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AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES'
ANDREW CLARK
VOL. II.
HENRY FROWDE, M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK
AUBREY'S BOOK-PLATE
From MS. Aubrey 6, fol. 11v
 'Brief Lives,' chiefly of Contemporaries,set down byJohn Aubrey, between
the Years 1669 & 1696
EDITED FROM THE AUTHOR'S MSS.
BY
ANDREW CLARK
M.A., LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD; M.A. AND LL.D., ST. ANDREWS
WITH FACSIMILES
VOLUME II. (I-Y)
Oxford
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1898
Oxford
PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
BY HORACE HART, M.A.
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
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AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES'
 ... Ingelbert.
[A]Mr. Ingelbert was the first inventer or projector ofbringing the water from Ware to London[1] called Middleton'swater. He was a poore-man, but Sir Hugh Middleton[2],alderman of London, moneyed the businesse; undertookeit; and gott the profit and also the credit of that mostusefull invention, for which there[3] ought to have beenerected a statue for the memory of this poore-man fromthe city of London.—From my honoured and learnedfriend Mr. Fabian Philips, filiser of London, etc., whowas in commission about this water.
 Notes.
[A] In MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1v, Aubrey has this note:—'In Pond's Almanack,1647, thus—"Since the river from Ware to London began by Edward Pond,Jan. 2, 35 yeares. 'Twas finished, Sept. 20, 34 yeares"—.'
John Innocent (14— -1545).
[4]At Doctors Commons is 'argent on gules a maydstark naked with a chaplet in her hand dexter.' Thename I could never learn, till by chance, in Hampshire,by a courtier. It is the coate of Dr. Innocent, deane ofPaule's and master of St. Crosses, tempore Henrici VII.Borne at Barkehamsted, Hertfordshire; where he built[Pg 2]<                        
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