Figures
I.1‘Notes of Marriage of Francis Witton and Sarah Sergeant on 6 April, 1675, and of Birthdays of Family members’, Cheshire Archives and Local Studies. Reproduced with the permission of Cheshire Archives and Local Studies and the owner/depositor to whom copyright is reserved.
1.1A. Marsh, The Ten Pleasures of Marriage (London: 1682), 72. RB102841, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
2.1Scotch Moggy’s Misfortune: Together with her cheerful Hops, that Shakum Guie will bury his Wife, and then make Moggy a happy Mother (London: 1683–1696?). English Broadside Ballad Archive, EBB6SH, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
3.1Portrait of Catherine Carey, Lady Knollys by Steven van de Meulen 1562. Oil on panel, 108.6 × 79.4 cm. Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art released under CC-BY licence.
3.2‘Medical recipes, seventeenth to eighteenth century’, MS Gen 831, 76–80. By permission of the University of Glasgow Archives and Special Collections.
3.3Jane Sharp, The Midwives book. Or the whole Art of Midwifry Discovered. Directing childbearing women how to behave themselves (London: 1671), 199. Wellcome Collection.
4.1Jane Sharp, The Compleat Midwife’s Companion: or, The Art of Midwifry Improv’d (London: 1724), frontispiece. Wellcome Collection.
6.1Jakob Rüff, De conceptu et generatione hominis, et iis quae circa haec potissimum consyderantur libri sex (Zurich: 1554). Wellcome Collection.
6.2Baby brass of Clopton D’Ewes, son of Sir Simonds D’Ewes who died in 1631. St Peter and St Paul Church, Lavenham, Suffolk. Author’s photograph.