Casebooks

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 nativity with ‘Ioseph Borne:’ written above it giving the date of birth as Friday 20 September 1650.

A note giving Joseph Lytbrook’s date of birth (presumably) as Wednesday 25 April 1599.

Several calculations in Ashmole’s hand.

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 ...’.

‘{Accid}entia {Gerv}asij {Mapl}eden:’; Black says that the title is by Booker and that the rest of the text is in Mapleden’s own hand, though it is written in the third person and refers to ‘the natiue’.

Two words or a name at the top of an otherwise blank page, partially torn or cropped off: ‘Wellꝭ’ is visible, and above that something beginning ‘Do{illeg}’. (Presumably Dorothy but it looks like ‘Doꝝ’.)

The natal chart of John Stuckey (b. 1654); beside it are various calculations. The top right of the page is torn away.

Nativities for ‘Thomas filius Thomæ Tanner’ (b. 1648) and John Tanner (b. 1652).

A list of events (‘accidents’, presumably) in the first person; below the end of it, on p. 180, is written upside-down ‘Robert Pink vide natuitat in Libro:’.

Notes of the births of John Carpenter (b. 1644) and William Carpenter (b. 1650).

What Black calls a speculum of planets for (a nativity for) ‘M^rs \Mary/ Culleyn’. The grid and column headings are printed and the details filled in by hand.

A discussion of a speculum, but possibly not the table on p. 183.

Advice to someone based on a nativity.

Further astrological discussion by Lilly. This seems far more general than what has gone before; it mentions the king quite a lot.

Further notes on the stars and the polity.

Further notes by Lilly on what the stars show will happen to the king and the people generally.

A few jotted notes; the first couple are in Latin and apparently relate directly to a chart; then some in English that mention ‘diseases’ and ‘sicknesses’.

More rather general notes by Lilly on events to come.

Further notes on prospects for the commonality of England, ‘his Ma^te and people’.