Contents
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Illustrations

Charts and Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Initial Stages

2 The Wollstonecraft Connection

3 Records at the Guildhall Library

4 Edward John's Family

5 Edward's Will

6 Edward Bland, Merchant Adventurer

7 Links with the Rutson Family

8 Poor Britannia!

9 Edward Wollstonecraft, Weaver and Citizen of London

10 Marin v Wollstonecraft

11 Entertained in the House of Nell Gwynn

12 The Chancellor's Decree and Order

13 Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Home

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Synopsis

Comments

             

             

            List of Illustrations

             

             

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            Marriage certificate of Richard Mason and Lydia Turner

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            Entry for Edward Holdsworth Turner in baptismal register of

             

             

             

            St Marylebone

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            Entry for Edward Holdsworth Turner in Bishop’s Transcript of burial

             

             

             

            register of St Martin in the Fields

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            Copy of part of 1851 Census for Bryan Street, Islington

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            Will of Edward Holdsworth Turner

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            Entry for Britannia Turner in baptismal register of the Abbey Church

             

             

             

            of St Mary, Sherborne, Dorset

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            Entry for Thomas Godfrey Turner and Hephzibah Amelia Drummond

             

             

             

            in marriage register of St George, Camberwell

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            Allegation for licence for marriage of Joseph Turner to

             

             

             

            Lydia Wollstonecraft

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            "Mary Godwin (née Wollstonecraft)", c 1797, by John Opie

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            Will of Britannia Wollstonecraft

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            Entry for Edward Bland Wollstonecraft and Lydia Cooke in marriage

             

             

             

            register of St Mildred, Bread Street

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            "St Botolph, Bishopsgate", c 1831,

             

             

             

            drawn by Thomas. H. Shepherd, engraved by J. Hinchliffe

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            St Botolph, Bishopsgate, June 2001

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            "Fleet Parsons and Fleet Marriages"

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            Entry for Charles Wollstonecraft in baptismal register of

             

             

             

            St Botolph, Bishopsgate

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            Will of Mary Wollstonecraft, c 1694-1746/47

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            Entry for Edward Wollstonecraft and Mary Bird in Fleet marriage

             

            register

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            Entry for Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797, in baptismal register of

             

             

             

            St Botolph, Bishopsgate

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            Extracts from articles of apprenticeship, or clerkship, to the Court of

             

             

             

            Common Pleas for Edward Wollstonecraft, 1757-1807

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            Edward Wollstonecraft’s affidavit of due execution of articles

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            Charles Wollstonecraft’s articles of apprenticeship to

             

             

             

            Edward Wollstonecraft

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            Charles Wollstonecraft’s articles of apprenticeship to William Briggs

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            First page of the will of Edward Wollstonecraft, 1688-1765

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            "The East Offering its Riches to Britannia", by Spiridione Roma

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            "The East Indianman Princess Royal" by John Cleveley, the Elder

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            "The Indiaman Britannia" by Thomas Whitcombe

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            East India Ships in Joanna Bay, by Edward Barlow

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            HMS Victory's Fore Top

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            Extract from Bill of Complaint, Ruttson v Woolstonecroft

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            Cover of Old Bailey Sessions Papers, October 1740

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            Report of Britannia’s trial

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            "Bishopsgate-Street Ward", 1720, by Richard Blome

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            "Newgate", c 1760

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            Details in Treasury Money Book of felons shipped aboard the

             

            Harpooner

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            Cover of John Graunt’s, Observations on Bills of Mortality

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            "Old London", by Henry William Brewer

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            "The Restoration of Monarchy & King Charles II"

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            Title to "A Collection of All the Bills of Mortality", 1665

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            General Bill of Mortality for London, 1665

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            "Ludgate during the Great Fire"

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            "A General Fast…", c 1794, by Isaac Cruikshank

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            "The Fellow ’Prentices at their Looms", by William Hogarth, 1747

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            Edward Woolstonecraft’s apprenticeship indenture

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            "Nell Gwynn", by an artist in the studio of Sir Peter Lely

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            Extract from Abraham Marin’s Bill of Complaint (1)

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            Extract from Abraham Marin’s Bill of Complaint (2)

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            Extract from Mary Woolstonecraft’s Answer (1)

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            Extract from Mary Woolstonecraft’s Answer (2)

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            List submitted by Anne Webster in her Answer

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            Entry in Book of Decrees and Orders

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