* May 2 – May 3 – Mary Rowlandson is released from captivity and returns to Boston.

In 1577 Leicester had a courteous meeting with Mary, lending a sympathetic ear to her complaints of captivity.

Mary was kept in captivity until she was implicated in the Babington plot plot against Elizabeth, after which she was convicted of treason and executed.

After her release from captivity, Rowlandson wrote a book called A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.

As a result Mary is doomed to an open-ended captivity, with no end in sight.

Mary was sent into captivity in Loch Leven Castle, while her Protestant half-brother, James Stewart, Earl of Moray was appointed Regent on behalf of his nephew.

However, the stress of her captivity drove Mary Jane away.

* Mary Rowlandson, who was taken captive during a raid on Lancaster, Massachusetts, later wrote a memoir about her captivity, and described meeting with Metacomet while she was held by the Native Americans.

Years after her release, she wrote a book about her experience, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, which is considered a seminal American work in the literary genre of captivity narratives.

Mary Rowlandson and her children moved to Boston where she wrote her captivity narrative.

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson is a frequently cited example of a captivity narrative.

In 1387, after the murder of Tvrtko's cousin Elizabeth, and captivity of her daughter Queen Mary, Tvrtko might have become, on Mary's request, the heir presumptive to the throne of Hungary as well.

In November 1569 the Northern Rebellion broke out with the aim to install Mary, Queen of Scots ( who was in English captivity ) on the English throne.

* Mary White Rowlandson ( c. 1637 – 1711 ), colonial American woman writer of a captivity narrative

Today, Hannah Duston's actions in freeing herself, Mary and a child from captivity are controversial, with some ( in particular her descendants ) calling her a hero, but others calling her a villain, and some Abenaki leaders saying her legend is racist and glorifies violence.

Mary Rowlandson uses the term Wigwam in reference to the dwelling places of the Native Americans that she stayed with while in their captivity during King Philip's War in 1675.

In 1799 Pius VI, then in captivity at Florence, granted the Bishop of Palermo the feast of the Most Pure Heart of Mary for some of the churches in his diocese.

Mary Marvel and Captain Atom are pitted against each other, and the mind-controlled Mary nearly beats Atom and Fire to death before she overcomes her programming and the team is released from captivity.

Late in life, she told her story to the minister James E. Seaver, who published it as a classic " captivity narrative ", Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison ( 1824 ; latest ed.

Rowlandson would later write about her experience in A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, considered a seminal work in the American literary genre of captivity narratives.

The official state marker at the site, placed in 1930, reads: Upon the rock fifty feet West of this spot Mary Rowlandson wife of the first minister of Lancaster was redeemed from captivity under King Philip.

Mary in captivity, circa | c. 1580

This comprises psalms, antiphons, lessons, & c., for feasts of various groups or classes ( twelve in all ); e. g. apostles, martyrs, confessors, virgins, and the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox by William Hogarth, c. 1729 ( Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City | N. Y. ).

The earliest cited English usage in connection with marital status is from a manuscript of c. 1200, when Mary ( mother of Jesus ) is described as “ handfast ( to ) a good man called Joseph ”.

The Scottish medieval clàrsach ' Queen Mary harp ' Clàrsach na Banrigh Màiri, ( c. 1400 ) now in the Museum of Scotland, is a one of only three surviving medieval Gaelic harps.

* Mary of Guelders ( c. 1434 – 1463 ), daughter of Arnold, Duke of Guelders

The monk and historian Domenico Cavalca ( c. 1270-1342 ), citing Jerome, suggested that Mary Magdalene was betrothed to St John the Evangelist: " I like to think that the Magdalene was the spouse of John, not affirming it ...

< div class =" center "> Mary, Queen of Scots by an unknown artist after François Clouet ( c. 1559 ) London, Victoria and Albert Museum </ div > The Queen is shown wearing her rope of famous black pearls.

* Robert Rochester ( c. 1494 – 1557 ), English Roman Catholic and employee of Queen Mary I

** Mary Woodville, English noblewoman ( b. c. 1454 )

* July – Mary Rogers, the " Beautiful Cigar Girl ", American murder victim ( b. c. 1820 )

* April – Mary Read, English pirate ( b. c. 1695 )

* June 1 – Mary Dyer, English Quaker ( hanged ) ( b. c. 1611 )

* August 24 – Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English politician and husband of Mary Tudor ( b. c. 1484 )

Virgin Mary holding the unicorn ( c. 1480 ), detail of the Annunciation with the Unicorn Polyptych, National Museum, Warsaw | National Museum, Warsaw

* Mary Walpole ( c. 1705 – 2 January 1732 ), who married the 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley on 14 September 1723 and had two sons.

* James Hamilton, Earl of Arran ( c. 1517 – 1575 ) ( from 8 February 1548, Duke of Châtelherault ) was Governor and Protector of the Kingdom ( 3 January 1543 – 12 April 1554 ) for Mary, Queen of Scots.

According to The Descendants of William Sabin, compiled by Gordon Alan Morris, Thomas J. Prittie, and Dixie Prittie, the first Caucasian child born in the county was Mary Stuart Sabin, daughter of Dr. Warren Sabin, c. 1812.

Davide Rizzio, sometimes written as Davide Riccio or Davide Rizzo ( c. 1533 – 9 March 1566 ), was an Italian courtier, born close to Turin, a descendant of an ancient and noble family still living in Piedmont, the Riccio Counts de San Paolo et Solbrito, who rose to become the private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots.

* Mary Boleyn ( c. 1499 – 19 July 1543 ); Lady Mary Carey ( 1520 – 1528 ); Lady Stafford ( 1534 – 1543 )

# Lady Mary Rich ( born c. 1636 – 8 February 1666 ), married John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland.

In c. 876 the cathedral acquired the Sancta Camisa, believed to be the tunic worn by the Blessed Virgin Mary at the time of Christ's birth.

He married in 1577 Mary Sidney, the famous Countess of Pembroke ( c. 1561 – 1621 ), third daughter of Sir Henry Sidney and his wife Mary Dudley.