SEVENTEENTH CENTURY最新文献

{"title":"“Will doe all in her power”: the role of women in the contested will of Henry Cavendish","authors":"Laura Charles","doi":"10.1080/0268117x.2023.2258840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2023.2258840","url":null,"abstract":"When the 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Henry Cavendish died in 1691, he left behind one of the wealthiest estates in England. Having no male heir, he chose to leave his fortune to his favourite daughter Margaret. This decision was not well received by other family members, leading to a lengthy conflict culminating in court proceedings that attempted to contest the will. Utilising both judicial sources as well as personal correspondence, this paper examines the role and influence of the women within the Cavendish family in this process. It explores the methods by which they were able to participate both in and outside of court, and how they utilised both practical and emotional tactics to achieve their aims. This paper argues that the idealised roles of wife, mother and widow offered women a role of influence, lending credibility to their testimonies as well as enabling them to effectively manage family discord.","PeriodicalId":54080,"journal":{"name":"SEVENTEENTH CENTURY","volume":"333 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136059303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New light on the strolling performers Thomas Peadle and Thomas Cosby, 1639–1650","authors":"J. P. Vander Motten","doi":"10.1080/0268117x.2023.2250735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2023.2250735","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe present article brings to light new information about Thomas Peadle, a representative of the younger generation of a late 16th- and early 17th-century family of strolling entertainers, whose career has been very imperfectly documented. Archival materials relating to his marriage in Amsterdam in 1639, his presence at Delft in 1640, and his appearance at The Hague in 1641 suggest that Peadle took his troupe on a tour of The Low Countries in the 1630s and early 1640s. Further evidence of his theatrical activities on the continent is contained in an agreement for co-operation concluded at Paris on 22 October 1649 between Peadle and Thomas Cosby, a fellow rope dancer, on the one hand, and Florent Marchand, a French ‘water-spouter’, on the other. They continued their joint performances in England, where their co-operation ended in 1650, culminating in the English partners’ ruthless exposure of Marchand’s ‘trade secrets’.KEYWORDS: Thomas PeadleThomas Cosbyrope dancersFlorent Marchandcross-Channel artistic exchanges Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Cohn, Shakespeare in Germany, lxxxii – lxxxiii, lxxxviii; Meissner, Die englischen Comoedianten, 40–43; Herz, Englische Schauspieler, 36, 52–53; Bentley, Jacobean and Caroline Stage, 521–23; Harry R. Hoppe, ‘English Actors at Ghent’, 309; and Bachrach, ‘Leiden en de “Strolling Players”’, 33–4. Philip Butterworth has mistakenly assumed that ‘[t]he earliest records that concern the Peadle family’ are dated April 1609: see Magic, 30–31.2 Murray, English Dramatic Companies, 342, 346.3 Bawcutt, Control and Censorship, 309–10. On Cecily Peadle’s ‘performative legitimacy’ as leader of the troupe, see Mueller, ‘Touring, Women’, 60–61.4 Eccles, ‘Elizabethan Actors’, 300.5 Murray, 253–54.6 Gemeente Amsterdam. Stadsarchief [City Archives]. Huwelijksintekeningen van de Kerk, inv. 452, page 258. Thomas’s year of birth, 1612, made him the elder brother of Cornelius, baptized on 8 August 1617, and Anne, baptized on 31 January 1621: see Bentley, 522–23.7 Cecily Peadle, possibly the company manager in August 1631, was left unmentioned in the December 1639 Coventry record.8 Bentley, 522, has stated that Peadle ‘had been appearing with his father’s troupe for some time [my italics] before his name got into the Coventry records’, i.e. before 24 December 1639.9 Archief Delft. Doopboeken Nieuwe Kerk, folio 43 v.10 Vander Motten and Roscam Abbing, ‘Seventeenth-Century English Rope Dancers in the Low Countries’, 13 and passim; and Vander Motten and Roscam Abbing, ‘Seventeenth-Century English Rope Dancers in the Netherlands’.11 Gemeentearchief Den Haag. Oud Archief. Registers van minuten, 201, dd. 27 April 1641. I owe thanks to Ms Saskia Noot, The Hague City Archives, for having supplied me with a scan of this document.12 Harry R. Hoppe has pointed out that ‘[t]he outbreak of the Thirty Years War in 1620 probably drove many troupes that customarily toured Germany in","PeriodicalId":54080,"journal":{"name":"SEVENTEENTH CENTURY","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135149725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}