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Elizabeth SLEIGH, later Elizabeth Ireton d.1686

Biographical Note

Wife of Edmund Sleigh, London mercer (d.1657), later of John Ireton (1615-90), also a mercer.

Books

An inventory of her books, in Wellcome Library MS 751, dated 1647, lists 53 books, edited as PLRE 255.

Sources

  • Hackel, H. The Countess of Bridgewater’s London library, in J. Andersen & E. Sauer (eds), Books and readers, 2002, 138-59, 139.
  • Fehrenbach, R. J. Lady Elizabeth Ireton, Private Libraries in Renaissance England 8 (2014), 281-92.