Talk:Elizabeth Alkin

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June 7, 2016	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on June 13, 2016.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Elizabeth Alkin—a publisher, nurse and spy for the Parliamentarian forces during the English Civil War—was nicknamed Parliament Joan?

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Hired by who, again?[edit]

In 1645 Alkin was employed by the earl of Essex, Sir William Waller, ...

According to the article on William Waller, he was never the Earl of Essex. However, he did serve under Essex up until April 1645, when they both resigned their commissions in response to the Self-denying Ordinance. Did Waller hire Alkin on behalf of Essex? (I don't have access to the source.) Smallus Editus (talk) 21:27, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Clarified. The source isn’t entirely clear, and it looks like a list of two people when it’s actually a list of three. - SchroCat (talk) 21:51, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]