The Vicar of Chippenham
Christopher Haigh: Religion and the life-cycle, 15 October 1998
Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England
by David Cressy.
Oxford, 641 pp., £25, May 1998,0 19 820168 0 Show More
by David Cressy.
Oxford, 641 pp., £25, May 1998,
“... are the absent fathers. Poor Agnes Bowker of Market Harborough, deserted by Randall Dowley and Hugh Brady, blamed a monster for her pregnancy in 1569 and claimed to have given birth to a cat. The champion cad was Francis Lane, who in 1608 promised to marry Rose Arnold, got her pregnant, tried to push her down a well and claimed another man was the ... ”