Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1
1628-08
my husband beinge att nellms, I must answere for vs bothe: for the bookes I hope ere this you haue receiued them by your man as I take it they were sent by him but afterwards wee heard he went not down with the caryer: but resolued to goe the mundaye affter: heer is nowe littell newes the kinge is gone to portsmouth and they saye there is moste sumtious robes gone for his coronation in Scotland: you haue heard ere this I thinke Wheston is tresurer and sir edward barret chanceller of the exchekour, my lord of dorcet chamberlaine to the queen and my lord goeringe vice cha: and ther is a new master of the sincports and another of the hors: but I forget ther names:3 this fleet they saye will not be readye of thre weekes yet: and nowe my dear brother what shall I saye for this vnvalluable jewell your so louinge a letter and that large loue that moued you to it. I have slipt my apointed time with goodman kedbye 405therfore least you should not hear of vs att all I must be breef yet as thankfull as all the words in the world can exspres and as hartilie sory that I can neuer deserue it: yet I knowe there is affection enough in the author to aprehend what I cannot expres by words or acsions the lord in mercy continwe your wellfares: as I prays him we are att this present I pray remember my duty and loves so pardon me I rest your truly louinge sister
the cheeses must tary till I come to groton
Lucy, the youngest sister of John Winthrop, born January 9, 1600–01, married, April 10, 1622, Emmanuel Downing (1585–c. 1660), son of George Downing of Ipswich. She came to New England in 1638 and settled at Salem; but she and her husband returned to Scotland, where he held an office under Cromwell and died. She went to England and lived to a very advanced age. Cf. 5
Collections
, I, preface. Her letters, 1628 to 1674, are gathered in the same volume, pages 3 to 63.
W. Au. 30; 5
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, I. 3–4.
“We have made such a prorogation of our Parliament that we are not like to see another in haste; that we may subsist in the meantime, we are trading for a peace. … A proclamation is gone out, under which as many as will may compound for their estates. All other things suitable. [Richard] Lord Weston is Treasurer; . . . Who shall be Chancellor of the Exchequer, not known; Sir William Parsons, of Ireland, or Lord Barrett. The Duke [of Buckingham] has given up the Wardenship of the Cinque Ports to [Theophilus Howard, Earl of] Lord Suffolk. [Edward Sackville] Lord Dorset is our Lord Chamberlain, Lord [George] Goring, Master of the Queen’s Horse. . . . Who shall be the [Queen’s] Vice Chamberlain is not known. . . . On Monday next the King goes to Portsmouth. . . . Parliament and Coronation in Scotland appointed about September 20.” Sir Robert Aiton to James, Earl of Carlisle, Ambassador in Savoy, July 18, 1628. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1628–1629, 218.