The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England (116 page)

Levellers,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Lewington, Robert,
(i)

Libb, Aunt,
(i)

Libb, Richard,
(i)
,
(ii)

Life and Adventures of Mrs Christian Davies
…
The
,
(i)

Life and Death of Mistress Mary Frith, The
,
(i)

life expectancy,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
; longevity of many nuns,
(iv)
; greater for women,
(v)

Lightfoote, ‘Honest Dafeny’,
(i)

Liburne Benomy,
(i)

Lilburne, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Dewell),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Lilburne, John,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Lilburne, John (son),
(i)

Lilburne, Tower,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Lilly, William,
(i)

Lincoln Assizes,
(i)
,
(ii)

Lincoln Castle,
(i)

Lincoln, Elizabeth Countess of (Elizabeth Knyvet),
(i)

Lincoln’s Inn Fields Company,
(i)

Lindsay, Countess of,
(i)

Lisle, John,
(i)

Lister, Joseph,
(i)

literacy
see under
education

Little Gidding,
(i)
,
(ii)

Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons
…
The
(Clarke),
(i)
,
(ii)

Lloyd, Robert,
(i)

Lloyd, Temperance,
(i)

Locke, John,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Lockyer, Robert,
(i)

Lodge, Thomas,
(i)

London
(i)
; Lord Mayor,
(ii)
,
(iii)
; fashionable attractions of,
(iv)
; Earl of Rutland’s dislike of,
(v)
,
(vi)
; plague of,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
; Fire of,
(x)
,
(xi)
; prostitution in,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
; Bishop of,
(xvi)

London, City of,
(i)
; treatment of widows,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
; ostentation of City wives,
(v)
,
(vi)
; in Civil War,
(vii)
; petition against religious schisms (1646),
(viii)
; marriages for money,
(ix)

London Cuckolds, The
(Ravenscroft),
(i)

Long, Jane,
(i)

Long, Lydia,
(i)

Long, Widow,
(i)

Long Meg of Westminster
(chapbook),
(i)

Louis XIV,
(i)

Love’s Masterpiece
(chapbook),
(i)

Lovelace, Richard,
(i)

Lovell, Thomas,
(i)

Low (surgeon),
(i)

Low Countries, women in,
(i)
,
(ii)

Lowestoft, Battle of,
(i)
,
(ii)

Lucas, Lady Anne,
(i)

Lucasta
(Lovelace),
(i)

‘Lucifer’s Lackey or The Devil’s New Creation’,
(i)
,
(ii)

Lucy, Lady Alice,
(i)

Lucy, Sir Thomas,
(i)

Ludford, Prodence,
(i)

Lufkin, Roger,
(i)

Lumley, Viscount,
(i)

Lupton, Donald,
(i)

Luson, Hewling,
(i)
,
(ii)

Lyme,
(i)
; siege of,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Lyttleton, Sir Charles,
(i)
,
(ii)

Lyttleton, Muriel (Muriel Bromley),
(i)

Macbeth
(Shakespeare),
(i)

Mackarel, Betty (‘Orange Betty’),
(i)

Maiden Troops (Virgin Troops),
(i)

Maidstone, Elizabeth Viscountess (Elizabeth Windham),
(i)

Maidstone, Viscount,
(i)

Maid’s Tragedy, The
(Beaumont and Fletcher),
(i)

Maintenon, Madame de,
(i)

Makin, Basua (Basua Pell),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)

Malade Imaginaire, Le
(Molière),
(i)

Malice Defeated
(Cellier),
(i)

Malleus Maleficarum
,
(i)

Manchester, Edward Montague
(i)
nd Earl of,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Manley, Mary,
(i)
,
(ii)

Manners
see also
under Roos; Rutland

Manners, Lady Catherine (Duchess of Buckingham),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Manners, Charles,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Manners, John (Ignoto),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Margaret of Austria,
(i)

Markham, Gervase,
(i)

Markland, Captain,
(i)
,
(ii)

Marlborough, John Churchill
(i)
st Duke of,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Marlborough, Sarah Duchess of (Sarah Churchill
née
Jennings),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Marpriest, Martin
see
Overton, Richard

marriage,
(i)
,
(ii)
; based on money,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
; wedding ceremonies,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
,
(xvii)
,
(xviii)
; and the law,
(xix)
,
(xx)
,
(xxi)
,
(xxii)
; age of consent,
(xxiii)
,
(xxiv)
; consummation of,
(xxv)
,
(xxvi)
,
(xxvii)
; based on love,
(xxviii)
,
(xxix)
; of servants,
(xxx)
; importance of marriage bed,
(xxxi)
; marital sex,
(xxxii)
; remarriage,
(xxxiii)
,
(xxxiv)
,
(xxxv)
,
(xxxvi)
,
(xxxvii)
,
(xxxviii)
,
(xxxix)
,
(xl)
,
(xli)
; and contraception,
(xlii)
,
(xliii)
; Diggers’ ideas on,
(xliv)
,
(xlv)
; after Civil War,
(xlvi)
; and authority of parents,
(xlvii)
; divorce,
(xlviii)
; Quaker marriages,
(xlix)
,
(l)
;
see also
childbirth; divorce; heiresses; widows

Marriage-à-la-Mode
(Dryden),
(i)

Marriage Promoted in a Discourse of its Ancient and Modern Practice
,
(i)

marriage settlements
see
dowries; jointures

Marsh, Henry,
(i)

Marshall, Anne (Anne Quin),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Marshall, Rebecca,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Marston Moor, Battle of (1644),
(i)
,
(ii)

Martin, Betty
see
Lane, Betty

Martin, Samuel,
(i)

Martindale, Adam,
(i)
,
(ii)

Martindale, Jane,
(i)

Marvell, Andrew,
(i)

Mary II (Mary of York, Princess of Orange),
(i)
,
(ii)
; wedding to William of Orange,
(iii)
; education and accomplishments,
(iv)
,
(v)
; and Bridget Bendish,
(vi)
; and Catherine Sedley,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
; and birth of James Edward Stuart,
(x)
; funeral sermon,
(xi)

Mary of Modena (Queen of James II, formerly Duchess of York),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
; pregnancies,
(v)
; and birth of James Edward Stuart,
(vi)
,
(vii)
; and Catherine Sedley,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
; and Elizabeth Cellier,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)

Mary Queen of Scots,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Mary I (Mary Tudor),
(i)
,
(ii)

Masham, Abigail (Abigail Hill),
(i)

Masham, Lady (Damaris Cudworth),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Masham, Samuel,
(i)
,
(ii)

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

Massachusetts (USA),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Massachusetts, Governor of,
(i)

Massey, Colonel Edward,
(i)
,
(ii)

Massinger, Philip,
(i)

Matrimonial Causes Act (1857),
(i)

Matrimoniall Honour
(Rogers),
(i)

Maurice of Nassau, Prince,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Maxwell, James,
(i)

Mayerne, Sir Theodore,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Mayor, Dorothy,
(i)

Mazarin, Duchesse de (Hortense Mancini),
(i)
,
(ii)

Meade, William,
(i)

Meal-Tub Plot,
(i)

Medici, Marie de,
(i)

medicines
see
illnesses

‘Melancholy’,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Meldrum, Sir John,
(i)

Melster, Catherine,
(i)

Memoirs of the Comte de Gramont
(Hamilton),
(i)

Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain
… (Ballard),
(i)

Mennes, Sir John,
(i)
,
(ii)

menopause, witchcraft connected with,
(i)

Mercer, Margaret,
(i)

Mercer, Mary,
(i)
,
(ii)

‘Merchant-Royal or Woman a Ship, The’ (Wilkinson),
(i)

Merchant Taylors’ School,
(i)

Mercurius Aulicus
,
(i)
,
(ii)

Mercurius Pragmaticus
,
(i)
,
(ii)

Mercurius Rusticus
,
(i)
,
(ii)

Meredith, Elizabeth,
(i)

Metamorphosis
(Ovid),
(i)

Middleton, Sir Hugh,
(i)

Middleton, Jenny,
(i)

Middleton, Thomas,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

midwives,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
; ‘Men-midwives’,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
; textbooks for,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
; payments to,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
; French midwives,
(xvi)
; skills regarded as natural to women,
(xvii)
; inadequacies of,
(xviii)
; invention of forceps,
(xix)
; licensing of,
(xx)
; contemporary state of obstetric knowledge,
(xxi)
; Elizabeth Cellier,
(xxii)
; and her proposal for a Midwives College,
(xxiii)
;
see also
childbirth