What is recorded here
This black commemorative plaque records: Here lived Mary Newman afterward wife of Sir Francis Drake and Mayoress of Plymouth. Died 1582
Mary Newman was the wife of the renowned Elizabethan sea captain and privateer Sir Francis Drake, serving as Mayoress of Plymouth; her connection to Drake links her to significant maritime expeditions and English naval history of the 16th century.
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