Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1
The iiijth of September Henry Cooke thelder did mary Johane Bettes my maide: he beinge lx yeres oulde and she xxxv and his father
The vth I was at Bures and dined with Mr. Thomas Waldegrave.
The vjth of september I recli. the same day Tho
The xth of septli. of J. P.
The xijth day of september I first heard of the death of my sister
The same day I did putt vj tenches into my horsepond and xv into the ponde in peryfield and v into the ponde by
The xiijth of september Thomas Coe the eldest sonne of Thomas Coe of Boxford gent. my godsonne died of the age of xix yeres and x monethes.
The ixth of september Mr. Dudley Foscue1 did hange him selfe at Mrs. Turnours his wiues mothers house nere Cambridgeshire viz: at Bluntes Hall in litle Wrattinge.2
The xviijth I tooke Phisicke and the xixth and xxth.
The xxjth William Hilles sealed and dli. that his Father did give vnto him.
The xxijth I lent the Kingli. vppon a privie seale.
The xxvjth the Commission between my brother and Vintener was sett vppon.
The iijd of octobre William Bettes came to dwell with me and the xijth Tymothy Coe departed from me.
The xjth of octobre I was arrested at the suit of Mr.
The xvjth I was at Hadley Holton3 and dyned at Mr. William Manockes in Stoke.
The 17 I rode with the Wydow Kedby to her brother Peter Friers at Wickham Skeythe.4
The xxth of octobre John Speede came to me for the residue of his granfathers legacye.
The 24 I rode towardes London and retorned the xxxth of the same moneth.
24 Octobre. The same day it was proclaymed that England and Scotland shoulde be called great Brittaine.5
The vth of Novembre my soonne did ryde into Essex with William Forth to Great Stambridge.6
The xjth of No
The last of November I rode to Cambridge to keepe the Audit at Trinitie Colledge and I ret
The xvjth of December Robert Surreys eldest daughter did fall into the fier and burnt her hand and face.
The xxth of December Joseph Coles dogge did bite my Ramme in the necke.
The xxvjth of Decembre Mr. Tasker7 died.
The same day John Priour was bownde with me for iiij yeres by his Father.
The 29 of December my Cosen
The seconde of January I did ryde to Springfild and retourned the viijth therof.
The ixth of January
The xij of January I d
The same day Mr. John Foorth8 came to my house.
The same day Jo
The xiiijth of January Cosen Nath
The xvjth day Jo
The xvth day Josephe Cole and Mary Gale10 were maried betymes in the mornynge.
The xviijth day one of my ewes first brought forth a lamb.
The xxth of January Mr.
Cf. p. 140, infra.
Little Wratting, a parish in the hundred of Risbridge, co. Suffolk.
Holton St. Mary, a parish in the hundred of Samford, co. Suffolk, called Hadley Holton to distinguish it from Holton in the hundred of Blything, co. Suffolk.
Wickham Skeyth, a parish in the hundred of Hartismere, co. Suffolk.
The proclamation was dated October 20, and the King assumed the title of “King of Great Brittaine” and the full style “King of Great Brittaine, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc.” Bibliography of Royal Proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns, I. 115–116.
A parish in the hundred of Rochford, co. Essex. Mary Forth, first wife of Governor John Winthrop, lived at Great Stambridge, and William was probably her cousin. Muskett, 131.
He is “Mr. Tasker” in the Boxford records.
John Forth, son of William Forth of Hadleigh and Elizabeth (Powell), married Thomasine (Hilles|Crymble|Bode). His daughter Mary married Governor John Winthrop. Muskett, 131.
Daughter of Thomas Gale of Edwardstone, clothier. Sudbury Archdeaconry, bk. 48, fo. 341.
Son of Thomas Fones of Bedford in Bromsgrove, co. Worcester, apothecary in London at the sign of the Three Fawns in the Old Bailey. He died April 15, 1629. Muskett, 87.