Anne White

Biography

Anne was the daughter of Richard Cecil and Jane Heckington[1]

She married Thomas White.[1][2][3]

She is mentioned in the will of her brother William Cecil, Lord Burghley, which he revised for the final time on 1 March 1598: she was bequeathed an annuity and land in Rutland. So she must have been alive then.[4]

Research Notes

Stephen Alford's 2011 biography of Lord Burghley gives her first name as Anne; the 1790 edition of Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire has it as Agnes. She is named as Anne in the inscription on her parents' funeral monument in St Martin's, Stamford, Lincolnshire.[3]

Sources

↑ 1.0 1.1 Stephen Alford. Burghley. William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I, Yale University Press, 2011, p. 47
↑ Robert Thoroton. 'Parishes: Cotgrave', in Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire, Volume 1, Republished With Large Additions By John Throsby, ed. John Throsby (Nottingham, 1790), pp. 165-170, British History Online, accessed 21 September 2019
↑ 3.0 3.1 Inscription on monument to Richard and Jane Cecil, St Martin's, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Wikimedia Commons
↑ Stephen Alford. Burghley, p. 328