Although Elizabeth [Seymour] had served Queen Anne Boleyn, she had not been included in her sister’s household. In March 1537 Lady Ughtred had written to the Lord Privy Seal from York to “be holpen to obtain of the king’s grace to be farmer of one of these abbeys if they fortune to go down …” The young widow’s connections were not lost on the minister: he proposed instead that she marry his son and heir, Gregory, an offer to which she readily agreed.
The Rediscovery of Elizabeth Seymour, by Teri Fitzgerald
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