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Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2

Bond of Thomas Fowle, 16291
Fowle, Thomas

1629-02-14

Nouerint

vniuersi per presentes me Thomam Fowle de interiori Templo prope London generosum teneri et firmiter obligari Johanni Winthrop de Groton in Comitatu Suff: Armigero in Ducentis libris bone et legalis monete Anglie Solvendis eidem Johanni Winthrop aut suo Certo Attornato heredibus executoribus vel administratoribus suis Ad quam quidem solucionem bene et fideliter faciendam Obligo me heredes executores et administratores meos firmiter per presentes sigillo meo sigillatas datas decimo sexto die Februarij Anno Regni Domini nostri Caroli dei gratia Anglie Scocie Frauncie et Hibernie Regis fidei defensoris etc: Quarto.

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.

Tho: Fowle seal Sealed and delivered in the presence of vs Nich: Godsalue Edmund Johnson.
1.

W. 1. 42. Thomas Fowle is the “young Fowle” of the preceding letter. He was of Hedingham-Castle, co. Essex. See page 40, supra.

2.

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.