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- Call Number:
- LWL Mss Vol. 25
- Image Count:
- 119
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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
- 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., In English., Bookseller's label on inside front cover: Myers & Co. 80 New Bond Street, London W1., and Binding: half calf over marbled boards. On front cover: "General Inventory" printed in gilt on red morocco label.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Coilsfield House (Ayrshire, Scotland), Eglinton, Hugh Montgomerie, Earl of, 1739-1819., and Montgomery family.
- Subject (Topic):
- Households, House furnishings, Nobility, and Inventories
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Inventory of furniture in Coilsfield House, 1809 Nov
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- Call Number:
- LWL Mss File 49+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, signed by the two appraisers: Richard Blanck and W. Swayns Junior. Richard Phelps was a carpenter and coffin maker living in the Forest of Dean, Gloucester, above his workshop. The inventory contains a detailed listing of his tools as well as his household possessions -- furniture, cloths, kitchen wares and other household goods -- as well as his stock boards for his business. The docket title is dated 9th-10th [November] 1758 on the verso of the second leaf
- Description:
- In English., Purchased from Ken Spelman, August 2010., Caption title from first page., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Phelps, Richard, d. 1758.
- Subject (Topic):
- Households and House furnishings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Inventory of the goods & chattles of Richard Phelps of the Parish of Awre, 1758 November 10.
