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ACCOUNTS OF MAJOR JOSEPH HAWKSWORTH, 1640–1641

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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. 187 - 232
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[Front cover]

Major Joseph Hawksworth's Accounts from Midsummer 1640 to Midsummer 1641

[f. 1r]

Warwickshire: Knowle Michaelmas 1640 Lady Day 1641

Arrearages

George Patchitt a surrender

Robert Squire upon surrender

The inhabitants of Knowle upon surrender of John   Hankox

Edward Wakeland upon descent

Richard Grimshawe upon surrender of George Cotterell

Amercements of courts for many years

Bartholmew Ashby on decease of his father

[f. 1v]

Warwickshire: Knowle Michaelmas 1640 Lady Day 1641

Rents of the manor now due

Out of which paid

[f. 2r]

Warwickshire: Kineton Michaelmas 1640 Lady Day 1640

Arrearages

The bailiff for all the profits of a court leet and a court baron held 13 October 1634 and the estreatsFootnote 252 remaining with him & said former arrears of two former courts.

[f. 2v]

Warwickshire: Kineton Michaelmas 1640 Lady Day 1640

Fines and perquisitesFootnote 254

[f. 3r]

Warwickshire: Kineton Michaelmas 1640 Lady Day 1641

Rents of the manor now due

01-11-00

87-00-8

81-02-10

169-14-06

Out of which paid

43-09-10

15-10-06

59-00-04

The clear receipt is 110-14-02ex

[f. 3v]

Warwickshire: Warwick Michaelmas 1640 Lady Day 1641

Arrearages

Rents now due

166-05-02

164-08-06

331-01-08

[f. 4r]

Warwickshire: Warwick Michaelmas 1640 Lady Day 1641

Rents now due

Castle Mills for one year ending the 11 June 1641

[f. 4v]

Warwickshire: Warwick Michaelmas 1640 Lady Day 1641

Fines

Out of which paid reprizes

The clear receipt here is 507-09-07

[f. 5r]

Warwickshire: WedgnockFootnote 262 Michaelmas 1640 Lady Day 1641

Arrearages

Rents now due

117-18-04

266-16-08

[f. 5v]

Warwickshire: Wedgnock Michaelmas 1640 Lady Day 1641

Out of which paid

The clear receipt here is 192-09-10

[f. 6r]

Warwickshire: Tachbrook Michaelmas 1640 Lady Day 1641

Rents now due

Out of which paid

Caldecote

The clear receipt here is 51-05-06

Caldecote

[f. 6v]

Warwickshire: Lillington Michaelmas 1640 Lady Day 1641

Arrears Bench and Nicholls for William

Rents now due

The clear receipt here is 70-07-10

[f. 7r]

Warwickshire: Cester OverFootnote 265 Michaelmas 1640 Lady Day 1641

Arrears

The grounds in my Lord's hands the arrears of the mill

Rents now due

By bonds:

Out of which paid:

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Oxfordshire: Fringford Michaelmas 1640 Lady Day 1641

Arrears

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Oxfordshire: Fringford Michaelmas 1640 Lady Day 1641

Rents of demesnes

Farm rents:

116-13-08

234-03-10

[f. 8v]

Oxfordshire: Fringford Michaelmas 1640 Lady Day 1641

Chief rents

Long leases:

The clear receipt here is 01-12-03½.

Out of which paid:

Newton Farm

Rents now due:

The clear receipt is 34-10-00

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Lincolnshire: Toft Grange Michaelmas 1640 Lady Day 1641

The clear receipt is 190-00-00

Tothill and Gayton

Arrears:

Rents now due:

*The cottage is now down*

09-06-00

09-05-00

The clear receipt is 18-11-00

[f. 9v]

Lincolnshire: Scredington Michaelmas 1640 Lady Day 1641

Rents of Dolton's lands:

Out of which paid

The clear receipt is 09-11-08

[f. 10r]

Lincolnshire: Algarkirk & Fosdyke Michaelmas 1640 Lady Day 1641

Farm rents:

112-19-10

225-19-08

Out of which paid:

The clear receipt here is 216-14-05

[f. 10v]

Major Joseph Hawksworth's disbursements to be allowed out of his receipts which in his book of disbursements of this year & (adjoining hereunto) are promiscuously set down (vizt).

Wages to:

286-15-03

2051-13-11

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Major Joseph Hawksworth's charge and account for one year's receipts out of the revenue aforegoing ended at Midsummer 1641.

So as this accountant having received two thousand, three hundred thirty-eight pounds, and nine shillings, 2d. And hath paid two hundred four score and six pounds, fifteen shillings, three pence. There rests due to my Lord as the balance of this account the sum of two thousand fifty and one pounds, thirteen shillings and [illegible] *eleven* pence

2051-13-11

Exm W. Bridges 11 July 1648

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[Blank]

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1640. The weekly profits of the mills for this year.

9 June    Strikes    Price   Receipts

26 [June]

3 July

10 [July] all flood

17 July

24 [July]

31 [July]

7 August

14 August

21 [August]

28 [August]

4 September

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11 September Strikes Price Receipts

18 [September]

25 [September]

2 October

9 October

16 [October]

23 [October]

30 [October]

6 November – 4 days flood

13 [November]

20 [November]

27 [November]

[f. 13r]

4 December    Strikes    Price    Receipts

11 [December]

18 [December]

25 [December]

1 January

8 [January]

15 [January]

22 [January]

29 January

5 February – flood 2 days

12 [February]

19 [February]

[f. 13v]

26 February    Strikes    Price    Receipts

5 March

12 [March]

19 [March]

26 March

2 April

9 [April]

16 [April]

23 [April]

30 [April]

7 May

14 [May]

[f. 14r]

21 May    Strikes    Price    Receipts

28 [May]

4 June

11 [June]

25-03-10

39-18-00

45-03-00

43-11-00

11-08-00

165-03-10

[f. 14v]

10 July

7 August

4 September

3 October

[f. 15r]

31 October

27 November

25 December

[f. 15v]

22 January

9 February

19 March

[f. 16r]

16 April

14 May

[f. 16v]

11 June

18-11-01

16-00-00

10-01-11

15-17-01

06-06-05

66-16-06

165-03-10

The clear receipt      – 66-16-06

of the mills is     98-07-04 ex

[f. 17r]

[f. 17v]

9 January 1641

Payments per book

16

[f. 18r]

1640

18 January

23

6 February

27

[f. 18v]

6 March

11

13

17

27

1641

3 April

6

17.

[f. 19r]

17 April

24

1 May

6

14.

18

22

[f. 19v]

22 May

29

4 June

8

[f. 20r]

11 June

18.

25

28

1 July

[f. 20v]

1 July

3

10

17

[f. 21r]

1641

17 July

24

31

[f. 21v]

1641

November

[f. 22r]

1641. Payments for the Park

24 October

1 November

10

15

4 December

17

April

[f. 22v]

15-14-09

20-17-01

91-13-11

30-12-01

09-08-08

20-11-05

21-08-06

28-10-09

28-00-10

09-15-10

07-11-02

284-05-00

1642

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284-05-00

02-10-03

286-15-03

The total disbursements of this book, besides the charge of the mills which is allowed out of the profits of the mills is 286-15-03

[f. 23v]

This is a true copy of the original books of receipts and disbursements remaining in Major Joseph Hawksworth's hands, examined 31 July 1648, by us W. Bridges, B. BridgesFootnote 275

References

249 Forfeitures.

250 Arrears due from Sir Thomas Puckering (d.1636), friend and neighbour of Lord Brooke in Warwick.

251 Leet dinner: a dinner for officials of the leet court, which was usually held annually by the lord of the manor, and ‘dealt with… the regulation of social and economic life within the community’, including ‘the enforcement of local bylaws’: Brooks, Christopher, Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2009), 245CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

252 Estreat: the true extract, copy or note of some original writing or record, especially of fines, amercements, etc., entered on the rolls of a court to be levied by the bailiff or other officer: OED.

253 Heriot: a feudal service, originally consisting of weapons, horses, and other military equipments, restored to a lord on the death of his tenant; afterwards a render of the best live beast or dead chattel of a deceased tenant due by legal custom to the lord of whom he held: OED.

254 Perquisite: an acquired piece of property, especially a property acquired otherwise than by inheritance: OED.

255 Customary: a system of landholding by manorial or other custom, typically requiring the tenant to render services periodically to their lord: OED.

256 Arrears of rent due to Sir Thomas Temple of Stowe and Burton Dassett who died in 1637.

257 The king's provision or purveyance, was the crown's prerogative right to purchase provisions and other items for the royal household by means of a compulsory price: OED.

258 Temple Farm was land once held by the Knights Templars, in St Nicholas parish, Warwick: EPNS Warwickshire, 266.

259 The Leafield or Leyfield lay just south of the Castle in St Mary's parish, Warwick: EPNS Warwickshire, 262.

260 Myton stood adjacent to Warwick, in St Nicholas's parish, on the south bank of the River Avon: EPNS Warwickshire, 265.

261 Beausale, a hamlet in Hatton parish, 4 miles north-west of Warwick.

262 Site of Brooke's deer park, a mile north-west of Warwick.

263 Leek Wootton, a parish 2 miles north of Warwick.

264 Noble: in this context an English gold coin valued at 6s 8d: OED.

265 Over Cester is a hamlet in Monk's Kirby parish, Warwickshire.

266 Newbold-on-Avon, 1 mile north-west of Rugby, Warwickshire.

267 For John St Nicholas, see App. 4.

268 Gudgeon: a pivot, usually of metal, fixed on or let into the end of a beam, spindle, axle, etc., and on which a wheel turns, a bell swings, or the like: OED.

269 Sir Francis Nethersole of Polesworth, Warwickshire, was English agent to the princes of the Protestant Union in the Holy Roman Empire during the 1620s, and secretary to Elizabeth, queen of Bohemia. He was one of Brooke's unsuccessful candidates in the by-election for the county seats in the Long Parliament in early 1641: ODNB.

270 Kenilworth: EPNS Warwickshire, 172.

271 Allhollantide: a variant of All Hallows’ tide: OED.

272 Gaffle pin: a steel lever for bending the crossbow: OED.

273 Creeps: probably a hide for the hunter: OED, see meaning 1b.

274 Damage to the park done by royalists, probably in August 1642 when the king summoned Warwick Castle to surrender.

275 For Brooke Bridges, see App. 4.