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Bess of Hardwicke
Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, to whose charge, in 1572,
Mary Queen of Scots was committed. The countess treated the captive
queen with great harshness, being jealous of the earl her husband. Bess
of Hardwicke married four times: Alexander Barley (when she was only
fourteen years of age); William Cavendish; Sir William St. Loe, Captain
of Queen Elizabeth's Guard; and lastly, George, Earl of Shrewsbury. She
built Hardwicke Hall, and founded the wealth and dignity of the
Cavendish family.
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