Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1
1608-05-29
The 23 of Feb: beinge sunday my soonnes first soonne was baptized and named John.
The last day of Feb. the Dovehouse was raysed.
The seconde of march being sunday about vij of the Clocke in the evenyng the godewyfe Dogett1 died.
The vjth of marche being thursday Henry Vintener thelder died of thage of lxx yeres.
The xvth day of March ther were great stormes of wynde which did much hurt to howses.
92The same day Thomas Humfreys howse was burnt downe at Melfourde.
The xvth day of Aprill I kept a Court for my brother
The xixth of Aprill 1606 my sister tie younge pigeons to store my Dovehouse.
The xxiijth of Aprill Mris. Clopton sent me
The xxijth my Cosen
The xxviijth I kept a Court at Groton hall.
The iijd of Maye I putt xlv younge pigeons into my nue Dovehouse.
The vth of Maye my wife did ride towardes London and retorned the vth of June.
The vjth of Maye I was at a Court in Hadleigh and did fealty for a Tenement and certaine landes.
The viijth of Maye William Gale of Hadleigh died.
The xiiijth of May I sold l trees to Mr.
The 26 my soonne
The 27 Mris. Alston and her sister Mary dined with me.
The 29 Nath
The first of June my dunne Cowe calved and the Calf fell into the great ponde the next daye in the mornynge.
The iiijth of June I distreigned iiij horses for Rent due by Henry Vintener and he made Resceus.
The xth of June John Dixon thelder died in Groton.
The xiijth of June I paide to Edward Alston 120 li.
The xjth of June Mr. John Forth came to Groton.
The 26 of June I paid to Mr. Edli. which I borrowed of him.
On sunday the
The 29 I kept a Court at Shimplinge.
The viijth of July Mr. Brampton Gurdon was maried to his seconde wife.6
The 25 of July my soonne
The 28 we did ride to Ipswich.
The xiijth of August my soonne
The 28 of August Mr. Arminger7 had a fall of his horse and brake his legge.
93The first of Sept. I did give an estate to my soonne in the house and lande called Wrightes in the Fenne.
The thirde of sept. we did ride with Mr.
The ixth of Sept. my Cosen
The same day the great Appletree next the killehouse was fyred for to distroy a hornettes nest.
The xiiijth of september Mr.
The xviijth Mris. Alston and hir sister8 dined with me.
The xixth day John Still9 came to my house.
The xxiiijth day of sept. I did ride to Stambrige and retourned the xxixth.
The thirtieth of sept. Beniamin Bronde was maryed at Ipswich to
The vijth of September the nue howse at Castleynes Hethe was sett vp by
And the 29th of Maye 1608 my brother sealed a lease thereof to Robert Surrey for xlj yeres.
Dorothy Doggett, buried March 14, 1604–05.
A parish in the hundred of Babergh, co. Suffolk.
Nathaniel Milbourne and Phebe Deathe. She was daughter of James and Bridget Deathe and was baptized March 22, 1583–84. The Groton Register gives May 9 as the date of this marriage.
June 24.
Anne of Denmark (1574–1619), queen consort, had a daughter Sophia, who lived for one day and was buried, June 26, 1606, in Westminster Abbey. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1603–1610, 322; John Stow, Abridgement of the English Chronicle, with continuation by Edmond Howes (London, 1607), 590–591.
Muriel Sedley. Muskett, 287.
The name is spelled Armiger infra, p. 94.
The sister was Mrs. Armiger. Infra, p. 94.
Son of Bishop Still, born in 1588. He married Anna, daughter of Thomas Baynard of Coleborne, co. Wilts. Muskett, 76.