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 by Ewald was published in 1775, two French translations came out in 1789, and a Spanish one in 1835. Other translations or abridgments have appeared in German and Spanish collections of travels.

Pennant had several conversations with Falkner, and wrote a paper entitled ‘Of the Patagonians. Formed from the Relation of Father Falkener, a Jesuit, &c.,’ which was printed at the private press of George Allan of Darlington in 1788, and reprinted in the appendix to Pennant's ‘Literary Life,’ 1793.

[Oliver's Collections S. J. 1845, p. 88; Gillow's Bibl. Dict. of English Catholics, 1886, ii. 224; Foley's Records S. J. iv. 563, v. 855, vii. 243; Hoefer's Nouvelle Biog. Générale, 1856, xxxvii. 60; Mulhall's English in South America, 1878, pp. 79–86; Backer's Bibl. des Écrivains de la Comp. de Jésus, 1853, i. 294; Reuss's Alphabetical Register of Authors, 1791, p. 131; Monthly Rev. 1774, li. 409; The Month, June 1888, p. 220; extracts from Manchester Church registers furnished by Mr. John Owen.]  FALKNER, WILLIAM, D.D. (d. 1682), divine, received his education at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1652, M.A. in 1656, and D.D. in 1680. On 23 July 1679 he was collated by the Bishop of Ely to the rectory of Glemsford, Suffolk (Addit. MS. 19077, f. 323 b). He was also town preacher at the chapel of St. Nicholas, King's Lynn, where he died on 9 April 1682. By his wife Susan, daughter of Thomas Greene, merchant and alderman of Lynn (who died on 30 Aug. 1680), he had several children.

He was a man of extensive learning, and a staunch champion of the church of England. His works are: 1. ‘Libertas Ecclesiastica, or a Discourse vindicating the Lawfulness of those things which are chiefly excepted against in the Church of England,’ 2nd edit. Lond. 1674, 8vo; 3rd edit. 1677; 4th edit. 1683. 2. ‘Christian Loyalty; or a discourse wherein is asserted the just royal authority and eminency which in this Church and Realm of England is yielded to the King. Together with the disclaiming all foreign jurisdiction, and the unlawfulness of subjects taking arms against the King,’ London, 1679, 8vo; 2nd edit. 1684. 3. ‘A Vindication of the Liturgies, shewing the Lawfulness, Usefulness, and Antiquity of performing the public worship of God by set forms of prayer,’ London, 1680, 8vo. This was in reply to John Collinges' ‘Reasonable Account why some pious Nonconforming Ministers in England judge it sinful for them to perform their ministerial acts in publick solemn prayer, by the prescribed formes of others.’ Collinges published a rejoinder to Falkner's reply in 1681. 4. ‘Two Treatises. The first concerning Reproaching and Censure. The second, an Answer to Mr. Serjeant's Sure-footing. To which are annexed three Sermons preached on several occasions, and very useful for these times,’ 2 parts, London, 1684, 4to. Prefixed is the author's portrait, engraved by J. Sturt. These posthumous treatises were edited and dedicated to the Archbishop of Canterbury by William Sherlock, who says that to Falkner he owed all the knowledge he possessed.

[Addit. MS. 5869, f. 15; Mackerell's Hist. of King's Lynn, p. 125; Granger's Biog. Hist. of England (1824), v. 49; Sylvester's Life of Baxter, iii. 108; Cat. of Printed Books in Brit. Mus.; Cantabrigienses Graduati (1787), p. 135.]  FALLE, PHILIP (1656–1742), historian of Jersey, was born in the parish of St. Saviour in Jersey in 1656, of a good yeoman stock. The name occurs in local records as far back as 1331. He was the eldest of four brothers, two of whom were killed in battle, and one, as a reward for service in the navy, was appointed first lieutenant of the Hampton Court. Sent to England at a very early age, he was educated, first at a school kept by a Transylvanian in Great Queen Street, London, and afterwards by one Mr. Dalgarno at Oxford. In the winter of 1669 he was entered at Exeter College, where his tutor was Dr. Marsh, afterwards archbishop of Dublin; and on Marsh becoming principal of Alban Hall, Falle migrated thither, and there graduated M.A. 1676. He was ordained deacon by Ralph Brideoake, bishop of Chichester, in the following year, and priest in 1679 by Dr. Carleton, who had succeeded to the see. In 1681 he was presented by Sir John Lanier, then governor of Jersey, to the living of Trinity parish in that island. The stipend was only some 40l. per annum; but Falle had inherited a small estate by the death of his father. He also undertook the care of the garrison, which was then without a chaplain. In 1687 Lord Jermyn, who had succeeded Lanier in the government, took Falle back to England as tutor to his only son; and in that occupation he remained all through the revolution, living for the most part at Rusbrook, Lord Jermyn's country seat, near Bury St. Edmunds. In 1689 he returned to Jersey, and was translated to the charge of his native parish of St. Saviour. Meantime the battle of La Hogue had been fought, and the French navy, no longer able to keep together as against that of England, became dispersed, and highly formidable in cruises and maritime depredations. The States of Jersey, to which Falle belonged ex officio, took alarm, and resolved to make a strong personal appeal to William III to bespeak his 