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Edith Brediman (died 1590), was an English courtier. She served as chamberer of queen Mary I of England.
She was born Edith Brocas or Brokwesse. In 1556, she married George Brediman.[1][2]
Mary I gave "Edeth Brydeman" a New Year's Day gift of a gilt salt in 1557, a more valuable gift than that received by George Brediman.[3] The gift rolls record that "Edeth Brydeman" took delivery of a gift of sweetmeats, figs, sugar loaves, sucket and orange water for Mary, and she may have been in charge of such foodstuffs and medicinal materials in the queen's chamber.[4]
Edith was rewarded for attending Mary during her final illness on 28 October 1558. The warrant mentions Edith's "watching and other pains taking in time of our sickness".[5] She signed her name in a Book of Hours which had once belonged to Henry VII, writing under an illustration for the Office of the Dead:
In all tyme of neccessitye: with your prayer remember me
Edeth Bredyman.[6]
Edith Brediman signed "Edeth B" for the gift of a russet velvet kirtle from Elizabeth I in May 1562.[7] Edith's friends included Frances Jerningham, who bequeathed her a ring as a token of affection.[8]
References
[edit]- ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office: Philip and Mary, vol. 3, pp. 270, 479
- ↑ David Loades, Mary Tudor: A Life (Oxford, 1992), p. 355.
- ↑ John Nichols, 'Gifts Presented by Queen Mary', Illustrations of the manners and expences of antient times in England (London, 1797), pp. 22, 26
- ↑ 'New Year's Gifts', Illustrations of the manners and expences of antient times in England, p. 6
- ↑ Index of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1849), p. 59: British Library Add. MS 6362 ff.40–41
- ↑ M. R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, 1895), p. 142 MS 57: Eamon Duffy, Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers 1240-1570 (Yale, 2006), pp. 60–61 illustrated: Fitzwilliam Museum MS 57 f.127r: William George Searle, The Illuminated Manuscripts of the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, 1876), p. 156
- ↑ Janet Arnold, Lost from Her Majesties Back (Costume Society, 1980), p. 62.
- ↑ Augustus Jessop, One Generation of a Norfolk House: A Contribution to Elizabethan History (London, 1879), p. 217.