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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55345	The life of the right honourable and religious Lady Christian[a], late Countess Dowager of Devonshire	Pomfret, Thomas, d. 1705.	1685 (1685)	Wing P2799; ESTC R3342	19,382	111

agreeable Conversation of her Nephew the Earl of Ailesbury and his Countess For still she had a numerous Family and a Croud of Servants which now in her Age must have incircled her with as many Troubles also if by the Advice of her Neece the Countess of Ailesbury the Decency and Composure of her mind as well as Business had not been secured For her great Age had rendred her own Vertues something unactive but this was abundantly supplyed by such Methods and Guards of Prudence which she received from another hand by whose Care and Wisdom her Thoughts and Affairs were defended from a great many Vexaions and Hazards And the more our good Lady wanted the Assistance of a true and prudent Friend the more the Countess of Ailesbury considered her Duty and with the most generous Compassions in the lowest Declination of our Ladies strength and years increased her Attendance and by such Counsels as she had always ready in her Prudent mind and a wise observation of things made the last Scenes of her life more easie and honourable Before Death seized her it shewed it self at a distance and God was pleased so to order it that by some previous Infirmities as well as by a great Age she should be called upon to provide for her greatest Interest And she soon understood the Intent of Gods Providence and by Methods truly Christian prepared her self for Him Her last sickness though it continued for some time was entertained with great Patience and repeated Devotions with a perfect Resignation to Gods Will and all the Offices preparatory to an holy Dying but considering with her self that Charity was that only Grace which entred Heaven her Love to God became now more intense and operative nor could she even under her Pains forbear her usual Compassion and Bounties to the Poor but would often inquire of her Neece the Countess of Ailesbury whether there were none that wanted Relief and would by the hands of her Chaplain to the very last minutes of her Life continue the beloved Practices of Beneficence Her Servants had received many and those very great Instances of her Bounty but she could not leave them without a farewel Testimony and therefore besides the large Legacies left to them by Will she ordered a great sum to be given amongst them not long before her Death by the Countess of Ailesbury To whom our Lady thought her self so infinitely obliged that she beseeched her to make choice of her own Retributions which she would confirm by signing any Instrument which should be offered to her But the Countess had had her Reward before and would have no other than the inward satisfactions of mind arising from the Delights of doing well And now our good Lady was hastning to Heaven and being Crowned with many Years and Honours she went to receive that of Immortality in January 1674. The Noble Lord her Son took care that the solemnities of her lying in State and those also of her Funeral should correspond to the Magnificence of her living The Train which waited on her to her Burial was great and noble and besides her own Retinue which was more numerous than any other of her Quality her Nephew the Earl of Ailesbury his Eldest Son the Lord Bruce his second Son Mr. Robert Bruce whom for some years she had taken into her own Care and Family and Colonel Cook whom as a constant Friend to her self and her Relations she had made one of the Overseers of her Will did atttend her to Derby the Burial Place of the Earl of Devonshires Family where during her life she had Erected a Monument for her Lord Her self and Children One of them Colonel Charles Cavendish a Person of that Bravery and Worthiness that his very Ashes ought to be sacred was so Dear to his Mother that according to her desire his Corps were taken up at Newark and in another Herse waited that of his Beloved Mothers to Derby To both passing through Leicester were due Respects paid to their Memories the Magistrates of that Place attending in their Formalities the Gentry o the County also meeting there and waiting them out of Town The same Honourable Reception they had at Derby where they were both interred Her Funeral Sermon preached by Mr. Frampton Chaplain to the Earl of Elgin now Bishop of Glocester his by Mr. Naylor Chaplain to the Countess Never was a Woman more honoured through her whole life and at her death and by both she hath taught all Ladies That the surest Path to Honour is by Vertue And both for the Method and the Experiment we have not had of late a more pregnant Instance than this of our Noble Lady for by the Methods of Vertue she obtained the Reputation to be a Person of the greatest Character and Blessings Amongst which it was not the least in her own Account that she had such fair hopes that her Nobleness would descend and continue in her Son the Earl of Devonshire and her two Grandchildren the Lord William and the Lady Anne Cavendish He the young Lord appearing one of the finest Gentlemen in the World married to a Daughter of his Grace the Duke of Ormond a Lady of great Goodness and singular Charity She the Lady Anne Cavendish improving her youth to such early Vertues that she soon became Eminent for her extraordinary Modesty and most punctual Duty to her Parents married first to the Lord Rich Grandchild to the Earl of Warwick who dying left her a young Widow to make Fortunate the Lord Burleigh now Earl of Exeter her second Husband One thing more there was which she would say added infinitely to her Contentments to see that excellent and noblest Friendship between the Earl of Devonshire her Son and the Earl of Ailesbury her Nephew Which as it was one of the greatest Pleasures of her life so the continuance of it was one of her latest and most passionate Desires And such effect it had upon these two noble Lords that the Friendship which began at Relation and Acquaintance stayed not there but went forward to the best thing in all the World to the most particular Indearment and most usefull Love For seeing a Worthyness in each other which is the just and proper Motive for Friendship They united such Affections as were natural and vertuous made up of great Dearness and the bravest Combination of Councils and Fortunes and Interrests And it were well that when ever we enter into such a Friendship which we intend should be as indeed true Friendship is the Pleasure of Life and the Delight of Conversation that we would choose a Friend amongst the Prudent and the Generous the Secret and the Faithful the Ingenuous and the Honest for no other are fit or able to do those Offices for which Friendship is useful and excellent FINIS