²⁴⁹ Forfeitures.

²⁵⁰ Arrears due from Sir Thomas Puckering (d.1636), friend and neighbour of Lord Brooke in Warwick.

²⁵¹ Leet dinner: a dinner for officials of the leet court, which was usually held annually by the lord of the manor, and ‘dealt with… the regulation of social and economic life within the community’, including ‘the enforcement of local bylaws’: Brooks, Christopher, Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2009), 245CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

²⁵² Estreat: the true extract, copy or note of some original writing or record, especially of fines, amercements, etc., entered on the rolls of a court to be levied by the bailiff or other officer: OED.

²⁵³ Heriot: a feudal service, originally consisting of weapons, horses, and other military equipments, restored to a lord on the death of his tenant; afterwards a render of the best live beast or dead chattel of a deceased tenant due by legal custom to the lord of whom he held: OED.

²⁵⁴ Perquisite: an acquired piece of property, especially a property acquired otherwise than by inheritance: OED.

²⁵⁵ Customary: a system of landholding by manorial or other custom, typically requiring the tenant to render services periodically to their lord: OED.

²⁵⁶ Arrears of rent due to Sir Thomas Temple of Stowe and Burton Dassett who died in 1637.

²⁵⁷ The king's provision or purveyance, was the crown's prerogative right to purchase provisions and other items for the royal household by means of a compulsory price: OED.

²⁵⁸ Temple Farm was land once held by the Knights Templars, in St Nicholas parish, Warwick: EPNS Warwickshire, 266.

²⁵⁹ The Leafield or Leyfield lay just south of the Castle in St Mary's parish, Warwick: EPNS Warwickshire, 262.

²⁶⁰ Myton stood adjacent to Warwick, in St Nicholas's parish, on the south bank of the River Avon: EPNS Warwickshire, 265.

²⁶¹ Beausale, a hamlet in Hatton parish, 4 miles north-west of Warwick.

²⁶² Site of Brooke's deer park, a mile north-west of Warwick.

²⁶³ Leek Wootton, a parish 2 miles north of Warwick.

²⁶⁴ Noble: in this context an English gold coin valued at 6s 8d: OED.

²⁶⁵ Over Cester is a hamlet in Monk's Kirby parish, Warwickshire.

²⁶⁶ Newbold-on-Avon, 1 mile north-west of Rugby, Warwickshire.

²⁶⁷ For John St Nicholas, see App. 4.

²⁶⁸ Gudgeon: a pivot, usually of metal, fixed on or let into the end of a beam, spindle, axle, etc., and on which a wheel turns, a bell swings, or the like: OED.

²⁶⁹ Sir Francis Nethersole of Polesworth, Warwickshire, was English agent to the princes of the Protestant Union in the Holy Roman Empire during the 1620s, and secretary to Elizabeth, queen of Bohemia. He was one of Brooke's unsuccessful candidates in the by-election for the county seats in the Long Parliament in early 1641: ODNB.

²⁷⁰ Kenilworth: EPNS Warwickshire, 172.

²⁷¹ Allhollantide: a variant of All Hallows’ tide: OED.

²⁷² Gaffle pin: a steel lever for bending the crossbow: OED.

²⁷³ Creeps: probably a hide for the hunter: OED, see meaning 1b.

²⁷⁴ Damage to the park done by royalists, probably in August 1642 when the king summoned Warwick Castle to surrender.

²⁷⁵ For Brooke Bridges, see App. 4.