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ACCOUNTS OF KATHERINE, LADY BROOKE, 1648–1649

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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. 447 - 502
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[Title page]

The book of accounts of the revenue of the right honourable, the Lady Katherine Brooke, and of the right honourable, Francis, Lord Brooke, her son, for the year ending 2 March 1649.

p. 1

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

p. 2

Expenses &c

p. 3

Expenses &c:

p. 4

Expenses &c.

p. 5

Expenses &c

p. 6

Expenses &c:

p. 7

Expenses &c

p. 8

Expenses &c

p. 9

Expenses &c.

p. 10

Stables &c

p. 11

Stables

114-14-01

37-12-02

256-19-01

79-05-02

18-08-10

29-12-06

24-05-08

23-04-06

209-13-10

156-02-11

79-00-11

1028-19-08

p. 12

Apparel

p. 13

Apparel

p. 14

Apparel

p. 15

Apparel

115-08-01½

83-04-05

131-07-04

01-19-00

371-18-10½

p. 16

Wages

p. 17

Wages

83-19-06

41-18-06

125-18-00

p. 18

Purchases and law suits

Foreign taxes and assessments

p. 19

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

p. 20

Money Lent

p. 21

A breviat of the disbursements afore going by Mr John Bridges the elder

p. 22

Receipts out of the revenue of the right honourable the Lady Katherine Brooke and Francis, Lord Brooke, her son (to whom she is guardian), in the year ending 2 March 1649

South Wraxall

Hackney

Rascall

Fringford

Penkridge

Wellingborough

Lincolnshire

Queen Street

Haselor
Of Sir Fulke Grevill in part of arrears 15-00-00 Mich. 1648 PurificationFootnote 473 1648

Hogshaw

1225-18-07

560-19-09¼

1835-12-06½

p. 23

Receipts extraordinary for tabling horses, horsemeat &c:

pp. 24–28

[Blank]

p. 29

Anno 1648
Disbursed by Major Bridges for expenses and provisions of diet, grocery, wood, coal, candles, reparations, taxes, payments, gifts, gardens, stables, travelling charges, and all other household necessaries whatsoever.

p. 30

Anno 1648. Expenses &c

p. 31

Anno 1648. Apparel

p. 32

Apparel

p. 33

Anno 1648. Foreign payments and taxes

p. 34

Annuities and for my Lady

p. 35

Anno 1648. Wages

p. 36

Lent

18 Dec 1648

p. 37

An abstract of Major Bridges's account of his disbursements as by the several tithes afore mentioned appeareth (viz)

p. 38

A particular of such sums of money as Major William Bridges hath received for the right honourable the Lady Katherine Brooke, guardian to the right honourable Francis, Lord Brooke, her son, out of their respective estate and revenue in the year ending 2 March 1649.

p. 39

A breviat of the account of Major William Bridges

1123-02-02½

1070-18-07½

0052-03-07

pp. 40–44

[Blank]

p. 45

A particular of such sums of money as Captain Mathew Bridges receiver to the right honourable Katherine, Lady Brooke, guardian to Francis, Lord Brooke, her son hath received out of their respective estates and revenue in the year ending 2 March 1649

Lady Day 1648      Mich. 1648

Arrears

Kineton

Rents now due

Arrears

Warwick

p. 46

Arrears

Rents now due

p. 47

Rents of Eynions farm now due

Wedgnock arrears

p. 48

Tachbrook. Rents now due

p. 49

Rents now due

p. 50

Caldecote arrears

Rents now due

Kinwarton and Alne arrears

p. 51

Alcester and Beauchamp Court arrears

Rents now due

p. 52

Oversley arrears

Rents now due

Haselor arrears

p. 53

Grafton

The clear receipts of Grafton is 05-16-05

Aston Cantlow. Arrears

Rents now due

Studley Park. Rents now due

Admington. Arrears

p. 54

Kidderminster

Penkridge. Arrears

Rents now due

[two lines crossed out]

p. 55

An abstract of Captain Mathew Bridges's clear receipts out of the particular manors and lands aforesaid (vizt).

Note that the accountant having received of Mrs Katherine Hunt by his acquittance upon the delivering up of her account ending 2 March 1648 the sum of 500li – Of which she received back again 100li thereof. And the 400li residue thereof the said accountant hath paid, and is to pay as followeth vizt.

To Mrs Fetherston for the redemption of Fringford, mortgaged by my Lord for 700li – the sum of – 350li

And to Thomas Hinde in part of his bill due to him in my Lord's lifetime which ballanceth the said 500li – 50-00-00

p. 56

A particular of such sums of money as the said Captain Mathew Bridges hath disbursed for the use of the said Lady Katherine Brooke and Francis, Lord Brooke, her son out of the aforesaid receipts.

Disbursements at Warwick &c

p. 57

p. 58

p. 59

p. 60

86-02-01

43-13-02

48-12-05

06-11-00

254-19-09

Disbursements at Alcester &c

p. 61

p. 62

42-04-00½

50-04-05

81-17-04

174-05-09½

An abstract of Captain Mathew Bridges's disbursements vizt

At Warwick in 5 pages 254-19-09

At Alcester in 3 pages      174-05-09½

The total is      429-05-06½

p. 63

A breviat of the account of Captain Mathew Bridges

3745-03-0

–3378-09-09½

366-13-02½

So that there resteth in the accountants’ hands to be returned to London which will balance this account the sum of three hundred, sixty-six pounds, thirteen shillings, 2½

366-13-02½

p. 64

[Blank]

p. 65

An abstract of the several accounts of this book, both of the charge and discharge for the year ending 2 March 1649.

His disbursements as in page 62 are 429-05-06½

3378-09-09½

366-13-02½

His disbursements as in page 37 are 900-18-07½

1123-02-02½

1070-18-07½

52-03-07

His disbursements as in page 21 are

4578-04-01¼

2748-07-01¾

p. 66

I, the Lady Katherine Brooke, guardian to my son Francis Lord Brooke, having examined the receipts, disbursements and audits of this book of accounts do allow and approve of the same. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this eighteenth day of March, Anno Domini 1650.

Katherine Brooke

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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.

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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.

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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.

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