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  MLC/RA;NAT'L GEN SOC QRTLY VOL 50 PP. 74-8;PED OF A.H. AYERS
  
  TITL Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760
  AUTH Frederick Lewis Weis          PUBL 7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992
  Same ref source as earlier ed, "Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists who Came to New England 1623- 1650" ed 1-6
  good to very good   ------  J.H. Garner
  MEDI Book       PAGE line 176A pp 151-152
  TEXT Sister to Thorold of Buckingham, Sheriff of Lincolnshire, parentage uncertain but she wa s evidently from an old, noble family.  The "Lady Godiva" of legend.
  TEXT b prob ca 1010
  _FA1  PLAC The famous Lady Godiva who rode nude on her horse through Coventry.
  _FA2  PLAC Lived & buried in Coventry, Warwickshire.
  _FA3  PLAC  Lady (flourished about 1040-80), Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, wife of Leofric, earl o f Mercia (flourished 1005-57).  She is known to have persuaded her husband to found monasteri es at Coventry (1043) and Stow. According to legend, she obtained a reduction in the excessiv e taxes levied by her husband on the people of  Coventry by consenting to ride naked throug h the town on a white horse. Only one person disobeyed her orders to remain indoors behind cl osed shutters; this man,  a tailor known afterward as Peeping Tom, peered through a window an d immediately became blind. The oldest form of the legend is in the 13th-century Flores Histo riarum (Flowers of the Historians). A festival in her honor was instituted as part of Coventr y Fair in 1678.
  Source: 'The World Book Encyclopedia', 1968, p G235. 'Godiva, Lady,' Microsoft (R) Encarta. C opyright (c) 1993
  Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1993 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation

Details of Godiva's family with Leofric III