xiij° die Januarii Anno Regni Regine Elizabethe etc. xlv.

Received of Adam Winthropp of Groton in the County of Suffolk gent. five severall peeces of Evidences concerninge a messuage and landes lyeng in Semer Whatfild and Naughton1 which Henry Browne my Father-in-lawe did give to Margery my Wyfe in his last will and testament

per me Rogerum Weston

Memorandum that the xxjth of December Anno 1604 Judithe Ponde delivered vnto me eight powndes of lawfull inglishe mony to keepe for her vse viij li. and xx s. paid

per me Adamum Winthrop 107

Memorandum that I am bownde in an obligacion of xl li. to Wm. Alston thelder with William Ponde for the payement of xxij li. the xxjth of December Anno 1605 at his house Called Seymhall in Newton and William Ponde and Joseph Cole are bownd to me in C markes to save me harmeles of the former bonde. paid

Also I stand bownde with J. K. to Tho. Alston of Newton in iiij score li. for the payement of xlij li. the xjth of November dated the xjth of Maye 1605 for the discharge whereof I haue a bond of a C li. of the Wydow Kedby. paid and discharged.

I stand bownd vnto him to pay him xlij li. 27 Junii 1607. paid

A note of the seuerall sommes of mony which I paide to James Elwell for my brother John since he went into Irelande.

Imprimis I paide vnto him the last day of February Anno Elizabethe Regine Anglie xlv°. iiij score and xv li.

Item I paide vnto him the xxxth of January Anno primo Jacobi Regis etc. xlvj li.

Item I paid vnto him the xxixth of Maye Anno secundo eiusdem Regis etc xl li.

by me Gemese Elwelle xxvjto die Julii Anno Regni Regis Jacobi etc. secundo.

Received of Adam Wynthrop in part of payement of his Rent for the land which he occupieth of myne lyenge in Groton Twenty shillinges xx s.

bye me John Coo.

Memorandum that Mr. Thomas Nicholson toulde me that Mr. Greenwood2 his wives father was first parson of Polsted and afterwardes of blank Cornarde but he was not lawfully qualified for that he was not the first or seconde Chaplaine to the Lorde St. John of Bletsoe3 under whose name he obtayned a dispensation or facultie. ad Polsted fuit in lapsu.

Also Mr. Boice4 was first parson of Nueton and afterwardes of Thorpe Chaplaine to the Lord of Darcy of Chiche5 but not lawfully qualified.

Also Mr. Howlett6 was parson of Groton and afterwards of Chelmesford. 43

1.

All in the hundred of Cosford, co. Suffolk.

2.

John Greenwood, rector of Polstead, was deprived in the time of Queen Mary, 1554, but reinstated in the time of Elizabeth, and was afterwards rector of Cornard Parva. His will, proved at Bury St. Edmunds, June 27, 1571 (Sudbury Archdeaconry, bk. 31, fo. 140), mentions wife, Jone, and children, John, Elizabeth, Justine, and John. Justine married Thomas Nicholson. She was buried at Edwardstone, September 25, 1592.

3.

Sir John St. John, son of Sir Oliver and Agnes (Fisher) St. John, married Catherine Dormer. Visitations of Bedfordshire (H. S., Pub. , XIX), 54. Bletsoe is a parish in the hundred of Willey, county of Bedford. Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751), was of this family.

4.

Henry Boyes, Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1558; rector of Newton All Saints, Sudbury, 1561; of Thorpe Morieux, 1571. Venn, A. C. , I. 195.

5.

Thomas, Lord Darcy of St. Osyth Chich, a parish in the hundred of Tendring, co. Essex. Visitations of Essex, I (H. S., Pub. , XIII), 277.

6.

Thomas Howlett, rector of Groton, 1568–83.