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THE

LIFE

OF

DARCY, LADY MAXWELL,

OF POLLOCK;

LATE OF EDINBURGH;

COMPILED FROM HER

Diary and Correspondence,

AND FROM OTHER

AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS.

BY THE

REV. JOHN LANCASTER.

SECOND EDITION.

"My own heart has been so much edified, and animated, by what I have read
in the Memoirs of persons who have been eminent for wisdom and piety, that I
cannot but wish the treasure may be more increased; and I would hope that the
world may gather the like valuable fruits from the LIFE I am now attempting."
DODDRIDGE.-Life of Colonel Gardiner.
"Whose FAITH follow, considering the end of their conversation."

PAUL.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY

J. KERSHAW, 14, CITY ROAD, AND 66, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1826.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY J. S. HUGHES, 65, PATERNOSTER ROW,

PREFACE.

ELEVEN years have nearly elapsed, since the pious Writer of the following papers exchanged mortality for life eternal. It was generally known by her intimate friends, that she had left a record of the gracious dealings of God towards her; and it was hoped, that this record would soon be given to the religious world. These hopes, however, were for a season disappointed. Lady MAXWELL had intrusted her papers to the care of the Honourable Miss NAPIER, with a solemn injunction, that after her Ladyship's decease, they should be transmitted to one of the Wesleyan Ministers: but she neither specified the individual, nor fixed on the period when this obligation should be discharged. Thus, a liberty was allowed for choice and discretion; and a delay, in delivering up the Manuscripts, was the consequence. The feelings, also, were deeply

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