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Thomas Hobson to John Winthrop1

Hobson, Thomas Winthrop, John

1630-01-04

To the Worshipful and my verie good Freinde mr. Wintrope at mr. Jonsons lodgeinge in Sopers lane by Chepeside at the sign of the thre white Belles: if he be not there then inquier at mr. Dounings in Flete streate nere the Globe Tauern:2 dd. this:

Sir

I received your letter dated the 14 of December, and god willinge, I doe purpose to meete with yow at london this next weke, and accordinge as yow write, upon the sighte of your euidence I knowe noe lette but to proceade, the only doupte your daughter in lawe her estate, houe that maye be taken of; but I leaue it till we farther conffere ther of, in the meane tyme with my kynde Comendations I reste yours to my power:

T: Hobsonn. Januarie the 4: 1629–30: 1.

W. 1. 67. “Thomas Hobson one of the esquires for the body of King Charles 1634,” son of Thomas and Margery (Rawlins) Hobson of Sutton, co. Essex. Visitations of Essex, I. 420.

The Globe Tavern was “on the north side of Fleet Street . . . where No. 134 is now, close to Shoe Lane.” E. B. Chancellor, The Annals of Fleet Street (London, 1912), 285–287.