The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England (93 page)

15
Pepys Diary
, VII, p.193 and note 2; Ashley,
Life in Stuart England
, p.27; HMC, Salisbury MSS, 1612–88, p.394.

16
Laslett,
World we have lost
(1983), p.12.

17
Chambers,
Mary Ward
, II, p.33.

18
I Corinthians, 14, VS. 35;
Verney Memoirs
, III, p.74.

19
Macfarlane,
Josselin
, p.147; Laslett,
World we have lost
(1983), p.13.

20
Laslett,
World we have lost
(1983), p.82, suggests a ‘mean age’ of about twenty-three and a half.

21
Wage of
£
2 cited for 1685 by Goreau,
Aphra
, p.73;
Cust Family Records
, series II, p.63; Scott Thomson,
Noble Household
, p.301.

22
Fell Smith,
Warwick
, p.348; Stuart,
English Abigail
, p.40.

23
For
Mary Woodforde’s Book
, see
Woodforde Papers
, pp.3–34.

24
Blundell,
Cavalier’s Notebook
, p.158; Halifax,
Complete Works
, p.292.

25
Twysden Diary
, pp.119, 122, 134; Scott Thomson,
Noble Household
, p.120.

26
Wilson Life
, p.462.

27
Scott Thomson,
Noble Household
, p.309.

28
Kirkman,
Unlucky Citizen
, p.127; HMC, Salisbury MSS, XXII, p.425.

29
Kirkman,
Unlucky Citizen
, p.99.

30
Thornton Autobiography
, p.277;
Diary of Robert Hooke 1672–1680
, cit. Stone,
Family, Sex and Marriage
, pp.561–3.

31
See
Martindale Life
, pp.6–8, 17–18.

32
See Spufford, ‘Portraits of Society’.

33
Hogrefe,
Tudor Women
, pp.89–90;
Mistress Mary Firth
.

34
See CSP Domestic, 1628–9, pp.530–1.

35
Thomas,
Religion
, p.137.

36
Carte MS, Vol. LXXVIII, fo. 410, no. 175.

37
For the career of Lady Eleanor Davies see especially Spencer, ‘Unfortunate Lady’, and ‘Dougle Fooleries’.

38
Spencer, ‘Unfortunate Lady’, p.43.

39
CSP Domestic, 1619–23, p.400.

40
‘Dougle Fooleries’, p.95.

41
HMC, Hastings MSS, IV, p.343.

42
Spencer, ‘Unfortunate Lady’, p.48.

43
CSP Domestic, 1633–4, pp.266, 345; ‘Petition of Lady Eleanor (Davies)’, Thomason Tract, 669, fo. 10/2.

44
CSP Domestic, 1633–4, p.261.

45
Spencer, ‘Unfortunate Lady’, p.51.

46
CSP Domestic, 1633–4, p.346.

47
‘Dougle Fooleries’, p.97.

48
‘Dougle Fooleries’, p.94.

49
Tract no. 18, HMC, Hastings MSS, IV, p.344.

Chapter 9: Courage above her Sex

1
Newcastle,
Worlds Olio
, p.215.

2
cit. Bankes,
Dorset Heritage
, p.55; Washbourn,
Gloucestrensis
, part I, p.lxxxvii.

3
HMC, Bath MSS, I, p.27; still to be seen on the wall of the chancel in St Martin’s Church, Ruislip, Middlesex.

4
Cholmley Memoirs
, p.42;
Cholmley’s Narrative
, p.583.

5
cit. Coate,
Social Life
, p.30;
Cromwell Writings
, II, pp.378–9.

6
‘Lathom Siege Journall’, p.163.

7
‘Dyve Letters’, p.67.

8
See Fraser,
Cromwell
, p.335; ‘Dyve Letters’, p.73; Foster, ‘Digby’, p.23.

9
Denbigh,
Royalist Father
, p.224.

10
Harcourt Papers
, I, p.168; see the anonymous ‘A Briefe Journall of the Siege against Lathom’, Ormerod’s
Civil War Tracts in Lancashire
, pp.159–86, for a first-hand account of its course.

11
‘Lathom Siege Journall’, p.167.

12
‘Lathom Siege Journall’, p.177.

13
See Powicke, ‘Hastings Manuscripts’, pp.262–7.

14
Lloyd,
Memoires of Noble Personages
, p.572; Blundell,
Cavalier’s Notebook
, p.151;
Fox Journal
, p.464.

15
See Godwin,
Civil War in Hampshire
, pp.84–370.

16
Clarendon,
History of Rebellion
, III, p.410.

17
Godwin,
Civil War in Hampshire
, p.347;
Cronwell Writings
, I, p.341.

18
Lloyd,
Memoires of Noble Personages
, p.586; Clarendon,
History of Rebellion
, II, p.536.

19
Hutchins,
Dorset
, I, pp.504, 488–9.

20
Hutchins,
Dorset
, I, p.495.

21
Hutchins,
Dorset
, I, p.489; for a contemporary account of the siege, see
Mercurius Rusticus
, No. XI, cit. Hutchins,
Dorset
, I, pp.504–7.

22
Hutchins,
Dorset
, I, p.507.

23
Hutchins,
Dorset
, I, p.506.

24
Hutchins,
Dorset
, I, p.508; Vicars,
Burning-Bush
, p.372.

25
Hutchins,
Dorset
, I, p.509.

26
cit. Bankes,
Dorset Heritage
, p.94.

27
HMC, Bath MSS, I, p.4.

28
Harley Letters
, p.xiii.

29
Harley Letters
, pp.7–9, 13, 16, 20.

30
Harley Letters
, p.24.

31
Harley Letters
, pp.104, 158, 167, 178, 181.

32
Harley Letters
, p.183.

33
Harley Letters
, p.186.

34
Harley Letters
, pp.188–90.

35
Harley Letters
, p.204; HMC, Bath MSS, I, p.8.

36
HMC, Bath MSS, pp.8–9.

37
HMC, Bath MSS, pp.12–13.

38
HMC, Bath MSS, pp.4, 6.

39
HMC, Bath MSS, pp.14, 17.

40
HMC, Bath MSS, p.17.

41
HMC, Bath MSS, p.27.

42
Harley Letters
, pp.206–7, 209.

43
The exact date of her death is not known; see her entry in DNB.

44
HMC, Bath MSS, pp.29–32.

45
Harley Letters
, pp.230, xxxv.

46
Washbourn,
Gloucestrensis
, Part II, p.227; Butler,
Hudibras
, p.148.

47
Higgins, ‘Women in the Civil War’, p.38; Burghall, ‘Providence Improved’, p.166.

48
Bayley,
Civil War in Dorset
, p.174; Strong,
Joanereidos
, 1645; ‘Tobie Trundle’, in
Joanereidos
, 1674.

49
Bayley,
Civil War in Dorset
, p.127; Kaufman,
Conscientious Cavalier
, p.154.

50
Kaufman,
Conscientious Cavalier
, p.154.

51
Bayley,
Civil War in Dorset
, p.150 note I, p.172.

52
‘Tobie Trundle’, in
Joanereidos
, 1674.

53
Bayley,
Civil War in Dorset
, p.191.

54
Vicars,
Gods Arke
, pp.246, 259.

Chapter 10: His Comrade

1
Verney Memoirs
, II, p.96; ‘Scourge of Civil War’, Thomason Tract, 669, fo. 10/27.

2
Higgins, ‘Women in the Civil War’, p.29;
Cromwell Writings
, I, p.248.

3
CSP Domestic, 1645–7, p.260; Gregg,
Charles I
, p.361;
Athenae Oxonienses
, I, p.xxviii.

4
Athenae Oxonienses
, I, p.xxviii; IV, pp.15–41.

5
Gregg,
Charles I
, p.411.

6
Lilly’s History
, p.139.

7
Hillier,
Narrative
, pp.142, 130, 140.

8
Note by P. Bliss,
Athenae Oxonienses
, I, p.xxix; Gregg,
Charles I
, p.443.

9
See J. Loftis, Introduction,
Halkett and Fanshawe
, p.xii.

10
See
Halkett and Fanshawe
, pp.23–30.

11
James II Memoirs
, p.41.

12
Verney Memoirs
, I, p.293.

13
Warwick Autobiography
, p.20.

14
See Denbigh,
Royalist Father
, pp.165–95.

15
Crashaw Poems
, p.236.

16
Staffordshire and Great Rebellion
, p.132.

17
Everitt,
Kent and Great Rebellion
, p.26.

18
Quaife,
Wanton Wenches
, pp.125, 133.

19
cit. Clark,
Working Life
, p.80.

20
Verney Memoirs
, II, p.176.

21
Verney Memoirs
, II, pp.199–200.

22
Verney Memoirs
, II, p.203.

23
Mercurius Aulicus
, 9 September 1643.

24
cit. Godwin,
Civil War in Hampshire
, pp.121–2.

25
Godwin,
Civil War in Hampshire
, p.122.

26
On the exaggeration of horrors including this incident, Brig. Peter Young to the author;
Luke Letter Books
, p.204.

27
Bayley,
Civil War in Dorset
, p.188 and note I.

28
Young,
Edgehill
, p.11; Whitelocke,
Memorials
, I, p.188.

29
BL Harleian MSS, 6804, fo. 75/6.

30
Higgins, ‘Women in the Civil War’, pp.46–7; Firth,
Cromwell’s Army
, pp.298–9.

31
Young,
Marston Moor
, p.166, and letter to the author.

32
Lacy,
Old Troop
, pp.150, 141, 155.

33
Lacy,
Old Troop
, p.141; ‘Gallant She-Souldier’,
Roxburghe Ballads
, VII, pp.728–9.

34
Higgins, ‘Women in the Civil War’, p.42.

35
Firth,
Cromwell’s Army
, pp.80, 73–4, 116–17; ‘Female Warrior’,
Douce Ballads
, I (79); ‘Famous Woman Drummer,
Roxburghe Ballads
, VII, pp.730–32.

36
Higgins, ‘Women in the Civil War’, p.45.

37
Higgins, ‘Women in the Civil War’, p.42; CSP Domestic, 1639, pp.146, 282.

38
Mrs Christian Davies’ Life
, pp.2, 20.

39
HMC, Leyborne-Popham MSS, p.112 for Col. Sawrey’s letter; extensive researches in local records have unfortunately failed to produce an Anne Dymoke of the right age.

40
Verney Memoirs
, IV, p.256.

41
Venables Narrative
, p.102.

42
Firth,
Cromwell’s Army
, pp.259–60.