The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England (121 page)

Verney, Cary (Cary Gardiner, later Stewkeley, sister of Sir Ralph),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Verney, Sir Edmund (father of Sir Ralph),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)

Verney, Edmund (‘Mun’, son of Sir Ralph),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Verney, Henry,
(i)

Verney, John (Jack, son of Sir Ralph),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Verney, Dame Margaret (mother of Sir Ralph),
(i)

Verney, Mary Lady (Mary Blacknall, wife of Sir Ralph),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
; marriage to Ralph Verney,
(ix)
; and deaths of her children,
(x)
,
(xi)
; selects a wet-nurse for her son,
(xii)
; appeals against sequestration,
(xiii)
; death of,
(xiv)

Verney, Mary (wife of Edmund ‘Mun’),
(i)

Verney, Molly (sister of Sir Ralph),
(i)
,
(ii)

Verney, Molly (‘Little Molly’, daughter of Edmund ‘Mun’),
(i)
,
(ii)

Verney, Peg (Peg Elmes, sister of Sir Ralph),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Verney, Pegg (daughter of Sir Ralph),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Verney, Pen (sister of Sir Ralph),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Verney, Sir Ralph,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
; marriage to Mary Blacknall,
(xiii)
; views on Nancy Denton’s education,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
,
(xvii)
; views on nursing,
(xviii)
; exile and sequestration of his estate,
(xix)
; and death of his wife,
(xx)

Verney, Ralph (son of Sir Ralph),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Verney, Sue (sister of Sir Ralph),
(i)
,
(ii)

Verney family,
(i)
,
(ii)

Verney letters,
(i)
n

Vicars, John,
(i)
,
(ii)

Villiers, George
see
Buckingham
(i)
st Duke of

Villiers, George
see
Buckingham
(i)
nd Duke of

Villiers, Sir John
see
Purbeck, Viscount

Villiers, Robert
see
Wright, Robert

Villiers, ‘Su’
see
Denbigh, Countess of

Virgin Mary,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)

virginity,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Virgin’s Pattern, The
(Batchiler),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Virgin Troops (Maiden Troops),
(i)

Virginia,
(i)
,
(ii)

Virtuoso, The
(Shadwell),
(i)

vizard masks,
(i)
,
(ii)

Voice for the King of Saints
(Trapnel),
(i)

Vyner, Mary Lady,
(i)

Vyner, Sir Robert,
(i)
,
(ii)

wages: of dairymaids,
(i)
; of servants,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
; of nurses,
(v)
; of prostitutes,
(vi)
; of actresses,
(vii)
; of midwives,
(viii)
,
(ix)

Wakeley, Anne,
(i)

Walker, Dr Anthony,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Walker, Elizabeth,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)

Walker, Elizabeth (daughter),
(i)

Walker, Johnny,
(i)

Walker, Mary,
(i)

Walker, Robert,
(i)

Wall, Mrs,
(i)

Wall, Isolt,
(i)

Waller, Edmund,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)

Waller, Sir Henry,
(i)

Waller, Lady,
(i)

Waller, Sir William,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Waller’s Horse (‘Waller’s Dogs’),
(i)

Walpole, Sir Robert,
(i)

Walsingham, Sir Francis,
(i)

Wandering Whore, The
(Garfield),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Wandesford, Alice
see
Thornton, Alice

Ward, Barbara,
(i)
,
(ii)

Ward, Mary,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Wards, Court of,
(i)
,
(ii)

wardships,
(i)
,
(ii)

Warner, Father John,
(i)

Warren, Captain,
(i)

Warren, Elizabeth,
(i)
,
(ii)

Warwick, Charles Rich
(i)
th Earl of,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Warwick, Eleanor Countess of
see
Sussex, Countess of

Warwick, Mary Countess of (Mary Rich
née
Boyle),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
; marriage to Charles Rich,
(vi)
; her household routine,
(vii)
; and Lady Essex Rich,
(viii)
,
(ix)
; and children,
(x)
; as a widow,
(xi)
; her books,
(xii)
; and Katherine Boyle,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
; her will,
(xvi)
; and Lord Goring,
(xvii)

Warwick, Robert Rich
(i)
nd Earl of,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)

Warwick, Susan Countess of (Susan Halliday),
(i)
,
(ii)

Warwick House,
(i)

Watts, Dr Isaac,
(i)

weaker vessel, the: origins of phrase,
(i)
; nature of weakness,
(ii)
; quoted,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Weaver, Elizabeth
see
Farley, Elizabeth

Weaver, James,
(i)

Webbe, Thomas,
(i)

Weddings,
(i)
; Honoria Denny to James Lord Hay,
(ii)
; Frances Coke to Sir John Villiers,
(iii)
; Mary Blacknall to Ralph Verney,
(iv)
; Lucy Pelham to Gervase Pierrepont,
(v)
; Rachel Lady Vaughan to William Russell,
(vi)
; Anne Pierrepont to John Lord Roos,
(vii)
; Mary Cromwell to Lord Fauconberg,
(viii)
; Hester Davenport to Lord Oxford,
(ix)
;
see also
marriage

wedding sermons,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Weekly Journal
,
(i)

Weldon, Sir Anthony,
(i)
,
(ii)

Wenham, Jane,
(i)
,
(ii)

West, Lieutenant-Colonel,
(i)

West Indies,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Westminster Abbey,
(i)
n,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Westminster Liberty Regiment,
(i)
,
(ii)

Westmorland, Earls of,
(i)

wet-nurses,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Wexford,
(i)

Whateley, William,
(i)

Wheeler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Child),
(i)

Wheeler, Lady,
(i)

Wheeler, Martha,
(i)
,
(ii)

Wheeler, William,
(i)

Whitby, manor of,
(i)

Whitelocke, Bulstrode,
(i)
,
(ii)

Whole Duty of Man, The
(Allestree),
(i)

whores
see
prostitutes

Whore’s Rhetorick, The
,
(i)
,
(ii)

Whorwood, Brome,
(i)

Whorwood, Jane,
(i)

Whorwood, Sir Thomas,
(i)

Whyte, Hester,
(i)

Whyte, Rowland,
(i)

widows,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
453; concept of lusty widow,
(vi)
; legal and economic independence of,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
; and remarriage,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
,
(xvii)
; ideal of devoted widow,
(xviii)
,
(xix)
; pursued as heiresses,
(xx)
; in poorer classes,
(xxi)
; and old age,
(xxii)
; as potential witches,
(xxiii)
,
(xxiv)
,
(xxv)
; of soldiers,
(xxvi)
,
(xxvii)
; and female franchise,
(xxviii)
,
(xxix)
; businesswomen,
(xxx)
,
(xxxi)
,
(xxxii)

Wilkins, Bishop,
(i)

Wilkins, Mrs,
(i)
,
(ii)

Wilkinson, Rev, Robert,
(i)
,
(ii)

Willet, Deb,
(i)
,
(ii)

William III (William of Orange),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)

William the Silent,
(i)

Williams, Elizabeth,
(i)

Williams, Roger,
(i)

Willimot, Joan,
(i)

Willis, Sue,
(i)

Willoughby, William,
(i)

Willughby, ‘Mrs’,
(i)

Willughby, Dr Percival,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

wills,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)

Wilson, Arthur,
(i)
,
(ii)

Wilson, J. H.,
(i)

Wilton House,
(i)

Winch, Mrs,
(i)
,
(ii)

Winchester, Bishop of,
(i)

Winchester, Honora Marchioness of,
(i)
,
(ii)

Winchester, John Paulet
(i)
th Marquess of,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Winchester House,
(i)

Winchilsea, Anne Countess of (Anne Finch
née
Kingsmill),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)