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c. | contra. |
CP | Cause Papers |
DC | Dean and Chapter's court |
Gowing, Domestic dangers | Laura Gowing, Domestic dangers: women, words and sex in early modern London (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996) |
Kermode and Walker (eds.), Women, crime and the courts | Jenny Kermode and Garthine Walker (eds.), Women, crime and the courts in early modern England (London: UCL Press, 1994) |
P & P | Past & Present |
Sharpe, Defamation | J. A. Sharpe, Defamation and sexual slander in early modern England: the church courts at York (York: Borthwick, 1980) |
TRHS | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society |
In quoting original sources the original spelling and punctuation has been retained. Capitalisation has been standardised and abbreviations used by clerks have been expanded.
I would like to thank Professor Jim Sharpe for agreeing to supervise this thesis and sharing with me his wealth of experience and expertise. I am also grateful to Dr Mark Jenner for his advice and encouragement, and not least for helping to bring into focus a vaguely-imagined thesis topic. Without the dedication and skill of the staff (past as well as present) at the Borthwick Institute, of course, this thesis simply could not exist. I am deeply indebted to Dr Jane Rendall and Dr Joanna de Groot for all their contributions (far beyond the call of duty) towards making this MA such a stimulating and rewarding course. Finally, my thanks and deepest affection go out to all the fellow students without whom my ‘York experience’, personally, socially and academically, would have been a much poorer one; especially Dave, Alison, Nigel, Rishabh, Daniele, Maria, Giovanni, Masa, Guo and Fernando.