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The Time Traveller’s Guide to Restoration Britain

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by Ian Mortimer


  Manchester, 42, 45, 227, 368, 375

  Mandeville, Lord, 374–5

  manners, 164–6, 265–6

  manors, 34–8

  manslaughter, 337, 338, 344

  maps see atlases and maps

  Mardon, Thomas and Anne, 71

  mariners, 55, 74–5, 132–3

  Market Harborough, 239

  markets, 18–19, 176–7, 182–3

  Marlowe, Christopher, 393–4

  marriage, 56–7, 80–1, 86–91, 175, 333–4, 344; bigamy, 323–4; marital rape, 324; smock weddings, 197–8; see also adultery

  Marvell, Andrew, 375, 381–2

  Mary (royal yacht), 224

  Mary II, queen of Great Britain and Ireland, 81, 85, 110, 290

  Mary Henrietta, Princess, 289–90

  Mary of Modena, 84

  masks, 205–6

  Massinger, Philip, 393

  mathematics, 138, 406

  May, Hugh, 27, 241–2, 245, 247

  mead, 277–8

  mealtimes, 264–6

  measles, 300, 307

  measurement, units of, 166–8

  Mecca, 133

  medicine see doctors; health

  Medina, John Baptist, 372

  Meigh, William, 255–6

  Melford, Lord, 370

  mental illness, 309

  Mersey river, 227

  metheglin, 278

  the middle sort, 66–7

  militias, 327

  Milton, Elizabeth, 384

  Milton, John, 1, 154, 376, 381, 382, 384–6

  Milton, Mary, 384

  Misson, Monsieur: author’s verdict on, 407; on Charles II, 82; on clocks and watches, 153; on dissenters, 103; on the English and violence, 122; on English character, 125; on food, 259, 265; on hackney carriages, 216; on King’s Evil, 96; on leisure activities, 350–1, 355, 359, 360; on London, 19, 161, 422; on manners, 164; on morality, 111; on patches, 205; on poetry, 380; on the Scots, 116; on smoking, 287, 288; on Stonehenge, 366; on witchcraft, 100; on women’s status, 90

  Mohun, Michael, 398

  Molland, Alice, 98

  Mompesson, John, 96

  Mompesson, William, 304–5

  monarchy, 81–6, 96–7, 379–80

  Monck, George see Albemarle, duke of

  money, 168–73

  Monmouth, 416

  Monmouth, James Scott, duke of, 84, 114

  Monmouth’s Rebellion (1685), 84, 321–2

  Monmouthshire, 414

  morals, 3–4, 110–16, 324–6, 329, 342–3

  Moretonhampstead, 47–8, 71

  Morice, Sir William, 365

  Morland, Sir Samuel, 137, 244

  Morley, Lord, 122

  Morocco, 298

  Morpeth, 48

  Morris, John, 172

  mortality rate, 55, 56

  Morton, Charles, 143

  Morton, earl of, 122

  Mountfort, William, 400

  moustaches see beards and moustaches

  Much Wenlock, 428

  muffs, 193, 205

  Mulgrave, Lord, 370

  Munslow, Thomas and Alice, 428

  murder, 95, 121, 333, 344

  museums, 367–9

  music, 386–90

  Mylne, Robert, 52

  napkins, 265

  national characteristics, 116, 125

  National Debt, 173

  navigation, 213–14

  Neale, Thomas, 175

  neckwear, 189

  Nether Fletchamstead Hall, 255–6

  Neville, Henry, 378

  New Romney, 416

  New Zealand, 132

  Newark, 416

  Newcastle, 41, 342, 430

  Newcastle, Henry Cavendish, duke of, 63

  Newcourt, Richard, 19

  Newmarket, 48, 360

  newspapers, 162–3

  Newton, Isaac: books by, 93, 135, 136; position at Cambridge University, 142; position at Royal Mint, 171; and quantification, 138; and religion, 135; at Stourbridge Fair, 179

  Newton, William, 15

  nightclothes, 187, 195–6, 199

  nobility see aristocracy

  noises, 1, 17, 386–7

  nonconformists see dissenters and nonconformists Norfolk, 39, 212

  Norris, William, 253

  Northampton, 48–9, 219, 303, 312–13

  Northamptonshire, 211, 415

  Northumberland, duke of, 114

  Norway, 95

  Norwich, 41, 45, 177, 278, 284

  Nottingham, 42, 279, 342

  Nottinghamshire, 33, 415

  novels, 377–8

  nurses, 311–12

  Oakley Park, 250

  Oates, Titus, 108, 340

  Ogilby, John, 213–14

  Old Sarum, 41

  Oldham, John, 381

  omens, 96

  opera, 389, 390–1

  orchestras, 388

  Orkney, 95, 297

  Osborne, Dorothy, 92

  Ossory, earl of, 122–3

  Otway, Thomas, 397, 399–400

  overcoats, 190, 202

  overseas possessions, 132

  oxen, 35, 38

  Oxenden, Sir James, 246

  Oxford, 42, 219, 284, 368, 373

  The Oxford Gazette, 162

  Oxford University, 142, 358–9, 365, 375–6

  Oxfordshire, 167, 415

  panellings, 252

  paper, 158

  Paris, 29

  Parker, James, 339

  parks see gardens, parks and grounds

  Parliament: relationship with monarchy, 82, 84, 85–6

  patches, 204–5

  Patshull Park, 245

  Patten, Thomas, 227

  pattens, 202

  Patterson, John, 359

  Pearce, David, 339

  peat, 256

  Peck, James, 238

  Pegg, Catherine, 114

  peine forte et dure, 339

  Pell-Mell (Pall-Mall), 361–2

  Penn, Sir William, 16, 216, 217

  Penruddock, Colonel, 321

  pens, 158–9

  Penzance, 256

  Pepys, Elizabeth: church attendance, 102; clothes, 199–200; and contemporary sanitation, 253–4; cosmetics, 204; and food, 261; and highwaymen, 430; and hygiene, 298; leisure activities, 355, 373; marriage, 57, 87–8, 89–90, 198–9, 199–200; pet animals, 128; reading matter, 378; staying at an inn, 237–8; suspected affair, 198–9; and Valentine’s Day, 152

  Pepys, John, 96

  Pepys, Samuel: on Audley’s wealth, 65; author’s verdict on, 407; background, 16; black servants, 121; and brother’s marriage, 80–1; calendar used by, 150; on Catherine of Braganza, 203; celebrations held by, 151; on Charles II’s sex life, 113; church attendance, 102, 104; clothes, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191; and coach travel, 215, 216, 217–18, 429; on Commissioner Pett’s daughter, 156; his conscience, 111; and contemporary sanitation, 253; on corpses of executed highwaymen, 337; on cosmetics, 204, 205; on earl of Oxford, 426; and fine art, 372, 373; and food and drink, 261, 263, 264, 271, 272, 279, 281, 282, 286, 287, 433; and Great Fire of London, 20–1, 22–3, 25; on Great Plague, 303; hair, 192–3; hours kept by, 153, 154; house catches fire, 28; and hygiene, 296, 297, 299; interest in travel, 133, 134, 423–4; interior of his home, 249, 432; languages spoken by, 158; leisure activities, 348, 355, 357–8, 362, 366; marriage, 57, 87–8, 89–90, 198–9, 199–200; medical beliefs, 292–3; medical treatments undergone by, 318, 320; mistaken for servant, 185; and mummies, 316; and music, 387; newspapers read by, 162; pens owned by, 159; pet animals, 128; on popular attitude to foreigners, 117; and public toilets, 166; reading matter, 378; rides with the post, 222; Scottish trip, 50; sense of humour, 145; sex life, 111–12, 428; shopping, 181; and shorthand, 159; significance for definition of Restoration period, 6; on social precedence, 80; social status, 61, 65–6; staying at an inn, 237–8, 239–40; and superstition, 96; technological gadgets owned by, 137; and theatre, 393, 394, 395, 398–9, 439; treatment of his servants, 75
–6, 89–90, 126–7; and the weather, 15–16; wherry use, 224–5; on yachts, 224

  Pepys, Tom, 80–1, 96

  Pérignon, Pierre, 280–1

  Perth, 51

  Peter I, tsar of Russia, 117

  Pett, Captain, 145

  Pett, Peter, 224

  petticoats, 198

  Petticrew, Sophia, 207–8

  Petty, William, 138–9, 147, 161, 429

  Phillips, Edward, 157

  philosophy, 379–80

  phlebotomy, 314, 318

  physicians, 312–15

  Pierce, Mr and Mrs, 261

  pillories, 341–2

  pirates, 119, 133, 224, 336

  Pitt, Moses, 340–1

  Pitts, Joseph, 133, 298, 299, 407–8

  plague, 292, 299, 300–5

  plaids, 195–6, 207

  Plantations see America

  plants, 245

  plates, 266

  Playford, John, 388

  Plot, Robert, 167

  Plymouth, 42, 45–6

  Plymouth, earl of, 114

  Pochowachett, Mustapha, 324

  pockets, 205

  poet laureates, 381

  poetry, 380–6

  Poland, 56

  policing, 327–8

  politeness see manners

  political thinking, 94

  pollution, 9, 16, 253–4, 257

  Pontac, Arnaud de, 281

  Pontac, François-Auguste de, 281

  Pontefract, 262

  the poor and miserable, 73–9

  Poor Law Act (1601), 77–8

  Popish Plot (1678), 108

  population: advances in quantification, 138; Britain, 55–6; England and Wales, 34; London, 13, 29–30; northern Europe, 56; other towns, boroughs and cities, 41–2; Scotland, 49, 51, 56

  port canons, 189–90

  Porter, Tom, 123–4

  Portsmouth, 42

  postal services, 159–62

  potatoes, 263, 276

  poverty, 73–9

  Povey, Thomas, 297

  Powhatan, chief of the Virginian Native Americans, 368

  Pratt, Sir George, 242

  Pratt, Roger, 27, 242

  Presbyterianism, 107, 143

  pressing, 339

  Presteigne, 48

  Preston, 284

  Prestonfield, 48

  printing and publishing, 163, 376–7

  prisons, 339–41

  professionals, 60, 66–7

  prostitution, 112, 206, 342

  Punch, 349

  puppy water, 204

  Purbeck, Isle of, 262

  Purcell, Henry, 389–90, 394, 395, 397

  Puritanism: morals, 3–4; popular attitude, 115–16; resurgence under William and Mary, 110; see also Commonwealth period

  Pym, Roger, 126

  quacks, 313–14

  Quakers, 105–6, 143, 147, 330

  quinine, 292, 306, 314, 315

  race issues see foreigners and strangers

  Radwells (Herts), 212

  Ragley Hall, 251

  Ramsbury Manor, 248, 251

  rape, 324

  Rawlings, Giles, 124

  Rawlinson, Thomas, 428

  Ray, John, 131

  Reid, Alexander, 418

  religion: crimes against, 102–3, 110–11; ecclesiastical courts, 329, 342; and education, 143; Hobbes on, 379; increased toleration, 344; and medical thinking, 291–2; overview of beliefs and attitudes, 102–10; Sabbath-breaking, 111, 210; and science, 94, 135; theological books, 377; see also Bible; Catholicism; dissenters and nonconformists; Islam; Puritanism; Quakers

  Restoration: chronological extent, 6; historical context, 3–5; significance, 5–6

  Reynel, Carew, 227

  the rich, 64–6

  Rich, Christopher, 392, 400

  Rich, Robert, 120–1

  Richmond, 47

  Richmond, duke of, 114

  rickets, 308

  Riley, John, 373

  river travel, 222–7

  roads, 210–14

  Robinson, Robert, 32, 373

  Rochdale, 31

  Roche, Peter de la, 308

  Rochester, John Wilmot, earl of: atheism, 107; author’s verdict on, 407; and Barry, 399; and Charles II, 83, 146–7; dramatic representations, 395; on London, 18; morality, 114–16; as poet, 381, 382; and quacks, 313

  Rolvenden, 48

  Rome, 29

  rope-dancing, 347–8

  Ros, Lord, 147

  Roseworme, John, 253, 371

  Rotterdam, 111

  Royal Navy, 94; see also mariners

  Royal Society, 134–5, 137, 140, 147, 368

  Rubens, Peter Paul, 369, 370

  Rugg, Thomas, 4, 200

  rum, 284

  running, 197, 362

  runrig, 51

  Rupert, Prince, 220

  Russia, 117

  Ruthven, Lord, 311

  Rutland, 415

  Rye, 416

  Sabbath-breaking, 111, 210

  sack, 282–3

  Sacks, David Harris, 418

  sailors see mariners

  St Albans, duke of, 114

  St Albans, Henry Jermyn, earl of, 27

  St Andrew’s University, 142

  St Barbe, Sir John, 297

  St David’s, 41

  Saint-Évremond, marquis de, 281

  St Ives (Hunts), 48

  St John, Sir Henry, 399

  St Margaret’s Fair, 348

  St Mungo’s Well, 295

  St Valentine’s Day, 152

  Salisbury, 42, 227

  Saltonstall, Lady, 149

  Salwarpe river, 227

  Sanderson, William, 374

  Sandwich, 279, 416

  Sandwich, Edward Mountagu, earl of: attitude to marriage and social status, 80; background, 66; black servants, 121; and duels, 123; flagship, 75; hours kept by, 154; languages spoken by, 158; mistresses, 112; Pepys’s use of his house for assignations, 111

  Sandy, William, 227

  sanitation, 253–4, 257; see also toilets

  Savery, Thomas, 137

  Scandinavia, 121

  scenery, stage, 391

  Schellinks, Willem: attitude to scenery, 32; author’s verdict on, 407; on Brentford, 47; on cockfighting, 127; on cosmetics, 205; and food and drink, 272, 279; on imprisonment in Colchester, 340; on leisure activities, 355, 357, 362; on Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 15; meets old man, 58; rides with the post, 222; on smoking, 287; on spas, 294, 296; on Stonehenge, 366; on travel, 210; on travelling on the Thames, 224, 225; on Whitehall, 369; and witchcraft, 100

  schools, 139–40, 141

  science, 93, 94, 134–9

  scolds, 88, 343

  Scole, 238

  Scot, Walter, 126

  Scotland: aristocracy, 62; artists, 373; banks and banking, 173; the calendar, 150; clothing, 194–6, 207–8; education, 67; English attitude to Scots, 117; famine, 260–1; food and drink, 261–2, 271, 279, 284; health matters, 297, 312; heating, 252, 255, 256; houses, 242, 255; and Huguenots, 118; justice system, 331, 334, 342; languages spoken, 157; laundry, 209; literacy and education, 141, 142–3; Misson on, 116; money, 170; morality, 110; newspapers, 163; overview, 49–54; poor laws, 77–8; population, 49, 51, 56; religion, 102–3; roads, 212; sports and games, 359, 437; units of measurement, 168; uprising against James II, 84; witchcraft, 98, 99–100

  Scougal, John, 373

  scrofula, 96–7, 305

  Scudéry, Madeleine de, 378

  sea bathing, 293

  Seaford, 416

  Seaforth, Lord, 331

  Sedgemoor, Battle of (1685), 84

  Sedley, Catherine, 147

  Sedley, Sir Charles, 114, 115–16, 147, 395

  servants, 59–60, 63, 75–6, 126–7, 324, 333; black, 119–21; indentured, 78, 125, 126, 338

  Severn river, 262

  sewage, 17, 20, 53

  sex, 3–4, 82, 110, 111–16, 342–3

  sexual crimes, 324–6, 329, 342–3
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  sexually transmitted diseases, 308–9

  Seymour, Conyers, 123

  Shadwell, Thomas, 381, 396–7, 433

  Shakespeare, William, 376, 391, 392, 393, 394

  Sharp, Sarah, 126

  sheep farming, 33, 38, 51

  Shelton, Thomas, 157

  Shen Fuzong, 131

  sheriffs, 327

  Shetland, 297

  shifts and smocks, 197–8

  shirts, 186, 194

  shoes and boots, 190, 194, 201–2

  shopping, 176–83

  shops, 177, 180–1

  shorthand, 159

  Shrewsbury, 42, 227, 278, 312–13, 342

  Shrewsbury, countess of, 124

  Shrewsbury, earl of, 124

  Shropshire, 33

  Siam, 131

  Siberechts, Jan, 32, 372

  Sidney, Algernon, 379, 380

  sightseeing, 365–7

  signposts, 213

  silk, 185

  Sinclair, George, 142–3

  skimmington rides, 343

  skirts, 200

  Slack, Paul, 418

  slavery, 119–21, 133, 134

  Sloane, Sir Hans, 58, 368–9 smallpox,

  289–90, 300, 307, 314, 317, 318

  smells, 16, 53, 256–7

  smock races, 197, 362

  smock weddings, 197–8

  smocks see shifts and smocks

  smoking, 285, 287–8

  soap, 209, 299

  social contract, 379–80

  social mobility, 140

  social order, 59–92; justice system’s maintenance of, 323–6; popular attitude to precedence and hierarchy, 79–81

  social mobility, 65

  sodomy, 324

  Soest, Gerard, 372

  Somerset, 262, 279

  songs, 388, 390

  Southampton, 303

  Southampton, duke of, 114

  Southwold, 48

  Southy, Sarah, 324

  spas, 293–6

  Specke, Richard, 126

  Speenhamland, 355

  Spencer, Sir Thomas, 246

  spirits, 283–4

  sports and games, 128, 352–65

  Stafford, Lord, 108

  Staffordshire, 227

  stagecoaches, 218–20

  Staggins, Nicholas, 388

  staircases, 252

  stately homes see houses

  steam engines, 137

  Sterne, Edmund, 73

  Stillingfleet, Edward, bishop of Worcester, 375

  Stilton, 212

  Stoaks, William, 339

  stockings, 189–90, 194, 201

  stocks and shares, 172

  Stokes, Mary, 323–4

  stone, cutting for the, 319–20

  Stonehenge, 366

  stool-ball, 357, 362–3

  storms, 148–9

  Stour river, 227

  Stourbridge Fair, 178–80

  stow-ball, 363

  strangers see foreigners and strangers

  Streater, Robert, 32, 373

  street vendors, 17, 176, 273

  streets, 9, 13, 43

  Stuart, Frances, 113, 152

 

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