Perhaps this reference is already known, but an article on "Anne Bradstreet, the First American Poetess, and Her Father, Governor Thomas Dudley," by Karl Josef Hoeltgen, appears in _Northamptonshire Past & Present_ for 1976, pp. 325-32:

http://www.northamptonshirerecordsociety.org.uk/eNpp/NppNo28_b.pdf

This article gives two letters by members of the Isham family with passing references to Judge Augustine Nicholls' "man," Thomas Dudley, i.e., subsequently the Massachusetts Bay governor. There is also a reproduction of Thomas Dudley's signature on an
English document.

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