Casebooks

A letter from Samuel Harrison to (presumably) Richard Napier (the nephew), dated 25 April 1632, written sideways up the page. (It refers to ‘yo^r good Vnkle’.) Harrison has taken ‘a trewe Certificate {illeg} out of the Church booke’ in which ‘I find one Richard Sandy sonne of Robert Sandy baptised the 3^d of february 1604 & an other Robert Sandy Sonne of Robert Sandy baptised the 10^th of May 1607 w^ch I take to bee yo^rselfe’.

A letter in an unknown hand, beginning ‘Sir’ and running onto a second page that is not here; it gives details of the date of marriage of ‘the parents’ (1614); the birth of a child (1615), whose age is given but frustratingly hidden in the binding (‘he is aged {illeg} years 9 monthes & odd dayes ...’; born near Bury St Edmunds and Thetford. His mother died when he was 20 and his father when he was 21, so presumably it is at least 1636.

A letter from Francis Tirrell to Lilly, dated 26 August 1655 and with Tirrell’s own natal chart included at the top of it. (The address, to Lilly, is on p. 116.)

A letter in the same hand as NOTE559 informing its recipient that ‘the natiue desires to Know the particulars past as well as y^r Coniectures in future ...’. There is no indication of who the recipient was, or the date.

A letter to Mr Booker from someone giving the natal details of her or his child, followed below in another hand (Booker’s, presumably) converting those remarks into dates, times and a place (Southwark), and indicating her medical problem; also: ‘The father brought it to me ...’.

Reply by Mr Booker (according to Black) to a letter from Mr Orpe, from 1637.

A letter from Thomas Peniston to Napier. It is dated 21 December 1614 (London), and signed, on p. 356. The seal and address are on p. 356A.

Good M^r. Sandye there is one of my maides that hath bin extreme ill this two or three Daies & wee doe susspect it is an Ague |w^ch comes w^th an extreeme cold| I have sent you her water & would Intreate yo^r 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 yo^r advice for my sealfe soe w^th my kindest Commendacons vnto you I Commit you to god     Addington

yo^r verye lovinge Frend

Magdalen Curson

A letter to Booker from Richard Hulchey, dated 23 September 1654.

A draft of Booker’s reply to Richard Hulchey.

A letter from Richard Napier (the nephew) to Lilly sending him a figure and asking for advice on his niece; then Lilly’s reply on the same page. The address of Napier’s letter is on p. 458.

A draft of a letter by Booker to Sir John St John of Lidyard. The address is on p. 460.

A letter to John Stansbey from December 1662. The address is on p. 478.

A letter from William Marsh (in Dunstable) to Napier, dated 1 February 1613. He asks for help for a neighbour of his, and reports that Napier’s prediction of his father-in-law’s death came true. The address is on p. 476.

A letter to Napier from Elizabeth Fisher (dated 11 January) saying that she has sent to her nurse to know what time she was born and giving details. The address of the letter is on p. 474.

A letter to Napier from Richard Middlemore (Edgbaston, 20 July), reporting the effects of a storm and indicating that Napier should receive a discourse that he wanted from Middlemore’s brother Morgan. The address for the letter is on p. 472.

S^r

my best respects remembred time beinge uery short I cannot write at large yet the desire I haue to know of your welfare hath made me to write a few lines to you my speciall frend I thanke god I liue in good health. and hope if my frinds please to supply me to liue gett y^t heare y^t will maintaine me as longe as I liue. and to doe my frends good hearafter Soe hopinge of y^r welfare and prayinge to god \to/ send me home to se you againe I Rest time beinge short

Your Poore seruant till death

Clement forman

frō Sant Christophers. in America y 20 of August 1628

To my ever honored vnckle M^r Richard Napier at his howse at Linford.

{illeg}

Right deere and ever honored S^r. I could nott omitt. this Convenient messenger w^thout a fewe lines testimoniall of all our healths hoaping and praying for the like to you and the Rest of our good friends in those ts. I prayse God my wife is salfly brought to bed of a daughter, before ether midwife or friend could come vnto her; I haue taken order to haue a {Charrerd} bought for you and to be sent vnto you for I am very loath to t w^th this which is all the books that I haue of y^rs; if itt be possible lett mee obtayne the fauoure of you as to keepe it as a Relicke; the bearer is in hast I shall therfore detaine you noe longer from your more searious affayres, but Rest as ever

A letter to Richard Napier jr from Thomas Middleton (dated 2 May 1632); Richard Napier jr has put Mr Jones forward for a position. It also says: ‘I am most hartely sorry to heere that my Deere vnckle is nott well I beseetch the greate God of heaven to blesse him, and to spare him to his friends, and to the Church of God, w^ch will want him...’. The address for the letter is on p. 490.