2-653-442 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Duchess of Gloucester does penance', 1864. Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester (nee Cobham; c1400 - 7 July 1452), was a mistress and the second wife of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. Eleanor had to do public penance in London, divorce her husband and as a convicted sorceress, she was imprisoned for treasonable necromancy in 1441 and condemned to life imprisonment. From A Chronicle of England B.C. 55 - A.D. 1485 by James E. Doyle. [Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, London, 1864]