Whorwood, William. Accounts of William Whorwood

Folger bibliographic ID: 232927
Folger call number: V.a.509
Folger holdings ID: 281525
Accession Number: MS Add 938

Contains memoranda recording the names of many individuals for loans, rents due by tenants in Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Alchurch in Worcestershire, Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, etc.; payments to "The Royall Ayd" and "His Majesties Further Supply"; receipts for money paid to his cousins, Sir Richard Harrison of Hurst, Charles Harrison, Will Leigh, Gerard Whorwood, and others; memoranda of purchases of provender, utensils, Christmas presents for his sisters, tokens for friends, clothing, property, repairs to houses in Bull Alley, Broad Street, London; Abstract of the lease of "The Manor House of Garston, at Garston in the Parish of Warford" (leaf 87v); and an entry recording the Great Fire of London, "[Sept.] 2. [1666]. A dreadfull fire began att a Baker's howse in Pudding Lane, London, w[hi]ch consumed in 4 dayes space abote 80 churches & parishes" (leaf 44)

General notes

William Whorwood was possibly the son of Sir Thomas and Ursula (Brome) Whorwood, as suggested by a ms. inscription on leaf [ii]. He was probably not the "son of Sir Thomas [i.e. Brome] and Lady Jane Whorwood, of Halton, Oxfordshire, the ardent royalists ..." as the description pasted on to the endleaf attests, as Brome and Jane Whorwood only had one son, named Brome, who drowned in 1657, and Brome Whorwood's one illegitimate son, named Thomas, was born in 1664 Signed: Wm. Whorwood (leaf 14v) Accounts recorded on about 65 interleaved pages with Calendarium Carolinum, or, A new almanack after the old fashion . . . 1666 / by George Wharton (Wing A2657) Leaves foliated continuously in blue pencil, including printed and interleaved material W. Harry Rylands (bookplate) -- C. Becher Pigot, Feb. 18, 1924 (front endleaf) Formerly Folger MS Add 938 Bound in vellum covered boards with leather and metal claps Acquired from Hofmann & Freeman in 1988 from Sotheby's (London) July 21-22, 1988, lot 356

Extended title: Accounts of William Whorwood ca. 1665-1667

Great Fire, London, England, 1666

author: Whorwood, William, approximately 1620-1684
former owner: Rylands, W. Harry (William Harry), 1847-1922
former owner: Pigot, C. Becher, active 1924