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01–007

Sent by:	Thomas Howard, [?Earl of Richmond and Carlisle] Howard, Thomas
from:	Ashted, Surrey
on:	1675/08/30
to:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	About his exclusion from Court as a Catholic, and his brother's death in action near Strasburg, and his retirement from public life.
Queries:	In JV's hand - a copy, but why?

02–066

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/00/00???
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	Blank printed Sacrament oath certificate.

19–322

Sent by:	Charles Goode Goode, Charles
on:	1675/02/10
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	1674/5 Chas Goode promise to pay £100

27–241

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/04/01
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	return? In part of £30 - £27, 10 shillings

28–034

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/30
to:	madam' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	family matters (about Christening, Dorothy Denton, A Denton)

28–095

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/00/00
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	Dividing sheet - 1675

28–096

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/01/08
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/09
Notes:	political matters (van Trump, Arlington, the king, the duke of de Rater's faction?, Lord Treasurer, Sir Robert Howard, Lord Dunblane, Sir Thomas Meeres, Lord Mayor Viner); legal matters (7 Ostenders found guilty of piracy, Sir Lionel Jenkins, Atkins Rainsford, Windham?); chat (horse lame, John)

28–097

Sent by:	Elizabeth Lillie Lillie, Elizabeth
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/01/06
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/01/08
Notes:	household matters (hopes received sheets for his bed, Robin's handkerchiefs, linen, London); chat (old Tom King swelled in head and face, his eyes like raw beef, Mary, young Tom King drunk, Harry, Robert Parrit)

28–098

Sent by:	Elizabeth Lillie Lillie, Elizabeth
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/01/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/01/26
Notes:	household matters (linen, stoole cloth, Mrs Verney?)

28–099

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/01/07
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/08
Notes:	chat (thanks for 2 fat turkeys, venison, Mr Ball will send trees, ); military matters (French victory, Swede come into Prussia, his Turkey cloth sent, Charles Good ill of a fever); political matters (Mulgrave likely to be Privy Councillor); gossip (Sir George Carteret's grandson to marry Earl of Bath's daughter, Lord Arlington, Lord Ossery? and Lord Lattimer come home again and their errand kept very secret, Lord Chancellor Hyde privately buried on Monday, body brought from a ship in a barge to the Parliament stairs)

28–100

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/01/04
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/07
Notes:	chat (Mr Claver of Oring? Dead not Mr Clever of Weedon); estate matters (Mr Parker, highway, James, Mun's dullness, Copsley Hills); political matters (Arlington shall be Lieutenant of Ireland, Pembroke shall be Chamberlain); gossip (Old Countess of Devonshire is likely to die, Lord Mayor's lady is dead, Hyde, Lord Cornwallis possible Master of Queens House, Duchess of York chosen a barber's wife to nurse their child and some say it is because barber and wife are both papists, Earl of Bath's daughter aged about 6 is to marry Sir George Carteret's eldest son, Lord Mulgrave); military matters (French, confederates)

28–101

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/05/20
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Notes:	legal matters (document re Henry D?, signed Jona Whiston, Ed Collis, John Ffrande, Jos Sergeant, Rich Massingbard, William Syon?, Thos A?, Tho Cowp., John Lucas)

28–102

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/02/22
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/23
Notes:	estate matters (Copsley Hills); chat (cousin Dormer, SRV been ill 20 vomits last night); military matters (French ship, Rye, Palermo in Sicily revolted from the Spaniard); political matters (some say Lord Privy Seal will accuse Treasurer of disposing of £200,000 without warrant, Lotherdale)

28–103

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Temple Churchyard
on:	1675/06/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/06/24
Notes:	chat (Westminster Hall, Lord Allington)

28–104

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
on:	1675/06/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/06/20
Notes:	chat

28–105

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Temple Churchyard
on:	1675/06/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/06/19
Notes:	chat (Sir Robin ?)
Queries:	annotated when he was suing Mr Whittore in the Bawdy Court? (Bailey Court?)

28–106

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Temple Churchyard
on:	1675/06/09
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/06/14
Notes:	chat (Sir Robert Wiseman)
Queries:	annotated when he sued Mr Whittacre

28–107

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Temple Churchyard
on:	1675/05/06
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/05/07
Notes:	chat (George, Mun)
Queries:	hard to read

28–108

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
on:	1675/06/07
to:	Mr Dyer Dyer, A
Notes:	legal matters (list of notes, coz Isham, Frank Drake, Mrs Whitaker, Charles Good, Tho Isham)

28–109

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Temple Churchyard
on:	1675/06/00??
to:	Mr Dyer? Dyer, A
Notes:	legal matters (note re Sir Robert's wife's man, reply on same sheet from Dyer)

28–110

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Temple Churchyard
on:	1675/06/06
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/06/06
Notes:	chat (Charles Good, cousin Isham)

28–111

Sent by:	Elizabeth Isham Isham, Elizabeth [Denton]
from:	Baddow
on:	1675/01/02
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/01/06
Notes:	chat (unle Dr's illness, glad is well now)
Queries:	signed E Adams not Isham

28–112

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/01/11
to:	Lady Gaudy (Vere Gaudy) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
Notes:	money matters (Mr Gaudy, old bond from Mr Courton, Earl of Bridgwater, Mrs Daniel); chat (Lady Hobart)
Queries:	annotated his letter about bond and Harry Gaudy's marriage

28–113

Sent by:	Lady Cary Gardiner Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/01/03
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/01/06
Notes:	chat (uncle's recovery, cousin Nicholas, Lady Vaughan, chancellor Hide dead?)

28–114

Sent by:	Jack Stewkeley Stewkeley, Jack
on:	1675/01/03
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/01/06
Notes:	chat (uncle's recovery, Mr Goodwin, Lady Hobart, cos Nancy, Mrs Gibbins)

28–115

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/01/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/01/06
Notes:	household matters (garden spade, glass bottles); estate matters (keeper, Mr Butterfield, Mr Holmes, the smith, Walter King, sowed cabbage called Savoy, sprouts, Willi Darwill?, wood, East Claydon, pigeon house)

28–116

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/01/04
to:	Lady Gaudy Gaudy, Vere, Lady
Notes:	chat (Mr Cockaine and wife wish their daughter married to her son, Mr May, Sir Alex Denton, Oxford)
Queries:	annotated his answer about Kitty Cockraine and Harry Gaudy, also about a match for Mrs Ann Gaudy

28–117

Sent by:	John Cary Cary, John
on:	1675/01/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/04
Notes:	chat (Lord Clarendon, deceased lord's body to be buried at 6pm, Mr Dunnkley, parliament)

28–118

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/06
Notes:	in French

28–119

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/01/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/06
Notes:	chat (good Dr, London, Claydon)

28–120

Sent by:	William Grosvenor Grosvenor, Willam
from:	Chancery Lane
on:	1675/01/05
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	London
Notes:	chat (Mrs Gape desires his company for dinner, Lady Wordon?)

28–121

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
on:	1675/01/06
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/06
Notes:	chat (sends 2 bottles of Cyprus wine)

28–122

Sent by:	Lady Gaudy (Vere Gaudy) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/01/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/09
Notes:	chat (her son Harry, Miss Cocken?)

28–123

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/01/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675//01/09
Notes:	chat (Sir Willi Darwill); estate matters (Walter King, William Symonds, old Henry ?, Ralph Roads, Mrs Sylly of M?, black cherry, New England strawberries, Lady Hobart)

28–124

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	London
on:	1675/06/07
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
Notes:	chat (sent bottles of Cyprus wine, buried Lord Chancellor Hyde at Westminster, Lady Mayor died, Sir Robert Viner, earls of Ossory? and Arlington returned from Holland, earl of Pembroke, Lord Cornwallis, Ralph Montague, earl of Clarendon, earl of Bath's daughter now 6 years old to be married to Sir George Carteret's son, earl of Mulgrave, Turine?, Aleppo); an additional note on bottom dated 11th Jan mentions excellent liquor)
Queries:	with a hamper

28–125

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/09
Notes:	in French

28–126

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Hillesden
on:	1675/01/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/13
Notes:	chat (uncle Dr); legal matters (Mr Coleman, bailiff's place, Mr Dormer, Mr Gilbert)

28–127

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/01/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/13
Notes:	chat (earl of Clarendon will be brought to England to be buried, Farnham Market, Holland); money matters (cousin Denton, Claydon, deeds); family matters (cousin Townsend, Jack, Mr Gape)

28–128

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/01/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/11
Notes:	estate matters (London, Sir William Rose, rent, Sir Thomas Honnor?)

28–129

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/13
Notes:	in French

28–130

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/11
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenter's Hall, London
Notes:	chat (thanks for hamper and bottles of Cyprus wine); military matters (confederate army, Spain, people of England)

28–131

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/01/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/13
Notes:	chat

28–132

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/01/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/01/13
Notes:	estate matters (garden spade, the smith, Walter King, London)

28–133

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/01/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/01/13
Notes:	money matters

28–134

Sent by:	William Page Page, William
from:	Preshaw
on:	1675/01/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/01/13
Notes:	chat (about his son becoming an attorney, thanks SRV)

28–135

Sent by:	Walter Bladworth Badworth, Walter
from:	Aleppo
on:	1675/01/12
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	London
Notes:	chat (brahim Dragman of convent of Jerusalem, French ambassador, capt Clape?, Aleppo, goats' wool, Mr Tane?, Mr Pagett, Jacob Roynardson)

28–136

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/01/14
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/15
Notes:	chat (venison, Charles Good much better, Aylesbury, Alexander, Duke of York's daughter, Mrs Hyde - daughter to Sir Robert Viner's lady - is married to her cousin Emerton, Hertfordshire, Lord Dunblane, Sir Robert Howard)
Queries:	with a sword, 2 hampers of glass bottle, 1 bag of corks

28–137

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/01/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/16
Notes:	estate matters (Sidnoll?, Knowle Hill, Walter King, George Huse?, orchard, Mrs Lilly, strawberry?, Willi Lea, Mrs Holmes?, the smith)

28–138

Sent by:	Dame Vere Gaudy Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/01/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/16
Notes:	chat (her son Harry, Lady Hobart, asks for advice)

28–139

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	London
on:	1675/01/14
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/15
Notes:	chat (glad the wine arrived, Duchess of York had a girl, Duke of Monmouth as godfather, Duke of York, Trump and son in London); military matters (King wrote to Monterey who takes no notice of it, some say Hollanders refuse to sign the articles agreed, Coventry, Sweden, Austria); gossip (Sir Robert Viner's daughter-in-law thought to be wife for Don Carolo and lately talked of a wife for Lord High Treasurer's son has married privately to her cousin Germain); reply written below date 18 Jan from Edmund Verney - chat (Dentons, London, his wife had a girl)

28–140

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/16
Notes:	chat (pirates' trial, stockings, Sir Thomas, Emerton); estate matters (Sir John Busby a busybody, Addington, Dixon, 50 sheep stolen, told him should be careful about defaming anyone on slender grounds especially a poor man); military matters (confederates, French)

28–141

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/16
Notes:	estate matters (Mr Parker, about the cartway, James Stephens a false brother and lying knave, London)

28–142

Sent by:	Richard Ball Ball, Richard
on:	1675/01/16
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/01/16
Notes:	estate matters (list of plum varieties he can provide, includes Queen Mother, Black pear plum)

28–143

Sent by:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/01/16?
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	estate matters (short list of trees, includes pear tree for Kellie's orchard)

28–144

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/18
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenter's Hall, London
Notes:	chat (Denton, London); family matters (has a niece)

28–145

Sent by:	Jack Stewkeley Stewkeley, Jack
on:	1675/01/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/01/20
Notes:	chat (countess of Devonshire, countess of Pembroke, Duke of York)

28–146

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/01/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/20
Notes:	chat

28–147

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/01/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/20
Notes:	military matters (king, the Dutch, sister Osborne)

28–148

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/20
Notes:	chat (shall not accompany council to Aylesbury or let cousin Denton go with him, London, shall only send such as are pox proof, uncle Alexander, Doll Denton, Mr Butterfield, Charles Good, Mrs Hyde, cousin Emerton, Lord Dunblane, John Hasker likely to die, his wife had a girl); political matters (Sir Robert Howard nicknamed Baron Tell Clock, the king, Darnil)

28–149

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/01/15
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/19
Notes:	estate matters (Sir John Busby, sheep, the sessions, Dixon, Tom Hicks); chat (Hyde's daughter, Emerton, old Lady Devonshire died at Southampton House, the Queen, Roehampton House, Lord Aylsebury, Mr Ball, Alexander Denton, Hillesdon, England, King James); political matters (Lord Mordant gone to Lord Shaftesbury, a sparrow to catch a kite); military matters (King, France, Prince of Furstingburgh?, Duke of Lorraine, treaty)

28–150

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/01/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/01/20
Notes:	estate matters (old slow horse lame, Mr Holmes, smith, Willi Rose?, Walter King, Willi Symonds?, Willi Darvill, Rich Darvill, England)

28–151

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/01/18
to:	cozen Denton' Denton, Alexander
Notes:	household matters (Frank Coleman not having master's consent to leave his service, thanks for letting him know, Mr Gilbert)
Queries:	possible copy of letter

28–152

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/01/18
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/19
Notes:	estate matters; legal matters (Mr Parker, James Stephens, said could not be 2 roads to one place through one parish, Mr Bridges ordered him to forbid Claydon men coming that way, Alderman Abell?, cozen Winwood, SRV said that they could prove a way for 3 or 4 score years, was his constant way from woods to Pitchuct?, Oving, Whitchurch, Sturke Lane, Lord Brooke?)

28–153

Sent by:	Sir Richard Wiseman Wiseman, Sir Richard
from:	London?
on:	1675/01/21
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/22
Notes:	chat (Sir John Miller, Mr Sachson?); money matters (Michaelmas payment yet unpaid)

28–154

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/25
to:	honoured sir' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (cannot pay residue of Michaelmas payment); chat (wife had a girl)
Queries:	draft letter, many crossings out

28–155

Sent by:	Lady Gaudy (Vere Gaudy) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/01/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/01/23 or 25
Notes:	chat (asks for help managing match of her son, Miss Dekine, Harry, Lady Hobart, young woman dishonour)
Queries:	annotated letter about her son Harry and Miss Kitty Cockraine

28–156

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/23
Notes:	estate matters; legal matters (Mr Parker, obstinate to deny a cartway, James Stephens, Mr Bridges, cousin Winwood, grandfather Abell, Claydon men, Lord Brooke)

28–157

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/23
Notes:	chat (Coleman, Will Darnill, Alexander Denton, George Lowen, old Alex, Oxford, Thom Matthews killed a doe, painter van Ryland came to paint his picture, Middle Claydon); family matters (intends to Christen daughter on Saturday, cousin Denton godmother, cousin Woodward); estate matters (Sir John Busby, Addington, Steeple Claydon men entered complaint against the woman to prevent inhabitancy of a wrong Christian name, Dixon, sheep, trees); political matters (Shaftesbury, Mordant, French king)

28–158

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/01/21
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
Notes:	family matters (doubts not he will provie noble portion for daughter, cousin Denton with child); political matters (Sir Robin Howard Chancellor of the Exchequer, Baron Tell Clock); chat (Miss Hyde's marriage, Lord Buckhurst to be Earl of Middlesex, Duchess of York a little ill)

28–159

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/01/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/23
Notes:	estate matters (Walter King, Knowle Hill, Willi Guttridge?, orchard, Mrs Lilly, Mr Holmes, keeper yesterday killed a doe for Mr Verney, Mr Denton)

28–160

Sent by:	Elizabeth Adams Adams, Elizabeth [Verney] d.1721
on:	1675/01/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/01/27
Notes:	chat (much smallpox)

28–161

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/01/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/01/27
Notes:	estate matters (horse has sore foot, Rich Darvill, England, Mr Holmes, Walter King, Gutteridge, Henry Scott's Close?, John Hicks?, Knowle Hill, Henry King, Mr Churchill, Sir William D?, Thomas Hicks?)

28–162

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/01/25
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Notes:	family matters (complains about Mun's choice of nurse)

28–163

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/01/25
to:	Lady Gaudy (Vere Gaudy) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
Notes:	chat (met Sir Edward Deering at dinner, spoke of business between her son and Kitty Cockraine, said Mr Cockraine should inform himself what promise was between them, then can better judge if can be parted or not, must consider how they might have a subsistence, Mr Hendage Finch?, Mr Fielding's little boy, Lord George Berkley, Countess of Desmond?, Mrs Cockaine, her son paid about 50 shillings)

28–164

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Drogheda
on:	1675/01/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/02/10
Notes:	chat (Galway, Mr Davison, Dublin, London, Thomas Pepper); money matters

28–165

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/01/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/27
Notes:	chat (East Claydon)

28–166

Sent by:	John Stewkeley Stewkeley, John
on:	1675/01/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/01/28
Notes:	chat

28–167

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/27
Notes:	family matters (thanks for being godfather, daughter baptised by Hugh Heart and named Mary, Alex Denton, Dorothy Denton, aunt Sherard, Mr Duncomb, Thom Isham, Mr Butterfield, will give her a good portion but also an education so she qualifies to be a nun - though she needs better example than mother and grandmother); legal matters (cousin Woodward, Hillesdon, London)

28–168

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/30
Notes:	family matters (Coleman, choice of nurse, England, rumour about nurse changing his child for one of her sister's children); military matters (Spaniards, Medina, Swedes, Dutch); political matters (popery)

28–169

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/01/25
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/26
Notes:	estate matters (way through Hogshaw Hill, Mr Parker, Sturke Lane, wood carts, Pitchent?, Oving)

28–170

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/01/25
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/26
Notes:	estate matters (some think Tho Hickes' wench not with child, she is gone from Steeple Claydon, if Sir John Busby knowingly let her Christian name be entered wrongly-was kindly done, trees); family matters (unwise to choose that nurse, great odds his child would be swapped); military matters (Messina, French, Swedes stopped a fleet of 100 Dutch ships at Gottenburgh, bad news as ships laden with hemp, pitch, tar, Elector of Brandenberger country); political matters (privy councillors, Lambeth, Rochester, Salisbury, Winchester, Chester, Duke Lotherdale, Williamson, popery); chat (be careful with gun for Sir Harry Winchcombe had both eyes shot, Mr Fielding, Lord George Berkeley, countess of Desinond?, cousin Dormer, London, Lilly, Coleman)

28–171

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Glasgow
on:	1675/01/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/02/25
Notes:	money matters (apologises for asking for money, his great need for funds)

28–172

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/01/30
Notes:	estate matters (Mr Parker, Hogshaw Hill, cousin A Denton, uncle A Denton, Frank Drake, Thom Isham, Aylesbury, London, Hillesdon, Mr Justice Would-Bee, Blind Thom, Choming Oak Lane, Coppesly Hills, man Wood, Jack Riding, ground at Bunts Corner, cousin Dormer, Lee, W King, Abbots coppice, Middle Claydon); family matters (cousin Parkhurst had a girl)

28–173

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/01/28
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/01/31
Notes:	family matters (abhors thought of making daughter a nun); religious matters (Lambeth, settlement of church, bishop Laney of Ely is dead, Bishop Gunning of Chicester?, Dr Bredock - dean of Salisbury, Mr Serjeant, Dr Prince - President of Magdalen College in Oxford); chat (My Hyde's marriage believed to be proved though Parson is the vilest villain)

28–174

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/01/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/01/30
Notes:	estate matters (Walter King, hedges, Willi Taylor, Walter's meadow, Bushey ground, Knowles Hill, Rich Harding, John Hickes, George Huse?, Mr Churchill, Mr Denton, Mr Verney)

28–175

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Drogheda
on:	1675/01/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/02/11
Notes:	money matters (Thomas Pepper, bill of exchange, wants money)

28–176

Sent by:	Lady Gaudy (Vere Gaudy) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/01/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/01/30
Notes:	chat (Miss Cockaine, match with her son)

28–177

Sent by:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/01/20
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	estate matters (woods, Mr Verney)
Queries:	annotated 'a note about instructions'

28–178

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/01/31
to:	cousin Denton Denton, Alexander
Notes:	chat (Middleton, cousin Isham); legal matters (Mrs Harman, title to Middleton, cousin Woodward)

28–179

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/02/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/02/03
Notes:	estate matters (pigeon house garden, East Claydon, Mr Verney, Mrs Holmes)

28–180

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/02/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/03
Notes:	chat

28–181

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/02/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/13
Notes:	estate matters (Mrs Adams colt, lame horse, John Hickes, Mr Holmes)

28–182

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/13
Notes:	chat (Coleman, cousin A Denton, Worcester, cousin Drake); religious matters (suppression of popery); legal matters (Lord Mayor, Mrs Hyde, Lord Chief Justice Hales, Emerton, Lord Dunblane, Lady Christian Ridgeway, Sir Richard Wyseman, filthy lucre)

28–183

Sent by:	Elizabeth Adams Adams, Elizabeth [Verney] d.1721
from:	Baddow
on:	1675/02/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/02/12
Notes:	chat (colt, Claydon, Cary, sister Gardiner)

28–184

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/02/11
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Notes:	family matters (Jane Harris, warning about the nurse - fitter for Bridewell)

28–185

Sent by:	Lady Gaudy (Vere Gaudy) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/02/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/13
Notes:	chat (Harry, Miss Cockaine, not to marry without her permission); money matters (Charles paid to Lord Garmine)

28–186

Sent by:	Harry Gaudy? Gaudy, Henry
on:	1675/02/00??
to:	Lady Gaudy Gaudy, Vere, Lady
Notes:	family matters (apologies)
Queries:	annoted 'Harry Gaudy's letter to his mother about match with Kitty Cockaine' - seems to be copy in SRV's hand

28–187

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/02/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/10
Notes:	chat (Lady Stewkeley, Lady Gold?, Sir john Isham, Mr George Stroud, Lady Christian Ridgeway, Cary, London)

28–188

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/10
Notes:	chat (cousin Stewkeley, cousin Townsend, Mr Courtney, Corderoy, Jane Harris)

28–189

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/02/08
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/09
Notes:	chat (cousin Townsend, Sir Richard Wiseman, Mrs Hyde, Hales, Emerton intends to sue for her - if the marriage can be proved he must have her, Lady Christian Ridgway sister to Earl of Londonderry, Williamson, trial between Lord Peterborough and Lord Mordant); political matters (King given Lord Treasurer money to buy Wallingford House, Duke of Buckingham)

28–190

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/02/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/10
Notes:	chat (Mr Oglethorpe, Sutton, Claydon)

28–191

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/02/08
to:	Lady Gaudy (Vere Gaudy) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
Notes:	money matters (Sir John Cook, Sir Charles Gaudy, Risbrooke, Lord St Albans, St James Fields)

28–192

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/02/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/02/10
Notes:	estate matters (potash, Willi Darwill, Walter King, faggots, the smith, Mrs Holmes, Mrs Saxby, Willi Gutteridge)

28–193

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Hilsden?
on:	1675/02/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/09
Notes:	chat (thanks for venison, Mr Gilbert); business matters (Middleton, uncle Alex Denton)
Queries:	annotated about a bayliff at Hillesdon

28–194

Sent by:	Anne Hobart Hobart, Ann [Leeke]
on:	1675/02/06
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/02/06
Notes:	legal matters (about her will, SRV, Mrs Gibbon, sister Cooper)

28–195

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/02/06??
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	legal matters (document Anne Hobart)
Queries:	draft doc? No date or signature

28–196

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/06
Notes:	in French

28–197

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/02/04
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/05
Notes:	chat (London, Plesto?, Jack Stewkeley, cousin Townshend); religious matters (bishops' council Lambeth, presbeterians, fanatics, popelings, Carlisle, Anglice, Hollies, Hallifax, prosecution of papists)
Queries:	with 2 hampers of bottles'

28–198

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/02/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/06
Notes:	estate matters (Walter King, John Hickes, ditch, Mr Holmes, Sir Ralph Roades, Knowle Hill, Sir George Huse?, London, Rob Walter)

28–199

Sent by:	Lady Gaudy (Vere Gaudy) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/02/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/06
Notes:	chat (about Harry Gaudy and Kitty Cockaine, he may never marry her, debts)

28–200

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Drogheda
on:	1675/02/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/02/18
Notes:	family matters (Drogheda, inquisitive about death of Sir Edmund Verney, body buried in one Mr Drope, Mr Drope is dead, wonders if skull and bones might be removed, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Col Boyle)

28–201

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/03
Notes:	in French

28–202

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/02/01
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Notes:	family matters (about the nurse, Quainton?, errant wretch)
Queries:	copy of part of a letter

28–203

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/01
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	family matters (wishes congratulations had been for a boy, size of portion needed for a girl); military matters (Swedes, aggressors, Baltic)

28–204

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/02/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/03
Notes:	chat (old Lady Pembroke, Mr Grimston?, Sir Hugh Stewkeley, Jack, Peg Gardiner, cousin Nancy, Sir John Isham, Lady Francis Hide, Clarendon house)

28–205

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/02/01
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/03
Notes:	family matters (the nurse, Quainton?, errant wretch); estate matters (AD, the way, Copsley Hills); religious matters (expect proclamation to suppress popery, Lambeth); legal matters (Miss Hyde, Emerton, to be brought to the King's Bench); political matters (Gelderland?, Prince of Orange, Paris, Harry Killagrew, Lockart, Cromwell, on Sat night Capt Buckley sent to the Tower, Mrs Stewart -Duchess of Richmond's sister, he challenged Lord Ossery and offered to fight by moonshine); chat (Coleman, Sir Richard Wiseman, cousin Townshend)

28–206

Sent by:	Fran Parker Parker, Francis
on:	1675/02/10
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Notes:	money matters (receipt of £4, half year rent, Coppsley Hills, Lord Brooke)

28–207

Sent by:	Elizabeth Lillie Lillie, Elizabeth
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/02/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/02/16
Notes:	household matters (received box of linen, bottle of stone water, not received barrel of soap, bottle of neatsfoot, desires Coventry blue thread)

28–208

Sent by:	Elizabeth Lillie Lillie, Elizabeth
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/02/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/02/19
Notes:	household matters (received cloth to make the sheets but not good, Joane very bad with her breast, Dr Warford?)

28–209

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/03/04
to:	William Coleman Coleman, William
Notes:	estate matters (note of seeds sent, French melon, Spanish melon, black radish and others)

28–210

Sent by:	Lady Gaudy (Vere Gaudy) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/03/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/03/06
Notes:	chat (glad Harry and Cockaine separated, her beauty may procur her a good husband and he will have more opportunity to study, Charles, money)
Queries:	annotated about Harry Gaudy's marriage and Ann Gaudy's marriage

28–211

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/03/04
to:	William Coleman Coleman, William
Notes:	estate matters (list of seeds sent to Colemand, includes Arabian lettuce, Dutch cabbage, Larkshood, Denmark colewort)

28–212

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/03/03
to:	William Looker Looker, William
Received at:	Hatfield
Notes:	business matters; estate matters (request for melon seed, send to Mr Gape's house, Covent Garden)

28–213

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1675/03/02
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	chat

28–214

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/03/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/03/03
Notes:	money matters (Mr Butterfield, Mr Cary, Mr Bolsworth, Adstock business); family matters (Mr Chappell haberdasher of hats in the Strand wants an apprentice, likes binding of his boy Jack for nothing so in 7 years will be a Freeman of the City of London, asks for advice; £50 a great deal for Jane Harris in dry money but would give give her a £1000 for thinks she deserves as much as possible both from her mistress and me, shall certainly follow his good council concerning the next maid I take for my wife; about the nurse, wishes child had been a boy, desires to make Ned a cook); estate matters (inn dropping down, Will Pursell, ale house in Bottle Claydon in the same plight, William Perkins, Joane Leney, silver plates, Coleman); political matters (French, Duke of Bavaria, Will Claver, Thom Hughes, Will Hughes, London)

28–215

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/03/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/03/03
Notes:	estate matters (Mrs Lylly, Mrs Holmes, Robert Parrott, Harry King, John Roades, John Hickes, John Holmes, neatsfoot oil, Harry King, Willi Lea, dung thrown out of the pigeon house, Rich Harding's house, lame horse)

28–216

Sent by:	Cary Stewkelely Stewkeley, Cary
on:	1675/03/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/03/03
Notes:	chat

28–217

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
on:	1675/03/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/03/03
Notes:	chat; business matters (uncle Alex Denton, uncle Woodward, Mr Korsey?)
Queries:	annotated about a bayliff and accounts

28–218

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/03/04
to:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
Notes:	business matters (uncle Alexander, bayliffs)

28–219

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/03/01
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	money matters (London, Mr Kersey?, Mr Butterfield, Claydon)

28–220

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/02/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/03/01
Notes:	chat

28–221

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/02/27
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	chat

28–222

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/02/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/03/03
Notes:	chat; money matters (Dr Sharock, Mr Butterfield, cousin Denton, Mr Karsy?, mortgage)

28–223

Sent by:	Lady Gaudy (Dame Vere Gaudy) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/02/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/27
Notes:	chat (his illness, Harry, Lord Keeper, Charles)

28–224

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/02/25
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/26
Notes:	money matters (Mr Cary, Mr Butterfield); chat (footboy Jack is very good servant but not sure a wine cooper is fit trade, glad Jane Harris to be married, been a very good servant, £50 the least she should have, entreats him not to take any in her place that are kin, or friend or acquaintance, highway rogues often turn house robbers); political matters (Parliament, Queen ill and not thought to last long, Mr Villars dead, Duke of Buckingham, Marquess of Buckingham); military matters (French king, confederates and allies in Flanders, Sicily, Savoy, Milan, Duke of Bavaria)

28–225

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/01/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/01/28
Notes:	military matters (Dutch); chat (medicine for the itch is quarter of a pound of ? Ginger to half a pound of crown soap?, Jack)

28–226

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/27
Notes:	estate matters (Coleman, cousin Dormer, Coppesly Hills, Walter King and son Harry, Runtb?); military matters (French ships, Rye, Palermo, Messina, Spaniards); money matters (Lord Treasurer, intends monopoly of all good fortunes in England, Mr Butterfield, Mr Careios)

28–227

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/02/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/27
Notes:	estate matters (Mrs Holmes, lame horse, ashes into Walter's meadow, dung for the vines and gardens, kidney beans?, Sherfield, Croases?, parsnip seed, Willi Gutteridge, John Hicks)

28–228

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Drogheda
on:	1675/02/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/03/08
Notes:	money matters (Mr Ffall, bills,, Mr Thomas, London, his need for money, Mr Baskerville)

28–229

Sent by:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/02/25
to:	Mr Gramnar? Grosvenor, Willam
Notes:	household matters (box, linen, Miss Ursula Stewkelely's bond)

28–230

Sent by:	Elizabeth Adams Adams, Elizabeth [Verney] d.1721
on:	1675/02/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/02/25
Notes:	chat (Mr Holmes, colt, sister Gardiner)

28–231

Sent by:	Richard Hoare Hoare, Richard
on:	1675/02/24
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (receipt for a basin and ewer)

28–232

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/02/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/24
Notes:	chat (health, Jack); political matters (Scotland)

28–233

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/24
Notes:	chat (Miss Hyde makes a great noise, if she be under age of consent she may disown her marriage, Lord Dunblane had better stop Emerton's mouth with a very considerable sum, country swarms with rogues, King of Drayton robbed about Horwood, apothecary of Aylesbury robbed going to Buckingham, the Smith's maid robbed in EV's wood, Lee, Bottle Claydon); political matters (Holland, Prince of Orange); money matters (Mr Cary, Mr Butterfield, Mr Bolsworth, Adstock business); household matters (Jack Haughtin footman to ve bound apprentice, Mr Rogers of Buckingham, Jane Harris to be married, what sum to pay her); military matters (Tureine, French king, King of Poland, Moscovites, King of Denmark, Duke of Bavaria)

28–234

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/02/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/02/24
Notes:	estate matters (Willi Lea, ash, mud, Robin Walton)

28–235

Sent by:	Dick Halls Hals, Richard
on:	1675/02/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/02/24
Notes:	chat (Sir Mountsford Brainston?)

28–236

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1675/02/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/24
Notes:	chat (Mr Oglethorpe)

28–237

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Drogheda
on:	1675/02/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/03/03
Notes:	money matters (Mr Ffall, hears of SRV's anger at him drawing bills of exchange, a prayer, Mr Baskerville, asks for help)

28–238

Sent by:	Dick Halls Hals, Richard
on:	1675/02/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/22
Notes:	chat (Stanley Palmer, Hutching?, Roberts, Sir Edward Smythe, Claydon)
Queries:	hard to read

28–239

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/02/18
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/19
Notes:	chat (sister Adams, Jack Stewkeley, Claydon, cousin Dormer, Miss Hyde, Lord Mayor); political matters (Viscount Purbeck dead in Flanders, town reports king will restore his son to that honour, Sir William Soames sheriff of Suffolk, Popery, states of Holland advised Prince of Orange not to desire or accept the sovereignity); money matters (Mr Butterfield, Cary, Mr Bolesworth, Addstock, bro Tom); family matters (when his wife is churched gossiping is over, silver plates); military matters (King of Poland, Muscovites, Bavaria, French king, the Dane)

28–240

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/02/19
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	household matters; money matters (bill for items such as curtains)

28–241

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/02/10
to:	William Coleman Coleman, William
Received at:	Mid Claydon
Notes:	household matters (sister Adams, box, bottles); estate matters (cattle, Chalcroft, ice house, Robin Strattion)

28–242

Sent by:	Lady Gaudy (Vere Gaudy) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/02/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/20
Notes:	chat (Harry, Miss Cokaine)

28–243

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/20
Notes:	chat (intrigue about Miss Hyde, sorry Lord Chief Justice not well, Conoway Watts dead of the smallpox in Buckingham, cooper stole many of the best pales from Sir William Smith's park, Mr Butterfield)

28–244

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/02/20
Notes:	estate matters (Runts Corner, Coppeswell Hills with old Walter King, hedge, Rose, asked him about the ground, Middle Claydon, East Claydon, Bottle Claydon, cousin Dormer, Watt King, H King, Robin the lawyer)
Queries:	about land dispute

28–245

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/02/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/20
Notes:	estate matters

28–246

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/02/15
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/16
Notes:	political matters (Popery, Papists by law forbidden to come to court); legal matters (marriage or no marriage not the question about Miss Hyde, Emerton complained she was in Durance, Habias Corpus, Westminster Hall, spiritual court, Lord Mayor, Mr West, Mr Wallop, Mr Sanders, Attorney Jones, Hales, Sir John Howells); chat (Harry Jarman to marry Sir Edmund Poole's daughter, Lord St Albans, Lady Poole, cousin Dormer, Robin Dormer)

28–247

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/02/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/17
Notes:	family matters (Jack, soreness in his eyes, purged and blooded, Cary ill); military matters

28–248

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/02/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/02/17
Notes:	estate matters (John Hickes, Tho Horner?, Steeple Claydon, Mr Saxby?, Willi Darwill)
Queries:	long letter, hard to read

28–249

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/02/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/17
Notes:	estate matters (two horses in Pigwell's meadow, Henry King, Willi Lea)

28–250

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/02/15
to:	Lady Gaudy (Vere Gaudy) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
Notes:	chat (Mrs Cockaine came to him, Mr Gaudy much against her daughter going into the Country?, showed him his letters, need form of subsistence for marriage, some would be apt to say her friends forced to marry her to Mr Gaudy because no one else would have her, Miss Kitty); money matters (Sir Charles, Lord St Albans)

28–251

Sent by:	Dick Halls Hals, Richard
on:	1675/02/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/02/21
Notes:	chat

28–252

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/17
Notes:	family matters (Jack Stewkeley, Orpheus fetched Euridice from Hell, Mr Courteney, cousin Townsend, nurse for his daughter, London, Middle Claydon); chat (Miss Hyde, Aubery, Emerton, she owns her marriage to him); political matters (Prince of Orange); estate matters (Coppseley Hills, cousin Dormer)

28–253

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/17
Notes:	chat (Will Darnell, Aunt Adams, Sir William Soames, Sir Samuel Barnardiston, Sir Charles Gaudy)

28–254

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
from:	London
on:	1675/02/13
to:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
Notes:	money matters (tells him for taking out bills of exchange on SRV, Mr Davison, Mr Baskerville?)
Queries:	annoted by SRV as being his answer to TV's letters, written by Ffall

28–255

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/02/12
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/13
Notes:	legal matters (Kings Bench gave judgement for Sir Samuel Barnadiston against Sheriff of Suffolk, Sir William Soames); political matters (hears proclamation coming out against the fanatics); chat (sister Adams, colt, Coleman)

28–256

Sent by:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/02/00??
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	note
Queries:	writing very faint

28–257

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/02/11
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/02/12
Notes:	chat (Jack Stewkeley, sore eyes, Mr Courtney, cousin Townsend); household matters (Jane Harris, about the nurse - fitter for Bridewell); legal matters (Judge Ellis, assizes at Aylesbury, trial between 2 brothers Peterborough and Mordant, Miss Hyde, disowned her marriage with Emerton, Lord Mayor her guardian); political matters

28–258

Sent by:	Elizabeth Adams Adams, Elizabeth [Verney] d.1721
on:	1675/03/16
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/03/17
Notes:	chat

28–259

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Chancery Lane
on:	1675/03/16
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Notes:	chat

28–260

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/03/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/03/17
Notes:	estate matters (hedges, John Hickes?, Bottle Gate, Knowle Hill, Spines Well Meadow, Grittmore Lane)

28–261

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/03/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/03/17
Notes:	money matters (Mr Butterfield, Dr Sharock?); family matters (Jack, Claydon, London)
Queries:	with a large earthen pot'

28–262

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1675/03/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/02/17
Notes:	chat (Symond, Sir W Glyn, Mr Oglethorpe, in want of a bed)
Queries:	date of receipt must be incorrect

28–263

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Chancery Lane
on:	1675/03/15
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	chat (wants to meet, Mr W, College Hall, Cutlers Hall)

28–264

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	Carpenters' Hall
on:	1675/03/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/03/15
Notes:	chat (Mr White, about meeting with Master and his wife, Mrs Woodcock, Mrs Salmon of Hackney, details of the questions they asked him, Mrs Roberts, French church, Dr Manton, Dr Tillotson, Dr Wilkison)

28–265

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/03/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/03/17
Notes:	chat (bed, Wroxall, London, Sutton)

28–266

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/03/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/03/17
Notes:	in French

28–267

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/03/15
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	chat (about verses, Morisco's daughter's wedding, Alderman Frederick's son)

28–268

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/03/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/03/13
Notes:	estate matters (Coleman, alehouse, Harry Hicks, John Hicks, Dick Smith, Mr Butterfield, timber, Stevens of Shipton, rents, Perkins); political matters (fanatics, peace would be welcome, Duchess of York, King, Newmarket); chat (Jack, Marquis of Winchester, Alexander the Coppersmith, Hillesdon, Frank Drake, cousin Woodward, hunted with cousin Denton, killed a fox about Thorneborough, Minshall, parson Ayres, Beauchamp, Lord Latimer)

28–269

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/03/11
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/03/12
Notes:	family matters (hatter will take Jack); estate matters (neighbour Adstock Leet, gelding, mare); political matters (King, Lord Newport to be a viscount); military matters (fears shall break with Spain, Hispaniola into French hands, Jamaica); chat (Lady Hobart says if he buys his wife a handsome large gown it will cost at least £9, Lady Smith)

28–270

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	London
on:	1675/03/11
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Notes:	chat (verses, Earl of Rochester, Chloe, great wedding widow Morisco's eldest daughter, Alderman Frederick's son, 400 dishes, another wedding at Coopers' Hall, Kitson's? son, Dashwood)
Queries:	reply from Edmund Verney at East Claydon on same sheet

28–271

Sent by:	Dame Vere Gaudy Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/03/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/03/13
Notes:	chat (Harry)

28–272

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/03/08
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/03/09
Notes:	estate matters (inn and alehouse, rent, Perkins); gossip (Marquis of Winchester dead, Sir Justinian Isham died at Oxford of the stone); political matters (King to Newmarket, those that intend to be touched, Queen is ill, Duchess of York); chat (Jack, Alex Denton, Hillesdon)

28–273

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/03/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/03/17
Notes:	estate matters (East Claydon, Mr Rawson, the Smith, Walter King, hedges, Sir Robert Parrott, Harry Scott's close, Willi Lee, cannot find any orange or lemon seed, London, book the English Gardiner, Mr Holmes)

28–274

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/03/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/03/10
Notes:	estate matters (Sir Robert Parrott, Charles ?, Mr Holmes, Smith says horse in danger of losing hoof, Walter's Meadow, Roudon Meadow, Common ?, Little Chacrost?, Henry King, Pignoll's Meadow?, John Hicks?, Fulmore meadow, garden seeds, Willi Lea, dung, Henry Scott's Close)

28–275

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/03/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/03/10
Notes:	chat (had bad leg, Dr Sharock, Mr Butterfield, Dr Teather?, Lady Hobart)

28–276

Sent by:	Elizabeth Adams Adams, Elizabeth [Verney] d.1721
on:	1675/03/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/10
Notes:	chat (glad to hear of nephew John Verney's safe return to England)

28–277

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Drogheda
on:	1675/03/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/03/17
Notes:	money matters (Drogheda, London, about forgiveness, Mr Danson?, Mr Baskerville, Davision, his need for money)

28–278

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1675/03/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/03/10
Notes:	chat (bed, Sir Robert Cotton, Cantoon bed?, striped Indian satin)
Queries:	marked 'bedd'

28–279

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/03/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/03/10
Notes:	chat (Jane Harris, the Hatter, John Haughtin, Freeman of the City of London, Addington, Sir John Busby, Lord Chief Baron, assizes, Sir Thomas Longueville's brother killed a butcher, Adstock Lease, Mr Lovell of Northampton, Sir Richard Piggot, Sir Justinian Isham, Oxford, wife lacks a handsome gown, Lady Hobart, cousin Frank Drake, cousin A Denton); military matters (Holland, Prince of Orange, peace with France); estate matters (Hobart, horses)

28–280

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/03/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/03/06
Notes:	estate matters (Mr Butterfield, Coleman, rents, East and Bottle Claydon); chat (Frederick, wedding with Morisco's daughter, does not understand why Duckenfield let the prisoners escape, Sir Jeremy Whitchcott, understands why Nell Gwyn to be made a countess, the Queen ill, Lady Tyrell, Mr Purefoy, Mr Justice Risley); military matters (confederates, French); family matters (cousin Will Abell very sober, though natural capacity dull and lazy, vicar Hugh Hart, daughter's name registered in church book)

28–281

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/03/04
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/03/
Notes:	money matters (Mr Cary, Mr Butterfield, Mr Bolsworth, Grosveneur); estate matters (Hatter, Jack, Jane Harris, cannot give her less than £50, inn and alehouse, horses); religious matters (Baxter, Common Prayer, Bishop Jowell, fanatics, Manton); political matters (King, Newmarket, healing)

28–282

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1675/03/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/03/02
Notes:	money matters (AD, Norwich, Charles Adams)

28–283

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/03/01
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/03/03
Notes:	money matters (Mr Butterfield); chat (mighty wedding in London, 600 dishes for wedding dinner, Drapers' Hall, Mrs Morisco's daughter, Alderman Frederick's son); political matters (sub warden of Fleet - Mr Duckenfield, Sir Jerome Whitchcot the warden, gone away with several prisoners, all others near escaping too, Sir J in nick of time, Baxter, Manton, Lord Wharton, Countess of Bedford, Lady Diana Verney, London); chat (Nell Gwyn to be countess, Sir Thomas Tywill's lady had a girl which died of convulsions, fevers are rife); military matters (Flanders, Holland, peace at hand, French king, Turvine?, Dover); family matters (cousin Abell); estate matters (Harry King, wood)

28–284

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/03/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/03/06
Notes:	estate matters (cheese, dung, Robert Parrott, Knowle Hill meadow, Willi Rose's ground, Old Willi Lea)

28–285

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
from:	London
on:	1675/04/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/05
Notes:	gossip (Lady Dories formerly Fitgerrard, Bp of Canterbury, Lord Dories, Whitehall, Lord Anglesey, Mr Thompson, Countess Beard, Mr Rosse, constables, Weston, Prince of Orange got smallpox, yacht sailing from Dublin to Chester struck a rock - most drowned including Lord Mead and son, Lord Arglas, Mr Percival and lady; Sir John Bertonhead came to dine, Lord Conway, Mr French, Ireland)

28–286

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1675/03/31
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/03
Notes:	chat (Mun, Prince of Orange sick with small pox); military matters (French, Irish)

28–287

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/03/29
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/02
Notes:	chat (brother and sister Oglethorpe, Will Puresall?)

28–288

Sent by:	Dame Cary Gardiner Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
from:	Preshaw
on:	1675/03/29
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/04/09
Notes:	chat (Claydon); money matters (Mr Butterfield, London, cousin Denton, Mr K?)

28–289

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/03/24
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	White Hart
Notes:	chat (sent white gelding and another for Mr Ffall, is late and is sleepy)
Queries:	in another hand on same sheet is long list of names and locations, such as Steeple Claydon - Wm Challoner, continues on next sheet

28–290

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Drogheda
on:	1675/03/26
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/04/09
Notes:	money matters (atonement, Mr Baskerville, Mr Chandler, Drogheda, Aldermanbury, need for money)
Queries:	hard to read

28–291

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/03/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
Notes:	estate matters (inn, Coleman); political matters (poor evil people, differences amongst City and Magistrates); family matters (cousin Stewkeley)

28–292

Sent by:	Margaret Sherard Denton, Margaret [Pulteney -1637; Mrs Eure 1639-44; Mrs Sherrard 1645-?]
on:	1675/03/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/03
Notes:	chat

28–293

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/03/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/03/24
Notes:	chat (weather cold enough for January, hopes will warm up or cattle will suffer, Jack, London); money matters (Mr Butterfield, Hugh Grove)

28–294

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/03/22
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
Notes:	estate matters (value of inn, rents, Coleman, Claydon); chat (Jack Stewkeley, London, Lazy Jack, Duchess of Portsmouth at Wilton, King, those that come to be touched, Queen ill again, Lady Smith, Eling, Ratcliffe, Mrs King, Sir William); political matters (differences betwwen Lord Mayor and Aldermen)

28–295

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/03/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	estate matters (inn, Coleman); political matters); family matters (cousin Stewkeley)

28–296

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/03/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/03/24
Notes:	estate matters (pot of honey, Mr Holmes, East Claydon, Mr Rawson, Walter King's daughter Eddy, Mrs Winwood's ground, Round Hill, John Hickes' ground, ditch)

28–297

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Drogheda
on:	1675/03/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/04/03
Notes:	chat (Mr Ffall, lack of letters, Sir Wm Smith, Lady Hobart, Tredah, London, Mr Chandler?); money matters (debt to landlord, need for money, Aldermanbury, bill of exchange, Sir Edmund Verney)

28–298

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/03/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/03/22
Notes:	chat (London, cousins Denton, Frank Drake, Mr Skinner, Mr Banks); political matters (mediators, revolted priest); religious matters (Will Claver, T Hughes' wife, widow Hughes' daughter, widow Faulkener's girl, Sam Gurney's nephew, Tipper, Harry Stephens' son all ask him to help them to be touched, uncle Dr)

28–299

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/03/22
to:	sir' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	legal matters
Queries:	annotated 'my letter to my cousin Gee'

28–300

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/03/20
to:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
Notes:	money matters (Mr Davison, Mr Chandler, Mr Pippard FitzGeorge)
Queries:	copy of letter

28–301

Sent by:	George Lowen Lowen, George
from:	? in Surrey
on:	1675/03/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/03
Notes:	estate matters (London, Mr Denton)
Queries:	annoted as 'formerly SRV's huntsman would be keeper of Hillesden Park)

28–302

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1675/04/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/03/24
Notes:	chat (Sutton, Claydon)

28–303

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/03/18
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/03/19
Notes:	chat (Lady Smith, gelding Plowman, Newmarket, wedding between Lady Grace Granville and Sir George Cartwright's grandson was consumated by Bishop of Durham, she is 6 years old and he 8); political matters (Lord John Berkley, Lord Lockart, Sir William Temple, Sir Lionel Jenkins, Nimevgen?, treaty); religious matters (priest made recantation in French church)
Queries:	with a box and glass bottles

28–304

Sent by:	Lady Osborne (Pen Osborne) Verney, Pen[elope Denton/Osborne d. 1695]
from:	London
on:	1675/03/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/03/27
Notes:	chat (Aylesbury, London, Lord Banbury dead)

28–305

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/03/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/03/20
Notes:	estate matters (Robert Parrott, Dixon, John Warner, rent, Willi Rose, John Sanders, Northampton, Mr Holmes, Woburne); household matters (chamber hangings, Mr Gerney?); chat (Rich Stop?, John Hicks)

28–306

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/03/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/03/20
Notes:	estate matters (Mr Holmes, grafts onto trees, sugar peas, ash trees, Roses ground, Sir William Drake)

28–307

Sent by:	Dame Vere Gaudy Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/03/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/03/20
Notes:	chat (Harry, Miss Cokaine, hopes their love is cured, family all ill with colds and sore throats)

28–308

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/03/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/03/20
Notes:	estate matters (Coleman, inn, rent, chimney rent); political matters (Mr Bennet, Sir Allen Appesley, Lord Rochester may make Nell Gwyn's son an excellent Jarr Faulkener to fly at all things); religious matters (Roman Catholics, taking away of their estates)

28–309

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Drogheda?
on:	1675/03/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/04/03
Notes:	money matters (Mr Davison, Mr Ffall, Drogheda, his need for money, on the brink of despair)

28–310

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/03/00??
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Notes:	estate matters (lime trees, Rotterdam, Mr Gape's house in London)
Queries:	note or fragment of letter

28–311

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	Carpenters' Hall
on:	1675/03/16
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Chancery Lane, London
on:	1675/03/16
Notes:	chat; on same sheet in SRV's hand estate matters (list of tasks for joiner, mason, Wat King)
Queries:	letter used by SRV to make a list of estate tasks

28–312

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/03/15
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/03/16
Notes:	household matters (if Harry King keeps an alehouse shall not buy meat from him as will not send cook to an alehouse); estate matters (inn, Land); chat (Mr Benet, Beckhampton, Lord Latimer, Morpeth, parson keeps hounds); political matters (Lord John Berkley, Nimengen, Treaty, Sir Allen Apsley, Nell Gwyn's son, Lord Rochester); legal matters (Middlesex, Roman Catholics, seize lands, Newmarket)

28–313

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	London
on:	1675/04/15
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/04/17
Notes:	chat (cousin Ish, cousin Dormer, Aleppo, cousin Stewkeley); political matters (Commons, Lauderdale, Earl of Danby); reply from EV on same sheet - chat (FL, TM, ML)
Queries:	EV's reply dated 1685/04/19 from East Claydon

28–314

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	London
on:	1675/04/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/17
Notes:	chat (Mr Holmes, nag, Mr White, the Spanish and the Turkey walk, Mr Wickins?, Mr Gaudy's bond); political matters (French King, Mellan?, Duke of Savoy, Sir George Honehouse? dead, Abbingdon, Sir Robert Handson, Hertford, Sir John Gore, Mr Field)

28–315

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
from:	London
on:	1675/04/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/17
Notes:	money matters (J V, bill of exchange); chat (Mr Butterfield); political matters

28–316

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/05/00?
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	estate matters (note about faggots made from his hedges in April and May)

28–317

Sent by:	Lady Hobart Hobart, Ann [Leeke]
on:	1675/04/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/04/23
Notes:	chat

28–318

Sent by:	Lady Hobart Hobart, Ann [Leeke]
on:	1675/04/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Claydon
on:	1675/04/17
Notes:	chat (Nancy, cousin Grimstone, Jack Stewkeley)

28–319

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1675/04/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/17
Notes:	chat (GW, Gage?); political matters (Sir JC, Sir H C); money matters (shipping, Lautherday?)

28–320

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/04/12
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	chat (Holmes, Northampton, nag, Jack Stewkeley, Ratcliffe, Sir William Smith, Mr White)

28–321

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/04/12
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	chat (Moore-fields, riots, scymitar, cousin Sheppard, cousins Denton and Stewkelely, Buckingham, Mr Bayly?, Sir Richard Temple, Sir William Smith)

28–322

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
from:	Preshaw
on:	1675/04/12
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/17
Notes:	chat (cousin Townsend, Oxford, Sir William Smith); money matters (Mr Butterfield, cousin Denton)

28–323

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/04/12
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	estate matters; money matters (Chilton, notes about leases and land, various names such as Mr Hall)

28–324

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/04/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/12
Notes:	chat (London)

28–325

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	London
on:	1675/04/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/09
Notes:	chat (horse, Northampton, Mr White, Dr Wm Smith, Great Dutton of Gloucestershire dead, Sir Rn Poole's daughter); military matters (Marseilles, French king, Toulon, Messina)

28–326

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
from:	London
on:	1675/04/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/09
Notes:	money matters (Thomas Verney, Mr Butterfield); political matters (Lord Ossory, Sir Wm Jones, Sir Fra Winnington, Sir James Butler, Mr Heneage Finch, Mrs FitzGerrard)

28–327

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1675/04/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	chat (cousin G); political matters (Purbeck, Sir R J)

28–328

Sent by:	Lady Hobart Hobart, Ann [Leeke]
on:	1675/04/00?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Claydon
on:	1675/04/06
Notes:	chat
Queries:	Edmund Hobart' added in another hand, very hard to read

28–329

Sent by:	Lady Hobart Hobart, Ann [Leeke]
on:	1675/04/00?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Claydon
on:	1675/04/05
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	very hard to read

28–330

Sent by:	Lady Hobart Hobart, Ann [Leeke]
on:	1675/04/29
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Claydon
on:	1675/04/30
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	very hard to read

28–331

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/04/05
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	money matters (note made by William Dover and Mathew Turner, 4 trained soldiers at Ickford, list of names and sums of money, signed by Ralph Verney and John Busby

28–332

Sent by:	Elizabeth Adams Adams, Elizabeth [Verney] d.1721
on:	1675/04/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/04/09
Notes:	chat (much sickness, most that die are young people and children)

28–333

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/04/05
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	chat; military matters (French, Castle of Liege)

28–334

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/04/05
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	chat (horse, Mr White, Lady Smith, Ratcliffe, Sir Richard Temple, Stow, Mun, Jack Stewkeley)

28–335

Sent by:	cousin Good? Goode, Charles
from:	Bp Burton
on:	1675/04/02
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/04/09
Notes:	legal matters (Mr Barrett, sister Spencer)
Queries:	very hard to read; annoted as being about the suit against his wife's master

28–336

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	London
on:	1675/04/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/02
Notes:	chat (Claydon, Lady Hobart, Sir William, Duke of Somerset sick); military matters (rebellion at Bordeaux or Rochell)

28–337

Sent by:	Richard Banck Banck, Richard
from:	Hillesdon
on:	1675/04/09
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/04/29
Notes:	chat (improvement in health of Mr Denton, Dr made him gentle purge of syrup of violets and a powder but after he took it - it came up again, Oxford)

28–338

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1675/04/29
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/30
Notes:	chat (Nelly, smallpox, Clarendon); legal matters (Betty Taylor's motion); political matters (Dr Barlow? Bishop of Lincoln, Sunderland, Sussex, Lautherdale, Sir Robert Howard)

28–339

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
from:	London
on:	1675/04/29
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/30
Notes:	chat (Wisden, blow to right eye, Mr Gape for purge); political matters; religious matters (Mrs M P, admires parson's silence)

28–340

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Temple Churchyard
on:	1675/04/29
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/30
Notes:	chat (Lady Hobart, Nelly); legal matters (his will)

28–341

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/04/26
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	chat (horse Blinks returned from Northampton, Holmes, 4 servants married Corderoy to Jane Harris and Raphe the coachman to Su Lea, East Claydon, cousin Denton of Hillesdon not well); military matters (wars with Tripoli)

28–342

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/04/26
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/30
Notes:	chat (London)

28–343

Sent by:	Jack Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	London
on:	1675/04/26
to:	Ed Gaudy Gaudy, Ed[ward?]
Notes:	money matters (about £20 EG had borrowed from Samuel Wickins? and used Jack Verney as security, requests the money)
Queries:	copy of a letter

28–344

Sent by:	Lucy Shepherd Sheppard, Luce
on:	1675/04/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/04/30
Notes:	money matters (with Lady Palmer at Lindley, asks for her money, Mr Palmer, John Verney)

28–345

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
from:	Preshaw
on:	1675/04/26
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/05/01
Notes:	chat (Claydon, Hillsdon); money matters (Mr Butterfield, London)

28–346

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/04/26
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	chat (Northampton, Thomas Mathews, Hillesdon, A Denton, cousin Stewkeley, Captain Stafford); political matters

28–347

Sent by:	Mr Scarlet Scarlett, Richard
on:	1675/04/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	money matters; legal matters (bond, witnessed by William Grosvenor, William Coleman)

28–348

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1675/04/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/25
Notes:	legal matters (Nelly, Chancery, Test Bill, Lords House, Lord Anglesey)

28–349

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
from:	Westminster?
on:	1675/04/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/23
Notes:	political matters; chat (Mr Lawley, Lady Elsa had bouncing girl)

28–350

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	London
on:	1675/04/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/23
Notes:	political matters; chat (Mr Ffall); military matters (Turkey ships, Sir John Norbury, English consul, England)

28–351

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1675/04/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/23
Notes:	political matters

28–352

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/04/19
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
on:	1675/04/19
Notes:	chat (selling his nag); political matters (Treaty, Mr White, Parliament); money matters (Ned Gaudy, £20?)

28–353

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/04/19
to:	brother (John Verney?) Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Notes:	chat (cousin Sheppard, asked FL why she failed in her promise to him and she said because you discovered the intrigue unto TM, she spoke satirically to her sister ML); political matters

28–354

Sent by:	Elizabeth Carter Carter, Elizabeth
on:	1675/04/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/04/20
Notes:	chat (Lady Roos?, Lady Norris?, Lady Choworth)
Queries:	hard to read

28–355

Sent by:	unsigned [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/04/23
to:	honoured madam' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	chat (Lord Norris, SRV, Elizabeth Carter)
Queries:	hard to read

28–356

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/04/23??
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	legal matters (document about impeachment against Earl of Danby)
Queries:	possibly written by John Verney to SRV in letter 28-357 below

28–357

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	London
on:	1675/04/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/30
Notes:	political matters (Sir Sam Barnardine, Earl of Danby, Lauderdale, Abington, Sir John Hopehouse, Sir Robin Hanson); chat (Bishop of Lincoln died, Dr Barlow, King sent for the key from the Earl of Clarendon, play acted at Court and the Lord demanded to be let in and struck a Yeoman of the Guard, are three lords competing for the office, Sunderland, Sussex and Cornwallis)

28–358

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
from:	London
on:	1675/04/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/04/18
Notes:	political matters

28–359

Sent by:	Maud Ffall? Fall, Maud
on:	1675/04/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Claydon
on:	1675/04/20
Notes:	chat (Lady Norris)
Queries:	very hard to read

28–360

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/05/00
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (account, crossed out as mistaken, Mr Butterfield)

28–361

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1675/05/03
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/05/04
Notes:	chat (Nelly, Spencer); legal matters (Sir William Coventry)
Queries:	hard to read

28–362

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/05/03
to:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
Received at:	Claydon
Notes:	chat (cousin Denton, Hillesdon, cousin Woodward, Mun Denton)

28–363

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/05/03
to:	childe' (John Verney?) Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Notes:	chat (London, Lord Clarendon would never comply with Court, cousin Denton)

28–364

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1675/05/06
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/05/07
Notes:	chat (R Harley, Countess of Lindsey, D Lucas, Lady Eluction?, Lotherdale)

28–365

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	London
on:	1675/05/06
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/05/07
Notes:	chat (Northampton, horse fair, London); military matters (Thoulon?, Messina, French, Sicily); family matters (William Drake going to France for his health, cousin Drake learning to dance)

28–366

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/05/13
to:	dear brother', Edmund Verney (Mun)? Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Notes:	military matters (the Spaniard, rebellion of Messina); family matters (Frank Drake, uncle's estate, wife's dancing days, A Denton, Hillesdon, Banbury fair, Buckinghamshire)

28–367

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1675/05/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/05/07
Notes:	chat (Mr Wheeler a goldsmith, Bull Inn in the Strand, son and daughter Symonds, Will Pursall)

28–368

Sent by:	Cary Gardiner Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/05/03
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Claydon
on:	1675/05/07
Notes:	chat (Mr Stewkeley, London, cousin Townsend, Mrs Corden?); money matters
Queries:	annotated as about purchase of Preshaw and her son John

28–369

Sent by:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/05/06
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	chat (bed, hangings and curtains, Sir John Hobart)
Queries:	very hard to read

28–370

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/05/06
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Mid Claydon
on:	1675/05/07
Notes:	chat (nag, not sold at Northampton, if thinks saleable at Smithfield, London, aunt Denton); political matters (old Customs, D Lauderdale, the King, France); gossip (Duke of Somerset dead dead his Miss? 20 M pounds?, Lord Howard of Etterick, Lady Ingoldsby, Tho Lee's mother)

28–371

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/05/06
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters; estate matters (bargain sale from William Rose to Will Coleman, 2 sheep, 1 lamb, 3 cows, 1 mare)

28–372

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/05/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/06/09
Notes:	chat (Yeldham?)

28–374

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/05/10
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	chat (nag to Dunstable with Holmes, London, Will Roades, widow to be married to a lusty young fellow, all the church laughed, Jack Stewkelely)

28–375

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Glasgow
on:	1675/05/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/05/24
Notes:	money matters (Drogheda, Ireland, Mr Francis Ingoldsby, Holland, Londonderry, Amsterdam, Scotland, Mr Renland?, Stocks Market, Cornhill, Sir Richard); chat (Sir Richard, Aylesbury, Glasgow, venomous creature, Mr Dee, London)
Queries:	long letter

28–376

Sent by:	Fran Parker Parker, Francis
on:	1675/05/17
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters; estate matters (receipt for £4, Edmund Verney, William Grosvenor, Lord Brooke, Coppseley Hills)

28–377

Sent by:	Elizabeth Lillie Lillie, Elizabeth
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/05/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/05/26
Notes:	household matters (received foul linen, sent clean linen, sheets, hams, bacon)

28–378

Sent by:	Sir Richard Wiseman Wiseman, Sir Richard
on:	1675/06/01
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/06/04
Notes:	money matters (John Miller)

28–379

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/06/07
to:	honoured sir' [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (tenants brough no rents, Alylesbury fair, will examine purse and pay £20? to John Miller)

28–380

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/05/31
to:	Lady Gaudy (Vere Gaudy?) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
Notes:	business matters (lease and map, Winston Farm, Grones hall?, broad tailed sheep, land impoverished by ploughing, wood is cut too near, timber); money matters (men of good estates often want money to pay debts or provide for younger children, dare not advise her against this purchase, Mr Gaudy)
Queries:	possible copy of letter

28–381

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/05/31
to:	Ann Gaudy Gaudy, Anne
Notes:	business matters; money matters (purchase of land, aunt Daniell)
Queries:	annotated about her buying Winston Farm

28–382

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/05/31
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/06/02
Notes:	chat

28–383

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/05/31
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/06/02
Notes:	estate matters (Willi Rose?, Tho Mathew, Mr Butterfield, Rich Harding, Will Gutteridge, Mr Wetherhaed?, Mr Horton, Mr Holmes, Wasnig?, Mr Verney, timber, Mr Rogers of Bucks)

28–384

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Glasgow
on:	1675/05/31
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/06/10
Notes:	chat (Mr Ffall, Glasgow, accuses him); money matters (his need for money); Galway, Ireland

28–385

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/05/31
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	chat (Mr Butterfield); money matters
Queries:	very faint print

28–386

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/05/31
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincolns Inn Fields, London
Notes:	chat (cousin Denton, Richard Temple, London, Oxford, Mall Napp, Mr Rawson, Lord Brackley, Mrs Sydney, Hillesdon, cousin Denton, Stow, Ratcliffe, Lady Diana Verney, Allington, Lord Mordant, Holland); estate matters (John Atkins says will not work unless is paid by the day, Frank Stephens, Mr Wharton, overflockt with Carwells?, wishes could know how much x chaldrons of coals would stond on in to be brought from London to Hedsor); household matters (Mr Claver of Weedon offered daughters to serve his wife); legal matters (Mr Justice Bartu, Sir Phillip Sydney); military matters (French, England, Pembroke Stradling?, Farmer)

28–387

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
from:	London
on:	1675/05/29
to:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
Received at:	Glasgow
Notes:	money matters (London, Mr Rowland, Glasgow, Mr Dee, Mr Burnet)

28–388

Sent by:	Lady Gaudy Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/05/26
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/05/29
Notes:	money matters (Fran Gaudy, Mr Ashton, Mr Gibson, Richard ?, tenants)
Queries:	annotated about Winston Farm, hard to read

28–389

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/05/27
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/05/28
Notes:	chat (pigeons); estate matters (Miller, Crow keeper, Cow keeper, Hog?, guns and nets, Sir John Busby, Sir Harry Blunt, Coleman, shall make enquiry about sea coals, Mr Butterfield, John Atkins, Punsell, Sir Roger Burgoyne, Sutton, Jane Corderoy?, till he is rid of ... (blank) from his house will never bring any in anybody nor will any good servant come to him); legal matters (Sir Richard Temple, Baron Turner, Mr Vere Barly?, Jack Stewkeley); gossip (Lord Mordant likely to die of a malignant fever, is in debt); political matters (French King); chat (Lady Diana Verney due to be married to Lord Allington, Dr Patrick, cousin Nicholas, Covent Garden, Mrs Jepson, Carwell's father, Duke of Albemarle, Clarendon House, Whetstons Park; Lord Pembroke, Sir Edward Stradling, Mr Farme all drank all night and played pranks, Covent Garden, trepanning)
Queries:	with 1 box of painting, 1 barrel of linseed oil

28–390

Sent by:	Ann Gaudy Gaudy, Anne
on:	1675/05/27
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/05/29
Notes:	business matters (asks advice on buying Winston Farm, cousin Gaudy)

28–391

Sent by:	Lady Gaudy (Vere Gaudy) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/05/27
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincolns Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/05/29
Notes:	chat (London, Claydon, Harry)

28–392

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/05/27
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/05/28
Notes:	family matters; legal matters (cousin AD, cousin Isham, cousin Woodward, godson's illness, draft of a will, Frank Drake, Mr Gape)

28–393

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/05/24
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	military matters

28–394

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/05/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincolns Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/05/26
Notes:	chat (Uncle Dr's book, D W, William Denton, full of fierce and virulent invectives, Mr Butterfield had relapses, the stone, Mr Wharton, cousin Denton, godson Woodward, Sir John Busby, London, Sir Harry bBlunt, Sir Thomas Lee, Sir Richard Temple, Hartwell, pigeons); political matters (Duke Lotherdale); estate matters (John Atkins and rates of pay, Pursell, Jane Corderoy was a good and faithful servant, Mr Barbera, would like to know upon what terms 10 chaldrons of sea coals brought from London Pool to Hedforswharf? and at what rates may be bought at London)

28–395

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/05/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/05/26
Notes:	estate matters; money matters (Willi Gutteridge, orchard, goodwife Rose, horses, Walter King, John Miller, Mr Francis Weathefield of Aylesbury, Alexander Horton)

28–396

Sent by:	Mr Lovell Lovell, Sir Nathaniel
on:	1675/05/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/07/24
Notes:	estate matters?
Queries:	annotated on behalf of Harry Dover

28–397

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Glasgow
on:	1675/05/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/06/01
Notes:	money matters (London, Glasgow, money can be paid to Adam Colhonne? a merchant who lives at Kings Arms, Edinburgh, requests money)

28–398

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/05/20
to:	sister Gardiner Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
Notes:	chat (Mr Butterfield, Mr Page, Mr West)
Queries:	copy of letter

28–399

Sent by:	Mayor and Aldermen of Northampton Mayor and Aldermen of Northampton
on:	1675/05/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/07/24
Notes:	legal matters? (about Harry Dover, various signatures)
Queries:	very faint print

28–400

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/05/20
to:	Mr Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
Notes:	money matters (sister Gardiner)
Queries:	copy of letter

28–401

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/05/20
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/05/21
Notes:	chat (Mr Butterfield recovered, Coleman, Mrs Gibbon, uncle Doctor's new book, Judge Tirrell's widow, niece Hairington, Sir John Busby, Lady Blunt, Duchess of York got married - she was about 10 weeks with child, Mrs Churchill, ); political matters (King's answer to Commons about Duke Lotherdale); military matters (Duke of Monmouth's regiment, Regiment of Champagne); estate matters (John Atkins)

28–402

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/05/20?
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	estate matters? (acreage of Winston Farm)
Queries:	annotated taken from an old map

28–403

Sent by:	Fran Gaudy Gaudy, Framlingham
on:	1675/05/19
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	estate matters? (particulars of Winston Farm, Richard Moyse, Simon Jefferys, William Durrant)
Queries:	annotated that Fran Gaudy gave it to SRV in Sept 1675

28–404

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/05/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincolns Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/05/19
Notes:	in French

28–405

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Glasgow
on:	1675/05/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/05/31
Notes:	money matters (Scotland, Mr Rowland, Stocks Market, Cornhill, London, Glasgow, his need for money, order Mr Ffall to reimburse Mr Dee)

28–406

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
on:	1675/05/17?
to:	Thomas Verney? Verney, Thomas
Notes:	money matters (2 receipts for £10)
Queries:	might have accompanied above letter 28-405

28–407

Sent by:	Cary Gardiner Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/05/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/05/19
Notes:	money matters (Mr Butterfield, Mr West, Sir Sharrock?)
Queries:	hard to read

28–408

Sent by:	Elizabeth Lillie Lillie, Elizabeth
on:	1675/05/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/05/19
Notes:	household matters (linen, calico, silver candle stick, black box, William Scott, cheese, chickens, pigeons)

28–409

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/05/15
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	household matters (note of plate silver)
Queries:	covers 3 pages

28–410

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/05/13
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	chat (father, London, Frank Drake, uncle's estate, had reason to have his wife taught to dance for knows her dancing days are to come, would gladly see the lampoon made on Lee and Garroway, Lady Smith, Mr Morgan, cousin Stewkeley, neighbour Durecomb, cousin A Denton, Banbury fair, presents a little peice of work of a Buckingham Smith or Vulcan, country engravers not good, Londoners are excellent); military matters (Spaniards, Rebellion of Messina)

28–411

Sent by:	Sir Richard Wiseman Wiseman, Sir Richard
from:	London
on:	1675/05/12
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/05/15
Notes:	money matters (John Miller)

28–412

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/05/17
to:	honoured sir', Sir Richard Wiseman? Wiseman, Sir Richard
Notes:	money matters (John Miller); estate matters (Perkins, dung, father Abell)

28–413

Sent by:	Cary Gardiner Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/05/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/05/15
Notes:	chat; money matters (Mr Butterfield, Dr Sharock, Mt Karsys?, Mr Katsby?)

28–414

Sent by:	Lady Gaudy (Dame Vere Gaudy) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/06/03
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/06/05
Notes:	business matters (farm, Mr Gibson, Mr Ashton, timber, wood, taxes)
Queries:	annoted as about Winston Farm

28–415

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/06/03
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
on:	1675/06/04
Notes:	family matters; legal matters (Paul's Churchyard, Tom Isham, Alex Denton, nephew's will)

28–416

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/06/03
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
Notes:	family matters (Mun's child, does not like the nurse, Mrs Curson, Mr Clavot's daughter of Weedon); estate matters; money matters (John Atkins' demand of 4.6d a perch, stonework, John Wilson, coals dear here 23b [£23?] the chaldron in the Poole, they were cheaper but the coal merchants cheat us all, Fleet coming and shall make a better enquiry, hears the charge - beside 1 shilling metage in the Poole - is 6 shillings to Harsor Wharf? and a groate a chaldron for laying them non the wharf, Holmes); chat (Sir Rich Temple married to Mall Knapp, Alex Denton, Lady Salter, London); political matters (Lord Cornwallis' son Christened by King, Duke and Duchess of Monmouth, dispute between Lords and Commons, Sgt Peck, Sgt Pemleton?, Sir John Churchill, Mr Porter, Chief Justice North, Chief Baron Turner, Lotherdale); military matters (France); money matters (Mr Butterfield)

28–417

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/06/03
to:	William Coleman Coleman, William
Received at:	Mid Claydon
Notes:	money matters (Mr Weatherhead £60?, clothes good patterns but too dark, Nancy Hobart, Mr Butterfield, bond, Northmarston); chat health (take 6 spoons of juice of wood bitteney? and mingle with 8 spoons of white wine, drink every morning for 3 weeks); estate matters (Dixon, Hawkes poole rent, Robt Parrat, Newman's bargain, Ralph Roades, timber in Runts Wood, East Claydon)

28–418

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/00/00??
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	religious matters (notes about saints, doctrine etc)
Queries:	two pages

28–419

Sent by:	by order of William Ffall Fall, William
from:	London
on:	1675/06/05
to:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
Received at:	Glasgow
Notes:	money matters (Mr Ffall, SRV, bill of exchange, Mr Burnet, Edenborough, Mr Rowland, Glasgow)

28–420

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/06/05
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (document detailing moneys, Mr Hamond, Mr Gunson)

28–421

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/06/03
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (William, Thomas Richard, John Verney vint?)

28–422

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/06/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/06/09
Notes:	chat (clothes, his eyes); money matters (Mr nButterfield, Ralph Roades, Dixon, Robert Parrot, rent for Newman's bargain); estate matters (Tho King, Willi Dayton?, Runts wood, Mr Verney, Mr Arnett's bill, Lady Smith sent home the coals she borrowed)

28–423

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/06/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/06/09
Notes:	family matters (has weaned daughter for nurse's child's sake, hired a wench to do all the drudgery, nurse Curson, Mr Clavers daughters of Weedon, eldest son up to London, Phelpes, has observed child's upper lip to swell to a disfigurgement often and then to abate, fears something evil, is it occasion to have him touched by his Majesty, Stratten Audley, Bisseter {Bicester?}, cousin Woodward to see the schoolmaster, has newly plastered his house which smells nastily and is mighty damp); estate matters, money matters (John Atkins 4s.6d a perch or be paid by the day, wall rises slowly, would willingly have coals from Hedsor though they cost somewhat dearer than at St Neots because tenants have gone gratis to Oving for stones, likely to have a dripping summer so grass will be very forward for mowing); political matters (French king); chat (A Townsend, Alex Denton, Hillesdon, Thom Robbins, London); money matters n(Mr Butterfield, Mr Churchill, Grosvenor)

28–424

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
from:	Preshaw
on:	1675/06/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/06/09
Notes:	political matters; money matters (Dr Sharock)

28–425

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/06/08
to:	Mr Fowles Fowles, Mr
Notes:	money matters (pay bearer £50)

28–426

Sent by:	Lady Gaudy (Dame Vere Gaudy) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/06/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/06/12
Notes:	business matters (wants advice about farm, Mr Gibson, cousin Fram, Lady Hobart)
Queries:	annotated about Winston Farm

28–427

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/06/10
to:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
Notes:	money matters (Burgoyne's account, £42. 13.00?)

28–428

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/06/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/06/12
Notes:	household matters (Thom Robins' father, suffered injustice, sends copy of grandmother's will, asks to have case put in a Chancery Bill); estate matters (lower windows go up at inn, cannot make work go any faster, Buckingham, William Smith, thinks coals must come from London to Hedsor)

28–429

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/00/00?
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	legal matters (note about money and sequestration)

28–430

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Glasgow
on:	1675/06/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/06/18
Notes:	money matters (Scotland, Mr Ffall, Mr Rowland, Mr Burnett, Kings Arms in Leadenhall Market, Edinburgh, Ingoldsby, Ireland, Sir Henry, Mr Adam, Mr Ffall)

28–431

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/06/10
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (receipts for £10 from SRV by Thomas Verney)

28–432

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1675/06/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/06/18
Notes:	money matters (had not patience to keep money, SRV, Mr Streamer?); chat (wife's picture)

28–433

Sent by:	Dr Robert Townesend Townsend, Robert
from:	Radcliffe
on:	1675/06/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/06/16
Notes:	legal matters (addition to a document, son pay to brother Robert, sisters Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret, uncle Dr, brother Denton, Bidford, London); chat (son out of health and been at death's door)

28–434

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/06/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/06/16
Notes:	political matters; military matters (Montecuculi, Baden Dourlach, Turin, French); chat (Lady Hobart, London, schoolmaster's house stinks all over most beastly, Churchill, clothes); estate matters (Woodstock the coal merchant of St Neots offered him coals at 'yd 1/2 a bushell' which amounts to £1,2s.6d chaldron, if cheaper then can be had from London, but ways so bad, cousin Woodward, Northmerston field, wall, inn); chat (old Alexander Denton played the fool most horribly about Mrs Whittaker, Dr Townesend, Mr Rushford, Mr Claver's daughters, Jane Corderoy, Sarah)

28–435

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/06/14
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Notes:	chat (Mr Dade?)

28–436

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/06/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/06/16
Notes:	chat; estate matters (rent, Dixon, Robert Parrott, Mr Verney's wood, coals Lady Smith sent, Willi Rose, Tho Mathews)

28–437

Sent by:	Lucy Shepherd Sheppard, Luce
from:	Lindley
on:	1675/06/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/06/18
Notes:	money matters (Mr Palm?, £50?)

28–438

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/06/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	?
Queries:	very faint print

28–439

Sent by:	Lady Gaudy (Dame Vere Gaudy) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/06/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/06/19
Notes:	business matters (asks advice on buying Winston Farm)

28–440

Sent by:	Nelly Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Hillesdon
on:	1675/06/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/06/19
Notes:	family matters (London, cousin Verney, her will, Mrs Harman, Hillesdon, uncle Woodward, Cousin Kilby, uncle Alex Denton)
Queries:	signed Alex Denton

28–441

Sent by:	Dame Pen Osborn Verney, Pen[elope Denton/Osborne d. 1695]
on:	1675/06/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/06/17
Notes:	chat (her sufferings)

28–442

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/06/14
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/06/17
Notes:	chat (will goodman Robin, Mr Farrer?); estate matters (coals hold up at such a rate that cannot buy any yet, St Neots, hopes windows set at least 4 inches within walls); political matters (Lord Shaftesbury, Marquess of Winchester, kissed King's hand, Sir William Temple, Holland); military matters (suspicion about Prince of Orange, states of Holland, Dane declared war against Sweden, French); chat (Sir Tho Darell has smallpox, Mr Gape, Coleman)

28–443

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/06/17
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/06/18
Notes:	estate matters (coals very dear, if can get them for 1.2.6 a chaldron at St Neots will be cheaper except carriage, cousin Woodward, gateway, Dr Townesend, new maid, little master's lip); money matters (Mr Churchill failed in sending money, Lady Hobart, wife's clothes, Coleman, Claydon, Corderoy); legal matters (Mrs Whittaker); military matters (Lord Gray of Warke?, Sir William Temple, Holland, Turin, Prince of Orange, Swedes, Spaniards, Catalonia, Spain, French king)

28–444

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/06/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/06/22
Notes:	estate matters (Coleman, work SRV's team did, timber, oaks, elm, Bottle Claydon, St Neots, ways will be impassable, rains so much fancies himself in Ireland, if coals may be had nearer by way of London to Hedsor will be easier, windows at the Swan are set, John Atkins, Francis Stevens, Thomas and William Harris, brick, stone); political matters (Shaftesbury, Winchester, both understand how to turn their coats, Sir William Temple, Holland, Prince of Orange); military matters (French king, glad States and Dane declared war against Sweden); family matters (father, Mr Farrer, son's lip down again); chat (cousin Townsend, Mr Egerton, cousin Lea, Mr Smith of Padbury, court rolls, cousins Woodward and Denton, cousins Dormer and Parkhurst, Addington, Sir John Dormer, Miss Pankhurst, Sir John Busby, Mrs Harmand, Hillesdon)

28–445

Sent by:	Elizabeth Lillie Lillie, Elizabeth
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/06/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/06/24
Notes:	household matters (little box received, Mr Coleman, clean linen, asks for indigo and white starch)

28–446

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/06/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/06/24
Notes:	chat (ill weather for haymaking)

28–447

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/06/28
to:	Lady Gaudy (Vere Gaudy?) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
Notes:	business matters (Winston Farm, Mr Ashton, Mr Gibson, price wanted for farm); money matters (money son John lent Edmund Gaudy)
Queries:	possible copy of letter

28–448

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/06/27
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/06/30
Notes:	chat (Windress?, Potton carrier?, Mr Streamer?, son Symond, Cambridge)

28–449

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	London
on:	1675/06/24
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/06/26
Notes:	chat (Gorambury, Jack Stewkeley, Lady Hobart); estate matters (building, masons sleep more than work, Adstock Court, Mr Reading, shall let him know how coals go in the Poole, Mr Parker, Hogshaw); political matters (King of Sweden married to King of Denmark's sister, France, Holland, Prince of Orange, Shaftesbury, Winchester, Sir Robert Caird, Sir Richard Temple, Sir Will Lowther, Sir John Duncombe, Sir Robert Howard, Lord Cavendish, col Giles Stranguage, Sir William Temple ill, Messina, Lord Northampton, Sir John Robinson, ); gossip (Lord Rochester, Lord Middlesex and Henry Savill being much in drink broke down ?dial in middle of King's Garden at Whitehall); Coleman

28–450

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/06/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/06/26
Notes:	estate matters (Nicholas, Mr Holmes, borrowed money from Mr Butterfield, Mr Stafford, has received bottle of oil and buried it, bees, nine swarms, Dixon, Ralph Roades, some nasturtiums in flower)

28–451

Sent by:	Lady Gaudy (Vere Gaudy) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/06/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/06/26
Notes:	business matters (Winston Farm, A Chapman); money matters (Harry, Temple, Edward)

28–452

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/06/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/06/24
Notes:	estate matters (sorry coals likely to be so dear, St Neots, rains every day); chat (Aylesbury, Millesdon, cousin Townsend, Sir John Fortescue and son William, Bradman, Mr Woodward old warden of New College is dead, AD resolute in process to be repossed of Whitaker, Blackaker, Dr Townsend, Grosvenor, Manuell Hicks, Lord of Northampton); money matters (Coleman, Mr Butterfield); military matters (Corderoy, Dutch High and Low, French pocky enemies, Paris, Prince of Conde, Spain)

28–453

Sent by:	Dame Cary Gardiner Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/06/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/06/24
Notes:	money matters (Mr West, settlement, Mr Butterfield, John, Croshall); chat (Claydon, London)

28–454

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/06/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/06/24
Notes:	money matters (Ralph Roades, Dixon); estate matters (Mr Holmes, Harry King, buy straw, Mr Verney, Runts Wood, Willi Scott?, Tho King)

28–455

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/06/28
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	estate matters (building not finished, builders and beggars all one); chat

28–456

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/06/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/06/30
Notes:	estate matters (Coleman, cousin Dormer, coals were but 19s a chauldron at the Poole in London and the master always buys his coals there, must be one to see them measured into the boat or barge that brings them to Hedsor or Butterfield wharfes, watermen apt to play the rogues, showers daily, sun seldom appears, ways to St Neots deeply dirty, no teams can bring in any quantity of loading from there so inclined this year to have coals as mentioned, brick, stone, workmen, wet weather, John Atkins); chat (Lady Hobart, wife wants fan and dressings for her head, fashion, Sir ? Dorell that married Lewis is dead, Mr Parker); political matters (King of Sweden, Denmark, French, Catalonia, Prince of Orange may prove a snake in the States of Holland, Rochester)

28–457

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/06/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/06/30
Notes:	money matters; estate matters (Ralph Roades, lambs, widdow Roades, Walter King, London, John Warner, Willi ?, Dixon, Mr Butterfield,, Mr Holmes, Mr Stafford)

28–458

Sent by:	Edward Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/06/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/06/30
Notes:	chat; estate matters (corn, hay, Claydon)

28–459

Sent by:	Lucy Shepherd Sheppard, Luce
from:	Lindley
on:	1675/06/30
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/07/06
Notes:	money matters (enclosed acquittance); chat (Lady Palmer, Whitesendine?, toothache)

28–460

Sent by:	Dr Robert Townesend Townsend, Robert
from:	Radcliffe
on:	1675/06/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/06/22
Notes:	chat (New College, Mr Nicholas, Winchester College, cousin German?, Sir John Nicholas, Nelle?, Litherton, Cook, Reading, Claydon, Bedford, Ann Hobart)

28–461

Sent by:	Elizabeth Lillie Lillie, Elizabeth
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/06/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/06/30
Notes:	household matters (little box of foul linen received, London, mops, Mr Coleman, sent clean linen, Lady Hobart)

28–462

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/06/10
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/06/11
Notes:	family matters (sorry Mun's son lip swells, Lady Smith's upper lip was apt to swell in the same manner); chat (King going to Windsor, Lady Hobart, cousin Denton); estate matters (stone work on Inn, ways so bad that will not buy coals yet, thinks will do well to buy them at Hedsor Wharf, bargemen are villains); legal matters (Mr Whittaker, Sir Robert Wiseman, AD, Tom Isham, Frank Fuller, Frank Drake); political matters (King prorogued parliament, Banqueting House)
Queries:	part of letter torn; could lip swelling be cold sores?

28–463

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Temple Churchyard
on:	1675/06/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/06/17
Notes:	legal matters (Sir Robert Wiseman)

28–464

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/07/00?
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (note of accounts Christmas quarter, Lady Day, Midsummer)

28–465

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/07/14
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (note about rope and ship, accounts)
Queries:	about coals too?

28–466

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
from:	London
on:	1675/07/23
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (account, Mr John Martin Elkin weighed bags, Robt Wooley, wheelwright)
Queries:	about coals too?

28–467

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/07/12
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Notes:	chat (Stratton Audley, Mr Cary, Jack Stewkeley, box with children's hats and belts)

28–468

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Temple Churchyard
on:	1675/07/09
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/07/16
Notes:	legal matters

28–469

Sent by:	Nelly Denton Denton, Alexander
on:	1675/07/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/07/03
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	letter signed Alex Denton, although annoted Nelly Denton, very hard to read

28–470

Sent by:	Lady Gaudy (Dame Vere Gaudy) Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/07/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/07/03
Notes:	business matters (Winston farm); money matters (money his son lent her son)

28–471

Sent by:	Edward Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on:	1675/07/01
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
Notes:	money matters (Lady Gardiner)
Queries:	response on bottom from Edmund Verney

28–472

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/07/01
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
Notes:	estate matters (says is much mistaken in price of coals, Frank Coleman says available for 23/6d or thereabouts in the Pool, though Will Coleman had said were but 19 shillings? a chauldron, will ask for some as is a great fleet coming in, Mr Parker); business matters (sent black box of writings from brother Stewkelely, Mr Butterfield, cousin Woodward); money matters (bills for clothes, Lady Wiseman's rents, John Miller, Dr Townsend); military matters (Brandenburgh, France, Lockhart, Swedes, Morlaix, King of France, Holland, Prince of Orange, the Hague)
Queries:	with a black box of writings, says 23b or s - shillings?

28–473

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/07/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/07/03
Notes:	estate matters (Mr Holmes, money, Dixon, Bottle Claydon, fetch coals at Hedsor, London, Harry King, Robert Parrott's little son died, about his cook)

28–474

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/07/01
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/07/03
Notes:	estate matters (coals, likely to rain again and ways bad so does not think tenants will be able to go to St Neots so will buy them either at wharfes or from London Pool, asks if his servant Grosvenor can buy him 10 chauldrons, Mr Butterfield, builders, stones, lime, oak, elm, Walter King, negotiations over price for felling trees, thanks for 'colly-flowers')

28–475

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/07/02
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/07/04
Notes:	estate matters (coals Mr Coleman bought and sent to Capt Long's Wharfe); military matters (Elector of Brandenburgh, Swedes, General Wrangue, French burned houses of nobles, Duke of Loraine, Strasburgh, Montenculi?)

28–476

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/07/02
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
Notes:	estate matters (Mr Coleman bought 10 chauldrons of coals for cousin Dormer and 10 more for SRV, shall give him half, will be at Capt Long's wharf, they cost in the Pool 24 b/s? a chauldron and 3s, 6d? a metage and 2 b/s? Lord Mayor's Bill, and 2 b/s? charges, so cost 12:08:00?, also 6s? a chauldron carriage which comes to 03:06:00 for though bought at 10 chauldron the watermen were paid for 11, so whole charge is 15:14:00, Holmes, hay, Holmes and Honer)
Queries:	says 24b or s, is shillings?

28–477

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/07/03
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/07/06
Notes:	business matters (box of writings, Mr Butterfield, Edmund, cousin Woodward, Buckingham, Bicester, uncle Stewkeley, Richard Plesto, Dr Townsend); estate matters (John Miller, London, Sir Richard Wiseman, money, Grosvenor, Joseph Miller, Coleman, Holmes, thanks for the coals, London, Mr Duncomb's man says Turner of Hedsor has a wharfe and sells coals for 30s or 31s? a chauldron but is no advantage of any overplus, Captain Long's wharfe, Hogshaw, Mr Parker); chat (Mr Parrot's son dead of convulsions at Middle Claydon, one of Gutteridges daughter's of smallpox at Wendover, Mr Hartwell also dead of smallpox at Buckingham); money matters (Mr Woodcock of Great Horwood)

28–478

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/07/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/07/07
Notes:	chat (cousin Woodward, Mr Butterfield and son Mun, writings, Dr Townsend, Mr Parker); estate matters; money matters (coals, Mr Kersley); military matters (Swedes, French King)

28–479

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/07/05
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/07/06
Notes:	estate matters; money matters (coals, Holmes, Coleman, Harry Churchill, Aylesbury, Mr Butterfield, Grosvenor, glad building near an end, had haymaking weather, Claydon, price of felling spires); aunt Dr ill

28–480

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/07/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/07/07
Notes:	estate matters (London, mastif dog, Willi Scott, cider orchard, Willi Lea mowed best garden and bowling green, Mr Verney, Mr Holmes, coals, Capt Long's wharf)

28–481

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/07/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on:	1675/07/07
Notes:	estate matters (William Mather, money, Tho Mather, London, Aylesbury, grey mare, Mr Holmes, Willi Scott)

28–482

Sent by:	Anne Hobart Hobart, Ann [Leeke]
from:	London
on:	1675/07/05
to:	Sir John Hobart Hobart, Sir John
Notes:	money matters (about interest)
Queries:	annotated as copy of a letter

28–483

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/07/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
Notes:	chat (London, Claydon, Sutton, Symond, Mr Ferrar of Badgely?, Warwick, East Claydon)

28–484

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/07/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/07/07
Notes:	chat (Mr Harrison?, London, Claydon)

28–485

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/07/06
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/07/08
Notes:	family matters (Dr Denton's wife dead, tell Coleman); political matters (King come home and escaped great danger); military matters (Messina, Sicily, Spaniard); money matters (Mr Woodall of Horwood)

28–486

Sent by:	Elizabeth Adams Adams, Elizabeth [Verney] d.1721
from:	Beddow in Essex
on:	1675/07/06
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/07/29
Notes:	chat (Beddow, Pegg, Lady Hubbard, cousin Nancy)

28–487

Sent by:	Dr Robert Townesend Townsend, Robert
from:	Radcliffe
on:	1675/07/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/07/07
Notes:	chat (brother Denton, Bedford estate, Littleton and Cook?, Mr Nicholas' father warden of New College)

28–488

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/08/06
to:	dear brother (John Verney?) Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Notes:	chat (father, Sutton, Greene, Lord of Oxford's grey stallion, elephant, Dr Denton, Jack Stewkeley)
Queries:	seems to be response to letter 28-490 below

28–489

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	London
on:	1675/08/12
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/08/13
Notes:	chat (chided Green the cutler that swords not ready, father, Sutton, Claydon, Sir Roger Burgoyne, Geo Berkeley's elephant to be sold at East India House); political matters (rising among the weavers about loom that can works so fast that 1 man can do the work of 20, Southwark, Royal Exchange); gossip (said that Thom Thinn to marry ? Villiers daughter and be made a baron)
Queries:	envelop is on above entry 28-489

28–490

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/07/12
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/07/16
Notes:	chat (Sutton, Warwick, East Claydon)

28–491

Sent by:	Elizabeth Adams Adams, Elizabeth [Verney] d.1721
from:	Beddow in Essex
on:	1675/07/13
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/07/29
Notes:	chat (her youngest girl has smallpox, Pegg)

28–492

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1675/07/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/07/16
Notes:	military matters (Swedish, Brandenburgh, Turin); chat (Mun, Portsmouth's son made Duke of Linox and Richmond, Lady Mareshall); money matters (WG, Mall)

28–493

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
from:	London
on:	1675/07/16
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/07/18
Notes:	chat (Hampton Court, Mr Finch, Kensington, London, Bucks, Claydon, Ranston, Dr Fleetwood?, Bishop of Winchester?, Duchess of Portsmouth's son to be Duke of Richmond, Lord of Essex, Windsor)

28–494

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/07/19
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/07/23
Notes:	chat (Claydon, London, Mr Harrison?, John Verney)

28–495

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1675/07/19
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/07/23
Notes:	chat (concerned for Dr after death of wife, Warwick, Mr Stewkeley)

28–496

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/07/19
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	chat (London, cherry brandy, Lady Hobart, venison, Sir Roger Burgoyne)

28–497

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Edinburgh
on:	1675/07/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/07/29
Notes:	money matters; chat (travel, scorching weather, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, if money holds out will sail for Sweden, Scotland, Ireland)

28–498

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
from:	London
on:	1675/07/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/07/23
Notes:	money matters (bonds, Mr Gape, Mrs Merry); chat (Bishop of Winchester, Hampton Court)

28–499

Sent by:	Hen Dover Dover, Henry [of East Claydon, bailiff]
from:	Northant
on:	1675/07/24
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/07/24
Notes:	chat (Claydon); money matters

28–500

Sent by:	Lady Hobart Hobart, Ann [Leeke]
on:	1675/07/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/07/23
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	very hard to read

28–501

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	London
on:	1675/07/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/07/23
Notes:	chat (Mr T Marton, Lord Allington married Lady Diana Verney, Sir Wm Honneyward?, Justice Newman's daughter, Forth of Hackney?, Bedfordshire, Custom House, Duchess of Portsmouth's son made Duke of Richmond and Lenox, Nell Gwyn's Earl of March, Lady Frances Hyde married to Kitely? a Papist, Duke of York, Srgt Pecke the lawyer is dead, the Tower, was a fire in Fleet St and 3 or 4 houses burned, uncle Dr, Mr Gape, Ditton); military matters (French king sent some guards to suppress tumuilt in Britain, Mons de Turenne's army in want of forrage but have bread fresh twice a day, Paris, Prince of Orange fell off his horse, the Hague, Amsterdam, Diet of Battistine? declared against the Swedes); household matters (cherry brandy, price of sugar, venison)

28–503

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/07/26
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/08/06
Notes:	chat (Warwick assizes, Sutton, going to plough in the morning and ? hay in the afternoon, Mr Stewkeley)

28–504

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/07/26
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	chat (London, Grosvenor, sword, cousin Shepherd, Greene's shop in Fleet St at Fetter Lane)

28–505

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/07/26
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	chat (Mr Butterfield, Alex Denton fell ill of a swelling in his throat and thought would die, Dr Dickeson came from Oxford, recipe for cherry brandy, Mr Wharton's servant's misbehaviour); political matters (Grendon?, bastard layd to minister of Lurgishall?)

28–506

Sent by:	Dame Vere Gaudy Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/07/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Claydon
on:	1675/08/06
Notes:	chat (troubled had so much rain, Suffolk)

28–507

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1675/07/29
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/07/29
Notes:	family matters (A Denton's throat); chat (Bishop of Winchester Privy Councillor); military matters (Turin killed by canon shot, Prince of Conder?)

28–508

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
from:	London
on:	1675/07/29
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/07/30
Notes:	chat (Mr Denton, Senor Franrisrod? the ambassador from Portugal said to be chamberlaine to the queen); money matters (Robert Parratt); military matters (Hampton Court, Prince of Conder?, Mns Turienne's army)

28–509

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/08/02
to:	Mr Lovell? Lovell, Sir Nathaniel
Notes:	money matters

28–510

Sent by:	Nelly Denton (Alex Denton) Denton, Alexander
on:	1675/08/03
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/08/03
Notes:	chat (does not know where George is)
Queries:	hard to read; signed Alex Denton

28–511

Sent by:	Nancy Nicholas Nicholas, Nancy [Denton]
on:	1675/08/03
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/08/06
Notes:	chat (venison, Mrs Lilly)

28–512

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Hillesdon
on:	1675/08/04
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/08/04
Notes:	chat (killing a buck, venison, cousins?)
Queries:	hard to read

28–513

Sent by:	Lady Hobart Hobart, Ann [Leeke]
from:	Radcliffe
on:	1675/08/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/08/05
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	very hard to read

28–514

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1675/08/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/08/06
Notes:	chat (venison, Dr Patrick, AD, Hillesdon, Stratton Audely); military matters (Montecucli, French, the Rhone, Strasburgh); gossip (Lady Francis Hyde married a Papist)

28–515

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
from:	London
on:	1675/08/05
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/08/06
Notes:	chat (thanks re Mr Butterfield, Mrs P Porion?); political matters (Lord Southampton, Lord Euston, Duke of Portsmouth?, Duke of Richmond, Charles Stuart, Lady Cheveland?, Don Francisco is chamberlaine); legal matters (Sir Richard Temple, Sir Edward Doering, Mr Cheyney, Windsor, Hampton Court, Whitehall, Newmarket, Lincoln's Inn, Inns of Court); military matters (heard Duke Hamilton coming from Scotland, 12 garrisons fortified and manned in Scotland, hear French and Imperialists fought 2 days, Monsier Lorge retreats, Monteculi follows?)

28–516

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/08/09
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	chat (cherry brandy recipe, William Scot, chest of drawers, London, Lady Hobart, Lady Smith had bucks break out of her park, cousin Risley killed one, Lady Smith's men killed another, aunt Sherrard, Mrs Harman, cousin Denton's girl Christened Betty, Sir Roger Burgoyne, Sutton in Bedfordshire, Mr Streamer's shop at Blue Boar's Head in Smithfield)

28–517

Sent by:	Elizabeth Adams Adams, Elizabeth [Verney] d.1721
from:	Beddow in Essex
on:	1675/08/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/08/14
Notes:	chat (aunt Denton dead, girl Bell recovered from smallpox, Pegg)

28–518

Sent by:	Pegg Adams Adams, Margaret [Pegg]
from:	Beddow in Essex
on:	1675/08/10
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/08/14
Notes:	chat
Queries:	signed Margaret Adams

28–519

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
on:	1675/08/10
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	chat (aunt Adams, sorry for cousin Dick Hals, prays for rest for his soul, Jack Stewkeley)

28–520

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
from:	London
on:	1675/08/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Sutton
on:	1675/08/14
Notes:	family matters (Dick Hals, Lady Hobart); political matters (Lord Southton to be Duke of Southampton, Lord Euston to be Duke of Grafton?, Duke of Richmond's patent sealed, Lady Cleveland, Bath, Lord Southton, Duke of Portsmouth, the king, does not hear of Mr Neale being an earl, ribbon weavers broken into several houses where there were looms, sheriffs of London, Sir John Robinson, Tower, Lord Northton); military matters (French, prisoners); chat (Gorambury, Whitehall, privy council)

28–521

Sent by:	Dr Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1675/08/12
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Sutton
on:	1675/08/14
Notes:	chat (Lady Francis, Papist, Mulgrave); military matters (Paris, Windsor......)

28–522

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	London
on:	1675/08/12
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Sutton
on:	1675/08/14
Notes:	chat (Sir Roger Burgoyne, elephant to be sold at East India House); military matters (France, Kuxembourg and Loraine forces, Hades at Windsor, Motecauli, Turin, the Rhine, English); political matters (disorder, meetings of the weavers, petition to the Lord Mayor to have looms burned, Southwark, Sir John Robinson, Newington, St George's Fields, Sir Nathaniel Herne); gossip (Duke of Albemarle bought Clarendon House for £25k, Lord Yarmouth set on by highwaymen, Thom Thinn shall marry Col Villiers daughter)

28–523

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/08/16
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/08/20
Notes:	chat (Jack Stewkeley, Holmes, Sheeves?, Crowes Hall, Lady Gaudy, Delenham in Suffolk, Coleman, Sir Roger, Hillesdon, Rarcliffe); estate matters (Mid and East Claydon, team to plough, Holmes went to Eden for stones, Lady Smith's deer)

28–524

Sent by:	Cary Gardiner Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/08/16
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/09/01
Notes:	chat (Jack, Claydon, ways dirty, SRV, London, cousin Denton, Mr Hampson); family matters (Portsmouth, son of sister Palmer, fallen in love with Pen, only a lieutenant of foot, well bred but no fortune)

28–525

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Sutton
on:	1675/08/16
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	chat (Jack Stewkeley, Lady Gaudy, Crowes Hall, Dabenham, Suffolk, Bennis, Saracens Head, Snow Hill, St Lukes Church, London, had hoped Lord Clarendon would have got £30k for Clarendon House, how much did elephant sell for, cherry brandy, Claydon); political matters (Prince of Condy dead, Sir John Robinson likely to be put out for not acting vigorously enough against weavers)

28–526

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/08/16
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	chat (father went to Sutton, thanks for chiding Greene the Cutler but still does not have his swords, Lord of Oxford's grey stallion, Dr Denton, Jack Stewkeley); political matters (weavers); gossip (Rich Temple married to Mary Napp of Oxford, is with child)

28–527

Sent by:	Lady Osborne (Pen Osborne) Verney, Pen[elope Denton/Osborne d. 1695]
on:	1675/08/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/08/25
Notes:	chat (new Lord Chamberlain, col Worden?, St Nerns?)

28–528

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/08/19
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Croweshall, Suffolk
on:	1675/08/25
Notes:	business matters (Addenbury, bundle of papers, Mrs? Wharton, Lady Rochefleur?, Lady Gaudy, Croweshall); estate matters (cart horses broke into Bottle Claydon field, stones to Eydon, Mr Holmes, Rich Darwill been at home on harvest so nothing done about the pond, Claydon); chat (Sir Roger Burgoyne)

28–529

Sent by:	Jack Stewkeley Stewkeley, Jack
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/08/19
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Suffolk
on:	1675/08/25
Notes:	chat (Croweshall, Ann Gaudy, Preshaw); gossip (Sir Richard Temple married to Miss Napp who is great with child)

28–530

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/08/19
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Croweshall, Suffolk
Notes:	chat (returned in wet weather, Sir William Smith, Lady Hobart and daughter Nancy, chaplain Mr King, Hilldelson?, Addington, Ratcliffe, due to meet Sir William at Fenny-Stratford, Tuddington, Lady Wentworth, London, cook's wife dying in childbirth, Mrs Butterfield says daughter Egerton's little boy dying); gossip (Sir Richard Temple has married Mall Napp, great belly with child, those that hoped for his estate after death are mightily disappointed, is said she was with child before he was married); estate matters (tiler is tiling house, team ploughs land)

28–531

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	London
on:	1675/08/19
to:	brother' -Edmund Verney (Mun)? Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Notes:	chat (Greene the Cutler pretends handle not yet finished, stallion, Thomas Fanshawe's in Essex, East Claydon, cousin Stewkeley); military matters (Turkey, Constantinople, Dutch money, Lyon dollars, Prince of Conde joined with Turin's army, Montecauli, the Rhine, Spaniards); gossip (told that Sir Richard Temple asked the Dr that he say he was married last Candlemas to Miss Napp, glad his virility is seen); political matters (Sir Jn Robinson is Lieut of the Tower)

28–532

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/08/25
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Notes:	chat (Greene, price of gilding, swords, Lord of Oxford's grey stallion, cousin Stewkeley, aunt Sherard)

28–533

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	London
on:	1675/08/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Croweshall, Suffolk
on:	1675/08/25
Notes:	chat (Croweshall, elephant sold for 1600, buyers were an apothecary and a strongwater man, uncle Dr, Sir Tho Fanshawe, Mr Good, Ely, Buckinghamshire, cherry brandy, Lady Gaudy); military matters (Conde, Monteculi?, French, English officer, French army, London, Spaniards, King of Denmark dared against Sweden, Turine, Sir Jn Robinson,, Bordeaux); money matters (Tho Gape, Alexander Denton, interest, William Gape)

28–534

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/08/23
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	chat (Greene,only wants handle gilded, dispute re price, Lord of Oxford's grey stallion, Sir William Smith, Lady Hobart and Nancy, cousin Stewkeley, Hillesdon, Frank Drake, Thom Isham, aunt Sherard)

28–535

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
from:	London
on:	1675/08/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Croweshall, Suffolk
on:	1675/08/25
Notes:	political matters (the weavers quiet, several in prison, magistrates of London, Middlesex and Surrey all severely charged for not using authority to suppress the weavers, sherrifs demanded assistance of Sir John Robinson, Lord Northampton); military matters (France, Windsor,French Ambassador, Calais, Prince of Orange, Mastricht); chat (coffee houses, king drew a tooth and gums bled so violently surgeons were about to sear it with irons, Woolwich, Mrs Grimston, Mr Robt, Gorehambury, Mr Heneage, Mr Wm, Bath, Claydon, Mr Firmil?, Earl of March is Earl of ?, Wales)

28–536

Sent by:	Salathiel Lovell Lovell, Sir Nathaniel
from:	Northion
on:	1675/08/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Claydon
on:	1675/09/01
Notes:	chat

28–537

Sent by:	Dr Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1675/08/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Croweshall, Suffolk
on:	1675/08/25
Notes:	chat (Croweshall, Mall, Mr Chostres?, Cokenhatch, Cambridge, Ely, Rutland, Bucks, London, Dobenham?, Mildonhall, Claydon); military matters (Francomia, Turin's army)

28–538

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/08/23
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Notes:	chat (price of cloth, Hampshire air)

28–539

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Croweshall, Suffolk
on:	1675/08/25
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	Carpenters' Hall, London
Notes:	chat (cherry brandy, Morello cherries, good Dr, Claydon, Covent Garden friends, Mr Chester's house in Hertford, sister Osborne); money matters (Will Gape good security, Tom Gape, Duke of Somerset's debts); military matters (Montecauli, French, France)

28–540

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Croweshall, Suffolk
on:	1675/08/25
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
Notes:	chat (Lady Gaudy, Sir Richard's matrimony, Sir Roger Burgoyne, Sutton, Tuddington, say nothing about bucks in park at Ratdliffe, Sir William, Lady Hobart, Jack Stewkeley); estate matters (Tom King, Ralph, the atable, hay, oats, Mr Butterfield)

28–541

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/08/30
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
Notes:	chat (cousin Stewkeley, Sir William Smith, Sir Richard Temple, Chitwood?, cousin Denton, Jack)
Queries:	hard to read

28–542

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	London
on:	1675/08/26
to:	brother' -Edmund Verney (Mun)? Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Notes:	chat (Fleet St, Cutlers, grey stallion, uncle Dr, Sir William Smith, Sir Richard Temple, cousin Napp - had the honour to dance with her once, Smithfield, cousin Stewkeley, Mr Gape, Bennet, Mr Tompson, riding the elephant, Miss Sarah); military matters (Treves?, French king); gossip (King's brasier? who lived on Holborn Bridge hanged himself)

28–543

Sent by:	Edmund Verney Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/08/26
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Croweshall, Suffolk
on:	1675/09/01
Notes:	chat (Sutton, Croweshall, Lady Smith, cousin Ann Hobart, Sir William, Mrs Busby, son Will, daughter Sanders, Ratcliffe, Dr Townsend, Preshaw Hill, Tuddington, Sir Harry Andrews,, Nelly Denton, Jack Stewkeley, cousin Risley, Jack Doddington, Lady Temple, Mr Stanion, Nedd Andrews, Thom Temple, Lady Baltinglass, revelling and dancing); estate matters (Claydon, Tho Radwell's wife like to die of childbirth, Coleman, cook's wife safe, teams ploughed for 3 days, Frank Drake, Thom Isham went on a drunken voyage to Dr Skinner's in Northamptonshire, cousin Denton, Ratcliffe, William, deer coming into the park); military matters (Germany, Prince of Condy)

28–544

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/08/26
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Croweshall, Suffolk
on:	1675/09/01
Notes:	chat (Mr Verney, Robin's coat, Croweshall); estate matters (Richard Tarvill, Cobwell pond, Mrs Cary, Rob Parrott, Hen King, buying of candles, Mr Holmes, Willi Symonds, rent)

28–545

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/08/29
to:	brother' -Edmund Verney (Mun)? Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
on:	1675/08/30
Notes:	military matters (ships for war); chat (Greene, would have hilt black, Jack Risley)

29–001

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
from:	?
on:	1675/11/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/11/12
Notes:	chat (Whitehall, Plymouth, gout, Cornishman); political/religious matters (Privy Council, Whitehall, Mns Luzanny? formerly a priest now turned protestant, St German and another priest threatened to stab him, Lord Cavendish, Mr Howard, the King, my Lord Keeper, Lord Halifax, yesterday a book by order of the Lords was burned by the common hangman); chat (Mr Grimston, Lady Hobart)

29–002

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1675/11/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/11/16
Notes:	chat (disaster of pretty colt, Mr Grosvenor, Holmes, Aylesbury, Dr Willis died, pistol was shot at Lord Shaftesbury, Sir Jo Babir?); political matters (French, Hugeneots)

29–003

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/11/00
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (account for Michaelmas, Mrs Butterfield's money not included, rents due £95.00.00)

29–004

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
from:	Sutton in Oxfordshire
on:	1675/11/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/11/19
Notes:	chat (London, colds)

29–005

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/11/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/11/19
Notes:	family matters (niece, daughter, London)

29–006

Sent by:	Elizabeth Adams Adams, Elizabeth [Verney] d.1721
from:	Beddow
on:	1675/11/16
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/11/19
Notes:	chat (have all had streaming colds)

29–007

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1675/11/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/11/19
Notes:	chat (about his colt, king will touch no more till April); political matters (Fagg, Sir Jo Fust sheriff for Gloucestershire?)

29–008

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
from:	London
on:	1675/11/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/11/19
Notes:	chat (called on Lady Hobart and found her house like a laundry - garnished with nasty tubs and wet clothes, Dr Borrowman is dead, Mr Sharpe will be parson of St Giles, Mns Brovall); estate matters (Robert Parrat, London); money matters (Mr Smith, Mr Cratford?); legal matters (Sherley v Sir Jo Fag, Mr Astley, Mr Wallop, Mr Jeffrey, Mr Turner of Grays Inn)

29–009

Sent by:	Dame Vere Gaudy Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/11/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/04
Notes:	chat (London, son Charles and daughter been very ill, Mrs Brooke)

29–010

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/11/00
to:	Ann Gaudy Gaudy, Anne
Notes:	family matters (Lady Mary, Jack Stewkeley); business matters (Winston farm repairs, winter tiling seldom lasts long especially if frosty, Mr Gibson, Mr Ashton)
Queries:	possible draft letter

29–011

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/11/00
to:	Lady Gaudy Gaudy, Vere, Lady
Notes:	chat (Lord Cornwallis, Sir Charles, only he and one other in his family not had a cold, London, Lord Norris, Mr Wharton); business matters (Mr Gibson, Mr Ashton, sale of Winston farm)

29–012

Sent by:	Dame Vere Gaudy? Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/11/17?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/11/19
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	hard to read

29–013

Sent by:	Cousin Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Hillesdon
on:	1675/11/18
to:	Uncle AD (Alex Denton?) Denton, Alexander (lawyer)
Notes:	money matters (lazy fellow, asks to draw a new stettlement of his estate)
Queries:	annotated as copy of letter about drawing on settlement of his estate

29–014

Sent by:	Cousin Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Hillesdon
on:	1675/11/18
to:	Uncle AD Denton, Alexander (lawyer)
Notes:	money matters
Queries:	appears to be the original letter 29-013 above

29–015

Sent by:	Cousin Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Hillesdon
on:	1675/11/18
to:	Uncle AD Denton, Alexander (lawyer)
Notes:	money matters
Queries:	appears to be copy of letter 29-014 above

29–016

Sent by:	Cousin Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Hillesdon
on:	1675/11/18
to:	Uncle Dr Denton, Dr William d.1691
Notes:	money matters (Alex Denton, asks for assistance in new settlement of his estate)
Queries:	annotated as copy of letter to uncle Dr about settlement of his estate

29–017

Sent by:	Walter Bladworth Bladworth, Walter
on:	1675/11/20
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	London
Notes:	business matters (English ships, Alexandria, Cyprus, Edwin Browne?, Mr Midcalfe, galls are very scarce, Persia, Aleppo)

29–018

Sent by:	Uncle AD Denton, Alexander (lawyer)
on:	1675/11/22
to:	Nelly Denton, Alexander
Notes:	money matters (Dr, Sir Orlando Brigman, SRV)
Queries:	annotated as copy of AD's answer to his nephew's letter about settlement of estate

29–019

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
from:	London
on:	1675/11/22
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/11/23
Notes:	money matters (Mr ? Smits); chat (Mr Hill, sorry uncle Butterfield had such violent fits of the stone, has had his share of the colds but sack and oil and brandy have made me right again, Lady Hobart, Robert Dormer of Dourton, Sir Thom Palmer?, Mr Hill); gossip (story of Lord Shaftesbury being shot at, shot was not directed at him); legal matters (Sherley, Mr Wallop, Chancery Bar, Mr Turner); political matters (Lord Lauderdale, Lord Mohun, Lord Iwart?, Duke of Buckingham, Lord of Bristow, Lord Lauderdale, Lord Maynard)

29–020

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Glasgow
on:	1675/11/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/12/03
Notes:	chat (about a sick friend); money matters (request for money)

29–021

Sent by:	John Stewkeley Stewkeley, John
on:	1675/11/22
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/11/27
Notes:	chat (London, colds now epidemical not only in the capital but several other places)

29–022

Sent by:	Mr Gibson Gibson, Mr
from:	Staples Inn?
on:	1675/11/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/11/27
Notes:	chat (London, Madame Gaudy, Mr Moyse?, Mr Ashton)

29–023

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
on:	1675/11/25
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (order of £15 by Joseph Churchill, SRV)

29–024

Sent by:	Dr William Denton Denton, Dr William d.1691
on:	1675/11/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/11/26
Notes:	chat (Mr Ffall, Mr Wharton, Sir G, Lord Shaftesbury, Malletts Brill?, Lady Osborne, Lady Smyth, Jack Ayse, Sir Edward Sydenham)

29–025

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
from:	London
on:	1675/11/25
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/11/26
Notes:	chat (parlaiment prorogued until 15 Feb 1676, sorry for Lady Smith's accident, Sir William); religious matters (Mr Sharpe parson of St Giles); legal matters (Mr Dormer sheriff, Sir Chr Cotterell?, Whitehall)

29–026

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/11/26
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/03
Notes:	chat (Claydon, London, niece Palmer, Jack, Lady Stewkeley, Lady Hobard)

29–027

Sent by:	Dicks Hals Hals, Richard
on:	1675/11/25??
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/11/27
Notes:	request for urgent help
Queries:	annotated as from Dick Hals a Highwayman since hanged

29–028

Sent by:	Lady Gardiner (Cary Gardiner) Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/11/27
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/03
Notes:	chat (England, sickness, people dying, her family ill, Pen, Cary, Kate, Jack); family matters
Queries:	annotated as about Mr Palmer and Pen

29–029

Sent by:	Dr Robert Townsend Townsend, Robert
from:	Ratcliffe
on:	1675/11/27
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/11/27
Notes:	chat (London, Sir William Smyth, son Nilli?, painter and his rates, brother Townsend, Edward Green, Pheasant and Star, Cheapside, Bow Church)

29–030

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1675/11/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/11/03
Notes:	chat (Lady Smith's disaster)

29–031

Sent by:	Dr William Denton [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/11/29
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	chat (prorogation, George brought news of the Customs House, Sir Jo Dormer, Mr Chandy marrying his son to Lady Morgan's daughter, Miss Thomas, Sir Edwin Rich dead)

29–032

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/11/29
to:	Mr Gibson [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	chat (Mr Ashton)
Queries:	probably copy of original

29–033

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/11/30
to:	Widow Roades [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	legal matters (Widdow Roades of the Lawne, if desired to leave her house and grounds would take them at Lady Day, one hogg, Andrew Sanders)

29–034

Sent by:	John Hicks Senior John Hicks Senior
on:	1675/12/01
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	legal matters (document about John Hicks' bond, Middle Claydon, SRV, William Grosvenor)
Queries:	John Hicks senior has made his mark

29–035

Sent by:	? [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/11/25?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Claydon
on:	1675/11/27
Notes:	chat?
Queries:	long letter, hard to read

29–036

Sent by:	Dame Vere Gaudy Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/12/02
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/04
Notes:	chat (London, Lady Mary, Nan, Edwards, Winston farm, Lady Hobart, John Cole, Mr Gibson,

29–037

Sent by:	Nan Gaudy Gaudy, Anne
on:	1675/12/02
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	chat (London, Mr Stewkeley, family ill with coughs and colds, Lady Mary, the farm)

29–038

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/12/02
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/04
Notes:	chat (about weather, thick mist, Chiltern Hills, filthy vapours)

29–039

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1675/12/06
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/08
Notes:	chat (London, Lady Hobart, Mr Pierrepoint, recipe for a drink made of sack, brandy, cinammon)

29–040

Sent by:	Mr Squib? Squibb, J
on:	1675/12/06
to:	Lady Gaudy Gaudy, Vere, Lady
Notes:	money matters (Mr Ellis, Sir Edward)
Queries:	annotated as copy of part of a letter about £50 to be paid to Mr Ellis

29–041

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/12/06
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/12/08
Notes:	estate matters (Thomas Miller, Robert Home, Mr Butterfield, widow Roades, church, Harry King, Mr Holmes, Mr Verney, Goodwin's horse, Sanders, Robert Parratt, Willi Gutteridge, Walter King, John Hicks, Mary)
Queries:	hard to read

29–042

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/12/15
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/12/18
Notes:	family matters (uncle Alex Denton, writings, Aunt Edmonds, cousin Kilby, Mr Harmon, Mid Claydon, Hilsdon, John Dormer's death, John Cook died); estate matters (Mr Coleman)
Queries:	annotated as about writings of Middleton

29–043

Sent by:	Henry King King, Harry
from:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/12/06
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/12/08
Notes:	estate matters (Claydon, faggots from the wood, Mr Brown of Marsh, brother Thomas)

29–044

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/12/06
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/12/09
Notes:	chat (Tom Mathews, London, colds and coughs frequent and dangerous, Lord Denbeigh died at Dunstable, Warwickshire, Lord Wiblington? and Lord Raltamoor dead too, Mr Butterfield); religious matters (Compton is Bishop of London, Dr Fall, Bishopwrick of Oxford); legal matters (libels in great abundance, Bedfordshire gentry signed a paper to lessen the charge of sheriffs, England); gossip (Sir Edward Sydenham dead - the king sent him 100t a day before he died, Lady Daroll married to Mr Morgan a widower in Wales of a good estate, Mrs Gape is ill - learned counsell will lay siege to her, it is believed she will be worth above 1000t, the king makes great entrenchment in his expenses, Sir William Smith); family matters (encloses letter from Uncle Thomas - he gives us no other trouble)

29–045

Sent by:	Edward Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on:	1675/12/06
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/08
Notes:	chat/religious matters (sent son to Oxford, taking of Orders, Dr Compton, Christchurch); money matters (London, owes 11 shillings to John Butterfield, and to cousin Freeman?, asks Mr Grosvenor to pay for him)

29–046

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Hillesdon?
on:	1675/12/08
to:	Uncle Alexander Denton [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Received at:	Middleton
on:	1675/12/11
Notes:	money matters (SRV, London, Uncle Woodward)

29–047

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Hillesdon?
on:	1675/12/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/12/11
Notes:	money matters (Uncle Alex Denton, Middleton, Aunt Edmonds, Miss Harman)
Queries:	annotated as about settlement of his estate

29–048

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/12/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/08
Notes:	chat (Thom Matthews, London, Mr Butterfield, cousin Denton, Middleton, cousin Drake, parson Egerton, Mr L of Adstock, Mr Piggott of James Place, Mr Leroy of Bicester, cousin Stewkeley); political matters (cousin Dormer likely to be sheriff, parliament likely to be dissolved); estate matters (Runts Hedge, Meerestone)

29–049

Sent by:	Alex Denton Denton, Alexander
from:	Temple Churchyard
on:	1675/12/07
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/12/07
Notes:	business matters

29–050

Sent by:	Nan Gaudy Gaudy, Anne
on:	1675/12/11
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/12/11
Notes:	chat (Lady Mary)

29–051

Sent by:	Dame Vere Gaudy Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/12/08
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/11
Notes:	chat (Lady Mary, Mr Edwards, Lady Hobart, death of Sir Edward Sydenham); money matters (Mr Ellis, cousin Squib)

29–052

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/12/09
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/11
Notes:	chat (Uncle Thomas, Coleman, colds and coughs very mortal to aged people, Peter Wentworth is dead, Mr Butterfield); gossip (Lady Darell, Mr Gape); legal matters (Sir John Busby, sheriffs, paper ill drawn up); business matters (Sir William Smith's tin business, Captain Gettings)

29–053

Sent by:	Fran Parker Parker, Francis
on:	1675/12/07
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters; estate matters (Edmund Verney,aquittance of £4 for half year's rent, sheep pasture in Coppesley Hills, Lord Brooke)

29–054

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/12/09
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/12/10
Notes:	chat (town is sick, at Sir Edward Sydenham's funeral, many others very ill, Sir John Dormer is dead, Mr Samuel - who married Mrs Goody - is made a baronet); military matters (city of Bordeaux?, charge of building a citadel, French king, empire); political matters (parliament, report of sale of Tangier to the French a noble fiction); estate matters (hedge at Runts)

29–055

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/12/13
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/15
Notes:	chat (sorry for death of Sir John Dormer, Sir John Busby, Lee, wind very high, Mr Butterfield, Will gone to Oxford to take Orders,, Mr Gregory dead , Mrs Mary Paxton, Mr Dorell of Lamport likely dead, cousin Stafford, John Watts plumber of Brackley dead); political matters (French king, Tangier, parliament); estate matters (Grosvenor, lease, Watt King)

29–056

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/12/13
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/12/14
Notes:	legal matters (William Busby, charge of sheriffs, might judges be presented with ale beer, signing of paper, Alex Denton, Mr Lawley, cousin Stafford's son, Mr Cheney's son, Sir John Dormer, Mr Tompson's son, cousin Pigot, Sir Rich Anderson's daughter, Sir Richard Ingoldsby, Mr Wenman, Mr Clerke); chat (Mr Butterfield, Sir Peter Wentworth, Nell Gwyn come to Whitehall, Lord Crofts, Coleman); military matters (Spain, Emperor, Treaty at N?, France, Holland, French king)

29–057

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/12/11
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/12/15
Notes:	money matters (list of items paid, includes 'night hay' for horses
Queries:	annotated Tom Mathews' bill paid by Coleman

29–058

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/12/13
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
on:	1675/12/16
Notes:	money matters, family matters (asks how much he will bestow on his uncle, SRV intends to send £5)

29–059

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1675/12/13
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/15
Notes:	chat (aniseed water, stone water, Wroxall, Sir John Dormer); legal matters (Bedfordshire)

29–060

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/12/13
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/12/15
Notes:	estate matters (Thomas Miller, pastures, rent, Chairost?, Willi Mathews, Willi Taylor, London, warrant for goodwife Dixon, Winslow and Walters of Swanburne?, John, Edward, about a missing cow)

29–061

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/12/15?
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/15
Notes:	estate matters, chat (rumlett of oil?, Mr Holmes, painter, Sir William Smith, Thomas Mathews, Sir Richard Darrill, Goodwyn, Sir Robert Parrott, Mr Joseph Churchill, Welheads cow house, Richard Harding, willow wood, Sir John Holder, John Rose, widow Roades, Henry King, Willi Gutteridge)

29–062

Sent by:	Edmund Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
from:	Middle Claydon
on:	1675/12/13
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/15
Notes:	chat (the Dixons grow unruly and very scandalous, Sir John Busby bound over by parson Sharog of Gt Horwood to answer at assizes about a woman who miscarried and died, Mr Dayrell of Lampast not yet dead); religious matters (Bishop of Oxon, rector of Lincoln)

29–063

Sent by:	Elizabeth Lillie Lillie, Elizabeth
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/12/13
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/12/15
Notes:	household matters (napkins, box with clean linen, silver spoons, 3 chickens and 2 partridges, surfit water, Lady Hobart)

29–064

Sent by:	Frances Balkley Bulkeley, Frances
from:	Pidsbury
on:	1675/12/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/12/24
Notes:	chat (colds and coughs over all the country); money matters (asks for £20 to be paid, Mrs Gape, Chancery)
Queries:	appears that SRV owes money

29–065

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Edinburgh?
on:	1675/12/14
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/12/23
Notes:	chat (Edinburgh, London, his sickness with great cough, pleurisy and fever, complains last letter not answered, Mr James Ffowles, St Clements Lane, Old Exchange); money matters (landlady looked after him with dr, syrups, purges, vomits - he asks for money to repay her)

29–066

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/12/16
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/12/17
Notes:	chat (Coleman, Mr Butterfield, Mrs Gregory, Mr Paxon's land, Mr Dayrell of lamport not dead yet, take heed of catching cold, good friend that died in his travels had drunk too much); estate matters (don't be hasty choosing a new plumber); military matters (sale of Tangier, France, Holland, Sir Lionel Jenkins, Nirnengen, Duke de Villa Harmosa - governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Spanish territories, Calais)

29–067

Sent by:	Nan Gaudy Gaudy, Anne
on:	1675/12/16
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/12/18
Notes:	legal matters (Sir John Cole, Mrs Brook Wright)

29–068

Sent by:	Luce Shepherd Sheppard, Luce
from:	Skelton
on:	1675/12/17
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1675/12/23
Notes:	chat (Mrs Denton, Mr Gape, good Dr, Middle Claydon, London, please remember little wild man near Bowden by York?); money matters (Mr Palmer)

29–069

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/12/16
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/18
Notes:	chat (Lee, cousin Dormer, Fleetwood, Robin, daughter Parkhurst, London, grief for Sir John Dormer, discussion of buff coats, cousin Denton, Mall Townsend, Parson Bancks, John Cooke's gardener dead, Mr Eason, Mr Dorell is alive,); legal matters (sheriffs); gossip (supposes Sir Peter Wentworth's brother has his estate, if Sir Will Smith has effected his tin business may easily make his election sure - has been wheedling and projecting to that purpose already); political matters (Parliament men forsee a Dissolution, Hampden, Backwell, Wendover, England); military matters (Dutch will make separate peace with France unless Mastrickt be restored, Empire, Spain, if French King breaks his word with his rebel subjects... a time may come again when he may repent and rue it, hears there are more soldiers than usual brought to London); family matters (Ralph came home, cousin Denton goes to Middleton); estate matters (Coleman); money matters (Hillesdon, asks SRV to send uncle Thomas 40 shillings from him)

29–070

Sent by:	Dame Vere Gaudy Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/12/18
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/12/18
Notes:	business matters (Mr Squib, Mr Ellis, nephew Squib); gossip (Lord Denby died without a will, is said half his estate divided among old Lord Desmond's children, Mr Seildring?, Miss Cocker)

29–071

Sent by:	A Nicholas Nicholas, Nancy [Denton]
on:	1675/12/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/12/20
Notes:	money matters (request for money)

29–072

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/12/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/12/22
Notes:	estate matters (Robin Walton, Mr Butterfield, maidservant Joan at Lady Smith of Ratcliffe, London, Henry King sent the bull to be killed, Dingwicke?, Thomas Mathew, brace of doves, Willi Darrill, Mr Holmes)

29–073

Sent by:	Mr Squibb Squibb, J
on:	1675/12/20
to:	Lady Gaudy Gaudy, Vere, Lady
Notes:	money matters, legal matters (Mr Ellis, Sir Edward divided his estate, Dr Denton, Kent, Martha, Vere, Eliz and Kath, Charing Cross, sister Betty, Kitty, sister Sydenham, Mr Hancock)
Queries:	copy of letter

29–074

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/12/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/12/22
Notes:	estate matters (Thomas Miller, Chaircroft?, London, Hawickspoole?, old heifers and a bull, Spinesnoll?, Hodgson of Winslow)

29–075

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/12/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/12/22
Notes:	estate matters, money matters (Walter King, Thomas Ffalchner?, Thomas Hasler?, widow Roades, Rich Harding carrying away wood)

29–076

Sent by:	Edward Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/12/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/12/22
Notes:	chat (still not recovered from illness, son ordained deacon at Oxon, Egerton, Mr Shirock, Sir John, parson Thursby, man excommunicated)

29–077

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1675/12/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/22
Notes:	chat (had cold and scarcely gone out for 5 weeks, Bedfordshire, Mr Carey?, London, thanks for sending him remedies for the stone); legal matters

29–078

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/12/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/22
Notes:	legal matters (Sir John Busby, sheriffs' expenses, bayliff of Buckinghamshire, Lee); chat (Sir Thomas Tyrell, Hillesdon, Ratcliff, cousin Denton, cousin Risley, cousin Frank Drake, Mr Lawley, hears Mr Butterfield ill, Will Butterfield, Middle Claydon, Dr Townsend, Lady Hobart, Lady Smith at Ratcliff, Sir William); military matters (Tangier, French or Dutch trade, governor of the Spanish Netherlands denied passage to the French plenipotentiaries, Spain); political matters (Sir William Smith effected his tin business and will make his election sure at Buckingham)

29–079

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/12/20
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/12/21
Notes:	chat (cousin Denton, Hillesdon, Middleton, cousin Robin Dormer); legal matters (sheriffs, buff coates, made Lord Keeper the Lord Chancellor of England ); military matters (confederates, Hollanders, French King, Paris, privy chamber, rents); money matters (bro Tom);

29–080

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/12/20
to:	cousin Denton Denton, Alexander
Notes:	legal matters, money matters (cousin Isham, cousin Woodward, George Woodward, uncle Alexander, Mr Gape)

29–081

Sent by:	Elizabeth Lillie Lillie, Elizabeth
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/12/20
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/12/22
Notes:	household matters (linen, Joan in a sad condition with her breast, Lady Smith, Dr Waford, Tom King)

29–082

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Glasgow
on:	1675/12/21
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1676/01/03
Notes:	money matters (his need for money)

29–083

Sent by:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
from:	London
on:	1675/12/22
to:	dear brother' (Edmund Verney?) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/12/24
Notes:	chat (Lady Gardiner, Covent Garden, Mr Butterfield); business matters (the Bristol, Alexandria, Jews, 42000 dollars, silk, Tripoli); gossip (Nell Gwynn admitted to have an apartment in Whitehall which does not please Mdmn Carwell, Jamaica ship lately cast away at Bristol and 13 men drowned); family matters (Jack been very sick, had convulsions, Claydon, the town more healthful now but most people are in mourning)

29–084

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/12/27
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Notes:	chat (Sir John Coridon?, Mr Butterfield, health); gossip (Nell Gwyn, Whitehall, Madam Carwell, Louvre)

29–085

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/12/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/12/25
Notes:	estate matters (Thomas Miller, Willi Mathews, Pollriott?, Mr Rampton, Mr Dormer, Rowsham, London, Mrs Roades, Ralph Roades, Ralph Harly?, Mr Butterfield)

29–086

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/12/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/12/25
Notes:	estate matters (Walter King, widow Roades, Willi Darrill, willow wood, Tho Mathew, Dixon, Henry King, Robin Wathon?, London, Mrs Saxby?, Ralph Harly)

29–087

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/12/00
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (list of 'interest money', widow Roades and other names)

29–088

Sent by:	Dame Vere Gaudy Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/12/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/25
Notes:	chat

29–089

Sent by:	Nan Gaudy Gaudy, Anne
on:	1675/12/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/12/25
Notes:	chat (thanks for the ales he sent, Mr Edwards, Mrs Brook, Lady Desmond)

29–090

Sent by:	Cary Gardiner Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/12/23
to:	Pen Stewkeley Stewkeley, Pen
on:	1676/01/03
Notes:	chat (Carowlin [Caroline?], ague, Mr Parit, Mr Garit, Mr Hungerford)

29–092

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/12/23
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/25
Notes:	chat (A Denton, Coleman, Thomas Mathews, Rob Dormer, Thorneton, Sir Thomas Tyrell, London, cousin Dormer, Sir John Busby, Lee, Mr Hart of Brill, Tring, Dr Townsend, Will Smith, Thorneborough, Sir W, Tuddington,); estate matters (cut quick hedge at Runts, made a load or two of faggots, Watt King, Rose's ground); military matters (confederate deal very generous, Hollanders, Mr Bennet, French King, sorry own King seems afraid); political matters; household matters (Warner's boy, caused him to be whipped for shitting the bed and telling a lie)

29–093

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/12/23
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1675/12/24
Notes:	legal matters (sheriff, Bedfordshire, Bedford); military matters (envoy going to Vi?, Prince William of Furstenbergh?, Emperor, the Pope); political matters (French King, no silk imported into France but at Marseille which is in effect to destroy our silk trade, customs, Turkey, England, London); chat (Sir William Smith, Dr Clarke Dean of Winchester); family matters (brother's 'boy' very ill, swooning fits, cook - his uncle - should have warned them)

29–094

Sent by:	Dr Robert Townsend Townsend, Robert
from:	Ratcliffe
on:	1675/12/26
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/12/28
Notes:	chat (uncle Dr, Radcliffe, painter, Claydon)

29–095

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/12/27
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1675/12/29
Notes:	estate matters (Tho Miller, Robert Parrott, Tho Kilig shepherd, Knowle Hill, Ralph Roades, Mrs Roades)

29–096

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/12/27
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/29
Notes:	estate matters (Robin Walter, Lady Smith, Mr Grousend?, Walter King, Willi Gutteridge, Rich Harding, widow Roades, Mr Holmes, Willi Darwill, ales, Mr Holmes, Mrs Lylly, a doe, Willi Lea)

29–097

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/12/27
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Received at:	London
Notes:	chat
Queries:	appears to be the same as 29-084 above

29–098

Sent by:	William Ffall Fall, William
on:	1675/12/27
to:	SRV? Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Notes:	chat (letters for Claydon, Master of the Rolls)

29–099

Sent by:	Sir Roger Burgoyne Burgoyne, Sir Roger
on:	1675/12/27
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/29
Notes:	chat (thanks for bottle of stone water, servant Benson, Wroxall, Yeldham?); legal matters (copy of agreement, Sir Will Beacher, Sir John Napier?)

29–100

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/12/27
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1675/12/29
Notes:	legal matters (money, sheriff); estate matters (Watt King, Rose's order denied his team liberty to come onto his ground to fetch his faggots, Runts wood, French King); military matters (Germans, Danes, Baltic, French); chat (Mr Butterfield, cousin A Denton, Richard Haynes, Sir William Smith, Dr Townsend, Temple, Buckingham)

29–101

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/12/27
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
Notes:	estate matters (sorry likelihood of dispute with neighbour, hedge, faggots); household matters (did well to have footboy whipped); chat (Mr Alell?, Alex Townsend, Sir William Smith, Thornborough, Mr Butterfield); money matters (Harry King, Coleman, wood money not received)

29–102

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/00/00??
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (SRV, Lucy Sheppard, Mr Palmer, interest)
Queries:	annotated 'Mrs Luce Sheppard's account begun'

29–103

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/00/00???
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	money matters (an account, Alex Norcot, John Cox, Thomas Croxton, Chilton, gunsmith)

29–104

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/00/00???
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	estate matters, money matters (list of names and places, Long Crondon, Chilton and many others)

29–105

Sent by:	Pen Stewkeley Stewkeley, Pen
from:	Preshaw
on:	1675/12/29
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/12/31
Notes:	chat (request for assistance in misfortune)

29–106

Sent by:	Thomas Verney Verney, Thomas
from:	Glasgow
on:	1675/12/28
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Covent Garden, London
on:	1676/01/12
Notes:	money matters (thanks for money)

29–107

Sent by:	Elizabeth Adams Adams, Elizabeth [Verney] d.1721
from:	Beddow
on:	1675/12/29
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
Notes:	chat (uncle Dr, sister Gardiner)

29–108

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/00/00??
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	estate matters (list of hedges to be cut in winter)

29–109

Sent by:	Nan Gaudy Gaudy, Anne
on:	1675/12/30
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1676/01/01
Notes:	chat (Mr Edwards, tenants, Mrs Brooke)

29–110

Sent by:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
from:	East Claydon
on:	1675/12/30
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	Holborn, London
on:	1676/01/01
Notes:	estate matters (Coleman, Middle Claydon, Harry King said would pay all wood money, John Scott of Fulbrooke, Mr Wharston leave to fly his hawks at pheasants in our woods); chat (body of Sir John Dormer, William Abell, Al Townsend, Thorneborough, Mr Butterfield very ill); political matters (Sir William Smith treats burgesses to secure his election, London)

29–111

Sent by:	Elizabeth Lillie Lillie, Elizabeth
from:	Claydon
on:	1675/12/30
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1676/01/01
Notes:	chat (London, old Tom King, young Tom King, Mr Verney, Richard Bates)

29–112

Sent by:	Dame Vere Gaudy Gaudy, Vere, Lady
on:	1675/12/30
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1676/01/01
Notes:	chat (Mrs Cocken?)

29–113

Sent by:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
on:	1675/00/00???
to:	[Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable]
Notes:	business matters? (directions to travel from Leghorne towards England through France, Genoa, a feluca, Satibo? Marseille, Lyons, Calais)
Queries:	detailed description of route to take

29–114

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/12/30
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1676/01/01
Notes:	chat (Mr Butterfield, Mr Gyles); estate matters (Robin, killing a doe, Mr Verney)

29–115

Sent by:	William Coleman Coleman, William
on:	1675/12/30
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
Received at:	London
on:	1676/01/01
Notes:	estate matters (Thomas Miller, Willi Mathew, Walter King, money, Henry King, Mr Dormer, Robert Parrott, Cottslow, little Chairoft?, Robinson Abutilor? of St Albans, Knowle Hill, Tho Welhead)

29–116

Sent by:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
from:	London
on:	1675/12/30
to:	Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
Received at:	East Claydon
on:	1676/01/01
Notes:	chat (received fat turkey and bacon, Lilly); estate matters (faggots, Rose); political matters (Sir William, the Dr is his creature, Dick Lane, Whitehall); gossip (Duchess of Mazdrin?); military matters (Wisner, the Danes, the Swede, Pomorania, French King seems willing to set a King in Sicily?, Spaniards afraid Dutch will make peace with France, Holland); political matters (great noise that Sir Robert Carr should be made Lords, Sir Edward Deering, cousin Cheney, customs, hears there is a Proclamation coming out to put down all Coffee Houses, and not any to be suffered after the Tenth of January. These houses are thought to be the inventors and spreaders of false news); legal matters (sheriffs,Bedfordshire, likes it better than the Oxfordshire paper, Yorkshire)

29–117

Sent by:	Cary Gardiner Verney, Cary [Lady Gardiner / Mrs Stewkeley] d.1704
on:	1675/12/31
to:	SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696]
on:	1675/12/31
Notes:	chat
Queries:	note added below from AN

29–118

Sent by:	William Grosvenor Grosvenor, Willam
from:	Lincolns Inn Fields
on:	1675/12/28
to:	John Verney Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717]
Notes:	chat (invitation, Lady Gardiner, Mr Nicholas, Mr Taylor, Lady Hobart)