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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:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

An Assonagh of Escocheon used at the Funeral of the Princess Eliz. Sonan, Sole-Daughter and Heir Apparent of Ann Sonam, a converted Indian Queen in Maryland: It is a Does Skin fixed upon a round Hoop near a Yard in Diameter, adorned with their Shell-money, viz. Roanoke Silver and Peak Gold, with some rude Lines and Colours, probably designed as the Arms; brought me from thence by Mr. James Green a Native of this Parish. A Shred of the Velvet Pall, now wholly divested of its Blackness by lying many Years over the Countess of Shrewsbury's Coffin in the Vault at Sheffield. A Ribband uncorrupt; and Hair white and fresh from a young Gentlewoman's Head buried 35 Years in the Church at Leedes. A Fragment of Duke Humphrey's Coffin, brought by Mr. H. Sligh from the Vault, then newly discovered, at St. Albans. In July 1683, was taken out of another Vault there a small Bit of Leather, being Part of the Boots of one supposed to be the Abbot of St. Alban's 500 years ago; his Vestments of Cloth of Gold were then fresh, sent me by Mr. Stock of Manchester; as was also,