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 secondly to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and thirdly to Richard, Earl of Clanricard and St. Albans. Many of Sir Francis's letters are preserved in the writings of Sir Dudley Digges and others, but it is doubtful whether any of his writings were otherwise published. He was a man of deep policy, and strongly tinctured with puritanical principles.

[See "Biographia Britannica," Lloyd's '"State Worthies," Melvil [sic]'s "Memoirs," and Histories of the Period.]

WALTER OF MAIDSTONE,

BISHOP OF WORCESTER, 1313,

May be presumed to be a Kentishman. At the time of his appointment he was a Canon of St. Paul's. His death took place "beyond seas" in 1317.

SIR GEORGE WHELER,

TRAVELLER AND SCHOLAR,

Was the son of Colonel Wheler, of Charing, and though actually born at Breda, in Holland (in 1650) where his parents were in exile as royalists, must be included in the catalogue of Kentish men. He was educated at Oxford, but, before taking a degree, commenced a course of travels into Greece and the East, with a view of studying the antiquities of those countries. On his return he presented to Lincoln College a valuable collection of Greek MSS. he had collected, upon which the University conferred upon him the degree of M.A. He then took orders, and was presented to the livings of Basingstoke and Houghton-