Elizabeth Wolley

[1] She was born in London at the house of her great-uncle, George Medley (d. 1554), esquire, mercer and Merchant of the Staple, and was baptised 1 May 1552.

Among those listed as having given wedding gifts were the Earl of Lincoln and his wife Elizabeth, Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montague, Robert Horne, Bishop of Winchester, and Sir William Cecil.

[7] Richard Polsted died on 31 March 1576 at the age of thirty-one, leaving his property to his widow, whose hand was sought by at least three known suitors, Thomas Horsman, Tobias Matthew, and John Wolley.

[12] On the evening of 15 September 1595 she attended the queen at hawking with Sir Robert Cecil and they caught three partridges, which Wolley sent to her father.

[13] In 1597 Henry Lok included sonnets to a large number of court personages, among them Elizabeth Wolley, in his Ecclesiastes (STC 16696).