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In this somer he shewed Divrse iections wth that ritch red pouder as namely to on mr Roydon an English mā to Capt Peter Wyn & to capt Owen Salisbury & to Mr H Lee all togeathr agayne to on Mr Page & Mr plūtree 4tly to 2 Iesuitꝭ the on an Inglish mā but the Iesuitꝭ of the college not beleeving but saying it was an illusion of the Devill, the same supposing them selfꝭ mutch disgraced for there credulity, came the second time ernestly desyringe on iection more and that they might doe it wth there owne hands wch they fourmed & had most of the gold & so returned after this he made iection to a couple of Iewes & so was this matter wonderfully spoken of in Prage & other ryot in his house keeping to my great greefe who Imagyned yt it was not possible god would long suffer it but would take some sharp poonishment wch followed not longe after. R C. touch S E K.

Calendared note from MS Ashmole 413, f. 214v

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘NOTE8116’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/notes/NOTE8116, accessed 29 October 2026.