1608 A festo sancti Michaelis Archangeli Anno supradicto.

The iijth of Octobre my Cosen Nathanaell Still and his brother John were at Groton.

The iiijth Sir Robert Crane1 sent his Coche for me my wyfe and my daughter Winthrop to dine with him at Chilton.

The vjth Mr. Ben: Brond kept Court and leet at Edwardeston.

The xth of octobre my soonne John and his wyfe Mary departed from Groton to dwell at Stambridge in Essex.

The xjth day Robert Waspe died and was buryed.

The xxjth my daughter Jane and Elizabeth Hilles went to Chilton Hall.

The xxijth my soonne Thomas Fones came to Groton and the xxiiijth in the morninge my daughter his wife was deliuered of hir first childe a daughter.2

The same day I kept a Court at Bromeley Hall.

The xxvjth Sir Robert Crane came to my howse.

The last of octobre Mr. John Coe the yonger borowed of me xl s.

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The 1 of November my daughter Fones daughter was Christened Sir Robert Crane and his Lady3 were present and she was witnesse with Mres. Bridget Samson and Mrs. Bronde and my selfe she named the Childe Dorothey.

The vth Mr. Goslin deliuered my estate to Pooley in his house.

The same day Robert Surrey and I reconed and made eeven.

The xijth of November I tooke an estate from Sweetman of Linsey to the vse of Eve his wife in his howse.

The xvjth day Mr. William Clopton Mr. Brampton Gurdon and Dr. John Duke were committed to the Fleete by my Lord Chancellor.

The 24 Mr. William Parsons 4 of Much Bentley5 preached at Boxford.

The last of November Alice Reignold came to dwell with me. the next day I rode towardes Cambridge.

The seconde day of December I did ryde to Cambridge.

The same day my brother Roger Weston the vicar of Wormingford6 in Essex died.

The iiijth of December Barnabe Warde my tenant died.

The xijth of December I retorned home from the Auditt.

The xixth of December my soone Thomas Fones and his wyfe Anne with his little daughter Dorothy departed towardes London 24° filia sua in lecto mortua est inventa.

The last of December I did ryde to Stambridge in Essex and retourned home the xth of January.

A festo sancte nativitatis domini nostri Jesu Christi

The xijth of January Mr. Henry Sandes preached at Boxford.

The xixth Mr. Carewe7 preached at Boxford and I dyned with him at Mr. Brondes and muche snowe fell.

The xxiijth of Jan: I payd William Alston of Newton xlij li. in the presence of Tho: Alston his soonne and William Sharman.

The same day Mr. Henry Sands and Dr. John Duke did ryde to London.

The 26 Mr. John Chaplayne did preach at Boxford.

The 2 of Feb. the Buttes were repayred.

The 4 of Feb. I went to Hadley to see my sister Bridget Alibaster.

the same day John Wynthrop hurt his forhed with a fall.

The vjth of Feb. Dr. Some8 Master of Peterhouse died. and Dr. Plaifere9 died the blank of January.

The 21 of Feb. Harry Pease brought me a lettre from my soonne John.

The last of Feb. John Rawlin senior griffed10 xx heds for me in my nue orchyarde. the wynde blue very colde and Rough out of the West et rigebant omnes.

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The 2 of Marche Mr. Henry Sands preched at Boxford after his retourne from London.

The 3 Mr. William Manocke and his eldest soonne were at my house, the same day Elizabeth Hilles fell sicke at London.

The vth day it snowed and was very colde.

The xjth Sir Henry Mildmay my Nephew came to Groton and the next day being sonday he ryd to Bury.

The xiijth thassises were holden at Bury.

The xiiijth James Ailwardes yongest Daughter was searched by women and fownde with Childe which she confessed and that Francis the Vinteners man was the Father therof.

The xviijth Sir William Waldegrave tooke a general view of diuers townes at Assington for the providing of Armour.

The xxth of March Steven Plombe deliuered an estate by a deede polle11 vnto the Wydow Gardiner and William hir sonne of and in the mesuage and tenement which she had before of their feoffement12 viz. to her for the terme of hir life the remainder to William and his heires.

The same day I sealed a bonde of c li. vnto William Alston for the payement of lij li. x s. the xxijth of September next.

The xxiiijth my sister Elizabeth Winthrop came to my house and I paid hir v li. in the presence of Adam Podde.

The xxvjth I payd the Widowe Beeche13 xx s. in the presence of John Dogett John Brug and John Cole and I deliuered to Philip Goslin the yonger a xx s. to be paid vnto hir the 26 of August 1610.

The xxvth Thomas Booth14 came to dwell in Groton in Hartewells Howse where William Sweetsur did dwell.

The same day I received a lettre from my soonne John Winthrop.

The last day of Marche the commissioners did sett at Bury for the levienge of Aide to make the prince knight.15 39

1.

Robert Ryece dedicated to Sir Robert Crane the manuscript of A Breviary of Suffolk, February 9, 1618–19. Sir Robert gained a baronetcy in 1627 and was high sheriff of Suffolk, 1632. W. S. Appleton, Memorials of the Cranes of Chilton (Cambridge, Mass., 1868), 79–82.

2.

Dorothy, who died December 24 following. Infra, p. 100.

3.

Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Hubbard [or Hobart], Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Dorothy, daughter of Sir Robert Bell, Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Appleton, Cranes of Chilton, 67; D. N. B. , XXVII. 31.

4.

Vicar of Much Bentley, 1603–20, and died June 27, 1625. Venn, A. C. , III. 314.

5.

Great Bentley, a parish in the hundred of Tendring, co. Essex.

6.

A parish in the hundred of Lexden, co. Essex.

7.

Possibly George Carew, rector of Boyton, co. Suffolk, 1609–17. Venn, A. C. , I. 291.

8.

Robert Some (1542–1609). D. N. B. , LIII. 217–218, where the date of his death is given as January 14 and his burial February 10.

9.

Thomas Playfere (1561?–1609). Ibid., XLV. 416. He died February 2, 1608–09.

10.

An obsolete form of graft.

11.

A deed made and executed by one party only; so called because the paper or parchment is ’polled’ or cut even, not indented. N. E. D.

12.

Livery of seisin, which invested a person with a freehold estate, was not at common law always evidenced by a deed.

13.

Susan Vintener, widow of Henry Beache.

14.

Son of Richard and Margaret Booth of Chelsworth. Sudbury Archdeaconry, bk. 42, fo. 99.

15.

The various state papers on levying this aid are calendared in the Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1603–1610, 494–570, passim. Henry Frederick, born February 19, 1594, died November 6, 1612. Of the meeting at Bury Mr. Redstone writes:

“This was a stormy meeting and occasioned differences of opinion between the Commissioners for East and those for West Suffolk. The West Suffolk Commissioners were the first to meet, at Bury St. Edmunds, and determined that juries from the hundreds should only be summoned at the end of their proceedings. Sir Robert Hicham, Knt., strongly opposed the decision, and as he sat also for East Suffolk he carried with him the East Suffolk Commissioners, and adopted the Norfolk procedure of taking a presentment from jurors, hundred by hundred, at the very first. The question was referred to the Earl of Salisbury, but there is no record of his decision.”