²⁷⁶ Customary: here designating a payment made or exacted as a tax or tribute: OED.

²⁷⁷ On 1 March 1643 parliamentarian forces attacked the Cathedral Close in Lichfield, which had been occupied by a royalist garrison earlier in the year. Lord Brooke was killed the following day.

²⁷⁸ Charles Broxholme, a Derbyshire minister, future Presbyterian: Hughes thesis, 212.

²⁷⁹ On 10 March 1641 there was a serious fire in Stratford, in which the damage was estimated at £20,000: ‘The borough of Stratford-upon-Avon: Introduction and architectural description’, in Styles, Philip (ed.), A History of the County of Warwick, Vol. III: Barlichway Hundred (London, 1945), 221–234Google Scholar.

²⁸⁰ A gratuity in advance.

²⁸¹ Spindle: a rod of a millstone, usually of iron or other metal, serving as an axis upon which, or by means of which, something revolves or is turned round: OED.

²⁸² The impact of the King's siege of Warwick Castle halted activity in the mill.

²⁸³ Cutling: a name applied to groats, or coarse oatmeal: OED.

²⁸⁴ Groats: in this context, these were hulled, or hulled and crushed grain of various kinds, chiefly oats, but also wheat and barley: OED.

²⁸⁵ Warwick Castle was briefly besieged by royalist forces under Spencer Compton, earl of Northampton in August 1642. It was held for Parliament by Sir Edward Peyto until Lord Brooke marched to its relief with an army from London: Hughes, 145.

²⁸⁶ A hamlet 2 miles north-east of Warwick.

²⁸⁷ Bouche: a kind of plug: OED.

²⁸⁸ Drench: a draft or dose of medicine given to an animal: OED.

²⁸⁹ Warwick's lower parish was St Nicholas's.

²⁹⁰ Rick: a stack of hay or corn: OED.

²⁹¹ This work was to strengthen defences on the Mount, which formed part of Warwick Castle's western curtain wall.

²⁹² These labour costs reflect substantial improvements to Warwick Castle's defences during spring 1642.

²⁹³ This entry confirms Warwick Castle's defences already included artillery, well before the parliamentary order of 22 July 1642 that sent nine artillery pieces to Warwick: CJ, II, 682, 690.

²⁹⁴ Graving: in this context, to dig out or excavate: OED.

²⁹⁵ Gunpowder.

²⁹⁶ Lord Brooke held a muster at Coleshill on 4 July 1642, while Birmingham sent 400 men to the relief of Coventry on 19 August 1642: Hughes thesis, 235–236, 251.

²⁹⁷ Evidence that Brooke was in Warwick on 23 July 1642, probably in response to fears over the safety of the magazine from the earl of Northampton's mustering of the county's trained bands the following week.

²⁹⁸ Fulke Greville, 1st Lord Brooke, had prepared his own tomb within the family crypt at St Mary's Church, Warwick.

²⁹⁹ Probably a reference to the bill of 25 March 1642 for raising £400,000 ‘for the necessary defence and great affairs of the kingdoms of England and Ireland and for the payment of debts undertaken by the parliament’: LJ, IV, 670–674.

³⁰⁰ Bease: beasts: OED.

³⁰¹ Woodlow, or Woodloes, lay in the parish of St Nicholas's, Warwick: EPNS Warwickshire, 265–66.

³⁰² Mongcorn: a mixture of different kinds of grain (usually wheat and rye), especially when sown together: OED.

³⁰³ After the royalist earl of Northampton's failed attempt to seize the county arms magazine in June 1642, on 1 July Lord Brooke removed it from Coventry for safekeeping in Warwick Castle. This entry suggests that further men were entertained in Warwick to protect the magazine from the earl of Northampton one month later: Hughes thesis, 235–236.

³⁰⁴ Further expenditure on fortifying the Mount, part of Warwick Castle's defences.

³⁰⁵ For Sir Arthur Haselrig, see App. 4.

³⁰⁶ For Spencer Compton, earl of Northampton, see App. 4. Brooke and Northampton met near Banbury on 30 July 1642 in an attempt to secure ordnance sent down by Parliament from London. They agreed a truce in order to avoid bloodshed, and it is possible that Joseph Hawksworth was one of the prisoners exchanged as sureties as part of this truce. Hughes, 144–145.

³⁰⁷ A true relation of the Lord Brookes setling of the militia in Warwicke shire: Sent to a speciall friend in the city, by one that was there present (London, 1642), provides a printed account of these proceedings, signed by J.S., most likely John Sadler, see App. 4.

³⁰⁸ The White Lion Inn, Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, dates from 1591: Styles, Barlichway Hundred, 221–34.

³⁰⁹ Sack: general name for a class of white wines formerly imported from Spain and the Canaries: OED.

³¹⁰ Probably the Maidenhead on Henley Street, another inn in Stratford-upon-Avon, which stands today and is known worldwide as the birthplace of William Shakespeare: Jones, Jeanne (ed.), Stratford-upon-Avon Inventories, Vol. II: 1626–1699, Publications of the Dugdale Society, 40 (2003), 13–16Google Scholar.

³¹¹ Recruits from Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire, 9 miles north of Stratford-upon-Avon.

³¹² Suet: the solid fat round the loins and kidneys of certain animals, esp. that of the ox and sheep, which, chopped up, is used in cooking: OED.

³¹³ Situated on the east side of Coleshill's High Street, the Angel Inn had a wide, covered gateway with capacity for coaches: Salzman, L.F. (ed.), A History of the County of Warwick: Vol. IV, Hemlingford Hundred (London, 1947), 47–57Google Scholar.

³¹⁴ This is also given as 5 July 1642 in Hughes thesis, 235.

³¹⁵ This refers to the bell-ringing that accompanied Lord Brooke's removal of the county arms magazine from Coventry to Warwick Castle on 1 July 1642.

³¹⁶ The mayor of Coventry in 1642 was the mercer, Nicholas Rowney: https://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/history/mayors.php (accessed 6 June 2024).

³¹⁷ Possibly Ryton on Dunsmore: EPNS Warwickshire, 178.

³¹⁸ The Bear Inn, in Coventry, established by the fifteenth century: Stephens, W.B. (ed.), A History of the County of Warwick, Vol. VIII: The City of Coventry and Borough of Warwick (London, 1969), 208–221Google Scholar.