Reading antiquarian John Aubrey's Miscellanies. Aubrey (1626-1697) is best known for his gossipy Brief Lives. The Miscellanies are on kind of "Believe It or Not!" topics, e.g. fateful days, admonitory dreams, etc. A few of the anecdotes A. compiled are charming but seem trivial, e.g. "'Tis commonly reported, that before an heir of the Cliftons, of Clifton in Nottinghamshire, dies, that a Sturgeon is taken in the river Trent, by that place....Matthew Parker, seventieth Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, in the seventieth year of his age, feated Queen Elizabeth on her birth day, in his palace at Canterbury. ...My Lady Seymour dreamt, that she found a next, with nine finches in it. And as many children she had by the Earl of Winchelsea, whose name is Finch." But many of the entries are more familiar for this type of work, and some are pretty interesting.
