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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 38., Sept, 20. 'oG. 



Nov. 1, 1696. Do. at Streatham in ye Isle of 

 Ely 



flfebruary y* last, 1696. Do. at Mildenhall in 

 Suflf. - - . . - 



Septemb. 28'", 1697. Collected y" to the re- 

 paire of the Church of West Halton in y« 

 County of Lincolne ... 



Octob. ib'S 97. Burning in in Staf- 



fordsh. - . . - - 



April 3, 1698. Collected y" to y« Burning of 

 y« houses of Rich<i Uriel of Cockerniouth 

 in y« County of Cumberland 



Apr. 17, 1698. Burning in Litch-field, Staf- 

 fordsh. . . . . - 



October 2<i, 1698. Collected for Redemptio of 

 Thomas Rose of Lynn, a Slave in Morocco 



8^«' 16, 1698. Burning in Newbury, C" Berks. 



February 5'\ 1698. Do. at Minehead in So- 

 mersetsh. - . - - - 



March 5, 1698. Do. at Derby-Court in West- 

 minster . - - . - 



March 19, 98. Do. in ye Parish of S' Giles in 

 ye Fields --'--- 



April 17, 18, 19, 20, 27, Collected to persecuted 

 Protestants in Piemont, Sauoy, &c., and 

 French Protestants Refugees in Switzerland 



April 13, 1699. Collected y° to a Brief for a 

 Burning at Lancaster . . - 



Octob. 3, 1700. Collected y" to a Briefe for 

 Ransoming Captive Seamen from ye King 

 of Fez and Morrocco in Turky 



Octob. 19, 1701. I published a Briefe for a fire 

 at Hormonden in ye County of Kent, y^ loss 

 being above 1000", and being after ye expi- 

 ration of ye time for gathering, there was 

 nothing given to it. 



December 26, 1701. Collected y" to the Re- 

 pair of Bromley Church in StafFordsbire - 



ffebruary 7"', 1701. Collected y" in ye Parish 

 for ye Burning of Leominster Church in ye 

 County of Hereford . . - 



ffebruary 15*, 1701. Collected y" in ye Parish 

 Church for ye Damage of Rye Church in ye 

 County of Sussex - - - - 



June 10"^, 1702. Collected y" in ye Parish of 

 Orm'sby S' Margaret towards ye Repara- 

 tion of Chester Cathedrall - - - 



Aug. 16, 1702. Burning in Ely 



Septemb. 13. Burning at Rolleston in Staf- 

 fordsh. -.._-. 



Septemb. 20. Collected in ye Parish Church 

 to ye ruines of Chepstow Church in ye 

 County of Monmouth ... 



January ye 17"', 1702. Collected in ye Parish 

 Church to ye Damage of Corn-Mills by 

 fflouds, &c. in Congleton in ye County of 

 Chester ----- 



ffeb. 7, 1702. Fire at Shutsford in ye County 

 of Oxon, i.e. Oxford . . _ 



Mar. 7, 1702. Collected in ye Parish to re- 

 pairing S' Giles Church in Shrewsbury in 

 ye County of Salop . . _ 



April 11"'. Do. to ye Briefe of Monks Harby, 

 seaventeen pence ha'pe7iy. 



July 18, 1703. Fire at Wrottesley in Stafford- 

 shire . - . - . 



Aug. 1, 1703. Burning in Spittlefields Ham- 

 let in Stepney . . _ . 



Aug. 29, 1703. Burning at Faringdon, G° 

 Berke. - » - - 



7b«' 12, 1703. Do. at Fordingbridg, C' South- 

 ampton - . . . - 

 8''er 10, 1703. Do. at Tuxford, Nottingham - 



1707. 

 Burning at North Marston, C" 



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2 2 



18 7 



2 8 



4 Oh 



2 3 



2 2 



2 % 



I 2 



6 



6 



1 3 

 1 2§ 

 6 



Mav 4"». 

 Bucks. 



And Collected to ye repair of Broseley 

 Church in the County of Salop - 



June 29. Burning of Towcester 



July 13. Do. of Joseph Wakelin at Hartly 

 Green in ye County of Stafford 



July 27. Do. in Spilsbj', C" of Lincoln. 



August 10. Do. in Shire-lane, C° of Middlesex 



November 16. Collected to ye rebuilding of 

 Durslej' Church and steeple fallen downe 

 in ye County of Gloucester, one peny. 



November ye 9. Burning at Heavitree, C° 

 Devon . . _ - - 



November ye 23<i, 1707. Collected to the re- 

 building of ye Parish Church and Tower of 

 Orford in Suffolk . - - - 



Novemb. 30. Burning at Southam, C" War- 

 wick - . . . - 



May 2<i, 1708. Burning at Bewdly, C° Wor- 

 cester _ . . - - 



May 9ti'. Do. at Woodhurst, C" Huntingdon 



May 16. Do. at Wincanton in Somersetsh. - 



May 23. Do. at Alcobury cum Weston, C" 

 Huntingdon . - - - 



July 25"'. To a Robbery by the French and a 

 burning - - - - - 



The above entries are made and mostly signed 

 by Geo. Cowper, first curate and then vicar of 

 the parish, and are countersigned by the church- 

 wardens. They show that our ancestors had no 

 lack of calls at any rate on their charity. There 

 seems to have been a considerable falling off in 

 their contributions after 1G95 ; perhaps owing to 

 pressure on account of war prices, a cause which 

 acts in the same direction at the present time. 



E. S. Taylor. 



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DE. JO^N CI-AYTON AND COAL GAS. 



This gentleman has received the credit of being 

 one of the first, if not the first, who experimented 

 on the nature of coal gas. Mr. Thos. S. Pickston, 

 in his Practical Treatise on Gas Lighting, says 

 (p. 69.):- 



" That a permanently elastic and inflammable aeriform 

 fluid is evolved from pit-coal appears to have been first 

 experimentally ascertained by the Rev. Dr. John Clayton, 

 Dean of Kildare. With the exact date of the discovery, 

 we are not acquainted ; but as the communication made 

 to the Earl of Egmont, F.R.S., in 1739, by Dr. Robert 

 Clayton, Bishop of Cork and Orrery, purported to be an 

 extract of a letter from the discoverer to the Hon. Robert 

 Boyle, who died in 1691, the discovery must have been 

 made prior to that event, though not published in the 

 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society till the 

 year 1739." 



But uo mention is made in the published per- 



