⁴¹⁶ Treacle water was a cordial used to cause sweating. See Johnson, Robert, Enchiridion Medicum, or, A Manual of Physick (London, 1684)Google Scholar, Book 1, p. 15.

⁴¹⁷ Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, on the Great North Road.

⁴¹⁸ Dun: of a dull or dingy brown colour, typical of the coats of donkeys, mice and numerous other animals: OED.

⁴¹⁹ Stone horse: an uncastrated horse; a stallion: OED.

⁴²⁰ Cambray (spelt later in the accounts as Cambery and Camberry), lies in the parish of Cheltenham: English Place Name Society https://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/id/53285a8eb47fc40ab300047c-Cambray (accessed 6 June 2024).

⁴²¹ Also known as eryngo: ‘The root of the sea holly, a common grassland and coastal plant with a thistle-like flower; candied or pickled, these were considered an aphrodisiac’. Kowalchuk, Kristine, Preserving on Paper: Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen's Receipt Books (Toronto, 2017), 329CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

⁴²² Rundlet: a cask or vessel of varying capacity: OED.

⁴²³ In early 1642, Lord Brooke was appointed to command forces to supress the rebels in Ireland. Maurice Thompson was appointed treasurer of the subscription for the expedition. Alexander, Lord Forbes was to lead the expedition. Thompson was also a member of the Honourable Artillery Company and from 1642, the London Militia Committee. Kupperman, Providence Island, 1630–1641, 344.

⁴²⁴ Probably Sir Temple, John, The Irish Rebellion, or, An History of the Attempts of the Irish Papists (London, 1646)Google Scholar.

⁴²⁵ Samuel Smith's Aditus Ad Logicam, first published in 1613.

⁴²⁶ Perhaps an earlier edition of Johnson, Ralph, Ancilla Grammaticae, or, An Epitome of Grammar (London, 1663)Google Scholar.

⁴²⁷ Holland: a linen fabric: OED.

⁴²⁸ Giovanni Emmanuele Tremellio, also known as Immanuel Tremellius (1510–1580), translater of the Bible and an Italian Jewish convert to Christianity. Biblia Sacra (1640).

⁴²⁹ Johan Scapula, Lexicon Græco-Latinum Novum (1626).

⁴³⁰ Damask: a rich silk fabric: OED.

⁴³¹ Sad: in this context solid, dense, or heavy: OED.

⁴³² Possibly Charles Duke.

⁴³³ Major Nathaniel Camfield of Holborn and the Orange Regiment of the London Trained Bands.

⁴³⁴ The Clerk of the Hanaper was an official in the Court of Chancery.

⁴³⁵ Probably a scribal error for the tenant Robert Pigeon of Warwick.

⁴³⁶ A crossing out which looks like the entry on p. 28 for ‘Jo. Flint for heriot’ that was added later in a different ink, and here has been inserted in the wrong place and deleted.

⁴³⁷ Quickset: to provide, plant, or enclose with a quickset hedge: OED.

⁴³⁸ The parliamentarian county committee seated at Gloucester.

⁴³⁹ Thomas Willoughby of Sutton Coldfield, a parliamentarian colonel and JP in Warwickshire, who succeeded as governor of Coventry in 1645. Hughes thesis.

⁴⁴⁰ William Colemore of Birmingham was high sheriff of Warwickshire in 1645 and colonel of the county horse regiment in 1645–1646: Hughes thesis.

⁴⁴¹ Captain Henry Slade served in Warwick's foot regiment under Colonel Godfrey Bosvile: Hughes thesis.

⁴⁴² Captain Richard Creed, originally lieutenant in Joseph Hawksworth's troop of horse. Hughes thesis. See TNA, SP 28/136 for the accounts of Richard Creed.

⁴⁴³ Anthony Ottway of Coventry was captain of an unruly parliamentarian troop of Warwickshire horse. He died serving in Ireland in 1650: Hughes thesis, 413, 503–504. See TNA, SP 28/136 for Ottway's accounts.

⁴⁴⁴ Defalked: to diminish by cutting off a part, to reduce by deductions, to abate a part or sum from an account: OED.