1. 2003.Common Bodies. Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-century England111–48. For the circumstances of pregnancy, see now L. Gowing, (New Haven and London, Yale University Press,), pp. For the contexts of single women, J. Bennett and A. Froide (eds),Singlewomen in the European Past 1250–1800(Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1999). I hope here sincerely to acknowledge the valuable comments in the readers’ reports which have greatly influenced the final version of this paper.
2. Cambridge University Library (CUL) EDR D2/9a, fol. 7Ir.
3. 1996.Courtship, Illegitimacy and Marriage in Early Modem England84–6. Material from the diocese of Ely has been exploited in a wider context by R. Adair, (Manchester, Manchester University Press,), in which he alludes also (pp.—) to the migration of pregnant women.
4. CUL EDR D2/10, fol. 197v.
5. Whyte , I. D. 2000.Migration and Society in Britain 1550–183052–3. (Basingstoke, Palgrave,), pp.—makes this assertion.