■j6 LEONARD WHEATCROFT, OF ASHOVER. 



" Vpon the death of my much honoured and very good friend 

 and Mistress Anne Woolhouse, who departed this Hfe June 19, 

 1667. She was daughter to Gilbert Linacre, of Plumley Hall. 

 Esq. She was first married to John Parker. •■' of Lees Hall, Esq., 

 and after his death to Thomas Woolhouse, of (ilapwell, Esq., J. P., 

 with whom she lived above 30 years, whose death he much 

 lamented, not only for his own great loss, but for the loss of 

 others, to whom she was most charitably minded : — 



..." Her greatest fancy was to touch the skin 

 Of the decrepid swollen putrified 1^ lame. 

 Let all men judge of her thrice noble fame, 

 For all her greatness she did not disdaine 

 To wash and dresse, to make them whole againe. 

 She, with her daughters, and her servants too 

 Made it their practice good workes for to doo. 

 If that they came both halt and blind and pained, 

 For all her cures, their silver she disdained : 

 Her answer was, ' God give you health and grace 

 And now and then, pray let me see your face 

 That I your hungry bellies may well fill, 

 And clothe your backes according to God's will.' 

 . . She was like Dorcas doing works of wonder ; 

 To name them all, my muses could not ponder. 

 At her departure she warbled forth this straine, 

 'When Christ appears then I'll appear againe 

 Not as I am, but more in glory shining 

 With saints and angels all about me twining.' 

 These were her words. And so she lived and died 

 And now in heaven I hope she's glorified." 



" An Elegie vpon my very loving friend Mistris Elizabeth 

 Chadwicke late daughter to the right worshipful Thomas WoU- 

 house Esq and wife to the right worshipful James Chadwicke 

 Esquire. She departed this life May 13, in 1670, and now 

 lyeth buried in the Chancell of Bolsouer, next to her mother 

 Anne Wollhouse." 



"An acrostic upon Robert Williamot Esq, chosen shireave 



? Barker. 



