The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England (95 page)

36
CSP Domestic, 1654, pp.86, 89, 134.

37
Trapnel’s Report and Plea
, pp.21–37.

38
CSP Domestic, 1654, p.436;
Trapnel’s Report and Plea
, p.38.

39
CSP Domestic, 1654, p.438; Trapnel,
Legacy for Saints
, p.59.

40
See ‘Anonymous Folio Volume’, Bodleian Library, S.1.42. Th; note by Bertram Dobell, ‘Unique Book: Trapnel’, p.221.

41
‘Anonymous Folio Volume’, Bodleian Library, S.1.42. Th, p.1.

42
Dobell, ‘Unique Book: Trapnel’, p.223; ‘Anonymous Folio Volume’, Bodleian Library, S.1.42. Th, pp.256, 649, 697.

43
cit. Capp,
Fifth Monarchy
, p.142.

44
Capp,
Fifth Monarchy
, p.266.

45
Charles II Letters
, p.92.

46
Clarendon State Papers
, II, p.383; Ross,
Margaret Fell
, p.39.

47
See Brailsford,
Quaker Women
, pp.103–6.

48
Fox Journal
, p.96.

49
cit. Thomas, ‘Women and Sects’, p.47.

Chapter 14: Worldly Goods

1
Verney Memoirs
, II, p.480;
As You Like It
, Act III, scene V.

2
Verney Memoirs
, II, pp.361, 365.

3
Verney Memoirs
, II, pp.372, 215, 390; III, pp.213–15; II, p.383.

4
Verney Memoirs
, IV, pp.33–7.

5
See Habakkuk, ‘Marriage Settlements’; Stone, ‘Social Mobility in England’, p.52; Stone,
Crisis of the Aristocracy
, pp.637–45.

6
G.E.C.,
Complete Peerage
, II, p.53.

7
cit. Coate,
Social Life
, p.25; cit. Habakkuk, ‘Marriage Settlements’, p.23;
Pepys Diary
, I, p.269; Hollingsworth, ‘Demographic Study of the British ducal families’, p.9, cites 6 per cent of ducal female offspring unmarried eventually, 1480–1679, compared to 17 per cent, 1680–1729 (at the age of twenty-five the relative figures were 19 per cent to 37 per cent).

8
King,
Natural and political observations
, p.39; Graunt, ‘Natural Observations upon bills of Mortality’, II, p.375.

9
Marriage Promoted in a Discourse
, p.27.

10
cit. Appendix C, Berens,
Digger Movement
, p.252.

11
cit. Cartwright,
Madame
, p.153; Hamilton,
Gramont Memoirs
, p.108.

12
Oglander Notebook
, p.95;
Killigrew Poems
, p.31.

13
Aphra Behn,
Feign’d Curtezans
, Act IV, scene II; Aphra Behn,
The Rover
, Part I, Act I, scene I; Charles Sedley,
Bellamira
, Act V, scene I.

14
Hamilton,
Gramont Memoirs
, p.232; Index, p.367.

15
Verney Memoirs
, IV, pp.273–80.

16
Verney Memoirs
, IV, pp.207, 452–4.

17
Newcastle,
Worlds Olio
, p.211.

18
HMC, Salisbury MSS, 1621–88, p.420.

19
Allestree,
Ladies Calling
, Part II, p.177;
Warwick Autobiography
, pp.35–6.

20
Cust Family Records
, series II, p.74.

21
Woolley,
Gentlewomans Companion
, p.89.

22
See Finch MSS, I, pp.xxv, 461–4; III, p.139.

23
Athenian Oracle
, II, p.155.

24
cit. Hiscock,
Evelyn and Mrs Godolphin
, p.166.

25
Although
Collins’ Peerage
, V, p.516 gives 14 October 1679, I have followed Sidney,
Diary
, II, p.11, and Cartwright,
Sacharissa
, page 247, which make it clear the ceremony took place in March.

26
Cartwright,
Sacharissa
, p.247; Fraser,
King Charles II
, pp.348–9.

27
Cartwright,
Sacharissa
, p.247.

28
Cartwright,
Sacharissa
, p.215; Sidney,
Diary
, I, p.286.

29
Sidney,
Diary
, I, pp.238–9.

30
Sidney,
Diary
, I, pp.250–51.

31
Cartwright,
Sacharissa
, p.244.

32
Sidney,
Diary
, II, p.39; Cartwright,
Sacharissa
, p.247.

33
Cartwright,
Sacharissa
, pp.248–9.

34
Sidney,
Diary
, II, p.25; George Farquhar,
The Beaux’ Stratagem
, Act II, scene I.

35
Verney Memoirs
, IV, p.231; Newdegate,
Muniment Room
, p.178.

36
Evelyn Diary
, II, p.160;
Pepys Diary
, VIII, p.139.

37
Hatton Correspondence
, I, p.53.

38
Shannon,
Discourses and Essays
, Preface; cit. Jameson,
Beauties of Charles II’s Court
, p.168.

39
See Jameson,
Beauties of Charles II’s Court
, pp.169–70.

40
Sidney,
Diary
, I, p.302.

41
Life of Lady Russell
, p.75.

42
Hatton Correspondence
, I, p.236.

43
Evelyn Diary
, II, p.160;
Life of Lady Russell
, p.75.

44
House of Commons
, I, p.716.

45
Fea,
Some Beauties
, pp.40–50;
Hatton Correspondence
, II p.8; Newdegate,
Cavalier and Puritan
, p.154.

46
DNB (Thomas Thynne);
Evelyn Diary
, II, p.386.

47
Newdegate,
Cavalier and Puritan
, p.160.

48
cit. Fea,
Some Beauties
, p.69.

49
Life of Lady Russell
, pp. xvi, xcviii.

50
Scott Thomson,
Russells in Bloomsbury
, pp.14, 17.

51
Scott Thomson,
Russells in Bloomsbury
, p.62.

52
Lady Russell Letters
, I, p.36;
Life of Lady Russell
, p.36.

53
Fraser,
King Charles II
, p.429.

54
Life of Lady Russell
, p.xxv; Pilkington,
Celebrated Female Characters
, p.311.

55
Burnet,
History
, II, p.380;
Life of Lady Russell
, p.xxvi.

56
See Strong,
When did you last see your father?
, p.21; Appendix, p.167.

57
Life of Lady Russell
, pp.xxiv–xxxv.

58
Life of Lady Russell
, p.xliii.

59
Life of Lady Russell
, p.xcvi.

60
Mary Berry, anonymous editor,
Life of Lady Russell
, p.viii.

61
Evelyn Diary
, II, p.173;
Life of Lady Russell
, p.lxxviii; G.E.C.,
Complete Peerage
, II, p.81.

62
Life of Lady Russell
, p.lxxix.

63
Life of Lady Russell
, p.93.

64
Life of Lady Russell
, p.223.

Chapter 15: Divorce from Bed and Board

1
Cripps,
Elizabeth of the Sealed Knot
, pp.89–90.

2
Gardiner,
Oxinden and Peyton
, pp.219, 265, 344.

3
MacDonald,
Mystical Bedlam
, p.101.

4
Norsworthy,
Lady Hatton
, p.30.

5
Osborne Letters
, p.169;
Waller Poems
, I, p.90; Aubrey,
Brief Lives
, ed. Powell, p.295.

6
Carte,
Ormonde
, IV, p.701; Burghclere,
Ormonde
, I, p.41.

7
Longleat NMR MS, 1847.

8
Verney Memoirs
, III, p.435; Carte MSS, Vol. LXXVIII, fo. 412;
Giffard Correspondence
, p.4.

9
Fell Smith,
Warwick
, pp.284–90.

10
Verney Memoirs
, III, pp.430–32; IV, p.199.

11
Pepys Diary
, II, p.6 and note 6.

12
Hogrefe,
Tudor Women
, p.89.

13
Whateley’s tracts, cit. Stenton,
English Woman
, pp.107–8; see Milton,
Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
; Thompson,
Women in Stuart England
, pp.169–77.

14
Ladies Dictionary
, p.165; HMC, Denbigh MSS, Part V, p.14.

15
Aphra Behn,
The Town-Fop
, Act V, scene IV;
Sir Patient Fancy
, Act V, scene I.

16
Houldsworth,
English Law
, I, p.623.

17
Robinson,
Dukes of Norfolk
, pp.145–7.

18
Thomas, ‘Double Standard’, p.201;
Athenian Oracle
, I, p.428.

19
Devereux,
Earls of Essex
, II, pp.304–6.

20
Pepys Diary
, IV, p.254 and note 2.

21
G.E.C.,
Complete Peerage
, XI, pp.262, 109–12.

22
Clarendon Life
, III, p.17; G.E.C.,
Complete Peerage
, XI, p.263; HMC, Rutland MSS, IV, p.519.

23
HMS, Rutland MSS, IV, p.340.

24
Clarendon Life
, III, p.172.

25
Clarendon Life
, III, p.172.

26
Clarendon Life
, III, p.172.

27
Clarendon Life
, III, p.173.

28
Clarendon Life
, III, p.174.

29
Dorchester’s Letter to Lord Roos, with his Answer
.

30
Dorchester’s Letter to Lord Roos, with his Answer
.

31
Clarendon Life
, III, p.175.

32
HMC, Salisbury MSS, XXII, p.441.

33
HMC, Salisbury MSS, XXII, p.442.

34
HMC, Rutland MSS, IV, p.547.

35
HMC, Salisbury MSS, XXII, p.442.

36
HMC, Salisbury MSS, XXII, p.444.

37
G.E.C.,
Complete Peerage
, IV, p.406 and note A.

38
Journal of the House of Lords
, XII, pp.17, 28.

39
Journal of the House of Lords
, XII, pp.41–52.

40
Journal of the House of Lords
, XII, p.95.

41
HMC, Rutland MSS, II, p.8.

42
G.E.C.,
Complete Peerage
, XI, p.iii and note C.

43
Journal of the House of Lords
, XII, p.324; Burnet,
History
, I, p.471, note 2.

44
HMC, 8th Report, Appendix, p.117.

45
Burnet,
History
, I, p.472; Matthew, 5, VS. 32; 19, VS. 9; Mark, 10, VS. 11–12; Luke, 16, VS. 18;
Case of my Lord Roos
.

46
Journal of the House of Lords
, XII, p.323.

47
HMC, Rutland MSS, IV, p.647;
Journal of the House of Lords
, XII, p.350.