⁴⁴⁵ Sir Fulke Greville, of Harold Park, Essex, was a cousin of the 1st Lord Brooke. He was a royal official but a militant parliamentarian: Como, David, Radical Parliamentarians and the English Civil War (Oxford, 2018), 171CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

⁴⁴⁶ Chalderon: a dry measure of 4 quarters or 32 bushels: OED.

⁴⁴⁷ Packthread: strong cord or twine for sewing or tying up packs or bundles: OED.

⁴⁴⁸ Archangel: several species of dead-nettle and allied plants: OED.

⁴⁴⁹ Gallipot: small earthen glazed pot, used by apothecaries for ointments and medicines: OED.

⁴⁵⁰ Probably John Thurloe, see App. 4.

⁴⁵¹ Lath: a thin narrow strip of wood used to form a groundwork upon which to fasten the slates or tiles of a roof or the plaster of a wall or ceiling: OED.

⁴⁵² In this context a place or building where pastry was made: OED.

⁴⁵³ Rolling stone: cylindrical stone, in the form of a heavy roller used for crushing and flattening: OED.

⁴⁵⁴ Valance: a border of drapery hanging round the canopy of a bed: OED.

⁴⁵⁵ Hautboy: one who plays the hautboy, a wooden double-reed wind instrument: OED.

⁴⁵⁶ Founded in 1630, Sion College was a stronghold of London's Presbyterians and where their provincial synod met from 1647 to 1659. It was situated where Aldermanbury Square now stands: Elliot Vernon, ‘The Sion College Conclave and London Presbyterianism during the English Revolution’, PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999.

⁴⁵⁷ Possibly Thomas Edgerton, a captain in Lord Brooke's regiment in 1642, before serving under Colonel Popham until his company was disbanded: CAOD.

⁴⁵⁸ For Francis Bridges, see App. 4.

⁴⁵⁹ Provender: dry food such as hay and oats for horses and cattle: OED.

⁴⁶⁰ Cramp: an iron bar with the end bent to a hook: OED.

⁴⁶¹ These were the trials for their parts in the Second Civil War of James, duke of Hamilton, Henry Rich, earl of Holland and Arthur, Lord Capel. They took place in a special high court of justice under John Bradshaw in February 1649. Parliament voted for their deaths and they were beheaded outside Westminster Hall.

⁴⁶² William, Baron Maynard (1623–1689), an Essex landowner.

⁴⁶³ Sarcenet: a very fine and soft silk material: OED.

⁴⁶⁴ Sir John Suckling (1609–1641?) was an English poet and playright. A courtier to Charles I, he was incriminated in the second army plot in 1641: ODNB.

⁴⁶⁵ Boot-hose: an over-stocking which covers the leg: OED.

⁴⁶⁶ Chapman, Possibly George, Andromeda Liberata, or, The Nuptials of Perseus and Andromeda (London, 1614)Google Scholar.

⁴⁶⁷ Holinshed, Possibly Raphael, The First Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande (London, 1577)Google Scholar.

⁴⁶⁸ For Matthew Bridges, see App. 4.

⁴⁶⁹ For William Bridges, see App. 4.

⁴⁷⁰ Samuel Tickner succeeded Samuel Clarke as rector of Alcester after the latter's move to London in 1643. Tickner was ejected in 1662: Hughes, 306, 326–327.

⁴⁷¹ Either Colonel Charles Fleetwood, later Cromwell's son-in-law, or the regicide, Colonel George Fleetwood.

⁴⁷² Tammy: a fine worsted cloth of good quality, often with a glazed finish: OED.

⁴⁷³ The Purification of the Virgin Mary, 40 days after Christ's birth, also known as Candlemas in the Christian calendar, 2 February.

⁴⁷⁴ Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Peyton of Knolton, Kent, married Sir Robert Banister / Bannester of Passenham, Northamptonshire, who had been a Laudian patron and Ship Money sheriff: Rylands, W.H. (ed.), The Visitation of the County of Buckingham, 1634 (Publications of the Harleian Society, 58, 1909), 6Google Scholar.

⁴⁷⁵ Portmanteau: a case or bag for carrying clothing and other belongings when travelling: OED.

⁴⁷⁶ Gerhard, Johann, Gerard's Meditations, Written first in Latine, by Iohn Gerard … Translated and Revised by Ralph Winterton (Aberdeen, 1637)Google Scholar.

⁴⁷⁷ Barclay, John, Barclay His Argenis, or, The loves of Polyarchus & Argenis (London, 1636)Google Scholar.

⁴⁷⁸ Wolleb, John, An Abridgment of Christian Divinity (London, 1650)Google Scholar, was the first recorded translation by Ross, Alexander of Compendium Theologiae Christianae (Cambridge, 1642)Google Scholar.