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Rev. Samuel HT/zi/ing. 53
nobility stamped by God himself upon every
truly Christian soul, the grandeur of the Puritan
faith, the earnest, passionate cry for religious
liberty with which its heroic apostles willingly
gave up the comforts, advantages, and honors
of their native land, and plunged bravely into
a storm of troubles, "for conscience' sake,"--
the touching eloquence with which they plead
for an honest government and a tolerant
Church, perhaps, also, a feeling of sympathy
with the persecuted but courageous clergy-
men, whose chivalric spirit she knew full well,
combined to overmaster her ancestral pride,
to quench her ambition, and to break the
charm of her English home. Her allegiance
may have been divided, but her heart went with
the Puritans. Whether she first became ac-
quainted with her husband while he was a men>
ber of the family of Sir Nathaniel Bacon, and
Sir Roger Townsend, in which he resided three
years before he was settled as a minister, or not
until after he had lost his first wife and two of
his three children by her, is not known ; but at
the age of twenty-four years, in the prime of life,