In 1665 one Flecknoe’s Muse was also inspired by her charms.
Of her death we know nothing; but there was a story current that both she and her sister, the Lady Diana, had warnings of their approaching dissolution by meeting their own ‘fetches,’ the latter lady in Kensington Gardens.
No. 45.
MARY COVENTRY, THE HONOURABLE LADY THYNNE.
By Sir Peter Lely.
Full length. White gown. Blue scarf over her shoulders.
Pearl ornaments. Ringlets.
SHE was the daughter of Lord Keeper Coventry, and the wife of Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, by whom she had three sons and two daughters,—Thomas, who succeeded his father, James, who died unmarried, and Henry Frederick; Mary, wife of Sir Richard How, Wishford, county Wilts; and Catherine, wife of Sir John Lowther, afterwards Viscount Lonsdale.