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Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2021

Laura Gowing
Affiliation:
King's College London
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In 1658, aged forty, Apolonia Browne fell ill with smallpox in London. She made her will and died a week later, to be buried at her request in the vault built by her mother’s family in St Michael, Cornhill. Amongst the legacies to her numerous nieces and nephews, ranging from beds, linen undergarments and a mare called Button, to a pepper mill and a diamond ring, she bequeathed to her sister Mary Sterry ‘the pin pillow which her Daughter wrought with the Effigies of the King & Queene thereon’. This daughter, named Apolina after her aunt and grandmother, had died sixteen years before, aged eighteen, a lodger in the City. Her pincushion, embroidered with the king and his wife, which must have been made while Charles I was still king, and cherished by her aunt, went back to her mother. Apolonia Browne had two other nieces with the same name, daughters of her brothers. To one she left a bequest of a feather bed and £50. The other became a seamstress, married John Maddox, a silk-dyer, and in 1667 took on an apprentice named Frances Angell, the young woman whose story began this book.

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Ingenious Trade
Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London
, pp. 243 - 250
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Conclusion
  • Laura Gowing, King's College London
  • Book: Ingenious Trade
  • Online publication: 29 November 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108639323.008
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  • Conclusion
  • Laura Gowing, King's College London
  • Book: Ingenious Trade
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  • Conclusion
  • Laura Gowing, King's College London
  • Book: Ingenious Trade
  • Online publication: 29 November 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108639323.008
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