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Excerpt from English Churchwomen of the Seventeenth Century The notices in this volume commence with the period of the Great Rebellion. As an introduction to them, some account is here given of a family that belonged to the more peaceful times antecedent to that event. In 1624, the Ferrar fam ily, consisting of Mrs. Ferrar, Nicholas Ferrar, his sister, and all the ounger members of the family, retired rom the world to a devotional establishment. Mrs. Ferrar seems to have been admira bly adapted to assist and guide such an undertaking. In her youth she was de scribed as of great beauty, and of very modest deportment, using few words, but when she spoke, showing wisdom and eloquence beyond her sex and bringing up her children with great care and piety; and in her widowhood, at the age of seventy-three, when she entered so warmly into her son's views, she was possessed of so much vigour, and had so much of the appearance as well as the reality of health, that those who saw her concluded her not to be more than forty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.