The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England (111 page)

Chattox, Anne,
(i)

Chaucer, Geoffrey,
(i)
,
(ii)

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)

Chidley, Katherine,
(i)
,
(ii)

Chidley, Samuel,
(i)
,
(ii)

Child, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Wheeler),
(i)

Child, Sir Francis,
(i)

Child, Sir Josiah,
(i)
,
(ii)

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)

Chronicle
(Baker),
(i)
,
(ii)

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)

Cibber, Colley,
(i)
,
(ii)

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)

Clarke, Samuel,
(i)
,
(ii)

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)

conception,
(i)
,
(ii)

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)

Cooke, Sarah,
(i)
,
(ii)

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 Chancery,
(i)
,
(ii)

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,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Coventry, Lord Keeper of,
(i)

Coventry, Margaret,
(i)

Coventry, Sir William,
(i)
,
(ii)

Coward, Mrs,
(i)

Cox, Sara,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Cradock, Elizabeth
see
Bennett, Elizabeth

Craftes, Ellen,
(i)

Cranborne, Lord,
(i)
,
(ii)

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)