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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... returned home with a further influx of new ideas from the Continent . Prominent among these travellers was Dr William Turner , the first propagandist to expound the official revised view of taking mineral waters . A prominent English ...
... returned home with a further influx of new ideas from the Continent . Prominent among these travellers was Dr William Turner , the first propagandist to expound the official revised view of taking mineral waters . A prominent English ...
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... returned at least three times.11 So the new habit of going to the baths and wells became an accepted part of the social routine of the elite , drawing humble people there in their wake , and it was the origin of the secular English ...
... returned at least three times.11 So the new habit of going to the baths and wells became an accepted part of the social routine of the elite , drawing humble people there in their wake , and it was the origin of the secular English ...
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... returned to Spa and died there in 1621.38 Had the Newnham waters cured nobles of the standing of Leicester or Chandos their history might have been different , but they probably attracted only local custom . Later editions of Baily's ...
... returned to Spa and died there in 1621.38 Had the Newnham waters cured nobles of the standing of Leicester or Chandos their history might have been different , but they probably attracted only local custom . Later editions of Baily's ...
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... . By 26 June Leicester , fearing that he had contracted tertian ague , was returning to Kenilworth with Warwick and Pembroke . Meanwhile the queen personally thanked Shrewsbury for his hospitality to Leicester , Bath and Buxton 23.
... . By 26 June Leicester , fearing that he had contracted tertian ague , was returning to Kenilworth with Warwick and Pembroke . Meanwhile the queen personally thanked Shrewsbury for his hospitality to Leicester , Bath and Buxton 23.
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... returned from Bath ' neither much better nor worse ' than when he went , and had ' little hope or help ' from that source.24 The queen expressed surprise that he had not been drowned by the many pails of water poured over him , a ...
... returned from Bath ' neither much better nor worse ' than when he went , and had ' little hope or help ' from that source.24 The queen expressed surprise that he had not been drowned by the many pails of water poured over him , a ...
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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'.