Sir Richard Paulet's Accounts for his Ward, Thomas Jervoise

• Aparell
• bookes
• horns & Daunsing
• 2l li. 15 s. 2 d.

• Samborne: S written over I

• boatehier n boat hire; funds paid to hire a boat
• carege vb n carriage; the act of carrying; caridge, carrege
• hawkesbell n hawk's bell; a bell fastened on the leg of a hunting hawk [OEDOhawk's bell | hawk-bell n]
• linck n link, torch(?) [OEDO link n.3 1.a]; linke

Record title: Sir Richard Paulet's Accounts for his Ward, Thomas Jervoise
Repository: Jervoise of Herriard Collection, HRO
Shelfmark: 44M69/E4/130
Repository location: Winchester

Sir Richard Paulet (c 1558–1614) was the grandnephew of William Paulet (1474/5?–1572), first marquess of Winchester and longtime lord treasurer under three Tudor monarchs. Richard Paulet inherited estates at Herriard, south of Basingstoke, and Freefolk, near Whitchurch. He served multiple times as sheriff of Hampshire and in parliament for Whitchurch. Thomas Jervoise became Paulet's ward in 1601, and eventually his adopted heir and son-in-law. For further details see the section on Hampshire families in Historical Background.

1600–8; English; paper; 62 leaves (counting loose bills bound in each as a leaf, as is standard Hampshire Record Office practice); 277mm x 170mm; unnumbered, payments ff [1-37], receipts ff [38-62], written from opposite end; original parchment cover made of a deposition taken at Basingstoke 17 September 1599 in a court of Chancery case, with the names of justices given, modern blue paper cover sewn on when the document was repaired and the loose bills bound in, modern title on front: 'A NOTE WHAT MONEY | SIR RICHARD POULETT HATHE | DELYVERED TO MR THOMAS GERVOIS' (copied from the top of f [2]), the HRO shelfmark is in pencil on the front.