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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... visitors and the changing international situation made this adjustment all the more necessary . The English were probably introduced to Spa by the Venetian Dr Augustine Augustini , a physician of Henry VIII , but he left England about ...
... visitors and the changing international situation made this adjustment all the more necessary . The English were probably introduced to Spa by the Venetian Dr Augustine Augustini , a physician of Henry VIII , but he left England about ...
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... visitors . The square Hall , be- tween the spring and three ancient baths , was 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 ...
... visitors . The square Hall , be- tween the spring and three ancient baths , was 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 ...
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... visitors ; but Buxton's development was retarded by the lack of a market until 1813 , despite this blueprint for an embryonic leisure industry . Al- though some visitors brought their own physicians ( the Earl of Essex brought Dr Beech ) ...
... visitors ; but Buxton's development was retarded by the lack of a market until 1813 , despite this blueprint for an embryonic leisure industry . Al- though some visitors brought their own physicians ( the Earl of Essex brought Dr Beech ) ...
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... visitors ' names were scrawled on the windows between 1573 and 1582 , including that of Pembroke . In the same column with Leicester's was , modestly expressed , the motto of Regius Professor Dr Baily : ' Hoc tantum scio quod nihil scio ...
... visitors ' names were scrawled on the windows between 1573 and 1582 , including that of Pembroke . In the same column with Leicester's was , modestly expressed , the motto of Regius Professor Dr Baily : ' Hoc tantum scio quod nihil scio ...
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... visitors , although Bath had more accommodation than Buxton , but both had a long tradition of bathing and the advantage of natural thermal waters . Bath had three springs at temperatures varying from 117 ° to 120 ° F , and the abundant ...
... visitors , although Bath had more accommodation than Buxton , but both had a long tradition of bathing and the advantage of natural thermal waters . Bath had three springs at temperatures varying from 117 ° to 120 ° F , and the abundant ...
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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.
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