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- According to Hunt, she was "a penniless kinsman of Queen Elizabeth Tudor, whose father Francis Tregian had built at Golden, Cornwall about 1560 one of hte most splendid homes in southewestern England. Tregian was reduced to penury for wto crimes: 1(1) concealing Christopher Mayne, seminarian priest, ag Golden in 1577, and (2) rejecting amatory advances by his kinswoman, the said Queen. Imprisoned in 1577, Tregian nevertheless managed to father eighteen lawful children before his death in 1607 in Lisbon" (178).
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