This antiquarian and virtuoso is principally known as the founder of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.

He studied law, chemistry, and natural philosophy.

Besides an edition of the manuscript works of certain English chemists, he wrote _Bennevennu_,--the description of a Roman road mentioned in the Itinerary of Antoninus,--and a _History of the Order of the Garter_.

His _Diary_ was published nearly a century after his death, but is by no means equal in value to those of Evelyn and Pepys.
_John Aubrey_, 1627-1697: a man of curious mind, Aubrey investigated the supernatural topics of the day, and presented them to the world in his _Miscellanies_.

Among these subjects it is interesting to notice "blows invisible," and "knockings," which have been resuscitated in the present day.