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 subjects, the most important being, A Review of the History of England, as far as it relates to the Titles and Pretensions of four several Kings (1722); An Examination of Bishop Burnet's History of his own Times (1724); The Chronological Historian (1733); and Modern History, or the Present State of all Nations (1739). This is his best known work, which has been frequently reprinted and translated into other languages. In 1725 he brought out an edition of his father's Historical Collections of Great Britain. He died 20 Jan. 1767.

Admitted 21 April, 1846.

Second son of Levy Salomons of Crosby Square, London, and Frant, Sussex. He was brought up to commercial life, and was one of the founders of the London and Westminster Bank. In 1835 he was chosen one of the Sheriffs, and in the same year an Alderman of London; but, being a Jew, was disqualified by declining to take the oath. This disqualification being removed by Act of Parliament in 1847, he sat as Alderman for the Cordwainer Ward, and was elected Lord Mayor in 1855. He was called to the Bar 4 May, 1849. He was returned to Parliament for Greenwich in 1851, but, declining to take the oath, on the faith of a Christian, was not allowed to sit. He was again elected, however, in 1859, after the alteration of the oath, and represented the constituency till his death, 18 July, 1873. He was made a Baronet in 1869.

He was the author of A Defence of Joint Stock Banks (1837); The Monetary Difficulties of America (1837); The Persecution of the Jews at Damascus (1840), and of pamphlets on Parliamentary Oaths, 1850 and 1853.

Admitted 4 August, 1741.

Son and heir of the Rev. John Salt of Audley, co. Stafford. He removed to the Inner Temple in 1745, where he was called to the Bar in 1753, became a Bencher in 1782, and Treasurer in 1788. He is chiefly interesting on account of his association with Charles Lamb, whose father was for forty years his clerk, and who was born in his chambers in Crown Office Row. He represented Liskeard in Parliament from 1768 to 1784, having for his colleague during part of that time, Edward Gibbon, the historian. He died 27 July, 1792, and was buried in the Temple Church.

Admitted 15 July, 1584.

Eldest son William Salterne of Bristol. He is mentioned by Edmund Howes, the continuer of Stow's Chronicle, in the list of learned persons "to whom he has been particularly beholding in the furtherance of his generall worke." (See Stow's Chronicle by Howes, 1631, p. 1087.)

He was the author of a treatise entitled, Of the Ancient Lawes of Great Britaine. 4to. London (1605).

SANDWICH, EARL OF. See MONTAGU, EDWARD (1625—1672).