[313]. Letter from J. Winthrop, Jr.; Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Series V, vol. VIII, p. 28. Winthrop had appraised it at £5760. R. C. Winthrop, J. Winthrop, vol. II, p. 78.
[314]. Ibid., vol. I, pp. 214 ff., 301 f.
[315]. R. C. Winthrop, J. Winthrop, vol. I, pp. 308, 328.
[316]. The editor of this life of Winthrop (vol. I, pp. 308, 318) naturally claims it for his ancestor. Channing thinks it probable (History, vol. I, p. 327); but Doyle does not (Puritan Colonies, vol. I, p. 85). Cf. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, Series I, vols. VIII, pp. 413-30, and XII, pp. 237 ff.
[317]. Letter of Dec. 8, 1629; Ibid., vol. VIII, p. 427.
[318]. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, Series I, vol. VIII, p. 420. The wording is slightly different in the version in R. C. Winthrop, J. Winthrop, vol. I, p. 327.
[319]. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, Series I, vol. XII, p. 238.
[320]. Letter of Jan. 15, 1630; R. C. Winthrop, J. Winthrop, vol. I, p. 366.
[321]. Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Series IV, vol. VI, pp. 29 f. Sempringham is a tiny hamlet, and of the beautiful house of the Earls of Lincoln, only the garden wall remains. W. F. Rawnsley, Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire (London, 1914), p. 38. The house is mentioned in Camden's Brittania (ed. London, 1806), vol. II, p. 334.
[322]. R. C. Winthrop, J. Winthrop, vol. I, pp. 344 f.