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Winthrop Family Papers

Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2

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5 April 1630

Wensday 7:

7 April 1630
Teusday 6:
Winthrop, John

1630-04-06

Captaine Burleigh1 Capt of Yarmouth Castle a grave Comely gentleman, and of great age, came aboard vs, and stayed breakfast, and offeringe vs muche Courtesye, he departed, our Capt givinge him 4: shott out of the forecastle for his farewell, he was an old sea Capt in Q: Eliz: tyme, and beinge taken prisoner at sea, was kept prisoner in Spaine 3: yeares. him selfe and 3: of his sonnes were Captains in Roes voyage.2

The winde was now come about to n: E: with verye faire weather. In the afternoone mr. Cradocke came aboarde vs, and tould vs that the Talbott, Jewell and Ambrose were fallen downe into Stokes baye3 intendinge to take their waye by St Hellens pointe, and that they desired we would come backe to them; heervpon we came to Councell, and wrote vnto them, to take the first opportunity of the winde to fall downe to vs, and mr. Cradocke presently rode back to them: our Capt giving him 3: shott out of the steerage for a Farewell.

Our Capt Called over our landmen, and tryed them at their muskettes and suche as were good shott amonge them, were enrolled to serve in the Shippe, if occasion should be.

The Ladye Arbella, and the gentlewomen, and mr. Johnson and some others went on shore to refreshe them selues.4

1.

If Winthrop here refers to the Captain John Burleigh, or Burley, who was a native of the Isle of Wight and a royalist sea-captain (1642) and was executed by order of Parliament in 1647 for having made a futile attempt to rescue Charles I when the latter was brought a prisoner to Newport Castle, then the words “of great age,” as used of him in 1630, must be understood as expressing the point of view of the time. The date of Burleigh's birth is not known.

 2.

Sir Thomas Roe, named a member of the Council for Virginia in the Charter of 1609, was sent out by Prince Henry in 1609/10 to explore the coast of Guiana. He returned to England in 1611, and had an interesting diplomatic career. D. N. B.

3.

Stokes Bay, a part of the Spithead.

 4.

For Isaac Johnson, see supra, page 49 56 , note 2; for the Johnson Family, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, VIII 359. Of three daughters of Thomas, third Earl of Lincoln, Frances married John, son and heir of Sir Ferdinando Gorges; Susan became the third wife of John Humfrey ( 153 152 , note 4), and Arbella married Isaac Johnson. Their brother, Theophilus, the fourth Earl of Lincoln ( 50, note 2 56, note 4 ), succeeded to the title January 15, 1619. Thomas Dudley (1577–1653) and Simon Bradstreet (1603–1697) both served as stewards of his estate. Bradstreet married Ann, the poetess, daughter of Dudley, for whom see page 55, note 2 56, note 18 .