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Jane Ratcliffe
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| Born | 1500s  |
| Died | 17 August 1638 London |
Jane Ratcliffe born Jane Brereton (died 1638) was an examplar of a godly life. John Ley published an account of her life as "A Patterne of Pietie".
Life
Her date of birth is unknown but her father died in 1599. She was the daughter of John Brerewood of Chester. Her brother Robert was born in 1588 and he became a judge and Sir Robert Brerewood. Her uncle, Edward Brerewood, was a professor at Gresham College.
John Ratcliffe's wife died in 1602. She married Ratcliffe married as his second wife.
In about 1610 her first child died and she turned to a leading clergyman Nicholas Byfield and from then led a godly life. Meanwhile, her husband was Mayor of Chester in 1611–12.
She died in London in 1638. In 1640 John Ley who was a clergyman and member of the Westminster Assembly published A Patterne of Pietie, or the Religious life and death of that grave and gracious Matron, Mrs. Jane Ratcliffe, Widow, and Citizen of Chester, 1640. It was addressed by Ley to Brilliana, Lady Harley and Alice, Lady Lucy.
