Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2
1629-02-14
vniuersi per presentes me Thomam Fowle de interiori Templo prope London gener
The Condicion of this Obligacion is such that whereas the above named John Winthrop and one Thomas Jeykill2 of Barkeing in the County of Essex gent, togeather with the above bounden Thomas Fowle att the speciall instance and request of the said Thomas Fowle and for the proper debt of him the said Thomas Fowle stand bounde togeather onto one Thomas Gare of Fetterlane in the parish of St. Andrew neere London gent, in the Summ of Twoe hundred poundes of lawfull English mony for the payment of One hundred poundes att or vpon the Fifteenth day of August next ensueing the date hereof which said bond of Two hundred poundes was dated the Fower72teenth daye of February Anno Domini 1628. If therefore the said Thomas Fowle his heires executors administrators or Assignes or either of them doe secure and save harmeles the said John Winthrop his heires executors administrators and Assigns from the aforesaid bond of Two hundred poundes and pay and discharge the said One hundred poundes att the tyme appointed for payment thereof that then this Obligacion to bee voyd or els to stand remayne and bee in full force strength and vertue.
W. 1. 42. Thomas Fowle is the “young Fowle” of the preceding letter. He was of Hedingham-Castle, co. Essex. See page 40, supra.
Thomas Jekyll of Bocking, co. Essex. His son, William Jekyll, was master of Magdalen Hall, at this time the great Puritan college of Oxford. Visitations of Essex (H.S., Pub.
, XIII), I. 427, 428.
1629-03-09
May you please to understand that I am now arrived in Venice; the day of our arrivall was the last of Jany. having beene from Constantinople about 6 weekes. I should have wrote to you long since, but coming from a place where the plaugue was very great, we could not be admitted to come into this citty, till we had spent all february as prisoners in their Lazaretto2 (a place a great way distant from the Cytty appointed to such purposes) till it was apparent that we were cleere from all infection: so that not knowing any by whom I might have my letters conveied, I could not write till my comming into the Citty. My charges there were excessive; I find them little lesse since my comming into the Citty, so that I shall have skarce to beare my charges hence, but may have credite heer for more when I want: It may be thought I am a very ill husband, but none can beleeve the charges in these Countries but he that hath exp
Original in the possession of Frederic Winthrop, Esq.;
L. and L.
, I. 271–272; 5
Collections
, VIII. 14–15.
George Sandys, who visited the Levant in 1661, speaks of the lazarettos at Venice and Zante. Purchas his Pilgrimes (ed. of 1905), VIII. 91–92.
Anna, daughter of Edmund Bray of Barrington, wife of Sir Isaac Wake, ambassador to Savoy and Venice.
D. N. B.
This was in connection with the War of the Mantuan Succession, fought by France against the two branches of the house of Hapsburg. Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIII, after the fall of La Rochelle, entered Italy with 35,000 foot and 3,000 horse, in order to support their candidate, Charles de Nevers, for the duchy of Mantua. The treaty between France and Savoy signed at Susa, March 11, 1629, included a settlement of the dispute between Savoy and Mantua. Romolo Quazza, La guerra per la successione di Mantova (Mantua, 1926).