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MEMOIR

OF THE

Life, Travels,

AND

RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE,

OF

MARTHA ROUTH,

Written by herself,

OR

Compiled from her own Tarrative.

York:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY W. ALEXANDER AND SON,
SOLD ALSO BY

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

LONDON.

M. M. AND E. WEBB, "RISTOL; AND C. BENTHAM, DUBLIN.

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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF FRIENDS LIBRARY

PHILADELPHIA

FEB 12 1935.

INTRODUCTION.

IN revising the following Memoir, the Editor has been solicitous, not to omit any

thing that was likely to be instructive to such as may be the general class of its readers. As, however, the Author wrote professedly under impressions, which would naturally lead her into subjects, adapted only to the perusal of intimate friends, so it is easy to conceive, that much which might be calculated for their perusal, is not adapted for a Memoir, to be presented to public view.

Hence the omissions are considerable, and of other parts only a summary has been given; but alterations, in what remains in

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her own language, have rarely, if ever, been made, except dividing the account into Sections, with a short head to each, and such slight corrections, as an editor must almost invariably find needful, in preparing a work for the press.

The Memoir was commenced in the seventy-first year of her age.

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