Mary Love

Mary Love (born on or before 1639–14 May 1663) was an English religious writer and biographer. She was involved with a plot involving the exiled Stuart family. Her husband was executed and she remarried but she continued to champion her first husband's reputation.

Life Her name was Mary Stone when she was born and her father William Stone died in 1639. He had been a London merchant. She became a ward of John Warner and he was a merchant too and a sheriff of London. He employed Christopher Love as his chaplain. This is presumed to be a trip in support of what was known as "Love's Plot". Her husband was frequently arrested and tried for the content of his sermons which included a sermon given to the House of Commons which received no thanks.

On 23 August 1651, Christopher Love was executed on Tower Hill in London after two postponements of a week and a month.

The couple had five children, one of whom was born after Love's death. Mary and her new husband appeared to have championed her dead husband's work. Her husband's executors published "The Combate Between the Flesh and the Spirit" in 1643 and it is dedicated to the Bradshaws.

Works Life of Mr Christopher Love, Dr William’s Library, MS 28.58. Love’s Letters, His and Hers, to each Other, (London, 1651). Love’s Name Lives (London, 1651).