, an English name for many ingenious persons of both sexes, and of
, an English name for many ingenious
persons of both sexes, and of the same family too. The
first we meet with, is Catharine, the daughter of sir Anthony Cooke, who was born at Giddy-hall, in Essex, about
1530; and married to Henry Killigrew, esq. a Cornish
gentleman of good abilities, who, for the service he did
his country in the quality of an ambassador, was knighted.
This lady having the advantages of an excellent education,
joined to an elegant natural genius, became, like many
other ladies her contemporaries, very learned. She understood the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin tongues, and was
famous for her skill in poetry; a small specimen of which
is preserved by sir John Harrington, in his notes to the
translation of “Ariosto;
” and by Fuller, in his “Worthies.
”