# The Elizabethan People

The Elizabethan People
By
Henry Thew Stephenson
Associate Professor of English Indiana University
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1912
Copyright, 1910,
by
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
Published February, 1910
TO MY WIFE
CONTENTS
| chapter | | page |
| I. | The Elizabethan Character | 1 |
| II. | Country Life and Character | 36 |
| III. | Life in the Capital | 66 |
| IV. | Amusements in General | 102 |
| V. | Rural Sports | 110 |
| VI. | Celebrations of the Calendar | 144 |
| VII. | Out-of-Door Sports | 176 |
| VIII. | Indoor Amusements | 195 |
| IX. | The Love of Spectacles | 227 |
| X. | Popular Superstition | 266 |
| XI. | Birth—Baptism—Marriage—Death | 283 |
| XII. | Ghosts—Fairies—Witches | 317 |
| XIII. | Domestic Life | 344 |
| Index | | 403 |
ILLUSTRATIONS :
| PAGE ||
| Archery Match | Frontispiece |
| Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel. Edmund Spenser. Illustrative of Elizabethan ruffs | 34 |
| The Quadrangle, Leicester's Hospital, Warwick, illustrating timber and plaster framework; also court with galleries | 36 |
| The Gateway, Leicester's Hospital, Warwick, illustrating ornamental woodwork and plaster construction | 44 |
| The Great Hall, Warwick Castle | 48 |
| The Stratford Portrait of Shakespeare, illustrating the soft band | 53 |
| The Droeshout "Original" Portrait of Shakespeare, illustratinq the starched band | 60 |
| The Chandos Portrait of Shakespeare, illustrating the soft band | 64 |
| Marquis of Hamilton. Sir Philip Sidney. Illustrative of falling bands | 76 |
| Richard Burbage. John Lowin. Illustrative of falling bands | 84 |
| George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland. Henry Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel. Illustrative of Elizabethan hats | 100 |
| Hawking | 116 |
| Trained Bears | 124 |
| Trained Animals | 133 |
| Trick Horses | 140 |
| The Quintain | 156 ​ |
| The Quintain | 180 |
| The Water Quintain | 192 |
| Playing Cards | 204 |
| Frost Fair on the Thames | 220 |
| Tilting | 228 |
| Tilting at the Ring | 236 |
| Tilting at the Quintain | 236 |
| A Court Dinner in the Time of King James | 246 |
| An Old House in Grub Street, London, illustrating timber construction | 252 |
| Carved Exterior of Sir Paul Pindar's House, London, illustrating ornamental exterior woodwork | 260 |
| Anne Hathaway's Cottage | 268 |
| Longleat. Illustrative of straight lines as an element of design | 276 |
| The Duke's House, Bradford on Avon, Illustrating the irregularity of exterior construction | 280 |
| The Great Hall, Charlecote | 284 |
| The Gallery at Haddon Hall | 288 |
| The Library, Charlecote | 292 |
| A Ceiling in Sir Paul Pindar's House, London | 296 |
| A Ceiling in Oldbourne Hall, London | 300 |
| Ornamental Ceiling in Crosby Hall, London | 304 |
| Painted Ceiling in Crosby Hall, London | 308 |
| Ornamental Ceiling in the Nunnery of St. Helen's, London | 312 |
| Room in Sir Paul Pindar's House, London | 316 |
| Interior of a House in Crutched Friars, London | 320 |
| Grotesque Carving of a House in Crutched Friars, London | 324 |
| Fireplace in Oldbourne Hall, London | 328 ​ |
| Moll Frith, "The Roaring Girl" | 332 |
| Robe of Civic Dignitary | 336 |
| Two portraits of Queen Elizabeth, illustrating wide buff and elaborate headdress | 340 |
| Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset. Edward Clinton, Earl of Lincoln. Illustrative of Elizabethan hats | 344 |
| Elizabethan Ruffs | 348 |
| Portrait of Sir Philip Sidney, illustrating the ruff worn with armour | 352 |
| The Droeshout engraving of Shakespeare prefixed to the first folio, illustrating starched band and embroidered doublet | 356 |
| John Fletcher. Henry, Prince of Wales. Illustrative of falling bands | 360 |
| Queen Elizabeth. Illustrative of the large farthingale | 364 |
| Farthingale and Hose | 358 |
| Francis de Valois. Illustrative of short hose and cape | 372 |
| Sir Walter Raleigh. Illustrative of garters and roses | 376 |
| An Elizabethan Bed | 380 |
| Oak Chest supported on frame | 384 |
| An Elizabethan Chest | 338 |
| An Elizabethan Oak Chest | 392 |
| An Elizabethan Olive Wood Chest | 396 |
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