[1187]From Elias Ashmole, esqre, scilicet that he[1188]had the booke calledThe way to blissefrom his adoptive father Backhowse[1189]at Swallowfield in com. Berks., a MSS. writt in queen Elizabeth's time, hand and stile ἀνονυμῶς.
Mr. ... Heyden maried Nicholas Culpepper's widdowe, and lights there[1190]on the aforesayd MSS., and prints a booke with a great deale ofThe way to blisseword for word and verses that are printed in the commendation of other bookes; and instead of such and such old philosophers[1191]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.