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Rh distresses and hardships they had undergone, of which after a lingering illness for some months, she died 1555, in the 29th year of her age. She died in the protestant religion, which she embraced on her coming into Germany. She taught French and Latin publickly, and wrote several books, a great part of which were burnt with the town of Schweinfurt. The remainder were collected by Cælius Secundus Curio, and published at Basil, 1558. Her works consist of orations, dialogues, letters, and translations.

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learned and accomplished woman, who understood well the Latin and Greek tongues. She wrote a Treatise on the Four last Things. She married a gentleman of the name of Roper, and died in 1544. She comforted her father, during his captivity, and purchased his head of the executioner, which she preserved carefully, and it was buried with her, at St. Dunstan's church, in Canterbury.

father being obliged to quit Spain for a homicide, fled to Lyons, in France, where he cultivated, with much care, the genius of his daughter, who, at the age of twelve, in 1607, publickly maintained theses in philosophy, which she dedicated to Margaret of Austria, queen of Spain. Guy Patin says, that in her 10th year, she held a public disputation, in the Jesuit's college,