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| Rich, Penelope, Lady |
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| 15621607, the Stella of Sir Philip Sidneys Astrophel and Stella (1591). Daughter of Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, she married (1581) Lord Rich (later earl of Warwick); after a divorce she married (1605) the earl of Devonshire. |
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