Englishmen at rest and play : some phases of English leisure, 1558-1714 / by members of Wadham College ; edited by Reginald Lennard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, W. P. (William Pearson)

Bretherton, Russell Frederick.

Rees, Richard Noel Kingsley.

Fenby, Charles.

Lennard, Reginald Vivian, 1885-1967.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century.

Great Britain.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

vi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 2 leaves, 3 unnumbered pages-248 pages, plates : facsimile, plan ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1931.

Contents:

The watering-places / Reginald Lennard

The observance of Sunday / W.P. Baker

Country inns and alehouses / R.F. Bretherton

Meals and meal-times / R.N.K. Rees and Charles Fenby

Appendix I: The multiplication of spas in the second half of the seventeenth century

Appendix II: The Cambridge decree against bathing (1571)

OCLC:

930951