A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/English, Hester
ENGLISH, HESTER,
A Frenchwoman by extraction, was eminent for her fine chirography in the time of Queen Elizabeth and James the First. Many of her performances are still extant, both in public libraries and in the hands of individuals. She was thought the most exquisite scribe of her age. She married, at the age of forty, Mr. Bartholomew Kello, a North Briton, and had a son, who was educated at Oxford, and was minister of Speckshall, in Suffolk.