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Will of Henry Browne of Edwardstone, 15931

Browne, Henry

1593-06-23

Henry Browne2 of Milton in Prittlewell in the countie of Essex yeoman, 23rd June, 35 Elizabeth. First and before all other things I giue my sowle to almightie God who made me, and to Jesus Christ who hath redeamed me, and to the holie ghoste who sanctifieth me, acknowledging theis three persons to be one God, Item I giue and bequeathe to Margaret my wief the summe of twentie pounds of lawful money of England, to be paid to her so long as it shall please god to giue her lief, everye six monthes tenne poundes, and all other goodes that she brought to me, as householde, corne, catell and leases, and my parte of the shipp. To my daughter Margerie3 now wiffe of Mr. Weston, Vicar of Wormingfourde, the house and land bought of Mr. Hanam, to her and to the heires of her bodie she had by her husband Speade. To John Speade her sonne the summe of fiftie poundes at the daye of his marriage or his age of four and twentie yeares. To Benjamin Speade her sonne and Anne Speade her daughter the like porcion. To my daughter Anne Snellinge4 my dye-house in Boxford streat. To Anne Snelling5 her daughter fiftie poundes at the daye of her marriage. To Joane Hilles6 my daughter my hovse and lands in Polsted.7 To William Hilles8 her sonne and Joane Hilles and Elizabeth Hilles her daughters fiftie poundes apiece. To Anne Wynthropp9 my daughter my mansion howse etc. To John Wynthropp10 fiftie poundes and to Anne Wynthropp11 and Jane 38Wynthropp12 fiftie poundes apiece at their ages of four and twentye yeares or dayes of marriage. My brother Raven,13 my sister his wiffe and eurie of their children. My brother Browne14 his children. Adam Wynthropp sole executor. Legacies to the poore of Prittlewell and Edwardstone and to others to be paid by my wief out of my shippe. Probatum 27 January 1596, Juramento Adami Wynthropp.

P. C. C., 2 Cobham; Muskett, 77–78.

Henry Browne of Edwardstone died January 8, 1596–97, aged seventy-six, and was buried at Prittlewell. All of his children were by his first wife. Muskett, 82.

Margerie (Browne) Speade married Roger Weston and died before 1608. Ibid. Wormingford is a parish in the hundred of Lexden, co. Essex, on the Stour River.

Anne Browne married John Snelling, of Boxford, clothier, April 6, 1575 (Boxford Register), and had son, John, baptized November 2, 1578, who died young, and Anne, baptized December 27, 1580. Snelling was cousin to William Ames (1576–1633), the Puritan divine and casuist. Boxford Register; Muskett, 82.

Anne Snelling married November 11, 1596, John Duke of Colchester, doctor of physic, who died in June, 1629. Muskett, 82.

Joan Browne married William Hilles of Holton, co. Suffolk, yeoman, son of Peter Hilles of Assington and Holton and Parnell his wife. William Hilles died August 4, 1597, and his widow September 8 of the same year. Their daughter Joan Hilles married Adam Winthrop (1561–1634) of London. Muskett, 82, 102. There are two Holton parishes in Suffolk: one in the incorporation and hundred of Samford and the other in the hundred of Blything. That in Samford is probably intended.

Polstead, a parish in the hundred of Babergh, co. Suffolk.

William Hilles married Elizabeth Gibson, January 15, 1600–01, and occupied Holton Hall, September 30, 1602. Muskett, 102; infra, pp. 72, 77.

Anne Browne married Adam Winthrop, of Groton, named executor under this will. Supra, p. 5.

10.

John Winthrop, later governor of Massachusetts-Bay.

11.

Anne Winthrop, who married in 1605 Thomas Fones of London. Supra, p. 7; infra, p. 88.

12.

Jane Winthrop, who married in 1612–13 Thomas Gostlin of Groton. Supra, p. 5; infra, p. 175.

13.

Elizabeth Browne married John Raven. Muskett, 82. Sons John, Edmund, and Edward are mentioned in Adam Winthrop’s diary. Infra, p. 119.

14.

Thomas Browne, who married Elizabeth ――. Muskett, 82.