humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

Lyra wrote:

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For anyone wishing to look into this theory,

here is something about Lettice Knollys...


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Lettice Knollys

Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex and Leicester (1540 - 25 December
1634) was born in Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire.

Her father was Sir Francis Knollys, a gentleman pensioner of Henry
VIII.

Her mother was Lady Catherine Carey, the daughter of Lady Mary
Boleyn.

Catherine thus was the first cousin, and Lettice the first cousin once
removed, of Elizabeth I of England. She grew up on her father's
country estate at Greys Court in Rotherfield Greys and at his town
house in nearby Reading.

Sir Francis was an early Puritan, a fact that forced him and his
family to flee to Switzerland, probably Basel, during the reign of
Mary I of England. Upon the accession of Elizabeth, on November 17,
1558, the Knollys family returned to England. Francis was made
Treasurer of the Household, Catherine and Lettice became Lady-in-
Waiting and Maid-of-the-Court, respectively.

Around 1560, Lettice married Walter Devereux, Viscount Hereford.
Walter was named Earl of Essex in 1572, in honour of his services to
the Queen. The couple lived at the Devereux family seat of Chartley
Hall in Staffordshire, where Lettice bore her first two children:
daughters Penelope (born 1562) and Dorothy Devereux (born 1564).
Lettice eventually grew weary of country life and returned to court.
It was here that she began her affair with Robert Dudley, Earl of
Leicester, a childhood friend and favourite of Queen Elizabeth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettice_Knollys


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> Bacon, Lettuce and ...?
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> Thinking about the well-known Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato sandwich

> - BLT
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> not with a view to eating one, I'm a vegetarian -
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> I wondered if here could be a found a clue to the era. ( of Bacon,
> etc.)
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> Francis Bacon, Lettice Knollys -
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> and TOM AT O (Oxford University?) -
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> Tom who? -
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> all, at once, in the "bread" (money...)
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> who knows why...