The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England (112 page)

Cromwell, Richard,
(i)
,
(ii)

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)

cursing,
(i)
,
(ii)

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)

Dant, Joan,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Danvers, Sir John,
(i)

Danvers, Mrs,
(i)

Danvers, Robert
see
Wright, Robert

Darnley, Lady Catherine (Duchess of Buckingham),
(i)

Darnley, James,
(i)
,
(ii)

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, Sir John,
(i)
,
(ii)

Davies, Lucy
see
Huntingdon, Lucy Countess of

Davies, Mrs (midwife),
(i)

Davies, Captain Priamus,
(i)

Davis, Moll,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Dawse, Anne,
(i)

De Generatione Animalium
(Harvey),
(i)

Deeping Fen,
(i)

Defoe, Daniel,
(i)
,
(ii)

Dekker, Thomas,
(i)
,
(ii)

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, John,
(i)
,
(ii)

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, Sir Kenelm,
(i)
,
(ii)

Digby, Mary Lady,
(i)

Diggers, the,
(i)
,
(ii)

‘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

Donne, John,
(i)
,
(ii)

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)

Dorothea, Sister,
(i)
,
(ii)

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)

Dugdale, Thomas,
(i)
,
(ii)

Duke’s Company, The,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Dunbar, Battle of,
(i)
,
(ii)

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)