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notice of his marriage till we take up his wife's family. He died, accord-
ing to a record in his own Bible (above referred to), April 23, 1636.
An old business-paper of 1651, recently published among Suffolk
Deeds of Massachusetts, 13
London :
Edward
Bendall 14
enables us to fix the place of his residence in
of Boston thereby acknowledging himself
indebted to " Symon Lynd of Lond.," for a certain sum to be paid " at
the dwelling-house of M rs Elizabeth Lynd in Buttolph lane in London."
Undoubtedly she had lived there in her husband's life-time, as it was near
London Bridge and the shipping; and the Church of St. Andrew,
Hubbard, was in the same lane. This was the place of residence of some
of the highest of the English nobility.
Of the ancestry of Enoch Lynde we have no positive knowledge,
beyond the fact, given in the old Bible, that he was the grandson of
Nathan and Elizabeth Linde, and the evidence of gentle descent afforded
by the arms which he bore on his seal. Simon Lynde, son of Enoch,
having been only twelve years old when his father died, would naturally
lose much of the family-history, while the long widowhood of Elizabeth
(Digby) Lynde accounts for more of the family-history of the Digbys
being transmitted. The Lynde arms on Enoch Lynde's seal were (tinct-
ures not represented) : Gu. on a chief Or three mallets of the first.
An impression of this seal (proved to have been Enoch Lynde's by its
impaling Digby arms, in right of his wife as an heiress) was affixed by his
son Simon to a Deed of 1682, and also to his Will dated July 21, 1685 ; and
a grandson of Simon Lynde, in a letter to Lord Henry Digby, which we
shall mention again, farther on, speaks of a silver inkcase, in his possession,
as bearing "the arms of Digby impaled with those of our family." A
fac-simile of this seal, from the original Will of Simon Lynde, for which
we are indebted to Dr. F. E. Oliver of Boston, will be found on the sheet
" Suffolk Deeds. Liber I. Boston, 1880, pp. 142-43.
14 Probably the father of the third wife of Simon Lynde's son Samuel (see below).