SHe was exceedingly humble and courteous: most loving and single-hearted: of gentlest and harmlesse conversation: sincerely obedient to parents: hearty and faithfull in friendship: very bashfull and highly modest: never bold even with inwardest familiars in any either word or act that she could i­magine the least wise undecent: most unfeinedly and readily pliant to the minde and advice of whose priviledges she held any relation unto: most gratefull, just, and remunerable: an enemie from her childhood to Idlenesse, and so bestowing her time as not the meanest, but some of her exercises made beholding her: most singularly cleanly of hand and person: alwayes touched with others harm, and no lesse a right sensible of their welfare: eminently temperate and abstinent: full of pitty and endevour of helpfulnesse: in the utmost of her passions (if most rarely any such were) instantly reduceable by whom she had in confidence: far from impatiencie and bitternesse of anger: ever most speedy in forgetting displeasure: of countenance & comportment most mildly expressing a right seasoned bosome: womanlike soft in ordinary fears, but unto a danger of face and importance most masculine and firm. Thus far is referrable to the excellency and sweetnesse of her naturall disposition.

For the Graces of God, and her spirituall gifts, she was for certain inwardly and ardently most religious: she was most frequent and assiduous in private devotion: most constant and chearfull in duties of pietie: a severe judg of her selfe: a dayly weeping and broken-hearted penitent: never satisfied enough in the strength of her Faith, measure of Repentance, and sufficience of Charity: she bate a love, to the House, to the Ministers and the servants of God, most full of reverence: she never held her self no way so bound as wherein she conceived some furtherance to Heaven; her heart was so fixed a­bove, as that even her dreams were often full of most heavenly inexpressible comfort, and it was very ordinary to hear her pray, and most joyously to sing whole Psalms in her sleep: her last sicknesse which was unspeakably full of torment, (by incessant sharpest head-ach) and wherein for at least 40. dayes her sleep was almost vvholly taken from her, was so al­layed with patience, that the trouble of it reached not to any least houshold interruption: and her prayer was continual­ly, not for the lengthening of life or asswagement of pain, but that it would please God to preserve her understanding that she might stil know to praise him to the end: never was heart nor tongue more ful of truth, for the saving of life, (after her maturing in godlinesse) would not, I averre it, have cost her a lie: nothing was of more horrour to her then backbitings and taxation of the absent: and it was a bad cause or worthlesse person that found not a relief from her when properer defence was out of place: it cannot be expressed what gladsome confidence she had in the Mercies of God, and how she clung with the armes of her soul upon her dear Saviour.

Her care was so great to take trouble and sorrow from the friends about her, that she would never yield to the behavi­ours of sicknesse, but kept her foot to the last day. Being with her Brother and his wife invited the night sevennight be­fore her death to sup with a worthy friend but a few steps from her own door, hovvever her weaknesse was utterly extream and manifest, her civility and gentlenesse yet carried her thither: and the next day being Sunday, and that she prepared to Church, but was besought by a servant of trust about her to have care to her health, vvhich apparently vvas wasted to the last; no, saith she, shall I go but last night to the house of a friend to a supper, and shall I forbear this next morning to goe to the house of my God to a sermon? good God forbid it me: and yet her disablednesse was so great, that shee well neer swouned and fell down as she went, but would not for all that be entreated to turn back. The Monday following, her bro­ther having called some friends to a dinner, where was Musick, sportings and divers Christmasse solemnities; no Brother saith she (being still requested to favour her self, and though her presence were wished, that she would not yet uneasefully allow it) notwithstanding all these discordances to my present case, your company shall not want of any the regards I can yield to it; it is not the faintnesse of this body shall be able to detain me from doing observance, where you shew affection, neither (you shall see) shall it be in the power of sicknesse to sullen my behaviour or to make me suspected of neglect with personages of such account to you: but through the whole course of the day (she still holding out with the best fitted sem­blances she could, even untill 12 a clock midnight) it was easie to perceive both by the stollen mooving of her eyes, and of­ten withall, by the stirring of her lips, what other repasts her heart then fed upon. The third day before it pleased God to take her to his mercie, being early the morning in a little faint slumber, it seemed her that a white sheet or a large foure square linnen cloath, was let down to her by cords from heaven, the which mooving and passing divers times before her eyes, vanished away: do you know saith she to her brother, (unto whom and her sister she presently came down a paire of stairs from her chamber, relating to them as abovesaid) what this should signifie? yea saith she, smiling and nodding her head at him, do you know brother? & so rejoycingly she led her self into the magnifying of Gods Mercies. Some friends coming to visit her not 3 howers before her departure, & beholding her as with pittie of her plight and agony; noe, saith she, do not so (with an emboldned and raised voice she delivered it) I would have you to know that I feare not death, it is long since God hath quite dravvn my heart and mind from this world, and with that her speech failed. And it is true, that as she had many years before lost almost al delight and tast in worldly things, so now never flesh & bloodlesse feared death, or more comfortably embraced dissolution. Recovering her speech a little again, she bestovved it all in most holy ejacula­tions: and as the night before she had in a slumber vvith more then an ordinarily clear voice sung two staves of a Psalme; awaking with these words in her mouth, Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word, so the very same words about an houre before her passing were the last that she was heard to utter. When her sight was gone and all mo­tion began to fail, there was suddenly by divers very sensible and discreet by-standers a flickering heard against the glass of the next window to her bed, as if it were the beating of litle wings (nor otherwise could it be ghessed or resembled) be­ing yet then within night, when all things were quiet; at which very time, with two weak neesings and without any sob or shrinking whatever, her soul and body took leave untill their joyfull meeting in a blessed Resurrection.

This befell unto us the 2. of January being a Saturday, in the year of Grace 1640. and in the 41. year of her age▪