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 the John Skinner who was chaplain at Foxcote, co. Warwick, the seat of the Cannings, and died in 1685.

SKINNER, William, born 1639, son of George Skinner, Esq.; admitted with his brother John, q.v., March 8, 1652, under the alias of Chrimpsey; alumnus, Oct. 10, 1655 left in ill-health Dec. 15, 1656; presumably got ordained elsewhere and is identical with the William Skinner, elected by the Chapter, June 4, 1684, archdeacon of Cornwall, Devon and Dorset, who died in 1694. At Lanherne were formerly relics of one &quot;D[om] G[ul.] Skinner,&quot; called a martyr.

SLAUGHTER, George, 3rd son of Bellingham Slaughter, of Cheyney's Court, co. Hereford, Esq., by Winifred, dau. of John Berington, of Winsley, Esq.; admitted June, 1683; alumnus, April 17, 1688; ord. priest Nov. 11? 1691; taught classics for two years; appointed professor of philosophy, Sept. 16, 1695, in which chair he remain ed for six years; then taught theology with short intervals till his death; returned to England on family affairs, and whilst there was presented by Bp. Gifford with a patent for the vice-presidency, dated June 21, 1710; formally installed at Lisbon, Sept. 15, 1710; regent to the presidency, Dec. 28, 1738-Aug. 14, 1739; died in the College, Sept. 10, 1741.

SLEIGHFORD, or Sliefild, Ralph, born in Staffordshire, of a gentleman's family, probably of Surrey extraction, was imprisoned and condemned to death on a charge of liberating a priest harboured by Mrs. Ann Line in 1601, but, obtaining a reprieve, was banished; went to the Eng. Coll., Seville, where he was ord. priest, and assumed the alias of William Newman; went to Lisbon, in 1605, and was appointed rector of the English residency, the term given to a house purchased some few years earlier by Nicholas Aston, q.v.; was made one of the visitors of the Inquisition; devoted his energies to the establishment of an English College at Lisbon for the education of secular priests; with this object went to Madrid in Aug., 1621, to obtain the necessary permission for the foundation from Philip IV., but met with much opposition from the Jesuits, who claimed that the government of the proposed college should be subjected to them; at. length surmounted the opposition, returned to