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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 135. 



<;ation may serve to elicit what he has long sought 

 ,.4o trace. The armorial bearings of both families 

 {originally affixed to the monument) have been 

 effaced. 



He would be glad also to be referred to any 

 documents tending to throw light on the obscure 

 history of poor Mary's intriguing French secre- 

 tary, Nau ; as to where he was born, his con- 

 nexions and avocations in early life ; how, and by 

 what secret influence he entered into the service 

 of the queen ; and, lastly, how he came to be par- 

 doned, and what became of him afterwards ? She 

 declared, in her last hours, that he was the cause of 

 her death ? NHBSii. 



XjOKD king ; THE SCIiATEES ; DE. KELLET, ETC. 



(Vol. v., p. 457.) 



If BAiLioLENSis wishes for a more particular 

 account of the Sclater family than that which fol- 

 lows, I shall be happy to correspond with him 

 upon the subject. 



Anthony Sclater, D.D., was vicar of Leighton 

 Buzzard for fifty years, and died, aged 100, about 

 1620. His son — 



^ William Sclater, D.D., Fellow of King's, and 

 vicar of Pitminster in Somersetshire, is the per- 

 son mentioned by Dr. Kellet. He was an exceed- 

 ingly learned man, and the author of many theo- 

 logical works (for a list, see Bib. Bod. Cat.), some 

 of which were published after his death, which 

 occurred in 1627. There is a curious and inter- 

 esting account of him in Fuller's Worthies, vol. i. 

 p. 119. (see also Athence Oxonienses). His son — 



William Sclater, also D.D. and Fellow of King's, 

 was vicar of CoUumpton, Devon, and prebend of 

 Exeter, and appears to have kept up by several 

 works and sermons the reputation of the family 

 for doctrinal theology. * His son — 



Francis Sclater, B.D. (Fellow of C. C. C. Oxon. 

 May 17, 1667, aat. 17), was likewise a person of 

 extraordinary learning and abilities, as appears 

 from several notices, and more particularly from 

 the inscription on a silver-gilt cup presented to 

 C. C. C. in memory of him by his father ; and from 

 an elegant Latin epitaph which was placed on the 

 south wall of St. James's, ClerkenwelLf He died 

 in 168o, set. 35, leaving a son — 



* [This Dr. Sclater appears to have been at one 

 time minister of St. James, Clerkenwell, from the fol- 

 lowing work in the Bodleian Catalogue: " The Royal 

 Pay, and Pay-master, or the Indigent Officer^ s Comfort ; 

 a Sermon before the Military Company, on Rev. ii. 10. 

 By William Sclater, D.D., Minister of St. James, Clerk- 

 enwell, 4to. Lond. 1671."— Ed.] 



t F. Sclater, S. T. B, C. C. C, Oxon. olim socius, 

 £ccl. Anglicanae Spas, academiae gloria, Eruditorum 

 desiderium, Sanae doctrinae contra omnes regnantes 

 *rrores, etiam inter iniquissima tempora propugnator 



Christopher Sclater, M.A., born 1679, rector of 

 Loughton in Essex, and afterwards of Chingford 

 in the same county. His eldest son — 



William Sclater, D.D., seems (from MSS. still 

 existing) to have inherited the theological talent 

 of his ancestors, but o. s, p. Richard Sclater, Esq., 

 the second son of Christopher, was grandfather to 

 W illiam Lutley Sclater, Esq., of Hoddington House, 

 Hants, the present representative of the family- 

 By a third son, Christopher Sclater was grand- 

 father to Eliza Sclater, wife of Draper, Esq., 



and celebrated for her Platonic attachment to 

 Lawrence Sterne. From MSS. preserved in the 

 family, it is clear that she must have been a 

 woman of considerable talent. 



I had always supposed William Sclater, the 

 Nonjuror, and author of ^ra Original Draught, &c., 

 to have been a brother of Francis Sclater; but, 

 if it be true that his work was a posthumous pub- 

 lication (as I learn for the first time from the 

 Note by the Editor of " N. & Q."), I think it 

 most probable that it was his father (the vicar of 

 CoUumpton above mentioned), who would have 

 been about sixty years of age in 1688, and who 

 was certainly a man of learning and scholarship. 



I have no doubt that Edward Sclater, the per- 

 vert of Putney, belonged to the same family, 

 though I know not in how near relationship. 



The name of Sclater, which is curious, seems to 

 have originated in a place called Slaughter (olim 

 Sclostre or Sclaughtre, temp. King John) ia 

 Gloucestershire, where a family of Sclaughters 

 flourished as lords of the manor for upwards of 

 300 years. The arms of both families are : arg. 

 a saltier az. ; crest, an eagle sa. rising out of a 

 ducal coronet. The motto of the Sclater family 

 (which they owe, no doubt, to one of their learned 

 ancestors) is a Greek quotation from Gal. vi. 14. : 



"e* JU^ 61/ T^ cTTaupfjj. 



About the commencement of the seventeenth 

 century, another branch of the same family (whose 

 patronymic was Thomas) was settled in Cam- 

 bridgeshire. The last male representative of these. 

 Sir Thomas Sclater, Bart., died without issue ia 

 1684 (see Burke's JExt. Baronetages). 



I should be glad of any information respecting 

 the connexion of these two branches with each, 

 other, or of either with the parent stem in Glouces- 

 tershire. I should also be glad of information 

 respecting one Will. Slatyer, D.D. (whose name 

 is sometimes, I believe erroneously, spelt Sclater) 

 a very learned person, chaplain to James I., the 



acerrimus. Vir fuit ingenio acri ac vivido judicio sagaci 

 candore animi egregio. Quibus accessit eloquentia 

 singularis atque doctrina omnibus numeris absoluta. 

 Ideoque sive dissererit, sive concionaretur, ab illius ore 

 non populus magis quam clerus et literati avide pen- 



debant Obit. Mali. 12. d. a.d. 1685. set. 35. 



Deflendus quidem multum, sed magis imitandus 

 Gulielmus SS. T.P. moestissimus Pater P. .^ 



