A copy of the usual articles is given in the introduction. Alsop here refutes current charges against the Marylanders for their treatment of servants. Hammond, in his Leah and Rachel, p. 12, says: “The labour servants are put to is not so hard, nor of such continuance as husbandmen nor handecraftmen are kept at in England. . . . . The women are not (as is reported) put into the ground to worke, but occupie such domestic imployments and housewifery as in England.”
Note 35, page [59].
Laws as to the treatment of servants were passed in the Provisional act of 1638, and at many subsequent assemblies.
Notes 36, 37, pages 59, 61.
Lewknors lane or Charles street was in Drury lane, in the parish of St. Giles.—Seymour’s History of London, II, p. 767. Finsbury is still a well known quarter, in St. Luke’s parish, Middlesex. {116}
Note 38, page [65].
Nicholas Culpepper, “student in physic and astrology,” whose English Physician, published in 1652, ran through many editions, and is still a book published and sold.
Note 39, page [65].
Dogs dung, used in dressing morocco, is euphemized into album græcum, and is also called pure; those who gather it being still styled in England pure-finders.—Mayhew, London Labor and London Poor, II, p. 158.