ABSTRACT

This book plots the human career in England, between 1560 and 1720, from birth to old age. It provides a collection of extracts from texts written in the period as well as collection of photographs of images and artefacts made in England between the period.

part One|145 pages

Life cycles in England 1560–1720

chapter Chapter 1|19 pages

Worlds of difference

chapter Chapter 2|23 pages

‘Live to die’

chapter Chapter 3|10 pages

Conception, birth, infancy

chapter Chapter 4|16 pages

Childhood

chapter Chapter 5|20 pages

Youth

chapter Chapter 6|18 pages

Love and the business of marriage

chapter Chapter 7|22 pages

Householders

chapter Chapter 8|13 pages

Old age

part Two|93 pages

Dossier of illustrative texts

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter Exhibit 1|1 pages

The biblical account of Creation

chapter Exhibit 2|1 pages

Baptism

chapter Exhibit 3|2 pages

The churching of women

chapter Exhibit 4|2 pages

The Homilies

chapter Exhibit 5|4 pages

The Pilgrim’s Progress

chapter Exhibit 6|3 pages

The parish register

chapter Exhibit 7|4 pages

Wills

chapter Exhibit 8|5 pages

Inventories

chapter Exhibit 9|3 pages

Apprenticeship indentures

chapter Exhibit 10|1 pages

The crime of petty treason

chapter Exhibit 13|2 pages

The arguments for maternal breastfeeding

chapter Exhibit 14|2 pages

Advice to the seventeenth-century housewife

chapter Exhibit 16|2 pages

A gallery of good children

chapter Exhibit 18|1 pages

The mercenary aspect of choosing a bride

chapter Exhibit 19|9 pages

Witchcraft beliefs and witchcraft trials

chapter Exhibit 20|2 pages

Almanacs

chapter Exhibit 21|5 pages

Jest books

chapter Exhibit 22|2 pages

Penny merriments

chapter Exhibit 23|2 pages

Reckoning

chapter Exhibit 24|1 pages

Teaching yourself French

chapter Exhibit 25|2 pages

The medical uses of English herbs

chapter Exhibit 26|3 pages

Observations of the natural world in the 1660s

chapter Exhibit 27|5 pages

Memorial inscriptions

chapter Exhibit 28|8 pages

The Sondes murder, 1655

part Three|64 pages

Dossier of illustrative images

chapter Plate 1|2 pages

John Ogilby’s Britannia, 1675

chapter Plate 2|2 pages

Milestone, Trumpington Road, Cambridge

chapter Plate 15 and 16|2 pages

A set of squares designed to teach the alphabet, 1743–4

chapter Plate 17|2 pages

Cut-paper landscape, 1707

chapter Plate 20|2 pages

The view of the charity children in the Strand

chapter Plate 21|2 pages

William Freind of Westminster School

chapter Plate 25|2 pages

Arithmetical cards, 1710

chapter Plate 28|2 pages

‘The Little Man’

chapter Plate 31|2 pages

‘Old Parr’, published by J. Caulfield, 1797