Spence

·noun A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry.

II. Spence ·noun The inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat.

Spence, Joseph
(1699-1768) Anecdotist, b. at Kingsclere, Hants, and ed. at Winchester and Oxf., he entered the Chu...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin