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 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE

OF

LE NEVE.

It frequently happens that few memorials are to be found of the lives of those who have been employed in perpetuating the memory of others. This is the case with the author of the following laborious compilation, whose name does not occur in any of our standard Biographical Dictionaries. The following are the only facts relating to him which have been discovered.

John Le Neve was born in Great Russell street, Bloomsbury, in the house facing Montague-house great gate, on St. John's day, 27th Dec. 1679, and baptized in the parish church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields on the 5th Jan. following. He was the only child of John Le Neve, and Amy daughter of John Bent, of Paternoster row, mercer, citizen, and merchant-taylor of London. His father was a man of landed property, for, in addition to the manor of White Roothing in Essex, which he purchased about the year 1686, b 2