Mary Middlemore

Mary Middlemore (died 1618) was a Courtier and Maid of Honour to Anne of Denmark, subject of poems, and treasure hunter.[8][9] Rowland Whyte mentioned the maids of honour and others dancing at Hampton Court in the presence chamber of Anne of Denmark, with a French visitor, the Count of Vaudémont.[15] Around Christmas time 1609/10, Sir Edward Herbert fought with a Scottish gentleman who had snatched a ribbon or "topknot" from her hair in a back room of the queen's lodgings at Greenwich Palace.[24] The queen's secretary William Fowler dedicated poems to her in 1609, possibly for a third-party,[25] including the Meditation upon Virgin Maryes Hatt, and Aetna which includes her name; "My harte as Aetna burnes, and suffers MORE / Paines in my MIDDLE than ever MARY proved", and devised an Italian anagram "Madre di mill'amori", the mother of a thousand loves.[33] The gift has sometimes been assumed to be intended for the queen, but it may be connected with the financial ruin and death of her step-father Sir Vincent Skinner, who had been building a country house at Thornton Abbey.
Anne of DenmarkHenry MiddlemoreQueen ElizabethMary, Queen of ScotsCarlisle CastleRegent MorayKing JamesEnfieldSir Vincent Skinnermother of maidschamberersMary GargraveElizabeth RoperElizabeth HarcourtMary WoodhouseRowland WhyteHampton CourtCount of VaudémontEdward ZoucheBramshillEdward ZouchThorntonLord WilloughbyThe Masque of QueensSir Edward HerbertGreenwich PalaceHyde ParkJohn ChamberlainDorothy BulstrodeJohn EyreLincoln's InnThe Memorable Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's InnWilliam FowlerPrince HenryWells, Somersetprogress to BathOatlandsGlastonbury AbbeySt Albans AbbeyBury St Edmunds AbbeyRomsey AbbeyVincent SkinnerThornton AbbeyconsumptionWhitehall PalaceWestminster AbbeyThomas Birch