INTRODUCTION.
states that ceremony to have been performed on the
next day. We can hardly add to the picturesque de¬
scription of her biographer. The respect and consi¬
deration shewn to her in life and death seems to have
been very considerable ; but it is difficult to reconcile
the liberality which was exhibited in the mode of her
burial, and the entertainment given to the attendants^
with the stringent measures which were at that very
period exercised against the profession of the faith
which she held and died in. ' The finest house in the
town,' in which the banquet is stated to have been
given, was probably that afterwards known as An¬
derson-place, even then, curiously enough, the resi¬
dence of a family of Anderson, for generations
merchants and mayors of Newcastle, as were the then
mayor and sheriff, William and Henry Warmouth,
members of a family who had for four generations
been merchants of the town, and in the two last its
chief municipal officers.
G. BOUCHIEE RICHARDSON.
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