April 1609. The 3 of Aprill my sister Elizabeth Winthrop came to Groton with her Cosen Thomas Springe.1

The same day I had ij lambes fell.

The iiijth day I went to Hadley and the vth to Bury.

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The vjth goodwife Potter the midwife died.

The ixth Elizabeth Hilles retourned from London to Groton.

The xiiijth day my soonne John Winthrop and his wife came to my house from Stambridge in Essex.

The xviijth day I went to Mr. William Manockes, and the same day my Cosen William Firmin came to my house.

The 21 of Aprill I sealed a bonde of xl li. to Mr. Thomas Pretyman for the payement of xxj li. v s. the 22 of July next at Robert Brownes house in Bury.

The xxijth of Aprill I demanded in my hall xxx s. which William Gosnold shoulde haue then paide me for his half yeres rent.

The xxvjth I went with my sonne to deliuer an estate vnto Richard Cooke in Father Hilles ferme.

The 29 of Aprill Nicholas Cokes wife came to her Father Cookes howse with one Mr. Drury the minister of blank.

The first of May my wyfe did ryde with my soonne and his wyfe into Essex to Stambridge. the same day Mr. Thomas Nicholsons soonne2 was to be arrayned at the quarter Sessions in Bury etc.

The iiijth of May Mr. Paul Powle sent me a lettre by Sweetsur who had complayned of me to him. and the vjth he came to my house.

The same day I hearde that my brother John Winthrop was come to London.

The same day I received 22 lambes and ij olde sheepe from my soonne John and ij mare coltes.

The xjth of May Mr. Cartar3 preached at Boxford Rom. 6. 12. the same day I had a yong barrowe hog died throwgh burstinge.

The xijth my blacke sowe was gelded.

The xvijth my wyfe retourned out of Essex.

The 22 I did ride toward London and returned the xxvijth of the same.

The last of Maye I hearde that W. F. had gotten a Wench with Childe quod cum iuramento negauit.

The first of June my brother John came to Groton.

The same day my nephew Sir Henry Mildmay was maried to Sir William Harris his daughter4 of Crickesey.

On Sundaye the xjth of June my brother John and I dined at Richard Spensers.

The xiiijth day I went with John Dogett to deliuer an estate vnto Mr. Brabant5 in lands at Levenhey.6

The xvjth day of June my brother John departed from Groton toward London.

The xvijth day it rayned and thundred exceedingly.

The xxjth day I did ryde with Mr. Gostin Gostlin toward London.

the same day Tho. Nicholson was arrayned at Bury.

The 20 of July I returned from Stambrige to Groton.

The 26 my sister Elizabeth Winthrop came to Groton.

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The 27th. thassises were holden at Bury.

The viijth of August I and my wife did deliuer an estate to John Bronde the elder and John his soonne of and in all our messuages and tenementes in Shireburgh-streete.

The xjth of August my soonne John was taken with a fierce ague and the xviijth I redde to Stambridge to see him and retorned the xxijth.

The xxvjth I deliuered to John Bronde the wrightinges of the landes which he bought of me.

The first of Sept. Mr. Henry Sands and his wife dined with me.

The seconde and thirde Mr. John Knewstub preached at Boxford.

The vth of september Thomas Walton7 esq. died at Hadley of the age of lx yeres.

The xth my sister Elizabeth Winthrop came to Groton.

The first of Octobre I had a swellinge and payne in my right hande.

The xiijth day I kept a Court at Toppesfilde.

The xviijth day William Gale had a house burnt.

The xxvth my soonne John kept his first Court at Groton Hall where a Recouery was sued against Ed. Robertson.

The first day of Novembre John Rawlinge kept a feast at his nue house where Mr. Thomas Tilney Mr. John Dogett and diuers others dined.

The viijth I did ryde towardes london and retourned the xiiijth.

The xijth I did heare Dr. Kinge8 preache a Sermon at St. Andrewes in Holbrond vppon the 14 Joh. v. 1 pie et erudite.

The xxiijth of November I went to Lanham to my sister Elizabeth Winthrop.

The xxiiijth my daughter Jane went to London.

The xixth of December my soonne John Winthrop and my Nephewe Abraham Veysie9 came to Groton.

The seconde of Jan: I deliuered sesin to Mr. Philip Goslin in Wades ferme.

The xxxth day of Decembre my sonnes third sonne10 was borne at Stambridge in Essex.

The viijth of Jan: my cosen William Firmyn came to my house.

The 22 and 23 Mr. Dr. Meriton11 came to speake with me about the resigninge of my office in Trinity college to Mr. Brookes.12

The xiiijth of Marche I dyned at Dr. George Meritons in Hadley and Received of him a xx li. for my Auditorshippe. 40

1.

Elizabeth Risby, an aunt of Elizabeth (Risby) Winthrop, married Nicholas Spring of Lavenham and had a son Thomas. Robert Ryece, Breviary of Suffolk, 171; Muskett, 73.

2.

Thomas, baptized at Edwardstone May 17, 1575.

3.

Probably Thomas Carter, Christ’s College, M.A., 1599; curate of St. Margaret’s, Ipswich, 1604; rector of St. Helen’s, Ipswich, 1611; and of Shotley, co. Suffolk, 1616–24. Venn, A. C. , I. 301.

4.

Alice, daughter of Sir William and Alice (Smyth) Harris of Creeksea, co. Essex. Muskett, 45, 47; Visitations of Essex, I (H. S., Pub. , XIII), 250, 453; Morant, Essex, I. 363.

5.

Perhaps Robert Brabant, citizen and “imbrotherer” of London. Will, 1615, P. C. C., 35 Rudd.

6.

Leavenheath or Levenhey was a manor held by the Waldegrave family. It is now a parish, formed out of Stoke by Nayland, Assington, Nayland, Polstead, and Wissington parishes. Barker, West Suffolk, 240.

7.

His daughter, Joan, married Philip Forth, a cousin of Mary Forth, wife of John Winthrop. Muskett, 117, 119.

8.

John King (1559?–1621), bishop of London and rector of St. Andrew, Holborn, 1597–1611. D. N. B. , XXXI. 136–138.

9.

Son of Abraham and Mary (Winthrop | Cely) Vesey. Muskett, 25, 63.

10.

Forth Winthrop. Ibid., 26.

11.

George Meriton (d. 1624), of St. John’s College, Cambridge, dean of York. He was rector of Hadleigh and dean of Bocking, 1599–1618. D. N. B. , XXXVII. 277–278.

12.

Probably Richard Brooke or Brookes, who died in 1640. Venn, A. C. , 1. 227.

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Winthrop, Adam (1548-1623)

Notes for my remembrance touchinge the lande which I bought of Joseph Gale in Assington.

Martii Eliz. Regine 1. Imprimis Robert Gale his father beinge seised therof in fee made a lease therof by his deede Indented vnto John Mendham1 for one Thowsand yeres etc.

2. Item the said Robert died seised of the Revercion and the same descended to 104Joseph his sonne who was founde heire by office2 and within age and in warde for that the said lande was holden of the Queene by knightes service in capite.

3. Item the said lease made to Mendham was also founde in the office aforesaid inter alia.

4. Item the said Mendham died possessed of the said lease after whose deathe the Widowe Gale3 redeemed the same of Mendhams widowe being his executrix and entered into the lande and tooke the profittes therof during her life by force of the said lease.

5. Item the said Joseph after his mothers deathe entered and tooke the profittes therof and being within age maried without licence.

6. Item the said Josephe when he came to his full age desired me to make a lease of the said lande in myne owne name which I made vnto John Parson for xij yeres by deede Indented reserving to me and my heires iij li. per Annum. the which lease the saide Josephe confirmed vnto the said Parson by his deede in wrightinge vnder his hande and seale. teste me ipso.

7. Item the said Josephe after that did release vnto me and my heires all thestat right title and interest which he had in the same lande.

8. Item he procured Mr. Clarke who had maried Mendhams widowe to deliuer vnto me the lease that Robert Gale had made to Mr. Mendham of the said lande.

9. Item after all this to make my estate sure in the said lande I procured Joseph Gale and his wife to levie a fyne of the saide lande inter alia vnto my brother and me and to the heires of my brother.

1609. One sundaie the 21th of January my daughter Anne Fones was deliuered of her seconde daughter.4

One thursdaye the 25th Mr. Dr. Jones preached at Boxford on the 3 Chap. of Ecclesiastes v. 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.

The 26 Ruthe Sinderlande Sunderland was drowned and I inquired vppon hir death as Coroner.

The 27 I surrendered my Auditorship in Trinitye College to the Master fellowes and schollers before a public notary.

The xiijth of Feb. I was godfather to Jasper Riddlesdales daughter.5

The 14 John Nutton brought a lode of brome to Colbrondes through my barne closse without my leaue.

One Tuesday at night the xth of January the goodwife Goslin was taken lame on the lefte syde with a dedde palsey.

The last of Feb. my sister Elizabeth Winthrop was at Groton.

On Wedensday the thirde of Marche Sir John Spenser6 of London died suddenly as he was pullinge on his netherstockes in the mornynge and was buryed the blank of Marche.

The xjth of Marche Mr. John Knewstub preached at Boxford.

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The xiiijth thassises were holden at Chelmesford by Baron Altham7 only and Sir Thomas Mildmay of Barnes in Springfild was highe shrive.

1610 On Munday the xvjth of Aprill Mr. Rich. Brooke the nue Auditor of Trinity College was at my house in Groton to whom I deliuered diuers papers bookes and Roles touchinge his office.

On Fryday the xviij of May my wife did ride to London with Mris. Pyne. Mr. John Bronde died suddenly.

On Munday in the morninge Richarde Plum died of thage of iiij score and vij yeres.

The same daye Thomas Page his wife was deliuered of ij Children.

The same day the pumpe in the well had a nue buckett.

On fryday the viijth of June Mr. Thomas Lovell8 the preacher died vir bonus ac pius, nulli pietate secundus. aetatis 64.

The xiijth of June my Cosen Humphrey Munnynge and Mr. Marcellyne were at my house at which tyme I did give my cosen a scotch dagger and Mr. Marcellyne a nue knyfe.

The xiiijth of June Mr. Rogers preached at Boxford.

The first of July Henry Cooke my Tenant died of a Pluresye.

The xth of July I sealed an obligacion of xl li. for the payement of xxij li. the xijth of July 1611 to Nicholas Cokye in his house.

The same day my soonne John Winthrop came to Groton.

The last of August my sister Elizabeth Winthrop delivered a warrant vnto me from my Lord Treasorour etc. 41

1.

John Mendham, of Milden, a parish in the hundred of Babergh, co. Suffolk. His will was proved November 2, 1595. Sudbury Archdeaconry, bk. 39, fo. 119.

2.

The ’office’ is Chancery Inquisition post mortem (33 Eliz.), vol. 230, no. 4.

3.

Rachel Gale, buried March 9, 1592–93; will proved, March 26, 1593. Edwardstone Register; Sudbury Archdeaconry, Register.

4.

Martha, afterwards wife of John Winthrop, Jr., governor of Connecticut. Muskett, 87.

5.

Margery, daughter of Jasper and Margaret (Hellond) Riddlesdale. The Groton Register gives the date of the baptism as February 8.

6.

He was “buried in a new vault by the Vestrye dore” in St. Helen’s Bishopsgate. He was son of Richard Spencer of Waldingfield, co. Suffolk, and became lord mayor of London. D. N. B. , LIII. 357–358.

7.

Sir James Altham (d. 1617), one of the barons of the exchequer. D. N. B. , 1. 348–349.

8.

Rector of Great Waldingfield, co. Suffolk, 1582–1610. Venn, A. C. , III. 108; Great Waldingfield Register; P. C. C., 85 Wingfield.