"Consolations of Philosophy," Sallust's "Jugurthan War," and part of Horace's "Art of Poetry." On her departure from Oxford and Cambridge (which seats of learning Queen Elizabeth visited in state), she expressed her satisfaction to each in a Latin Oration, and her liberality and countenance were the means of producing many illustrious characters in both of the Universities.-See Birch's Hist. of Queen Elizabeth-Wood's Hist. and Antiq. Mis. Oxon. Lib. i. p. 289.-Fuller's Hist. Cambridge.

NOTE G G.

ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF BOHEMIA.

(See p. 112.)

This amiable princess was united to Frederick Count Palatine of the Rhine, afterwards King of Bohemia. Her magnanimity and greatness of mind were fully proved in the misfortunes which marked her eventful career; and her superior intellectual powers are attested by the eminence of her children.

So engaging was her behaviour, that she was in the Low Countries, called "The Queen of Hearts." From her are descended the illustrious line which

now sway the sceptre of these realms; Sophia, her youngest daughter,-characterized as the most accomplished lady in Europe, being mother to George the First, of the Protestant House of Hanover, to whom, by virtue of the Act of Settlement, the Crown of England passed on the decease of Queen Anne.

NOTE H H.

LADY PAKINGTON.

(See p. 113.)

"This most excellent lady, daughter of Lord Coventry, the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and wife of Sir John Pakington, was well known, and celebrated by the best and most learned divines of her time; yet hardly any pen will be thought capable of adding to the reputation her own hath procured to her, as the author of a work which is not more an honour to the writer than an universal benefit to mankind."-Ballard's Memoirs, p. 227.

NOTE II.

MRS. PHILLIPS.

(See p. 120.)

The singularly estimable character of this lady, whose maiden name was Fowler, and who was married about the year 1647, to James Phillips, Esq. of the Priory, Cardigan, may be best estimated by her friendship with Jeremy Taylor, the amiable Bishop Down and Connor; and by the elevated virtues as a wife, and a mother, and rare accomplishments as a woman to which he alludes in a letter printed in his "Polemical and Moral Discourses."

NOTE KK.

LADY RACHEL RUSSELL.

(See p. 122.)

"I ask no assistance," said Lord William Russell to the Attorney-general, when placed on his trial, "but that of the lady who sits by me." At these words the spectators turning their eyes on the daughter of the virtuous Southampton, who rose to assist her husband in his distress, melted into tears.

This illustrious and heroic lady was distinguished by the respect and friendship of Bishops Tillotson, Burnet, and the first persons of the age, in rank, literature, or goodness.-Hume's Hist. England.

NOTE LL.

QUEEN MARY, CONSORT OF WILLIAM THE THIRD.

(See p. 123.)

"Queen Mary was the most universally lamented Princess, and deserved the best to be so, of any in our age or in our history. The female part of the court had been in former reigns subject to much censure, and there was great cause for it; but she freed her court so entirely from all suspicion, that there was not so much as a colour for discourses of that sort."-Burnet's Own Times, vol. iv. p. 195.

NOTE M M.

MRS. ELIZABETH BURNETT.

(See p. 123.)

The Bishops of Oxford, Worcester, Durham, and several other learned and eminent divines have

left testimonials in their writings of this lady's extraordinary merit, and great learning: the number educated solely at her expense in and about Worcester and Salisbury were about an hundred.Ballard's Memoirs, p. 279.

NOTE N N.

CHARACTER OF ENGLISH LADIES DURING THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE.

(See p. 124.)

"We are in doubt which most to admire in the women of this reign,-the manners, the talents, or the accomplishments. They were religious without severity and without enthusiasm; they were learned without pedantry; they were intelligent and attractive, without neglecting the duties of their sex; they were elegant and entertaining without levity; in a word, they joined the graces of society to the knowledge of letters, and the virtues of domestic life, they were friends and companions, without ceasing to be wives and mothers."-Russell on Women, vol. ii. p. 151.