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03–225

Sent by:	EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Hillesdon
on:	1639/01/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	Light hearted. SRV's son doing well.
Queries:	1638/9

03–226

Sent by:	Sir Henry Lee Lee, Sir Francis Henry 2nd Bart. of Quarrendon
on:	1639/00/00?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	He is in great pain [died July 1639] His wife has 'a little nissing girle to play with all.'
Queries:	1638/9

03–227

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/01/09
to:	HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
Notes:	Will send him a saddle for the horse races and 40s due to him. TV 'is gon to the Barbathos' but not amended. 'hee played mee a flippery brick' three days before he left. 'Last night my wife was delivered of a girle'
Queries:	1638/9

03–228

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/01/00
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	Says SEV looked ill. Dated because mentions Margaret Verney's birth.
Queries:	1638/9

03–229

Sent by:	EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Hillesdon
on:	1639/01/19
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	Congratulations on Margt Verney's birth. SRV's son Edmund doing well, and affectionate to EV. Putting rhurbarb in the boy's drink at SRV's direction. 'His teeth have not yet cut flesh.'
Queries:	1638/9

03–230

Sent by:	HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:	1639/01/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	Has been in garrison for 4 or 5 months. Would like saddle and bit sent.
Queries:	1638/9

03–231

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/01/24
to:	Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:	His father now better. Business of her will will be finished this term. Wants a list of her plate. She at Gorhambury.
Queries:	1638/9

03–232

Sent by:	EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Hillesdon
on:	1639/01/26
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	News of SRV's son who is teething, and having rhubarb in his drink. He and EV getting on well.
Queries:	1638/9

03–233

Sent by:	EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Hillesdon
on:	1639/02/02
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	Pleasantries.
Queries:	1638/9

03–234

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/02/07
to:	Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:	Her draft will. Wants to know how many blanks to leave for legacies. His wife only regaining strength slowly after birth.
Queries:	1638/9

03–239

Sent by:	EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	London, Piazza Covent Garden
on:	1639/02/27
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	Various unclear business matters with his mother and grandmother, a picture and Raphael.
Queries:	1638/9

03–240

Sent by:	Countess of Barrymore Barrymore, Countess of
from:	Castelgons
on:	1639/02/18
to:	?SEV or SRV [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	Irish matters. Capt Hals returned.
Queries:	1638/9

03–241

Sent by:	HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
from:	?
on:	1639/03/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/03/20
Notes:	Wants a horse. Commiserates with SRV over TV's behaviour and deception
Queries:	1638/9

03–242

Sent by:	EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Hague
on:	1639/03/13
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/03/27
Notes:	3rd letter he has sent in 6 days. Colonel offers him a Company to command, but also Reported his Colonel has quit already. 'If I fayle in this which is my last refuge that I know to fly to, truy I doe thinke I may doe much better in England for a Captaines paybeing fifteene shillings a day besides the allowance of 4 deade payes and his own mens, I am confident a company will be worth 400li a yeare honestly.'
Queries:	1638/9

03–243

Sent by:	HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:	1639/03/09
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Piazza Covent Garden
Notes:	?from Flanders. Pleasantries, little news, still wants a horse.
Queries:	1638/9

03–244

Sent by:	EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Hague
on:	1639/03/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/03/27
Notes:	His colonel says that various request he has made arriving on another ship. Looks forward to receiving books from SRV
Queries:	1638/9

03–245

Sent by:	EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Hague
on:	1639/03/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/03/28
Notes:	Sir Thomas Culpepper quitting his regiment here and returning for England, has written to SEV about EV joining him. EV has written to SEV about it. His Quartridge (annuity) due, asks £15 to be paid to the old countess of Oxford.
Queries:	1639/40 nb SRV puts receipt date as 1640, but 1639 underneath crossed out.? Which year.

03–246

Sent by:	Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:	1639/03/09
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Piazza Covent Garden
on:	1639/03/09
Notes:	SRV's grandmother. Asking for her £100. Intends to send up £20 by her sonn Denton. Hopes Lord Howard's business ended? Sir Martin Lister with her.
Queries:	1638/9

03–247

Sent by:	Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:	1639/03/16
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/03/16
Notes:	Family business - not clear
Queries:	1638/9

03–248

Sent by:	EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Hillesdon
on:	1639/03/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/03/16
Notes:	He has returned, sorry to miss SRV
Queries:	1638/9

03–249

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/00/00?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	Pleasantries

03–250

Sent by:	EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Hague
on:	1639/03/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	His colonel has little hope of getting him a cornet's place and offered to accompany him to ENGLAND.. Hopes his father will approve
Queries:	1638/9

03–252

Sent by:	HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
from:	Breda
on:	1639/03/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/04/04
Notes:	Pleasantries
Queries:	1638/9

03–253

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	?Newcastle
on:	1639/04/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/04/08
Notes:	About Scots securing Aberdeen and its munitions, 4000 of best arms the King had. SEV afraid of attack of gout, has twinges but 'I hope to starve it awaye'. Asks his wife to send him some papers of powder to prevent it.

03–254

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/04/05
to:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:	About getting various deeds and trusts drawn up Robin Lesly, Ned Sydenham involved, and money - ? fens
Queries:	Draft, much altered

03–255

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/04/01
to:	?? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	About a marriage (his sister's) that threatens to dishonour the family, because it is clandestine. Has advised sister to conceal it from her father till he returns from north.
Queries:	Draft

03–256

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	?Newcastle
on:	1639/04/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/04/05
Notes:	King basely betrayed. Few around him. Scots town fallen. Expresses grief at being parted from his son SRV. Mutual. Hasn't felt so much grief since Prince Henry died.

03–257

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	York
on:	1639/04/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/04/10
Notes:	Has received letter from 'my sister Poultney' who has 'utterly ruinde her reputation if shee goes on in this waye.' (marriage' ''It will goe neare to kill her mother if ever shee marryes'

03–258

Sent by:	EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Selby
on:	1639/04/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/04/10
Notes:	Exercising there - 'petty employments'

03–259

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	York
on:	1639/04/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/04/16
Notes:	On Poultney marriage. Tells SRV to salve what he can. If she has tried to conceal pregnancy it will be worse.
Queries:	Easter night @ 9 pm

03–260

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/04/16
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/04/16
Notes:	Pleasantries

03–261

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/04/19
to:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:	About Poultney/Eure marriage. Protecting her reputation 'too hard for nmy tender years and weake juggment' asks father's help. Few at wedding and all 'have faithfull promised secresie'. Hasn't told her friends in Country. 'She will declare that in her oppinion tis lawful to marry on of a contrary religion'
Queries:	Draft

03–262

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	York
on:	1639/04/19
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/04/23
Notes:	Sending arms from London to Newcastle by ship. SEV will be there a few days before the King

03–263

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/04/20
to:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:	Charter and indenture drawn for his £600 pa , but Mr Roles 'desiers mee to tell you the Project is illegall, and therfore tis a very Bad security for soe much money as you have.' Wants his father to put other name into receiver's warrant to safeguard it. RObert Leslie suggested

03–264

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:	1639/04/15?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	About Poultney /Eure marriage. When he read SRV's letter he had a palsy in his hand 'soe that in five howers I could hold nothing steadyly.

03–265

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/04/22
to:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:	More on his financial enterprise and how to insure himself
Queries:	Draft

03–266

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	York
on:	1639/04/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/04/29
Notes:	SEV about to set off for Durham. More on his London business. Details of interchanges with Scots and Essex

03–267

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/04/25
to:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:	SRV preparing to arm himself. Should he bring a waggon north to join his father?
Queries:	Draft

03–268

Sent by:	Lady Margaret Verney Verney, Margaret Lady [Denton] d. 1642
on:	1639/04/00?
to:	Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
Notes:	Mother -news of Scots campaign. Short, undated but from context

03–269

Sent by:	Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:	1639/04/06
to:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:	About Poultney marriage. 'Good Son'

03–270

Sent by:	Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:	1639/04/25
to:	Lord Chamberlain Lord Chamberlain
Notes:	[Copy in SRV's hand] About telling Lord Howard to desist his suit since she cannot grant it .

03–271

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:	1639/04/00??
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/04/26
Notes:	Family business, now thinks he will stay in Durham

03–272

Sent by:	Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:	1639/04/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/04/30
Notes:	About her marriage and Ld Chamberlain's reply to her letter

03–273

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/01
to:	Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
Notes:	About the money MP is bestowing on her daughter and how to move it
Queries:	Copy of pt of letter

03–274

Sent by:	WD Denton, Dr William d.1691
from:	Durham
on:	1639/05/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/08
Notes:	Of SEV 'his wisdome I feare begins to fayle him. I pray God the event doe not provce it by eposing himself to more daunger then he needs' Asking SRV to buy Dr Read's treatise of Wounds and sores. A quarto volume Big. Would take 2 quires of paper.

03–275

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/03
to:	HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
Notes:	Can't send him a horse because of present troubles, would require a license under King's hand costing £5. But sending him clothes
Queries:	Draft

03–276

Sent by:	Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:	1639/05/03
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Piazza Covent Garden
on:	1639/05/05
Notes:	Has £500 in gold with her in hand for SRV's use as required. Sir Timothy Shervill will pay her £100 soon. About telling her mother and family of match.

03–277

Sent by:	Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:	1639/05/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/07
Notes:	She has 'recited sum part of my fiction to my mo:' who is 'something troubled' and says she will not let the man enter her house. Thinks it will all be known in London now. Says she has stayed in Hobart house for 22 or 23 weeks, and paid for 18 so far.

03–278

Sent by:	Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:	1639/05/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/07
Notes:	Asking him to either borrow £100 for her, or get what is owed her. Trying to provide 'ship provision for her son. Tells him to 'be silent from all the worlde' about it.

03–279

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Newcastle
on:	1639/05/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/17
Notes:	Sending letters via JohnTyringham including warrants for Robert Lesley's business. Mr E[ure?] not come on withthem. 'I heare he has sould all his land and means to settle about London where he is sure to have a ritch widdow' I heare hee is a vast spender and hath a father and a brother to relieve' Land raised £6000 all together. Thinks the SCots have as many good horse as the King, but latter persuaded by Ld Marshall that they are brags, and that he should advance - king inclined to agree. Short of money to be able to wait for more men .

03–280

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/08
to:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:	Extracted draft saying he will do his bit as necessary to deal with Aunt Putleney's problem.
Queries:	Draft

03–281

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Durham
on:	1639/05/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/08
Notes:	About grants from King and his business. Will send papers to SRV. Has enclosed letter composed to Lord Newbury which SRV should read, then seal up and give to him. Has also sent a letter he received from Hillesden which SRV should read then burn. Has written to Lady Denton preparing her for the news about Poulteney without being explicit. SEV has had discussion with a Scotsma 'that is affected the moderate waye' who is confident nothing will satisfy Scots but taking away all Bishops 'and I dare saye the king will never yeelde to that'. Asks SRV to pay harness maker.

03–282

Sent by:	Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:	1639/05/09
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	About her situation 'I consider my own freedom in my choice or in any thing else for what fortewn I have I had it from y hus: and A widow is free'. Her tenants paying in rent and she wants a return [of money] to London.

03–283

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/10
to:	WD Denton, Dr William d.1691
Notes:	if my father goes to the Borders, he is lost, I know his corrage will bee his distruction. Noe man did ever so willfully ruine himself, & his posterity; god fogive him and grant me patience, ceertainly his hart is more than stone.' Asks WD to get his friends to stop him
Queries:	draft

03–284

Sent by:	Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:	1639/05/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Piazza Covent Garden
on:	1639/05/13
Notes:	She has now married Eure. About settling her lodging account with Hobarts. Intends to come to London and live in the City 'privately. Mother still doesn't know.

03–285

Sent by:	Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:	1639/05/11?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/13
Notes:	Family matters, mainly about Tom

03–286

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Newcastle
on:	1639/05/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/14
Notes:	Many of his letters to SRV have miscarried. He has always written at least 2 a week. Will make a note of all he has sent. But fewer now because battle soon. Scots now near Berwick. Skirmishes and battle soon. Settlement case at Claydon Margaret Verney should try and make man marry hi s 'Doxsy' but in meantime try and find any way to 'put her out of the towne'.
Queries:	3 letters all sent together

03–287

Sent by:	EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Ryton nr Newcastle
on:	1639/05/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/14
Notes:	With army. Has ague. Greetings

03–288

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:	1639/05/16
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/18
Notes:	Whole army going to the border. Promises not to 'thrust my self in danger' but 'truly I thinck wee are not in much danger of fighting'. List of what he has paid out for various offices/patents. Written at 3 in morning.

03–289

Sent by:	WD Denton, Dr William d.1691
from:	Newcastle
on:	1639/05/16
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/18
Notes:	King intending to march to Berwick on Thursday next and intrench himself 5 or 6 miles this side of the Tweed. Doesn't think King will fight this summer. Hopes to exhaust Scots, but they are very cunning.

03–290

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/10?
to:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:	Telling his father to curb his reckless ways and stay safe in wars.
Queries:	Draft

03–291

Sent by:	Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:	1639/05/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Piazza Covent Garden
on:	1639/05/21
Notes:	I understand by your Mo: as the town makes havock of my name but let them devieis ther worst I defie them all no in the world can call me to an account for my actions for I am not in any ons twishion '. His mother has attacked her modesty but irrationally, for she is married.

03–292

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/20
to:	Robert Leslie Leslie, Robert
Notes:	Asking Leslie to get King's signature on various warrants - about Hackney cab monopoly - for which SRV has laid out considerable sums.
Queries:	Draft

03–293

Sent by:	TV Verney, Thomas
from:	Barbados
on:	1639/05/20
to:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Received at:	Piazza Covent Garden or at Lady Hobart's house in Highgate.
on:	1639/07/22
Notes:	Asks for various supplies to be sent to him via Capt. Futter. He has purchased plantation of 100 acres with a few servants, and expects 'ten thousand pound of cotton moer then I payed for it'. Expects to be able to pay for the supplies in 6 months. Has also bought a cow and calf for its milk.

03–294

Sent by:	TV Verney, Thomas
from:	Barbados
on:	1639/05/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/07/22
Notes:	Asking his support for his requests to his father in previous letter. Asking SRV to send him a pair of tan leather gloves, and 6 quire of paper as he is running out.

03–295

Sent by:	Francis Hutten Hutten, Francis
from:	Barbados
on:	1639/05/20
to:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:	1639/07/22
Notes:	vouching for TV and saying he is 'a good husband' and has bought his plantation on reasonable terms.

03–296

Sent by:	Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:	1639/05/21?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Piazza Covent Garden
on:	1639/05/21
Notes:	Money matters, then about Eure marriage.

03–297

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Newcastle
on:	1639/05/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	Business matters, then about Poultney/Eure marriage. He has written a letter with this to Margaret Poultney which SRV should read then seal. But not tell anyone else that he has written, because he has not. King expects to go to Berwick tomorrow, SEV will go to pitch K's tent. Not much sign of Scots, but rumours of a big force 15000 foot and 4000 horse which will cause King a 'dihonourable retraict' because he won't fight when at such a disadvantage.

03–298

Sent by:	EI Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
on:	1639/05/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/28
Notes:	Writing on behalf of her sister Poultney who wants SRV's wife to send her some clothes; Poultney can return SRV £50 more than she promised earlier, but she has already parted with her gold. Has also sent 2 sorts of cheese to him, and to his mother

03–299

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/22
to:	Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
Notes:	Saying his views on the business he has been commanded not to write about are nevertheless 'a contrary way, with this whole house in generall, in particular with mee.'
Queries:	Draft

03–300

Sent by:	EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Mitford, Northumberland
on:	1639/05/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/23
Notes:	About to up camp to go to the border. Various campaign matters

03–301

Sent by:	Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:	1639/05/26
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/28
Notes:	About disagreement about Poultney marriage matter. Margaret Poultney has an ague, and 'my Daughter Denton' fallen so ill again.

03–302

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/29
to:	Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
Notes:	About Poultney affair, brief extract
Queries:	Draft

03–303

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/28
to:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	Possibly Lady Sussex. Courtesies. About something he is charged to get her. He is going to visit Aunt Poultney who is sick and will come and see her on his return.
Queries:	Draft

03–304

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Newcastle
on:	1639/05/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/22
Notes:	Kiing moving north with 'this little army' and has asked for 8000 more men to come quickly. Leslie set to oppose

03–305

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/05/00
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/05/27
Notes:	Family matters

03–306

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Berwick
on:	1639/05/29
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	Now camped within 2 miles of Berwick and will be entrenched in 2 days. 11,000 foot, 6000 expected within 6 days. Lesley about 12 miles away and treated as royalty by those around him.

03–307

Sent by:	Dorothy Lady Hobart Hobart, Dorothy, Lady
on:	1639/00/00
to:	Lady Margaret Verney Verney, Margaret Lady [Denton] d. 1642
Notes:	About Pultney marriage. [to Eure]

03–308

Sent by:	WD Denton, Dr William d.1691
from:	Berwick
on:	1639/06/02
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/06/05?
Notes:	Now quartered near Berwick, and has sent Sir William Uvedale and Sir Edmund Sydenham to try and persuade SEV [against rash actions?] Various unclear business matters

03–309

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Berwick
on:	1639/06/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/06/12
Notes:	King tried to stop Scots entrenching in a town called Calse but found a much bigger force there than his intelligence suggested, and forced to retreat. 'the strenth we have here will only defend ourselves. I doe not conceave it of force to doe any harme to them. soe we dayly spend our money and our honner together.' Glad to hear Marshalsea business 'soe well appeased'. 'the king wants monny and assistance;, which makes the scotts insufferably proud and insolent. in soe much that every English mans Heart is reddy to breake with rage against them here.'

03–310

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Berwick
on:	1639/06/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/06/13
Notes:	Army very weak, supplies come slowly, and small pox common in army - 100 in one regiment.

03–311

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1639/05/28
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	Bill for things bought for Mrs Poultney, received by SRV 1639/06/04

03–312

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Berwick
on:	1639/06/09
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/06/15
Notes:	Talks between King and Scots, SEV believes there will be a treaty. Has got King to sign various documents including Tyringham's petition. 'From the camp'

03–313

Sent by:	Margaret Pulteney Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:	1639/00/00
to:	Madam'? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	Few specifics, but probably trying to account for her behaviour.

03–314

Sent by:	WD Denton, Dr William d.1691
from:	Chillingham, Northumberland
on:	1639/06/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	piazza Covent Garden
on:	1639/06/18
Notes:	SEV was in the party of 800 horsemen that was nearly cut off, and close to actually fighting.

03–315

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Berwick
on:	1639/06/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/06/18
Notes:	Talks going on Scots army not as big as they brag and King now has nearly 13000 foot, 2200 horse, and another 2000 at a day's warning. Scots have fewer horse.

03–316

Sent by:	HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
from:	Holland
on:	1639/06/12
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/06/27
Notes:	Mainly pleasantries. Has received letters from SRV with Scots news. Needs a horse.

03–317

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1639/00/00
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	2 lists of things and people to be remembered. Probably list by Margaret Poultney of things she would like SRV to do or remember for her

03–318

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/00/00
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	List of household things in SRV's name. ? For Margaret Poultney

03–319

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Berwick
on:	1639/06/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/06/19
Notes:	Treaty now ready to be signed. Will require him to go with King to Edinburgh for the assembly and parliament. Has received SRV's letter of 3rd 'where I find I must dye a begger.'

03–320

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Berwick
on:	1639/06/16
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/06/20
Notes:	Things forgotten from previous day's letter. All vague business matters

03–321

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Berwick
on:	1639/06/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/06/22
Notes:	Peace concluded 'and much to the King's honour'. Not clear if king will stay in north till August, or go to London. SEV want to go to Bath, his pains troubling him.

03–322

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/06/18
to:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:	Breaks news 'the unhappy woman was married by a Popish Priest' , but scared to tell anyone. 'This unluckie businessse hath made my Grandmother infinitely offended with my mother, my Wife, and my selfe, and indeed the whole house; except your selfe, for she often saith you have dealt wisely.'
Queries:	Copy

03–323

Sent by:	Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:	1639/06/17?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/06/19
Notes:	Brief business note signed by her ?dictated to another?

03–324

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Berwick
on:	1639/06/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/06/24
Notes:	Not clear what king will do, but SEV will request to be allowed to go to Bath for his pain is bad. Making preparations to return. Has bought 50 horses here and intended to take them to Claydon and keep them there till he sells them.

03–325

Sent by:	EI Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
on:	1639/06/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/06/25
Notes:	Mr Eure has now come, family reactions.

03–326

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/06/25
to:	Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
Notes:	Business matters. Mainly about her finances.
Queries:	Draft

03–327

Sent by:	Marmaduke Marshall Marmaduke Marshall
from:	Berwick, the Court
on:	1639/06/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/06/28
Notes:	SEV has left Berwick for home, expected next Saturday. Writer send warrant that King has now signed with instructions what to do with it.

03–328

Sent by:	Margaret Eure Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:	1639/06/00
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/06/25
Notes:	Hopes peace will make tenants pay their rents. Mr Eure presents love and service to SRV.

03–329

Sent by:	WD Denton, Dr William d.1691
from:	Berwick
on:	1639/06/26
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/07/23
Notes:	Business matters. SEV will return to London on 29, and intends for Bath, where WD hopes to attend him. One report to the Queen says our soldiers ran away at Kelsay.

03–330

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/06/00
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/06/26
Notes:	Family matters, hears SEV's return and intention for Bath. Needs 18 yds of some cloth

03–331

Sent by:	Susanna Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:	1639/06/00
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/07/02
Notes:	Business matters. Overjoyed SEV returned safe.

03–332

Sent by:	Margaret Eure Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:	1639/06/29
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/07/02
Notes:	Her husband has now deceived her about the scale of his estate because she never asked! 'But tis not yt I stand uppon for his religion is now the thing I loocke after which I hope in time may be altered.'

03–333

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:	1639/06/00
to:	TV Verney, Thomas
Notes:	Can't provide much money. Told SRV to do what he can. Hears Ld Warwick about to settle a great new plantation, suggests TV go there.

03–334

Sent by:	Richard Merydale Merydale, Richard
from:	Fleet [prison]
on:	1639/07/02
to:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:	About his situation

03–335

Sent by:	EV Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Hillesdon
on:	1639/07/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/07/20
Notes:	Thanking his brother for the 'reall wellcome at my return'

03–336

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Berwick
on:	1639/07/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/07/27?
Notes:	Various business matters. Also warrants for deer in Buckinghamshire. Few available.

03–337

Sent by:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Berwick
on:	1639/07/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/0728
Notes:	Business matters. One buck warrant out of Holt for Wid Fust. Wants news of coach business

03–338

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/07/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Highgate, Lady Hobart's house
on:	1639/07/27
Notes:	Her child past all danger.

03–339

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/07/23
to:	Lady Lee Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:	Hoping her husband's illness better. We pray for his health
Queries:	Draft

03–340

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/07/23
to:	Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:	Has heard that Lady Croft is selling Gorhambury [where Lady Sussex rents house] Glad to hear of her son's [Sir Harry Lee] recovery
Queries:	Draft

03–341

Sent by:	HV Verney, Henry [d.1671]
from:	Breda
on:	1639/08/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/09/10
Notes:	Has heard from few of his friends. Compliments to the family

03–342

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/07/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	Has heard about her sister Croft's sale of Gorhambury. Croft has said she will give her notice to leave at Michaelmas.. Hopes SRV will send his wife to visit her.

03–343

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/07/27
to:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:	Hackney men promise to pay when Proclamation made. Went to Chelsea for reading of Harry Lee's will today. Terms of trust involving SRV set out. Portions for daughters, debts of about £5000. Asks SEV if he will accept trust. Has received TV's letters about Barbadoes plantation. Will do nothing till hears from SEV.

03–344

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/08/00
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/08/05
Notes:	About Damask cloth sample. Very good

03–345

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/08/00
to:	SEV Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:	1639/08/14
Notes:	Hoping he will accept the Lee trust involvement.

03–346

Sent by:	TV Verney, Thomas
from:	Barbados
on:	1639/08/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/11/25
Notes:	Complaining he hasn't heard from him. Father can be excused because of business. SRV could send his man daily to the Exchange for news of ships bound for these parts. Hopes for more supplies.

03–347

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/08/00
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/08/14
Notes:	Sorry that SRV and wife won't be able to visit

03–348

Sent by:	Margaret Verney Elmes, Margaret [Verney] d. January 1670
from:	Hillesden
on:	1639/08/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/08/19
Notes:	Expressing sorrow that he thinks she has been gossipping. Only talked to her brother Mun

03–349

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/08/15
to:	Eleanor, Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:	Asking her if she will send a coach to Barnet to fetch him and family on visit.
Queries:	Draft

03–350

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/08/00
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/08/12
Notes:	Longing for his family's company on visit

03–351

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/08/16
to:	Margaret Verney Verney, Margaret Lady [Denton] d. 1642
Notes:	About her speaking about Aunt [Eure] and new uncle 'too liberally'. Says he knows his aunt better than she. That she should keep silent, not prate, and burn this letter 'least by chaunce it come to some of your back greinds hands , and (by that meanes) bee brought as a witnesse against you.'
Queries:	Draft

03–352

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/08/27
to:	Margaret Verney Verney, Margaret Lady [Denton] d. 1642
Notes:	Says he had not heard about her gossipping from Mun who has been silent about the matter. She was known to have spoken 'largely of your aunt before you went from London; and I am sure my aunt tooke some notise of it there.'

04–002

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/08/28?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/08/30
Notes:	chat (Mrs Mary?, Mrs Cadiman?)

04–003

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/09/01
to:	Madam' Eleanor Countess of Sussex? Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:	chat (Gorhambury, his father, Barnet)

04–004

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/09/02
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/09/02
Notes:	chat (his father, Mrs Cadiman, Highgate?)

04–005

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/09/03
to:	sweet madam' Eleanor Countess of Sussex? Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:	'Sweet Madam' chat (picture frame, hangings, money); family matters (Miss Cary made Mrs Hobart)

04–006

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/09/02?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/09/04
Notes:	money matters (Mr Smith, London); family matters (Miss Cary made a good choice, he is rich, Mrs Mary?)

04–007

Sent by:	Sir Edmund Verney Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:	1639/09/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/09/21
Notes:	military matters (in Col ? Pepper's regiment, bro Harry now lieutenant Verney, England)

04–008

Sent by:	Sir Edmund Verney Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:	1639/09/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/10/08
Notes:	military matters (Harry, free garrison); chat (can he get his father to part with any clothes, desires to go handsomely clad, Holland)

04–009

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Barbados
on:	1639/09/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/11/23
Notes:	chat (Mr Berrow, hears SRV been with his father in Scotland, asks him to move his father to charity)

04–010

Sent by:	Henry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:	1639/09/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/09/21
Notes:	chat (England); money matters; family matters (duty to his mother)
Queries:	note in SRV's hand 1639/10/10 wrote to Mun and Harry and sent clothes, Mr Sumarton?, Capt Vere's Seargeant

04–011

Sent by:	Magdalene Fawkner Faulkner, Magdalen [Mrs Bruce]
on:	1639/09/28
to:	Sir Edmund Verney Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Received at:	London
Notes:	chat

04–012

Sent by:	Countess of Barrymore Barrymore, Countess of
from:	Castlesons
on:	1639/09/28
to:	Sir Edmund Verney Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Received at:	London
Notes:	chat (sends a gentleman under his protection, Mrs Hobart, Faulkner); 'remember your promise' beneath signature

04–013

Sent by:	Sir Edmund Verney Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Flanders
on:	1639/09/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/10/04
Notes:	chat (Holland, bro Harry, his colonel)

04–014

Sent by:	Henry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
from:	Breda
on:	1639/09/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	chat (letters from his bro); money matters (annuity, St Thomas day, England, Countess of Oxford, cousin Leake)

04–015

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/10/09?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1639/10/11
Notes:	chat (illness, Mrs Mary)

04–016

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/10/09
to:	Lady Sussex (Eleanor, Countess of Sussex?) Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:	chat (expresses thanks)
Queries:	marked as 'copy of a letter'

04–017

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/10/09
to:	Lady Sussex (Eleanor, Countess of Sussex?) Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
Notes:	chat
Queries:	marked as 'copy of a letter'

04–018

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/10/00?
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	draft letter, chat
Queries:	marked as 'this was never sent to anybody'

04–019

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/10/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
Notes:	chat

04–020

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/10/00?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	chat (Mary, Mrs ?)

04–021

Sent by:	Penelope Denton Verney, Pen[elope Denton/Osborne d. 1695]
on:	1639/10/16
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/10/16
Notes:	family matters (son Denton); money matters

04–022

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/10/27?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/10/28
Notes:	chat

04–023

Sent by:	Dame Susan Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:	1639/10/28?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/10/29
Notes:	chat (Lady Sussex, Mr Bill?, Mr Nicholas?); family matters (son Denton)

04–024

Sent by:	Sir Edmund Verney Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Utrecht
on:	1639/11/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	chat (Antwerp, Hillesdon, England, cousin Turvill)

04–025

Sent by:	Sir Edmund Verney Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
on:	1639/11/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	chat (England, Sir Humphrey Sydenham's French man, Mr Sydenham); money matters (Mr Chalmers' order, merchant)

04–026

Sent by:	Dame Susan Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:	1639/11/03
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/11/05
Notes:	chat; family matters (Gorhambury, son Denton, London, Mr Roades, Sir Alexander Denton)

04–027

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/11/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/11/04
Notes:	money matters; chat (Mrs Mary)

04–028

Sent by:	Sir Edmund Verney Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Utrecht
on:	1639/11/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/12/06
Notes:	chat (colonel, his man abused a gentleman, has a great desire for a barber, hears likely to have war with France, Turvile)

04–029

Sent by:	Col Henry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
from:	Breda
on:	1639/11/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/11/11
Notes:	chat

04–030

Sent by:	Sir Edmund Verney Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Utrecht
on:	1639/11/09
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/12/06
Notes:	chat (Mr Richard, grandmother, gelding, Turvile, England); military matters (Captain Flood, Prince of Orange, colonel, the Hague); family matters (bro Harry, bro Henry)
Queries:	hard to read

04–031

Sent by:	Aunt Eure Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:	1639/11/10?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/11/12
Notes:	chat (sis Pegg)
Queries:	a note

04–032

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/11/10?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1639/11/12
Notes:	chat

04–033

Sent by:	Earl of Middlesex Middlesex, Earl of [Cranfield]
on:	1639/11/14
to:	Sir Edmund Verney Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
Notes:	money matters
Queries:	very hard to read

04–034

Sent by:	Sir Edmund Verney Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Utrecht
on:	1639/11/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1640/01/04
Notes:	chat (garrison, hours at study of French and Latin, Sir Humphrey Sydenham's man, bro Harry, Turvill); military matters (Scotland, England)
Queries:	hard to read

04–035

Sent by:	Henry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:	1639/11/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/12/06
Notes:	chat; family matters (mother, grandmother, cousin Leake, Dr)

04–036

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/11/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/11/25
Notes:	chat

04–037

Sent by:	Sir Edmund Verney Verney, Sir Edmund [d.1642]
from:	Utrecht
on:	1639/11/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/01/20
Notes:	military matters (colonel has cashiered his captain, England, garrison, Breda, bro Harry); money matters (Mns Rozy, Sir Humphrey Sydenham's man)

04–038

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/11/27
to:	Aunt Isham Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
Notes:	family matters (row between aunt Eure and his sister)

04–039

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/11/27
to:	sister [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	family matters (row)

04–040

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/12/04
to:	sister [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	family matters (row)

04–041

Sent by:	Mary Verney Verney, Mary [Lloyd]
on:	1639/12/01
to:	SRV ('dear brother') Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/12/03
Notes:	'dear brother' family matters (row)

04–042

Sent by:	Elizabeth Isham Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
on:	1639/12/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/12/03
Notes:	family matters (row with aunt and Peg, matters improved, Mrs ffust?)

04–043

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/12/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/12/03
Notes:	chat
Queries:	very hard to read

04–044

Sent by:	Lady Denton Denton, Lady Susanna
on:	1639/12/03
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/12/03
Notes:	chat (Mr Bell, Mr Raleb?); family matters (her son)

04–045

Sent by:	Henry Verney Verney, Henry [d.1671]
on:	1639/00/00?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	chat

04–046

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
on:	1639/12/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1640/01/04
Notes:	chat (Lord Grandeson, bro Harry)

04–047

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Utrecht
on:	1639/12/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	military matters (his captain's business going ill, colonel, Captain Fflood, Sir Harry Vane, the Hague); chat (wants a cloak of grey cloth, bro Harry, Old Countess of Oxford, Customs House, Mns Rozy, Sir Humphrey Sydenham)

04–048

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/12/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/12/10
Notes:	chat; money matters
Queries:	very hard to read

04–049

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/00/00?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	?
Queries:	very hard to read

04–050

Sent by:	Eleanor Countess of Sussex Wortley, Eleanor [Lady Lee, Countess of Sussex, Warwick, Manchester]
on:	1639/12/16
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1639/12/16
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	very hard to read

04–051

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Utrecht
on:	1639/12/16
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1640/01/16
Notes:	chat (complains at lack of letters from SRV, asks again for him to buy him a grey cloak); military matters (Captain Fflood, Rozy); PS now in the Hague with Robin Turvill
Queries:	the PS is dated 1630/01/07 -presumably means '1639'

04–052

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1649]
from:	Utrecht
on:	1639/12/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	money matters (Old Countess of Oxford, bro Harry, his colonel, Captain Francis de Valler); military matters (Captain Fflood, the Scots, king entertained 4000 Spaniards, parliament in England); chat (Lord Grandeson, Turvil now recovering, Mns Rozy, asks for a barber, 6 pocket combs, Mr F Uist?)