Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century

by Alice Clark

[92]. Martindale, (Adam), Life, p. 172.

[93]. Ibid., p. 190.

[94]. Clode, (C.M.) Merchant Taylors, Vol. I., p. 323.

[95]. Pseudonismus, Considerations concerning Common Fields and Enclosures, 1654.

[96]. Pseudonismus, A Vindication of the Considerations concerning Common Fields and Enclosures, 1656.

[97]. Potatoes were already in use in Ireland, but are scarcely referred to during this period by English writers.

[98]. Osborne (Dorothy), Letters, pp. 103, 4. 1652-1654.

[99]. 30s. Susanna Suffolke a young maid holds a customary cottage, ... and renteth per annum 2d.

£28 Eliz. Filoll (widdow) holdeth one customary tenement. Rent per annum 26s. 8d.

£2 Mary Stanes holdeth one customary cottage (late of Robert Stanes) and renteth per annum 7d.