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the time was Maid of Honour to Ann of Denmark, Queen of 

 King James I. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Cavendish, 

 who had married Charles Stuart, Earl of Lennox, brother to 

 Lord Darnley, and was niece of another sister, Mary Cavendish, 

 Countess of Shrewsbury : — 



" 10 April 1608. 



" My Lo. wee could not omitt to advertise y r Lor of an 

 accident that will be soe welcome to you, as that M r Wm 

 Cavendyshe hath gotten a good wife whoe was this Sonday in 

 the Morninge married to my Lo. of Kinlos his daughter. The 

 matter hath been soe secretly carried as it was never heard 

 of any, till it was donne ; and for mee, I thinke I was the last ; 

 for at my goinge to Whitehall, after dinner the Queen told 

 me. of it, and sayes that in the Morninge Thom. Elveston 

 (Elphistone) asked her leave to goe to the Weddinge, which 

 she could not believe, till she heard it confirmed by more 

 certainty; the Queen heares that Elveston (& it is thought my 

 La. Arbella) were the mach makers, and that Elveston hath 

 five or sixe hundred pounds, that the wench is a pretty red 

 headed wench, and that her portion is seaven thousand pounds, 

 and she heares the youth at first refused her and my lo. of 

 Cavendishe told him Kinlos was well favoured by the Queene 

 and if he refused it, he would make him the worse by an 

 hundred thousand pound ; but I am sure the Queene is far 

 from beinge pleased withall nowe it is done. And so with our 

 service to y r lo. and my la. wee restt 

 " Y r Lo h affectionate 



" Son and daughter 

 " to comand 

 " Arundell, Arundell." 



King James I. gave her a dower portion of ^10,000, equal 

 to ,£60,000 in present value. She was left a young widow, 

 aged thirty-two, in 1628. When her son came of age she gave 

 up Chatsworth and Hardwick to him, and she resided at 

 Larimers, in Buckinghamshire, where she entertained King 

 Charles I. when in the hands of his enemies ; and she also 

 bought a place at Roehamplon, in Surrey, where she corre- 

 sponded with General Monk upon the Restoration of Charles II. 



