Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 4
1641-01-28
wee now expect you stay for 6 boyes; you are gone so longe. Indeed wee want your company very sensible: my lady Susan I hear is now deliverd,2 theerfore in poynt of good manners your wife may now presume to be eased of her load allso. If ocasion be for your longer stay I pray sir let georg know I expect him with this bearer Msr. Ruke: or the next conueniencie: allso my husband desiers to know if you will part with some hay that you haue wee are in much want ells. I pray your spediest answeer. I haue experimented the crocus this 2 nights and found much though not a totall fredom of payne theerby. I pray let me know if I may safly aply it to the mould of my head. I thank you much for your aduise, and I pray to my brother allso giue my many thanks and to all my seruis and best wishes is Yours
all our newes is out of eng: I hope you haue it before vs: wee haue put his grace of canterbury fast in the tower3 and if our St. Peter keeps the keyes his grace is like to coolle his shins ere he gets in this could weather; for we speak only of his confusion and vnpardonable sins.
W. 4. 11; 5
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, I. 30–31.
Lydia, daughter of John Humfrey and Susan Clinton (daughter of the Earl of Lincoln), was baptized April 25, 1641. Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts, I (Salem, 1916), 456.
Laud was impeached of high treason on December 18, 1640, and was at once sequestered from Parliament by the House of Lords and committed to custody. He was not actually committed to the Tower until March 1, 1640/41. Gardiner, History of England, IX. 249, 297.