Index
Abbadie, Rev. James, (i)
Abdelazar (Behn), (i)
Abercromby, Jeremiah, (i)
Abingdon, Abbey of, (i)
Abraham, Daniel, (i)
Abraham, John, (i)
accomplishments, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); needlework, (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix); music and singing, (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv); French, (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi); criticized in The Women’s Sharpe Revenge, (xxii); and gentlewomen companions, (xxiii), (xxiv); Hannah Woolley’s views on, (xxv), (xxvi), (xxvii); and Basua Makin’s views, (xxviii), (xxix), (xxx); carving, (xxxi); of Princesses Mary and Anne of York, (xxxii); painting, (xxxiii), (xxxiv); ‘japanning’, (xxxv); Mary Astell’s views on, (xxxvi); and Anne Finch’s scorn for, (xxxvii); see also education
actresses, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); in court masque Calisto, (v), (vi); origins of profession, (vii); reputation for immorality, (viii), (ix); costumes, (x); incomes, (xi)
Adams, Charles, (i)
Adman, Ursula, (i)
adultery, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)&n, (vii), (viii), (ix)
Advice to a Daughter (Halifax), (i)
Agreement of the People, The (Levellers’ proposals), (i), (ii)
Agrippa, Cornelius, (i)
Alcibiades (Otway), (i)
Alington, Lord, (i)
Alkin, Elizabeth (‘Parliament Joan’), (i)
All for Love (Dryden), (i)
Alleine, Joseph, (i)
Alleine, Theodosia, (i)
Allestree, Richard, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare), (i), (ii)
Amanda (Hookes), (i)
Ambrose, Isaac, (i)
anagrams, (i)&n, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Anatomy of Melancholy, The (Burton), (i)
Angell, Elizabeth, (i)
Angell, Susanna, (i)
Anglesey, Arthur Annesley (i)st Earl of, (ii)
Anne of Denmark (Queen of James I), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Anne, Queen (Anne of York), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); education, (viii), (ix); and Abigail Masham, (x); and the Old Pretender, (xi), (xii); identification with Elizabeth I, (xiii)
Anne, St, (i)
Antidote against Atheism, An (More), (i)
Aphoria, or The Perplexity of the Soul (More), (i)
appearance, (i), (ii); hair, (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); and constant pregnancies, (vii); ugliness associated with witchcraft, (viii); restrictions on dress, (ix); adoption of male dress, (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv); French fashions, (xv), (xvi); Quaker dress, (xvii), (xviii); courtesans and vizard masks, (xix), (xx); actress’s costumes, (xxi); see also beauty
apprentices, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Apsley, Sir Allen, (i)
Apsley, Lady, (i)
Aquinas, St Thomas, (i)
Arbuthnot, John, (i)
Arlington, Henry Bennet (i)st Earl of, (ii)
Armies Commission, The (Davies), (i)
Army Council, (i)
Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward and Unconstant Women, The (Swetnam), (i), (ii)
Arran, Lord, (i)
Artamenes or The Grand Cyrus (de Scudéry), (i)
Arundell of Wardour, Lord, (i)
Ashwell, Ann (Ann Ridge), (i)
Ashwell, Mary (Quaker), (i)
Ashwell, Mary (Pepys’s gentlewoman), (i), (ii)
Ashwell, William, (i)
Astell, Mary, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Aston, Anthony, (i)
Athenian Oracle, The (magazine), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Aubrey, John, (i), (ii), (iii)
Aubrey, Mary (‘Rosania’), (i)
Audeley, Eleanor see Davies, Lady Eleanor
Augier, Mistress, (i)
Austin, Anne, (i)
Austin, William, (i)
authors, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); learned women ridiculed, (vii); attitude of women playwrights and authors, (viii); Katherine Philips, (ix); Anne Killigrew, (x); Anne Winchilsea, (xi); Anne Conway, (xii)
Aynsworth, Elizabeth, (i)
Ayscough, Ann, (i)
Bacon, Sir Francis, (i)
Bacon, Lord Keeper, (i)
Bagot, Mary, (i)
Baines, Sir Thomas, (i), (ii), (iii)
Ballard, George, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Banbury Grammar School, (i)
Bankes, Sir John, (i)
Bankes, Mary Lady (Mary Hawtrey), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Bankes, Sir Ralph, (i)
Banks, John (Quaker), (i)
Banks, John (playwright), (i)
Baptists, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Barber, Mrs, (i)
Barebones, Praisegod, (i)
Barker (Pepy’s gentlewoman), (i)
Barker, Jane, (i)
Barkham, Alderman, (i)
Barksdale, Clement, (i)
Barnardiston family, (i)
Barnardiston, Sir Nathaniel, (i)
Barnes, Grace, (i)
Barnes, John, (i)
barrenness see infertility
Barrington, Lady Anne, (i)
Barrington, Tom, (i)
Barry, Elizabeth, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Barry, Robert, (i)
Basing House, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Bastwick, Mrs, (i)
Batchiler, John, (i)
Bath, Henry Bourchier (i)th Earl of, (ii)
Batten, Joan, (i)
Baxter, Richard, (i)
Bayly, William, (i)
Beale, Mary, (i)
Beaufort, ducal house of, (i)
Beaufort, Mary Duchess of (Mary Capel), (i)
Beaumont, Francis, (i)
beauty, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); virtue identified with, (v), (vi); Susanna Perwick, (vii); Jane Myddleton, (viii); Hester Davenport, (ix); see also appearance
Beaux’ Stratagem, The (Farquhar), (i)
Becke, Betty, (i)
Beckley, Beatrice, (i)
Bedford, Anne Countess of (Lady Anne Carr), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Bedford, Francis Russell (i)th Earl of, (ii)
Bedford, William Russell (i)th Earl of (later (ii)st Duke, formerly Lord Russell), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); marriage to Anne Carr, (viii); raised to a dukedom, (ix), (x)
Bedford, Wriothesley Russell (i)nd Duke of (Marquess of Tavistock), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Behn, Aphra, (i), (ii), (iii)&n, (iv), (v), (vi); laments women’s lack of Latin, (vii); mocks marriage, (viii); and Mary Astell, (ix), (x); her success limited by ignorance of Latin, (xi); tombstone in Westminster Abbey, (xii); ‘Betty Flauntit’ in The Town-Fop, (xiii); ‘Angelica Bianca’ in The Rover, (xiv), (xv)
Bellamira (Sedley), (i)
Bellasyse, Susan Lady, (i), (ii)
Belton House, Grantham, (i)
Belvoir witches, the, (i), (ii)
Bendish, Bridget (Bridget Ireton), (i)
Bendish, Sir Thomas, (i), (ii)
Bennet, Sir Henry see Arlington, Earl of
Bennett, Elizabeth (‘Widow Bennett’, née Cradock, later Lady Finch), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Bennett, Richard, (i)
Berry, Mary, (i)n
Bertie, Lady Mary, (i)
Bess (Verney’s maid), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Betterton, Mary (Mary Saunderson), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), 531 as ‘Ianthe’ in The Siege of Rhodes, (vi); character and career, (vii); earnings, (viii)
Betterton, Thomas, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Bideford witches, (i)
Bilbrowe, Mary, (i)
Billingsgate fishwives, (i)
Birch, Elizabeth, (i)
birth control see contraception
Black Prince, The (Boyle), (i)
Blacknall, Mary see Verney, Mary Lady
Blagge, Henrietta Maria, (i)
Blagge, Margaret see Godolphin, Margaret
Blagrove, Anthony (father and son), (i)
Bland, John (i)
Bland, Sarah, (i)
Blaugdone, Barbara, (i)
Blaykling, Ann, (i)
Bletchingdon House, (i)
Blount, Sir Charles, (i)
Blount, Lady Anne, (i)
Blount, Penelope Lady (Penelope Rich), (i)
Blue Regiment, (i)
Blundell, William, (i), (ii), (iii)
Blundell, Winefrid, (i)
Blunt, Sir Henry, (i)
Blunt, William, (i)
Boehme, Jacob, (i)
Bonner, Bishop, (i)
Book of Common Prayer, (i)
Book of Martyrs, The (Foxe), (i)
booksellers, female, (i)
Boston (Massachusetts), (i), (ii)
Bourchier, Elizabeth (Betty) see Denbigh, Countess of
Bourgeois, Louise, (i)
Boutel, Betty, (i), (ii), (iii)
Bowen (Roger Fulwood’s accomplice), (i), (ii)
Boyer, Abel, (i)
Boyle, Lady Anne (‘adored Valerie’), (i)
Boyle, Lady Katherine see Ranelagh, Katherine Viscountess
Boyle, Lady Mary see Warwick, Mary Countess of
Boyle, Robert, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Boyle, Roger see Orrery, Earl of
Boynton, Sir Mathew, (i)
Bracegirdle, Anne, (i)n, (ii), (iii), (iv)
Brailsford, Mabel R., (i)n
Brampton Bryan Castle, (i), (ii)
Brangton, Mrs, (i)
Brathwaite, Richard, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
breast-feeding, (i); see also wetnurses
Brereton, Sir William, (i)
Brett, Richard, (i)
Bride-Bush, A (Whateley), (i)
Bridewell prison, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Bride-Woman Counseller, The (Sprint), (i)
Bridges, Major John, (i)
Bridgwater, Elizabeth Countess of (Lady Elizabeth Cavendish), (i)
Bridgwater, siege of, (i)
Bristol, Anne Countess of (Lady Anne Russell), (i)
Bristol, George Digby Earl of, (i)
Britannia (Camden), (i)
Brittaine, Mabel, (i)
Brocksoppe, Joan, (i)
Broghill, Lord see Orrery (i)st Earl of
Bromley, Sir Rupert, (i)n
Bromley, Sir Thomas, (i)
Brooke, Dr Jeremy, (i)
Brooke, Mr, (i)
brothels (bawdy houses), (i), (ii), (iii)
Brouckner, Henry, (i)
Browne, Robert, (i)
Brownists, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Brownlow, Elizabeth, (i)
Brownlow, Sir John, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Brownlow, Sir William, (i), (ii)
Bruce, Lady Diana (Lady Roos), (i)
Bryne, Albertus, (i)
Buchanan, George, (i)
Buckden Fen, (i)
Buckingham, Duchess of (Lady Catherine Darnley), (i)
Buckingham, Duchess of, wife of (i)st Duke, see Manners, Lady Catherine
Buckingham, George Villiers (i)st Duke of: favourite of James I, (ii), (iii); role in marriage of Frances Coke and Sir John Villiers, (iv), (v); seizes Purbeck estates, (vi), (vii); favourite of Charles I, (viii), (ix); marriage to Lady Catherine Manners, (x), (xi); assassination predicted by Lady Eleanor Davies, (xii), (xiii)
Buckingham, George Villiers (i)nd Duke of, (ii), (iii), (iv)
Buckingham, John Sheffield (i)st Duke of (Earl of Mulgrave), (ii)
Bullen, Thomas, (i)
Bullock, Jane, (i)
Bun, Mary, (i)
Burford mutiny, (i)
Burgoyne, Sir Roger, (i), (ii)
Burman, Lydia, (i)
Burnet, Bishop Gilbert, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Burton, Sarah, (i)
Bushin, Betty, (i)
businesswomen, (i), (ii); Joan Dant and women pedlars, (iii); prominence of dissenter women, (iv); examples recorded by Pepys and others, (v); Mrs Constance Pley, (vi); Bridget Bendish, (vii)
Butler, Charlotte, (i)
Butler, Samuel, (i), (ii), (iii)
Butler, Mr, (i)
Byron, Sir John, (i)
Byron, Lady, (i)
Byrth of Mankind, The (manual for midwives), (i)
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, (i)
Calverley, Sir Walter, (i)
Cambridge (England), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Cambridge (Massachusetts), (i), (ii)
Cambridge, Mayor of, (i)
Camden, William, (i)
Campion, Goodwife, (i)
Campion, Thomas, (i)
Canterbury, Archbishop of, (i), (ii)
Capel, Arthur Lord, (i)
Care-Cloth, A (Whateley), (i)
Care, Henry, (i)
Carew, Anne, (i)
Carew, John, (i)
Carey, Philadelphia (Philadelphia Lyttelton), (i)
Carey, Thomas, (i)
Carisbrooke Castle, (i), (ii), (iii)
Carlile, Joan, (i)
Carlisle, Margaret Countess of, (i)
Carnarvon, Elizabeth Countess of (Elizabeth Capel), (i)
Carnarvon, Mary Countess of, (i)
Caroline (Queen of George II), (i)
Caroline (Queen of George IV), (i)
Carr, Lady Anne (Countess of Bedford), (i), (ii), (iii)
Carr, Robert see Somerset, (i)st Earl of
Carteret, Sir George, (i), (ii), (iii)
Cartwright, William, (i)
Cary, Sir Lucius see Falkland, (i)nd Viscount
Castleton, Lord, (i)
Catherine of Braganza (Queen of Charles II), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Catherine v. Surrey, (i)
Catholics, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); convents, (viii), (ix), (x); and Mary Ward, (xi), nuns, (xii), (xiii); and sequestration, (xiv); and ‘Popish Plot’, (xv); and birth of Old Pretender, (xvi)
Cavendish, Lady Anne, (i)
Cavendish, William Lord (later (i)st Duke of Devonshire), (ii)
CCXI Sociable Letters (Newcastle), (i), (ii)
Cecil, Lady Anne (Lady Percy), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Cecil, Lady Elizabeth, (i)
Cecil, Lady Frances, (i)
Cellier, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Marshall), (i), (ii), (iii)
Cellier, Pierre, (i)
Chaderton, William (Bishop of Lincoln), (i)
Challinor, Francis, (i)
Chamberlain, Doll, (i)
Chamberlain, John, (i)
Chamberlen, Dr Hugh, (i)
Chamberlen, Dr Peter, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Chamberlen, Peter the Elder, (i)
Characters of London (Lupton), (i)
Charles I, King, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii); and Frances Purbeck, (xix), (xx); and Roger Fulwood, (xxi); trial and execution of, (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv), (xxvi), (xxvii), (xxviii); and Lady Eleanor Davies, (xxix), (xxx), (xxxi), (xxxii); and Brilliana Lady Harley, (xxxiii), 216–17; and Jane Whorwood, (xxxiv); and escape of James Duke of York, (xxxv); issues proclamation against depravity of army, (xxxvi)
Charles II, King, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv); Battle of Worcester, (xv), (xvi), (xvii); his mistresses, (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv); and Lady Eleanor Davies, (xxvi); appearance, (xxvii); Restoration, (xxviii); on love and marriage, (xxix); at wedding of Mary of York, (xxx); and Rye House Plot, (xxxi)&n; at divorce hearing of Lord and Lady Roos, (xxxii); and Catherine of Braganza, (xxxiii); and education, (xxxiv); and Elizabeth Hooton and the Quakers, (xxxv), (xxxvi), (xxxvii); and navy, (xxxviii); visits Henry Cromwell, (xxxix); on mistresses of Duke of York, (xl); death of, (xli); and Nell Gwynn, (xlii), (xliii); and the theatre, (xliv), (xlv), (xlvi), (xlvii); birth, (xlviii); and ‘Popish Plot’, (xlix); and Meal-Tub Plot, (l)
Charles James, Prince (son of Charles I), (i)
Chartley Manor, (i)
Chattox, Anne, (i)
Cheke, Essex (Countess of Manchester), (i), (ii)
Chelmsford witches, the, (i), (ii)
Chester, (i)
Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope (i)nd Earl of, (ii)
Chesterfield, Elizabeth Countesss of, (i), (ii)
Chevers, Sarah, (i)
Child, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Wheeler), (i)
Child, Sir Francis, (i)
Child, Rebecca (Marchioness of Worcester), (i), (ii)
childbirth, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); perpetual pregnancies and child mortality, (v), (vi), (vii); infertility, (viii), (ix); contraception within marriage, (x); abortion, (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv); maternal mortality, (xv), (xvi), (xvii); child mortality, (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii); breast-feeding and wet-nurses, (xxiv), (xxv), (xxvi); delivery by forceps, (xxvii); natural, (xxviii); and Caesarean delivery, (xxix); see also midwives
children, (i); illegitimacy and legal paternity, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix); marriage and parental authority, (x); universal desire for, (xi); Elizabeth Josceline’s The Mother’s Legacy to her Unborn Child, (xii), (xiii); deaths of, (xiv); and remarriage, (xv), (xvi); preference for sons, (xvii); Diggers’ views on illegitimacy, (xviii); see also education
Choice Manuall of Rare and Select Secrets in Physick and Chirurgery, A (Countess of Kent), (i), (ii)
Cholmley, Betty (‘little Betty’), (i)
Cholmley, Elizabeth Lady (Elizabeth Twysden), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Cholmley, Sir Henry, (i)
Cholmley, Sir Hugh, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Cholmley, Hugh (son), (i)
Cholmley, William, (i)
Chorlton, Elizabeth, (i)
Christiansen, Wenlock, (i)
Chudleigh, Lady, (i)
church courts: and adultery, (i); and divorce, (ii); and prostitution, (iii)
Churchill, Arabella, (i), (ii)
Churchill, John see Marlborough, Duke of
Churchill, Lady, (i)
Churchill, Sir Winston, (i)
churching, (i)
City Madam, The (Massinger), (i)
Clarendon, Edward Hyde (i)st Earl of, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)
‘Clarendon Code’, the, (i)
Clark, Alice, (i)
Clarke, Elizabeth, (i)
Clarke, Sir Francis, (i)
‘Clarke, Mr’ (‘she-soldier’), (i)
Clarkson, Laurence, (i)
Claydon, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Claypole, John, (i)
Cleaver, Robert, (i)
Clendon, Thomas, (i)
Cleveland, Duchess of (Barbara Villiers), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Clifford, Lady Anne (Countess of Dorset and Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Clifton, Lady, (i)
Clifton, Mother Francisca (Abbess of Rouen), (i)
Clinch, Hester, (i)
‘Cloris’ Charms’ (Killigrew), (i)
Coates v. Lyle, (i)
Cobham, Lady Elizabeth (Marchioness of Northampton), (i)
Coke, Sir Edward, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Coke, Frances see Purbeck, Viscountess
Coke, Lady see Hatton, Elizabeth Lady
Coke, Lady Theophila, (i)
Coleman, Anne, (i)
Coleman, Dorcas, (i)
Coleman, Edward, (i)
Coleman, Mrs Edward, (i)
Coleman, Nathaniel, (i)
Coles, Alice, (i)
Collar, Maud, (i)
Collar, Thomas, (i)
College of Physicians’ Directory (Culpepper), (i)
Colyear, Sir David (Earl of Portmore), (i)
Comber, Thomas (Dean of Durham), (i)
Comenius, John Amos, (i)
Commonwealth Marriage Act (1653), (i)
Commonwealth of Ladies, The (Neville), (i)
Compleat Midwife’s Companion, The (Sharp), (i)
Comparison Between the Two Stages, A (Gildon), (i), (ii)
Compter, the (prison), (i), (ii)
Compton, Mary Lady (later Countess of Buckingham), (i), (ii)
Compton, Sir Thomas, (i)
Comus (Milton), (i)
Congreve, William, (i), (ii), (iii)
Conjugal Lewdness (Defoe), (i)
Conjugal Love (Wilkinson), (i)
Continuation (of Baker’s Chronicle, by Dugdale), (i), (ii)
contraception, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); prophylactic sheath, (v); herbal preventives, (vi); coitus interruptus, (vii), (viii), (ix); breast-feeding as natural method of, (x)
Conventicle Act (1664), (i), (ii)
Conventicle Act (1670), (i), (ii), (iii)
convents, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Conway, Anne Viscountess (Anne Finch), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Conway, Edward (i)rd Viscount (later Earl), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)
Conway, Heneage, (i), (ii), (iii)
Cooper, Anthony Ashley see Shaftesbury, Earl of
Cope, Isabel (Countess of Holland), (i)
Coppe, Abiezar, (i)
Corey, Katherine, (i)
Corfe Castle, (i), (ii); siege of, (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Cork, Richard Boyle (i)st Earl of, (ii), (iii)
Countermine, The (Nalson), (i)
Countess of Lincoln’s Nursery, The (Lincoln), (i)
County Midwife’s Opusculum (Willughby), (i)
Country Wife, The (Wycherley), (i)
courage see women, courage of
Court of High Commission, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Court of Wards, (i)
courtesans, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); see also actresses; prostitutes
Covenant, the, (i), (ii), (iii)
Covenanters, the, (i)
Coventry, Lord Keeper of, (i)
Coventry, Margaret, (i)
Coventry, Sir William, (i), (ii)
Coward, Mrs, (i)
Cradock, Elizabeth see Bennett, Elizabeth
Craftes, Ellen, (i)
Crashaw, Richard, (i)
Crathorne, Alice, (i)
Crathorne, Thomas, (i)
Craven, Lady, (i)
Craven, Lady (wife of Sir William), (i)
Craven, Sir William, (i)
Craven, William (i)st Earl of, (ii)
Cresswell, Madam, (i), (ii), (iii)
Cressy, David, (i)
Croast, Mary, (i)
Cromwell, Bridget (Bridget Ireton, later Bridget Fleetwood), (i)
Cromwell, Elizabeth (Lady Protectress), (i), (ii), (iii)
Cromwell, Frances, (i)
Cromwell, Henry, (i), (ii), (iii)
Cromwell, Jenny, (i)
Cromwell, Mary (Viscountess Fauconberg), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Cromwell, Oliver, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); seeks heiress for son, (vii); and Betty Mordaunt, (viii); and Lady Eleanor Davies, (ix), (x), (xi); Civil War, (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi); as Lord Protector, (xvii), 309, (xviii); and Levellers, (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii); and John and Elizabeth Lilburne, (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv); and Fifth Monarchists and Anna Trapnel, (xxvi), (xxvii), (xxviii), (xxix), (xxx); and Bridget Bendish, (xxxi); and the theatre, (xxxii)
Crowe, Sir Sackville, (i)
Crucifying of the World by the Cross of Christ (Baxter), (i)
Cry for Justice, A (Lilburne), (i)
cucking-stools, (i)
Cudworth, Damaris see Masham, Lady
Cudworth, Ralph, (i)
Culling, Kate, (i)
Culpepper, Nicholas, (i)
Cunningham, Lady Ann, (i)
Cutpurse, Moll (Mary Frith), (i)
dairy farming, women’s responsibility for, (i)
dairymaids, (i)
Dallison, Eliza, (i)
Danby, Catherine Lady (Catherine Wandesford), (i)
Danby, Sir Thomas, (i)
Dangerfield, Thomas, (i), (ii)
Danvers, Sir John, (i)
Danvers, Mrs, (i)
Danvers, Robert see Wright, Robert
Darnley, Lady Catherine (Duchess of Buckingham), (i)
D’Aubigny, Seigneur, (i)
Davenant, Lady, (i)
Davenant, Sir William, (i), (ii), (iii)
Davenport, Frances, (i)
Davenport, Hester (‘Roxalana’), (i), (ii)
Davies, Christian, (i)
Davies, Lady Eleanor (Lady Eleanor Audeley), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Davies, Jack, (i)
Davies, Lucy see Huntingdon, Lucy Countess of
Davies, Mrs (midwife), (i)
Davies, Captain Priamus, (i)
Dawse, Anne, (i)
De Generatione Animalium (Harvey), (i)
Deeping Fen, (i)
Denbigh, Basil (i)nd Earl of (Lord Feilding), (ii), (iii)
Denbigh, Elizabeth Countess of (Betty Bourchier), (i), (ii)
Denbigh, Susan (‘Su’), Countess of (Susan Villiers), (i)
Denbigh, William (i)st Earl of, (ii)
Denham, Sir John, (i)
Denne, Dorothy, (i)
Denne, Captain John, (i), (ii)
Dennis, Alice, (i)
Denny, Honoria (Lady Hay), (i), (ii), (iii)
Denny, Lord, (i)
dentistry, lack of, (i)
Denton, Dr, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
Denton, Margaret (Margaret Smith), (i)
Denton, Nancy, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Denton, Susan (Susan Abercromby), (i)
Denton family, (i)
Derby, Charlotte Countess of (Charlotte de la Trémoille), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Derby, James Stanley (i)th Earl of, (ii), (iii)
Dering, Sir Edward, (i)
Dering, Unton Lady, (i)
Descartes, René, (i)
Desmond, Lady, (i)
Desmond, Lord, (i)
Device, John, (i)
Devonshire, William (i)st Duke of (Lord Cavendish), (ii)
D’Ewes, Sir Simonds, (i), (ii)
Digby, Sir Edward, (i)
Digby, Mary Lady, (i)
‘Discontent, The’ (Killigrew), (i)
Discourses and Essays (Shannon), (i)
Discoverie of Witchcraft (Scot), (i)
Discovery of Women Preachers, The, (i)
divorce, (i)n, (ii); and remarriage, (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); disputes over dowry and jointure, (ix); London associated with adultery, (x); divortium a mensa et thoro, (xi); Commonwealth Marriage Act (1653), (xii); divortium a vinculo matrimonii, (xiii), (xiv), (xv); adulterous wives and legitimacy, (xvi), (xvii); Lord and Lady Roos, (xviii)
Dr Chamberlain’s Midwives Practice, (i)
Dod, William, (i)
Doddington, Elizabeth, (i)
domestic service see servants
Dorchester, Countess of see Sedley, Catherine
Dorchester, Henry Pierrepont (i)st Marquess of (Earl of Kingston), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Dorchester, Katherine Marchioness of (Katherine Stanley), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Dorfold House, (i)
Dorney, John, (i)
Dorset Garden Theatre, (i), (ii)
Dorset, Charles Sackville (i)th Earl of, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Dorset, Richard Sackville (i)rd Earl of, (ii)
Double Dealer, The (Congreve), (i), (ii)
Douglas, Sir Archibald, (i), (ii)
Double Fooleries, (i)n
Downton, Mrs (‘White Legs’), (i)
Downton, Samuel, (i)
dowries, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); relationship to jointures, (vii), (viii); of Frances Coke, (ix); on separation or divorce, (x)n, (xi), (xii); of Anne Carr, (xiii); Lettice Morrison’s lack of, (xiv), (xv); of Catherine Manners, (xvi); and immunity from sequestration, (xvii); Verney sisters’ lack of, (xviii), (xix); of Lucy Pelham, (xx); of Anne Pierrepont, (xxi); of Pall Pepys, (xxii); of Margaret Fell, (xxiii); see also heiresses; marriage
Drogheda, siege of, (i)
Drummond, Sir Patrick, (i)
Dryden, John, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
Duchess of Malfi, The (Webster), (i), (ii)
Duck, Nell, (i)
Duke’s Company, The, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Duncombe, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Brownlow), (i)
Dungannon, Lord, (i)
Dury, John, (i)
Dyer, Mary, (i)
Dymoke, Anne (‘Stephen’ and later ‘John’ Evison), (i), (ii)
Dymoke, John, (i)
Dysart, Elizabeth Murray (Bess), Countess of (Duchess of Lauderdale), (i), (ii)
Dysart, William Murray (i)st Earl of, (ii)
Dyve, Lady, (i)
Dyve, Sir Lewis, (i)
ecclesiastical courts see church courts
Edgehill, Battle of (1642), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
education, (i), (ii), (iii); female intelligence, (iv); schools, (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii); literacy, (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi); convents, (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii); Puritan ideas on, (xxiii), (xxiv); of servants, (xxv), (xxvi); prejudice against learned women, (xxvii), (xxviii), (xxix); Margaret Duchess of Newcastle, (xxx); classical languages, (xxxi), (xxxii), (xxxiii), (xxxiv), (xxxv), (xxxvi), (xxxvii), (xxxviii), (xxxix)(Latin the language of scholarship and medical textbooks, (xl), (xli), (xlii), (xliii)); Mary Ward’s mission for Catholic girls, (xliv); importance of family support and circumstances, (xlv); Basua Makin’s views on, (xlvi), (xlvii), (xlviii), (xlix), (l), (li), (lii); Lady Ranelagh, (liii); of poor, (liv), (lv), (lvi), (lvii); increasing divergence from boys’, (lviii), (lix); French, (lx), (lxi), (lxii), (lxiii); Italian, (lxiv), (lxv), (lxvi); Hannah Wooley’s views on, (lxvii), (lxviii); Hebrew language, (lxix), (lxx), (lxxi), (lxxii); of Mary and Anne of York, (lxxiii); and Quakers, (lxxiv), (lxxv); teachers’ qualifications, (lxxvi); Mary Astell’s views on, (lxxvii); Elizabeth Elstob, (lxxviii); of midwives, (lxxix), (lxxx); see also accomplishments
Edward IV, King, (i)
Edward the Martyr, King, (i)
Edwards, Susanna, (i)
Edwards, Thomas, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Elde, George, (i)
Elfrida, Queen, (i)
Eliot, Sir John, (i)
Elizabeth I, Queen, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi)
Elizabeth Hooton, Prisoner in Lincoln Castle …, (i)
Elizabeth of Bohemia, Princess (daughter of James I), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Elizabeth, Princess (daughter of Charles I), (i), (ii)
Elliott, Katharine, (i)
Elmes, Peg see Verney, Peg
Elstob, William, (i), (ii), (iii)
Elys, Edmund, (i)
Endicott, Governor, (i), (ii), (iii)
English Gentlewoman, The (Brathwaite), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
English Huswife, The (Markham), (i)
English-Saxon Homily on the Birth-Day of St Gregory, An (Elstob), (i)
Epistle to Souldiers, An (Newcastle), (i)
Essay in Defense of the Female Sex, An, (i)
Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, An (Makin), (i), (ii)
Essex, Arthur Capel (i)st Earl of, (ii)
Essex, Elizabeth Countess of (second wife of (i)rd Earl), (ii)
Essex, Robert Devereux (i)rd Earl of, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Ethelred, King, (i)
Etherege, Sir George, (i)
Euphoria, or The Extrication of the Soul (More), (i)
Eure, Margaret (Margaret Poulteney), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Eure, William, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Evans, Katherine, (i)
Eve, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); and moral weakness of women, (viii), (ix); and childbirth, (x), (xi); and breast-feeding, (xii)
Evelyn, John, (i), (ii); advice to his son on his wedding-night, (iii); and Margaret Godolphin, (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), and death of his grandson, (viii); on ‘my Lady Ogle’, (ix); on Josiah Child, (x); and education of Susanna Evelyn, (xi); and Bullen Reymes, (xii), (xiii); and Catherine Sedley, (xiv), (xv); and Mrs Myddleton, (xvi), (xvii); and actresses (xviii), (xix)
Evelyn, John (son), (i)
Evelyn, Mary, (i), (ii), (iii)
Evelyn, Susanna, (i)
Evening’s Love, An (Dryden), (i)
Evison, John, (i)
Expert Midwife, The (Rueff), (i), (ii)
Eye (Suffolk), (i)
Eyre, Mrs Simon, (i)
Eyre, Lord Mayor Simon, (i)
Fairfax, Sir Thomas, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Fairfax, Anne Lady, (i)
Falkland, Elizabeth Viscountess (Elizabeth Tanfield), (i)
Falkland, Lettice Viscountess (Lettice Morrison), (i), (ii); and death of her son Lorenzo, (iii); loyalty to her husband as widow, (iv), (v); charitable works, (vi), (vii); epitaph, (viii),297
Falkland, Henry Cary (i)st Viscount, (ii)
Falkland, Lucius Cary (i)nd Viscount, (ii), (iii), (iv)
Falmouth, Lady (Mary Bagot), (i)
Falmouth, Lord, (i)
Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500–1800, The (Stone), (i)
families, (i), (ii); inclusion of servants, (iii); limitation in size of, (iv); and women’s demand for freedom of conscience, (v), (vi)
Family of Love, the (religious sect), (i)
‘Famous Woman Drummer, The’ (ballad), (i), (ii)
Fanshawe, Ann Lady, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Fanshawe, Sir Richard, (i), (ii)
‘Farewell to Worldly Joys, A’ (Killigrew), (i)
Farley, Elizabeth (Mrs Weaver), (i), (ii)
Farthing, Martha, (i)
Fatal Marriage, The (Southerne), (i)
Fauconberg, Mary Viscountess see Cromwell, Mary
Fawley Court, sacking of, (i)
Feign’d Curtezans, The (Behn), (i), (ii)
Feilding, Basil Lord (2nd Earl of Denbigh), (i), (ii)
Fell, Hannah, (i)
Fell, Isabel (Isabel Yeamans), (i), (ii), (iii)
Fell, Margaret (Margaret Askew), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Fell, Mary, (i)
Fell, Rachel (Rachel Abraham), (i), (ii), (iii)
Fell, Sarah, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Fell, Susan, (i)
Felton, John, (i)
Female Pre-eminence or the Dignity and Excellency of that Sex, above the Male (Agrippa), (i)
female suffrage, (i)
Female Vertuosos, The (Wright), (i)
‘Female Warrior, The’ (ballad), (i), (ii)
Female Wits, The (‘W.M.’), (i)
Femall Glory, The (Stafford), (i)
Femmes Savantes, Les (Molière), (i)
Ferrar, Nicholas, (i)
fertility, (i)
Fiennes, Celia, (i)
Fiennes, Colonel, (i)
Fifth Monarchists, (i), (ii), (iii); see also Trapnel, Anna
Finch, Anne see Winchilsea, Countess of
Finch, Anne see Conway, Anne Viscountess
Finch, Lady Anne see Twysden, Lady Anne
Finch, Charles see Winchilsea (i)th Earl of
Finch, Daniel (2nd Earl of Nottingham), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Finch, Lady Elizabeth see Bennett, Elizabeth
Finch, Sir Heneage, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Finch, Heneage see Winchilsea (i)th Earl of
Finch, Sir John, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Finch, Sir Moyle, (i)
Fisher, Mary, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Fitton, Anne see Newdigate, Lady
Fitton, Mary, (i)
Fitzroy, George (1st Duke of Northumberland), (i)
Fleet prison, (i), (ii), (iii)
Fleetwood, Charles, (i), (ii), (iii)
Fletcher, ‘Little Elizabeth’, (i), (ii)
Flood, Thomas, (i)
Florio, Aurella (Molins), (i)
Florio, John, (i)
Flower, Joan (‘Mother’), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Flower, Margaret, (i), (ii), (iii)
Flower, Philippa, (i), (ii), (iii)
Ford, John, (i)
Fox, George, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix); founder of Society of Friends, (x); on spiritual equality of women, (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv); and Elizabeth Hooton, (xvi), (xvii); and importance of women in Quaker movement, (xviii), (xix); and Margaret Fell, (xx), (xxi); death, (xxii), (xxiii)
franchise see female suffrage
Freemans Freedome Vindicated, The (Lilburne), (i), (ii)
Freke, Elizabeth, (i)
Freke, Ralph, (i)
Friendship in Fashion (Otway), (i)
Frith, Mary (Moll Cutpurse), (i)
Fry, Elizabeth, (i)
Fulbeck, William, (i)
Fuller, Mrs George, (i)
Fuller, Richard, (i)
Fuller, Thomas, (i)
Fulwood, Katherine, (i)
fund-raising by women, (i), (ii)
‘Gallant She-Souldier, The’ (ballad), (i), (ii), (iii)
Gangraena (Edwards), (i), (ii)
gardens, women’s responsibility for, (i)
Gardiner, Captain, (i)
Gardiner, Carey see Verney, Carey
Garfield, John, (i)
Garrard, Rev. George, (i)
Gataker, Thomas, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Gate to the Holy Tongue, (i)
Gawdy, Framlingham, (i)
Gay, John, (i)
Geddes, Jenny, (i)
Gentlewomans Companion, The (Woolley), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
gentlewomen, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
George I, King, (i)
George III, King, (i)
George IV, King, (i)
George of Denmark, Prince, (i)
Gethin, Gracy Lady, (i)
Gibbon, Edmund, (i)
Gildon, Charles, (i), (ii), (iii)
Gilnot, Goodwife, (i)
Gloucester, siege of, (i)
Gods Arke (Vicars), (i)
Godolphin, Francis, (i)
Godolphin, Margaret (Margaret Blagge), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Godstow, covent at, (i)
Goldsmiths’ Company, (i)
Goldsmiths’ Hall see under sequestration
Good Counsell to the Petitioners for Presbyterian Government … (Chidley), (i)
Good Wife, The (Fuller), (i)
‘Good Wife Gods Gift, A’ (Gataker), (i), (ii)
Good Woman, A (Overbury), (i)
Goring, Lord, (i)
Gosnell (Pepys’s gentlewoman), (i), (ii), (iii)
Gouge, William, (i), (ii), (iii)
Grafton House, (i)
Grafton, Isabella Duchess of, (i)
Grahame, Colonel James, (i), (ii)
Grand Imposter Defeated, The (Dangerfield), (i)
Grande Mademoiselle of France, (i)
Graunt, John, (i)
Greatrakes, Valentine, (i)
Green, Ellen, (i)
Greenhill, Rev. Mr, (i)
Gregory, Elizabeth, (i)
Gregory XV, Pope, (i)
Gregory, William, (i)
Grey, Lady, (i)
Guilford, Francis North, Lord, (i)
Gurney, Elizabeth, (i)
Gwynn, Nell, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Hackney: Mrs Winch’s school, (i), (ii); Perwicks’ school, (iii), (iv); Woolleys’ school, (v); Mrs Salmon’s school, (vi)
Hadley, Katherine, (i), (ii), (iii)
Halifax, George Saville (i)st Marquess of, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Halifax, Gertrude Marchioness of (Gertrude Pierrepont), (i), (ii)
Halkett, Anne Lady (Anne Murray), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Hall, Mrs Betty, (i)
Halliday, Susan (Countess of Warwick), (i), (ii)
Hamilton, Anthony, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Hamilton, Sir David, (i)
Hamilton, James (i)rd Marquess of, (ii)
Hamilton, Mr (suitor to Mary Boyle), (i)
Hamilton, Su, (i)
Hampden, John, (i)
Hann, Rev. Mr, (i)
‘Happy Husbandman, The’ (ballad), (i)
Harcourt, Anne Lady, (i), (ii), (iii)
Harcourt, Sir Simon, (i)
Hardwicke, Bess of, (i)
Hardwicke Marriage Act (1753), (i), (ii)
Harley, Brilliana Lady (Brilliana Conway), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Harley, Dorothy, (i)
Harley, Edward (Ned), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)&N
Harley, Margaret, (i)
Harley, Robert (1st Earl of Oxford), (i)n
Harley, Sir Robert, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Harley, Tom, (i)
Harman, Philip, (i)
Harrison, Sir John, (i)
Hart, Charles, (i)
Hartlib, Samuel, (i)
Harvey, Dr William, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Haselrig, Sir Arthur, (i)
Hastings, Lady Betty, (i)
Hastings, Lady Elizabeth, (i), (ii), (iii)
Hastings, Ferdinando Lord see Huntingdon, Earl of
Hastings, Henry Lord, (i)
Hatton, Anne, (i)
Hatton, Sir Charles, (i)
Hatton, Christopher Lord, (i), (ii)
Hatton, Elizabeth Lady (Lady Coke), (i); opposition to marriage of Frances Coke and Sir John Villiers, (ii); and Corfe Castle, (iii), (iv), (v); separation from Sir Edward Coke, (vi)
Hatton, Frances, (i)
Hatton, Sir William, (i), (ii)
Hawtrey, Ralph, (i)
Hay, James Lord, (i), (ii), (iii)
Hazlitt, William, (i)
Hearne, Mary, (i)
Heath, Thomas, (i)
heiresses, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x); wealthy widows as (xi); and sequestration, (xii); ‘my lady Ogle’, (xiii); see also dowries
Hempstall, Anne, (i)
Henderson ‘Cousin’, (i)
Hellier, Anne, (i)
Hellier, Henry, (i)
Heneage, Elizabeth (Lady Finch, later (i)st Viscountess Maidstone and (ii)st Countess of Winchilsea), (iii), (iv)
Henrietta-Anne, Princess (daughter of Charles I), (i)
Henrietta Maria (Queen of Charles I), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); fosters cult of Platonic love, (viii), (ix); pregnancies, (x), (xi), (xii); and French as a fashionable language, (xiii); during Civil War, (xiv)
Henry V (Orrery), (i)
Herbert, Edward Lord, (i), (ii)
Herbert, George, (i), (ii), (iii)
Herbert, Lady, (i)
Herbert, Magdalen Lady (Lady Danvers), (i)
Herbert, William, (i)
Hereford, Governor of, (i)
Herrick, Robert, (i)
Hewell, Sir George, (i)
Heywood, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Augier), (i), (ii), (iii)
Heywood, Oliver, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Hic Mulier: Or, The Man-Woman, (i), (ii)
Hieron, Samuel, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess, (i)
Hill, Abigail (Abigail Masham), (i), (ii)
Hill, Alice, (i)
Hill, Christopher, (i)
Hillesden (Denton family home), (i)
Hinton, Dr, (i)
Histriomastix (Prynne), (i), (ii)
History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester (Nichols), (i)
History and Fall of Caius Marius, The (Otway), (i)
History of Dorset, The (Hutchings), (i)n
History of Myddle, The (Gough), (i), (ii)
Hoby, Lady Margaret, (i), (ii)
Holland, Henry Rich (i)st Earl of, (ii), (iii)
Hollar, Wenceslaus, (i)
Holt v Lyle, (i)
Holy Life of Mrs Elizabeth Walker, The (Walker), (i), (ii), (iii)
Hookes, Nicholas, (i)
Hooton, Elizabeth, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Hooton, Oliver, (i)
Hooton, Samuel, (i)
Hopkins, Matthew, (i)
Hopton Castle, (i)
Hoskins, John, (i)
Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, (i)
Houblon, Sir John, (i)
households see families
Howard, Sir Philip, (i)
Howard, Sir Robert, liaison with Viscountess Purbeck, (i)
Howard, Sir Robert (nephew), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Howard, Thomas, (i), (ii), (iii)
Howell, James, (i)
Howland, Elizabeth, (i)
Hughes, Peg, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Huis, Charles, (i)
Humble Petition of divers well-affected Women … (April 1649), (i)
Huntingdon, Dorothy Port Dowager Countess of, (i)
Huntingdon, Ferdinando Hastings (i)th Earl of, (ii), (iii)
Huntingdon, Henry Hastings (i)th Earl of, (ii), (iii)
Huntingdon, Lucy Countess of (Lucy Davies), (i); and education of her daughter, (ii), (iii); marriage and eccentricity of her mother, (iv); petitions for Lady Eleanor’s release, (v); deaths of her sons, (vi); and Thomas Dugdale’s Continuation, (vii), (viii); love of London, (ix); Basua Makin’s tribute to, (x)
Huntingdon, Theophilus (i)th Earl of, (ii), (iii), (iv)
Hutchins, John, (i)n
Hutchinson, Colonel John, (i)
Hutchinson, Lucy (Lucy Apsley), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Hyde, Miss, (i)