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ihat the afliction of a prison was 
not felt in his dayes. He had a 
singular kindnesse for al] persons 
that:were eminent either in learn- 
ing or armes, and when through 
the ingratitude and ‘vice of that 
age many of the wives and chill- 
dren of queene Elizabeth’s glo- 
rious captaines were reduc’d to 
poverty, his purse was their com- 
mon treasury, and they knew 
wot the inconvenience of decay’d 
fortunes till he was dead: many 
of those valliant seamen he main- 
tain’d in prison, many he re. 
deem’d out of prison and cherisht 
with an extraordinary bounty. If 
among his excellencies ‘one out. 
shin’d the rest, it was the gene. 
yous liberalfty of his mind, where- 
in goodnesse and greatenesse weie 
So equally distributed that they mu- 
tually embellisht each other. Pride 
and coveteousnesse had not the 
Jeast place in his brest. Ashe was 
in love with true honor, so he 
contemn’d vaine titles, and though 
in his youth he accepted an ad- 
dition to his birth, in his riper 
yeares he refus’d a barondry, 
which the king ‘offer’d him. . He 
was severe in the regulating of his 
famely, especially would not en- 
dure the Jeast immodest behaviour 
or dresse in any woman under 
his roofe. There was nothing he 
hated more then an insignificant 
gallant, that could only make his 
leggs and prune himselfe, and 
court a lady, but had not braines 
to employ himselfe in things more 
suteable to man’s nobler sex. Fi- 
delity in his trust, love and loy- 
alty to his prince, were not the 
least of his virtues, but those 
wherein he was not excell’d by 
any of his owne or succeeding 
times. The large estate he reapt 
profitable to many all her life, 
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by his happie industry, he did) 
many times over as freely resigne 
againe to the king’s service till 
he left the greatest part of itt at 
his death in the king’s hands. All 
his virtues wanted not the crowne 
of all vertue, piety and true de- 
votion to God. As his life was 
a continued exercise of faith and 
charity, it concluded with prayers 
and blessings, which were the on- 
ly consolations his desolate fame- 
ly could receive in his death. Ne- 
ver did any two better agree in 
maguanimity and bounty then he 
.and my mother, who seem’d to be 
acted by the same soule, so little 
did she grutch any of his libe- 
rallities to strangers, or he contra- 
dict any of her kindnesse to all her 
relations ; her house being a com- 
mon home to all of them, and a 
nursery to their children. He gave 
her a noble allowance of 300/. a 
yeare for her owne private expeuce, 
and had given her all her owne por- 
tion to dispose of how’ she pleas’d, 
as soone as she was married: which 
she suffer’d to encrease in her 
friend’s hands ; and what my fa- 
ther allow’d her she spent not in 
vanities, although she had what was 
rich and requisite upon occasions, 
but she lay’d most of it out in pious 
and charitable uses. Sr. Walter. 
Rawleigh and Mr. Ruthin being, 
prisoners in the Tower, and addic- 
ting themselves to chimistrie, she 
suffer’d them to,make their rare ex- 
periments at hercost, partly tocom- 
fort and divert the poore prisoners, 
and partly to gaine the knowledge 
of their experiments, and the medi- 
cines to helpe such poore people as 
were not able to seeke to phisitians. 
By these means she acquir’d a greate 
deale of skill, .which was very 
She 
was 
