Who were the Nuns?

A Prosopographical study of the English Convents in exile 1600-1800

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Elizabeth Cotton
Born: in Warblington, Hants.
Died: 1651 in Rome.

father: Sir George Cotton of Warblington, Hants
mother: Mary Shelley of Michelgrove, Sussex

Mary Ward Institute choir nun.
She entered before 1620.
Flanders

She was the cousin of Mary Flavia Gage, Barbara Gage.
She was the aunt of Margarette Cotton.
She was the great aunt of Mary Cotton .

Sources: companions: 106-7; Mary Ward texts.

Family tree (Shelley of Michelgrove-Cotton of Warblington)

Notes:

She was Mary Ward's Secretary from 1623 to 1637. Elizabeth Cotton was in Rome 1623-26 with a short stay in Perugia in 1624. She travelled (on foot) with Mary Ward to Munich in 1626 and remained there until 1632, apart from a short stay in Bratislava (Pressburg) in 1628. With Mary Poyntz she was present at Mary Ward's arrest and imprisonment on 7th February 1631. In 1632 she travelled with Mary Ward to Rome and remained there until 1651. (CK-B)