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Notebook, Court of Wards, folios 9 to 14
Winthrop, John

Despense Despense
Termino Hillarie Anno Regni Regis Caroli 2°:
Jan: 26.
paid Edwardus Dillingham ad servitium Dowell Shenton et Sare Shenton. } x Resonsio ad Informacionem.
paid Francis Guevara esq. ad servitium Hen: Skipwith et Edw: Sk:1 } x Mr. Collins.
Jan: 27.
paid Johannes Dillingham ad servitium Attornatus ex parte Dowell Shenton et Sare Shenton } x Apparentia.
x Responsio 5° Feb.
x Mr. Pye
11
January 29
paid Richardus Broughton gent. ad sert. Att. ex parte Johannis Poppam esq.2 et Marie vxoris.3 }
dismissed Feb. 9.
paid Willelmus Langhorne generosus } xApp: Responsio Feb: 9.
paid Willelmus Cuttesworth ad sert. Att. ex parte Willelmi Thimbleby.4 x Mr. Collins.
xApp: Responsio 5°. Feb:
paid Eliz: Miller vidua ad sert. Att. ex parte Hugh: Portman5 militis et bar. }
January 30.
paid Calcott Chambre6 esq. ad sert. Lucye Gobart } x Sherfeild7
x appointed him to answer 11 daye next terme
x Bill.
12
paid Edmundus Hampden8 ad sert. Att. ex parte Willelmi Warde } x Responsio 31. Jan.
x Sherlande
1mo. Febr.
paid Georgius Dalston9 miles ad sert. Willelmi Mullins et Bridget vx. pro terris Wharton } x Apparentia.10
x Bankes.
3°: die Feb: Anno Regni Regis Caroli 2°
3 s. 4 d. Robertus Smithe. } x defendantes. Comissio pro Responsione returnable mense Pasche
Tho: Greene
George Langlye ad sert. Att. ex parte Ricardi Rociter.11
5to: Feb:
paid Samuell Deane et Grace Deane vx. ad sert. Att. ex parte Tho: Whitlye.12 } x heard Feb: 5to. Bacon.
x Comiss. returnable mense pasche.
13
paid Willelmus Cooper ad sert Eliz: Kempe. } x Com. pro Responsione etc. returnable 8: pasche.
paid Willelmus Stowell at sert. Att. ex parte Petri Bounde13 } xComiss. returnable m: Pasche.
Feb: 6to.
paid Robertus Cowper ad sert. Att. ex parte Eliz: Lucas pro terris Lucas. } x Apparentia.
x Bill.
paid cut off 12 d. pro fine. Willelmus Bligh et vx. ad sert. Henrici Williams pro terr. Courtnye. } x Responsio.
paid Tho: Welshe et Edward Robertes ad sert. Att. ex parte Willelmi } x Com. ex P. pro Resp. etc. returnable ter. Pasche.
Bavard. Brerton14 pro terr. Brerton.
paid Johannes Ponde ad sert. Att. ex parte Willelmi Willoughby. pro terr. Willoughby. } x App. Responsio 10: feb.
x Bill nov: 17.
paid Tho: Rolte armiger ad sert. Att. ex parte Vincentii Goddarde15 pro terr. Goddarde. } x Responsio.
14
paid Hugo Newton ad sert. Att. ex parte } x Apparentia.
Colnett in Shelland Johannis Gressam pro terr. Gressam x Bill.
x Cholmelye. Babar.
Feb: 7mo. Anno Regni Regis Caroli 2°.
paid Margareta Lomax vidua ad sert. Att. ex parte George Allanson } x Responsio.
Emanuell Davis.16 } x Responsio.
Samuell Alford ad sert. Att. ex parte Anne Davys.17 x Responsio.
Johannes Mittford18 armiger } x Cholmlye
Johannes Cradock19 doctor theologie
paid Johannes Robson20 clericus ad sert. Att. ex parte Humfrey Wharton21 etc.
Johannes Cradock doctor theologie } x Comission for all save Dr. Crad: and with oathe of appearance before Ascension daye.
Johannes Mittford armiger
paid Johannes Cradock iunior
Joseph Cradock x a Com. for the staye
Robertus Jackson
Gabriell Jackson ad sert. Att. ex parte Humfrey Wharton. x mr. Wharton to enter bond 1000 li. if he be in mercy
15
paid Tho: Docton et al. ad sert. Att. ex parte Johannis Cooke.22 } x Sherfeild
Feb: 8°:
paid Robertus Allen et Elizabeth vx. ad sert. Att. ex parte Richardi Westlye.23 } x Hide
paid Josias Full et Alice vx. ad sert. Att. ex parte Peter Bownd.24 } x Com. pro test. returnable mense pasche
Hen: Mitton ar. ad sert. Att. ex parte Ursula Lawlye25
paid Alexander Denton miles ad sert. Att. ex parte Willelmi Risbye pro terr. Risbye. } x Apparentia. Responsio.
x Sherfeild
x Cholmelye.
Feb: 9th Anno Caroli 2°.
paid Sir Tho. Coventry26 Kinges Lo: Keeper et al. ad sert. Packington27
paid Francis Showldam ad sert. Att. ex parte Adam Stacye } x published Feb: 9.
O. Samuell Allford et Emanuell Davis ad sert. Att. ex parte Anne Davis }
paid Alice Pake vidua ad sert. Att. ex parte Eliz: Lucas. } x apparentia
16
Hen: Simondes ad sert. Att. ex parte Harbottell Wingfield armigeri }
paid Ricardus Talmach28 et Robertus Smithe29 ad sert. Att. ex parte Hen: Simondes30 } x Com. pro test. returnable termino P:
Feb: 12.
paid Johannes Strowde31 miles ad sert. Ludivici Dive32 militis et Howarde vxoris eius } x Com. ex aff. returnable termino pasche pro exam. test:
Feb: 14.
paid Johannes Estofte ad sert. Att. ex parte Tho: Moyser33 pro terr. Stockdell. }
17
paid Hen: Birde ad sert. Att. ex parte Willelmi Dunne34 pro terr. Dunne. }
Feb: 15.
paid Tailor Sol. Domina Anne Kingsmill35 ad sert. Att. ex parte Domine Bridgett Kingsmill }
Swaine sol. paid Francis Lo: Bish: of Hereford36 ad sert. Att. ex parte Tho: Cox.37 } x Dedimus pro exam. returnable 15. Pasche.
paid Walterus Vaughan armiger ad sert. Att. ex parte Caroli Prothero38 pro terr. Prothero } x morgan
Feb: 16.
paid Georgius Reresby39 miles et Domina Elizabetha vxor ad sert. Att. ex parte Willelmi Mollins } x Com. pro Resp. et exam. Returnable 15°: P.
Termino Pasce 3°: Caroli.
paid Johannes Dent vs. Nico: Benson }
18
paid Hugo Newton ad s: Johannis Gresham. }
paid Calcott Chambre ad s: Lucii sic Gobart. }
paid Alice Pake x Responsio Ap: 12.
Aprilis 13°.
paid Willelmus Addison40 clericus } x ad sert. Abraham Speckart.42
paid Henry Peche
paid Willelmus Irelande41
O Tho: Welsh vs. Tho: Welsh et Sens: }
paid Johannes Estoft ad s: Tho: Moyser.
paid Johannes Dent versus Nic: Benson.43
paid Christofer Wright generosus et Hurte } x ad sert. Att. ex parte Edwardes
paid Ricardus Fisher super Attach. ad sert. Tho: Moyser per Att.
paid Tho: Couentrye miles Cust. mag: Sig: et
paid Domina Dorothea Packington44 ad s: Attornatus ex parte Packington.
19
paid Paulus Winnington45 generosus ad s: Att. ex parte Petri Venables.46
paid Ludovicus Watson47 miles et baronettus ad sert. Abrah: Speckart.
paid Clement Swinford ad sert.
paid Eliz: Crayford.
paid Tho. Docton ad sert. Att. ex parte Jo: Cook.
paid Gilbertus Gerrard48 vs: Dominam Barb: Ireland et Jac: Massye et Johannem Dutton per Att.
paup. Ricardus Gerrard Margaret Gerrard et Anne Gerrard49 vs: Dominam Barbara Ireland et Jacob: Massye per Att:
Pasce
paid Walterus Clopton50 armiger ad sert. Simeonis Deus51 miles et Anne vxor.
20
Apr: 18.
paid Rogerus James miles et Johannes James52 armiger ad
paid sert. Att. ex parte Radolphi Wilkins.
paid Sara Wilkins53 vidua ad s: Att. pro terris Wilkins
paid Lawrentius Boteler54 vs. Edw. Allin
Francis Lo: Bishop of Hereford ad s: Att. ex parte Thomae Coxe.
paid Georgius Smithe generosus ad s: Att. ex parte Marie Smithe super Attach.
paid Edward Dillingham et } ad s. Dowell Shenton et Sare Shenton per Att.
paid Johannes Dillingham
paid Domina Dorothea Hall vxor Johannis Hall militis ad sert. Att. ex parte Tho: White.55
paid Robertus Cooper ad s: Att. ex parte Eliz: Lucas.
O Isack Apleton56 armiger vs. Jacobum Isack per Att.
paid Rich. Talmache } x ad s. Hen: Simondes.
Robertus Smithe
paid Johannes Hayward57 miles et Domina Ann vxor pro terr. Boswell. } x versus per Att.
x Ricardum Clampard
x Johannem Pettit
x Johannem Hope generosum
x Johannem Hunt.
x Ricardum Soame.
x Johannes sic Stilman.
x Johannem Haywarde.
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paid Edwardus Hobart58 armiger ad s: Gregory Baker59 per Att.
paid Willelmus Maine ad s. Edwardi Windsor60 militis ad Pipa: pro Order.
paid Willelmus Cooper generosus ad s. Att. ex parte Eliz: Kempe.
paid Hen: Farre armiger versus Robertum Salmon et Johannem Rogers per Att.61
paid Ricardus Glouer generosus versus Johannem Bronde62 militem per Infor. Bronde ret. Crast. Trin.
paid Josias Full et Alice vx. ad s: Petri Bound per Att.
paid Ricardus Pocock63 vs. Tho: Pocock et Margaret vx. pro terr. Penne per Infor.
22
paid Edwardus Ernle generosus ad s: Smithe per Infor.
paid Willelmus Stowell ad s: Petri Bownde.
paid Andrewe Burrell ad sert. Willelmi Pitt64 militis.

Pasc: 3tio Aprilis
paid Willelmus White mercier ad sert. Hastinges Ingram65 generosi } x Oorder pro Bre: dat. Easter thur.
paid Robertus Allen et Eliz. vx. } x ad s: Att. ex parte Ricardi Westlye.
paid Robertus Horner
paid { willelmus Ruggles66
Kath: Ruggles
O Sir George Reresby knight et vx. ad s: Willelmi Molins.
paid Johannes Warrenus armiger ad sert. Willelmi Warreni per Infor. illegible Att.
paid Robertus Smithe ad sert. Nelson per Att.
paid Tho: Welshe et Edward Robertes ad sert. Att. ex parte paid Willelmi Brereton.
paid James Bellassis armiger ad sert. coheredum Willelmi Rigge Reade militis per Information.67
paid Hen: Jerningham miles vs. Thomam Hicklin et al. per Inform ation.
paid Georgius Dalston miles vs. Willelmum Molins ar migerum.
23
paid Georgius Dalston miles ad s: Willelmi Molins.
paid Edmundus Hamden ad s: W: Warde per Information.
paid Francisca Cholmundleigh vs. Robertum Cholmundleigh baron ettum per bill.68
Johannes Cradocke Dr: theo: } x ad sert. Humfrey Wharton per Inform
Johannes Mitford ar miger
Johannes Robson clericus.
Edw: Wright ar miger.
Johannes Cradock Dr: theo: } x del. 9 s. 4 d. pro 2. app. et 2 s. 4 d. pro wr. ad sert. Humfrey Wharton per Inform.
Johannes Mitford ar miger.
Johannes Cradock iunior.
Joseph Cradock.
Robertus Jackson.
Gabriell Jackson.
O Nowell et vx. } x ad sert. Tho: Whitlye per Inform.
paid Samuell Deane et vx.
O Samuell Deane et vx. vs. Thomam Whitlye et al. Bernard ad s. Bernard.
paid Willelmus Gale versus Ricardum Taylor et al. per Att.
paid Nicolas Kifte ad sert. Att. ex parte Francis Hawlye69 armigeri.
paid Tho: Osborne vs. Ph: Osborne et al. per Infor.
paid Margaret Mowbray70 vidua vs. Freeston et al.
24
paid Edwardus Thicknesse ad sert. Att. ex parte Willelmi Warde.
paid Robertus Church et Alicia vx. ad sert. eiusdem.

paid Tho: Feltham71 generosus vs. Tho: Plaiters72 baronettum Edmundum Harvye Robertum Baker Tho: Clerke Nico: Judithe et al per Inform.
paid Robertus Haselwood clericus ad s: att. ex parte Wilks
paid Tobias Cage73 miles ad s. Att. ex parte Willelmi Hillarye.
O Isack Eaton et al. ad sert. Anne Pilkington74
paid Ricardus Hill Georgius Jeffes Jacobus Raynbowe et Willelmus Carpenter ad sert. Johannis Harrald generosi pro terr. Eliz: Lapworth heredum
mr. Cole for the Inventory of Costes pro Order
paid Gabriell Walwin75 clericus ad s: Att. ex parte Tho:
10 s. Capell generosi.
paid Morgan Rees ad s: Att. ex parte Rogeri Vaughan armigeri
Ricardus Crakenthorpe vs. Johannem Rawson
paid Haye ad s: Migdale
paid Francis Daye generosus et vx. ad s: Att. ex parte Weyselhead.
paid Johannes Mill76 baronettus et Willelmus Price armiger at s: Tho: Leigh77 armigeri.
paid Edm: Jordan generosus Robertus Covell generosus
paid Tho: Bishop generosus Johannes Malteward generosus ad s: Att. ex parte Roberti Nelson.
paid Eliz: Southe78 ad s: Att. ex parte Ricardi Williams
paid Isack Apleton vs. Jacobum Isack
25
Termino Trinitatis.
paid Margaret Mowbray vidua vs. Freeston et al.
Rec. 20 s. Chambers ad sert. At. ex parte Byers.
paid Walterus Clopton armiger ad s: S: Deus militis.
Georgius Dalston miles ad sert. Willelmi Molins.
Ge: Dalston miles vs. Willelmum Molins.
paid Sir John Heyward miles vs. Clampard et al.
paid Calcott Chambre armiger ad sert. Lucie Gobart.
paid Ricardus Glouer generosus vs. Sir Jo: Bronde
paid mr. Washington at Compositions xx s.
paid Jackson at Compositions — xx s.
paid Sir Hen: Jerningham bar: vs. Thomam Hickling.
paid Sir Tobias Cage ad s: Willelmi Hillary
paid Robertus Allen et Elizabetha vx. et Robertus Horner ad s: Ricardi Westlye
paid Johannes Goldinge ad s: Hickes
paid Johannes Estoft ad s: Thomae Moyser.
paid Halftide Jac: ad s: Parsons bar onetti.79
paid Ricardus Talmache vs. Henricum Simondes
paid Ricardus Talmache et Robertus Smithe ad s: Henrici Simondes
paid Robertus Franke vs. Ricardum Tempest.80
paid Johannes Bowen81 generosus ad s: Joh. Sckurfield82 per Infor.
Lewes John ap Howell et Anne vx. ad s: eiusdem.
paid Christofer Wright ad s: Edwardes.

paid Robertus Cowper ad s: Eliz: Lucas.
rec. 10 s. Henry Eaton pro wardship Johannis Eaton.83
26
paid Tho: Sandell ad s: Att. ex parte Baker
paid Hen: Vaughan armiger ad s. Caroli Prothero.
paid Mowbraye vs. Caye
paid Alice Pake ad s: Eliz: Lucas
paid Chambers ad s: Rogers
paid Peche ad s: Timothie Wade84 pro terr. Conyers.
paid Lady Mary Estcourt85 vs. Webb et al.
paid William Davenport et Jane86 vx. vs. .
paid Richardus Reynell armiger ad s: Carewe
paid James Bellassis ad s: Coheredum Reade
paid George ad s: Nelson.
paid Falconer versus Harvye et Warren.
Edm: Jordan et 3es al: ad s: Roberti Nelson
paid Apleton Is: vs. Thomam Twine87 et al.
paid Hen: Farre vs. Johannem Rogers et Robertum Salmon.
paid Full Josias et Alice vxor ad s: Petri Bounde
Bernard ad s: Bernarde.
paid Hamden Edm: miles ad s: Willelmi Warde
paid Douglas Castilion88 clericus ad s: Att. ex parte Hen. Worsly89 baronetti.
paid Hoxton armiger ad s: Cluell.
paid Fowlkes —
paid Edward Goughe et Anne vx. ad s: Att. pro terr. Knight
paid Francis Daye ad s: Weysellhead
paid Nico: Arnold armiger vs. Wm: Price Jo: Loyd per att.
paid Tho: Cooper ad s. Att. ex parte Still.
paid Clement Swinford ad s: Eliz: Crayford.
pauper Hellen Briges.
paid Nico: Kifte ad s: Att. ex parte Francisci Hawlye.
paid Gilbertus Gerrard vs. Dominam Ireland.
paid Domina Anne Kingsmill ad s: Domine Bridgett Kingsmill
paid Tho: Greene Robertus Smithe etc. ad s: Ricardi Rositer
27
paid Banister et al. pro Rogers versus Dive et al.
pauper Cosford et vx: vs. Heathe et al.
paid Gabriell Walwin ad s: Thomae Capell
paid John Harpur90 vs. Hellen Baylye et al.
paid Ricardus Crakenthorpe ad s: Johannis Rawson
paid Willelmus Stowell ad s: Petri Bownde
p.p. Stephenson et Reade ad s: Coheredum Reade91
p.p. Edwardus Dillingham et Johannes Dillingham ad s: Dowell et Sare Shenton.
paid Tho: Feltham generosus vs. Tho: Playters baronettum et al.
paid Tho: Welshe et Edwardus Robertes ad s: Willelmi Brerton
paid Samuell Dene ad s: Tho: Whitlye
paid Lewes Jo: Ap howell ad s: Johannis Scurfield.
paid Frances Prior ad s: Johannis Prior.92
paid Pryor vs. Smithe.
paid Fincham vs. Collinson
paid Wm: Bunworthe vs. Ricardum Hickson93

paid Blithe ad s: Williams.
paid Wood vs. Harris et Browne per infor.
paid Johannes Strowde miles ad s: Ludovici Dive militis.
paid Peach ad s: Timothie Wade
paid Fowke et al. ad s: Comberforde.
paid Noyes coheredes v. Walker et al.
paid Eliz: Miller ad s: Hugh: Portman.
paid Samuell Deane v: Tho: Whitlye et al.
paid Willelmus Addison ad s: Abrah: Speckard
pp. Edm: Jordan et al. ad s: Roberti Nelson
paid Edwardus Hobart ad s: Gregory Baker
paid Dinely v: Midgly et al.
Termino Michaelis Anno 3tio Caroli.
paid Robertus Allen et Eliz. vxor ad s: Ricardi Westly. 5 s.
paid Edwardus Gough ad s: Knight.
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paid Johannes Gouldinge94 ad s: Hickes. not for distresse. 8–9.
Gerrard ad s: Domine Ireland.
paid Edm: Hampden miles vs. Willelmum Warde
paid Domina Maria Escourt v: Web et al.
paid Robertus Franck v. Ricardum Tempest
paid Vxford ad s: Adderly 3–4
paid Cowper et vx. ad s: Dennis 5–6
paid Hugo Newton ad s: Johannis Gresham.
paid Edmundus Hampden miles ad s: Caroli Trewe95 3–4
paid Johannes Estofte ad s: Thomae Moyser 5.–
paid Laurentius Boteler vs. Thomam Twine et al.96
paid Edwardus Hobart ad s: Gregory Baker.
paid Ricardus Beckam97 ad s: Coh: Reade
paid Frances Prior ad s: Johannis Prior
paid Prior vs. Smithe
paid Hanbury et al. ad s: Wright xi s.
paid Agnes Cryme98 vs. Johannam Cryme.
paid Tob: Cage miles ad s: Willelmi Hillary
paid Davenport vs. Ric. Egerton99 militem et al.
paid Strowde Jo: miles ad s: Diue Lew: mil.
paid Knighte ad s: Att. pro Willis.
Hanbury v: Wright
paid Knight vs. Lawne100
paid Anthony Ayrey v: Johannem Breres101 et:
29
paid Domina Anne Kingsmill ad s: Domine Bridgett Kingsmill.
paid Nicolas Kifte ad s: Francisci Hawlye.
paid Braine ad s: Braine
paid Walterus Clopton ad s: Simeonis Deues.
paid Johannes Heyward vs. Clampard et al: et v s. pro mot.
paid Robertus Cowper ad s: Eliz: Lucas
paid Georgius Langly et al. ad s: Ricardi Rositer
paid Gabriell Walwin ad s. Tho. Capell
paid Sir Rich: Fermor102 ad s: Packington
Knighte ad s: Willis
paid Whetston ad s: Hillarye.
paid Johannes Simpson103 ad s: Johannis Pinchin
paid Johannes Keelinge103 ad s: Johannis Pinchin.
pp. Thomas Cornwall104 miles et Wigmore ad s: Anne et Johanne Collins
paid James Bellassis ad s: coheredum Willelmi Reade.
paid Josias Full ad s: Petri Bownde
paid Johannes Bowen et al. ad s: Johannis Scurfild

paid Willelmus Ireland ad s: Abrah: Speckard
Tho: Welsh ad s: Willelmi Brerton
paid Bestney Bettes105 ad s: Thomae Wendye.106
30
paid Barnard ad s: Barnard.
paid Ricardus Crakenthorpe v. Johannem Rawson. r: mot: 5 s.
paid Harison ad s: Browham.
paid Hen: Newdigate et al. ad s: Edwardi Darsye.107
paid Johannes Edsawe108 et al. ad s: Philippi Benit109
paid Richardson by mo. Feb. iiii
paid Tho: Chapman ad s. Johanne Pudsey110
paid Tho: Welshe v. Kite et Husbandes et al.
paid Tho: Thornhill ad s: Ashton Nuttall: et v s. pro mot.
paid Samuell Deane v. Thomam Whitlye et al. et pro mot. 5 s.
paid Samuell Deane ad s: Thome Whitlye.
paid Rawlen v. Topham. et x s. for Infor.
paid Tho: Paine ad s. Archiepiscopi Cant.111
31
Wood v. Browne et al.
paid Harpur v. Whitman et al.
paid Harpur v. Burton et al.
Michell.
Robertus Warner ad s: Henrici Domini Stafford.112
paid Hen: Farre v: Johannem Rogers
paid Willelmus Brabyn v: Tho: Midleton113
paid for Composition for Soame 20 s.
paid for Composition for Fowke 10 s.
paid for Composition for Portis114 20 s.
paid Domina Spencer ad s. Spencer
paid Burton ad s: Theake
paid Burton ad s. Theake
paid Hide v. Bowyer et al. et 5 s.
paid Edwardus Darby ad s: Henrici Domini Aburgaveny115
paid Harison ad s: Gifford.
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Braban ad s: Trafford
Walterus Vaughan et Carolus Prothero.
paid Robertus Lewkner miles et Anselm Fowler.116
paid Badcocke ad s: Erick. r. 2–9. pro pet. Comiss. George et Nelson
paid Tho: Docton ad s. coheredum Docton
paid William Monnson miles et
paid Margaret Comitissa Nott. vx. ad s: Caroli Comitis Nottingham.117 dis: 16–16
50 s. Johannes Cradocke ad s: Humfrey Wharton for all Fees and monye laid out.
Termino Hillarie 3tio Caroli
paid Willelmus Johnson etc. ad s: Seaton
paid Edwardus Darby ad s: Henrici Domini Aburgaveny
p.p. Phillip Markie et al. ad s: Johannis Markie118
paid Hen: Poole et al. ad s: Georgii Adams119
paid Rigges ad s: Geshe.
paid Robertus Franck v. Ricardum Tempest.
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paid Samuell Tryon miles et baronettus vs. Moses Tryon120 armigerum.
paid Willelmus Monnson ad s: Caroli Comitis Nottingham.
1.

William Skipwith, Esq., of Ormsby, co. Lincoln, died September 30, 1622, seized of the “Mannor of South Ormesby and Ketsby,” co. Lincoln, and of the “Mannor of Skipwith,” co. York. Willoughby Skipwith (1613–58), the king's ward, was son and next heir. C. W. 96. 290–291, Hilary term, 1630 (decree). The widow, Anne, daughter of Thomas Portington, married Francis Guevara of Stenigot, co. Lincoln, October 9, 1623. Henry and Edward Skipwith were uncles of Willoughby Skipwith. Lincolnshire Pedigrees (Harleian Society, Pub., LI–LIII, LV) , II. 433; III. 891, 896; W. O. Massingberd, History of the Parish of Ormsby-cum-Ketsby (Lincoln, 1893), 108–109, 1120, 359. Anne Guevara had been assigned a third of the estate as dower, and a part was leased for the benefit of the younger children. The sum of 308 li. 9 s. was involved in the suit, being, apparently, due to Guevara. C. W. 541. 516, 589, 692, 870; 566 (unpaged) January 29, February 7, 1627.

2.

John Popham of Littlecot, co. Wilts, gentleman of the bedchamber to King Charles I, son of Sir Francis Popham, a member of the Council for New England, and Ann (Dudley) Popham, and grandson of Sir John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England from 1592 to 1607. D. N. B. ; Visitation of Somerset (H.S., Pub. , XI), 125.

3.

Mary, sole daughter and heir of Sir Sebastian Harvey, knight, of London, who died February 21, 1621–22, seized of the manor of Iwarby or Ewerby, co. Lincoln, and other lands; she was then of the age of twenty-one years. C. W. 95. 510–513, Hilary term, 1627 (decree); 541. 805, 844, 867, 942, 972, 981. The wealth and extravagance of the Pophams is noted by John Aubrey, Brief Lives, Ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), n. 159. John Popham “was the greatest howse-keeper in England”; his wife, who brought him sixty thousand pounds, “scorned but she would live as high as he did; and in her husband's absence would have all the women of the country thither, and feast them, and make them drunke, as she would be herselfe. They both dyed by excesse; and by luxury and cosonage by their servants, when he dyed, there was, I thinke, a hundred thousand pound debt.”

4.

Of the manor of Poolam in Edlington, co. Lincoln. A writ of melius inquirendo was awarded to inquire concerning the tenure. C. W. 541. 755, 850, 862, 897; 542. 1248; 543. 23.

5.

Sir Hugh Portman, fourth baronet, of Orchard Portman, co. Somerset; member of Parliament for Taunton, 1625 and 1628–29. He died unmarried in 1632. C. W. 541. 619, 948, 972. His great-grandfather, Sir William Portman, was Lord Chief Justice of England from 1554 to 1557.

6.

Calcott Chambers or Chambre of Williamscott, co. Oxford, son of George Chambers of Petton, co. Salop. The suit was by information of Walter Pye, attorney of the Court, on the behalf of “Lucie Gobert Widdowe Committee of the Landes of John Barrington esq. his maiesties warde and executrix of the last will and testament of John Gobert esq. deceased late grandfather of the said warde,” et al. It concerned the manor of Williamscott and other lands in co. Oxford, which the defendants had sold to John Gobert with condition for reentry. C. W. 96. 194–196; see 543. 81, 109; 566 (unpaged), February 8, April 12, 1627; 567. 18, 258.

7.

Henry Sherfield (d. 1634), of Lincoln's Inn, recorder of Salisbury, D. N. B.

8.

Sir Edmund Hampden, uncle of John Hampden “the Patriot.” His brother, William, was uncle by marriage of Oliver Cromwell. Sir Edmund was confined in the Gatehouse Prison for opposing the forced loan of 1626, and was one of the five knights who in November, 1627, applied to the Court of King's Bench for a writ of habeas corpus. His health gave way under imprisonment, and he died soon after the rejection of the application. D. N. B.

9.

Sir George Dalston, of Dalston, co. Cumberland, knight of that shire in successive Parliaments, 1620–40. On the death, in 1621, of the Lady Dorothy, wife of Philip, third Baron Wharton, the moiety of the manor of Sherfield upon Loddon, co. Southampton, passed to her daughters by John Tamworth, her first husband: Bridget, wife of William Molyns, Elizabeth, wife of Sir George Reresby, and Catherine, wife of Sir George Dalston. Some account of the complicated transactions which followed is given in the Victoria History of Hampshire, IV. 105. See Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 9, 10. On the family of Molyns, see Visitation of Hampshire (H.S., Pub. , LXIV), 121–122.

10.

“Mr. Bankes of Counsell with Sir George Dalston knight.” C. W. 543.88. John Bankes (1589–1644), of Gray's Inn, was attorney-general of Prince Charles, 1630–34, attorney-general, 1634–41, and chief justice of the common pleas from 1641. He was knighted June 7, 1631. D. N. B. ; George Bankes, The Story of Corfe Castle (London, 1853), 56–71, 211.

11.

C. W. 542. 1124, November 3, 1627: “Robert Smith Thomas Greene and George Langley defendants at the suite of Richard Rosseter esq. by Informacion plaintiff.” Richard Rosseter (1616–36) was eldest son and heir of Richard (d. 1620) and Elizabeth (Bouchier) Rosseter of Somerby, co. Lincoln. Lincolnshire Pedigrees, III. 834; A. Gibbons, Notes on the Visitation of Lincolnshire 1634 (Lincoln, 1898), 1, 5. See C. W. 566 (unpaged), February 12, 1628; 96. 179–180 (decree).

12.

It was ordered, February 5, 1627, that the estate of John Whitlye, deceased, be divided, “one moiety of the personall estate . . . vnto . . . Grace his late wife accordinge to the custome of the province of Yorke and her late husbandes will and the other moietie to the warde [Anne Whitlye].” C. W. 566 (unpaged), May 1, 1627. Samuel Deane also brought a cross-suit against “Tho: Whitley and others defendants.” C. W. 541. 757. See Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 10.

13.

“John Standon and Frances his wife mother of Peter Bownd his Maiesties ward have this present terme compounded for the wardship of the body and lease of the landes of the said ward.” C. W. 541. 582. The suit against Stowell appears in C. W. 541. 703, 911, 917; 542. 1109; 566. 176. “Peter Bound of Torbrian” appears in the Visitation of Devon, 362.

14.

Sir William Brereton (1604–61), baronet, of Handforth, co. Chester, and Gray's Inn, son of William and Margaret (Holland) Brereton. He was created a baronet March 10, 1626–27, and represented Cheshire in the Parliament of 1628 and in the Short and Long Parliaments. January 10, 1628–29, he obtained a conveyance from John Gorges, son of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, of “All the Lands in breadth lying from the east side of Charles River to the easterly part of the Cape called Nahannte,” apparently with the purpose of settling there; he is said to have sent over families and servants. His interesting and valuable diary of Travels in Holland, the United Provinces, England, Scotland, and Ireland (1634–35), was published by the Chetham Society in 1844. In the Civil War he was commander-in-chief of the Parliamentary forces in Cheshire and neighboring counties, and won numerous important successes over the royalists. D. N. B. ; George Ormerod, History of Chester (London, 1882), III. 642–643; Maine Historical Society, Collections , II. 46, note; American Antiquarian Society, Transactions, III. xliv, Ixxxiii, 16, 75; Records of Massachusetts, I. 29, 68–69, 123. The suit appears to have concerned “the Capitall messuage howse and Scite of the late monasterie or Priory of the Nunes in the Cittie of Chester lately dissolved,” of which William Brereton, Esq., grandfather of the baronet, was found by an office taken after his death to have been seized in fee. C. W. 96. 84–85 (decree). Winthrop was probably attorney for the defendants, since Pickarell is named as Brereton's attorney in C. W. 542. 1367.

15.

“Vincent Goddard, gent., a Lunatique,” of Carleton, co. Bedford, C. W. 541. 513, 613, 667, 682, 695, 817; 542. 1031, 1071, 1130; 566. 193; 567. 86; Visitations of Bedfordshire (H.S., Pub. , XIX), 111–112.

16.

Emmanuel Davis, son of Gilbert Davis or Davy, of Canon-Teign in Christow, co. Devon. C. W. 566 (unpaged), June 8, 1627.

17.

Anne, the king's ward, daughter of Gilbert Davy, was three years old in 1620. On the family of Davy, see Thomas Moore, History of Devonshire, n. 564–569.

18.

John Mitford of Mitford, co. Northumberland, who was directed by the Court of Wards, May 25, 1626, to pay to Humfrey Wharton (see below, note 6 21 ), guardian of the body of Robert Mitford, his majesty's ward, fifty pounds per annum for the ward's maintenance. C. W. 566 (unpaged), November 26, December 7, 1627; see C. W. 541. 983, 1024; 542. 1176, 1266, 1316, 1445, 1484.

19.

John Cradock, or Cradocke, D.D. (Cambridge) 1620; prebendary and chancellor of Durham, died of poison, December 28, 1627. William Hutchinson, History and Antiquities of Durham, II. 187–188; C. W. 541. 983; 542. 1273. “Mr. Lenthall reporteth from the Committee for Cradocke. — That his a high Commissioner for Durham, a Justice of Peace, and a Chancellor; Found to be a great Offender in all these; Confoundeth these several Jurisdictions, making the one to help the other.” Journals of the House of Commons, May 22, 1624.

20.

John Robson (1581?-1645), B.A. (Oxford) 1602; rector of Morpeth, co. Northumberland, 1610–43; canon of Durham, 1620–45.

21.

“Humfrey Wharton of Gillingwood in the Countie of Yorke esq. aged 63 yeares or theirabouts.” C. W. 566 (unpaged), December 7, 1627. Robert Mitford, grandfather of Robert Mitford “his Maiesties ward,” assigned the wardship of the body and the lease of the ward's lands to Wharton. C. W. 541. 503. After the grandfather died in 1626, it seems that the Court kept separate the wardship of the body and the lease of the lands, leaving the former to Wharton, with provision that an allowance for the ward's maintenance should be made to him.

22.

Thomas Docton of Docton in Hartland, co. Devon, “of the age of threescore and twelve yeares or neere thereaboutes” January 26, 1628, and his son and heir, John Docton, aged 20 in 1620, defendants in a suit by “John Cooke and others the coheires of Thomas Docton deceased,” a cousin of Thomas named above. John Cooke was mayor of Southmolton, co. Devon, in 1620. C. W. 541. 858; 542. 1227, 1358; 543. 194; 566 (unpaged), January 26, 1628; Visitation of Devon (H.S., Pub. , VI), 69, 90, 332.

23.

Richard Westley, gent., son and heir of Francis Westley, deceased, is declared to have been of full age in 1627, but hindered in suing out his livery by the fact that the defendants had his evidences in their possession. C. W. 95. 620–621 (decree). The case had been tried at the common law and had gone against the defendants, who claimed title under the will of Francis Westley. C. W. 542. 1167. It dragged on before the Court of Wards until 1630. C. W. 543. 202; 567. 221; 544. 67. For Allen, see C. W. 566 (unpaged), February 8, 1627.

24.

See page 13, note 1 note 13 , supra.

25.

The entry is cancelled. For Winthrop's connection with this case, see Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 17–19.

26.

Sir Thomas Coventry, first Baron Coventry (1578–1640), after serving as solicitor general, attorney general, and M. P. for Droitwich, became lord keeper, November 1, 1625. D. N. B.

27.

See below, page 18, note 5 note 44 .

28.

Richard Tallmache or Tollemache “of Pettaugh in the County of Suffolk yeoman.” C. W. 566. 33. He had been a tenant of certain lands of John Smithe, the ward, in Pettaugh and Holmingham, “at the yearly rent of lxv li.” C. W. 566 (unpaged), June 2, 1627. See C. W. 95. 652–653 (decree); 541. 842; 542. 1163, 1263, 1357, 1406; 566 (unpaged), January 26, 1628.

29.

“Robert Smith gent” also was a tenant of John Smithe, the ward. C. W. 541. 842. As a result of the suit he was ordered to “paie vnto the plaintiff for the wardes Coppihold landes of the Mannor of Badsey Butley which he holdes of the warde after the rate of ix li. per Annum,” with four years' arrears to Michaelmas, 1627. C. W. 95. 652 (decree); 542. 1443; 567. 345. For motions of John Winthrop as attorney in Smithe's cross-suit against Simondes, see Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 8, 10.

30.

“Henry Symondes of Brampton in the County of Suffolk Comittee of John Smith his Maiesties ward.” C. W. 566 (unpaged), May 4, 1627. He married Mabel Smith, widow, mother of the ward.

31.

Sir John Strode of Chantmarle, co. Dorset, bencher of the Middle Temple and M. P. for Bridport. His interesting account of the building and consecration of his new chapel at Chantmarle, 1612–19, is given in John Hutchins, History of Dorset, 3d ed., (Westminster, 1861–1870), IV. 5–6. See John Winthrop as Attorney, 12.

32.

Sir Lewis Dive or Dyve (1599–1669), of Sherborne, co. Dorset, M. P. for Bridport and for Weymouth, fought on the royalist side in the Civil War. An outline of his life, which abounded in thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes, is given in the D. N. B. His wife was the eldest daughter of Sir John Strangways. Her first husband, Edward Rogers, a connection by marriage of Sir John Strode, had been a ward of the king, and this suit was brought against Strode and his stepson, Richard Bingham, Esq., to require them to account for the rents and profits of Brianston and for lands leased under the seal of the court upon “the death of the Lady Rogers who was aunt [stepmother] of Edward Rogers deceased the late ward.” Visitation of Dorset (H.S., Pub. , xx), 15, 79, 87; C. W. 542. 1077, 1080, 1457; 1505; 543. 34, 96, no, 122.

33.

Thomas Moyser, Esq., of Appleton, co. York, inherited from his father, Francis Moyser, the manor of Holme in Rydall, co. York, being of the age of thirty-four years and upwards at the time of his father's death. C. W. 75. 1. The suit seems to have concerned “the rent of Thomas Carleton and Roger Dewill two of the tenantes of the lands late of Robert Stockdale esq. deceased.” C. W. 543. 89. John Estofte Esq., aged 63 years, swore that he “never received any Rent of Thomas Carleton for any of the landes late the landes of Robert Stockdale deceased.” C. W. 567. 46; see 95. 606–608 (decree).

34.

“William Donne late his Maiesties ward by Information plaintiff against Henry Byrd defendant.” C. W. 543. 143; see C. W. 543. 662.

35.

Daughter and coheir of William Wilks of Hodnell, co. Warwick, and widow successively of Anthony Dryden of Northamptonshire and Sir W[illiam] Kingsmill (d. 1619) of Sidmanton, co. Hants; and Bridget (White) Kingsmill (d. 1672), widow of Henry Kingsmill (d. 1624) and “mother and Comittee of W[illiam] Kingsmill esq.” (d. 1661). The inquisition taken after her husband's death found that he was seized of manors and other estates in Hants, Suffolk, Warwick, Wilts, Somerset, Essex, Berks, and the city of London. C. W. Easter term, 1625 (decree); see his livery, C. W. 77. 185–186, February 4, 1622. The suit appears to have concerned the sale of timber. C. W. 95. 314–315; 541. 506, 523, 606, 799, 800; 542. 1382, 1513; Victoria History of Hampshire, IV. 254, 263–264; February 1, 4, 16, May 22, 1626.

36.

Francis Godwin, Bishop of Hereford from 1617 until his death in 1633.

37.

The plaintiff, asked “to be releiued against the Bishopp for sixteene Harriotes and other services claymed by him vpon the death of the plaintiffes Father for sixteene freehould Messuages or Tenements, Fifteene whereof are pretended to be houlden of the Mannor of Eastmore. . . . And one Messuage or Tenement called Gynes is said to be houlden of the Mannor of Colwall.” The court, after vainly urging plaintiff and defendant “to compounde the differences betweene them,” decreed that Cox should pay 60 li. to the bishop in satisfaction of his claims. C. W. 542. 1043, 1231, 1416; 543. 35, 69.

38.

The suit was of “Elenor Protheroe late wife of John Protheroe esq. deceased . . . on the behalfe of Charles Protheroe his Maiesties ward” against “Henry Vaughan esq. and Walter Vaughan esq. defendants.” C. W. 541. 575.

39.

Sir George Reresby of co. York; as to the parties in this suit, see page 12, note 2 note 9 .

40.

Rector of Brampton, co. Northampton, from 1614 to his death in 1652. John Bridges, History of Northamptonshire (Oxford, 1791), II. 283.

41.

Ibid., II. 360, gives William Ireland's sepulchral inscription in the church of Weston, co. Northampton.

42.

“The Counsell of Abraham Speckard esq. plaintiff against Sir Lewys Watson kt. the Comittee of John Norwidge his Maiesties ward Wm: Ireland gent, thexecutor Wm: Peach, and Wm: Adyson defendantes And the defendantes Counsell beinge likewise heard And the plaintiffes suite beinge to be releeved for a debt of lxij li x s. vpon a recognizance acknowledged by Sir Symon Norwidge kt. the wardes father It is now ordered vpon the offer of the defendantes Counsell that the plaintiff Abraham Speckard shalbe left at liberty to take his remedy at the law for his said debt.” C. W. 542. 1185; see 542. 1058. Sir Simon Norwich was sheriff of the county in 16 James I, and at his decease in 1624 left manors at Brampton to his son John who was made knight and baronet in 1641. Bridges, Northamptonshire, I. 8; II. 62, 281–282, 475.

43.

“Nicholas Benson of London grocer maketh oath that sithence the death of Henry Dillingham Clarke late Rector of Cottesbatch in the County of Leic by reason of the Composition betweene him and Francis Dent the lord of that Mannor for 30 li. per Annum to bee paid vnto him in leiue of his Tythes, The severall groundes of that Mannor were lett to the Tennants at higher Rates then otherwise they would haue binne,” etc. C. W. 566 (unpaged), April 26, 1627; see November 21 and December 14, 1627, and 542. 1322. William Burton in 1622 says that Cottesbatch passed “to Master Dent, the now Lord thereof: It is a very fine Lordship, and exceeding rich ground, now (for the most part) conuerted into Sheep Pastures.” Description of Leicester Shire, 78.

44.

On this “little violent lady,” her four husbands, her quarrels and lawsuits, see D. N. B. , under Lady Dorothy Pakington, also C. W. 95. 455–457 (decree); 541. 879; 542. 1486; 543. 279; 566. 15; Journals of the House of Lords, III. 827, 862, 872; IV. 23–24.

45.

“Paul Wynyngton of the Birches, gent.,” appears in a Cheshire indenture of October 1, 1633. J. P. Earwaker, History of Sandbach (1890), 221.

46.

Peter, son of Thomas Venables, Baron of Kinderton, and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Brereton of Brereton, co. Chester. He subsequently became sheriff of the county in 1634, with his eldest son was fined £6150 by Parliament in the Civil War, and died November 13, 1669. On his suit against Winnington, see C. W. 541. 802, 863, 918, 970; 543. 102. See page 23, note 1 note 68 .

47.

Sir Lewis Watson (1584–1653), of Rockingham Castle, co. Northampton; M. P., a royalist in the Civil War, and was created Baron Rockingham in 1645. His grand-nephew and sometime ward, Sir John Norwich, was commander of the garrison which held Rockingham Castle for the Parliament. D. N. B. ; Charles Wise, Rockingham Castle and the Watsons (1891).

48.

Eldest son of Richard Gerrard of Creewood, Crowton, co. Chester, and his wife Eleanor, daughter of George Ireland of the Hutt, Halewood, co. Lancaster. Richard Gerrard, grandfather of the plaintiff, survived his son Richard and died in January, 1619–20, seized of a mansion house called Creewood in co. Chester, and other possessions. The wardship was granted to Gilbert's uncle, Sir Gilbert Ireland, who committed great waste by cutting timber and otherwise and died April 8, 1626, “having made Dame Barbara his executrix and James Massie a feoffee in trust for payment of his debts.” Dutton was concerned in the felling of the timber. Dame Barbara replied that as executrix she had not money enough to pay her late husband's debts, which were heavy. C. W. 96. 36–38 (decree). Visitation of Cheshire, 1613, 107; Visitation of Lancaster (Chetham Society, LXXXIV), 57; Ormerod, History of Chester, 2d ed., I. 462, II. 127–128, 132.

49.

Younger brother and sisters of Gilbert Gerrard. C. W. 541. 987. For convenience this suit and the one preceding were heard together. C. W. 542. 1061, 1097, 1270, 1420. See Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 13–14.

50.

Walter Clopton, second son of Thomas Clopton of Kentwell, co. Suffolk. Muskett, 143; William Hervey, Visitation of Suffolke, J. J. Howard, Ed., I. 130. His undated letter relating to this case printed in Vol. I. 328–329, should be assigned to June, 1627, or 1628, not, as there, to June, 1626. He appears as defendant as late as October, 1628.

51.

Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1620–50), baronet, of Stow Langtoft, co. Suffolk, famous antiquarian writer and annalist of Parliament, a friend and correspondent of Winthrop. He married in 1626 Anne, daughter of Sir William Clopton of Kentwell and niece of Walter Clopton. The dispute concerned the possession of the manor of Downhall, Rayleigh, co. Essex, which Lady Anne claimed as heir to Sir William Clopton, her father, and William Clopton, her half-brother. C. W. 543. 190, 257; 566 (unpaged), April 26, 1627; Thomas Wright, History of Essex, II. 597. Downing appears as attorney for the plaintiffs and Barnardiston as their counsel. C. W. 542. 1470; 543. 44, 496; see Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 12, 16–17.

52.

Sir Roger James of Reigate, co. Surrey, and his younger brother.

53.

Sara, sister of Sir Roger and John James, “vx. George Wilkins of Stoke in the hundred of Ho in com. Kent.” Visitations of Surrey, 195.

54.

“Lawrence Butler gent. Lessee of the landes of Isaack Apleton his Maiesties ward.” C. W. 541. 887.

55.

“Sir John Hall of Southwarneburne in the County of Southampton knight aged 46 yeares or thereabouts.” C. W. 566 (unpaged) February 6, 1627; see March 29, 1628. Committed to the Fleet for failing to produce certain deeds and evidences called for by the court, he obtained his release by delivering them. C. W. 542. 1548. He and his wife were committees of the plaintiff, Thomas White “Of Sowthwarneborowe in the Countie of Southampton” (C. W. 566. 1), and a student at Oxford (566. 196), where his tutor misliked his going to a horse race at Wantage. He was son of Sir Richard and Dorothy White of South Warnborough, and stepson of Sir John Hall (C. W. 96. 235), against whom he brought suit for waste of timber on his inheritance. C. W. 543. 22, 41, 48, 58, 76.

56.

Isaac Appleton of Little Waldingfield, co. Suffolk, mentioned in Vol. I. 292, note 27 293 note 1 . His paternal grandmother was Mary, daughter of Edward Isaacke of Well Court, co. Kent. Muskett, 329. For a motion of Winthrop in behalf of Appleton as plaintiff in another case, see Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 14.

57.

Sir John Hayward was “Comittee of Sir Gabriell [Michael] Livesey knight and barronet his Maiesties ward,” of Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, co. Kent, thrice sheriff of Kent, colonel of horse in the Parliamentary army, and one of the regicide judges. C. W. 542. 1419.

58.

See Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 7, 10, for motions of Winthrop as Hobart's attorney.

59.

“Gregory Baker the executor of Samuell Baker whoe was executor in trust of Robert Baker deceased father of Robert Baker his Maiesties ward by Informacion plaintiff against Edward Hobert esq. defendant.” The case was heard February 4, 1628, “the suite beinge to bee releiued against the defendant vppon a bond of CC li. wherein the Wardes father stood bound to perform a Covenante for buildinge of a bricke wall and to deliuer 60000: brickes and lyme and sand for buildinge of a house in a close called Conduit Close nere Pickadella in the parish of St. Martines in the feildes which was for parcell of the marriage porcion with the defendantes wyfe was not performed In regard whereof and vppon readinge the proofes It is nowe thought fitt and ordered that the said Gregory Baker shall out of the estate of the Testator paie vnto the said Edward Hobert in full sattisfaccion and dischardge of the said bond” 120 li., 60 li. before the end of this term and 60 li. on the morrow of Ascension Day next. C. W. 542. 1401.

60.

Sheriff of Staffordshire, 1620–21.

61.

On Farr and his case see Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 12.

62.

“Richard Glouer of London gent.” and Sir John Brond of Boxford, co. Suffolk, from whom Thomas Fones purchased Newstead Hall Manor. See Vol. I. 219 f., 232 f.; C. W. 566 (unpaged) October 11, 19, 1627; Visitation of London, I. (H.S., Pub. , xv), 108.

63.

“Richard Pocock of Gregorie Stoake in the County of Somersett aged 47 yeares or thereabouts.” He had been committee of “John Penne late of Swell in . . . Somersett a lunatique deceased.” C. W. 566. 17, and April 21, 1627. By an order of C. W. 541. 880, he was to take and enjoy the lunatic's copyhold lands in Swell “against Edward Newton gent, lord of the Manor and against Agnes Middleton widowe and Thomas Pocock heires of the lunatick and against all others.” The following bond of Thomas Pocock et al. is in the Winthrop Mss., 1. 20:

Nouerint vniversi per presentes nos Thomam Pococke de Gregory stoke in Comitatu Somerset yeoman Andream Moore de eadem yeoman Johannem Barrington de eadem yeoman Johannem Staple de Gregory stoke predicta husband et Robertum Davidge de Middlezoy in Comitatu predicto yeoman teneri et firmiter obligari Johanni Symes Armigero vicecomiti Comitatus predicti in Quadraginta Libris legalis monete Anglie solvendis eidem vicecomiti aut suo certo Attornato executoribus vel Assignatis Ad quam quidem solucionem bene et fideliter faciendam obligamus nos et quemlibet nostrorum per se pro toto et singulis heredes executores et Administratores nostros per presentes sigillis nostris sigillatas datas Quinto die Aprilis Anno R. Regis Caroli vnius Anglie etc. Tertio. 1627.

The Condicion of this obligacion is that yf thabouebounden Thomas Pococke and Margaret his wife shall personally appeare in his Maiesties Court of Wardes and Lyveries a die Pasche in vnum mensem That then this obligacion to be void and of none effect or else to stand in full force and vertue.

Note that these wordes videlicet (and Margarett his wife) were soe interlyned before the sealing and deliuery therof and then

Signed sealed and deliuered in the presence of Christofer Francklyn George Hulett. the marke T of Thomas Hulett sign, dicti Thome Pococke. WW Andrew Moore John Barrington sign, dicti Johannis Staple. X sign, dicti Roberti Davidge. R

64.

See Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 17.

65.

“Carolus . . . licenciam damus . . . Subdito nostro Hastinges Ingram Armigero Nepoti et propinquiori heredi Anthonii Ingram Armigeri defuncti videlicet filio et propinquiori heredi Johannis Ingram filii et heredis predicti Anthonii similiter defuncti,” etc. C. W. 77. 442–443.

66.

An “Informacion,” on the behalf of the Richard Westeley mentioned in note 2, page 15 note 23 , against Robert and Elizabeth Allen, William and Katherine Ruggles and Robert Horner. C. W. 95. 620–621.

67.

The plaintiffs were George Lord Berkeley (1601–58), the Lady Elizabeth his wife, Sir William Wittipowle and Jane his wife, and Bridget Stanhope, coheirs of the great estate left by Sir William Reade of Osterley, co. Middlesex. The suit concerned a parcel of land called O'wton Moor, adjoining Owton, co. Durham, and pertaining to the lordship of Seaton, “which said Lordshipp is houlden of many lordes and of the Bishopp in capite.” C. W. 542. 1136; 543. 110, 167; 567. 71.

68.

Sir Robert Cholmondeley, baronet (1584–1659), eldest son of Sir Hugh Cholmondeley of co. Chester; sheriff of Cheshire, M. P., created Viscount Cholmondeley in 1628, and Earl of Leinster, March 3, 1645–46. He fought on the royalist side in the Civil War, and died without lawful issue, leaving the manor of Holford, the subject of this lawsuit, to an illegitimate son. Frances Cholmondeley was his youngest sister. The history of this case is given in the decree, C. W. 96. 253–255: “Whereas Frances Cholmondeley nowe the wief of Peter Venables esq. page 19, n. 2 note 46 did heretofore exhibite a suite in the Exchequer of Chester against the right honorable Robert Lord Viscounte Cholmondeley defendant prayinge releife against the said Lord Cholmondeley for certain Landes leased vnto her by the Lady Cholmondeley her mother which suite was stayed by an Iniunccion of this court.” See also C. W. 543. 516, and Cholmondeley's affidavit, C. W. 567. 397, in which he says that he was informed by his counsel that his sister's suit against him “did abate vppon the marriage.”

69.

Of Buckland Priors, son of Sir Henry Hawley of Wiveliscombe, co. Somerset, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Anthony Pawlett. Born about 1608, he succeeded by 1626 to the estate of his brother Henry, deceased. Dame Elizabeth Hawley and John Poulett, Esq., were the committees, and no new fine was required. C. W. 541. 811. He fought on the royalist side in the Civil War, and at the disastrous attack on Chagford in 1643, “charging through the Towne” he “received two muskett shott.” He was made a baronet in 1644 and created Baron Hawley of Duncannon in Ireland, 1645. After the Restoration he was M. P. for St. Michael's, Cornwall, 1665–79, and gentleman of the bedchamber to James, Duke of York, 1673. Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset, IV. 356; xi. 158; Hopton's Narrative of his Campaign in the West (Somerset Record Society, XVIII), 3, 7, 8, 9, 14, 18, 33. See Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 8.

70.

“Margarett Mowbray widdowe maketh oath that shee neuer receiued any the rentes or profittes of the landes late of Roberte Kett deceased in the County of Norfolk but that the rentes and profittes thereof were receiued by on[e] Francis London gent, for the space of eight yeares last past or thereaboutes as this deponent hath ben informed. And verily belieueth.” C. W. 567. 457.

71.

Of Mutford, co. Suffolk: either the father or the elder brother of Owen Feltham, celebrated author of the Resolves, Lusoria, and A Brief Character of the Low Countries. Visitations of Suffolk, Metcalfe, Ed., 137. See Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 15.

72.

Of Sotterley, co. Suffolk, sheriff of Suffolk, 1605–06; created a baronet, August 13, 1623.

73.

Sir Toby Cage of Gales, Woodford, co. Essex. Visitations of Essex, I. 367; see Shaw, Knights of England, II. 192; Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 7, 11; C. W. 542. 1426.

74.

Isaack Eyton was son and heir of Anthony Eyton of Gaddesby, co. Leicester. Anne Pilkington was widow of Henry Pilkington of Burrough, co. Leicester, and granddaughter of Edward Eyton of Gaddesby. C. W. 542. 1518; 566. (unpaged), January 30, 1627; 567. 490.

75.

Gabriel Walwin or Walwyn of Sutton St. Nicholas, M. A., (Oxford), 1594; canon of Hereford, 1601.

76.

Sir John Mill of Newton Bury, Eling, co. Hants, and Camois Court, co. Sussex, succeeded his brother Lewkenor in the family estates in 1587, was created a baronet December 31, 1619, served as sheriff and member of Parliament, and died in 1648. He married as his second wife Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Fleming, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1607 to 1613. Visitation of Hampshire (H.S., Pub. , LXIV), 157, 160.

77.

Perhaps Thomas Leigh of Coldrey, co. Hants, who married Mary, eldest daughter of Chief Justice Fleming's eldest son, Sir Thomas, by his wife Dorothy, youngest daughter of Sir Henry Cromwell of Hinchinbrook, “the golden knight.”

78.

Widow of Robert South. C. W. 566. (unpaged), February 4, 1628; see 542. 1431; and Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 23.

79.

Probably Sir William Parsons, baronet, surveyor general of Ireland.

80.

Son of Brian and Anne Frank of the manor of “Alwoodley alias Alingley” in the wapentake of Skyrack, Yorkshire. His mother married for second husband Richard Tempest. The involved Frank-Tempest suits appear to have resulted in a commission to divide the manor of Alwoodley into three equal parts, that Anne Tempest might have a third part as her dower. C. W. 95. 662 (decree); 542. 1451, 1461, 1532; 566. February 8, 11, 1628. See also C. W. 542. 1047, 1083, 1135, 1304, 1371, 1416, 1440, 1470, 1473; 543. 65, 88, 92, 126; 566. (unpaged), October 17, 19, 1627, January 28, February 6, 1628; 567. 199; J. S. Fletcher, Picturesque History of Yorkshire, II. 193; III. 23; IV. 101; Thoresby Society, Publications, II. 63, 75.

81.

Of Haverfordwest, South Wales. See his letter to Winthrop of October 24, 1627, printed in Vol. I. 364. That the letter had not reached Winthrop on November 5 is indicated by an order of that date, C. W. 542. 1133: “Vpon the mocion of Mr. Pickarell Attorney for John Scowrefeild by Informacion plaintiff against John Bowen Lewys John app Howell and [Anne] his wife defendants It is ordered that the defendants shall retorne the comission with their Answere as by wednesdaie next which was retornable Mense Michaelmas this terme or in default thereof an Attachment shalbe awarded against the said defendants.”

82.

“John Scurfeild his Maiesties ward sonne and heire of Wm: Scurfeild esq. deceased.” C. W. 541. 973.

83.

An order in this case of May 29, 1627, is printed below, p. 42.

84.

“Tymothie Wade gent, by Information plaintiff against Isabell Conyers a defendant.” C. W. 543. 176; see 543. 78.

85.

See Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 8.

86.

Probably William Davenport of Chorley, co. Chester (son of Henry Davenport), and his wife Jane, daughter of Francis Bromley of Hallon in Worfield, co. Salop. William sold Chorley in the reign of James I, and is supposed ancestor of the Davenports of Shropshire. Ormerod, History of Chester, 2d ed., m. 69, 602; Visitation of Shropshire, I. (H.S., Pub. , XXVIII), 78. One of the defendants in this case was Dame Margaret Bromley, widow of Jane Davenport's uncle, Sir Edward Bromley of Shiffnail Grange, co. Salop, a baron of the Exchequer under James I. C. W. 543. 83, 126; Visitation of Shropshire, I. 78.

87.

This suit is doubtless connected with that brought against Twine by Lawrence Butler as lessee of Appleton's lands. See p. 28, infra.

88.

Douglas Castillion, M. A. (Oxford), rector of Stratford Tony, co. Wilts, son of John Baptist Castillion, an Italian who “served King H: 8: in his warrs in France,” and his wife Margaret, daughter “to Bartholmew Compaigne borne at Florence who was the principall Merchant to K: H: 8:” Visitations of Berkshire, II (H.S., Pub. , LVII), 91–92.

89.

Sir Henry Worsley (1612–66), M. P. for Newport and for Newton, Isle of Wight.

90.

The suit concerned “a messuage and fortie five Acres of Land lyeinge in Stansby which messuage and lands are Escheated vpon the Attainder of Henry Baylie late husband of the said Ellen.” C. W. 543. 64, 73.

91.

Sir William Reade died August 11, 1621, leaving estates in Middlesex and elsewhere. C. W. 95. 598 (decree).

92.

John Prior and Frances, widow of William Prior and “mother and Committee of William Prior gent, his Maiesties ward.” Cross suits between the parties concerning lands in Ledbury and Woolhope, co. Hereford, resulted in a decree (C. W. 95. 465–67), after which John Prior brought the suit to which Winthrop's entry relates. C. W. 541. 608, 1011; 542. 1272, 1369, 1430, 1519; 543. 40.

93.

William Bunworth of Barkston, co. Lincoln, and Richard Hickson, Esq., of Gonerby, co. Lincoln. Lincolnshire Pedigrees, I (H.S., Pub. , L), 206; C. W. 542. 1175, 1214.

94.

Winthrop made a motion in Goulding's behalf on October 15. Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 7.

95.

Charles Trew, M. A. (Oxford), rector of Abington, co. Northampton, for two months in 1628. He continued this suit after Sir Edmund Hampden's death, against his widow, Dame Eleanor, and his own successor as rector of Abington. C. W. 542. 1434.

96.

This case may be a sequel to the order of the court of June 17, 1626: “Accordinge vnto severall former orders of this Courte made betweene Thomas Twyne plaintiff and Lawrence Butler gent. Lessee of the landes of Isaack Apleton his Maiesties ward It is now ordered and declared vpon the mocion of mr. Sherfeild that the said Thomas Twyne is not discharged from payment of the somme of xxxiiij li. ij s. ij d. heertofore decreed against him, but that the payment thereof is onely suspended and kept as a tye vpon the said Twyne to the end he may not disturbe the possession of the said Lawrence Butler And if the said Twyn shall heereafter disturbe the possession or be a meanes to cause any of the tenantes not to paie their Rentes to the said Lawrence Butler the Kinges lessee then this Court will take order to enforce the said Twyn to paie the said xxxiiij li. ij s. ij d. to the said Lawrence Butler.” C. W. 541. 887.

97.

“Coheires of Sir Wm: Reade knight plaintiffes against Richard Beckham gent, defendant.” C. W. 542. 1045, 1068, 1427, 1484; 543. 188; Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 13.

98.

See Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 18.

99.

Sir Richard Egerton of co. Stafford.

100.

A bill of traverse exhibited by Anne Lawne and Elizabeth Knight against “Anne Lawne mother and Comittee of William Lawne his Maiesties ward.” Richard Lawne conveyed land to the ward's father. C. W. 542. 1157. February 19, 1628, a writ of assistance was awarded to the sheriff of Southampton to remove Thomas Pescodd, Anne Lawne, John Mylles, and Thomas Hardinge out of their possessions of the ward's houses and orchards, and to deliver possession to Anne Lawne, committee of the said ward. C. W. 542. 1519.

101.

Richard Ayrie, yeoman, of Broughton next Fulwood, co. Lancaster, died October 6, 1616, leaving messuages and lands held by the 200th part of a knight's fee to his son Anthony Ayrie, aged 10 years. C. W. 542. 1083, 1153; Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, XVI. 43–44 (1887).

102.

Sir Richard Fermor or Farmer of Somerton, co. Oxford, admitted of the Inner Temple in 1591, sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1602. Arabella Fermor, the heroine of Pope's Rape of the Lock, was of this family. John Dunkin, History and Antiquities of the Hundreds of Bullington and Ploughley (London, 1823), II. 94; Gentleman's Magazine, XCVII. 113–117.

103.

Winthrop appears as attorney for Simpson and Keelinge, “defendantes at the suite of John Pincham esq.,” in Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 16.

104.

Sir Thomas Cornwall, Baron of Burford in Shropshire. For this case, see C. W. 543. 13, 27; Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 18.

105.

“Bestney Bettes esq.,” son of Thomas and Alice (Steward) Bettes of Chatteris, co. Cambridge. C. W. 543. 235; Visitation of Cambridge (H.S., Pub. , XII), 79.

106.

Thomas Wendy, Esq., son of Francis Wendy, nephew and heir of Sir William Wendy, C. W. 95. 648–49; 541. 814. The fortunes of this house were established by Thomas Wendy, court physician to Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary, who received from the Crown grants of land in Cambridgeshire. These estates descended to Sir William Wendy of Haslingfield, co. Cambridge, sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon, who died March 4, 1624, leaving as heir his nephew Thomas aged “nine years or thereabouts.” Thomas's mother, “Elizabeth (Wentworth) Wendy,” was his committee. C. W. 541. 916. Their legal troubles were numerous. With Emmanuel Downing as attorney, they brought suit against John Allen concerning a certain windmill erected by the defendant near the ward's manor of Ellsworth, co. Cambridge. The plaintiff was relieved and the defendant was dismissed, but it was directed that the defendant's daughter, Elizabeth Allen, “shalbe hereby comitted to the prison of the Fleete for her Contempt of this Courte.” C. W. 95. 648–649 (decree); 542. 1183, 1213, 1263, 1420, 1422; see 541. 814, 874, 902. This suit against Bestney Bettes concerned three acres of meadow “in a grownd called Willey-hill pretended to be parcell of the wardes mannor of Chatterys.” The court ordered that the defendant be discharged and the plaintiff seek further evidences. C. W. 542. 1083; 543. 141, 235. Wendy was knighted at the coronation of Charles II, and was M. P. for Cambridgeshire from 1660 to his death, about 1673. Visitation of Cambridge, 40; Peter Le Neve, Pedigrees of Knights (H.S., Pub. , VIII), 6, 17.

107.

Robert Darcy died in 1618, leaving a son and heir Edward, aged eight, who was lord of the manors of Coulsdon, Sutton Abbas, and (for a time) Epsom, all in Surrey. The suit of “Edward Darcy esq. his Maiesties ward . . . plaintiff by Informacion against Henry Newdigate esq. John Somers and James Mathewes defendantes” was heard June 19, 1628, “beinge for incrochementes vpon the wardes Mannor of Ellesham in two seuerall parcells of ground thone called Nutshambles peene, and thother Abbotteshill.” Newdigate claimed that these parcels were within the manor of Ashstead. It was ordered that the matter should be tried by a jury at the next assizes in the county of Surrey. C. W. 534. 141, 221.

108.

John Edsaw matriculated as pensioner at Cambridge (Queens' College), Easter, 1611; B. A., 1614–15; M. A., 1618. Incorporated at Oxford, August 12, 1645. In his will of 1648 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury he is described as of Chailey, Sussex, Clerk. Venn, Alumni Cantab. , II. 87.

109.

Philip Bennett of West Meston, near Chailey and Lewes, Sussex, was admitted of the Inner Temple in 1626. January 31, 1628, he is said to be twenty years of age and “married by lycens of this Courte.” C. W. 542. 1385. The suit was against “John Edsawe Clerke” of Chailey (M. A., Cambridge, 1618), and “John Aylewin gent.,” of Lewes. Bennett's father, also named Philip, had bequeathed to Aylwin the lease for life of the manor of the farm of Wotton in Sussex, and made him his executor. The ward being young, Edsawe proved the will and took administration during the ward's minority, being appointed committee of his body and lands. According to Edsawe's deposition, he had charges against Bennett amounting to 898 li. 4 s.d.; and it seems that he had been taking for his own use the rent paid by Aylwin as tenant of Wotton Farm. The court proceeded to the aid of the ward by order and injunction. Aylwin was directed to pay the current rent to Bennett, to account for arrears, and to deliver possession. The cleric, however, had still to be reckoned with. October 9. 1628, “Phillip Bennett gent, maketh oath that . . . John Edsawe and one Robert Swale beinge bothe armed with swordes and short staves” occupied the farm and refused him entrance; they “seemed to scoffe at the said order” of court. C. W. 542. 1476, 1492; 543. 15, 42, 76, 118, 199, 225; 567. 195, 339, 357, 435, 463, 594, 638, 657.

110.

“Thomas Chapman Committee of Roger Chapman sonne of John Chapman deceased,” and Jane Pudsey, widow and executrix of Ambrose Pudsey gent. The case concerned rent charges, dating from 1573, on “certaine closes and landes parcell of the demesne of the Mannor of Pyckton in the Countie of Yorke,” in favor of “the Schollers and poore people of the Almes house or hospitall in the honour of our Saviour Christ in the Towne of Gisberne in Cleveland” in the said county. C. W. 96. 41–42 (decree); 542. 1470; 543. 87, no, 141, 290. Winthrop's bill of charges is given below, p. 38.

111.

May 7, 1628, it is noted that the sheriff of Kent “hath retorned a cepi corpus vpon the Attachment heeretofore awarded against Thomas Paine and Alice his wife defendantes at the suite of the most reverend Father in god George [Abbot] Lord Arch Bishop of Canterbury plaintiff.” He was directed to bring in their bodies “by wednesdaie next.” This he failed to do. C. W. 543. 37, 88; see 542. 1399.

112.

Robert Warner was “of Chippinge Sodbury in the County of Gloucester Clothworker.” C. W. 566. (unpaged), June 11, 1627. See the letter of Robert Nelson to John Winthrop of January 20, 1629. The suit concerned a copyhold, messuage and lands in Oldbury and Kenton in co. Gloucester, possession of which Warner was alleged to have obtained “by some meanes vnknowne.” C. W. 567. 133. The court awarded an injunction for possession to the plaintiff, Henry Stafford (1621–37), fourteenth Baron Stafford, for whom see the biographical sketch by his cousin, Anthony Stafford, entitled Honour and Vertue Triumphing over the Grave (London, 1640). By an office found after the death of his father, the Honorable Edward Stafford, Henry, a posthumous son, was found to be in ward to the king. In 1625, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey “did compound with his Maiestie for the wardship of the body and marriage of the said Henry.” C. W. 541. 652, March 15, 1626. Emmanuel Downing was Stafford's attorney. C. W. 543. 563, November 12, 1628. See also 541. 961, 1018; 542. 1071; 543. 236, 341, 615; 567. 81; Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 22.

113.

Henry Brabyn, Esq., of Mansergh Manor, co. Westmoreland, died February n, 1618. At the time of the suit an interest in his properties in co. Lancaster and the West Riding of York had descended to his grandchild, William Brabyn, a ward of the king, Roger Otway being his committee. C. W. 96. 272–273 (decree); 543. 37, 84, 124. “Thomas Middleton of Leighton in the Countie of Lancaster esq. was indebted vnto Henry Brabin gent, vppon a stattute with Indentures of defezance for payment of xx li. yearely.” Middleton failed to pay this yearly rent; he was also indebted to the king, and the sheriff or undersheriff of York was directed to repay to William Brabyn the sum of 4 li. which they levied upon the latter's lands, evidently in connection with this debt, and to stay all process against the tenants on account of the debt due to his majesty. C. W. 542. 1460, 1499.

114.

See p. 37, infra, for the Portis wardship.

115.

Edward Darby is called “an Infant”; Edward Goldwyer was his representative, presumably his committee, and Winthrop was his attorney. C. W. 542. 1133, 1218, 1437, 1479; John Winthrop as Attorney, 11–12. The plaintiff was Henry Neville, Lord Abergavenny (d. 1641). On this ancient barony and the famous struggle, 1587–1604, for the succession between the heir general and the heir male, see Cokayne, Complete Peerage, new ed., I. 37. The title is derived from Abergavenny Castle in Monmouthshire, of which Clarke remarks in his British Gazetteer that “this fortress has been the scene of more treachery, villany, and murder, than any stronghold in the kingdom, black as is the history of many of them.”

116.

Sir Robert Lewkenor of Acrise, co. Kent. He was son of Sir Edward Lewkenor for whom see Vol. I. 153. Sir Robert and his sister-in-law, Dame Mary Lewkenor, were “Commyttees of the wardship and leassees of the Lands” of the latter's son Edward (1613–34). The suit concerned that portion of tithes of Preston or West Preston, co. Sussex, which Thomas Lewkenor, Esq., deceased, great-uncle of the ward, held from the dean and chapter of the cathedral church of Chichester by a lease yet unexpired. C. W. 96. 32–35 (decree). The defendants were Anselm Fowler of Stonehouse, co. Gloucester, and his wife Judith, daughter of Thomas Bulman of London, merchant. C. W. 542. 1155, 1275, 1376; Sussex Archaeological Society Collections , III. 89–102; Visitation of Gloucester (H.S., Pub. , XXI), 62.

117.

Sir William Monson (1607–c. 1678) of Kennersley, Surrey, second son of Sir Thomas Monson, baronet, was created, August 23, 1628, Viscount Monson of Castlemain. He was one of the regicide judges, and, though he did not sign the death warrant of Charles I, he was deprived of all his honors at the Restoration, and drawn to Tyburn on a sledge, with a rope round his neck, on the anniversary of the king's execution in 1663. The first of his three wives was the Dowager Countess of Nottingham: Margaret, daughter of James Stuart, Earl of Murray. The Earl of Nottingham mentioned in this case was her stepson, Charles Howard the second Earl, who succeeded to the title in 1624. Winthrop represented the Dowager Countess and her husband. The action was upon a bill of complaint against the Dowager Countess for not having paid from her first husband's estate to the second Earl the sum of 1000 li. as ordered by a decree of the Court of Wards in 16 James I. Sir Robert Naunton's letter of November 24, 1627, to the Countess, written in pursuance of an order of the court to show cause why they should not pay the sum (C. W. 542. 1137), is printed in Vol. I. 370. November 17, 1627, her counsel alleged in her behalf that she was neither executrix nor heir of her late husband. C. W. 542. 1196. Other entries, besides those printed in Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 19, 20–21, are C. W. 543. 4, 187, 557.

118.

John Markey the elder had sons William, John, and Philip. William died leaving a son John, the ward. It was alleged that on the marriage of William, John Markey the elder promised that the lands called Mills Farm in co. Hereford should descend to him and his heirs. The court decreed that Philip Markey should reconvey Mills Farm to “John Markey the younger his Maiesties ward.” C. W. 96. 172–174 (decree); 542. 1096, 1115, 1357, 1398, 1429; 543. 47; 566. (unpaged), January 25, 1628; 567. 480, 658; Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 11.

119.

Ibid., 10–11.

120.

Sir Samuel Tryon (1617–65), second baronet, of Bois Hall in Halstead, co. Essex, grandson of Peter Tryon of London, a refugee from the persecutions under the Duke of Alva who is said to have brought with him £60,000 from the Low Countries. About 1627 Sir Edward Wortley, the second husband of Sir Samuel's stepmother, obtained the wardship of him, “wasted his estate, and married him young, to a niece of his own, for whom his ward had no real affection, which made him careless and wasteful of his patrimony.” “Moyses Tryon of London ar[miger]” appears as elder brother of the first baronet, Sir Samuel's father, in Visitations of Essex, I. 303. Peter Tryon is called “sonne of the said Moyses” in C. W. 542. 1373.