A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Hopton, (Susan)

HOPTON (SUSAN), of the Family of the Hoptons, in Staffordshire, Wife of Richard Hopton, of Kingston, in Hereford, one of the Welsh Judges in the reigns of Charles II. and James II. Born 1627; died 1709, aged 82.

She, when very young, was induced by the of Turbeville, a Romish priest, to embrace his religion, but afterwards returned to the Protestant faith, and addressed a learned letter to him, in which she stated her reasons for doing so. She was extremely devout and charitable, devoting five days in every week to religious duties, and rising early, with other voluntary mortifications. A volume of her prose works on religious subjects were published, with a preface, containing an account of the author. She wrote and published also some religious poems.

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