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ACCOUNTS OF KATHERINE, LADY BROOKE, 1643–1644

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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. 321 - 341
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Figure 4. Sample page from Accounts of Lady Brooke, 1643–1644, WCRO, CR1886, TN12, p. 1.

[Title page]

The book of the whole year's charges and disbursements at Brooke House, ending 2 March 1644.

[p. 1]

Expenses and provisions for diet, 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.

At which time Mr Smyth discontinued caterer and left unpaid the bills following (vizt):

[p. 6]

Ad hoc expenses &c.

[p. 7]

Ad hoc expenses &c.

[p. 8]

Wages

[p. 9]

Ad hoc wages

[p. 10]

Ad hoc wages

[p. 11]

Apparel

[p. 12]

Ad hoc apparel

[p. 13]

Ad hoc apparel

[p. 14]

My Lord's Office & Wardship

[p. 15]

Lent to be paid

Note I received of my Lady for Monsieur St Giles xxli which I paid to him and only insert it here for a remembrance

[p. 16]

A breviat of the disbursements aforesaid

In the title of expenses &c

Note the right honourable the Earl of Bedford hath paid hereof as by the receipts appeareth for diet 20-10-00 for stable 15-18-00

Note My Lady NewportFootnote 350 is also to pay for her own & 3 servants diet for a year 93-12-00

In the title wages

Note Mr Sadler and Mr Sterry are not yet paid their stipends.

In the title apparel

Note that beside this the executors paid for the mourning, and my Lady paid for her own apparel.

The total charge of housekeeping with the stable, wages & apparel } 1761-00-07

[p. 17]

Receipts out of the revenue of the right honourable Katherine, Lady Brooke, and Francis, Lord Brooke, her son in the year ending 2 March 1644 which were paid towards the disbursements of housekeeping in the same year.

[p. 18]

[p. 19]

[p. 20]

Which said receipts being promiscuously set down as they were received may be reduced unto these heads following (vizt)

[p. 21]

[p. 22]

The general receipts of Mr Henry Hunt, receiver, out of the revenue of the right honourable Francis, Lord Brooke and jointureFootnote 353 of Katherine, Lady Brooke his mother, at the rent days of Lady Day 1643, and Michaelmas 1643. The particulars thereof appeareth by the rent books and other papers under his hand (vizt).

Out of          Lady Day 1643 Michaelmas 1643

[p. 23]

Mr Ingram's receipts out of the manor of Hackney at Lady Day 1643 and Michaelmas 1643

Lady Day 1643 Michaelmas 1643

A breviat of the aforesaid receipts

Note that amongst the said receipts 459-00-11½ is my Lady's jointure (vizt), half the rents received at Kinwarton, Oversley, Hackney, with half the money received for Bunnell trees sold at Hackney, and all the rent received at Admington.

[p. 24]

I, Katherine, Lady Brooke, guardian to my son Francis, Lord Brooke, have perused the 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, 10 March 1644.

Katherine Brooke

References

319 Frances Asheworth, a widow in Brooke's household, married Sterry in 1641.

320 Preston, John, The new covenant, or, The saints portion: A treatise vnfolding the all-sufficiencie of God (London, 1629)Google Scholar.

321 Sibbes, Richard, Bowels opened, or, A discovery of the neere and deere love, union and communion betwixt Christ and the Church, and consequently betwixt Him and every beleeving soule: Delivered in divers sermons on the fourth fifth and sixt chapters of the Canticles (London, 1639)Google Scholar.

322 Goodwin, Thomas, Christ set forth in his death, resurrection, ascension, sitting at Gods right hand, intercession, as the cause of justification (London, 1642)Google Scholar.

323 Sturtevant, Simon, The etymologist of Æsops fables containing the construing of his Latine fables into English: Also the etymologist of Phaedrus fables, containing the construing of Phaedrus (a new found yet auncient author) into English, verbatim: Both very necessarie helps for young schollers (London, 1602)Google Scholar.

324 A committee of the House of Commons in May 1642 for choosing officers for the army intended to put down the Irish Rebellion. It included John Hampden, Sir Arthur Haselrig, Denzil Holles and William Strode: A declaration from both houses of Parliament, 17 May (London, 1642).

325 John Towse, alderman of the city of London and a grocer who served as sheriff of London in 1641, and later as colonel in the Orange Regiment of the London Trained Bands. He was a substantial investor in the Irish Adventure: Lawson Chase Nagel, ‘The militia of London, 1641–1649’, PhD thesis, King's College London, 1982, 316.

326 Philip Herbert, 4th earl of Pembroke: ODNB.

327 Marylebone Park was a royal hunting ground of meadow land until the 1650s: Percy Lovell and William McB. Marcham (eds), Survey of London, Vol. 1: The Parish of St Pancras, Part 2: Old St Pancras and Kentish Town (London, 1938), p. 96: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol19/pt2/p96 (accessed 6 June 2024).

328 The ‘weekly meal’ was an ordinance authorizing the collection of the value of a meal weekly towards maintaining the parliamentarian forces defending London: CJ, III, 380 (29 January 1644).

329 For Fulke Greville, see App. 4.

330 John Thurloe was an assistant to Oliver St John in 1643.

331 For Oliver St John, see App. 4.

332 For Robert Smyth, see App. 4.

333 South Wraxall, in the parish of Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire.

334 Sion House, Brentford, Middlesex, was a seat of Algernon Percy, 10th earl of Northumberland.

335 Either Anne, countess of Bedford (1615–1684), sister-in-law to Katherine Greville, Lady Brooke, or Catherine, dowager countess of Bedford (1589–1657), Katherine Greville's mother.

336 Most likely Colnbrook, Buckinghamshire.

337 William Russell, 5th earl of Bedford (1616–1700), temporarily defected to the royalists in August 1643 but was received back by the earl of Essex at St Albans in December 1643: Hopper, Andrew, Turncoats and Renegadoes: Changing Sides during the English Civil Wars (Oxford, 2012), 30–34CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

338 Possibly Frances, Lady Paget, daughter of Henry Rich, 1st earl of Holland and wife of William Paget, 6th Lord Paget.

339 Possibly Richard Beaumont, a captain and lay preacher in the Eastern Association in 1644 and New Model Army in 1645: CAOD.

340 Presumably the wife of Major George Sadeskey.

341 For Kate Wescott, see App. 4.

342 This was a Latin textbook written by Comenius, also available with English translation. This was probably the one based on a translation by Thomas Horn, enlarged by Rowbotham., John Janua linguarum reserata…The Entry-Doore of Languages Unlocked (London, 1640)Google Scholar.

343 Collop: in this context, is an off-cut of cloth: OED.

344 This was a popular Latin textbook for the children. Corderius was the Latinized name of Mathurin Cordier (1479–1564), a Protestant theologian and teacher in Lausanne, Switzerland: Corderius dialogues translated grammatically For the more speedy attaining to the knowledge of the Latine tongue, for writing and speaking Latine: Done chiefly for the good of schooles, to be used according to the direction set downe in the booke called Ludus literarius, or, The grammar-schoole (London: printed by Anne Griffin, 1636).

345 High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

346 This was probably the order of 6 March 1643 to refund Lord Brooke's executors the £1,000 that Brooke had lent upon the Propositions: LJ, V, 640.

347 Possibly money relating to the expedition to Ireland of summer 1642.

348 Feodaries were officials for a county elected by the Court of Wards. Their purpose was to survey the value of lands and to maximise crown revenue from wardship cases. For Lady Brooke's struggle to obtain the wardship of her eldest son Francis against the machinations of her brother-in-law, the royal favourite, George, Lord Digby, see Hopper, Andrew ‘“To condole with me on the Commonwealth's loss”: the widows and orphans of Parliament's military commanders’, in Appleby, David J. and Hopper, Andrew (eds), Battle-Scarred: Mortality, Medical Care and Military Welfare in the British Civil Wars (Manchester, 2018), 194–95Google Scholar.

349 Possibly a payment to Alexander, Lord Forbes, in relation to his expedition to Ireland in summer, 1642.

350 Lady Newport is probably the married name of Diana Russell, younger sister to Katherine, Lady Brooke.

351 Bunnell: a beverage made from crushed apples or pears, after nearly all the juice has been expressed for the cider or perry: OED.

352 Justment: the pasturing of another individual's cattle for payment, or an amount paid for this, or a piece of land which was rented for this purpose: OED.

353 Jointure: provision of property for a wife in the event of her widowhood: OED.

354 Lillington, a parish 3 miles north-east of Warwick.

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Figure 4. Sample page from Accounts of Lady Brooke, 1643–1644, WCRO, CR1886, TN12, p. 1.