Platt, Sir Hugh (1552–1608), 225
Plimsoll, Samuel (1824–98), 599
Pollnitz, Karl Ludwig, Baron (1692–1775), 509
Ponsonby, Frederick, later cr. Baron Sysonby (1867–1935), 553
Poore, Richard (d.1237), 54
Pope, Alexander (1688–1744), 428
Portland, William John Cavendish-Bentinck, 5th Duke of (1800–1879), 556–7
Portman, William Berkeley, 2nd Viscount (1829–1919), 554, 556
Powys, Mrs Philip Lybbe, 334, 373–4, 496
Pratt, Sir George, 323
Pratt, Sir Roger (1620–84), 323
Prideaux, John, 278–9
Pryme, George (1781–1868), 341
Pückler-Muskau, Hermann Ludwig, Prince von (1785–1871), 554
Purefoy, Henry, 333–4, 496
Quin, James (1693–1766), 418
Rahere (d.1144), 94, 105, 156
Raikes, Robert (1735–1811), 452
Ralegh, Sir Walter (1552?–1618), 218, 227, 278
Read, Sir William (d.1715), 429
Recorde, Robert (1510?–58), 216
Redman, Richard (d.1505), 68
Regent, Prince, see George IV
Reith, Sir John Reith, 1st Baron (1889–1971), 678
Repton, George Stanley (d.1858), 521
Repton, Humphry (1752–1818), 326, 328
Reynolds, Frederick (1764–1841), 410
Rhodes, John, 408
Rich, John (1682?–1761), 413
Rich, Richard Rich, 1st Baron (1496?–1567), 207
Richard of Leicester, 101–2
Richard II, King (1367–1400), 36, 37, 83
Richard III, King (1452–85), 215
Richard de Wyche, St (1197?–1253), 135
Richardson, Samuel (1689–1761), 329
Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of (1735–1806), 371
Rideware, Sir Robert de, 73
Rivers, Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl (1442?–83), 215–16
Robertson, Tom (1829–71), 631
Robertson, Sir William, 1st baronet, (1860–1933), 674
Roche, Sophie von la, 350–51, 515
Rolle of Steventon, John Rolle, Baron (1750–1842), 227
Romilly, Sir Samuel (1757–1818), 661–2
Rosebery, Arthur Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of (1847–1929), 700
Rotherham, Thomas (1423–1500), 115
Rothschild, Nathan Meyer (1777–1836), 318
Rothschild, Sir Nathan Meyer, 1st Baron (1840–1915), 317
Rowlands, Samuel (1570?–1630?), 181
Rowlandson, Thomas (1756–1827), 444
Rowntree, Joseph (1801–59), 314
Ruggles-Brise, Sir Evelyn (1857–1935), 670
Ruskin family, Sabbatarianism, 643
Ruskin, John (1819–1900), 552, 617
Ruspini, Bartholomew, 444
Russell, Richard (d.1771), 679
Rutebeuf (fl. 1245–85), 95
Rutland, Charles Cecil Manners, 6th Duke of (1815–88), 542
Sackville, Lord John, 371
Salisbury, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of (1563?–1612), 199
Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of (1830–1903), 552
Salt, Sir Titus (1803–76), 577
Sampson, Abbot, 118
Sandford, Samuel (fl. 1699), 409
Sandwich, Lady, 335
Sassoon, Siegfried (1886–1967), 708
Saussure, César de, 509–10
Sayers, Tom (1826–65), 623
Scott, Sir George Gilbert (1811–78), 579
Scott, Sir Walter (1771–1832), 82
Scrope, Stephen, 107–8
Sedley, Sir Charles (1639?–1701), 411
Selwyn, George Augustus (1719–91), 608
Selwyn, George Augustus, Bishop (1809–78), 608
Senhouse, Humphrey, 456, 460
Sevenoke, Sir William (1378?–1433?), 117
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de (1626–96), 398
Sewell, Elizabeth, 361
Shadwell, Thomas (1642?–92), 410
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of (1801–85), 559
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), 218, 243–4, 245
Sharington, Sir William (1495?–1553), 194
Shaw, Norman (1831–1912), 554, 555, 612
Shenstone, William (1714–63), 329
Sheraton, Thomas (1751–1806), 333
Sheridan, Richard Brinaley (1751–1816), 375
Shillibeer, George (1797–1866), 652
Shrewsbury, Elizabeth, Countess of (Bess of Hardwick), 194, 324
Siddons, Sarah (1755–1831), 631
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554–86), 218, 278, 279, 464
Simon, John, 581
Simon de Paris, 29–30
Simond, Louis, 475, 477, 511–12
Simpson, Sir James Young (1811–70), 706
Sitwell, Francis, 496
Skinner, John, 314, 315–16
Slade, John, 619
Smiles, Samuel (1812–1904), 648
Smith, Adam (1723–90), 472, 518
Smith, Sydney (1771–1845), 311–13, 314
Smollett, Tobias (1721–71), 377, 466, 497
Smythson, Robert (d.1614), 195–6
Snow, John (1813–58), 440
Somerset, Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of (1662–1748), 497
Somerset, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of (1506?–52), 230
Somerville, Thomas (1741–1830), 352
Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of (1573–1624), 209, 278
Southey, Robert (1774–1843), 474
Soyer, Alexis (1809–58), 499
Spain, King of, see Philip II and Philip V
Spencer, Mary, 261
Spenser, Edmund (1552?–99), 278
Spurgeon, Charles H. (1834–92), 642
Stanley, James, 658
Stansfeld, Sir James (1820–98), 640
Stead, William Thomas (1849–1912), 634
Stephen, Sir Leslie (1832–1904), 680
Stephens, Henry, 619
Stephenson, George (1781–1848), 646
Sterling, Diana, 371
Stevens, Joanna, 427
Stoll, Sir Oswald (1866–1942), 630
Stonor, Edmund de, 120
Stonor, Thomas, 44
Stonor, Sir William, 122
Stopes, Marie (d.1958), 702
Stow, John (1525?–1605), 229, 230, 231
Straw, Jack (d.1381), 38
Strudwick, Thomas, 287
Strutt, Joseph (1749–1802), 423
Stubbes, Philip (fl. 1581–93), 212
Stubbs, George (1724–1806), 345
Sudbury, Simon of (d.1381), 37
Sullivan, Sir Arthur (1842–1900), 631
Surtees, Robert Smith (1803–64), 358
Sussex, Augustus Frederick, Duke of (1773–1843), 554
Sutherland, George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of (1828–92), 541
Sweet-Escott, Thomas, 607
Swetnam, Joseph (fl. 1617), 387
Swetnam, William, 265
Swift, Jonathan (1667–1745), 342, 359, 429
Swinfield, Richard de (d.1317), 11
Switzer, Stephen (c. 1682–1745), 326–7
Symons the acrobat, 242
Taine, Hyppolyte (1828–93), 570
Tait, Archibald Campbell (1811–82), 607
Tallis, Thomas (1510?–85), 218
Tarleton, Richard (d.1588), 245
Taverner, John (fl. 1530), 218
Tayler, William, 500
Taylor, John (1580–1653), 164–5, 355
Taylor, John (1711–88), 313–14
Telford, Thomas (1757–1834), 352
Terry, Dame Ellen (1847–1928), 631
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811–63), 628, 647
Thomas Becket, St(1118?–70), 80
Thomas de Chatham, 94
Thomas of Holland, 118
Thomas, John (1691–1766), 310
Thompson, F
lora, 561
Thoresby, Ralph (1658–1725), 348
Thornhill, Benjamin, 429
Thornton, Alice, 259
Thornton, William, 319
Thorpe, William (d.1407?), 79
Thorpe, Sir William (fl. 1350), 144
Thrale, Henry (c.1728–81), 310, 497
Thrale, Hester Lynch (1741–1821), 394
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron (1731–1806), 309, 351
Thurlow, Thomas (1737–91), 310
Thynne, Sir John (d.1580), 194, 195
Tilley, Vesta (1864–1952), 631
Todd, Silas, 451
Topsell, Edward (d.1638?), 218
Towle, James (d.1817), 487
Townshend, Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount (1674–1738), 321
Tradescant, John, the elder (d.1637?), 200
Train, George Francis (1829–1904), 656
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm (1852–1917), 631
Tresham, Sir Thomas (1543?–1605), 199
Trollope, Anthony (1815–82), 603, 609, 628
Trusler, John (1735–1820), 496
Tryon, Thomas (1634–1703), 265
Tucker, Josiah (1712–99), 481–2
Tull, Jethro (1674–1741), 321
Turner, Sydney (1814–79), 670
Turner, Thomas, 316, 335, 518
Tusser, Thomas (1524?–80), 172, 216, 239
Tye, Christopher (1497?–1572), 218
Tyler, Wat (d.1381), 36, 37, 38
Tyndale, William (d.1536), 216–17
Udall, Nicholas (1505–56), 239
Unton, Sir Henry (1557?–96), 201
Unwin, Sir Raymond (1863–1940), 676
Vanburgh, Sir John (1664–1726), 323, 327
Veil, Sir Thomas de, 663
Verney, Sir Edmund (1590–1642), 252, 253
Verney, Sir Ralph (1613–96), 275–6, 388
Vestris, Elizabeth Lucy, 631
Vicary, Thomas (d.1561), 155
Victoria, Queen (1819–1901), attitude to Sabbatarianism, 643
childhood holidays, 679
chloroform in childbirth, 440
dislikes smoking, 553
Frith’s Ramsgate Sands, 681
lavatory for, 652
motor car, 659–60
opens St Thomas’s Hospital, 706
theatre, 631
travels by rail, 650
typhoid, 436
women’s rights, 693
Vincent, Henry (1813–78), 495
Vives, Juan Luis de (1492–1540), 239
Wales, Albert Edward, Prince of, see Edward VII
Wales, George, Prince of, see George IV
Walker, Abraham, 467
Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford (1717–97), expense of Strawberry Hill, 511
gambling story, 372
interior decoration, 332
robbed by highwaymen, 349
servants, 497
Walpole, Robert (1650–1700), 257
Walpole, Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford (1676–1745), 361, 412
Walsingham, Sir Francis, 278
Walworth, Sir William (d.1385), 37
Ward, John William, 1st Earl of Dudley (1781–1833), 664
Ward, Joshua (1685–1761), 429
Ware, Isaac (d.1766), 332
Ware, Samuel (1782–1848), 521
Warwick, Frances Evelyn Greville, Countess of (Lady Brooke; 1861–1938), 546
Waterhouse, Alfred (1830–1905), 555
Watson, Matthias, 282
Watt, James (1736–1819), 468
Webb, Matthew (1848–83), 631
Wedgwood, Josiah (1730–95), 363, 467, 474–5
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of (1769–1852), Almack’s Assembly Rooms, 364
attitude to smoking, 554
funeral, 627
interior decoration, 332
opinion of his soldiers, 671
police force, 664
railways, 644
underground railway, 657
Wells, H. G. (1866–1946), 689
Wentworth, Lady Henrietta, 508
Wesley, Charles (1707–88), 317
Wesley, John (1703–91), 316–17, 338, 451, 474
Westhall, Lilian, 505
Westminster, Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of (1825–99), 497. 541. 555, 557
Weston, Sir Richard (1591–1652), 256
Whetstone, George (1544?–1587?), 184
White, Gilbert (1720–93), 313, 336
Whitefield, George (1714–70), 317
Whiteley, William, 520
Whitgift, John (1530?–1604), 192
Whittington, Richard (c.1358–1423), 50, 100, 160, 209, 215
Wilberforce, William (1759–1833), 608
Wilcocks, Joseph (1673–1756), 310
William I, King, the Conqueror (1027–87), prologue, 141, 146
William II, King (d. 1100), 68
William III, King (1650–1702), 258, 437
William de Morlei, 95
Willis, Francis (1718–1807), 430
Wilson, Arthur (1836–1909), 556
Wilson, Benjamin (1721–88), 494
Wilson, H. J., 640
Wilton, Marie (1839–1921), 631
Winchcomb, John, 174
Winchilsea, Daniel Finch-Hatton, 8th Earl of (d.1769), 371
Wodelarke, Robert (d.1479), 136
Woffington, Peg (1714?–60), 418
Wolfe, James (1727–59), 340, 671
Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759–97), 693
Wolsey, Thomas (1475?–1530), Cardinal College, 187
Hampton Court, 198, 201, 230
and Henry VIII’s syphilis, 165
plague, 162
Wolverton, George Carr Glyn, 1st Baron (1797–1873), 556
Wood, Anthony (1632–95), 400
Wood, John, the elder (1705?–54), 294
Wood, John, the younger (d.1782), 294
Woodforde, James (1740–1803), cures a stye, 427
deaths from fever, 437
dines at New College, 460
inoculation, 433
Oxford/London fare, 352
servants, 438, 496, 503, 506
smugglers, 361–2
workhouse, 493
Woodville, Anthony, 2nd Earl Rivers (1442?–83), 215
Woodward, John (1665–1728), 433
Woolaston, William (b.1659), 269–70
Woolf, Virginia (1882–1941), 680
Woolley, Hannah (fl. 1670), 272
Woolton, Frederick James Marquis, 1st Earl of (1883–1964), 709
Worde, Wynkyn de (d.1534), 216
Wotton, Sir Henry (1568–1639), 197, 326
Wright, Thomas, 621
Wyatt, James, 364
Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503?–42), 177
Wyatville, Sir Jeffry (1766–1840), 555
Wyclif, John (c.1320–84), 36, 136
Wykeham, William of (1324–1404), 115, 117, 144
Wyndham, Sir Charles (1837–1919), 631
Wyville, Robert, 142
York and Albany, Edward Augustus, Duke of (1739–67), 413
York and Albany, Frederick, Duke of (1763–1827), 673
York, James, Duke of, see James II
Young, Arthur (1741–1820), 320
enclosure of land, 472–3
failed farmer, 321
and John Howard, 344
A Tour Through the Southern Counties, 355
Travels in France, 336
Index of Subjects
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abbeys, 80–81, 104, 156
Abingdon, 105
abortion, 399, 702–3
actors, see theatre
Acts of Parliament, Act of Uniformity, 258
Apothecaries’, 429
Bank Holiday, 599
Combination, 480, 482, 492
Contagious Diseases, 639–40
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nbsp; Defence of the Realm, 700, 707
Education (1918 and 1944), 694
Emergency Powers, 707
Fourth Reform, 693
Free Libraries 622
Gangs, 559
Green Belt, 676
Holidays with Pay, 684
Hours of Labour in Factories, 582
Housing, 675
Intoxicating Liquor (Temporary Restriction), 700
Licensing, 701
Married Women’s Property, 693
Metropolitan Police, 664
Metropolitan Poor, 706
Militia, 671
National Insurance, 707
Police, 666
Poor Law Amendment, 492
Prevention of Crimes, 670
Prison, 669
Public Health (1848), 580, 581
Public Health (1872), 581
Public Health (1875), 581–2
Railway, 651
Reform, 492
Riot, 455, 490
Sex Disqualification (Removal), 693, 703
Shop Hours, 520–21
Smallholdings, 565–6
Town and Country Planning, 676
Tramways, 657
Waltham Black, 360
Workhouse, 493
advertising, 467
handbills, 430
mountebanks, 426–7, 429
rapidly expanding business, 704
for servants, 503
tooth powders and tinctures, 443
agriculture (see also animal husbandry and enclosure of land), children employed, 469, 558
crops, 173
decline in, 566
decline in corn growing, 34
depression, 488–9, 564
farm boy’s work, 558–9
farm labourers’ wear, 345, 535
fanners with social pretensions, 567
glebe farming, 311, 312
improved methods, 256–7
labouring gangs, 559–61
largest occupation, 284, 466, 497
mediaeval, 21–2
mop fairs, 307
percentage of labourers in population, 565
revolution, 321–2
riots, 254, 479–80, 490–91
size of farms, 562–3
smallholdings, 20, 565–6
unemployment, 469
wages, 471, 558, 559, 561
weaver-farmers, 563
Women’s Land Army, 709
Aldeburgh, 535
alehouses, 52, 53, 79, 375–7
allotments, 565
animal husbandry, disease, 178, 564
horse rearing, 301–2
improved breeds of cattle and sheep, 321
mediaeval peasants’, 20
sheep farming, 34, 173, 177, 301, 488
animals (see also horses and sports), bloodhounds, 666
cruelty to, 337, 368, 369
deer, 358, 359
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