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 Company, in the City of London, and attained to the Mayoralty in 1494.

[See "Fuller's Worthies."]

NICHOLAS CLAGETT,

DIVINE,

Was born at Canterbury about the year 1607. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, whence he removed to Magdalen Hall. About 1636 he became vicar of Melbourne, Dorset, and some years after was elected preacher at St. Mary's, Bury St. Edmunds. He was the author of a treatise on "The Abuses of God's Grace," published 1659. He died in 1663. His sons, William and Nicholas, born when he was at Bury St. Edmunds, were well known as preachers and theological writers.

[See Wood's "Athenæ Oxon," by Bliss, "Tymm [sic]'s Bury St, Edmunds."]

JOHN CLAYTON,

BOTANIST,

Was born in Kent in 1693, but in what part is uncertain. In 1705 he went to Virginia, where his father was Attorney-General. There he practised physic, and was indefatigable in botanical researches. He sent observations on the natural history of Virginia to the Royal Society, which were published in the "Philosophical Transactions" (vols, xvii, xviii, and xli). He forwarded a collection of dried plants to Gronovius, who, in conjunc-