Lord John Egerton of Bridgewater

The Lady Elizabeth Viscountess Brackley, Daughter
and Heir of the Honorable JAMES Earl of MIDDLESEX, Wife to
the Right Honorable Sir JOHN EGERTON Knight of the HONORABLE
Order of the Bath Viscount Brackley Eldest Son and Heir apparent of
the Right Honorable JOHN Earl of BRIDGEWATER. She had
Borne one Son JOHN EGERTON who died in the Second
Year of his Age and one Daughter who dyed as soone as she was
Borne and both Lye interred together with their most excellent mother.
She was a Lady of a Noble Extraction and adorned with a Temper
of Mind equall to her Birth, her Person as Lovely as her Nature
having better provided for Her than Art for Otherwise Witt was
Quick and inocently Free without Affectation, her speech, whether
in the English or French tongue modestly Grave and gracefully Delightfull
She was an excellent Observer of wha* Noble or Vertuous Discreet or Pious
Civill or Obliging Her Closett the Privaye Chappell and Publique Church
did witness her Devout Decent and did by Discharge of her duty to Almighty
GOD Her constant and Passionate Affection to her Deare Husband (who
sorrowfully undergoes the great Affliction of her losse) placed her amongst the
Best of Wifes and her meeke and Affable Conversation whereby She was still most
esteemed by them that knew her best amonst the Best of Women
In the Morning of her Age, too bright to last long, She found even before
her Noone her Evening; for after a Short but Sharp Sickness
on Thursday the 3rd of March in her 22 Yeare in the Yeare of our Lord
GOD 1669 She Exchanged this Mortall Life for Immortality

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