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 and she was executed at Tyburn, with Bocking and four others, on 20th April, 1534.

[See "Biographia Britannica," "Collier's Church History," "Strype's Memorials" and "Life and Cranmer."]

JAMES BATE,

Son of Richard Bate, rector of Chilham, was born at Boughton Malherbe in 1703. He was educated at the King's School, Canterbury, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He proceeded M. A. in 1727. He accompanied Horace Walpole as his chaplain when Ambassador in Paris, and on his return was presented to the living of St. Paul's, Deptford. He was famous as a Hebrew Scholar, and was the author of the following works:—An Address to his Parishioners on the Rebellion of 1745; Infidelity scourged or Christianity vindicated, (1746); An Essay on the Doctrine of Original Sin (1752); Sermons. He died in 1775.

[See "Chalmer's Biographical Dictionary" and "Nichols's Literary Anecdotes."]

ISAAC BECKETT,

Was born in Kent in 1653, but at what place does not appear. He was first apprenticed to a calico printer, but becoming acquainted with Lutterel, an engraver in mezzotinto, he became desirous of learning the art. He