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03–003
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/03/30
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Estate management, horses , Lord Russel's journey. He can't manage his own business without Ralph
03–010
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/03/24
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Estate management. Ploughing Knowl Hill. What rents per acre he is willing to take.
Queries:1635/6
03–035
Sent by:Sir John Leake Leeke, Sir John
on:1636/02/07
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Irish Business. Family business. Wants SEV reconciled with his relatives.
Queries:1635/6
03–042
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/01/04
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Making arrangements for his return to Claydon. Estate matters
Queries:1635/6
03–043
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/01/04
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Estate matters. A land exchange with Roger Deely - enclosure linked
Queries:1635/6
03–044
Sent by: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:1636/01/04
to: [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:Deposition of Francis TUrpin, Katerine Turpin (mark) and Henry Stuttbury(mark) concerning £80 transaction re ROger Deely's land in Claydon
Queries:1635/6
03–045
Sent by:Nathaniel Hobart Hobart, Sir Nathaniel
on:1636/01/05
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Cozen Varney' About joint business venture which needs patience [?Fen lands]
Queries:1635/6
03–046
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/01/15
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Estate business, selling sheep, Raphael the shepherd. Instructions to send his brother Edmund to Oxford asap. Will give him £40 a year, and have a new suit made for him before Easter.
Queries:1635/6
03–047
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/01/11
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Estate business. Letting close post enclosure to Cox. 2 year or 12 yr lease. SEV to hedge and mound. but tenant to keep in repair. Fretting about selling sheep. Ploughing, getting advice from Denton. ' I am doubtful of seeing Claydon a great while'
Queries:1635/6
03–048
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/01/14
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Estate matters, mounds, Roger Deely refuses exchange. Buying willow trees
Queries:1635/6
03–049
Sent by:Nathaniel Hobart Hobart, Sir Nathaniel
from:London, Piazza Covent Garden
on:1636/01/19
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Pleasantries
Queries:1635/6
03–050
Sent by:Michael Beresford Beresford, Michael
on:1636/01/29
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:To his uncle. About £200 debt overdue. Sister Dorothy [Leake?]
Queries:1635/6
03–051
Sent by:Nathaniel Hobart Hobart, Sir Nathaniel
on:1636/01/11
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:Pleasantries,
Queries:1635/6
03–052
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
on:1636/02/15
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Asking for help
Queries:1635/6
03–053
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
on:1636/02/15
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:About him bring various letters from 'his Colonel'
Queries:1635/6
03–054
Sent by:John Well Well, John
from:Exston?
on:1636/02/20
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:About holding land at Middle Claydon for £143 pa for 3 years. Knowl Hill and Bottom? Excellent writing. Very literate
Queries:1635/6
03–055
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/02/26
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Estate matters. Agreeing new leases. Enclosure completion. Rents given
Queries:1635/6
03–056
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/02/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Estate matters. Copyhold tenants to bring in copies, else call a Court. Will Roades must pay full rent of £22 pa and give bond for £150.
Queries:1635/6
03–057
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Magdalen hall Oxford
on:1636/03/02
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Settling in Oxford. Likes his tutor. Matriculated. Cut his hair before this so Vice Chancellor couldn't find fault with it.
Queries:1635/6
03–058
Sent by:James Heron Heron, James
from:Biggin Farm
on:1636/03/04
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:re Biggin Farm, Also wants to know if SEV still looking for Knowl Hill tenant.
Queries:1635/6
03–059
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:Dublin
on:1636/03/07
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Protests he is not going to marry.
Queries:1635/6
03–060
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Rye
on:1636/03/20
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Pleasantries
Queries:1635/6
03–061
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/03/09
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Leasing arrangements at Claydon. DOver and Hill Ground. Provision of doubling the rent if land ploughed for five years. SEV will 'bestowe a House of a 100li on the ground att the rent of 8li a year, with Dover bound to leave in repair. Thinks Dover is toying with him. If not will take Mr Wells as tenant
Queries:1635/6
03–062
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/03/16
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Court scandal about Essex, and his wife being with Will Udall in her bedroom. Essex orders her out of house. Offers her £1300 a yr maintenance if she will give up all interest in jointure thirds or dowry. Good detail of how those around Court are receiving the news. Essex believed to have plotted it when out of town. Much sympathy with the lady!!
Queries:1635/6
03–063
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/03/16
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:On estate business and letting land. Some for one year only, some for 14 year lease. Also old Lady's interest in Quainton, about which she can remember little.
Queries:1635/6
03–064
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/03/23
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Estate business, much on horses.
Queries:1635/6
03–065
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1636/04/01
to:James Dillon Dillon, James
Notes:Gossip, family news, he is going duck hunting with neighbours
Queries:Draft
03–066
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Magdalen hall Oxford
on:1636/04/02
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:On student matters. How much to pay his tutor aquarter - £1 5s
03–067
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/04/06
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Had sent letter by Higham the carrier about sending horses to the fens. Estate matters. About Col. Goring wanting a horse before going to his regiment.
03–068
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/04/22
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Mainly about care of horses and hounds.
03–069
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
on:1636/04/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Pleasantries
03–070
Sent by:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:1636/04/27
to:Lady Verney Verney, Ursula, Lady
Notes:to his sister, the Lady Verney @ MC. Hasn't heard from SRV. Presumably Sir Francis's widow. ALso includes Claydon estate matters
03–071
Sent by:Susan Verney Alport, Susanna [Verney] d.1651
from:Middle Claydon
on:1636/05/08
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
on:1636/05/10
Notes:About gloves and a glass she wants while he is in London
03–072
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Magdalen hall Oxford
on:1636/05/09
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Student matters, Doctor Browne of Christ CHurch asks to be remembered to SEV
03–073
Sent by:Sir John Leake Leeke, Sir John
on:1636/05/11
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:Leake family settlement provisions. SEV holding £100 that Bridget Leake wants, but other family members disputing it.
03–074
Sent by:William Hals Hals, William
from:Youghol
on:1636/05/12
to:SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:Supporting Leake's position in previous letter
03–075
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Marshalsea
on:1636/05/15
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Asking SRV for money in addition to what SEV has given him. Going to France?
03–076
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Magdalen hall Oxford
on:1636/05/18
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:London, Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:Protesting that he is not keeping bad company
03–077
Sent by:Nathaniel Hobart Hobart, Sir Nathaniel
from:Highgate
on:1636/06/19
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:Pleasantries, some joint business will be completed.
03–078
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:London
on:1636/07/12
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:Will come down to Claydon later in week. Much to tell. He is likely to marry
03–079
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Paris
on:1636/07/15
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:Bills of exchange. About to march off to fight. Expects to spend summer there. Will write about fight.
03–080
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Paris
on:1636/07/15
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:Shorter version of previous - ? apparently sent same day.
03–081
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:Middle Claydon
on:1636/07/15
to:James Dillon Dillon, James
Notes:Explaining he has to attend his uncle Pulteney at Leicester Assizes the day Dillon proposes to be at Claydon. Asks him to delay if possible. Very apologetic.
Queries:Draft
03–082
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:Windsor
on:1636/07/17
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Will delay his visit till SRV back. Deputy in Ireland (Strafford) invited him to hunt deer in Yorkshire
03–083
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:London
on:1636/07/37
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Saying now delaying his visit.
03–084
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:Middle Claydon
on:1636/07/30
to:James Dillon Dillon, James
Notes:Now at Claydon, and will be there till DIllon comes. Telling to come by Uxbridge and Aylesbury, not Stony Stratford. Other 8 miles longer.
Queries:Draft
03–085
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:London
on:1636/08/03
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:Now coming to Claydon next week
03–086
Sent by:TV Verney, Thomas
from:Noyon, France
on:1636/08/04
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Pleasantries
03–087
Sent by:EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:Magdalen hall Oxford
on:1636/08/25
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:King at Oxford. University preparing. Principal bars long hair, longer than tips of ears. Beggars to be whipped.
03–088
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:Hackney
on:1636/09/29
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:He will be at Lowton [?Loughton] Hall in Essex in 3 weeks time. Inviting SRV to join him
03–089
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:1636/10/02
to:James Dillon Dillon, James
on:Draft
Notes:Carriers kept from going to London [?plague] . Trip to Loughton to 'make mee a witness of your happinesse.'
03–090
Sent by:Ursula Verney Verney, Ursula, Lady
from:Lon[don]
on:1636/10/14
to:Mr Roades Roades, William
Notes:Asking for her money. Is sick, wants money. Hears from Wm Denton that SRV not well. Sends best wishes
03–091
Sent by:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:Highgate
on:1636/10/18
to:James Dillon Dillon, James
on:Draft
Notes:On his way to his friends at Giddy Hall, Essex [Gaudy family] after which will go to Lowton. Humble service to Dillon's wife
03–092
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:Hackney
on:1636/10/22
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Off to Croydon? to wait on Ld Deputy. Then intends to go to Loughton. See him there. Regards to 'the faires ones there and unto Ned Sydenham.
03–093
Sent by:Edmund Chamberlaiyne Chamberlaiyne, Edmund
from:Stratton Audley
on:1636/12/23
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:Middle Claydon
Notes:Pleasantries. Buck promised from Lord Wenman now a doe. Has letter ffrom Mr Dillon 'whom I knowe you so much affect'.
03–094
Sent by:James Dillon Dillon, James
from:London, Piazza Covent Garden
on:1636/12/00
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Asking him to help the bearer to a doe out of Whaddon Chase. Linked to Chamberlayne letter previous. Pleasantries re his wife and SRV's
03–095
Sent by:Henry Wilkinson Wilkinson, Henry
from:Oxford
on:1636/12/26
to:SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:Saying that EV is avoiding his lectures and prayers [Principal of Magdalen Hall?] Asking SRV to talk to him. Wilkinson will be at Sir Fleetwood Dormer's house soon and he could meet him there.
03–096
Sent by:Nathaniel Hobart Hobart, Sir Nathaniel
on:1636/00/00
to:MV Verney, Mary [Blacknall] d.1650
Notes:Pleasantries, signed 'your enraged enemy'
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