Elizabeh Knight

She was married the 18th of November 1595. /to John Knight of St. Dennis Esq. in the Countey of Southhampton. A note of/ her wed=/ding dinner/ is in boxe 56.

She was/ 19 yeares old when she married & he was young & under age when he mar=/ ried her; he was a Warde to his mother, who married Sir George More/ of Losely,

This Eliz. wife of the sayde John Knight was a very Godly & good woman but she mett with a crosse. loose & licentious man, as he/ proved, who by his riotous courses he spent all his estate, but what was settled viz. abt 300£ or 400£ p annum being Saint Dennis in Hampshire, neere Southampton, which his grandchilde, John Knight, son of Richard Knight, in a few yeares wasted & sold soe that now that family is come to nothing;

She dyed about April/ 1648: She was Sir Laur. Stoughtons eldest daughter & yet survived all the/ rest, being about 72 yeares old when she dyed; Some thought she was/ bewitched. for about 17 yeares before she dyed; being carried from the/ top of the staires to the bottome without any visible hand by some/ diabolocall power as was supposed, by reason of which fall she fell/ lame & kept her chamber abt 17 yeares till her dying daye;

a gracious & good woman she was & full of dayes & went to her grave in/ peace in a good old age through greate Afflictions & straitesthus it pleaseth the Lord that through many tribulations his people must enter into the Kingdome of God;

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