Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2
1627
Good Mr. Taylor1 this my letter shalbe to let you knowe and to testefy the officers of the court of Wards, that by reason of my disability in hearing, and the death of Mr. Reade I desire to be spared as vnfitt for commissioner, or to examine when I can not heare their answeres nor the other comissioners examinations without such lowd speaking as is vnfitt for such a business, and whereby I might doe the Lady Kingsmill2 (that named me not knowing of myne infirmity) great wrong, and yet no fault of mine. Thus with my kinde salutations I betake you to God and ever rest
“Mr. Taylor (the Clerke of the Evidences).” C. W. 567. 638.
An order of November 7, 1627, shows that Joshua Kingsmill was plaintiff by bill of allowance against Dame Bridget Kingsmill, widowed mother and committee of William Kingsmill his majesty's ward concerning an annuity of twenty pounds, and that there were to be three commissioners “for makinge of the Award betweene the said parties.” C. W. 542. 1145; see 567. 428.
William Oxenbridge of Hurstbourne-Prior, co. Hants, admitted to the Inner Temple November, 1595.