Isabella Waterhouse
English portrait painter; mother of John William Waterhouse
English portrait painter; mother of John William Waterhouse
Supposed plot to kill Queen Elizabeth I and reintroduce Catholicism to England.
Oil painting by John William Waterhouse
Act passed by the Rump Parliament in 1650 making fornication, adultery and incest secular offences.
Act of Parliament making it illegal for the first time in England and Wales for a man to engage in sexual intercourse with any female he knew to be his grand-daughter, daughter, sister, half-sister, or mother.
Young Cornish servant girl endowed with the power to heal and prophetise after being visited by fairies
Born Dorothy Egerton (1565–1639), also known as Dorothy Brereton, Lady of the Manor of Worsley, was a coal owner and benefactor of Ellenbrook Chapel near her home in Worsley, Lancashire.
Woman arrested on suspicion of witchcraft in Rothenburg in 1652, who despite being tortured, vigorously protested her innocence
Song by Scottish poet Jean Adam (1704–1765), set to the music of “Up an’ Waur Them A’ ”.
Eldest illegitimate daughter of Sir Thomas Wentworth of Bretton Hall near Wakefield in Yorkshire.