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Notes : — 



Lord King, the Sclaters, Dr. Kellet, &c. - - - 457 



Passage from Dover to Calais, by J. Lewelyn Curtis - 459 

 Popular Stories of the English Peasantry, Nos.II. and III. 459 

 Goldsmith's History of Mecklenburgh, by James Crossley 461 

 Folk Lore : — Eagles' Feathers — East Wind on Candle- 

 mas Day — Placing Snuff on a Corpse - - 462 

 On a Passage in King Henry IV., Part I., Act V. Sc. 2., 



by S. W. Singer 462 



Minor Notes :— Author of " Thirty days hath Septem- 

 ber " — "When found, make a note of" — The Dodo, 

 existing Specimen of — A Proof that a Man can be his 

 own Grandfather — Memoria Technica — Portrait of 

 George Fox — Lines on Crawfurd of Kilbirnie - 463 



Queries : — 



Where was Anne Boleyn buried ? - - - 464 



Tortoiseshell Tom Cats - - - - - 465 



Minor Queries : — Oasis — Ballad on Shakspeare — Dr. 

 Toby Matthew — Hart and Mohun — Burial without 

 Religious Service — Ganganelli's Bible — Wherland 

 Family — Flemish Proverb quoted by Chaucer — De- 

 rivation of the Word " Callis," an Almshouse — 

 Nashe's " Terrors of the Night " — Did Orientals 

 ever wear Spurs? — Badges of Noblemen in the Fif- 

 teenth Century — Sir Koger de Coverley — Lines on 

 Elizabeth — Twyford— Irish Titles of Honour: The 

 Knight of Keriy; The O'Conor Don: The O'Gor- 

 man Mahon — Sir Hobbard de Hoy — The Moon and 

 her Influences — St. Ulrich's, Augsburg^ The late 

 Mr. Miller of Craigentinny — Whipping Boys — 

 Edwards of Essex - ... - 465 



Minor Queries Answered : — Polynesian Languages — 

 Arms of Thompson — The Silent Woman — Review 

 of Hewett's Memoirs of Rustat — Robert Recorde — 

 Strange Opinions of great Divines — Inquisitiones Post 

 Mortem — Derivation of Carmarthen — " Mediaeval 

 and Middle Ages" — Garlands hung up in Churches 468 



Replies : — 



Ancient Timber Town-halls, by J. B . Whitborne - 470 



Old Sir Ralph Vernon - - - - - 471 



Old Trees : Fairlop Oak, by Shirley Hlbberd - - 471 



Taylor Family, by J. B. Whitborne • - .473 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Portrait of Mesmer 



Sleeveless — Barbarian — "O wearisome condition" 

 —The Meaning of " to be a Deacon " — Dr. Richard 

 Morton — Moravian Hymns — Junius Rumours — 

 Wyned — The Tradescants — Movable Organs and 

 Pulpits — Scologlandis and Scologi — St. Botolph — 

 Which are the Shadows ?— Nightingale and Thorn- 

 Groom of the Stole— The De Clares — Book of Jasher 

 — Chantrey's Sleeping Children — Daniel De Foe, &c. 473 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. - _ . . - 477 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 478 



Notices to Correspondents - - ■ - 478 



Advertisements --.... 479 



Vol. v. — No. 133. 



LORD KING, THE SCLATEBS, DB. KELLET, ETC. 



The Original Draught of the Primitive Church, 

 8vo. Lond. 1717, written in reply to An Inquiry 

 into the Constitution and Discipline of the Primitive 

 Church, by Mr. Peter King, afterwards Lord 

 Chancellor [from 1725 to 1733], and Baron King 

 of Ockbam, is usually attributed to Mr. William 

 Sclater. Respecting this writer, whose work at- 

 tained and has preserved considerable celebrity, 

 and respecting others of his name, I forward some 

 Notes which I have met with, and beg anxiously 

 to solicit others from your correspondents. 



In Lathbury's History of the Nonjurors, cap. vii. 

 p. 303., he is thus mentioned : 



" Sclater at length stepped forth [to reply to King's 

 Iriquiry], and it is said that King was not only con- 

 vinced by his arguments, but that he made him an 

 offer of a living in the Church of England. Sclater 

 was a nonjuring clergyman ; consequently he could 

 not accept preferment in the Anglican Church, which 

 involved the taking the oath of allegiance. All the 

 arguments in King's book were considered with the 

 greatest candour and ability. The author was a man 

 of singular modesty, of unaffected piety, and of un- 

 common learning, of which this work affords abundant 

 evidence." 



Dr. Hinds, the present Bishop of Norwich, in 

 his History of the Rise and early Progress of Chris- 

 tianity, Preface, page xv., 1st edit., thus speaks : 



" Lord King wrote his once celebrated Inquiry in an 

 honest and candid spirit, as the result testifies ; but his 

 research was partial, and led him to adopt the congre- 

 gational principle of the Independents. In Mr. Scla- 

 ter's reply, principles scarcely less erroneous may be 

 pointed out ; yet, as far as the controversy went, he was 

 right, and his opponent, by an act of candour perhaps 

 unexampled, acknowledged himself convinced, and 

 gave Sclater preferment for his victory." 



Lord Campbell, however, in his Lives of the 

 Chancellors, vol. iv. p. 369., discredits the idea of 

 this conversion. He says : 



" This work [the Inquiry'] made a great sensation, 

 passed through several editions, and called forth many 

 learned and able answers, particularly one by a non- 

 juring clergyman of the name of Sclater, which is said 

 (/ believe without authority) even to have made a con- 

 vert of King himself." 



