Article: Women's prayers in childbirth in sixteenth century England.

In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English

society, the bearing of children was considered a

woman's primary alling and children as her primary

contribution to the family, the church, and the state.

In most instances women did not resist their calling.

If a woman was an Anglican, she agreed, when she

assented to the form for the Solemnization of Mar-

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