A festo Circumsitionis Domini nostri Jesu Christi Anno 1600, et Elizabethe Regine xliijcio.

Imprimis the iiijth of January Mr. Paul Powle was arrested at my brothers suite.

The next day in the mornynge Mres. Samsone1 was deliuered of her first sonne John.

The ixth Day my wife was Deliuered of her fowrth daughter, Lucilla,2 and my brother sickened.

The xvth William Hilles3 was maried to Elizabeth Gibson.

The xxth my daughter was Christened.

The xxjth I sent hoppes to Cambridge.

The same day Luce went home to her Nurse.

The 24th Edmund Gardiner the gelder died.

The 27 day of January Mr. Paul Powle did enter into the peece of grownde which my brother had from Parson.

The 25 of Feb. the Erle of Essex was behedded within the Tower.

The viij day of Marche my Cosyn Dr. John Duke and his wife Anna Snellinge Dyned with me.

The xixth Day of Marche my Nephewe Josua Winthrop 4 came to Groton and departed the next daye.

The 23 of Marche my Nephew Walter Mildmay5 came to me.

The 28 day my browne cowe calved.

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The viijth of Aprill my brother was arrested by Paul Powle.

The same day I bought iij milche beastes and ij calves of Thomas Kingesbury.

The xxth I began to sowe Magottescrofte with barley, and the thirde of August I reaped it.

The xxijth my brother John Winthrop did ride towardes London.

The last of Aprill beinge thursday, my cosen Adam Winthrops wife was deliuered of her first sonne Adam, to whom I was godfather.6

The xviijth of May Thomas Mildmay7 my cosen William Mildmays eldest sonne came to Groton.

The xxth he went to the free schole at Boxford.

The last of May beinge Whitsonday, Richarde Bronde the eldest sonne of John Bronde of Boxforde, Clothier, died. De merore animi ob patris sui iram.

The vth of June Mr. Powle did shewe me an Infamous libel written in Ryming verses, made as I suppose of P. G.

The xijth of July I went to Holton. The same day I dyned at Mr. Manockes of Gyffordes hall.8

The 14 of July my cosyn William Alibaster was removed out of the Tower into Framingham Castle.9

The xviijth of July my brother retorned home.

The xxvijth of July Augustine Podde10 being about iiij score and vj yeres olde Died 10 daies after he came out of Bury Gaile, and the first day of Sept. next his wife died.

The xxviijth of July there was made a Rate by me and Diuers of the townemen of Groton, for the Reparacions of the church, and we viewed the Decay of the leades.

The first of August my cosen Adam Winthrop and my cosen Sara Frost11 his sister came from London to Groton.

The 3 of Aug. my cosen Adam Winthrop and I did ride to Holton, and viewed the pewter which was given to his wife and her sister. The same day my brother John Winthrop did ryde towards London.

The v. I sent my Auditt Accoumpt to Ipswich to Thomas Laster to be ingrossed by him in parchment.12

The vjth Day of Aug. Robert Surrey13 did marry Mary Pearce.

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The viijth day my ij neeces14 being sisters the daughters of my brother William Winthrop did ride from Groton towards London. The one had not seene the other xxj yeres before.

The 17 day of August Anne Page, that was my servant iij yeres, died at her mothers in Groton.

The xxjth day Sara Cely was maried to Roberte Humfrey15 at Higham Churche, without a license per hominem ignotum. 24

1.

Bridget Clopton, daughter of William and Margery (Waldegrave) Clopton of Groton, married John Sampson of Sampson’s Hall in Kersey, near Hadleigh. She was a sister of Thomasine Clopton, who married John Winthrop, later governor of Massachusetts. Muskett, 144.

2.

Lucy (1600–79), who married Emmanuel Downing. See Letters of Mrs. Lucy Downing (Boston, 1871), reprinted from M. H. S., 5 Coll. , I.

3.

William Hilles, son of William and Joane (Browne) Hilles. Muskett, 102.

4.

Joshua (1559–1626), son of William, half-brother of the diarist. He removed to the parish of Kilbrogan, Bandon, co. Cork, Ireland. He married Anne, daughter of Vincent Norrington of London, mercer, at Allhallows, Honey Lane, London, February 6, 1587–88, when he was entered as “of Michell in the Quearne, groser.” Muskett, 25; Registers of St. Mary le Bowe, All Hallows, and St. Pancras (H. S., Reg. , XLIV), 420.

5.

Walter Mildmay of Baddow, son of Sir Thomas Mildmay of Barnes, married Bridget, daughter of Ambrose Jermyn of Rushbrook, co. Suffolk, Muskett, 47. Rushbrook is in the hundred of Thedwastry.

6.

Son of Adam and Jane (Hilles) Winthrop, who probably died young. Muskett, 25.

7.

Sir Thomas Mildmay of Barnes (born 1592). Muskett, 47.

8.

William Mannock (1556–1616), of Giffard Hall, Stoke by Nayland, was eldest son of Francis Mannock (1522–90) by his first wife. P. C. C., 86 Sainberbe.

9.

He was sent to the Tower for publishing a controversial tract. D. N. B. , I. 212. Framlingham is in the hundred of Loes, co. Suffolk. The castle was of great antiquity and the site was purchased from the Howard family by Sir Robert Hitcham (1572?–1636), who bequeathed it to Pembroke College, Cambridge. H. R. Barker, East Suffolk (Bury St. Edmunds, 1908–09), 188.

10.

Of Groton. His wife’s name was Lettice.

11.

Sarah (1571–1603), daughter of William and Elizabeth (Norwood) Winthrop, married John Frost of Bury St. Edmunds, February 16, 1595. Muskett, 25.

12.

The entries in the diary show that Adam Winthrop was auditor of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1593 to 1610, and of St. John’s College also during at least a part of that time. Cf. L. and L. , I. 32–33.

13.

Robert Surrey (b. 1575), son of Henry Surrey (d. 1625) of Groton, carpenter, and Christian, his wife. Robert’s wife, Mary Pearce, died April 13, 1603 (infra, p. 79), and he married Thomasine Hubbard, July 25, 1603.

14.

Elizabeth Munning (1569–1631) and Sarah Frost. As their mother died in 1578 and their father in 1582, they had lived in different homes. Muskett, 25.

15.

Probably of Long Melford, a parish in the hundred of Babergh, co. Suffolk. Higham is a parish in the incorporation and hundred of Samford, co. Suffolk. Sarah Cely was a niece of the diarist. Muskett, 25, 63.