Coffers, clysters, comfrey and coifs
Subtitle: the lives of our seventeenth century ancestors
By: Janet Few
Publisher: The Family History Partnership
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lancashire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781906280338
Subjects: Home economics; History; Social conditions; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: "Our seventeenth century ancestors may be people that we can identify, or they may be lurking, nameless, waiting to be discovered. In either case they existed, therefore we owe it to them to find out more about their way of life. This book sets out to provide an all-important context for these ancestors, ancestors whose detailed biographies probably elude us"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Truckle beds, tapestries, trenchers and thatch: homes and furnishings; title: 2. Besoms, battledores, butter and bees: household tasks; title: 3. Cauldrons, comfits, coffins and caudle: food and drink; title: 4. Bucket-tops, bodices, bum rolls and britches: clothing; title: 5. Tulips, topiary, tradescanth and thyme: gardens and gardening; title: 6. Purges, plague, pare and phlegm: medical practices; title: 7. Primroses, poultices, pennyroyal and pills: the medicinal use of herbs; title: 8. Ducking stools, dissenters, debtors and drunks: crime and punishment; title: 9. Superstition, sorcery, sabbats and spells: witchcraft; title: 10. Horn-books, hautbois, hokeys and hoops: childhood, pastimes and festivals.