a wise woman. and knew welenough what she did. yet she wanted not her adversaries who scoffed at her. and foolishly set me to distrube her and my sister . for which I crie thee mercy my God: Now my par=ents carried themselves thus wisely towards us there Children. that I never could heare them say which they loved best. but \the most/ many times they favoured us according as wee deserved: somtimes whissperings of servants would dejecte us (besides our owne sirmises) talking which were loved best, it was not my policy to please my mother to get my sister out of favour but \rather/* because I feared by some servants speeches I and my brother and Sister that we should not be 'that' deleted before 'her'. therefore//with her// I though to make my selfe sure with pleasing of her, I remember one deepe point wherewith my mother was troubled (as many are) touching predestination. \or/ falling* away from grace, Now she was fully resoulved by a Sermon booke, (which Mrs Nicolls sent her) called the Saints conjunction with God and support in troubles , made by Mr John Randall Bachelor of Divinitie, who was troubled in the like kind and fully resolved himselfe before he died. he writ upon the 8 to the Romanes vers 38.39. How nothing shall separate \us/ from the love of God which in Christ Jesus our Lord;

My mother now having more peace of mind, would often used to send also she sent for her maids to work by her. who span lennin when their househelde call upon my Aunt Isham to talke (I suppose to put other things out of her mind) whereupon they many times related things done in there youth my mother being brought up in her father Docter Le\o/wens house at Otterden in Kent but was borne within the suburbes of London; and my Aunt lived bordering neare * // being a Suffer woman those parts, Now my mother related not her owne gifts but thine my God in her, for neyther did she give birth, nor education unto her selfe: she being very little lived at a house called Hollowell. where she had a roome to play in which seemed to be som old superstitious place. a stone (as I take it) she said fell from above which she narowly scaped, and afterwards \kneeled/* downe and gave thanks to thee my God. after this she lived at Otterden where her father died. she being 8 yeeres of age, and her mother not long after \at/ the 12 yeere of her age, so = her uncle Luther and her sisters for she was the youngest, she was left to an Uncle=, who lived at Mitses in Kent a pleasent place which she often mentioned and confessing that when her father and her mother forsooke the Lord tooke her up. (thee and provided the best (I assure my selfe) for her, for she lived with "as I knewmore true con=tant then any of her kindred. though they had wealth enough, \moreover/* in her writingshe \now/ confessed thou Lord hadest given her, great heavenly joy in her chefest worldly comfort;