Margaret Croft

1598) married Richard Tomkyns of Monnington, and a letter of her cousin Brilliana Harley records a rumour she was involved in drafting an anti-Parliamentarian pamphlet of 1642, The Declaration or Resolution of the County of Hereforde.

[10] Croft was probably the author of a humorous account of a tour of North Holland taken by Elizabeth and Amalia van Solms in the summer of 1625.

The French title is, "'Copie d'une lettre interceptée & deschiffrée en passant entre une des filles d'honneur de la royne de Boheme, & une Damoisselle sa Cousine en Angleterre".

[16] Charles Louis wrote to Elizabeth, his mother, on 24 May 1637 from Whitehall Palace, mentioning an old quarrel he had with Croft, that she had fallen out with his sister Elisabeth of the Palatinate and that recently she had told Lord Craven he was rude to her.

In a second letter of 12 June 1637 from Greenwich Palace he described how Croft in conversation with Lady Carlisle had "well stitched" most of the characters of Elizabeth's court at The Hague with "censure sharp enough", probably written in verse.

There was already a troublesome rumour that Elizabeth Dudley, Countess of Löwenstein, had boxed his sister Elisabeth's ear in the Prince of Orange's garden.

In London she owed Mr Berry in Paternoster Row for white satin for a waistcoat and mohair for a gown.

[18] The historian Nadine Akkerman proposes that the Erskine connection of Margaret Croft may have resulted in the compilation, many years later, of a memoir of the childhood and education of Princess Elizabeth at Coombe Abbey.