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barbara nevell alias worshipe

Forman /

of sneesing

of my Sigill of ♃ w^th the Red corall stone

Notes of various outgoings in January and February 1599.

A note that Thomas Russel, William grange and Ieorg Nicolas (who ‘is gon beyond sea & is becom a Seminary prist’) robbed Forman’s study at Lambeth in 1598 and ‘They brought certain of the bockes they stolle out of my studdy to m^r Coomy to sell/. as Albubiler. and the bock called volus astrolabiū & the testament geneve that A Y sent me guilt/ Richardus Anglicus. Alcabilius/ thomis de Saxonia/’.

Knightes made in Erland 1599. by the E. essex

Iudgmentꝭ of certain Death giuen by S forman on diu[er]s sons w^ch soe truly And Iustly fell out

Thes wer Bastardꝭ

Further notes about events of 1599: Bess Parker getting pregnant and being delivered of a maid and sending to Forman ‘to knowe my mind’, Forman giving Joan Baker a ring (engagement or wedding, presumably), and something about William Sabell’s wife nursing Bess (Parker)’s child, and other notes that are extremely hard to read due to bleedthrough.

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The figures ‘1599’, ‘20’, ‘79’, one under the other and right-aligned, like a sum (perhaps subtracting 20 from 1599).

Kingꝭ of England since Lud his tim & howe long they Reined

When Arter first in Courte began

A list of names, most heavily cancelled; below the cancelled names is a horizontal line, then three more names, undeleted, with notes beside them: ‘Ieorg Nicolas was companion to those that Robd my studdy a{illeg}’; ‘Willm grange Thomas Russell } did rob my studdy at Lambeth’.