³⁸⁷ Lozenge: a small cake or tablet, medicated or flavoured sugar to be dissolved in the mouth: OED.

³⁸⁸ On 13 March 1644 Charles I granted wardship of Francis Greville, 3rd Lord Brooke to the boy's uncle and his principal secretary of state, George, Lord Digby. For an account of Lady Brooke's troubles with her brother-in-law, Lord Digby, see Hopper, ‘ “To condole with me on the Commonwealth's loss” ’, 194–95.

³⁸⁹ The relief of Taunton by Major-General Edward Massey on 29 June 1645.

³⁹⁰ Brooke House's contribution towards the sums raised for the London militia's relief of Taunton: ‘divers Sums have been voluntarily subscribed and collected, in the City of London, and within the Lines of Communication’. LJ, VII, 430 (13 June 1645).

³⁹¹ Parliamentarian forces from the New Model Army besieged Oxford in May 1645.

³⁹² A town in Essex, 14 miles from London.

³⁹³ For Sir Thomas Fairfax, see App. 4.

³⁹⁴ An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the raising and levying of the monethly sum of one and twenty thousand pounds, towards the maintenance of the Scotish army, under the command of the Earl of Leven, by a monethly asessment upon the severall counties, cities and towns of the kingdom of England therein mentioned, 20 February (London, 1645).

³⁹⁵ ‘October 1644: An Ordinance for an Assessment through the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales, for the present relief of the British Army in Ireland’, in Firth, C.H. and Rait, R.S. (eds), Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642–1660 (London, 1911), I, 531–553Google Scholar.

³⁹⁶ William, Baron Maynard (1623–1689), an Essex landowner.

³⁹⁷ Ell: a measure of length, around 45 inches: OED.

³⁹⁸ Standish: a ‘stand containing ink, pens and other writing materials and accessories’: OED.

³⁹⁹ Kitar: a guitar or lyre: OED.

⁴⁰⁰ T P in elaborate capitals. Possiby ‘the poor’.

⁴⁰¹ Periwig: OED.

⁴⁰² Cordovan: a type of leather: OED.

⁴⁰³ Spurrier: a spur-maker: OED.

⁴⁰⁴ Taffety: a fine, crisp and usually lustrous fabric of a plain weave, originally of silk: OED.

⁴⁰⁵ See, for example, Englands safety in navie and fortifications (1642): A practical abstract of the arts of fortification and assailing (1645).

⁴⁰⁶ Philip Jermyn was a Sussex JP resident on Lad Lane, off Milk Street, Cripplegate in London. He was created a sergeant at law in 1638: ODNB.

⁴⁰⁷ Anne, wife of William Russell, 5th earl of Bedford, and sister-in-law to Lady Brooke.

⁴⁰⁸ For John Bridges (the younger), see App. 4.

⁴⁰⁹ King's Newnham, 4 miles north-west of Rugby, Warwickshire.

⁴¹⁰ Frieze: a kind of coarse woollen cloth, with a nap, usually on one side only: OED.

⁴¹¹ Captain John Cotton succeeded to the command of Major Abraham Pont's troop in Colonel William Purefoy's regiment of Warwickshire cavalry, but was mortally wounded at Rowton Heath in 1645: CAOD; TNA, SP 28/22/205; Hughes thesis, 503.

⁴¹² Alexander Leslie, earl of Leven, commander of the Scots Army of the Covenant that quartered in Alcester and other parts of Warwickshire on its way to the siege of Hereford in July 1645: TNA, SP 28/201; Hughes, Ann, ‘“When the Scotts army did march thorow our country”: Space, place and remembering in the English Civil War’, in Bowen, Lloyd and Stoyle, Mark (eds), Remembering the English Civil Wars (Abingdon, 2022), 43–60Google Scholar.

⁴¹³ The tomb of Robert Greville, 2nd Lord Brooke in St Mary's church, Warwick.

⁴¹⁴ Escutcheon: a shield-shaped surface on which a coat of arms is depicted: OED.

⁴¹⁵ Samuel Clarke of Wolston, Warwickshire, minister, attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge, before serving as under minister at St Mary's, Warwick, from 1628. He was presented to the living of Alcester by Robert, 2nd Lord Brooke in 1633. He left for London in 1643 and never returned: ODNB.