Anne Sadleir's mother died in 1598 when she was thirteen and she was particularly close to her father.
11 Facts About Anne Sadleir
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Anne Sadleir visited Anne in 1603 when James VI of Scotland stayed two nights at Standon on his way to London to claim the English throne.
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Anne Sadleir visited her again in 1616 following his dismissal from his post as Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
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In 1622 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London and Anne Sadleir was given leave to visit him as she was seen as a good influence on him.
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On his death the male line of the Anne Sadleir family came to an end and the Standon estate passed to her "adopted deare son", Walter Aston of Tixall, Staffordshire, son of Walter Aston, 1st Lord Aston of Forfar and her late husband's sister, Gertrude.
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Anne Sadleir continued to live at Standon for the rest of her life.
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Anne Sadleir owned a large number of books as well as illuminated manuscripts, coins and curiosities.
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Anne Sadleir was a royalist and a fervent adherent of the Church of England; she continued to use the prayer book despite its proscription during the English Civil War and engaged in "vigorous epistolary disputes" with her Roman Catholic nephew, Herbert Aston, and the New England puritan divine Roger Williams.
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Anne Sadleir made substantial bequests to the libraries at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Inner Temple, institutions attended by her father and by other members of her family.
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Anne Sadleir died in late 1671 or early 1672 and was buried in St Mary's Church, Standon.
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Anne Sadleir lived his wife 59 years and odd months.