Mrs. Eleanor James[158] was a writer on religious and political topics. No complete list of her works has ever been compiled. She gained publicity for her religious views by numerous single printed sheets between 1685 and 1715. John Dunton described her husband as being well known because he was an excellent printer, and "something the better known for being the husband of that she-state-politician, Mrs. Eleanor James." She is said to have constituted herself a sort of "adviser to reigning sovereigns" from Charles II to George I, whom she visited in turn for counsel and admonition. Her chief published works are on religious controversy. Her _Vindication of the Church of England_ (1687) created considerable antagonism. In answer to a satirical _Address of thanks to Mrs. James on behalf of the Church of England_ she wrote _Mrs. James's Defence_. A lady also appeared in the lists against her in a book entitled _Elizabeth Rowe's Short Answer to Eleanor James's Long Preamble or Vindication of the new Test_. Mrs. James's _Apology_ (1694) and her _Reasons humbly presented to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal_ (1715) complete the list of her more important publications. [Sidenote: Mrs. Newcome (fl. 1728)] Mrs. Newcome's _Enquiry into the Evidences of the Christian Religion_ was published in 1728. Mr. Bowyer says that she was by every one accounted a most excellent and worthy woman, and that her learning was attested by more than one volume. Mr. Grey mentioned her in his _Hudibras_ as "the very learned lady" who gave him the note about Penguins in Book I. Nichols quotes a Mr. "T. F." who says that she had great fame for learning, but adds cautiously: "All that I know of that matter is, that as often as I have been in company with her, and when things were thrown out designedly to tempt her to speak, and discover herself, as the armour produced to Achilles, it never took effect. So that I can not speak of her learning from my own knowledge; but if she was not that, she was something better, a very good woman."[159] [Sidenote: Catherine Trotter, Mrs. Cockburn (1679-1749)]