To clear the errours of thy misty sight.
So thy endeavours and God's grace conjoin'd,
Will towards perfection lead the willing mind.
"A. E."
This piece is the second in the collection, several of the other poems are signed with the author's name at full length: the last piece appears to be written under a presentiment of impending death; its heading is somewhat curious:
"February 15th [1763], past 2 in the morning. Going to bed very ill."
This leads me to inquire the date of her death. Should any further extracts from the MS. be deemed desirable, allow me to assure you that they are very much at your service.
W. SPARROW SIMPSON.
[From the epitaph on the tablet erected to the memory of Bishop Ellys in Gloucester Cathedral, we learn that "he married Anne, the eldest daughter of Sir Stephen Anderson of Eyworth, in the county of Bedford, Bart., whom he left, with only one daughter, to lament the common loss of one of the best of mankind." Kippis, in his Biog. Britain., adds, "The unfortunate marriage of Bishop Ellys's daughter, after his decease, and the subsequent derangement of her mind, would form a melancholy tale of domestic history.">[