Elizabeth Burnet

After her godfather died and the Catholic James II came to the throne, she persuaded her Protestant husband to move to the Netherlands.

[3] Elizabeth's first husband died in 1694 and in 1700 she married Gilbert Burnet, the Bishop of Salisbury, who had been twice widowed.

His second wife Mary Scott, fearing, rightly as it turned out, that she would soon die in the smallpox epidemic then raging, advised him in the event of her passing to marry Elizabeth, who was one of her closest friends.

[4] One of the reasons she married him was because she thought that he needed her advice on handling the political side of his position.

Near to the time of her death, the prayer book she had written after her first husband died, A Method of Devotion, was published in 1708 and went into several editions.