The female instructor, or Young woman's companion : being a guide to all the accomplishments which adorn the female character, either as a useful member of society - a pleasing and instructive companion, or a respectable mother of a family. With many pleasing examples of illustrious females. To which are added, useful medicinal receipts, and a concise system of cookery, with other valuable information in the different branches of domestic economy.

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[1812]
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Credit: The female instructor, or Young woman's companion : being a guide to all the accomplishments which adorn the female character, either as a useful member of society - a pleasing and instructive companion, or a respectable mother of a family. With many pleasing examples of illustrious females. To which are added, useful medicinal receipts, and a concise system of cookery, with other valuable information in the different branches of domestic economy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and station. Sir Thomas Chaloner, who was cotemporary with her, particularly says, that she was well skilled in instrumental music; wrote a tine hand; and excelled in the performances of the needle. She early imbibed the principles of the Protestant religion ; which she embraced, as a learned writer observes, not from outward compliance with the current of the times, but because her excellent judgment had been fully satisfied of their truth and purity. Bishop Burnet says, that he possessed copies, from the originals in her own hand, of two Latin letters which she w rote to Bullinger, in a pure and unaffected style. She was then entering on the study of the Hebrew language, in the method that Bullinger recommended to her. She expresses in these letters high respect for him, great modesty, and a singular ?eal for religion. Some weeks previous to king Edward’s death, this excellent lady married lord Guilford Dudley, the fourth son of the duke of Northumberland; and at the same time, her sister, lady Catharine Grey,' married lord Herbert, the eldest sort of the earl of Pem- broke. The illustrious descent, and still more illustrious merit, of lady Jane, gave full scope to the intriguing spirit, and ambitious views, of the duke of Northumberland. He artfully represented to the young king, that his two sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, had each of them been declared illegitimate by an act of parliament, during the late king’s reign; that the queen of Scots was excluded from the succession by Henry’s will; that the certain consequence of the lady Mary’s accession to the throne, would be the repeal of the laws enacted in favour of the Reformation, and the re-establish- ment of the usurpations and idolatry of the church of Rome; that when these three princesses were excluded, the succession devolved on the duchess of Suffolk; and that she was willing to resign her right, to her eldest daughter, lady Jane, whose virtues and ac- ■ complislnnents rendered her, highly worthy of a crown. These, and many other specious reasonings, all tending to the same point, produced a strong impression on the mind of the young prince. His zealous attachment to the Protestant religion, made him deeply sensible of the fatal consequences that would most probably ensue, if so bigoted a Roman Catholic as his sister Mary should succeed to the throne. And, though he bore a tender affection to his sister Elizabeth, who was liable to no such objection, means were found to persuade him, that he could not exclude the one sister, on account of illegitimacy, without giving an exclusion to the other also. > N The languishing state of the king’s health, and the prospect of his approaching dissolution, made Northumberland the more in- tent on the execution of his scheme. And, at length, by various artifices, he prevailed on the young prince to give his final consent to the projected settlement. Letters patent were draw n up to that effect, which the judges and privy counsellors were induced to sign: