Complex sentence: Elinor, wife of Richard Fettiplace, wrote a'book of Receipts' in 1604; it was first published only in 1986, the manuscript having been inherited by the husband of the editor, Hilary Spurling.
Split into simpler sentences: Elinor, wife of Richard Fettiplace, wrote a'book of Receipts' in 1604. The book was first published only in 1986, the manuscript having been inherited by the husband of the editor, Hilary Spurling.