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AUBIN
AUBIN, a town of southern France, in the department of of ieyron on the Enne, 30 m. NW. of Rodez. In 1906 the urban he pulation was 2229, the communal population 9986. Aubin is m e centre of important coal-mines worked in the middle ages, St d also has iron-mines, the product of which supplies iron works th )se to the town. Sheep-breeding is important in the vicinity. cc fe church dates from the 12th century. in AUBREY, JOHN (16261697), English antiquary, was born at lvi aston Pierse or Percy, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, on the 12th ry from him. He took no active share in the political troubles e left the task of verification largely to Wood. As a hanger-on N great houses he had little time for systematic work, and he rote the Lives in the early morning while his hosts were 5~i leping off the effects of the dissipation of the night before. F e constantly leaves blanks for dates and facts, and many ai ieries. He made no attempt at a fair copy, and, when fresh in- in rmation occurred to him, inserted it at random. He made some a-I stinction between hearsay and authentic information, but had w pretence to accuracy, his retentive memory being the chief sli ithority. The principal charm of his Minutes lies in the to nusing details he has to recount about his personages, and in Sc e plainness and truthfulness that he permits himself in face of flu tablished reputations. In 1592 he complained bitterly that hc ood had destroyed forty pages of his MS., probably because of A Le dangerous freedom of Aubreys pen. Wood Was prosecuted Wi entually for insinuations against the judicial integrity of the Sc rl of Clarendon. One of the two statements called in question ar as certainly founded, on information provided by Aubrey. ar his perhaps explains the estrangement between the two anti- ed iaries and the ungrateful account that Wood gives of the elder TI ans character. He was a shiftless person, roving and fri agotie-headed, and sometimes little better than crased. And gc ing exceedingly credulous, would stuff his many letters sent | |
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