Rose Hickman

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RH was an earnest and committed Protestant during the sixteenth century's religious conflicts. She is remembered for the account she wrote down (in 1610 at the age of eighty-four) of her life. It is personal and also historical, relating her religious beliefs and their doctrinal foundations, and the practical problems they brought for her family's domestic and business life. It is quite possible that she left other writings, but they seem not to have survived.
Higginbotham, Jennifer. “The Exile of Rose Hickman Throckmorton”. Reformation, Vol.
15
, No. 1, pp. 99-114.
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Painting of Rose Hickman by a follower of John de Critz, 1596, the day after her seventieth birthday. Her pale face, white ruff, and hands (one holding a glove) are all that emerge from her dark cloak, cap, and belt, and a dark background. Her age and the date are noted in Latin, her name and those of her father and first husband in English. Gainsborough Old Hall.

Milestones

26 December 1526

RH was born in London as Rose Locke or Lok, the third of her Protestant parents' eleven children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1610

Calling herself, correctly, by her later married name of Rose Throckmorton, the eighty-four-year-old RH sat down to pen her memoirs or family history, which her relations later entitled Certaine old storyes recorded by an aged gentlewoman a littel before her death to be perused by her children and posterity.
Higginbotham, Jennifer. “The Exile of Rose Hickman Throckmorton”. Reformation, Vol.
15
, No. 1, pp. 99-114.
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21 November 1613

RH died in London at the age of eighty-six, nearly thirty years after her second husband's death.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Allan, Sue. Lady Rose Hickman—Her Life and Family. Domtom Publishing Ltd.
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Biography

Sue Allan, who has written a historical novel about RH , calls her Lady Rose Hickman, a title which she never held.

Birth and Family

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