In processe of time, her mistres was
summoned by death to appeare in the other world, and her good thewes,
no lesse then her seemely personage, so much contented her master,
that he aduanced her from a seruant to a wife, and left her a
wealthy widdow. Her second mariage befell with one Henry Gall:
her third and last, with Sir John Perciual, Lord Maior of London,
whom she also ouerliued. And to shew, that vertue as well bare a
part in the desert, as fortune in the meanes of her preferment,
she employed the whole residue of her life and last widdowhood,
to works no lesse bountifull, then charitable: namely, repayring of
high waies, building of bridges, endowing of maydens, relieuing of
prisoners, feeding and apparelling the poor, &c. Amongst the rest,
at this S. Mary Wike, she founded a Chauntery and free-schoole,
together with faire lodgings, for the Schoolemasters, schollers,
and officers, and added twenty pound of yeerely reuennue,
for supporting the incident charges: wherein as the bent of her
desire was holy, so God blessed the same with al wished successe:
for diuers the best Gent.
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