Elizabeth Cary

Life
1585-1639; dg. of English judge, m. c.1600 Sir Henry Cary afterwards 1st Viscount Falkland ODNB q.v., Lord Deputy in Ireland, 1622-29], with whom she went to Ireland; a linguist, secretly became Catholic, and separated from him on account of her religion; a son, Patrick Cary, fl.1651, was raised a Catholic in France and Italy; a protégé of Urban VIII, he became an abbé before 1644; Benedictine monk at Douai c.1650; went to England; verses written at Warnford, Hampshire, 1651, published 1771. ODNB