The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.2146  Monday, 6 December 1999.

From:           David Kathman <
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Date:           Friday, 3 Dec 1999 23:05:38 -0600
Subject: 10.2132 Re: Shakespeare and Milton
Comment:        Re: SHK 10.2132 Re: Shakespeare and Milton

Nancy Charlton wrote:

>Dom Saliani responded to Roy Flannagan's posting:
>
>>I shared Roy Flannagan's post concerning Shakespeare and Milton with a
>>friend Nina Green, who is interested in this period. In her response to
>>the posting, she cautions Flannagan on the identity of Alice Spencer:
>>
>>> Alice Spencer was the widow of Ferdinando
>>> Stanley (d.1594), Lord Strange and Earl of Derby, not the widow of the Sir
>>> Edward Stanley whose tomb is at Tong.
>
>Would Lady Alice have been a Spencer of the Herberts and Spencers of
>Penshurst?

She was the daughter of Sir John Spencer of Althorpe, Northamptonshire.
I don't know offhand whether there's any connection.

Dave Kathman

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