1603. January 9. Lucye my 4 daughter was borne 1600.

12. my sonne John was borne. 1587.

16. my daughter Anna was borne. 1585.

20. my brother John Winthrop was borne 1546.

February 12. John Winthrop the youngest was borne. 1605.

19. Henry prince of Wales was borne. 1594.

20. I was maryed to Anne my 2 wife. 1579.

25. Anna my daughter was maried to Thomas Fones. anno 1604.

25. Robert Erle of Essex was behedded. 1600.

28. Being tuesday Dr. Whightgifte Archb. of Canterbury died at Lambhith. 1603. Jacobi regis primo.

March 1. William Wynthrop my brother died 1581. Eliz. 23. 22 y. since.

1603 –04. March 15. Kinge James Q. Anne2 and Henry the prince of Wales3 rode through the Cytty of London from the Tower to Whighthall.

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19. The Parleament began at Westminster where the King made an Eloquent Oration to the Lordes, and Commons.4

1602–03.] March 24. Q. Elizabeth died at Richmonde, and K. James was proclaymed at London, anno 1602.5 The same day Sir Rob. Cary tooke his journey in post towardes Scotlande; and within three daies he came to Edenburrough, and certified the Kinge therof, being welneere 300 myles.6

1603. March 26. The King was proclaymed in Barwicke.7

28. The Towne was surrendered to the Kinges vse.

April 6. K. James did enter Berwicke, and tooke possession therof.

7. Mr. Rowleigh died at Cambridge. 1624.

8. His Majesty did depart from Barwicke, and entered the realme of Englande.

April 10. his Majesty camme to Nuecastel, before whom the Bishop of Durham 8 preached.

13. He came to Durham: and was entertayned by the Byshop.

15. Anne the wife of the B. of Bathe died.9 1593.

16. Elizabeth Hilles came to dwel with me. 1604.

16. His Majesty camme to the Cyttye of Yorke.

17. he went on foote from his Lodging to the Minster to heare a Sermon which the Byshop of Lymrick10 preached.

17. my soonne was maried to Mary Forthe 1605.

25. As he rode backe from Burleigh to Sir I. Harrington 11 His Majestyes horse fel with him, and very dangerously bruysed his arme.

27. His Majesty dyned at Sir Anthony Mildemayes.12

May 3. Being Tuesday his Majesty camme to Theobaldes Sir Robert Cicills house: wher met him the Lord Keeper,13 the Lord Treasurer,14 the Lord Admyral15 and most of the Nobility.

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7. Being Satterday his Majesty removed from Theobalds towardes London.

11. Being Wednesday his Majesty went from the Charterhouse to the Tower of London.

13. being fryday he created within the Tower Sir Robert Cicil16 Sir Robert Sydney17 Sir William Knowles18 and Sir John Wootten19 Barons. The 14 nue Serjantes tooke their othe at Westminster, this Terme: and kept the feast in the nue Hal of the middle Temple.

13. my owne mother died. 1565. Eliz. 7.

31. Sir Wa: Mildmay died. 1589.

1605. June 13. my brother John and I. sealed 2 obligacions to Edw. Alston.

1604. July. The Parleament was proroged.

12. Th’assises were at Nuemarket. 1604.

1605. July 18. Mr. Rob. Welche died at Waldingfield.

1603. July 25. Kinge James and Q. Anne his wife, were Crowned at Westminster.

29. He was crowned K. of Scottes. 1567.

August 8. Sir George Harvy20 Lieutenant of the Tower died. 1605. aet. 72.

9. my Sister Susan died in Coventry. 1604.

10. Beinge fryday I Adam Winthrop was borne. 1548. 55. yeres since.

September 4. Robert Dudley Erle of Leicester died.21 1588. at Cornbury in Oxfordshire. Eliz. 30.

10. Ostende was deliuered by Composition vnto the Duke of Burgoigne. 1604.22

The 3 of Octobre 1605. Sir Edwarde Lewkenor of Denham in Suffolk Knight23 died of the smalpocks. Vir bonus et doctus fuit et patriae amans. The lady his wife died 2 dayes before him.

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October 17. Sir Philip Sydney died. 1586.

31. George Erle of Comberlonde24 died. 1605.

November 9. Adam Winthrop my father died. 1562. Eliz. 4. 41 yeres synce.

December 1. my nephew Thomas Mildmay died. 1602.

4. Dr. Whytaker25 died at Cambridge. 1595.

12. John Hanham died. 1599.

16. I was maryed to Alice my first wife. 1574.

17. my mother in lawe Agnes Browne dyed. 1590.

27. Alice my wife died in Childbed. 1577.

1.

In a border of wood-cuts: Ponde. 1603. | A new Almanacke | and Prognostication for the | yeare of the Natiuitie of our Lord | and Sauiour Iesus Christ. | M.DC.III. Being the third after leape yeare. | Calculated and rectified for the | Latitude and Meridian of the ho- | norable Citie of London, and may | very well serue for all England: | Containing diuers and sundry true | and profitable additions, and com- | pendious rules: more than euer here- | tofore hath been set forth by any, as | the contents following more plain- | lye doth expresse: Collected accor- | ding to Arte. | By Edward Ponde, practicioner | in the Mathematickes. | Imprinted at London by the | assignes of James Roberts. On Edward Pond, see D. N. B. , XLVI. 76.

The entries are by Adam Winthrop, in a copy now the property of Miss Clara B. Winthrop and containing the inscription: “For Hon. R. C. Winthrop with the sincere regards of Geo. Livermore Aug. 7th 1855.” Printed in part, L. and L. , I. 433–434.

2.

Anne of Denmark (1574–1619), daughter of Frederick II of Denmark and Norway and Sophia, daughter of Ulric III, duke of Mecklenburg. She could not set out for London when the King did and started on June 2, 1603, reaching Windsor July 2, where the two were crowned July 24. The entry through the city of London was postponed to March 15, 1604, when Dekker planned the ceremony. D. N. B. , I. 431–435.

3.

Henry Frederick (1594–1612) was not created Prince of Wales until May, 1610. His presence on the progress was due to the Queen’s insistence. D. N. B. , XXVI. 106–107.

4.

The parliament was not favorable to the King, but was not dissolved until February 9, 1610–11. The return of knights from Suffolk, lacking in the Public Record Office, has been preserved in Adam Winthrop’s Diary. Parliamentary Papers, 1878, LXII, pt. 1, 442, 446; supra, p. 84.

5.

That is, 1603, the 24th of March being the last day of the year 1602 O. S.

6.

His zeal gained him only the displeasure of the Council, who described his conduct as “contrary to such commandments as we had power to lay upon him, and to all decency, good manners, and respect.” After serving as master of the robes and chamberlain of Prince Charles, he became in 1626 Earl of Monmouth. Born about 1560, he died in 1639.

7.

Berwick-on-Tweed, taken from Scotland, still preserved a peculiar status. Blackstone, Commentaries, 4th ed. (1770), I. 98–99.

8.

Tobie Matthew (1546–1628), archbishop of York from 1606. D. N. B. , XXXVII. 60–63.

9.

See supra, p. 46, note 6 note 47 .

10.

John Thornborough (1551–1641), later bishop successively of Bristol and of Worcester. D. N. B. , LVI. 286–287.

11.

Sir John Harington (d. 1613), made first Baron Harington of Exton, July 21, 1603, entertained King James at Burley-on-the-Hill, co. Rutland. D. N. B. , XXIV. 388.

12.

Apethorpe, co. Northampton, granted to his father, Sir Walter Mildmay (1520?–89), in 1552. Sir Anthony died in 1617. D. N. B. , XXXVII. 374–376.

13.

Sir Thomas Egerton (1540?–1617). Ibid., XVII. 161–163.

14.

Thomas Sackville (1536–1608), later Earl of Dorset. Ibid., L. 96–100.

15.

Charles Howard (1536–1624), Lord Howard of Effingham and Earl of Nottingham. Ibid., XXVIII. 1–6.

16.

Baron Cecil of Essingden (1563?–1612), later Earl of Salisbury. Ibid., IX. 400–404.

17.

Robert Sidney (1563–1626), Baron Sidney of Penshurst, later Viscount Lisle and first Earl of Leicester. Ibid., LII. 236–237.

18.

William Knollys (1547–1632), Baron Knollys of Rotherfield Greys, later Earl of Banbury. Ibid., XXXI. 286–287.

19.

Sir Edward Wotton (1548–1626), Baron Wotton of Marley, eldest son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Rudston) Wotton. Ibid., LXIII. 49–51.

20.

He was a member of the first Parliament under James I (1604) from West Looe, Cornwall. Ibid., LVIII. 403; Parliamentary Papers, 1878, LXII, pt. 1, 442.

21.

Infra, p. 177.

22.

Ostend was taken by the famous Marquis Ambrogio di Spinola (1570?–1630), commanding for the sovereigns of the Spanish Netherlands, Albert (1559–1621), Archduke of Austria and Duke of Burgundy, and his wife Isabella Clara Eugenia (1566–1633), daughter of Philip II of Spain. The great siege, which held the eyes of Europe for three years and cost a hundred thousand lives, is fittingly described in Motley’s History of the United Netherlands.

23.

B.A., Cambridge, 1560–61; member of Parliament for Tamworth, co. Stafford, 1571; for New Shoreham, co. Sussex, 1572; for Maldon, co. Essex, 1584, 1586, 1592–93; for Newport, co. Cornwall, 1597; finally for Maldon, 1603–04; knighted, 1603; married Susan, daughter of Thomas Heigham of Heigham Hall, co. Suffolk; died at Denham Hall, co. Suffolk. Venn, A. C. , III. 82; C. H. Cooper and T. Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses, II. 411–412; Parliamentary Papers, 1878, LXII. pt. 1, 411, 414, 418, 428, 432, 443. Cf. Threnodia in Obitum D. Edovardi Lewkenor, Equitis, et D. Susannae Conjugis charissimae. Funerall Verses upon the death of the right Worshipfull Sir Edward Lewkenor, Knight, and Madame Susan his Lady. With Deaths Apologie, and a Rejoinder to the same. London, 1606. Cooper gives the date of his death as October 4, Venn as September 19.

24.

George Clifford (1558–1605), third Earl of Cumberland. He died at London.

25.

William Whitaker (1548–95), the celebrated divine. D. N. B. , LXI. 21–23.