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Winthrop Family Papers

Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1

Folio 5

1594

Folio 7

1594
Folio 6
Winthrop, Adam (1548-1623)

1594

1607-03-29
A note of the mony which I haue payd since the saide Feast Anno 1594.
Payd to William Gale for Rent iij s. ix d.
payd to the Butcher for meat xiij s. vij d.
payd to Day for makinge hay v s. viij d.
payd for ij payer of gloues x d.
payd to the Collectors for the poore vj s. viij d.
payd to my brother for Rent of Crabtree Went xxxiij s. iiij d.
payd to Mr. Thomas Nicholson for Tithe and Rent xx s. xiij s. iiij d.
payd to the Constable xviij d.
payd to John Raughlinge for the hoppeyarde iij s. iiij d.
payd to Rycharde Edwardes for his Wages xl s.
4 Julii payd to Thomas Banckes iij li. vj s. vij d.
payd to Mr. Hanam iij li. vj s. viij d.
payd to Mr. Henry Sandes1 x s.
payd for ij payer of shoes xij d.
payd to Surrey for worke xij d.
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In expensis xiiij d.
payd to Mary Pierce2 xxxvij s.
payd to Thomas Page xx s.
payd for the setting forth of a soldier ij s. vj d.
payd for Mr. Hanam iij s.
payd to the Constables xij d.
payd to Simon Facon xx li.
payd to Anderton and King for mowinge xvj s.
payd to them for making Woodd and ditchinge xv s.
payd to Mr. Bird3 for the tith of Lynnecroft xij s.
payd to John Grymes for mowing vj acres and dimidiam of Barley at xij d. the acre vj s. vj d.
payd to harvest men xiij s. vj d.
payd for the Caryeng of v lodes of wheat iij s. vj d.
10 Aug: 1594 payd to John Symon the Smythe vj s.
payd to the knacker4 xij d.
payd for a nue ploughe ij s. vj d.
payd for traces and lether ij s. vj d.
payd to Mr. Thomas Nycholson for Tythe xix s. vj d.
for ij Thowsand of Tile xx s.
for a Mille of lathe naile xx d.
for half a bl. of Tile pynne x d.
for the wages of ij Tilers and ther men ix s. ij d.
for ij seames5 of lyme iij s.
for gathering of xij bundels of thatching Roddes xij d.
To the Thatcher of v dayes ij s. vj d.
To Johane for the Rest of her Wages xxj s.
for ij M of lathe nayle iij s.
for iij seames of lyme iiij s. vj d.
for ij lodes of strawe v s. vj d.
for hainynge6 of my field v s. vj d.
for iij dozen of Trenchers iij s.
for gatheringe of vj lodes of stone xxj d.
for x lambes at iiij s. a lamb xl s.
for a yarde of Russett7 iij s.
for ij payer of stockinges of black vj s.

A note taken out of John Bogas8 his last will. Item I give to my twoe youngest soonnes Robert and William my Copyhold fild called Stubbinges and Cowebrooke to them and their heires for euer, so that my soonne John Bogas shall haue it freely for twoe yeres after my deathe he doinge no strippe nor wast therin.

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quere if John may not cobbe9 the trees and take awaye the busshes.

Memorandum that he Surrendered into the handes of Joseph Gale and Eustace Whale ij Customary tenants of the Borehouse10 according to his will Dated 29 Martii Anno quinto Jacobi Regis i. e. 1607.7

1.

Vicar of Preston by Lavenham, 1578 (Sudbury Archdeaconry, Register), and later preacher at Boxford. He was a member of the Dedham Classis. R. G. Usher, The Presbyterian Movement in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1905), xlvi. He died in November, 1626. Infra, p. 334.

 2.

Mary Andrew alias Pierce.

 3.

Joseph Bird, of Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A., 1587–88; M.A., 1591; ordained priest (Norwich), 1592; vicar of Latton, co. Essex, 1593–1600; rector of Boxford, Suffolk, 1600–24, in which year he died. Venn, A. C. , I. 155.

 4.

A harness maker or saddler. N. E. D.

5.

A seam was a pack-horse load, varying according to the commodity or locality. Ibid.

 6.

Enclosing or protecting a field with a fence or hedge, to keep cattle out. Ibid.

 7.

A coarse homespun woollen cloth, worn by country-folk. It might be of a reddish-brown, grey, or neutral color. Ibid.

 8.

John Boggys or Boggas of Edwardstone, yeoman, died April 1, 1607.

 9.

Trim.

 10.

The manor of Bowerhouse, Borehouse, or Bowrehall in Boxford had been purchased by John (later Sir John) Huddlestone in 1553, descended successively to his sons William and Edmund, and passed, through the marriage of their sister Alice, to Sir Thomas Lovell, who held it at his death in 1604. Davy, B. M., Add. MS. 19077, under Boxford.