Some things memorably considerable in the Conditions, Life and Death of the ever blessed and now eternally happy; M ris. ANNE BOWS.  
SHe was exceedingly humble and courteous: most loving and single-hearted: of gentlest and harmless conversation: sincerely obedient to parents: hearty and faithful in friendship: very bashful and highly modest: never bold even with inwardest familiars in any either word or act that she could imagine the least wise undecent: most unfeignedly and readily pliant to the mind and advice of whose privileges she held any relation unto: most grateful, just, and remunerable: an enemy from her childhood to Idleness, and so bestowing her time as not the meanest, but some of her exercises made beholding her: most singularly cleanly of hand and person: always touched with others harm, and no less a right sensible of their welfare: eminently temperate and abstinent: full of pity and endeavour of helpfulness: in the utmost of her passions (if most rarely any such were) instantly reduceable by whom she had in confidence: far from impatiency and bitterness of anger: ever most speedy in forgetting displeasure: of countenance & comportment most mildly expressing a right seasoned bosom: womanlike soft in ordinary fears, but unto a danger of face and importance most masculine and firm. Thus far is referrable to the excellency and sweetness of her natural disposition.  
For the Graces of God, and her spiritual gifts, she was for certain inwardly and ardently most religious: she was most frequent and assiduous in private devotion: most constant and cheerful in duties of piety: a severe judge of herself: a daily weeping and  penitent: never satisfied enough in the strength of her Faith, measure of Repentance, and sufficience of Charity: she bate a love, to the House, to the Ministers and the servants of God, most full of reverence: she never held herself no way so bound as wherein she conceived some furtherance to Heaven; her heart was so fixed above, as that even her dreams were often full of most heavenly inexpressible comfort, and it was very ordinary to hear her pray, and most joyously to sing whole Psalms in her sleep: her last sickness which was unspeakably full of torment, (by incessant sharpest headache) and wherein for at least 40. days her sleep was almost wholly taken from her, was so allayed with patience, that the trouble of it reached not to any least household interruption: and her prayer was continually, not for the lengthening of life or assuagement of pain, but that it would please God to preserve her understanding that she might still know to praise him to the end: never was heart nor tongue more full of truth, for the saving of life, (after her maturing in godliness) would not, I aver it, have cost her a lie: nothing was of more horror to her then backbitings and taxation of the absent: and it was a bad cause or worthless person that found not a relief from her when properer defence was out of place: it cannot be expressed what gladsome confidence she had in the Mercies of God, and how she clung with the arms of her soul upon her dear Saviour.  
Her care was so great to take trouble and sorrow from the friends about her, that she would never yield to the behaviours of sickness, but kept her foot to the last day. Being with her Brother and his wife invited the night seven-night before her death to sup with a worthy friend but a few steps from her own door, however her weakness was utterly extreme and manifest, her civility and gentleness yet carried her thither: and the next day being Sunday, and that she prepared to Church, but was besought by a servant of trust about her to have care to her health, which apparently was wasted to the last; no, saith she, shall I go but last night to the house of a friend to a supper, and shall I forbear this next morning to go to the house of my God to a sermon? good God forbidden it me: and yet her disablednesse was so great, that she well near swooned and fell down as she went, but would not for all that be entreated to turn back. The Monday following, her brother having called some friends to a dinner, where was Music, sport and divers Christmas solemnities; no Brother saith she (being still requested to favour herself, and though her presence were wished, that she would not yet uneasefully allow it) notwithstanding all these discordances to my present case, your company shall not want of any the regards I can yield to it; it is not the faintness of this body shall be able to detain me from doing observance, where you show affection, neither (you shall see) shall it be in the power of sickness to sullen my behaviour or to make me suspected of neglect with personages of such account to you: but through the whole course of the day (she still holding out with the best fitted semblances she could, even until 12 a clock midnight) it was easy to perceive both by the stolen moving of her eyes, and often withal, by the stirring of her lips, what other repasts her heart then fed upon. The third day before it pleased God to take her to his mercy, being early the morning in a little faint slumber, it seemed her that a white sheet or a large four square linen cloth, was let down to her by cords from heaven, the which moving and passing divers times before her eyes, vanished away: do you know saith she to her brother, (unto whom and her sister she presently came down a pair of stairs from her chamber, relating to them as abovesaid) what this should signify? yea saith she, smiling and nodding her head at him, do you know brother? & so rejoicingly she led herself into the magnifying of God's Mercies. Some friends coming to visit her not 3 hours before her departure, & beholding her as with pity of her plight and agony; Noah, saith she, do not so (with an emboldened and raised voice she delivered it) I would have you to know that I fear not death, it is long since God hath quite drawn my heart and mind from this world, and with that her speech failed. And it is true, that as she had many years before lost almost all delight and taste in worldly things, so now never flesh & bloodless feared death, or more comfortably embraced dissolution. Recovering her speech a little again, she bestowed it all in most holy ejaculations: and as the night before she had in a slumber with more than an ordinarily clear voice sung two staves of a Psalm; awaking with these words in her mouth, Lord now lettest thou thy servant departed in peace according to thy word, so the very same words about an hour before her passing were the last that she was heard to utter. When her sight was gone and all motion began to fail, there was suddenly by divers very sensible and discreet bystanders a flickering herd against the glass of the next window to her bed, as if it were the beating of little wings (nor otherwise could it be guessed or resembled) being yet then within night, when all things were quiet; at which very time, with two weak sneezings and without any sob or shrinking whatever, her soul and body took leave until their joyful meeting in a blessed Resurrection.  
This befell unto us the 2. of January being a Saturday, in the year of Grace 1640. and in the 41. year of her age▪  
Never Fleshless feared to die,  
Nor Soul fled more cheerfully.