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for many years. Some of them she has particularly described, and the exact annals of divers passages which were most remarkable in her own life, ever since it was wholly at her own disposal, that is, since the death of her last lord and husband, Philip, earl of Pembroke, which was for the space of six or seven and twenty years.'

Thus did this great and excellent lady employ her time in good and useful works of various kinds, till she arrived at the age of 85, when she resigned her soul into the hands of her Creator, in the castle at Brougham, 1575–6, and was buried at Appleby, in Westmoreland.

Female Worthies.



PENNINGTON (LADY),

Author of The Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her absent Daughters.




PERILLA, a Roman Lady, in the Time of Augustus,

Was in general esteem for her learning and virtue, especially for her poetical abilities, for which she was celebrated by Ovid, whose scholar, as the seventh elegy of his Tristia, of which she is the subject, sufficiently proves.




PERPETUA (VIVIA), a Martyr, under the Persecution of Severus, in 203 or 205.

A lady of quality, at Carthage, who at the time she was accused, was about twenty-two years of age; married, and had an infant son, which she nursed her-

self.