The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England (97 page)

61
Conway Letters
, p.457.

62
Conway Letters
, pp.465–8.

Chapter 18: Helping in God’s Vineyard

1
Conway Letters
, pp.412, 433.

2
Brailsford,
Quaker Women
, p.70.

3
Brailsford,
Quaker Women
, p.324.

4
Ross,
Margaret Fell
, p.35;
Trapnel’s Report and Plea
, p.24; see Brailsford,
Quaker Women
, pp.159–76, 213–16.

5
Nalson,
Countermine
, p.93.

6
cit. Brailsford,
Quaker Women
, p.15.

7
See Brailsford,
Quaker Women
, pp.16–41 for the story of Elizabeth Hooton.

8
Fox Journal
, p.9.

9
Brailsford,
Quaker Women
, p.19.

10
Brailsford,
Quaker Women
, p.333.

11
cit. Manners, ‘Elizabeth Hooton’, pp.14–15.

12
See Brailsford,
Quaker Women
, pp.94–113.

13
See Scales, ‘Quaker Women in Dover, New Hampshire’.

14
Pepys Diary
, V, pp.12–13; Bryant,
Pepys. Years of Peril
, p.204 and note.

15
Roberts,
Monmouth
, II, p.205.

16
Scales, ‘Quaker Women in Dover, New Hampshire’.

17
Fox Journal
, II, pp.213, 436 and note.

18
See Braithwaite,
Beginnings of Quakerism
, pp.422–4; Brailsford,
Quaker Women
, pp.114–32 for Mary Fisher’s expedition.

19
Braithwaite,
Beginnings of Quakerism
, p.423.

20
Marsh,
New Survey of Turkish Empire
, Part 2, p.33; Paul Ruycaut (later English Consul in Smyrna),
Ottoman empire
, p.120.

21
Taken from the account of Willem Sewel, in his
History of the Quakers
, first published (in Dutch) in 1717. According to M.R. Brailsford,
Quaker Women
, p.128, Sewel may have heard the details directly from Mary Fisher.

22
Thurloe Papers, VII, p.287; Brailsford,
Quaker Women
, p.116.

23
G.E.C.,
Complete Peerage
, XII/2, p.778, note 1;
Collins’ Peerage
, pp.384–5.

24
Ross,
Margaret Fell
, p.226; see this biography in general for details of her life.

25
Ross,
Margaret Fell
, p.24.

26
cit. Knox,
Enthusiasm
, p.161.

27
Ross,
Margaret Fell
, p.37.

28
Ross,
Margaret Fell
, p.170.

29
Ross,
Margaret Fell
, p.138.

30
Spufford, ‘Portraits of Society’, p.12;
Fox Journal
, p.421.

31
Athenian Oracle
, I, p.33.

32
Fox Journal
, p.554.

33
Ross,
Margaret Fell
, p.220.

34
Ross,
Margaret Fell
, pp.228 note 2, 226.

35
Sarah Fell Account Book
, pp.xx, xix.

36
Thomas,
Women and Sects
, p.48.

37
Margaret Fell,
Womens Speaking
, pp.3 (sic: Joel 2, VS. 28 differs slightly), 4, 10.

38
Margaret Fell,
Womens Speaking
, p.5.

39
Margaret Fell,
Womens Speaking
, p.14.

40
Braithwaite,
Second Period of Quakerism
, pp.270–72, 286–8.

41
Letter of Isabel Yeamans, 8 August 1676, MSS, Religious Society of Friends, Nottingham Meeting.

42
Fox Journal
, pp.629, 647, 666–8.

43
Ross,
Margaret Fell
, pp.313–14; Katz,
Readmission of the Jews
, p.238.

44
Ross,
Margaret Fell
, p.318.

45
Ross,
Margaret Fell
, p.370.

Chapter 19: The Delight of Business

1
Ede,
Arts and Society
, p.14; see Clark,
Working Life
, pp.32–3 for Joan Dant’s story.

2
Brailsford,
Quaker Women
, p.15.

3
Ballard,
Memoirs of Several Ladies
, p.287; Anderson,
Friends and Relations
, p.68.

4
See
Sarah Fell Account Book
.

5
Scott Thomson,
Noble Household
, pp.189, 199.

6
Miranda Chaytor and Jane Lewis in Clark,
Working Life
, p.xxxi.

7
Pepys Diary
, I, p.30; X. p.241.

8
i.e. see
The Diary of Roger Lowe
; its editor, William L. Sachse (p.7), describes the ale-house of this period, on the diary’s evidence, as ‘the unofficial club’ of both poor man
and
poor woman.

9
cit. Bridenbaugh,
Vexed Englishmen
, p.195; cit. Pinto,
Sedley
, p.58; Gough,
Myddle
, pp.197–8.

10
Finch MSS, III, p.438.

11
Pepys Diary
, V, p.62.

12
Pepys Diary
, V, p.266.

13
The story of Mrs Pley and Colonel Reymes is told in Helen Andrews Kaufman’s biography of the latter,
Conscientious Cavalier
.

14
Hutchins,
Dorset
, II, p.459.

15
Kaufman,
Conscientious Cavalier
, p.182.

16
Fraser,
King Charles II
, p.223.

17
Kaufman,
Conscientious Cavalier
, pp.182, 247 note 7.

18
Pepys Diary
, VII, pp.199–200.

19
Pepys Diary
, VII, p.200 note 2.

20
Balleine,
All for the King
, p.127.

21
CSP Domestic, 1664–5, pp.500–501.

22
CSP Domestic, 1664–5, p.525.

23
Pepys Diary
, VI, p.187:
Carlingford papers
, II of III, Osborn Collection, Yale.

24
Defoe,
Journal of the Plague Year
, p.120.

25
CSP Domestic, 1665–6, p.108.

26
CSP Domestic, 1665–6, pp.219, 244; 1666–7, 66; 1665–6, pp.357, 272.

27
Kaufman,
Conscientious Cavalier
, p.237.

28
Kaufman,
Conscientious Cavalier
, p.184.

29
CSP Domestic, 1665–6, p.207.

30
‘Of Persons one would wish to have seen’, in
Hazlitt Selected Essays
, p.532.

31
See Howell, ‘Image of Cromwell in Restoration Drama’.

32
Waylen,
House of Cromwell
, p.81.

33
Waylen,
House of Cromwell
, p.77.

34
Noble,
Cromwell Memoirs
, II, p.337.

35
Nall,
Yarmouth
, p.154; Ogg,
England of Charles II
, pp.72–3.

36
Collins,
Salt and Fishery
, p.61; Waylen,
House of Cromwell
, p.77.

37
Costello,
Eminent Englishwomen
, III, p.55.

38
Waylen,
House of Cromwell
, pp.82–3.

39
Waylen,
House of Cromwell
, pp.82–3.

40
Noble,
Cromwell Memoirs
, II, p.332.

41
Sloane MSS, 2069, fo. 96 B; Baxter,
Reliquiae Baxterianae
, p.57.

42
The Rev. Samuel Say’s account is printed in full in Noble,
Cromwell Memoirs
, II, pp.329–33, first published in 1727; the Rev. James Waylen in
The House of Cromwell
, 1880, suggests the explanation for Say’s hostility.

43
Dr Jeremy Brooke’s account in full in Noble,
Cromwell Memoirs
, II, pp.333–8.

44
Hewling Luson’s account in full in Noble,
Cromwell Memoirs
, II, pp.338–46.

45
Noble,
Cromwell Memoirs
, II, p.346.

Chapter 20: Wanton and Free

1
Aphra Behn,
The Feign’d Curtezans
, Act IV, scene I; Allestree,
Ladies Calling
, p.26.

2
Newcastle,
CCXI Letters
, p.76.

3
Allestree,
Ladies Calling
, p.157; OED; Barker,
Poetical Recreations
, Part I, pp.12–13; Fraser,
King Charles II
, p.285.

4
Evelyn,
Mundus Muliebris
, Preface;
Womens Complaint
, John Dryden,
Marriage-à-la-Mode
, Act I, scene I.

5
North,
Lives
, II, p.164; Needham, ‘Mrs Manley’, p.276.

6
Aphra Behn,
The Town-Fop
, Act IV, scene II.

7
See Sidney,
Diary
, I, pp.xxviii–xxxiv, for the sufferings of Mrs Worthley.

8
Pepys Diary
, IV, pp.114, 270, 303.

9
Pepys Diary
, IV, pp.281, 387–8.

10
Pepys Diary
, V, pp.173–4.

11
Pepys Diary
, V, p.184.

12
Pepys Diary
, V, p.179.

13
Pepys Diary
, IX, p.455.

14
Thomas Otway,
Venice Preserv’d
, Act III, scene I; Act II, scene I; Aphra Behn,
The Rover
, Part I, Act I, scene I.

15
HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Part V, p.158.

16
cit. Pinto,
Sedley
, Appendix III, p.355.

17
Pinto,
Sedley
, pp.120–25.

18
Evelyn Diary
, II, p.84.

19
BL Add MSS, 30, 382.

20
cit. Pinto,
Sedley
, p.129; Wolseley,
Marlborough
, I, pp.188–9.

21
Dorset,
Works
, XI, p.16.

22
Dorset,
Works
, XI, p.209.

23
Wilson,
Court Wits
, p.113; Pinto,
Sedley
, p.137.

24
cit. Pinto,
Sedley
, p.140 note 2.

25
Burke’s
Extinct Peerages
, p.492; Pinto,
Sedley
, p.140.

26
Turner,
James II
, p.142.

27
Pinto,
Sedley
, p.238.

28
Pinto,
Sedley
, p.158.

29
Pinto,
Sedley
, Appendix III, p.355.

30
Stanley,
Memorials of Westminster Abbey
, Appendix, p.507.

31
Miller,
James II
(1978), p.151; F.C. Turner in his biography
James II
(1948), p.294, also thought the evidence came from Sunderland and was therefore suspect.

32
Evelyn Diary
, II, p.248.

33
cit. Turner,
James II
, p.300.

34
Pinto,
Sedley
, Appendix III, pp.355–60.