From her cosen Blacket, who lived with her from her swadling cloutes to eight, and taught her to read:—She informes me viz.—when a child she was mighty apt to learne, and she assures me that she had read the Bible thorough before she was full four yeares old; she could have sayd I know not how many places of Scripture and chapters. She was a frequent hearer of sermons; had an excellent memory and could have brought away a sermon in her memory. Very good-natured; not at all high-minded; pretty fatt; not tall; reddish faced.
Quaere my cosen Montagu[685] when she began to make verses.—Quaere how many children she had.—Quaere her coat of arms, and her husband's.
Major-Generall Skippen[686] was her mother's third husband.
'She[687] lies interred under a gravestone with her father and grandfather and grandmother, just opposite to the dore of the new churchyard, about 3 yards distant'—quaere if from the doore or the opposite wal; and quaere if any inscription on her relations on the said stone.
She had only one daughter ... who is maried to ... Wgan esq. of Pembrokeshire or Caermarthenshire—quaere iterum her uncle Oxenbridge.
Thomas Pigot (1657-1686).
[688]Mr. Thomas Pigot was borne at Brindle, in Lancashire, about eleven a clock at night (sed quaere his brother Henry + de hoc)—from Mr. Pond.
[689]I have got Mr. Pigot's birth, as to the month and howre from his kinswoman who was at his mother's labour and recieved him in her lapp. If you are acquainted with his brother, desire him to give you the anno Domini.