_Vices to be subdued_ _Virtues to be learned_ _Pride_ Sunday _Humility_ _Covetousness_ Monday _Contentation_ _Lust_ Tuesday _Chastity_ _Envy_ Wednesday _Charity_ _Gluttony_ Thursday _Temperance_ _Anger_ Friday _Patience_ _Sloth_ Saturday _Diligence_ All but nine of these books were written during Lady Halkett's twenty-eight years of widowhood when she had much leisure, but under any circumstances the task was a great one, and becomes the more amazing when we reflect upon it as really only a private recreation. To write so much with no urgency of fame or money shows some very strong inner demand for expression and a very facile pen. [Sidenote: "Legacies"] Another type of religious book goes back for its inspiration to Elizabeth Jocelyn's famous _Legacie_. One of Lady Halkett's books was _The Mother's Will to an Unborn Child_, written in 1656 before the birth of her daughter Elizabeth. Books of advice from parents to children to be read after the death of the parents were not uncommon. Elizabeth Sadler (1623-1690), the wife of the Reverend Anthony Walker, was an exceedingly devout woman whose literary instinct and a prevision of death led her to write a large book in octavo for the instruction of her two daughters. Two other books will sufficiently illustrate the type: _The Experiences of God's gracious dealing with Mrs. Elizabeth White, late wife of Mr. Tho. White of Caldecot in the County of Bucks; as they were written under her own hand, and found in her Closet after her decease: she dying in child-bed, December 5th, 1669_;[152] _The Legacie of a Dying Mother to her mourning children; being the Experiences of Mistress Susanna Bell, who died March 13, 1672. With an Epistle Dedicatory by Thomas Brookes, Minister of the Gospel_. [Sidenote: Rachel Wriothesley, Lady Russell (1636-1723)]