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bishop of Cambray ; and may not this explain the 

 silence of both father and son as to the antece- 

 dents of the former. The subject is not without 

 interest, and I hope we may obtain some informa- 

 tion from its discussion in "N. & Q." N. H. T. 



I am personally obliged to Abhba for his Note 

 of the Patent of James III. creating "Nathaniel" 

 Hooke a Peer of Ireland, of which I never before 

 heard ; and should be more so if he or any other 

 correspondent could tell me into whose hands this 

 patent passed at Sir William Betham's sale*, as I 

 much doubt whether Colonel Hooke's name was 

 " Nathaniel." So far as I know none of my family 

 bore that name, except the Historian, and he cer- 

 tainly was not the celebrated " Colonel Hooke." 

 Through the kindness and research of my friend 

 Mr. Tottenham of Dublin, who sent me extracts 

 from the books of Trinity College, and from some 

 old wills in the Court of Probate in Dublin, I find 

 that Nathaniel Hooke, the Historian, was born in 

 the county of Dublin in the year 1664, and was 

 the second son of John Hooke of Drogheda. At 

 the age of fifteen he entered Trinity College as a 

 pensioner on the 26th July, 1679. His elder 

 brother John had previously entered that college 

 as a pensioner in the year 1641. Their grand- 

 father or uncle was, I believe, Thomas Hooke, 

 Alderman of Dublin, to whom a grant of 61 7 acres 

 of land in the Barony of Tarbullagh in the county 

 of Westmeath, and of forty-two acres of land in 

 the Barony of Orier in the county of Armagh, was 

 made by Charles II., under the Acts of Settlement 

 in 1666. But there being no less than three 

 Thomas Hookes whose wills were proved about 

 the same date, — the Alderman's in 1672, another 

 Thomas Hooke, D.D. of Dangham Shedrey, county 

 Kilkenny, in the same year, and a third, Thomas 

 Hooke, a merchant of Dublin, whose will was 

 proved in 1675, it is difficult to ascertain the rela- 

 tionship these persons bore to each other. It ap- 

 pears, however, that the alderman had three sons, 

 John, Thomas, and Peter, and therefore Nathaniel's 

 father was probably the first son of the alderman. 

 The colonel, however, could not have been the 

 Historian. He (the colonel) was a student at 

 Glasgow in 1680 under a Mr. Nicholson, whom he 

 met subsequently in Edinburgh in 1705, and who 

 was then bishop and apostolical vicar in Scotland. 



I also doubt whether the colonel was pardoned 

 in 1688, for he mentions in a MS. account of his 

 Second Journey to Scotland in 1705, which is in 

 the British Museum, that he and the Duke of 

 Hamilton had been fellow-prisoners in the Tower 

 in the year 1689. 



Lockhart's Account is not to be implicitly relied 

 on, as he and the colonel were each partisans of 

 the two great parties in Scotland — the Presbyte- 

 rians and the Jacobites — but Lockhart not only 



[• It was purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps.— Ed.] 



says that the colonel was a "vain pragmatical 

 fellow," but he adds, " and in conversation a man 

 of good enough sense, but extremely vain and 

 haughty, and not very circumspect in the man- 

 agement of so great a trust, being rash and incon- 

 siderate." 



From Colonel Hooke's Account of his two jour- 

 neys to Scotland the contrary appears to have been 

 the case, for he seems to have been very success- 

 ful in his negociations with the Duke of Hamilton, 

 the Earl of Errol, Lord Panmure, and the other 

 Jacobite lords, though he was foiled in the imme- 

 diate object of his journey by the want of unity 

 among those chiefs, and by the intrigues of the 

 Duke of Hamilton, who, being himself a Stuart, 

 hoped to succeed to the Scottish throne. With 

 respect to Nathaniel Hooke, he married in 

 Dublin, and brought over his two sons Thomas 

 and Lucius Joseph to England, and settled in 

 London about the year 1717, when he ventured 

 all he possessed in the South Sea scheme, and was 

 ruined. It is probable that after leaving Trinity 

 College he went to France to complete his educa- 

 tion, for his knowledge of the French language 

 enabled him to maintain himself and family by 

 translating French works, until, through the pa- 

 tronage of Lord Chesterfield and Pope, he was 

 recommended to the Duchess of Marlborough, and 

 by her gift of 5000/. and the copyright of her 

 Memoirs he sufficiently .established himself, and 

 was enabled in his old age to retire to Cookham 

 in Berks, where he died on the 22nd July, 1763, 

 aged ninety-nine. 



" Annorum plenus et vere pius," as Lord Bos- 

 ton truly states on the tablet erected by him to 

 Hooke's memory thirty-seven years afterwards on 

 the outside of the pretty little church of Hedsor, 

 where he requested he might be buried. This in- 

 scription may perhaps be worth recording. It is 

 as follows : 



" Juxta hunc tumulum corpus deponi jussit 



Kathaniel Hooke, 



Armiger, 



qui multiplied literarum varietate, et studio eruditus, 



Romanae Historic auctor celebratus emicuit ; 



de Uteris vero quantum meruit, edita usque testabuntur 



opera. 



Ex vita demigravit annorum plenus, et vere pius, 



vicesimo secundo die Julii, Anno Domini 1763. 



Ad cineres Patris sui pariter requiescit corpus filise di- 



lectissimse 



Janse Mariaa Hooke, 



cujus animaj propitietur Deus. 



Sexagenaria obiit vicesimo octavo die Aprilis, 



Anno Domini 1793. 



Hoc Amicitia? Testimonium poncre voluit 



Fredericus, Baro de Boston, 1801. 



Cui omnia Unum sunt, et omnia ad Unum trahit, 



et omnia in uno videt, potest stabilis corda 



esse, et in Deo paciiicus permanere. 



' O Veritatis Deus, fac me Unum 



Tecum in Charitate perpetua.' . 



De Imit. Cbristi, lib. i. cap. 3. 

 N. H. 1763." 



