Collection of correspondence, financial records, and documents relating to members of the Saunders and Sebright family. Material relating to Thomas Saunders (approximately 1600-1667) includes correspondence discussing personal debts, agriculture, and ...
Description:
Thomas Saunders (approximately 1600-1667) studied law in London and served as agent for the Committee for Sequestration in the 1640s. He inherited Beechwood Park, near Markyate, Hertfordshire, England, in 1628. His son was Thomas Saunders (1631-1698) ...
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, Great Britain., Herefordshire., Beechwood Park (England), and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Lyttelton, Charles Lyttelton, Baron, 1628-1716., Saunders family., Saunders, Thomas, 1631-1698., Saunders, Thomas, approximately 1600-1667., Sebright family., Sebright, Thomas Saunders, Baron, 1692-1736., England and Wales. Parliament. Committee for Compounding with Delinquents., and Great Britain. Privy Council.
Subject (Topic):
Administration of estates, Families, Domestic relations, Formulas, recipes, etc, Household supplies, Law, Study and teaching, Manors, Medicine, Wine and wine making, History, and Social life and customs
Dos-a-dos are several dozen primarily cooking recipes, for such dishes as barley broth, cherry wine, and lemon cream; as well as instructions on fishing. At the beginning of the manuscript are recipes for making ink and treating chilblains.
Description:
Armorial bookplate inside front cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Intellectual life --17th century and Great Britain --Politics and government --1603-1714
Subject (Name):
Barnes, Joshua, 1654-1712 and Shadwell, Thomas, 1642?-1692
Subject (Topic):
Anti-Catholicism --England, Cooking, English, English poetry --17th century, Fishing --England, Latin poetry, Political poetry, English, Traditional medicine --Great Britain --Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, and Verse satire, English --17th century
Manuscript volume, on paper, in several hands, containing accounts and recipes apparently recorded by members of the Bones family of Essex. There are thirteen cookery recipes for wines and cordials, orange water, oyster loaves and gingerbread. Medica...
Description:
Annotations and pen trials in various hands on pastedowns and endpapers.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Essex., Great Britain., and Essex (England)
Subject (Name):
Bone family. and Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
Subject (Topic):
Cooking, English, Households, Medicine, Plague, Recipes, and Economic conditions
Manuscript on paper, in various hands, of a collection of over 200 recipes in various hands. About half the recipes are for perfumes, including jasmine water; powders for scenting clothes and wigs; "acqua d'angeli"; and various balsam recipes. The vo...
Description:
In Italian, French, Spanish and English.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe
Subject (Name):
Magalotti, Lorenzo, conte, 1637-1712.
Subject (Topic):
Cooking, Pen drawing, Perfumes, Recipes, and Social life and customs
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 502 cooking recipes arranged in 14 sections, with such titles as Wet Sweet Meats; Dry Sweet Meats; Creams and Cheeses; Possetts and Sillibubs; Puddings and Pyes; Soups and Made Dishes; To Pickell; and T...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Canning and preserving, Cooking, English, Cooking (Puddings), Menus, Recipes, and Wine and wine making
Manuscript recipe book, in a single hand, containing medical and culinary recipes. Medical recipes include remedies for "a cancer on the breast," consumption, whooping cough, palsy, "yallow janders" (jaundice) and convulsions, as well as one for "Plag...
Description:
Ownership inscription on recto of front flyleaf, with partial index of recipes on verso.
Manuscript notebook in a single hand. All versos and some rectos are divided into two columns and filled with very brief diary entries recording household work, pastimes, meals, illnesses, visitors, weather and local events, and trips to neighboring t...
Description:
Miss Barton apparently lived in a town in Suffolk, England.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England, Great Britain, Suffolk (England), Women, and Social conditions
Subject (Name):
Barton, Miss.
Subject (Topic):
Cooking, English, English diaries, Women authors, Recipes, Single women, Ecomonic conditions, Social conditions, and Social life and customs
Manuscript volume containing dozens of detailed recipes for cloth dye, accompanied by small fabric swatches dyed in the intended colors. Some entries accompanied by slips containing cloth orders and batch results
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butt, William, fl. 1765-1785.
Subject (Topic):
Dye industry, Dyers, Dyes and dyeing, Workshop recipes, and Early works to 1800
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of recipes for preparing cements and dyes, oils, waxes, varnishes, laquers, solders, metals, ivory, stones, glass, tortoise shell, and other materials used to make and repair clocks and watches; also incl...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Alnwick (England)
Subject (Name):
Wardell family. and Trotter family.
Subject (Topic):
Clock and watch making, Gilt-bronze clocks, Ivory, Finishes and finishing, Hair, Dyeing and bleaching, Stains and staining, and Wood finishing
