Elizabeth Sleigh d.1686
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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.
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