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 SIR PETER PETT,

POLITICAL WRITER,

Was a descendant of Peter Pett (a Cumberland man). Master Builder of the Royal Navy to Queens Mary and Elizabeth, and born at Deptford in 1620. He was educated at St. Paul's School and at Oxford, and subsequently studied law at Gray's Inn. He held the appointments of Judge of the Admiralty and Advocate-General in Ireland, where he was knighted by the Duke of Ormonde. He died at his house in the Strand, and was buried at St. Martin's in the Fields. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and the author of several works including "The Memoirs of Arthur, Earl of Anglesey," in 1693. His uncle, Phineas Pett, ship-builder to James I. and Charles I., was born at Deptford, in 1570.

[''See Wood's " Athenæ Oxon." by Bliss.'']

SIR JOHN PHILPOT,

LORD MAYOR OF LONDON, 1378,

Was a Kentish man, born at Upton Court. He became possessed by marriage of the manor of Gillingham, in the reign of Henry III. He was at that time an Alderman of London, of the Grocers' Company, and an active and worthy magistrate of the city which he for three years represented in Parliament. In 1379 he was knighted by Richard II. in Smithfield, for his services in assisting Sir William Walworth in resisting Tyler's rebellion. Before this he had performed a remarkable service in fitting out a fleet of ships to clear the seas of the pirates that in-