Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1
The last of February on Munday about ix of the Clocke in the forenoone Mr. Lawrence Hargrave an Attorny of the Comon place departed this life in the 62 yere of his age at his howse in Groton.
The xvjth of March I did ride to Stanbridge and retorned the xxiijth followinge. Father Micheldfild died.1
1608 The 28 day of March my sister
The xxixth my neece Amy Veysies husband and Robert Luffkin2 were at Groton.
The iiijth of Aprill Anne Goslin the wyfe of Nath: Warner died of a Consumption after she had been maryed viij monethes.
The ixth of Aprill Josephe Bronde the soonne of Rich:
The xth of Aprill my soonne
The xjth of Aprill Ezechiel Bonde was putt to schoole to Mr. Barfoote of Edwardeston.
The same day ther happened a fire in Bury which consumed aboue cc howses.3
The xiijth my wyfe
The last of Aprill I did ryde from my house towardes London and retourned the vjth of Maye.
98The vth of Maye the Erle of Sarisbury4 was sworne L
The vijth of Maye my brother John Wynthrop came to Groton.
The xiiijth of May my brother
The 21 my sister
The last of Maye Mres. Alston did ryde towardes London.
The xxxth I and St
The iiij of June Mr.
The viijth of June my Brother
The xijth of June the widowe Hales and hir brother Brice came to my house.
The 17 day of June Will
The xixth of June my brother
The xxiiijth daye of June my soonne
The last of June I made Robert Waspes will.8
The same day my Cosin Strange Firmin came to my house.
The iiijth of July olde Mris. Gurdon died suddenly.
The vth Mr. Will
The same day the Assises began at Bury and the next day Richli. to the Kinge.
On Thursday the vijth of July Mres. Gurdon was buryed in Assington Churche and Mr.
The xjth of July I sealed a bond with Wli. the xj of January next.
The xijth of July I was at Hadley and heard Dr. Jones9 preache at the buriall of the Wydowe Gale Act. 9. v. 36.
The xiiijth of July Mr.
The xvijth of July Jane Nicholson my goddaughter was babtized et ille confessus est et non negavit palam etc.
99The xxth I was with Mr. Mannoke at Stoke.
The xxiijth my boy Steven Michilfild was sore bitten by Mr. Birdes dogge.
The 26 of July my Cosen
The 27 my brother
The 28 Tho: Turnor and Abigail Beamond10 were maryed.
The xxvth of July my Lorde Coke cheife Justice of the comon place came to Hicham to Sir G
August. The 2 I was at Melford before the Commissioners.
The vth Mr.
The vjth daye it thundred and Rayned muche.
The xiijth I tooke an estate with John Brond in Hockers.
The 16 day I sealed a bonde to Rich: Cooke for to pay him v li. the 16th of November next.
The xxvjth of August Thomas Paine of Charsfild was maried to Elizabeth Alston of Groton widowe.
The viij of September my sister
The ixth Mr. Payne and his wyfe departed with their familly and household out of Groton to Charsfield.
The same day my soonne
The xiiijth of sept. Sir Isaac Appulton12 knight died at little Waldingfield.
The 28th the Court was kept at Groton Hall by John Potter.
the same day my sister
William Mickelfield was buried March 18, 1607–08, and his widow July 28, 1612.
Mary, wife of Robert Luffkin, and Rose, wife of Richard Brand of Boxford, were sisters of Alice Vesey, and may have been the daughters of Laurence and Alice Vesey of Hadleigh and aunts of Amy Vesey. Muskett, 63.
John Stowe, Annales (1615), 893: “This fire ceased not until it had destroyed 160. dwelling houses, besides many other, and besides the damage of much wares and goods. . . . the Towne was forthwith newe builded, in farre fairer manner then it was before.”
Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury (1563?–1612).
D. N. B.
, IX. 402.
A license to marry was issued, March 8, 1607–08, to Thomas Nicholson, rector of Groton, widower, and Jane, daughter of Thomas and Hellen (Halkins) Neale of Groton. Sudbury Archdeaconry, Acta Book V, fo. 37, and Groton Register.
Widow of John Cooke. Supra, p. 93.
The Arches, or Court of Arches, was the ecclesiastical court of appeal for the province of Canterbury, formerly held at the church of St. Mary-le-Bow (or “of the Arches”), so named from the arches that supported a lantern on the top of the tower.
Of Groton, weaver. The will was probated October 3, 1609, and named his wife Margaret, and children Joshua, Thomas, Robert, and Alice. Sudbury Archdeaconry, Wills, bk. 43, fo. 115.
Probably William Jones (1561–1636), fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, for forty years rector at East Bergholt, co. Suffolk. Venn, A. C.
, II. 488.
Daughter of Thomas Beamont, baptized April 6, 1585.
Thomas Payne of Charsfield, widower, and Elizabeth Alston of Groton, widow, were married August 26, 1608. Charsfield is a parish in the hundred of Loes, co. Suffolk.
Son of Thomas and Mary (Isaacke) Appleton of Little Waldingfield. Muskett, 329.
The iijth of Octobre my Cosen Nathanaell Still and his brother John were at Groton.
The iiijth Sir Robert Crane1 sent his Coche for me my wyfe and my daughter Winthrop to dine with him at Chilton.
The vjth Mr. Ben: Brond kept Court and leet at Edwardeston.
The xth of octobre my soonne
The xjth day Robert Waspe died and was buryed.
The xxjth my daughter Jane and Eliz
The xxijth my soonne
The same day I kept a Court at Bromeley Hall.
The xxvjth Sir Robert Crane came to my howse.
The last of octobre Mr. John Coe the yonger borowed of me xl s.
The 1 of November my daughter Fones daughter was Christened Sir Robert Crane and his Lady3 were present and she was witnesse with Mres.
The vth Mr. Goslin d
The same day
The xijth of November I tooke an estate from Sweetman of Linsey to the vse of Eve his wife in his howse.
The xvjth day Mr.
The 24 Mr.
The last of November Alice Reignold came to dwell with me. the next day I rode towardes Cambridge.
The seconde day of December I did ryde to Cambridge.
The same day my brother
The iiijth of December Barnabe Warde my tenant died.
The xijth of December I retorned home from the Auditt.
The xixth of Dece
The last of December I did ryde to Stambridge in Essex and retourned home the xth of January.
The xijth of January Mr.
The xixth Mr. Carewe7 preached at B
The xxiijth of Jan: I payd Willli. in the presence of Tho: Alston his soonne and W
The same day Mr.
The 26 Mr.
The 2 of Feb. the Buttes were repayred.
The 4 of Feb. I went to Hadley to see my sister
the same day John Wynthrop hurt his forhed with a fall.
The vjth of Feb. Dr. Some8 M
The 21 of Feb. Harry Pease brought me a lettre from my soonne
The last of Feb. John Rawlin senior griffed10 xx heds for me in my nue orchyarde. the wynde blue very colde and Rough out of the West et rigebant omnes.
101The 2 of Marche Mr.
The 3 Mr. Will
The vth day it snowed and was very colde.
The xjth Sir Henry Mildmay my Nephew came to G
The xiijth thassises were holden at Bury.
The xiiijth
The xviijth Sir William Waldegrave tooke a general view of diuers townes at Assington for the providing of Armour.
The xxth of March Steven Plombe deliuered an estate by a deede polle11 vnto the Wyd
The same day I sealed a bonde of c li. vnto Willli. x s. the xxijth of September next.
The xxiiijth my sister li. in the presence of Adam Podde.
The xxvjth I payd the Widowe Beeche13 xx s. in the presence of John Dogett John Brug and John Cole and I ds. to be paid vnto hir the 26 of August 1610.
The xxvth Thomas Booth14 came to dwell in Groton in Hartewells Howse where Will
The same day I received a lettre from my soonne
The last day of Marche the commissioners did sett at Bury for the levienge of Aide to make the prince knight.15
Robert Ryece dedicated to Sir Robert Crane the manuscript of A Breviary of Suffolk, February 9, 1618–19. Sir Robert gained a baronetcy in 1627 and was high sheriff of Suffolk, 1632. W. S. Appleton, Memorials of the Cranes of Chilton (Cambridge, Mass., 1868), 79–82.
Dorothy, who died December 24 following. Infra, p. 100.
Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Hubbard [or Hobart], Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Dorothy, daughter of Sir Robert Bell, Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Appleton, Cranes of Chilton, 67;
D. N. B.
, XXVII. 31.
Vicar of Much Bentley, 1603–20, and died June 27, 1625. Venn, A. C.
, III. 314.
Great Bentley, a parish in the hundred of Tendring, co. Essex.
A parish in the hundred of Lexden, co. Essex.
Possibly George Carew, rector of Boyton, co. Suffolk, 1609–17. Venn, A. C.
, I. 291.
Robert Some (1542–1609).
D. N. B.
, LIII. 217–218, where the date of his death is given as January 14 and his burial February 10.
Thomas Playfere (1561?–1609). Ibid., XLV. 416. He died February 2, 1608–09.
An obsolete form of graft.
A deed made and executed by one party only; so called because the paper or parchment is ’polled’ or cut even, not indented.
N. E. D.
Livery of seisin, which invested a person with a freehold estate, was not at common law always evidenced by a deed.
Susan Vintener, widow of Henry Beache.
Son of Richard and Margaret Booth of Chelsworth. Sudbury Archdeaconry, bk. 42, fo. 99.
The various state papers on levying this aid are calendared in the “This was a stormy meeting and occasioned differences of opinion between the Commissioners for East and those for West Suffolk. The West Suffolk Commissioners were the first to meet, at Bury St. Edmunds, and determined that juries from the hundreds should only be summoned at the end of their proceedings. Sir Robert Hicham, Knt., strongly opposed the decision, and as he sat also for East Suffolk he carried with him the East Suffolk Commissioners, and adopted the Norfolk procedure of taking a presentment from jurors, hundred by hundred, at the very first. The question was referred to the Earl of Salisbury, but there is no record of his decision.”Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1603–1610, 494–570, passim. Henry Frederick, born February 19, 1594, died November 6, 1612. Of the meeting at Bury Mr. Redstone writes: