The xviijth of August I dragde my great ponde and tooke out xxxv greate Carpes.

The xixth of August Tilleson did sett vp the house in the Widow Reignolds yarde.

The last of August my wife ridde to Ipswich to phisick and the same day Clover died.

The xiijth of Sept. Judithe Pond was deliuered of her first soonne being munday, and he was named William.

The xiiijth Mr. Carpinter came to my howse and the xxth he departed with his daughter Francys.

The same day my Cosen Tho: Mildmay retorned, and Ed. Aulson was maryed the xxjth1 and my wife rydd to Bury.

The xxvijth of Sept. my Cozen William Alibaster camme to my house.

The xviijth daie, being S. Lukes day John Hawes rent Mary Pierces peticote and did beate her sister Katherine with a crabtree staffe.

The xxiiijth of October Father Pierce came to dwell in my nue house in Edwardeston.

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On Tuesday the ixth of Novembre Richard Edwards my servant died.

On Thursday the xj of November Anna Snellinge2 was maried to John Duke.3

On tuesday in the mornynge being the last of November the wydowe Francis died, and the same Day the goodwyfe Lewes Kydby was deliuered of ij children.

The vth day of December Susan Bronde the wyfe of Edward Aulston died of Child-bed.

The blank day of December old Simon Laughlinge4 died.

The blank day Anne Nutton the daughter of William Nutton died, of the age of xx yeres.

A Register of the Deathes of my frends, and of other things which haue happened since the feast of the Nativitie, Anno 1596.

The iiijth Day of January Mr. Steven Piend died.

The viijth day of January being Saterday, my Father Henry Browne died, of the age of 76 yeres, and was buryed in Prittlewel Church in Essex.

The seconde of Marche John Hamonde5 died.

The same day Susan Coe6 was deliuered of a bastard soone which died the ixth of Marche next followinge.

The vijth of Marche I was robbed by false kks knaves, and iij dayes before Mr. Henry Sandes was robbed.

The xxvth of Marche 1597 William Alston did take an estate in the Widowe Crickes7 house and land about viij of the Clock towards midnight.

The xxixth of Marche Anno 1597 John Crab8 was married to Katherine Key my servant who was sicke the same day.

The first of Aprill Thomas Bonde ranne his way for that he had gotten a maide with Childe.

The xvjth day of Aprill Mr. Gawen Harvey9 the yongest soonne of Mr. George Harvey highe shreve of Essex came to my house and the xixth day he and my nephewe Henry Mildmay10 departed toward Springfild in Essex.

The same day I had a yonge lambe killed by some vermyn.

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The 22 day of Aprill Grymble my great mastiffe was hanged, a gentle dog in the howse but egrotavit of blindness.

The xxiijth day of Aprill I sowed Wranglande with berry barley.

The 27 day my sister Hilles came to my howse for that her husbande had beaten her face and Armes grevouslye.11

The iijd of May Mr. Robert Hanhams wife Receyved xx li. of the gift of Mr. Hanham his vnckle.12

The iiij of May John Hawes came to my howse and the same day Anne Page departed out of my service.

The xth of May I did ryde to my brother Thomas Mildmayes and returned the xvjth of the same and Charles camme to dwell with me.

The same day my cosen E. R.13 did fall in my garden.

The xviijth day of May my Cosen William Alibaster camme to my howse.

The same day I bought Kembolds14 grey horse for iij li. vj s. viij d.

The xxth day of May in the mornynge Anne Kembold was deliuered of a girle, and Mr. Brigges died at Brettenham.15

The xxixth day of May my cosen Bulwer came to my house.

The seconde day of June I was at my Cosen Joan Muskett.

The vth day Charles had his livery cote.

The xvth of June John Huggon Ranne from me.

The xvijth Catherine Pierce went from her father. 22

1.

This day was a later correction by the diarist.

2.

Daughter of John and Anne (Browne) Snelling. Muskett, 82.

3.

Of Colchester. Matriculated sizar from Trinity College, Cambridge, Michaelmas, 1581; B.A. from Emmanuel, 1584–85; M.A., 1588; M.D. from Clare, 1598; died, May 16, 1629. Venn, A. C. , II. 73.

4.

Of Boxford, clothier, whose will, probated October 10, 1597, names sons: Peter, Jasper, Thomas, Simon, and Christopher; and daughters: Alice, Elizabeth Doe, Katherine Reeve, and Bridget. Sudbury Archdeaconry, Wills, bk. 39, fo. 301. His wife, Margaret, died in 1613. Sudbury Archdeaconry, bk. 44, fo. 245(a).

5.

Of Boxford, yeoman. His will, probated March 18, 1596–97, mentions wife Bridget, son John, and daughter Mary. Sudbury Archdeaconry, Wills, bk. 39, fo. 170.

6.

Daughter of Thomas and Margaret Coe. She was baptized December 31, 1581.

7.

Widow of Robert Cricke, of Edwardstone, who died in 1594. Sudbury Archdeaconry, Wills, bk. 38, fo. 547.

8.

Of Boxford.

9.

Gawen Harvey (born c. 1575), fifth but only surviving son of Sir George Harvey of Marks Hall, Romford, co. Essex, and Frances, daughter of Sir Leonard Beckwith and Eliza Cholmondeley. His sister, Margaret, was wife of William Mildmay, son of Sir Thomas and Alice (Winthrop) Mildmay. Morant, Essex, I. 68; Visitations of Essex, II (H. S., Pub. , XIV), 582, 737.

10.

Of Graces, parish of Little Baddow, in the hundred of Chelmsford, co. Essex.

11.

Joan Browne and William Hilles. Both died later in the year. Infra, p. 71.

12.

She was Dorothy Chamberlyn. The uncle was either Peter or Richard Hanham. Visitations of Suffolk, ed. Metcalfe, 142.

13.

Edmund or Edward Raven.

14.

Stephen Kembold of Boxford, clothier. Sudbury Archdeaconry, Acta Book, 1605–12 fo. 72; infra, p. 133.

15.

Martin Briggs, matriculated pensioner from St. John’s College, Cambridge, Michaelmas, 1566; B.A., 1570–71; M.A., 1574; was ordained deacon and priest at Ely, January 12, 1577–78; and was inducted to the rectory of Brettenham, August 17, 1579, which he held till his death in 1597. He was succeeded by Humphrey Munning. Venn, A. C. , I. 217; III. 227; Sudbury Archdeaconry, Register.