In 1597 her father, a Catholic, wrote an "Instruction to my daughter Marie Browne, in the principall groundes, and moste necessarie pointes of the Catholique faithe", possibly directing her towards the idea of becoming a nun.[1]
The letter writer John Chamberlain described the end of her first marriage in 1616. He heard that she hoped to get the marriage annulled because of her husband's impotence.[2][3]
^Michael Questier, Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2006), p. 333.
^Thomas Birch & Folkestone Williams, Court and Times of James the First, vol. 1 (London, 1849), pp. 449-50.
^Maureen M. Meikle & Helen M. Payne, 'From Lutheranism to Catholicism: The Faith of Anna of Denmark (1574-1619)', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 64:1 (2013), p. 66.
^Thomas Birch & Folkestone Williams, Court and Times of James the First, vol. 1 (London, 1849), pp. 449-50.
^John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 3 (London, 1828), p. 541.
^Michael Questier, Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2006), p. 525.
^John Finet, Finetti Philoxenis (London, 1656), p. 40.
^Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015
^Henry Tichborn in the England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973:
^London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812