Identifier: putnamlineagehis00putn (find matches)
Title: The Putnam lineage; historical-genealogical notes concerning the Puttenham family in England, together with lines of royal descent, and showing the ancestors of John Putnam of Salem, and his descendants through five generations, together with some account of other families of the name and of the Putnams of the Mohawk valley
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Putnam, Eben, 1868-1933
Subjects: Putnam family Putnam family (John Putnam, 1579?-1662) (from old catalog) Families of royal descent
Publisher: Salem, Mass., The Salem press company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e under the laws of the realm.This and his harboring a man accused of murtjer, together witha pretended offer to Hodges of 500 marks if he would kill Secre-tarv Cecil, are in brief the chief accusations against him, of all ofwhich he was acciuitted. Later Puttenham attempted to recover from the governmenta sum of money, £900, alleged to lune been wrongfully takenfrom him by his obedience to the Queens commanils. In thishe failed, but the following decision by the Privy Council seemsto place him in a fair light: I know no cause ti) move me tothink otherwise but that George Puttenham ought to be relievedof the forfeature, whereof Morrise took advantage, for I know^that George Puttenhams relieving of his brothers wife, wherebyjrrew the cause of his forfevture, was bv order of the councilupon the lamentable complaint made to her Ma^^ by Ri: Put-tenhams wife. This forfeiture was that of his bargain of in-heritance by the stopping of rent u(n)n the ownership of Sher-field chanji-ing hands.
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GEORGE HAVEN PUTNAM OF NEW YORK. OEORCE rUTTENHAM. IxV In tlic iiiciiiitiiiic l*utlciili;iiir.s troiihlc.s willi LjkIv Windsorhad readied a cliinax. In I)7S lie was repeatedly siiiiiiiioiiedto appear before tfie Privy ( oiiiieil. On one occasion lie excuseshis refusal to a;)pear on account of oiitra<,es feared from LordPaulet, and says: My daii<;cr is not small in respect to my wifeand her children, wfio lia\c Ion);- desired my dcalli. -X^ain, ina letter to Sir John Throckmorton, to whom lie had transferredmuch if not all his ()roperty, and who was lookinj^; after his in-terests at court, he writes that lie is now on the point of (ift\years, and has been five or six times waylaid, twice by the LordThomas Paulet and his servants, and his fijoods taken away fromhim, and twice or thrice other times by Mrs. Paulets servants,being assaulted with swords and (lafi;<;ers. He <joes on to com-plain of the slanders against him by his wife and her favorites atCourt. Jn another letter

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