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author of some curious historical and genealogical 

 works, and a celebrated Hebraist in those times. 

 He was a cotemporary of Sclater of Pitminster, 

 and died at Ottenden in Kent about the same 

 time ; but it is doubtful whether they were 

 relations. S. L. P. 



Oxford and Cambridge Club. 



The following Notes are very much at the ser- 

 vice of your correspondent Balliolensis. It is 

 true that they do not afford a precise answer to 

 his immediate Query, but they comprise particu- 

 lars which may very probably lead to it, and will 

 at least be interesting in compliance with his re- 

 quest for any notices respecting the family of 

 Sclater. 



Anthony Sclater was minister of Leighton Buz- 

 zard in Bedfordshire for about fifty years, and 

 died at the age of nearly one hundred. His son, 

 AVilliam Sclater, was born there in 1577 ; educated 

 at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, B.D. and 

 D.D., preacher at Walsall, co. Staffordshire ; prcr 

 sented to the vicarage of Pitminster, near Taunton, 

 CO. Somerset, by John Coles, Esq. ; and to a rec- 

 tory in the same county by John, afterwards Lord 

 Powlett. Died at Pitminster, 1627. He was the 

 author of the following works, and of others un- 

 published : — 



" A Key to the Key of Scripture, or an Exposition, 

 with Notes, on the Epistle to the Romans, &e. 4to. 

 London, 1611. Dedicated to Sir Henry Hawley, Knt., 

 and four other Gentlemen." 



" The Minister's Portion, a Sermon on 1 Cor. ix. 

 13, 14. 4to. Oxford, 1612. Dedicated to Thomas 

 Southcote, Esq., of Mohun's Ottery in Devonshire." 



" The Sick Soul's Salve, a Sermon on Prov. xviii. 14. 

 4to. Oxford, 1612. Dedicated to John Horner, Esq., 

 and to the devout Anna his wife, at Melles in Somerset." 



" The Christian's Strength, a Sermon at Oxford on 

 Philip, iv. 13. 4to. Oxford, 1612. Dedicated to 

 William Hill, Esq., of Pitminster." 



" An Exposition upon the First Epistle to the Thes- 

 salonians. 4to. London, 1619. Dedicated to the 

 Lord Stanhope, Baron of Haringdon." 



" The Question of Tythes revised, &c. 4to. London, 

 1623. Dedicated to Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells." 



" A Briefe Exposition upon the Second Epistle to 

 the Thessalonians. 4to. London, 1629. Dedicated 

 to 'John Pawlet, Esq., his very honourable good 

 Patron, and Elisabeth his Wife, his much honoured 

 Patronesse.'" 



" Utriusque Epistolae ad Corinthios Explicatio, &c. 

 Edited by his Son. 4to. Oxon. 1633. Dedicated to 

 ' Edvardo Keletto, S. T. D. Sancti Petri apud Exoni- 

 ensis residentiario, nee non M. Georgio Goadio coll. 

 Regalis in Academia Cantabrig. Socio, suo non ita 

 pridem tntori dilectissimo.' " 



" A Brief and Plain Commentary on the Prophecy 

 of Malachy, &c. Published by his Son. 4to. London, 

 1650. Dedicated to Mr. Henry Walrond of Bradfield, 

 Devon." 



«* An Exposition on the Fourth Chapter of the 



Romans, &c. Published by his Son. 4to. London, 

 1650. Dedicated to 'John Bampfield of Poltimore ia 

 Devon, Esq., a most eximious and exemplary Worthy 

 of the West.' " 



William Sclater, son of the above, was born at 

 Pitminster ; admitted member of King's College, 

 Cambridge, in 1626 ; Fellow of that College ; Chap- 

 lain to the Bishop of Exeter's Barony of St. 

 Stephen's in Exeter, and preacher at St. Martin's 

 in that city, 1639 ; Prebendary of Exeter Cathe- 

 dral ; admitted Vicar of Collumpton, co. Devon, 

 4th Feb. 1644, on the presentation of Roger Mal- 

 lack of Exeter, Esq. Living there in 1650, then 

 styled B.D., and late Fellow of King's College ; 

 D. D. ; minister of St. Peter's-le-Poor, Broad 

 Street, London, in 1654. Died before 1660. 



The following were his published works : 



" The Worthy Communicant rewarded, &c. ; a Ser- 

 mon in Exeter Cathedral, 21st April, 1639. 4to. 

 London, 1639. Dedicated to Dr. Peterson, Deaii of 

 Exeter. " 



" Papisto-Mastix : or Deborah's Prayer against 

 God's Enemies, a Sermon on Judges, v. 31. 4to. 

 London, 1642." 



" The Crowne of Righteousness, &c. ; a Funeral 

 Sermon at St. Botolph's Aldersgate, Sept. 25, 1653, 

 for Mr. Abraham Wheelock, B. D., &c. 4to. London, 

 1654." 



The registers of Pitminster and Collumpton 

 would perhaps assist in tracing the descendants of 

 these worthies, whose name still exists near Exeter. 

 Fuller, under " Bedfordshire," gives some fur- 

 ther particulars. The works above-mentioned 

 may almost all, I think, be found in the Bodleian. 



J. D. S. 



* Balliolensis will find an account of " William 

 Sclater," whom he rightly supposes to have been 

 at Eton and King's, in Harwood's Alumni JEto- 

 nensis, p, 200., under the year 1593, 35 Eliz. He 

 will there see that he died 1627, in the fifty-first 

 year of his age, and was the author of Comment on 

 the Romans and Thessalonians; Sermons at St. 

 PavTs Cross ; and the Ti-eatise on Tithes, styled 

 The Minister s Portion, -'■ 



Under 1598 occurs "John Sclater." From a MS. 

 account it is stated, " John Sclater, B.D., 1613, 

 Rector of Holford, Somerset ; then of Church 

 Lawford, Warwick. (See Dugdale.) Query, If 

 ejected 1662 ? if so, his farewell sermon in Collec- 

 tion A." (See too Harwood, p. 203. ) 



Under 1626 occurs "William Sclater," at p. 227, 

 of Harwood, probably a mistake for 1625. In MS. 

 under 1625 appears " William Sclater, son of 

 W. S. of 1593, of Pitminster, Somerset, where his 

 father was V. ; R. of St. Steph., Exon. ; D.D. 1651 ; 

 Minister of St. Peter le Poor, Broad Street. (See 

 Engl. Worth., 8vo.,p. 21.) Pr. of Exon., Sept. 18, 

 1641. (See Walker, ob. 1656. See Wood.) " 



Edward Kellet occurs in Harwood mdAqv 1598, 



