Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the abuses in England in Shakspere's youth, A.D. 1583 / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

  • Stubbs, Philip, active 1581-1593.
Date:
1877-1882
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Credit: Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the abuses in England in Shakspere's youth, A.D. 1583 / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Index. Polling and pilling of the poor, 46 Poor, the, badly treated by lawyers, II, 12, the Law 14, Judges 16; marrow suckt put of their bones in the Law-Courts, 16 Poor ; curse Merchants for export- ing goods wanted here, 22 ; are injured by greedy Grasiers, 27 ; their Commons enclozed, 27; their hospitality to one another, 41; cruelty of the rich to them, 41-2 Poor, aged and sick to be kept by their own parish, 42 ; now many die like dogs in the fields, 43 Poor, ill treated by Doctors, 52 ; should have a Doctor paid for them, 54 Pope, the Son of the Devil, 5 ; the Head of the Devil’s Church, 69; Antichrist, 71; the Devil’s ‘ Liefetenant generall ’, 104 Preaching Ministers, 71, 74; may take Stipends, 86 ; their pay, 95 Precisians, 112, folk over scrupulous about trifles Preferment in the Church, not got by merit, 73 prejudicate, «. 114 prepensedly, 14, by forethought preposterous geare, 59 (at foot), awful nonsense Pride is followd by Destruction, 3 Prince’s duty to the Church of his land, 70 Prince’s power to pardon crimes, 14 Princes to be obeyd by Subjects, 17, I13 ; even when bad, 18 Princes may order Ministers to wear a special dress. Surplice, &c. Ill Prisons, abominable state of, 12 Private Patronage, how it arose, 81 Prognosticators, humbugs, 56-65; are to be condemd, 66 promptuarie, sA 7 Provosts of Colleges take bribes, 20 Psalmograph, 30, Psalm-writer, David put-offs, 46/15, excuses Putter, or Putting-Stick, to stiffen Ruffs with, 36 quarrellous, 10, quarrelsome Po//—SAz/?. Quarter[ly] Sermons, 77 quirckes and quiddities, 46 rack rent, 29, rackt, straind up to the full value Rate in aid for poor parishes, 42 Reading Ministers, 72 Reading, not preaching. Ministers, 71-2 Receivers or buyers of stolen goods. Brokers, 41 refell, wA 77/5 Reformd Churches oversea: their prompt judging of Law-Causes, 9, and Crimes, 13; they take better care of their Poor than we do, 43-4 regiment, 8, ruling, control remit, 13, excuse, set free reprivation, 13, reprieve Rich favourd against the Poor, 16 Rich men eat up poor ones, 27 ; their duty to tenants, 30; the evil way they spend their money, 33; little hospitality, and want of kindness to the poor, 41-2. See ‘ Poor’ Rise in rents, twentyfold, 30 roging, 75, roguing, 53 (at foot) Rome the poison of all the world, III Ruffs, great, the Cartwheels of the Devil’s Chariot, 35 Schoolmasters badly paid, 20 ; should be examind for character as well as learning, 20; shouldn’t be chargd for a License to teach, 21 Seigniory in the Church, 100 Sellers, if Christians, should tell Buyers the faults of the animals they sell em, 48 Setting-Sticks for Ruffs, 36. ‘ Pi- antatoio, a dible or gardners setting sticke.’ 1598. Florio. A Worlde of Wordes. Shakspere’s ridicule of ‘planetary influence ’ enforst beforehand, 61 Sheep: whole parishes given up to, 28 Sheriffs’ cheating, 16 Shipman’s hose, 79/1 (will fit any- thing)