The year has been taken to begin on 1 January, not 25 March as in the Old Style calendar.
In quotations from manuscript sources, spellings and punctuation have been modernized for ease of reading by non-specialists. Quotations from primary printed sources have been cited verbatim, with silent corrections of typos and using modern typography.
| churching | church ceremony following childbirth, before which a woman should not appear in public | ||
| Civil War | the years 1642-9, a period of military conflict between the forces of king and Parliament, ending in the king's execution and the aboli- tion of monarchy in 1649 | ||
| Interregnum | the years 1649-60, when the country was ruled without a king | ||
| Restoration | Charles II returned to England in 1660 | ||
| Reformation | Religious changes of the sixteenth century by which England became a Protestant country | ||
| feme covert | married woman, under coverture | ||
| feme sole | legal status of being a single woman; or being permitted to act legally as such | ||
| lying-in | childbirth | ||
| nuncupative | oral will | ||
| Puritan | term used here broadly to refer to movement in the Church for reform, but with specific (and debated) meanings over the period covered here | ||
| Quakers | members of the Society of Friends, a religious movement which began in the 1650s. A key tenet was the equality of all souls before God | ||
| recusant | term used technically for those who refused to attend the Estab- lished Church, but frequently used of Catholics |
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Publication information:
Book title: Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720.
Contributors: Sara Mendelson - Author, Patricia Crawford - Author.
Publisher: Clarendon Press.
Place of publication: Oxford.
Publication year: 1998.
Page number: xviii.
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