As Cromwell moved close to the Seymours, with political results satisfactory for everyone concerned, Elizabeth Seymour, younger sister of Jane, emerged as significant. Probably in 1530 she became second wife to a rather older Yorkshire gentleman, Sir Anthony Ughtred, while in her early teens.1 Such unions were not uncommon in the higher reaches of English society, though convention would dictate a decorous interval before the pair cohabited.
