Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1
1623-12-15
I muste not omite to lete you knove that I have resaived your letter, and with all to giue you thancks that you wer so mindfull of me. I pray God of his mersy stile to put of all thinges that may be hinderanse to his triue worshipe; for the other bisinases, they wilbe acseptable (and no doute profitable) to the common welthe but I beleve it is not that which moveth but sum suplye of muny from thes thinges lete me intrete you to siee if 293you coulde plase my Cosin Choppinse sunne with sum ofiser that you knove, or in sum other plase he doth a litell vnderstand the latine tongue and was by his father imployed in keping the hundred cortes and bisinese of that natiure, he shall expeckt nothing for his servise but his dyete only I woulde have him in a way to doe him selfe good (which is not with living with me) Thus am I boulde with you as with a frind that shall at all times find me redy to performe anye thinge that lyeth in the pover of Your trive frend
I pray make haste home for we miss you
Sir Robert Crane, of Chilton, co. Suffolk (c. 1585–1643), was son of Robert Crane (d. 1591) and Bridget, daughter of Sir Thomas Jermyn of Rushbrooke in that county. He was knighted in 1605 and created a baronet May 11, 1627. He served in Parliament for Sudbury and Suffolk and was sheriff of Suffolk in 1631–32. In January, 1607, he married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Hobart, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, who died April, 1624. He married for a second wife Susan, daughter of Sir Giles Alington of Horseheath, co. Cambridge, and Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Cecil, Earl of Exeter. Sir Robert died in London, February 17, 1642–43, and his widow married Isaac Appleton, of Waldingfield Parva, co. Suffolk. She died in 1681. Cokayne, Complete Baronetage, II. 15; cf. p. 99, supra.
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