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314 and ink, or woman-servant, allowed her, but confined to prison for ever. She, however, staid but two years.

There are writers of no mean repute, who speak highly in her commendation. As for her character, there needs little more be said (says the continuator of Baker's Chronicle) than to repeat what has been delivered concerning her by the elegant pen of the learned Dr. Peter Du Moulin. "She was," says he, "learned above her sex, humble below her fortune, having a mind so great and noble, that prosperity could not make it remiss, nor her deepest adversity cause her to shrink or discover the least pusillanimity or dejection of spirit; being full of the love of God, to that fullness the smiling world could not add, nor the frowning detract."

The year before her death, she printed a pamphlet, entitled, ''The Restitution of Prophecy; that buried Talent to be revived. By the Lady Eleanor'', 1651. The greatest part of the tract is very obscure, except the historical, in which are said very severe things against the persecutors of herself and her family.

the first rank among the illustrious women mentioned in Scripture. She freed the Hebrews from the yoke of the Canaanites, and governed them during forty years with as much glory as wisdom. P. le Moine remarks, that the Bible, which has not hidden the failings of the patriarchs, which has shewn the mistrust of Moses and Aaron, the imprudence of Joshua, the incontinence of Sampson, the fall of David, and the follies of