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Richard Aytoii. — Mr. t)e Quincfey, iii his Literary 

 Reminiscences, Chapter I., has the following pas- 

 sage : — 



" Rather more than ten J'ears ago a literary itian by 

 the name of Acton published, some little time before his 

 own death, a very searching essaj- upon this chapter of 

 human integrity — arraying a large list of common cases 

 (cases of hats, gloves, umbrellas, books, newspapers, &c.), 

 where the claiin of ownership, left io itself and unsup- 

 ported by accidents of shame and exposure, appeared to 

 be weak" indeed among classes of society prescriptively 

 ' respectable.' " 



The writer referred to was Richard Ayton, not 

 Acton. The " Essay on Honesty " is in the 

 London Magazine for February, 1823. He died 

 in that year. 



In 1825, Messrs. Taylor and Hessey published 

 a 12uio. volume, entitled Essays and Sketches of 

 Character, by the late Richard Ayton, Esq., with 

 a Memoir of his Life. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Survivors of England's Great Battles. — Ob- 

 serving in Choice Notes an Article on the " Last 

 Survivors of England's Great Battles," I beg to 

 forward a few additions to the list, if you think 

 them worthy of insertion : — 



Battle of Killiecrankie, 1689. 



John Dennis, a private, died in Scotland, 1770, 

 aged 105 years. 



Battle of the Boyne, 1690. 



William Beaty, ensign, died at Dungarvan, 1774, 

 aged 130 years. 



Robert Ogleby, private, died at Leeds, 1768, 

 aged 114 years. 



James O'Brien, Paymaster-sergeant, died at 

 Carrickfergus, 1780, aged 114 years. 

 Soldiers serving under the Duke of Marlborough 

 during the reign of Queen Anne. 



William Carter, sergeant, died at Upingstone [?], 

 Hants, 1768, aged 113 years. 



John Dyer, private, died at BurtODj Lancashire, 

 1777, aged 112 years. 



Jonathan Williams, private, died in St. Giles, 

 London, 1778, aged 113 years. 



Josiah Morrice, lieutenant, died at Greenstreet, 

 Berks, 1780, aged 100 years. 



Patrick Blakeney, captain, died at Carrickfer- 

 gus, 1781, aged 104 years. 



Buchanan Washboubn, M.D. 



Church Repairing. — In the course of restora- 

 tion of this church, I found traces of carving on 

 the stones composing the jambs and sills of lights 

 which had been substituted for the loopholes. I 

 took drawings of each fragment, putting that and 

 that together. I have evidence of as many as 

 eight stone coffin-lids broken up for convenience 

 I suppose of some jobbing mason. The carving is 

 of crosses of the thirteenth and fourteenth cen- 

 turies. C. E. Birch. 



Wistou Rectory, Colchester. 



NONJURORS — BISHOPS BRETT, SENIOR AND JUNIOR. 



There being two contemporary nonjuring bi- 

 shops of the same name, has proved a source of 

 considerable difficulty to me, in the succession of 

 that body, compiled for my "MS. Fasti of the 

 British Church :" I therefore send this query, in 

 the hope of its eliciting a reply from some eccle- 

 siastical antiquary through that invaluable " me- 

 dium of interco hniunication," " N. & Q." 



1716. Thomas Brett, LL.D., cons. Jan. 25, iti 

 the oratory of Rev. Henry Gandy, parish of St. 

 Andrew, Holborn, co. of Middlesex, by Bps. J. 

 Collier, S. Hawes, N. Spinckes, A. Campbell, and 

 J. Gadderar ; b. Sep. 3, 1667, at Bettishanger, cO. 

 Kent ; educated at Grammar School of Wye ; en- 

 tered at Queen's Coll. Camb., Mar. 20. 1684 ; adm, 

 to C. C. C. Camb. Jan. 17. 1689 ; proceeded LL.B. 

 there June 11 following; ord. Deacon Dec. 21, 

 1690, at Chelsea, by Bp. Mew of Winchester, and 

 served cure of Folkestone, co. Kent, till ord. priest 

 at London, and chosen lecturer of Islington, Oct. 4, 

 1691 ; curate of Great Chart, co. Kent, May 1696 ; 

 LL. D. of Queen's Coll. Camb. in 1697, and en- 

 tered on cure of Wye ; instituted rector of Bets- 

 hanger, April 12, 1703 ; vicar of Chislet (by se- 

 questration) 1704, and rector of Ruckinge (all in 

 CO. Kent and diocese of Canterbury), April 12, 

 1705. Resigned all his livitigs in the Church of 

 England in April 1715, and was received into the 

 nonjuring communion by Bp. Hickes of Thetford, 

 July 1 following. After his consecration he chiefly 

 officiated in his own house at Spring (irove, in the 

 parish of Wye, co. of Kent, and also at Faversham, 

 Canterbury, and Norton, in the same county ; and 

 died March 5, 1744, an. aetat. 77, and epis. 29, at 

 Spring Grove, and was interred with his ancestors 

 in the"family vault at Wye. Bp. Brett was author 

 of numerous religious works. 



1727. Thomas Brett, Jun., cons. April 9, 1727, 



at (?), by Bps. Thomas Brett, Senior ^ John 



Griffin, and A. Campbell ; and " ob. March 5, 

 1743_4," according to Perceval, in his "Conse- 

 crations of the English Nonjurors" (Apology for 

 the Apostolical Succession, 2nd edit. 1841, Appen- 

 dix, K. p. 248.) ; but this date is surely incorrect, 

 as it is very unlikely that he should have died on 

 the same day as his namesake Bp. Brett, Sen., and 

 I therefore ask for information on this point. Bp. 

 Brett, Jun., is only recorded as having taken part 

 in one consecration of his communion, namely, in 

 that of Bp. Timothy Mawman, on July 17, 1731, 

 and in which the senior Brett was the consecrating 

 prelate. In conclusion I may remark that Mr. 

 Lathbury throws no light on this subject, nor does 

 he notice the coincidence of there being two bi- 

 shops of the same name, who lived arid officiated 

 contemporaneously ; and from the pedigree of the 

 Brett family, given in Nichols's Literary Anec- 



