Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1

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Winthrop, Adam (1548-1623)

1596

A note of the mony that I haue layd forth since the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary Anno 1596.
Imprimis paid to the Collector for the poore	iij s. iiij d.
Item paid to Mr. Henry Sandes	v s.
Item paid to Mr. John Chaplyn	v s.
Item paid to Mr. William Clopton for Rent	xxvj s. viij d.
Item paid to my maydes for wages	xiij s.
Item paid to Hartwell the Smythe	xiij s. vj d.
Item paid to William Nutton for j quarter of bulling-meng	xvj s.
Item paid to Mr. Hannam for mony lent me	iij li. x s.
Item paid to my brother for Rent	blank
Item paid to Father Francis Andrew alias Pierce and his daughter for sowing with pease and Barley	blank
Item delivered to my Wife at Boxforde faire	xv s.
Item paid for mending of shoes	xij d.
Item in expenses extraordinarye	ij s. iiij d.
Item paid to Mr. Thomas Nicholson for Tithe	xxj s. vj d.
Item paid to Thomas Beamont for meate	vj li. viij s.
Item to Sir William Waldegrave for Rent	ij s.
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Item to John Bogais for Rent	x s.
Item to the Constables	xij d.
Item to the Rawlyns for dayes workes	blank
17 April Item for a nue Cart	ix s. vj d.
Item for a plough	xviij d.
Item for v store pigges	viij s. iiij d.
Item for Hilles Rent to Sir William Waldegrave	v s. v d.
25 April Item for iij pair of shoes	ij s. vj d. and ix d.
Item to Mr. Thomas Nicholson for Rent	xiij s. iiij d.
Item to fayrehed for ij dayes	xxj d.
Item for ij horse Collars	iiij s. vj d.
Item paid to Richarde Edwardes	x s.
Item for ij milk pales	xv d.
Item for a settle to couer the Chymny	xvj s.
Item for a nue Corselett	xxv s.
Item to Father Francis Andrew alias pierce	viij s.

A Note of my Expenses in Redy mony layd forth since Whitsontyde Anno 1596 30 Maii
Imprimis for a settle in the hall	xvj s.
Item for Rent to Mr. William Clopton	iij s. vj d.
Item in extraordinary expenses	ij s.
Item in Charges and expenses at London	xxj s.
Item for salt grey and whight	iiij s.
Item for fish iij warpe	iiij s. viij d.
Item for a Cartsadle	iij s. ij d.
paid for mowing of grasse to R. R.	xix s. iiij d.
paid to the Phisition and Apothecary	xvj s. ix d.
paid to Flyngoll for v weekes wages	vij s. vj d.
19 Aug. 1596 paid to Farman for a horse hide and a Calves skyn	vj s.
paid for a ploughe	xviij d.
28 Aug. paid to Anthony Hornby the mercer	xx s.
paid for ix Chickens	iiij s.
Summa	blank

A festo sancti Michaelis Archangeli Anno 1596
To the goodman Thomas Aulston for tithe		lv s. vj d.
To Mr. John Chaplyn		v s.
To the Masons		iiij s. vj d.
To Tilleson	v s. and vj s. v s. and	vij s.
To the shoemaker		iij s. vj d.
To William Grymes		xx s.
To my servantes for wages vt patet		iij li. xiiij s.
To the Widowe Gage		x s.
To Mr. Henry Sandes		x s.
To Mr. Hanham		v li.
For ij seames of lyme		iij s.
To Mr. Thomas Nicholson for Tythe and Rent		xxxiij s. x d.
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To spencer for threshinge of barley		iij s. vj d.
To John Hawes for my Dublett making		ij s. vj d.
to Mr. William Clopton for Rent		xxvj s. viij d.
to Tilleson for vj dayes		vij s.
to Mary Pierce for vij dayes		iiij s. viij d.
to Sir William Waldegraue for Rent		ij s. ij d.
to Anthony Horneby		xx s.
to my Wife		xx s.
For a shirt		v s.
to John Bogays for Rent		viij s. iiij d.
to the Collectors of subsedy		v s. iiij d.
to Sir William Waldegrave for Hilles Rent		v s. v d.
to the Collector of the poore		iij s. iiij d.
to Marget Rysinge		iiij s. 19

Folio 19

Winthrop, Adam (1548-1623)

1595

Special matters and observations noted in the yere of our Lorde God 1595: by me Adam Winthrop .

This yere Corne was very scarce vntil haruest, notwithstanding that there was muche wheate and rye brought into Inglande from by yonde the Seas, whereby the price of corne was abated.

Also al other kinde of vitaile was in the begynnynge of this yere sould at great prices.

On Whitsonday1 I had a great swarme of bees, and on Munday in Witsonweeke ther did comme a swarme of bees flyeng ouer Castleynes heathe into Carters grounde.2

The same day and tyme Mr. Cratcheroode,3 Mr. Walton, Mr. Th. Waldgraue,4 Mr. William Clopton and My selfe were ther present about the bounding of the heathe.

On Thursday the 3. of July, Mr. Brampton Gurdon5 had a soonne borne to him: who was baptized on Sunday the 13 of July and named John. Sir William Waldegraue and old Mr. John Gurdon6 were godfathers: and the Lady Moore and olde Mris. Gurdon were godmoothers.

This yeare at the Sommer assises, viz: 22 Julij 1595, diuers Justices of the Peace were put out of the Commission by the Queens commandement, viz. Mr. Tilney, Mr. William Foorth,7 Mr. Doile,8 Mr. Warren, Mr. Drury.

This yere the viijth Day of July my brother Roger Alibaster, and my sister his wife with their iij sonnes, George, John and Thomas,9 and Sara their daughter, tooke their iourny from Hadleigh to goe into Irelande.

The same day it Thundred, hailed and Rayned very sore.

William Alibaster10 their eldest soonne departed from my house towards Cambrige the ixth of July, malcontent.

This yere harvest begann not with vs vntill the xijth of August and contynued vntill the blank of september.

The 27 of August Mr. Hanam fell sicke and recouered the iiijth of Sept. The same day my brother killed a brocke badger with his hounds.

The xxx of August I received a lettre from my brother Cotty11 of Couentry.

The vth day of Sept. my cosen Marian Rolfe12 came to my house.

The xth of Sept. my cosen Hawkyns came to me.

The xxijth of Sept. my brother Thomas Mildmay came to my house.

The 3, 4 and 5 daies of October Sir William Waldegraue mustred all his souldiours, viz. 400, vppon a hill nere Sudbury.13

The 8 day of October my wyfe rydde to her father at Pritlewell14 in Essex and returned the xxth.

The xth day of October Adam Seely15 retourned home, and the same day I Received a lettre from my Lord of Bathe.16

The xxth of octobre Facons wife departed out of my house with all her house-hold.17

In the moneth of Octobre, Anno 1595, Sir Thomas Heneage died,18 Vir bonus et pius, and on the same day and monethe Philip, late Erle of Arundell died in the Tower of London.19

The xxxth day of Octobre Richard Bronde of Boxford sherman,20 Departed out of this life anno etatis 59. 20

The seventh Sunday after Easter; in 1595, June 8.

“There were many superstitions about bees in Suffolk County; and, among others, that bad luck was portended by a stray swarm of bees settling on one’s premises, unclaimed by their owner. The Book of Days, p. 752.” L. and L. , I. 405.

William Cracherode, bailiff to the dean of the College of St. John the Baptist, Stoke by Clare, in 1546, gives another spelling of the name. Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, Proceedings, XII. 41. Crochrode of Cavendish, co. Suffolk, is in the Visitations of Suffolk, ed. Metcalfe, 130.

Thomas Waldegrave of Bures (Buers) married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert and Rose (Sexton) Gurdon of Assington. Muskett, 286.

Brampton Gurdon of Assington, co. Suffolk, was son of John Gurdon and Amy Brampton. He married (1) Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Barrett of Bell House in Aveley (or Alvethly), co. Essex, and Elizabeth Lytton, daughter of Sir Thomas Lytton, knight; and (2) Muriel, daughter of Martin and Abigail (Knevett) Sedley, of Morley, co. Norfolk. John (1595–1679), of the text, married Anne, daughter of Sir Calthorpe and Mercy (Soame) Parker, of Erwarton, co. Suffolk. He was a member of the Long Parliament, and was nominated one of the commissioners of the high court of justice for the trial of the king, but refused to attend. D. N. B. , XXIII. 353. See Muskett, 287–288, for Gurdon’s children by his two wives. The Visitacion of Norffolk (H. S., Pub. , XXXII), 49, names a fourth son, Edward, apparently omitted by Muskett through oversight.

John Gurdon, died 1623, father of Brampton Gurdon, was High Sheriff for Suffolk County in 1584. He married Amy, only daughter of William and Elizabeth (Browne) Brampton, of Letton, co. Norfolk. She was probably the “Mris.” mentioned in the text. She died in 1608. Muskett, 285, 286; and p. 98, infra

William Forth of Hadleigh, died September 14, 1599, son of William and Elizabeth (Powell) Forth of Hadleigh. He was uncle of Mary Forth, first wife of Governor John Winthrop. Muskett, 119.

Perhaps of Pond Hall, co. Suffolk. Visitacion of Norffolk, 113. In Visitation of Suffolk, 1664–1668 (H. S., Pub. , LXI), 160, is a family of D’Oyley, of Overbury Hall in Leyham, co. Suffolk.

Roger Alabaster, of Hadleigh, co. Suffolk, married April 26, 1567, Bridget (1543–1614), daughter of Adam and Agnes (Sharpe) Winthrop. Of their children, George died 1596, Thomas lived 1585 to 1620, and Sarah died 1602. Another daughter, Priscilla, is known. Muskett, 55.

10.

William Alabaster (1567–1640) took his degree of M.A. at Trinity College, Cambridge, and, July 11, 1592, was “incorporated of the university of Oxford.” He had already received notice for his Latin poems and had written a Latin tragedy, Roxana, which was performed in the hall of Trinity College, but remained unprinted until 1632. The cause of his ’malcontentment’ is not known. In 1596 he was chaplain to the Earl of Essex in the expedition to Cadiz, where he became a convert to Romanism. By his study of cabalistic divinity he incurred the penalties of the Inquisition at Rome, but escaping returned to England and to Protestantism. D. N. B. , I. 211–212.

11.

John Cotta, Cottie, or Cottey, who married Susanna Winthrop (1552–1604), has been confused with John Cotta (1575–1650), a physician and author of writings on medicine and witchcraft; the latter must have been a younger man, possibly a nephew. D. N. B. , XII. 288; Venn, A. C. , I. 401.

12.

Anne Forth, daughter of Robert Forth of Butley, co. Suffolk, married William Rolfe of Hadleigh, and was cousin of the first wife of Governor John Winthrop. Muskett, 120. We do not find a Marian Rolfe.

13.

Cf. p. 68, infra.

14.

Prittlewell, a parish in the hundred of Rochford, co. Essex.

15.

Adam Cely or Selye, son of William Cely of London and Mary Winthrop, sister of the diarist. Muskett, 25.

16.

John Still, bishop of Bath and Wells.

17.

It is supposed that they returned to Hadleigh. Cf. Chancery Proceedings, series ii, bundle clxi. 60; clxii. 26; clxviii. 30.

18.

He died October 17. D. N. B. , XXV. 407–409.

19.

Philip Howard (1557–95), first Earl of Arundel of the Howard family. He had been confined in the Tower since April, 1585, for being a Romanist, fleeing from England without the queen’s leave, and suspected intrigues against the queen. He died two days after Sir Thomas Heneage—October 19. D. N. B. , XXVIII. 52–54.

20.

Shearman or sherman, one who shears woollen cloth. N. E. D. The London guilds of shearmen and fullers were united in 1528 to form the Clothworkers’ Company. W. C. Hazlitt, The Livery Companies of the City of London (London, 1892), 332–333.