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Thomas Hawes to John Winthrop1
Hawes, Thomas
Winthrop, John
1630-01-02
To the Righte woorshipfull his very loueinge and much respected freind Jo: Wintrop Esqr. hast theise:
Right worshipfull and my very loueinge friend
I had longe since have written vnto you had not mr. Hobson2 certifyed me that he had wrote and since he did shewe vnto me your worships lettre wherin I see you are concluded for 600 li. he remaynes constant to strike through the bargayne if he may have good assurance He desires to have a certificate of mr. Harry 182his age and of his wives age which are the greatest doubtes that I heare him make: howsoeuer he made some question vnto you about the payment of the mony: yet I vnderstand by him that if you desire it he will provide your mony presently. Mr. Nuttall as I heare from him if he may not inioye the land soe longe as he will at the present rent makes account by promise to have allowance from your worship for reparacion for preventinge wherof you may if you please know of mr. Hobson if he will not be contented to let them be held still by mr. Nuttall he payinge the same rent and observeinge other Indifferent Couenaunts soe mr. Nuttall his Challenge wilbe made frustrate. I have Received Sir your reasons for new England I thank you for them. God willinge I will restore them agayne. I pray sir remember my loue to mrs. wintrop to mr. John mr. Harry with his wife to mr. Forth to mrs. Mary and to all the reast of my freinds and my wives And soe with my humble service to yor woorship desiring you to remember me in your dayly prayers to God our heavenly father in Christ Jesus I committe you and all yours to his Allmighty and gracious protection and euer reast your Loueinge freind in all duty
Tho: Hawes.
Pagglesham3 this instant 2d of January 1629–30.
1.
W. 1. 66.
2.
See the next letter.
3.
Paglesham, a parish in the hundred of Rochford, co. Essex, near Great Stambridge.
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.
2.
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.
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