Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1
1628-10-06
I hav sent up 200 li. to be paid into the court of wardes which is for the half yeeres rent of the leass as also for the paiment now this half yeer for the wardship of the bodie if ther be any other paiment I will see it descharged at my comming to London which wilbe about the 18 of october, I pray yor directions to this bearer where and when to pay it, Thus ceasing further troubling you at this present with my harty salutacion vnto you I comend you to the almyghty and rest Your feithful frend
Son of Sir Thomas Corbet of Sprowston, co. Norfolk, and Anne, daughter of Edward Barrett, of Belhouse, co. Essex. He was admitted to Lincoln’s Inn, October 19, 1615, became recorder of Great Yarmouth and sat in the Parliaments of 1628 and 1640. He held many appointments in the Civil War and under the Protector, fled to Holland on the Restoration, but was taken by Sir George Downing and sent to England, where he was executed as a regicide, April 19, 1662.
D. N. B.
, XII. 202–203; Records of Lincoln’s Inn, I. 171.
W. 2. 184; 4
Collections
, VI. 576.
At a Parliament of the Inner Temple, held on June 29, 1628, special admissions were granted to “Emmanuel Downyng, one of the attorneys of the Court of Wards; and . . . John Wynthrope, also an attorney of the Court of Wards.” Calendar of Inner Temple Records, II. 169. Special admissions “in the sixteenth century, gave the recipient certain privileges, and exemption from serving the offices and giving the attendances ordinarily enjoined by the orders of the House, but later, they only gave exemption from serving the Vacations while a student.” Ibid., 373. It is to be observed that Winthrop secured admission to the Inner Temple immediately upon learning of his wife’s decision (supra, p. 401) not to remove to London before the following spring. The cancelling of the bargain for a house (supra, p. 403) falls within the same sequence.