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118. A Health, fol. C3 recto.

119. A Health, fol. C3 recto.

120. A Health, fol. D1 verso.

121. Nicholas Cooper, Houses of the Gentry 1480–1680 (1999), p. 271.

Chapter 2: The Beginning of the Back Stairs and the Servants’ Hall

1. Cooper, pp. 268–72.

2. Philippa Glanville, and Hilary Young, Elegant Eating (2002), pp. 48–50.

3. J.T. Cliffe, The World of the Country House in Seventeenth-Century England (1999), p. 96 (afterwards cited as Cliffe).

4. Girouard, Life in the English Country House, p. 138.

5. Lucy Worsley, Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses (2007), p. 241.

6. Cliffe, p. 198.

7. Cooper, pp. 270–1.

8. The Gentlewomans Companion (1675), pp. 5–9.

9. John Considine, ‘Hannah Wolley (1622?–1647?)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004–9), and Gilly Lehmann, The British Housewife (2003), pp. 48–9.

10. Diane Purkiss, The People’s Civil War (2007), pp. 347–50; Lehmann, pp. 48–9.

11. Vicary Gibbs (ed.), The Complete Peerage (1932), Vol. III p. 600.

12. Nikolaus Pevnser and James Bettley (eds), Buildings of England: Essex (2006), p. 552.

13. Gibbs, p. 600.

14. Robert May, The Accomplisht Cook (1684).

15. Cook’s Guide (1664), as quoted in Matthew Hamlyn, The Recipes of Hannah Wooley (1988), p. 12.

16. Cook’s Guide (1664), as quoted in Matthew Hamlyn, The Recipes of Hannah Wooley (1988), p. 12.

17. Gilly Lehmann, The British Housewife (2003), pp. 48–9; and see Women Writers Resource Project at the Lewis H. Beck Center, Emory University, 1998.

18. The Gentlewomans Companion (1675), pp. 11–13.

19. Queen-Like Closet (1670), pp. 378–9.

20. The Gentlewomans Companion (1675), p. 204.

21. The Gentlewomans Companion (1675), pp. 5–9.

22. At Knole, by kind permission of Lord Sackville; also in David Clifford (ed.), The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford (2003), pp. 274–5.

23. John Aubrey, Brief Lives (1982), p. 225.

24. Clifford, p. 101.

25. Robert Sackville-West, Knole (1994), p. 12.

26. Lita-Rose Betcherman, Court Lady and Country Wife (2005), p. 127.

27. The Knole Catalogue is quoted with permission of Lord Sackville.

28. Miles Hadfield, A History of British Gardening (1985).

29. Jennifer Potter, Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants (2006), pp. 9 and 63–4.

30. Potter, Strange Blooms, p. 64

31. Christina Hole, English Home-Life 1500 to 1800 (1947), p. 37.

32. Clifford, p. 274.

33. Clifford, p. 32.

34. Clifford, p. 33.

35. Clifford, p. 80.

36. Clifford, pp. 98–9.

37. Sara-Jayne Steen (ed.), The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart (1994), p. 234.

38. Dorothea Townshend, The Life and Letters of the Great Earl of Cork (1904), pp. 125–30; the household list is on p. 302; bequests to servants are listed on pp. 499–502 afterwards cited as Townshend.

39. Townshend, p. 126.

40. Toby Barnard, ‘Robert Boyle, First Earl of Cork (1566–1643); Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004–9).

41. Townshend, p. 300.

42. Townshend, pp. 499–502.

43. Townshend, pp. 1288–9.

44. Cliffe, pp. 105–6.

45. Cliffe, pp. 96–7.

46. Cliffe, pp. 105–106.

47. Adam Eyre, Diary, quoted in Christina Hole, English Home-Life (1974), p. 18.

48. William Gouge, An Exposition of the Domesticall Duties (1622), pp. 499–500.

49. Cliffe, p. 97.

50. Daniel Parsons (ed.), The Diary of Sir Henry Slingsby (1836) (afterwards cited as Slingsby), pp. 5–6 and pp. 26–7.

51. Slingsby, p. 23.

52. Cynthia Herrup, A House in Gross Disorder (1999), pp. 16–24 and pp. 40–3.

53. Herrup, p. 19.

54. Herrup, p. 19.

55. Herrup, p. 19.

56. John Morrill, Revolt in the Provinces: The People of England and the Tragedies of War (1999), pp. 57–68 and 164.

57. Audrey Sidebotham, Brampton Bryan: Church and Castle (1990), pp. 17–19.

58. Thomas Taylor-Lewis (ed.), Letters of the Lady Brilliana Harley (1854), pp. xix–xx.

59. Sir Harry Verney, The Verneys