Thanks to all who have set my mind at rest on this point.
Colin Burrow, Fellow and Tutor, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge CB1
4AR
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Subject: Re: Sidney's daughter
Not perhaps the simplest source, but one which confirms the date of 1612,
is Thomas Nevitt's account of her uncle Robert Sidney's finances. Sidney
seems to have had the responsibility of funding her dowry and then settling
her affairs - he had, for example, to set aside £600 for her embalming and
funeral. It is British Library, Add. MS 12066, edited at
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/sidneiana/nevitt.htm
fol. 7v
Receaued for the rent of Halden for fiue yeares begining in Ao 1612 when
the Countesse of Rutland dyed and ending in Ao 1617 being then sould to Sir
Thomas Smith 0620
Receaued for the rent of Robertsbridge for 12 yeares begining in Ao 1612
when the Countesse of Rutland died being 800li per annum 9600
There may be more in HMC De L'Isle, but Nevitt wouldn't get this wrong.
Gavin
At 09:48 27/07/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Can anyone give me a guide, and ideally a source, for the date of death of
>Sidney's daughter, Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland? DNB give her date of
>death as 1615 (under Roger Manners); Herford and Simpson (in their note on
>Epigram 79; no source cited) say she died two months after her husband in
>1612.
>
>
>Colin Burrow, Fellow and Tutor, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge CB1
>4AR
>tel: 01223 332483
>web: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk
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