Grace Talbot Cavendish

Lady Grace was the youngest daugh­ter of George Tal­bot, 6th Earl of Shrews­bury. Recent schol­ar­ship gives 1562 as her birth year and ‘after 1625′ for her death. She was mar­ried in 1567 (sic!) to Henry Cavendish, eldest son of Bess of Hard­wick and Sir William Cavendish. It was Bess who pro­posed the mar­riage as pre­con­di­tion to her tak­ing the Earl as her fourth hus­band. ❧ This copy was also once owned by Richard Heber. It is listed as item 336 in A Cat­a­logue of Heber’s Col­lec­tion of Early Eng­lish Poetry (Lon­don, 1834).
❧ George Chap­man, 1559?-1634.Androm­eda lib­er­ata. Or the nup­tials of Perseus and Androm­eda. Lon­don, : printed for Lau­rence L’Isle …, 1614..
Call num­ber (EX) 3672.6.312.

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