Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1
1608-05-29
The 23 of Feb: beinge sunday my soonnes first soonne was baptized and named John.
The last day of Feb. the Dovehouse was raysed.
The seconde of march being sunday about vij of the Clocke in the evenyng the godewyfe Dogett1 died.
The vjth of marche being thursday Henry Vintener thelder died of thage of lxx yeres.
The xvth day of March ther were great stormes of wynde which did much hurt to howses.
92The same day Thomas Humfreys howse was burnt downe at Melfourde.
The xvth day of Aprill I kept a Court for my brother
The xixth of Aprill 1606 my sister tie younge pigeons to store my Dovehouse.
The xxiijth of Aprill Mris. Clopton sent me
The xxijth my Cosen
The xxviijth I kept a Court at Groton hall.
The iijd of Maye I putt xlv younge pigeons into my nue Dovehouse.
The vth of Maye my wife did ride towardes London and retorned the vth of June.
The vjth of Maye I was at a Court in Hadleigh and did fealty for a Tenement and certaine landes.
The viijth of Maye William Gale of Hadleigh died.
The xiiijth of May I sold l trees to Mr.
The 26 my soonne
The 27 Mris. Alston and her sister Mary dined with me.
The 29 Nath
The first of June my dunne Cowe calved and the Calf fell into the great ponde the next daye in the mornynge.
The iiijth of June I distreigned iiij horses for Rent due by Henry Vintener and he made Resceus.
The xth of June John Dixon thelder died in Groton.
The xiijth of June I paide to Edward Alston 120 li.
The xjth of June Mr. John Forth came to Groton.
The 26 of June I paid to Mr. Edli. which I borrowed of him.
On sunday the
The 29 I kept a Court at Shimplinge.
The viijth of July Mr. Brampton Gurdon was maried to his seconde wife.6
The 25 of July my soonne
The 28 we did ride to Ipswich.
The xiijth of August my soonne
The 28 of August Mr. Arminger7 had a fall of his horse and brake his legge.
93The first of Sept. I did give an estate to my soonne in the house and lande called Wrightes in the Fenne.
The thirde of sept. we did ride with Mr.
The ixth of Sept. my Cosen
The same day the great Appletree next the killehouse was fyred for to distroy a hornettes nest.
The xiiijth of september Mr.
The xviijth Mris. Alston and hir sister8 dined with me.
The xixth day John Still9 came to my house.
The xxiiijth day of sept. I did ride to Stambrige and retourned the xxixth.
The thirtieth of sept. Beniamin Bronde was maryed at Ipswich to
The vijth of September the nue howse at Castleynes Hethe was sett vp by
And the 29th of Maye 1608 my brother sealed a lease thereof to Robert Surrey for xlj yeres.
Dorothy Doggett, buried March 14, 1604–05.
A parish in the hundred of Babergh, co. Suffolk.
Nathaniel Milbourne and Phebe Deathe. She was daughter of James and Bridget Deathe and was baptized March 22, 1583–84. The Groton Register gives May 9 as the date of this marriage.
June 24.
Anne of Denmark (1574–1619), queen consort, had a daughter Sophia, who lived for one day and was buried, June 26, 1606, in Westminster Abbey. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1603–1610, 322; John Stow, Abridgement of the English Chronicle, with continuation by Edmond Howes (London, 1607), 590–591.
Muriel Sedley. Muskett, 287.
The name is spelled Armiger infra, p. 94.
The sister was Mrs. Armiger. Infra, p. 94.
Son of Bishop Still, born in 1588. He married Anna, daughter of Thomas Baynard of Coleborne, co. Wilts. Muskett, 76.
October the 2 day I kept a Court for Mr.
The iiijth day Henry Vintener sealed an Indenture vnto me of thassignement of his lease in Sweetsurs.
The same day
The viijth my Cosen
The same day the great pump began to be bored.
The xiiijth Mr. Dr. Goade2 preched at Boxford.
The xvj day the pumpe was putt into the Welle.
The xxth I sent a lettre to my brother
The xxjth I kept a Court and leete at Shimplinge.
The xxiiijth the Bell went at Groton for father Cooke and at Boxford for Zachary Bonde.
The same day I received a lettre from my Lady Mildmay and writt her an answere presently.
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The xxvth day John Cooke4 of thage of C yeres died.
The 28 the millers wife of Rochefourd departed from G
The 30 my soonne
November. The seconde ther fell muche Snowe and Rayne.
The vjth Zachary Bond died.
94The ixth Jane Kedby was maryed to Thomas Driffild a citizin and Grocer of London.
The xiiijth Mris. Goodday and Mris. Pointell were with me.
The second of December W
The xvijth of December Stephen Plombe5 was maried att London. the
The first of Jan: Mr. Armiger and his wyfe and her sister Alston dyned at my howse with diu
The v of Jan: I was at Holton and spake with Johane my Cosen A
The same day I received Commendacions from my brother
The viijth of Jan: father Smyth of Toppesfild came to me and brought me a fatt Capon and James Bett
The xth of Jan: Anne Cokye8 came to dwell with me.
The xj of Jan: Simon Blumfild sent me ij Capons.
The xiijth my Cosen Adam
The xvth I satt vppon a Commission9 with Mr.
The xxth of Jan. was very tempestuous and wyndye which did muche harme to howses and trees.
The 21 of Jan: I and my soonne
The 22 I was at Mr.
The 26 I went to London and the ixth of Feb. I retourned home.
The 16.
The same daye Mr. Nicholas Hubbarde died.
The 21th of Feb. I dyned at Mr. s. for Hen: Hadlocke.
The xxijth Mr. Armiger with his wyfe and family departed from Groton to dwell at Bury.
The 3 of Marche my browne cowe calued.
The vij of Marche I bought ij Cowes of Mr. Harman.
The xviijth I did keepe a Court at Toppesfild.
The xxth the Assises were holden at Bury.
The 26. John Wynthrop was weaned the same day I went to Brettenham and brought my cosens wyfe
The first of Aprill John Bogas thelder died.
The vjth my Cosens wife li. and Anne Speede nupta fuit.
The vijth I was at Hadleigh at the mariage of Sir W
The viijth of Aprill Thomas Polley was maryed to Anne speede to whom I paid xxv li.
The xiijth of Aprill my cosen Nath: Still came to my howse and brought me a lettre from his father.
The xiiijth day I was at Hadley to Survey Robert Veysyes10 howse and lande for my L
The xxjth of Aprill my sonne li. to John Plumbe to be paid the 23 of octobre followinge.
The 25 daye Mr.
The 26 of Aprill Rich. Cooke sen. died and was buryed.
The 29 day I dli.
The vth of May I did ryde to London.
The same day Ambrose paid me ix li. for my soone.
The xviijth of May I retourned and the xxijth my brother
The
A parish in the hundred of Hinckford, co. Essex.
Roger Goad (1538–1610).
D. N. B.
, XXII. 19–20.
A marriage license was issued October 6, 1578, to Richard Spenser of Groton and Elizabeth Coe of Boxford. Sudbury Archdeaconry, Acta Book, fo. 10. He died September, 1609.
Of Groton, weaver. He married, February 10, 1588–89, Eva Motte, who survived him and married William Sweetman, June 17, 1608. Infra, p. 98.
December 17, 1606. “Stephen Plumm of Groughton in the countie of Suff., clothier, and Mary Strachy, spinster, servaunt to Sr. John Spencer, knight; by lycence.” Registers of St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate (H. S., Reg.
, XXXI), 121.
Eldest son of George Fitch of Edwardstone? P. C. C., 49 Hayes.
Needham, a parish in the hundred of Earsham, co. Norfolk.
Probably daughter of Richard and Agnes (Hervey) Cokey of Groton. Cf. infra, p. 124.
“The Commission was probably held in connection with the dispute between Paul D’Ewes, lord of the manor, and the inhabitants as to custom of the town, which dispute was settled in Chancery by an agreement, 1610.” Note supplied by Mr. Redstone.
Son of William and Mary (Bedingfield) Vesey of Bedingham, co. Norfolk. He married Anne, daughter of Philip Forthe of Hadleigh. Muskett, 64.