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03–001
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:London
on:1635/02/00
to:?? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:hasn't heard from 'Brother' since 17 July last. Hopes to hear from him
Queries:1634/5 ?front to 'brother' John Blacknall in different hand
03–002
Sent by: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:1635/03/28
to:Lady Margaret Verney Verney, Margaret Lady [Denton] d. 1642
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:about letting land at Claydon
03–003
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/03/30
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Estate management, horses , Lord Russel's journey. He can't manage his own business without Ralph
03–004
Sent by:George Hoxley Hoxley, George
on:1635/00/00??
to:Lady Verney Verney, Margaret Lady [Denton] d. 1642
Notes:Sir John Leake, money matters
Queries:unclear which lady verney - probably Margaret
03–005
Sent by:Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Winchester College
on:1635/02/10
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Answering queries about various people and their worth
Queries:1634/5
03–006
Sent by:Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Winchester College
on:1635/02/21
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Happy to get a letter to James Rowland if that helps (one of names in previous letter)
Queries:1634/5
03–007
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:London
on:1634/02/34
to:?? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:Draft. Sir William Button, books and manuscripts to return. His kinswoman Mrs Falkener.
Queries:1633/4
03–008
Sent by:Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Winchester College
on:1635/03/16
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:about James Rowland, brief.
Queries:1634/5
03–009
Sent by:Michael Beresford Beresford, Michael
on:1635/03/20
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:Affected by case between King and City. Wants to know more of it
Queries:1634/5
03–010
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/03/24
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Estate management. Ploughing Knowl Hill. What rents per acre he is willing to take.
Queries:1635/6
03–011
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1635/04/01
to:Mr Dillon [James Dillon] Dillon, James
Notes:Asking why he hasn't answered letters. Only knoew he was ok by meeting a 'foote post' at Sir Thomas Wenman's
03–012
Sent by:HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
from:Paris
on:1635/05/01
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Asking him to interceded with his father about poor quality of his French in his letters. About sending dogs to France. About oneHenry Page,tailor.
03–013
Sent by:Sir William Uvedale Uvedale, Sir William
on:1635/05/00
to:Mrs Ann Temple Temple, Mrs Ann
Notes:Copy in SRV hand. Courtship letter
03–014
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:Dublin
on:1635/05/13
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:My deare deare Heart.' Has written to SRV's father about their business by Robert German. Suggest SRV thinking of laying out money on Irish land.£1200 a year for £10k. In the north 100 miles from Dublin Ends 'Blacknolls dead andIaminfinitly thine.'
03–015
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Deal
on:1634/06/04
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:About to set off on his voyage
Queries:1635? Victorian annotation. Original is clear.
03–016
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1635/06/10
to:James Dillon Dillon, James
Notes:Draft. Many of his letters to DIllon seem to have miscarried. So long since his father talked about Irish business he has forgotten. About Old Earl of Sussex, and about Lee 'under a cloud at Court'. SRV has decided not to buy land in another kingdom, especially so far from Dublin. On Blacknell's death, says 'he could not have hurt me' because has now 'settled my meane estate in such manor'.
03–017
Sent by:Sir John Backhouse Backhouse, Sir John [also spelt Bacchus, Backhurst]
on:1635/06/05
to: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:Petition to King about New River reaching Clerkenwell and in a cistern on his land. He has had many expenses for little profit. Asks for exemption from being pricked as sheriff. Compares with the original projector, Hugh Myddleton who received baronetcy and given exemption from being sheriff.
Queries:copy
03–018
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:The Downs
on:1635/06/04
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:News of his sailing. Off to Plymouth next. Information about dutch and spanish ships in the channel.
03–019
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:Dublin
on:1635/06/12
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:My Heart' Blacknell dead two months ago and buried in Dublin. Long sales pitch on Irish land
03–020
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Isle of Wight, aboard the St Andrew
on:1635/06/13
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:News of a Spanish fleet and renewed war between France and Spain. THinks his brother will know all about it.
03–021
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Theobalds
on:1635/06/29
to:James Dillon Dillon, James
Notes:My dear Grandchild' about his father's offer. Pleasantries and stalling about investment possibilities. he is in 'huntinge hast'
Queries:copy in SRV's hand
03–022
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1635/06/29
to:Lord Dillon Dillon, James, Ist Earl Dillon
Notes:Pleasantries
Queries:copy in SRV's hand
03–023
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:Middle Claydon
on:1635/07/05
to:James Dillon Dillon, James
Notes:His father at Theobalds. Says neither he nor his father currently have the means to invest £10K in Ireland. Will see if he can get Lord Arundel interested. His wife is at Tunbridge taking the water 'above 60 miles from me' with Nick Drake, Doctor [?Denton] and 'your brother Doll.'
03–024
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Plymouth
on:1635/07/06
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:little news
03–025
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Winchester College
on:1635/07/28
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:About his 'folly' and how he fears he has lost his father's and brother's good will. Involves the schoolmaster. Telling SRV it is easy to find the College if you go to Winchester since it is in the near suburbs.
03–026
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Plymouth
on:1635/07/20
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Spanish sail confronting them. Waiting for safe passage
03–027
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Bath
on:1635/08/20
to:MV Verney, Mary [Blacknall] d.1650
Notes:SEV and SRV at Bath. SRV taking waters. But SEV cannot prevail on SRV to leave him to go to her. Plenty of good company now in Bath. Has written to Lady Gaudy and MRS Siddenham. Does not know where they are, so letters with this for MV to send on.
03–028
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:On board St Andrew
on:1635/08/24
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:TV now planning to take voyage to Flanders 'to see what fortunes a younger brother might attain unto'
03–029
Sent by:Robert Barker Barker, Robert
from:?Horwood
on:1635/08/23
to:John Roades Roades, John
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:Estate matters
03–030
Sent by:Sir John Leake Leeke, Sir John
from:Hogshall
on:1635/08/26
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:Noble Brother' Irish business. Capt. Hals
03–031
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:Dublin
on:1635/09/07
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Pursuing Irish business for SRV. Compliments to London friends
03–032
Sent by:Sir John Leake Leeke, Sir John
from:Hogshall
on:1635/10/01
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:Commending a good friend to SEV . Irish business
03–033
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1635/10/08
to:James Dillon Dillon, James
Notes:About women's gossip that Dillon will soon be married to an English woman who has travelled to Ireland.
Queries:draft
03–034
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Marshalsea
on:1635/10/11
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:Asking Ralph to intercede with his father and allow TV to go to Claydon. SEV has given strict orders that Mr Lane shall buy nothing for him without express permission. TV begs he be allowed some 'fitting' clother.
03–035
Sent by:Sir John Leake Leeke, Sir John
on:1636/02/07
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Irish Business. Family business. Wants SEV reconciled with his relatives.
Queries:1635/6
03–036
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Marshalsea
on:1635/10/11
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:Saying he has returned to London. Asking father's forgiveness
03–037
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Marshalsea
on:1635/10/22
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:I am leading a new life'
03–038
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Marshalsea
on:1635/10/23
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:Penitent letter from 'your poor distressed Brother'
03–039
Sent by:Sir John Leake Leeke, Sir John
from:The Park
on:1635/10/29
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:Irish matters. Capt Hals returned.
03–040
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Winchester College
on:1635/12/08
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Saying thinks his headmaster can give him a good report.
03–041
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Marshalsea
on:1635/12/30
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Hoping to hear from his brother
03–042
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/01/04
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Making arrangements for his return to Claydon. Estate matters
Queries:1635/6
03–043
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/01/04
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Estate matters. A land exchange with Roger Deely - enclosure linked
Queries:1635/6
03–044
Sent by: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:1636/01/04
to: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:Deposition of Francis TUrpin, Katerine Turpin (mark) and Henry Stuttbury(mark) concerning £80 transaction re ROger Deely's land in Claydon
Queries:1635/6
03–045
Sent by:Nathaniel Hobart Hobart, Sir Nathaniel
on:1636/01/05
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Cozen Varney' About joint business venture which needs patience [?Fen lands]
Queries:1635/6
03–046
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/01/15
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Estate business, selling sheep, Raphael the shepherd. Instructions to send his brother Edmund to Oxford asap. Will give him £40 a year, and have a new suit made for him before Easter.
Queries:1635/6
03–047
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/01/11
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Estate business. Letting close post enclosure to Cox. 2 year or 12 yr lease. SEV to hedge and mound. but tenant to keep in repair. Fretting about selling sheep. Ploughing, getting advice from Denton. ' I am doubtful of seeing Claydon a great while'
Queries:1635/6
03–048
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/01/14
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Estate matters, mounds, Roger Deely refuses exchange. Buying willow trees
Queries:1635/6
03–049
Sent by:Nathaniel Hobart Hobart, Sir Nathaniel
from:London, Piazza Covent Garden
on:1636/01/19
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Pleasantries
Queries:1635/6
03–050
Sent by:Michael Beresford Beresford, Michael
on:1636/01/29
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:To his uncle. About £200 debt overdue. Sister Dorothy [Leake?]
Queries:1635/6
03–051
Sent by:Nathaniel Hobart Hobart, Sir Nathaniel
on:1636/01/11
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:Pleasantries,
Queries:1635/6
03–052
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
on:1636/02/15
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Asking for help
Queries:1635/6
03–053
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
on:1636/02/15
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:About him bring various letters from 'his Colonel'
Queries:1635/6
03–054
Sent by:John Well Well, John
from:Exston?
on:1636/02/20
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:About holding land at Middle Claydon for £143 pa for 3 years. Knowl Hill and Bottom? Excellent writing. Very literate
Queries:1635/6
03–055
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/02/26
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Estate matters. Agreeing new leases. Enclosure completion. Rents given
Queries:1635/6
03–056
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/02/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Estate matters. Copyhold tenants to bring in copies, else call a Court. Will Roades must pay full rent of £22 pa and give bond for £150.
Queries:1635/6
03–057
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Magdalen hall Oxford
on:1636/03/02
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Settling in Oxford. Likes his tutor. Matriculated. Cut his hair before this so Vice Chancellor couldn't find fault with it.
Queries:1635/6
03–058
Sent by:James Heron Heron, James
from:Biggin Farm
on:1636/03/04
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:re Biggin Farm, Also wants to know if SEV still looking for Knowl Hill tenant.
Queries:1635/6
03–059
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:Dublin
on:1636/03/07
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Protests he is not going to marry.
Queries:1635/6
03–060
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Rye
on:1636/03/20
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Pleasantries
Queries:1635/6
03–061
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/03/09
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Leasing arrangements at Claydon. DOver and Hill Ground. Provision of doubling the rent if land ploughed for five years. SEV will 'bestowe a House of a 100li on the ground att the rent of 8li a year, with Dover bound to leave in repair. Thinks Dover is toying with him. If not will take Mr Wells as tenant
Queries:1635/6
03–062
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/03/16
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Court scandal about Essex, and his wife being with Will Udall in her bedroom. Essex orders her out of house. Offers her £1300 a yr maintenance if she will give up all interest in jointure thirds or dowry. Good detail of how those around Court are receiving the news. Essex believed to have plotted it when out of town. Much sympathy with the lady!!
Queries:1635/6
03–063
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/03/16
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:On estate business and letting land. Some for one year only, some for 14 year lease. Also old Lady's interest in Quainton, about which she can remember little.
Queries:1635/6
03–064
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/03/23
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Estate business, much on horses.
Queries:1635/6
03–065
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1636/04/01
to:James Dillon Dillon, James
Notes:Gossip, family news, he is going duck hunting with neighbours
Queries:Draft
03–066
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Magdalen hall Oxford
on:1636/04/02
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:On student matters. How much to pay his tutor aquarter - £1 5s
03–067
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/04/06
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Had sent letter by Higham the carrier about sending horses to the fens. Estate matters. About Col. Goring wanting a horse before going to his regiment.
03–068
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/04/22
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Mainly about care of horses and hounds.
03–069
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
on:1636/04/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Pleasantries
03–070
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/04/27
to:Lady Verney Verney, Ursula, Lady
Notes:to his sister, the Lady Verney @ MC. Hasn't heard from SRV. Presumably Sir Francis's widow. ALso includes Claydon estate matters
03–071
Sent by:Susan Verney Alport, Susanna [Verney] d.1651
from:Middle Claydon
on:1636/05/08
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
on:1636/05/10
Notes:About gloves and a glass she wants while he is in London
03–072
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Magdalen hall Oxford
on:1636/05/09
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Student matters, Doctor Browne of Christ CHurch asks to be remembered to SEV
03–073
Sent by:Sir John Leake Leeke, Sir John
on:1636/05/11
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:Leake family settlement provisions. SEV holding £100 that Bridget Leake wants, but other family members disputing it.
03–074
Sent by:William Hals Hals, William
from:Youghol
on:1636/05/12
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:Supporting Leake's position in previous letter
03–075
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Marshalsea
on:1636/05/15
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Asking SRV for money in addition to what SEV has given him. Going to France?
03–076
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Magdalen hall Oxford
on:1636/05/18
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Protesting that he is not keeping bad company
03–077
Sent by:Nathaniel Hobart Hobart, Sir Nathaniel
from:Highgate
on:1636/06/19
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:Pleasantries, some joint business will be completed.
03–078
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:London
on:1636/07/12
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:Will come down to Claydon later in week. Much to tell. He is likely to marry
03–079
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Paris
on:1636/07/15
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:Bills of exchange. About to march off to fight. Expects to spend summer there. Will write about fight.
03–080
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Paris
on:1636/07/15
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:Shorter version of previous - ? apparently sent same day.
03–081
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:Middle Claydon
on:1636/07/15
to:James Dillon Dillon, James
Notes:Explaining he has to attend his uncle Pulteney at Leicester Assizes the day Dillon proposes to be at Claydon. Asks him to delay if possible. Very apologetic.
Queries:Draft
03–082
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:Windsor
on:1636/07/17
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Will delay his visit till SRV back. Deputy in Ireland (Strafford) invited him to hunt deer in Yorkshire
03–083
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:London
on:1636/07/37
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Saying now delaying his visit.
03–084
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:Middle Claydon
on:1636/07/30
to:James Dillon Dillon, James
Notes:Now at Claydon, and will be there till DIllon comes. Telling to come by Uxbridge and Aylesbury, not Stony Stratford. Other 8 miles longer.
Queries:Draft
03–085
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:London
on:1636/08/03
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:Now coming to Claydon next week
03–086
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Noyon, France
on:1636/08/04
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Pleasantries
03–087
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Magdalen hall Oxford
on:1636/08/25
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:King at Oxford. University preparing. Principal bars long hair, longer than tips of ears. Beggars to be whipped.
03–088
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:Hackney
on:1636/09/29
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:He will be at Lowton [?Loughton] Hall in Essex in 3 weeks time. Inviting SRV to join him
03–089
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1636/10/02
to:James Dillon Dillon, James
on:Draft
Notes:Carriers kept from going to London [?plague] . Trip to Loughton to 'make mee a witness of your happinesse.'
03–090
Sent by:Ursula Verney Verney, Ursula, Lady
from:Lon[don]
on:1636/10/14
to:Mr Roades Roades, William
Notes:Asking for her money. Is sick, wants money. Hears from Wm Denton that SRV not well. Sends best wishes
03–091
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:Highgate
on:1636/10/18
to:James Dillon Dillon, James
on:Draft
Notes:On his way to his friends at Giddy Hall, Essex [Gaudy family] after which will go to Lowton. Humble service to Dillon's wife
03–092
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:Hackney
on:1636/10/22
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Off to Croydon? to wait on Ld Deputy. Then intends to go to Loughton. See him there. Regards to 'the faires ones there and unto Ned Sydenham.
03–093
Sent by:Edmund Chamberlaiyne Chamberlaiyne, Edmund
from:Stratton Audley
on:1636/12/23
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:Pleasantries. Buck promised from Lord Wenman now a doe. Has letter ffrom Mr Dillon 'whom I knowe you so much affect'.
03–094
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:London, Piazza Covent Garden
on:1636/12/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Asking him to help the bearer to a doe out of Whaddon Chase. Linked to Chamberlayne letter previous. Pleasantries re his wife and SRV's
03–095
Sent by:Henry Wilkinson Wilkinson, Henry
from:Oxford
on:1636/12/26
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Saying that EV is avoiding his lectures and prayers [Principal of Magdalen Hall?] Asking SRV to talk to him. Wilkinson will be at Sir Fleetwood Dormer's house soon and he could meet him there.
03–096
Sent by:Nathaniel Hobart Hobart, Sir Nathaniel
on:1636/00/00
to:MV Verney, Mary [Blacknall] d.1650
Notes:Pleasantries, signed 'your enraged enemy'
03–097
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:Middle Claydon
on:1637/01/02
to:John Crowther Crowther, John
Notes:Congratulating him on the appointment he at last has. SRV 'stranger to that business' but has always been supportive
Queries:1636/7
03–098
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:London
on:1637/01/09
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Pleasantries
03–099
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:Middle Claydon
on:1637/01/14
to:James Dillon Dillon, James
Notes:Pleasantries. 'the unconstancie of this wandringe sicknesse' a distraction
03–100
Sent by:John Pulteney Pulteney, John
on:1637/00/00?
to: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:Details of trust in which Pulteney's manor of Coles-devile Leicestershire put into trust to John Denton and Edward Butterfield and their heirs, to declare later uses. Probablly much later {later 17th century) but original 9 May 13 Caroli 1638 or 1661 depending which Charles. Butterfield to pay annuities.
03–101
Sent by:William Hals Hals, William
on:1637/04/13
to: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:His Will. Victorian/Edwardian copy followed by original. He is in Ballymore, Ireland. His wife Bridget [Leake?] and newly born son.
03–102
Sent by:Nathaniel Hobart Hobart, Sir Nathaniel
on:1637/01/31
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Pleasantries
03–103
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1637/02/05
to:Nathaniel Hobart Hobart, Sir Nathaniel
Notes:reply to previous
Queries:Draft - much altered
03–104
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
on:1637/00/00?
to:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
Notes:Asking him to meet him at 7 am. ? a duel. nd.
Queries:No date, in 1637 papers.
03–105
Sent by:Nathaniel Hobart Hobart, Sir Nathaniel
from:London, Piazza Covent Garden
on:1637/02/06
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:from my cell in Covent garden' ' on Thursday will bee a seventh night wee must attend the queenes councell concerning our buisiness in Deeping Fenn'. Stuff on high politics
03–106
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1637/02/11
to:Nathaniel Hobart Hobart, Sir Nathaniel
Notes:reply to previous. Inviting him to Claydon.
03–107
Sent by:Nathaniel Hobart Hobart, Sir Nathaniel
on:1637/02/13
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Banter re previous
03–108
Sent by:Robert Hall Hall, Robert
on:1637/03/30
to: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:Affidavit re words of Benjamin Downes. Both Hackney cab drivers. Witness Robert Rich.
03–109
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Marshalsea
on:1637/04/08
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Asking for money
03–110
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Magdalen hall Oxford
on:1637/04/20
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:Grateful letter for help.
03–111
Sent by:Measure of Aunt Pulteney's chamber [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:1637/00/00?
to: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:In SRV's hand. Note of what it is in SJV's hand. About quantities of broadcloth required to - ? carpeting or hangings? No indication of date. Could be post 1660?
03–112
Sent by:Further measures [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:1637/00/00?
to: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:In other hands. Looks pre-1640. Cloth requirements, some for uphostery 'to make up your chaires & stooles'
03–113
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1637/04/00
to:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
Notes:All about various horse races and contests, some at Newmarket
Queries:draft
03–114
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1637/04/20
to:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
Notes:Pleasantries
Queries:draft
03–115
Sent by:HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:1637/04/19
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Says he dislikes the life of a soldier. Has told his father. Asks SRV to 'pacify' SEV. Daren't tell his captain his feelings, as will be laughed at. Says it's not about bullets, and agrees he needs to have serious life, not just given up to pleasure as heretofore.
03–116
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1637/05/25
to: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:Petition to Court of Wards to allow the terms of her husband's will (he died without issue) tobe carried out.
03–117
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1637/04/00
to:HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
Notes:Response to HV's letter saying he doesn't like soldiering. Wants to know what HV does want to do if he is to help him, because he knows HV does not like idleness!
03–118
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Magdalen hall Oxford
on:1637/07/12
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Wanting to leave Oxford
03–119
Sent by:Thomas ?Barriington, W. Maynard, Thomas Wyseman Thomas Barrington, W. Maynard, Thomas Wyseman
on:1637/07/12
to:Mr Robert ?Tichell, Master of his Majestie's buckhounds Mr Robert ?Tichell, Master of his Majestie's buckhounds
Notes:Recipients 'inferior' officers have tried to raise hay, straw and oats from the county. At QS discussed. County has compounded with Crown for oats. Please will the master consult before making further orders
03–120
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Middle Claydon
on:1637/07/18
to:John Crowther Crowther, John
Notes:Asking Crowther to take EV into his care despite him being a 'lewd young man' .
Queries:copy in SRV's hand
03–121
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:Middle Claydon
on:1637/07/18
to:John Crowther Crowther, John
Notes:Linked to previous. Ev 'soe disorderly a youth'
Queries:draft
03–122
Sent by:John Crowther Crowther, John
from:Newton
on:1637/07/19
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:agreeing to take EV. Acknowledging his obligations to SRV
03–123
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1637/07/20
to:John Crowther Crowther, John
Notes:Saying that EV will come to him.
Queries:draft
03–124
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1637/07/20
to:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
Notes:Saying he should go to Crowther. If he does not follow Crowther/s directions 'you are utterly undone for I knowneither yr father nor any otherof your freinds will ever willingly looke uppon you more'
03–125
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1637/07/20
to:Mr Wilkinson Wilkinson, G
Notes:Informing Wilkinson that EV will leave Oxford to go to Crowther
03–126
Sent by:John Crowther Crowther, John
from:Newton
on:1637/07/23
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Says EV has wasted his time in Oxford, understandsnot the very first grounds of logicke' and has no books 'to initiate him in it'/ Asks SRV to send over the easy logic notes Crowther had collected for SRV.
03–127
Sent by:List of Books [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:1637/00/00???
to: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:Undated in 1637 papers. Several pages of titles, some crossed out. Lists some missing works, some added. Two different sets in different hands [?different dates?]
03–128
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Durham
on:1637/08/02
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:pleasantries and instructions about horses, and request to Roades to 'gett home th coales' 'and as mutch stoane as he can from Stratton Audly and other places'. If supervised well, the carrier can do two trips a day for stones.
03–129
Sent by:HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:1637/08/10
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Explaining that his dilike of soldier's life is not cowardice.
03–130
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Newton
on:1637/08/12
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Crowther very ill. Doctor with him. He is making his will. Has asked EV to write down the terms including 3 or 4 terms. But he spoke so fast EV couldn't getthemdownfast enought which'made me forget all his relations; he entreated me to write it in latin because his Wife should not understand it.' SRV and Mr Cobige, the minister of Ludlow' made overseers of will.. Hasn't signed it, but in insensible now, will try to get it signed and witnessed. 'I have shewed it to on Mr Farrar of Bedford a Lawyer who sayth it will stand, however I have locked it up safely.'
03–131
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Newton
on:1637/08/15
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Crowther dead. 'without you stand my freind I am undon.'
03–132
Sent by:Note [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:1637/08/22
to: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:? date a guess. about proving a will ? Crowther's . Note in unknown hand
03–133
Sent by:WILL of John Crowther Crowther, John
on:1637/08/13
to: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:WILL of John Crowther. Vicar of Newton Blossomville, Bucks. Shows he has money of Dr Denton and Mrs Poultney. £150. Varioius bequests to servants, poor and people to buy a ring, rest to his wife.
03–134
Sent by:INVENTORY of John Crowther Crowther, John
on:1637/08/15
to: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:INVENTORY of John Crowther. Shows he is farming on small scale 2 horses 3 kine 15 lambs, one sowe. £4 16s cash, £101 owed to him. Lease at Ludlow £100. £10 debts to be paid.
03–135
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Newton
on:1637/08/21
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Hoping to go to the clergyman ?Mr Wagar who preached at Crowther's funeral. On his best behaviour. Mrs Crowther getting advice about proving the will - whether at Aylesbury or the PCC. Her brother Colbach 'That miserable covetous fellow having a parsonage of 100li per annum besides free land had the conscience to take 20li of her for his charges. She has sold her gleabe. The inventory will be finished to day and sent to SRV. 'I verily beleeveMr Crowther burntall his dangerous sermons for I cannot find none but whta he preached since he left Oxford.
03–136
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1637/08/22
to:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
Notes:SEV doesn't yet know of Crowther's death. His wife will write to him about it. EV should stay with Mrs Crowther until SEV decides. If the Apparitor hassles her, she should say that SRV has taken will from her and will prove it for her, and that she is ignorant of the matters and has left it 'wholly to mee'.
03–137
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Newton
on:1637/08/25
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Crowther's successor already named 'one mr Barton a domesticall chaplaine of the Earleof Peterboourough' But he is being very hard on Mrs Crowther 'he will notbuy anything of her except he hath it at half its worth, andbecause a neighbour hath bought her corne he threatens to make him pay use for his barn.' he has another living in Wiltshire
03–138
Sent by:Thomas Stafford Stafford, Thomas [of Tattenhoe]
from:Tottenhoe
on:1637/10/05
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Pleasantries
03–139
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
on:1637/10/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Mrs Crowther has left suddenly. He talks of the lists of books (see previous 127) and of packing them 'the books prooved morethen we thought they would.'
03–140
Sent by:HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:1637/10/26
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:About a successful siege of a town? Where? Fell on 6 October.
03–141
Sent by:Sara Crowther Crowther, Sara
from:Ludlow
on:1637/11/02
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1637/11/14
Notes:About the marriage contract between her father and husband. Her father has £50 ready to pay. Wants to use it to buy land here for tearme of life'.
03–142
Sent by:Sara Crowther Crowther, Sara
from:Ludlow
on:1637/11/20
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:In different hand ? done on her behalf. Covers same ground as previous.
03–143
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Lawndon
on:1637/11/30
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:With Mr Waker . SEV 'hath dealt most nobly with me I think I shall goe to Holland this spring.'
03–144
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Gothenburg
on:1637/11/30
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:Setting off on 'our voyage' on 1 December
03–145
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Gothenburg
on:1637/11/31
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Asking for letters to be directed to Collonel Vavasor or Colonel Fleetwood at Stockholm for him.
03–146
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1637/12/01
to:Mrs Crowther Crowther, Sara
Notes:About her portion money. Not sending will because not yet inrolled.
03–147
Sent by:Sara Crowther Crowther, Sara
on:1637/12/16
to: Crowther, Sara
Notes:Receipt for 3 bonds, including Denton one, and her lease.
03–148
Sent by:Sara Crowther Crowther, Sara
on:1637/12/16
to: Crowther, Sara
Notes:Receipt of acquittance for payments made by SRV under will.
03–149
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Stockholm
on:1637/12/23
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Wants to continue his current courses. Hopes his father won't demand he comes home
03–150
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Stockholm
on:1638/01/18
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Fears he will have to return to London
Queries:1637/8 8/18 Jan
03–151
Sent by:Francis Windebank Windebank, Francis
from:Westminster
on:1638/01/21
to: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:Proclamation announcing reprieve of Elizabeth Cotterell, condemned for stealing one of King's dishes.
03–152
Sent by:Lord Goreing Goring, George, Lord
on:1638/02/01
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:About the Tobacco Garbling patent they are jointly involved with. Buying up all the tobacco they can in anticipation of its grant.
Queries:1637/8
03–153
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1638/02/03
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Dr Denton has told her there is an information against her in the Court of Wards.?
03–154
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Stockholm
on:1638/02/12
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Stayed in Stockholm in hopes of preferment under Colonel Vavasour. Expensive, has had to take up a note of £52 to clear his lodging debts. Asking father to pay bill.
03–155
Sent by:Sara Crowther Crowther, Sara
on:1638/02/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1638/02/16
Notes:About having sent books
03–156
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1638/03/11
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Her case involves Lord Eure and his wife. Wants WD and SRV to make and end of it quickly. Unwilling to lay out money on it.
03–157
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1638/03/24
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Fears she will lose the case, which involves a £100 legacy to a child now dead
03–158
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1638/04/07
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:More matters about the case
03–159
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1638/00/00
to: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:Note of the facts of the Pulteney/Eure case
03–160
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1638/00/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
on:1638/05/01
Notes:About her case
03–161
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1638/05/02
to:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
Notes:About her case
Queries:draft
03–162
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1638/05/05
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Her case: 'I deserved all my husbands estate because I saved his soule'
03–163
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1638/05/05
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Her case. Also 'her brother Denton' is involved in purchaseing Brill land for £3500 for her. Wants SRV's advice about it.
03–164
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1638/05/09
to:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:draft
Notes:Her Case. The Brill land 'if it bee worth 200£ a yeare, (that that you are content to bee without a house) I thinke it noe ill bargain at 3500£' but thinks she will have to pay £3600
03–165
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1638/05/19
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Telling him his daughter seems likely to die soon. 'shee has but a short time to staye with us' dated 1 o'clock Saturday morning.
03–166
Sent by:Sara Crowther Crowther, Sara
from:Ludlow
on:1638/05/22
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:About completing her settlement. Hopes Margaret Pulteney's legacy will come through.
03–167
Sent by:Francis Leake Leeke, Francis
on:1638/05/24
to:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
Notes:Expressing his devotion, and hoping she will write to him.
03–168
Sent by:Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:1638/05/00
to:Lady Margaret Verney Verney, Margaret Lady [Denton] d. 1642
Notes:her 'dear friend'
03–169
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1638/05/24
to:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:draft
Notes:On retaining lawyer for her case. Attached is a note of the value of the Paulet estates.
03–170
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1638/05/28
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Her case. 'I pray God send me a good hus: and I care not wher his land lies.'
03–171
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Montague close, his chamber
on:1638/06/01
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:About horses. He is thinking of going out of town.
03–172
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1638/06/03
to:Lady Margaret Verney Verney, Margaret Lady [Denton] d. 1642
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:About her remarriage. Money not important
03–173
Sent by:Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:1638/06/05
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:date received
Notes:About securing her jointure. Her 'sonn Denton' will give SRV and SEV security.
03–174
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1638/06/09
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Her marriage business
03–175
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
on:1638/06/16
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Wants his horses. Short of money
03–176
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1638/06/17
to:Lady Ursula Verney Verney, Ursula, Lady
on:draft
Notes:Grandmother' about her jointure lease and revising it. His uncle (?Urian) has power to revoke or change it.
03–177
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:London
on:1638/06/21
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Highgate?
Notes:His horses. Hasn't got the £12 he needs to pay for his lodgings.
03–178
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Marshalsea
on:1638/07/10
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Asking him to wait one hour at Covent Garden so they can talke
03–179
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Middle Claydon
on:1638/07/19
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Highgate
Notes:Saying he would like to go to New England
03–180
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:London
on:1638/07/13
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Highgate, Lady Ann Hobart's house
Notes:Off to the country to save money.
03–181
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Marshalsea
on:1638/07/14
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Highgate, Lady Ann Hobart's house
Notes:Asking SRV to send him £5
03–182
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:Highgate
on:1638/07/17
to:Lady Susan Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
Notes:Telling her TV coming to the country 'I feare hee will endeavour to borrow money of every Body, now least hee should deceive you amoungst others my father commanded mee to give you notice of it.' SRV knows 'I have heertofore been taxed of unkindness to my Brothers'
03–183
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Middle Claydon
on:1638/07/19
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:Asking for £200 in goods to go to New England. 'Your true penitent sonn'
03–184
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hillesdon
on:1638/07/18
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Brother. Pleasantries, his humble service to his brother and wife.
03–185
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hillesdon
on:1638/07/19
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Brother. Written after he received one from SRV after sending previous. Has been to Claydon. TV avoided seeing him.
03–186
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Middle Claydon
on:1638/07/22
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Had been to Hillesden where he was treated as expected, and told his father had no intent to send him abroad again 'but to let me live in the country'. Mother has told his brother (EV) to give him only a ??Dous hair shirt 'to keep me from lice'. Appeals to his brother SRV's mercy. Can't endure country life and if his father won't allow him to end it 'I will take a rope and make an end of my self.'
03–187
Sent by:Sir John Leake Leeke, Sir John
on:1638/00/00
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:Irish affairs Seem to be cash-strapped, asking SEV to send clothes and cloth for his wife
Queries:date ascribed in 19c.
03–188
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1638/07/24
to:TV Verney, Thomas
on:draft
Notes:Simply says he loves his brother and always will, but no response to TV's requests
03–189
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Buckinghamshire
on:1638/07/29
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Highgate
Notes:Country business, with Aunt Denton to Lord Wenman's house to do business, but his wife had died. WD at Leicester. 'Cousin Drake' around.
03–190
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Middle Claydon
on:1638/07/29
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Still trying to go to New England
03–191
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hillesdon
on:1638/08/05
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Highgate, Lady Ann Hobart's house
Notes:Interceding on TV's behalf. TV behaving well, and sorry for 'his own indiscreeete discourse.' ; it is really thought that his own facile nature that hath ever wronged him.'
03–192
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Middle Claydon
on:1638/08/05
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Mainly about various clothes, but New England in background
03–193
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Middle Claydon
on:1638/08/12
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Asking for a book called Capt Smith's discoveries of the souther and North eat part of New England. 'which book might be very bene=ificial to mee, if I goe my voyage'.
03–194
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hillesdon
on:1638/08/12
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Worried about TV's conduct. 'I must rather admire than commend your continued love towards him'. WD ill with an ague for last 4 days, so won't be able to meet SRV. Aunt Pulteney and all her company coming to Hillesdon from Leicester tomorrow.
03–195
Sent by:Sir John Leake Leeke, Sir John
from:Ireland
on:1638/08/18
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Received at:at the Bath or ' London
Notes:Irish business, tobacco prices
03–196
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Middle Claydon
on:1638/08/21
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Gorhambury
Notes:SEV has been at Claydon, Hillesdon, and Little Horwood, and with EV? But 'gave such a straight command to all my acquaintance theat they should not upon any tearmes led mee an hors least I should sell him..' Hasn't seen SEV but an intermediary says SEV will send TV away between Michaellmass and CHristmas 'with the Earl of Warwick'.
03–197
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hillesdon
on:1638/08/26
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Highgate
Notes:WD well again SEV in country, has proposed to EV via WD and Mr Aris (parson) that EV should go on Warwick expedition. Says it is a noble offer. TV 'goeth the same voyage, I can tell you noething of it as yet.'
03–198
Sent by:Sir John Leake Leeke, Sir John
from:Ireland
on:1638/09/13
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:Social and business matters
03–199
Sent by:HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:1638/09/24
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Pleasantries and apologies for length of time since last writing
03–200
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:Hillesdon
on:1638/09/25
to:Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:Pleasantries. Lady Devonshire's accident. Latimers.
Queries:draft
03–201
Sent by:HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:1638/10/02
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:Hopes his father will look favourably on him. Thinks his father's lost love due to HV not taking up 'this course of life' but hopes to regain it now he has done his father's will.
03–202
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Middle Claydon
on:1638/10/14
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Wants SRV to let him know if anyone comes asking for TV's debts to be paid by SEV, since he knows of only one secured £46 debt still unpaid. Asking for a coat and a cap suitable for his suit for 'cold winter'
03–203
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Middle Claydon
on:1638/10/18
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Still asking about coat and cap.
03–204
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Middle Claydon
on:1638/10/18
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Too little to do at Claydon. Reads, goes and walks to Mr Aris's. Craves his father to allow him to leave Claydon and be sent elsewhere.
03–205
Sent by:Nicholas Aris Aris, Nicholas
on:1638/10/18
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:About his rent
03–206
Sent by:Nicholas Aris Aris, Nicholas
on:1638/10/21
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Aris's daughter is servant to Mary Verney. Her father has found a good match for her, and intreats SRV to ask his wife to allow her to leave service.
03–207
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Bear and Ragged Staff, London
on:1638/10/22
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Has reached London after accident on journey that left him wet and weary. Will come to see SRV tomorrow.
03–208
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hillesdon
on:1638/10/28
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Pleasantries, apologies for not writing sooner.
03–209
Sent by:Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:1638/10/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Pleasantries, friendship to SRV, MV, SEV. She has been ill.
03–210
Sent by:Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:1638/10/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Has been scared because a servant maid in her household has died of the sickness.
03–211
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1638/10/31
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Pizza Covent Garden
Notes:It is a maid in SRV's household who has had the smallpox. She was coming to visit. If any others in household catch smallpox, can SRV find her other lodgings for her visit
03–212
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hillesdon
on:1638/11/03
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:SRV's son 'as well as either I or you can hope' . Has been at Horwood where Dunson's wife complaining of 'her Husbands unkind dealing.' She in great poverty. Town says they too her in only because her husband a servant of Verneys. Wants SRV to ensure that husband, who is about to move away, provides for her and their child.
03–213
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1638/11/10
to:Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:Has been unable to find hangings and carpets suitable for her. Has her will ready for her. Entreats her not to talk to SEV about his financial affairs at the moment [sounds as if his debts are sensitive/critical]
Queries:draft
03–214
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hillesdon
on:1638/11/24
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Interceding on his sister Susan's behalf. She has deeply offended her father and mother, but is very penitent.
03–215
Sent by:Sara Crowther Crowther, Sara
from:Ludlow
on:1638/11/13
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Ask him to deliver her goods to Mr John Riccards, Town Clerk of Ludlow., and encloses letter for EV.
03–216
Sent by:Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:1638/11/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:She is still very weak, too weak to look at her papers.
03–217
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1638/11/24
to:Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:She has spoken to SEV about his debts, for which SRV thanksful. 'I fine youre discourse with my father wrought soe good effects, that hee beginns more seriously to consider his debts' and begin to deal with them. Still willing to help her find carpets and hangings.
Queries:draft
03–218
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hillesdon
on:1638/12/01
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Mainly about Sara Crowther's affairs, and the books she has stored at Hillesdon in Aunt Pulteney's wardrobe.
03–219
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hillesdon
on:1638/12/08
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Thanking SRV for successfully interceding on sister Susan's behalf. It was her first transgression.
03–220
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hillesdon
on:1638/12/15
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Renewed thanks with help with Susan. Question of vault where Grandfather buried (Albury, Herts.?) Parson there Gilpin, Magdalen hall man, has been to Middle Claydon. Happy to provide a sermon for grandmother at a week's warning.
03–221
Sent by:HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:1638/11/28
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Pleasantries. Only news is of a horse race at the Hague. Keen on horseracing himself.
03–222
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1638/12/18
to:Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:About her will. Mr Busby involved, but away till 23 January. Finding her a muff, successfully and he and his wife searched the town. But can't find a glass dark enough for her in the Glasse Shopps.
03–223
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hillesdon
on:1638/12/21
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden.
Notes:At muster in Aylesbury with Uncle Denton, heard that Mr Balden was at Tring and would be at Albury to see the vault the same day. Grandmother's post directed toMr Gardland's house in St Martins Lane. SRV's son very well and now weaned, which is good because one John Willet in Hillesden is abusing SEV, Sir Alexander [Denton] and Mr Stafford, 'and your nurse, and for me I heare he sayes I come more to see the nurse then the childe'
03–224
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hillesdon
on:1638/12/29
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Light-hearted letter about the rumours about him and the nurse Dover. Willet confused SRV with EV.
03–225
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hillesdon
on:1639/01/05
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Light hearted. SRV's son doing well.
Queries:1638/9
03–226
Sent by:Sir Henry Lee Lee, Sir Francis Henry 2nd Bart. of Quarrendon
on:1639/00/00?
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:He is in great pain [died July 1639] His wife has 'a little nissing girle to play with all.'
Queries:1638/9
03–227
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/01/09
to:HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
Notes:Will send him a saddle for the horse races and 40s due to him. TV 'is gon to the Barbathos' but not amended. 'hee played mee a flippery brick' three days before he left. 'Last night my wife was delivered of a girle'
Queries:1638/9
03–228
Sent by:Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:1639/01/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Says SEV looked ill. Dated because mentions Margaret Verney's birth.
Queries:1638/9
03–229
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hillesdon
on:1639/01/19
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Congratulations on Margt Verney's birth. SRV's son Edmund doing well, and affectionate to EV. Putting rhurbarb in the boy's drink at SRV's direction. 'His teeth have not yet cut flesh.'
Queries:1638/9
03–230
Sent by:HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:1639/01/22
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Has been in garrison for 4 or 5 months. Would like saddle and bit sent.
Queries:1638/9
03–231
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/01/24
to:Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:His father now better. Business of her will will be finished this term. Wants a list of her plate. She at Gorhambury.
Queries:1638/9
03–232
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hillesdon
on:1639/01/26
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:News of SRV's son who is teething, and having rhubarb in his drink. He and EV getting on well.
Queries:1638/9
03–233
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hillesdon
on:1639/02/02
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Pleasantries.
Queries:1638/9
03–234
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/02/07
to:Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:Her draft will. Wants to know how many blanks to leave for legacies. His wife only regaining strength slowly after birth.
Queries:1638/9
03–235
Sent by:Pemberton Montgomery ? Pemberton Montgomery ?
from:Whitehall
on:1638/02/07
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:Royal command to join King on his journey to York, to attend him there by 1 April
Queries:1638/9
03–236
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Barbados
on:1638/02/20
to:Lady Margaret Verney Verney, Margaret Lady [Denton] d. 1642
Notes:No news. 'I am now building a sorry cottage to harbour men when I havce them, which Ihope will be very speedily.' Wants plate spoons and other household utensils, hasn't bothered his father with request.
Queries:1638/9
03–237
Sent by:Abell Abell
on:1640/02/03
to: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:Rough notes. Looks like terms of an Abell marriage settlement.
Queries:1639/40
03–238
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hague
on:1640/02/22
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:About his colonel's colours being void.
Queries:1639/40
03–239
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:London, Piazza Covent Garden
on:1639/02/27
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Various unclear business matters with his mother and grandmother, a picture and Raphael.
Queries:1638/9
03–240
Sent by:Countess of Barrymore Barrymore, Countess of
from:Castelgons
on:1639/02/18
to:?SEV or SRV [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:Irish matters. Capt Hals returned.
Queries:1638/9
03–241
Sent by:HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
from:?
on:1639/03/04
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/03/20
Notes:Wants a horse. Commiserates with SRV over TV's behaviour and deception
Queries:1638/9
03–242
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hague
on:1639/03/13
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/03/27
Notes:3rd letter he has sent in 6 days. Colonel offers him a Company to command, but also Reported his Colonel has quit already. 'If I fayle in this which is my last refuge that I know to fly to, truy I doe thinke I may doe much better in England for a Captaines paybeing fifteene shillings a day besides the allowance of 4 deade payes and his own mens, I am confident a company will be worth 400li a yeare honestly.'
Queries:1638/9
03–243
Sent by:HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:1639/03/09
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:?from Flanders. Pleasantries, little news, still wants a horse.
Queries:1638/9
03–244
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hague
on:1639/03/07
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/03/27
Notes:His colonel says that various request he has made arriving on another ship. Looks forward to receiving books from SRV
Queries:1638/9
03–245
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hague
on:1639/03/14
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/03/28
Notes:Sir Thomas Culpepper quitting his regiment here and returning for England, has written to SEV about EV joining him. EV has written to SEV about it. His Quartridge (annuity) due, asks £15 to be paid to the old countess of Oxford.
Queries:1639/40 nb SRV puts receipt date as 1640, but 1639 underneath crossed out.? Which year.
03–246
Sent by:Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:1639/03/09
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Piazza Covent Garden
on:1639/03/09
Notes:SRV's grandmother. Asking for her £100. Intends to send up £20 by her sonn Denton. Hopes Lord Howard's business ended? Sir Martin Lister with her.
Queries:1638/9
03–247
Sent by:Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:1639/03/16
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/03/16
Notes:Family business - not clear
Queries:1638/9
03–248
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hillesdon
on:1639/03/21
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/03/16
Notes:He has returned, sorry to miss SRV
Queries:1638/9
03–249
Sent by:Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:1639/00/00?
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Pleasantries
03–250
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hague
on:1639/03/10
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:His colonel has little hope of getting him a cornet's place and offered to accompany him to ENGLAND.. Hopes his father will approve
Queries:1638/9
03–251
Sent by:HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
from:Hague
on:1640/03/16
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1640/03/29
Notes:packages at Rotterdam for him
Queries:?1639 or 1640
03–252
Sent by:HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
from:Breda
on:1639/03/22
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/04/04
Notes:Pleasantries
Queries:1638/9
03–253
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:?Newcastle
on:1639/04/01
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/04/08
Notes:About Scots securing Aberdeen and its munitions, 4000 of best arms the King had. SEV afraid of attack of gout, has twinges but 'I hope to starve it awaye'. Asks his wife to send him some papers of powder to prevent it.
03–254
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/04/05
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:About getting various deeds and trusts drawn up Robin Lesly, Ned Sydenham involved, and money - ? fens
Queries:Draft, much altered
03–255
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/04/01
to:?? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:About a marriage (his sister's) that threatens to dishonour the family, because it is clandestine. Has advised sister to conceal it from her father till he returns from north.
Queries:Draft
03–256
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:?Newcastle
on:1639/04/01
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/04/05
Notes:King basely betrayed. Few around him. Scots town fallen. Expresses grief at being parted from his son SRV. Mutual. Hasn't felt so much grief since Prince Henry died.
03–257
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:York
on:1639/04/07
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/04/10
Notes:Has received letter from 'my sister Poultney' who has 'utterly ruinde her reputation if shee goes on in this waye.' (marriage' ''It will goe neare to kill her mother if ever shee marryes'
03–258
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Selby
on:1639/04/07
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/04/10
Notes:Exercising there - 'petty employments'
03–259
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:York
on:1639/04/14
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/04/16
Notes:On Poultney marriage. Tells SRV to salve what he can. If she has tried to conceal pregnancy it will be worse.
Queries:Easter night @ 9 pm
03–260
Sent by:Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:1639/04/16
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/04/16
Notes:Pleasantries
03–261
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/04/19
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:About Poultney/Eure marriage. Protecting her reputation 'too hard for nmy tender years and weake juggment' asks father's help. Few at wedding and all 'have faithfull promised secresie'. Hasn't told her friends in Country. 'She will declare that in her oppinion tis lawful to marry on of a contrary religion'
Queries:Draft
03–262
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:York
on:1639/04/19
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/04/23
Notes:Sending arms from London to Newcastle by ship. SEV will be there a few days before the King
03–263
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/04/20
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:Charter and indenture drawn for his £600 pa , but Mr Roles 'desiers mee to tell you the Project is illegall, and therfore tis a very Bad security for soe much money as you have.' Wants his father to put other name into receiver's warrant to safeguard it. RObert Leslie suggested
03–264
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1639/04/15?
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:About Poultney /Eure marriage. When he read SRV's letter he had a palsy in his hand 'soe that in five howers I could hold nothing steadyly.
03–265
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/04/22
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:More on his financial enterprise and how to insure himself
Queries:Draft
03–266
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:York
on:1639/04/25
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/04/29
Notes:SEV about to set off for Durham. More on his London business. Details of interchanges with Scots and Essex
03–267
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/04/25
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:SRV preparing to arm himself. Should he bring a waggon north to join his father?
Queries:Draft
03–268
Sent by:Lady Margaret Verney Verney, Margaret Lady [Denton] d. 1642
on:1639/04/00?
to:Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
Notes:Mother -news of Scots campaign. Short, undated but from context
03–269
Sent by:Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:1639/04/06
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:About Poultney marriage. 'Good Son'
03–270
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1639/04/25
to:Lord Chamberlain Lord Chamberlain
Notes:[Copy in SRV's hand] About telling Lord Howard to desist his suit since she cannot grant it .
03–271
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1639/04/00??
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/04/26
Notes:Family business, now thinks he will stay in Durham
03–272
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1639/04/28
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/04/30
Notes:About her marriage and Ld Chamberlain's reply to her letter
03–273
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/01
to:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
Notes:About the money MP is bestowing on her daughter and how to move it
Queries:Copy of pt of letter
03–274
Sent by:WD Denton, Dr William d.1691
from:Durham
on:1639/05/01
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/08
Notes:Of SEV 'his wisdome I feare begins to fayle him. I pray God the event doe not provce it by eposing himself to more daunger then he needs' Asking SRV to buy Dr Read's treatise of Wounds and sores. A quarto volume Big. Would take 2 quires of paper.
03–275
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/03
to:HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
Notes:Can't send him a horse because of present troubles, would require a license under King's hand costing £5. But sending him clothes
Queries:Draft
03–276
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1639/05/03
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Piazza Covent Garden
on:1639/05/05
Notes:Has £500 in gold with her in hand for SRV's use as required. Sir Timothy Shervill will pay her £100 soon. About telling her mother and family of match.
03–277
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1639/05/04
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/07
Notes:She has 'recited sum part of my fiction to my mo:' who is 'something troubled' and says she will not let the man enter her house. Thinks it will all be known in London now. Says she has stayed in Hobart house for 22 or 23 weeks, and paid for 18 so far.
03–278
Sent by:Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:1639/05/04
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/07
Notes:Asking him to either borrow £100 for her, or get what is owed her. Trying to provide 'ship provision for her son. Tells him to 'be silent from all the worlde' about it.
03–279
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Newcastle
on:1639/05/07
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/17
Notes:Sending letters via JohnTyringham including warrants for Robert Lesley's business. Mr E[ure?] not come on withthem. 'I heare he has sould all his land and means to settle about London where he is sure to have a ritch widdow' I heare hee is a vast spender and hath a father and a brother to relieve' Land raised £6000 all together. Thinks the SCots have as many good horse as the King, but latter persuaded by Ld Marshall that they are brags, and that he should advance - king inclined to agree. Short of money to be able to wait for more men .
03–280
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/08
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:Extracted draft saying he will do his bit as necessary to deal with Aunt Putleney's problem.
Queries:Draft
03–281
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Durham
on:1639/05/05
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/08
Notes:About grants from King and his business. Will send papers to SRV. Has enclosed letter composed to Lord Newbury which SRV should read, then seal up and give to him. Has also sent a letter he received from Hillesden which SRV should read then burn. Has written to Lady Denton preparing her for the news about Poulteney without being explicit. SEV has had discussion with a Scotsma 'that is affected the moderate waye' who is confident nothing will satisfy Scots but taking away all Bishops 'and I dare saye the king will never yeelde to that'. Asks SRV to pay harness maker.
03–282
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1639/05/09
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:About her situation 'I consider my own freedom in my choice or in any thing else for what fortewn I have I had it from y hus: and A widow is free'. Her tenants paying in rent and she wants a return [of money] to London.
03–283
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/10
to:WD Denton, Dr William d.1691
Notes:if my father goes to the Borders, he is lost, I know his corrage will bee his distruction. Noe man did ever so willfully ruine himself, & his posterity; god fogive him and grant me patience, ceertainly his hart is more than stone.' Asks WD to get his friends to stop him
Queries:draft
03–284
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1639/05/11
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Piazza Covent Garden
on:1639/05/13
Notes:She has now married Eure. About settling her lodging account with Hobarts. Intends to come to London and live in the City 'privately. Mother still doesn't know.
03–285
Sent by:Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:1639/05/11?
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/13
Notes:Family matters, mainly about Tom
03–286
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Newcastle
on:1639/05/11
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/14
Notes:Many of his letters to SRV have miscarried. He has always written at least 2 a week. Will make a note of all he has sent. But fewer now because battle soon. Scots now near Berwick. Skirmishes and battle soon. Settlement case at Claydon Margaret Verney should try and make man marry hi s 'Doxsy' but in meantime try and find any way to 'put her out of the towne'.
Queries:3 letters all sent together
03–287
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Ryton nr Newcastle
on:1639/05/04
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/14
Notes:With army. Has ague. Greetings
03–288
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1639/05/16
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/18
Notes:Whole army going to the border. Promises not to 'thrust my self in danger' but 'truly I thinck wee are not in much danger of fighting'. List of what he has paid out for various offices/patents. Written at 3 in morning.
03–289
Sent by:WD Denton, Dr William d.1691
from:Newcastle
on:1639/05/16
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/18
Notes:King intending to march to Berwick on Thursday next and intrench himself 5 or 6 miles this side of the Tweed. Doesn't think King will fight this summer. Hopes to exhaust Scots, but they are very cunning.
03–290
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/10?
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:Telling his father to curb his reckless ways and stay safe in wars.
Queries:Draft
03–291
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1639/05/18
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Piazza Covent Garden
on:1639/05/21
Notes:I understand by your Mo: as the town makes havock of my name but let them devieis ther worst I defie them all no in the world can call me to an account for my actions for I am not in any ons twishion '. His mother has attacked her modesty but irrationally, for she is married.
03–292
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/20
to:Robert Leslie Leslie, Robert
Notes:Asking Leslie to get King's signature on various warrants - about Hackney cab monopoly - for which SRV has laid out considerable sums.
Queries:Draft
03–293
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Barbados
on:1639/05/20
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Received at:Piazza Covent Garden or at Lady Hobart's house in Highgate.
on:1639/07/22
Notes:Asks for various supplies to be sent to him via Capt. Futter. He has purchased plantation of 100 acres with a few servants, and expects 'ten thousand pound of cotton moer then I payed for it'. Expects to be able to pay for the supplies in 6 months. Has also bought a cow and calf for its milk.
03–294
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Barbados
on:1639/05/20
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/07/22
Notes:Asking his support for his requests to his father in previous letter. Asking SRV to send him a pair of tan leather gloves, and 6 quire of paper as he is running out.
03–295
Sent by:Francis Hutten Hutten, Francis
from:Barbados
on:1639/05/20
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1639/07/22
Notes:vouching for TV and saying he is 'a good husband' and has bought his plantation on reasonable terms.
03–296
Sent by:Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:1639/05/21?
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Piazza Covent Garden
on:1639/05/21
Notes:Money matters, then about Eure marriage.
03–297
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Newcastle
on:1639/05/22
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Business matters, then about Poultney/Eure marriage. He has written a letter with this to Margaret Poultney which SRV should read then seal. But not tell anyone else that he has written, because he has not. King expects to go to Berwick tomorrow, SEV will go to pitch K's tent. Not much sign of Scots, but rumours of a big force 15000 foot and 4000 horse which will cause King a 'dihonourable retraict' because he won't fight when at such a disadvantage.
03–298
Sent by:EI Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
on:1639/05/25
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/28
Notes:Writing on behalf of her sister Poultney who wants SRV's wife to send her some clothes; Poultney can return SRV £50 more than she promised earlier, but she has already parted with her gold. Has also sent 2 sorts of cheese to him, and to his mother
03–299
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/22
to:Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
Notes:Saying his views on the business he has been commanded not to write about are nevertheless 'a contrary way, with this whole house in generall, in particular with mee.'
Queries:Draft
03–300
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Mitford, Northumberland
on:1639/05/18
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/23
Notes:About to up camp to go to the border. Various campaign matters
03–301
Sent by:Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:1639/05/26
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/28
Notes:About disagreement about Poultney marriage matter. Margaret Poultney has an ague, and 'my Daughter Denton' fallen so ill again.
03–302
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/29
to:Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
Notes:About Poultney affair, brief extract
Queries:Draft
03–303
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/28
to:? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:Possibly Lady Sussex. Courtesies. About something he is charged to get her. He is going to visit Aunt Poultney who is sick and will come and see her on his return.
Queries:Draft
03–304
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Newcastle
on:1639/05/17
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/22
Notes:Kiing moving north with 'this little army' and has asked for 8000 more men to come quickly. Leslie set to oppose
03–305
Sent by:Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:1639/05/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/05/27
Notes:Family matters
03–306
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Berwick
on:1639/05/29
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Now camped within 2 miles of Berwick and will be entrenched in 2 days. 11,000 foot, 6000 expected within 6 days. Lesley about 12 miles away and treated as royalty by those around him.
03–307
Sent by:Dorothy Lady Hobart Hobart, Dorothy, Lady
on:1639/00/00
to:Lady Margaret Verney Verney, Margaret Lady [Denton] d. 1642
Notes:About Pultney marriage. [to Eure]
03–308
Sent by:WD Denton, Dr William d.1691
from:Berwick
on:1639/06/02
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/06/05?
Notes:Now quartered near Berwick, and has sent Sir William Uvedale and Sir Edmund Sydenham to try and persuade SEV [against rash actions?] Various unclear business matters
03–309
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Berwick
on:1639/06/04
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/06/12
Notes:King tried to stop Scots entrenching in a town called Calse but found a much bigger force there than his intelligence suggested, and forced to retreat. 'the strenth we have here will only defend ourselves. I doe not conceave it of force to doe any harme to them. soe we dayly spend our money and our honner together.' Glad to hear Marshalsea business 'soe well appeased'. 'the king wants monny and assistance;, which makes the scotts insufferably proud and insolent. in soe much that every English mans Heart is reddy to breake with rage against them here.'
03–310
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Berwick
on:1639/06/05
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/06/13
Notes:Army very weak, supplies come slowly, and small pox common in army - 100 in one regiment.
03–311
Sent by: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:1639/05/28
to: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:Bill for things bought for Mrs Poultney, received by SRV 1639/06/04
03–312
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Berwick
on:1639/06/09
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/06/15
Notes:Talks between King and Scots, SEV believes there will be a treaty. Has got King to sign various documents including Tyringham's petition. 'From the camp'
03–313
Sent by:Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1639/00/00
to:Madam'? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:Few specifics, but probably trying to account for her behaviour.
03–314
Sent by:WD Denton, Dr William d.1691
from:Chillingham, Northumberland
on:1639/06/11
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:piazza Covent Garden
on:1639/06/18
Notes:SEV was in the party of 800 horsemen that was nearly cut off, and close to actually fighting.
03–315
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Berwick
on:1639/06/11
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/06/18
Notes:Talks going on Scots army not as big as they brag and King now has nearly 13000 foot, 2200 horse, and another 2000 at a day's warning. Scots have fewer horse.
03–316
Sent by:HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
from:Holland
on:1639/06/12
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/06/27
Notes:Mainly pleasantries. Has received letters from SRV with Scots news. Needs a horse.
03–317
Sent by: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:1639/00/00
to: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:2 lists of things and people to be remembered. Probably list by Margaret Poultney of things she would like SRV to do or remember for her
03–318
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/00/00
to: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:List of household things in SRV's name. ? For Margaret Poultney
03–319
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Berwick
on:1639/06/15
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/06/19
Notes:Treaty now ready to be signed. Will require him to go with King to Edinburgh for the assembly and parliament. Has received SRV's letter of 3rd 'where I find I must dye a begger.'
03–320
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Berwick
on:1639/06/16
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/06/20
Notes:Things forgotten from previous day's letter. All vague business matters
03–321
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Berwick
on:1639/06/17
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/06/22
Notes:Peace concluded 'and much to the King's honour'. Not clear if king will stay in north till August, or go to London. SEV want to go to Bath, his pains troubling him.
03–322
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/06/18
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:Breaks news 'the unhappy woman was married by a Popish Priest' , but scared to tell anyone. 'This unluckie businessse hath made my Grandmother infinitely offended with my mother, my Wife, and my selfe, and indeed the whole house; except your selfe, for she often saith you have dealt wisely.'
Queries:Copy
03–323
Sent by:Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:1639/06/17?
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/06/19
Notes:Brief business note signed by her ?dictated to another?
03–324
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Berwick
on:1639/06/21
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/06/24
Notes:Not clear what king will do, but SEV will request to be allowed to go to Bath for his pain is bad. Making preparations to return. Has bought 50 horses here and intended to take them to Claydon and keep them there till he sells them.
03–325
Sent by:EI Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
on:1639/06/22
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/06/25
Notes:Mr Eure has now come, family reactions.
03–326
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/06/25
to:Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
Notes:Business matters. Mainly about her finances.
Queries:Draft
03–327
Sent by:Marmaduke Marshall Marmaduke Marshall
from:Berwick, the Court
on:1639/06/24
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/06/28
Notes:SEV has left Berwick for home, expected next Saturday. Writer send warrant that King has now signed with instructions what to do with it.
03–328
Sent by:Margaret Eure Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1639/06/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/06/25
Notes:Hopes peace will make tenants pay their rents. Mr Eure presents love and service to SRV.
03–329
Sent by:WD Denton, Dr William d.1691
from:Berwick
on:1639/06/26
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/07/23
Notes:Business matters. SEV will return to London on 29, and intends for Bath, where WD hopes to attend him. One report to the Queen says our soldiers ran away at Kelsay.
03–330
Sent by:Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:1639/06/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/06/26
Notes:Family matters, hears SEV's return and intention for Bath. Needs 18 yds of some cloth
03–331
Sent by:Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:1639/06/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/07/02
Notes:Business matters. Overjoyed SEV returned safe.
03–332
Sent by:Margaret Eure Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:1639/06/29
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/07/02
Notes:Her husband has now deceived her about the scale of his estate because she never asked! 'But tis not yt I stand uppon for his religion is now the thing I loocke after which I hope in time may be altered.'
03–333
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1639/06/00
to:TV Verney, Thomas
Notes:Can't provide much money. Told SRV to do what he can. Hears Ld Warwick about to settle a great new plantation, suggests TV go there.
03–334
Sent by:Richard Merydale Merydale, Richard
from:Fleet [prison]
on:1639/07/02
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:About his situation
03–335
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Hillesdon
on:1639/07/14
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/07/20
Notes:Thanking his brother for the 'reall wellcome at my return'
03–336
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Berwick
on:1639/07/21
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/07/27?
Notes:Various business matters. Also warrants for deer in Buckinghamshire. Few available.
03–337
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:Berwick
on:1639/07/24
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/0728
Notes:Business matters. One buck warrant out of Holt for Wid Fust. Wants news of coach business
03–338
Sent by:Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:1639/07/25
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Highgate, Lady Hobart's house
on:1639/07/27
Notes:Her child past all danger.
03–339
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/07/23
to:Lady Lee Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:Hoping her husband's illness better. We pray for his health
Queries:Draft
03–340
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/07/23
to:Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:Has heard that Lady Croft is selling Gorhambury [where Lady Sussex rents house] Glad to hear of her son's [Sir Harry Lee] recovery
Queries:Draft
03–341
Sent by:HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
from:Breda
on:1639/08/07
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/09/10
Notes:Has heard from few of his friends. Compliments to the family
03–342
Sent by:Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:1639/07/23
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Has heard about her sister Croft's sale of Gorhambury. Croft has said she will give her notice to leave at Michaelmas.. Hopes SRV will send his wife to visit her.
03–343
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/07/27
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:Hackney men promise to pay when Proclamation made. Went to Chelsea for reading of Harry Lee's will today. Terms of trust involving SRV set out. Portions for daughters, debts of about £5000. Asks SEV if he will accept trust. Has received TV's letters about Barbadoes plantation. Will do nothing till hears from SEV.
03–344
Sent by:Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:1639/08/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/08/05
Notes:About Damask cloth sample. Very good
03–345
Sent by:Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:1639/08/00
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1639/08/14
Notes:Hoping he will accept the Lee trust involvement.
03–346
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Barbados
on:1639/08/01
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/11/25
Notes:Complaining he hasn't heard from him. Father can be excused because of business. SRV could send his man daily to the Exchange for news of ships bound for these parts. Hopes for more supplies.
03–347
Sent by:Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:1639/08/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/08/14
Notes:Sorry that SRV and wife won't be able to visit
03–348
Sent by:Margaret Verney Elmes, Margaret [Verney] d. January 1670
from:Hillesden
on:1639/08/18
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/08/19
Notes:Expressing sorrow that he thinks she has been gossipping. Only talked to her brother Mun
03–349
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/08/15
to:Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:Asking her if she will send a coach to Barnet to fetch him and family on visit.
Queries:Draft
03–350
Sent by:Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:1639/08/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/08/12
Notes:Longing for his family's company on visit
03–351
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/08/16
to:Margaret Verney Verney, Margaret Lady [Denton] d. 1642
Notes:About her speaking about Aunt [Eure] and new uncle 'too liberally'. Says he knows his aunt better than she. That she should keep silent, not prate, and burn this letter 'least by chaunce it come to some of your back greinds hands , and (by that meanes) bee brought as a witnesse against you.'
Queries:Draft
03–352
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1639/08/27
to:Margaret Verney Verney, Margaret Lady [Denton] d. 1642
Notes:Says he had not heard about her gossipping from Mun who has been silent about the matter. She was known to have spoken 'largely of your aunt before you went from London; and I am sure my aunt tooke some notise of it there.'
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