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NOTE179: Diary (Dreams)

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This night vz in the mornig {sic} about 4 of the clok I Dremed that I wt others wer in a s{cu}l bote in the cost of Cornwalle & the hie Rockꝭ & cliues did hem vs in on every syde & we rowed quietly a great whill. at last the Sea began to be tediouse & the waues did rise & trobled vs sore & we croste the Riuer from on syd to the other so that somtims the sterne of the bote Dyd totch the hi clyues by the syde. in thend we cam to the very turninge beyond the mount & ther the water was very swifte & Rone Against vs yet betwen too Rockꝭ we passed throughe & in thend landed safe. And the houses wer builte Alonge vnder the hill ye|Ev|en allmoste close to the water & ther we lodged in An Indꝭ & so I awaked & that night also a lyttle before I was sore trobled aboute hiding of my bockꝭ of pe & I had strange bockꝭ brought me writen wt karactꝭ

Calendared text from MS Ashmole 219, f. 146r

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘NOTE179’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/notes/NOTE179, accessed 29 October 2026.