Aubrey, John (Aub`rey, John) , an eminent antiquary, a friend of Anthony Wood's; inherited estates in Wilts, Hereford, and Wales, all of which he lost by lawsuits and bad management; was intimate with all the literary men of the day; left a vast number of MSS.; published one work, “Miscellanies,” being a collection of popular superstitions; preserved a good deal of the gossip of the period (1624‒1697).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Au`bert, The Abbé * Aub`riot