Except the portraits of Miss Hamilton and Lady Bellasys, there is not one among the beauties at Windsor,...
A young Protestant widow, Susan, Lady Bellasys, whose father-in-law Lord Bellasys was a prominent, but moderate, Catholic, became lady of the bedchamber.
Handbook to the Public Galleries of Art in and near London: With Critical, Historical, and Biographical Notices of the Painters and Pictures by Anna Brownell; Mrs.
Dame Mary Lister was the daughter of Sir Henry Bellasys of Newburgh Priory.
She married Sir William Lister in 1610 and became the head of household in his Manor at Thornton-in-Craven.
The majority of the text is in the hand of Mary Lister, and was written between 1623 and 1635 but there are also several recipes by Grace Bellasis (d.1659), Lister’s niece-in-law, as well as notes probably for or of a sermon on Joshua and a catechism on Genesis.
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