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05–001

Sent by:	Tho Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1642/11/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/11/05
Notes:	family matters; military matters (plans to offer service to King's army)

05–002

Sent by:	Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1642/11/07
to:	? 'Sir' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1642/11/07
Notes:	chat (Lord of Sussex?, Lord Maridesell?, prince?, Lady of Devonshire, London)

05–003

Sent by:	Magdalen Bruce Faulkner, Magdalen [Mrs Bruce]
from:	Castlelyton?/ Castellyoues?
on:	1642/11/08
to:	? 'Sir' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1642/12/02
Notes:	chat (Mr Bruce, Mr Crow); money matters; military matters (rebels in the town)

05–004

Sent by:	Tho Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1642/11/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/12/01
Notes:	military matters (on his way to join King's army); money matters

05–005

Sent by:	Henry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
from:	Hague
on:	1642/11/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/12/02
Notes:	money matters (Mr Shepherd, Mr Harris)

05–006

Sent by:	Sir Edward Siddenham Sydenham, Sir Edward
from:	Colebrook
on:	1642/11/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/11/11
Notes:	chat (civil war, SRV's father); estate matters (requests his estate upon such terms as will part with them for the king)

05–007

Sent by:	Harry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:	1642/11/13
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/11/10
Notes:	military matters (King, London); family matters

05–008

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/11/14
to:	? 'Sir' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	business matters (letters intercepted, his goods in prison, Mr Dennington); money matters
Queries:	copy of letter?

05–009

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1642/11/12?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/11/14
Notes:	military matters (trying to protect house from plundering, London); chat

05–010

Sent by:	Tho Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Oatlands
on:	1642/11/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1642/11/31
Notes:	military matters (Hampshire, promised col's place, Sir Edward Sidenham, cousin Leake, King v strong); family matters (uncle Chilssley, aunt Verney)

05–011

Sent by:	Tho Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Hertford Bridge
on:	1642/11/19
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/12/01
Notes:	military matters (volunteer in Lord Grandyson's regiment, London); money matters (Mr Edward, rents); chat (Mr Sage, key to trunk, writings)

05–012

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1642/11/17?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/11/19
Notes:	chat (difficulties of the time); military matters

05–013

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/11/24
to:	Sir' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	estate matters (thanks for protection for Middle Claydon, neighbours plundered, Lady Cooke, Mrs Daniell); chat (letters intercepted, sent by Will Murray)

05–014

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1642/11/19?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/11/21
Notes:	chat (Claydon)

05–015

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1642/11/19?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	copy of 05-014 above

05–016

Sent by:	Lady Anne Siddenham Sydenham, Lady Anne
on:	1642/11/29
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1642/11/28
Notes:	chat

05–017

Sent by:	Charles 1st Charles 1st
on:	1642/11/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	legal matters (King's command not to billet at Mid Claydon, Bucks, SRV, court at Reading)
Queries:	legal document

05–018

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1642/11/23?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/11/25
Notes:	chat (Middle Claydon)

05–019

Sent by:	Wil Rolt Rolt, Will
from:	Clifton
on:	1642/11/27
to:	Lady Margaret Palmer Palmer,Margaret Lady
Notes:	chat (his situation, 'great plundering neighbour' perhaps 'his plot was to kill me')

05–020

Sent by:	Sir Edward Siddenham Sydenham, Sir Edward
on:	1642/11/27
to:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	chat (Mr Merydash?, Mr Carew?, Will Pratt, Claydon); political matters (King, parliament)

05–021

Sent by:	Tho Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1642/11/27
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/12/03
Notes:	military matters (is col of troop of horse under Capt Allen Zouch?, Redding [Reading?], his garrison at Odyham in Hants, Hartford Bridge, king to Wallingford); money matters (Mr Edward Sage); household matters (in need of his clothes which are in London, asks to send him items such as 2 pairs of grey stockings to wear under winter boots); keep estate from plundering Mr Lybb?

05–022

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1642/11/28?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/11/28
Notes:	money matters (Sir Henry West?); legal matters (knows her rights, is not a fool, her brother, house)

05–023

Sent by:	Wil Rolt Rolt, Will
from:	Clifton
on:	1642/11/28
to:	Cary Gardiner Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
Notes:	chat (Mrs Beimett?, Mr Ffisher, Sir Tho Gardiner, the Princess, Sir William Palmer

05–024

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1642/11/29?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/12/01
Notes:	chat; money matters; military matters

05–025

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
on:	1642/12/02
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (note requesting payment of £10 to Richard Preston Taylor, Col Richard Gibson has received £10 in Dubline from SRV

05–026

Sent by:	Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1642/12/03?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/12/05
Notes:	chat; legal matters (Cary); money matters

05–027

Sent by:	E Sidenham Sydenham, Sir Edward
on:	1642/11/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	money matters (Mr Dennington, rent of the prison)

05–028

Sent by:	Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1642/12/07?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/12/09
Notes:	legal matters?

05–029

Sent by:	Lady Cary Gardiner Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1642/12/11?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/12/13
Notes:	chat (parliament); family matters; money matters

05–030

Sent by:	Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1642/12/11?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/12/13
Notes:	chat; military matters (king, Buckinghamshire); legal matters (bro Edward)

05–031

Sent by:	Sir Edward Siddenham Sydenham, Sir Edward
from:	Oxford
on:	1642/12/03
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/12/16
Notes:	business matters (thanks, Merydash, London); chat

05–032

Sent by:	Hon Margaret Eure Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:	1642/12/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/12/19
Notes:	money matters (Carter, bro Thorne?, London, need for money, Mr Crawford, Lord Mair?, George Warde, Sir Richard Cooke)

05–033

Sent by:	Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1642/12/14?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/12/16
Notes:	military matters; chat

05–034

Sent by:	Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1642/12/17?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/12/19
Notes:	chat
Queries:	very hard to read

05–035

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/12/20
to:	sweet maddam' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	chat (letters read, Lady Gawdy, cousin Charles)

05–036

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1642/12/20??
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	draft letter, all crossed out, SRV's hand

05–037

Sent by:	Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1642/12/22?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/12/24
Notes:	chat
Queries:	very hard to read

05–038

Sent by:	Magdalen Bruce Faulkner, Magdalen [Mrs Bruce]
from:	Castelyoues
on:	1642/12/26
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1642 (or 1643?)/02/18
Notes:	money matters (Lord of Cork, Mr Coure of Cheyesid); military matters (English, parliament, Sir Charles Uascester?); family matters (cousin Thornton)

05–039

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1642/12/27
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	papers relating to Lord Primate of Armagh preaching in Covent Garden, list of names and amount paid; separate page - money matters (receipt for £17/10/6 by Will Maddisons from SRV, Lord Primate of Armagh)
Queries:	separate page on same item 1643/04/03; annotated writings to James Harrington

05–040

Sent by:	Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1642/12/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/12/27
Notes:	chat

05–041

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1650/00/00?
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	list for 1650, handwritten, possible number of items per month

05–042

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1642/12/31?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1642/01/02
Notes:	chat (letters intercepted)

05–043

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Fleet prison?
on:	1643/01/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1642/01/11
Notes:	military matters (Radford Lodge?, Ffanum castle, Oxford, Chichester, were plundered of all except clothes on their backs, brother been twice, his imprisonment, aks for book of common prayer); political matters (shall be called to House of Commons to answer, doc, Mr Sage)

05–044

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1643/01/13
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/01/13
Notes:	money matters (money to be fed, desperate need for money)

05–045

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/01/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1642/01/13
Notes:	chat (little Polly, Mr Elmes, Sir Hopton?)

05–046

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1643/01/16
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1642/01/17
Notes:	political matters (informed was spoken of in Horne? Tavern in Fleet St by 3 or 4 men who said he deserved hanging, yet SRV in good favour with parliament, so asks why did not seek his release, heard SRV annoyed at letter he had sent him, Mr Gregory)

05–047

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/01/15?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1642/01/17
Notes:	chat; military matters

05–048

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/01/18?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1642/01/20
Notes:	chat (sequestration, parliament, Oxford)
Queries:	hard to read

05–049

Sent by:	Phillip Stokes Stokes, Philip
on:	1643/01/23
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	legal matters (copy of his will, Whitwood and Barton, William Stokes, Symon Gale, Robert Gale, William Grange, Robert Grange, Edw Butterfield)

05–050

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/01/21?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/01/23
Notes:	chat (Mr Tiseman?, Mr ?); money matters; military matters (Oxford, London)
Queries:	hard to read

05–051

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1643/01/27
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/01/27
Notes:	chat (his imprisonment, SRV's unkindness,); money matters (Mr Gregory, injustice and his need for money, Barbados)

05–052

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/01/26?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1642/01/28
Notes:	chat (her sadness, brother Crofts, London, has sent some puddings and little cakes); money matters

05–053

Sent by:	Thomas Verney? Verney, Thomas
from:	Saxham?
on:	1643/01/00??
to:	madam' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	chat; family matters (asks her to care for his daughter Hester, sends letter by his son)

05–054

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/01/28?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1642/01/30
Notes:	family matters (sorry to hear about the trouble his brother is causing, Holland)

05–055

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1643/01/31
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/01/31
Notes:	political matters (has a petition, asks him to alter it as he wishes, Sir Alexander Denton's man, gaining his liberty)

05–056

Sent by:	Magdalen Bruce Faulkner, Magdalen [Mrs Bruce]
from:	Castlelyton?
on:	1643/02/01
to:	Richard, Earl of Cork Boyle, Richard, Earl of Cork
Notes:	chat (ladyship's recovery from desperate sickness, Mrs Finike?); money matters (Mr Boyle, Mr Croone, receipt of £100 from SRV in London, Joshua Boyle)

05–057

Sent by:	Magdalen Bruce Faulkner, Magdalen [Mrs Bruce]
from:	Castlelyton?
on:	1643/02/02
to:	?SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/04/10
Notes:	family matters; money matters (money left to her by grandmother Denton, Lord of Cork, asks to deliver the money to Mr Crone at Cheapside, London, Nags Head, Joshua Boyle)

05–058

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/02/02?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/02/04
Notes:	chat (Yorkshire); money matters

05–059

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/02/08?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1642/02/10
Notes:	chat; military matters

05–060

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1643/02/10?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/02/12
Notes:	political matters (Capt Hutter? Escaped, worried will be moved to another prison, asks him to move it to the house, brother Alennery?); money matters (his need for money)

05–061

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
from:	SRV?
on:	1643/02/14?
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1642/02/16
Notes:	chat (Cary); military matters (? Had house taken away

05–062

Sent by:	John Foader? John Foader?
on:	1643/02/19?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1642/02/21
Notes:	money matters (letter accompanied by workman's bill)

05–063

Sent by:	Harry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:	1643/02/19
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/02/21
Notes:	chat (Sir Ed Sidenham got him to be mayor of ?, Oxford, Dr, Cary never looked better in her life than now, Cooke has done him ill, Lady Siddenham); military matters (kissed the king's hand)

05–064

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Fleet prison?
on:	1643/02/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/02/21
Notes:	money matters (reminds him of his need for money)

05–065

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/02/20?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/02/22
Notes:	chat (she has a cold, asses milk)

05–066

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Fleet prison?
on:	1643/02/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/02/22
Notes:	money matters (disappointed with SRV's unkindness, Fleet, his need for money)

05–067

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Dublin
on:	1643/02/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	money matters (request to pay Mr Francis Rogers, Samuel Lanington)

05–068

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Dublin
on:	1643/02/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/03/25 (query other dates - all 1643?)
Notes:	money matters (if has any money of his please pay to Mr Michael Castyle, Mr Raphael Hunt

05–069

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Dublin
on:	1643/02/21
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/03/25
Notes:	family matters (not heard from him for 5 months, does not want dispute, says is on the king's side but does not want that to cause difference); money matters (father's will, request for his money, Mr Rogers); military matters (Sir Richard Greenfield, Flanders, England); chat (Col John Barry, Lord Marquis of Ormond's house, Dublin, Raphael Hant?)

05–070

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/02/26?
to:	aunt Eure Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
Notes:	chat (England)
Queries:	26 Feb/7 Mar

05–071

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/02/26
to:	Nathaniel Hobart Hobart, Sir Nathaniel
Notes:	chat
Queries:	26 Feb/7 Mar

05–072

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/02/26
to:	brother Gardiner Gardiner, Sir Thomas
Notes:	chat
Queries:	26 Feb/7 Mar

05–073

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1644/02/26??
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	draft letter, all crossed out
Queries:	with previous, given its date

05–074

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/02/26
to:	Ann Hobert Hobart, Ann [Leeke]
Notes:	chat; draft letter, mostly crossed out
Queries:	26 Feb/7 Mar

05–075

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/02/26
to:	John Fountaine? Fountaine, John
Notes:	chat; draft letter, mostly crossed out
Queries:	26 Feb/7 Mar

05–076

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/02/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/02/27
Notes:	chat

05–077

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1643/02/27
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/02/27
Notes:	money matters (requests money)

05–078

Sent by:	Harry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:	1643/02/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/02/28
Notes:	chat (danger of journey, Mun, Mr Willers, Holland); money matters (Mr Cooke, his father's money, Dr, brother Gardiner);

05–079

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1643/03/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1642/02/28
Notes:	money matters

05–080

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/03/03
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/03/03
Notes:	chat (her brother ?, brother Edward, London)
Queries:	hard to read

05–081

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1643/03/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1642/03/07
Notes:	chat (has been unwell, needed leeches); money matters

05–082

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/03/06?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1642/03/08
Notes:	chat

05–083

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/03/12?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1642/03/13
Notes:	chat (he is her only friend, about her money, France, Edward)

05–084

Sent by:	Henry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
from:	Oxford
on:	1643/03/12
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/03/14
Notes:	chat (Dr)
Queries:	hard to read

05–085

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/03/12??
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	legal matters (about a will)
Queries:	poss part of letter 05-084 above

05–086

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1643/03/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	family matters (may have heard he is to marry but will do the best he can to stop it going ahead, his health, asks for petition to House of Coomons for a week's liberty)
Queries:	annotated received on 16 Mar

05–087

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/03/15?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/03/17
Notes:	chat (about her family business)

05–088

Sent by:	Henry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
from:	Oxford
on:	1643/03/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/03/21
Notes:	chat; family matters (Sir Edw)

05–089

Sent by:	Thomas Cadman Cadman, Mr Thomas
on:	1643/02/09
to:	?sir [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	military matters (Lord Govn, 2 gentlemen of regiment ill so first place to 'you', Sir William Beswell)
Queries:	possibly enclosed with letter 05-088 above

05–090

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/03/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/03/22
Notes:	chat (Oxford)
Queries:	hard to read

05–091

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1643/03/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/03/22
Notes:	family matters (thinks there is a poisoner in the Fleet, engaged to a good woman 'for my dyett', wants liberty for his health); money matters (request for money)

05–092

Sent by:	Henry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
from:	the Hague? 'Hauge'
on:	1643/03/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1641/03/27?
Notes:	military matters (Sir Thomas Stafford cannot yet promise to find him a company); money matters (his father)
Queries:	dates confusing, m/s states 1642 new style, annotated received 1641

05–093

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/03/29
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/03/30
Notes:	chat (her family matters, bro Tom ?)
Queries:	hard to read

05–094

Sent by:	John Denton Denton, John [of Fawler, Oxfordshire]
on:	1643/04/01
to:	Lady Verney Verney, Mary [Blacknall] d.1650
Notes:	chat (excessively flattering)

05–095

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/04/01?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/04/03
Notes:	chat (her family matters)
Queries:	hard to read

05–096

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/04/10?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/04/03
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	hard to read

05–097

Sent by:	Hon Margaret Eure Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
from:	York
on:	1643/04/03
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/04/12
Notes:	chat (London)

05–098

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/04/05?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/04/07
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	hard to read

05–099

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Dublin
on:	1643/04/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/05/02
Notes:	money matters (bill of exchange for £20, James Butler, Raphael Hunt)

05–100

Sent by:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/04/00??
to:	madam' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	legal matters (on behalf of Lady Sussex for whom he is a feoffee in trust, lease of land, asks for a speedy conclusion)
Queries:	draft letter? Many crossings out

05–101

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Dublin
on:	1643/04/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/05/02
Notes:	chat (not heard from him for 6 or 7 months, Mr Rogers); military matters (times grow worse in Ireland, kingdom could be lost, officers need money, Lord Marquess of Ormond, rebels, Colonel Cullen?, Srgt Major Butler and 6 more taken prisoner, Lord Moore, Col Gibson's regt); money matters (bill of exchange, asks him to pay); chat (sister Verney)

05–102

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/04/08?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/04/10
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	hard to read

05–103

Sent by:	Sir Edward Siddenham Sydenham, Sir Edward
on:	1643/04/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/04/19
Notes:	money matters (received money from John Denton and Miss Gryffith?, money due to SRV for rent of house in Southwark, Mr Wythering?); political matters (hopes of peace gone)

05–104

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/04/12?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/04/14
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	hard to read

05–105

Sent by:	Hon Margaret Eure Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
from:	York
on:	1643/04/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/04/25
Notes:	money matters; chat (shall be forced to come south for her health as too cold, London)

05–106

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/04/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/04/17
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	hard to read

05–107

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/04/21
to:	brother' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	family matters (had received letters but so full of sharpness that chose to avoid them, Mr Rogers, Tom married though still in the Fleet); money matters (paid £20 on bill of exchange); chat (Sir W Lister?, Mrs Lambest?)

05–108

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/04/19?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/04/21
Notes:	chat
Queries:	hard to read

05–109

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/04/22?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/04/24
Notes:	chat (about her family business, her brother)

05–110

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/04/24?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/04/26
Notes:	chat (about her family business)

05–111

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1641/01/25
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (note of money owed by bro Edmund)
Queries:	SRV's handwriting

05–112

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/04/29?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/05/01
Notes:	chat (took chest from goldsmith)

05–113

Sent by:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/04/00??
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (notes about tobacco, Ireland)
Queries:	SRV's handwriting

05–114

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Fleet prison
on:	1643/05/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/05/01
Notes:	political matters (Redding, Earl of Essex, parliament, the king); family matters (wants his liberty to go to Barbados, asksi if SRV will petition for him)

05–115

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/04/29?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/05/01
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	hard to read

05–116

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/05/03?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/05/05
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	hard to read

05–117

Sent by:	Sir Edward Siddenham Sydenham, Sir Edward
on:	1643/05/04?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/05/06
Notes:	chat (thanks)

05–118

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/05/06?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/05/08
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	hard to read

05–119

Sent by:	Col Henry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:	1643/05/08
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/05/12
Notes:	chat; money matters

05–120

Sent by:	Elizabeth Isham Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
on:	1643/04/00??
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/05/09
Notes:	money matters (thanks him, asks for advice, Dr, Brill, forest land); chat (Denton, Mrs Allcoke?, Claydon?, Miss Hobards maid killed)

05–121

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/05/10?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/05/12
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	hard to read

05–122

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1643/05/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/05/14
Notes:	money matters (asks for help, Barbados, England); political matters

05–123

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/05/12?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/05/14
Notes:	chat (has had a cold, Oxford)

05–124

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1643/05/16
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/05/16
Notes:	family matters (uncle tells him is likely to be moved to another prison, asks SRV to ensure that he has same liberties there - ie. To be at liberty with his keeper once or twice a week, king's bench, prefers to stay at the cheaper prison, ready to depart for Barbados)

05–125

Sent by:	Sir Edward Siddenham Sydenham, Sir Edward
on:	1643/05/14?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/05/16
Notes:	chat

05–126

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/05/16?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/05/18
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	hard to read

05–127

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1643/06/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/06/01
Notes:	family matters (preparations for going to Barbados but wife's mother will not let her go, he does not know what to do, his health, intends to spend several months in the country, Hasileidge?, has bought two horses); money matters (requests £10, concern about other monies)

05–128

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/05/31?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/06/02
Notes:	chat

05–129

Sent by:	Pen Verney Verney, Pen[elope Denton/Osborne d. 1695]
on:	1643/06/03
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
Notes:	family matters; chat (Mr Abill? the apothecary,Mrs Roles?, money)

05–130

Sent by:	Tho Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1643/06/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/06/05
Notes:	money matters (request for money, Capt Rich., horses)

05–131

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/06/04?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/06/06
Notes:	chat (Sir Thomas Childe?, Sir Alexander Denton, Sir Edward)

05–132

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/06/07?
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/06/09
Notes:	chat

05–133

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Clapham
on:	1643/06/09
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	chat (Mr Cortin's house searched following information supplied by a perfidious servant, plate entrusted to him by Mr Edinion Porter?, Lady Katherine asked him to be present at opening of the boxes, Charles Snelling, bro Edward, bro Mayne's horses taken away yesterday)

05–134

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1643/06/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/06/12
Notes:	money matters (asks him to pay Michaelmas quarteredge when due , London)

05–135

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/06/10?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/06/12
Notes:	chat (her family business)
Queries:	hard to read

05–136

Sent by:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/06/08??
to:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/06/17
Notes:	note about a gardener

05–137

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/06/17?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/06/19
Notes:	chat (her family business)

05–138

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/06/21
to:	Sir Phillip Stapelton Sir Phillip Stapelton
Notes:	family matters (about Sir Thomas Gardiner - Capt Gardiner - if taken prisoner)

05–139

Sent by:	Sir Thomas Gardiner Gardiner, Sir Thomas
from:	Windsor Castle
on:	1643/06/22
to:	Lady Verney Verney, Mary [Blacknall] d.1650
Notes:	chat (released from Windsor Castle, thanks her for kindness, Thame?, Lord General, London)
Queries:	recipe on envelope for a herbal brew includes wormwood and milk, written in another hand

05–140

Sent by:	Sir Thomas Gardiner Gardiner, Sir Thomas
on:	1643/06/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/06/24
Notes:	chat (now at liberty, Dr)

05–141

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/06/21?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/06/23
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	hard to read

05–142

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/06/21?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/06/23
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	hard to read

05–143

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/06/28?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/06/30
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	hard to read

05–144

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/07/01
to:	annotated to 'Tom's wife' Verney, Joyce
Notes:	family matters (apologises for his brother going to sea, could not prevent it or the marriage)

05–145

Sent by:	Joyce Verney Verney, Joyce
on:	1643/07/00??
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/07/01
Notes:	family matters (his bro Mr Verney?, Sir Brian Hasteriggs?); military matters; money matters

05–146

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/07/01?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/07/03
Notes:	chat; money matters (rent, Sir Edward, Sir Alexander Denton)

05–147

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/07/03?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/07/05
Notes:	money matters (rent, Lady Mary, Sir Edward)

05–148

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/07/08?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/07/10
Notes:	legal matters (copy of lease, Sir Edward); chat (her family matters)

05–149

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/07/10?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/07/12
Notes:	chat (her family matters)?
Queries:	hard to read

05–150

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/07/15?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/07/17
Notes:	chat (her family matters, noble lord lost use of his leg)

05–151

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/07/07?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/07/09
Notes:	chat (Sir William ?, Oxford, Cary)

05–152

Sent by:	Lady Cary Gardiner Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1643/07/18?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/07/20
Notes:	family matters

05–153

Sent by:	Lady Cary Gardiner Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1643/07/18?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	handwritten transcription of letter 05-152 above

05–154

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/07/19?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/07/21
Notes:	chat

05–155

Sent by:	Rich Berrow Berrow, Rich[ard]
on:	1643/07/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/07/23
Notes:	chat (death of Lord Sussex, Lady Willet?)

05–156

Sent by:	Rich Berrow Berrow, Rich[ard]
on:	1643/07/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	handwritten transcription of letter 05-155 above

05–157

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/07/21?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/07/23
Notes:	chat (death of her husband, SRV her best friend)

05–158

Sent by:	Hon Margaret Eure Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:	1643/07/21?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/07/23
Notes:	chat (asks for help)

05–159

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/07/23?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/07/25
Notes:	chat

05–160

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/07/24?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/07/26
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	hard to read

05–161

Sent by:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/07/28
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	household matters? - list of items

05–162

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/07/26?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/07/28
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	hard to read

05–163

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/07/30?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/08/01
Notes:	money matters; chat

05–164

Sent by:	Elizabeth Isham Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
on:	1643/09/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/09/15
Notes:	money matters (does not know what interest paid, cousin Maddline)

05–165

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/07/31?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/08/02
Notes:	chat

05–166

Sent by:	Dorothy Leake Leeke, Dorothy [Doll]
on:	1643/08/08?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/08/10
Notes:	political matters (king, parliament); family matters (Sir Edward)

05–167

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/08/09?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/08/11
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	hard to read

05–168

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1643/08/00??
to:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
Notes:	chat (Mr M?,); money matters (all money he wrote for is paid, Mr Roydes?, grandmother Verney)

05–169

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/08/12?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/08/14
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	hard to read

05–170

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/08/14?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/08/16
Notes:	chat (Sir James Childe?); legal matters (deed, Sir Edward)

05–171

Sent by:	Susan Verney Alport, Susanna [Verney] d.1651
from:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1643/08/18
to:	Lady Ursula Verney Verney, Ursula, Lady
Received at:	Hampshire
Notes:	chat

05–172

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/08/16?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/08/18
Notes:	chat (Sir Thomas Childe?, Lord Wharton

05–173

Sent by:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/08/00??
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	family matters? (sister Margaret, London, GR)

05–174

Sent by:	Elinor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/08/19?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/08/21
Notes:	legal matters

05–175

Sent by:	Rob Gill Gill, Rob
from:	Crutched Friars, London
on:	1643/08/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
Notes:	business matters (about sending goods to Holland, found a ship)

05–176

Sent by:	Rob Gill? Gill, Rob
on:	1643/08/24?
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	business matters (note to captain's of ships, SRV)
Queries:	possibly enclosed with letter 05-175 above

05–177

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Chigwell
on:	1643/08/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	chat

05–178

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/08/29
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury nr St Albans
on:	1643/08/29
Notes:	military matters (Lord General, Lord of Manchester, Gloucester)

05–179

Sent by:	Sir John Leake Leeke, Sir John
from:	Chigwell
on:	1643/09/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/09/07
Notes:	chat (about geldings)

05–180

Sent by:	Pen Verney Verney, Pen[elope Denton/Osborne d. 1695]
on:	1643/09/03?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/09/07
Notes:	family matters (WR, London, uncle Dr)
Queries:	hard to read

05–181

Sent by:	Lady Ursula Verney Verney, Ursula, Lady
on:	1643/09/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	family matters (Harry (Henry Verney) taken prisoner, about a woman, shall want money, London)

05–182

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/09/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury nr St Albans
on:	1643/09/05
Notes:	military matters (Earl of Manchester, money, Earl of Essex, Gloucester); political matters (Exeter, Mr Constantine, Sir William Waller, Dr Burgess,, Assembley, Covenant, Oxford, Scotland, the king)

05–183

Sent by:	Susan Verney Alport, Susanna [Verney] d.1651
on:	1643/09/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/09/06
Notes:	chat (Mr Machells, uncle Doctor, commissioners, horse)

05–184

Sent by:	Susan Verney Alport, Susanna [Verney] d.1651
on:	1643/09/05
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/09/06
Notes:	duplicate of letter 05-183 above, additional note in another hand

05–185

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
from:	the Parson's House
on:	1643/09/06
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/09/09
Notes:	miltary matters (Oxon, the king); family matters (Willmot, Lady Lee, Peg, Pen, Landlady); business matters

05–186

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1643/09/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	handwritten transcription of letter 05-185 above

05–187

Sent by:	Sir John Leake Leeke, Sir John
on:	1643/09/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury nr St Albans
on:	1643/09/06
Notes:	military matters (Capt Fletcher, Sir Henry Mildmay, took the bay gelding, Ormund, John Mawchiell?, took bay gelding, Capt Hatcher, Stratford)

05–188

Sent by:	Susan Verney Alport, Susanna [Verney] d.1651
on:	1643/09/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury nr St Albans
on:	1643/09/09
Notes:	chat (London, Miss Dallsage?)

05–189

Sent by:	Peter Chamberlane Chamberlane, Peter
from:	Rotterdam? London?
on:	1643/09/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/09/21
Notes:	business matters (Rotterdam, goods, Dixon's ship, Gravesend)

05–190

Sent by:	Sir John Leake Leeke, Sir John
on:	1643/09/12
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury nr St Albans
on:	1643/09/14
Notes:	chat (about the geldings)

05–191

Sent by:	William Bell Bell, William
on:	1643/09/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury nr St Albans
on:	1643/09/14
Notes:	chat (laxative, Sir Gilbert Garrund?); money matters (Sir James Harrington); political matters (sequestration, Mr Speaker)

05–192

Sent by:	Pen Verney Verney, Pen[elope Denton/Osborne d. 1695]
on:	1643/09/15?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/09/15
Notes:	chat; money matters (sis Susan's bond, uncle Mun); family matters

05–193

Sent by:	William Bell Bell, William
on:	1643/09/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury nr St Albans
on:	1643/09/16
Notes:	political matters (Mr Bondnoth, Sir Gilbert Starrett?, Mr ?, member of house of lemons, Mr Speaker, Mr Rainolds?)

05–194

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/09/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury nr St Albans
on:	1643/09/16
Notes:	political matters (House of Commons, informed that SRV gone to Oxford, Mr Rainolds, no news of sequestration)l military matters (Lord General, Col Marcy?, Gloucester, Teuxberry, king at Worcester, Exeter, Scotch Covenant agreed upon, Scots, signed Warwick)

05–195

Sent by:	Lady Margaret Hewytt Hewitt, Margaret Lady
on:	1643/09/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/09/19
Notes:	chat (plunderers came to her house packing up her goods, turning her out of doors, Mr Corbitt, stay of her goods till next Friday, his business, Mr Moore)

05–196

Sent by:	Elizabeth Isham Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
on:	1643/09/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/09/18
Notes:	money matters (Miss Leake, money lent to Mr Isham and herself, she thinks she has paid it); caht (physic, Miss JD)

05–197

Sent by:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/09/11
to:	William Roades Roades, William
Notes:	note asking WR to be careful of all his estate
Queries:	annotated 'enclosed in a letter'

05–198

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/09/00??
to:	maddam' (Lady Margaret Hewytt?) Hewitt, Margaret Lady
Notes:	chat (sorry for her sufferings, Mr Moore, writings)
Queries:	draft letter?

05–199

Sent by:	Pen Verney Verney, Pen[elope Denton/Osborne d. 1695]
on:	1643/09/16
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/09/18
Notes:	family matters (Pen)?
Queries:	hard to read

05–200

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/09/19
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	handwritten transcription of 2 letters about loss of apparell, the George, Laburne?, Ampthill, Woodburn)
Queries:	2nd letter dated 21st Sept, no names of recipient or writer

05–201

Sent by:	Peter Chamberlane Chamberlane, Peter
from:	Rotterdam?
on:	1643/09/09
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/09/19
Notes:	business matters (in hands of the Turks,, Hope, Margate, Dover?, Mr Dixon, Rotterdam)

05–202

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/09/19
to:	sir' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	original m/s of letter 05-114 above; family matters (apparell taken from sister of his, asks help in getting it returned, the George in Coburne?)

05–203

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/09/21
to:	sir' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	original second letter of 05-114 above

05–204

Sent by:	William Roades? Roades, William
on:	1643/09/20
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	estate matters (report on crops such as oats, wood, logs)

05–205

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/09/20
to:	sweet daughter' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	legal matters (feoffees, had to resort to counsel to find a way to secure his estate); family matters (does not want them to fall out)

05–206

Sent by:	William Roades? Roades, William
on:	1643/09/20
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	estate matters (list referring to horses at Claydon)

05–207

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/09/20?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	envelope, does not seem to relate to a letter

05–208

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Gorhamlems?
on:	1643/09/20
to:	madam' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	legal matters (on behalf of Lady Sussex for whom he is a feoffee in trust, lease of land)

05–209

Sent by:	Sir John Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir John
on:	1643/09/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorambury, nr St Albans
on:	1643/09/21
Notes:	chat (English, Ampthill)

05–210

Sent by:	Sir John Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir John
on:	1643/09/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	handwritten transcription of letter 05-123 above

05–211

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/09/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury nr St Albans
on:	1643/09/23
Notes:	military matters (Leicester?, Sir Nicholas Brigg, Col Spencer, Prince Maurise?, London, Sir Will Waller voted governor of Portsmouth, Lady Aubignes, Oxford, some say Hall is taken others that Hall has drowned, Newcastle's forces); political matters (Sir Edward Bamton lies in the Tower, Lord of Denby?), signed Warwick

05–212

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/09/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury nr St Albans
on:	1643/09/23
Notes:	military matters (Sgt Major Barnfield. Col Tucker, Capt Hunt, Linton Feilds?); political matters (House of Commons, the Covenant, St Margaret's church in Westminster, Mr Nie?, Scotland, Dr Goodge); chat (lincolnshire)

05–213

Sent by:	Jonas Abeels [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/09/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/09/29
Notes:	business matters (safe arrival of his 14 trunks and 5 cases, Mr Langhorne, storage, charges)

05–214

Sent by:	Henry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:	1643/09/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincolnshire
on:	1643/09/28
Notes:	family matters (Mr Budges, has been taaken prisoner, now in Portsmouth, asks to get him removed to London, Oxford,Sir ? Sidden, Holland, Col Whitehead, Queen's Head)

05–215

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/09/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury nr St Albans
on:	1643/09/26
Notes:	political matters (Carnarvon, Falkland, ? Marquess ?. Lord Carlisle, Digby, Germin, Oxford, Prince Rupert's witch is slain, the Covenant, the Scotch, St Margaret's in Westminster, Lord Gray or Ruthin,, Mr Bond, Broadstreet,, London)

05–216

Sent by:	Miles Temple Temple, Miles
from:	Dover
on:	1643/09/26
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/09/28
Notes:	business matters (Capt Battin?, Mr Greene?)
Queries:	hard to read

05–217

Sent by:	Susan Verney Alport, Susanna [Verney] d.1651
from:	Chigwell
on:	1643/09/27
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury nr St Albans
on:	1643/09/28
Notes:	family matters (cousin Denton, uncle Lister?)

05–218

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/09/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury nr St Albans
on:	1643/09/28
Notes:	political matters (attended the House, just 3 who had not taken the Covenants, Sir Harry Vane, Mr Sollisick?, Sir John Franklin?,, Mr Hollis, Sir W Lewis Wheeler, Sir W Litton, Lord Munson, Sir Th Dacres, Sir J Hipsly, Mr Prise); military matters (inquired about his brother, Sir Walter Erle,, Poole, Col Verney

05–219

Sent by:	Sir John Leake Leeke, Sir John
on:	1643/09/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury nr St Albans
on:	1643/09/29
Notes:	family matters (niece Sue, news from London that Sir Henry Verney taken prisoner); money matters (Toddington)

05–220

Sent by:	Dr Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1643/09/30
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury nr St Albans
on:	1643/10/01
Notes:	chat (setting up a meeting, Landlady)

05–221

Sent by:	Pen Verney Verney, Pen[elope Denton/Osborne d. 1695]
on:	1643/09/30
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/10/01
Notes:	money matters (Mr Roades)
Queries:	very hard to read

05–222

Sent by:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/09/28
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	legal matters; political matters; estate matters (notice about sequestering estate of such members as neglect the service of the house, names include Sir Alexander Denton)
Queries:	possibly note written by SRV

05–223

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/09/28
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	handwritten transcription of notice 05-136 above

05–224

Sent by:	Elizabeth Isham Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
on:	1643/09/30
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/09/30
Notes:	money matters (Mr Borshe?, Roades, Dr, the bond)

05–225

Sent by:	Mr John Fountaine Fountaine, John
on:	1643/09/00??
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/10/01
Notes:	chat (wants to meet before departure)

05–226

Sent by:	R? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
from:	London
on:	1643/09/00??
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	fragment of letter

05–227

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/09/00??
to:	Mary Verney? 'my hart' Verney, Mary [Blacknall] d.1650
Notes:	family matters (sadness at parting)

05–228

Sent by:	Peter Chamberlane Chamberlane, Peter
on:	1643/09/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1643/09/29
Notes:	business matters (goods, Holland, Dover)

05–229

Sent by:	Harry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:	1643/10/02
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1643/10/05
Notes:	family matters (taken prisoner at Portsmouth, now hopes to be exchanged, C Donly?, Col Norton's regiment, Lady Trencher?, Siddenham); money matters (requests money)

05–230

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/10/03
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury
on:	1643/10/03
Notes:	business matters (details of letters, Miston, Mr Wallop, Mr Whithead, Sir Witt L?, Mr Baker, Sir John Norwich, Countess of Bedford?, Col Neale, Oxford, Hereford, waggoner and delivery of items, Mrs Mary Verney, books, AP, clothes, silver spoon, Lord of Manchester, Countess of Hereford); political matters (Mr Walter Mountagne is taken, letters intercepted which he brought from the Queen Regent of France, Sir Christopher Wray, Hull, Lord Fairfax, Lord of Newcastle, the Covenant, Whitlock Hollie?, Mr Jamie Fiengs?, Sir John Franklin, Sir Norton Snatchpoole), signed Warwicke

05–231

Sent by:	Frank Drake Drake, Francis [of Walton Surrey & Shardeloes]
on:	1643/10/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Countess of Sussex house, Gorhambury?
on:	1643/10/05
Notes:	business matters; political matters (order out for sequestration of his uncle Denton's estate and other persons if not present at the House by 10th of this month, alerts him to danger)

05–232

Sent by:	R D Walton? Walton, R D
from:	Covent Garden
on:	1643/10/01
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	family matters (says conveying letter to his brother might not help him so has sent it to Sir Roger Burgoyne)

05–233

Sent by:	Elizabeth Heath Heath, Elizabeth
from:	London
on:	1643/10/03
to:	? 'madame' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	household matters (sent hood, Luce, Mrs Mozin, sent an ounce of powder, 3 books, pamphlets); money matters (has paid 6/- for the 'peake', 12 pence for ?, Mr Burd, Mr Flales' man, asks for payment)

05–234

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/10/07
to:	Col Whitehead and Harry Verney Col Whitehead and Henry Verney d.1671
Notes:	family matters (asks for enclosed letter to be passed to his brother who is prisoner under his command); to Harry (Sir Edward, London, Col Whitehead, Lavington, glad he is likely to be exchanged)
Queries:	note to brother is beneath note to Col Whitehead

05–235

Sent by:	Frank Drake Drake, Francis [of Walton Surrey & Shardeloes]
from:	Charterhouse
on:	1643/10/09
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Countess of Sussex house, Gorhambury
on:	1643/10/10
Notes:	political matters (Mr Reynolds, the list, Haberdashers' Hall); military matters (Sir W Waller resigned his commission, Lord General?, 7 regiments of the City march on Reading); chat (uncle Denton)

05–236

Sent by:	Tho Baker Baker, Thomas
from:	Wickham
on:	1643/10/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/10/17
Notes:	family matters (Portsmouth, his brother a prisoner, Lady Verney)

05–237

Sent by:	Susan Verney Alport, Susanna [Verney] d.1651
on:	1643/10/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury
on:	1643/10/05
Notes:	chat (she has been very ill, is yellow and her aunt thinks might be jaundice, cold sweats, Dr Crag, Miss Ellises, Mary Newman, cousin ?, Miss Dollbears?, Mr Bell, Mr Frampton)

05–238

Sent by:	Margaret Hearst?/ Heath? Heath, Margaret
from:	London
on:	1643/10/06
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/10/07
Notes:	chat (about her difficulties)

05–239

Sent by:	Sir Hen Crofts? Crofts, Sir Henry
from:	Saxham
on:	1643/10/05?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury
on:	1643/10/07
Notes:	chat (sent basket of pears, offers his service, Lady of Sussex's horse)

05–240

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/10/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury, nr St Albans
on:	1643/10/07
Notes:	political matters (list of members, London, Mr Coleman); military matters (very bad from Leeds?, friend is escaped); Mr Walter Mountagne, signed W Wick

05–241

Sent by:	Susan Verney Alport, Susanna [Verney] d.1651
on:	1643/10/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury, nr St Albans
on:	1643/10/07
Notes:	chat (she is better, Dr Crag, he thinks was melancholy); money matters (uncle Leake, Mr Bell, Bess Heath)

05–242

Sent by:	John Denton Denton, John [of Fawler, Oxfordshire]
on:	1643/10/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1643/10/12
Notes:	political matters (London, about sequestration); money matters

05–243

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/10/10
to:	Sir Henry Croter Croter, Sir Henry
Notes:	handwritten transcription of letter; chat (thanks for the present, shall not say more lest letter miscarry)

05–244

Sent by:	W Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
from:	Hillsedon
on:	1643/10/10?
to:	James Temple Temple, James
Received at:	Elybury Fort, Essex
Notes:	family matters

05–245

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/10/10
to:	Sir Henry Croter Croter, Sir Henry
Notes:	original manuscript of letter 05-157 above

05–246

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Beadesmth?
on:	1643/10/10?
to:	Lady Verney (Mary Verney?) Verney, Mary [Blacknall] d.1650
on:	1643/10/12
Notes:	money matters (likely to be gaoled for rent arrears, request for money)

05–247

Sent by:	Nicholas Payne Payne, Nicholas
from:	London
on:	1643/10/12
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/10/12
Notes:	business matters; household matters (his goods at Dover, Samuel Lavington, Elizabeth Heath); money matters

05–248

Sent by:	Nicholas Payne Payne, Nicholas
from:	London
on:	1643/10/12
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	handwritten transcription of letter 05-161 above

05–249

Sent by:	Joyce Verney Verney, Joyce
on:	1643/10/00??
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury (Earl of Sussex house in Hertfordshire)
on:	1643/10/12
Notes:	family matters (his brother - her husband, she has parted with an estate and her father ready to do more); money matters (asks him to pay his quarter's annuity, her husband is away, she needs money, Sir John Maynard, London)

05–250

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/10/12
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury near St Albans
on:	1643/10/12
Notes:	political matters (the Covenant, Mr Coleman, LRP); chat (his wife's illness, Mrs Talsell?); military matters (Sir Will Waller laid down his commission)

05–251

Sent by:	Mary Verney Verney, Mary [Lloyd]
on:	1643/10/13
to:	for her 'brother' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/10/14
Notes:	money matters (will send money); chat (her health better)

05–252

Sent by:	Col Henry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:	1643/10/13
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/10/21
Notes:	family matters (about being exchanged)

05–253

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/10/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury near St Albans
on:	1643/10/14
Notes:	political matters; chat (his wife given birth to a girl), signed W Wick

05–254

Sent by:	? Verney [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/10/00??
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1643/10/19
Notes:	family matters (wants to come and see him)
Queries:	very hard to read

05–255

Sent by:	Pen Verney Verney, Pen[elope Denton/Osborne d. 1695]
on:	1643/10/16
to:	Lady Verney (Mary Verney?) Verney, Mary [Blacknall] d.1650
Notes:	chat

05–256

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1643/10/16
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincolns' Inn Fields, London
on:	1643/10/19
Notes:	chat (sends him a purge, Landlady); legal matters (Mr Hale, deed of discharge?, Littleton); money matters (Jugg, bonds)

05–257

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/10/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury near St Albans
Notes:	political matters (Sir W Law?, Lords took the Covenant, Lord of Lincoln not present, Lord of Northumberland), signed W Wick

05–258

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/10/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury near St Albans
on:	1643/10/17
Notes:	political matters (Covenant, Dog Tavern in Westminster, Mr Ja- F- not taken it yet, Mr Coleman); military matters (Reading, Earl of Manchester, Lord of Newcastle, 300 prisoners), signed W Wick

05–259

Sent by:	Luce Shephard? Sheppard, Luce
on:	1643/10/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/10/17
Notes:	chat (has received horse, hopes to see him shortly, taken physick and much better, Denton, Sir Ralph)

05–260

Sent by:	Peter Chamberlane Chamberlane, Peter
from:	Hague
on:	1643/11/02
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/10/28
Notes:	business matters (great number of parcels, Dixon); money matters (gilders, Mr Chicheley); chat (English, Hague)

05–261

Sent by:	Elizabeth Isham Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
on:	1643/10/17?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/10/19
Notes:	family matters (has received the writings, Will Bruer?, 'if you doe goe whare the man is I desier as you would call in you knoe whate', Mr Hale); money matters (land); chat (Claydon, Miss Ablcoke?, Bess Coleman)

05–262

Sent by:	Jn Chicheley Chicheley, Joseph
from:	Rotterdam
on:	1643/10/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincolns' Inn Fields, London
on:	1643/10/26
Notes:	business matters (London, ship, trunks, Rotterdam, Dixon, Chamberlin, Dover)

05–263

Sent by:	Pen Verney? Verney, Pen[elope Denton/Osborne d. 1695]
on:	1643/10/23
to:	SRV? Luce Shephard? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/10/28
Notes:	family matters (Mr Machill?, Ireland, house)
Queries:	envelope marked to L Sheppard but letter begins 'dear brother'

05–264

Sent by:	John Denton Denton, John [of Fawler, Oxfordshire]
on:	1643/10/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/10/24
Notes:	business matters (Hale, Mr Mayne, Mr Blower)
Queries:	hard to read

05–265

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Gorhambury, nr St Albans
on:	1643/10/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/10/24
Notes:	gossip (Prince 'Maurise' dead at Exeter of the 'new disease'); political matters (letters to the Speaker from Scotland in which declare readiness of Scots to come to England); business matters (trunks, Mr Doc.?, commodity ready at Aldersgate, letters, Mr ?, Martins, Mr Snell), signed W Wick
Queries:	PS dated 1643/10/24

05–266

Sent by:	?Pen Verney? Verney, Pen[elope Denton/Osborne d. 1695]
from:	Rotterdam
on:	1643/10/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	family matters (Mr Allcoke and the maid, Nan, have the childe away, she spoke of it to no one, Margaret); business matters (land, Dr ?)

05–267

Sent by:	Sir Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Dublin
on:	1643/10/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1643/11
Notes:	chat (England, Ireland, scarce know how to put bread in their mouths); money matters (has been forced to take £100 from Mr Hunt, hopes SRV will satisfy bill of exchange, his annuity, money due to him, Chamberlin, Leadenhall); family matters (sister Verney); military matters (England)

05–268

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Gorhambury, nr St Albans
on:	1643/10/26
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/10/26
Notes:	business matters (old gentleman has dispatched business, wishes there be no underhand dealing, 'Roan'); gossip (prince 'Maurise' is alive), signed W Wick

05–269

Sent by:	Pen Verney Verney, Pen[elope Denton/Osborne d. 1695]
on:	1643/10/27
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/10/31
Notes:	business matters (Mr Markitt?, Mr Butt?); money matters (cousin's badness, Ireland)
Queries:	hard to read

05–270

Sent by:	John Denton Denton, John [of Fawler, Oxfordshire]
from:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1643/10/27
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	nr St Albans
on:	1643/10/27
Notes:	military matters (army, St Albans, Exeter); business matters (Mr Lovat, Mr Blower, aulnage)
Queries:	hard to read

05–271

Sent by:	Herbert? Denington Dennington, Mr Henry
from:	London
on:	1643/10/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury
on:	1643/10/28
Notes:	business matters?
Queries:	very hard to read

05–272

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/10/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury
on:	1643/10/28
Notes:	business matters (letters, Holland post); military matters (Sir Henry Vane the younger, Mr Marshall, come from Scotland, Scots v willing to serve); political matters (Covenant), Littleton, signed W Wick

05–273

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
from:	Hillsedon
on:	1643/10/31
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/11/01
Notes:	business matters (Mr Hale, land), Governor of Aylesbury; chat (sister Eure fallen sick of smallpox, Mrs Alcock, Lady at Berkhamstead, London)

05–274

Sent by:	Jo Chicheley Chicheley, Joseph
from:	Rotterdam
on:	1643/10/31
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/10/28
Notes:	business matters

05–275

Sent by:	Jo Chicheley Chicheley, Joseph
from:	Rotterdam
on:	1643/10/03
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	business matters; money matters
Queries:	hard to read, roughly written

05–276

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/10/31
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury
on:	1643/10/31
Notes:	business matters (letters, gentlemen, Ro., old gentleman); money matters; signed W Wick

05–277

Sent by:	Sir Thomas Gardiner Gardiner, Sir Thomas
from:	Cuddesdon
on:	1643/10/00?
to:	Lady Verney (Mary Verney?) Verney, Mary [Blacknall] d.1650
Notes:	family matters (Mr Holdig, sister Pen, sister Palmer)

05–278

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1643/10/31
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	handwritten transcript of letter 05-187 above

05–279

Sent by:	Charles Doe Doe, Charles
from:	London
on:	1643/11/02
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury
on:	1643/10/31
Notes:	money matters (bill for £2/14/6, diamond ring)

05–280

Sent by:	Charles Doe Doe, Charles
from:	London
on:	1643/11/02
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	handwritten transcript of bill 05-193 above

05–281

Sent by:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/10/04
to:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	?
Queries:	faded and very hard to read

05–282

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/11/02
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury
on:	1643/11/02
Notes:	business matters (old gentleman, Mr Richard Tome?, St Nicholas Lane near 'Canning St' Cannon St?, Mr Minn); military matters (Scots, rebels in Ireland, Covenant), signed W Wick

05–283

Sent by:	John Denton Denton, John [of Fawler, Oxfordshire]
on:	1643/11/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincolns Inn Fields, London
Notes:	business matters (aulnage); money matters (Mr Mayne); ? Parker?
Queries:	hard to read

05–284

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/11/00?
to:	good bro' Sir Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
Notes:	Addressed to 'good bro' Sir Edmund Verney'. Family matters (Dublin); money matters (does not have the money to give him)
Queries:	draft letter?

05–285

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/11/00??
to:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	draft letter, mostly crossed out

05–286

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/11/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury
on:	1643/11/04
Notes:	political matters (Covenant, Mr T'mas. Sir Norton Knachpole, Sir Philip Parker could not take it); business matters; signed W Wick

05–287

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/11/07
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/11/07
Notes:	business matters (old gentleman, money); political matters (Mr Frances, Sir Norton Snatchpole, Sir Phillip Parker - all refused to take the Covenant); chat (Mr Coleman)

05–288

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1643/11/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	money matters (Mrs Is?, bonds, St Albans, Gorhambury, Earloton?, John); chat (Nattycocks, Landlady)

05–289

Sent by:	Susan Verney Alport, Susanna [Verney] d.1651
from:	Chigwell
on:	1643/11/05
to:	sweet sister' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	chat (Bess Heath, John Shuckhast?)

05–290

Sent by:	Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1643/11/07?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/11/09
Notes:	chat (about his situation?, goldsmith)
Queries:	very hard to read

05–291

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/11/09
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury near St Albans
on:	1643/11/10
Notes:	business matters (boxes, bundles); political matters (the 3 men not yet punished, Mr Pierpoint, the Covenant, Mr Browne, Earl of Holland?), signed W Wick

05–292

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/11/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury near St Albans
on:	1643/11/11
Notes:	chat (the gentleman's children, sequestering of goods, the other gentleman); gossip (French ambassador robbed of plate worth £2000-3000, Earls of Bedford, Clare and Carlisle come to town), signed W Wick

05–293

Sent by:	Harry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
from:	Portsmouth
on:	1643/11/13
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/11/14
Notes:	family matters (about his release, grant from the Prince, now little hope of liberty, asks for help, London)

05–294

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/11/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/11/14
Notes:	chat (old gentleman); gossip (French ambassador has his plate again, it was taken by his own country), signed W Wick

05–295

Sent by:	Henry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
from:	Portsmouth
on:	1643/11/13
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	handwritten transcription of letter 05-207 above

05–296

Sent by:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
from:	Charterhouse
on:	1643/10/14
to:	sir' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	business matters? (Mrs Miller, the gentleman)

05–297

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/11/16
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/11/17
Notes:	chat? (Mrs Alcock, Colman)
Queries:	very hard to read

05–298

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/11/14
to:	Lady Sussex (Eleanor, Countess of Sussex?) Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:	chat (now hasting to the ship, sorry to leave her)

05–299

Sent by:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
from:	London
on:	1643/11/00??
to:	Luce Sheppard, Luce
Notes:	legal matters? (Mr Birde, Mr Nott, searches office, Gravesend, Mr Bell, Mr Hals, Mrs Susan)
Queries:	part of a letter

05–300

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/11/16
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury, nr St Albans
on:	1643/11/16
Notes:	chat (the Scots, not yet heard of the 50, 60 or 70, his man been at countrywoman's for the 80); political matters (friend nearly sent down to Newport, but obtained leave from the house to go towards Kent), signed W Wick

05–301

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1643/11/16
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury
on:	1643/11/17
Notes:	business matters (H Parker, Fr Drake); chat (Steeple Claydon, Gorhambury, Aylesbury, Mr Bert, Mr Berry)

05–302

Sent by:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/11/00??
to:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	family matters? (troublesome times, Miss Pen, Miss Mary Verney, Claydon, Miss P, Pen, Betty, Sir D?)
Queries:	no salutation

05–303

Sent by:	Charles R Charles Ist
on:	1643/11/00??
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	legal matters (document allowing SRV and wife to go to France), signed Mr Secretary Nicholas

05–304

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/11/00??
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	business matters (note saying inventory of 17 bundles of linen)
Queries:	no inventory attached

05–305

Sent by:	John Denton Denton, John [of Fawler, Oxfordshire]
on:	1643/11/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/11/25
Notes:	business matters? (Mr Blowers)
Queries:	very hard to read

05–306

Sent by:	Frank Drake? Drake, Francis [of Walton Surrey & Shardeloes]
on:	1643/11/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury
on:	1643/11/24
Notes:	money matters (Suffolk)

05–307

Sent by:	Harry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
from:	Portsmouth
on:	1643/11/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincolns Inn Fields, London
on:	1643/11/24
Notes:	family matters (his situation, Mr Wallinns?, Col Whitehead)

05–308

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1643/11/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Gorhambury, nr St Albans
on:	1643/11/18
Notes:	business matters, signed W Wick

05–309

Sent by:	DL (Doll Leake?) Leeke, Dorothy [Doll]
on:	1643/11/00??
to:	dear cossen' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	chat; family matters (aunt V, Cary)

05–310

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/11/00??
to:	Will' (William Roades?) [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters; chat (tell Dr's wife delivered her deed of trust to her brother Littleton, sell the brown bay gelding quickly, Harding, Edmunds; estate matters (Nann, dispatch the sale of the wood at Okley ground and at the town where Mr Heron dwells, Alders, Goddards coppice); household matters (hopes has sold the pewter and timber, Whadden Maine, Moyse's bill, map of England)

05–311

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/11/00??
to:	Robert Reynolds Reynolds, Mr Robert
Notes:	business matters/political matters (unwilling to give the House the least offence so has resolved to take a journey, jealous spirits, Oxford, Parliament)

05–312

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/11/30
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	legal matters (pass for SRV - under name Sir Ralph Smith - and his wife to pass by water, Lea in Essex), signed Jo Bea?)

05–313

Sent by:	Elizabeth Isham Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
on:	1643/12/03
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	chat (soldiers, Sir Pie, ribbon)
Queries:	hard to read

05–314

Sent by:	Sir Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Oxford
on:	1643/12/05
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1644/02/26 (7 Mar)
Notes:	chat (Oxford, WR); money matters

05–315

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1643/12/00??
to:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
Notes:	chat (bids farewell, bound for ship which may be his grave)

05–316

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Oxford
on:	1643/12/05
to:	sweet sister' (Lady Mary Verney?) Verney, Mary [Blacknall] d.1650
Notes:	'Sweet sister'. family matters (asks her to mediate as has fallen out with his brother)

05–317

Sent by:	Rich Merydale Merydale, Richard
on:	1643/12/12
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/02/26 (7 Mar)
Notes:	business matters (John Denton, land)
Queries:	very hard to read

05–318

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
from:	Claydon
on:	1643/00/00???
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	money matters (request for money)

05–319

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Rotterdam
on:	1643/12/21
to:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:	chat (about the journey, tumultuous and violent wind), signed Ralph Smith
Queries:	21 Dec/31 Dec; draft letter?, many crossings out

05–320

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/12/27
to:	sir' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	business matters? (Sir N D?)

05–321

Sent by:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1643/12/31
to:	dear brother' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	chat (Sir Roger Burgoyne, Buck, Mr Bell, Sue); money matters (request for money), signed 'sister'

05–322

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1644/01/00??
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	list for 1644, handwritten, poss no of items per month

05–323

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1644/01/00??
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	legal matters (document in Dutch?)

05–324

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1644/01/04
to:	madam' (Mary Verney?) Verney, Mary [Blacknall] d.1650
Notes:	family matters (Landlady, sent physick for her boy who begins to relapse, Sir Edmund, Harry, Landlord)

05–325

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/01/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rotterdam
on:	1644/02/01 (11 Feb)
Notes:	chat; military matters (Lincoln, Sir G Moldrum?, Graston house?, major general Chivton?, Altum in Curney?, Sir William Waller, Arundel castle, England, in code, colonel Stiner?); business matters (Chant)
Queries:	a great deal of code - first appearance

05–326

Sent by:	Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1644/01/09
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/02/01 (11 Feb)
Notes:	chat (glad of his safe arrival); PS poss to Mary Verney
Queries:	very hard to read

05–327

Sent by:	Dr William Denton? Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1644/01/12
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/02/26 (7 Mar)
Notes:	chat
Queries:	very hard to read

05–328

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Rotterdam
on:	1644/01/14
to:	?'sir' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	business matters (Rouen, Mr Garlesse Lowelse?, Rotterdam, ship called The Fortune, asks to take care of his goods, money for freight, hopes searcher will not open anything)

05–329

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Rotterdam
on:	1644/01/14
to:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-243 above

05–330

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/01/25
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/02/01 (11 Feb)
Notes:	chat; political matters (in code, Earls of Bedford and Holland, London, House of Commons, earl of Eirmond?, Croton?); military matters (Sir Thomas Fairfax, Sir Will Breweton, Lord B Ferrer?, England, Lord Lanerish, Duke of Hamilton's brother, Oxford, Duke of Rutland?), signed in code 9.14.3 =9.16.10.4= War Wick

05–331

Sent by:	Lady Ursula Verney Verney, Ursula, Lady
on:	1644/01/27
to:	? 'sir' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1644/02/01 (11 Feb)
Notes:	chat

05–332

Sent by:	Lady Ursula Verney Verney, Ursula, Lady
on:	1644/01/29
to:	dear nephew' Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/02/08 (18 Feb)
Notes:	chat; family matters (his brother, Clarke)

05–333

Sent by:	Susan Verney Alport, Susanna [Verney] d.1651
on:	1644/02/01?
to:	SRV? 'sweet brother' Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	'Sweeet brother'. family matters

05–334

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/02/01
to:	SRV ('Ralph Smith') Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/02/08 (18 Feb)
Notes:	chat (letters, in code); military matters (Sir Thomas Fairfax, Sir William Breweson, the parliament, Scotland?, England, in code)
Queries:	a great deal of code

05–335

Sent by:	Sir Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
on:	1644/02/03
to:	SRV? 'good brother' Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/04/10 (20 Apr)
Notes:	'good brother' money matters (Mr Rogers, Will Roades, uncle Doctor, his want of money)

05–336

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/02/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/02/15 (25 Feb)
Notes:	political matters? (in code, Sir Edward Deering), signed in code

05–337

Sent by:	Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1644/02/09
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	chat (Blake Gaker?, Rome?, her rents in Buckinghamshire will fall to nothing, the will put most into her hands, soldiers ill paid, Lady Gorge?)
Queries:	very hard to read

05–338

Sent by:	Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1644/02/09
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-251 above

05–339

Sent by:	Sir Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
on:	1644/02/15
to:	sweet sister' (Mary Verney?) Verney, Mary [Blacknall] d.1650
Notes:	'Sweet sister' . money matters (she has not replied to his letters, wants an end to their dispute)

05–340

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/02/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/02/22 (3 Mar)
Notes:	military matters (Scots come as far as Newcastle, Fairfax, the parliament, regulating of both armies English and Scotch); political matters (lords of Oxford, the king, parliament, Earl of Essex, in code, Sir Will Drake, Sir John Holland, Lord Buckhurst), signed in code
Queries:	code part deciphered

05–341

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/02/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/02/28 (9 Mar)
Notes:	business matters (bill of exchange, in code), signed in code
Queries:	code part deciphered

05–342

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/02/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-255 above

05–343

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/02/26
to:	Doll Leake Leeke, Dorothy [Doll]
Notes:	chat
Queries:	26 Feb/7 Mar

05–344

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/02/26
to:	Lady Gardiner Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
Notes:	chat
Queries:	26 Feb/7 Mar

05–345

Sent by:	Dr William Denton? Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1644/02/00??
to:	sir' SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	business matters (in code, Mr Mun, Sir Edmund)

05–346

Sent by:	Dr William Denton? Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1644/02/26
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/02/26 (7 Mar)
Notes:	business matters (Mr Thomas, the knight)
Queries:	hard to read

05–347

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1644/02/00??
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/02/22 (3 Mar)
Notes:	envelope, to 'Mr Smith' no letter related to it

05–348

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/02/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/03/07 (17 Mar)
Notes:	chat (in code); military matters (Scots, Newcastle, Palsgrave, parliament); political matters (Covenant)

05–349

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/02/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-262 above
Queries:	code deciphered

05–350

Sent by:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
from:	London
on:	1644/03/06
to:	? 'sir' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	legal matters (lease of Cowley, Sir AD?, letter of Attorney, feoffee, Sir J Temple); money matters; family matters (Claydon, sister Susan, Capt Abercromy?, Addington)
Queries:	signature blacked out

05–351

Sent by:	John Denton Denton, John [of Fawler, Oxfordshire]
on:	1644/03/06
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/03/13 (23 Mar)
Notes:	business matters (Middle Claydon)
Queries:	hard to read

05–352

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/03/07
to:	Lady Siddenham Sydenham, Lady Anne
Notes:	chat
Queries:	26 Feb/7 Mar; draft letter? many crossings out

05–353

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/03/07
to:	Lady Siddenham Sydenham, Lady Anne
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-266 above

05–354

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/03/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/03/14 (24 Mar)
Notes:	business matters (in code); political matters (Lord of Westmoreland, parliament, Commonwealth, the king, Westminster, Oxford, Hillsdon House in Buckinghamshire, Sir Alexander Denton, young Smith, London); military matters (Col Cromwell, Oxford, Sir Will Udall is yet alive, in code)

05–355

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/03/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-268 above
Queries:	some code deciphered

05–356

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/02/26
to:	Sir Edward Siddenham Sydenham, Sir Edward
Notes:	chat; England

05–357

Sent by:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
from:	London
on:	1644/03/08
to:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	family matters (nephew Verney, aunt Eure, Goring)

05–358

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
from:	Newport
on:	1644/03/21
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (receipt for money, Thomas Verney, William Roades, SRV, John Andrews)

05–359

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1644/00/00???
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (receipt for £6, John Aris, Thomas Verney)

05–360

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1644/03/25
to:	William Roades Roades, William
Notes:	money matters (Mr Aris)

05–361

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/03/21
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/03/28 (7 Apr)
Notes:	chat (in code, Sir A Denton, Croton); military matters (Newburgh not yet taken, Newark, in code); political matters (king, parliament, Westminster, House of Commons, Scots, high treason, Low countries, Hopton castle, Shropshire, Mr Wallop's castle, besieged, 27 soldiers hacked, put in a pit and buried in lime), signed in code

05–362

Sent by:	Sir Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
on:	1644/03/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/03/28 (7 Apr)
Notes:	military matters (London, Lt General Cromwell, SRV, Winchester, Warwick?, Prince Rupert, Prince Maurice, Oxford, Scots, Newcastle)
Queries:	hard to read

05–363

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/03/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/04/03 (13 Apr)
Notes:	chat; military matters (Newark, Scots, Newcastle, in code), signed in code

05–364

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/03/29
to:	William Roades? Roades, William
Notes:	chat (letters, Moyses?, Croton); estate matters (tenants); money matters (Boulton, rents, Sutton, Tuckwell, Jerome, Horsly, in code)

05–365

Sent by:	Sam Lavington Lavington, Sam
on:	1644/04/31
to:	William Roades Roades, William
Received at:	Middle Claydon
Notes:	estate matters? (East Horsly, Will Brewer?)

05–366

Sent by:	Mall Verney? Verney, Mary [Lloyd]
on:	1644/03/31
to:	William Roades Roades, William
Received at:	Middle Claydon
Notes:	family matters (sister Susan, sister Pen, Sir Peter, aunt Verney)

05–367

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
on:	1644/03/00???
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	money matters
Queries:	undated note

05–368

Sent by:	Dol Leeke Leeke, Dorothy [Doll]
on:	1644/04/03
to:	SRV? ('Mr Smith') Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/04/10 (20 Apr)
Notes:	To Mr Smith. chat (his wife, letters, England, sister C)

05–369

Sent by:	? Ffloyd Lt Col ? Ffloyd Lt Col
on:	1644/04/02
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	military matters (authority for John Andrews to pass guards to Middle Claydon 'without molestation'

05–370

Sent by:	Sir Alex Denton Denton, Sir Alexander [d. 1645]
on:	1644/04/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/04/10 (20 Apr)
Notes:	military matters (Newark, Prince Rupert, Hopton, Winchester, col B?, London, Reading, Oxford, Lord Garett?)

05–371

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/04/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/04/10 (20 Apr)
Notes:	political matters? (Council of State, in code); military matters (Sir Witt Walker, Sir Witt Balfore?, Hopton, Lord John, ? J Richmond's brother, Earl of Forth, Sir John ? taken 200 of Prince Rupert's horse by Derby, Col Lambert, Mr John Ballas?, Sir Thomas Fairfax, Scots, in code); signed in code

05–372

Sent by:	Elizabeth Isham Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
on:	1644/04/08
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/04/10 (20 Apr)
Notes:	chat (unhappy times); money matters (request for money)

05–373

Sent by:	Dol Leeke Leeke, Dorothy [Doll]
on:	1644/04/07
to:	Lady Verney (Mary Verney?) Verney, Mary [Blacknall] d.1650
Notes:	family matters (Mun, Cook)

05–374

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/04/09
to:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
Notes:	family matters (England, letters, poor Harry)
Queries:	9 Apr/19 Apr

05–375

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/04/09
to:	Dr Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
Notes:	chat (letters, Lavington, London)
Queries:	hard to read; draft letters?

05–376

Sent by:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1644/04/10?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	political matters; business matters (about his absence from the house, he owes his country, Sir William Uvedale, Sir John Holland)
Queries:	anonymous letter?

05–377

Sent by:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1644/04/10?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-290 above

05–378

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/04/11
to:	SRV ('Ralph Smith') Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/04/17 (27 Apr)
Notes:	To 'Ralph Smith'. military matters (Sir Will Waller, Sir Ralph Hopton's forces, king intends to gather his forces, parliament, Earl of Manchester, Hampshire, Crowland, Peterborough, Earl of Leicester, Earl of Carlisle, Mr Edward Russell, Lord of Thanet, Lord Willowbie, Lord Fairfax, Newcastle forces, Scots, House of Commons, York, Sir Will Belsore, Bishop of Winchester); chat (Sir W Dr has liberty still, Sir John Holland) in code, signed in code

05–379

Sent by:	Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1644/04/12
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	?
Queries:	very hard to read

05–380

Sent by:	Sir John Leake Leeke, Sir John
from:	Chigwell
on:	1644/04/12
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/04/24 (4 May)
Notes:	family matters (Irish captain, his daughter, Ireland, Susan, purges); money matters (asks for a better allowance for Susan, Roades)

05–381

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/04/13
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/04/24 (4 May)
Notes:	chat (in code); military matters (victory in the North, Lord Fairfax and Sir Thomas his son, Lord of Newcastle, Selby in Yorkshire, John Ballasie?, Sir John Ramson?, Sir Thos Strickland, Newark, Sir Will Udall, in code), signed in code

05–382

Sent by:	Sir Alex Denton Denton, Sir Alexander [d. 1645]
on:	1644/04/19
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/04/24 (4 May)
Notes:	business matters; political matters (sequestration, Twyford?, Fulbrook, Quinton?); military matters (Oxford, Prince Maurice?, Plymouth, Prince Rupert, Lichfield, JD, Lrd Gr?, Hopton)
Queries:	very hard to read

05–383

Sent by:	Anne Lee Lee, Anne [daughter of Eleanor Wortley]
on:	1644/04/22??
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/04/24 (4 May)
Notes:	chat

05–384

Sent by:	Col Henry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:	1644/04/24
to:	? 'dear sister' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	chat; family matters
Queries:	very hard to read

05–385

Sent by:	Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1644/04/12
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	typed transcription of letter; chat (England, London, taxes, Buckinghamshire, her difficulties, Essex)

05–386

Sent by:	Elizabeth Isham Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
on:	1644/05/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/05/08 (18 May)
Notes:	money matters (her need for money, Sir Robert Loite? and son dead, bond); chat (uncle Dr, Ireland, Nic Aris' house burned down)

05–387

Sent by:	Elizabeth Isham Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
on:	1644/05/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-300 above

05–388

Sent by:	Thos Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1644/05/03
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/05/03
Notes:	military matters (report on taking of Reading, is not sure if it is true, parliament, his feeling about possible imprisonment)

05–389

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/05/03
to:	? 'sweet cozen' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	family matters; money matters (his father said C to have £40 a year for her own clothes, Pen might also desire a portion, Will); note on bottom to Will to pay DL £12)
Queries:	3 May/13 May

05–390

Sent by:	Dol Leeke Leeke, Dorothy [Doll]
on:	1644/00/00???
to:	Lady Verney (Mary Verney?) Verney, Mary [Blacknall] d.1650
Notes:	chat (Chigwell, Suffolk); political matters (hear queen is safe, Mrs Lucas and Lady Gardiner with her)

05–391

Sent by:	Dol Leeke Leeke, Dorothy [Doll]
on:	1644/00/00???
to:	Lady Verney (Mary Verney?) Verney, Mary [Blacknall] d.1650
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-304 above

05–392

Sent by:	Susan Verney Alport, Susanna [Verney] d.1651
on:	1644/05/08
to:	SRV? 'sweet brother' Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/05/15 (25 May)
Notes:	chat (Claydon, sister); money matters (Mr Roades says will pay her £40, asks for £10 more)

05–393

Sent by:	Dol Leeke Leeke, Dorothy [Doll]
on:	1644/05/07
to:	Lady Verney (Mary Verney?) Verney, Mary [Blacknall] d.1650
Notes:	chat; military matters (armies prepare for destruction of kingdom, confident shall make an end of it in a month, great taxations, all people sequestered that have anything, has heard several parliament men call her husband delinquent, ill reward for his opinion of them, York, Lord of Essex and Sir William Waller to be reconciled, Oxford, London, Prince Rupert, 'Sherwbury', Newcastle, Lord Byron, the queen is at Exeter, France); family matters (Lady Sid gone to her Aunt D who is a prisoner for no less than £500, pair of sheets, Mun, cousin S); money matters (Mr Frances W, her need for money, Nan)

05–394

Sent by:	Dol Leeke Leeke, Dorothy [Doll]
on:	1644/05/07
to:	Lady Verney (Mary Verney?) Verney, Mary [Blacknall] d.1650
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-307 above

05–395

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Rotterdam
on:	1644/05/17
to:	Jonas Abeels Abeels, Jonas
Notes:	business matters (Rouen, 'Orleance', goods, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Holland, imposition on household goods being transported, the Hague, England)

05–396

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Rotterdam
on:	1644/05/17
to:	Jonas Abeels Abeels, Jonas
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-309 above

05–397

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1644/05/13
to:	William Roades Roades, William
Notes:	money matters (his need for money, SRV desires to govern his brothers and sisters, Cambridge,Mr Lavington)

05–398

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1644/05/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/06/12 (22 June)
Notes:	family matters; money matters (liberty by committee in Cambridge, Earl of Essex, needs to pay £40 for the use of the parliament, has persuaded wife's mother to lend him £20, asks for £20, Mr Lavington, Holland, the Indies)

05–399

Sent by:	Pen Verney Verney, Pen[elope Denton/Osborne d. 1695]
on:	1644/05/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/05/15 (25 May)
Notes:	family matters; money matters

05–400

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/05/16
to:	SRV ('Ralph Smith') Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/05/22 (2 June)
Notes:	chat (in code, Hull); military matters (Lincoln taken by Lord of Manchester, York is besieged, Lord Buckhurst, Copt Hall, Sir Will Udall); political matters; signed in code

05–401

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/05/17
to:	Lady Ursula Verney Verney, Ursula, Lady
Notes:	chat (Mr Shelbon?, old Bailey, brown paper, times full of danger)
Queries:	17 May/27 May

05–402

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/05/17
to:	Susan Verney? 'sister Susan' Alport, Susanna [Verney] d.1651
Notes:	family matters (aunt UV, brown paper); money matters

05–403

Sent by:	Pen Verney Verney, Pen[elope Denton/Osborne d. 1695]
on:	1644/02/26
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/05/08 (18 May)
Notes:	money matters; family matters (his imprisonment, Hillsdon, Sir Alexander Denton); PS dated 19 Mar/29 Apr, says a prisoner at St Johns College, Cambridge
Queries:	26 Feb/7 Mar

05–404

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/05/10
to:	? 'sir' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	political matters (about his absence from the House, did not want to offend, malice of some), signed H but SRV's hand
Queries:	10 May/20 May (annotated 'with letter of 10 Apr')

05–405

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/05/10
to:	?'sir' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-318 above

05–406

Sent by:	Lady Ursula Verney Verney, Ursula, Lady
on:	1644/05/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/05/29 (9 June)
Notes:	chat

05–407

Sent by:	Jane Parker Parker, Jane
on:	1644/05/22
to:	SRV ('Ralph Smith') Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/05/22 (2 June)
Notes:	household matters (the writings are safe, hangings); money matters (asks for money due to them)

05–408

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/05/23
to:	SRV ('Ralph Smith') Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/05/29 (9 June)
Notes:	military matters (Lord General now in Reading, Sir Will Waller, York is besieged, and Lord of Newcaatle in it); chat (in code), signed in code

05–409

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/05/24
to:	? 'good cozen' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	family matters?, Lavington
Queries:	24 May/4 June; draft letter, mostly crossed out

05–410

Sent by:	Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1644/05/29
to:	SRV ('Ralph Smith') Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/06/05 (15 June)
Notes:	chat (difficulties of the time, London, Mrs Nicholas?, Sir Harry will not let her enjoy her estate in Essex, little Harry); family matters (vexed his aunt sent about the cordial in the brown paper)

05–411

Sent by:	Col Henry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:	1644/05/29
to:	Mary Verney? Verney, Mary [Blacknall] d.1650
Notes:	chat

05–412

Sent by:	Col Henry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:	1644/05/29
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/06/12 (22 June)
Notes:	chat; military matters (Scots, Prince Rupert)

05–413

Sent by:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1644/05/23
to:	SRV ('Ralph Smith') Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/06/12 (22 June)
Notes:	business matters (dungeon); military matters; family matters? (sister Gardiner); money matters (W R, Bolton)
Queries:	hard to read

05–414

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/05/30
to:	SRV ('Ralph Smith') Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/06/05 (15 June)
Notes:	chat (Sir W L); political matters (Lord Conway, Suffolk house, Sir Will Udall not come to the house though ready to conform, in code, the king, Lord General, Sir Will Walter); military matters (Abbington, Oxford, Massy, Mambarrough?, Lord of Berkshire), signed in code

05–415

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/05/31
to:	? 'sir' Sir Roger Burgoyne? Burgoyne, Sir Roger
Notes:	chat (Sir William, in code, Chant, full of sadness)
Queries:	31 May/11 June

05–416

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/06/07
to:	? 'sir' Sir Roger Burgoyne? Burgoyne, Sir Roger
Notes:	chat (in code); money matters (Mr Fr Drake, Mr Parker, rents due, Dol Leake, debts, Lavington, Mr ? of Lincoln)
Queries:	7 June/17 June

05–417

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/06/07
to:	? 'sir' Sir Roger Burgoyne? Burgoyne, Sir Roger
Notes:	handwritten transcript of letter 05-330 above

05–418

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/05/31
to:	? 'sir' Sir Roger Burgoyne? Burgoyne, Sir Roger
Notes:	handwritten transcript of letter 05-329 above

05–419

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/06/06
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/06/12 (22 June)
Notes:	military matters (Capt Hall, Sir W V, Lord Conway, Hens, Croton House threatened to be burned, Oxford, Lord General, Sir W Waller, Worcester, Mr Nickalls?, Woodstock, king at Burford?, York, Scots); chat (in code); signed in code
Queries:	dated April but writes beneath it should be June

05–420

Sent by:	Lady Cary Gardiner Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1644/10/00??
to:	SRV? 'dear brother' Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/10/08 (18 Oct)
Notes:	Begins 'Dear Brother' chat

05–421

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/10/00??
to:	Lady Cary Gardiner? 'sister' Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
Notes:	chat (bottle of syrup); money matters
Queries:	draft letter?

05–422

Sent by:	Lady Cary Gardiner Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1644/10/00??
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	typed transcript of letter 05-334 above

05–423

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/10/00??
to:	Lady Cary Gardiner? 'sister' Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
Notes:	typed transcript of letter 05-335 above

05–424

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/06/07
to:	Lady Ursula Verney? Verney, Ursula, Lady
Notes:	chat (brown paper, London)
Queries:	7 June/17 June, draft letter?, smudged and faded, annotated 7 January

05–425

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/06/07
to:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	chat (brown paper)
Queries:	7 June/17 June, draft letter?, smudged and faded

05–426

Sent by:	Elizabeth Isham Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
on:	1644/06/13
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	typed transcript of letter; family matters (sis Mary, niece Pen, sis Susan, Hildon)

05–427

Sent by:	Elizabeth Isham Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
on:	1644/06/13
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/06/20 (30 June)
Notes:	manuscript of letter 05-340 above

05–428

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/06/24
to:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (accounts, London); family matters)

05–429

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/06/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/06/27 (7 July)
Notes:	chat; military matters (Lord General, Dorchester, Lord of Warwick, Oxford, Srgt Glanvill come to London, Col Grantham, Sir Christopher Wray, Lincolnshire, in code), signed in code

05–430

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/06/14
to:	Harry Verney 'bro Harry' Verney, Henry [d.1671]
Notes:	chat; money matters (aunt Ursula)
Queries:	14 Jun/24 June, draft letter? many crossings out

05–431

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/06/14
to:	Harry Verney 'bro Harry' Verney, Henry [d.1671]
Notes:	typed transcript of letter 05-344 above

05–432

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/06/14
to:	?'sweet sister' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	chat (cousin WC, his man was drowned in the river, he is gone to Paris, Mrs Cadderman, Lady Kingsmill, Sir HC)
Queries:	14 Jun/24 Jun, draft letter? many crossings out

05–433

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/06/14
to:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	?
Queries:	draft letter, all crossed out

05–434

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/06/14
to:	?'sweet sister' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	typed transcript of letter 05-346 above
Queries:	14 Jun/24 June

05–435

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/06/14
to:	? 'sweet brother' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	handwritten transcript of letter; money matters (accounts, about his portion of father's money, should not complain); family matters, Harries
Queries:	14 Jun/24 Jun

05–436

Sent by:	Jonas Abeels Abeels, Jonas
from:	Amsterdam
on:	1644/06/26
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/06
Notes:	business matters (goods, Rouen, Rotterdam); money matters (charges)

05–437

Sent by:	Jonas Abeels? Abeels, Jonas
on:	1644/06/06
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	money matters (account for freight etc £180/13/-)

05–438

Sent by:	Jonas Abeels Abeels, Jonas
on:	1644/06/06
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-350 above and part of 05-351 above

05–439

Sent by:	committee [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1644/06/27
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	legal matters (copy of warrant to sequester SRV's estate, tenants of Thomas Broke, signed Henry Coke, Chr Eglet?, Rich Baldwin?, John Janewell?)

05–440

Sent by:	committee [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1644/06/27
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	handwritten transcript of warrant 05-353 above

05–441

Sent by:	Lady Ursula Verney Verney, Ursula, Lady
on:	1644/06/17
to:	SRV ('Ralph Smith') Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/07/03 (13 July)
Notes:	chat (niece, cordial in brown paper, Oxford, Leventon, Harry, Roades, Oxfordshire)
Queries:	very hard to read

05–442

Sent by:	Lady Ursula Verney Verney, Ursula, Lady
on:	1644/06/17
to:	SRV ('Ralph Smith') Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-355 above

05–443

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/06/27
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/07/03 (13 July)
Notes:	chat (in code, Henns, Sir J Hall); military matters (Weymouth, 'Lime', Sir W Udell, parliament, Lord Gen, king, Sir W Palmer of Hill by Bigglesward, Sir Will Waller, York still besieged, Scots, Lord of Manchester, Lord Fairfax), signed in code

05–444

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/06/13
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/06/20 (30 June)
Notes:	chat (difficulties of the time, in code); military matters (Lord General, Sir Will Waller went after the king towards Worcester, Oxford, York still besieged and hope will soon be taken, Sudeley Castle in Wiltshire, Coll Granth)

05–445

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/06/13
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-358 above, some of the code deciphered

05–446

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/06/21
to:	William Roades Roades, William
Notes:	business matters (owner of Moyses, Croton, Mrs Alp); money matters (rent of Bolton, Henns, Mr Thomas); chat (Mall, Sir Gar ?, use of a symbol as code, Sutton)
Queries:	hard to read, faded and smudged

05–447

Sent by:	Anne Lee Lee, Anne [daughter of Eleanor Wortley]
on:	1644/07/02
to:	Mrs Smith' (Mary Verney) Verney, Mary [Blacknall] d.1650
Notes:	chat (Mrs Gadimon?, Lady Kingnell?, France, parliament, ladies)

05–448

Sent by:	Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1644/06/25
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/07/03 (13 July)
Notes:	chat (friends think his return would be to his advantage, misery of the times)
Queries:	very hard to read

05–449

Sent by:	Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1644/06/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-362 above

05–450

Sent by:	Anne Lee? Lee, Anne [daughter of Eleanor Wortley]
on:	1644/07/02
to:	SRV (' Mr Smith') Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/07/11 (21 July)
Notes:	chat (London the most wretched place that can be, WC, Sir HC)

05–451

Sent by:	Anne Lee Lee, Anne [daughter of Eleanor Wortley]
on:	1644/07/02
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-364 above

05–452

Sent by:	Sir Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
on:	1644/07/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/07/11 (21 July)
Notes:	business matters (about finding a servant); military matters (the king, Bucks, Sir Will Waller, Edgcott, Hanwell, Banbury)

05–453

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/07/00?
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/07/11 (21 July)
Notes:	chat (Lrd Paulet, Lime, Lrd Shandois, London, Lord of Leicester, Srgt Glandvill, in code); money matters (Warwickshire); legal matters, signed in code

05–454

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/07/00?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-367 above

05–455

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
on:	1644/07/06
to:	William Roades Roades, William
Received at:	Claydon
Notes:	money matters (demand for money, says is destitute, Claydon)

05–456

Sent by:	Susan Verney Alport, Susanna [Verney] d.1651
on:	1644/07/10
to:	SRV? 'dear brother' Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/10/08 (18 Oct)
Notes:	chat (carrier searched and fears letters lost); money matters; family matters (smallpox, brown paper)

05–457

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/07/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/07/08 (28 July)
Notes:	chat (letters, in code); military matters (York, 3 generals, Lesly, Manchester, Fairfax, routed Prince 'Robert', Lord of Newcastle, Lord Withrington, Scarborough, Exeter, queen gone to Pendennis castle, king gone towards Leicester - Sir Will Waller after him), signed in code

05–458

Sent by:	Elizabeth Isham Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
on:	1644/07/03
to:	? SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	typed transcript of letter; family matters (bro Denman, Mary Den, Mr Isham, your aunt, Jaconia Croiny?, Ireland, Scot, English); chat
Queries:	3 July/13 July

05–459

Sent by:	Elizabeth Isham Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
on:	1644/07/03
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/07/03 (13 July)
Notes:	original manuscript of letter 05-372 above

05–460

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1644/07/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/07/25 (4 Aug)
Notes:	chat (dating of letters, in code); military matters (success at York, Oxford, Newcastle, Withrington, Coll King, king is gone to Bristol, Tiverton, Tanton castle, Exeter, Sir Robert Pie, Prince Rupert, Lord Fairfax younger son Charles Fairfax is dead, Greenland House is taken); political matters; signed in code
Queries:	a great deal of code

05–461

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	London
on:	1644/07/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/08/09?
Notes:	money matters (has his liberty but at a dear rate, vexed with sequestrators, extreme need for money, Mr Aris, Millsdon house, Will Roades, Mr Lavington)

05–462

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	London
on:	1644/07/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-375 above

05–463

Sent by:	Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1644/07/29
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1644/08/08 (18 Aug)
Notes:	chat (cordial, Sir John L, London, lack of money, taxes, Essex)
Queries:	very hard to read

05–464

Sent by:	Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1644/07/29
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	typed transcription of letter 05-377 above

05–465

Sent by:	Elizabeth Isham Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
on:	1644/07/13
to:	SRV ('Ralph Smith') Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Rouen
on:	1644/08/08 (18 Aug)
Notes:	chat (sister Mary, Lady Sid, Mrs Hobart, Miss Leacke, Elizabeth, Lady Gardiner, black bed); money matters