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the devotion of one of the many missionaries from Ireland, 
whose names are still familiar to us by their having been adopted 
as the Patron Saints of our churches. Another is, that our parish 
was the birth-place of the third Protestant Archbishop of Canter- 
bury, who was very unwilling that the Great Reformation should 
be arrested at the point that the Queen desired it should. The 
third connecting link is through the family whose history it is my 
object to bring before you this evening. I cannot say that locally 
they played a very important part ; but two of its members—father 
and son—held the Manor for more than fifty years; and three 
generations, who covered a most important period in our history, 
occupied conspicuous positions on the national stage. 
The first, born when the effete spirit of Ecclesiasticism was only 
waiting for the death-stroke that from some source was to come 
upon it; the next, living when the vitiated blood of the Stuarts 
was striving to build up a despotism which tottered down upon 
the head of perhaps the worthiest member of their race; and to 
which end the third generation contributed two actors; for the 
name of Thomas Chaloner appears on the Death Warrant of 
Charles, and though that of his brother James is absent he 
certainly sat on the Trial. 
THoMAS CHALONER was born in the year 1521. He was a 
descendant of the seventh noble tribe of North Wales ; but it is 
more to the purpose to say that his father, Roger Challoner, was 
a mercer of the City of London, and that he, perhaps, obtained 
the surname from being a maker of coverlets, or blankets, called 
“Chalons,” the stuff from which they were made being procured 
from Chalons, a town which has given its name to our modern 
“shalloons,” and perhaps even more modern “challies.” It was 
the wealth obtained by honest trade that did more to lift him in 
the scale of society than the blood of his ancestors. The trading 
classes were then rising to a position in the commonwealth which 
was no longer to be ignored. Whittingtons, Poles, Hewitts, and 
Spencers, mingled their blood with the proudest in the realm, 
and built country seats which outshone the gloomy castles of the 
ancient aristocracy. It is certain that Thomas Chaloner’s father 
