A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Lincoln, Elizabeth, Countess of

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LINCOLN, ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF,

Was one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Sir John Knevet, of Charlton, in Wiltshire, and was married to Thomas, Earl of Lincoln, about 1602, by whom she had seven sons and nine daughters. She published, in 1628, a small but valuable tract, called "The Countess of Lincoln's Nursery." It was addressed to her daughter-in-law, the Countess of Lincoln, and is a well-written essay on the advantages of mothers nursing their own children.