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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt:... daughter, Thomas Cooke, two men and two maid-servants, to go to France, but he does not seem to have accompanied them. In August, 1652, his son Thomas was among the English refugees at St. Germans, and had the small pox. I presume that he stayed on at Rushbrook with an empty purse and in a forlorn state of mind, having lost the pleasures of court life to which he had been accustomed. Three or four of his children in their teens were probably with him, and I presume that his wife did not stay long in France. There is a list of the boys at the Bury Grammar School in 1656, from which it appears that his son Charles was then there. The earlier lists being lost one cannot tell whether his older sons, afterwards Lord Jermyn and Lord Dover, had been there also. Two other boys from Rushbrook also went to Bury School in 1656, during the Commonwealth, viz. Martin and Edward Folkes, who will be found further on. Also several cousins of Jermyn's, viz. Gawdy, Poley, Spring. Whether young Charles Jermyn and the two Folkes' went in daily or slept there, I know not. Dr. Donaldson printed this list in 18"0. He includes in it William Garody. It is very presumptuous to correct a head-master, but 1 feel pretty certain that he has misread the manuscript and taken Gawdv to he Garodv. Amongst other neighbours there was at Hengrave a house-full. Lady Penelope Gage was then living there with her third husband, Sir William Hervey. Several Gages, her children by her second husband, and several Herveys, Sir William's children by his first wife (a Jermyn), were all stowed away there, wondering when the clouds would roll away and the king be brought back. Other relations who found shelter there are said to have brought up the number to an hundred souls. Lady Penelope tried to remo...