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Also by Catharine Arnold

NECROPOLIS
: London and Its Dead

BEDLAM
: London and Its Mad

Note on the Author

Catharine Arnold read English at Cambridge and holds a further degree in psychology. A journalist, academic and popular historian, Catharine's previous books include the novel
Lost Time
, winner of a Betty Trask award.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the following for their invaluable help: Cambridge University Library; the Hallward Library; the University of Nottingham; Dr Simon Lee Price; Susan Johnson of Prostitute Outreach Workers; my editor Kerri Sharp; and last but not least my agent, Charlie Viney. Many thanks to you all.

Notes

Chapter One

1.
See Burford,
Bawds and Lodgings
, p. 14

2.
Ibid., p. 11

3.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 12

4.
Ibid.

5.
See Burford,
Bawds and Lodgings
, p. 12

6.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 13

7.
Ibid., p. 17

8.
Ibid., p. 13

9.
See Burford,
Bawds and Lodgings
, p. 14

10.
Ibid., p. 15

11.
Ibid.

12.
Ibid., p. 17

13.
Ibid., p. 16

14.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 20

15.
See Burford,
Bawds and Lodgings
, p. 17

16.
Ibid.

17.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 11

18.
Ibid., p. 15

19.
See Roberts,
Whores in History
, p. 36

20.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 23

21.
See Roberts, op. cit., p. 38

22.
See Burford,
Bawds and Lodgings
, p. 18

23.
Ibid., pp. 18–19

24.
Ibid.

25.
Ibid.

26.
Ibid.

27.
See Taylor,
The Prehistory of Sex
, pp. 206–7

28.
See Burford,
Bawds and Lodgings
, p. 20

29.
Ibid.

30.
See Roberts, op. cit., p. 42

31.
See Burford,
Bawds and Lodgings
, p. 22

32.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 23

33.
Ibid., p. 19

34.
See Roberts, op. cit., p. 41

35.
Ibid., p. 44

36.
See
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/Collections/OnlineResources/Londinium/Lite/classifieds/bikini.htm

37.
See Roberts, op. cit., p. 43

38.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 24

39.
Ibid., p. 25

40.
Ibid.

41.
See Burford,
Bawds and Lodgings
, p. 26

42.
Ibid.

Chapter Two

1.
See Burford,
Bawds and Lodgings
, p. 32

2.
See Roberts,
Whores in History
, p. 88

3.
See Burford,
Bawds and Lodgings
, p. 37

4.
See Roberts, op. cit., p. 61

5.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 68

6.
See Roberts, op. cit., p. 83

7.
Ibid.

8.
Ibid., p. 86

9.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, pp. 49–50

10.
See Roberts, op. cit., p. 67

11.
See Chaucer,
The Canterbury Tales
, lines 165–205

12.
Ibid., lines 205–50

13.
Ibid., lines 622–90

14.
Ibid., lines 118–66

15.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne,
p. 52

16.
See Roberts, op. cit., p. 63

17.
Ibid., p. 88

18.
Ibid., p. 89

19.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 53

20.
See Burford,
Bawds and Lodgings
, p. 49

21.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 56

22.
Ibid., p. 83

23.
Ibid., p. 69

24.
Ibid., p. 71

25.
See Burford,
Bawds and Lodgings
, p. 31

26.
Ibid.

27.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, pp. 155–6

28.
See Burford,
Bawds and Lodgings
, p. 69

39.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 67

30.
Ibid., p. 66

31.
Ibid., p. 74

32.
Ibid., p. 85

33.
Ibid., p. 84

34.
Ibid., p. 76

35.
Ibid., p. 129

36.
Ibid., p. 130

37.
Ibid., p. 76

38.
Ibid.

49.
Ibid., p. 77

40.
Ibid.

41.
Ibid., p. 80

42.
Ibid., p. 76

43.
Ibid., pp. 86–7

44.
Ibid., p. 112

45.
Ibid.

46.
Ibid., p. 89

47.
Ibid., p. 79

48.
See
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/black_07.shtml

49.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 92

50.
Ibid., p. 96

51.
Ibid., p. 109

52.
See Scott,
Re-presenting ‘Jane' Shore: Harlot and Heroine

53.
See
http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/jane-shore.htm

Chapter Three

1.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 142

2.
See Fabricius,
Syphilis in Shakespeare's England
, p. 1

3.
See Burford, op. cit., p. 207

4.
See Fabricius, op. cit., p. 5

5.
Ibid., pp. 14–15

6.
Ibid., p. 20

7.
Ibid., p. 22

8.
See Waller,
1700: Scenes from London Life
, quoted Linnane,
London the Wicked City
, p. 27

9.
Ibid.

10.
See Fabricius, op. cit., p. 33

11.
See Burford, op. cit., p. 205

12.
Ibid., p. 204

13.
See Aubrey,
Brief Lives
, p. 11

14.
Ibid., p. 86

15.
See Warnicke,
The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn
, p. 193

16.
Ibid., p. 194

17.
See Haynes,
Sex in Elizabethan England
, p. 176

18.
See Warnicke, op. cit., pp. 191–221

19.
See Hussey manuscript at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gowenrf/husseyms_003.html

20.
See Warnicke, op. cit., p. 194

21.
See Burford, op. cit., p. 167

22.
See Aubrey, op. cit., p. 11

23.
See Haynes, op. cit., p. 129

24.
See Borris,
Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance
, p. 98

25.
Ibid., p. 339

26.
Ibid.

27.
Ibid.

28.
See Aubrey, op. cit., pp. 253–4

29.
Ibid., pp. 255–6

30.
Ibid., p. 138

31.
Ibid.

32.
Ibid., pp. 100–101

Chapter Four

1.
See Fabricius,
Syphilis in Shakespeare's England
, p. 104

2.
Ibid.

3.
Ibid.

4.
Ibid., p. 165

5.
Ibid.

6.
Ibid.

7.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 190

8.
See Burford,
Bawds and Lodgings
, p. 140

9.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 174

10.
See Fabricius, op. cit., p. 105

11.
Ibid.

12.
Ibid., p. 128

13.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 195

14.
Ibid.

15.
See Salgado,
The Elizabethan Underworld
, p. 42

16.
See Picard,
Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan England
, p. 169

17.
See Haynes,
Sex in Elizabethan England
, p. 175

18.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 195

19.
See Salgado, op. cit., p. 45

20.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 180

21.
See Salgado, op. cit., p. 49

22.
Ibid.

23.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 198

24.
See Salgado, op. cit., p. 38

25.
Ibid., p. 49

26.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 135

27.
See Salgado, op. cit., p. 41

28.
See O'Donoghue,
Bridewell Hospital
, p. 145

29.
Ibid., p. 155

30.
See Shakespeare,
King Lear
, IV. xi. 175–9

31.
See Burford,
The Orrible Synne
, p. 209

32.
Ibid.

33.
See Linnane,
London the Wicked City
, p. 21

Chapter Five

1.
See Burford,
Private Vices – Public Virtues
, p. 217

2.
Ibid.

3.
Ibid., p. 218

4.
Ibid., p. 220

5.
Ibid.

6.
See
Social History
, January 1994, vol. 19, no. 1, p. 104

7.
See Burford, op. cit., pp. 221–2

8.
See Burford, op. cit., pp. 222–3

9.
See Roberts,
Whores in History
, p. 156

10.
Ibid., p. 136

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