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Creator: John Aubrey
Title: Brief lives.
Date: 1679/1680
Repository: Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call number and opening: MS. Aubrey 6, fol. 109r-v
Moren of Sir Iohn Suckling
My Lady Southcot. whose husband hanged himselfe,
was Sir Iohn Sucklings sister, to whom he writes a consolato-
+ Dr. Corbet married -ry letter viz: the first . She afterward maried ……+ Corbet D.D.
Sir Nath. Brents of Merton College oxon: at her house in Bishopsgate street London is
daughter an originall of her brother Sir John, of Sir Anthony van-
Dyke, all at length leaning against a rock with a play papir
-booke, contemplating. It is a piece of great value: there is
also anothr rare picture, viz: of that pretty creature
Mistress Iane Shore; an originall. / When his Aglaura was
he bought all the Clouthes himselfe, which were very rich.
no tinsill: all the lace pure gold and silver which cost him
. . . . . . . . I haue now forgott: he had some scanes to it
which these dayes were only used at masques. / Memorandum
Mr Snowdon. tells me that after Sir Iohns unluckie ren-
-counter, or Quarrell with Sir Iohn Digby, wherin he was-
baffled: ‘twas strange to see the envie, and ill nature of
people to trample, and scoffe at, and deject one in dis-
-grace; inhumane as well as un-christian. The Lady
. . . . Moray had made an entertainment for severall
persons of quality at Ashley (in Surrey neer Chertsey)
where^ at Mr Snowden then was. There was the Countesse
of Middlesex, whom Sir Iohn had highly courted, and
had spent on her & in treating her some thousand of
pounds. At this entertainment she could not forbeare
but was so severe, and ingrate as to upbraid Sir John
of his late received Baffle: and some other Ladys,
had their flirts. The Lady Moray (who invited them)
seing Sir Iohn out of countenance, and for whse
worth she alwaies had a respect. Come Well sayd shee
I am a merry Wench, and will never for sake an
old friend in disgrace: so come me sitt downe by me
Sir John (said she) and seated him on her right hand:
and countenanced him. this raysed Sir iohns dejected-
spirites that he threw his reparties about the Table
with so much sparklingnesse and Gentilenes of Witt,
to the admiration of them all./
