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Lady Sarah Hewley (1627 - 1710)

Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/13156 References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) 118. Polychronicon & parambulationes Forestarum factæ tempore Regis Henrici filii Johannis Regis in Com. Huntingdun Lancast. Gloucest. Leicestr. & Notingh. Dorse. Somers. Oxon. Surrei, Sussex, Berks. Buckingh. Wilts. Salop. Wygorn. Hereford. & Essex. Northampt. Cumbr. Bucks. Eborac. Memorandum, The Chronicle hath the Pedigree of the King's from Brute, but the History only from the Arrival of the Saxons circa, An. 444. There are other Perambulations of the Forrests added 29 Edw. I. Com. Staff. Hunt. Wygorn. and Roteland. Then follow the Charters of Edw. the Confessor, and Will. the Norman to Westminster. The Foundation of the Abbey at Tewksbury, by Oddo and Doddo of Mercia, with the Series of the Abbots to the Year 1400. Lastly, Europæ descriptio ex Orosio ab Alfrido rege in Anglicam sermonem traducto. In the Saxon Language and Character. To which are annexed Nomina regum Merciorum, cum regnorum spatiis & terris quas Weogorniensi monasterio contulerunt. Et Nomina Episcoporum Huicciorum cum terris quas monast. S. Mariæ Wigorniensi dederunt. Catalogus Episc. Selesiæ & Cicestriæ. This is the Original Writ by the Hand of the noted Lawrence Nowel, Dean of Litchfield, the first Reviver of the Saxon Tongue (1565), and was the acceptable Present of the Rev. Mr. Tim. Hodgson, Chaplain to the pious and charitable Lady Hewley.