At every noise which she heard, she exclaimed that her son was murdered; and was never satisfied that he was alive, if she did not receive frequent visits from him.

She was a decent woman; and by her frugality and industry had raised and educated a numerous family upon a small fortune.

She had even been obliged to set up a brewery at Huntingdon, which she managed to good advantage.

Hence Cromwell, in the invectives of that age, is often stigmatized with the name of the brewer.

Ludlow, by way of insult, mentions the great accession which he would receive to his royal revenues upon his mother's death, who possessed a jointure of sixty pounds a year upon his estate.
She was of a good family, of the name of Stuart; remotely allied, as is by some supposed, to the royal family..