There were a lot of really interesting English social customs that are recorded from that Tudor/Stuart period. Between all the cuckolds horns, shrews, scolds,

There were a lot of really interesting English social customs that are recorded from that Tudor/Stuart period. Between all the cuckolds horns, shrews, scolds, and conflicts between Catholics, Anglicans and the Puritan/Quaker/other protestant splinter groups, there's a lot of bizarre-seeming rituals that people undertook. Not to mention accusations of witchcraft. One of the better books I read in my coursework on early modern England was Fire From Heaven, which covers a bunch of this stuff (http://amzn.to/1VzJn8r http://amzn.to/1VzJn8r) One I came across recently, reading one of the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin novels was the practice of wife selling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_selling_(English_custom) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_selling_(English_custom))