Page:A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country (1804).djvu/674

660 by her writings. These learned and pious gentlemen never failed of an agreeable retreat and sanctuary at Westwood, as far as those dangerous times would permit. And it ought to be remembered to the honour of this good lady and her husband, that the famous Dr. Hammond found a comfortable subsistence in their family several years, and, at last reposed his bones in their burial place at Hampton-Lovett, in a chapel built by Sir Thomas Pakington, anno 1561.'

The third proof is taken from a quarto pamphlet, entitled, ''A Letter from a Clergyman in the Country, to a dignified Clergyman in London, vindicating the Bill brought in the last Session of Parliament, for preventing the Translation of Bishops. Printed at London'', 1702; in the third and fourth pages of which may be found the following passage: 'But before I enter upon the nature, tendency and usefulness of the bill, give me leave to say something concerning that worthy member. Sir John Pakington, who brought it into the house.

'His zeal for the church and monarchy descend to him, as it were, by inheritance. I must write a history, if I would deliver at large how many proofs his ancestors have given of their being the fastest friends to both: but his grandfather's spending 40,000£, and being tried for his life during the late civil wars, because he vigorously endeavoured to prevent the martyrdom of king Charles I., and the destruction of episcopacy; the uninterrupted correspondence of his grandmother with the learned and pious Dr. Morley, bishop of Winton, and Dr. Hammond, and his supporting the latter when deprived, and who is by several eminent men (archbishop Dolben, bishop Fell, and Dr. Allestry, declared this of their own knowledge after her death, which she obliged them to keep private during her life) allowed to be the author