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Rh This lovely woman was the delight of her father, who clothed her richly, adorning her with jewels; and, his trade eying among the court-ladies, he often carried her with him to ſhew her the paſtimes which were made frequently there, to divert the queen, &c. which, gave her an early longing after a greater gentility than ſhe had ever yet attained to, or her city breeding was fit to produce.

When ſhe grew to the age of fifteen, her competent ſtock of beauty and good-marriage, 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 seeing any further tempted to lewdneſs: Yet, ſhe was no ſooner returned, than a plot was laid one night to have her