Notes of Walter Aston in Gallen, 1666, A new almanack ... [manuscript], 1666.
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Title
Notes of Walter Aston in Gallen, 1666, A new almanack ... [manuscript], 1666.
Description
1 v. ; 128 x 71 mm
Associated name
Aston of Forfar, Walter Aston, Baron, 1609-1678, author.
Clifford, Arthur, 1778-1830, correspondent.
Gallen, Thomas. Gallen. 1666.
Fairfax of Cameron, Albert Fairfax, Baron, 1870-1939, former owner.
Clifford, Arthur, 1778-1830, correspondent.
Gallen, Thomas. Gallen. 1666.
Fairfax of Cameron, Albert Fairfax, Baron, 1870-1939, former owner.
Scope and content
Notes interleaved with a copy of Gallen, 1666, A new almanack ... (Wing A1789fA), including notes on the gardens at Tixall Hall, accounts and list of books (paste-down of back cover). Also, a 1 p. letter (tipped in) in French, probably dating from the 18th century, from Arthur Clifford to his parents (written in 2 hands) probably when very young, signed: Arture Clifford.
Note
Attribution to Walter Aston, 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar, based on signed note dated 1666 which refers to his brother Herbert Aston of Cotton.
Historical background
The Aston family owned Tixall Hall, near Stafford, and was passed onto the Clifford family when Barbara Aston, the daughter of James Aston, the fifth Lord Aston of Forfar, married Thomas Clifford in 1762.
Publications about material
Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England / edited by Mary Anne Caton, with an essay by Joan Thirsk. Washington, DC, 1999, p. 62.
Binding information
Bound in black leather boards with gold tooling and metal clasps.
Provenance
Tixall Library -- Fairfax of Cameron MS.
Formerly Folger MS Add 988.
Formerly Folger MS Add 988.
Source of acquisition
Acquired from Marlborough Rare Books, September 1994, cat. 158, lot 304.
Exhibited
Exhibited: Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., September 10-December 30, 1999.
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Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Accounts.
Letters (correspondence)
Clasps (Binding)
Interleaved books.
Accounts.
Letters (correspondence)
Clasps (Binding)
Interleaved books.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
V.a.550 (ms. content)
Folger accession
MS Add 988