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.