The Weaker Vessel: Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England

  Henry V (Orrery), (i)

  Henry VII, (i), (ii)

  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)

  Hewling, Hannah, (i), (ii)

  Heywood, Alice, (i), (ii)

  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)

  Hinton, Moll, (i), (ii)

  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)

  Hobart, John, (i), (ii)

  Hobart, Mrs, (i), (ii)

  Hobbes, Thomas, (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)

  Hooke, Robert, (i), (ii)

  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, James, (i), (ii)

  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)

  Hudibras (Butler), (i), (ii)

  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)

  illegitimacy see children

  Illnesses and diseases, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii); remedies for, (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii); and witchcraft, (xix), (xx); Lady Anne Conway’s ill health, (xxi) passim

  Immaculate Conception, Cult of, (i)

  In a Letter to the most Ingenious and Excellent Mrs Katherine Phillips (Taylor), (i), (ii)

  Inchiquin, Earl of, (i)

  Independent Churches, the, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Inchiquin, Earl of, (i)

  Independent Churches, the, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Indian Emperor, The (Dryden), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Indian Queen, The (Dryden and Howard), (i)

  infant mortality, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); see also childbirth

  infertility, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Ingleby, Jane, (i)

  Institutes (Coke), (i)

  Invective against Gold (Killigrew), (i)

  Ireton, Bridget see Bendish, Bridget

  Ireton, Henry, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Isham, Elizabeth, (i)

  Island Princess, The (Fletcher), (i)

  Ives, Simon, (i)

  Jackson, John, (i)

  Jamaica, (i)

  James I, King, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix); at wedding of Honoria Denny to James Lord Hay, (x); and marriage of Frances Coke to Sir John Villiers, (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi); opposition to girls learning Latin, (xvii), (xviii), (xix)

  James II, King (James Duke of York), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix); escape from St James’s Palace (1648), (x); and Exclusion Crisis, (xi); and Rye House Plot, (xii); at Battle of Lowestoft, (xiii); and Catherine Sedley, (xiv), (xv); and Popish Plot, (xvi); and proposal for royal corporation for midwives, (xvii); and birth of James Edward Stuart, (xviii)

  James Edward Stuart (‘Old Pretender’), birth of, (i), (ii)

  Jennings, Frances, (i), (ii)

  Jephson, Mr, (i)

  Jersey, Earls of, (i)

  Jinner, Sara, (i)

  Joanereidos; or, Feminine Valour Eminently discovered in Westerne Women (Strong), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Johnson, Mrs, (i)

  Johnson, Thomas, (i)

  jointures, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); see also dowries

  Jones, Inigo, (i), (ii)

  Jones, ‘Niece’ (Catherine Melster), (i)

  Jones, Richard (Viscount Ranelaugh), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Jonson, Ben, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Josceline, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Brooke), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Josceline, Taurell, (i)

  Josselin, Ralph, (i)

  Joyce, Mary, (i)

  Joyce, Will, (i)

  Justification of the Independent Churches of Christ, The (Chidley), (i)

  Katherine, Princess (daughter of Charles I), (i)

  Keats, John, (i)

  Kent, Elizabeth countess of (Lady Elizabeth Talbot), (i), (ii)

  Kent, Frances, (i)

  Kent Committee see under sequestration

  Kentish Petitioners, (i), (ii)

  Kicklus, Everhardus, (i)

  Killigrew, Anne, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Killigrew, Harry, (i), (ii)

  Killigrew, Dr Henry, (i)

  Killigrew, Mary, (i)

  Killigrew, Thomas, (i), (ii)

  Killigrew, Sir William, (i)

  King, Gregory, (i), (ii)

  King James Bible, (i)

  King’s Company, The, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Kingsmill, Anne see Winchilsea, Countess of

  Kingston Lacy, (i)

  Kirk, Mr, (i)

  Kirkman, Francis, (i), (ii)

  Kneller, Godfrey, (i)

  Knepp, Mrs, (i)

  Knight, Mrs, (i), (ii)

  Knole, (i)

  Knollys, Sir William, (i)

  Knyvett, Thomas, (i)

  Königsmarck, Count, (i)

  La Vallièlle, Louise de, (i)

  Labadie, Mrs De, (i)

  Lacy, John, (i)

  Ladies Calling, The (Allestree), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Ladies Companion, or The English Midwife, The (Sermon), (i), (ii)

  Ladies Dictionary, The, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Ladies Directory in choice experiments and curiosities … (Woolley), (i)

  Ladies’s Hall (Deptford), (i)

  Ladies Parliament, The (Neville), (i)

  Ladies, a Second Time, Assembled, The (Neville), (i)

  Laine, Pierre de, (i)

  Lambe, Dr, (i)

  Lancashire Witch Trials (1612??
?13), (i)

  Lancaster, James, (i)

  Lancaster Castle, (i)

  Lane, Betty (Betty Martin), (i), (ii)

  Lane, Doll, (i), (ii)

  Lane, Richard, (i)

  Langdale, Sir Marmaduke, (i)

  Langdon, Captain, (i)

  Langham, Sir James, (i)

  Lanler, Emilia, (i), (ii)

  Lathom House, siege of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Laud, Archbishop, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Lauderdale, Countess of, (i)

  Lauderdale, John Maitland (i)nd Earl of (ii)st Duke of, (iii)

  Lauderdale, Duchess of (Bess Murray, Countess of Dysart), (i), (ii)

  Launseters Launse (Katherine and Samuel Chidley), (i)

  law, legal potition: of women, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); and marriage, (viii); and adultery, (ix), (x); and widows’ rights, (xi), (xii), (xiii); and spinsters’ rights, (xiv); and divorce, (xv); and prostitutes, (xvi), (xvii)

  Lawes, Henry, (i)

  Lawes Resolutions, The, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Lawrence, Captain, (i)

  Lear (Tate), (i)

  Learned Maid, The (Van Schurman), (i)

  Lecky, William, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Lee, Sir Henry, (i)

  Lee, Nathaniel, (i)

  Legacy for Saints… A (Trapnel), (i)

  Legge, Elizabeth, (i)

  Leibniz, Gottfried, (i), (ii)

  Leicester, Earl of, (i)

  Leicester, Lettice Countess of, (i)

  Leicestershire Assizes, (i)

  Leigh, Dorothy, (i)

  Leighs Priory, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Lely, Sir Peter, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Lennox, James (i)th Duke of, (ii)

  Letters and Poems in Honour … of Margaret, Dutchess of Newcastle, (i)

  Letters from the Dead to the Living, (i), (ii)

  Levellers, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Lewington, Robert, (i)

  Libb, Aunt, (i)

  Libb, Richard, (i), (ii)

  Life and Adventures of Mrs Christian Davies … The, (i)

  Life and Death of Mistress Mary Frith, The, (i)

  life expectancy, (i), (ii), (iii); longevity of many nuns, (iv); greater for women, (v)

  Lightfoote, ‘Honest Dafeny’, (i)

  Liburne Benomy, (i)

  Lilburne, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Dewell), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Lilburne, John, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Lilburne, John (son), (i)

  Lilburne, Tower, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Lilly, William, (i)

  Lincoln Assizes, (i), (ii)

  Lincoln Castle, (i)

  Lincoln, Elizabeth Countess of (Elizabeth Knyvet), (i)

  Lincoln’s Inn Fields Company, (i)

  Lindsay, Countess of, (i)

  Lisle, John, (i)

  Lister, Joseph, (i)

  literacy see under education

  Little Gidding, (i), (ii)

  Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons … The (Clarke), (i), (ii)

  Lloyd, Robert, (i)

  Lloyd, Temperance, (i)

  Locke, John, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Lockyer, Robert, (i)

  Lodge, Thomas, (i)

  London (i); Lord Mayor, (ii), (iii); fashionable attractions of, (iv); Earl of Rutland’s dislike of, (v), (vi); plague of, (vii), (viii), (ix); Fire of, (x), (xi); prostitution in, (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv); Bishop of, (xvi)

  London, City of, (i); treatment of widows, (ii), (iii), (iv); ostentation of City wives, (v), (vi); in Civil War, (vii); petition against religious schisms (1646), (viii); marriages for money, (ix)

  London Cuckolds, The (Ravenscroft), (i)

  Long, Jane, (i)

  Long, Lydia, (i)

  Long, Widow, (i)

  Long Meg of Westminster (chapbook), (i)

  Louis XIV, (i)

  Love’s Masterpiece (chapbook), (i)

  Lovelace, Richard, (i)

  Lovell, Thomas, (i)

  Low (surgeon), (i)

  Low Countries, women in, (i), (ii)

  Lowestoft, Battle of, (i), (ii)

  Lucas, Lady Anne, (i)

  Lucasta (Lovelace), (i)

  ‘Lucifer’s Lackey or The Devil’s New Creation’, (i), (ii)

  Lucy, Lady Alice, (i)

  Lucy, Sir Thomas, (i)

  Ludford, Prodence, (i)

  Lufkin, Roger, (i)

  Lumley, Viscount, (i)

  Lupton, Donald, (i)

  Luson, Hewling, (i), (ii)

  Lyme, (i); siege of, (ii), (iii)

  Lyttleton, Sir Charles, (i), (ii)

  Lyttleton, Muriel (Muriel Bromley), (i)

  Macbeth (Shakespeare), (i)

  Mackarel, Betty (‘Orange Betty’), (i)

  Maiden Troops (Virgin Troops), (i)

  Maidstone, Elizabeth Viscountess (Elizabeth Windham), (i)

  Maidstone, Viscount, (i)

  Maid’s Tragedy, The (Beaumont and Fletcher), (i)

  Maintenon, Madame de, (i)

  Makin, Basua (Basua Pell), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  Malade Imaginaire, Le (Molière), (i)

  Malice Defeated (Cellier), (i)

  Malleus Maleficarum, (i)

  Manchester, Edward Montague (i)nd Earl of, (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Manley, Mary, (i), (ii)

  Manners see also under Roos; Rutland

  Manners, Lady Catherine (Duchess of Buckingham), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Manners, Charles, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Manners, John (Ignoto), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Margaret of Austria, (i)

  Markham, Gervase, (i)

  Markland, Captain, (i), (ii)

  Marlborough, John Churchill (i)st Duke of, (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Marlborough, Sarah Duchess of (Sarah Churchill née Jennings), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Marpriest, Martin see Overton, Richard

  marriage, (i), (ii); based on money, (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); wedding ceremonies, (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii); and the law, (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii); age of consent, (xxiii), (xxiv); consummation of, (xxv), (xxvi), (xxvii); based on love, (xxviii), (xxix); of servants, (xxx); importance of marriage bed, (xxxi); marital sex, (xxxii); remarriage, (xxxiii), (xxxiv), (xxxv), (xxxvi), (xxxvii), (xxxviii), (xxxix), (xl), (xli); and contraception, (xlii), (xliii); Diggers’ ideas on, (xliv), (xlv); after Civil War, (xlvi); and authority of parents, (xlvii); divorce, (xlviii); Quaker marriages, (xlix), (l); see also childbirth; divorce; heiresses; widows

  Marriage-à-la-Mode (Dryden), (i)

  Marriage Promoted in a Discourse of its Ancient and Modern Practice, (i)

  marriage settlements see dowries; jointures

  Marsh, Henry, (i)

  Marshall, Anne (Anne Quin), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Marshall, Rebecca, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Marston Moor, Battle of (1644), (i), (ii)

  Martin, Betty see Lane, Betty

  Martin, Samuel, (i)

  Martindale, Adam, (i), (ii)

  Martindale, Jane, (i)

  Marvell, Andrew, (i)

  Mary II (Mary of York, Princess of Orange), (i), (ii); wedding to William of Orange, (iii); education and accomplishments, (iv), (v); and Bridget Bendish, (vi); and Catherine Sedley, (vii), (viii), (ix); and birth of James Edward Stuart, (x); funeral sermon, (xi)

  Mary of Modena (Queen of James II, formerly Duchess of York), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); pregnancies, (v); and birth of James Edward Stuart, (vi), (vii); and Catherine Sedley, (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii); and Elizabeth Cellier, (xiii), (xiv)

  Mary Queen of Scots, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Mary I (Mary Tudor), (i), (ii)

  Masham, Abigail (Abigail Hill), (i)

  Masham, Lady (Damaris Cudworth), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Masham, Samuel, (i), (ii)

  masques, (i), (ii), (iii)

&nbs
p; Massachusetts (USA), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Massachusetts, Governor of, (i)

  Massey, Colonel Edward, (i), (ii)

  Massinger, Philip, (i)

  Matrimonial Causes Act (1857), (i)

  Matrimoniall Honour (Rogers), (i)

  Maurice of Nassau, Prince, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Maxwell, James, (i)

  Mayerne, Sir Theodore, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Mayor, Dorothy, (i)

  Mazarin, Duchesse de (Hortense Mancini), (i), (ii)

  Meade, William, (i)

  Meal-Tub Plot, (i)

  Medici, Marie de, (i)

  medicines see illnesses

  ‘Melancholy’, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Meldrum, Sir John, (i)

  Melster, Catherine, (i)

  Memoirs of the Comte de Gramont (Hamilton), (i)

  Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain … (Ballard), (i)

  Mennes, Sir John, (i), (ii)

  menopause, witchcraft connected with, (i)

  Mercer, Margaret, (i)

  Mercer, Mary, (i), (ii)

  ‘Merchant-Royal or Woman a Ship, The’ (Wilkinson), (i)

  Merchant Taylors’ School, (i)

  Mercurius Aulicus, (i), (ii)

  Mercurius Pragmaticus, (i), (ii)

  Mercurius Rusticus, (i), (ii)

  Meredith, Elizabeth, (i)

  Metamorphosis (Ovid), (i)

  Middleton, Sir Hugh, (i)

  Middleton, Jenny, (i)

  Middleton, Thomas, (i), (ii), (iii)

  midwives, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); ‘Men-midwives’, (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); textbooks for, (ix), (x), (xi), (xii); payments to, (xiii), (xiv), (xv); French midwives, (xvi); skills regarded as natural to women, (xvii); inadequacies of, (xviii); invention of forceps, (xix); licensing of, (xx); contemporary state of obstetric knowledge, (xxi); Elizabeth Cellier, (xxii); and her proposal for a Midwives College, (xxiii); see also childbirth

  Midwife Unmask’d, The, (i)

  Midwives Book, The (Sharp), (i)

  Midwives Just Complaint, The (Sept. 1646), (i)

  Midwives Just Petition, The (Jan. 1643), (i)

  Migraine (Sacks), (i)n

  Miller, John, (i)

  Mills, Mrs (midwife), (i)

  Milton, John, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Miriam (maid of Anne Murray), (i), (ii), (iii)

  ‘Miseries of Man, The’ (Killigrew), (i)

  mistresses, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Mitchell, Ann, (i)

  Mitchell, Betty, (i)

  Mitchell, Miles, (i)

  mobs, female, (i), (ii)

  Moderate Intelligencer, The, (i)

  modesty see under women

  Moliere, Jean Baptiste, (i)

  Molins, James, (i)

  Molland, Alice, (i)

  Monmouth, James Duke of, (i), (ii)