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God is althingꝭ and wthout him I can doe nothinge. God be at my beginninge and at my lath|e|r endinge sweete Iesus Amen./

I fasten thee beinge a key into this booke by the Father the sonne and the holy ghost Amen./

I ♁ thee booke and key by the Father the sonne and the holy ghost, by the virginitie of the blessed virgin Marie and by the fyve woundꝭ of our lord Iesus Christ that beinge a book and key the you doe tell me the truth and doe not lye of the thinge that I will ask and stand in doubt of in the name of the Father and of the sonne and of the holy ghost Amen./

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yf yt be true that is written in the booke and key paper that is inclosed in the booke & key then turne yor selves vpon my fingers turninge wth the sonne, yf it be not true then stand still and doe not stirre so that I may know the truth in the name of the father & of the sonne and of the holy ghost Amen./

my lord god Iesus prosper me in thes my ceedingꝭ and tell me the truth      1, 2, 3. 4. 5. 6

say this last 6 times over putting yor question in a hollow key.

Calendared text from MS Ashmole 334, ff. 90v-91r (upper part of page)

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘NOTE4920’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/notes/NOTE4920, accessed 29 October 2026.