Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1
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
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.
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.
1561-04-13
The xiijth day of Aprill 1561, I John Ponder of Brancktree2 within the countie of Essex, yeoman, whole of mind but sicke in bodie, do make my last will. My bodie to be buried within the church of Braintree. I haue bought landes of my brother in law, William Aylet and Margaret his wiffe:—sayd landes shalbe given vnto Elizabeth3 my wiffe, and to her heires for ever, in full recompence of her dower in all my landes and tenements. To John Ponder4 my sonne all my houses, lands and tenements, within the townes of Bocking5 and Braintree, to him and his heires for ever. Vnto Elias Witham, my wives sonne, the somme of lxx li., which I stand bound to pay him when he come to the age of xxij yeares. Vnto my sonne in lawe George Raymond xx li. To Joane Ponder6 and Sara Ponder my daughters, to either of them twentie poundes at their severall ages of xxi yeres, or the day of their mariage. To Prudence Ponder my daughter16
li. at the age of xxi, or at her mariage. Vnto Roger Ponder my sonne xxx li., and Grace Ponder my daughter xx li. at the sayd severall ages or mariages. Vnto Roger Ponder, my brother, my gold ringe with a deathes head theiron engraved. To my sister Joane a Hewpe of gold of the value of two angells and a halfe. A Ringe to my sonne in law George Raymond; and to George Raymond the younger xx s. to be deliuered to his father. To my sister Winthropp7 a gold rynge. Also for the avoyding of controversies between Elizabeth my wiffe and John my sonne for the deviding of my moveable goodes; sayd goodes shalbe devided by fower honest men of Braintree. Residue to John Ponder my sonne, whom I ordeine sole executor, desiring my loving frynd Nicholas Wilbore to be the supervisor: to whom I give an old Ryall of gold. To Elizabeth Rowt8 my wives sister x s., to be payd at the day of her mariage. Probatum, 25 April 1561, Juramento Johannis Ponder filij et executoris.
London Consistory, “Bullocke,” 1559–1591, fo. 35; Muskett, 36.
Braintree, a market-town and parish in the hundred of Hinckford, co. Essex.
She was a Wrought, but was a widow Witham when Ponder married her.
John Ponder married in 1561 (license granted June 6) Elizabeth Wroughte, spinster. Marriage Licences, London, 1 (H. S., Pub.
, xxv), 21.
Bocking, a parish in the hundred of Hinckford, co. Essex.
Muskett (39) does not mention the daughter Joane, but gives Sara, Prudence, and Grace. The wife of George Raymond was another daughter, unnamed in the will.
Agnes (Sharpe) Winthrop.
Or Wrought.