Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1
The xxiiijth of July my wife
The next day my soonne and his wife did ride to her fathers in Essex.
The 29 of July the Sessions were kept at Groton by Sir W
The xxxth of July Mr.
The first of August my soonne
The ijd day of August I did reape my wheat in Peryfield and the shearers caught a hare.
The Third day I deliuered an estat to my soonne in lawe Tho
The iiijth of Aug. Johane Cooke was d
The viijth of August Edward Alstons eldest sonne John was borne in Boxforde and Mistres Wheeler died.
The ixth of August I sealed thassurance to John Plombe of his mansion house in Box
The xiiijth I bought ix lambes of John Nutton.
The xvth my brother
The xxixth Mr. Rogers preached at Boxford Jam. 4. 1.2.3.4. the same day my sonne did ride to Stambridge.
The last of August the pond was cast.
The third of sept. Mr.
The vth I was sworne at Stowe before Sir William Waldegrave and other Commissioners for to inquire of Recusantes3 landes and goodes.
The vijth the great ponde in Howe meadowe was cast and clensed of all the mudde and I did put in to it vj yonge Carpes and a dozen tenches.
The 28 of septembre Mistris
29 Sept. 1605 Robert Bogis paid me xl li. to redeeme his lande.
the next day I did ride to Stambrige. and retourned from thence the iiijth of september
The vjth of Octobre William Bettes departed from me.
The viijth the goodwyfe lappage was buried.
The ixth I was at Brettenham at my cosen
The xviijth of octobre I changed a barrowe hogge for a sowe with John Rawlyng and she furrowed xij pigges the next night.
The xixth of octobre Henry Pease came to dwell with me and the xxth I did ride to Cannouden4 in Essex with the wydow Alston and ret
The xxixth of octobre Justine Nicholson was maryed to Josua Stocken at Edwardston.
Memorandum that the xxjth of Octobre John Tille and Robert his sonne entered into Swetsers howse at Stonstrete and kept the poss
The same day my Cosen
The vjth of Novembre my brother li. per Annum.
The xvth of No. I did ryde towardes London and the 28 I retourned home.
The 23 of No. Edw
The iijd of December I did ryde to the Auditt at Trinity Coll
The xth of December Eliz
The iiijth of Jan: mr. Tomkes6 a fellowe of Trinitie College was at my house.
The xviijth of January my Cosen Wa
The 26 of Jan. Joseph Coles wife was d
The 28 of Jan. I was at the del
The xxx and xxxj of Jan. viij traitors were hanged
The viijth of Feb. W
On Wedensday in the morning the 12 of Feb. my soonnes first soonne was borne in Groton.
The mother was Elizabeth (Gibson) Hilles. Supra, p. 72.
Son of Humphrey Munning of Semer, co. Suffolk, and Ellen (Ungle) Munning, M.A. from Magdalene, 1585, ordained deacon and priest 1589, rector of Great Thornham, co. Suffolk, 1596–97, and of Brettenham, 1597–1624. He died in 1624. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Winthrop of London, who survived him and died in 1631. Muskett, 107;Venn, A. C.
, III. 227.
This proceeding was under the act of I Jac. I, c. 4, July 5, 1604, “for the due Execution of the Statutes againste the Jesuits Seminarie Preists Recusantes etc.” Statutes of the Realm, IV, pt. 2, 1020–22. Cf. the commission issued by King James to Lord Ellesmere and others, September 5, 1604, printed in Rymer’s Foedera, 2d ed., XVI. 597–599; and S. R. Gardiner, History of England from the Accession of James I., I. 202–204, 221–233.
Canewdon, a parish in the hundred of Rochford, co. Essex.
Brother of Richard Spencer of Edwardstone. Sudbury Archdeaconry, bk. 43, fo. 234.
Thomas Tomkys, scholar of Trinity, 1599, B.A., 1600–01; Fellow, 1602; M.A., 1604. Venn, A. C.
, IV. 248.
He was condemned for not giving information of the Gunpowder Plot and was executed in the Old Palace Yard, Westminster, January 31, with Thomas Winter [or Wintour], Keyes, and Fawkes. Robert Winter, brother of Thomas, Edward Grant, Bates, and another had suffered the penalty on the 30th. Coldham Hall in Stanningfield, co. Suffolk, had been in the Rookewood family since 1357.
D. N. B.
, XLIX. 211; Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, Proceedings, III. 303–304.
1608-05-29
The 23 of Feb: beinge sunday my soonnes first soonne was baptized and named John.
The last day of Feb. the Dovehouse was raysed.
The seconde of march being sunday about vij of the Clocke in the evenyng the godewyfe Dogett1 died.
The vjth of marche being thursday Henry Vintener thelder died of thage of lxx yeres.
The xvth day of March ther were great stormes of wynde which did much hurt to howses.
92The same day Thomas Humfreys howse was burnt downe at Melfourde.
The xvth day of Aprill I kept a Court for my brother
The xixth of Aprill 1606 my sister tie younge pigeons to store my Dovehouse.
The xxiijth of Aprill Mris. Clopton sent me
The xxijth my Cosen
The xxviijth I kept a Court at Groton hall.
The iijd of Maye I putt xlv younge pigeons into my nue Dovehouse.
The vth of Maye my wife did ride towardes London and retorned the vth of June.
The vjth of Maye I was at a Court in Hadleigh and did fealty for a Tenement and certaine landes.
The viijth of Maye William Gale of Hadleigh died.
The xiiijth of May I sold l trees to Mr.
The 26 my soonne
The 27 Mris. Alston and her sister Mary dined with me.
The 29 Nath
The first of June my dunne Cowe calved and the Calf fell into the great ponde the next daye in the mornynge.
The iiijth of June I distreigned iiij horses for Rent due by Henry Vintener and he made Resceus.
The xth of June John Dixon thelder died in Groton.
The xiijth of June I paide to Edward Alston 120 li.
The xjth of June Mr. John Forth came to Groton.
The 26 of June I paid to Mr. Edli. which I borrowed of him.
On sunday the
The 29 I kept a Court at Shimplinge.
The viijth of July Mr. Brampton Gurdon was maried to his seconde wife.6
The 25 of July my soonne
The 28 we did ride to Ipswich.
The xiijth of August my soonne
The 28 of August Mr. Arminger7 had a fall of his horse and brake his legge.
93The first of Sept. I did give an estate to my soonne in the house and lande called Wrightes in the Fenne.
The thirde of sept. we did ride with Mr.
The ixth of Sept. my Cosen
The same day the great Appletree next the killehouse was fyred for to distroy a hornettes nest.
The xiiijth of september Mr.
The xviijth Mris. Alston and hir sister8 dined with me.
The xixth day John Still9 came to my house.
The xxiiijth day of sept. I did ride to Stambrige and retourned the xxixth.
The thirtieth of sept. Beniamin Bronde was maryed at Ipswich to
The vijth of September the nue howse at Castleynes Hethe was sett vp by
And the 29th of Maye 1608 my brother sealed a lease thereof to Robert Surrey for xlj yeres.
Dorothy Doggett, buried March 14, 1604–05.
A parish in the hundred of Babergh, co. Suffolk.
Nathaniel Milbourne and Phebe Deathe. She was daughter of James and Bridget Deathe and was baptized March 22, 1583–84. The Groton Register gives May 9 as the date of this marriage.
June 24.
Anne of Denmark (1574–1619), queen consort, had a daughter Sophia, who lived for one day and was buried, June 26, 1606, in Westminster Abbey. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1603–1610, 322; John Stow, Abridgement of the English Chronicle, with continuation by Edmond Howes (London, 1607), 590–591.
Muriel Sedley. Muskett, 287.
The name is spelled Armiger infra, p. 94.
The sister was Mrs. Armiger. Infra, p. 94.
Son of Bishop Still, born in 1588. He married Anna, daughter of Thomas Baynard of Coleborne, co. Wilts. Muskett, 76.