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ACCOUNTS OF KATHERINE, LADY BROOKE, 1645–1646

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2024

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 68: THE HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS OF ROBERT AND KATHERINE GREVILLE, LORD AND LADY BROOKE, AT HOLBORN AND WARWICK, 1640–1649 , December 2024 , pp. 371 - 401
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[Title page]

The book of disbursements and receipts at Brooke House for the year beginning 2 March 1645 and ending on or about 2 March 1646.

p. 1

Expenses and provisions for diet, grocery, wood, coal, candles, reparations, taxes, payments, gifts, gardens, stables, travelling charges and all other household necessaries.

p. 2

Expenses

p. 3

Expenses

p. 4

Expenses

p. 5

Expenses

p. 6

Expenses

p. 7

Apparel

p. 8

Apparel

p. 9

Apparel

p. 10

Apparel

p. 11

Apparel

p. 12

Wages

p. 13

Wages

p. 14

Wages

p. 15

Law

p. 16

Lent and paid by my Lady's command out of her and my Lord's revenues towards payment of tradesmen's bills & other old debts due in my Lord ‘s lifetime:/

p. 17

p. 18

p. 19

A breviat of the disbursements at Brooke House in the year ending 3 March 1646 contained as is aforesaid in this book and were paid and discharged by Mr Bridges by the appointment of the right honourable Katherine, Lady Brooke, guardian to Francis, Lord Brooke her son.

In 6 pages under title of:

In 5 pages under the title of apparel:

In 3 pages under the title of wages:

Total of the said disbursements under the said titles:

In 3 pages under title of debts without speciality due in my Lord's lifetime:

Total of all the said disbursements 1937-17-08

p. 19a

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p. 19b

Receipts out of the revenue of the right honourable Katherine, Lady Brooke, and Francis Lord Brooke her son (to whom she is guardian), which by her Ladyship's appointment are distributed by John Bridges the elder towards the disbursements for housekeeping in the year ending 2 March 1646.

Arrears Lady Day Rent Mich. Rent

*Lincolnshire taxes 33-04-06, 11-02-06*

Hackney

Penkridge

p. 20

Arrears Lady Day Rent        Mich. Rent
           *Rent due July        Rent due Epip*

Penkridge

Hogshaw

Arrears  Lady Day  Michaelmas
Wellingborough

Warwickshire

Studley Park

p. 21

Caldecote

Total of Mr Bridges's receipts aforesaid amounts to 1628li 01s 11d

That is to say:

p. 22

Moneys received which was lent and for horses and other things sold in the year ending 2 March 1646.

p. 23

Mr Henry Hunt's receipts

A particular of such sums of money as Mr Henry Hunt the receiver hath received out of my Lord Francis, Lord Brooke's and Lady Brooke's estate from 2 March 1645 to 2 March 1646.

Warwick

p. 24

Knowle

Wedgnock

Tachbrook

Lillington<?>

p. 25

Kinwarton

Alcester

Oversley

p. 26

Aston Cantlow

Fleet Marston

Admington

Arrears not entred

p. 27

Total 1751-15-07

Mr Hunt's said receipts amount to 1751li 15s 7d as by 4 pages under his hand appeareth. Out of which the 169li 11s 2d by him disbursed (in the 4 next pages following) being defaulted his clear receipt is in total:                  1582-04-05

p. 28

A particular of the several disbursements of Mr Henry Hunt, receiver for my Lord and Lady Brooke since his last audit until 2 March 1646

p. 29

p. 30

p. 31

p. 32

The breviat of the whole year's charge and discharge of this book for the year ending on or about 2 March 1646

3336-06-00

1937-17-08      Total is 3336-06-00

1398-08-04

Her Ladyship always receives the rent of her house in Queen's Street herself & therefore it is not inserted in this account.

p. 33

I, Katherine, Lady Brooke, guardian to my son Francis, Lord Brooke, have perused this book of accounts, and have also caused the same to be perused, and do allow and approve of the same and of all the receipts, disbursements and payments therein contained, the same being done by and according to my direction, and appointment. Witness hereunto my hand, 21 March 1648.

Katherine Brooke

References

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.