Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century

by Alice Clark

[420]. Cellier (Mrs.) Malice Defeated., p. 25.

[421]. Suss. Arch. Coll., Vol. I., p. 123, Journal Rev., 1676.

[422]. Monthly Meeting Minute Book, Peele, Nov. 24, 1687.

[423]. Davies. (J. S.) Hist. of Southampton, p. 279.

[424]. Congreve (Wm.). The Old Batchelor, Act iv., Sc. viii.

[425]. Chalkley, Journal, pp. 30-31, 1690.

[426]. Bownas, Samuel, Life of, p. 135.

[427]. Mayo, Municipal Records of Dorchester, p. 428-9.

[428]. The Churchwardens of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, paid 6d. to “Goodwyfe Wells for salt to destroy the fleas in the Churchwarden’s pew.” (Cox. Churchwardens Accts., p. 321, 1610.). Among the Cromwell family receipts is one in 1624 “from ye Right worᵉ ye Lady Carr by the hands of Henry Hanby, the somme of twenty and one pounds in full payment of all Reckonings from the beginninge of the world ... by me ellen Sadler X” (Cromwell Family Bills and Receipts, p. 15.) “A bill for Mrs. Willie of Ramsie the 14 of April 1636

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