Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1

Folio 5

Winthrop, Adam (1548-1623)

1594

A note of my half yeres rentes and other Dettes which are due vnto me at the feaste of The Annunciation of the Virgin Mary1 Anno 1594.
lent to my brother John Wynthrop	xx s. 5
Imprimis of William Nutton	vij li.
Item of Simon Risinge	iiij li. x s.
Item of Jasper Laughlinge	lij s. vj d.
Item of John Warde	xxij s. vj d.
Item of Simon Facon	xx s.
Item of John Rawlinge	x s.
Item of John Coker	x s.
Item of Philip Goshlinge	xiij s. iiij d.
Item of my Tenaunts in Hadley	x s.
Item of John Laughlinge	xl s.
Item of Thomas Laster	xxvj s. viij d.
Item of Mr. Hanam	vj li. xiij s. iiij d.
Item of my brother John Winthrop	v li.
Item John Laughlinge	viij li. xiij s. iiij d.
Item of the Widow Aliston	xx s.
Item of John Paynter	viij s.
Item of Simon Rysinge for Corne (vj bl. Received)	xij s.
Item of Henry Cooke for iij bl. pease	v s.
Item of Mr. Aliston for iiij bl. and I pecke of pease	vij s. j d.
Item of J. Laughlinge for blank bl. of pease	blank

A Note of the mony which I have receyued since the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist.2
Receyued of John Raven	xij s.
Receyued of my brother Thomas Mildmay	xxxiij s. iiij d.
Receyued of my tenantes at Hadleigh	x s.
Receyued of my Cosen M. for my horse	vj li.
Receyued of Mr. Aliston	xx s.
Receyued of the goodman Goshlinge	iiij li. xiij s. iiij d.
Receyued of Mr. Hannam	ij s.
Receyued of John Laughlinge	xx li.
Receyued of my brother John Winthrop	iiij li.
Receyued of my Cosen Thomas Layster	xxv li.

Mony Receyved since Mich: 1594.3
Receyued of John Raughlinge for Rent	x s.
Receyued of Richard Huggen4 for v lodes of woode	xx s.
Receyued of John Doggett for iiij bls. of wheat	xx s.
Receyued of John Coker	xvj s.
Receyued of William Nutton	vij li.
Receyued of Simon Rysing	iiij li. x s.
Receyued of John Laughlinge	lij s. iij d.
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Receyued of Mr. Hanham	vj li. xiij s. iij d.
Receyued of my brother	vij li.
Receyued of Plumme5 for iiij bls. wheat	xx s.
Receyued for ij kyne soulde	iiij li.
Receyued for a hogge soulde	x s.
Receyued of my tenauntes at Hadley	xl s.
Receyued of my Lord of Bath6	v li.
Receyued of goodman Goshlinge	iiij li. xix s. iiij d.
Receyued of John Warde	xxij s. vj d.
Receyued for ij sheepe	xviij s.
Receyued of the College7	viij li. vj s. viij d.
Receyued of Lewes Kidby8	lvj s.
Receyued of John Doggett9	nil

March 25, Lady Day, the first day of the new year.

June 24.

September 29.

A marriage license was issued to Richard Huggen, clothier, and Anne Wincolle of Little Waldingfield, November 4, 1583. Sudbury Archdeaconry, Acta Book, fo. 50.

Probably John Plumbe of Boxford, clothier. In his will, proved June 23, 1623, he leaves to his grandchild, John Lomax, “one meadow of copyhold land in Groaton which I bought of Mr. Adam Wintroppe.” H. F. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings in England (Boston, 1901), II. 1413–14.

John Still (1543?–1608), bishop of Bath and Wells, and reputed author of Gammer Gurton’s Needle. His first wife was Anne, daughter of Thomas Alabaster of Hadleigh, and his sister Alice was the first wife of the diarist. Muskett, 76; D. N. B. , LIV. 370–373.

Trinity College, Cambridge, founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII. The payment was for Adam Winthrop’s services as auditor of the college, references to which will also be found later in the Diary. Winthrop matriculated fellow-commoner from Magdalene College, Cambridge, Michaelmas, 1567, but does not appear to have proceeded to a degree. Venn, A. C. , IV. 441; the same, Book of Matriculations and Degrees (Cambridge, 1913), 740.

Buried at Groton, August 13, 1598. His tomb in Groton Church bears the inscription: “Here lyeth the Body of | Lewes Kedbye, whoe had to wyue Jane Kedbye by whome he had issue IIII | sones and vj daughters, and de | ceased ye XIII of August An. 1598, being about ye age of XXXIX years.” Cf. D. E. Davy, B. M., Add. MS. 19077, fo. 334.

Of Groton, clothier, buried May 29, 1619. His wife, Dorothy, died March 2, 1604–05.