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 on the injustice of the procedure by which he had been condemned. He also owned his loyalty to King James and to his legitimate successors. Fenwick's remains were placed by his friends in a rich coffin, and buried on the evening of his execution by torchlight under the pavement of the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, where they lie near the altar. By his wife Lady Mary, eldest daughter of Charles Howard, earl of Carlisle, he had one daughter and three sons. The sons all died before manhood, and were buried in St. Martin's Church. His wife died 27 Oct. 1708, and was buried in York Cathedral, where she had caused a monument to be erected to her husband. By a curious coincidence it was by falling from a horse named Sorrel, formerly belonging to Sir John Fenwick, that King William lost his life (a Latin sonnet on Sir John Fenwick and his sorrel pony was printed in the ‘Universal Mag.’ 1768, xlii. 183, and reprinted in ‘Notes and Queries,’ 2nd ser. ix. 486). There is a portrait of Lady Mary Fenwick, by Sir Peter Lely, with a miniature of Sir John Fenwick, at Castle Howard, the seat of the Earl of Carlisle, where also the library of Fenwick is preserved. In the Harleian ‘Miscellany,’ vol. i., there was published as the composition of Sir John Fenwick, ‘Contemplations upon Life and Death,’ by a ‘person of quality,’ but in reality the work was the translation of a composition by Philip de Mornay, lord of Plessis.

[Le Neve's Monumenta; Burke's Extinct Baronetage; Caulfield's Portraits, i. 19–24; Luttrell's Diary; Commons' Journals; The Proceedings against Sir John Fenwick, bart., with a letter of Sir John Fenwick to his lady upon being taken in Kent, as also of the Paper delivered by him to the sheriffs at his execution, 1698, reprinted in State Trials, xiii. 537–788, and in Parliamentary History, v. 995–1156; The Arguments used pro and con upon the Attainder of Sir John Fenwick, in a Letter to a Friend, London, 1723; A Full Answer, paragraph to paragraph, to Sir John Fenwick's Paper given to the Sheriffs, 28 Jan. 1696–7, at the Place of Execution on Tower Hill, by a True Son of the Church of England, 1697; A Letter to a Friend in Vindication of the Proceedings against Sir John Fenwick, 1697; Edmund Calamy's Life; Coxe's Shrewsbury Correspondence; Lexington Papers; Macpherson's Original Papers; Hill's History of Langton; Histories of Bishop Kennett, Macaulay, and Klopp. Papers relating to the trial which add nothing to the printed information are in Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 33251.]  FENWICKE, GEORGE, B.D. (1690–1760), divine, born in 1690, was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, of which he was elected a fellow, 29 March 1710. He resigned his fellowship in March 1722, and was presented to the rectory of Hallaton, Leicestershire, which he held until his death in 1760, a period of thirty-eight years. Here, as a condition of holding certain land bequeathed many years previously to the rector, he had to contribute every Easter Monday to the edification and entertainment of the people a sermon, two hare-pies, a quantity of ale, and two dozen penny loaves. The provisions, after divine service and a sermon, were carried in procession to a mound called ‘Harepies Bank,’ thrown into a hole, and scrambled for by the men, women, and children assembled, causing no little disorder and some damage to the competitors (, Leicestershire, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 600). Another bequest of 500l. from Mrs. Parker, a widow, the rector expended in providing a home for three poor women or poor men of the parish. Fenwicke published a visitation sermon in 1736, one on the small-pox in 1737, and two other sermons in 1738. He was also the author of 1. ‘The Friendly Monitor for Rich and Poor.’ 2. ‘Help for the Sincere in Plain Meditations,’ 12mo, London, 1737. 3. ‘Thoughts on the Hebrew Titles of the Psalms,’ London, 8vo, 1749; new edition, 12mo, 1855. 4. ‘The Psalter in its Original Form,’ 8vo, 1759. In Darling's ‘Cyclopædia Bibliographia’ Fenwicke is styled ‘a Hutchinsonian divine.’ He died 10 April 1760, according to the inscription on a mural tablet which is placed outside the church against the north wall of the chancel.

[Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. ii. pt. ii. pp. 600, 606; Watt's Bibl. Brit.; Darling's Cyclopædia Bibliographica; Baker's Hist. of St. John's College, Cambridge, i. 302, 303.]  FENWICKE, JOHN (d. 1658), parliamentarian, was originally a tradesman of Newcastle-on-Tyne, but having proved himself ‘a person well affected to the parliament,’ was rewarded with the mastership of Sherborne Hospital on 30 Sept. 1644. He subsequently held a command in the parliamentarian army, and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, was sent to Ireland in 1646, and there, on 24 May 1647, gained a signal victory over the rebels in the neighbourhood of Trim, co. Meath. On 2 July 1650 the mastership of Sherborne Hospital was, by vote of the House of Commons, settled on him for life, and on his son after him. He died of wounds received in the battle of the Dunes in June 1658 (Commons' Journ. iii. 645, iv. 612, vi. 435; Thurloe State Papers, vii. 175;, Hist. of Ireland, ii. 195; , Durham, ii. 340).

He was the author of: 1. A tract, with the quaint title, ‘Christ ruling in the midst of his Enemies, or some first-fruits of the