Bridget Morrison married Robert Radcliffe in 1592, and as Lady Fitzwalter and later as Countess of Sussex she received dedications from Robert Greene (1592), Thomas Kyd (1595), George Chapman (1598) and others. Bridget was described by a contemporary as “of very goodly and comely personage and a rare wit” but her husband was not faithful to her. He kept a mistress, Mrs. Sylvester Morgan, Bridget’s former waiting gentlewoman, and set her up as a rival Countess at a Mr. Daylies’ house. He even hired a Captain Whitlock to tell Bridget how much he was spending on his mistress’s clothing. Robert, Lord Sussex, and Bridget, Lady Sussex, separated in about 1600, but Lady Sussex refused to grant a divorce. She and her children were granted an allowance of £1700 a year and probably went back to Cassiobury to live with her mother
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