A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

* 1613 – Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, marries Frances Howard.

As attorney general, Bacon successfully prosecuted Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset and his wife, Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset for murder in 1616.

In the United States, there was one remaining active Shaker community, at Sabbathday Lake, Maine, which as of January 2011 has only five members: Sister June Carpenter, Brother Arnold Hadd, and Sister Frances Carr ( and two other brothers ).

The powerful Carr, unfitted for the responsibilities thrust upon him and often dependent on his intimate friend, Overbury, for assistance with government papers, fell into the Howard camp, after beginning an affair with the married Frances Howard, Countess of Essex, daughter of the Earl of Suffolk.

Overbury was from the first violently opposed to the affair, pointing out to Carr that it would be hurtful to his preferment, and that Frances Howard, even at this early stage in her career, was already " noted for her injury and immodesty.

The marriage two months later of Frances Howard and Robert Carr, now the Earl of Somerset, was the court event of the season, celebrated in verse by John Donne.

Even the powerful Carr, hardly experienced for the responsibilities thrust upon him and often dependent on his intimate friend Sir Thomas Overbury for assistance with government papers, fell into the Howard camp, after beginning an affair with the married Frances Howard, Countess of Essex, daughter of the Earl of Suffolk, whom James assisted in securing an annulment of her marriage to free her to marry Carr.

Among those convicted of the murder were Frances and Robert Carr, the latter having been replaced as the king's favourite in the meantime by Villiers.

Carr, soon raised to the earldom of Somerset, was not a success in the job, and fell from favour partly as a result of the murder of Thomas Overbury, to which Carr's wife, Frances, the former Countess of Essex, pleaded guilty in 1615.

* Frances Howard ( 31 May 1590 – 1632 ) married: ( 1 ) Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex ( 2 ) Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset had issue

Though he disliked Sir Robert Carr, the royal favorite, Suffolk supported his daughter Frances ' desire to divorce her husband, the Earl of Essex to marry him.

From 1616, Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset and Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset were inmates, and he was on social terms with them.

Three years later, Ruth Carr Patton and Frances Matteson Bowersock joined with Hill to found the Sunset Hill School, named after Hill's favorite area on the Vassar campus.

Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset

* Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset ( 1591 – 1632 ), née Frances Howard, countess of Somerset and dau.

Carr was born at the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary ( now Holt Hall ) in Portland, Maine, to Frances Stokes Sutton and Howard Louis Carr, Sr. Carr was raised by an aunt in Portland.

Felix Octavius Carr Darley ( June 23, 1822 – March 27, 1888 ) often credited as F. O. C. Darley, was an American painter in watercolor and illustrator, known for his illustrations in works by well-known 19th century authors, including: James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, Mary Maples Dodge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, George Lippard, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Donald Grant Mitchell, Clement Clarke Moore, Frances Parkman, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Nathaniel Parker Willis.

* The Masque of Flowers ( performed by Gray's Inn before the King at Whitehall to honour the marriage of the Earl of Somerset to Frances Howard, Countess of Essex ) ( 1614 )

* March 9 – Frances Talbot, Countess of Tyrconnel ( b. c. 1647 )

* Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey ( 1753 – 1821 )

** Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset ( d. 1632 )

There, she met Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey, George's mistress, who had been appointed Caroline's Lady of the Bedchamber.

Rodolphe von Hofmannsthal, great-grandson of Hugo, is married to Lady Frances von Hofmannsthal, née Armstrong-Jones, daughter of the 1st Earl of Snowdon ( former husband of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon ) and his second wife, Lucy Mary Davies.

The same year he wrote and arranged three masques, The Lords ' Masque for the marriage of Princess Elizabeth, an entertainment for the amusement of Queen Anne at Caversham House, and a third for the marriage of the Earl of Somerset to the infamous Frances Howard, Countess of Essex.

By then he had separated from Caroline for good and was bored with his mistress, Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey.

The college was founded in 1596 and named after its foundress, Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex.

He escapes the death penalty by the intercession of Frances, Countess of Hertford.

* September 15-Sir Thomas Overbury, poet and essayist ( probably poisoned by Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset ) ( born 1581 )

Lord Anglesey was first married on 5 July 1795 in London to Lady Caroline Elizabeth Villiers ( 16 December 1774-16 June 1835 ), daughter of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey and Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey.

During his service under Edward VII, he became involved in an affair with Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick ( i. e., Frances Brooke ), with whom Edward VII was also involved romantically.

The most notable member, Frances Maynard, became the Countess of Warwick and later a mistress of King Edward VII.

In, 1896 the pits were owned by the Trustee of Frances, late Countess of Waldegrave.

James had become deeply infatuated with Sir George Villiers, and Suffolk's daughter Frances, now Countess of Somerset, was implicated in the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury.

* Warwick, Frances Countess of ( 1903 ): Warwick Castle and its Earls Vol.

Frances later married Peter Shand Kydd and Lord Spencer won a bitter custody battle for his two younger children and married Raine, Countess of Dartmouth on 14 July 1976, the former wife of the 9th Earl of Dartmouth, and the daughter and only child of the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland and Alexander McCorquodale.

He was the second husband of Lady Frances Howard, daughter of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham and Katherine Carey, Countess of Nottingham.

* December 26 – The Earl of Somerset marries Frances Howard, occasioning John Donne's Eclogue.

The annulment was granted on 25 September 1613, and Frances Howard married her lover, who had been made 1st Earl of Somerset, on 26 December 1613.

This was built by Baron Amphlett of Somerset as a memorial to his mother-in-law, Frances Ferrand.

* Strachey, Ray Frances Willard, her life and work-with an introduction by Lady Henry Somerset, New York, Fleming H. Revell ( 1913 )

They were given to Frances, Duchess of Somerset, who returned them in 1672 or 1673.

He married Lady Frances Seymour ( 1728 – 1761 ), daughter of Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset on 3 September 1750.

* Lady Frances Somerset, wife of William Morgan, 1st Baronet Of Llantarnam

# Lady Frances Elizabeth Somerset ( 3 April 1774 – 24 May 1841 )

Lord William George Henry Somerset ( 2 September 1784 – 14 January 1861 ), Prebendary of Bristol, who was married twice ; on 29 June 1813 to Elizabeth Molyneux ( d. 1843 ), daughter of Lt .- Gen. Sir Thomas Molyneux, 5th Baronet, with whom he had one son, and in 1844 to Frances Westby Brady ( d. 31 August 1854 ), with whom he had no issue

Thomas Cecil married, firstly, Dorothy, the daughter of John Nevill, 4th Baron Latymer by his wife Lucy Somerset daughter of Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester ; and, secondly, Frances, daughter of William Brydges, 4th Baron Chandos of Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire and widow of the Master of Requests, Thomas Smith of Abingdon, Berkshire ( now Oxfordshire ) & Parson's Green, Middlesex.

* Frances Caroline Somerset ( 1808 – 1890 ) who married 1840 Theophilus Clive ( d. 1875 ), and had issue 1 son who left descendants