June. The 2 day my brother John Winthrop did ryde towardes London and retourned the 16th.

The 17. Branston came from Hacwel and Returned the 22 of the same moneth.

The 24 Mr. Thomas Nicholson confessed that he had donne evill in setting his hand to Spensers Certificate.1

The blank of June John Barkers eldest soonne was Drowned in the River behinde the mill of Boxford.

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 deliuered to Mr. Thomas Nicholson to denounce against my brother John Winthrop.

On Saturday the vijth of August my sister Alice Mildmay, my Cosen Thomas her soonne, my Cosen Brende3 and his wife came to my house and departed the xijth.

The ixth day my sister Bridget Alibaster and my sister Veysye4 came to my house, where fyve of vs that are bretheren and systers mett and made merry, which we had not doonne in xvj yeres before.

The xjth day James Elwell my brothers man and Richard Brende departed towardes Ireland.

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 John Winthrop departed from Groton towardes Ireland.

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 William Firmyn and Christofer Snellhauke came to my house and sealed an obligacion of C li. to the which I and John Doggett6 the yonger are wittnes.

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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 John Winthrop and Paul Powle did meete at the Whighte Lion in Groton, and ther was Paul Powle, Payne and Spenser witnesses for him.

The xxth of Sept. Stephen Piend8 the yongest soonne of mris. Piend died of the Pockes.

The xxijth Thomas Piend her blank soonne died of the same disease.

The xxiijth I sent Thomas Mildmay to Springfilde.

The xxvijth day of Sept. Susan Goslinge9 departed secretly from her fathers to be maried.

The xxixth Day of Sept. my brother Abraham Veysye Departed out of Holton Hall.

This moneth many died of the poxe in Groton, and many were sicke of that disease.

A festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli Anno Regine Elizabethe xliiijto, et Anno Domini 1602.

The last day of Sept. William Hilles entered Holton Hall, and began to dwell there.

The ixth day of October my Cosen Adam Winthrop came from London to Groton and we did ryde to Ipswich.

The xxjth my sister Margerie Weston came to my house, and she and my wife parted the lynnen which my sister Joan Hilles did give to her ij Daughters.

The xvth day of November I agreed with my sister Elizabeth Winthrop for Mr. Goslinges Bonde and I paid her in Mr. Powles chamber in Fleetstreete xxx li. and sealed a Bonde of CC li. for to pay her quarterly v li. during the Couerture betwene my brother John Winthrop and her.

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 Thomas Mildmay died at Springfild 26

1.

Spenser was a witness for Powle at the arbitration at Groton, September 16, 1602. Infra, p. 77.

2.

Stoke by Nayland, a parish in the hundred of Babergh, co. Suffolk.

3.

Probably the Richard Brende mentioned in entry of August 11, infra.

4.

Mary (Winthrop) Cely married Abraham Vesey of Ipswich, son of Laurence Vesey of Hadleigh. Muskett, 63.

5.

Elizabeth Parker married Gostlin at Groton, February 2, 1585–86.

6.

Son of John Doggett of Groton, clothier. He was baptized July 24, 1582.

7.

Daughter of Roger Alabaster. Muskett, 55.

8.

Son of Stephen and Martha Piend, baptized at Groton, July 10, 1597.

9.

Daughter of Philip and Alice Gostlin, baptized at Groton, January 22, 1580, and became the wife of Charles Newton. Muskett, 95.

10.

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)

11.

Mop, in combination, means the young of the fish named. N. E. D.

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