The xv of February my Cosen William Mildmayes late wife died in the Tower of London.1

The xxiijth Thomas Fones came to Groton and was maried to my daughter Anne the xxvth. and they departed toward London the xxvijth day of February 1604.

The vth of March the Wyndmill in Boxford was blowen downe and William Jarrold2 and blank were sore hurt thereby, whereof he died the vij of Marche.

The xij of Marche I soulde Mr. Mannocke xxjty sheepe for ix li. xij s.

The xiijth of Marche the Assises were at Bury.

The same day Mr. Powles onlie soonne died of thage of vij yeres and his wife3 died the xxth of Marche.

The xiiijth I and my soonne viewed ouer Mr. John Foorthes land at Carsey Kersey 4 and Hadley.

The xxjth of Marche Mistris Powle was buried.

The xvth of Marche Mistres Anne Browne was condemned of petit Treason for procuring one Peter Gouldinge to murder her husband Mr. Browne For the which facte the said Peter was hanged and she burned quick at Bury the xixth of Marche.5

The same day I received a lettre from my Brother John out of Ireland dated 2 Martii 1604.

The xxth day of March I did deliuer an estate to William Sweetsur and Elizabeth his wife of a Tenement in Stonestreet which I purchased of John Dogett.

The xxvjth of March I and my soonne John did ride to Mr. John Foorthes of great Stambrige in Essex.

The xxviijth day my soonne was sollemly contracted to Mary Foorth6 by Mr. Culverwell7 minister of greate Stambridge in Essex cum consentu parentum.

The xvjth of Aprill he was maryed to her at Stambridge in Essex by Mr. Culverwell.

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The xxxth of Marche my brother John Wynthrop came to Chelmisford.

The second of Aprill I was payned with the Collicke.

The vth my brother John came to Groton after his Retorne out of Ireland and departed the ixth of June.

The ixth my sonne did ryde into Essex.

The xvjth of Aprill he was married at great Stambridge by Mr. Ezekiel Culverwell anno aetatis sue 17°. 3 mensibus et 4 diebus completis.

The 25 day of Aprill Mistris Anne Clopton8 was marryed to John Mayston of Boxsted gent.

The 27 John Johnson the Tayler died.

The viijth of Maye my soonne John and his wife Mary came to Groton from London and the ixth I made a mariage feaste when Sir Thomas Mildmay and his lady my sister Alice were present.

The same day my sister Mary Veysye came to me and departed on fryday the 24 of Maye.

My dawter Anne Fones came the viijth of May and departed home the xxiijth of Maye.

On Munday the third day of June John Gosling of Groton and John Masson of Edwardston died.

The vjth of June Mr. William Manocke dined at my house in Groton.

The viijth my Cosen Anne Duke was deliuered of hir first sonne before her tyme.

The ixth I did ride with my brother John Winthrop into Essex and retorned the xvijth.

The xxjth my brother John departed from London towardes Irlond.

The same day I cutt my bearde. Male.

The 25 I deliuered an estate to Mr. Manock in Dawfieldes.

The 26 it thundred and lightened wonderfullye.

The last of June Mr. John Forth came to Groton.

The first of July my Cosen Walter Mildmay and his wyfe Bridget came.

The 3 of July I did ride to Bury to thassises, and the xvth to the assises at Chelmisford.

The xviijth day of July Mr. Robert Welshe the preacher of little Waldingfield died and was buried in the said Churche the xxth of July. Mr. John Knewstub preached the funerall sermon and he with other preachers caried his coffin on ther shoulders. 33

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Her father, Sir George Harvey, was Lieutenant of the Tower. Ibid., 47.

2.

Son of Thomas Jerroll, shearman, and wife Dionysia. Sudbury Archdeaconry, bk. 30, fo. 61.

3.

Susanna Vintener, married October 8, 1592.

4.

A parish in the hundred of Cosford, co. Suffolk.

5.

Nathaniel Butter entered at Stationers’ Hall, June 12, 1605, a book with title: Twoo vnnaturall Murthers the one practised by master Coverley a Yorkshire gent. vppon his wife and happened on his children the 23 of Aprilis 1605. The other practised by Mistress Browne and performed by her servant vpon her husband who in lent last were executed at Berry in Suffolk. Registers of the Company of Stationers (ed. Arber), III. 292. Another printer, Thomas Pavier, also entered a ballad, June 28, A sorowfull ballad made by Mistris Browne who for the consentinge to the Killinge of her husband was burned, &c. The criminals being attainted, their goods were granted to Ellis Rothwell and others, May 15, 1607. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1603–1610, 357. “In treasons of every kind the punishment of women is the same, and different from that of the men. For, as the natural modesty of the sex forbids the exposing and publicly mangling their bodies, their sentence (which is to the full as terrible to sense as the other) is to be drawn to the gallows, and there to be burned alive.” William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1769), bk. iv, c. 6. By 30 Geo. III, c. 48, burning was abolished and hanging imposed. The Statutes: Revised Edition, III (1872), 299.

6.

Mary, only daughter of John and Thomasine Forth of Great Stambridge, born January 1, 1583–84, and died June 26, 1615. Muskett, 26, 119.

7.

Ezekiel Culverwell (died 1631), son of Nicholas Culverwell of London, haberdasher, educated at Emmanuel, and rector of Great Stambridge, 1592–1609, later vicar of Felsted, co. Essex. In 1583 he was suspended for nonconformity and in 1609 was deprived of his office. A sister married Laurence Chaderton, master of Emmanuel, and another, William Whitaker, master of St. John’s College, Cambridge. A brother, Samuel, rector of Cherry Burton, co. York, is said by Clark to have been a “famous preacher.” D. N. B. , IX. 431; XIII. 288;Venn, A. C. , I. 432; J. Foster, Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, I. 362. A third sister married Thomas Gouge of Stratford-le-Bow, co. Middlesex, and their son, William Gouge (1578–1653), a Puritan divine of great learning, rector of St. Anne’s, Blackfriars, has been termed “a model of the gentle scholar.” His son, Thomas Gouge (1609–81), was a Nonconformist divine and philanthropist. D. N. B. , XXII. 269–273.

8.

Anne (born 1580), daughter of William and Margery (Waldegrave) Clopton of Groton. John Maydstone was son of Robert and Elizabeth (Chambers) Maydstone of Boxted, co. Suffolk. Muskett, 144; Visitations of Essex, I (H. S., Pub. , XIII), 447. Boxted is a parish in the hundred of Babergh, co. Suffolk.

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