f [13v] (Hurstborne Priors, Hampshire; 26 July)
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| Paid geven at my coming hoame to Besse Guilbert being newly married ij s. cod geven by my wife at Sir Robert Oxenbregges to the gardener xij d. to moers there vj d. to the nurse xij d. to the musicons ij s. vj d. | vij s. |
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26 July 1610
B.G. maridg
sir Robert
oxenbreggeThe Paulet family was resident at Freefolk.
Bess Gilbert was likely the daughter of the 'Charlis Gylburt' who was paid by Lady Anne Paulet in 1590 and may have been a member of Paulet's household or a tenant on Paulet's lands (HRO: 44M69/E4/42). Sir Robert Oxenbridge was brother-in-law to Paulet's cousin, Chidiock Paulet. Oxenbridge's house was at Hurstbourne Priors, a few miles west of Paulet's at Freefolk (Ronald H. Fritze, 'The Role of Family and Religion in the Local Politics of Early Elizabethan England: The Case of Hampshire in the 1560s,' Historical Journal 25.2 (June 1982), 269).
Record title: Sir Richard Paulet's Household
Accounts
Repository:
Jervoise of Herriard Collection, HRO
Shelfmark: 44M69/E4/40
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 contents of these accounts are similar to others in
this series of accounts, except that these are all personal, dealing
mainly with clothes and gifts, rather than with the whole
estate.
1607–10; English; paper; 31 leaves; 103mm x
155mm; unnumbered; parchment cover made from a musical score (much
faded), with cloth tie, no title, last 7 folios are receipts, written
reversed from the opposite end.