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The 2d of December I rode to Cambridge and the 4th of the same moneth I was sore payned with the Collick and the stone for iiij howres.
The viijth day John my soonne was admitted into Trinitie College.
The xxjth day my brother s.
The 29 day of December Thomas Kedbie was arrested at my suit.
The iiijth of Januarry I rode to Springfild and the vjth I Dyned at Danbury with Mr. Humfrey Mildemay,1 and I retourned home the vijth.
The xth I dined with Mr. Dr. Johanes2 at my brother
The xvth day of Jan: my Cosen
The xvijth day I ridde to the Sessions at Bury to give evidence against certein clothiers for strayning.3
The xviijth day William Gale did give ouer his office of High Constableshippe, and John Gale of Hadleigh was sworne in his place.
The xxjth daie William Hilles did come to Groton and toulde me that he and my brother
The ixth of Feb. I received a lettre from my brother
The xxjth the Assises were holden at Bury, where Cricke was indited, accused for whitchcrafte.
At the same assises Mr. Rolfe, Mr.
The 22th day Mr.
The 23th of Feb. my cosen Walter Mildmay came to bourde with me, and departed the xxxth of m
The first of March Josephe Brond was maried to Anne Strutte.
The 2 of Marche my soonne
The iiijth day I sealed an obligacion of C li. to Janet li. the iiij day of Marche Anno 1603 at her house.
On Fridaye the xjth of Marche my Cosen A
On Wedensdaye the xxiijth6 of March Quene Elizabeth died, and James the vjt Kinge of Scotland was proclaymed the next day at London, and on Saturday the xxvjth at Colchester and Sudbury, with great reioicinge of all men.
The xxxth of Marche my cosen Walter Mild
The first of Aprill Zach
The same day Robert Bogas8 misused his father in lawe John Constable and tooke awaye a walnutte tree which he had felled by my appointment.
The iiijth of Aprill Mr. Braumpton Gurdons wife9 died in Childbed, of the xth Childe.
The vijth of Aprill Robert Surrey
The xjth of Aprill I and my Wyfe Did ride to Bockinge, to the Christening of my Cosin
The xiiijth day of Aprill my brother li. for Elizabeth Hilles11 bourde.
The xvijth Day of Aprill I received a lettre from my brother
The same day Mr. John Coe of Tomblyns13 came to Groton Churche to mornyng prayer.
Second son of Sir Walter Mildmay of Apthorp, co. Northampton, and Mary (Walsingham) Mildmay. He married Mary, daughter of Henry Capel of Hadham, co. Hertford, and had (1) Sir Humfrey Mildmay of Danbury and (2) Sir Henry Mildmay, knight, master of the Jewel House. Morant, Essex, II. 29. Danbury is a parish in the hundred of Chelmsford, co. Essex.
Probably William Jones (1561–1636), of Clare College, Cambridge, D.D. 1597, rector of East Bergholt, co. Suffolk, 1591–1636, author of biblical commentaries. Venn, A. C.
, II. 488.
To stretch cloth fraudulently.
N. E. D.
Son of William Appleton of Waldingfield, co. Suffolk, and Rose, daughter of Robert Sexton of Lavenham. He married Mary, daughter of Edward Isaacke of Well Court, Kent, and his eldest daughter, Mary, married Robert Ryece of Preston, co. Suffolk, a correspondent of Governor John Winthrop. Muskett, 329.
Probably Jane (Hilles) Winthrop, mentioned in the next entry, wife of Adam Winthrop, who went to Ireland.
She died on the 24th of March.
Zachary, son of Henry and Alice Vintener, was baptized May 21, 1583, and was hanged at Bury for burglary in 1604. Infra, pp. 83, 84.
Of Edwardstone, son of John Bogas, yeoman. His will, probated in 1636, mentions wife Martha. P. C. C., 1636, p. 146.
Elizabeth (Barrett) Gurdon. Muskett, 286.
Mary Pearce, whom he had married in 1601. Supra, p. 73.
Daughter of William and Joane (Browne) Hilles. Muskett, 102.
Probably in Ireland.
Tomblyns was a messuage in Groton long held by the Coes.
On thursday the 24th of Marche Queene Elizabeth died at Richemonde of the age of lxix yeres vj monethes and
The same daye was James the vjth Kinge of Scotts proclaymed at London, Kinge of England, France and Irelande.
The iiijth of Aprill Dr.
The xvjth of Aprill being Saturday the Kinges Maiesty came to the Citty of Yorke.
The xviij of Aprill Mr.
The xth of Aprill the Erle of Southanton4 and Sir Henry Nevill5 were deliuered out of the Tower by a lettre or warrant sent from the Kinge out of Scotlande, Dated 5° Aprilis.
The
The 21 the Kinge did come to Shrewsbery, the 22 to Nuewarcke, the 23 to Bever Castle.7
The xxiijth of Aprill the Justices of the peace were sworne to the Kinge, and appointed Justices by force of a nue Commission.
The 28th day was the funeralles kept at Westm
The
The third of May the K
The first daye of May being Sondaye there were iiij howses burned at Leigham
The iij and iiij day Coky drowned my medowe at Edwardston.
The xth Day of Maye Nicholas Coky the yonger was maried to Elizabeth Cooke.
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The xi of May I sent to Hacwell and writt lettres to my L
The xvjth of May John Coe11 of Tomblyns distreined my beastes in Stone meadowe and would haue driven them to Waldingfilde,12 but I tooke them from him beyond Parkefielde.
81The 22 of Maye a Subpena was served uppon me at the suite of my cosen Adam Winthrop and Johane his wife in my howse at Groton.
On Munday the seconde of Maye, one Keitley a blackesmythe dwellinge in Lynton in Cambridgeshire had a poore man to his Father whom he kepte. A gentleman of the same Towne sent a horse to shoe, the father helde vp the horses legge whilest his soonne did shoe him. The horse struggled and stroke the father on the belly with his foote and ouerthrewe him. The soonne laughed therat and woulde not helpe his father vppe, for the which somme that were their present reproved him greatlye. The soonne went forwarde in shoinge of the horse, and when he had donne he went vppon his backe, mynding to goe home with him. The horse presently did throughe him of his backe against aposte and clave his hed in sonder. Mris. Mannocke did knowe the man, for his mother was her nurse. Graue judicium Dei in irrisorem patris sui.
D. N. B.
, XL. 302.
John Whitgift (1530?–1604).
Henry Percy (1564–1632), ninth Earl of Northumberland; George Clifford (1558–1605), third Earl of Cumberland; Thomas Howard (1561–1626), first Earl of Suffolk, who held the office of lord chamberlain of the household until 1614; and Charles Blount (1563–1606), eighth Lord Mountjoy.
D. N. B.
, V. 240; XI. 59; XXVII. 71; XLIV. 411.
Henry Wriothesley (1573–1624), third Earl of Southampton, had been in prison since February, 1601, for participation in the conspiracy of Essex.
D. N. B.
, LXIII. 143.
Sir Henry Neville (1564?–1615), also imprisoned for a supposed connection with Essex’s attempt,
D. N. B.
, XL. 258.
Sir Robert Cecil, later Earl of Salisbury (1563?–1612).
D. N. B.
, IX. 400. The King reached York on the 16th of April.
Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire, seat of the Earls of Rutland.
In Hertfordshire. It was taken in 1607 by the King in exchange for Hatfield, since that time the seat of the Cecil family.
Layham is a parish in the hundred of Cosford, co. Suffolk.
“Desiring to recompense the affection of his people, all monopolies of Elizabeth, except those granted to any Corporation or Company, are suspended. No assignments of debts to be made to the King in Satisfaction of other liabilities; Saltpetre men, Purveyors, and Takers to use due moderation; all complaints will be investigated, but frivolous ones will receive due punishment: Sunday is to be kept, and no Bear or Bull-baiting, Interludes, Common Plays, &c., are to be frequented on any Sabbath day.” Summary in Bibliography of Royal Proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns, I (Bibliotheca Lindesiana, v), 108. See the text in John Strype’s Annals of the Reformation (1824), IV. 528–531.
December 1, 1600, John Coo, Sr., and John Coo, Jr., gents, of Groton, sued John Winthrop, lord of the manor of Groton, concerning lands there to which John Coo, Sr., was admitted on the death of his father, Thomas Coo. John Winthrop replied that the lands in dispute had been conveyed to his brother Adam Winthrop (the diarist). Note supplied by Mr. Redstone.
Great or Little Waldingfield, parishes in the hundred of Babergh, about four miles east of Sudbury.