Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1
June. The 2 day my brother
The 17. Branston came from Hacwel and Returned the 22 of the same moneth.
The 24 Mr.
The
The last day of Juine it thundred and lightned a great part of the night, and sett a tree on fyre in Stoke parke,2 which burned iiij dayes.
The iijd day of July an excommunication was d
On Saturday the vijth of August my sister
The ixth day my sister
The xjth day James Elwell my brothers man and Rich
The xxth daie of Aug. I made an entry into the Tenement that Aylwarde occupiethe in the presence of Steven Plomb and Jo: Plombe.
The xxiijth of Aug. my brother
the same day my horses strayed away and I fowend them in the Pownde at Maldon.
The 26th day of Aug. John Goslings wyfe5 was buryed.
The 27 day my Cosen li. to the which I and John Doggett6 the yonger are wittnes.
Mr. William Furnour departed from my house towardes London the thirde of September.
The tenth day I was at Smalbridge and dined with olde Sir William Waldegrave and had his hand and seale to a Certificate.
The xvth day Sarah Alibaster7 died at Colchester.
The 16 day the Arbitrators betwene my Brother
The xxth of Sept. Stephen Piend8 the yongest soonne of mris. Piend died of the Pockes.
The xxijth Tho
The xxiijth I sent Tho
The xxvijth day of Sept. Susan Goslinge9 departed secretly from her fathers to be maried.
The xxixth Day of Sept. my brother
This moneth many died of the poxe in Groton, and many were sicke of that disease.
to, et Anno Domini 1602.
The last day of Sept. William Hill
The ixth day
The xxjth my sister
The xvth day of November I agreed with my sister li. and sealed a Bonde of CC li. for to pay her qli. during the Cou
The xvijth day I retourned homewarde from London and lay at Colchester the same night.
The 27th day in the mornyng the Bell did goe for mother Tiffeyn,10 but she recouered.
The same day Father Weston did bring me a codmopp.11
The first day of December I did give warninge to Mason to depart out of my house at Our Lady Day in lent next in the presence of his brother in lawe Robert Surrey and his boye William Gosnold.
The firste day of Decembre my cosen Tho
Spenser was a witness for Powle at the arbitration at Groton, September 16, 1602. Infra, p. 77.
Stoke by Nayland, a parish in the hundred of Babergh, co. Suffolk.
Probably the Richard Brende mentioned in entry of August 11, infra.
Mary (Winthrop) Cely married Abraham Vesey of Ipswich, son of Laurence Vesey of Hadleigh. Muskett, 63.
Elizabeth Parker married Gostlin at Groton, February 2, 1585–86.
Son of John Doggett of Groton, clothier. He was baptized July 24, 1582.
Daughter of Roger Alabaster. Muskett, 55.
Son of Stephen and Martha Piend, baptized at Groton, July 10, 1597.
Daughter of Philip and Alice Gostlin, baptized at Groton, January 22, 1580, and became the wife of Charles Newton. Muskett, 95.
Probably Rose, wife of Richard Tiffeyn of Groton, weaver. She was buried November 29, 1622, surviving her husband nine years. The bell that ‘did goe’ for her was the passing bell or ‘soul bell,’ tolled, not to indicate the death of a person, but (to quote Bishop Hooper’s Injunctions of 1551) “whiles the sick is in extremes, to admonish people of their danger and by that means to solicitate the hearers to pray for the sick person.” This custom was not extinct in England even in the eighteenth century. H. B. Walters, Church Bells of England (London, 1912), 154–156. See other instances on pp. 79, 184, infra. A table of the customary charges “for bells being runge or tolled for any that lyeth sick, or dyeth in Hadleigh,” witnessed by John Hilles, sexton, under date of 1617, is preserved in Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, Proceedings, III. 44–45 (1863)
Mop, in combination, means the young of the fish named.
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