John Heydon (1629-166..)
Mr.... Heyden maried Nicholas Culpepper’s widdowe, and lights there1190 on the aforesayd MSS., and prints a booke with a great deale of The way to blisse word for word and verses that are printed in the commendation of other bookes; and instead of such and such old philosophers1191 putts downe John Bowker and William Lilly which they never heard of: and is so impudent in one of his bookes since as to say Mr. Ashmole borrowed of him.
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1187From Elias Ashmole, esqre, scilicet that he1188 had the booke called The way to blisse from his adoptive father Backhowse1189 at Swallowfield in com. Berks., a MSS. writt in queen Elizabeth’s time, hand and stile ἀνονυμῶς.