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The xxviijth day of May Mr.
The last day of May Mr.
The same daye of May the Bishop of Norwich1 came ryding throughe Boxforde towards Norwich.
The 28 day of May Nicholas Reeve was lett downe into a well of goodman
The vijth Day of June olde Doare of thage of lxv yeres maried Margarett Coe2 the pedders daughter. The xjth her sister died, and the same day I sawe a grey conye in my woode yarde.
The 14 my cosen Bulwers wife came to my house and toulde me that my cosen T. M. childe was borne at Wetherden,3 and named Honor.
The 17 of June I rid with Mr.
The xxiiijth of June being midsomm
The last of June Mr. Alyston7 vicar of Acton borrowed of me the Remes Testament in Englishe.
The vth of July I sent for a geldinge to my Cosin
The xvijth Day of July Alcockes beastes were in my barley. The same day my wife lent Mistres Sands xxj s. vppon a siluer and gilt salt seller, and I lent 1 s. to William Coe the day before.
The 23th daye of July my brother
The 25 daye the kinges ma
The same daie Robert Surrey was maried to John Dogetts maide, Thomasin Hubbard.
The 26 Daye Mr.
The vth of August Alcockes beastes were in my barley.
The vj of Aug. my Cosen Nath
August. The first I dated my lettre which I sent to Welles.
The seconde Mr. Newton9 came to my house.
The vth day was celebrated for the kings Deliuerance in Scotland the same Day of the moneth Anno
The vth of August William Wymarkes only soonne was killed at Cambridge with a peece of a gunne which brake and killed iij more. He was scholler of Trinitie College: and about xiiij yeres olde.
The xvjth Day Mres. Waldgrave died.
The xxixth of August Bridgett the wife of G. Fitche, and before of John French and John Gosse,12 died of a consumption.
The xvijth daye the generall fast was kept at Boxford, and the xxiiijth at Groton, by the Kinges commandement.
The 28 and 29 the pondes in Peryfieldes were cast by
The same day
The first of August I beganne to cast the great ponde in the Barne close, and tooke out of it 7 great carpes.
From the 25 of August vntill the first of Sept. there died of the plauge in London and without in the Subvrbes mmmxxxv persons.
The iiijth of Sept. my cosen
The vjth of Sept. the fast was kept the 2 tyme at Groton, and Mr.
The xvth of September I sett vp a house for Adam Podde my godsoonne by the Ponde in neithe Peryfilde.
The xixth of Sept. Mr.
The xxjth my cosen
The 28 Mr. li. for his sonne and Timothy Coe came to dwell with me.
The same day Jo: Maslyn15 came and Reconde with me.
John Jegon (1550–1618).
D. N. B.
, XXIX. 286–287.
Margaret, daughter of Thomas Coe, peddler (who died at Newton and was buried there, November 17, 1611, aged eighty years), was baptized at Groton, June 18, 1579, and married Thomas Dore.
Wetherden, a parish in the hundred of Stow, co. Suffolk.
Sir William Ayloffe of Bretons and of Great Braxted, co. Essex, knighted May 11, 1603. Morant, Essex, I. 70; II. 139.
William Aylett of Stisted, co. Essex, died March 31, 1583. Morant, II. 393. There were several branches of the family.
June 29.
Edward Elliston alias Alliston, of Christ’s College, Cambridge, 1584–91, was ordained probably in 1595 and inducted to Acton vicarage, December 19, 1597. He came from Wetherden. Venn, A. C.
, II. 99; Sudbury Archdeaconry, Register.
Nathaniel Still, grandson of Thomas Alabaster and son of Dr. Still and Anne (Alabaster) Still.
D. N. B.
, LIV. 371.
Thomas Newton, rector of Stratford St. Mary, co. Suffolk, 1606 to 1619—the year of his death. His wife’s name was Anne. Venn, A. C.
, III. 253; Stratford Register.
John Ruthven, third Earl of Gowrie (1578?–1600), and his younger brother, Alexander Ruthven (1580?–1600), lost their lives on August 5, 1600, when the King was at their seat of Ruthven, but the circumstances of the encounter have never satisfactorily been explained. On his arrival in England, as Francis Osborne tells us, King James “brought a new Holyday into the Church of England, wherein God had publick thanks given him for his Majesties deliverance out of the hands of Earle Goury.” Traditionall Memoyres on the Raigne of King Iames (1658), 129.
“If it had not been the Lord who was on our side.”
John Gosse of Edwardstone, clothier, died in 1591, and John French, died January 22, 1601–02. Sudbury Archdeaconry, Wills, bk. 38, fo. 135; supra, p. 75.
Possibly The Flowers of Lodowicke of Granado gathered out of his spirituall Workes, in whiche is handled the conuersion of a sinner, &c., entered at Stationers’ Hall, April 23, 1601. Another part, The Paradise of Prayers gathered out of the spirituall Workes of Lewis of Granado and Englyshed by T. L., was entered May 22, but by another printer. T. L. was a doctor of physic. Registers of the Company of Stationers (ed. Arber), III. 183, 184, 262.
This item, although published in 1864 (
L. and L.
, I. 418), was overlooked by A. H. Bullen in his article on Alabaster,
D. N. B.
, I. 212.