John Egerton second Earl of Bridgewater

Elizabeth, Countess of Bridgewater , died in bearing a dead son in premature labour, in a Strange [that is unfamiliar] place,Black Rod's House in London. She was visiting her husband , who...

In May 1663 an orphan heiress aged about fifteen, Lady Elizabeth Cranfield , ran away from her grandmother, who had been appointed her guardian. (Her father, the second Earl of Middlesex, had died when she...

Lady Elizabeth Cavendish married, at St James's, Clerkenwell, John Egerton, styled Viscount Brackley , who in 1649 became second Earl of Bridgewater.

The Earl of Bridgewater , husband of ECECB , was arrested and imprisoned by the parliamentary government.

Lord Bridgewater was taken into the custody of Black Rod, the disciplinary officer of the royal household, to prevent his fighting a duel with Lord Middlesex . His wife, Lady Bridgewater , hurried to join...

Her husband singled out for mention the devotional ones among these writings: several other occasional Meditations and Prayers full of the transports and rapture of a sa[n]ctified soul.Betty S. Travitsky judges that the...

Lady Bridgewater's public reputation rested at first on the epitaph written on her by her husband , which George Ballard printed in full in his Memoirs of Eminent Ladies.

Elizabeth, Countess of Bridgewater , composed a prose prayer for her husband 's twenty-seventh birthday.

The present BL Egerton MS 607 was at one time owned by the author's descendant Samuel Egerton Brydges . Two contemporary copies of this manuscript, one of them with extensive and important annotation by the...

Lady Bridgewater's extended, ambitious Meditations on the Severall Chapters of the Holy Bible, in her own hand with revisions in her husband 's, in folio with a particularly lovely binding, survives in the...

The full title is On the Death of my Dear Sister the Countess of Bridgewater, dying in childbed, delivered of a dead infant, a son, the 14th day of June 1663. Lady Jane says...