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Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1

Receipt, 1613

20 October 1613

Hopton’s Almanack for 1614

1614
Sir Henry Appleton’s Acquittance1
Appleton, Henry

1613-12-14

Decimo Quarto die Decembris Anno Domini 1613.
Memorandum that I, Sir Henry Appleton2 of South Bemflett3in the Countie of Essex Knight and Barronett haue reseyued and had of John Wentrop of Growghton in the County of Suff. gent the some of fifte and seauen poundes and ten shillinges for the fyne for the admittance of his son forth Wentrope to those copy-holde Landes which are holden of that my mannour of Layham in the County of Suff. wherof I reseyued forty nyen poundes and ten shillinges by the handes of Thomas Hawes of Moch Stambridgein the County of Essex yoman and the residew of the saide Mr. Wentrop I say Receyued the daye and yeare aboue written the som of } lvii li. x s.
Henry Appleton.

Indorsed by Gov. Winthrop: “Sir Henry Appletons acquittance forl vij li. x s. for Forthes fine, etc.”

1.

W. 2. 184; M. H. S., 4 Collections , VI. 574.

2.

Sir Henry Appleton [or Apulton] was son of Sir Roger Apulton of Benflete on the Hill, co. Essex, knight and baronet, who died 1614. Sir Roger married Ann, daughter of Sir Thomas Mildmay of Moulsham, co. Essex, and on his death she married John Pascall of Baddow, co. Essex. Sir Henry married Joan, daughter of Edward Sheldon of Besley, co. Worcester. Visitations of Essex, I (H. S., Pub. , XIII), 135, and I. A. Jewett, Memorial of Samuel Appleton (Boston, 1850), 53.

3.

South Benfleet, a parish in the hundred of Barstable, co. Essex.