IV The Undergraduate Account Book of John and Richard Newdigate, 1618–1621

Abstract

Introduction 151The Oxford and Temple Account 154The Newdigates and the education of the gentleman 156Editorial Practice 160Part I: Oxford 161Part II: Inner Temple 217The Oxford and Temple Book is one of a series of account books kept for and by the Newdigates of Arbury Hall, between Coventry and Nuneaton in Warwickshire, from 1608 to 1642, and now surviving among the family papers deposited at Warwickshire Record Office. All the accounts detail receipts from rents and farming, interest and borrowing, and expenditure on estate, household and personal items, but that kept between 1618 and 1621, printed here, also records the expenses of two brothers at university and the inns of court, of two family marriages and related settlements and of wardship and suing for livery of estates.