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Abstract Title GrandmoTher: great-grandmoTher: The celebrated and much-married ‘Bess of Hardwick’ who died as Countess of Shrewsbury, colossally rich. The Duke of Newcastle himself wrote an epitaph for her tomb in Derby CaThedral, so Jane Cheyne’s interest in this remote ancestress may have been suggested by his 9 Pattern: this is a strictly Cavendish perspective: she sacrificed The fortunes of her last two husbands, William Saint Loe and George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and her Talbot stepchildren to secure The interest of her own Cavendish offspring 13 Henry: her first son, born 1550, was disinherited by The dynasty-minded Bess c.1580 because he had no legitimate offspring. But he had many bastards, and was remembered a hundred years later as ‘The common bull of Derbyshire and Staffordshire’ 15 William: her second son, born 1551; Charles: her third son, born 1553.
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