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| 751 | She and her elder sister Anne (who died October 1657) were painted as children, 1655–56, by Lely, who also painted diana at the time of her first marriage in 1667. Both portraits and the receipt for the latter (£29 10sh., including frame, August 1667) are still at Woburn, as are many of her letters to the Rev. John Thornton, the Russells' tutor there. See G. Scott Thomson, Life in a Noble Household, 1641–1700, pages 76, 111, 291, 293, where are other references to her. | Russell, Lady Diana (I2644)
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| 752 | She and her husband had licence to enter into her inheritance in November 1446. | (Poynings), Eleanor de jure suo jure Baroness Poynings (I776)
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| 753 | She and her husband sold the manor of Martel's Hall to William Mannock in 1528. | Mortimer, Elizabeth (I712)
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| 754 | She and her husband were admitted of Corpus Christi, York, 1498. | Scrope, Hon. Margaret (I1432)
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| 755 | She and her husband were admitted of Corpus Christi, York, 1498. | Scrope, Hon. Elizabeth (I2444)
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| 756 | She and her husband were admitted of Corpus Christi, York, in 1490. | Scrope, Hon. Alice (I2443)
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| 757 | She and her husband were later removed to Little Easton, Essex. | (Plantagenet), Lady Isabel of Cambridge (I2533)
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| 758 | She assumed the surname Compton-Vyner by royal licence dated 30 September 1915. | Compton-Vyner, Mary Evelyn (I2824)
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| 759 | She bequeathed jewels to her brothers, Sir Humphrey Bourchier kt. and Thomas Bourchier, and her sister Dame Elizabeth, Lady Welles. "To my sonne Lord Latymer, my wedding rynge." | Bourchier, Hon. Joan (I906)
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| 760 | She converted to Roman Catholicism about ten years before her death. | Roche, Hon. Frances Ruth Burke (I8)
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| 761 | She desired to buried in the Beauchamp Chapel (St. Mary's), Warwick, beside her son. She made various gifts to this chantry, and some also to Well, where her first husband was buried. | Beauchamp, Lady Elizabeth (I900)
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| 762 | She died in childbed some two months after her husband. | Wenman, Hon. Elizabeth (I2642)
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| 763 | She died unmarried. | Dalton, Ursula (I2438)
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| 764 | She died unmarried. | Robinson, Althea (I2788)
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| 765 | She died unmarried. | Robinson, Elizabeth (I2787)
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| 766 | She died while on active service, and was unmarried. | Vyner, Elizabeth (I2836)
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| 767 | She died without issue. | Harris, Catherine Gertrude (I2809)
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| 768 | She died without issue. | Hort, Frances (I2804)
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| 769 | She died without male issue. | Fitzalan, Lady Joan (I2313)
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| 770 | She directed burial in the church of the Minoresses, Bruisyard, to which she bequeathed the manor of Wrabness, Essex. | de Ufford, Maud (I612)
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| 771 | She directed that her heart be buried at the Greyfriars, London, and her body at the Greyfriars, Bristol. | Percy, Lady Eleanor (I769)
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| 772 | She directed to be buried by her husband. | Fitzalan, Lady Joan (I2405)
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| 773 | She held the Castle and Honour of Abergavenny in dower till her death. | Fitzalan, Lady Joan (I2405)
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| 774 | She inherited Stowe and other lands in Northamptonshire in 1439, when she was aged 22. | Beauchamp, Lady Elizabeth (I900)
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| 775 | She made provision for Thomas Neville, younger son of her late son Henry; also for her daughter Catherine, wife of Oliver Dudley. | Beauchamp, Lady Elizabeth (I900)
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| 776 | She received a legacy under Sir Charles Dalton's will. | Smith, Elizabeth (I2442)
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| 777 | She took the veil after the death of her second husband, Robert Constable. | Hatcliff, Beatrice (I1942)
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| 778 | She was "A lady of sweet temper, strict virtue, exemplary piety, goodness and condescension." (Hearne's Collections, volume viii, page 111). V.G. | Thynne, Mary (I2668)
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| 779 | She was a goddaughter of George II. | Lennox, Lady Emilia Mary (I1265)
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| 780 | She was a legatee in the 1554 will of her half-brother, Thomas (West), 9th Lord la Warre, K.G. | West, Hon. Barbara (I723)
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| 781 | She was a legatee under the will of her cousin, Christopher Bacchus, of Southwood, parish of Cottingham, gentleman, dated 29 January 1724. | Huntington, Mary (I2214)
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| 782 | She was a step-daughter of A. Stuart-Wortley. | Bromley, Zoë (I2537)
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| 783 | She was allegedly the inspiration for Samuel Richardson's character Pamela. | Sturges, Hannah (I2704)
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| 784 | She was an authoress of some note. | Cornwallis, Anne (I1350)
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| 785 | She was an executrix of her husband's will. | Staveley, Ellen (I2237)
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| 786 | She was bequeathed a pecuniary legacy of £1,100 under the will of her Godfather and maternal relation, John Bacchus, of Welton, dated 3 February and proved 14 March, 1759. | Laybourne, Mary (I2213)
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| 787 | She was bequeathed an annuity of £5 a year for life under the will of her niece, Mary Laybourne, dated 25 February and proved April 1784. | Huntington, Mary (I2214)
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| 788 | She was co-executrix of the will of her mother, dated 25 April and proved 19 November 1761, under which she and her niece, Mary Huntington, were bequeathed a pecuniary legacy of £300 to be equally divided between them, and out of which they were to pay £5 a year in quarterly payments to her brother, William Huntington, for life, and to pay all her mother's debts and funeral expenses. | Huntington, Esther (I1993)
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| 789 | She was co-executrix of the will of her mother, dated 25 April and proved 19 November 1761. | Huntington, Mary (I2214)
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| 790 | She was co-executrix of the will of her paternal relation, John Bacchus, of Welton, dated 3 February and proved 14 March, 1759, under which she was bequeathed a pecuniary legacy of £500 and half of the residuary personal estate. | Huntington, Esther (I1993)
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| 791 | She was co-executrix of the will of her paternal relation, John Bacchus, of Welton, dated 3 February and proved 14 March, 1759, under which she was devised and bequeathed a pecuniary legacy of £3,000, a reversionary interest in all the testator's real estate in the parish of Cottingham devised to the their mutual cousin Catherine Bacchus for life, and half of the residuary personal estate. | Huntington, Mary (I2214)
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| 792 | She was described as "beautiful and accomplished" in the York Herald, 29 February 1812. | Manners-Sutton, Charlotte (I2116)
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| 793 | She was executrix of her husband's will (proved at London 1 March 1894). | Burdett, Constance Angela Mary (I2432)
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| 794 | She was granted Administration of the estate of her husband on 30 October 1732. | Croft, Olive (I1992)
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| 795 | She was killed by a fall from her horse in 1688. | Danby, Charlotte (I1458)
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| 796 | She was patron of Mottisfont Priory, as heir of William de Briewere, one of the founders. | Chaworth, Maud (I597)
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| 797 | she was re-admitted to British nationality | Roche, Hon. Eliza Caroline Burke (I84)
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| 798 | She was sole heiress to her brother, Humphrey, Earl of Buckingham, and thus transmitted to her representatives the right of quartering the royal arms as differenced in the grant thereof to her said father. | (Plantagenet), Lady Anne of Gloucester (I502)
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| 799 | She was the author of Ode to Indifference. | Macartney, Frances (I2753)
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| 800 | Sir John Harrington said "he was a man well spoken, properly seen in languages, a comely and good personage, had scarce an equal, and, next to Sir Philip Sidney, no superior in England." | Stapylton, Sir Robert (I1585)
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