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 This lovely woman was the delight of her father, who clothed her richly, adorning her with jewels; and, his trade ying among the court-ladies, he often carried her with him to shew her the pastimes which were made frequently here, 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 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, supposing the inquiry after er wasover, imagined she might return without any hazard of being any further tempted to lewdness. Yet she was no sooner returned, than a plot was laid one night to have her carried