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whose only ones are now Mr Whitaker,Mrs Lefroy, Mrs Knight & myself, who wasabandoned by her son, confined by her Cousin,Abused, reproached & vilified by all, whatmust not her most noble Mind have suf==fered when informed that Elizabethhad given orders for her Death! Yet she bore it with a most unshaken fortitude;firm in mher1Mind; Constant in her Re--ligion; & prepared herself to meet the cruel fate to which she was doomed,with a magnanimity that couldd2 aloneproceed from conscious Innocence. AndYet could you Reader have beleived itpoſsible that some hardened & zealous Protestants have even abused her for that

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'h' written over 'm' (for 'mind').Back to context...
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'd' reinscribed.Back to context...
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