All the great folks hereabout have not failed to visit my cousin since her marriage; but I do think she is better pleased with some visits she hath had from poor widows and others who have been in times past relieved and comforted by her charities and kindness, the gratitude of these people affecting her unto tears.

Truly it may be said of her, as of Job: "When the ear heard her then it blessed her, and when the eye saw her it gave witness to her: because she delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon her; and she caused the widow's heart to sing for joy." (Here the diary ends somewhat abruptly.

It appears as if some of the last pages have been lost.

Appended to the manuscript I find a note, in another handwriting, signed "R.