Note 459 — Chapter XV

These notices are taken from Dr. Gibbons Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women. We have purposely retained some forms of phraseology which are employed in the original narrative. It would be easy to add to these illustrations. Some interesting ones are given in Pattison's Rise and Progress of Religious Life in England, chap. xii. See also Tomkin's Piety Promoted. Even amongst the Fifth Monarchy men there were instances of genuine piety; nor do we doubt that the persecuted Roman Catholics furnished examples of devotion and beneficence.