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1603
farest of my hopes, chiefest of my desires, my Earths Happines, the Pleasant obiect of my mind, the subiect that reason and all my sences Guyded by Loue Contemplate what shalt thou expect in this Paper the shadow of my mind but broken and vnperfect sentences interupted by Cloudy and Misty foggs of Melancholy, tost and shaken, with blustring and stormy Passions, rackt and disioyntid with wishes desires earnist and Impatient Longinges which rayse such forts and bulwarkes of griefe and discontent that reason, Judgment; invention, fantasy, and memory assisted with all the ayd of Councel and Pollicy were vnable to hold out: were they not reliued by a stedfast perswasion of thy fayth loue and Loyalty, which is sufficient to calm al Tempests with the sunshine of his beames to chase away those Traytrous Impes of feare and Doubtes and to cast the Anchor of firme hope to make me ryde safe were yt on the Billowes of raging dispayre. Then vouchsafe thy fayre hand, directid by Truth Constancy and Perseverance, to giue some ease to a distressed mind with the precious Balm of Comfort vntill Tyme shall giue a full Period and Conclusion to these my discontents and place me in the height of Happines by manifesting to the world the Inviolable and Imutable League begon, confirmed, and already sealed in our hartes to our Endles Joy and Comfort: farewel, and liue happy to make me more happy which without thy happynes is not or ever shalbe a Happy
Yow shall receaue a Paper of Powder with Taffata and lace for a sweet Bagg for your chist, a dosen oranges and ij Limons for yourself and my 151father and Mother, and more for hir2 a box of Tabacco, half a dosen Pypes in a case, for my Brother and your selfe, other, a Limon not a Lemman and other an orange, for my father Gosling and my mother, fower oranges and a Limon I was at home this morning at sixe of the clock from Smythfield
W. Au.27.
After ‘hir’ a different hand has interlineated ‘you.’
1603. January 9. Lucye my 4 daughter was borne 1600.
12. my sonne John was borne. 1587.
16. my daughter Anna was borne. 1585.
20. my brother John Winthrop was borne 1546.
February 12. John Winthrop the youngest was borne. 1605.
19. Henry prince of Wales was borne.
20. I was maryed to Anne my 2 wife. 1579.
25. Anna my daughter was maried to Th
25. Robert Erle of Essex was behedded. 1600.
28. Being tuesday Dr. Whightgifte Archb. of Canterbury died at Lambhith. 1603. Jacobi regis primo.
March 1. William Wynthrop my brother died 1581. Eliz. 23. 22 y. since.
1603
19. The Parleament began at Westminster where the K
28. The Towne was surrendered to the Kinges vse.
April 6. K. James did enter Berwicke, and tooke possession therof.
7. Mr. Rowleigh died at Cambridge. 1624.
8. His Majesty did depart from Barwicke, and entered the realme of Englande.
April 10. his Majesty camme to Nuecastel, before whom the Bishop of D
13. He came to Durham: and was entertayned by the Byshop.
15. Anne the wife of the B. of Bathe died.9 1593.
16. Elizabeth Hilles came to dwel with me. 1604.
16. His Majesty camme to the Cyttye of Yorke.
17. he went on foote from his Lodging to the Minster to heare a Sermon which the Byshop of Lymrick10 preached.
17. my soonne was maried to Mary Forthe 1605.
25. As he rode backe from Burleigh to Sir I. Harring
27. His Majesty dyned at Sir Anth
May 3. Being Tuesday his Majesty camme to Theobaldes Sir Rob
7. Being Satterday his Majesty removed from Theobalds towardes London.
11. Being Wednesday his Majesty went from the Charterhouse to the Tower of London.
13. being fryday he created within the Tower Sir Robert Cicil16 Sir Rob
13. my owne mother died. 1565. Eliz. 7.
31. Sir Wa: Mildmay died. 1589.
1605. June 13. my b
12. Th’assises were at Nuemarket. 1604.
1605. July 18. Mr. Rob. Welche died at Waldingfield.
1603. July 25. Kinge James and Q. Anne his wife, were Crowned at Westminster.
29. He was crowned K. of Scottes. 1567.
August 8. Sir George Harvy20 Lieuten
9. my Sister Susan died in Coventry. 1604.
10. Beinge fryday I Adam Winthrop was borne. 1548. 55. yeres since.
September 4. Robert Dudley Erle of Leicester died.21 1588. at Cornbury in Oxfordshire. Eliz. 30.
10. Ostende was deliuered by Composition vnto the Duke of Burgoigne. 1604.22
The 3 of Octobre 1605. Sir Edwarde Lewkenor of Denham in Suff
October 17. Sir Philip Sydney died. 1586.
31. George Erle of Comberlonde24 died. 1605.
November 9. Adam Winthrop my father died. 1562. Eliz. 4. 41 yeres synce.
December 1. my nephew Th
4. Dr. Whytaker25 died at Cambridge. 1595.
12. John Hanham died. 1599.
16. I was maryed to Alice my first wife. 1574.
17. my mother in lawe Agnes Browne dyed. 1590.
27. Alice my wife died in Childbed. 1577.
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, XLVI. 76.
The entries are by Adam Winthrop, in a copy now the property of Miss Clara B. Winthrop and containing the inscription: “For Hon. R. C. Winthrop with the sincere regards of Geo. Livermore Aug. 7th 1855.” Printed in part,
L. and L.
, I. 433–434.
Anne of Denmark (1574–1619), daughter of Frederick II of Denmark and Norway and Sophia, daughter of Ulric III, duke of Mecklenburg. She could not set out for London when the King did and started on June 2, 1603, reaching Windsor July 2, where the two were crowned July 24. The entry through the city of London was postponed to March 15, 1604, when Dekker planned the ceremony.
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, I. 431–435.
Henry Frederick (1594–1612) was not created Prince of Wales until May, 1610. His presence on the progress was due to the Queen’s insistence.
D. N. B.
, XXVI. 106–107.
The parliament was not favorable to the King, but was not dissolved until February 9, 1610–11. The return of knights from Suffolk, lacking in the Public Record Office, has been preserved in Adam Winthrop’s Diary. Parliamentary Papers, 1878, LXII, pt. 1, 442, 446; supra, p. 84.
That is, 1603, the 24th of March being the last day of the year 1602 O. S.
His zeal gained him only the displeasure of the Council, who described his conduct as “contrary to such commandments as we had power to lay upon him, and to all decency, good manners, and respect.” After serving as master of the robes and chamberlain of Prince Charles, he became in 1626 Earl of Monmouth. Born about 1560, he died in 1639.
Berwick-on-Tweed, taken from Scotland, still preserved a peculiar status. Blackstone, Commentaries, 4th ed. (1770), I. 98–99.
Tobie Matthew (1546–1628), archbishop of York from 1606.
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, XXXVII. 60–63.
See supra, p. 46,
John Thornborough (1551–1641), later bishop successively of Bristol and of Worcester.
D. N. B.
, LVI. 286–287.
Sir John Harington (d. 1613), made first Baron Harington of Exton, July 21, 1603, entertained King James at Burley-on-the-Hill, co. Rutland.
D. N. B.
, XXIV. 388.
Apethorpe, co. Northampton, granted to his father, Sir Walter Mildmay (1520?–89), in 1552. Sir Anthony died in 1617.
D. N. B.
, XXXVII. 374–376.
Sir Thomas Egerton (1540?–1617). Ibid., XVII. 161–163.
Thomas Sackville (1536–1608), later Earl of Dorset. Ibid., L. 96–100.
Charles Howard (1536–1624), Lord Howard of Effingham and Earl of Nottingham. Ibid., XXVIII. 1–6.
Baron Cecil of Essingden (1563?–1612), later Earl of Salisbury. Ibid., IX. 400–404.
Robert Sidney (1563–1626), Baron Sidney of Penshurst, later Viscount Lisle and first Earl of Leicester. Ibid., LII. 236–237.
William Knollys (1547–1632), Baron Knollys of Rotherfield Greys, later Earl of Banbury. Ibid., XXXI. 286–287.
Sir Edward Wotton (1548–1626), Baron Wotton of Marley, eldest son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Rudston) Wotton. Ibid., LXIII. 49–51.
He was a member of the first Parliament under James I (1604) from West Looe, Cornwall. Ibid., LVIII. 403; Parliamentary Papers, 1878, LXII, pt. 1, 442.
Infra, p. 177.
Ostend was taken by the famous Marquis Ambrogio di Spinola (1570?–1630), commanding for the sovereigns of the Spanish Netherlands, Albert (1559–1621), Archduke of Austria and Duke of Burgundy, and his wife Isabella Clara Eugenia (1566–1633), daughter of Philip II of Spain. The great siege, which held the eyes of Europe for three years and cost a hundred thousand lives, is fittingly described in Motley’s History of the United Netherlands.
B.A., Cambridge, 1560–61; member of Parliament for Tamworth, co. Stafford, 1571; for New Shoreham, co. Sussex, 1572; for Maldon, co. Essex, 1584, 1586, 1592–93; for Newport, co. Cornwall, 1597; finally for Maldon, 1603–04; knighted, 1603; married Susan, daughter of Thomas Heigham of Heigham Hall, co. Suffolk; died at Denham Hall, co. Suffolk. Venn, A. C.
, III. 82; C. H. Cooper and T. Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses, II. 411–412; Parliamentary Papers, 1878, LXII. pt. 1, 411, 414, 418, 428, 432, 443. Cf. Threnodia in Obitum D. Edovardi Lewkenor, Equitis, et D. Susannae Conjugis charissimae. Funerall Verses upon the death of the right Worshipfull Sir Edward Lewkenor, Knight, and Madame Susan his Lady. With Deaths Apologie, and a Rejoinder to the same. London, 1606. Cooper gives the date of his death as October 4, Venn as September 19.
George Clifford (1558–1605), third Earl of Cumberland. He died at London.
William Whitaker (1548–95), the celebrated divine.
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, LXI. 21–23.