Mary Poyntz

Her body was hugely swelled with water retention, but she led her companions in singing the day before she died. Mary Poyntz 's letter communicating the news of her death gives male names to all...

Her first five associates were Jane or Joanna Browne (a cousin of the Babthorpe and Rookwood families), Susanna Rookwood (sister of one of the Guy Fawkes plotters), Catherine or Catharine Smith , Winefrid Wigmore (a...

In her lifetime MW made a deep impression on those who came into contact with her. Her mastery of the written and spoken word must have contributed importantly to the way her opponents saw her...

The prospect of English civil war caused MW , Winefrid Wigmore , and Mary Poyntz to drop their plans for setting up schools in London, and set out to travel to Yorkshire.