Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1
1627-08-23
I am very lyke, the lorde assistinge, to be with you the nexte lordes daye, to performe in that behalfe what yee haue desyred.3 358I thanke you for your lettres and for your soonnes lettres4 which I heere retorned agayne; I sende you of France suche a mappe as I have The messenger hasteth his retorne which maketh mee breefe And so with remembrance of my beste respecte vnto you and vnto Mres. Wynthrop I take my leave and remayne Yours euer redely to his power
Robert Ryece, of Preston, co. Suffolk, son of Robert Ryece, a justice of the peace, is said to have been educated for some years in the house of Theodore Beza, of Geneva, and returning to Preston became an antiquary of note. He married Mary (d. 1629), eldest daughter of Thomas Appleton, of Little Waldingfield. and died in 1638. I. A. Jewett, Memorial of Samuel Appleton, 71–72; Reyce, Suffolk in the XVII th Century: The Breviary of Suffolk, 232. His will, dated February 7, 1637–38, is in Jewett’s Memorial, 73–82.
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, VI. 391.
Winthrop’s son Samuel was baptized at Groton, 26 August, 1627. Ryece may have been invited to stand godfather.
John Winthrop, Jr., at this time serving in the Duke of Buckingham’s expedition to the Isle of Rhé.