Ex registro istius ecclesiae:—'Mris Katherine Philippes, the wife of James Philippes, was buried the 23 of June 1664 in the north ayle under the great stone with the brasen monyment'—the brasse is now lost.
She was when a child much against the bishops, and prayd to God to take them to him, but afterwards was reconciled to them. Prayed aloud, as the hypocriticall fashion then was, and was overheared—vide [=a] of T<homas> H<obbes> Civill Warres and Satyre against Hypocrites.
My cozen Montague <told me that she had a> read pumpled face; wrote out verses in innes, or mottos in windowes, in her table-booke.
[684]Memorandum:—La Solitude de St. Amant was englished by Mris Katherine Philips. 'Tis 20 stanzas—I thinke not yet printed—I had them from Elizabeth, the countesse of Thanet, 1672.
Quaere what shee wrote?
Poemes.
Pompey—tragedy.
She went into Ireland (after her mariage) with the lady Dungannon (whom she calles Lucatia); and at Dublin she wrote Pompey.
Her husband had a good estate, but bought Crowne landes; he mortgaged, etc. His brother Hector tooke off the mortgages and haz the lands.