Expanding the boundaries of female honour in early modern England

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Volumn 6, Issue , 1996, Pages 235-245

  Walker, Garthine ^a  

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EID: 0005924026     PISSN: 00804401     EISSN: 14740648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3679239     Document Type: Review

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25. Cheshire Diocesan Record Office, Consistory Court Cause Papers [hereafter EDC] 5 (1624)2, William and Anne Blanchard c. John and Margaret Blanchard. My italic.
26. EDC 5(1626)2, John Frances c. Katherine Sponne.
27. EDC 5(1628)7, Sarah Warman c. Ellen Wright.
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29. E.g., EDC 5(1628)1, Margery Chambers c. Thomas Williams; EDC 5(1669)28, Mary Mainwaring c. Jane Tompson.
30. EDC 5(1661)38, Eleaner Waine c. Richard Tottie. My italic.
31. EDC 5(1667)47, Isabell Anyon c. Robert Moulson. See also EDC 5(1663)41, Ann Taylor c. Frances Eaton.
32. Chaytor, 'Husband(ry)', 398-9.
33. QJF 89/2, fo. 231; QJF 89/3, fo. 36.
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35. G. Walker, 'Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern Cheshire' (Ph.D. thesis, University of Liverpool, 1994) [hereafter Walker, 'Crime, Gender and Social Order'], 253-68.
36. EDC 5(1620)26, Anne Lea c. Anne Lewis.
37. QJF 95/2. fos. 49, 85, 87.
38. QJF 95/3. fo. 96. See also QJF 93/1, fos. 92, 93, 94, 95; QJF 95/1, fo. 61.
39. E.g., QJF 51/3, fo. 22; QJF 95/4, fo. 35.
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41. Cohen and Cohen, Words and Deeds, 23.
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45. See also R.M. Dekker, 'Women in Revolt: Popular Protest and its Social Basis in Holland in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries', Theory and Society, XVI (1987), 337-62.
46. E.g., QJF 89/2, fo. 56.
47. QJF 51/3, fo. 112.
48. Walker, 'Crime, Gender and Social Order', 243-53.
49. E.g., QJF 49/1, fo. 139; QJF 49/2, fo. 104; QJF 49/2, fos. 106, 107; QJF 51/3, fo. 112; QJF 89/2, fos. 191, 192; QJF 89/3, fo. 76; QJF 89/4, fos. 75, 76; QJF 95/4, fo. 55; QJF 97/1, fos. 57, 93.
50. QJF 49/2, fos. 67, 176; QJF 51/2, fo. 119.
51. QJF 51/3, fo. 112; QJF 51/4. fos. 113, 163.
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53. QJF 55/1, fo. 47. See also QJF 55/3, fo. 95; QJF 95/4, fo. 68.
54. QJF 89/2, fo. 213.
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56. Cheshire City Record Office, Quarter Sessions Files, QSF 67, fos. 4, 10, 11.
57. Ferrante, 'Honor Regained', 57.
58. E.g., EDC 5 (1620)23, Jane Leadbetter c. Elizabeth Sutton; EDC 5(1622)36, Elizabeth Billinge alias Billington c. Alice Rogerson; EDC 5(1626)32, Richard Wood and Mary Wood his daughter c. Randle Kirkham; EDC 5(1626)3, Jane Cattarall c. William and Elizabeth Cattarall; EDC 5(1626)81, Alice Ratcliffe c. Alice Collinge.
59. QJF 79/1, fo. 116. My italic.
60. J.A. Sharpe, 'Witchcraft and Women in Seventeenth-Century England: Some Northern Evidence', Continuity and Change, VI (1991), 179-99;
61. I am grateful to Andy Wood for commenting upon a draft of this essay.