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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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ton, Justice of North Wales, called by Sir John Wynne, 

 in the History of the Gwedir Family, " the chief anti- 

 quary of England." 



6. Mr. Leigh, probably James Leigh, author of 

 several tracts on heraldry, preserved in Hearne's Curious 

 Discoveries. 



7. Mr. Bourgchier. Query, Sir Henry Bouchier, 

 afterwards Earl of Bett? or Thomas Bouchier, the 

 learned Roman Catholic divine, who died at Rome 

 about 1586 ? 



8. Mr. Broughton the Preacher. Could this be the 

 learned divine Hugh Broughton, author of The Consent 

 of Scriptures, born in 1549, ob. 1612 ? 



9. Joseph Holland, a native of Devonshire, an ex- 

 cellent herald, genealogist, and antiquary, of the Inner 

 Temple, living in 1617. 



10. Mr. Gartier. Sir Gilbert Dethick, Knight of 

 the Gaiter, Principal King-at- Arms, who was well 

 skilled in antiquities, is perhaps intended. He died in 

 1584, at eiglity-one. Or more probably his son and 

 successor. Sir William Dethick, Knight, who was one 

 of a select number of antiquaries who entered into a 

 society in 1593 (the cradle of the present Society of 

 Antiquaries). Sir William died in 1612. 



11. Sir Robert Cotton, the founder of the Cottonian 

 Library, died in 1631. 



12. Francis Thynne, Esq., Lancaster Herald, died 

 1608. " An excellent antiquary, and a gentleman 

 painful and well deserving of his office whilst he lived." 

 ( Camden. ) 



13. John Stow, author of J7ie Chronicles of Enyland 

 and The Surneij of London ; died in 1605. 



14. — Combes. Query, Thomas Combe, author 

 of a Book of Emblems, reg. Eliz. 



15. — Lloyd, Humphry Lluyd or Lloyd, "a most 

 noted antiquary, and person of great skill and know- 

 ledge in British affairs," ob. 1570. ( Wood.) 



16. Mr. James Strangeman, of Hedley Castle, 

 Essex, cited by Salmon as an Essex antiquary. 

 ( Gough. ) 



17. The learned Sir Henry Spelman died in 1641. 



18. Arthur Gregory, ancestor of the present Arthur 

 Gregory, of Styvichall in the county of Warwick, 

 Esq., who possesses some valuable MS. collections of 

 his ancestor. 



19. Anthony Cliffe. In Burke's Dictionary of the 

 Landed Gentry, a person of these names is mentioned 

 as of the city of Westminster in the Elizabethan 

 period, ancestor of the present family of Cliffe of 

 Bellevue, co. Wexford. 



20. Thomas Talbot, " an excellent genealogist, and 

 well skilled in the antiquities of his country." Vide 

 Wood's Athena, ed. Bliss, i. 265. 



21. Arthur Goiding ; the same, I suppose, who 

 finished the translation of a work concerning The True- 

 ness of Christian Religion against Atheists, ^c, began bv 

 Sir Philip Sidney, and also published other trans- 

 lations. ( Wood and Gough. ) 



22. Arthur Agard, styled by Camden "antiquarius 

 insignis." He died in 1615. 



23. William Camden, born 1551, ob. 1623. 



24. Mercury Patten, Blue-mantle Pursuivant-at- 

 Arms, had been patronised by Lord Burleigh ; was 

 living in the second year of James I. 



25. Samson Erdeswike, the historian of Stafford- 

 shire, died in 1603. " A very great lover and diligent 

 searcher of venerable antiquity." ( Camden.) 



26. — Josseline, secretary to Archbishop Parker, 

 was the author of a short account of Corpus Christi or 

 Ben'et College, Cambridge, to the year 1569. ( Gough.) 



27. Henry Sacheverell, of Ratcliffe-on-Sore, in the 

 county of Nottingham, Esq. ? 



28. William Nettleton de Knocesborough ? 



29. John Feme, author of the Blazon of Gentry, died' 

 about 1610. He was knighted by James J. 



30. Robert Bele, secretary to the embassy of Sir 

 Francis Walsingham at Paris in 1571, Clerk of the 

 Privy Council, &c. ; ob. 1601. 



31. Sir John Savile, of the Middle Temple, elder 

 brother of Sir Henry Savile, died in 1606-7. He was 

 one of the Barons of the Exchequer. 



32. Daniel Rogers, "excellently well learned; one 

 that was especially beloved by the famous antiquary 

 and historian W. Camden;" ob. 1590. (Wood.) 



33. Thomas Savile, younger brother to Sir Henry,. 

 called by Camden '• his right learned friend," ob. 1592. 



34. Henry Savile. There were two Henry Saviles,. 

 who may either of them be intended ; Sir Henry Savile, 

 Provost of Eton, who died in 1621-2, or his kinsman 

 of the same names, an eminent scholar in heraldry and 

 antiquities, and other branches of literature. He died 

 in 1617. 



35. Roger Keymls. See MSS. Harleian, 5803. and 

 16,1 20. , for two of his heraldical collections. The former 

 is dated anno 1609. 



36. John Gwillim, gent., the well-known herald, 

 ob. 1621. 



37. Dr. Jolm Dee, the celebrated philosopher of 

 Mortlake, died in 1608. 



38. — Heneage. Query, Sir Thomas Heneage, 

 Knight? 



39. Richard Scarlet, citizen and painter stainer, of 

 London, temp. Eliz., took some good notes of Christ 

 Church, Canterbury ( Gough), and was the author of 

 some heraldical collections now in the British Museum^ 

 {MSS. i/arZ. 2021.) 



40. — Woodhall. 



41. — Dent de Banco Regis. 



42. William Bowyer, author of A perfecte KeUender 

 of all the liecordes remayninge in the office of Recordes at 

 the Towere of Londone. (MS. Harl. 94. 4.) 



43. Robert Hare, son of Sir Nicholas Hare, Master 

 of the Rolls, 1553, of Caius College, Cambridge, col- 

 lected the charters and privileges of the University in 

 three volumes, with a fourth of those relating to the- 

 town only. (Gough.) 



44. — Harrison, schoolmaster. Jolm Harrison, phy- 

 sician, and Ficar of Grantchester, about the middle of 

 the sixteenth century, was a great historian; many of 

 his MS. collections relative to the University of Cam- 

 bridge still remain. (Gough.) 



45. — Harrison, minister. William Harrison, author 

 of " Historical Description of the Island of Britain,"" 

 prefixed to Holinshed's Chronicles, living in 1587, is,. 

 I suppose, intended. 



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