The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury (1527 - 1608)
Née Hardwick, then Elizabeth Cavendish, later Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury. Ralph Thoresby transcribed her epitaph in 1686. He classifies her as the "memorable Countess of Shrewsbury, who built the two great houses at Chatsworth and Hardwick, of which I had a distant prospect on the road." (Diary, 1: 184). Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26925 Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...as Mentions or references - The Diary of Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S. author of the topography of Leeds. (1677-1724).
References in Documents:
Assonagh of Escocheon used at the Funeral of the
Eliz.
Sonan,
Sonan
DoesSkin fixed upon a round Hoop
near a Yard in Diameter, adorned with their Shell-money,
viz. Roa
nokeSilver and
noke
PeakGold, with some rude Lines and Colours, pro
bably designed as the Arms; brought me from thence by
James
Green
Green
wholly divested of its Blackness by lying many Years over the
tess of
corrupt;
buried 35 Years in the Church at
phrey
H. Sligh
discovered, at
Albans.
July1683,
Vault there a small Bit of
supposed to be the
Alban's
of Cloth of Gold were then fresh, sent me by
Stock
as was also,