11, 1657, just a week before the marriage of the elder sister to Lord Falconbridge, Lady Frances did become the wife of Mr.Rich.In the fourth month of the marriage, however.Feb.16, 1657-8, the husband died, leaving the Lady Frances, not yet twenty years of age, a widow.

She married again, and did not die till Jan.

1720-1.
[Footnote 1: The will of John Dutton, Esq., of Sherborne, Gloucestershire, was proved June 30, 1657, just four days after the beginning of the Second Protectorate; and young Mr.William Dutton married a widow eventually--"Mary, daughter of John, Viscount Scudamore, and relict of Thomas Russell of Worcestershire, Esq." (Noble's Cromwell, I, pp 153-154).] OTHER RELATIVES Worth noting among the Relatives of Cromwell alive in the Second Protectorate, were the following;--( 1) The Protector's eldest surviving sister, ELIZABETH CROMWELL, _aetat.

64_, living at Ely, unmarried, and receiving occasional presents from her brother.

She lived to 1672.