¹⁹⁶ For John Bryan, see App. 4.

¹⁹⁷ For George Ingram, see App. 4.

¹⁹⁸ For Katherine Ingram, see App. 4.

¹⁹⁹ Childs Hill is a mile west of Hampstead Heath.

²⁰⁰ For John Sadler, see App. 4.

²⁰¹ Transcription difficult, meaning obscure.

²⁰² Angelica seeds and stems were used for flavouring and confectionery, while the roots were used for medicinal purposes: OED.

²⁰³ Cittern in this context refers to a culinary ingredient mixed with spices, fruit and sugar: Wing / R114, Rabisha, William, The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, Taught and Fully Manifested (London, 1661)Google Scholar.

²⁰⁴ Fine quality candles: OED.

²⁰⁵ Tacamahac: an aromatic resin, used for incense, and formerly extensively in medicine: OED.

²⁰⁶ For Margery (named Mary in the accounts) Bosvile, see App. 4.

²⁰⁷ St Katharine Cree Church, Leadenhall Street, London.

²⁰⁸ Incle: linen tape: OED.

²⁰⁹ Brooke was entrusted with the training of the soldiers intended for the Adventurers’ expedition to Ireland, but who were ultimately retained for the earl of Essex's parliamentarian army in England.

²¹⁰ This could refer to a muster at London or Warwick.

²¹¹ For Brooke's nephew, Ralph Walcott, see App. 4.

²¹² Gaffle: a steel lever for bending the crossbow: OED.

²¹³ Probably nectarine, as nectron was a 1686 variant spelling of nectarine: OED.

²¹⁴ Thrave: a measure of straw or fodder: OED.

²¹⁵ For Sir Henry Vane, see App. 4.

²¹⁶ Corser: a horse-dealer: OED.

²¹⁷ Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex, parliamentarian captain-general from 1642.

²¹⁸ Oliver St John, 1st earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584–1646).

²¹⁹ For Brooke's settling of the militia in Stratford-upon-Avon, Coleshill, and Coventry in June and July 1642 see Joseph Hawksworth's Accounts 1641–1643, pp. 316–318.

²²⁰ The Treaty of Ripon between Charles I and the Scots Covenanters was signed on 26 October 1640.

²²¹ This indicates that Lord Brooke had 28 servants at Warwick in summer 1641 for whom he paid 6d each. The House of Commons ordered on 24 August 1641 that Warwickshire's poll money was to be paid at York: CJ, II, 269.

²²² For Mr Edward Rainsford (the elder), see App. 4.

²²³ For Samuel Hartlib, see App. 4.

²²⁴ Caldecote lay 2 miles north of Nuneaton and was the seat of one of Brooke's key local allies, William Purefoy, MP for Warwick in the Long Parliament.

²²⁵ For Elizabeth, Viscountess Saye and Sele, see App. 4.

²²⁶ Probably the Warwickshire parliamentarian officer, Hercules Huncks, who later refused Cromwell's order to write out and sign the execution order for Charles I: Ian Gentles, The New Model Army: Agent of Revolution (New Haven, CT, 2022), 154.

²²⁷ A foreigner: OED.

²²⁸ For Robert Rich, 2nd earl of Warwick, see App. 4.

²²⁹ The parliamentarian peer, Philip, 4th Lord Wharton (1613–1696).

²³⁰ Grocer's Hall was where the Irish Adventurers collected their donations.

²³¹ For Algernon Greville, see App. 4.

²³² The confinement of Lady Brooke for the birth of her fourth son, Algernon, in 1642.

²³³ Frances, Lady Vane (1623/4–1679), married Sir Henry Vane the younger in 1640: ODNB.

²³⁴ Sir David Cunningham of Auchenharvie (d.1659) was a Scots courtier in London, who built an impressive house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, associated with Inigo Jones between 1639 and 1641.

²³⁵ Crewel: a thin worsted yarn used for tapestry and embroidery: OED.

²³⁶ Smith, Thomas, The Art of Gunnery: wherein is set forth a number of seruiceable secrets, and practicall conclusions, belonging to the art of gunnerie, by arithmeticke skill to be accomplished (London, 1600)Google Scholar.

²³⁷ A minion and a falcon were pieces of field artillery.

²³⁸ A gun fired by means of a hammer: OED.

²³⁹ Andiron: a utensil made from an iron bar to support burning wood in a fireplace: OED.

²⁴⁰ A seller of embroidered thread.

²⁴¹ Possibly reference to a type of pot or cup: OED.

²⁴² Dimity: a stout cotton fabric: OED.

²⁴³ Remee van Leemput (1607–1675), a professional copyist of the works of Anthony Van Dyck. This was probably a copy of Van Dyck's single portrait of William Russell, later 5th earl of Bedford in c.1640: Waterhouse, Ellis, The Dictionary of Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century British Painters (Woodbridge, 1988), 168Google Scholar. With thanks to David J. Appleby for supplying this reference.

²⁴⁴ Caul: a kind of close-fitting cap, worn by women: OED.

²⁴⁵ Roale: a roll used for cloth, rolled up to form a decorative band: OED.

²⁴⁶ Possibly Walter Blyth, later a sequestration official in Warwickshire: Hughes.

²⁴⁷ Date probably a mistake for 1632/3.

²⁴⁸ Probably the future Leveller leader, John Lilburne, who was commissioned as a captain of a foot company in Lord Brooke's regiment in July 1642.