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Winthrop Family Papers

Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1

Folio 4

1592

Folio 6

1594
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Folio 5
Winthrop, Adam (1548-1623)

1594
A note of my half yeres rentes and other Dettes which are due vnto me at the feaste of The Annunciation of the Virgin Mary1 Anno 1594.
lent to my brother John Wynthrop xx s. 5
Imprimis of William Nutton vij li.
Item of Simon Risinge iiij li. x s.
Item of Jasper Laughlinge lij s. vj d.
Item of John Warde xxij s. vj d.
Item of Simon Facon xx s.
Item of John Rawlinge x s.
Item of John Coker x s.
Item of Philip Goshlinge xiij s. iiij d.
Item of my Tenaunts in Hadley x s.
Item of John Laughlinge xl s.
Item of Thomas Laster xxvj s. viij d.
Item of Mr. Hanam vj li. xiij s. iiij d.
Item of my brother John Winthrop v li.
Item John Laughlinge viij li. xiij s. iiij d.
Item of the Widow Aliston xx s.
Item of John Paynter viij s.
Item of Simon Rysinge for Corne (vj bl. Received) xij s.
Item of Henry Cooke for iij bl. pease v s.
Item of Mr. Aliston for iiij bl. and I pecke of pease vij s. j d.
Item of J. Laughlinge for blank bl. of pease blank
A Note of the mony which I have receyued since the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist.2
Receyued of John Raven xij s.
Receyued of my brother Thomas Mildmay xxxiij s. iiij d.
Receyued of my tenantes at Hadleigh x s.
Receyued of my Cosen M. for my horse vj li.
Receyued of Mr. Aliston xx s.
Receyued of the goodman Goshlinge iiij li. xiij s. iiij d.
Receyued of Mr. Hannam ij s.
Receyued of John Laughlinge xx li.
Receyued of my brother John Winthrop iiij li.
Receyued of my Cosen Thomas Layster xxv li.
Mony Receyved since Mich: 1594.3
Receyued of John Raughlinge for Rent x s.
Receyued of Richard Huggen4 for v lodes of woode xx s.
Receyued of John Doggett for iiij bls. of wheat xx s.
Receyued of John Coker xvj s.
Receyued of William Nutton vij li.
Receyued of Simon Rysing iiij li. x s.
Receyued of John Laughlinge lij s. iij d.
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Receyued of Mr. Hanham vj li. xiij s. iij d.
Receyued of my brother vij li.
Receyued of Plumme5 for iiij bls. wheat xx s.
Receyued for ij kyne soulde iiij li.
Receyued for a hogge soulde x s.
Receyued of my tenauntes at Hadley xl s.
Receyued of my Lord of Bath6 v li.
Receyued of goodman Goshlinge iiij li. xix s. iiij d.
Receyued of John Warde xxij s. vj d.
Receyued for ij sheepe xviij s.
Receyued of the College7 viij li. vj s. viij d.
Receyued of Lewes Kidby8 lvj s.
Receyued of John Doggett9 nil
1.

March 25, Lady Day, the first day of the new year.

 2.

June 24.

 3.

September 29.

 4.

A marriage license was issued to Richard Huggen, clothier, and Anne Wincolle of Little Waldingfield, November 4, 1583. Sudbury Archdeaconry, Acta Book, fo. 50.

 5.

Probably John Plumbe of Boxford, clothier. In his will, proved June 23, 1623, he leaves to his grandchild, John Lomax, “one meadow of copyhold land in Groaton which I bought of Mr. Adam Wintroppe.” H. F. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings in England (Boston, 1901), II. 1413–14.

 6.

John Still (1543?–1608), bishop of Bath and Wells, and reputed author of Gammer Gurton’s Needle. His first wife was Anne, daughter of Thomas Alabaster of Hadleigh, and his sister Alice was the first wife of the diarist. Muskett, 76; D. N. B. , LIV. 370–373.

 7.

Trinity College, Cambridge, founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII. The payment was for Adam Winthrop’s services as auditor of the college, references to which will also be found later in the Diary. Winthrop matriculated fellow-commoner from Magdalene College, Cambridge, Michaelmas, 1567, but does not appear to have proceeded to a degree. Venn, A. C. , IV. 441; the same, Book of Matriculations and Degrees (Cambridge, 1913), 740.

 8.

Buried at Groton, August 13, 1598. His tomb in Groton Church bears the inscription: “Here lyeth the Body of | Lewes Kedbye, whoe had to wyue Jane Kedbye by whome he had issue IIII | sones and vj daughters, and de | ceased ye XIII of August An. 1598, being about ye age of XXXIX years.” Cf. D. E. Davy, B. M., Add. MS. 19077, fo. 334.

 9.

Of Groton, clothier, buried May 29, 1619. His wife, Dorothy, died March 2, 1604–05.