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Cordell wrote to Sir Robert Cecil to complain about this. She thanked him for the visit of the "sundry gentlemen of worship" but explained that this was not enough to satisfy John
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commemorated her parents and the three daughters. The church has been rebuilt and a marble tablet from the tomb was fixed to the remaining ruin of the old tower. It indicated that
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Elizabeth. If her father was declared a lunatic and incompetent to manage her affairs, she preferred that Sir James Croft would be made administrator of his estates. Attempts have been made to link this affair with the plot of
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