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242, 243
    Jews, 256
    badges of shame worn by, 151
    crypto-, 228
    curfews of, 65
    marital sexual activity of, 308
    mezuzas of, 99
    Torah studied by, 206–7
    “Jinny Green-Teeth,” 17–18
    Job, Book of, 193
    John, Gospel According to, 4, 155
    John George III, Elector of Saxony, 213
    John of the Cross, Saint, 59, 302
    Johnson, Samuel, 44, 47, 136, 150, 218, 262, 285–86, 325
    Johnston, Lady Charlotte, 222
    Jolly, Thomas, 229, 316
    Jonson, Ben, 292
    Jordaens, Jacob, 315
    Josselin, Rev. Ralph, 51, 112, 314, 315, 317
    Joubert, Laurent, 12–13, 308–9
    Journal of the Plague Year (Defoe), 167
    Jubb, Thomas, 305
    Judges, Book of, 303
    Julius III, Pope, 71
    Juvenal, 5

    Kanaka people, 4
    Kay, Richard, 323
    kelpies, 18
    Ken, Thomas, 306
    Key, John, 31–32
    King, William, 318
    King and the Cobbler, The, 226
    knitting bees, see spinning and knitting bees
    Knyveton, John, 142
    Kyd, Thomas, 33

    labor, nocturnal, 155–84
    advantages of, 175–83
    artificial illumination of, 156, 161–63, 174
    communal, 177–84
    in disposal of dead bodies, 167–68
    of farmers, see farmers
    fatiguing effects of, 174–75
    of fishermen, 160, 171, 177
    as form of social control, 156
    in guarding against thieves, 172
    in homes, 158, 163–64, 173–74, 178–84, 305–6
    irregular work patterns in, 157–58
    livestock care in, 121, 170
    by moonlight, 162, 171, 172, 173, 174
    municipal regulations against, 155–56
    of nightmen, 165–67, 166
    for personal gain, 176–77
    pilfering aided by, 175
    of private guards, 165
    relaxed supervision of, 175, 178
    sexual misconduct aided by, 175
    of shepherds, 171–72
    of tradesmen, 156–63
    weather forecasting as, 170–71
    of working poor, 158–60, 164
    Lackington, James, 235
    Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy, 302
    La Fontaine, Jean de, 318
    Laithwaite, Ellen, 190
    Lakin, Benjamin, 316–17
    Lamare, Nicolas de, 48
    Lambert, Gilbert, 306
    lamplighters, 73, 74
    lang beds, 198
    lanterns, 77, 124–27, 131, 142, 179
    bull’s-eye, 125
    candles in, 67, 68, 73, 74, 124–25
    construction of, 67, 124–25
    dark, 40, 67
    dogs as carriers of, 126
    as “lanthorns,” 67
    makeshift, of the poor, 126
    paper, 70
    of pedestrians, 26, 129, 192
    social class and, 126–27
    as street lighting, 67–68, 73, 74, 129, 246, 337
    will-o’-the-wisps as, 18
    Lanthorne and Candle-Light (Dekker), 66
    La Reynie, Nicholas de, 73
    Lascaux cave paintings, 5
    Lasebee, Joseph, 245
    Laud, William, 314, 315, 316, 317
    laudanum, 271
    laundresses, 163–64, 175, 177
    Lavater, Lewes, 9, 41
    Lawson, John, 5
    Lead, Jane, 311–12
    Leake, John, 141
    “Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The” (Irving), 247
    Legg, Thomas, 289, 295
    Leigerdumaynians, 262
    Le Loyer, Pierre, 16
    Lemnius, Levinus, 276
    Lenton, Francis, 46
    Leonardo da Vinci, 305
    Le Pautre, Jean, 70
    Leper the Tailor, story of, 104
    L’Estrange, Sir Roger, 135
    Levine, David, 149
    Lewis, John, 10
    Liancourt, Madame de, 282
    Libanius, 5
    Libertine, The, 218
    libertines, aristocratic, 217–26, 245
    at alehouses, 218, 219, 220, 222–23
    disguises worn by, 219–20, 222, 226
    ecclesiastic, 220
    gangs formed by, 224–26
    genteel women as, 220–22
    jests of, 223, 226
    in literature, 226
    lower class affinities of, 218–20, 222–23
    nightwatch abused by, 224
    pedestrians assaulted by, 224, 225
    royalty as, 226
    vandalism of, 224
    violence of, 223–26
    women abused by, 217, 223, 224, 225
    “Libertine’s Choice, The,” 253
    lice, 270, 294–95
    Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph, 262, 291
    light, 4, 69–71, 100–101
    Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, The (Smollett), 136
    Life of a Simple Man, The (Guillaumin), 197
    Lilith, 4
    “Lincolnshire Poacher, The,” 241–42
    linkboys, 29, 40, 125–26, 126
    as mooncursers, 125
    literacy, 87, 203, 325
    Little Ice Age, 294
    livestock, 64, 85, 179, 270
    brought indoors at night, 279
    care of, 121, 170
    geese, 96
    marketing of, 172–73, 176, 327
    sleep disturbed by, 293
    theft of, 172, 240
    wild predators of, 171–72
    Livy, 303
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