Author Hatton, Elizabeth, née Scroggs, widowed Gilby Birthdate b. c1650 Filename ehatton2-1690-e3 Manuscript Brit. Mus. Additional Mss. 29,548-29,596 Date of composition 1690 Genre LET PRIV Edition Thompson, Edward Maunde (ed.). 1878. Correspondence of the family of Hatton, being chiefly letters addressed to Christopher, first Viscount Hatton. A.D. 1601-1704. Vol. 2. Camden Society, N.S. vol. 23. Westminster: Nichols. Sample 2,152.20-2,154.18 (Penn 1),
2,158.6-2,158.28 (Penn 2)
Remarks Supplements alhatton-1700-e3.
Author daughter of Sir Williams Scroggs (Thompson 1878:152, fn. a), but her birthname is given as Gilby (Thompson 1878:261). Not to be confused with Lady Elizabeth Hatton, third wife of Sir Christopher Hatton (ehatton-1666-e3). For more information, see Hatton kinship relations.
Thompson 1878:152, fn. a remarks that "[h]er letters are illiterate, even for that age, for one in her position."