Male honour, social control and wife beating in late Stuart England

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Volumn 6, Issue , 1996, Pages 215-224

  Foyster, Elizabeth ^a  

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EID: 0041167084     PISSN: 00804401     EISSN: 14740648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3679237     Document Type: Review

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2. as cited in R. A. Houlbrooke, The English Family 1450-1700 (1986), 103.
3. G. Savile, ist Marquis of Halifax, The Lady's New Year's Gift: Or, Advice to a Daughter (1688), as cited in Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of femininity, ed. V. Jones (1990), 18.
4. For the importance of self-mastery see K. Hodgkin, 'Thomas Whythorne and the Problems of Mastery', History Workshop Journal, XXIX, (1990), 20-41, especially 21.
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8. and M. Ingram, 'Ridings, Rough Music and Mocking Rhymes in Early Modern England', in Popular Culture in Seventeenth Century England, ed. B. Reay (1985), 129-97;
9. E. P. Thompson, Customs in Common (1991), c. 8.
10. W. Whateley, A Bride Bush (1623), 157, see also 129, 159-60;
11. W. Gouge, Of Domesticall Duties (3rd edn, 1634), 423, 604;
12. for a fuller discussion of these issues see E. Foyster, 'The Concept of Male Honour in Seventeenth Century England' (Ph. D. thesis, Durham University, 1996).
13. For the procedure of the court of Arches see M. D. Slatter, 'The Study of the Records of the Court of Arches', Journal of the Society of Archivists, I (1955), 29-31;
14. and L. Stone, Road to Divorce: England 1530-1987 (Oxford,1990), 33-41.
15. Lambeth Palace Library, Court of Arches [hereafter CA], Case 1041 [case numbers taken from J. Houston, Index of the Cases in the Records of the Court of Arches in Lambeth Palace Library, 1660-1913 (1972)] (1672), Personal Answer [hereafter Ee], 3, fos. 738-41r; 745r-6v; Deposition [hereafter Eee], 4, fos. 613v-15v,8o7-8,815-18r,821v-2,850v-83r; Eee5, fos. 24v-5r.
16. L. Stone, Broken Lives (Oxford, 1993), 37.
17. CA, Case 1127 (1663), Eeei,fo. 83; CA, Case 6659 (1666), Eee2, fo. 101.
18. CA, Case 1813 (1673), Ee4, fos. 118V-28; for a witness who supported John's claim that he was fed inadequately see Eee5, fo. 17r.
19. CA, Case 8770 (1684), Ee6, fo. 11.
20. CA, Case 4834 (1669), Eee3, fo. 299r.
21. Gouge, Of Domesticall, 389.
22. T. E. , The Lawes Resolution of a Woman's Rights (1631), 128-9,
23. as cited in S. D. Amussen, '"Being Stirred to Much Unquietness": Violence and Domestic Violence in Early Modern England', Journal of Women's History, VI, no. 2 (1994), 71.
24. Whateley, A Bride Bush, 128-9, see also 99-100,139.
25. see also A. Fletcher, 'The Protestant Idea of Marriage in Early Modern England', in Religion, Culture and Society in early modern Britain, ed. A. Fletcher and P. Roberts (Cambridge, 1994), 172-3;
26. in the 1540s the Augsburg Council ruled that husbands should not beat their wives 'without reason', see L. Roper, The Holy Household: Women and Morals, in Reformation Augsburg (Oxford,1989), 189.
27. Gouge, Domesticall Duties, 395.
28. H. Smith, A Preparative to Marriage (1591), 73.
29. Church of England, Two Books of Homilies, 510-11,
30. as cited in M. MacDonald, Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety, and Healing in Seventeenth Century England (Cambridge,1981), 102.
31. J. Dod and R. Cleaver, A Godly Forme of Householde Government (1614), sig. G2.
32. J. Addison and R. Steele, The Spectator, ed. D. F. Bond (Oxford,1965), II, no. 236, 417,
33. as cited in M. Hunt, 'Wife Beating, Domesticity and Women's Independence in Eighteenth-Century London', Gender and History, IV, no. 1 (1992), 10.
34. CA, Case 1041 (1672), Eee4, fos. 874r,876r.
35. CA, Case 6659 (1666), Eee2, fo. 124r.
36. CA, Case 1888 (1676), Eee6, fo. 278V.
37. CA, Case 4688 (1690), Eee7, fo. 120V.
38. see for another example of a drunken husband beating his wife CA, Case 2177 (1676), Ee4, fo. 799e.
39. MacDonald, Mystical Bedlam, 102.
40. M. Ingram, Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570-1640 (Cambridge,1990), 183-4.
41. F. G. Emmison, Elizabethan Life: Morals and the Church Courts (Chelmsford, 1973), 162,
42. Stone, Road to Divorce, 199.
43. CA, Case 9870 (1669), Eee3, fo. 555V.
44. CA, Case 10406 (1671), Eee4, fos. 512-13.
45. CA, Case 1127 (1663), Eee1, fo. 63V.
46. CA, Case 4747 (1673), Eee5, fos. 250v-1r.
47. CA, Case 6244 (1672), Ee4, fo. 51V; Eee4, fo. 767r.
48. CA, Case 1432 (1667), Eee2, fos. 538-40.
49. Thompson, Customs in Common, especially 505.
50. CA, Case 3789 (1662), Eel, fo. 195V.
51. CA, Case 1813 (1673), Ee4, fos. 127v-8r.
52. CA, Case 8770 (1684), Ee6, fo. 11r.
53. CA, Case 4834 (1669), Ee3, fo. 343.
54. CA, Case 757 (1673), Ee3, fos. 59-6o.
55. for other examples of husbands arguing that they showed restraint when beating their wives see, CA, Case 1888 (1676), Ee4, fo. 494r, and CA, Case 6364 (1663), Eel, fo. 258r.
56. Amussen, "Being Stirred", 70-89.
57. See, for example, CA, Case 1041 (1672), Eee4, fos. 856r, 868v.
58. CA, Case 1128 (1675), Eee5, fo. 681r.
59. CA, Case 1813 (1673), Eee5, fo. 2ov.
60. CA, Case 4747 (1673), Eee5, fo. 251v.