Editing John Ogilby (section)

===Childhood and youth (1600–1618)===
John Ogilby's birthplace and parentage are historically uncertain; most early biographies of Ogilby rely on the notes of his assistant [[John Aubrey]] that were made for Aubrey's ''[[Brief Lives]]'', a collection of biographies of Ogilby and others.{{sfnp|Ereira|2016|pp=5, 6}} The accuracy of Aubrey's account is questionable;{{sfnp|Ereira|2016|p=6}} Aubrey noted Ogilby was evasive about his origins,{{sfnp|Van Eerde|1976|page=15}} saying only he was born "near Edinburgh" in 1600 "of a gentleman's family".{{sfnp|Ereira|2016|pp=6, 7}} Later scholarship has discovered in 1653, Ogilby consulted the noted astrologer [[Elias Ashmole]],{{sfnp|Ereira|2016|p=164}} and that Ashmole subsequently included Ogilby's [[horoscope]] in a personal collection of his horoscopes of notable people.<ref>{{citation |date=c. 1680 |title=Ms. Ashm. 332, f.35° |first=Elias |last=Ashmole |author-link=Elias Ashmole |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horoscope_of_John_Ogilby_taken_by_Ashmole.png}}, cited in {{harvp|Ereira|2016|pp=50{{subst:endash}}52}}</ref> The horoscope required precise data; Ashmole gives the exact location of Ogilby's birth as "Killemeure" ([[Kirriemuir]] near [[Dundee]]{{efn|Kirriemuir is about twenty [[statute mile]]s, eighteen [[Scottish mile]]s and 32 kilometres north of Dundee and the nearest town{{snd}} about {{cvt|5|mi}} north-west{{snd}} to [[Airlie, Angus|Airlie]], the seat of the [[Earl of Airlie|lairds of Airlie]].}}{{efn|This is Ereira's supposition.{{sfnp|Ereira|2016|pp=50–52}} Van Eerde reads the location given on the horoscope as "Kellemeane" and is unable to identify any place of that or similar name on any maps of the time.{{sfnp|Van Eerde|1976|pages=15, 16}}}}) and the exact date and time as 17 November 1600 at 04:00.{{sfnp|Ereira|2016|pp=50–52}} 

Ogilby believed himself to be at least a half-brother to [[James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Airlie]],{{sfnp|Ereira|2016|pages=150–161}}{{efn| In the second edition of ''Virgil'', Ogilby signed himself as {{lang|la|Johannes Ogilvius}}, with the Ogilvy coat-of-arms in a [[cartouche]], charged with a [[Star (heraldry)|heraldic star]] that indicated "younger son": the final plate of the book was dedicated to the [[Garter King of Arms]], in effect (Alan Ereira says) to assert the validity of his use of the arms.{{sfnp|Ereira|2016|pages=152–155}} Neither Ereira nor Van Eerde, however, were able to find any evidence of an overt claim to direct family connection and Van Eerde strongly questions whether such a connection ever existed.{{sfnp|Van Eerde|1976|page=16}} In 1625, John Ogilvie (1587{{snd}}1625, second brother to the Earl) affirmed in his will he was "brother german" (full, unquestioned brother) of the future Earl, seemingly to distinguish himself from John Ogilby.{{sfnp|Ereira|2016|pages=157,158}} }} given at birth to John Ogilby (senior), a [[wikt:well-off|well-off]] gentleman's tailor in Edinburgh, to be adopted.{{sfnp|Ereira|2016|pages=150–161}}{{efn|There are no records of the circumstances of his fostering and adoption by John Ogilby (senior), at the time a well-to-do tailor in Edinburgh and distant kinsman to the noble Lord Ogilvie. Ereira suggests two possible reasons.{{sfnp|Ereira|2016|pages=150–161}}  The first is his claimed father, Lord Ogilvie, had engaged in pitched battle with the neighbouring Lindsay clan and as a result was subjected to severe sanctions by the Privy Council of Scotland. This put the family in very difficult circumstances: the eldest son, the future Earl of Airlie, was sent to the continent; perhaps a foster family in Edinburgh was the safest place for a baby. The second is his mother Jean Ruthven may have conceived while her husband was engaged in battle with the Lindsays.}} He was most likely educated at the Merchant Taylors' [[grammar school#Medieval grammar schools|grammar school]] in London.{{sfnp|Ereira|2016|pages=11–12}}{{efn|In 1606, the Ogilby family followed King [[James I and VI]] when the [[Union of the Crowns| court transferred to London]] and Ogilby Sr was admitted to membership of the [[Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors]].{{sfnp|Ereira|2016|pages=9–10}} This meant attendance of the school was his right. Ereira notes Ogilby's name does not appear on the school register but that this is not surprising because the register records only pupils taking an examination called the "probation".{{sfnp|Ereira|2016|loc=page 420, footnote 11.}}}} At eleven years old, Ogilby was indentured as an apprentice to John Draper, one of just three licensed [[dance master]]s in London.{{sfnp|Ereira|2016|pp=32–33}} At the time, a dancing master had expertise in "grammar (elocution), rhetoric, logic, philosophy, history, music, mathematics and in other arts":{{sfnp|Ereira|2016|p=36}} ability to dance in "Old Measures" was considered an essential skill for the upper classes.{{sfnp|Ereira|2016|pp=40–41}} In 1617, Draper became a barrister at [[Gray's Inn]] and released Ogilby, who by then was highly accomplished as a dancer and a teacher, from the apprenticeship, allowing him to set up as a master in his own right and to take part in theatrical performances.{{sfnp|Ereira|2016|pp=42–43}} A fall while dancing in a [[masque]] in February 1619 (aged 18), however, lamed him for life and ended his career as a dancer, though not as a teacher.{{sfnp|Ereira|2016|pp=50–52}}