A festo Sancti Johannis Baptiste Anno 1597.

The xxvth day of June S. B. did ryde to Colchester and returned the xxijth of the next monethe.

The same day at night Francys Snellocke came to my house and departed the next day.

The last day of June goodman Philip Gosslinge had xx laborers to make the Causey in Claypit-fields, which was afterwards stoned and gravailed.

The vjth of July I received a Privie seale to lend the Queens maiestie xx li. for a yere.

The same day Edward Aulston his wife was deliuered of hir first soonne.

The viijth day of July olde Cant died.

The ixth day I received a lettre from my brother out of Ireland sans date. Mrs. Pyne1 was deliuered.

The xth of July Tillesons wife Died.

The xjth my cosen William Alibaster came to my house.

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The same day Sir John Peyton2 and Sir Henry North3 with their Ladyes came to Boxforde.

The xiijth day my cosen William Alibaster fatebatur se esse papistam, the xiiijth we did ride together to London and I retourned home the xxijth.

The same day my Daughter Anna came home from my brother Thomas Mildmayes.

The xxjth Day of July my Cosen Johane Muskett died Anno etatis sue 59.

The first of August my Cosen William Alibaster departed to Cambridge from my house, and the thirde Day after Priscilla his sister came to me.

The iiijth of August my brother in lawe William Hilles Died.

The xviijth day of August Gardiner4 did gelde my olde horse and my Bull.

The xxth of August I had in all my barley growing in Churches.

The xxijth of August I did wright vnto my brother in Ireland by George Mawle.5

The last of August my Cosen William Alibaster departed to Cambridge.

The viijth Day of September Mr. John Payne of Stoke6 died of the age of iiij score and iiij yeres.

The viijth day of September Johane Hilles7 my wiues naturall sister died, and made me her executor.

The xxjth of Sept. being St. Mathues Day Thomas Osborne was murdered by John Hawes in the waye betwene Brantham and Thetford,8 for the which J. H. was hanged at Bury.

The xxvjth day of Sept. Jasper Laughlinges wife Agnes died of the blouddi Flux.

The first Day of Octobre I lett my howse at Edwardeston to William Brande and the same day John Sare my Lord of Bathes stuarde came to me.

The vth Day of December William Brond died.

The vijth day Father Francis Andrew alias Pierce died.

A note of the books which I haue lent.

The perambulation of Kent9 to Mr. Thomas Nicholson.

The Termes of the lawe10 to Mr. J. Grymwade.

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Dr. Bright De Sanitate tuenda in Latine.11 Received.

Petrarcha his woorkes12 Mr. J. Grymwade tooke awaye. Received.

To Mr. Ellyson Edward Elliston the Remes Rheims Testament. Received.

The Defence of the Apologie13 to my sister Mildmay. Received.

Eusebius and Socrates in Englishe14 to my cosen Humphrey Munnyng.

Item, lent him iiij volumes of Lyra, and Googes husbandry.15 23

1.

This son, Stephen, died September 20, 1602. Infra, p. 77.

2.

Sir John Peyton of Isleham, Cambridgeshire (d. 1616), succeeded his father, Robert Peyton, as lord of Peyton Hall, with other manors in Boxford, Wicker, and Wixoe; was sheriff of Cambridgeshire in 1593, and sat in Parliament for the county in 1593 and 1604–11. He was created a baronet by James I in 1611. He married Alice, daughter of Sir Edward Osborn, lord mayor of London, 1583. G. E. Cokayne, Complete Baronetage, I. 15; Visitation of Cambridge (H. S., Pub. , XLI), 4; Parliamentary Papers, 1878, LXII, pt. 1, 427, 442; P. C. C., 46 Weldon.

3.

Sir Henry North of Mildenhall, co. Suffolk, younger son of Roger, Lord North de Kirtling. He won his knighthood by service under the Earl of Leicester in the Low Countries. Cokayne, Complete Baronetage, III. 41; J. Burke and J. B. Burke, Peerages Extinct, Dormant, and in Abeyance, 3d ed. (1846), 400; Visitation of Suffolk, 1664–1668 (H. S., Pub. , LXI), 86.

4.

Edmund Gardiner of Groton. Cf. p. 72.

5.

George Mawle is mentioned in the will of his sister Margaret (Mawle) Baker of Nayland, December 24, 1589. H. F. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings, II. 1158.

6.

The will of John Payne of Stoke by Nayland, gent., dated September I, 1597, is in Sudbury Archdeaconry, Wills, bk. 39, fo. 373.

7.

Joane (Browne) Hilles, wife of William Hilles, whose death was recorded five weeks earlier. Her daughter Jane married Adam Winthrop, who removed to Bandon in Ireland. Muskett, 25, 102.

8.

Brantham is a parish in the hundred of Samford, co. Suffolk, and Thetford lies partly in the hundred of Lackford, co. Suffolk, but chiefly in the hundred of Shropham, co. Norfolk.

9.

By William Lambarde, first published in 1576, the earliest county history known.

10.

John Rastell’s The Exposicions of the Termes of the Lawes of England, a translation made and edited by his son, William Rastell, of the Latin issue of 1527. Editions appeared in 1567, 1579, 1602, and later. B. M., Catalogue of Printed Books, LXXXI, 2, pp. 37–38.

11.

Hygieina, id est De Sanitate tuenda (1581), by Timothy Bright (1551?–1615), better known as the inventor of modern shorthand. D. N. B. , VI. 337–339.

12.

J. Herold’s Latin edition of Petrarch’s Opera Omnia, in four volumes, published at Basel in 1554 and reissued in 1581.

13.

By John Jewel (1522–71), bishop of Salisbury, published in 1567. D. N. B. , XXIX. 380.

14.

The Auncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, wrytten in the Greek tongue by ... Eusebius, Socrates, and Evagrius. Translated by M. Hanmer. London, 1576–77, 2 parts; 2d ed., 1585.

15.

Cf. p. 41, supra, notes 4 5 and 5 6 .