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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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testing bishops in the reign of James II. His will 

 was proved at Doctors' Commons in Aug. 1689, 

 from which it seems he had two sons, James Lake, 

 citizen and haberdasher ; and William Lake, Fel- 

 low of St. John's Coll., Cambridge. Pie died 

 seised of lands in Pontefract, in Yorkshire. Ju- 

 dith Lake, his widow, was his executrix. What 

 was her riiaiden name ? John Booker. 



Prestwich. 



• Moravian Query. — Walpole, in his Memoirs of 

 the Reign of George IT. (vol. iii. p. 97.), speaking 

 of the year 1758, says : — 



" There were no religious combustibles in the temper 

 of the times. . . . LurzendorfFe plied bis Moravians with 

 nudities, yet made few enthusiasts." 



What scandal does Walpole allude to ? M. N. 



Kitchenham Familt/. — Wanted any information 

 respecting the Kitchenham family, one of the 

 ancestors of which (Baron Kitchenham of Wad- 

 hurst) obtained a grant from the Crown (temp. 

 Edw. IV.) for military services at Leeds Castle, 

 in Kent. Any intbrmation as to the pedigree and 

 descendants of Baron Kitchenham would be very 

 acceptable, especially with reference to the above- 

 named grant, as to where the original may be 

 seen, or a copy of the same obtained. G. P. 



Nathaniel Mist, — Nathaniel Mist, the pub- 

 lisher, died at Boulogne. What took him there ? 

 Had he fled from a prosecution ? Wissocq. 



Dutch Protestant Congregations, — The descen- 

 dants of the Dutch Protestant refugees, who set- 

 tled in the city of Norwich to avoid the fierce and 

 bloody persecutions of the Duke of Alva, retain 

 to this day estates bequeathed to the Dutch con- 

 gregation in that city, and have the choir of the 

 Black Friars' Conventual Church assigned to them 

 for their use. 



Service is performed only once a year : the 

 sermon being preached first in Dutch, and after- 

 wards in English, by the Rev. H. Gehle, D.D., 

 chaplain to the Netherlands ambassador, and 

 minister of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, 

 London. It is always held on a Sunday near 

 Midsummer Day ; and this year took place on 

 Sunday, June 28. 



The congregation possess a series of valuable 

 registers and old books, including a large folio 

 Bible in Dutch for the use of the minister, printed 

 at Leyden by Louys and Daniel Elzevier, and 

 bearing the following imprint : " Tot Leyden. By 

 de Weiinwe ehde Erffgenamen van Johan. Elze- 

 vier, Boeckdruckers van de Academie, 1663." 



Does a similar congregation exist, and is a 

 similar service held at the present time in any 

 Other part of the United Kingdom P 



Thomas Eobinson Tallagk. 



St. Andrew'% Norwich. 



John Rule, A.M. — There was published a work, 

 entitled 2'he English and French Letter Writer, by 

 the Rev. John Rule, A.M., Master of the Academy 

 at Islington, 12mo., Lond. 1766. Can you oblige 

 me with some biographical notices of the author? 



R. Inglis. 



[More seems to be known of the celebrated dramatic 

 recitations of Mr. Kule's pupils than of his own personal 

 history. A comedy called Tfie Agreeable Surprise, trans- 

 lated from the French of De Mariveux, was published in 

 a volume entitled Poetical Blossoms^ or the Sports of 

 Genius ; being a Collection of Poems upon several Sub- 

 jects, by the Young Gentlemen of Mr. Rule's Academy at 

 Islington, 12mo , 1776. In the Public Advertiser of Dec. 

 30, 176G, appeared the following notice: "On the 10th, 

 ilth, and l'2th December, a Lecture of Heads, with seve- 

 ral poetical pieces, were delivered by the Young Gentle- 

 men of Mr. Rule's Academy, Islington, and a Comedy 

 presented, called The Agreeable Surprise, followed by the 

 entertainments of the Lying Valet and the Miller of 

 Mansfield, with the Prologues and Epilogues suited to 

 the occasion, in presence of a numerous, polite, and gen- 

 teel company." Again in the same paper of Dec. 20, 

 1769. "We hear the Young Gentlemen of Mr. Rule's 

 Academy, Islington, acted the tragedy of Cato with suit- 

 able entertainments, prologues, &c., on Wednesday and 

 Thursday last, at Sadler's Wells, to the entire satisfaction 

 of a numerous and polite audience." Mr. Rule's academy 

 was in Colebrooke Row, on the banks of the New River, 

 and memorable as the residence of William Woodfall, the 

 friend of Garrick, Goldsmith, and Savage. Here lived 

 and died, too, Colley Gibber, poet-laureate to George II. ; 

 James Burgh, author oi Dignity of Human Nature; Poli- 

 tical Disquisitions, &c. ; and the Rev. George Burder, 

 author of Village Sermons, &c. Charles Lamb, in a letter 

 to Bernard Barton, dated Sept. 2, 1823, thus graphically 

 describes his residence in this locality : " When you come 

 Londonward, you will find me no longer in Covent Gar- 

 den : I have a cottage in Colebrooke Row, Islington — a 

 cottage, for it is detached ; a white house, with six good 

 rooms in it; the New River (rather elderly by this time) 

 runs (if a moderate walking pace can be so termed) close 

 to the foot of the house : and behind is a spacious garden, 

 with vines (I assure you), pears, strawberries, parsneps, 

 leeks, carrots, cabbages, to delight the heart of old Alci- 

 nous. Y^ou enter without passage into a cheerful dining 

 room, all studded over and rough with old books ; and 

 above is a lightsome drawing-room full of choice prints. 

 I feel like a great lord, never having had a house before." 

 Poor Charles Lamb's cottage was subsequently occupied 

 by Master John Webb, of soda-water celebrity! Sic 

 transit gloria mundi .'] 



Rev. JR. W. Mayoiv. — There was published in 

 1821, Sermons, by the Rev. R. W. Mayow, of 

 Exeter College, Oxford, who died in 1817, to 

 which is prefixed an account of the author. Could 

 you oblige me by giving a short biographical no- 

 tice of Mr. Mayow ? R. Inglis. 



[Robert Wynell Maj^oW was bom at Saltash, Devon, 

 Oct. 8, 1777. ' His parents had early instilled into iiim so 

 strong a love of truth, and such a sense of the constant 

 presence of God, that it was said of him, when at the 

 Grammar School of Liskeard, that " Mayow never could 

 be brought to tell a lie." He was designed for the law, 

 and in 1794 was articled as clerk to an attorney at Bath : 

 but the perusal of Law's Setiotts Call, and his practical 



