{"schemaVersion":"1.0","generatedAt":"2026-09-22","licence":{"status":"not-yet-granted","spdx":null,"statement":"No licence has yet been granted for SmellBook-created datasets. They are publicly readable; reuse beyond citation and quotation needs permission until a licence is published."},"node":{"entityType":"claim","urn":"smellbook:claim:sheets-that-smelt-of-lavender-in-seventeenth-century-inns","key":"sheets-that-smelt-of-lavender-in-seventeenth-century-inns","label":"Lavender-scented sheets in seventeenth-century inns","description":"In an 1876 edition of his History of England, Thomas Babington Macaulay writes that in the seventeenth century a traveller might come upon a village public house, of the kind Walton had described, whose bed sheets were scented with lavender.","scope":"A historian's general description of seventeenth-century English inns, drawn from earlier writers such as Walton; it is not a record of a particular inn, and says nothing about bed linen today.","evidenceClass":"historical","canonicalUrl":"https://smellbook.com/evidence/claims/sheets-that-smelt-of-lavender-in-seventeenth-century-inns","attribution":"SmellBook (https://smellbook.com)"},"outgoing":[{"relation":"cites-source","label":"cites source","entity":"smellbook:source:macaulay-history-of-england-vol1-1876","entityLabel":"The History of England from the Accession of James II, Volume One","record":"/data/graph/source/macaulay-history-of-england-vol1-1876.json","provenance":[{"basis":"claim-record","field":"verifiedClaims[CLM-BEDSHEETS-001].sourceIds","evidenceClass":"editorial"}]},{"relation":"claim-about","label":"claim about","entity":"smellbook:smell:fresh-bedsheets","entityLabel":"Fresh Bedsheets","record":"/data/graph/smell/fresh-bedsheets.json","provenance":[{"basis":"claim-record","field":"verifiedClaims[CLM-BEDSHEETS-001].smellSlugs","evidenceClass":"editorial"}]}],"incoming":[],"corrections":[],"citation":null,"boundary":"Edges are typed and unweighted; none is a similarity, recommendation or personalization score. Browser-local Personal SmellBook data is never part of this export."}