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 Gentilitia Nobilium Equitumque sub Edwardo primo Rege Militantuum," and edited an edition of "Dionysius Halicamassensis De Claris Rhetoribus"; but the work of most interest to Kentish men, of which he was the author, is "The History and Antiquities of Tunstall," his native parish, published in "Nichols's Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica" in 1780. He was the originator of the "Equitable Society for Assurance on Lives," on which subject he published several pamphlets. He died in 1778.

[See "Chalmers' Biographical Dictionary," and "Nichols's Literary Anecdotes."]  SIR FRANCIS NETHERSOLE,

Was the son of Thomas Nethersole, of Nethersole House, Wingham. He was a royalist, and according to Camden, public orator at Cambridge. During the civil wars he retired to Polesworth, in Warwickshire, where he married Lucy, daughter of John Henry Goodiere, by whose persuasion he built and endowed the free Grammar School of Polesworth. He died at Polesworth in 1659.

[See "Hasted's Kent," "Camden's Britannia," and "Dugdale's Warwickshire."]  ALEXANDER NEVILLE

POET,

Was a Kentish man, born in 1554. He was educated at Cambridge, and became secretary to Archbishops Parker and Grindal. In his sixteenth year he translated, or 