Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1

Extract from Sir John Brond’s Extent, 16191

Brond, John

1619-02-20

Valor sive Extentus Annui valoris omnium et singulorum mesuagiorum terrarum tenementorum et ceterorum hereditamentorum quorumcumque que nuper fuerunt Johannis Brond2 nuper de Boxford etc.

the office was founde3 at Bury St. Edmunds 19 martij 8 Ja: and the heire Sir John Brond4 knight sued out his ouster le maine5 the 20th of Feb: 16 Ja:

Com: Suff:

intered in q: I: C. fol: 272.

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Vnum mesuagium sive tenementum cum pertinentibus in Polsted in Comitatu predicto ac diverse pecie terre prati pascuae et Boscorum cum pertinentibus eidem mesuagio spectantes in Polsted predicto nuper perquisita de Oliverio Dixon et aliis modo in tenura Annanie Todd. Tenentur de Johanne Domino Hunsden6 vt de honore suo de Raleigh7 per servicium mili-tare et valent per annum iij li.

Manerium Capitale mesuagium sive tenementum vocatum Nusted Hall8 cum pertinentibus in Polsted et Boxford ac diverse pecie terre prati pascuae et Bosci eidem spectantes cum pertinentibus in B, et P: predictis et Assington in dicto Comitatu nuper perquisita de Johanne Gage9 modo in tenura Willelmi Gage. Tenentur de Dicto domino Rege vt de Hundredo suo de Babergh in libero socagio per fidelitatem scilicet ad Hundredum predictum ac Reditum vnius oboli vocati warde siluer10 per annum et valent per annum iij li.

This is taken out of Sir John Brondes extent and testified to be a true copie by John Potter and Ralfe Freston.

Indorsed by Thomas Fones: “The tenure of my Land taken by my Brother Winthrop.”

W. 7A. 4. In the hand of John Winthrop.

John Brond, clothier, died May 18, 1610. Supra, p. 105.

On the inquisition of office see Blackstone, Commentaries (1769), III. 258–259.

See infra, p. 260, with note.

“When the male heir arrived to the age of twenty one, or the heir-female to that of sixteen, they might sue out their livery or ousterlemain; that is, the delivery of their lands out of their guardian’s hands.” Blackstone, Commentaries, II. 68.

John Carey, third Baron Hunsdon, who succeeded to the barony in 1603 and died in 1617. Thomas Wright, History of Essex, II. 596; Collins, Peerage of England, ed. Brydges, IX. 419.

On the manor and honor of Raleigh or Rayleigh, co. Essex, see Wright, History of Essex, II. 595–596.

On Newstead Hall Manor see W. A. Copinger, The Manors of Suffolk, I. 182. From Sir John Brond the manor passed to Thomas Fones, and on his death in 1629 to his son and heir Samuel Fones. See inquisition on the death of Thomas Fones: Muskett, 83–84.

Cf. Copinger, loc. cit., note 4. John Gage of Polsted was assessed at four pounds in lands for the subsidy of 1568. S. H. A. Hervey, Suffolk in 1568 (Suffolk Green Books, XII), 7.

10.

“Ward-silver, a payment to the lord in commutation of military service.” N. E. D. The obolus equalled two farthings.

Verses by Adam Winthrop1

Winthrop, Adam (1548-1623) Winthrop, Margaret

1619

Loving fren torn The sweetenes of your Loue, Which I did lately taste, Doothe make me to affecte the same, euen with a mynde most chaste. 234 So that I doe desire You present stil to haue: That I might longe inioie your loue Until I rest in graue. For thoughe my youthe be paste and heade is cladde with graie: Yet in your loue I doe reioice, as do the2 Birdes in maie. Wherefore make haste to coome and doe no longer staye: Your Mother deere, and Sisters all, Woulde haue you coome awaye. Your lovinge and assured frende alwaies Adam Winthrop.

Indorsed in the hand of his great-grandson, Fitz-John Winthrop: “Adam Winthrop, Esquire, of Groton Hall in Suffolk, Father to John Winthrop, Esquire Gouernor of Boston in New England.”

W. Au. 1. Written probably to Margaret Winthrop during one of her visits to her mother at Great Maplestead, between Margaret’s marriage in April, 1618, and her mother’s death in July, 1620. ‘Your Mother deere’ is Anne Winthrop.

MS. repeats ‘the.’