Oct. 26. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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On the Feast of St. Matthias, Feb. 24, 1693, 

 the consecrations of Dr. George Ilickes and 

 Thomas WagstaflTe were solemnly performed ac- 

 cording to the rites of the Church of England, 

 by Dr. William Lloyd, bishop of Norwich ; Dr. 

 Francis Turner, bishop of Ely ; and Dr. Thomas 

 White, bishop of Peterborough, at the Bishop of 

 Peterborough's lodgings, at the Rev. William 

 GitFard's house at Soutligate in Middlesex : Dr. 

 Ken, bishop of Bath and Wells, giving his consent. 



Henry Hall was consecrated bishop in the 



oratory of the Rev. Father in Christ, John B 



[Blackburne ?], in Gray's Inn, on the festival of 

 St. Barnabas, June 11, 1725. 



Hilkiah Bedford was consecrated in the oratory 



of the Rev. R R [Richard Rawlinson], 



in Gray's Inn, on the festival of St. Paul, Jan. 2-5, 

 1720. Ralph Taylor was also consecrated at the 

 same time and place. 



Henry Gandy was consecrated at his oratory in 

 the parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn, on the festi- 

 val of St. Paul, Jan. 25, 1716. 



Grascome was interrupted by a messenger 

 whilst he was ministering to his little congrega- 

 tion in Scroope's Court, near St. Andrew's 

 Church. 



Jeremy Collier officiated at Broad Street, London, 

 assisted by the Rev. Samuel Carte, the father of 

 the historian. 



Mr. Hawkes officiated for some time at his own 

 house opposite to St. James' Palace. 



On Easter-day, April 13, 1718, at the oratory 

 of his brother. Sir. William Lee, dyer, in Spital- 

 fields, Dr. Francis Lee read a touching and 

 beautiful declaration of his faith, betwi.\t the 

 reading of the sentences at the offertory and the 

 prayer for the state of Christ's church. It was 

 addressed to the Rev. James Daillon, Count de 

 Lude, then officiating. 



Charles Wheatly, author of A Ratioiml Elmira- 

 tinn of the Book of Common Prayer^ in a letter to 

 Dr. Rawlinson, the nonjuring titular bishop of 

 London, says : 



" I believe most of the books in Mr. Laurence's 

 catalogue were really in his library. ]\Iost of his 

 chapel furniture 1 had seen ; but bis pix, and bis 

 cruet, his box for unguent, and oil, I suppose you do 

 not inquire after." 



Roger Laurence was the learned author of Lay 

 liaptimn Invalid. Query, Where did he officiate? 



The Rev. John Lindsay, the translator of Ma- 

 son's VindicutioH of the C'/nirch of Engluml, for 

 many years ofliciatcd as minister of a nonjm-ing 

 congregation in Trinity Chapel, Ablersgate Street, 

 and is said to have been their hist minister. 



Thorcsby, in his Diary, May 18, 1714, says, " I 

 visited Mr. Nelson (author of the Fasts and Fes- 

 tivals), and the learned Dr. George llickes, who 

 not being at liberty for half an iiour, I had the 

 benefit of the (jrayers in the adjoining church, and 



when the Nonjuring Conventicle was over, I 

 visited the said Dean Hickes, who is said to be 



bishop of " [Thetford]. Both Nelson and 



Hickes resided at this time in Ormond Street; 

 probably the conventicle was at one of their houses. 

 It should be noted that Thoresby, having quitted 

 the Conventicles of the Dissenters, had only re- 

 cently joined what he calls the Church established 

 by laiv. He appears to have known as much about 

 the principles of the Nonjurors as he did of Chi- 

 nese music. 



Dr. Welton's chapel in Goodman's Fields being 

 visited (1717) by Colonel Ellis and other jus- 

 tices of the peace, with proper assist.nnts, about two 

 hundred and fifty persons were found there assem- 

 bled, of whom but forty would take the oaths. The 

 doctor refusing them also, was ordered to be pi'o- 

 ceeded ajjainst accordino; to law. 



This reminds me of another Query. AVhat has 

 become of Dr. AVelton's famous Whitechapel 

 altar-piece, which Bishop Compton drove out of 

 his church. Some doubts have been expressed 

 whether that is the identical one in the Saint's 

 Chapel of St. Alban's Abbey. A friend has as- 

 sured the writer that he had seen it about twenty 

 years ago, at a Roman Catholic meeting-house in 

 an obscure court at Greenwich. It is not there 

 now. The print of it in the library of the Society 

 of Antic[uaries is accompanied with these MS. lines 

 by Mr. Mattaire : — 



" To say the picture does to liim belong, 

 Kennelt does Judas and the painter wrong ; 

 False is the image, the rcsenililance faint, 

 Judas, compared to Kennett, .vas a saint." 



One word more. The episcopal seal of the 

 nonjuring bishops was a shepherd with a sheep 

 upon his shouldeis. The orozier which had been 

 used by them, was, in 1839, in the possession of 

 John Crossley Esq., of Scaitcliffe, near Todmor- 

 den. J. Yeowei.l. 



Hoxton. 



UOGAKTII S ILLUSTRATIONS OF HUDIBRAS. 



" Butler's Iludibras, by Zacb. Grey, LL.D. 2 toIs. 

 8vo. Cainbridgi", 1744. 



" Best edition. Copies in fine condition are in ton- 

 sideral)le request. Tlie cuts arc beautiCidly engraved, 

 and Ilogaith is much indebted to the designer of them ; 

 but who he was does not appear." 



The above remarks in JAnvndes'sJBiblioffraphical 

 Munvul having caught my attention, they aj)- 

 peared to nie somewhat oliscure and contradictory ; 

 and as they seemed rather disj)araging to the fame 

 of Hogarth, of whose works tind genius I am a 

 warm admirer, I have taken some jiains to ascer- 

 tain what may have been Mr. Lowndes's meaning. 



On examining the plates in Dr. Grey's edition, 

 they are all inscribed " W. Hogarth inv', J. 



