Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1
January 1. Auice Brond was b
8. Mathy Stockin died and T. G. kelle was b
12. This day J
16. Jo
31. Tho
February 5. Samuel Fones was borne.3
6. Jo
10. Jane Goslin was borne. Mr. Sands preched in Groton.4
12. This day J
14. Henry Pease was borne.5
20. my sons first fit of his ague.
22. The wid
25. Sowmans 2 wife died.
March 2. Kingesburyes wife died.
4. Brand brak his leg at footebal.
5. Mother Clyffe died.
9. Mr. Sands preched at the Comunion.
16. Steuen Goslin was borne. Mr. B. of Shelley preached.
27. 1617. Anne the wife of Ph
April 9. Anne Pod 7 went away. Also Tho
13. John Cooke died.8
16. Mr. Goslin tooke his iourny to Bathe.
19. mother Reignolds died.9
22. Tho
23. Tho
27. mother Stranger died.
30. Mris. Payne12 of Charesfielde13 died.
May. A dry May.
1. Barth
3. my daughter Fones and hir children come from London to Groton.
5. James Death died.
2168. I was powled.
Sir Fra
14. Serjant Hutton was sworne one of the Justices of the common plees.16
The 12 of May Ezechiel Bonde went to dwel with Jo
June. A wette June.
4. A court was kept at Groton hall in the after noone.
7. sente the wids.
10. Mr. Sands was maried at Brettenham.17 Mr. Munnynge preached.18
18. John Jannynge died.
19. This day K. James 15 . 51 y
22. Mr. Sandes preached in Groton
26. rayne, thunder, lightninge.
July 15. my son Fones came to Groton.
24. Jo
25. Steuen Plomb was baptised. Mr. Sands preached.
27. Mr. Morgan preached at Boxf
29. K. James began his reigne in Scotlande. 50 y
August. A faire haruest.
5. I dined at Mr. Sands.
9. Mr. W. Clopton21 died 1616.
10. This day I A
12. Mris. Bronde thelder died 64. y
25. My son Fones his wife and children departed. Thunder and raine.
September. Wynedye, and raynie.
1. John Plombe being sicke, made his testament.
5. I dined at Mr. Sands.
9. Ph
11. Mr. Egerton and Mr. Knewstub pernoctabant nobiscum.
13. my nephew Tho
17. my son rid first to maplested.22
19. my cosins Mayer, and
October 4. Hall the phisition died.
18. Judith Spenser died at Colchester. 22 y
22. Susan Dogget23 was maried at Groton to Mr. Ric
27. my son rode to London.
29. My cosin Munninges eldest daughter,24 was maried to George Salter.
November 5. The powder treason. 1605.
6. Prince Henry died. 16
18. Sir Hen
22. my son returned from London.
25. I was powled.
December 12. Mr. Rich
13. Mris. Judith Gurdon25 died at Sir Henry Mildmays in Essex.
21. Mother Surrey died.
22. Mr. Sands preached.
24 Kings and Queenes of Englande since the Conquest; 551 yeeres from 1066.vnto 1617.
Mr. Perkins wrote a treatise against Prognostickators which is printed in the thirde volume of his workes.26
1616. February 9th. Concerning Iron
Memorandum to wright to Sir Henry Mildemay by the goodman Warde
My nephew Thomas Alibaster departed from Groton to dwell in Assington Wensday the xijth of Aprill 1618.
That on fryday the 24th of Aprill 1618 my sonnes 3 wife27 came first to groton. She was maried to him the
Sapiens dominabitur astris. Adam Winthrop.
Thomas Bretnor, a notorious character in London, described himself as “professour of the Mathematicks and Student in Physicke in Cowlane, London.” He compiled prognostications from 1607 to 1618.
D. N. B.
, VI. 275.
This copy was given to the Massachusetts Historical Society by the heirs of William Winthrop, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 26, 1826. The entries are by Adam Winthrop. Printed in part,
L. and L.
, I. 436–437.
Son of Thomas and Anne (Winthrop) Fones.
Sunday fell on the ninth.
The father, Henry Pease, came into Adam Winthrop’s service in October, 1605. Supra, pp. 91, 124, 188.
First wife of Philip Gostlin the younger (1586–1630). Muskett, 95.
Doubtless the same as the “stubborne wenche” of p. 187, supra.
Of Groton. Will, Sudbury Archdeaconry, bk. 46, fo. 223.
Perhaps mother of Alice Reignold.
Margery (b. 1590), daughter of William Clopton of Groton, and Margery, daughter of Edward Waldegrave of Lawford, co. Essex. Muskett, 144.
Grey.
Thomas Payne of Charsfield married, August 17, 1608, Elizabeth Alston of Groton, widow. Supra, p. 99.
Charsfield is a parish in the hundred of Loes, co. Suffolk.
Of Groton, a thatcher. Supra, p. 59; Groton Register.
Bacon was appointed Lord Keeper March 7, 1617, in succession to Thomas Egerton, Baron Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley, though the latter did not die until March 15, 1617.
D. N. B.
, II. 344.
Sir Richard Hutton (1561?–1639) was made a serjeant-at-law in 1603. Hutton was created a puisne judge of the common bench May 3, 1617.
D. N. B.
, XXVIII. 359.
To a sister of Thomas and Frances Arkisden. Supra, p. 141. His previous wife diedin August, 1616. Groton Register.
Henry Sands and Humphrey Munninge exchanged pulpits.
That is, the fifteenth year of his reign—a play upon the figures, made more ingenious by the fact that 15+51=66 and James was born in 1566.
On July 24, 1567, by his mother’s enforced abdication.
D. N. B.
, XXLX. 161.
Son of Richard and Margery (Plater) Clopton. Muskett, 144.
The home of Margaret Tyndal.
Daughter of William and Avis Doggett, baptized January 15, 1595–96. Boxford Register.
Elizabeth, daughter of Humphrey and Elizabeth (Winthrop) Munning. Muskett, 107.
Daughter of Brampton and Elizabeth (Barrett) Gurdon. She was in her twenty-third year. Muskett, 287.
William Perkins (1558–1602). The reference is to his A Resolution to the Country-man, prouing it vtterly unlawfull to buie or use our yearely Prognostications.
D. N. B.
, XLV. 8.
Margaret Tyndal.