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Still-room Maid
Verity Jones is a very busy woman…Verity is married to Jenkin Jones, the colonel’s Head Groom. She is Mistress Prichard’s Chief ‘Still-room Maid, making perfumes and rotten-pots (Mrs. P. calls them “pot-pourris” but Verity thinks this is pretentious – or worse – French!), and distilling all manner of beauty potions and creams for Milady.
She is very skilled in the art of soap making, so this is of great value to the Master, as soap can be quite expensive to buy.
Although Verity often complains that she doesn’t see enough of her husband, their meetings seem to be quite productive as she now has three children, two girls in very quick succession and an older boy. Her son helps his father with the horses and when they are old enough, doubtless she will teach her daughters the secrets of her distillations.
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