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 of her father, who clothed her richly, adorned her with jewels; and his trade lying among the court ladies, he often carried her with him to shew her the pastimes, which were made there, frequently to divert the Queen, &c. which gave her an early longing after a greater genteelity than she had ever yet attained to, or her city breeding could produce.

When she grew up to the age of fifteen, her competent stock of beauty and good carriage, caused many to fall in love with her, and some great Lords fixed their eyes upon her, to get her for a mistress, which her father perceiving, sent her to his sister at Northampton, where she remained about a year, till he supposed the enquiry after her was over, and that she might return without any hazard of being any further tempted to lewdness. Yet she was no sooner returned but a deep plot was laid one night to have her carried away by Lord Hastings; who, after the death of