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Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1

John Winthrop’s Experiencia, 1618

1618

Release, 1617

17 February 1617
Bretnor’s1 Almanack for 16172
Winthrop, Adam (1548-1623)

January 1. Auice Brond was borne.

8. Mathy Stockin died and T. G. kelle was burnt.

12. This day John Winthrop the elder is 29 yeares olde.

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16. John Laughlins kelle was burned.

31. Thomas Rudlonde died.

February 5. Samuel Fones was borne.3

6. John Bronds kelle was burnt.

10. Jane Goslin was borne. Mr. Sands preched in Groton.4

12. This day John Winthrop the yonger is II. yeares olde.

14. Henry Pease was borne.5

20. my sons first fit of his ague.

22. The widow Cannon and hir childe came to us.

25. Sowmans 2 wife died.

March 2. Kingesburyes wife died.

4. Brand brak his leg at footebal.

5. Mother Clyffe died.

9. Mr. Sands preched at the Comunion.

16. Steuen Goslin was borne. Mr. B. of Shelley preached.

27. 1617. Anne the wife of Philip Goslin died in childbed.6 Mr. Sands preached at her Burial.

April 9. Anne Pod 7 went away. Also Thomas Chamber wente to London to be an apprentice.

13. John Cooke died.8

16. Mr. Goslin tooke his iourny to Bathe.

19. mother Reignolds died.9

22. Thomas Doget was maried to Mar. Clopton.10 Mr. Butler preached.

23. Thomas Greis11 wife died.

27. mother Stranger died.

30. Mris. Payne12 of Charesfielde13 died.

May. A dry May.

1. Bartholomew Willyson was hurt14 with a bul, and Stephen Goslin with a horse.

3. my daughter Fones and hir children come from London to Groton.

5. James Death died.

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8. I was powled.

Sir Francis Bacon Lord Keeper came to Westminster hall with a great company of noblemen, and others, to take his place in the Chancery.15

14. Serjant Hutton was sworne one of the Justices of the common plees.16

The 12 of May Ezechiel Bonde went to dwel with John Jarrolde.

June. A wette June.

4. A court was kept at Groton hall in the after noone.

7. sente the widow Canon 5 s.

10. Mr. Sands was maried at Brettenham.17 Mr. Munnynge preached.18

18. John Jannynge died.

19. This day K. James 15 . 51 yeares old.19

22. Mr. Sandes preached in Groton

26. rayne, thunder, lightninge.

July 15. my son Fones came to Groton.

24. John Dixons wife died.

25. Steuen Plomb was baptised. Mr. Sands preached.

27. Mr. Morgan preached at Boxford.

29. K. James began his reigne in Scotlande. 50 yeares since.20

August. A faire haruest.

5. I dined at Mr. Sands.

9. Mr. W. Clopton21 died 1616.

10. This day I Adam Winthrop am 69 years olde.

12. Mris. Bronde thelder died 64. years.

25. My son Fones his wife and children departed. Thunder and raine.

September. Wynedye, and raynie.

1. John Plombe being sicke, made his testament.

5. I dined at Mr. Sands.

9. Philip Gostlin maried the widow Blomfielde.

11. Mr. Egerton and Mr. Knewstub pernoctabant nobiscum.

13. my nephew Thomas Alibaster came to vs.

17. my son rid first to maplested.22

19. my cosins Mayer, and William Firmin were hiere.

October 4. Hall the phisition died.

18. Judith Spenser died at Colchester. 22 years olde.

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22. Susan Dogget23 was maried at Groton to Mr. Richard Norwige.

27. my son rode to London.

29. My cosin Munninges eldest daughter,24 was maried to George Salter.

November 5. The powder treason. 1605.

6. Prince Henry died. 1612.

18. Sir Henry Mildmay and his lady came to Groton. my cosin Munninge.

22. my son returned from London.

25. I was powled.

December 12. Mr. Richard Bromel died.

13. Mris. Judith Gurdon25 died at Sir Henry Mildmays in Essex.

21. Mother Surrey died.

22. Mr. Sands preached.

24 Kings and Queenes of Englande since the Conquest; 551 yeeres from 1066.vnto 1617.

Mr. Perkins wrote a treatise against Prognostickators which is printed in the thirde volume of his workes.26

Tradidi me famae, ne prorsus invtilis olim vixisse videar; dicere vere potest.—Bretnor.

On the preliminary leaf are the following entries, of which the first, at least, is not in the writing of Adam Winthrop:

1616. February 9th. Concerning Iron torn to send word from Bury to one Theophilus Stockwood of Lewes in Sussex, and to direct letters to him by Mr. Thomas Evelin of the bell sauage.

Memorandum to wright to Sir Henry Mildemay by the goodman Warde torn that my cosin Hammonde who maried the widow Brond came to Groton to talk with me about hir buysines 6 April 1618.

My nephew Thomas Alibaster departed from Groton to dwell in Assington Wensday the xijth of Aprill 1618.

That on fryday the 24th of Aprill 1618 my sonnes 3 wife27 came first to groton. She was maried to him the 29th day of the same moneth at greate Maplested in Essex. Anno 1618.

Sapiens dominabitur astris. Adam Winthrop.

1.

Thomas Bretnor, a notorious character in London, described himself as “professour of the Mathematicks and Student in Physicke in Cowlane, London.” He compiled prognostications from 1607 to 1618. D. N. B. , VI. 275.

2.

This copy was given to the Massachusetts Historical Society by the heirs of William Winthrop, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 26, 1826. The entries are by Adam Winthrop. Printed in part, L. and L. , I. 436–437.

3.

Son of Thomas and Anne (Winthrop) Fones.

4.

Sunday fell on the ninth.

5.

The father, Henry Pease, came into Adam Winthrop’s service in October, 1605. Supra, pp. 91, 124, 188.

6.

First wife of Philip Gostlin the younger (1586–1630). Muskett, 95.

7.

Doubtless the same as the “stubborne wenche” of p. 187, supra.

8.

Of Groton. Will, Sudbury Archdeaconry, bk. 46, fo. 223.

9.

Perhaps mother of Alice Reignold.

10.

Margery (b. 1590), daughter of William Clopton of Groton, and Margery, daughter of Edward Waldegrave of Lawford, co. Essex. Muskett, 144.

11.

Grey.

12.

Thomas Payne of Charsfield married, August 17, 1608, Elizabeth Alston of Groton, widow. Supra, p. 99.

13.

Charsfield is a parish in the hundred of Loes, co. Suffolk.

14.

Of Groton, a thatcher. Supra, p. 59; Groton Register.

15.

Bacon was appointed Lord Keeper March 7, 1617, in succession to Thomas Egerton, Baron Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley, though the latter did not die until March 15, 1617.D. N. B. , II. 344.

16.

Sir Richard Hutton (1561?–1639) was made a serjeant-at-law in 1603. Hutton was created a puisne judge of the common bench May 3, 1617. D. N. B. , XXVIII. 359.

17.

To a sister of Thomas and Frances Arkisden. Supra, p. 141. His previous wife diedin August, 1616. Groton Register.

18.

Henry Sands and Humphrey Munninge exchanged pulpits.

19.

That is, the fifteenth year of his reign—a play upon the figures, made more ingenious by the fact that 15+51=66 and James was born in 1566.

20.

On July 24, 1567, by his mother’s enforced abdication. D. N. B. , XXLX. 161.

21.

Son of Richard and Margery (Plater) Clopton. Muskett, 144.

22.

The home of Margaret Tyndal.

23.

Daughter of William and Avis Doggett, baptized January 15, 1595–96. Boxford Register.

24.

Elizabeth, daughter of Humphrey and Elizabeth (Winthrop) Munning. Muskett, 107.

25.

Daughter of Brampton and Elizabeth (Barrett) Gurdon. She was in her twenty-third year. Muskett, 287.

26.

William Perkins (1558–1602). The reference is to his A Resolution to the Country-man, prouing it vtterly unlawfull to buie or use our yearely Prognostications. D. N. B. , XLV. 8.

27.

Margaret Tyndal.