<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Inventory of furniture in Coilsfield House, 1809 Nov</dc:title><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Manuscript, in a single hand, of an inventory of the furniture belonging to Lord Montgomerie in November 1809.  The items are arranged by floor and room-by-room, including all living areas, bedrooms, dressing rooms, servants rooms, sundries, attics, kitchen, pastry, scullery, bake house, salt beef cellar, larder, laundry, garden, and stables; and include such items as all types of furniture, grates, cupboards, feather beds and "hair" beds, often with descriptions of the style or materials used</dc:description><dc:description>Hugh Montgomerie,  twelfth earl of Eglinton (1739-1819), politician and army officer, was the son of Alexander Montgomerie (d. 1783) of Coilsfield, Ayrshire, the "Castle of Montgomerie" celebrated by Robert Burns.</dc:description><dc:description>In English.</dc:description><dc:description>Bookseller's label on inside front cover: Myers &amp; Co. 80 New Bond Street, London W1.</dc:description><dc:description>Binding: half calf over marbled boards.  On front cover: "General Inventory" printed in gilt on red morocco label.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>