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Rh means she retrieved it a little while; but in January, 1707, fell sick of a pleuritic fever, which proved fatal; but she shewed all along a full resignation of mind to the will of God, and a patient enduring of pain. After her voice quite failed her, as things were spoken in her hearing, she shewed, by the lifting up of her hands, and other signs, in what a happy calm she then possessed her soul; how easy and comfortable her passage was, and how earnestly she recommended the practice of true religion to all about her. She was buried at Spetchley, by the side of her former husband, agreeable to a promise she had made him. Female Worthies.

been characterised as a person of uncommon parts, ready thought, quick apprehension, and proper expression. She was always very inquisitive into the nature and reason of things, and thought herself obliged to any who would give her instruction.

In common conversation, she had often sharp turns, and ready replies, which were softened with such an ingenuous air, that they could very seldom be resented. In writing letters, she had a great felicity of expression; and was thought so close and pertinent, that her correspondence was greatly valued by some of the brightest minds, even in distant countries. She studied philology, philosophy, history, ancient and modern, heraldry, the globes, mathematics, and music, vocal and instrumental. She learnt French, chiefly to converse with French refugees, to whom she was