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The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened
Digby, Kenelm
Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665; Liquors; Wine and wine making -- Early works to 1800
10. _Wines_.--Canary sack; claret; Deal; elder; Malaga (old); Muscat;
Muscadine (Greek); red; Rhenish; sack, sherry sack; Spanish; white.
11. _Other liquors_.--Ale & beer; afterworts; lees of beer & wine; aqua
vitae; orangeado.
12. _Vinegars_ of elder wine, & of white wine.
13. _Verjuice_ of cider, & green sour grapes.
14. _Other notable seasonings and ingredients_:--
Ambergris; ivory; leaf gold; powder of white amber; powder of
pearl; Spanish pastilles (ambergris, sugar, & musk).
NOTES
_Introduction_
p. x 1. 3 _Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine_. By W. Carew Hazlitt.
Booklovers' Library. 1886.
p. x 1. 5 _The Life of Sir Kenelm Digby_. By One of his Descendants [T.
Longueville]. 1896.
p. xi 1. 29 For the controversy about the date of his birth, see the
usual biographical authorities:--Longueville, _op. cit._, Digby's
_Memoirs_, ed. Nicolas, 1827; _Dict. of Nat. Biog._; _Biog. Brit._
(Kippis); Wood's _Athenae Oxon._, iii. 688; Aubrey's _Lives_, ii.
323, etc. etc.
p. xiv 1. 13 "the elder Lady Digby." See text, p. 141.
p. xv 1. 15 "manuscript of elections." See W.H. Black's _Catalogue of
the Ashmolean MSS._, 240, 131 and 1730, 166.
p. xx 1. 20 _Journal of a Voyage to Scanderoon_, ed. J. Bruce for
Camden Soc., 1868.
p. xxi 1. 3 "Scanderoon had to be repudiated." Here is a curious echo
of the affair, quoted by Mr. Longueville from Blundell of Crosby.
"When the same Sir Kenelm was provoked in the King's presence (upon
occasion of the old business of Scanderoon) by the Venetian
Ambassador, who told the King it was very strange that his Majesty
should slight so much his ancient amity with the most noble state
of Europe, for the affections which he bore to a man (meaning Sir
Kenelm) whose father was a traitor, his wife a ----, and himself a
pirate, altho' he made not the least reply (as long as the
ambassador remained in England) to those great reproaches, yet
after, when the quality of his enemy was changed (by his return) to
that of a private person, Sir Kenelm posted after him to Italy.
There sending him a challenge (from some neighbouring state) he
found the discreet Magnifico as silent in Italy as himself had been
in England, and so he returned home."
p. xxii 1. 13 The _Memoirs_ were edited by Sir N.H. Nicolas from the
Harleian MS. 6758 in 1827.
p. xxii 1. 28 "outburst of vile poetry." See _Poems from Sir K.D.'s
papers_, ed. Warner. Roxburghe Club, 1877.
p. xxiii 1. 16 "hermit." The portrait of Digby in this guise, painted
by Janssen, in the possession of T. Longueville, Esq., is
reproduced in Mr. Longueville's life of his ancestor. Says Pennant
in his _Journey from Chester to London_, ed. 1782, "I know of no
persons who are painted in greater variety than this illustrious
pair [Digby and his wife]: probably because they were the finest
subjects of the time."
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