Winchilsea, Heneage Finch (i)th Earl of, (ii)
Windebank, Mrs, (i)
Windham, Elizabeth see Maidstone, Viscountess
Winstanley, Gerrard, (i), (ii)
Winter, Sir John, (i)
Winter, Lady Mary, (i)
Wiseman, Charles, (i), (ii), (iii)
Wiseman, Mrs, (i)
Witch of Edmonton, The (Rowley, Dekker, Ford, etc.), (i), (ii), (iii)
witchcraft, witches, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); Chelmsford witches, (vii), (viii); associated with scolding and cursing, (ix); trials of witches, (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv); Belvoir witches, (xvi), (xvii); Bideford witches, (xviii), (xix); white witches and ‘cunning folk’, (xx); associated with red hair, (xxi); and Anna Trapnel, (xxii); Quaker women suspected, (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv); and midwives, (xxvi), (xxvii); see also prophetesses
Withers, Jane, (i)
Wives: legal position of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); ideal concepts of, (ix), (x); accomplishments and duties, (xi); marital sex, (xii); married love, (xiii); constant pregnancies, (xiv), (xv); infertility, (xvi); contraception, (xvii); plight during Civil War, (xviii); as camp-followers, (xix), (xx); as nurses, (xxi); as ‘solicitors’, (xxii); and freedom of conscience, (xxiii), (xxiv); see also childbirth; divorce; marriage; women
Woburn Abbey, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
women: inferiority of, (i); sexual desires of, (ii), (iii); notion of ‘the softer sex’, (iv), (v); legal position of, (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x); modesty, (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii); and witchcraft, (xviii); obedience, (xix), (xx), (xxi); other virtues of, (xxii); and old age, (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv); in Low Countries, (xxvi), (xxvii); courage in Civil War, (xxviii); physical strength of, (xxix); frivolity of, (xxx); unchanging status of, (xxxi); see also accomplishments; appearance; childbirth; education; marriage; wives
Womens Complaint against their Bad Husbands, The, (i)
Women’s Petition (1659), (i)
Women’s Sharpe Revenge, The, (i)
Womens Speaking (Fell), (i)
Wood, Anthony à, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Woodforde, Mary, (i)
Woodforde, Samuel, (i)
Woolley, Hannah, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Woolley, Richard, (i)
Worcester, Charles Somerset Marquess of, (i), (ii)
Worcester, Battle of (1651), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Wordsworth, William, (i)
Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century (Clark), (i)
Worlds Olio, The (Newcastle), (i)
Worthington, Alice, (i)
Worthley, Grace, (i), (ii)
Wortley, Eleanor see Sussex, Countess of
Wootton, Sir Henry, (i)
Wotton, William, (i)
Wren, Sir Christopher, (i)
Wright, Dr, (i)
Wright, Jane, (i)
Wright, Maria, (i)
‘Wright, Robert’ (Robert Danvers, also Robert Villiers), (i), (ii)
Wright, Mrs (grandmother of Mary Ward), (i)
Wright, Mrs (at siege of Brampton Bryan), (i)
Wright, Thomas, (i)
Wriothesley, Lady Elizabeth see Northumberland, Countess of
Wriothesley, Lady Rachel see Russell, Rachel Lady
Wroth, Cornet, (i)
Wycherly, William, (i)
Wythorne, Thomas, (i)
Yeamans, Isabel see Fell, Isabel
York, Duchess of see Mry of Modena
York, James Duke of see James II
York, (i)
York prison, (i), (ii)
Young, Nicholas, (i)
Zouch, Lady, (i)
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