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2664 - Talbot family of Lacock

1 - Estate

2 - Household

3 - Family

1 - Talbot family

2 - Davenport family

1 - Pedigrees

2 - Correspondence

4 - Accounts

5 - Legal

6 - Politics and public office

7 - Patronage and societies

8 - Research notes

9 - Photographs, prints, sketch books and music books

10 - Recipe books

1 - Recipes and remedies. Includes a receipt for mole powder. On the reverse of another is a letter about Miss Davenport's eye trouble.

2 - Various undated medicinal recipes and remedies. Includes one dated recipe of 31 Mar 1743 for Barbara Davenport "when in great pain in the bowels".

3 - Culinary and medicinal recipes.

4 - Recipe book. Includes some inserted loose documents. Some of the handwriting suggests that the book possibly belonged to Mary Sutton.

5 - Remedies relating to Dr and Mrs Davenport.

6 - Recipe book loosely bound in a remnant of an old indenture. The front cover is inscribed Mary Davenport and the book is identified as belonging to her.

7 - Papers of recipes and remedies.

8 - Recipe book for preserves. The sources of some recipes are indentified and include Mrs Mytton, Lady Longueville, Mrs Rodd and Mrs Davenport of Davenport House. Possibly belonged to Barbara Davenport. Stamped I:S on cover.

9 - Recipe book. Probably belonged to Barbara Davenport as she includes a sketch plan of a dinner for her "daughter Mary Eliz" coming of age, 11 Oct 1729. Names of people who created the recipes are sometimes written alongside and include Brother Talbot, Mrs Mytton and Mrs Hallifax. Stamped I:S on cover.

10 - Bundle of recipes including cassia cakes, tincture for teeth and gums, a cure for mildew, notes about a dinner party with plans for placing dishes, cure for asthma, curing pork and elder wine. Probably belonging to Barbara Davenport.

11 - Newspaper and magazine cuttings

12 - Miscellaneous

3 - Feilding family

4 - Other

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