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Subjects and Objects: Material Expressions of Love and Loyalty in Seventeenth-Century England

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Angela McShane
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 48 , Issue 4 , October 2009 , pp. 871 - 886
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14 See, e.g., lead glass goblet, dated 1684–1700, Victoria and Albert Museum (VAM): C.139-1925, http://collections.vam.ac.uk/objectid/O2498.

15 For pewter dishes in property exchange, see, e.g., Grant of Land, 14 February 1651/2, DD/E/85/3, Nottinghamshire Archives: (1) delivers seisin of premises to (2) by one pewter dish; Attested Copy Grant, April 1763, 1987/4/1 25, Shropshire Archives: Thomas Cranage puts son George in full possession of [all the premises] by delivering to him one pewter dish; Grant of Land, December 1739, Bagshaw Collection C/2542 27, Sheffield Archives; documents relating to land dispute between Mr. Cressett and Mr. Kinnersley, 26 April 1652, Cressett Estate Papers, 5460/7/2/1, Shropshire Records Office: “a pewter dish fell to the lord for a heriot”; O’Hara, Diana, Courtship and Constraint: Rethinking the Making of Marriage in Tudor England (Manchester, 2000)Google Scholar.

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18 One ballad, J. P., , The Loyal Subjects hearty Wishes to King Charles the Second (London, 1660)Google Scholar, brimming with Old Testament references, referred to the patriarchal king: “The King, our nursing father, / he will us cherish’ as a ‘nursing father.’” While this was a common biblical trope used by divines in sermons and other writings and expounded into a defense of absolute rule by political writers such as Sir Robert Filmer, it was more exceptional for black-letter ballads, which consistently depicted monarchs as lovers and spouses.

19 Auslander, “Beyond Words,” 1018–19.

20 Thefts show costs ranging from 1s. in the sixteenth century to 1–2s. in the eighteenth.

21 E. E. Hopwell, “Summary of a Discussion on Warming Pans at the 1991 Meeting,” Base Thoughts: The Journal of the Antique Metalware Society, no. 4 (Spring 1992): 11–28; Roderick Butler, “Further Notes on Warming Pans,” Antique Metal Ware Society Journal 1 (June 1993); Christopher Bangs, “Note: Inscriptions on English Warming Pan Lids,” Antique Metal Ware Society Journal 3 (June 1995).

22 Angela McShane and Joanne Bailey, “The Bed as Icon of the Early Modern Household” (paper delivered at the Economic History Conference, March 2007).

23 Silver was about 5s. per ounce, but these lockets weighed next to nothing; Nelson, Obsidional Money, 9; VAM: M.3-1958.

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25 For further examples, see the V&A Web site, under “Search the Collections,” http://collections.vam.ac.uk/objectid/O77746.

26 Numerous loyal objects were owned or made by young females; see, e.g., Joan Bacon's 1667 trinket box, VAM: M.826:1&2-16, http://collections.vam.ac.uk/objectid/O78640.

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37 For a complete list, see Angela J. McShane, Political Broadside Ballads of Seventeenth-Century England: A Critical Bibliography (London, forthcoming).

38 See Judith M. Richards, “Love and a Female Monarch: The Case of Elizabeth Tudor,” Journal of British Studies 38, no. 2 (April 1999): 133–60.

39 Love lies a Bleeding (London, ca. 1659–60).

40 See fig. 3; Untitled Ballad, Crawford Collection, National Library of Scotland, no. 990 (1660); A. Starkey, Good News for England (London, 1660).

41 >The Case is altered (London, 1660).

42 Englands honour, and Londons glory (London, 1660); A Worthy Kings Description (London, 1660). See also J. P., Loyal Subjects hearty Wishes.

43 The praise of the merry Month of May (London, 1660).

44 Gallant News of late I bring (London, 1660).

45 Englands rejoycing at that happy day (London, 1660); see also The Royall Subject's Joy (London, 1660).

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58 The Royal Frolick (London, 1689/90). Several ballads following this story were printed.

59 See Great Britain's Earnest Desire for the Princess Mary's Happy arrival (London, 1689); The Princess Welcome to England (London, 1689); The Kingdom's Joy for the Proclaiming King William and his Royal Consort Queen Mary in the Throne of England (London, 1689); The Subjects Satisfaction (London, 1689); England's Triumph (London, 1689); England's Extasie (London, 1689). Her virtues were also praised, and to some extent the effect of her childlessness relieved, in ballads such as The Bedfordshire Widow (London, [1690s]), which compared Mary to “Dorcas the Good” as she saves the life of a widow and her three orphans, and The Distressed Mother (London, 1690s), in which a little girl is left at the court for Mary to bring up.

60 William had overruling power, but the 1690 Regency Act gave Mary authority. She ruled for thirty-two months.

61 Schwoerer, “Images of Queen Mary II,” 717–48, sees the Regency Act as the key moment in this change, which is reflected in a range of media other than ballads. See The Royal Dialogue (London, 1690); King William's Courage (London, 1690); The Royal Farewell (London, 1690); The Protestant's Joy (London, 1690); and The Courtly Salutation (London, 1690).

62 See, e.g., Inventory from Coker Court, 1723, DD/WHh/1106, Somerset Record Office: listed in the study “one gold coronation medall, King William and Queen Mary”; in the lobby “Picture of King James 2nd, Framed.”

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