Reference Books
This is not a complete list of all works consulted (which would be impossible for reasons of space) but a list of those books to which allusion is made under short titles in the References.
The place of publication is London unless otherwise stated.
Abbadie, J., Docteur-en-Théologie, Ministre de la Savoye, Panégyrique de Marie, Reine d’Angleterre, d’Ecosse, de France et d’Irlande, de glorieuse et immortelle mémoire, Décédée à Kensington le 28 décembre 1694.
Adair, John, Roundhead General, A Military Biography of Sir William Waller, 1969.
Agrippa, Henry Cornelius, Female Pre-eminence or the Dignity and Excellency of that Sex, above the Male, Done into English with Additional Advantages, H.C. (Henry Care), 1670.
The Life and Death of that Excellent Minister of Christ, Mr Joseph Alleine, 1672.
Allestree, Richard, The Ladies Calling. In Two Parts. By the author of the Whole Duty of Man etc., 5th impression, Oxford, 1677.
Ambrose, Isaac, Works, including Prima, Media & Ultima, 1674.
Anderson, Verily, Friends and Relations. Three Centuries of Quaker Families, 1980.
‘Anonymous Business Diary of a Midwife’, Rawlinson MS, D. 1141, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
‘Anonymous Folio Volume’ (of Anna Trapnel’s verse), S.1.42. Th., Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Artamenes or The Grand Cyrus. An Excellent new Romance. Written by that famous Wit of France, Monsieur de Scudéry … and now Englished by F.C., Gent, 2 Vols, 1653.
Ashley, Maurice, James II, 1977.
Ashley, Maurice, Life in Stuart England, 1964.
Ashley, Maurice, The Stuarts in Love, 1963.
Astell, Mary, Reflections upon Marriage, 3rd edition. To which is Added a Preface, in Answer to some Objections, 1706.
Athenae Oxonienses, ed. P. Bliss, 1813.
The Athenian Oracle, Being an Entire collection of all the Valuable Questions and Answers in the Old Athenian Mercuries, 1703.
Aubrey, John, Aubrey’s Brief Lives, ed. and with a life of John Aubrey, Oliver Lawson Dick, 1968.
Aubrey, John, Brief Lives and Other Selected Writings, ed. and with an Introduction, Anthony Powell, 1949.
Austin, William, Haec Homo. Wherein the Excellency of the Creation of Woman is described. By way of an essay, 1637.
Aveling, J.H., MD, English Midwives. Their History and Prospects, 1872.
Ballard, George, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain Who have been celebrated for their Writings or skill in the learned languages, arts, and sciences, Oxford, 1752.
Balleine, G.R., All for the King. The Life Story of Sir George Carteret (1609–1680), Channel Islands, La Société Jersiaise, 1976.
Bankes, Viola, A Dorset Heritage, The Story of Kingston Lacey, 1953.
Barham, Francis, ‘Discovery of the Authorship of the Whole Duty of Man’, The Journal of Sacred Literature, Vol. 5, 4th series, July 1864.
Barker, Jane, Poetical Recreations Consisting of Original Poems, Odes, etc, 2 parts, 1688.
Barksdale, Clement, Letter touching a College of Maids or a Virgin Society, 1675.
Batchiler, John, The Virgin’s Pattern; in the Exemplary Life and lamented Death of Mrs Susanna Perwick, 1661.
Reliquiae Baxterianae, or Mr Richard Baxter’s Narrative of the Most Memorable Passages of his Life and Times, 1696.
Bayley, A.R., BA, The Great Civil War in Dorset, 1642–1660, Taunton, 1910.
Beard, Charles A. and Mary R., The Rise of American Civilization, Vol. 1, New York, 1929.
Behn, Aphra, The Works, 6 Vols, 1904.
Berens, Lewis H., The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth, 1906.
Birch, Una, Anna van Schurman. Artist, Scholar, Saint, 1909.
Black, W. George, Folk-Medicine, 1883.
Blundell, William, of Crosby, Lancashire, Esquire, A Cavalier’s Notebook, Being Notes, Anecdotes and Observations, ed. with introductory chapters, Rev. T. Ellison Gibson, 1880.
Blunt, Wilfrid, The Art of Botanical Illustrations, 1950.
Bowden, James, The History of the Society of Friends in America, 2 Vols, 1850.
Bowle, John, John Evelyn and his World, 1981.
The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse, ed. John H. Ellis, Charlestown, 1867.
Brailsford, M.R., Quaker Women, 1650–1690, 1915.
Braithwaite, W.C., The Beginnings of Quakerism, 1912.
Braithwaite, W.C., The Second Period of Quakerism, 1919.
Brathwaite, Richard, The English Gentlewoman, Drawne out to the full Body: Expressing what Habilliments doe best attire her, what Ornaments doe best adorne her, what Complements doe best accomplish her, 3rd edition, 1641.
Bridenbaugh, Carl, Vexed and Troubled Englishmen 1590–1642 (pbk), Oxford, 1976.
Brodrick, James, SJ, Mary Ward 1585–1645, Society of St Paul, Langley, Bucks, 1945.
Works of Mr Thomas Brown, 5 Vols, 1719.
Bryant, Arthur, Samuel Pepys, The Years of Peril (pbk), 1961.
Budgell, E., Esq., Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Illustrious Family of the Boyles, 3rd edition, 1737.
Burghall, Edward ‘Providence Improved’, A Manuscript by the Puritanical Vicar of Acton, 1628–1663’, in T. W. Barlow, Cheshire: Its Historical and Literary Associations, 1855.
Burghclere, Lady, The Life of James, First Duke of Ormonde 1610–1688, 2 Vols, 1912.
Burke, Sir Bernard, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, 1883.
Burnet, Gilbert, History of my own Time, ed. Osmund Airy, 2 Vols, with supplement, Oxford, 1897.
Burrage, Champlin, ‘Anna Trapnel’s Prophecies’, English Historical Review, Vol. 26, 1911.
Burstein, Sona Rosa, MA, ‘Aspects of the Psychopathology of Old Age. Revealed in Witchcraft Cases of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’, British Medical Bulletin, Vol. 6, Nos. 1–2, 1949.
Burton, Robert, The Anatomy of Melancholy, ed. Holbrook Jackson, 1936.
Butler, Samuel, Hudibras, ed. John Wilders, Oxford, 1967.
(CSP Domestic) Calendars of State Papers, Domestic.
(CSP Venetian) Calendars of State Papers, Venetian.
Memorandum Book of Sir Walter Calverley Bart, Surtees Society, LXXVII, 1883.
Camden, Caroll, The Elizabethan Woman, 1952.
Capp, Bernard, Astrology and the Popular Press, English Almanacs 1500–1800, 1979.
Capp, B.S., The Fifth Monarchy Men – A Study in Seventeenth-Century English Millenarianism, 1972.
Carlingford Papers, Osborn Collection, Yale University.
Carlyle, Thomas, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, 4 Vols, 1847.
Carte MSS, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Carte, Thomas, A Collection of Original Letters and Papers … Found among the Duke of Ormonde’s Papers, 2 Vols, 1739.
Cartwright, Julia, Madame. A life of Henrietta, daughter of Charles I and Duchess of Orleans, 1891.
Cartwright, Julia, Sacharissa – Some Account of Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland, her Family and Friends 1617–1684, 1937.
Cary, Mary, The Resurrection of the Witnesses, 1648.
The Case of Divorce and Remarriage thereupon Discussed by a Reverend Prelate of the Church of England and a private Gentleman Occasioned by the late Act of Parliament for the Divorce of the Lord Rosse, 1673.
The Case of the Right Honourable Katherine Countess of Dorchester relating to the Bill lately brought in for the confirming the Grant made to the Right Honourable Arthur Earl of Torrington, by his present Majesty King William, and the late Queen Mary.
The Case of my Lord Roos. Printed with an Act touching the Lord Marquess of Northampton and the Lady Elizabeth his wife, Anno V, Ed. VI, Thomason Tract, 669, fo. 24/34.
Caulfield, James, Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, from the Reign of Edward the Third, to the Revolution, 2 Vols, 1794.
Cellier, Mrs Elizabeth, To Dr–, An Answer to his Queries, Concerning the Colledg of Midwives, 16 January 1688.
Cellier, Mrs Elizabeth, Malice Defeated. Or a Brief Relation of the Accusation and Deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier etc., 1680.
Cellier, Mrs Elizabeth, ‘A Scheme for the Foundation of a Royal Hospital, and Raising a Revenue of Five or Six-thousand Pounds a year, by, and for the Maintenance of a Corporation of skilful Midwives, and such Foundlings or exposed Children, as shall be admitted therein, etc.’, 1687, Harleian Miscellany, IV, 1745.
‘Certaine Informations’, E. 65 (8), British Library.
Dr Hugh Chamberlen to the Princess Sophia, 4 October 1713, Sloane MSS, 4107, British Library.
The Letters of John Chamberlain, ed. N.E. McClure, 2 Vols, Philadelphia, 1939.
Chambers, M.C.E., The Life of Mary Ward, 1585–1645, 2 vols, 1885.
Chapman, A. Beatrice Wallis, and Chapman, Mary Wallis, The Status of Women under the English Law, 1909.
The Letters of King Charles II, ed. Sir Arthur Bryant, 1968.
Chidley, Katherine, Good Counsell to the Petitioners for Presbyterian Government that they may declare their faith before they build their Church, 1645, Thomason Tract, 699, fo. 10/39.
Chidley, Katherine, The Justification of the Independent Churches of Christ. Being an Answer to Mr Edwards his Booke etc., 1641.
Chidley, Katherine, A New Yeares Gift, or a Briefe Exhortation to Mr Thomas Edwards, 1645, E. 23 (13), British Library.
The Memoirs of Sir Hugh Cholmley, Knt and Bart, 1870.
‘Sir Hugh Cholmley’s Narrative of the Siege of Scarborough, 1644–5’, ed. C.H. Firth, English Historical Review, Vol. 32, 1917.
Christie, W.D., A Life of Anthony Ashley Cooper First Earl of Shaftesbury, 1621–1683, 2 Vols, 1871.
Cibber, Colley, Apology, ed. R.W. Lowe, 2 vols, 1887.
Clarendon, Edward Earl of, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, 6 Vols, Oxford, reissued 1969.
The Life of Edward of Clarendon in which is included A Continuation of His History of the Grand Rebellion, 3 Vols, Oxford, 1827.
Clarendon MSS, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
State Papers collected by Edward Earl of Clarendon, commencing 1621, ed. R. Scrope and T. Monkhouse, 3 Vols, Oxford, 1767–86.
Clark, Alice, Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century, ed. Miranda Chaytor and Jane Lewis, reissued 1982.
Clark(e), Samuel, The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons in this Later Age, in Two Parts, 1683.
The Clarke Papers, ed. C.H. Firth, 4 Vols, 1891–1901.
Clyde, William M., The Struggle for the Freedom of the Press. From Caxton to Cromwell, Oxford, 1934.
Coate, Mary, Social Life in Stuart England, 2nd edition, 1925.
Cocke, Thomas, ‘Classical or Gothic? Lady Anne Clifford Reconsidered’, Country Life, 31 January 1980.
Coke, Sir Edward, Institutes of the lawes of England, 4 Vols, 1628–44.
Cole, Susan, ‘A Flower of Purpose – A Memoir of Princess Elizabeth Stuart (1635–1650)’, Royal Stuart Papers VIII, The Royal Stuart Society, 1975.
Collins, John, Salt and Fishery. A Discourse thereof, 1682.
Collins’ Peerage of England, ed. Sir Egerton Brydges, 9 Vols, 1812.
A Complete History of Magick, Sorcery and Witchcraft, 2 Vols, 1715.
Conway Letters. The Correspondence of Anne Viscountess Conway, Henry More and their Friends 1642–1684, ed. M.H. Nicolson, 1930.
Costello, Louisa Stuart, Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen, 4 Vols, 1844.
The Poems, English, Latin and Greek, of Richard Crashaw, ed. L.E. Martin, Oxford, 1957.
Cressy, David, Education in Tudor and Stuart England, Documents of Modern History series, 1975.
Cressy, David, Literacy and the Social Order – Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England, Cambridge, 1980.
Cripps, Doreen, Elizabeth of the Sealed Knot, Kineton, 1975.
‘Oliver Cromwell’s Cousin’s Diary’, transcribed by Rev. William Cole, Additional MS, 5858, fo. 213–21, British Library.
Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, with an Introduction, notes and sketch of his life, W.C. Abbott, 4 Vols, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1937–47.
Cromwelliana, A Chronological detail of events in which Oliver Cromwell was engaged from the year 1642 to his death, 1810.
Curll, Edmund, Betterton’s History of the English Stage, 1741.
Records of the Cust Family, series II, The Brownlows of Belton, 1550–1779, compiled by Lady Elizabeth Cust, 1909.
Cutter, S., and Viets, Henry R., A Short History of Midwifery, 1964.
Dangerfield, Thomas, The Grand Impostor Defeated, 1682.
The Life and Adventures of Mrs Christian Davies, commonly call’d Mother Ross … Taken from her own mouth when a Pensioner of Chelsea Hospital, 1740.
‘The humble petition of the Lady Eleanor (Davies)’, 21 March 1644, Thomason Tract, 669, fo. 10/2.
Defoe, Daniel, Conjugal Lewdness; or, Matrimonial Whoredom, 1727.
Defoe, Daniel, A Journal of the Plague Year, London, 1950.
Denbigh, Cecilia Countess of, Royalist Father and Roundhead Son – Being the memoirs of the First and Second Earls of Denbigh 1600–1675, 1915.
Derby, James Earl of, ‘The History and Antiquities of the Isle of Man’, in Desiderata Curiosa, Francis Peck, Vol. II, 1770.
Devereux, Walter B., Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex, 2 Vols, 1853.
(DNB) Dictionary of National Biography.
Dobell, Bertram, ‘A Unique Book: Anna Trapnel’, Notes and Queries, 21 March 1914.
Donnison, Jean, Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights, New York, 1977.
The Lord Marquesse of Dorchester’s Letter to the Lord Roos With the Lord Roos’s Answer thereunto. Whereunto is Added the Reasons why the Lord Marquess of Dorchester published his letter of the 25 of Feb. 1659. Dated the 13 of the same moneth. With his Answer to the Lord Roos his Letter, 1660.
Dorset, Charles Sackville, Earl of, ‘Poems’, in Works of the English Poets, ed. Samuel Johnson, Vol. XI, 1779.
Douce Ballads, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
‘Dougle Fooleries’ (S.G.W.), Bodleian Quarterly Record, VIII, 1932.
Duffy, Maureen, The Passionate Shepherdess; Aphra Behn 1640–1689, 1977.
Duffy, Maureen, Inherit the Earth, 1980.
Duncon, John, A Letter containing Many Remarkable passages in the most Holy Life and Death of the Late Lady, Letice, Vi-Countess Falkland. Written to the Lady Morison at Gt Tew in Oxfordshire, 2nd edition, 1649.
Duncon, John, The Returns of Spiritual Comfort and Grief in a Devout Soul. Represented (by entercourse of Letters) to the Right Honourable the Ladie Letice, Vi-Countess Falkland in her life time etc., 2nd edition, enlarged, 1649.
‘The Life and Letters of Sir Lewis Dyve’, ed. H.G. Tibbutt, Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, Vol. XXVII, Luton, 1946.
Eccles, Audrey, Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Tudor and Stuart England, 1982.
Ede, Mary, Arts and Society in England under William and Mary, 1979.
Edwards, Thomas, Gangraena, 1646.
Elstob, Elizabeth, An English-Saxon Homily on the Birth-Day of St Gregory, trans. with Notes, 1709.
An Essay in Defense of the Female Sex, 1696.
Essays and Literature by the Members of the English Association, XIX, Oxford, 1934.
Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn FRS, ed. William Bray, 4 Vols, 1850.
Evelyn, John, The Life of Mrs Godolphin. Now first published and ed. Samuel Lord Bishop of Oxford, 1848.
Evelyn, Mary, Mundus Muliebris: Or, The Ladies Dressing-Room Unlock’d and her Toilette spread In Burlesque etc., 1690.
Everitt, Alan, The Community of Kent and the Great Rebellion, 1640–1660, Leicester, 1966.
Ewen, C. L’Estrange, ‘A Noted Case of Witchcraft at North Moreton, Berks, in the early 17th century’, Berkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2, 1936.
Ewen, C. L’Estrange, Witchcraft and Demonianism, A Concise account derived from sworn depositions and confessions obtained in the courts of England and Wales, 1933.
Ewan, C. L’Estrange (ed. with an Introduction), Witch Hunting and Witch Trials. The Indictments for Witchcraft from the Records of 1373 Assizes held for the Home Circuit, A.D. 1559–1736, 1929.
Eyre, Adam, A Dyurnall, or Catalogue of all my Accions and Expences, from the 1st of January 1646–7, Surtees Society, LXV, 1877.
Fanshawe, Sir Richard, Bt, Shorter Poems and Translations, ed. N.W. Bawcutt, Liverpool, 1964.
‘Martha Farthing’s affidavit’, Notes and Queries, V, 11th series, 1912.
Fea, Allan, Some Beauties of the Seventeenth Century, 1906.
Fell, Margaret, Womens Speaking, Justified, Proved and Allowed of by the Scriptures, All such as speak by the Spirit and Power of the Lord Jesus, 1666.
The Household Account Book of Sarah Fell of Swarthmoor Hall, ed. Norman Penney, FSA, Cambridge, 1920.
Fell Smith, Charlotte, Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick 1625–1678, Her Family and Friends, 1901.
Fieldhouse, R.T., ‘Parliamentary Representation in the Borough of Richmond’, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, XLIV, 1972.
The Journeys of Celia Fiennes, ed. and with an Introduction, Christopher Morris, 1649.
Fildes, Valerie, ‘Infant Feeding Practices in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’, seminar, University College, London, 14 January 1981.
Report on the Manuscripts of Allan George Finch Esq., HMC, 3 Vols, 1913–61.
Findlater, Richard, The Player Queens, 1976.
Firth, C.H., Cromwell’s Army, A History of The English Soldier during the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, 1912.
Life and Death of Mistress Mary Firth, 1662.
Foster, Michael, ‘Major-General Sir John Digby “Peerlesse Champion and Mirrour of Perfect Chivalrie”’, Royal Stuart Papers XX, The Royal Stuart Society, 1982.
The Journal of George Fox, revised by John L. Nickalls, with an epilogue by Henry J. Cadbury, and an introduction by Geoffrey F. Nuttall, Cambridge, 1952.
Frank, Joseph, The Beginnings of the English Newspaper, 1620–1660, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1961.
Fraser, Antonia, Cromwell: Our Chief of Men, 1973.
Fraser, Antonia, King Charles II, 1979.
Mrs Elizabeth Freke. Her Diary. 1671 to 1714, ed. Mary Carbery, Cork, 1913.
Fuller, Thomas, History of the Worthies of England, ed. J. Nichols, 2 Vols, 1811.
Fussell, G.E. and K.R., The English Countrywoman, A Farmhouse Social History, 1953.
Gardiner, Dorothy, English Girlhood at School. A Study of Women’s Education through Twelve Centuries, 1929.
Gardiner, Dorothy, ed., The Oxinden Letters, 1607–1642, 1933.
Gardiner, Dorothy, ed., The Oxinden and Peyton Letters, 1642–1678, 1937.
Gardiner, S.R., History of England From the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the Civil War 1603–1642, 10 Vols, 1883–4.
Gardiner, S.R., History of the Great Civil War, 1642–9, 3 Vols, 1886–91.
Gataker, Thomas, ‘A Good Wife Gods Gift’, in Two Marriage Sermons, 1624.
G.E.C. (Cokayne), The Complete Peerage, 6 Vols, Gloucester, reprinted 1982.
George, Margaret, ‘From “Goodwife” to “Mistress”: the Transformation of the Female in Bourgeois Culture’, Science and Society, 37, 1973.
Gibb, M.A., John Lilburne the Leveller, A Christian Democrat, 1947.
Gibb, M.A., The Lord General. A Life of Thomas Fairfax, 1938.
Martha Lady Giffard. Her Life and Correspondence, 1664–1722, ed. Julia G. Longe, 1911.
Gildon, Charles, A Comparison Between the Two Stages, with an Examen of the Generous Conqueror; in Dialogue, 1702.
Gildon, Charles, The Life of Mr Thomas Betterton, 1710.
Godwin, Rev. G.N., The Civil War in Hampshire (1642–45) and the Story of Basing House, Southampton, 1904.
Goreau, Angeline, Reconstructing Aphra – A Social Biography of Aphra Behn, Oxford, 1980.
Gouge, William, Of Domesticall Duties, Eight Treatises, 3rd edition, 1634.
Gough, Richard, The History of Myddle (pbk), 1981.
Grant, Douglas, Margaret the First. A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle 1623–1673, 1957.
Graunt, John, ‘Natural and Political Observations mentioned in a following index and made upon the bills of mortality’, 1662, in Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, ed. C.H. Hull, New York, 1964.
Green, David, Queen Anne, 1970.
Greene, Graham, Lord Rochester’s Monkey, Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, 1974.
Greer, Germaine, The Obstacle Race – The fortunes of women painters and their work, 1979.
Gregg, Edward, Queen Anne, 1980.
Gregg, Pauline, Free-Born John. A Biography of John Lilburne, 1961.
Gregg, Pauline, King Charles I, 1981.
Grisar, Joseph, SJ, ‘Mary Ward 1585–1645’, The Month, 1945.
Habakkuk, H.J., ‘Marriage Settlements in the Eighteenth Century’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, XX, 1949.
Hair, Paul, (ed.) Before the Bawdy Court, Selections from church court and other records relating to the correction of moral offences in England, Scotland and New England, 1300–1800, 1972.
Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, Complete Works, ed. and with an introduction by J.P. Kenyon (pbk), 1969.
The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, ed. John Loftis, Oxford, 1979.
Hamilton, Anthony, Memoirs of the Comte de Gramont, translated by Peter Quennell, 1930.
Hamilton, Elizabeth, Henrietta Maria, 1976.
Hamilton, Elizabeth, William’s Mary: A Biography of Mary II, 1972.
The Harcourt Papers, ed. E.W. Harcourt, Vol. I, Oxford, 1880.
Harleian MSS, British Library.
Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley, with an Introduction and Notes, Thomas Taylor Lewis, MA, Camden Society, 1854.
Hartmann, C.H., The King’s Friend, A Life of Charles Berkeley, Viscount Fitzhardinge Earl of Falmouth, 1630–1665, 1951.
Hartmann, C.H., The Vagabond Duchess, 1926.
Correspondence of the Family of Hatton, 1601–1704, ed. E.M. Thompson, Camden Society, 2 Vols, 1878.
Selected Essays of William Hazlitt 1778–1830, ed. Geoffrey Keynes, FRCS, 1970.
The Remains of Thomas Hearne. Reliquiae Hearnianae. Being extracts from his MS Diaries, compiled by Dr Bliss, now newly revised by John Buchanan-Brown, 1966.
Henry, Louis, ‘Anciennes Familles Genevoises’, Étude démographique: XVIe-XXe siècle, Travaux et Documents, cahier no. 26, Presses Universitaires de France, 1956.
The Autobiography of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, ed. Sidney Lee, 1886.
Works of George Herbert, ed. F.E. Hutchinson, 2nd edition, 1945.
Herbert, William, History of the Twelve Great Livery Companies of London, 1836.
The Poems of Robert Herrick, ed. L.C. Martin, 1965.
The Rev. Oliver Heywood B.A., 1630–1702; His Autobiography, Diaries, Anecdote and Event Books, 3 vols, ed. J. Horsfall Turner, Brighouse, 1882.
Hic Mulier: Or, The Man-Woman and Haec-Vir; Or, The Womanish-Man, 1620, reprinted Exeter, The Rota, 1973.
Hieron, Samuel, A Helpe unto Devotion; Containing Certain Moulds or Forms of Prayer, fitted to several occasions; and penned for the furtherance of those, who have more desire than skill, to poure out their soules by petition unto God, 4th edition, 1613.
Higgins, P.M., ‘Women in the English Civil War’, MA thesis (unpublished), Manchester, 1965.
Hill, Christopher, Antichrist in Seventeenth-Century England, 1971.
Hill, Christopher, ‘Clarissa Harlowe and her Times’, Essays in Criticism, IV, 1955.
Hill, Christopher, Some Intellectual Consequences of the English Revolution, 1980.
Hillier, George, A Narrative of the Attempted Escapes of Charles the First from Carisbrook Castle … Including the letters of the King to Colonel Titus now first deciphered and printed from the originals, 1852.
Himes, Norman E., Medical History of Contraception, 1936.
Hirst, Derek, The Representative of the People? Voters and Voting in England under the Early Stuarts, 1975.
Hiscock, W.G., John Evelyn and Mrs Godolphin, 1951.
HMC (Historical Manuscripts Commission), Bath MSS, Vol. I, 1904.
HMC (Historical Manuscripts Commission), Denbigh MSS, 7th Report, Part V, 1911.
HMC (Historical Manuscripts Commission), 8th Report, Appendix, 1881.
HMC (Historical Manuscripts Commission), R.R. Hastings MSS, 4 Vols, 1928–47.
HMC (Historical Manuscripts Commission), Leyborne-Popham MSS, Norwich, 1899.
HMC (Historical Manuscripts Commission), Rutland MSS, 12th Report, IV–V, 1888–91.
HMC (Historical Manuscripts Commission), Salisbury MSS, Vol. XXII, 1612–68, 1971.
Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby, 1599–1605, ed. Dorothy M. Meads, 1930.
Hogrefe, Pearl, Tudor Women – Commoners and Queens, Iowa, 1975.
Hollingsworth, T.H., ‘A Demographic Study of the British Ducal Families’ in Population in History, ed. D.V. Glass and D.E.C. Eversley, 1965.
Hookes, Nicholas, Amanda, A Sacrifice to an Unknown Goddesse, Or, a Free-will offering of a loving Heart to a Sweet-Heart, 1653.
Houblon, Lady Alice Archer, The Houblon Family, Its Story and Times, 2 Vols. 1907.
Houldsworth, W., A History of English Law, 3rd edition, 5 Vols, 1942.
The House of Commons 1660–1690, ed. Basil Duke Henning, The History of Parliament series, 3 Vols, 1983.
Howell, James, Ho-Elianae or Familiar Letters, ed. J. Jacobs, 2 Vols, 1892.
Howell, Roger, ‘“The Devil cannot match him”: the Image of Cromwell in Restoration Drama’, Cromwelliana, Cromwell Association, 1982–3.
‘A humble Remonstrance of the Batchelors, in and about London, to the honourable House, in Answer to a late Paper, intitled, A Petition of Ladies for Husbands’, Harleian Miscellany, IV, 1747.
Hunter, Joseph, The History and Topography of Ketteringham, Norwich, 1851.
Hunter, Rev. Joseph, FSA, The Life of Oliver Heywood 1630–1702, 1842.
Hutchins, John, MA, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, 3rd edition, 4 Vols, 1861.
Hutchinson, Lucy, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, ed. James Sutherland, reprinted 1973.
Illick, Joseph E., ‘Child-Rearing in Seventeenth Century England and America’, in The History of Childhood, ed. Lloyd deMause, 1976.
Memoirs of James II, 2 Vols, Colchester, 1821.
Jameson, A., The Beauties of the Court of King Charles the Second, 1833.
Johnson, G.W., The Evolution of Woman. From subjection to comradeship, 1926.
Jonson, Ben, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, ed. from original and unexpurgated sources by George Watson Cole, New York, 1931.
Josceline, E., ‘The Mothers Legacy to her Unborn Child’, Additional MSS, 27, 467, British Library.
Journals of the House of Lords.
Katz, David S., Philo-Semitism and the Readmission of the Jews to England, 1603–1655, Oxford, 1982.
Kaufman, Helen Andrews, Conscientious Cavalier, Colonel Bullen Reymes, MP, FRS, 1613–1672, 1962.
Kenny, C.S., The History of the Law of England as to the Effects of Marriage on Property and on The Wife’s Legal Capacity, 1879.
Kent, Countess of, A Choice Manuall of Rare and Select Secrets in Physics and Chyrurgery, 2nd edition, 1653.
Kenyon John, The Popish Plot, 1972.
Kerridge, Eric, ‘The Revolts in Wiltshire against Charles I’, The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Vol. 57, 1958–60.
Poems by Mrs Anne Killigrew, 1686.
Poems (1686) by Mrs Anne Killigrew, facsimile reproduction with an Introduction, Richard Morton, Gainesville, Florida, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1967.
King, Gegory, Natural and political observations and conclusions upon the state and condition of England. To which is prefixed a life of the Author by George Chalmers, 1810.
Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer, British Library.
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