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  2. Courtship and marriage in Tudor England - Wikipedia

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    Such an example includes Elizabeth Howard, whose father-in-law agreed to settle several manors as her jointure. [ 5 ] The fifth commandment “Honour thy father and mother”, reiterated this social value which saw children accepting marriage arrangements by their parents without much objection.

  3. Marriage settlement (England) - Wikipedia

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    A marriage settlement was a means of ensuring the proper use of a dowry provided by a bride's father to be used for his daughter's financial support throughout her married life and into her widowhood, and also a means by which the bride's father was able to obtain from the bridegroom's father a financial commitment to the intended marriage and to the children resulting therefrom.

  4. Lady Margaret Hoby - Wikipedia

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    Margaret Hoby's diary – the earliest known by an Englishwoman (1599–1605) – gives a notable account of the domestic disciplines of Elizabethan puritanism, along with the religious exercises and prayers for the whole household and the private prayers and reading, in which she was guided by her chaplain, Richard Rhodes. It was written as a ...

  5. Elizabeth I - Wikipedia

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    The notion of a great Elizabethan era depends largely on the builders, dramatists, poets, and musicians who were active during Elizabeth's reign. [193] As Elizabeth aged, her image gradually changed. She was portrayed as Belphoebe or Astraea, and after the Armada, as Gloriana, the eternally youthful Faerie Queene of Edmund Spenser's poem.

  6. Women in Anglo-Saxon society - Wikipedia

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    In Anglo-Saxon England, there were many laws related to marriage. [4] Fell examined some inconsistencies in Anglo-Saxon laws, for example, some laws ensured that women (whether unmarried or widows) were not forced to marry a man that she disliked; however, Aethelberht's law stated that a man is legally allowed to steal another man's wife as ...

  7. Elizabethan Religious Settlement - Wikipedia

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    The Elizabethan Religious Settlement is the name given to the religious and political arrangements made for England during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603). The settlement, implemented from 1559 to 1563, marked the end of the English Reformation .

  8. History of the Puritans under Elizabeth I - Wikipedia

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    Henry Smith (1560–1591) preacher who lived for only 31 years, and preached for only 5–7 years; and was known as the most eloquent preacher of the Elizabethan age. [citation needed] William Perkins (1558–1602) Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who was the most prolific Puritan theologian and expositor of Scripture during the ...

  9. Book of Common Prayer (1559) - Wikipedia

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    The 1559 Book of Common Prayer, [note 1] also called the Elizabethan prayer book, is the third edition of the Book of Common Prayer and the text that served as an official liturgical book of the Church of England throughout the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I became Queen of England in 1558 following the death of her Catholic half-sister Mary I.