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 for Cardiganshire. He also sat for Totnes in Devonshire. He was a Church Tory, and one of the founders of the "Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge." He died 25 Aug. 1727. His younger son took the name of Praed, and was the ancestor of the poet (q.v.).

Mackwork [sic] was the author of several short treatises or pamphlets on social, political, economic and religious; subjects, including Trade and Banking, Mining, Rights of Common, Settlement of the Poor, Temperance Reform, the Divine Authority of the Scriptures (1704), and the Happiness of a Religious Life (1705).

Admitted 8 June, 1774.

Only son of William McNally of Dublin, where he was born in 1752. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1776, and to the English Bar 30 May, 1783. In 1792 he was counsel for Napper Tandy in an action against Lord Westmorland. He was a member of the United Irishmen, and wrote verses in the Northern Star, their organ; but in 1794 deserted secretly to the Government and became their agent and informer, whilst openly acting for defendants in Government prosecutions. This treachery was not discovered till after his death, so cleverly was it concealed. He was the author of a number of dramatic pieces and of two legal treatises, on The Rules of Evidence (1802), and The Justice of the Peace (1812), but the only thing which "lives" of his (if, indeed, it be his, for it has been attributed to others) is the song Sweet Lass of Richmond Hill, composed in honour of Frances I'Anson of Richmond, Yorkshire, who became his wife. He died 13 Feb. 1820,

Admitted 12 April, 1776.

Son and heir of Rev. Spencer Madan, S.T.P., Prebendary of Peterborough (and afterward Bishop). He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was Browne's Medallist in 1778, and gained the Seatonian Prize for a poem on The Call of the Gentiles, in 1782. In the same year he published a translation of Grotius's De Veritate as a preparatory exercise for taking Holy Orders, a work by which he is still chietly known. He held many Church preferments, including the Rectory of St. Philip's, Birmingham, and became Prebendary of Peterborough in 1800. While at Birmingham he was engaged in a controversy with Dr. Priestley on the claims of dissenters. He died 9 Oct. 1836.

Admitted 17 May, 1705.

Son and heir of Daniel Madox of St. Mary-le-Bow. At the time of his admission he had already published one of his learned works, his Formulare Anglicanum. Almost nothing seems to be known of his private life, which was spent in literary labours under the patronage of Lord Somers (q.v.), and of the king, who bestowed on him the title and office of Historiographer Royal. His works bear the following titles: Formulare Anglicanum, or A Collection of Ancient Charters and Instruments of divers kinds &hellip; from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Reign of Henry VIII. (1702); The History and Antiquities of the Exchequer of the Kings of England from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Reign of Edward II., taken from the Records, with a Correct Copy of the Ancient Dialogue concerning the Roll of the Exchequer (1711); Firma Burgi,