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The identity of "Boghvan" is uncleare. There was a musician recorded as "Jacques Bochan". There was a violin player at court in 1609 called "James Bochan". "Mr Bochan" taught the ladies of Anne of
Denmark's household dance steps for masques. Bochan, however, was described as a French violer, attached
244:. She died later in the year, and perhaps did not profit from prospecting in the ruins. The gift has sometimes been assumed to be intended for the queen, but it may be connected with the financial ruin and death of her step-father Sir
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which includes her name; "My harte as Aetna burnes, and suffers MORE / Paines in my MIDDLE than ever MARY proved", and devised an
Italian anagram "Madre di mill'amori", the mother of a thousand loves.
225:. In July 1615 she was bought a bay ambling gelding horse to replace her lame grey horse. After Vincent Skinner's death, her mother Elizabeth Foukes seems also to have joined the queen's household.
392:(Leiden, 2014), p. 307: See Helen Margaret Payne, 'Aristocratic Women and the Jacobean Court, 1603-1625 ', Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, PhD (2001), p. 280 for lists of the queen's women.
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Marshall. She died shortly afterwards and was buried in Westminster Abbey in March 1610. Her brother Robert Middlemore of
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performed in 1608. He included a stanza praising Mary
Middlemore, with a near anagram of her surname name, "La Bella Dea D'Amore".
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