Elisabeth Wast
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was a Scottish religious writer of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, whose account of her spiritual struggles was not published until after her death.
- BirthName: Elisabeth Wast
- Indexed: Elizabeth West; Elizabeth West of Durham
Biography
Birth and Background
was born in Edinburgh (one of at least two surviving children) at some unknown date. She says she had been practising an empty religion of good works for some Years before 1689, so even allowing for the early age at which religious experience might be measured, she can hardly have been born much later than 1670.
She was almost certainly, however, younger than the Elizabeth Wast who was born in Edinburgh on 2 November 1652, daughter of Alexander Wast. (That baby was the only one recorded with that form of the name FamilySearch as born in Scotland between 1650 and 1670.)