SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SHOPPING LIST Spoons, a (0) _____ (fry) pan and codfish – these items were on a shopping list written 400 years ago, which was (17) _____ (recent) discovered in the attic at Knole, a historic country home in Kent, England. The archaeology team at Knole discovered the 1633 note during a multi-million-dollar project to restore the house. The team also found two other 17th century letters (18) _____ (near). Robert Draper wrote the shopping list to Mr. Bilby. The note was (19) _____ (beauty) written, suggesting that Draper was a high-ranking servant. Draper asked Mr. Bilby to send the items to Copt Hall, an estate in Essex. How did this domestic letter get (20) _____ (hide) in an attic at Knole, which is 36 miles away from Copt Hall? Copt Hall and Knole were united when Frances Cranfield married Richard Sackville in 1637. Frances's father was the (21) _____ (own) of Copt Hall; Sackville had inherited Knole, his family's home. Household records show that domestic items – (22) _____ (include) various papers – were moved from Copt Hall to Knole at the time of the wedding. Cranfield inherited a number of expensive (23) _____ (paint) and furniture from her father. Draper's letter certainly was not among the (24) _____ (value) items that Cranfield brought to the (25) _____ (marry), but for modern-day historians, it is exceptionally important.
