A letter of the Reverend John Wilson to Winthrop concerning this wardship, dated February 3, 1627–1628, is printed below, pp. 57–58. See also the notes there given. This is a Sudbury case.

See page 30, note 4 33 note 110 .

A Norfolk case, the wardship of Sir Thomas Corbet baronet, of Sprowston, co. Norfolk, son of Sir John Corbet, first baronet, whom he succeeded January 19, 1627–28. Blomefield, Norfolk, x. 459–460; Cokayne, Complete Baronetage, I. 219–220, appears to be in error as regards the name. Miles Corbet of Lincoln's Inn, one of the regicide judges, was younger brother of the first baronet and uncle of the ward; his letter to Winthrop of October 6, 1628, concerning the wardship is given in Vol. I. 408, and his affidavit of May 21, 1628, is preserved in C. W. 567. 68: “Miles Corbett maketh oath that the Priory of Weybridge whereof a dyinge seized is found in the office after the death of Sir John Corbett is in Lease for aboue a hundred yeares yett to come att the Rent of vj s. viij d. per annum. And that the debtes of the said Sir John Corbett att the tyme of his death amounted to Fiue and twenty hundred pounds And that Fower thowsand poundes of the porcions and Legacyes mencioned in the said office to bee paid vnto the sisteres of the said Sir John Corbett and others out of the wardes estate are yet behinde and vnpaid And the Mannor of Wroxham and landes in Wroxham are chardged with Annuities of Eight score poundes per Annum for three lives yet in beinge.” Upon reading this affidavit, the court ordered “that the Composicion allready made for the wardship of the body of Thomas Corbett baronett his Maiesties ward shall proceede and the schedule to be deliuered by the Clerke of this Courte for that purpose.” C. W. 543. 129, May 23, 1628.

Thomas Fowle of Hedingham-Castle, “son and heir of Thomas Fowle deceased.” The master of the Court of Wards, upon petition of Deane Tyndale, ordered a writ of mandamus to be “awarded into the Countie of Essex to enquire after the death of Thomas Fowle deceased.” C. W. 542. 1533, February 25, 1628. The son was admitted to the Inner Temple in November, 1628, at which time Winthrop became his bondsman for the payment of “Commons and other duties.” The bond, which is in the Winthrop MSS. I. 42, follows:

Nouerint vniuersi per presentes me Thomam Fowle de Hedingham Castle in Comitatu Essexie generosum teneri et firmiter obligari Johanni Winthrop de interiore Templo London Armigero in Octoginta Libris legalis monete Anglie Soluendis eidem Johanni Winthrop aut suo certo Attornato executoribus Administratoribus siue Assignatis suis Ad quam quidem solucionem bene et fideliter faciendam obligo me heredes executores et administratores meos firmiter per presentes Sigillo meo sigillatas datas decimo septimo die Novembris Anno regni domini nostri Caroli dei gratia Anglie Scocie Francie et Hibernie Regis fidei defensoris etc. quarto.

The Condicion of this Obligacion is such That whereas thabouenamed John Winthrop at the speciall instance and request of thabouebounden Thomas Fowle by his Obligacion or writinge obligatory bearing the date abouewritten is and standeth bound together with the said Thomas Fowle vnto Sir Richard Shelton Knight Treasurer of the Inner Temple London abouesaid in the sume of Forty poundes of lawful money of England with Condicion for the payment of such Commons and other duties as the said Thomas Fowle shall hereafter bee liable and ought to pay to the Treasurer of the said house for the tyme being as by the said Obligacion and Condicion more at large may appeare If therefore the said Thomas Fowle his heires executors and administrators or some of them shall from tyme to tyme and att all tymes hereafter discharge save and keepe harmelesse the said John Winthrop his heires executors and administrators and euery of them of and from the said recited Obligacion and of and from all Accions suytes damages and demands which hee or they shall or may incurre sustayne or be putt vnto for or concerning the same Then this present Obligacion shalbe void and of none effect or else remayne and abide in full force strength and vertue.

Arthur Tyndal speaks of Thomas Fowle in a letter of February 10, 1628–29, printed below, as already established in an office. Winthrop appears again as his bondsman in a document of February 16, 1628–29, printed infra, pp. 71–72.

See Vol. I. 385.

“Richard Westley one of the Clerkes vnto Richard Chamberlayne esq. Clerke of this Court.” C. W. 566. (unpaged), February 9, 1627.

Matthew Alliston of Hedingham-Castle, co. Essex, maternal grandfather of Thomas Fowle. Muskett, 197; infra, p. 70.

Supra, p. 25. The copy of the decree, in the Winthrop MSS., I. 43, follows:

Direccion is geven that an Iniunction shalbee forthwith presently awarded for the possession of the landes of John Eaton his maiesties ward to bee forthwith deliuered vnto Henrie Eaton whoe is appointed by former order to bee the lessee of the said landes and in regard the former grante of the bodye and lease of the landes of the said ward cannott now bee come by to bee surrendered they are to bee by decree of this Courte declared forfeyted and voide in Lawe in regard the fine and rentes are not paid accordinge to the promises in the said grantes mencioned and a new schedule and perticular are to bee drawne vpp for passinge the said wardship and lease in the name of the said Henrie Eaton and a decree to bee drawne vpp for the purposes aforesaid.

The will of Thomas Fones is meant. See Vol. I. 144, where the same charge is entered.

Thomas Fones, Winthrop's brother-in-law, died at London, April 15, 1629. Since he held property in capite, his son and heir, Samuel Fones, was a ward of the king. See the will, writ, and inquisition, infra, pp. 82–83. Particulars concerning the dues, debts, and funeral expenses of Thomas Fones are given in Vol. I. 143–144.