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Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1

Henry Browne to Adam Winthrop1
Browne, Henry Winthrop, Adam (1561-1634)

1593

Prittlewell, ca. 1593.

Sonne Wintrop I haue me commendyd vnto youe and to my dawter your wyffe2 and to all the reast of my chyldren and my Frendes I praye youe send me a boshell of the raynets3 and ij or iij boshels of weat of the beast and speake to John Symon to make for me a good axe and a yoke and if I remember anye thynge more I wyll write by John Wade4 when he commes my wyffe hathe her commendyd to youe all thus I writ youe a short letter and commend youe to god and his saue kepying your Father

Henrye Browne.5

I praye youe send me my boke of martors.

1.

W. Au. 3.

2.

Anne (Browne) Winthrop.

3.

A kind of apple. N. E. D.

4.

Died April 10, 1596. Infra, p. 67. Winthrop sent money to Browne by him in March, 1594–95. Infra, p. 50.

5.

Father of Mrs. Adam Winthrop. He was son of John Browne of Witham, co. Essex, and was twice married: (1) Agnes (d. December 17, 1590), and (2) Margaret, living in 1596. Muskett, 82.

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