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ACCOUNTS OF KATHERINE, LADY BROOKE, 1644–1645

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. 343 - 369
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[Title page]

The book of the disbursements and receipts at Brooke House beginning 2 March 1644 and ending 3 March 1645.

p. 1

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

p. 2

Ad hoc expenses &c.

p. 3

Ad hoc expenses &c.

p. 4

Ad hoc expenses &c.

p. 5

Ad hoc expenses &c.

p. 6

Ad hoc expenses &c.

p. 7

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p. 8

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p. 9

Wages

p. 10

Ad hoc wages

p. 11

Ad hoc wages

p. 12

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p. 13

Lent & paid by my Lady's command out of hers and my Lord's revenue towards payment of tradesmen's bills due in my Lord's lifetime.

p. 14

Ad hoc Lent &c.

p. 15

Ad hoc Lent &c.

p. 16

[Blank]

p. 17

Apparel

p. 18

Ad hoc apparel

p. 19

Ad hoc apparel

p. 20

Ad hoc apparel

p. 21

[Blank]

p. 22

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p. 23

My Lord's Office & my Lady's Grants

p. 24

Ad hoc my Lord's Office & my Lady's Grants

p. 25

A breviat of the aforesaid disbursements

In the title expenses &c.

Paid 1: 213-01-02

Paid 2: 131-01-07½

Paid 3: 194-04-06

Paid 4: 227-01-05½

Paid 5: 267-13-08

Paid 6: 99-05-11   } 1132-08-04

*Note the right honourable the Earl of Bedford paid hereof as by the receipts appeareth

(viz:) for diet & for stable } 123-07-02*

In the title Wages

Paid 9: 35-14-06

Paid 10: 119-04-03

Paid 11: 59-09-02    } 214-17-11

In the title Apparel

Paid 17: 121-08-04

Paid 18: 57-16-10

Paid 19: 42-05-10

Paid 20: 109-06-00    } 330-17-00

So the total charge of housekeeping with the stable, wages & apparel           }1677-13-03

In the title Office

Paid 23: 49-13-07

Paid 24: 28-11-10     } 78-05-05

In the title Rent

Paid 13: 95-14-11

Paid 14: 135-06-08

Paid 15: 12-15-00     } 243-16-07

Total of the said disbursements 1999-15-03

[p. 26]

Receipts out of the revenue of the right honourable Katherine, Lady Brooke & Francis, Lord Brooke, her son, for the year beginning 2 March 1644. And which are paid towards the disbursements of housekeeping at Brooke House in the same year.

[p. 27]

Ad hoc receipts

[p. 28]

Ad hoc receipts

Which said Receipts being promiscuously set down as they were received as is aforesaid, may be reduced to these heads following (vizt).

[p. 29]

Northamptonshire

Buckinghamshire

Hogshaw

69 – 05 – 04

Hackney

183-10-06

Northamptonshire

Wellingborough

Lincolnshire

266-03-11

Warwick

[p. 30]

Fringford

04-10-00

123-07-00

35-01-01

So that this year ending 3 March 1645 there is received as is aforesaid (vizt)

[p. 31]

The general receipts of Mr Henry Hunt, receiver out of the revenue of the right honourable Francis, Lord Brooke, and jointure of Katherine Lady Brooke, his mother from 3 March 1644, to 3 March 1645 as appeareth by two sides of paper under his own handwriting.

In the one side he saith he hath received since his last account 1643 the several sums following (viz):

In the other side he saith he hath received for Lady Day rent 1644 out of the manors hereafter mentioned the several sums following (viz)

[p. 32]

A breviat of the whole charge and discharge of this book and year ending upon or about 3 March 1645 (viz)

Note that amongst the said receipts 247-10-01 is for my Lady's jointure (viz) half the rent received at Kinwarton, Oversley, Hackney, and all the rent received at Admington and Fringford.

[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 this 10 March 1645.

Katherine Brooke

References

355 Firkin: small cask for liquids, fish, butter, etc.: OED.

356 The London Trained Bands were expanded from April 1643 by the raising of the Auxiliary Regiments: Nagel, ‘The militia of London, 1641–1649’.

357 Fresh from their victory at Cheriton in Hampshire, during April 1644 Sir William Waller's parliamentarian army was preparing to march on Oxford.

358 Parliamentarian commander in Cheshire and Staffordshire: ODNB.

359 Oil of turpentine: a volatile oil, contained in the wood, bark, leaves, and other parts of coniferous trees, and usually prepared by distilling crude turpentine: OED.

360 Ordinance for the speedy completing and maintaining of the army under the immediate command of the earl of Essex, 26 March 1644: LJ, VI, 514–517.

361 TNA, PROB 11/192/85. The Will of Mr George Verney, gentleman of Norton Daventry, Northamptonshire, 2 December 1644. Verney was a younger son of Sir Richard Verney of Compton Verney, Warwickshire, and his wife Margaret who was the sister to Fulke Greville, 1st Lord Brooke. The will made claim to his mother's interest in half of the estate of the 1st Lord Brooke.

362 St Andrew's Holborn, Middlesex.

363 Archbishop Laud was executed on Tower Hill on 10 January 1645. Sir John Hotham was executed on 2 January and John Hotham on 1 January, and Sir Alexander Carew on 23 December 1644. The execution of the Hothams on consecutive days tallies with the hire of the chamber and house for 2 days.

364 Elizabeth (c.1610–1672), wife of Christopher, Lord Hatton: ODNB.

365 Paragon: a kind of thick wool or silk fabric used for clothing and upholstery: OED.

366 Serge: a durable woollen fabric: OED.

367 For Catherine, countess of Bedford, mother of Lady Brooke, see App. 4.

368 For Edward Russell, brother to Lady Brooke, see App. 4.

369 For James Cooke, surgeon at Warwick Castle, see App. 4.

370 There were many editions of Aesop's Fables available at this time.

371 Watchet: a light blue colour, or cloth or garments of that colour: OED.

372 Tincey: tinsey (aka tinsel): OED.

373 Ducape: a kind of plain-wove silk fabric: OED.

374 For Mr Coleman, see App. 4.

375 A translation of Cicero's letters by Johannes Sturm, part of the Stationer's Company Latin Stock of schoolbooks.

376 Possibly Cornelius de Leneve (fl. 1594–1664), with thanks to David J. Appleby.

377 For Oliver St John, see App. 4.

378 John Browne, clerk of the House of Lords from 1640 to 1649: ODNB.

379 Henry Elsynge, clerk to the House of Commons from 1640 to 1648: ODNB.

380 Almost certainly Sir Matthew Hale (1609–1676), judge: ODNB.

381 This probably refers to the grant of George, Lord Digby's residence on Queen Street in London to Lady Brooke, and her youngest son Fulke in response to the reading of Lady Brooke's petition in the House of Commons on 27 August 1644: CJ, III, 608, 611.

382 For discussion of Lady Brooke's pursuit of the wardship of her eldest son, see Hopper, ‘ “To condole with me on the Commonwealth's loss” ’, 192–210.

383 High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

384 Feodary: an officer of the Court of Wards who assessed the value of land: OED.

385 Sir Richard Newdigate (1602–1678), of Arbury Hall, Warwickshire, a distinguished lawyer and judge during the Protectorate: ODNB.

386 The parliamentarian county committee for Buckinghamshire sat in the important garrison town of Aylesbury.