Edith Brediman (died 1590), was an English courtier. She served as chamberer of queen Mary I of England.
She was born Edith Brocas or Brokwesse. In 1556, she married George Brediman.Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office: Philip and Mary, vol. 3, pp. 270, 479David Loades, Mary Tudor: A Life (Oxford, 1992), p. 355.
Mary I gave "Edeth Brydeman" a New Year's Day gift of a gilt salt in 1557, a more valuable gift than that received by George Brediman.John Nichols, 'Gifts Presented by Queen Mary', Illustrations of the manners and expences of antient times in England (London, 1797), pp. 22, 26 The gift rolls record that "Edeth Brydeman" took delivery of a gift of sweetmeats, figs, sugar loaves, sucket and orange water for Mary, and she may have been in charge of such foodstuffs and medicinal materials in the queen's chamber.'New Year's Gifts', Illustrations of the manners and expences of antient times in England, p. 6
Edith was rewarded for attending Mary during her final illness on 28 October 1558. The warrant mentions Edith's "watching and other pains taking in time of our sickness".Index of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1849), p. 59: British Library Add. MS 6362 ff.40–41 She signed her name in a Book of Hours which had once belonged to Henry VII, writing under an illustration for the Office of the Dead:In all tyme of neccessitye: with your prayer remember meEdeth Bredyman.M. R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, 1895), p. 142 MS 57: Eamon Duffy, Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers 1240-1570 (Yale, 2006), pp. 60–61 illustrated: Fitzwilliam Museum MS 57 f.127r: William George Searle, The Illuminated Manuscripts of the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, 1876), p. 156
Edith Brediman signed "Edeth B" for the gift of a russet velvet kirtle from Elizabeth I in May 1562.Janet Arnold, Lost from Her Majesties Back (Costume Society, 1980), p. 62. Edith's friends included Frances Jerningham, who bequeathed her a ring as a token of affection.Augustus Jessop, One Generation of a Norfolk House: A Contribution to Elizabethan History (London, 1879), p. 217.
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