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Lyttelton Bequest. Two manuscripts

Reference code
MSS/0141
Title
Lyttelton Bequest. Two manuscripts
Date
1577-1578, 1590
Level of description
item
Extent and format
ff. iii + 85.
Folio.
Half leather binding, brown, with marbled boards. Bookplate of the Rev. Charles Lyttelton, PSA, fol. iii, and notes by him, 2 July 1744, fol. ii, n.d., fol. 85v.
Scope and content
(1) 'Kytchen book'. Weekly accounts of provisions bought in, etc., at Longford in Shropshire, the seat of Mr Talbot (note, fol. ii); 22 December 1577-2 March 1577/8. Includes entries of presents of game, wine, etc. fols. 1-72;-

(2) Inventory of household goods at Frankley House at the death of Sir John Lyttelton, 19 February 1589/90. fols. 73-85v.
Creator
Lyttelton family, Viscounts Cobham
Previous reference number(s)
MS 141
SAL/MS/141