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 expense (Clare Coll. MSS.; see and, i. 79). During these years he was four times vice-chancellor of the university, 1518, 1521, 1526–7; and in this capacity he presided at the preliminary trial for heresy of Robert Barnes [q. v.] for his sermon preached on 24 Dec. 1525, at St. Edward's Church (, Annals of Cambridge, i. 314, seq.) Foxe styles ‘Dr. Notaries’ a rank enemy to Christ, and one of those who railed against Master Latimer.

In 1517 he became rector of Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire, and on 26 June 1522 was presented at Winchester to the rectory of Middleton-upon-Tees, Durham, void by the death of John Palswell (State Papers, 14 Henry VIII, 2356). In August of the same year he was included in a list of twenty people appointed to be surveyors in survivorship of mines in Devonshire and Cornwall (ib. pp. 24, 82). Natares's successor (William Bell) in the Middleton-upon-Tees rectory was instituted in 1549, ‘post mortem Natres.’ ‘He gave an estate or money to Clare Hall for an annual sermon at Weston Colville’.

[Cooper's Athenæ Cantabrigienses quotes manuscript authorities; Le Neve's Fasti; Latimer's Works, II. xii. (Parker Society); Robert Barnes's Supplication to Henry VIII, 1534; Willis and Clark's Architect. Hist. of Cambridge; Cooper's Annals of Cambridge, i. 314 seq.; State Papers, Henry VIII; Foxe's Acts and Monuments, v. 415, vii. 451; Hutchinson's Durham, iii. 278; extract from MS. register at Clare College, communicated by the Rev. the Master of Clare College, Cambridge; information from the Rev. John Milner, rector of Middleton-in-Teesdale, and the Rev. the Master of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge.]  NATHALAN or NAUCHLAN (d. 452?), Scottish saint, said to have been born at Tullich, Aberdeenshire, was well educated as a member of a noble family, but devoted himself wholly to divine contemplation, and adopted agriculture as an occupation best suited to this object. During a famine he distributed all the grain he had accumulated, and there being none left to sow the fields with, he sowed them with sand, which resulted in a plentiful and varied grain-crop. Subsequently, as a penance for murmuring against God, he bound his hand and leg together with a lock and iron chain, and threw the key into the Dee, with a vow not to release himself until he had visited Rome. Arrived there, he found the rusty key inside a fish he had bought, and the pope thereupon made him a bishop. Returning in his old age to Scotland, he founded the churches of Bothelney (now Meldrum), Collie (now Cowie), and Tullich, where he died and was buried. He is the patron saint of the churches he founded. At the old kirk of Bothelney is Naughlan's Well, and his name is preserved in Kilnaughlan in Islay, and by the fishermen of Cowie in the rhyme— Atween the kirk and the kirk-ford There lies Saint Nauchlan's hoard. Dempster (Hist. Eccles. Scot. Bannatyne Club, ii. 504) attributes to Nathalan five treatises, none of which are extant.

According to Adam King's ‘Kalendar’ (given in, Scottish Saints, p. 141), Nathalan died on 8 Jan. 452; but Skene, Forbes, and O'Hanlon have identified him with Nechtanan or Nectani, an Irish saint, who appears in the ‘Felire’ of Oengus as ‘Nechtan from the East, from Alba,’ and is said to have been a disciple of St. Patrick (Tripartite Life, Rolls Ser. ii. 506), became abbot of Dungeimhin or Dungiven, and died in 677 according to the Four Masters, or 679 according to the ‘Annals of Tighearnach.’ But there were no less than four Irish saints of this name, and their chronology is very confused.

[O'Hanlon's Irish Saints, i. 127–30; Forbes's Kalendars of Scottish Saints, pp. 141, 417–19; Dempster's Historia Eccles. Gentis Scotorum (Bannatyne Club), ii. 504; Skene's Celtic Scotland, ii. 170; Colgan's Acta Sanctorum; Tripartite Life of St. Patrick; Dict. of Christian Biog.; Chambers's Days, i. 73.]  NATHAN, ISAAC (1791?–1864), musical composer, teacher of singing, and author, was born at Canterbury, Kent, about 1791, of Jewish parents. Being by them intended for the Hebrew priesthood, he was sent early in life to Cambridge to study Hebrew, German, and Chaldean, in all of which he made rapid progress, with one Lyon, a teacher of Hebrew in the university; but in his leisure he diligently practised the violin, and showed such uncommon aptitude for music that his parents were persuaded to give their consent to his abandoning the study of theology for that of music. With this object, Nathan was taken away from Cambridge and articled in London to Domenico Corri (1746–1825), the Italian composer and teacher. Under Corri's guidance Nathan advanced rapidly. Eight months after the apprenticeship began the young composer wrote and published his first song, ‘Infant Love.’ There followed in quick succession more works in the same style, the best of which was ‘The Sorrows of Absence.’

About 1812 Nathan was introduced by