OF

HANNAH TAYLOR:

EXTRACTED

From her own Memorandums.

York:

PRINTED FOR W. ALEXANDER ;

SOLD ALSO BY

HARVEY AND DARTON, W. PHILLIPS, AND W. DARTON,

LONDON;

M. M. & E. WEBB, BRISTOL;

AND CHRISTOPHER BENTHAM, DUBLIN.

1820.

PREFACE.

THE reader is here presented with the Memoir of an individual, who, though not extensively known, was an example of Christian patience and fortitude, under a long and very painful continuance of domestic trials.

With that humility which a conviction of our frailties impresses on a mind, alive to the feelings of anxious solicitude, for the welfare

of the immortal soul, she viewed, with a jealous eye, the deviations from the direction of her Heavenly Guide; many of which, to those who were most conversant with her, passed unobserved.

She was a faithful and most affectionate wife; but her husband's occupation, in the seafaring line, and other circumstances, of