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Elizabeth SLEIGH, later Elizabeth IRETON d.1686

Biographical Note

Daughter of Daniel Winch of West Cheap, London, a wealthy grocer. She married Edmund Sleigh, a London mercer (d.1657), in 1634; they lived in Cheapside. After his death, she married another London mercer, John Ireton (1615-90), who was Lord Mayor of London in 1658-9.

Books

An inventory of Elizabeth's books, dated 1647, survives in Wellcome Library MS 751, and is edited as PLRE 255. It includes 52 books, predominantly theological and devotional, with a few titles relating to practical medicine and household management. The books are mostly in English, with a handful of French ones. In her will, she distributed most of her belongings to her daughters and other relatives, but also left bequests to benefit various nonconformist ministers.

Sources

Will of Elizabeth Ireton, The National Archives PROB 11/384/22.
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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+An inventory of Elizabeth's books, dated 1647, survives in [[present repository::Wellcome Library]] MS 751, and is edited as ''PLRE'' 255. It includes 52 books, predominantly [[subject::theology|theological]] and devotional, with a few titles relating to practical [[subject::medicine]] and household management. The books are mostly in [[language::English]], with a handful of [[language::French]] ones. In her will, she distributed most of her belongings to her daughters and other relatives, but also left bequests to benefit various nonconformist ministers.
- edited as ''PLRE'' 255. It includes 52 books, predominantly [[subject::theology|theological]] and devotional, with a few titles relating to practical [[subject::medicine]] and household management. The books are mostly in [[language::English]], with a handful of [[language::French]] ones. In her will, she distributed most of her belongings to her daughters and other relatives, but also left bequests to benefit various nonconformist ministers.
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