View source for Frances Earle 1592-1671

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===[[name::Frances]] [[name::EARLE]] or [[name::FOUNTAINE]] [[date of birth::1592]]-[[date of death::1671]]===

====Biographical Note====
Daughter of [[family::James Fountaine]]; in 1617 she married her cousin [[crossreference::Erasmus Earle 1590-1667|Erasmus Earle]], who developed a successful legal career in [[location::Norfolk]] and acquired an estate at [[location::Heydon Hall]]. 

====Books====
Her probate inventory, after her death in 1671, lists 51 books in "the study where [the] libbrary is", with mention of a Bible, and "s few other small books". It is not clear how many of the 51 were her books, or a joint library; Erasmus Earle would almost certainly have had a larger library to support his legal work, but some may have been dispersed after 1667.

====Sources====
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*Mayers, Ruth E. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/8395 "Earle, Erasmus (bap. 1590, d. 1667), lawyer and politician."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''.   
*West, Susie, ''The development of libraries in Norfolk country houses'' (UEA Ph.D thesis, 2000).  
*West, S. An architectural typology for the early modern country house library, 1660-1720, ''The Library'' 7th ser 14 (2013), 441-64, 452-3.
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