The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England (110 page)

Book of Common Prayer
,
(i)

Book of Martyrs, The
(Foxe),
(i)

booksellers, female,
(i)

Boston (Massachusetts),
(i)
,
(ii)

Bourchier, Elizabeth (Betty)
see
Denbigh, Countess of

Bourgeois, Louise,
(i)

Boutel, Betty,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Bowen (Roger Fulwood’s accomplice),
(i)
,
(ii)

Boyer, Abel,
(i)

Boyle, Lady Anne (‘adored Valerie’),
(i)

Boyle, Lady Katherine
see
Ranelagh, Katherine Viscountess

Boyle, Lady Mary
see
Warwick, Mary Countess of

Boyle, Robert,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Boyle, Roger
see
Orrery, Earl of

Boynton, Sir Mathew,
(i)

Bracegirdle, Anne,
(i)
n,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Bradstreet, Anne,
(i)
,
(ii)

Brailsford, Mabel R.,
(i)
n

Brampton Bryan Castle,
(i)
,
(ii)

Brangton, Mrs,
(i)

Brathwaite, Richard,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)

breast-feeding,
(i)
;
see also
wetnurses

Brereton, Sir William,
(i)

Brett, Richard,
(i)

Bride-Bush, A
(Whateley),
(i)

Bridewell prison,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Bride-Woman Counseller, The
(Sprint),
(i)

Bridges, Major John,
(i)

Bridgwater, Elizabeth Countess of (Lady Elizabeth Cavendish),
(i)

Bridgwater, siege of,
(i)

Bristol, Anne Countess of (Lady Anne Russell),
(i)

Bristol, George Digby Earl of,
(i)

Bristol,
(i)
,
(ii)

Britannia
(Camden),
(i)

Brittaine, Mabel,
(i)

Brocksoppe, Joan,
(i)

Broghill, Lord
see
Orrery
(i)
st Earl of

Bromley, Sir Rupert,
(i)
n

Bromley, Sir Thomas,
(i)

Brooke, Dr Jeremy,
(i)

Brooke, Mr,
(i)

brothels (bawdy houses),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Brouckner, Henry,
(i)

Brown, Tom,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Browne, Robert,
(i)

Brownists,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Brownlow, Elizabeth,
(i)

Brownlow, Sir John,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Brownlow, Sir William,
(i)
,
(ii)

Bruce, Lady Diana (Lady Roos),
(i)

Bryne, Albertus,
(i)

Buchanan, George,
(i)

Buckden Fen,
(i)

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

Buckingham, Duchess of, wife of
(i)
st Duke,
see
Manners, Lady Catherine

Buckingham, George Villiers
(i)
st Duke of: favourite of James I,
(ii)
,
(iii)
; role in marriage of Frances Coke and Sir John Villiers,
(iv)
,
(v)
; seizes Purbeck estates,
(vi)
,
(vii)
; favourite of Charles I,
(viii)
,
(ix)
; marriage to Lady Catherine Manners,
(x)
,
(xi)
; assassination predicted by Lady Eleanor Davies,
(xii)
,
(xiii)

Buckingham, George Villiers
(i)
nd Duke of,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Buckingham, John Sheffield
(i)
st Duke of (Earl of Mulgrave),
(ii)

Bullen, Thomas,
(i)

Bullock, Jane,
(i)

Bun, Mary,
(i)

Burford mutiny,
(i)

Burgoyne, Sir Roger,
(i)
,
(ii)

Burman, Lydia,
(i)

Burnet, Bishop Gilbert,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Burton, Henry,
(i)
,
(ii)

Burton, Robert,
(i)
,
(ii)

Burton, Sarah,
(i)

Bushin, Betty,
(i)

businesswomen,
(i)
,
(ii)
; Joan Dant and women pedlars,
(iii)
; prominence of dissenter women,
(iv)
; examples recorded by Pepys and others,
(v)
; Mrs Constance Pley,
(vi)
; Bridget Bendish,
(vii)

Butler, Charlotte,
(i)

Butler, Samuel,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Butler, Mr,
(i)

Byron, Sir John,
(i)

Byron, Lady,
(i)

Byrth of Mankind, The
(manual for midwives),
(i)

Calendar of State Papers, Domestic
,
(i)

Calisto
(masque),
(i)
,
(ii)

Calverley, Sir Walter,
(i)

Cambridge (England),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Cambridge (Massachusetts),
(i)
,
(ii)

Cambridge, Mayor of,
(i)

Camden, William,
(i)

camp-followers,
(i)
,
(ii)

Campion, Goodwife,
(i)

Campion, Thomas,
(i)

Canterbury, Archbishop of,
(i)
,
(ii)

Capel, Arthur Lord,
(i)

Care-Cloth, A
(Whateley),
(i)

Care, Henry,
(i)

Carew, Anne,
(i)

Carew, John,
(i)

Carey, Philadelphia (Philadelphia Lyttelton),
(i)

Carey, Thomas,
(i)

Carisbrooke Castle,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Carlile, Joan,
(i)

Carlisle, Margaret Countess of,
(i)

Carnarvon, Elizabeth Countess of (Elizabeth Capel),
(i)

Carnarvon, Mary Countess of,
(i)

Caroline (Queen of George II),
(i)

Caroline (Queen of George IV),
(i)

Carr, Lady Anne (Countess of Bedford),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Carr, Robert
see
Somerset,
(i)
st Earl of

Carteret, Sir George,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Cartwright, William,
(i)

Cary, Sir Lucius
see
Falkland,
(i)
nd Viscount

Castleton, Lord,
(i)

Catherine of Braganza (Queen of Charles II),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Catherine v. Surrey,
(i)

Catholics,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
; convents,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
; and Mary Ward,
(xi)
, nuns,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
; and sequestration,
(xiv)
; and ‘Popish Plot’,
(xv)
; and birth of Old Pretender,
(xvi)

Cavendish, Lady Anne,
(i)

Cavendish, William Lord (later
(i)
st Duke of Devonshire),
(ii)

CCXI Sociable Letters
(Newcastle),
(i)
,
(ii)

Cecil, Lady Anne (Lady Percy),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Cecil, Lady Elizabeth,
(i)

Cecil, Lady Frances,
(i)

Cellier, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Marshall),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Cellier, Pierre,
(i)

Chaderton, William (Bishop of Lincoln),
(i)

Challinor, Francis,
(i)

Chamberlain, Doll,
(i)

Chamberlain, John,
(i)

Chamberlen, Dr Hugh,
(i)

Chamberlen, Dr Peter,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Chamberlen, Peter the Elder,
(i)

Characters of London
(Lupton),
(i)

chapbooks,
(i)
,
(ii)

Charles I, King,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
,
(xvii)
,
(xviii)
; and Frances Purbeck,
(xix)
,
(xx)
; and Roger Fulwood,
(xxi)
; trial and execution of,
(xxii)
,
(xxiii)
,
(xxiv)
,
(xxv)
,
(xxvi)
,
(xxvii)
,
(xxviii)
; and Lady Eleanor Davies,
(xxix)
,
(xxx)
,
(xxxi)
,
(xxxii)
; and Brilliana Lady Harley,
(xxxiii)
,
216–17; and Jane Whorwood,
(xxxiv)
; and escape of James Duke of York,
(xxxv)
; issues proclamation against depravity of army,
(xxxvi)

Charles II, King,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
; Battle of Worcester,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
,
(xvii)
; his mistresses,
(xviii)
,
(xix)
,
(xx)
,
(xxi)
,
(xxii)
,
(xxiii)
,
(xxiv)
,
(xxv)
; and Lady Eleanor Davies,
(xxvi)
; appearance,
(xxvii)
; Restoration,
(xxviii)
; on love and marriage,
(xxix)
; at wedding of Mary of York,
(xxx)
; and Rye House Plot,
(xxxi)
&n; at divorce hearing of Lord and Lady Roos,
(xxxii)
; and Catherine of Braganza,
(xxxiii)
; and education,
(xxxiv)
; and Elizabeth Hooton and the Quakers,
(xxxv)
,
(xxxvi)
,
(xxxvii)
; and navy,
(xxxviii)
; visits Henry Cromwell,
(xxxix)
; on mistresses of Duke of York,
(xl)
; death of,
(xli)
; and Nell Gwynn,
(xlii)
,
(xliii)
; and the theatre,
(xliv)
,
(xlv)
,
(xlvi)
,
(xlvii)
; birth,
(xlviii)
; and ‘Popish Plot’,
(xlix)
; and Meal-Tub Plot,
(l)

Charles James, Prince (son of Charles I),
(i)

Chartley Manor,
(i)