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Article THE LIFE OF MRS. ANNE AYSCOUGH, OR ASKEW. ← Page 2 of 5 →
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The Life Of Mrs. Anne Ayscough, Or Askew.
versed in it fluently and elegantly . It fhould seem that a learned edu , . cation was peculiarl y fashionable for females of rank in the reign of Henry . ' ' He was himself a _ learned prince , which ,, with the great care he took of the education of his children , renders it by no means surprizing . hat his court should abound in men of letters , or that there should be
so many ladies in England at that period versed in the learned tongues . ,. The lady who is the subject of the present memoir , had for her tutor a gentleman of the royal household , one Mr . John Lascelles , a secret favourer of the reformation . From him it is probable she received those princi ples of religion which occasioned her future troubles , and pro . cured her at last the crown of martyrdom and of fame . It is remark * able that both he and his amiable pupil suffered in the same fire .
The injustice and avarice of her father plunged her into the misery of an unhappy marriage . Hard necessity , the effect of paternal , tyranny , rivetted those iron bonds which pressed heavy upon her soul . Love li ghted not the fire upon the altar , and it is therefore not to be wondered at that such an union should end in a divorce . That zealous and faithful compiler Bishop Bale , who was her cotemporary , and , it should
seem , her acquaintance , thus relates this affair : " A match was " made , by the power of their parents , between Mr . Kyme his son in " Lincolnshire , and Sir William Ashcough his eldest daughter , who " chanced to die before the completing thereof . Sir William loath to * ' lose so rich an hpir , 311 d having paid part of her portion , compelled this Annehis second daughterto lher sister ' s laceand to
, , suppy p , marry " him against her own will and consent ; notwithstanding , the marriage " once past , she demeaned herself like a Christian wife , and bare him " two children . In process of time , by oft reading of the sacred Bible , " she clearl y fell from all papistry to a perfect belief in Jesus Christ . " Whereupon her hufband was so offended , that ( by the suggestion of " the priests ) he violently drove her out of his house ; and she . on
" this occasion , sought from the law a divorce ; and , because of his " cruel usage , would not return unto him again ; thinking herself " free from that uncomely kind of coacted marriage , b y the doctrine " of St . Paul : But if the unbelieving depart , 1 st him depart , A brother " " : or sister is not under bond infuch cafes : but God hath called us lo feace . " Such is Bale ' s account of her marriage and separation , as given us b y Fuller in his Church b
History , y way of refuting the slander of that virulent and lying writer Robert Parsons , who had " condemned her ¦ " for leaving her husband at home , and gadding to gospel and gossip " it at court . " One would suppose that the Jesuit's malignancy had ran away with his understanding , as a court at any time is not a very kkely place for a reliious to gospel inThat of Henry was far
g person . from being a desirable or safe situation for an enli ghtened Christian . . Prudence would have rather repelled such from a spot that was stained deepwith the blood both of papists and protestaitts _ the latter for their religion , and the former for their politics . The truth is she visited the court for tite purpose of obtaining- A divorce from hev brutal a , nd
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The Life Of Mrs. Anne Ayscough, Or Askew.
versed in it fluently and elegantly . It fhould seem that a learned edu , . cation was peculiarl y fashionable for females of rank in the reign of Henry . ' ' He was himself a _ learned prince , which ,, with the great care he took of the education of his children , renders it by no means surprizing . hat his court should abound in men of letters , or that there should be
so many ladies in England at that period versed in the learned tongues . ,. The lady who is the subject of the present memoir , had for her tutor a gentleman of the royal household , one Mr . John Lascelles , a secret favourer of the reformation . From him it is probable she received those princi ples of religion which occasioned her future troubles , and pro . cured her at last the crown of martyrdom and of fame . It is remark * able that both he and his amiable pupil suffered in the same fire .
The injustice and avarice of her father plunged her into the misery of an unhappy marriage . Hard necessity , the effect of paternal , tyranny , rivetted those iron bonds which pressed heavy upon her soul . Love li ghted not the fire upon the altar , and it is therefore not to be wondered at that such an union should end in a divorce . That zealous and faithful compiler Bishop Bale , who was her cotemporary , and , it should
seem , her acquaintance , thus relates this affair : " A match was " made , by the power of their parents , between Mr . Kyme his son in " Lincolnshire , and Sir William Ashcough his eldest daughter , who " chanced to die before the completing thereof . Sir William loath to * ' lose so rich an hpir , 311 d having paid part of her portion , compelled this Annehis second daughterto lher sister ' s laceand to
, , suppy p , marry " him against her own will and consent ; notwithstanding , the marriage " once past , she demeaned herself like a Christian wife , and bare him " two children . In process of time , by oft reading of the sacred Bible , " she clearl y fell from all papistry to a perfect belief in Jesus Christ . " Whereupon her hufband was so offended , that ( by the suggestion of " the priests ) he violently drove her out of his house ; and she . on
" this occasion , sought from the law a divorce ; and , because of his " cruel usage , would not return unto him again ; thinking herself " free from that uncomely kind of coacted marriage , b y the doctrine " of St . Paul : But if the unbelieving depart , 1 st him depart , A brother " " : or sister is not under bond infuch cafes : but God hath called us lo feace . " Such is Bale ' s account of her marriage and separation , as given us b y Fuller in his Church b
History , y way of refuting the slander of that virulent and lying writer Robert Parsons , who had " condemned her ¦ " for leaving her husband at home , and gadding to gospel and gossip " it at court . " One would suppose that the Jesuit's malignancy had ran away with his understanding , as a court at any time is not a very kkely place for a reliious to gospel inThat of Henry was far
g person . from being a desirable or safe situation for an enli ghtened Christian . . Prudence would have rather repelled such from a spot that was stained deepwith the blood both of papists and protestaitts _ the latter for their religion , and the former for their politics . The truth is she visited the court for tite purpose of obtaining- A divorce from hev brutal a , nd