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To make further tryal, the king, in a hunting journy, at New Park, neer
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in 1616. The marriage broke down causing a feud between the Cecil and Lake families. The couple lived apart, apparently by the choice of the Lake family. William, Lord Ros, came to their house at
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the window. Then the housekeeper was called, who protested those hangings had constantly furnisht that room for thirty years, which the king observed to be two foot short of the ground, and might discover the woman if hidden behind them".
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wrote in her diary that "there were spoken extraordinarily foul matters of my Lady Ross". Her servants
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