Aston of Forfar, Walter Aston, Baron. Notes of Walter Aston in Gallen, 1666, A new almanack ...

Folger bibliographic ID: 235760
Folger call number: V.a.550
Folger holdings ID: 289506
Accession Number: MS Add 988

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

General notes

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 Attribution to Walter Aston, 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar, based on signed note dated 1666 which refers to his brother Herbert Aston of Cotton Portions also available as a digital reproduction Tixall Library -- Fairfax of Cameron MS Formerly Folger MS Add 988 Bound in black leather boards with gold tooling and metal clasps Acquired from Marlborough Rare Books, September 1994, cat. 158, lot 304

Publications

Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England / edited by Mary Anne Caton, with an essay by Joan Thirsk. Washington, DC, 1999, p. 62

Exhibited

Exhibited: Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., September 10-December 30, 1999

Extended title: Notes of Walter Aston in Gallen, 1666, A new almanack ... 1666

Gardens Clifford, Arthur, 1778-1830

author: Aston of Forfar, Walter Aston, Baron, 1609-1678
subject: Clifford, Arthur, 1778-1830
correspondent: Clifford, Arthur, 1778-1830
former owner: Fairfax of Cameron, Albert Fairfax, Baron, 1870-1939