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Lettice

Lettice may refer to:

Surname
  • John Lettice (1737–1832), English clergyman, translator, academic, and author
Given name
  • Lettice Boyle. wife of George Goring, Lord Goring
  • Lettice Cooper (1897–1994), English writer
  • Lettice Curtis (1915–2014), English woman aviator, flight test engineer, air racing pilot and sportswoman
  • Lettice Digby, 1st Baroness Offaly (1580–1658), Irish peeress and landowner
  • Lettice Knollys (1543–1634), mother of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth I's famous courtier
  • Lettice Mary Tredway (born 1595), English abbess
  • Lettice Paget, Baroness Paget (1583–1655), English Noblewoman born to Sir Henry Knollys and Margaret Cave, wife of William Paget, 4th Baron Paget
  • Lettice Sandford (1902–1993), draftsman, wood-engraver, corn dolly revivalist and watercolourist from Herefordshire
Other
  • Lettice and Lovage, 1987 comedic play by Peter Shaffer

Usage examples of "lettice".

When he had been arrested for treason, Lettice had started looking for a new husband.

According to this drooling clerk, Lettice was beautiful beyond pearls, wise, virtuous, kind, talented .

Lady Margaret admitted that most of this was speculation, but after Lettice married Nicholas, he had some very close calls.

Nicholas proved much harder to kill than Christopher had been, so Lettice began to look for someone to help her.

Lady Margaret thinks Lettice just waited for an opportunity to get Nicholas for something, so when Stafford started gathering men to protect his Welsh estates, she informed Sydney, who rode hell-bent-for-leather to the queen.

I saw Lee after you left, and he told me all about Lettice and Robert Sydney .

Somehow she had to prevent Lettice and Robert Sydney from using Nicholas.

Tell me about Kit and Nicholas, and is he engaged to Lettice, and is John Wilfred here, and what about Arabella Sydney?

Kit was dead, and Robert Sydney and your beloved Lettice had lied to the queen.

Today she would start finding out what she could do to prevent the treachery of Lettice Culpin.

He liked women like Arabella and Lettice who never cried for any reason.

The dowry for Lettice Culpin has been accepted and part of it spent to buy sheep.

I cannot believe Lettice will mind that you do not go to her every night.

When he had first met Dougless, she had said several derogatory things about Lettice, but lately she had said nothing.

He had failed, not because Lettice was unwilling, but because she was uninterested.