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Rh She would never suffer her picture to be taken. Her constitution was so good, that, notwithstanding all her fatigues, she seemed to be but forty years of age when she was above 60, and never used spectacles, though continually reading or writing. Her principles were nearly the same with those of the quietists; excluding all external worship, and requiring a cessation of reason and understanding, that God might spread his divine light over the mind.

She had more disciples in Scotland than in any other country; not only laymen, but some of their teachers embraced her doctrines; and her principal book was published there, in English, entitled, the Light of the World, in 1696: her Traites de la solide Virtue, et Avis Salutaire, are said, by Mrs. Thicknesse, to be written in such a strain of christian piety, that they must obtain the approbation of all good men. She composed 18 vols, in octavo.

F.C.; Female Worthies, &c.

excellent designer and engraver, whose works rank with those of the first artists.

BOVEY,