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ACCOUNTS OF KATHERINE, LADY BROOKE, 1646–1647

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. 403 - 446
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[Title page]

The book of the disbursements and receipts for the whole year beginning 2 March 1646 and ending 2 March 1647 for the right honourable Katherine, Lady Brooke, guardian to Francis Lord Brooke her son.

p. 1

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

p. 2

Expenses

The expenses at Hackney for diet & provision for 5 weeks ending 24

p. 3

Expenses

p. 4

Expenses

p. 5

Expenses

p. 6

Expenses

p. 7

Expenses

Charges about my Lord Forbes's business 2s, about Providence business

p. 8

Apparel

p. 9

Apparel

p. 10

Apparel

p. 11

Apparel

p. 12

Wages

p. 13

Wages

p. 14

Wages

p. 15

Payments by my Lady's command out of her & my Lord's revenue towards payment of tradesmen's bills & other old debts due in my Lord's lifetime.

p. 16

Payments

p. 17

Taxes and disbursements at Brooke House for the respective manors and lands following vizt

Hackney

Clutton

Hogshaw

Fringford

Essex land

Lincoln

Warwick

Queen Street House

p. 18

Moneys lent

p. 19

A breviat of the disbursements at Brooke House, Hackney & Bath, discharged by John Bridges the elder, contained as aforesaid in this book & laid out in the year ending 2 March 1647

In 7 pages under the title of expenses &c these particulars are contained vizt

Diet

In 4 pages under the title of Apparel

In 3 pages under the title of Wages

p. 20

In 12 pages under the titles of payments of tradesmen's bills and old debts due in my Lord's lifetime:

In the title of taxes and disbursements for respective mannors

In the title moneys lent

The total of all the said disbursements under the said several titles vizt

2745-09-7½ est summa totalis

p. 21

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p. 22

Receipts out of the revenue of the right honourable Katherine, the Lady Katherine Brooke and Francis, Lord Brooke, her son (to whom she is guardian), which by her Ladyship's appointment are disbursed by John Bridges the elder, towards disbursements for their housekeeping in the year ending 2 March 1647 vizt.

Essex

Hackney

p. 23

Hogshaw

Clutton

p. 24

Arrears Lady Day 1646Mich. 1646

South Wraxall

Wellingborough

Warwick

Alcester

Caldecote

p. 25

Fringford

Newton Purcell

Penkridge

Receipts for horsemeat and other things ending 2 March 1647

p. 26

A breviat of Mr Bridges's receipts and disbursements in the year ending 2 March 1647

p. 27

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p. 28

A particular of such sums of money as I, Henry Hunt, receiver to the right honourable the Lady Katherine Brooke, guardian to her son, Francis, Lord Brooke, have received out of the estates of my said Lady and Lord from 2 March 1646 to 2 March 1647

Warwick

Henry Hunt

p. 29

Wedgnock

Henry Hunt

p. 30

Tachbrook

Caldecote

Lillington

Henry Hunt

p. 31

Cester Over

Corley

Henry Hunt

p. 32

Arrears since 2 March 1646

Alcester

Henry Hunt

p. 33

Oversley

Haselor

Aston Cantlow

Fleet Marston

Henry Hunt

p. 34

Penkridge

Admington

Henry Hunt

p. 35

Total received: 2299-13-08

Henry Hunt

p. 36

A particular of such sums of money as the aforesaid Henry Hunt, receiver, hath disbursed out of the estates of the aforesaid Lady Brooke and Francis, Lord Brooke, her son, beginning from 7 February 1646 and ending 7 February 1647

p. 37

p. 38

p. 39

p. 40

p. 41

p. 42

p. 43

p. 44

p. 45

p. 46

Figure 5. Sample page from Accounts of Lady Brooke, 1646–1647, WCRO, CR1886, TN15, p. 46.

A breviat of all the receipts and disbursements of this book for the year ending 2 March 1647

The total of Mr Henry Hunt's receipts

The total of Mr Bridges's receipts

Total by them both received is

Disbursed by Mr Bridges

So there remaineth of this year's account ending 2 March 1647

Note that amongst the said receipts 761-10-02½ is for my Lady's jointure, vizt:

The whole rent of these 3 manors:

The half of the rents of these 4 manors:

Note her ladyship herself received the 70li for the year's rent of the house in Queen's Street.

p. 47

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 one and twentieth day of March, Anno Domini 1648.

Katherine Brooke

References

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.

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Figure 5. Sample page from Accounts of Lady Brooke, 1646–1647, WCRO, CR1886, TN15, p. 46.