Margaret Gwynnethe, the wife of Stephen Vaughan and mother of the Protestant author and John Knox-champion Anne Lock, was a silkwoman at the court of Henry VIII, serving particularly his two most “Protestant” queens, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Parr. <\/p>\n
After her death on 16 September 1544, her husband wrote to a court official asking for the \u00c2\u00a3360 that Catherine Parr owed for her materials and labour. In January he still hadn’t been paid and wrote again. (There doesn’t seem to be a final conclusion to this; perhaps he was never paid?)<\/p>\n
In 1544 \u00c2\u00a3360 was an enormous sum – for comparison Lady Grace Mildmay was a few years later maintaining a family on \u00c2\u00a3130 a year.<\/p>\n
From Felch, S.M. The Collected Works of Anne Vaughan Lock<\/i>, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999.)<\/i><\/p>\n
(Quite a number of Margaret’s letters are in the State Papers<\/i> of Henry VIII.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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