Elizabeth’s education differed from most of the other girls who were being educated at the time. She was taught by male tutors.

One of the earliest ways that a child, both girls and boys, would learn reading was through needlework. As a child was learning how to do needlework, they often made embroidery samplers.

Boys and girls who were educated in the 16th and especially the 17th century would have learned how to do math.