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or postnatal depression) and as such became more active in English society as an eligible heiress. The following year she began having an affair with a local cleric who worked for her mother. Aghast by the unsuitability of the match, her grandfather Ralph proposed she be engaged to the Gentleman Robert Dormer, the son of a nearby lawyer and Quainton landowner in 1692. However Verney turned down the offer and instead eloped with the son of John Kelyng;

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