books.google.com - John Aubrey's racy portraits of the great figures of 17th-century England stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire; at the age of 26 he inherited a family estate encumbered with debt, and finally went bankrupt in the 1670s....http://books.google.com/books/about/Brief_Lives.html?id=J57Irdoky70C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrief Lives
