MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 28:--'<Send> to Mr. J. Gadbury and Dr. Bernard <T. H.'s> accidents.' MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8:--'T. Hobbes--Quaere Dr. Bernard pro his nativity: vide my Collection of Genitures ubi from his owne mouth more correct then formerly, viz. 5ʰ 2´ mane.' This horoscope is given in MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 82, and is reproduced in facsimile at the end of this edition. Pasted on to fol. 1ᵛ of MS. Aubr. 9 is the scheme with this note:--'This scheme was erected according to the aestimate time by Mr. Henry Coley, astrologer.--Thomas Hobbes, Malmesburiensis, borne at Westport juxta Malmesbury, 1588, April 5, being Good Fryday, 5ʰ 2´ mane, hora solis[1674]. I had the yeare and day and houre from his owne mouth.' [FO] (P. 328.) In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 26, thus:--'At fower yeer old Mr. Thomas Hobbes went to schoole in Westport church till 8--then[1675] the church was painted. At 8 he could read well and number a matter of four or five figures. After, he went to Malmesbury to parson Evans. After him, he had for his schoolemaster, Mr. Robert Latimer[CXXIX.], a good Graecian; by whom he so well profited that at 14 yeares old he went a good scholler to Magdalen Hall in Oxford.' [CXXIX.] Who being a bachelor (not above 19) taught him and two or three more ingeniose laddes after supper till 9. [FP] (P. 330.) As seen in the next paragraph, there was some doubt as to which 'Principal of Magdalen Hall' recommended Hobbes to the earl of Devonshire's service. In MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 29, is the note:-- 'Take notice of Dr. Blackburne's altering some times and dates,' <in Hobbes' prose Latin life of himself, prefixed to the _Auctarium vitae Hobbianae_> 'differing from this originall, e.g. of Mr. Hobbes being admitted at Magdalen Hall when Sir James Hussey was principall, which he would doe against my consent because he sayd it "would make a better picture," wheras by the matriculation-booke it appeares that Dr. Wilkinson was then the principall.' [FQ] (P. 331.) On fol. 34ᵛ of MS. Aubr. 9, Aubrey has the following account of Gorhambury:--