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    . 10 M^BOABET BEAXIFOBT. \

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    and pleasure full busily . " . j Beaufort The Lad Duke y Margaret of Somerset was , grandson only daug of hter the famous and heiress John : o of _$ Gaunt Jojin , , . .

    Duke of , Lancaster . He married Margaret Beauchamp , Jfche _jrieh she and brou lovely ht widow her first of Sir husband Oliver as St . heiress John of of Bletshpe . Sir John , which B _^ auch Iprdshi _ainpJ p _^

    In this old g ancestral mansion of Bletshoe , Margaret , _Beaufort w _; as bornin 1441 . . . ; : : V

    The , Duchess of Somerset watched over . the infant years _^ pf her ing Margaret little . daug But ' s who h mind ter were wi was th her doubtless tender preceptors solici imbibed tude in , worldl from and the y that learning _earnest mother we ' p s iet teach know y and of

    not Oliver . As St . she John was there broug is every ht up reason with her to su half ppo - s b _rothers that sh , John received

    _instriiction from , their tutor , and so her education far surpassed t of what t usua is lly deemed given to essential women in for that the age , other , and sex partook . To much x _3 ieck more the it had been made to

    men growth children ' s families of under Wycliffe were private ' usual s op 01 * inions l lay y th teachers e , resident ; so con that fesso this the rs , or tutors penal some have in _learned no been ble put

    it ecclesiastic is clear from that the no nei tuition ghborhood of any . However kind was lost may upon the Lady ,, have Margaret very said , before for she , was could thoug not xml ht much y read of and in write those well days , , which . but in _shie Latin , as was we

    life sufficient also she perfect was to follow mistress often heard the defici of Church French to ent regret she _Services and considered that . " with had she perfe had some her not ct education skill ease studie . In d to Latin hav after ,- '

    been more . her But natural howev abilities er were capable , of surmounting any . diffi e - culty , whilst her ardour in the pursuit of knowledge supplied the .

    rest tenacious . , She was gifted and with a rea singular dy wit . wisdom Her love even of as _study : a child must , a memory

    her indeed must hav have e been cost great , real , hard for the labor literary in those works days which when she . dictionarie left behind s '

    lexiconsand such like aids were , unknownoreven if they did , , her reachshe behindhand , , in the cul

    ture exist , of were feminine out of arts . There . Nor is in was the present day a carpet . in the - alliancesof the

    possession of her descendants , with the arms and ,

    . 10 M^Boabet Beaxifobt. \

    . 10 M _^ _BOABET BEAXIFOBT . \

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/10/