NOTE589: Letter
A letter in the same hand as NOTE559 informing its recipient that ‘the natiue desires to Know the particulars past as well as yr Coniectures in future ...’. There is no indication of who the recipient was, or the date.
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, p. 163
NOTE590: Practice-related (Non-casebooks entry)
A nativity with ‘Ioseph Borne:’ written above it giving the date of birth as Friday 20 September 1650.
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, p. 165 (upper part of page)
NOTE591: Practice-related (Life events)
A note giving Joseph Lytbrook’s date of birth (presumably) as Wednesday 25 April 1599.
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, p. 165 (bottom part of page)
NOTE592: Notebook (Astrological working)
Several calculations in Ashmole’s hand.
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, p. 166
NOTE593: Letter
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 ...’.
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, p. 169
NOTE594: Practice-related (Life events)
‘{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’.
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, p. 171
NOTE595: Notebook (Unidentified)
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’.)
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, p. 173
NOTE596: Practice-related (Non-casebooks entry)
The natal chart of John Stuckey (b. 1654); beside it are various calculations. The top right of the page is torn away.
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, p. 175
NOTE597: Practice-related (Non-casebooks entry)
Nativities for ‘Thomas filius Thomæ Tanner’ (b. 1648) and John Tanner (b. 1652).
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, p. 177
NOTE598: Practice-related (Life events)
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:’.
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, pp. 179-180
NOTE599: Practice-related (Life events)
Notes of the births of John Carpenter (b. 1644) and William Carpenter (b. 1650).
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, p. 181
NOTE600: Notebook (Astrological working)
What Black calls a speculum of planets for (a nativity for) ‘Mrs \Mary/ Culleyn’. The grid and column headings are printed and the details filled in by hand.
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, p. 183
NOTE601: Notebook (Astrological working)
A discussion of a speculum, but possibly not the table on p. 183.
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, p. 185
NOTE602: Practice-related (Entry fragment)
Advice to someone based on a nativity.
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, pp. 186-191
NOTE603: Notebook (Astrological working)
Further astrological discussion by Lilly. This seems far more general than what has gone before; it mentions the king quite a lot.
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, p. 193
NOTE604: Treatise
Further notes on the stars and the polity.
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, p. 195
NOTE605: Treatise
Further notes by Lilly on what the stars show will happen to the king and the people generally.
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, pp. 195B-196
NOTE606: Notebook (Astrological working)
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’.
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, p. 197
NOTE607: Treatise
More rather general notes by Lilly on events to come.
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, p. 198
NOTE608: Treatise
Further notes on prospects for the commonality of England, ‘his Mate and people’.
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 174, p. 200