The English Spa, 1560-1815: A Social HistoryFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1990 - 401 pagina's Beginning in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, members of the English nobility and gentry made a practice of taking relaxation at the country's inland spas. This account shows the spas to have been not only centers of healing and recreating but also venues of intrigue extending to political, religious, economic, and social issues. |
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... four storeys high with a battlemented roof and contained a great chamber and lodging - rooms for thirty ; it appears , enclosed by a wall , in Speed's 1611 map of Derbyshire . Thomas Greves was in charge and kept Shrewsbury informed ...
... four storeys high with a battlemented roof and contained a great chamber and lodging - rooms for thirty ; it appears , enclosed by a wall , in Speed's 1611 map of Derbyshire . Thomas Greves was in charge and kept Shrewsbury informed ...
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... four flagstones , overflowed into two small pools where poor people came to bathe and wash , and allegedly 2,000 arrived daily from all parts , disturbing the neighbourhood and the queen's deer . So Donne the landowner appointed one of ...
... four flagstones , overflowed into two small pools where poor people came to bathe and wash , and allegedly 2,000 arrived daily from all parts , disturbing the neighbourhood and the queen's deer . So Donne the landowner appointed one of ...
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... four feet square , with surrounding ledges . A later excavation near St Anne's Well revealed another well of roughly worked limestone walls thirty feet by fifteen feet with a spring at the west end and an outlet opposite , but like the ...
... four feet square , with surrounding ledges . A later excavation near St Anne's Well revealed another well of roughly worked limestone walls thirty feet by fifteen feet with a spring at the west end and an outlet opposite , but like the ...
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... four carts to convey his possessions to Buxton , but Bur- ghley required only one cart and post - horses on the route.7 Advised by his physician , the Earl of Leicester went to Buxton in July 1576 and again in June 1577 with his brother ...
... four carts to convey his possessions to Buxton , but Bur- ghley required only one cart and post - horses on the route.7 Advised by his physician , the Earl of Leicester went to Buxton in July 1576 and again in June 1577 with his brother ...
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... four main and two smaller gates , the Ham Gate and St Peter's Gate , and partly encircled by the river Avon flowing under the bridge by the South Gate . Some of the fields within and without the walls , the Abbey Orchard , the Ham and ...
... four main and two smaller gates , the Ham Gate and St Peter's Gate , and partly encircled by the river Avon flowing under the bridge by the South Gate . Some of the fields within and without the walls , the Abbey Orchard , the Ham and ...
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Bath and the Civil War | 53 |
Restoration Development The Provincial Spas | 66 |
Tunbridge Wells Rivals Bath Late Stuart Changes | 79 |
Metropolitan Spas | 99 |
Bath The New Towns | 111 |
Bath The Price of Primacy | 270 |
Leamington Priors and Wartime Minor Spas | 284 |
Conclusion | 302 |
Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography | 313 |
Notes | 315 |
Appendix | 353 |
A The Chronological Development of the English Spas to 1815 | 355 |
B Initial Promoters of some Minor Provincial English Spas c 16601815 | 361 |
Bath The Regulated Society and the Leisure Industry | 132 |
ColdBathing at the Minor Spas | 159 |
Cheltenham The Village Spa | 179 |
The Challenge of Cheltenham | 191 |
The Innkeepers Rule Harrogate and Scarborough | 202 |
The Innkeepers Spas of Derbyshire Buxton and Matlock | 216 |
Georgian Spas of the South Tunbridge Wells Epsom and Southampton | 231 |
The Severn Spas The Bristol Hotwells and Malvern | 245 |
Wartime Cheltenham Problems of Expansion | 255 |
C Size of the LongRooms or AssemblyRooms of the Spa Towns | 365 |
D The Domestic Trade in Bottled Natural Mineral Waters to 1816 | 366 |
E London Prices of Mineral Waters per dozen bottles | 367 |
Select Bibliography | 368 |
Index | 381 |
A Places | 383 |
B People | 395 |
C Subjects | 400 |
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Pagina 54 - his conversation was so sweet, his carriage so obliging, and his life so answerable to the port and dignity of the faculty he protest, that he had the applause of the Learned, the respect of the Rich, the prayers of the Poor, and the love of all."38 It would be difficult to surpass such an epitaph.
Pagina 75 - SIMPSON (William). Hydrologia Chymica: or, The Chymical Anatomy of the Scarborough, and other Spaws in York-Shire. Wherein are Interspersed, Some Animadversions upon Dr. Wittie's lately Published Treatise of the Scarborough Spaw.
Pagina 7 - A Book of the Natures and Properties as well of the Baths in England as of other baths in Germany and Italy, printed at Cologne by Arnold Birckman.
Pagina 368 - Abstract of a Particular Account of All the Inns, Alehouses (etc.) in England with their Stable Room and Bedding in the Year 1686'.