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456, to demand pardon for him. As Ketavane was yet beautiful though stricken in years. Abbas fell, or pretended to fall, violently in love with her at first sight. He offered to marry her, if she would become a Mahometan; but she refused, and he kept her in prison and in irons for many years. At last she was sent to Schiraz, where she died under the torments inflicted upon her by the order of Abbas, to make her embrace Islamism. F.C.

has had a place justly assigned her among the learned ladies of the age, though she does not appear to have been the author of any distinct and separate treatise. Her natural genius being improved by the same excellent education which was bestowed upon her sisters, she became famous for her knowledge in the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin tongues, and for her skill in poetry. A short specimen of her talent in that art has been preserved by Sir John Harrington and Dr. Thomas Fuller. On the monument erected to her memory, is an inscription composed by herself. Both the small pieces we have mentioned were written in Latin.

The death of lady Killigrew was lamented in various epitaphs. Her sister. Lady Russel, wrote one, partly in Greek and partly in Latin verse. We know not when she died; only it appears, by her father's will, she was living in 1576, and that she lies buried in the church of St.