him a n > long as he lived". When his death Iv.ippcncd is uncertain: we au- ci.ly told ia general that hedLd iu.Ulcnly on a journey to Oxford in his way to Druycot ; that Iv w.,s there buncd, nr as can be conjeclured, in 1700. He was a man &fan cxcdlcnt ca- ^ fe l^ fi ** pacity, and indefatigable application; a diligent It-archer into antiquities, a good Latin poet, an excellent naturalift, but fomewhat credulous aud tindlured with fupcrfthion. He left many works behind him [BJ. fn] They are as follow : j. " The Life of I Hob'-cs of " Malmefbury," a manulcr'-'t ,i;ten in Englifh, but never piil.iirtied j the principal matter contained therein, has been made ufe of by Dr. Blaclibourne, in his " Vita Hobbianae auclurium," published in i6Si. 2. " Mifcelbnies on the following " fubiecls : I. Day-fatality. 2. Local " 5. Dreams. 6. Apparitions. 7. " Voices. 8 Impulfes. 9. Knocli- " ings. 10. Blows invilible. u. " gic. 14. Trani'portation in the air. " 15. Vifions in a beril or fpeculum. " 16. Converfewith angels and fpiriis. " 17. Corpfe candles in Wales. 18. " Oracles. 19. Extafies. 20. Glances " of love and envy. 2 i. Second-fight- tl ed perfons. 22. The diftovery of ' two murders by apparitions. " 3. " A Perambu1j;ion of the County " of Surry, begun 1673, ended 1692." This work the author left behind him in manulcript j it was publiftied, 1719, in five volumes oftavo ; and is now fcdixc. 4. ' The natural Hiftory of the " north Divifion of WUtftire ;" an unfiniflied manufcript remaining in ths niulcum ot Oxford. 5. " Monumenta Britannica, or a " Difcourfe concerning Stone-henge " and Rollrich-ilones in Oxford/hire j " a m.^nufcripr.'" This is iaidto hava been written at the command of king Charles II. who meeting Mr. Aubrey at Stone-hcngc, as his majefty was return- ing from Bith, converted with him in relation to that celebrated monument of antiquity; and slfo approved of hisnotion concerning it, which was this, that both it and the ftones in Oxford/hire were the remains of places dedicated to facred ufes by the Druids, long before the time of tli. Roman invafion. See a letter from Mr. Pafchal to Mr. Aubrey, pre- fixed to his Memoirs. 6. " Architetonica facra j a Diflert- " ation concerning the manner of our " Church-biiiUin? in England." A manufcrij't in the Mufeum at Oxford. 7. '' Tiie Idea of univcifal Edu>.a- " t'on." There are befides many letters of our author relating to na'ural philosophy, and oiher curious fubjccls, publifiitd in feveral colleftions. AVENTIN (JOHN), author of the * e Annals of Bava- ria," was born of mean parentage, 1466, at Ahenfperg in, the country juft named. He ftudied firft at Ingolftadt, and afterwards in the univerfity of Paiis. Jn 1503, he privately taught eloquence and poetry at Vienna ; and, in 1507, pub- licly taught Greek at Cracow in Poland. In 1509, he read lectures on fome of Cicero's pieces at fngolftadt; and, in 151 2, was appointed to be preceptor to pn nee Lev/is and prince trneft, fons of Albert the Wife, duke of Bav?.ria : he tra- velled with the latter of tho r e two pi inces. After this he un- dercook to write the ** Annals of Bavaria," being encouraged
 * ' fatality. 3. Oftema. 4. Omens.
 * ' Prophecies. 12. M.-.rvels. 13, Ma-