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April 1609. The 3 of Aprill my sister
The same day I had ij lambes fell.
The iiijth day I went to Hadley and the vth to Bury.
102The vjth goodwife Potter the midwife died.
The ixth Eliz
The xiiijth day my soonne John W
The xviijth day I went to Mr.
The 21 of Aprill I sealed a bonde of xl 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 Will
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
The first of May my wyfe did ryde with my soonne and his wyfe into Essex to Stambridge. the same day Mr.
The iiijth of May Mr.
The same day I hearde that my brother
The same day I received 22 lambes and ij olde sheepe from my soonne
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
The same day my nephew Sir Henry Mildmay was maried to Sir Will
On Sundaye the xjth of June my brother
The xiiijth day I went with J
The xvjth day of June my brother
The xvijth day it rayned and thundred exceedingly.
The xxjth day I did ryde with Mr. Gostin
the same day Tho. Nicholson was arrayned at Bury.
The 20 of July I returned from Stambrige to Groton.
The 26 my sister
The 27th. thassises were holden at Bury.
The viijth of August I and my wife did deliuer an estate
The xjth of August my soonne
The xxvjth I d
The first of Sept. Mr.
The seconde and thirde Mr.
The vth of september Thomas Walton7 esq. died at Hadley of the age of lx yeres.
The xth my sister
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 Will
The xxvth my soonne
The first day of Novembre John Rawlinge kept a feast at his nue house where Mr. Thomas Tilney Mr.
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
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.
The xxxth day of Decembre my sonnes third sonne10 was borne at Stambridge in Essex.
The viijth of Jan: my cosen
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. li. for my Auditorshippe.
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.
Thomas, baptized at Edwardstone May 17, 1575.
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.
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.
Perhaps Robert Brabant, citizen and “imbrotherer” of London. Will, 1615, P. C. C., 35 Rudd.
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.
His daughter, Joan, married Philip Forth, a cousin of Mary Forth, wife of John Winthrop. Muskett, 117, 119.
John King (1559?–1621), bishop of London and rector of St. Andrew, Holborn, 1597–1611.
D. N. B.
, XXXI. 136–138.
Son of Abraham and Mary (Winthrop | Cely) Vesey. Muskett, 25, 63.
Forth Winthrop. Ibid., 26.
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.
Probably Richard Brooke or Brookes, who died in 1640. Venn, A. C.
, 1. 227.
Notes for my remembrance touchinge the lande which I bought of Joseph Gale in Assington.
Martii Eliz. R
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
One thursdaye the 25th Mr. Dr. Jones preached at Boxf
The 26 Ruthe Sinderlande
The 27 I surrendered my Auditorship in Trinitye College to the Master fellowes and schollers before a pub
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
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
The xjth of Marche Mr.
The xiiijth thassises were holden at Chelmesford by Baron Altham7 only and Sir Tho
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 d
On Fryday the xviij of May my wife did ride to London with Mris. Pyne. Mr.
On Munday in the morninge Richarde Plum died of thage of iiij
The same daye Thomas Page his wife was d
The same day the pumpe in the well had a nue buckett.
On fryday the viijth of June Mr.
The xiijth of June my Cosen
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
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.
The ’office’ is Chancery Inquisition post mortem (33 Eliz.), vol. 230, no. 4.
Rachel Gale, buried March 9, 1592–93; will proved, March 26, 1593. Edwardstone Register; Sudbury Archdeaconry, Register.
Martha, afterwards wife of John Winthrop, Jr., governor of Connecticut. Muskett, 87.
Margery, daughter of Jasper and Margaret (Hellond) Riddlesdale. The Groton Register gives the date of the baptism as February 8.
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.
Sir James Altham (d. 1617), one of the barons of the exchequer.
D. N. B.
, 1. 348–349.
Rector of Great Waldingfield, co. Suffolk, 1582–1610. Venn, A. C.
, III. 108; Great Waldingfield Register; P. C. C., 85 Wingfield.