Explore the world of Elizabethan England:

• Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603
  More than 88 pages of insight into everyday life in Tudor England - food, occupations, games, pastimes, religion, fashion, manners, attitudes, and education in the time of Queen Elizabeth I and Shakespeare. A unique reference for writers, students, actors, re-enactors, and Renaissance enthusiasts, written by Maggie Secara and designed for the Web by Paula Kate Marmor.
  

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• Elizabethan Heraldry
  John Neitz on Heralds and Heraldry, arms of famous Elizabethans (all in color), transcriptions of primary sources, and A Primer of Blazonry to get you started.

• Elizabethan Sumptuary Statutes
  Maggie Secara on sumptuary laws, with annotated transcriptions of the primary texts.

• The Trial of the Earls of Essex and Southampton, 1601
  A transcription of the treason trial that followed the Essex Rebellion, with modernized spelling, from the 1679 edition The Arraignment, Tryal, and Condemnation of Robert Earl of Essex, edited and annotated for the web by Maggie Secara, decorated by Paula Kate Marmor.

• Managing a Noble Household: A Book of Orders and Rules, 1595
  A Book of Orders and Rules for the "better direction and government of my household and family, together with the several duties and charges appertaining to mine officers and other servants" by Anthony Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montague, edited, mapped, and modernized by Maggie Secara from "A Book of Orders and Rules", by Sir Sibbald David Scott, in Sussex Archaeological Collections, vol. vii, London (1854).

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