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APPENDIX 3 INVENTORY TAKEN AT WARWICK CASTLE, 22 JANUARY 1644

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Royal Historical Society

Figure 6. Engraving of Warwick Castle, 1654, by Wenceslaus Hollar, RCIN 802945. The Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III 2023.

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Warwick Castle Inventory An inventory taken at Warwick 22 January 1644

2356-09-11

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An inventory taken at Warwick 22 January 1644 of all and singular the goods, chattels & credits of the Right honourable Robert, Lord Brooke, Baron Brooke of Beauchamp Court in the county of Warwick, who deceased 2 March now last past, apprised by Thomas Fish, Job Murcott, John Halford and Thomas Greene, gentlemen.

Warwick Castle, vizt

The great hall

In the wardrobe

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[f. 3v]

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[f. 5v]

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The inner room in the wardrobe

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In the still-house

In the room within called the plate house

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In the chamber over the great hall porch

In the little room adjoining

In the chapel

In the great chamber

In the green bedchamber

In the little room without

[f. 7v]

In the new dining room

In the withdrawing room to that on the chamber over the pantry

The passage room over the bread pantry

In the passage above stairs to the chapel pews

In the armoury

In the gold bedchamber

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In the little wainscot room without that chamber

In the room over the gold bedchamber

In the chamber within that being my Lady's wardrobe

My Lady's chamber

[f. 8v]

In the plush bedchamber

In the room within that

In my Lord's closet

In the watch tower chamber

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In the little hall

The pantry there

In the kitchen chamber

In the little kitchen

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In the pastry

In the scullery there

In the larder

In the strong beer cellar

In the small beer cellar

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In the wood cellar

In the great kitchen

In the old bakehouse

In the lowest room in the clock tower

The second story in the clock tower

[f. 10v]

In the inner room there

In the third story in the clock tower

In the lowest room in Guy's tower

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In the second room in Guy's tower,

In the inner room there

In the third room

In the inner room there

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In the fourth room in Guy's tower

In the lowest room in the gatehouse next the inner court

In the second room there

In the inner room there

In the closet at the door there being Mr Hawksworth's

In the third room in the gatehouse

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In the inner room there being the closet

In the gunner's room

In the fourth room in the gatehouse

In the lowest room in Caesar's tower

In an inner room there

[f. 12v]

In the second story in Caesar's tower

In the inner room there

In the third story in Caesar's tower

In Mr Norton's kitchen being now the smith's forge

In the inner room there

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In the first room above stairs in the gatehouse by the bridge

In the second story being the capstanFootnote 22 room

In another inner room there

In the stable

In the chamber over the great stable

In the chamber over the little stable

In the chamber over the porch there

In the porter's lodge at the outer gate

[f. 13v]

In the rooms at the VineyardFootnote 23

At the mill

At the farm

At Paul's house

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At Wedgnock Park

In the hall at Goodrest house

In the parlour there

In the study chamber

In the chamber over the parlour

In the room without

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In the chamber over the hall

In the inner room there

In the Queen's chamber or the chamber over the cellar

In the passage at the door

In the chamber over the dairy house

In the little chamber at the door

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In the two rooms over the kitchen

In the garret little chamber

In the cellar

In the dairy house

In the kitchen

In the stables

In a hovel by the stable

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In the park

In Goodman Goadby's house

In Mr Hawksworth's lodge

In Hugh Hopkins's house

In Edward Griffin's lodge

Md. This is a true copy of the inventory here before mentioned, the original whereof (being under the hands of the aforesaid Thomas Fish, Job Murcott, John Halford and Thomas Greene) is now remaining at Warwick Castle, in the custody of Mr Henry Hunt, examined by us.

John Dawson  }

Hugh Meades } Scriptor

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Warwick Castle Inventory
The inventory taken at Warwick 22 January 1644

2356-09-11

Footnotes

WCRO, CR1886 BL2711.

References

2 Murrey: a colour resembling that of mulberry: OED.

3 Velure: velvet: OED.

4 Used attributively of products of Lucca, Italy: OED.

5 The Wooer: character in the Old Testament Book of Hosea, Ch. 2.

6 Meleager: the leader of the Calydonian boar hunt in Homer's Iliad and Greek mythology.

7 Antick: ancient or antiquated: OED.

8 The case or cover containing feathers, flocks, or the like, forming a mattress or pillow: OED.

9 Brazil: the dye stuff and dye yielded by the hard brownish-red wood of an East Indian tree, known as Sappan: OED.

10 Witney, Oxfordshire.

11 Stammel: a coarse woollen cloth: OED.

12 Possibly gimp: silk, worsted, or cotton twist with a cord or wire running through it: OED.

13 Watchet: a light blue colour: OED.

14 Tentwise: in the manner or shape of a tent: OED.

15 Buckram: ‘A kind of fine linen or cotton fabric’, or, ‘A kind of coarse linen or cloth stiffened with gum or paste’: OED.

16 Saye: a light, twilled woollen fabric resembling serge, used for aprons, bedding, curtains and commonly green in colour: OED.

17 Pintado: a fine cotton cloth painted or dyed with patterns of flowers, imported from India, used especially for cupboard cloths, quilts, and curtains: OED.

18 Massy: of metals, esp. precious metals, and metal objects: occurring in mass; solid and weighty; wrought in solid pieces; not hollow, plated, or alloyed: OED.

19 Possibly alembic: an early apparatus used for distilling: OED.

20 Dornick: a fabric initially manufactured in Tournai: OED.

21 Kimnel: a tub used for brewing, kneading, and salting meat: OED.

22 Probably the mechanism for raising and lowering the gatehouse's portcullis.

23 The Vineyard was a large house of 13 hearths in Warwick, where wounded parliamentarian soldiers were cared for in 1643: Stephens, W.B. (ed.), A History of the County of Warwick, Vol. 8: The City of Coventry and Borough of Warwick (London, 1969), 452475Google Scholar.

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Figure 6. Engraving of Warwick Castle, 1654, by Wenceslaus Hollar, RCIN 802945. The Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III 2023.