f [3v] (Stanbridge and King's Somborne, Hampshire; 15 January 1610/11)
Paid when I went to Standbridge with my Sonn Iervois to his Cockfighting 15 Ianuary videlicet to the wassallers 3 s. to dick grene Cocker v s. for going into the Cockpit diner v s. & muscons xij d. ye pore xij d. cochman xij d. lost at Betting vj d. ye cockes xx s. geven at hampton to my uncle wallopes Seriantes ij s. geven waterman & George horsman ij s. lost & geven to the cards at Somborne with my Sister & Cosen wyniferide v s. to a boy for carying my gallye masses at hawking iiij d. paid to Iohn for shuing Goters mare xij d. & his boye for bringing her xij d. to speede for playing on ye taber xij d. for 2 great Iron plates to set Candells in ye maydes chambers &c. iiij s. At Somborne geven to the cooke xij d. Butler xij d. Burnet xij d. horsman xij d. keper vj d. poreman vj d....
f 11 (31 December)
...
| paid
geven 31 daye to 4 companies of wassallers wherof one |
iiij s. |
...
wassalers Seriantes play goters mare
rewardes 2 candlestickes minstrells wassellersThe Paulet family was resident at Freefolk.
The payment to wassailers on f [3] comes at the end of a group of New Year's gifts.
Standbridge (f [3v]) is likely one of the manors of Stanbridge Earls or Stanbridge Ranvilles, about one mile northwest of Romsey. Both manors were owned by Thomas Kirkby at this time (VCH: Hampshire, vol 4, pp 452–69, British History Online, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol4/pp452-469 [accessed 13 November 2017]).
Record title: Sir Richard Paulet's Household
Accounts
Repository:
Jervoise of Herriard Collection, HRO
Shelfmark: 44M69/E4/28
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. For further details see the section on Hampshire families in Historical Background.
The hand on the front cover is different from that in the
accounts themselves, and the name Jervoise may appear because Richard
Paulet died in 1614 and the accounts may have been completed by or for
his ward and heir, Thomas Jervoise. Payments and receipts
were compiled monthly, with occasional indications of specific
dates.
1610–14; English; paper; 178 leaves; 145mm
x 96mm; mostly unnumbered, though page numbers appear irregularly and do
not correctly represent either foliation or pagination (editorial
foliation supplied from the payments' end at the back, based on the
writing on the cover, with the leaf headed 'A note of all
payementes...' counted as f [1v]):
payments ff [1v–47]; ff [48–135] blank; ff [136–78] receipts (written
from opposite end, with a few blank leaves); generally good condition,
but ink has bled through the leaves, and letter forms sometimes obscured
by the rather small writing with a rather wide or dull nib; parchment
cover with closure of leather thong and string, at top of front cover:
'Rental of Herriard | 1610– .... Jervoise,' HRO
shelfmark in pencil on the lower front cover.