1. BL Add. MS 36,916. They are in several scribal hands, but many are often endorsed JS and letter 20 has his full signature. Starkey also sent papers and books to Aston and promised to supply him with ‘what new things are come forth and worth buying’ [letter 14]. There was an early seventeenth-century news-writer, Ralph Starkey, who might be related, though John was the son of George Starkey of Isley Walton, Leicestershire
2. BL Add. MS 36,916, letter 4