Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 4
1640-09-30
I should not haue needed your last as a spurre to mee to write, had not my thoughts about yourselfe bin so succesles that I lost all courage that way, and am also at present fallen into a sore fit of my old hypocondriacal melancholy, through cold and care. My hartyest desires are for you and yours, and I could wish I knew what to doe to compas my purposes.
What my aduenture was at Pascataway I suppose Mr. Larkham2 hath told you, and if death preuent not, I shall my selfe shortly. In the meane tyme remember mee where you may doe mee the most good, and I shall striue to retaliate.
The last newes sayes the Convocation3 made 17 new Canons, wherof one is that all ministers shall preach 2ce per annum for conformity, and 4 tymes for the Kings prerogative: what past betwixt Mr. Williams at Pasc
De nuptiis, nihil habeo praeter aetatem quod displicet, videntur satis optandae.
Salute the good gentlewom
W. 2. 57; 4
Collections
, VI. 107–108.
The Reverend Thomas Larkham, leader of the church faction in Dover, New Hampshire, which was opposed to the Reverend Hanserd Knollys.
The Convocation of the Province of Canterbury, which met in April and May, 1640. Samuel R. Gardiner, History of England from the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the Civil War (London and New York, 1904), IX. 108, 142–148.