Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xi

List of Contributors

pp xii-xv

Record Office Abbreviations

pp xvi-xvi

Acknowledgements

pp xvii-xviii

Introduction

pp 1-14

Margaret

pp 15-26

Part I - Faith

pp 27-28

1 - Religious Divisions in the Localities: Catholics, Puritans and the Established Church before the Civil Wars

pp 29-42

2 - ‘Neither Godly professors, nor dumb dogges’: Reconstructing Conformist Protestant Beliefs and Practice in Earls Colne, Essex, c.1570–1620

pp 43-69

3 - The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend John Perkins: Scenes of Clerical Life in Late Seventeenth-Century England

pp 70-92

Part II - Place

pp 93-94

4 - The Heralds and the Hearth Tax

pp 95-110

5 - The Hearth Tax and the Poor in Post-Restoration Woking

pp 111-131

6 - Reassessing the English ‘Financial Revolution’: Credit Transferability in Probate Records of Sedbergh and Maidstone, 1610–1790

pp 132-150

Part III - People

pp 151-152

7 - ‘Flowered silk is little worn but gold and silver striped is much worn’: Metropolitan Clothing Consumption in Late Seventeenth- Century Sussex

pp 153-174

8 - A Cuckold in Space: The ‘Ballading’ of Stephen Seagar, 1669

pp 175-201

9 - Marginal People in a Stressful Culture: Gypsies and ‘Counterfeit Egyptians’ in Margaret Spufford's England

pp 202-221

Bibliography of Margaret Spufford's works

pp 222-228

Index

pp 229-233

Tabula in Memoriam

pp 234-234