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Lady Venetia Digby, &c (14 May 1815) Aubrey, JohnHearne, ThomasLetters written by eminent persons in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries; to which are added, Hearne's journeys to
Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis esq., or
Lives of eminent men, by John Aubrey, esq. The whole now first
published from the originals in the Bodleian library and Ashmolean
museum, with biographical and literary illustrations. (2
volumes)
1813Lady Venetia Digby (
1600-1633) was
the wife of Sir Kenelm Digby (
1603-1665).
Possibly WG reads about her in Kenelm
Digby's letter book or in Aubrey's book recorded in WG's diary for
1815-05-15. See
1813-06-05 for WG's visit to both the Bodleian and the
Ashmolean, where he ‘transcribe[s]' Aubrey.
WG's sale catalog
lists:
Aubrey (Jo.) Lives of Eminent Men—Hearne's Journals and
Letters, &c. 3 vol. (item 15).
WG's History of the
Commonwealth cites:
Aubrey's Letters and Lives, Vol. II, p. 435,
436 (1:149).
Aubrey's Lives in Bodleian Letters, Vol. II, 308
(5:195).
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