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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 W
The last of August my wife ridde to Ipswich to phisick and the same day Clover died.
The xiijth of Sept. Judithe Pond was d
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
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.
69On 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 d
The vth day of December Susan Bronde the wyfe of Edward Aulston died of Child-bed.
The
The
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 d
The vijth of Marche I was robbed by false kks
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.
70The 22 day of Aprill Grymble my great mastiffe was hanged, a gentle dog in the howse but egro
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. Robli. 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 b
The same day my cosen E. R.13 did fall in my garden.
The xviijth day of May my Cosen
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
The vth day Charles had his livery cote.
The xvth of June John Huggon Ranne from me.
The xvijth Cath
This day was a later correction by the diarist.
Daughter of John and Anne (Browne) Snelling. Muskett, 82.
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.
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).
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.
Daughter of Thomas and Margaret Coe. She was baptized December 31, 1581.
Widow of Robert Cricke, of Edwardstone, who died in 1594. Sudbury Archdeaconry, Wills, bk. 38, fo. 547.
Of Boxford.
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.
Of Graces, parish of Little Baddow, in the hundred of Chelmsford, co. Essex.
Joan Browne and William Hilles. Both died later in the year. Infra, p. 71.
She was Dorothy Chamberlyn. The uncle was either Peter or Richard Hanham. Visitations of Suffolk, ed. Metcalfe, 142.
Edmund or Edward Raven.
Stephen Kembold of Boxford, clothier. Sudbury Archdeaconry, Acta Book, 1605–12 fo. 72; infra, p. 133.
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.
The xxvth day of June S. B. did ryde to Colchester and returned the xxijth of the next monethe.
The same day at night Francys Snellocke came to my house and departed the next day.
The last day of June goodman
The vjth of July I received a Privie seale to lend the Queens maiestie xx li. for a yere.
The same day Edward Aulston his wife was d
The viijth day of July olde Cant died.
The ixth day I rec
The xth of July Tillesons wife Died.
The xjth my cosen
The same day Sir John Peyton2 and Sir Henry North3 with their Ladyes came to Boxforde.
The xiijth day my cosen
The same day my Daughter Anna came home from my brother
The xxjth Day of July my Cosen Johane Muskett died Anno etatis sue 59.
The first of August my Cosen
The iiijth of August my brother in lawe William Hilles Died.
The xviijth day of August Gardiner4 did gelde my olde horse and my Bull.
The xxth of August I had in all my barley growing in Churches.
The xxijth of August I did wright vnto my brother in Ireland by George Mawle.5
The last of August my Cosen
The viijth Day of September Mr. John Payne of Stoke6 died of the age of iiij score and iiij yeres.
The viijth day of September Johane Hilles7 my wiues naturall sister died, and made me her executor.
The xxjth of Sept. being St. Mathues Day Thomas Osborne was murdered by John Hawes in the waye betwene Brantham and Thetford,8 for the which J. H. was hanged at Bury.
The xxvjth day of Sept. Jasper Laughlinges wife
The first Day of Octobre I lett my howse at Edwardeston to William Brande and the same day John Sare my L
The vth Day of December Will
The vijth day Father
The perambulation of Kent9 to Mr.
The Termes of the lawe10 to Mr. J. Grymwade.
72Dr. Bright De Sanitate tuenda in Latine.11 Received.
Petrarcha his woorkes12 Mr. J. G
To Mr. Ellyson
The Defence of the Apologie13 to my sister Mildmay. Received.
Eusebius and Socrates in Englishe14 to my cosen
Item, lent him iiij volumes of Lyra, and Googes husbandry.15
This son, Stephen, died September 20, 1602. Infra, p. 77.
Sir John Peyton of Isleham, Cambridgeshire (d. 1616), succeeded his father, Robert Peyton, as lord of Peyton Hall, with other manors in Boxford, Wicker, and Wixoe; was sheriff of Cambridgeshire in 1593, and sat in Parliament for the county in 1593 and 1604–11. He was created a baronet by James I in 1611. He married Alice, daughter of Sir Edward Osborn, lord mayor of London, 1583. G. E. Cokayne, Complete Baronetage, I. 15; Visitation of Cambridge (H. S., Pub.
, XLI), 4; Parliamentary Papers, 1878, LXII, pt. 1, 427, 442; P. C. C., 46 Weldon.
Sir Henry North of Mildenhall, co. Suffolk, younger son of Roger, Lord North de Kirtling. He won his knighthood by service under the Earl of Leicester in the Low Countries. Cokayne, Complete Baronetage, III. 41; J. Burke and J. B. Burke, Peerages Extinct, Dormant, and in Abeyance, 3d ed. (1846), 400; Visitation of Suffolk, 1664–1668 (H. S., Pub.
, LXI), 86.
Edmund Gardiner of Groton. Cf. p. 72.
George Mawle is mentioned in the will of his sister Margaret (Mawle) Baker of Nayland, December 24, 1589. H. F. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings, II. 1158.
The will of John Payne of Stoke by Nayland, gent., dated September I, 1597, is in Sudbury Archdeaconry, Wills, bk. 39, fo. 373.
Joane (Browne) Hilles, wife of William Hilles, whose death was recorded five weeks earlier. Her daughter Jane married Adam Winthrop, who removed to Bandon in Ireland. Muskett, 25, 102.
Brantham is a parish in the hundred of Samford, co. Suffolk, and Thetford lies partly in the hundred of Lackford, co. Suffolk, but chiefly in the hundred of Shropham, co. Norfolk.
By William Lambarde, first published in 1576, the earliest county history known.
John Rastell’s The Exposicions of the Termes of the Lawes of England, a translation made and edited by his son, William Rastell, of the Latin issue of 1527. Editions appeared in 1567, 1579, 1602, and later. B. M., Catalogue of Printed Books, LXXXI, 2, pp. 37–38.
Hygieina, id est De Sanitate tuenda (1581), by Timothy Bright (1551?–1615), better known as the inventor of modern shorthand.
D. N. B.
, VI. 337–339.
J. Herold’s Latin edition of Petrarch’s Opera Omnia, in four volumes, published at Basel in 1554 and reissued in 1581.
By John Jewel (1522–71), bishop of Salisbury, published in 1567.
D. N. B.
, XXIX. 380.
The Auncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, wrytten in the Greek tongue by ... Eusebius, Socrates, and Evagrius. Translated by M. Hanmer. London, 1576–77, 2 parts; 2d ed., 1585.