In 1630 she married Philip, Earl of Montgomery, who shortly afterwards became the Earl of Pembroke by the death of his brother, and she again claimed her inheritance, still, however, in vain. In 1641 died her uncle, leaving one son, Henry, and one daughter, Elizabeth, married to the Earl of Cork. Two years later her cousin Henry died without heir male, and without further dispute, Anne stepped into her inheritance, thereby proving her original right. She had not sold it! “1644. So by the death of this cousin German of mine, Henry Clifford Earl of Cumberland, without heirs male, ye lands of mine inheritance in Craven and Westmoreland reverted unto me without question or controversie after y^t his father Francis Earl of Cumberland and this Earl Henry his son had unjustly detained from me the antient lands in Craven from ye death of my father and ye lands in Westmoreland from ye death of my mother until this time, yet had I little or no profit from ye estate for some years after by reason of ye civil wars.” On the death of her second husband in 1649, she retired to the north, and began to fortify her castles. The parliamentary forces demolished them, but she said that as often as Cromwell pulled them down she would build them up again. After a time, admiring her spirit, the Protector gave orders she should not be molested. She was not even yet free from litigation, as at first she had troubles with her tenants. In every case, however, through knowledge, experience, and firmness she finally triumphed. A cloth-worker having bought a property held under her by the yearly rent of one hen, he refused to acknowledge her as his Seigneuress by paying that small rent. But she sued him successfully, and though she spent £200, she secured that hen, and the right of which it was the symbol. She asserted all the privileges connected with her inheritance. In her Diary she says, “As the King came out of Scotland, when he lay at Yorke, there was a striffe between my father and my Lord Burleighe who was then President who should carie the sword; but it was adjudged on my father’s side, because it was his office by inheritance, and so is lineally descended upon me.” She became High Sheriff of Westmoreland also by right of her inheritance, and exercised its duties in person for a time. “The 29th December, 1651, did I sign and seal a patent to Mr. Thomas Gabetis to be my Deputy Sheriff of ye County of Westmoreland.”