Anne Lake Cecil, Lady Ros

Anne Lake Cecil, Lady Roos or de Ros (1599–1630) was an English aristocrat involved in a major scandal at the Jacobean court.

[10][11] Testimony from the servant Sara Swarton alias Waite was discredited when the court visited the Cecil great chamber or long gallery at Wimbledon Manor.

King James was said have personally investigated the room at Wimbledon where Swarton alleged to have overheard the Countess of Exeter speaking or reading her writing aloud at a window.

[15] The story was related in two versions by William Sanderson in his Compleat History Of The Lives and Reigns Of Mary, Queen of Scotland, And James,[16] and Aulicus Coquinariae:To make further tryal, the king, in a hunting journy, at New Park, neer Wimbleton, gallops thither, viewes the room; observing the great distance of the window from the lower end of the room, and placing himself behind the hanging, and so other lords in turn, they could not hear one speak aloud from the window.

Then the housekeeper was called, who protested those hangings had constantly furnisht that room for thirty years, which the king observed to be two foot short of the ground, and might discover the woman if hidden behind them".

Anne was to make a confession of her guilt and forgery, known as a "recognition" in the Star Chamber,[18] but a written and signed submission was accepted.

[24] John Chamberlain wrote "Lady Rosse is said to be married to a young gentleman of small means as being a younger brother".

[25] Edward Rodney, another member of the family, had married a courtier Frances Southwell,[26] a gentlewoman in the household of Anne of Denmark in 1614 at Somerset House.