The editorial team are grateful to Robert Eyre, senior archivist at the Warwickshire County Record Office, and his team, for making the household accounts available for us to photograph, within the restrictions and difficulties imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic during 2020–2021. We are grateful to Siobhan Talbott and the Camden Series editors for their faith that we would deliver the volume. We are thankful to our meticulous copy editor, Miranda Bethell, for her excellent work in spotting some overlooked points and enhancing the appearance of the text. Any errors remaining are our own. We would like to thank Diane Strange for kindly drawing our attention towards the survey of Brooke's manors in the Court of Wards collections. We are also grateful to Mandy de Belin for her excellent maps and her work on the family tree of Lord and Lady Brooke. Other colleagues we would like to thank include David J. Appleby, Richard Blakemore, John Coffey, Richard Jones, Stuart Peachey, Ismini Pells and Charlotte Young for their discussion of the volume and kind help with our enquiries. We would like to thank the Aurelius Trust for their kindness in paying for the reproduction and copyright fees for two of the book's images.

Stewart Beale, Andrew Hopper and Ann Hughes

Rewley House, Oxford, June 2024