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7. Oct. 23,1676, Sewall, Diary, I, 28; May 10, 1776, Andrew Oliver, ed., The Journal of Samuel Curwen, Loyalist (Cambridge, Mass., 1972), 156; Philippe Contamine, "Peasant Hearth to Papal Palace: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries," in HPL II, 499; W. Carew Hazlitt, ed., English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases… (London, 1882), 291.

8. Barbara A. Hanawalt, The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England (New York, 1986), 44; Sir Edward Coke, The Reports… (London, 1658), 453; Burt, Letters, II, 206.

9. OBP, Apr. 29-May 1, 1747, 152, May 14, 1741, 12, July 15–17, 1767, 244; David Ogbome, The Merry Midnight Mistake, or Comfortable Conclusion (Chelmsford, Eng., 1765), 34; Timothy J. Casey, ed., Jean Paul: A Reader, trans. Erika Casey (Baltimore, 1992), 338; FLEMT, xi-xii.

10. Pounds, Home, 184–186; Hanawalt, Ties That Bound, 38; A Warning for House-Keepers… (n.p., 1676), 4.

11. Pinkerton, Travels, I, 517; John E. Crowley, The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities & Design in Early Modem Britain & Early America (Baltimore, 2001), 36–44, 62–69; Pounds, Culture, 118–120.

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13. Paolo Da Certaldo, Libro di Buoni Costumi, ed. Alfredo Schiaffini (Florence, 1945), 30; Nov. 12, Oct. 21, 1666, Pepys, Diary, VII, 367, 336; Ann Feddon, Apr. 20, 1751, Assi 45/24/3/42; John Cooper, Dee. 13,1765, Assi 45/28/2A37; Contamine, "Peasant Hearth to Papal Palace," 502; Eugen Weber, "Fairies and Hard Facts; The Reality of Folktales," Journal of the History of Ideas 42 (1981), 101–102.

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16. Mar. 21,1763, Frederick A Pottle, ed., Boswell’s London Journal, 1762–1763 (New York, 1950), 224; Leonard R. N. Ashley, ed., A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke… (1755; rpt. edn., Gainesville, Fla., 1969), 45; J. S. Cockbum, "Patterns of Violence in English Society; Homicide in Kent, 1560–1985," PP130 (1991), 86–87.

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20. Campion, The Discription of a Maske (London, 1607).

21. Aug. 2, 1708, Cowper, Diary; Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, passim, esp. 493–497.

22. George Peele, The Old Wives Tale, ed. Patricia Binnie (Manchester, 1980), 42 n. 104; Edward Young, Night Thoughts, ed. Stephen Comford (Cambridge, 1989), 121; Casey, ed., Jean Paul, trans. Casey, 338; R. Sherlock, The Practical Christian… (London, 1699), 322; Taillepied, Ghosts, 169.