As a pioneer feminist, Elstob also writes at the end of the preface about women playing important roles in the history of various peoples' conversion to Christianity. She mentions Bertha, King Æthelberht of Kent's wife, as a key person in the Anglo-Saxon (Kentish) conversion to Christianity, while she regards Æthelburg, her sister and the second wife of King Edwin, as playing the same role in Northumbria. She takes some more examples from other countries, and concludes that 'It were endless to repeat all the Instances of illustrious Women, that might be enumerated, as contributing to the Advancement of Religion, in their several Ages', and continues that 'But we may content our selves with late, and domestick, Eaxmples, of two of the greatest Monarchs that the World has known: for Wisdom and Piety, and constant Success in their Affairs, QUEEN ELIZABETH, and ANNE QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN. And I think it some farther Apology for me, to the Ladies of Great Britain; that this is publish'd in the Reign of so highly Excellent a Lady: who, as She surpasses all her Royal Predecessors, in all noble and royal Accomplishments; so is She Peculiarly eminent, in being both an Example, and Encourager, of all Virtues, and laudable Qualities in those of Her Sex (pp. lix-lx).
The main body of the volume consists of the Old English text of the homily put side by side with its English translation, followed by a text of a Latin version. Several letters of Gregory the Great and notes to the homily are also added as appendices. The Old English text and English translation both begin with St Gregory's name, whose initial is printed in miniatures depicting St Gregory (at the beginning of the Old English text) and Elstob (at the beginning of the English translation).
My copy was owned by L. Langley in the nineteenth century, who probably left many neat inscriptions in it. L. Langley is most probably Larret Langley, an Anglo-Saxonist and the author of Principia Saxonica: An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Reading (London, 1839), which features Ælfric's homily on the 'birthday' of St Gregory the Great; he seems to have used this copy for his own book.
For more information about Elizabeth Elstob, see D. Douglas, English Scholars 1660-1730, 2nd, revised ed. (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1951), pp. 72-76. The homily is edited in Malcolm Godden, ed., Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: The Second Series, EETS ss 5 (London: OUP, 1979), pp. 72-80.