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402, divinity, and the Spanish, Italian, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages. She was still more worthy of respect from the sanctity of her manners and life, than for her great learning. Father Feejoo.

Burgundians having laid siege to this town in 1472, Jane, at the head of a troop of women, valiantly defended it; repulsed them when they assaulted the place, took their colours from the hand of a soldier, who was going to plant them on the walls, and threw him headlong from it. In memory of this action, the privilege of walking at the head of the troops, carrying these colours, was granted to her, and some others ensured to her descendants. The portrait of this heroine is still shewn at Beauvais; and, on the 10th of July, there was an annual procession, in which the women walked first. F. C.

instructed by her parents, who each presided over the education of different branches of the royal family, in every polite and liberal science; but theology and physic were her favourite studies. She became so particularly versed in the latter art, and in the practice of surgery, that she was consulted, not only by the first people