CHAPTER IV.
 

HOW AFTER HER RETURN HOME, HER ZEAL ENCREASED TOWARDS HER
CHILDREN AND NEIGHBOURS.
 

HE vowe intimated in the end of the pre¬
cedent chapter to pass the remainder of her
life in angellical chastity, was seconded
with many gallagi, resolutions and heroick
acts of virtue. (''Shee was no sooner settled
at home, and att her own disposall, but had one of the
Society, Legard,^ in her house, by whose coniinuall
advice and assistance, shee daily improv'd, not only in
her own perfection, but became visibly more active to¬
wards her children and neighbours. So far was sh(»e
from being discomfited or dismaied (though naturally
very passive, according to the quallity or constitution),
at the success her eldest son had in the seminary att
J^ouaj', that tvisely praising a life most to be valu'd,
which is less loaden with days than meritts, she ad¬
dressed all the rest of her children, a dozen in number ,^
 

t Of Father Legard no traces can be found. Many of the Jesuits
in those troublesome times went under false names, to avoid the
constant search made after them by the royal pursuivants and the
magistrates.— W. L.

« Mrs. Lawson seems therefore to have had fifteen children in
3/lb though the family pedigree says nineteen.— W. L,
 

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