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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60009	The illustrious history of women, or, A compendium of the many virtues that adorn the fair sex represented not only in lively and pathetical discourses grounded upon reason, but in sundry rare examples of virtuous love, piety, prudence, modesty, chastity, patience, hnmility [sic], temperance, conduct, constancy, and firmness of mind ... : with the prophesies and predictions of the Sybils ... : the whole work enrich'd and intermix'd with curious poetry and delicate fancie sutable to so charming a subject.	J. S. (John Shirley), fl. 1680-1702.	1686 (1686)	Wing S3508; ESTC R26238	56,658	194

her Hair that had till that 〈◊〉 cove●ed her Modesty when find●●● her labouring Soul upon the Wi●●● she Breath'd it forth in praise to 〈◊〉 Maker Acts and Mon. Go Pious Maid may your Exam●●● be Prais'd and admir'd to all posterity The Palm is hers nor can she mi●●● Crown Who for the sake of Christ her life 〈◊〉 down No Mixture Crown of Pearl of Gold and Cares Such as below an Earthly Monarch wares But a bright Diadem of Beaming Stars Agnes an Honourable young Virgin being accus'd of professing the Christian Religion and not denying it when Interogated by the Judge he threatned her with most Exquisit Torments unless she would Worship the Gods of the Heathens but Arm'd with a Christian Faith she told him she fear'd no Tortures as being willing to suffer all manner of Torments even Death it self for the sake of him that was able to raise her at the last day Well said the Judge though you value not the Pain yet I doubt not but you have a great esteem for your Virginity and Chastity and it is my intent to thrust you into the Stews if you refuse to Sacrifice to our Gods notwithstanding she persisted to inveigh against their pretended Deities using many Arguments to convince the Heathen of his Error which made several wicked Fellows urge him to put the Beautiful Virgin into their possession that they might use her at their discretion which occasioned her to tell them that Christ was not forgetful of those that are his neither would he leave her destitute of his help and assistance but would be always ready to protect and defend Modest and Chast Virgins and thereupon turning to the Judge she told him He might freely bath his Sword in her Blood but should no defile her Body She had no sooner utter'd these words but shameless as he was he commanded she should be bound stark Naked to a Post at a Corner of a street whereat the greatest part of the People being sorry and asham'd to behold an Innocent Virgin in the tender Bloom of her Age exposed to such Ignominy Some turn'd away their Heads and others hid their Faces as they pass'd by but one impudent Fellow Scoffing at the helpless Maid and Gazing on her Nakedness in derision was blasted with a flash of Lightning and thereby lost his sight upon which signal Judgment she Sung praise to god for remembring her in her distress of which the Judge having notice ordered the Executioner to dispatch her who coming towards her with his drawn Sword she was nothing daunted but on the contrary greatly rejoyc'd saying O this is he that I love and fain would meet and not longer to protract my desire I will willingly receive his Sword in my Bosome O Eternal God vouchsafe to open the Gates of Heaven to a Soul that seeketh thee and then Kneeling down as well as her confinement would permit she had her Head stricken off her Soul through that wide Wound ●inding a passage to Eternal Rest Celebrate her praises O ye Virtuous amongst the Nations and let not such Christian Examples enter into the Gloomy Region of Obliveon Nor less deserves the Memory of the Virtuous Eugena Daughter to Philippus President of Alexandria who died under the Heathen Persecution for the Sacred Profession by most Exquisit Torments but with a Courage out-facing the Terror of Death Acts and Mon c. A hundred more than these I could name but having promis'd Brevity I shall goe on to other Embellishments of the Sex And since Fame's Ensigne's thus far born unfurl'd Those Virtues tell that must oblige the World Your worthy Names shall next in order stand Who from Oblivion with a Giving hand Brought Charity the Glory of the Land Of Liberality In this case I shall Instance but two Examples of Female Liberality which stand as Monuments of that Sexes Generosity The most virtuous Lady the Lady Mary Ramsey once Wise to Sr. Thomas Ramsey joyning with him after his Death Asured in Land 243 pound p. Annum to Christs-Hospital that object of Charity and seminary of good Education to the uses following viz. To the Schoolmaster of Hempstead Annually twenty pounds to the Master and Usher of Christs-Church Annually twenty pounds to ten poor Widdows besides Apparel and Houses Annually twenty pounds to two Poor viz. a Man a Woman during life to each fifty-three Shillings and four Pence to two Fellows in Peter House in Cambridg and four Scholers yearly forty pounds to St. Bartholomews Hospital ten pounds to St. Peters the Poor in London St. Andrews Vndershaft St. Mary Wolnoth ten pounds to Newga●e Ludghte the Compters ten pounds to Christs Hospital after the Expiration of certain Leases there will come p. Annum one hundred and twenty pounds to six Scholars in Oxford twenty pounds to six Scholars in Cambridge twenty pounds to ten Maimed Soldiers twenty pounds for two Sermons two pounds to the Poor of Christ-Church Parish fifty Shillings to the Poor of the Company of Drapers yearly ten pounds ten Poor Womens Gouns ten Poor Soldiers Coats Shoos and Caps All these to continue Annually Willets Synops Papis p. 1229. Mrs. Alice Owen founded an Hospital and Free-School at Islington gave to the Vniversity Library at Oxford two hundred pounds Founded one Fellow-Ship and Scholar-Ship in Emanuel Coledg to Christs Hospital sixty pounds to give twelve Pence Weekly to the Poor of Islington sixty pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence she gave to Beautifie the Cloisters in Christs Hospital to a School-house at Edmonton twenty pounds to the Parish of Condover in Shrop-shire fifty pounds to buy a great Bell the Building of Alms-houses for ten poor Women and the purchasing the Lands lay'd to it cost her one thousand four hundred and fifteen pounds and the Building the Schools there three hundred sixty one pounds she gave likewise certain Annual Sums of Moneys to Preachers not Benificed and to the Prisons in her life time by her last Will twenty pounds yearly to Islington School to Preachers thirty five pounds to the Parish of Basishaw twenty pounds to the Prisons eight pound to the Company of Brewers in Linnen Plate and Money one hundred pounds the Sum Total of the Money not reconing the Annuity of twenty two pounds Amounts to about two thousand three hundred and twenty pounds a Charity Extraordinary in a private Gentlewoman yet this she did out of Christian Zeal to promote Learning and relieve the Poor though at her Death she had twenty two Children and Childrens Children for all which she plentifully provided Willet's Synops Papisme P. 1240. These great Examples who 'd but imitate Treasures lay'd up in Heaven 's a vast Estate A Mine that no profuseness can Exhaust And will repay ten thousand times the cost Of Humility Nor does Humility shine less bright even to a wonder in the Softer Sex Humility the Basts on which rest Those Blooming actions that must make us blest Great pattern of true worth which do's subdue The sternest

be as Capable of procuring themselves to be Register'd in the Book of Fame as those who stile themselves the Nobler Sex As for that the Composure of the Mortal hindring the Immortal part in performing it's office is a position frivelous and vain and makes more against those that object it than for them for it is often seen that in crooked and deform'd Bodies Wisdom chooses to dwell a Soul indued with more Knowledge perhaps than that which is found in a more stately fabrick of Flesh and Blood which Knowledge is wonderfully increased by Industry Study and Labour for although the Soul in it self being a spark of the Divine light is Immortal and a Spirit yet it is capable whilst on Earth of taking an Impression by Improvement though nothing can fully satisfie it but God from whom it proceeded and to whom it must return for its reward of good or evil The Body says the Wise-man returns to the Dust but the Spirit to God that gave it Aristotle was crooked and deformed yet the World has not since produced a man of so Universal a Genius so seen in all Arts and Sciences As for the coldness of Constitution that can be no hinderance for it has appear'd that men of colder Constitutions than many women have Exceeded the Capacities of the Sanguin and Cholerick What then may be the reason why it is plain Man having attain'd the upperhand in Rule and Power claiming it by Birth-right as first Created as much as in him lyes strives to keep that station as his prerogative by endeavouring to keep the Softer Sex in Ignorance and to Effect this he uses his utmost endeavours to possess her with a belief of her Incapacitie● hat she may not reach at things Sublime and by comprehending them know the largness of her Soul So the Egyptian Magi● to gain themselves the more esteem and be adored by the unthinking Vulgar had all their mistery in Hyroglyphicks dark resemblances which perhaps themselves scarce understood nor would they suffer any other Characters to pass for significations least the People by improvement in Learning might detect their falseties and grow Wiser than themselves So the Turk will suffer no Printing in his large Dominions least the greatest part whom he through Ignorance holds as in a Chain of Slavery Reading the Histories of other Lands should find how much they are Abus'd The Spaniards when they made a Conquest of the Golden Mines kept the knowledge of its value from the Native Indians that they might not strugle for it with an equal Covetousness This is the main reason why men decline to Celebrate the praises due to the Softer Sex and to let them know in General that their Souls have equal force their Wisdom nothing Inferior nor their Thoughts confin'd to narrower Limits than what comprehends the Soul of Man Through this thin Webb that would in vain obscure their Lustre many have broken contemning degenerate pleasures inglorious Sloath and Ease and choosing the better part by which they let men see they were no whit Inferior to them in what might render them accomplish'd and make them Blossom in the dust as in sundry rare Examples appears in the foregoing part of the Book Nor are all Women-kind less capable in some degree or other to improve those Golden opportunities that God has put into their hands Women as I have often said within the bounds of Virtue the Limit her Creator set is the most admirable Creature in the Universe a Creature so charming that we read the Sons of God beholding the Daughters of Men that they were fair did not disdaign to Espouse them from which happy Union mighty Hero's sprung Thus much may suffice to prove that there is an equality of the Soul and that it is Independent but on God who is it's Author and Instructor as for the Body it is evidently no less except as some will object it is made to suffer in case of Generation but that which they account a weakness whereby woman is render'd inferior to man proves her Glory and ought to be the chiefest Boast not only Nature but the God of Nature shewing wonders therein as an immediate signal of Almighty Favour his everlasting Covenant appears in this as Lively as when first he Blest our Parents in their happy Eden when affable and mild with Aspect Calme he Shone upon them in his Brightness and became their great Dictator e're his Brows were wrinkled with their disobedience e're his Adored Face chang'd into Terror too severe for Mortals to behold Thus Beautious Ladies who in Virtue strive To shame bold Vice and keep the World alive I have my Reason's to a Period brought Yet Writ no more than dwelt within my Thought Reasons that may induce you to improve Your Makers gift to gain your Makers love What Gallantry what Gory what Renown Beneath the Skies is worth a Starey-Crown Consider that Consider yet again If any Creatures Love you fain wou'd win Virtu'l Inamour the bright Cherubim Reasons drawn from the Immortality and wonderful Operation of the Soul more fully proving the Excellency of Woman-kind THe foregoing Considerations duly weighed and impartially consider'd may give the Unbias'd part of Man-kind a just reason to believe that that deserving Sex may justly claim an Equality in Wit and be as capable of attaining the profoundest Arts and Sciences as Man for it is not the Body but the Rational Soul Noble in its self as being a spark of the Divine Essence that center knowledge For as all Creatures Inferiour to Man-kind have their Life in their Blood as it is Testified in the seventeenth of Leviticus so the Life of Man and consequently of Woman consisteth in the Soul which although by reason of the gross Humidity of the Body is subject to sundry passions some more Nobl● than others yet it being Immorta● cannot in its self suffer change as being a part of the Divine Mind and Blast of Almighty Breath that distinguishes us from other Creatures and that every one Created in that Glorious Idea has a peculiar Soul seems to be apparent in respect of the may differences in Judgments and Opinions Manners and Affections though it is no less certain that itsprings from one and the same Fountain of Life and Immortality It has occasion'd sundry disputes amonst the Learned of all Ages in what part of the Body the Soul has its chief Residence some affirm it has its Throne or Regal Seat in the Region of the Heart others with the like confidence and more reason conclude its Principal Seat is in the Brain from whence proceed the Senses faculties and actions and by defusing it self in operation it enlivens every part with Heat and Force with Spiritual Essence with Supernatural Intelects and Understanding and more particularly it communicates its force to the Heart by Arteries Carotides and Sleepy Arteries the stopage or obstruction of which causes despondencies of Mind as I have declared in the foregoing Chapter and