Mrs. Bendish is described by Mr. Say, a dissenting minister,
who knew her well,* and who drew her character in 1719,
while she was yet living, as "a person of great presence and
majesty, heroic courage, and indefatigable industry, and with
something in her countenance and manner that at once
attracts and commands respect the moment she appears in

' Say, after having been some years pastor of a dissenting congregation
at Ipsvdch, succeeded Br. Calamy in Westminster, in the year 1633. He
was married to a relative of Mr. Carter's, a wealthy merchant in Yarmouth,
who was married to Mary Fleetwood, daughter of ]\£rs. Bendish's mother
by.iier second husband Charles Fleetwood. He died April 12, 1743. ->
Doncombe in Hughes' Correspondencey voL i p. 19.
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