"Wherefore vpon the very first view, I willingly not onely subscribed my _Approbat_ for the registring this _Will_, among the most publique Monuments, (the rather worthy, because proceeding from the weaker sex) but also, as bound to do right vnto knowne vertue, vndertooke the care of the publication thereof, my selfe hauing heretofore been no stranger to the Testators education and eminent vertues. Whereof, I here beheld reflection cleere enough, though perhaps not so particularly euident to those that take knowledge of them onely by this Abstract. "In her zealous affection to the holy Ministry, thereto dedicating, (if by sex capable) her yet scarce budding first fruits, I saw the lineaments of her owne parentage: Shee being the onely offspring deriued from a reuerend Grandfather, Doctor _Chaderton_, sometime Master of _Queens Colledge_ in _Cambridge_, and publique _Professor_ of _Diuinity_ in that _Vniuersitie_, afterward Lord _Bishop_, first of _Chester_, and thence of _Lincolne_: by and vnder whom shee was from her tender yeeres carefully nurtured, as in those accomplishments of knowledge in Languages, History, and some Arts, so principally in studies of piety. And thus _hauing from a childe knowne the holy Scriptures_, _which made her wise vnto saluation through faith in Christ_, _how well shee continued in those things_, _which shee had learned_,--[2 Tim. iii. 15, 16]--appeareth, as otherwise to those that knew her, so here to all by the frequent and pertinent application of them in these instructions. "In her prosecution of the duty of obedience vnto Parents, I view the deepe impression, long since, when shee was not aboue six yeeres old, made in her minde by the last words of her owne Mother, charging her vpon her blessing to shew all obedience and reuerence to her Father (Sir _Richard Brooke_) and to her reuerend Grandfather. "In the whole course of her pen, I obserue her piety and humility: these her lines scarce shewing one sparke of the elementary fire of her secular learning: this her candle being rather lighted from the lampe of the Sanctuary. "In her commission of the office of an _Ouerseer_ to her husband, what eies cannot behold the flames of her true and vnspoted loue toward her dearest, who enioyed her about the space of six yeeres and a halfe, being all that while both an impartiall witnesse of her vertues, and an happy partner of those blessings both transitory and spirituall, wherewith shee was endowed.