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| Sent by: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| from: | Middle Claydon |
| on: | 1637/01/02 |
| to: | John Crowther Crowther, John |
| Notes: | Congratulating him on the appointment he at last has. SRV 'stranger to that business' but has always been supportive |
| Queries: | 1636/7 |
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| Sent by: | John Pulteney Pulteney, John |
| on: | 1637/00/00? |
| to: | [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable] |
| Notes: | Details of trust in which Pulteney's manor of Coles-devile Leicestershire put into trust to John Denton and Edward Butterfield and their heirs, to declare later uses. Probablly much later {later 17th century) but original 9 May 13 Caroli 1638 or 1661 depending which Charles. Butterfield to pay annuities. |
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| Sent by: | Nathaniel Hobart Hobart, Sir Nathaniel |
| from: | London, Piazza Covent Garden |
| on: | 1637/02/06 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | from my cell in Covent garden' ' on Thursday will bee a seventh night wee must attend the queenes councell concerning our buisiness in Deeping Fenn'. Stuff on high politics |
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| Sent by: | HV Verney, Henry [d.1671] |
| on: | 1637/04/19 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | Says he dislikes the life of a soldier. Has told his father. Asks SRV to 'pacify' SEV. Daren't tell his captain his feelings, as will be laughed at. Says it's not about bullets, and agrees he needs to have serious life, not just given up to pleasure as heretofore. |
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| Sent by: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1637/04/00 |
| to: | HV Verney, Henry [d.1671] |
| Notes: | Response to HV's letter saying he doesn't like soldiering. Wants to know what HV does want to do if he is to help him, because he knows HV does not like idleness! |
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| Sent by: | SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642] |
| from: | Middle Claydon |
| on: | 1637/07/18 |
| to: | John Crowther Crowther, John |
| Notes: | Asking Crowther to take EV into his care despite him being a 'lewd young man' . |
| Queries: | copy in SRV's hand |
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| Sent by: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1637/07/20 |
| to: | EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649] |
| Notes: | Saying he should go to Crowther. If he does not follow Crowther/s directions 'you are utterly undone for I knowneither yr father nor any otherof your freinds will ever willingly looke uppon you more' |
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| Sent by: | John Crowther Crowther, John |
| from: | Newton |
| on: | 1637/07/23 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | Says EV has wasted his time in Oxford, understandsnot the very first grounds of logicke' and has no books 'to initiate him in it'/ Asks SRV to send over the easy logic notes Crowther had collected for SRV. |
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| Sent by: | SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642] |
| from: | Durham |
| on: | 1637/08/02 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | pleasantries and instructions about horses, and request to Roades to 'gett home th coales' 'and as mutch stoane as he can from Stratton Audly and other places'. If supervised well, the carrier can do two trips a day for stones. |
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| Sent by: | EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649] |
| from: | Newton |
| on: | 1637/08/12 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | Crowther very ill. Doctor with him. He is making his will. Has asked EV to write down the terms including 3 or 4 terms. But he spoke so fast EV couldn't getthemdownfast enought which'made me forget all his relations; he entreated me to write it in latin because his Wife should not understand it.' SRV and Mr Cobige, the minister of Ludlow' made overseers of will.. Hasn't signed it, but in insensible now, will try to get it signed and witnessed. 'I have shewed it to on Mr Farrar of Bedford a Lawyer who sayth it will stand, however I have locked it up safely.' |
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| Sent by: | WILL of John Crowther Crowther, John |
| on: | 1637/08/13 |
| to: | [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable] |
| Notes: | WILL of John Crowther. Vicar of Newton Blossomville, Bucks. Shows he has money of Dr Denton and Mrs Poultney. £150. Varioius bequests to servants, poor and people to buy a ring, rest to his wife. |
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| Sent by: | INVENTORY of John Crowther Crowther, John |
| on: | 1637/08/15 |
| to: | [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable] |
| Notes: | INVENTORY of John Crowther. Shows he is farming on small scale 2 horses 3 kine 15 lambs, one sowe. £4 16s cash, £101 owed to him. Lease at Ludlow £100. £10 debts to be paid. |
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| Sent by: | EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649] |
| from: | Newton |
| on: | 1637/08/21 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | Hoping to go to the clergyman ?Mr Wagar who preached at Crowther's funeral. On his best behaviour. Mrs Crowther getting advice about proving the will - whether at Aylesbury or the PCC. Her brother Colbach 'That miserable covetous fellow having a parsonage of 100li per annum besides free land had the conscience to take 20li of her for his charges. She has sold her gleabe. The inventory will be finished to day and sent to SRV. 'I verily beleeveMr Crowther burntall his dangerous sermons for I cannot find none but whta he preached since he left Oxford. |
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| Sent by: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1637/08/22 |
| to: | EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649] |
| Notes: | SEV doesn't yet know of Crowther's death. His wife will write to him about it. EV should stay with Mrs Crowther until SEV decides. If the Apparitor hassles her, she should say that SRV has taken will from her and will prove it for her, and that she is ignorant of the matters and has left it 'wholly to mee'. |
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| Sent by: | EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649] |
| from: | Newton |
| on: | 1637/08/25 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | Crowther's successor already named 'one mr Barton a domesticall chaplaine of the Earleof Peterboourough' But he is being very hard on Mrs Crowther 'he will notbuy anything of her except he hath it at half its worth, andbecause a neighbour hath bought her corne he threatens to make him pay use for his barn.' he has another living in Wiltshire |
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| Sent by: | Sara Crowther Crowther, Sara |
| from: | Ludlow |
| on: | 1637/11/02 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1637/11/14 |
| Notes: | About the marriage contract between her father and husband. Her father has £50 ready to pay. Wants to use it to buy land here for tearme of life'. |
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