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From dealer's description: "C.70 pages, of which c.40 are cookery recipes, earlier pages unstitched and coming loose, contemporary dark brown calf, small 4to, 16 February 1653[/4] Recipe book, bearing the ownership inscription of the first owner and principal compiler, Susanna Hoo ("Susanna Hoo/ Her Booke/ Feb 16th 1653"); A COOKERY BOOK KEPT BY A TEENAGE HEIRESS DURING OLIVER CROMWELL'S PROTECTORATE. SUSANNA HOO HER BOOKE FEB 16TH 1653' - Susanna Hoo, baptised on 26 December 1639, began this book soon after her fourteenth birthday. She was heiress to the Hoo estates at Kimpton, St Paul's Warden, near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, which her family had held since the twelfth century. On 1 May 1655 she married Jonathan Keate, who was created baronet on 12 June 1660 and was to serve as Member of Parliament for the county. She pre-deceased him, dying on 11 June 1673. At her funeral address the Bishop of Bath and Wells praised her for her great piety, wisdom and discretion, and for being a lady of honourable extraction 'in a direct line from the Lord of Hastings and Hoo, of whose family she was the heir general, and the sole inheretrix of those ancient possessions that remained in the barony' (Burke, 1841; see also VCH, Hertfordshire, History of Parliament, and Peter Hale, Noble and Splendid...The Families of Kimpton Hoo, 2008). Keate took as his second wife Susanna Orlebar, into whose family this volume passed; some of the recipes being published by Frederica St John Orlebar (1838-1928) in The Orlebar Chronicles in Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, 1553-1733, 1930, pp.68-72. Included with it is a letter to her son Colonel [Richard Rouse-Boughton] Orlebar (1862-1950) by the cookery writer Jennifer Ellis, discussing her talk 'Susanna Hoo - Her Book' [broadcast on Woman's Hour by the BBC Light Programme on 23 September 1948]. Susanna's inheritance, Kimpton Hoo, as built by Sir Jonathan Keate and enlarged by William Chambers, was demolished in 1958."
Ordered from Christopher Edwards D9373, 2019-12-06, Bonhams auction Fine Books, Manuscripts, Atlases & Historical Photographs, 4 Dec 2019, Lot 170.
