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for her beauty and poetical talents.

was daughter of Mr. Sadler, citizen of London, and had an early sense of virtue and piety, being from her childhood strictly religious. The awful regard she had for the rules and precepts of the gospel, made her very fearful of transgressing them.

In 1650, she married the Rev. Dr. Anthony Walker, minister of Tyfield, in Essex, and those clouds that had so darkened her understanding and disquieted her soul, were soon dissipated and dispelled by the assistance of this friendly guide and director; and she distinguished herself through the remaining stage of her life, in a most amiable and cheerful exercise of Christian virtue: he wrote a history of her Holy Life and Death, &c. printed in 1690.

He informs us, that, after her death, amongst many useful and pious writings, he found a large book, in octavo. The beginning of which contains many excellent instructions, and religious directions for the use of her two daughters, who were then living; to teach them how to serve God acceptably, and promote the salvation of their souls. The latter end bears this title. Some  morials