Excerpt from Sir Thomas Overburies Vision
Sir Anthony Weldon informs his readers that the Earls of Northampton and Suffolk, the latter his nephew, and both Howards, unable to influence Overbury as they defired, took other means of accomplifhing what they wanted by means of a Moabitifh woman,' a daughter of the Earle Of Suffolk, married to a young noble gentleman, the Earle of Effex. This was the Lady Frances, fecond daughter of Thomas, Earl of Suffolk. Her elder fifter, Elizabeth, was the wife of William Knollys, Earl of Banbury, an aged nobleman, upon whofe death two male children were produced as born of the marriage; but their legitimacy was not allowed, and the Earldom of Banbury thereby became extinét.
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