But fhe was releafed from her fecond marriage by the death o f her
lulband, in 1650. After which the greatnefs of her mind burft out
I full and uninterrupted luftre. She re-built, or repaired fix of her
Stient cattles; fhe reftored feven churches, or chapels ; founded one
Wpital, and repaired another. She lived in vaft hofpitality at all her
failles by turns, on the beautiful motive of difpenfing her charity in
fetation,, among the poor of her vaft eftates. She travelled in a
lorfe-litter ; and often took new and bad roads from caftle to caftle,.
border to find out caufe of laying out money among the indigent,,
yemploying them in the repairs. The opulent alfo felt theeffedt
Jf her generofity, for ihe never fuffered any vifitors to go away with-
ut a prefent, ingenioufly contrived according to their quality
■he often fate in perfon as-iheriffefs of the county oiWefimoreland; at
length died, at the age of eighty-fix, in the year 1676, and was interred
It Appleby. Her great pofifeffions devolved to John Earl of Thanet,
po married Margaret, her eldeft daughter, by the Earl of Dorfet.
Here are four heads of this illuftrious Counteis, in the ftates
If childhood, youth, middle, and old age f . My print is take»
pm one refembling the laft in the gallery at Strawberry-HiU, which
peHon. Horace IValpole was fo obliging as to permit to be copied
In one of the rooms is a fi&itious.pi&ure of the fair Rofammd,
* Life o f Lord Keeper Nortby 141'.
t She fays in her d ia ry , that in 1619 , her pifture was drawn by Larking. She
Ntions alfo fome o f the amufements o f the time, fuch as Glecko, at which ihe loll
N- and Barley-break, at which Ihe played on the bowling-green at Buckburft.
t Mr. Walpole fhewed me a medal, with the head o f the Countefs, ex a fily
Mhnbling the piflure. On the reverfe is Religion, reprefented by a female figure,.
"Owned, and Handing. In one hand the B i b l e the left arm embraces a crofs-
than herfelf..
daughter
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