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Margaret Winthrop to John Winthrop1

Winthrop, Margaret Winthrop, John

1628-02-04

To my very loving Husband John Winthrop Esquire at Mr. Downinges. dd

Ca. February 4, 1627–28. 2 My most deare and loueinge Husband

I doe blesse and prayse god for the continuance of your health, and for the safe deliuery of my good sister Downinge,3 it was very welcom Nuse to us. I thanke the lord wee are all heare resonably well my pore Stephen is vp to day. Ame hath had a very sore Ague but is well againe. I hope the lorde will heare our prayers and be pleased to stay his hand in this visitasion which if he please to doe we shall haue great cause of thankfulnesse. but I desire in this and all other things to submit vnto his holy will, it is the lord let him doe what semeth good in his owne eyse. he will doe nothinge but that shall be for our good if we had harts to thust sic in him, and all shall be for the best what soeuer it shall please him to excersise vs with all. he wounds and he can heale. he hath neuer fayled to doe vs good, and now he will not shake vs of but continue the same god still that he hath bin heare to fore the lorde santify vnto 59vs what soeuer it shall please him to send vnto vs that we may be the better for it and furthered in our corce to heauen. I am sorye for the hard condishtion of Rochell. the lord helpe them and fite for them and then none shall preuayle against them or ouercome them, in vaine thay fite that fite against the lorde who is a myty god and will destroye all his enimyes and now my deare husband I haue nothinge but my dearest affections to send thee with many thankes for my sic kinde letters prayinge you to except a little for a great deale my will is good but that I want abilite how to show and expresse it to thee as I desire I pray remember me to my brothers and sisters and tel my brother Foones I thanke him for the thinges he sent, and so I bid my good husband farwell and commite him to god Your loueinge and obedient wife

Margaret Winthrope

I send vp a turkeye and 2 capons and a cheese the carier is payde

W. Au. 34; L. and L. , I. 281–282; Twichell, Puritan Love-Letters , 90–92.

Robert Charles Winthrop placed this letter a year later, no doubt because of the reference to the illness of Amy the servant (Vol. I. 413). Such a time, however, would be inconsistent with the reference to “the continuance of your health”; while the date is fixed pretty definitely by a baptismal entry in the Register of St. Bride's, Fleet Street: “3 Feb. 1627/8. Joshua sonn to Emmanuell Downing Gent: wyef Luce.” It is reasonable to assume that the birth was during the week preceding the Sunday baptism, and that Margaret's answer to her husband's letter was written not far from the succeeding Monday, February 4. The reference to La Rochelle is also decisive, since that town capitulated October 28, 1628, after a siege of fifteen months.

See the preceding note.

Deed of John Winthrop and John Winthrop, Jr.1

Winthrop, John Winthrop, John, Jr.

1628-05-04

Wynthropp armiger et alius et Fetherston.

This Indenture made the twelveth day of may in the Fourth yeare of the Reigne of our soveraigne lord Charles by the grace of God Kinge of England Scotland France and Ireland defender of the Faith etc. Betweene John Wynthropp of Groton in the Countie of Suffolk Esquire and John Wynthropp gent, sonne and heire apparante of the said John Wynthropp first named on the one And henry Fetherston2 of london Stacioner on the other parte Witnesseth that the said John Wynthropp the Father and John Wynthropp the sonne aswell for and in consideracion of the somme of fower hundred and threescore poundes of lawfull money of England vnto them the said John Wynthropp the Father and John Wynthropp the sonne well and truly in hand payd for the freehold landes hereafter in these presentes mencioned to be hereby granted by the said henry Fetherston before then-sealing of these presentes as for and in consideracion of the somme of one hundred and thirtie poundes more of like lawfull money of England likewise payd by the said henry Fetherston to the said John Wynthropp the Father 60and John Wynthropp the sonne for a surrender by the said John Wynthropp the sonne bearinge date with these presentes made of his coppie or customary landes in greate Stambridge3 in the Countie of Essex to the vse of the said henry Fetherston and his heires the receipte of which said severall sommes of money the said John Wynthropp the Father and John Wynthropp the sonne doe hereby acknowledge and thereof and of every parte and parcell thereof acquite exonerate and discharge the said henrie Fetherstone his heires executors administrators and assignes and every of them by these presentes and for divers other good causes and consideracions them thervnto especially movinge have granted aliened bargained sold and confirmed and by these presentes doe grante aliene bargaine sell and confirme vnto the said henry Fetherston and his heires all those mesuages landes tenementes and hereditamentes scituate lyinge and beinge in much Stambridge alias Stambridge magna in the said Countie of Essex hereafter mencioned with theire and every of theire appurtenances that is to say all that mesuage and tenemente with thappurtenaunces and all landes meadowes and woodes therevnto belonging commonly called or knowne by the name of Brettes and West crofte conteyning by estimacion tenne acres be it more or less scituate lying and beinge in much Stambridge aforesaid all those two croftes of land called Campions or by whatsoever name or names the same be called or knowne now or late in the tenure or occupacion of Thomas hawes and sometimes parcelles of the landes of Thomas Boade4 and Thomazine5 his wife conteyninge by estimacion three acres all that parcell of landes called Twyttes or by whatsoever other name or names the same be called or knowne conteyning by estimacion thirteene acres be it more or lesse sometimes the landes of Edward Mann alsoe all that mesuage tenemente garden parcelles of land tenementes and hereditamentes with theire appurtenaunces called Moones6 or by whatsoever other name or names the same be called or knowne conteyning by estimacion Forty acres be the same more or lesse now or late in the tenure or occupacion of the said Thomas Boade and Thomazine his wife and alsoe all that mesuage or tenemente with the appurtenaunces therevnto belonging conteyning by estimacion eight acres 61sometimes the land of Thomas Eckford and all those landes called Brettes croftes or by whatsoever other name or names the same be called or knowne now or late in the tenure or occupacion of the said Thomas hawes his assigne or assignes togeather with all howses edefices buildinges barnes stables landes tenementes meadowes pastures feedinges commons trees woodes vnderwoodes waies waters pathes hedges hedgerowes ditches Fences moundes priviledges liberties easementes proffittes commodities emolumentes and hereditamentes whatsoever in or vppon the said premisses beinge happeninge or renninge or to the said mesuages or tenementes and premisses belonging or in any wise apperteyning or accepted reputed taken or knowne as parte parcell or member thereof scituate lying and beinge in the parrishe of much Stambridge alias Stambridge magna in the said Countie of Essex And all and singuler other the freehold mesuages landes tenementes and hereditamentes whatsoever of them the said John Wynthropp the Father and John Wynthropp the sonne or of either of them with theire and every of theire appurtenaunces scituate lying and beinge in much Stambridge alias Stambridge magna or in either of them in the said Countie of Essex And alsoe the revercion and revercions remainder and remainders of all and singuler the premisses with theire and every of theire appurtenaunces and of every parte thereof, And all and every the yearly rente and rentes reserved due or payable vppon all every or any demise lease or grante made of the premisses or of any parte thereof and all theire and either of theire estates rightes titles interestes claimes properties vses and demandes whatsoever of in and vnto the premisses and of in and vnto every parte and parcell thereof To have and to hold the said mesuages landes tenementes croftes hereditamentes and premisses with theire and every of theire appurtenaunces vnto the said henry Fetherstone and his heires to the only proper vse and behoofe of the said henry Fetherston his heires and assignes forever and to noe other vse intente or purpose to be holden of the lord of the mannor of much Stambridge aforesaid by the rentes and services thereof due and accustomed in free and common soccage and not by knightes service In witnes whereof the said parties to these presente Indentures have interchangeably sett theire handes and seales the day and yeare first above written 1628

Et memorandum quod Quartodecimo die Maij anno suprascripto prefati Johannes Wynthropp Armiger et Johannes Winthropp filius eius venerunt coram dicto domino Rege in Cancellaria sua et recognoverunt Indenturam predictam ac omnia et singula in eadem contenta et specificata in forma supradicta.

Irrotulata nono die Octobris anno predicto.

Close Roll, 4 Charles I, pt. 6, no. 15.

“Henry fetherston of the Blackfryers London.” See Vol. I. 379, 382, 383, 385, 389, 396, 397, 398. He was son of “Cuthbert fetherston of Hathery Cleugh in the parish of Stanhop in the Countie of Duresme,” who “came to London beinge younge and lived in Chauncery Lane where he died anno 1613.” Visitation of London (H.S., Pub. , xv), I. 273, where his autograph is given in facsimile. By his second wife, Katherine, daughter of Michael Heneage of London, he had one son, Heneage Fetherston, who was created a baronet December 4, 1660. Cockayne, Complete Baronetage, III. 133.

Great Stambridge, Much Stambridge, or Stambridge Magna, a parish in the hundred of Rochford, co. Essex. The Winthrop property here was derived from John Forth, father of John Winthrop's first wife.

“Thomas Bode of Rocheforde in the Countie of Essex yeoman,” died 1581. Muskett, 123–124, 131.

Thomasine (Hilles | Crymble) Bode, who after the death of her second husband married John Forth of Great Stambridge; mother of Mary Forth, first wife of John Winthrop. Muskett, 123–124, 131.

“To Thomazine my wief my tenement and lands in Muche Stambridge called Moones to hir and hir heires for evermore.” Will of Thomas Bode, 1581, in Muskett, 123.