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Rh the Lord's supper. Nor was she less diligent in her private devotions, which were constantly performed in her private oratory three times a day; and careful that none of her servants might be remiss or negligent in the observance of religious duties. She shewed herself a zealous daughter of the church of England in the most perilous times, and constantly persisted in practising its doctrines, discipline, and worship. She erected a beautiful pillar on the place, where she took her last farewel of her mother; it is commonly called the countess's pillar; and is adorned with coats of arms, dials, &c. with an obelisk on the top coloured black; and the following inscription in brass, declaring the occasion and meaning of it:

This pillar was erected anno 1656, ''by the right honourable Anne, countess dowager of Pembroke, and sole heir of the right honourable George, earl of Cumberland, &c. For a memorial of her last parting in this place with her good and pious mother the right honourable Margaret, countess dowager of Cumberland, the second of April'', 1616. In memory whereof she also left an annuity of four pounds, to be distributed to the poor within this parish of Brougham, every second day of April, upon this stone table by. . She also erected a monument to her tutor, Mr. Daniel, in the church at Beckington, near Philips Norton, in Somersetshire.

Repaired and restored an alms-house at Bearmky, which was built and endowed by her mother.

And in 1651 laid the first stone of an hospital, which she founded at Appleby, in Westmoreland, for a governess and twelve other widows; for the endowments of which she purchased the manor of Brougham, and certain lands called St. Nicholas, near Appleby. When