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The iijth of Octobre my Cosen Nathanaell Still and his brother John were at Groton.
The iiijth Sir Robert Crane1 sent his Coche for me my wyfe and my daughter Winthrop to dine with him at Chilton.
The vjth Mr. Ben: Brond kept Court and leet at Edwardeston.
The xth of octobre my soonne
The xjth day Robert Waspe died and was buryed.
The xxjth my daughter Jane and Eliz
The xxijth my soonne
The same day I kept a Court at Bromeley Hall.
The xxvjth Sir Robert Crane came to my howse.
The last of octobre Mr. John Coe the yonger borowed of me xl s.
The 1 of November my daughter Fones daughter was Christened Sir Robert Crane and his Lady3 were present and she was witnesse with Mres.
The vth Mr. Goslin d
The same day
The xijth of November I tooke an estate from Sweetman of Linsey to the vse of Eve his wife in his howse.
The xvjth day Mr.
The 24 Mr.
The last of November Alice Reignold came to dwell with me. the next day I rode towardes Cambridge.
The seconde day of December I did ryde to Cambridge.
The same day my brother
The iiijth of December Barnabe Warde my tenant died.
The xijth of December I retorned home from the Auditt.
The xixth of Dece
The last of December I did ryde to Stambridge in Essex and retourned home the xth of January.
The xijth of January Mr.
The xixth Mr. Carewe7 preached at B
The xxiijth of Jan: I payd Willli. in the presence of Tho: Alston his soonne and W
The same day Mr.
The 26 Mr.
The 2 of Feb. the Buttes were repayred.
The 4 of Feb. I went to Hadley to see my sister
the same day John Wynthrop hurt his forhed with a fall.
The vjth of Feb. Dr. Some8 M
The 21 of Feb. Harry Pease brought me a lettre from my soonne
The last of Feb. John Rawlin senior griffed10 xx heds for me in my nue orchyarde. the wynde blue very colde and Rough out of the West et rigebant omnes.
101The 2 of Marche Mr.
The 3 Mr. Will
The vth day it snowed and was very colde.
The xjth Sir Henry Mildmay my Nephew came to G
The xiijth thassises were holden at Bury.
The xiiijth
The xviijth Sir William Waldegrave tooke a general view of diuers townes at Assington for the providing of Armour.
The xxth of March Steven Plombe deliuered an estate by a deede polle11 vnto the Wyd
The same day I sealed a bonde of c li. vnto Willli. x s. the xxijth of September next.
The xxiiijth my sister li. in the presence of Adam Podde.
The xxvjth I payd the Widowe Beeche13 xx s. in the presence of John Dogett John Brug and John Cole and I ds. to be paid vnto hir the 26 of August 1610.
The xxvth Thomas Booth14 came to dwell in Groton in Hartewells Howse where Will
The same day I received a lettre from my soonne
The last day of Marche the commissioners did sett at Bury for the levienge of Aide to make the prince knight.15
Robert Ryece dedicated to Sir Robert Crane the manuscript of A Breviary of Suffolk, February 9, 1618–19. Sir Robert gained a baronetcy in 1627 and was high sheriff of Suffolk, 1632. W. S. Appleton, Memorials of the Cranes of Chilton (Cambridge, Mass., 1868), 79–82.
Dorothy, who died December 24 following. Infra, p. 100.
Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Hubbard [or Hobart], Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Dorothy, daughter of Sir Robert Bell, Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Appleton, Cranes of Chilton, 67;
D. N. B.
, XXVII. 31.
Vicar of Much Bentley, 1603–20, and died June 27, 1625. Venn, A. C.
, III. 314.
Great Bentley, a parish in the hundred of Tendring, co. Essex.
A parish in the hundred of Lexden, co. Essex.
Possibly George Carew, rector of Boyton, co. Suffolk, 1609–17. Venn, A. C.
, I. 291.
Robert Some (1542–1609).
D. N. B.
, LIII. 217–218, where the date of his death is given as January 14 and his burial February 10.
Thomas Playfere (1561?–1609). Ibid., XLV. 416. He died February 2, 1608–09.
An obsolete form of graft.
A deed made and executed by one party only; so called because the paper or parchment is ’polled’ or cut even, not indented.
N. E. D.
Livery of seisin, which invested a person with a freehold estate, was not at common law always evidenced by a deed.
Susan Vintener, widow of Henry Beache.
Son of Richard and Margaret Booth of Chelsworth. Sudbury Archdeaconry, bk. 42, fo. 99.
The various state papers on levying this aid are calendared in the “This was a stormy meeting and occasioned differences of opinion between the Commissioners for East and those for West Suffolk. The West Suffolk Commissioners were the first to meet, at Bury St. Edmunds, and determined that juries from the hundreds should only be summoned at the end of their proceedings. Sir Robert Hicham, Knt., strongly opposed the decision, and as he sat also for East Suffolk he carried with him the East Suffolk Commissioners, and adopted the Norfolk procedure of taking a presentment from jurors, hundred by hundred, at the very first. The question was referred to the Earl of Salisbury, but there is no record of his decision.”Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1603–1610, 494–570, passim. Henry Frederick, born February 19, 1594, died November 6, 1612. Of the meeting at Bury Mr. Redstone writes: