Since William Lilly the Rebells Jugler and Mountebank in his malicious and blaspheamous discourse concerning our late Martyred Soveraigne of ever blessed memory (amongst other lyes and falsehoods) imprinted a relation concerning an Aparition which foretold several Events which should happen to the Duke of Buckingham, wherein he falsifies boeth the person to whom it appeared and ye circumstances; I thought it not amis to enter here (that it may be preserved) the true account of that Aparition as I have receaved it from the hande and under the hande of Mr.Edmund Wyndham, of Kellefford in the County of Somersett.

I shall sett it downe (ipsissimis verbis) as he delivered it to me at my request written with his own hande.
WYNDHAM'S LETTER "Sr.

According to your desire and my promise I have written down what I remember (divers things being slipt out of my memory) of the relation made me by Mr.Nicholas Towse concerning the Aparition wch visited him.

About ye yeare 1627, {122} I and my wife upon an occasion being in London lay att my Brother Pyne's house without Bishopsgate, wch.

was ye next house unto Mr.Nicholas Towse's, who was my Kinsman and familiar acquaintance, in consideration of whose Society and friendship he tooke a house in that place, ye said Towse being a very fine Musician and very good company, and for ought I ever saw or heard, a Vurtuous, religious and wel disposed Gentleman.