Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2
1629-02-14
vniuersi per presentes me Thomam Fowle de interiori Templo prope London gener
The Condicion of this Obligacion is such that whereas the above named John Winthrop and one Thomas Jeykill2 of Barkeing in the County of Essex gent, togeather with the above bounden Thomas Fowle att the speciall instance and request of the said Thomas Fowle and for the proper debt of him the said Thomas Fowle stand bounde togeather onto one Thomas Gare of Fetterlane in the parish of St. Andrew neere London gent, in the Summ of Twoe hundred poundes of lawfull English mony for the payment of One hundred poundes att or vpon the Fifteenth day of August next ensueing the date hereof which said bond of Two hundred poundes was dated the Fower72teenth daye of February Anno Domini 1628. If therefore the said Thomas Fowle his heires executors administrators or Assignes or either of them doe secure and save harmeles the said John Winthrop his heires executors administrators and Assigns from the aforesaid bond of Two hundred poundes and pay and discharge the said One hundred poundes att the tyme appointed for payment thereof that then this Obligacion to bee voyd or els to stand remayne and bee in full force strength and vertue.
W. 1. 42. Thomas Fowle is the “young Fowle” of the preceding letter. He was of Hedingham-Castle, co. Essex. See page 40, supra.
Thomas Jekyll of Bocking, co. Essex. His son, William Jekyll, was master of Magdalen Hall, at this time the great Puritan college of Oxford. Visitations of Essex (H.S., Pub.
, XIII), I. 427, 428.