SOURCE · HISTORICAL RECORD
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Thomas Babington Macaulay · Porter & Coates, Philadelphia
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Title, creator, publisher and date checked against the catalogue record on 2026-10-19 by an automated check. The Wikisource Index record (volume one, Porter & Coates, 1876) and the Wikimedia Commons record of the scan (Internet Archive item historyofengland11maca) agree on the author, edition and year; the chapter page spans images 263–392. Date confirmed to the year. SmellBook publishes only the citation, the location of the passage and its own claim, never the work’s text.
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Lavender-scented sheets in seventeenth-century inns ↗
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.
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.Source record SRC-MACAULAY-1876
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