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Winthrop Family Papers

Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1

John Winthrop to John Winthrop, Jr.

22 February 1625

Henry Winthrop to John Winthrop, Jr.

14 March 1625
Will of Elizabeth Munning, 1624–25 1
Munning, Elizabeth

1625-03-08

Elizabeth Munninge2 of Brettenham in the countie of Suffolk, widow of Humfrey Mvnninge,3 clarke, Minister of the said parishe, 8 March 1624–25. To Elizabeth my daughter, wife of George Salter. To Richard, Theophilus, and William Mvninge4 my sonnes, to either of them fyve pounds a piece. To Anne Mvninge my daughter £10. To Ellen Mvninge, Humfrey Mvninge, Abigale Mvninge, Katheren Mvninge, and to Leonard Mvninge my children, to either of them £18 when they shall attaine the age of twenty one yeares or marry, whichever first shall happen. William Chaplyn of Hitcham and Henrie Munninge5 my brother in law whom I appoint executors to sell all my lands and tenements in Brettenham and Bildston6 according to the last will of my welbeloved husband: the overplus to be divided equally amongst all my children. Probat. 17 October 1631.

 1.

Sudbury Archdeaconry, Liber Colman, fo. 68 b; Muskett, 105.

 2.

Elizabeth, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Norwood) Winthrop, baptized April 24, 1569, and died in 1631. Muskett, 25.

 3.

Son of Humphrey Munning, of Semer, and Ellen (Ungle) Munning. He was M.A. from Magdalene College, 1585, rector of Great Thornham, 1596–97, and of Brettenham, 1597–1624. He died in 1624. Muskett, 107; Venn, A. C. , III. 227.

 4.

M.A. from Emmanuel, 1624, rector of Preston, co. Suffolk, 1644–61, and of Chedburgh, co. Suffolk, 1661. He died in 1669. Venn, A. C. , III. 227.

 5.

Baptized at Semer, 1565, and probably of Bury St. Edmunds. Muskett, 107.

 6.

Bildestone is a parish in the hundred of Cosford.