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(one well acquainted with all her secrets) and now by him printed for publick satisfaction (London: W.L.,
1660).
9 Dorothy Osborne and Kenneth Parker (ed.), Dorothy Osborne: Letters to Sir William Temple, 1652-1665:
Observations on Love, Literature, Politics and Religion, with an Introduction and Notes (Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2002). Letter Six.
10 Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson (1906), p. 77.
11 Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition (Antique Collector’s Club, reprint 2013). See also:
John Friske and Lisa Freeman, Living with Oak: Seventeenth-Century English Furniture
(Northamptonshire: Belmont Press, 1999). Linda J. Hall and N. W. Alcock, Fixtures and Fittings in Dated
Houses, 1567-1763 (Council for British Archaeology, 1994). Annie Carlano and Bobbie Sumberg,
Sleeping Around: The Bed from Antiquity to Now (Washington: University of Washington Press, 2006).
Worsely, If Walls could Talk, p. 8. Relatively poor people still owned beds and that bed was often the
only (or most valuable) piece of furniture which they recorded in their wills and in court records (see
reference forty-three).
12 Box beds on the continent could be far more luxurious: examples from Brittany and the Netherlands are
decorated with intricate carving and paintwork.
13 The Shetland Crofthouse Museum at Voe houses a reconstructed example of an ancient box bed.
14 Llanon Cottage Museum, Coliseum, Terrace Road, Aberystwyth. St. Fagons (The National History
Museum) in Snowdonia, contains a similar cottage and set of beds. Ty Mawr Wybrnant in Conwy, Wales
houses an eighteenth-century box bed. A final example, of a box bed can be found in Snowhill Manor,
Gloucestershire.
15 Wainscot is a specific type of oak which was imported from the continent.
16 Old Bailey Proceedings (www.oldbaileyonline.org version 6.0,13 February 2013), Ordinary of
Newgate's Account, 9 May 1679 (t16790430-3). Original spellings have been adhered to.
17 Stockport Heritage Service, (Flemish, 1600) (STOPM: 1998.1069).
18 For further reading: Hilary Marland, The Art of Midwifery: Early Modern Midwives in Europe (London:
Routledge, 1994). Jacques Gelis, History of Childbirth: Fertility, Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern
Europe (Staford: Polity Press, 1996). Doreen Evenden, The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London
(Cambridge: CUP, 2006).
19 Anon., The Pleasures of Matrimony, Intermix’d with a Variety of Merry and Delightful Stories (London:
R/H Rodes, 1695), p. 121.
20 Elias Ashmole and R.T. Gunther (ed.), The Diary and Will of Elias Ashmole (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1927), p. 15.
21 David Lindsay, Funerals of a Right Reuerend Father in God Patrick Forbes of Corse, Bishop of Aberdfne
(1631), p. 80.
22 Lucinda M. Becker, Death and the Early-Modern Englishwoman (Hampshire: Ashgate, 2003), p. 30.
23 Roger Ekrich, At Day’s Close: A History of Night-Time (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005).
24 Craig Koslofky, Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early-Modern Europe (Cambridge University
Press, 2011), p. 3.
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