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Rh She also wrote two declarations, which her father and she translated into Latin so elegantly, that one could hardly judge which was the best.

She wrote likewise a treatise of the Four last things, with so much judgment and strong reasoning, that her father sincerely protested, it was better than the discourse he had written upon the same subject; and perhaps this was the reason why he never finished it. She translated Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History out of Greek into Latin, but was prevented in the publication of it by Bishop Christophorson, a noted Grecian, who, at that time, was engaged in the same task. This laborious performance was afterwards translated out of Latin into English, by her daughter Mary.

She survived her father nine years; was sixteen years the wife of Mr. Roper; and dying about the 36th year of her age, 1544, was buried, as she had desired, with her father's head in her arms, (which she had carefully preserved in a leaden box) at St. Dunstan's church, in Canterbury, in a vault under a chapel joining to the chancel, being the burial place of the Ropers.

Mr. Roper, who lived thirty-three years a widower, was buried in the same vault. . history with great success. She died at the age of thirty-six, the victim of jealousy; being