Watkins, Thomas

Commonplace book containing notes and extracts on legal forms, medical and cookery receipts, gardening, history, prayers, painting, etc. Compiler's holograph MS. The foliation is continuous from 1 to 172, but the text runs from Ff. 1-101, and beginning at the other end of the volume, from 171 to 101. Contents: Forms in Law (Ff. 1-30); Miscellaneous receipts (30v-36); School-master's notes (36v-39); Prayers, religious notes, hymns, etc. (40-74); Miscellaenous receipts (75-79); Historical notes, place-names, etc. (79v-101); Power (Mrs. M.) A collection of choice receipts in cookery and husbandry: transcribed from Mrs. Mary Power of Uttoxeter, March 9 1712/13 (171-157); Changes on 5 bells (156-150); Notes on gardening, etc. (149-132); Notes on painting, colours, drawing, etc. (139-109); Notes on the Months; with a few domestic and cookery receipts (109-101). 'Thomas Watkins Anno 1710' is inscribed on Fol. 1 and at the end of the Forms in Law, 'Stow July 17. 1732 Thos. Watkins.' On Fol. 6 is the signature of L. P. Sinnott, which is repeated on Fol. 171 with added date 1847. Produced in Stow?

1710-1732

1 volume 1 l. + 172 ff. 8vo. 151/2 × 10 cm. Original calf binding, worn. Ff. 6, 27, 28, 60, 126 have been torn out. Fol. 172 is pasted down on to the inside of the lower cover.

Purchased 1931.

From the John Hodgkin Collection of Cookery books.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).