Lucy spent most of her childhood with her siblings, cared for by a nurse, under-nurse and governess in the third-floor nursery.
Boston, Lucy et al. Memories. Colt Books with Diana Boston Hemingford Gray, 1992.
22-3, 40
Their Sunday play consisted of reading the New Testament, Bunyan
(Pilgrim's...
Violence
Anne Askew
AA
was bound upright to die, because her legs were dislocated.
Askew, Anne. The Examinations of Anne Askew. Editor Beilin, Elaine V., Oxford University Press, 1996.
191
John Foxe
later wrote about the three men burned with her: It happened well for them, that they died together with Anne Askewe...
Reception
Anne Askew
Knowledge of AA
's writing spread rapidly. The reactionary Stephen Gardiner
, Bishop of Winchester, complained on 6 June 1547 of the number of copies in circulation.
Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, 1996.
xxviii-xxix
John Foxe
gave it a still wider...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit
Although Lady Tyrwhit
was a cousin by marriage of Katherine Parr
, their shared allegiance to the reformed religion was probably the key to their relationship. The Protestant historian John Foxe
wrote that Elizabeth Tyrwhit...
Education
Grace Lady Mildmay
Lady Sharington employed a governess named Hamblyn for her daughters, who was a niece of her husband. Mrs Hamblyn took great pains with the character and moral training of her charges, and taught Grace some...
Textual Features
Brilliana Lady Harley
It reflects her theological interests, containing—for instance—paraphrases from Calvin
's Institutes of the Christian Religion, from works by William Perkins
, and the sermons of the local vicar.
Eales, Jacqueline. Puritans and Roundheads. Cambridge University Press, 1990.