Journal of the History of Collections Advance Access published online on August 17, 2009
Journal of the History of Collections, doi:10.1093/jhc/fhp035
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The Countess of Arundel's Dutch Pranketing Room
An Inventory of all the Parcells or Purselin, glasses and other Goods now remayning in the Pranketing Roome at Tart Hall, 8th Sept 1641
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When the Countess of Arundel (c.1582-1654) left England in 1641 she commissioned an inventory of the contents of Tart Hall, her home on the margins of St James's, which included a chamber known as the Dutch Pranketing Room. The complete text of An Inventory of all the Parcells or Purselin, glasses and other Goods now remayning in the Pranketing Roome at Tart Hall, is reproduced in the supplementary material relating to this article, available at http://www.jhc.oxfordjournals.org. The original manuscript is located in the archives of Arundel Castle and this transcription is published by kind permission of His Grace, the Duke of Norfolk.
Correspondence: Address for correspondenceJuliet Claxton, Queen Mary College, University of London, London e1 4ns. j.claxton{at}qmul.ac.uk