¹ For John Halford, see App. 4.

² For Henry Hunt, see App. 4.

³ For William Halford, see App. 4.

⁴ For John Fisher, see App. 4.

⁵ For Richard Cross, see App. 4.

⁶ For Joseph Hawksworth, see App. 4.

⁷ Clardon is probably Claverdon, 4 miles west of Warwick: EPNS Warwickshire, 206.

⁸ For William Bridges, see App. 4.

⁹ For George Sadeskey or Sedascue, see App. 4.

¹⁰ For Charles Johnson, see App. 4.

¹¹ For William Jessop, see App. 4.

¹² Indigo was a dye and a commodity widespread in the Spanish Caribbean, taken as a prize here by an English privateer: OED; we are grateful to Richard Blakemore for this information.

¹³ For Godfrey Bosvile, see App. 4.

¹⁴ For John Wescott, see App. 4.

¹⁵ For Charles Worthington, see App. 4.

¹⁶ For Thomas Terrill, see App. 4.

¹⁷ For Francis Edes / Eades, see App. 4.

¹⁸ Bartholomew Heath was a Greville tenant at Wedgnock, in Warwick.

¹⁹ For Thomas Fish, see App. 4.

²⁰ Burr: siliceous rock capable of being employed for millstones; whetstone: OED.

²¹ For Richard Roe, see App. 4.

²² Strike: a denomination of dry measure, often identical to the bushel: OED.

²³ Constantine Heath was a servant of the Grevilles, paid £8 p.a.

²⁴ Edward Rainsford (the younger), son of the deputy recorder of Warwick.

²⁵ This was the more rural location of Brooke House, Hackney.

²⁶ For Dorothy, Lady Haselrig, sister to Robert, 2nd Lord Brooke see App. 4.

²⁷ For Sir Greville Verney, see App. 4.

²⁸ Beeves: beef carcasses: OED, beef 3a.

²⁹ Barm: a fermenting agent; yeast: OED.

³⁰ Sweetmeats: food such as sugared cakes or pastries, preserved or candied fruits, sugared nuts: OED.

³¹ Rundlet: a cask or vessel of carrying capacity: OED.

³² Bedford House, the London seat of Lord Brooke's father-in-law the earl of Bedford, was on the Strand, ¾ mile south-west of Brooke House.

³³ Sallet: an early variant spelling of salad: OED.

³⁴ Woburn, Bedfordshire, was rebuilt by Inigo Jones in the 1630s. It became the seat of Katherine, Lady Brooke's parents, Francis Russell, 4th earl of Bedford and his wife, Catherine.

³⁵ Kilderkin: a cask for liquids, fish etc. of a definite capacity (half a barrel): OED.

³⁶ Pottle: a pot, tankard, or similar container: OED.

³⁷ For Thomas Hinde, see App. 4.

³⁸ Meaning of contraction unknown.

³⁹ Lamp-black: a pigment consisting of almost pure carbon in a state of fine division; made by collecting the soot produced by burning oil: OED.

⁴⁰ Hod: an open receptacle for carrying mortar: OED.

⁴¹ For Anne Fisher, see App. 4.

⁴² Tartar: probably cream of tartar being used as a cleaning agent: OED.

⁴³ For Robert Greville, see App. 4.

⁴⁴ For Francis Greville, see App. 4.

⁴⁵ Wedgnock was the site of Lord Brooke's deer park in St Mary's parish, Warwick: EPNS Warwickshire, 263.

⁴⁶ Beadle: an inferior parish officer appointed by the vestry to keep order in church, punish petty offenders, and act as the servitor or messenger of the parish generally: OED.

⁴⁷ The election of Brooke's half-brother, Godfrey Bosvile to the Long Parliament as MP for the borough of Warwick.

⁴⁸ Peel: a pole with a broad flat disc at one end, used to place loaves in an oven: OED.

⁴⁹ For Simeon Ashe, see App. 4.

⁵⁰ For George Medley, see App. 4.

⁵¹ The election of knights of the shire as MPs for the county elections in Warwickshire to the Long Parliament.

⁵² Jarsey, variant of jersey: wool which has been combed and is ready for spinning: OED.

⁵³ Worsted: a fabric made from closely twisted yarn spun from long-staple wool: OED.

⁵⁴ For Hannah, wife of Thomas Dugard, see App. 4.

⁵⁵ Loo-bell: a bell used in trapping birds, usually at night: OED.

⁵⁶ Expenses for the election of Godfrey Bosvile to the Long Parliament as MP for the borough of Warwick.

⁵⁷ Possibly hunting with a loo-bell (see note above).

⁵⁸ Battledore: a wooden paddle-shaped implement formerly used in washing clothes for beating and stirring: OED.

⁵⁹ The Royal Exchange at Cornhill, in the City of London.

⁶⁰ Suiting: to make something for a purpose: OED.

⁶¹ Elizabeth Cavendish, née Cecil (1620–1689), wife of future royalist exile, William Cavendish, 3rd earl of Devonshire.

⁶² Arnde: to journey on horseback: OED.

⁶³ Reference to Charles I and his soap monopoly.

⁶⁴ Broken Wharf sits on the north bank of the River Thames, directly south of St Paul's Cathedral.

⁶⁵ Comfits: a sweetmeat made of some fruit, root etc., preserved with sugar; a small round mass of sugar enclosing a caraway seed or almond: OED.

⁶⁶ Orris: the orris root used in perfumery and medicine: OED.

⁶⁷ This entry suggests that Charles I's suspicions that Lord Brooke was plotting with the Scots Covenanters in the spring of 1641 were correct.

⁶⁸ Children's dolls.

⁶⁹ The London residence, also in Holborn, of the prominent opposition peer, Robert Rich, earl of Warwick.

⁷⁰ Baize: a coarse woollen stuff used for linings, coverings and curtains: OED.

⁷¹ Syllabub: a drink or dish made of milk or cream, curdled by the admixture of wine or cider, and often sweetened and flavoured: OED.

⁷² Formerly a private hunting space, there was greater public access allowed to Hyde Park as a place of recreation during the reign of Charles I.

⁷³ John Dillingham, see App. 4.

⁷⁴ Snuffer: an instrument used for snuffing, or snuffing out candles: OED.

⁷⁵ For Edward Greville, see App. 4.

⁷⁶ Ivy Bridge stood on the north bank of the Thames next to Salisbury House, off the Strand. With thanks to Charlotte Young.

⁷⁷ Reference to the execution of Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford, on Tower Hill on 12 May 1641.

⁷⁸ For Lady Diana Russell, see App. 4.

⁷⁹ Home of William Russell, earl of Bedford and his wife, Lady Anne Carr, daughter of Frances Howard and Robert Carr, earl of Somerset, and childhood home of Katherine, Lady Brooke.

⁸⁰ Carduus Benedictus: a form of medicinal water made from thistles: OED.

⁸¹ Maidenhair: a type of fern, used in medicine: OED.

⁸² See respasses on p. 345 (also respes here below); see OED under respesses: raspberries.

⁸³ For Mary Terrill, see App. 4.

⁸⁴ Alkermes: dried bodies of insects used in dyes and medicines: OED.

⁸⁵ Cordials.

⁸⁶ Mithridate: a paste or syrup used for medical purposes: OED.

⁸⁷ Powder blue: a powdered smalt to wash clothes: OED.

⁸⁸ Besom: a broom: OED.

⁸⁹ Jackline: various types of thin rope or line, used for a particular purpose: OED.

⁹⁰ Noggin: a small drinking vessel, mug, cup or ladle: OED.

⁹¹ Probably tobacco grown on the Varina plantation in Virginia, in the style of Spanish American tobacco.

⁹² Surcingle: a girth for a horse: OED.

⁹³ Sumpter: a packhorse: OED.

⁹⁴ Dingle: a deep dell or hollow, closely wooded or shaded with trees: OED.

⁹⁵ John Overton was a senior servant in the household. He had a chamber in Brooke House, Holborn in 1643, and he was left 20 marks p.a. in Robert, 2nd Lord Brooke's will.

⁹⁶ Slipp: slip: a cutting from a plant: OED.

⁹⁷ Patica: hepatica or liverwort: OED.

⁹⁸ Osiers: any of several willows with tough pliant branches, often used in basketwork: OED.

⁹⁹ Identity unclear.

¹⁰⁰ Cypress and lilac trees.

¹⁰¹ Snead: the shaft or pole of a scythe: OED.

¹⁰² Awl: a small tool, having a slender, cylindrical, tapering, sharp-pointed blade, with which holes may be pierced: OED.

¹⁰³ A parish in south Gloucestershire, 4 miles from Chipping Sodbury.

¹⁰⁴ Mash: a mixture of ground malt and hot water, which is left to stand until the sugars from the malt dissolve to form wort: OED.

¹⁰⁵ Probably Frances Cecil, countess of Exeter, who was widowed in 1623 and thereafter resided in Fulham and Parsons Green: ODNB.

¹⁰⁶ For Peter Sterry, see App. 4.

¹⁰⁷ Noseley in east Leicestershire, the seat of Lord Brooke's brother-in-law, Sir Arthur Haselrig.

¹⁰⁸ Stratton Audley, 3 miles from Bicester, in Oxfordshire.

¹⁰⁹ Broughton Castle, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, was the residence of Lord Brooke's friend and ally, William Fiennes, Viscount Saye and Sele.

¹¹⁰ Drayton Bassett, 3 miles south of Tamworth in Warwickshire.

¹¹¹ For Francis Leigh, Lord Dunsmore, see App. 4.

¹¹² For Gualter Frost, see App. 4.

¹¹³ This was probably in connection with Brooke's presence in Yorkshire on a commission to treat with the Scots Covenanters at Ripon.

¹¹⁴ Greatworth, a village near Brackley in the south of Northamptonshire.

¹¹⁵ For William Bosvile, see App. 4.

¹¹⁶ Thomas Wriothesley, 4th earl of Southampton voted against the earl of Strafford's attainder in 1641 and became a royalist in 1642, although he remained committed to a negotiated settlement: ODNB.

¹¹⁷ Elizabeth Fiennes, daughter of Sir John Elliot who died a prisoner in the Tower of London in 1632, and who married Nathaniel Fiennes, MP, second son of Brooke's ally, William Fiennes, Viscount Saye and Sele: ODNB.

¹¹⁸ For John, 2nd Lord Robartes of Truro, see App. 4.

¹¹⁹ Most likely Philip, Lord Herbert, later 5th earl of Pembroke.

¹²⁰ John, Lord Finch was the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, requested by Charles I to prepare the earl of Strafford's defence, but he fled to the Netherlands in December 1640: ODNB.

¹²¹ This was the funeral of Lord Brooke's father-in-law, Francis Russell, earl of Bedford, at Chenies in Buckinghamshire in May 1641.

¹²² Ostler: a man who attends to horses at an inn, a stableman: OED.

¹²³ Mr Unett Harcourt is present in the Vestry Minutes of St Andrew Holborn in April 1644 and so the annuity paid to Mr Harcourt, might be to him as a curate or lecturer: London Metropolitan Archives, P82/AND/B/001, St Andrew's Holborn, vestry minutes, 1624–1797, p. 51.

¹²⁴ William Cecil, 2nd earl of Salisbury was a political moderate who offered the opposition Junto limited support in 1641 but sought to avoid alignment thereafter and did not commit himself to either side: ODNB.

¹²⁵ Waltham Holy Cross, Essex, seat of James Hay, earl of Carlisle, husband to Lady Margaret Russell.

¹²⁶ Mansion in Bloomsbury, London, and the residence of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th earl of Southampton.

¹²⁷ Carman: a carter or carrier: OED.

¹²⁸ Possibly a black servant: see https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/oranges-lemons-greville-gardens-portraits-part-one (accessed 12 September 2024) for a portrait thought to be of Robert or Francis Greville with a black servant.

¹²⁹ The lower parish in Warwick was St Nicholas's parish.

¹³⁰ For Thomas Dugard, see App. 4.

¹³¹ Bishops Tachbrook, a parish 3 miles south-east of Warwick.

¹³² Chevage or cheifage: an annual payment due to a feudal lord: OED.

¹³³ Brittain Lane is a mile east of Warwick Castle on the south side of Myton Road.

¹³⁴ Richard Loseby was probably the puritan minister ordained in 1623, but without a living until 1647 and ejected from a Warwickshire living in 1662: Matthews, A.G. (ed.), Calamy Revised: Being a Revision of Edmund Calamy's Account of the Ministers and Others Ejected and Silenced, 1660–2 (Oxford, 1988), 328Google Scholar.

¹³⁵ The upper parish in Warwick was St Mary's parish.

¹³⁶ For Dr Isaac Dorislaus, see App. 4.

¹³⁷ Leonard Lechford was preacher in the parish of St Andrew's Holborn in 1639–40: CCEd.

¹³⁸ A poll tax was imposed by Parliament in June 1641. It ranged from £100 for noblemen down to 6d for everyone over the age of sixteen years not in receipt of alms. It was intended to pay off the Scots Army of the Covenant to end their occupation of England's northern counties: Russell, Conrad, ‘England's Last Poll Tax’, History Today, 37:10 (1987), 9–11Google Scholar. Middlesex raised £4,700 by 24 August 1641: CJ, II, 269.

¹³⁹ Edson was Edstone, a hamlet in Wootton Wawen parish: EPNS Warwickshire, 243.

¹⁴⁰ Beauchamp Court, in the parish of Alcester: EPNS Warwickshire, 194.

¹⁴¹ For William Greville, see App. 4.

¹⁴² The wife of Peter Burgoyne of Coventry, gentleman.

¹⁴³ Oboe: hautboy: a wooden double-reed wind instrument of high pitch: OED.

¹⁴⁴ For Henry Darley, see App. 4.

¹⁴⁵ Wroxall, a parish 6 miles north-west of Warwick: EPNS Warwickshire, 229.

¹⁴⁶ Possibly Haseley: EPNS Warwickshire, 210.

¹⁴⁷ Sir Richard Skeffington was a Warwickshire JP and active on the parliamentarian county committee in Coventry during the 1640s. He also held land in Staffordshire, for which county he was elected recruiter MP in 1646: Hughes thesis, 208, 224, 295.

¹⁴⁸ For Sir Thomas Lucy, see App. 4.

¹⁴⁹ John Hales of White Friars, Coventry, esq., a leading county committeeman during the civil war: Hughes thesis, 32, 224.

¹⁵⁰ Probably Joan, wife of William Purefoy of Caldecote, Warwickshire, esq.

¹⁵¹ William Combe of Stratford, alongside Sir Francis Nethersole the failed candidate for the Long Parliament by election. Later a moderate parliamentarian in the administration of Warwickshire: Hughes.

¹⁵² Robert Phippes of Coventry, physician, was commissioned a captain by Lord Brooke in 1642: Hughes thesis, 260, 306, 329.

¹⁵³ The lower parish in Warwick was St Nicholas's parish.

¹⁵⁴ Monsieur St Giles was a French theologian in exile favoured by Brooke: Hughes, Ann, ‘Thomas Dugard and his circle in the 1630s: A “Parliamentary–Puritan” connexion?’, Historical Journal, 29:4 (1986), 776Google Scholar.

¹⁵⁵ William Craven, earl of Craven, was a favourite of Elizabeth, queen of Bohemia with whom he spent much of the Civil War years at the Hague: ODNB

¹⁵⁶ For Catherine Russell, countess of Bedford, see App. 4.

¹⁵⁷ For Sir Peter Temple, see App. 4.

¹⁵⁸ The Mews stood on the north side of Charing Cross.

¹⁵⁹ The Scotch commissioners were lodged in a house owned by the city corporation, that adjoined St Antholin's church, which they were granted as a base for preaching and worship: Macray, William Dunn (ed.), History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641 by Edward, Earl of Clarendon, 6 vols (Oxford, 1888), I, 251Google Scholar.

¹⁶⁰ Mountjoy Blount, earl of Newport (c.1597–1666), associated with the earl of Bedford in 1641 but arrested for royalism in 1643: ODNB.

¹⁶¹ Essex, Lady Bevill, who married Edward Montagu, then Viscount Mandeville, in 1642.

¹⁶² Henry Somerset, 1st marquess of Worcester (1577–1646) was a leading Roman Catholic royalist, and titular commander of the royalist garrison in Raglan Castle, Monmouthshire, dying in prison soon after Raglan surrendered.

¹⁶³ Sir Arthur Ingram (d.1642) was MP for Windsor and Callington in the Short and Long Parliaments. His third wife was Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Greville of Milcote, Warwickshire: ODNB.

¹⁶⁴ Sir Walter Roberts, 2nd Baronet of Glassenbury in Kent: Cokayne, G.E., Complete Baronetage (Exeter, 1900), I, 151Google Scholar.

¹⁶⁵ For William Fiennes, Viscount Saye and Sele, see App. 4.

¹⁶⁶ James, later duke of Hamilton was on very good terms with the opposition peers in early 1641, sponsoring ‘bridge appointments’ to the Privy Council, including the earl of Bedford, and Viscount Saye and Sele: ODNB.

¹⁶⁷ For Anne, Lady Digby, née Lady Anne Russell, see App. 4.

¹⁶⁸ Possibly a scribal error for Dillingham.

¹⁶⁹ For James Hay, earl of Carlisle, see App. 4.

¹⁷⁰ Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford (1593–1641), was voted guilty of treason by Bill of Attainder, and beheaded on Tower Hill by order of the Long Parliament on 12 May 1641: ODNB.

¹⁷¹ Pouldron: a piece of plate armour covering the shoulder: OED.

¹⁷² These payments for military hardware suggest that Brooke was increasing his security arrangements around the time of Strafford's execution.

¹⁷³ Cartouche: a roll or case of paper, parchment, etc., containing the charge of powder and shot for a gun or pistol; a cartridge: OED.

¹⁷⁴ Blunderbuss: a short gun with a large bore, firing many balls or slugs, and capable of doing execution within a limited range without exact aim: OED.

¹⁷⁵ Fire cane: ‘a cane used to light a fire by friction’, or, ‘a long pole tipped with a flammable substance and set alight, used to set fire to enemy vessels’: OED.

¹⁷⁶ Nathaniel Browne, a nephew of Sir Nathaniel Rich, who accompanied John Halford on a voyage to Virginia and New England in 1634–1635: Kupperman, Karen Ordahl, Providence Island: The Other Puritan Colony 1630–1641 (Cambridge, 1995), 331Google Scholar.

¹⁷⁷ Robert Greville (1638–1677), see App. 4.

¹⁷⁸ Linsey-woolsey: a textile woven from coarse wool and flax: OED.

¹⁷⁹ Around 30 April 1641, Katherine Lady Brooke discovered some red spots on the skin of her father, Francis Russell, earl of Bedford. Francis had the family evacuated and he died from smallpox on 9 May 1641: Adamson, Noble Revolt, 275.

¹⁸⁰ Lockram: a linen fabric used for clothing and household items: OED.

¹⁸¹ Expenses for mourning attire for the household to attend Bedford's funeral at Chenies in Buckinghamshire.

¹⁸² Serge: a durable woollen fabric: OED.

¹⁸³ Perpetuana: a durable woollen fabric widely made and used in England during the 17th and 18th centuries: OED.

¹⁸⁴ Civet: a yellowish or brownish unctuous substance, having a strong musky smell, obtained from sacs or glands in the anal pouch of several animals of the Civet genus, especially of the African Civet-cat … used in perfumery: OED.

¹⁸⁵ Cullor: to impregnate with colour: OED.

¹⁸⁶ Galoshes or ‘goloschooes’: over-shoes worn to protect the ordinary shoe or boot from wet or dirt: OED.

¹⁸⁷ Holland: a linen fabric from the province of Holland in the Netherlands: OED.

¹⁸⁸ Possibly in connection to the death of Lord Brooke's father-in-law, the earl of Bedford, on 9 May 1641.

¹⁸⁹ Busk: a type of linen Holland cloth: OED.

¹⁹⁰ This was for the death of Katherine, Lady Brooke's father, the earl of Bedford, on 9 May 1641.

¹⁹¹ Tinning: to coat or plate with tin: OED.

¹⁹² Gorget: in this context an item of female attire covering the neck and breast, or an ornament for the neck: OED.

¹⁹³ John, Lord Poulett, of Hinton St George in Somerset became a royalist commander in the Civil War: ODNB.

¹⁹⁴ For John Bridges (the elder), see App. 4.

¹⁹⁵ For Francis Bridges, see App. 4.