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LETTER7: Letter by Magdalen Curson to Richard Napier, undated

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To my verye lovinge Frend Mr Sandye at Linford give theise

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Good Mr. Sandye there is one of my maides that hath bin extreme ill this two or three Daies & wee doe susspect it is an Ague |wch comes wth an extreeme cold| I have sent you her water & would Intreate yor Advice & desire you to sende her those thingꝭ that you shall thinke needfull for her \she cannot keepe any thine that she takes/ shee was xviij yeares of age at michellmas last: & after Crismas god willing ether I will Come to you or else sende to intreate yor advice for my sealfe soe wth my kindest Commendacons vnto you I Commit you to god     Addington

yor verye lovinge Frend

Magdalen Curson

Notes:

Editorial Note:  This is the sheet on which Napier has written CASE25970, dated 18 December 1607.

Transcribed text from MS Ashmole 174, p. 364 and p. 362

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘LETTER7: Letter by Magdalen Curson to Richard Napier, undated’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/letters/LETTER7, accessed 29 October 2026.