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76 a learned lady. She translated into English, from the Latin, the wise sayings and eminent deeds of the emperor Alexander Severus. This is dedicated to her father, and the manuscript is in the royal library at Westminster. She translated also from Greek into Latin, Select sentences of the Seven wise Grecian Philosophers. In the same library is preserved of her writing, Similies collected from the books of Plato, Aristotle, Seneca, and other philosophers. 1em

having been made by the parents of this lady, and of Mr. Kyme, between the son of the latter and her elder sister, who died before it took place; Sir William having paid part of the portion, compelled his second daughter, Anne, a young woman of great beauty, to accept the hand of her intended brother-in-law much against her inclination, though after the marriage had taken place, she fulfilled her duties as a wife and mother, in a most exemplary manner. The doctrines of the reformers making, at that time, much noise, Anne, who was both learned and pious in a high degree, applied herself to reading the Bible, and became a protestant; which so offended her husband, that, by the suggestions of the priests, he drove her violently from his house. On this cruel usage, she came to London