Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1

Will of Simon Ponder, 15581

Ponder, Simon

1558-02-17

Symonde Ponder2 of London, Pewterer, 17 Feb. 1557–58. To be buried in the parish church of St. Dunstanes in the West, whereof I am a parishioner. To my brother Wyntroppe and his wief,3 and to my brother Temple and his wief, rings of golde. To my sister Whitinge,4 and my brother John Ponder,5 and my brother Roger Ponder6 rings of golde. To 15my brother William Ponder,7 if he be a lyve. To my well-belouyd wief Dorathee Ponder the lease of my house: she to be full executrix of this my will. Vnto Thomas Ponder, my sonne, the rents of Caves house, and the two houses in Chancery Lane, and the house that standeth in the gardeyn to dwell in. Vnto my sonne Henrie Ponder, if he be a Pewterer, my dwelling place for the terme of yeres, and also all my moulls and tooles, and fortie pounds in money. To Thomas my sonne xl li. To my daughter Margarett Ponder8 at the daie of her marriage xl li. In codicil, dated 11 August 1558, bequest to John Temple, my brother in lawe. Probatum 4 Aug. 1558 juramento Dorothee Ponder relict.

P. C. C., 37 Noodes; Muskett, 36.

Simon Ponder was son of John Ponder of Lavenham clothmaker (d. 1520) and Joane Burton, widow of Adam Winthrop of Lavenham. Muskett, 39. He married at St. Peter’s upon Cornhill, August 17, 1539, Dorety (Dorothy) Children. Register of Saint Peeters upon Cornhill, I (H. S., Reg. , I), 221.

Adam Winthrop (1498–1562) and Agnes (Sharpe) Winthrop. Muskett, 25, 39.

Joan Ponder (d. 1563) married (1) Thomas Whiting of Ipswich (d. 1561) and (2) Gilbert Stirrop of Ipswich. Ibid., 39.

John Ponder of Braintree, co. Essex. Ibid.

Roger Ponder and Margery Lynniall were married at St. Peter’s upon Cornhill, May 6, 1550. Register of Saint Peeters, I. 222.

William Ponder married a daughter of Myles Wytton of Lavenham. Muskett, 39.

A second daughter, Susan, is not mentioned in the will. Ibid.

William Winthrop to John Fox1

Winthrop, William Fox, John

1560-11-18

Derelye beloved in Christ Jesus owre onlye comfort in all extreame assawltes etc. These fewe wordes are but as a testimonie of my hartie salutacions vnto yowe contynwallye wysshinge your prosperous successe in the Lordes harvest and that many laborers maye by yowr meanes be sent forthe in that good worke to call the yonglings to the greate supper of the lambe, that was slayne from the begynninge of the worlde etc. And for yowr memento I have noted a fewe names (which have not bowed theyr knees to baall) which I comit to yowr remembrance not that I judge ye have them in Oblivion, but that I must have somwhat to blot my paper wythe to make matter. Mr. Croll,2 James Yonge, Mr. Playfer, Wyllyam Fawsset mynister of Lindseye, and thys berer Peter Forman,3 are all vertwous men fearinge god, these fewe with many others I trust shall not be forgotten. Elyzabeth my wyeffe and owr brother To. Upcher salutethe yowe. Desyringe yowe when ye speake vnto god to tell hym of vs. Thus the Eternall Spirite 16governe yowe in all yowr affaires to hys glorie and yowr everlastinge comforte in hym. Thys 18. november anno Do. 1560 in London. Yowrs in the Lorde Asswredlye

Wyllyam Wyntropp.

Syr yf ye can procwre some lyvinge of 50 li. a yeare or vpwarde for Robarde Croll, he ys mynded I heare to give vp where he ys and allso Rycharde Berde4a good mynister. I commyt them all to yowr Remembrance ones agayne byddinge yowe hartely farewell in Christ. Amen.

W. W.

To hys very Frende Mr. John Fox5 preacher in Norwiche.

B. M., MS. Harleian 416, fo. 106; M. H. S., Proc. , xv. 262. Cotton Mather wrote of the second Adam Winthrop as “brother to a memorable favourer of the reformed religion in the days of Queen Mary, into whose hands the famous martyr Philpot committed his papers, which afterwards made no inconsiderable part of our martyr-books.” Magnalia Christi Americana, bk. II, ch. iv. Robert C. Winthrop considered that the letter here given made the identity of William Winthrop with Mather’s “favourer of the reformed religion” fairly certain, though William was brother of the third Adam and not of the second. M. H. S., Proc. , loc. cit.

Possibly Robert Crowley, Crole, or Croleus, admitted B.A. 19 June 1540, determined 1541, of Magdalen College, Oxford. C. W. Boase, Register of the University of Oxford, I. 197. Like Fox he had been an exile during the Marian persecution and returned to England after the death of Mary. In 1559 he was admitted to the archdeaconry of Hereford. D. N. B. , XIII. 241–243.

Peter Forman was rector of Groton. M. H. S., Proc. , XV. 263.

Infra, p. 22.

In 1559 Fox printed the first edition of his Actes, all in Latin, through Johann Herbst or Oporinus, at Basel, with whom Fox had read for the press. In October of that year he returned to England. January, 1560, he was ordained priest by Grindal, Bishop of London, and in September his friend John Parkhurst, now Bishop of Norwich, promised to use his influence to obtain a prebendal stall at Norwich for him. Fox is said to have visited Parkhurst and to have preached in his diocese. D. N. B. , XX. 144–145.