Noble Households

Published in memory of the architectural historian John Cornforth, these great house inventories document the taste and lifestyle of leading aristocratic patrons and the households that supported them.

Contents: Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Note on the Transcriptions Part I - The Montagu Inventories: Montagu House, Bloomsbury, London, 1709 and 1733; Boughton House, Northamptonshire, 1709, 1718, 1730; Ditton, Buckinghamshire, 1709; Montagu House, Whitehall, London, 1746 Part II - The Drayton Inventories: Drayton House, Northamptonshire, 1710 and 1724 Part III - The Ditchley Inventories: Ditchley, Oxfordshire, 1743 and 1772 Part IV - The Norfolk Inventories: Houghton, Norfolk, 1745 and 1792; Holkham, Norfolk, and Thanet House, London, 1760 Part V - The Inventories of the Marquess of Carmarthen; Kiveton and Thorp Salvin, Yorkshire, 1727 Part VI - The Marlborough Inventories: Blenheim, Oxfordshire, and Marlborough House, London, 1740 Further Reading John Cornforth's writings which drew on the inventories in this book Credits Glossary and concordance Index