Excerpt from Colorado College Studies, Vol. 10 The manuscript is certainly not the work cf Aubrey, for neither the handwriting nor the style is his. He may perhaps have secured it from some friend for Wood, but this seems unlikely, because Aubrey himself made no use of it, although it contains information concerning long periods of Milton's life which Aubrey passes over almost in silence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.