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Rh 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 frequently there 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 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 plot was laid one night to have her carried away by Lord Haſtings, who, after the death of