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Rh spoke them all with fluency and ease. She afterwards made great progress in the mathematics and history. In the former part of her life she resided in the Tower of London; in the latter, at Stratford and Westham, in Essex. She died, 1754, aged sixty, and was buried in Westham church.

In her Poems, published 1755, are several imitations and translations of Horace; a translation of Claudian's Old Man of Verona; An Ode on the Crucifixion; Rules, in verse, to her Brother, on his Conduct in Life; A Paraphrase of Agur's Wish; The Destruction of Babylon, from Isaiah; select Psalms; and other little compositions, equally entertaining and pious. .

translated, into Danish, the works of the most celebrated authors of antiquity. Sophia and Mary Belowe, her mother and aunt, were learned in ancient and modern languages, in history and genealogy. Elizabeth Tott, her niece and pupil, was also very learned, and composed works which shewed talents, but she died at the age of twenty.

of Louis, Comte de Montpensier, and wife of Louis de la Trimouille. She had by him an only son, who falling in a duel, his disconsolate mother did not long survive him. Her