Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Nadine Akkerman

Author:Nadine Akkerman [Akkerman, Nadine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780192555847
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2018-06-11T05:00:00+00:00

The Sealed Knot Unknots, Cromwell Dies, and Elizabeth Flees

Elizabeth’s own actions shortly before Cromwell’s death, and her own words shortly after his passing, might be more enlightening as to her relationship with him than any other sources, be they lampoons, hearsay, or Burnet’s arguably vindictive speculations. On 1 September 1658, her neighbour Judith Isham reported a sighting of Elizabeth to her father Sir Justinian, punning on Elizabeth’s relatively new title of Countess of Dysart:

The Lady Tolmach was in the countrey last weeke but staied not, coming to take her leave for she is going into France for a long time fearing a confusion she is now the Countes of Disere they call her my Lady Dessert she is soe takeing, expressing extraordinary sivility to every person.53

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