One poem celebrates an incident from 1646: a young royalist lady whose beloved had died in battle refused to live without him and shot herself dead with a pistol.
Pulter, Lady Hester. Poems, Emblems, and The Unfortunate Florinda. Editor Eardley, Alice, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies , 2014.
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The first title of the...
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Carola Oman
CO
provided a new introduction for a facsimile reprint (from the edition of 1826) of Sir Henry Chauncy
's The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire, first published in 1700.
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Early 1711: At Walkern in Hertfordshire Jane Wenman rather...
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Early 1711
At Walkern in HertfordshireJane Wenmanrather bravely went to lawyer Sir Henry Chauncy
to complain that neighbours were accusing her of witchcraft; the results show how opinion was poised between belief and disbelief.
Oman, Carola, and Sir Henry Chauncy. “Introduction”. The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire, Kohler and Coombes, 1975, p. 1: iii - xviii.
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Oman, Carola, and Sir Henry Chauncy. “Introduction”. The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire, Kohler and Coombes, 1975, p. 1: iii - xviii.