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CERDA, (BERNARDA DE LA) a Portugueze Lady, who flourished at the Beginning of the seventeenth Century, and was celebrated by all the Spanish and Portugueze Academies.

She spoke many languages with facility, understood rhetoric, philosophy, and mathematics, and wrote well in prose and verse. Her present works consist of a Poetical Selection, a Volume of Comedies, &c.

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CERETI, or CERETA, (LAURA) a Professor of Philosophy; born at Brescia, in Italy, 1469,

Of great reputation, has left a collection of letters, which are much admired.

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CERVATON, (ANNE) a Spanish Lady, Daughter of Germana de Foix, Mistress of Ferdinand V. King of Spain;

To the most exquisite beauty, added a fine and cultivated taste. She spoke her own language with elegance and correctness, and, at the same time, wrote and spoke Latin with the same facility. Some of her letters in this language are still extant.

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CHANDLER, (MARY); born at Malmsbury, in Wiltshire, in the Year 1687; died 1745.

Her father was a dissenting Minister at Bath, whose circumstances made it necessary that she should be

brought