The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England (120 page)

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Sheppard, Luce,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Sherard, Alice,
(i)
Sherborne,
(i)
Shoemaker’s Holiday, The
(Dekker),
(i)
Shore, Jane,
(i)
Sidney, Lady Dorothy
see
Sunderland, Dorothy Countess of
Sidney, Henry,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Sidney, Sir Philip,
(i)
Sidney, Sir Robert,
(i)
siege warfare,
(i)
th-century rules of,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Siege of Rhodes, The
(Davenant),
(i)
,
(ii)
Sim, Agnes,
(i)
Simmonds, Martha,
(i)
Simpson, John,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Simpson, Thomas,
(i)
,
(ii)
Simson, Widow,
(i)
singing
see under
accomplishments
Sion’s Lamentation
(Davies),
(i)
Sir Patient Fancy
(Behn),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
Skippon, Major-General,
(i)
Slingsby, Sir Henry,
(i)
Sloane, Sir Hans,
(i)
smallpox,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
Smith, Colonel,
(i)
Smith, Mary,
(i)
Smythe, Robert,
(i)
,
(ii)
Society of Friends
see
Quakers
soldiers, women as,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
‘solicitors’,
(i)
,
(ii)
; Lady Cholmley,
(iii)
; Dame Isabella Twysden,
(iv)
; Mary Lady Verney,
(v)
; Elizabeth Lilburne,
(vi)
; Rachel Lady Russell,
(vii)
;
see also
preachers
Somerset, Charles Seymour
(i)
th Duke of,
(ii)
Somerset, Duchess of
see
Percy, Lady Elizabeth
Somerset, Frances Countess of (Countess of Essex),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
Somerset, Lady Henrietta,
(i)
Somerset, Robert Car
(i)
st Earl of,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
Sophia, Electress of Hanover,
(i)
,
(ii)
souls, women’s disputed lack of,
(i)
,
(ii)
;
see also
women, inferiority of
Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley
(i)
th Earl of,
(ii)
Southampton House,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
Southerne, Thomas,
(i)
Southernes, Elizabeth,
(i)
Spencer, Lady Dorothy (Countess of Halifax),
(i)
Spender, Dale,
(i)
n
Spenser, Edmund,
(i)
spies, women as,
(i)
,
(ii)
spinsters,
(i)
,
(ii)
; lack of position in society,
(iii)
,
(iv)
; as royalist delinquents,
(v)
; right to vote,
(vi)
Spiritual Thrift
(Warren),
(i)
Sprint, Rev, Mr,
(i)
Stafford, Anthony,
(i)
Stanley, Lady Katherine
see
Dorchester, Marchioness of
Stanley, Lady Mary,
(i)
,
(ii)
Star, Mrs,
(i)
Star Chamber, the,
(i)
,
(ii)
Stationers’ Company, the,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Stearne, John,
(i)
,
(ii)
Steward, Mr,
(i)
Stewkeley, Carr
see
Verney, Cary
Stewkeley, John,
(i)
,
(ii)
Stewkeley, Ursula,
(i)
Stidecombe House,
(i)
Stone, George,
(i)
Stone, Lawrence,
(i)
Stone, Nicholas,
(i)
Stonier, Alice,
(i)
Stonier, Thomas,
(i)
Stout, William,
(i)
,
(ii)
Strafford, Earl of,
(i)
Strong, James,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
Stuart, Lady Arbella,
(i)
Stuart, James Edward
see
James Edward
Suckling, John,
(i)
Suffolk, Katherine Countess of,
(i)
suffrage
see
female suffrage
Sunderland, Anne Countess of (Lady Anne Digby),
(i)
,
(ii)
Sunderland, Dorothy Countess of (Lady Dorothy Sidney),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
Sunderland, Henry Spencer
(i)
st Earl of,
(ii)
Sunderland, Robert Spencer
(i)
nd Earl of,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
Sussex, Edward Radcliffe
(i)
th Earl of,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Sussex, Eleanor Countess of (Eleanor Wortley, Lady Lee, later Countess of Warwick),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
Sussex, James Savile
(i)
nd Earl of,
(ii)
Sussex, Anne Countess of,
(i)
Swan, John,
(i)
Swarthmoor Hall,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
Swetnam, Joseph,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Swift, Jonathan,
(i)
Sydenham, Thomas,
(i)
Tanfield, Elizabeth (Viscountess Falkland),
(i)
Tanfield, Lawrence,
(i)
Tate, Nahum,
(i)
Taverner, Mary,
(i)
Taylor, Jeremy,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Taylor, William,
(i)
Temple, Anne,
(i)
,
(ii)
Temple, William,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
Teresa, of Avila, St,
(i)
Thanet, Countess of (‘lovely Celimena’),
(i)
theatre
see
actresses
Theatre Royal,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
Thomas, Grace,
(i)
Thomas, Keith,
(i)
Thornton, Alice (Alice Wandesford),
(i)
&n,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
Thornton, Rev. John,
(i)
Thornton, ‘Naly’,
(i)
,
(ii)
Thornton, William,
(i)
Thouars, Duc de,
(i)
Three Hours after Marriage
(Pope, Arbuthnot and Gay),
(i)
Thynne, Lady Isabella (Lady Isabella Rich),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Thynne, Sir James,
(i)
Thynne, Lady,
(i)
Thynne, Thomas,
(i)
Tillotson, Archbishop,
(i)
Tilly, John,
(i)
Timperley, Lady,
(i)
Tirrell, Miss,
(i)
’Tis Pity She’s a Whore
(Ford),
(i)
To Dr – An Answer to his Queries
… (Cellier),
(i)
Tokey, Rev, Mr,
(i)
Tollemache, Sir Lionel,
(i)
Tollemache, William,
(i)
Tom of all Trades
(Powell),
(i)
toothbrushes,
(i)
Topp, Mrs Elizabeth,
(i)
Torrington, Arthur Herbert
(i)
st Earl of,
(ii)
Tower of London,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
Towes, Adrian,
(i)
Town-Fop, or Sir Timothy Tawdrey, The
(Behn),
(i)
,
(ii)
Trapnel, Anna,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Travers, Ann,
(i)
Treatise of Magistracy, A
(Mary Pope),
(i)
Trembles, Mary,
(i)
Trent, Council of,
(i)
,
(ii)
Trevor, Mark,
(i)
Trotter, Catherine,
(i)
Tunbridge Wells,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
Turkey,
(i)
,
(ii)
; Sultan Mahomet IV,
(iii)
,
(iv)
; Vizier of,
(v)
,
(vi)
Tuscany, Grand Duke of,
(i)
Twysden, Lady Anne (Lady Anne Finch),
(i)
,
(ii)
Twysden, Charles,
(i)
,
(ii)
Twysden, Elizabeth
see
Cholmley, Elizabeth Lady
Twysden, Dame Isabella (Isabella Saunders),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
Twysden, Sir Roger,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
Twysden, Roger (son),
(i)
Twysden, Sir William,
(i)
Tyrrell, James,
(i)
Tyndale, William,
(i)
Unhappy Favourite, The
(Banks),
(i)
United Company, The
,
(i)
,
(ii)
unmarried women
see
spinsters
Uphill, Mrs,
(i)
Upsheer, Martha,
(i)
Upton, Ann,
(i)
Urban VIII, Pope,
(i)
Vanbrugh, Sir John,
(i)
,
(ii)
Van Dyck, Sir Anthony,
(i)
,
(ii)
Van Helmont, F.M.,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
Van Schurman, Anna,
(i)
Vaughan, Lord,
(i)
Vaughan, Mr,
(i)
Vavasour, Sir William,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
Venables, General,
(i)
Venables, Mrs,
(i)
venereal disease,
(i)
Venice Preserv’d
(Otway),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Venner, Thomas,
(i)
Vere, Aubrey de,
(i)
Vere of Tilbury, Lord,
(i)
Verney, Betty (Betty Adams, sister of Sir Ralph),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

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