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became a great friend of Sir John Pakington, who 

 married Lady Dorothy Coventry, the fifth daughter 

 of Thomas Coventry, Lord Keeper of the Great 

 Seal, who was elevated to the peerage by the title of 

 Baron Coventry of Aylesborough, county Worcester, 

 in 1628. She was known by the name of "The 

 good Lady Pakington," and has been credited with 

 being the authoress of Tlie Whole Duty of Man. 

 Although many others have had the work attributed 

 to them (in the Bodleian Catalogue, in Oxford, the 

 book is ascribed to Richard AUestree), it seems 

 quite likely that she may have been the real 

 authoress of the work, having the help of Bishop 

 Morley, Bishop Henchman, Dr Fell and Hammond 

 possibly as well, over it. Hammond gave Isaac 

 Barrow sufficient aid to enable him to study at Cam- 

 bridge and lived to see his bounty rewarded in the 

 early eminence of his protege; whilst Barrow lived 

 to testify his gratitude in a copious Latin epitaph. 

 During the Civil Wars, Hammond, with other learned 

 men, found Westwood, in Worcestershire, a refuge 

 place, where he wrote many of his books. Hallam, 

 in his Literary History, says : *' The Paraphrase and 

 Annotations of Hammond on the New Testament 

 give a different colour to the Epistles of St Paul 

 from that which they display in the hands of Beza 

 and the other theologians of the sixteenth 

 century. And the name of Hammond stood so 

 high with the Anglican clergy, that he naturally 



