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ACCOUNTS OF MAJOR JOSEPH HAWKSWORTH, 1641–1643

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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. 233 - 320
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[Front cover]

Major Joseph Hawksworth's Accounts from Midsummer 1641 to Midsummer 1643

f. 1r

Warwickshire: Knowle Michaelmas 1641 Lady Day 1642

Arrearages

Robert Squire upon surrender

George Patchitt upon surrender

The inhabitants of Knowle upon surrender to John Hancox

Edward Wakefeild upon descent

Amercements of court for divers years

Richard Grimshaw, one surrender to George Cotterell

The tenants of Knowle for heriots and fine

f. 1v

Warwickshire: Knowle Michaelmas 1641 Lady Day 1642

Rents of the manor now due

Out of which paid

So that there is paid – 108-08-01

more than received 17-01-05

f. 2r

Warwickshire: Kineton Michaelmas 1641 Lady Day 1642

Rents of the manor now due:

Out of which paid:

The clear receipt here is: 137-06-00

f. 2v

Warwickshire: Warwick Michaelmas 1641 Lady Day 1642

Arrearages

Rents now due:

f. 3r

Warwickshire: Warwick Michaelmas 1641 Lady Day 1642

Rents now due

For the Vineyard

Rents of Onyon's farm

f. 3v

Warwickshire: Warwick Michaelmas 1641 Lady Day 1642

Out of which paid reprises

The clear receipt here is: 390-16-07

f. 4r

Warwickshire: Wedgnock Michaelmas 1641 Lady Day 1642

Arrearages:

Rents now due:

78-04-04

72-18-04

151-02-08

f. 4v

Warwickshire: Wedgnock Michaelmas 1641 Lady Day 1642

Out of which paid

The clear receipt is 79-01-08

f. 5r

Warwickshire: Tachbrook Michaelmas 1641 Lady Day 1642

Arrears:

Rents now due:

Out of the which paid:

00-08-00

The clear receipt is:     42-12-00

Caldecote

f. 5v

Warwickshire: Lillington Michaelmas 1641 Lady Day 1642

Arrears:

Rents now due:

The clear receipt is 60-17-00

f. 6r

Warwickshire: Cester Over Michaelmas 1641 Lady Day 1642

Arrears

The arrears of the mill

Rents now due:

Total: 359-10-08

Out of which paid:

The clear receipt is: 339-03-00

194-15-03     164-15-05

f. 6v

Oxfordshire: Fringford Michaelmas 1641 Lady Day 1642

Arrears:

f. 7r

Oxfordshire Fringford Michaelmas 1641Lady Day 1642

Rents of demesnes

66-00-00

f. 7v

Oxfordshire: Fringford Michaelmas 1641 Lady Day 1642

Farm rents:

f. 8r

Oxfordshire: Fringford Michaelmas 1641 Lady Day 1642

Chief rents:

Long leases:

Total:  104-01-10½

Out of which paid:

The clear receipt is    103-12-02½

Newton farm

Rents now due:

The clear receipt is 12-00-00

f. 8v

Lincolnshire: Toft Grange Michaelmas 1641 Lady Day 1642

Tothill and Gayton

Arrears:

Rents now due:

f. 9r

Lincolnshire: Scredington Michaelmas 1641 Lady Day 1642

Arrears:

Rentes of Dolton's lands

Out of which paid:

Sir Grevill Verney's quit rents

f. 9v

Lincolnshire: Algarkirk & Fosdyke Michaelmas 1641 Lady Day 1642

Arrears:

Farm rents

Out of which paid:

The clear receipt is 400-00-00

f. 10r

[Blank]

f. 10v

Warwickshire: Knowle Michaelmas 1642Lady Day 1643

Rents of the manor now due:

All this received

Sir Thomas Puckering part of Chessett Wood

Out of which paid:

All this paid:

The clear receipt is 22-18-02

f. 11r

Warwickshire: Kineton Michaelmas 1642 Lady Day 1643

Rents of the manor now due:

f. 11v

Warwickshire: Warwick Michaelmas 1642 Lady Day 1643

Rents now due:

*All these received*

f. 12r

Warwickshire: Warwick Michaelmas 1642Lady Day 1643

Rents now due:

*All these received*

Rents of Onion's farm:

*These received*

134-05-00

98-15-08

87-01-10

Total:  320-02-06

f. 12v

Warwickshire: Warwick Michaelmas 1641 Lady Day 1642

Out of which paid reprises

*These paid:*

f. 13r

Warwickshire: Wedgnock Michaelmas 1642Lady Day 1643

Rents now due:

*Received*

f. 13v

Warwickshire: Wedgnock Michaelmas 1642 Lady Day 1643

Out of which paid

*All paid*

03-02-00

The clear receipt is: 189-02-08

Tachbrook

f. 14r

Warwickshire: Lillington Michaelmas 1642 Lady Day 1643

Rents now due:

*All these received*

22-16-05

The clear receipt is      22-16-05

f. 14v

Warwickshire: Cester Over Michaelmas 1642Lady Day 1643

Rents now due

*All these received*

Out of which paid:

The clear receipt is 205-10-03

f. 15r

Oxfordshire: Fringford Michaelmas 1642 Lady Day 1643

*Received all these*

f. 15v

f. 16r

[Blank]

f. 16v

Major Joseph Hawksworth's disbursements for two years to be allowed out of his receipts which in his book of disbursements of this year's (and adjoining hereunto) are promiscuously set downe in 33 pages (vizt)

Board wages:

Wages:

Annuities:

Imprest:

4501-08-06½

04-12-04

f. 17r

Major Joseph Hawksworth's charge and account for two years’ receipts out of the revenue aforegoing ended at Midsummer 1643

The first year's receipt out of:

The second year's receipt out of:

So as this accountant having received four thousand, five hundred and one pounds, eight shillings, six pence half penny. And hath paid four thousand, five hundred and six pounds, ten pence, halfpenny. There rests due to this accountant as the balance of this account the sum of four pounds, twelve shillings & four pence 04-12-04

Ex.w William Bridge, 12 July 1648

f. 17v

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f. 18r

18 June 1641      Strikes      Price Receipts

16 July Strikes Price Receipts

13 August Strikes Price Receipts

f. 18v

Strikes Price Receipts

10 September

8 October

f. 19r

3 December

31 December

f. 19v

28 January

25 February

f. 20r

22 April

6 May

13 [May]

20 May

27 [May]

f. 20v

Charges of the mills

18 June 1641

16 July

13 August

f. 21r

10 September

8 October

5 November

f. 21v

8 December

31 December

28 January

f. 22r

25 February

25 March

22 April

f. 22v

20 May

The whole receipts of the mills for the year per month The disbursements per month are

So that the clear profits of this year is 87-14-00ex

f. 23r

1642. The weekly profits of the mills for the year anno domini 1642
      Strikes      Price      Receipts

17 June

24 June

1 July

8 July

15 July

22 July

29 July

5 August

12 August

19 AugustFootnote 282

26 August

f. 23v

1642      Strikes Price      Receipts

2 September

9 September

16 September

23 September

30 September

7 October

14 October

21 October

28 October

4 November

11 November

f. 24r

1642      Strikes      Price     Receipts

18 November

25 November

2 December

9 December

16 December

23 December

30 December

6 January

*5 days’ food this week*

13 January

20 January

27 January

f. 24v

1642     Strikes     Price      Receipts

3 February

10 February

17 February

24 February

3 March

10 March

17 March

24 March

Anno 1643

31 March

7 April

16 April

21 April

f. 25r

Strikes Price  Receipts

28 April

5 May

12 May

19 May

26 May

2 June

9 June

40-11-01

36-19-04

29-13-07

14-19-00

147-14-10

04-06-06         in the pages following

152-01-04

f. 25v

Anno 1641

2 September

28 October

23 December

20 January

17 February

Anno 1642

16 April

12 May

The whole received 150-18-06

f. 26r

Anno 1642

17 June

15 July

12 August

9 September

7 October

f. 26v

4 November

2 December

30 December

27 January

f. 27r

24 February

24 March

21 April

f. 27v

19 May

The whole receipts for the mills  The disbursements are:
for the year, ending 9 June 1643 are:

The clear receipt is 77-15-02ex

150-18-06

These for the profits by the mills is entred into the rent role of Warwick

Laying out       74-06-02

Clear receipt       76-12-04

p. 1

1641

21 June

2 July

Anno Domini 1641

20 November

27 November

p. 2

27 November

4 December

11 December

13 December

19 December

20 December

23 December

p. 3

Anno 1641

4 January

8 January

15 [January]

20 [January]

22 [January]

23 January

29 January

5 February

p. 4

5 February

12 February

p. 5

19 February

25 February

26 February

p. 6

p. 7

26 February

All these were for sawing of timber at the park for to cover the bulwarksFootnote 292

2 March

p. 8

12 March

18 March

p. 9

Anno Domini 1642

26 March

1642

2 April

9 April

p. 10

16 April

23 April

30 April

p. 11

7 May

9 May

14 May

p. 12

21 May

p. 13

28 May

4 June

p. 14

11 June

18 June

25 June

p. 15

1641

25 June

2 July

6 July

9 [July]

p. 16

9 July

16 July

p. 17

21 [July]

23 July

1 August

3 [August]

p. 18

3 August

4 August

p. 19

31 October

5 November

12 November

26 November

3 December

17 [December]

19 December

5 January

7 [January]

15 January

p. 20

14 February

10 March

18 [March]

20 [March]

1643

23 April

29 [April]

p. 21

1643

29 [April]

8 May

3 June

p. 22

1648

p. 23

1642

23 July

1 August

p. 24

Anno 1640

*Charged in the book of receipts, Michaelmas 1640*

16 [August]

20 [August]

29 [August]

November

28 December

6 February

8 [February]

13 March

p. 25

1641

19 May

11 June

7 July

24 [July]

3 August

p. 26

1641

12 August

20 [August]

26 [August]

1 September

2 [September]

9 October

23 [October]

25 [October]

6 December

13 November

15 [November]

8 January

18 [January]

p. 27

5 February

24 February

2 March

1642

19 April

3 May

*Major Halford paid the receipt of it*

9 [May]

26 May 1642

13 June

1 August

p. 28

1 August 1642

22 November

12 January

24 March

1643

May

July

*Mr Bridges saith he hath accounted for this sum already to my Lady and is therefore not to be charged wherewith*

5 August

21 August

22 [August]

3 January 1644

1113-02-11

457-02-00

866-14-06

626-12-02

474-15-06

3538-07-01

p. 29

Charges for the right honourable the Lord Brooke at Stratford at the settling the militia, 30 June 1642Footnote 307

p. 30

Charges at Coleshill for the militia, 5 July 1642

Mr Feilds his bill

p. 31

p. 32

Charges at CoventryFootnote 314

p. 33

79-00-09 Major

3538-07-01

85-14-06

p. 34

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.

William Bridges

B[rooke] Bridges

References

276 Customary: here designating a payment made or exacted as a tax or tribute: OED.

277 On 1 March 1643 parliamentarian forces attacked the Cathedral Close in Lichfield, which had been occupied by a royalist garrison earlier in the year. Lord Brooke was killed the following day.

278 Charles Broxholme, a Derbyshire minister, future Presbyterian: Hughes thesis, 212.

279 On 10 March 1641 there was a serious fire in Stratford, in which the damage was estimated at £20,000: ‘The borough of Stratford-upon-Avon: Introduction and architectural description’, in Styles, Philip (ed.), A History of the County of Warwick, Vol. III: Barlichway Hundred (London, 1945), 221–234Google Scholar.

280 A gratuity in advance.

281 Spindle: a rod of a millstone, usually of iron or other metal, serving as an axis upon which, or by means of which, something revolves or is turned round: OED.

282 The impact of the King's siege of Warwick Castle halted activity in the mill.

283 Cutling: a name applied to groats, or coarse oatmeal: OED.

284 Groats: in this context, these were hulled, or hulled and crushed grain of various kinds, chiefly oats, but also wheat and barley: OED.

285 Warwick Castle was briefly besieged by royalist forces under Spencer Compton, earl of Northampton in August 1642. It was held for Parliament by Sir Edward Peyto until Lord Brooke marched to its relief with an army from London: Hughes, 145.

286 A hamlet 2 miles north-east of Warwick.

287 Bouche: a kind of plug: OED.

288 Drench: a draft or dose of medicine given to an animal: OED.

289 Warwick's lower parish was St Nicholas's.

290 Rick: a stack of hay or corn: OED.

291 This work was to strengthen defences on the Mount, which formed part of Warwick Castle's western curtain wall.

292 These labour costs reflect substantial improvements to Warwick Castle's defences during spring 1642.

293 This entry confirms Warwick Castle's defences already included artillery, well before the parliamentary order of 22 July 1642 that sent nine artillery pieces to Warwick: CJ, II, 682, 690.

294 Graving: in this context, to dig out or excavate: OED.

295 Gunpowder.

296 Lord Brooke held a muster at Coleshill on 4 July 1642, while Birmingham sent 400 men to the relief of Coventry on 19 August 1642: Hughes thesis, 235–236, 251.

297 Evidence that Brooke was in Warwick on 23 July 1642, probably in response to fears over the safety of the magazine from the earl of Northampton's mustering of the county's trained bands the following week.

298 Fulke Greville, 1st Lord Brooke, had prepared his own tomb within the family crypt at St Mary's Church, Warwick.

299 Probably a reference to the bill of 25 March 1642 for raising £400,000 ‘for the necessary defence and great affairs of the kingdoms of England and Ireland and for the payment of debts undertaken by the parliament’: LJ, IV, 670–674.

300 Bease: beasts: OED.

301 Woodlow, or Woodloes, lay in the parish of St Nicholas's, Warwick: EPNS Warwickshire, 265–66.

302 Mongcorn: a mixture of different kinds of grain (usually wheat and rye), especially when sown together: OED.

303 After the royalist earl of Northampton's failed attempt to seize the county arms magazine in June 1642, on 1 July Lord Brooke removed it from Coventry for safekeeping in Warwick Castle. This entry suggests that further men were entertained in Warwick to protect the magazine from the earl of Northampton one month later: Hughes thesis, 235–236.

304 Further expenditure on fortifying the Mount, part of Warwick Castle's defences.

305 For Sir Arthur Haselrig, see App. 4.

306 For Spencer Compton, earl of Northampton, see App. 4. Brooke and Northampton met near Banbury on 30 July 1642 in an attempt to secure ordnance sent down by Parliament from London. They agreed a truce in order to avoid bloodshed, and it is possible that Joseph Hawksworth was one of the prisoners exchanged as sureties as part of this truce. Hughes, 144–145.

307 A true relation of the Lord Brookes setling of the militia in Warwicke shire: Sent to a speciall friend in the city, by one that was there present (London, 1642), provides a printed account of these proceedings, signed by J.S., most likely John Sadler, see App. 4.

308 The White Lion Inn, Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, dates from 1591: Styles, Barlichway Hundred, 221–34.

309 Sack: general name for a class of white wines formerly imported from Spain and the Canaries: OED.

310 Probably the Maidenhead on Henley Street, another inn in Stratford-upon-Avon, which stands today and is known worldwide as the birthplace of William Shakespeare: Jones, Jeanne (ed.), Stratford-upon-Avon Inventories, Vol. II: 1626–1699, Publications of the Dugdale Society, 40 (2003), 13–16Google Scholar.

311 Recruits from Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire, 9 miles north of Stratford-upon-Avon.

312 Suet: the solid fat round the loins and kidneys of certain animals, esp. that of the ox and sheep, which, chopped up, is used in cooking: OED.

313 Situated on the east side of Coleshill's High Street, the Angel Inn had a wide, covered gateway with capacity for coaches: Salzman, L.F. (ed.), A History of the County of Warwick: Vol. IV, Hemlingford Hundred (London, 1947), 47–57Google Scholar.

314 This is also given as 5 July 1642 in Hughes thesis, 235.

315 This refers to the bell-ringing that accompanied Lord Brooke's removal of the county arms magazine from Coventry to Warwick Castle on 1 July 1642.

316 The mayor of Coventry in 1642 was the mercer, Nicholas Rowney: https://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/history/mayors.php (accessed 6 June 2024).

317 Possibly Ryton on Dunsmore: EPNS Warwickshire, 178.

318 The Bear Inn, in Coventry, established by the fifteenth century: Stephens, W.B. (ed.), A History of the County of Warwick, Vol. VIII: The City of Coventry and Borough of Warwick (London, 1969), 208–221Google Scholar.