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Rh and in the conferences they had together, conceived so high an opinion of Christianity, that she is supposed to have embraced it. She was murdered with her son, in Gaul, by the discontented soldiery. Essay by M. Thomas, &c.

in the reign of Edward III. and distinguished herself by a book of Revelations she wrote. But though she was author of so remarkable a work, and her situation in life so very singular, yet through the negligence of ecclesiastics (who were almost the only men that transmitted intelligence to posterity) we find but very little recorded concerning her. Even our most curious and industrious biographers, who had the best opportunity of examining manuscripts and records belonging to religious houses, could not trace out any memorials relating to this devout lady, more than an hint or two mentioned by herself in her own writings.

R. F. Jo. Gascoyn, L. Abbot of Lambspring, ushered her compositions into the world, with the following title: ''Sixteen Revelations of divine Love, shewed to a devout Servant of our Lord, called Mother Juliana, an Anchoret of Norwich; who lived in the Days of King Edward III. Published by F. R. S. Crossy'', 1610. Vo,

"Her profession was of the strictest sort of solitary livers, being inclosed all her life (alone) within four walls; whereby though all mortals were excluded from her dwelling, yet saints and angels, and the Supreme King of both, could and did find admittance. Moreover, the place, in a high manner dignified by her abode, was Norwich. The time when she lived, and par-