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Description: | Elizabeth, Viscountess Monson of Castlemaine (1613-1695, née Reresby) was a Royalist whilst her third husband, the Viscount, was a Parliamentarian. In an attempt to change his views, she is said to have tied him, naked to a bedpost and 'thrashed him soundly'. John Reresby's memoirs describe her as 'a very notable woman, only she was a little too masculine'. The eighteenth-century frame refers to this colourful story with its verse from Hudibras (1664) by Samuel Butler and decoration of cat o' nine tails and presiding figure of justice. Her husband was tried as a Regicide in 1661and died in the Fleet prison. Lady Monson was rewarded for her loyalty after the Restoration, being thanked publicly in Quarter Sessions. She later married for a fourth time to Sir Adam Felton, Bart., of Playford, Sussex. | Subjects: | portrait (Monson Elizabeth Lady) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Lely, Peter (Dutch painter and draftsman, 1618-1680, active in England) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9169... | Go to resource |
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