Elizabeth (Cranfield) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater

Accounts of her death, whether official records or loving words from her family, never mention the apparent connection between her premature labour and her husband's acrimonious involvement in the affairs of Lady Elizabeth Cranfield ...

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...