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Rh allowed us. She rose every morning at four o'clock, from the eleventh year of her age; and at five, if sickness or pain did not prevent her, during the latter part of her life.

She carefully endeavoured to improve the day in company and conversation with her friends; was always well furnished with matter of useful discourse, and could make very happy transitions from worldly to serious talk; but would often complain of the loss of much precious time, in giving and receiving visits, and say, she could not be satisfied with such a life, wherein she could neither do nor receive good, but must keep to her closet and her book.

Her first marriage was to Griffith Lloyd, Esquire, of Hemmington Grey, in Huntingdonshire, 1667, in the 23d year of her age. He was a gentleman of good reputation and estate, of great usefulness to his country, whilst in the commission of the peace; and afterwards as a reconciler of differences, and common patron of the oppressed. They lived happily together about fifteen years.

Her second marriage was to Mr. Samuel Bury, a dissenting minister, 1697. At the 77th year of her age, after a short illness of a few days, she left this world without either sigh or groan, and with a pleasant smile on her countenance. Dr. Watts wrote an elegy on her death, in which he speaks of her in the highest strain of praise.

She left behind her a large Diary, which Mr. Bury, her husband, abridged and published. Amongst her miscellaneous papers were the following discourses: ''Meditations on the Divinity of the Holy Scriptures. The several Farts of the Creation. The Extent, Efficacy, and Mystery of Providence, A Believer's Union with'' Christ,