Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1
The xxvijth of Feb: Sir John Higham and Sir Robert Drury1 of Hawsted knightes were chosen knightes of the Shire of Suffolk for the Parleament which began the xixth of Marche next followinge. Anno primo Regni Jacobi Regis.2
The first of Marche Zachary Vintener was arraigned and condemned at the Assises holden at Bury for burglary committed in Groton the xxiijth of october last past.
The same daye and tyme was Bridgett Horneby condemned for kyllinge of her infant nuely borne xmo octobris.
Memorandum that I lost my bases3 then at Bury.
On Tuesday the xxviij of Feb: Dr.
The vjth of Marche my Cowe calved and one of my sheepe brought forth a lambe.
The xijth of Marche John Speede5 came to Groton and tould me that he should marry his Mli. of his grandfathers legacie.
The xiijth day Mr. li. and diuers other apparell of his fellowes and went his waye.
The xvjth of Marche Johnson Ryd to Camb
1604 the xxviijth of Marche I ridde to Springfild and retourned the seconde of Aprill.
The vth of Aprill Mr.
The same day my sister
The xijth of Aprill Mr.
The same day Dr. Jones and Mr. Parson6 dyned at my howse.
On Munday the xvjth of Aprill Eliz
The xxiiijth of Aprill my sonne
The xxvjth I fell sicke of a Colde and payne in my lefte eare.
The second of Maye I sent Josua Winthrop to London.
The vjth of May my sister
The ixth of Maye Maple and Father Slade hurt theire legges very sore.
The xxth of Maye I was greeved with the Collike.
The xxvjth of Maye my soonne
The same daye I R
The xxixth my cosen
The last of May Dr.
The vijth of June I deliuered my estate to John Bronde thelder of Hartes medowe and Hartes Woodde in Edwardston.
The xxiiijth of June John my soonne was witness to Roberte Surreys first soonne John and Jane Kedby was godmother.
The
The third of July Thomas Alston the Yonger died. He lefte vj children borne and his wife great with the vijth. The Inventory of his goodes came to 304. 4. 6.
The xjth of July thassises were holden at Nuemarket.8
The xvjth I received a lettre from my lord B
The xxth of July I rode to Dedham9 and Recs. of Joli. xvj s. which
The xxvjth of July Mr. s. for the Rent of his grownde.
The xxvijth my sonne
The last of July I was at Hacwell and from thence I did ryde to Springfield.
86The ixth of August my brother and sister Veysey came to Groton and the xth I began to shere my wheate.
The same day was a Court Baron10 holden at Groton Hall for James Dixon.
The xiiijth of August Sir Isaac Appulton11 came to speake with me and the same day Mr.
The xxth of August Mr. William Manocke dyned with me.
The xxjth my Cosen
The xxixth of August Mr.
The same day the Bailiff of Rayleighe12 was warned vnto the Court.
The xxxth of August Johane Bettes my maide did wounde John Wailley my man in the hed with her patten for which she was very sory.
The first of September I was before Sir W
The seconde of September my daughter Anne was at Ipswiche at the mariage of my Cosen Sparrowes maide.
Son of Sir William Drury of Hawstead and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Stafford of Chebsey, co. Stafford, knighted in 1591 and died in 1615. Muskett, 354.
No return for the county in this election is to be found in the Public Record Office. Parliamentary Papers, 1878, LXII, pt. 1, 446.
A plaited skirt reaching from the waist to the knee.
N. E. D.
He died on the twenty-ninth.
Son of Margerie Browne by her first husband. Muskett, 82.
Possibly William Parsons, vicar of Bentley, co. Suffolk, 1603–20, died 1625. Infra, p. 245.
Entered at Stationers’ Hall, March 22, 1603–04. Registers of the Company of Stationers (ed. Arber), III. 256.
A market-town, comprising the parish of St. Mary in the hundred of Lackford, co. Suffolk, and the parish of All Saints in the hundred of Cheveley, co. Cambridge.
A parish in the hundred of Lexden, co. Essex.
The assembly of the tenants of a manor under the presidency of the lord or his steward. This may have been a special court held for the admission of Dixon to a copyhold.
Son of Thomas and Mary (Isaacke) Appleton of Little Waldingfield, co. Suffolk. He married Mary “the unfortunate daughter of Anthony Cage” of Longstow, co. Cambridge. Muskett, 329. Cf. M. H. S., Proc.
, IX. 466. Thomas Appleton was stepson of Robert Gurdon of Assington, grandfather of Brampton Gurdon. Muskett, 286, 329; supra, p. 64, note 40. The will of Robert Gurdon, April 3, 1578, leaves “to my daughter Appleton, for and to the behoof of her son Isaac Appleton, twenty marks.” H. F. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings, II. 951; Muskett, 279.
A parish in the hundred of Rochford, co. Essex.
Sir Thomas Eden the elder, of Sudbury, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John St. Clere of St. Osyth, co. Essex. His son, Sir Thomas the younger, married Mary, daughter of Bryan Darcye of Tiptree, co. Essex. Visitations of Essex, I (H. S., Pub.
, XIII), 390–391.