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Winthrop Family Papers

Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1

Anne Winthrop to John Winthrop

December 1628

John Winthrop, Jr., to John Freeman

26 December 1628
John Winthrop, Jr., to Sir Peter Wyche1
Winthrop, John, Jr. Wyche, Peter

1628-12-26

 Right Honorable,

After the exhibition of my service to your lordship and my lady, 2 I crave pardon, if these Rude lines presume to kisse your honours handes, my duty and respect to your honour vrgeth me to give some testimony therof and your noble favours have obliged me to present this a small earnest of my thankfulnes, and the service which I owe and desire to performe, whensoever your lordship shall please to command here is noe newes worth your honours Intelligence, we are this day setting saile from the Castles, so wishing your honour a happy beginning, and prosperous continuance of this new yeare and many more to succeede I humbly take my leave, resting etc.

Castles of Hellespont Decemb: 26 1628 1.

W. 1. 40 (draft); Savage (1825), I. 354; (1853), I. 422–423; L. and L. , I. 268–269; 5 Collections , VIII. 13. There is a message in shorthand on the verso.

Sir Peter Wyche (d. 1643) was son of Richard Wyche (1554–1621), a London merchant, and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Saltonstall, lord mayor of London. He was appointed English ambassador at Constantinople in 1627 and did not return to England until 1641. D. N. B. , LXIII. 193–194. The circumstances of his appointment are given in Epstein, Early History of the Levant Company, 84.

 2.

These words are struck out. She was Jane, daughter of Sir William Meredith, of Wrexham. D. N. B. , LXIII. 194.