But he had a son by a former marriage with the brilliantly-endowed widow of a long-resident governor in the East, who having died on his voyage home to England, on her landing she found herself the sole inheritrix of his immense wealth.
"Thaddeus of Warsaw"
Jane Porter
Upon the river of Caroli are the Canuri, which are governed by a woman who is inheritrix of that province; who came far off to see our nation, and asked me divers questions of her Majesty, being much delighted with the discourse of her Majesty's greatness, and wondering at such reports as we truly made of her Highness' many virtues.
"The Discovery of Guiana"
Sir Walter Raleigh
George More tells us that Mrs. Starchie was an "inheritrix."
"A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718"
Wallace Notestein