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plenish'd with a tyde of divine visitations, overflowing the
measure shee suffered of terrene afflictions; shee receiv'd
assistances from her patrons with sensible guests as if shee
had seen them (and we verily thought shee did) especially
the Queen Mother of God, whom from the first glimmer¬
ings of reason next to God shee honour'd. Finally to
prefix a seal to this history which deserves to be writt with
a pen of adamant in the temple of eternity; when shee
was arriv'd at the last period of her journey speechless,
and not able to our thinking to make a sign, I no sooner
propos'd any goodness but shee cast up her hands and
open'd her eyes as if shee had been like a corp renew'd or
rather rais'd from death to life. Verily I can't nominate
any vertue, (and in my directory I compris'd allmost all)
which in that condition shee did not exercise, at least in
preparation of mind, and made it by some visible tokens
appear. When we thought her epilogue had been ended,
and was about to draw the curtain, or going to close her
eyes, to our amazement she elevated her hand, and im¬
parted her benediction in the form of a large cross ; then
pronouncing or rather repeating the life-giving name of
Jesus to gain the pardon of the sin last committed, as
in manner of jubily, with Jesus in her mouth and a
jubily in her soul, shee sweetly departed about twelve
of the clock, in the year of our Lord 1632, and of
her own age fifty-two, " Precious in the sight of our
Lord is the death of his saints."

Her private exequies were celebrated that night about
eleven o'clock in the place where shee died with the pre¬
sence of hundred Catholicks who spiritually depended of
her. Her eldest son, whose life, like a phoenix bom of
her ashes, deserves also to appear in public, sparing no cost
caused her to be honorably interr'd in the Church of All
Saints', at Newcastle, alledging that he did not by that
solemnity, infringe her commands to me, since itt should
be his purse, and not hers, that defrayed the charges.
I was with joy satisfied, and the burial perform'd in the
manner following.