Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1

Folio 5

Winthrop, Adam (1548-1623)

1594

A note of my half yeres rentes and other Dettes which are due vnto me at the feaste of The Annunciation of the Virgin Mary1 Anno 1594.
lent to my brother John Wynthrop	xx s. 5
Imprimis of William Nutton	vij li.
Item of Simon Risinge	iiij li. x s.
Item of Jasper Laughlinge	lij s. vj d.
Item of John Warde	xxij s. vj d.
Item of Simon Facon	xx s.
Item of John Rawlinge	x s.
Item of John Coker	x s.
Item of Philip Goshlinge	xiij s. iiij d.
Item of my Tenaunts in Hadley	x s.
Item of John Laughlinge	xl s.
Item of Thomas Laster	xxvj s. viij d.
Item of Mr. Hanam	vj li. xiij s. iiij d.
Item of my brother John Winthrop	v li.
Item John Laughlinge	viij li. xiij s. iiij d.
Item of the Widow Aliston	xx s.
Item of John Paynter	viij s.
Item of Simon Rysinge for Corne (vj bl. Received)	xij s.
Item of Henry Cooke for iij bl. pease	v s.
Item of Mr. Aliston for iiij bl. and I pecke of pease	vij s. j d.
Item of J. Laughlinge for blank bl. of pease	blank

A Note of the mony which I have receyued since the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist.2
Receyued of John Raven	xij s.
Receyued of my brother Thomas Mildmay	xxxiij s. iiij d.
Receyued of my tenantes at Hadleigh	x s.
Receyued of my Cosen M. for my horse	vj li.
Receyued of Mr. Aliston	xx s.
Receyued of the goodman Goshlinge	iiij li. xiij s. iiij d.
Receyued of Mr. Hannam	ij s.
Receyued of John Laughlinge	xx li.
Receyued of my brother John Winthrop	iiij li.
Receyued of my Cosen Thomas Layster	xxv li.

Mony Receyved since Mich: 1594.3
Receyued of John Raughlinge for Rent	x s.
Receyued of Richard Huggen4 for v lodes of woode	xx s.
Receyued of John Doggett for iiij bls. of wheat	xx s.
Receyued of John Coker	xvj s.
Receyued of William Nutton	vij li.
Receyued of Simon Rysing	iiij li. x s.
Receyued of John Laughlinge	lij s. iij d.
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Receyued of Mr. Hanham	vj li. xiij s. iij d.
Receyued of my brother	vij li.
Receyued of Plumme5 for iiij bls. wheat	xx s.
Receyued for ij kyne soulde	iiij li.
Receyued for a hogge soulde	x s.
Receyued of my tenauntes at Hadley	xl s.
Receyued of my Lord of Bath6	v li.
Receyued of goodman Goshlinge	iiij li. xix s. iiij d.
Receyued of John Warde	xxij s. vj d.
Receyued for ij sheepe	xviij s.
Receyued of the College7	viij li. vj s. viij d.
Receyued of Lewes Kidby8	lvj s.
Receyued of John Doggett9	nil

March 25, Lady Day, the first day of the new year.

June 24.

September 29.

A marriage license was issued to Richard Huggen, clothier, and Anne Wincolle of Little Waldingfield, November 4, 1583. Sudbury Archdeaconry, Acta Book, fo. 50.

Probably John Plumbe of Boxford, clothier. In his will, proved June 23, 1623, he leaves to his grandchild, John Lomax, “one meadow of copyhold land in Groaton which I bought of Mr. Adam Wintroppe.” H. F. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings in England (Boston, 1901), II. 1413–14.

John Still (1543?–1608), bishop of Bath and Wells, and reputed author of Gammer Gurton’s Needle. His first wife was Anne, daughter of Thomas Alabaster of Hadleigh, and his sister Alice was the first wife of the diarist. Muskett, 76; D. N. B. , LIV. 370–373.

Trinity College, Cambridge, founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII. The payment was for Adam Winthrop’s services as auditor of the college, references to which will also be found later in the Diary. Winthrop matriculated fellow-commoner from Magdalene College, Cambridge, Michaelmas, 1567, but does not appear to have proceeded to a degree. Venn, A. C. , IV. 441; the same, Book of Matriculations and Degrees (Cambridge, 1913), 740.

Buried at Groton, August 13, 1598. His tomb in Groton Church bears the inscription: “Here lyeth the Body of | Lewes Kedbye, whoe had to wyue Jane Kedbye by whome he had issue IIII | sones and vj daughters, and de | ceased ye XIII of August An. 1598, being about ye age of XXXIX years.” Cf. D. E. Davy, B. M., Add. MS. 19077, fo. 334.

Of Groton, clothier, buried May 29, 1619. His wife, Dorothy, died March 2, 1604–05.

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Winthrop, Adam (1548-1623)

1594

1607-03-29

A note of the mony which I haue payd since the saide Feast Anno 1594.
Payd to William Gale for Rent	iij s. ix d.
payd to the Butcher for meat	xiij s. vij d.
payd to Day for makinge hay	v s. viij d.
payd for ij payer of gloues	x d.
payd to the Collectors for the poore	vj s. viij d.
payd to my brother for Rent of Crabtree Went	xxxiij s. iiij d.
payd to Mr. Thomas Nicholson for Tithe and Rent	xx s. xiij s. iiij d.
payd to the Constable	xviij d.
payd to John Raughlinge for the hoppeyarde	iij s. iiij d.
payd to Rycharde Edwardes for his Wages	xl s.
4 Julii payd to Thomas Banckes	iij li. vj s. vij d.
payd to Mr. Hanam	iij li. vj s. viij d.
payd to Mr. Henry Sandes1	x s.
payd for ij payer of shoes	xij d.
payd to Surrey for worke	xij d.
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In expensis	xiiij d.
payd to Mary Pierce2	xxxvij s.
payd to Thomas Page	xx s.
payd for the setting forth of a soldier	ij s. vj d.
payd for Mr. Hanam	iij s.
payd to the Constables	xij d.
payd to Simon Facon	xx li.
payd to Anderton and King for mowinge	xvj s.
payd to them for making Woodd and ditchinge	xv s.
payd to Mr. Bird3 for the tith of Lynnecroft	xij s.
payd to John Grymes for mowing vj acres and dimidiam of Barley at xij d. the acre	vj s. vj d.
payd to harvest men	xiij s. vj d.
payd for the Caryeng of v lodes of wheat	iij s. vj d.
10 Aug: 1594 payd to John Symon the Smythe	vj s.
payd to the knacker4	xij d.
payd for a nue ploughe	ij s. vj d.
payd for traces and lether	ij s. vj d.
payd to Mr. Thomas Nycholson for Tythe	xix s. vj d.
for ij Thowsand of Tile	xx s.
for a Mille of lathe naile	xx d.
for half a bl. of Tile pynne	x d.
for the wages of ij Tilers and ther men	ix s. ij d.
for ij seames5 of lyme	iij s.
for gathering of xij bundels of thatching Roddes	xij d.
To the Thatcher of v dayes	ij s. vj d.
To Johane for the Rest of her Wages	xxj s.
for ij M of lathe nayle	iij s.
for iij seames of lyme	iiij s. vj d.
for ij lodes of strawe	v s. vj d.
for hainynge6 of my field	v s. vj d.
for iij dozen of Trenchers	iij s.
for gatheringe of vj lodes of stone	xxj d.
for x lambes at iiij s. a lamb	xl s.
for a yarde of Russett7	iij s.
for ij payer of stockinges of black	vj s.

A note taken out of John Bogas8 his last will. Item I give to my twoe youngest soonnes Robert and William my Copyhold fild called Stubbinges and Cowebrooke to them and their heires for euer, so that my soonne John Bogas shall haue it freely for twoe yeres after my deathe he doinge no strippe nor wast therin.

quere if John may not cobbe9 the trees and take awaye the busshes.

Memorandum that he Surrendered into the handes of Joseph Gale and Eustace Whale ij Customary tenants of the Borehouse10 according to his will Dated 29 Martii Anno quinto Jacobi Regis i. e. 1607.7

Vicar of Preston by Lavenham, 1578 (Sudbury Archdeaconry, Register), and later preacher at Boxford. He was a member of the Dedham Classis. R. G. Usher, The Presbyterian Movement in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1905), xlvi. He died in November, 1626. Infra, p. 334.

Mary Andrew alias Pierce.

Joseph Bird, of Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A., 1587–88; M.A., 1591; ordained priest (Norwich), 1592; vicar of Latton, co. Essex, 1593–1600; rector of Boxford, Suffolk, 1600–24, in which year he died. Venn, A. C. , I. 155.

A harness maker or saddler. N. E. D.

A seam was a pack-horse load, varying according to the commodity or locality. Ibid.

Enclosing or protecting a field with a fence or hedge, to keep cattle out. Ibid.

A coarse homespun woollen cloth, worn by country-folk. It might be of a reddish-brown, grey, or neutral color. Ibid.

John Boggys or Boggas of Edwardstone, yeoman, died April 1, 1607.

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The manor of Bowerhouse, Borehouse, or Bowrehall in Boxford had been purchased by John (later Sir John) Huddlestone in 1553, descended successively to his sons William and Edmund, and passed, through the marriage of their sister Alice, to Sir Thomas Lovell, who held it at his death in 1604. Davy, B. M., Add. MS. 19077, under Boxford.